Episode 60: JFK - LBJ's Accusations of "running Murder Inc"

Was JFK personally "running a damned Murder Inc" in the Caribbean? Did Castro kill Kennedy in retaliation for this?
a) Was this what LBJ actually said to a reporter? No.
b) Is "Lyin' Lyndon" a font of truth? 😒

Links:

https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Inc-under-John-Kennedy/dp/1640121552

https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/potomac-books/9781640121553/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1973/07/the-last-days-of-the-president/376281/

https://consaracytheories.com/f/rough-justice

https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Money-Power-How-Killed/dp/161608197X

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jamiekirchick/seymour-hersh-assassination-of-jfk-was-form-of-l-55m2

https://www.kennedysandking.com/images/pdf/Post_Assassination.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/JFK-Unspeakable-Why-Died-Matters/dp/1439193886

https://consaracytheories.com/f/the-justin-hammer-method

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Transcript

Transcription by Otter.ai. Please forgive any typos!

Welcome to con-sara-cy theories. Are you ready to ask questions you shouldn't and find information you're not supposed to know? Well, you're in the right place. Here is your host, Sara Causey. 

Hello, hello, and thanks for tuning in. In tonight's episode, I will be talking about the book Murder Inc, the Charlie India Alpha under John F Kennedy, written by James H Johnston and published in 2019 in the write up for said book on Nebraska Press we read late in his life, former President Lyndon B Johnson told a reporter that he didn't believe the Warren Commission's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President John F Kennedy Johnson thought Cuban President Fidel Castro was behind it. After all, Johnson said Kennedy was running. Quote, a damned Murder Inc in the Caribbean. End quote, giving Castro reason to retaliate. Bump, bump, bump, bump, so the plot thickens, doesn't it? Let's saddle up tonight and take this ride. The ride up that we find from Nebraska Press makes it clear that Johnson said Kennedy, he's very specifically, according to Nebraska Press and the write up for this book talking about JFK. JFK was running a damned Murder Inc in the Caribbean, and that gave Castro reason to retaliate. But let's figure out is that even what Johnson said, just the introduction of this book alone, is pretty explosive, pretty incendiary. It recaps what was put on Nebraska Press late in life, former President Lyndon Johnson told a reporter that he didn't believe the Warren Commission's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President John Kennedy Johnson felt that Cuban President Fidel Castro was behind it, after all. Comma Johnson continued, Kennedy was running a damned Murder Inc in the Caribbean, giving Castro reason to retaliate. A later Senate investigation reported on the Charlie India alphas pop pop operations, but was skimpy with details. However, since then, the secret files on the Charlie India alpha's Cuban operations have been made public, allowing this more complete and troubling story about the operations and their effect on the Warren Commission investigation of Kennedy's death. End quote, so that makes it sound like LBJ fingered Kennedy, specifically, Kennedy himself. JFK, was running a murder. Inc, out of the Caribbean. It gave Castro a clear reason to retaliate. Castro was behind the murder of Kennedy, and he kind of had it coming, because he was running a Murder Inc, and then new declassified documents are going to point a finger at Kennedy. That's how it sounds, just in this paragraph alone, if you read it, not knowing anything else, that's what you would think. This quote about murder, Inc, actually comes from an article in The Atlantic from July 1973 titled The Last Days of the president. Subtitle, after leaving the presidency in 1969 Lyndon Johnson lived out the remaining four years of his life in retirement. One of his former speechwriters recounts how he spent it. End quote, I will drop a link. It is available please. I beg of you read this for yourself, whether you decide to read murder, Inc, or not, it's not a book I would recommend. I'll get there for all my reasons why, but read this article for yourself, because it's a bit like people taking scriptures in isolation. You can take a scripture out of the Bible to mean anything if you take it in isolation and twist it around. That's how I felt after reading this book and reading the Atlantic article. I was like, Yeah, this is kind of sketch. And by the way, in this Atlantic article, you will also hear Johnson talk about lecturing poor people about birth