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No such documentation exists, but documentation does exist that as early as '61 The Kennedy administration was making contacts with SVN military officers that objected to the Diem regime, and eventually when those contacts planed their coup they sought and received permission from the Kennedy administration to carry out their operation to overthrow Diem:
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/index.htm Records of the Kennedy national security meetings, both here and in our larger collection, show that none of JFK's conversations about a coup in Saigon featured consideration of what might physically happen to Ngo Dinh Diem or Ngo Dinh Nhu. The audio record of the October 29th meeting which we cite below also reveals no discussion of this issue. That meeting, the last held at the White House to consider a coup before this actually took place, would have been the key moment for such a conversation. The conclusion of the Church Committee agrees that Washington gave no consideration to killing Diem. (Note 12) The weight of evidence therefore supports the view that President Kennedy did not conspire in the death of Diem. However, there is also the exceedingly strange transcript of Diem's final phone conversation with Ambassador Lodge on the afternoon of the coup (Document 23), which carries the distinct impression that Diem is being abandoned by the U.S. Whether this represents Lodge's contribution, or JFK's wishes, is not apparent from the evidence available today. A second charge has to do with Kennedy administration denials that it had had anything to do with the coup itself. The documentary record is replete with evidence that President Kennedy and his advisers, both individually and collectively, had a considerable role in the coup overall, by giving initial support to Saigon military officers uncertain what the U.S. response might be, by withdrawing U.S. aid from Diem himself, and by publicly pressuring the Saigon government in a way that made clear to South Vietnamese that Diem was isolated from his American ally. In addition, at several of his meetings (Documents 7, 19, 22) Kennedy had CIA briefings and led discussions based on the estimated balance between pro- and anti-coup forces in Saigon that leave no doubt the United States had a detailed interest in the outcome of a coup against Ngo Dinh Diem. The CIA also provided $42,000 in immediate support money to the plotters the morning of the coup, carried by Lucien Conein, an act prefigured in administration planning Document 17) Astute observers of history will no doubt note the mortality rates for deposed leaders. A retirement lunch of the sort preferred by mafiosi is the rule, rather than the exception. If officials of the Kennedy administration and JFK himself believed they were signing off on a bloodless operation I believe that was most likely a hope born from optimism, not a rational examination of conditions on the ground in SVN. |
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I see the usual CTist double-standard shuffle is in full play here. In the JFK thread, manifesto proclaims that Lyndon Johnson, Allen Dulles, and J. Edgar Hoover were "in on" the assassination of JFK, based on no more than "a whole lot of circumstantial evidence and means motive and opportunity" (and the "circumstantial evidence" is only an assertion); while, in this thread, he won't believe that RFK could have been involved in any attempted assassination of Castro unless he can be quoted plotting it in a meeting, or that JFK could have been involved in Diem's deposition and death unless someone can "cite orders" from him to that effect.
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If you claim that the documents contains evidence of JFK ordering the assassinations of the Diem brothers, you should quote the relevant text and explain how you come to your conclusion.
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1. He never ordered US combat troops to open fire in any of the international conflicts that developed during his precidency. Bay of Pigs. Berlin. Laos. Vietnam. Middle East. Missile crisis. Vietnam. Always using diplomacy. 2. Initiated a broad national information campaign creating a public mandate for the first atmospheric test ban treaty with the Soviet Union. 3. Consistently diverting US bilateral aid to post colonial nation’s civil institutions, not to their military. 4. Consistently turning down the ’advise/demands’ from the chicken hawks in US National Security State. 5. Working on secret rapproachment with Castro at the very instant he got assassinated. 6. Working to end the Cold War wanting to create joint ventures with the Soviets in space and other areas where cooperation were suitable. All this and more was in sharp conflict with US National Security State and it all changed 180˚ the very second they assassinated him in Dallas, putting crazy LBJ in charge. We all know what happened then. That is recorded History with millions of innocent lives sacrified in racist megalomania. Everything else is revisionist history writing in service of the US National Security State. Some get paid doing it. Some do it as misguided patriotism. Some do it because they are stupid and misinformed. I’m still not sure on what motivates you.
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I'm moderately surprised I've never heard of a CT about a second gunmen for RFK before.
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No one is claiming that JFK did not take part in discussions on the future of US puppet Diem regime. South Vietnam was a CIA puppet State created by General Lansdale in order to hinder a complete take over by Ho Chi Mihns nationalists forces of the former part of French Indochina that today constitutes Vietnam.
