• phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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    16 hours ago

    Looks like they were monitoring him and were hostile towards him. Maybe they thought he’d make a good patsy.

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    2 days ago

    For fucks sake, release everything.

    Anyone who mattered regarding the whole thing is either dead, or elderly and demented.

    Theres nothing left to cover up.

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        2 days ago

        True in a sense, but there are people who helped cover it up who are still alive and well.

        Since the assassination took place over sixty years ago, who gives a shit?

        Will we ruffle the feathers of a few surviving elderly conspirators? Will we upset the world order?

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          Likely nobody gives a shit about the surviving conspirators, but remember that the CIA has pretty thoroughly denied any and all relations to the assassination since then. I’m just guessing here, but it could be that they’re trying to cover up their own (and their friends’) role in deceiving Congress and the public. Someone who was involved in, say, deceiving the Assassination Records Review Board in the late 90s could very much still be in service.

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            2 days ago

            Likely nobody gives a shit about the surviving conspirators, but remember that the CIA has pretty thoroughly denied any and all relations to the assassination since then. I’m just guessing here, but it could be that they’re trying to cover up their own (and their friends’) role in deceiving Congress and the public. Someone who was involved in, say, deceiving the Assassination Records Review Board in the late 90s could very much still be in service.

            I’m still leaning towards who gives a shit. Any cover up dudes in the nineties probably didn’t shoot the guy in the sixties.

            Rip the bandaid off.

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          2 days ago

          Personally, I just want to know. And I want to be able to rub it in the face of the people who implied I was dumb for still thinking that a conspiracy was a possibility

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      2 days ago

      I thought the CIA always maintained that they had nothing to do with Lee Harvey Oswald or the JFK assassination?

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        Well. That’s not changed by anything in your article …

        It’s interesting and all, but it’s more about how the people they were investigating under pseudonyms were eventually installed over the efforts to get investigate themselves…

        Like, that’s fucking huge. And definitely implies they were really involved in it, but it’s not a smoking gun

        Edit:

        To be clear the most likely explanation has always been the same as Cheney and 9/11…

        They knew it was coming, in general if not specific, and they choose to let it happen because that was what was best for their interests.

        That’s a billion times more likely than the CIA taking explicit actions to lead to the assassinations of a US president. It takes a lot to make something like this happen, very little to know it’s gonna happen and intentionally let it happen.

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          I also saw something at one point that claimed the solution to the magic bullet theory was just that a secret service member accidentally shot jfk after Oswald shot. And that the conspiracy/cover up is more along the lines of they didn’t want that getting out, either to protect the agency and/or the individual. In my mind this explanation makes sense, but I’m not really invested in any of it.

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        2 days ago

        If “intelligence agency caught lying” is all that’s needed to make it onion-y it would be a lot busier here.

        For satire I’d expect something like “CIA accidentally publishes message thanking Lee Harvey Oswald for his service”

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    It’s really damning that it took not one but two Trump terms to get anything resembling information on this. This should fatally discredit the Democrats more than they were already fatally discredited. Hopefully some heads are actually going to roll over this.