CIA Associations with the JFK Assassination

 CIA Associations with the JFK Assassination 

- Valkyrie - the September 25, 1963 minutes of the meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, taken by Gen.V. Krulak's adjunct Colonel Higgins, quotes CIA officer Desmond FitzGerald informing them that the CIA was undertaking a detailed study of the German military July 20, 1944 assassination and coup attempt against Hitler, code named Valkyrie, that was to be adapted for use against Castro. When Jim Lesar filed a FOIA request for that detailed study, the CIA responded that it had no information on it, and the only mention of the July 20 1944 attack is in a 1950s propaganda sheet that attempts to blame the failure of the attack on Communists. 

- Pathfinder - During the Church Committee inquiry, eight technicians of the CIA's National Photo Interpretation Center (NPIC) reported to their boss Dino Brugioni, that they were aware of a CIA plan to kill Castro called Pathfinder, that was to insert commandos with high powered rifles and shoot him as he rode in an open jeep on his way to the Dupont estate in Varadero. The eight NPIC employees said they did basic background work, compiling aerial U2 photos of the area, blueprints, maps etc., and they were surprised that the Pathfinder plan folder was kept in their section of the JMWAVE station rather than in the Operational File where it should have been kept. The CIA responded to a FOIA request for the Pathfinder plan folder by saying they had no knowledge of any plan called Pathfinder. When interviewed by the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), an NIPIC secretary said that Robert F. Kennedy, - then attorney general, personally ordered here to box the NPIC assassination records and have them delivered to the Smithsonian Institute. When asked if she meant NARA, she said no, Smithsonian. When the NARA was asked if the ARRB followed up on this and requested records from the Smithsonian, they said no, there was no follow up. 

- On November 1, 1963, the New York Times reported in a front page story that the CIA raider ship The Rex, docked at Palm Beach, Fla. near President Kennedy's estate, had deposited in Cuba a team of commando sniper-assassins with high powered rifles, who were captured and confessed they were trained by the CIA and their mission was to assassinate Cuban leaders. 

- When George deMohrenschildt left for Haiti, he stopped in New York City where he met with CIA officials at the offices of John Train, who was responsible for CIA companies based in NYC. Did he tell them the single most important pieces of intelligence he had - that Oswald had a rifle and was believed to have taken a shot at General Walker? After leaving New York deMornschildt went to Washington D.C. where he met with Col. Kail and Dorithie Matlock, officers of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (ACSI) - a military intelligence agency run out of the Pentagon. 

- When George deMohrenschildt returned from oil assignments abroad, he reported to his good friend J. Walton Moore, of the CIA's Domestic Contact Service in Dallas. Moore had previously served in the OSS during WWII and OSS records reflect the fact that he was sent on a mission to China with another OSS officer - Charles Ford, who later served as head of the CIA's Training Division, except for one year when he was cross posted to the Operational Division and sent to JMWAVE to serve as RFK's contact there. Ford was also given responsibility for the CIA's copy of the Zapruder film. J. W. Moore also played handball on a routine basis with White Russian refugee Col. Lawrence Orlov, who accompanied deMornschildt when he visited the Oswalds for the first time. 

- The CIA office of Security ran the early plots to kill Fidel Castro that included the Mafia, specifically Sam Giancana, Santo Traficante and John Rosselli. President Kennedy met Judith Cambpell (Exner) through Frank Sinatra, and had an affair with her while she was also seeing Sam Giancana. She claimed she passed documents between the men. When the FBI had a stakeout of her Vegas apartment in 1962, they noticed the apartment was broken into by two young men - the Hale brothers,  twin sons of a high level FBI agent I.F. Hale who left the FBI to become head of security for General Dynamics. The Hale twins went to Arlington Heights High School in Fort Worth, also attended by Lee Harvey Oswald. When Oswald tried to join the football team, the Hale twins reportedly laughed at him, and shortly after his 17th birthday, Oswald left school to join the USMC. 

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