Diem was a catholic in a buddhist country and extremely impopular from the get go. The only force keeping him in power was the US National Security State. When it became obvious that Diem no longer could muster a defence from the nationalist forces inside his own country the chicken hawks in US National Security State began looking for other suitable leadership among the leaders in the South Vietnam military. Yes, they were waiting for US to ”ok” a coup, but there is no undisputable record of JFK giving that ”ok”. And, there is certainly not any record of JFK allowing the plotters to assassinate the Diem brothers. Yes, Lodge is implicated in the assassinations and so are the CIA, but that is not the case with JFK. This is just another instance of CIA doing stuff against the will of JFK, making their own policies using their own methods bypassing US laws and democratic institutions. Corrupting everything within their reach. |
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Really? Cite the orders. Show it. FWIW, I actually agree with you that JKF didn't order the killings- my sense is that the situation just got away from him, and his only culpability is on the "buck stops here" principle, that he didn't foresee a possibility that certainly should have occurred to him as one. But the same can be said for Lodge/the CIA- unless you can, using your own standard that exonerates JKF, "cite the order," from Lodge/to someone identifiably in the CIA, that implicates them in a plot to kill Diem. Otherwise, at least in the case of the CIA, you're just saying "the CIA" in the same way religious fundies say "satan," responsible for all evils because that's just what he does- a tautological definition in place of an evidenced (therefore falsifiable) hypothesis. It's easy to attribute any chosen evil to something you've essentially invented as the father of them all- it's harder to construct a chain that makes the evil attributable or the father real. |
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There is only a very limited number of people who have this information. We are fortunate that the information has been first exposed right here on this very forum, before it is released to national media. Now that it is out it will be front page headlines on all national media. Keep watching.
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This has been debated pretty much since it happened. There are reports/speculation that more shots were fired than Sirhan's revolver held. Here's a 1991 account of an investigation that started with a 1985 discussion. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...=.254e57b87af5 |
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Of course he didn’t. This is Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylors description of how JFK reacted to the news that the Ngo brothers had been executed:
“Kennedy leaped to his feet and rushed from the room with a look of shock and dismay on his face which I had never seen before. He had always insisted that Diem must never suffer more than exile and had been led to believe or had persuaded himself that a change in government could be carried out without bloodshed.”
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The only one who knew where the Ngo brothers were hiding was Cabot and he was in contact with Conein who was in direct contact with the coup leaders in their HQ. Early the next morning the military picked the Ngo brothers up outside a catholic church, forced them down the hatch of an armed vehicle and shot them in head. So, why would Conein and Cabot have the Ngo brothers killed? Well, they were massively hated by the vietnamese people and their execution provided much needed credit to the military junta that became the new government. Credit that fast evaporated since no real change in policy occured. |
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Nope. You're a grown-up, read them yourself. Only babies get spoon-fed.
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Look into the Cuban Coordinating Committee sometime, here were some of their considered plans: Operation Dirty Trick - Should one of the Mercury space shots fail, it would be blamed on Cuban sabotage, thus justifying an invasion. Operation Bingo - a simulated attack on Guantanamo Bay used to justify an invasion of Cuba. These were all forwarded to RFK, who oversaw the CCC. RFK approved Cuban Exile training camps in Central America, and Mongoose camps in Louisiana. Mongoose was one of the reasons Khrushchev put missiles in Cuba. After October, 1962, the plan evolved into OPLAN 380-63 , code named AM/TRUNK (which had sub-operations named MH/APRON, Opeation PICADOR & TOREADOR, inside Cuba the op was known as Opertion Judas). RFK was planning a large-scale invasion of Cuba, it is safe to assume that JFK, though insulated, knew about the plans. |
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I wonder what Sirhan Sirhan said to RFK Jr. Obviously, it's in his best interest to tell a convincing story about a second gunman who did the actual killing. But unless RFK Jr. is actually in a position to make his life better on the strength of his story, there's probably not much point in trying to tell him any kind of story at all.
"Was there a second gunman?" "Sure, buddy. There was a second gunman." "What did you know about the second gunman, and when did you know it?" "Look, you believe what you want to believe. For a pack of smokes, I'll even play along." "Tell me the truth!" "What can you do for me?" "Do you want to go back to your cell?" "I can carry on for another couple hours, but I'm gonna run out of material at some point." |
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I do not think that Sirhan was pushing the second gunman narrative on RFKjr, and certainly not in the way you are suggesting. I think that Sirhan was telling RFKjr what he has been saying since day one. That he doesn’t remembering anything from the actual shooting event and therefore do not know if and how he acted during the event.
I guess that RFKjr have had a good look at the case, the technical ’evidence’, the autopsy and the testimonies and from this come to his own conclusions. If the JFK assassination is covered in crap and sloppy cover ups, the RFK assassination is even more so. It is almost comical in its obvious sloppy cover up masquerading as an investigation. |
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So, you haven’t read whats behind the links that you say contain support for your bald assertions?