control. And he says, this is a direct quote, If I became dictator of the world, I'd give all the poor people on Earth a cottage and birth control pills, and I'd make damn sure they didn't get one if they didn't take the other. All right, so that kind of tells you the the mentality there that he had, if you're poor, you should just have a small family, because fuck you. So now here we go. We'll get into the more germane part of this over a lunch at which I was a guest a few days after the first installments of the Pentagon Papers appeared in The New York Times, Johnson ruminated about his. Own Vietnam policies, we made a couple of key mistakes. He admitted, to begin with, Kennedy should have had more than 18,000 military advisors there in the early 1960s and then I made the situation worse by waiting 18 months before putting more men in. By then, the war was almost lost. Another mistake was not instituting censorship, not to cover up mistakes, but to prevent the other side from knowing what we were going to do next. My God, you can't fight a war by watching it every night on television. End quote. This inmate immediately made me think of Full Metal Jacket and how Joker's job is to make it seem like the Americans are winning the war. He's not supposed to print anything contrary is always supposed to be. The Americans are victorious. We're coming out on top. I immediately thought of that we should have instituted censorship. Jesus. I'll continue to read during coffee. The talk turned to President Kennedy and Johnson expressed his belief that the pop pop in Dallas had been part of a conspiracy. I never believed that Oswald acted alone, although I can accept that he pulled the trigger. Johnson said that when he had taken office, he found that we had been operating a damned Murder Inc in the Caribbean a year or so before Kennedy's death, a Charlie India Alpha backed Pop Pop team had been picked up in Havana Johnson speculated that Dallas had been a retaliation for this thwarted attempt, although he couldn't prove it. Now he doesn't say Kennedy and we're seeing information about during coffee. We're not we're not reading an actual transcript or listening to a recording. I would love to hear precisely what was asked and precisely what was said in return. Nevertheless, when you go to this article on the Atlantic, he doesn't say Kennedy was operating a damned Murder Inc, that's how this book makes it sound it specifically fingers Kennedy. Kennedy was running a murder, Inc, out of the Caribbean, and so no wonder he had it coming. But that's not what Johnson says we and so it's like we, who the Charlie India alpha, we as in how we say we, the people we refer to ourselves collectively, as Americans, we as in the entire Kennedy Johnson administration. I mean, we who, I want to know exactly who he's talking about there, but he doesn't say JFK was operating a damned Murder Inc in the Caribbean. I feel like, straight away, I mean, that is in the introduction for this book, so straight away, you are asking me to accept a premise that you're building on a foundation of sand. I don't know exactly what was asked, and I don't know exactly what he meant, we, who, but he doesn't say in the precise quotation that's listed there on Atlantic, please fact check me go and read it for yourself. He doesn't say JFK or Kennedy or the Kennedys or the Kennedy administration. He says we, but I don't know what that means. I don't know if that means solely the Charlie India alpha, or the whole administration, or we, as in we, the people the country of America were doing it. I don't know what he means there, but it's suspicious to me that this book is like, No, it was Kennedy. It was Kennedy. Kennedy was doing it. Something else that I think is worth mentioning. Now, full disclosure bar McClellan's book Blood Money and power is highly controversial, as is he there are people that say, Hey, he's been disbarred. He's not credible. Look at his material and judge for yourself. It was, after all, the episode of the men who killed Kennedy Docu series that bar McClellan starred in that caused the controversy, where they had to record a rebuttal episode with the old white historians to come and tell us all what we're supposed to think the academics, the old Wasp academics, will trot out and tell us what we're allowed to believe, and anything other than their opinion is just garbage. Now, in his documentary, which I have made episodes about, everything is a rich man's trick. Francis Richard Connelly believes all of this is just bogus. He thinks the whole the men who killed Kennedy docuseries was Charlie India Alpha. Bar McClellan, trying to point a finger at LBJ is Charlie India Alpha? He thinks the whole thing is a sham. Decide for yourself