ANDREW KREIG : JFK's Murder, The CIA & 8 Things Every American Should Know ~ THE 5TH ESTATE ASIA

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

ANDREW KREIG : JFK's Murder, The CIA & 8 Things Every American Should Know

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Andrew Kreig pries open the lid on CIA murder of JFK

JUSTICE INTEGRITY PROJECT
By Andrew Kreig
12/09/2013

The Central Intelligence Agency implicated itself in the 1963 murder of President Kennedy and its ongoing cover-up, according to experts who have spoken out recently.

Robert Tanenbaum

Former congressional investigator Robert Tanenbaum said he and his boss quit the last official probe of JFK’s murder in 1978 because Congress was too frightened of the CIA’s power to permit a probe of the agency's suspicious actions.

Those actions included, he said, implicating Lee Harvey Oswald in a fictitious Communist plot against JFK. The CIA apparently concocted evidence in October 1963 that an Oswald imposter plotted with Soviet and Cuban embassy personnel in Mexico City to kill the president later in the year.

Why?

Tanenbaum, a former top prosecutor in New York City and now a best-selling crime novelist, described why he and his boss, noted Philadelphia trial lawyer Richard Sprague, resigned from the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in disgust at the cover-up of the nation's most important murder of modern times.

Richard Sprague

Tanenbaum spoke eloquently on the topic during a recent conference about the assassination I that attended at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

C-SPAN cablecast his talk beginning Nov. 29 on what is now must-see TV for anyone who cares about modern public affairs or true-crime at the highest level of drama.

Today’s column – the ninth in our “JFK Murder Readers Guide” series – treats topics that should be part of any credible discussion of blame for Kennedy’s murder 50 years ago.

I am not trying to assert detailed, final conclusions. Evidence of murder complicity by members of an organization does not mean guilt at the top, of course. Similarly, those engaged in cover-up are not necessarily the perpetrators of a crime.

Those vital details are addressed in many official reports and some 2,000 books on the JFK murder, including more than a hundred in 2013 alone. Much work remains, most importantly regarding the serious implications for the Obama administration and today's public that I chronicle in my new book, Presidential Puppetry: Obama, Romney and Their Masters.

Instead of conclusions, I urge here only that readers who want seriously to consider the Warren Commission's findings get familiar with the eight topics below. The headlines are in bold if you have time to read only the headlines and not the explanatory material.

JFK autopsy image

Meanwhile, the mainstream media and top government leaders typically duck each of these issues. They are thus able to remain almost entirely unified behind the Warren Commission’s findings, as evident in coverage of the murder's 50th anniversary this fall.

The general public seems to understand the self-censorship in the coverage. Polling has shown for many years that most Americans doubt the findings of the seven-member Warren Commission.

Obama has the means to expose CIA murder of JFK

Chaired by Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren, the commission sought to reassure the public that guilt fell only on Oswald, whom they portrayed as a mentally unbalanced, pro-Marxist killer acting alone. The script followed the Justice Department's advice to the White House immediately after the killing, as indicated here, as well as the State Department's "Propaganda Notes" on Sept. 24, 1964 that provided secret guidance to insiders on how to mock critics of the Warren Commission.

The most trusted names in news continue now to stick to simple name-calling against critics, as evident in previous segments in this series and the overwhelming bulk of recent news coverage of the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's murder.

Read the rest of Andrew Kreig's report HERE.

Andrew Kreig

Andrew Kreig is Justice Integrity Project Executive Director and co-founder with over two decades experience as an attorney and non-profit executive in Washington, DC. An author and longtime investigative reporter, his primary focus since 2008 has been exploring allegations of official corruption and other misconduct in federal agencies. Kreig has also been a consultant and volunteer leader in advising several non-profit groups fostering cutting-edge applications within the communications industries. In 2008, he became a senior fellow with the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University and an affiliated research fellow with the Information Economy Project at George Mason University School of Law.

As president and CEO of the Wireless Communications Association International (WCAI) from 1996 until 2008, Kreig led its worldwide advocacy that helped create the broadband wireless industry. Previously, he was WCAI vice president and general counsel, an associate at Latham & Watkins, law clerk to a federal judge, author of the book Spiked about the newspaper business and a longtime reporter for the Hartford Courant. Listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World from the mid-1990s and currently, he holds law degrees from the University of Chicago School of Law and from Yale Law School. Reared in New York City, his undergraduate degree in history is from Cornell University, where he was a student newspaper editor, rowing team member, and Golden Gloves boxer.