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When giving his ”ok” to the Bay of Pigs operation he did so on information provided by the CIA saying that the Cuban people would revolt against Castro the very moment the exile Cubans landed on the beach. Nothing could have been further from the truth. The Castro regime had a massive popular support at the time of the invasion attempt and continued to have it all the way through the JFK precidency.
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No, the autopsy of RFK was exemplary. Thomas Noguchi knew his trade and did not back down when they tried to intimidate him.
The problem was Sirhans defence. It convinced Sirhan that he should confess to the murder and make an insanity plea in order to avoid the death penalty. He did and the defence ”stipulated” all technical evidence as culpatory. |
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From what I read, it was something of a "will no one rid me of this turbulent priest" thing. JFK was discussing what to do about the increasingly problematic Diem and uttered something along the lines of "can't we do something about this guy?" Which started certain wheels rolling that culminated in the assassination -- which upon hearing about, JFK reportedly freaked and literally ran from the room, in apparent realization of his role in the process. Whether he consciously called for the murder, or was just releasing some otherwise harmless exasperation and forgot the "but it would be wrong" part, probably no one will ever know for certain. |
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I find it insane that people are still arguing about who killed the Kennedys when
(Maybe because he accused his fans of being in on it as well? How many of you were named unindicted co-conspirators? Don't all raise your hands at once.) |
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Yeah, that sounds about right- the only people that we can be certain were implicated were the leaders of the coup, the ones who did the actual killing. And manifesto's claim that only Lodge knew where the brothers were hiding isn't completely accurate. In fact, they were accompanied by a couple of loyalists, one of whom, Air Force Lieutenant Ðỗ Thơ, happened to be a nephew of Colonel Đỗ Mậu, the director of military security and a participant in the coup plot; Thơ later wrote in his diary that "I consider myself responsible for having led them to their death." A tragedy of errors, it seems, for the most part...
In fact, manifesto has nothing but inference to support the idea that Lodge/the CIA were directly implicated in the killings. It's not wild inference, it's certainly possible; but the problem with the sort of CT methodology that rests on inference is that there can be plenty of inference to go around, it's a sword that can cut many ways. |
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Ok, my mistake, there were probably other channels than Lodge/Conein available. But this is not all that points to Lodge/CIA culpability in the assassinations.
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I just posted the documents. You've ignored them. They detail step-by-step the meetings where the coup was discussed and planned complete with a list of potential successors we could back afterwords.
His plan to dial back our presence in Vietnam hinged on what happened after Diem was removed, and as it turned out the new guys were even worse which lead to our build-up of forces in 1964-65. In short, Kennedy ignored the CIA and General Taylor and green-lit the coup plan. Maybe he knew Diem would die, maybe he didn't, for a visionary JFK was often short sighted. |
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”Apparently realized his role in the process”. What ”role” did he have in what ”process”?
I claim he once more realized that the CIA was out of control. A criminal organization committing ongoing crimes against the US constitution, democracy and against humanity. He fired its leadership after the Bay of Pigs but soon realized that the cancer was deeply rooted and had metastasized through out both the military and civil society. They assassinated him before he had the chance to root it out once and for all. JFK was the last US president who served the American people, not the US Security State = the permanent War State = the Oligarchy = the Hidden Government = US Gangster State = US Military Industrial Complex = The Belt Way Gravy Train = The New World Order = ... Call it what you want. It’s in power, sucking the life blood of everything it touch upon. Sooner or later. |
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The world leading expertise has explained that Sirhan was showing all known signs of post hypnotic suggestion when arrested at the Ambassador Hotel, and still does 40 years later. He was a victim of unvoluntary mind control including hypnosis, drugs and brain washing in the months preceding the assassination. Probably in connection to the CIA MKUltra project.
Sirhan is exeptionally easy to hypnotize according to all expertise reviewing his case and/or testing him on site. The stated reason for not granting him parole have since 1985 been that he doesn’t own up to what he have done and therefore can’t be released to society. In spite of this, Sirhan insist that he can’t remember what happened before or during the event and therefore can not explain what he did and why he did it. That is, he would have been a free man for the last 20 years if he had ’played ball’. He is still in jail. 40 years later still counting. His case is now under review by OAS for crimes against Sirhans human rights. |
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Robert Kennedy’s death, like the President’s, was mourned as an extension of the evils of senseless violence; events moved on, and the profound alterations that these deaths … brought in the equation of power in America was perceived as random …. What is odd is not that some people thought it was all random, but that so many intelligent people refused to believe that it might be anything else. Nothing can measure more graphically how limited was the general understanding of what is possible in America. |
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