if you decide to check out blood money and power. By bar McClellan, there's an entire chapter titled lying Linden. I want to read that for you now. Joe. From that chapter, not the whole chapter, but from that chapter. Johnson also attacked Stevenson personally, but the name calling the public hurt was minor. The dirty campaigning also backfired. Stevenson was charged with being calculating, thus inventing the catchy attack phrase calculate and coke in the name calling. However, Stevenson's forces did much better. Johnson became lying down Linden for his ability to dodge hard issues. Before long, he was simply lying Lyndon. The tag stuck with Johnson for a year or so, until he moved up in the Senate. He gradually became known as landslide Lyndon. End quote now he talks also in the book about various stories of election rigging and the box 13 scandal. But I just thought that was interesting, that he has an entire chapter titled lion London. So for me, it's like, well, what even is his credibility in all of this anyway? Who is he talking about when he says we and then what's his credibility anyway, whether he was involved or whether he wasn't. I also recorded that episode about, you know, that weird wink that took place at the swearing in. Just like, that's creepy. Who does that? You know, you've, you've supposedly got the murdered man's corpse on board the airplane, and you're in there having an emergency, swearing in, somebody's winking about and you're kind of smirking back. That's that's not appropriate behavior under the circumstances. So it's like, what is, what is his credibility in all of this? Anyway, I'm going to go back now to Murder Inc, and read just a bit more from the introduction. Kennedy's animosity toward Castro is well known. He ordered an invasion of Cuba. He ordered it. He ordered an invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in 1961 and moved to the brink of world war three in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 hidden by secrecy, however, is the fact that the pop, pop operations were a continuing part of the Charlie India alpha's bag of tricks and played a role in both events. Wow. So we're getting a lot we're getting a lot of bang for our buck here. So apparently Kennedy is running murder. Inc, it causes Castro to retaliate and murder him. So his own murder is the result of his own murder. Inc, and then Kennedy has animosity towards Castro to the point where he himself conjures up the Bay of Pigs and orders for it to be done. He also causes the entire Cuban Missile Crisis and puts the world on the brink of world war three, oh, and all of those events are also his fault, because they are directly tied back, apparently, to the Murder Inc that he's running, that's one hell of a powerful guy. I mean, considering that he was only in office for what two years and 10 months, he must have been one hell of a magic conjurer. When the Charlie India Alpha entered the Pop Pop business, it turned to organized crime to do the dirty work of killing Castro. This began in the last few months of the Eisenhower administration. I'm amazed that he even admitted that. I'm surprised he didn't say Eisenhower had completely clean hands, never did anything wrong, and Kennedy was the worst prick that ever lived. But after a pop pop plot went awry, the Charlie India alpha's Bay of Pigs invasion was the only other option for getting rid of Castro as quickly as the new president Kennedy wanted. Oh, here we go. He's rash. He's impetuous. He's coming in with this big hard on for murder. Wow. The underworld plots didn't end, though. The Charlie India Alpha continued trying for 18 more months, apparently, it even had a pop pop team in Cuba during the missile crisis. The Charlie India alpha's long term relationship with the mob proved sorted when mobster Sam Giancana was caught illegally wiretapping one of his girlfriends. He essentially blackmailed the agency into blocking the Foxtrot Bravo India investigation the Charlie India alphas relationship with the mom became even more problematic after director J Edgar Hoover discovered Kennedy was having an affair with another of Gian con his girlfriends. End quote, well, I don't even need to go any further. We've got enough to go on here. Just from the introduction, you get the premise. You get the idea of what's being said here, what is the thesis of this man. It's also worth noting, I think, Who is this guy? Like, okay, it's 2019, and you're going back through an article from the Atlantic, from 73 and you're like, I feel so compelled to write this book, people have to know, I after all these years, I mean, Fidel, Castro is dead. JFK, obviously, is deceased. LBJ, deceased. Castro is deceased. So it's like, Why all of a sudden