PRESIDENT
TRUMP AND AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES:
THE
TRUMP-PUTIN PRESS CONFERENCE IN HELSINKI, AUG. 2018;
AND
THE RECENTLY RELEASED JFK ASSASSINATION FILES
by
Hugh Murray
How
could Pres. Trump indicate he would believe Russian leader Vladimir
Putin over American intelligence agency reports over Russian meddling
in the 2016 American presidential election? How could an American
president think the Russians are more truthful than America's
own Intel agencies? The New York Daily News gave its judgement of
Trump the very next day in a banner headline: TREASON. Former CIA
director under Pres. Obama, John Brennan also found Trump's
conference in Helsinki with Putin to be treasonous. Former Sec. of
State John Kerry deemed Trump's actions there disgraceful. Other
Democrats found it shameful. Democrats and the usual Republican
fellow-travelers, Sen. John McCain, and Sen. Rubio were equally
strong in their condemnation of Trump. How could Trump be so
skeptical of American Intel? Perhaps he has been reading some of the
recent files that the Trump Admin. has opened to the public, and
which the American Intel. agencies wanted kept secret for many more
years.
Sometimes,
Pres. Trump has had to compromise with this Deep State of Intel
office holders against him. When it was time to open up the files on
the JFK assassination to the public, CIA and other Intel agencies
urged him to keep the files secret. Trump released some of them last
year, and about 50,000 more in April 2018. But again, at the request
of the Intel groups, some files remained secret.
Happily,
Jerry Kroth has scanned many of the most recently opened JFK files.
On a Youtube video of about 1 ½ hours, Kroth discusses some of the
surprising findings among these files. Thus, in Europe in 2 separate
locations, 2 American soldiers came across startling information.
Both had security clearance, and both worked with cryptography. In
Metz, France, Eugene Dinkin read messages stating that Pres. Kennedy
would be assassinated in Texas on 28 November 1963. He heard several
names associated with the plot: William Harvey, CIA recruiter of
assassins; Guy Banister, then in New Orleans, FBI, CIA, staunch
anti-communist; and Jean Souetre, French-Corsican hit-man. He wanted
to warn Atty Gen. Robert Kennedy of the conspiracy, but worried that
a letter would not reach the brother of the president. So, he left
France for Switzerland, went to a UN press room and sought to reveal
what he had discovered to the media. The American Army moved in
quickly, returned him to France, and placed him in a mental
instituion nearby until he could be returned to one in the US. He
would be in such an instituion for several months.
David
Christensen worked at a CIA listening base inside a RAF base in
Scotland. In late October early November 1963 he too learned of the
plot to kill Kennedy. When he told some of his fellow soldiers, he
too was then discovered to be mentally insane and instituionalized
for at least 6 months. Kroth asks, if they were simply nut cases,
why were the files kept in secret for over 50 years? (Kroth Youtube
video is called, “The Kennedy Assassination: What Really Happened?
Beginning around 11 minutes into video. Also, 21st
Century, Jerry Kroth, “The Released JFK File After Half a
Century.”) [I certainly do not agree with him on everything,
basically labeling Pres. Kennedy as mentally ill simply because he
had 33 sexual liasons in a year while married. I am a nerd, and
laugh when fellow nerds jealously condemn alpha males because they
are successful at bedding many mates. Kroth seems almost as bad as
the army that found Dinkin and Christensen mentally ill because they
wanted to warn Kennedy about the plot! Would Kroth have sought to
institutionalize Kennedy because of the number of his girl friends?)
In
the 46th minute of the Youtube, Kroth discusses an
important finding of the late Harold Weisberg. During a meeting of
the Warren Commision, former CIA head Allen Dulles remarked that
there had been reports of a document showing Lee Oswald was a paid
FBI informant. Dulles adds, we took care of that; we destroyed it.
The CIA was not only involved in the plot, it was involved in the
cover-up.
In
the 49th minute of the video, Kroth discusses a meeting in
September 1963 in Dallas between a major CIA figure, David Atlee
Phillips, Antonio Veciana (leader of militantly anti-Castor Alpha 66,
and Lee Oswald. The audio is poor, but I think Kroth asserts that
Phillips was paying Veciana over $270,000. (Meanwhile Oswald would
soon land a job at the school depository building earning $1.25 and
hour. Assuming Phillips was Oswald's handler, too, he must have been
giving him some funds, but probably off the books. If there were any
easy record, Allen Dulles would have sought to destroy them.)
On 19 April 1996 Marina Oswald Porter wrote to the AARB, the
Assassinations Review Board with a number of requests. In one she
notes that the FBI had prior warning of the assassination of Pres.
Kennedy. This is from her letter:
“
The
full particulars and original of the teletype received by Mr. William
Walter in the New Orleans FBI office on the morning of November 17,
1963, warning of a possible assassination attempt on President
Kennedy in Dallas. I now believe that my former husband met with the
Dallas FBI on November 16, 1963, and provided informant information
on which this teletype was based.” During the Garrison
Investigation in New Orleans, Walter appeared on local television to
discuss the teletype that warned of an impending attempt, but he said
the message never seemed to go out on the national wire.
It
does not come from the recent files, but a soldier was viewing the
Kennedy procession in Dallas when he heard a shot fly by his shoulder
and his left ear. He hit the dirt to get out of the way. He was
standing on the grassy knoll, and thought the shots came from behind
him. Gordon Arnold had taken some photographs, but police approached
him and took them. He did not have to be assigned to a mental ward,
because he was already under order to go to Alaska on the 24th.
