The purpose of Bugliosi’s Reclaiming History is to defend the integrity of the USG National Security State by grossly distorting its nature and function, by disguising that it is the servant of factions of the ruling classes within the United States, and by pretending that the people who control it did not and could not contemplate the assassination of a democratically elected President whose recalcitrant politics fell outside their parameters.

According to Bugliosi, only the lunatic can seriously entertain that Kennedy was murdered because he pursued détente with the USSR (and a proposed a joint lunar mission with the Soviets), championed nuclear disarmament, decided not to back the invasion of the Bay of Pigs with US military might, made a peaceful resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis when the Joint Chiefs wanted invasion and war, and decided to withdraw US troops from Vietnam rather than pursue by brute force an imperial venture in Southeast Asia.

Bugliosi considers himself at liberty to mock those who appreciate the truth of the opposing world view: “conspiracy icon Vincent Salandria ‘the killing of Kennedy represented a coup d’état. ’…I suppose that since a coup d’état is defined as a sudden, unconstitutional change of state policy and leadership ‘by a group of persons in authority,’… you couldn’t even have a coup without the involvement, cooperation, and complicity of groups like the FBI, CIA, and military-industrial complex.” Individuals who entertain such notions are so wrapped up in “their fertile delusions” that they substitute finding a motive for finding evidence, make no connections between, e.g., the CIA and Oswald, and thus sadly show nothing but “this crazy, incredibly childlike reasoning and mentality that has driven and informed virtually all of the pro-conspiracy sentiment in the Kennedy assassination from the beginning.” (985-987)

http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/green/BesmirchingHistory.html

This essay answers Bugliosi by showing direct involvement of the Warren Commission and the US military in the cover-up, and by demonstrating that the assassination was a state murder, without attempting at this point the far more difficult and far less important task of saying which individuals did precisely what. All of the organs of state power participated in the cover-up; indeed none could do so without confidence in the cooperation of all the others. Some did so as part of their role in the murder, some like the FBI did so reluctantly, but there were no institutional whistleblowers because the consensus of persons with political power was firmly opposed to Kennedy’s foreign policy and they used their control of the organs of state power to kill him, and then replaced his foreign policy with theirs.

the second paragraph, in particular, pretty well sums up the motive.

I think your thesis that Pres. Kennedy was a de facto cold warrior fails on several levels.  In the first place, I have researched Pres. Kennedy's policies wrt NASA and the Apollo programme and it is fairly obvious to me that he would have shook up NASA from the top down (NSAM 271), not unlike his famous remark to scatter the CIA into a thousand pieces, after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. A joint moon mission with the Soviets?  This is not what a cold warrior would have done in late 1963. 

A cold warrior like Johnson did even want to think of space cooperation.  OTOH, a cold warrior like Nixon could pick up JFK's mantle again and recast it ten years later, with the Apollo-Soyuz missions.  Which is to say there is a big difference between a dumb cold warrior (LBJ) and a smart  cold warrior (Nixon). Nixon had the brains to make it happen, just like JFK would have made it happen, too.  Just as Nixon recognized China instead of ostracizing it as the rightwing extremists wanted, I believe JFK would have done the same, whether it would have been a communist Vietnam or a communist China.  Cold warrior? JFK was neither. He was in a class by himself. But he was definitely not a cold warrior.

Examine Vietnam,the nuclear test ban treaty, the secret Cuba negotiations. JFK may have wanted to project a public image to appease some of the conservatives, but he was working on a much more profound and deeper level than that. And you have to put it in historical context, as Jim Douglass did in his well-researched book.  He concluded that JFK had a conversion at a certain point. He had turned away from the Cold War.

Clearly, we must draw a distinction, before and after this conversion. Politically, for JFK, 1961 and 1963 were as far apart as the night and day.  If you freeze JFK in the time of 1961, yes, I suppose you could be right. But Kennedy never allowed his thinking and intellect to become so ossified as the rightwing had become at that same time. He evolved, and it was his revolution in thinking that created so much opposition against him.