you feel the need to tell the world about this murder? Inc reference, I'll go back now. To Nebraska Press. James H Johnston was a lawyer for the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1975 which investigated and first reported on the Castro Pop Pop plots and their relation to Kennedy's murder. Johnston examines how the Charlie India Alpha steered the Warren Commission and later investigations away from connecting its own pop pop operations to Kennedy's murder, he also looks at the effect the strategy had on the Warren Commission's conclusions that pop pop early Harvey Oswald acted alone and there was no foreign conspiracy. End Quote, got it Okay, so an attorney for the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1975 is going to tell us all what to think. Okay, one of the reviewers on Amazon assures us that this book is extensively researched. However, in my opinion, based on what I'm seeing, a lot of what you're going to find in the footnotes is testimony from people connected to people inside of the Charlie India alpha, for what that's worth, and then also a lot of references to Robert Dallek. By the way, Robert Dallek, speaking of BART McClellan, was one of the official White historians that we need to listen to from the History Channel's rebuttal to the men who killed Kennedy docuseries. But to tell you, like, how far afield this book gets from anything pertaining to a murder, Inc, in the Caribbean. I want to read now. I'm on page 275, of the hardback version. And I'm going on footnote number 31 from chapter one. According to biographer dallet Jack Kennedy, IQ score was 119 which would be considered by today's standards, high average. He failed the Latin part of the admission exam to choke preparatory school, but was admitted and graduated 65th in a class of 110 What the fuck does that have to do with running a Murder Inc? I mean, just long pause there. What? What does that have to do with anything this goes back to salting the ashes like the legendary story of what the Romans did at Carthage. We need to portray this guy as being an airhead, not particularly bright, not particularly extraordinary in any way. Because, you know, on November 22 1963 we didn't lose anything extraordinary. If I can make you think that he was a dumbass and a murderer. Well, boy, golly gee, bang whiz. Haven't I done something awesome? Last year, I published a blog post here on the conserracy theories blog titled rough justice, and I want to read from that for you now, because it's such a good condensing down of ways to refute the kind of, in my opinion, bullshit that you're going to find in a book like Murder Inc. And I'm not the only one that thinks that, by the way, there are a couple of negative reviews. I mean, there are quite a few that are middle of the road. One person on Amazon leaving a one star review, writes more establishment disinformation, aka the big bad Cubans. Quite a piece of fiction this book. And I really have to wonder, does this author actually believe he is on the right track here, or more likely, is he a paid Charlie India Alpha disinformation shill the recent slate of Castro? Did it books? Seems to indicate that the establishment has conceded that the cat is coming out of the bag, that there is no containing the truth of a conspiracy, and it's better to get ahead of it with a limited hangout of sorts. Thus try to tag the Cubans. I don't think that review is completely off base. What I mean, seriously, what better way? Okay, people are waking up to the idea that it wasn't Oswald acting alone. Maybe we can blame Castro. Castro died in 2016 so he's been gone for several years. There's no way for him to speak up and defend himself. So it's like you sort of get a two for one there, if you can blame it on Castro and the Cubans. And then you can also make it seem like Kennedy had it coming because he was running a Murder Inc out of the Caribbean. Then everybody walks away happy you poison JFK legacy by making him seem like a vapid, airhead murderer and Castro did it. It's okay for us to say it was a conspiracy and it was Castro that did it. Castro had something to do with setting Lee Harvey Oswald up as the Patsy, or Castro had something to do with using Oswald. They were in cahoots, and so that's fine. That's not so far off from the official narrative that we can't live with it so stupid. All right, so I wrote this blog post called Rough justice. Before I started this personal project, I recorded an episode on my daytime podcast titled rethinking. Camelot and rough justice. Two wrongs don't equal a right. I read some commentary from Seymour Hersh that left me rather gobsmacked. And I quote now from an article from Buzzfeed News. I will drop a link to it as. Well, please