The
point of this is to emphasize that elements of American Intelligence
were involved, crucially, in the overthrow of the elected government
of the United States on 22 November 1963. And the hostility of some
elements of American Intel to Pres. Trump is obvious. They sought to
prevent him from becoming president, and they have sought to hobble
him after he was elected. There is good reason for Trump to be
skeptical of major elements of American Intel. Just think again
about Dallas.
And
though Kroth does not mention it in his video, Dallas was not the
first CIA coup during November 1963. On 1 November the military in
South Viet Nam began to move against its President, Ngo Dinh Diem.
On 2 November, in a Catholic Church in Saigon's China Town, Diem
called for help. The army promised to send relief. The armed
vehicles came, but they were there to kill Diem, and his brother and
advisor, Ngo Dinh Nhu was also killed. The CIA, which had supplied
the rebels with money, could be happy with the new leader of
government, Duong Van Minh. But as the victorious coup in Vietnam
was being celebrated, the chatter on the secret encripted lines were
already discussing another coup – in Texas later that same month.
Two coups in one month led to a very costly war in SE Asia, and a
disaster on the American home front. In November 1963 the CIA had a
few problems. Two soldiers in Europe; problems solved when they are
declared 2 coo-coos. Later two successful coups, and this history of
America and Vietnam is changed. But for the better, or worse?
At
the press conference that followed the Trump-Putin summit meeting on
16 July 2018, a correspondent asked Trump a pointed, difficult
question. It went: according to Pres. Putin, the Russians did not
meddle in the 2018 presidential election in the US, but according to
all of the American intelligence agencies, the Russians did indeed
interfere. Pres. Trump, whom do you believe? Russian Pres. Putin or
American Intelligence agencies? This question put Trump on the spot
– as the hostile media meant it to do. Should he call Putin a
liar, or imply that American intelligence agencies lies? Put on the
spot by the enemy media, Trump waffled. He did not really answer the
question.
Trump's
non-answer brought down an avalanch of hostile criticism. The
American President should have supported American Intel and either
implied or openly denounced Putin as a liar. Anything less was
treasonous! Almost all Democrats denounced Trump in this manner.
Many of the former “Never Trumpers” were trotted out for their
daily TV comments, all to denounced Trump for caving to the Russians.
Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan and other pro-amnesty for
invaders also had another opportunity to criticize Trump, also.
Pres.
Obama's former head of the CIA, John O. Brennan, a man who had voted
in 1976 for Gus Hall for president, the candidate of the Communist
Party, USA, now unleashed increasingly vindictive comments to
categorize Trump's performance in Finland. Brennan, in 2014, was
criticized for allowing CIA operatives to hack into Congressional
computers to gather information on Congressmen and their staffs. It
was illegal, and tyrannical, but Brennan was head of the CIA under
Obama. Indeed, Brennan may have be selected for that post because of
his left-wing background. Obama had a mentor as a teenager in Hawaii
who wrote for the CP newspaper on the islands, and who was a member
of the American Communist Party. In Chicago, he was friends with
former Weather Underground terrorists. Brennan, who had voted for
the Communists, and who may have even been a Communist, was a natural
for Obama to select to head the CIA.
In
the 2018 election, there were some who saw Russian attempts to
meddle. But under Pres. Obama, little was done. When the Democratic
National Committee computers were hacked, the Democrats would not
permit the FBI to examine those computers. The DNC had been involved
in rigging the primaries for Hillary Clinton and against her
challenger, Bernie Sanders, and Podesta and Rep. Debbie
Wassermann-Schultz, Posesta preferred to hide their guilt away from
FBI's. Indeed, W-S had hired a Pakistni who absconded the country
with many of the files from the Democratic computers, and also files
on many of their Congressional representatives.
During
the campaign, members of the FBI colluded with Brennan and others
using fake files paid for by the Hillary campaign, in order to plant
spies in the Trump campaign. FBI leader James Comey during the
campaign read to the press a long list of violations of law committed
by Hillary Clinton with her private server, and then Comey, on his
own, reinterpreted the clear words of the law to let Hillary off the
hook. Other FBI agents asserted that they would not let Trump become
president. Their hatred of Trump was clear, even toward his voters
who had the stench of Walmart on them.
After
Trump was elected Pres. In November 2016, to the shock of the liberal
media and the American Intel groups, a new plot to prevent him from
achieving the power of his office was plotted. When Trump rightly
fired Comey, Comey reacted in a way hoping a special prosecutor would
be appointed. Rod Rosenstein almost immediately appointed Robert
Mueller to that special post. The media lauded Mueller, despite his
ruthless past in twisting prosecuting into persecution. Mueller,
Rosenstein, Comey, all had a past together. And they would work to
undermine and destroy Trump's presidency during the next 2 years.
They
continue to do so. They now think calling Trump a traitor and tool
of Putin will drive him from power. But will it? The New York Daily
News that bannered the headline TRAITOR the day after Helsinki, one
week later fired half its staff, as the newspaper declined. Some
liberal network reporters are stunned when they interview Trump
voters who remain Trump supporters after Helsinki. Americans will
have a chance to vote for a new Congress in November 2018. I hope
Trump will remain healthy for a long time, and despite calls for
violence, there will be no replay of Dallas.
I
am not asserting that the American Intel groups are the worst. Not
at all. All powerful nations have intel agencies, some better, some
worse. Ours is not the worst. Yet, it is time we realize these
agencies were involved in the assassination of an elected president,
and partook in the coverup, amounting to a coup. Most times, they
can be law-abiding, but they can go rogue, they can lie about weapons
of mass destruction and other things. They have overthrown at least
one elected president! They can have utter contempt for the American
people, even if we do smell of Walmart! The CIA can have a lean and
hungry look. When Trump supports the US Constitution first, he
champions the best of America. He should be wary of extremely
powerful groups.