check it out for yourself. Seymour, Hersh, pop, pop of JFK was form of justice. I just didn't have the guts to put in writing. What I came to believe was an inevitable conclusion he wrote. In reality, this notion of, well, I mean, a he had it coming is not relegated strictly to Hersh. It seems to me, part of the continued campaign to ensure future generations perceive JFK as a terrible piece of shit, not even the victim of a senseless murder from a so called commie Kook. No, that's not good enough anymore. We need to ensure he is left devoid of even a small tidbit of basic human sympathy. It reminds me of that harrowing scene in Dickens A Christmas Carol, if there is any person in the town who feels emotion caused by this man's death, said Scrooge, quite agonized, show that person to me. Spirit, I beseech you, let me see some tenderness connected with a death, said Scrooge, or that dark chamber spirit which we left just now will be forever present to me. In Scrooge's case, he was, as Dickens described him, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner in the various film versions, when Scrooge demands to see someone expressing emotion over his death, the spirit of Christmas Yet To Come takes him to a pawn shop, where, as things are being sold for money, and there's no sorrow that he's gone, as we are supposed to Feel now. For JFK, no sorrow that he's gone. One facet of this legacy poisoning is to portray JFK as a bloodthirsty tyrant who was himself plotting pop pops from here, it's easy to say, live by the sword, die by the sword, if you're doing it to other people and it's done to you. It's simple karma man. I'm reading now from BuzzFeed, if your portraits of John and Robert Kennedy are essentially accurate, given the emphasis on pop, pop plotting, Alioto asked, Do you see any moral difference between the Kennedys and Oswald and sarahan Lee Harvey, Oswald and Sirhan sarahan were respectively the killers of JFK and his younger brother Robert, the morality of JFK in comparison with Oswald and or sarahan are obvious questions. Wrote Hirsch, whose latest story for The New Yorker alleges that the United States is training members of an Iranian T word group in Nevada. The 35th president's backing of Pop Pop attempts against Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Hirsch explained meant that he was as immoral as the men who took his and his brother's lives. I just didn't have the guts to put in writing. What I came to believe, as you do, was an inevitable conclusion. Hirsch wrote of the death of the President, which he also called terrible. The man who wrote to Hirsch was like, whoa, wait a minute. I was just asking a question. Now I'm reading again from Buzzfeed. Hirsch appears to have taken aliotos letter to be an endorsement of Kennedy's pop pop as a form of payback for plotting against Castro, which Alioto said he didn't intend. I was not trying to say that the pop pops of the Kennedys were a form of justice. Aliot Oh wrote in a letter this year he shared the 1998 document after seeing this report's criticism of Hirsch in the magazine commentary, I didn't regard his book as essentially accurate. To stress his purely conjectural intentions, Alioto told Hirsch that on the subject of any moral equivalence between JFK, RFK and their pop poppers, I asked the question purely out of curiosity. Now I'm reading again from my own blog. This is just my opinion, but it sounds like this guy wrote in with a question, and Hirsch jumped on it. Oh yeah, man, I just didn't have the guts to put in writing. What I came to believe, as you do, was an inevitable conclusion. We're just a couple of regular guys who think JFK needed to die. Am I right? Reading again from BuzzFeed, Hirsch made his view clear, you're right in believing, if that's what your letter suggested, that there might have been some justice. One reviewer wrote rough justice in John F Kennedy's terrible death by pop pop a means he had sought to end Fidel Castro's life. Reading again from my own blog, this reminds me a bit of that scene in The Princess Bride. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. You keep pushing the idea that we should agree with you that it was rough justice, but I'm not sure you get it. Pal. James de Eugenio addresses this in his article for probe titled the posthumous pop pop of John F Kennedy. It's aptly titled because that seems to be the goal. Killing him in broad daylight was inadequate. We now must ensure we salt the ashes like the legendary story of the Romans at Carthage. I will read now from Kennedy's and King, where James de Eugenio talks about the second pop pop of JFK on the question of authorization, every official from Kennedy's administration testified that JFK never knew of any plots or authorized them. This includes Dean Rusk, Max Taylor and John McComb, even McGeorge Bundy, about whom many have had suspicion. Was denied that Kennedy had ever approved them or been informed of any plots to conclude the matter the two people in on them at this time, 1962 said the same. Ie Richard Helms and Bill Harvey the Charlie India Alpha did try to coax approval from him. The Church Committee took testimony from two people who were quite compelling on this point. They were Tad soltz, a reporter for the New York Times Washington Bureau, and Senator George Smathers of Florida. In late 1961 solts had been called in to speak with the president at the request of Richard Goodwin and Robert Kennedy after a general discussion of Cuban matters, JFK asked him, What would you think if I ordered Castro to be pop? Popped sultz said he didn't think it would help foster change in Cuba and he didn't think Americans should be associated with such matters. Kennedy replied, I agree with you completely. Soul testified that he went on for a few minutes to make a point how strongly he and his brothers felt that the United States should never be in a situation of having recourse to pop. Pop. Sults notes of the meeting state JFK then said he was testing me that he felt the same way. He added, I'm glad you feel the same way, because indeed, the US morally must not be part to pop. Pops. The Church Committee also heard testimony from Smathers, who stated that once it when it was brought up in his presence, presumably by the Charlie India Alpha friendly Smathers Kennedy got so mad he smashed a dinner plate and told him he did not want to hear of such things again. Smathers furthered this point later, when he stated that President Kennedy seemed horrified at the idea of political pop, pop. I remember him saying that the Charlie India Alpha frequently did things he didn't know about, and he was unhappy about it. He complained that the Charlie India Alpha was almost autonomous. He told me he believed that the Charlie India Alpha had arranged to have Diem and Trujillo bumped off. He was pretty well shocked about that. He thought it was a stupid thing to do, and he wanted to get control of what the Charlie India Alpha was doing. Such statements not only absolve Kennedy, they actually provide a motive for the Charlie India alpha to get rid of him, which is probably why the media ignored them. End quote. Before I return to my blog post, there's also a similar narrative that we hear in JFK Destiny betrayed in episode one, which I intend to go through each episode and make a podcast episode about each episode of Destiny betrayed. It's a very good Docu series. And in this episode, one author David Talbot talks about after one of the attempts that was made on Charles de Gaulle's life, JFK tells the French ambassador that he didn't have anything to do with it, and then he stands in support of President de Gaulle, but he says to the ambassador, I'm not in full control of the entire government, and I am not in control of the Charlie India alpha, and I can't always speak for what's happening there. So we have this Murder Inc, narrative that Kennedy was using the Charlie India alpha and running a Murder Inc in the Caribbean. But then we have these other sources saying he admitted himself that he was not in control of the Charlie India Alpha. You also in the devil's chess board, have David Talbot talking about how Allen Dulles was busier than ever after he was fired from the Charlie India Alpha. There was a steady stream of people coming, going from his house, and a lot of machinations that seem awfully weird for somebody that's supposed to be retired. I'm going to go back now to my blog post. Bear in mind the nexus of JFK, sundry alleged character flaws, a rampant sex fiend, a drug addict, someone with no real ideology, a brainless idiot, a self absorbed rich brat, etc. So we add murderer as another shrimp on the barbie, and this guy sounds like a complete asshole. I'm going now to James W Douglas's book JFK and the unspeakable. Why he died and why it matters in the spring of 1961 without the knowledge of the new president. John Kennedy, the Charlie India alpha's Technical Services Division prepared a batch of poison pills for Castro. The pills were sent to Cuba through John racey. The murder plot failed because the agency's Cuban assets were unable to get close enough to Castro to poison him. The agency's purpose was to kill Castro just before the Bay of Pigs invasion. As Bay of Pigs planner Richard Bissell said later Pop Pop was intended to reinforce the invasion plan. There was a thought that Castro would be dead before the landing. Very few, however, knew of this aspect of the plan after President Kennedy fired Bissell from the Charlie India alpha for his role in the Bay of Pigs, Richard Helms, his successor as Deputy Director of plans, took up where Bissell had left off in conspiring to kill Castro. Helms testified to the church committee that he never informed either the President or his newly appointed agency director, John McCone, of the Pop Pop plots, nor did he inform any other officials in the Kennedy administration. Helms. Said he sought no approval for the murder attempts because Pop Pop was not a subject that should be aired with higher authority. When he was asked if President Kennedy had been informed, helm said that nobody wants to embarrass a President of the United States by discussing the pop pop of foreign leaders in his presence, he also didn't seek the approval of the special group augmented that oversaw the anti Castro program, because he said I didn't see how one would have expected a thing like killing or murdering or pop popping would become part of a large group of people sitting around a table in the United States government. John McCone and other surviving members of the Kennedy administration testified that pop, pop was outside the parameters of the administration's anti Castro program, yet Richard Helms and other Charlie India Alpha insiders kept running pop, pop plots in conflict with the President's wishes, and then he also goes on to tell that same story about tad souls. Richard Helms, however, did not feel the same way. Helms was known as the man who kept secrets the title of his biography. He was a master of the possibilities beneath plausible deniability, exemplified by his command and control of the Charlie India Alphys plots to kill Castro, as helms demonstrated in His Church Committee testimony he and other agency Cold War veterans thought they knew the President's mind better than the President did himself. This assumed responsibility became a problem for the agency and its Pentagon allies when President Kennedy acted with a mind of his own and decided to end the Cold War. End. Quote I'm reading now from my blog post, I think back to Jim Garrison's assertion you either get discredited, removed or killed whatever it takes to silence you and eliminate you as a problem. I add this from de eugenios article, the fact that Kennedy had clean hands was a bitter pill to swallow. The establishment organized a furious counter attack. Frank Church was accused of being partisan. The Democrats were charged with protecting the Kennedys. End quote. This becomes like the magic trick of pick a card, any card. Well, he was a murderer himself, and he had it coming. It was rough justice. Oh, you don't believe that. Not to worry, we'll pull another card out of the deck and continue the denigration. So who, if anybody, was running murder, Inc, is this just lying Linden being lying Linden, or what, who was running murder? Inc, the Charlie Indian alpha, the mafia, the agency and the mafia together. I'm not finding the evidence that Kennedy himself was running a murder. Inc, out of the Caribbean. And then if you really want to get a twofer in this book, you'll start to see the author arguing that Jack and Bobby both were running a Murder Inc, they both had a blood lust to get rid of Castro, which leads to the inevitable conclusion, well, I mean, they both had it coming. Maybe it's not so sad that they were both struck down in the prime of life in the 1960s because, I mean, hey, if they were running a murdering coming No shit, that's not a good thing to do. I wonder how books like that even get published. And then I'm like, Well, you know how they get published? Because this is part of what James di Eugenio so wisely, calls the posthumous pop pop of JFK. It's not enough to murder him. I also published that blog post called the Justin Hammer method. People want to rip on the Marvel movies, but it's like there's actually some really good information in there, if you care to look what Justin Hammer says to Ivan Vanko is. So spot on. You don't just go up and try to kill the guy. You kill his legacy. That's what you go after. And how Vanko says, If I can make God bleed, then people will stop believing in Him, and there will be blood in the waters, and the sharks will come. All I have to do is just sit back and watch while the world itself consumes you. That seems to be what this is. If I can convince you that Kennedy and maybe Jack and Bobby both were not particularly bright, they were ruthless, they were murderers, and they were running a quote Murder Inc out of the Caribbean, then it's not so much of a loss. We didn't really lose much. Hell, maybe we did you a favor. Wow. Just wow. Stay a little bit crazy, and I will see you in the next episode. 

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