Any thoughts about a possible Israeli angle, Nathan?
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"Ben-Gurion could be vicious, and he had such a hatred of the old man [Joe Kennedy, Sr., JFK's father]." - New York banker Abe Feinberg
http://www.john-f-kennedy.net/mossadandtheassassination.htm

Although Stone portrayed former New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison as a hero for pointing the finger in the direction of elements of the U.S. military and intelligence networks as the guiding force behind JFK's murder, what Stone didn't tell his audience was something even more controversial: that, privately, after some years of research and reflection, Garrison had reached an even more startling determination: that the driving force behind JFK's murder was no less than Israel's feared intelligence service, the Mossad.
http://www.afrocubaweb.com/news/mossadjfk.htm

Permindex was clearly the Israeli link to the JFK assassination, so much so that Jim Garrison himself later circulated the manuscript for a never-published novel in which he fingered the Mossad as prime mover behind the conspiracy although Garrison never otherwise mentioned a Mossad connection publicly. Where, you ask, does the CIA fit alongside the Mossad in the JFK assassination? By 1963 John F. Kennedy was not only at war with Israel and the Meyer Lansky Organized Crime Syndicate, but he was also at war with their close ally in the international intelligence underworld - the CIA. Final Judgment shows that Israel’s chief contact at the CIA, the Soviet-hating James Jesus Angleton, ultimately played a pivotal role in the JFK assassination conspiracy cover-up. You may ask why Hollywood’s so-called "radical film-maker" Oliver Stone, whose film JFK was a virtual tribute to Garrison never mentioned any of this. I would contend that Stone failed to mention these details in JFK because the film was financed by Arnon Milchan, an Israeli arms dealer linked to smuggling of materiel to Israel’s nuclear program - the very point of contention between JFK and Israel...  http://www.dialogue-yemen.org/en/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=20

Vanunu: Israel Killed John F. Kennedy
July 26, 2004

In a startling accusation, nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has alleged that Jerusalem was behind the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, who was exerting pressure on the then Israeli head of state to shed light on the Dimona nuclear plant.

In defiance of a ban on talking to the media and meeting with foreigners, Vanunu is said to have made the accusation in an interview to London-based Al-Hayat newspaper.

As per the interview published in newspaper's Arabic supplement Al-Wassat yesterday, Vanunu said according to "near-certain indications," Kennedy was assassinated due to "pressure he exerted on then head of government, David Ben-Gurion, to shed light on Dimona's nuclear reactor."  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/295523.html?c=on

Gadhafi: Obama fears Israel will assassinate him like it did JFK
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/991948.html

John F. Kennedy apparently was the last U.S. president to directly challenge Israel about its true intentions at Dimona.
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/01/19/Worldandnation/Critics_want_Israel_t.shtml

Avener Cohen, in Israel and the Bomb, stresses, "No American president was more concerned with the danger of nuclear proliferation than John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He was convinced that the spread of nuclear weapons would make the world more dangerous and undermine U.S. interests." Cohen continues at the end of this passage, "The only example Kennedy used to make this point was Israel." 
http://www.john-f-kennedy.net/mossadandtheassassination.htm



JFK’s Letter to (Israeli PM) Eshkol About Dimona - July 5, 1963

Dear Mr. Prime Minister:

It gives me great personal pleasure to extend congratulations as you assume your responsibilities as Prime Minister of Israel. You have our friendship and best wishes in your new tasks. It is on one of these that I am writing you at this time.

You are aware, I am sure, of the exchange which I had with Prime Minister Ben-Gurion concerning American visits to Israel’s nuclear facility at Dimona. Most recently, the Prime Minister wrote to me on May 27. His words reflected a most intense personal consideration of a problem that I know is not easy for your Government, as it is not for mine. We welcomed the former Prime Minister’s strong reaffirmation that Dimona will be devoted exclusively to peaceful purposes and the reaffirmation also of Israel’s willingness to permit periodic visits to Dimona.

I regret having to add to your burdens so soon after your assumption of office, but I feel the crucial importance of this problem necessitates my taking up with you at this early date certain further considerations, arising out of Mr. Ben-Gurion’s May 27 letter, as to the nature and scheduling of such visits.

I am sure you will agree that these visits should be as nearly as possible in accord with international standards, thereby resolving all doubts as to the peaceful intent of the Dimona project. As I wrote Mr. Ben-Gurion, this Government’s commitment to and support of Israel could be seriously jeopardized if it should be thought that we were unable to obtain reliable information on a subject as vital to the peace as the question of Israel’s effort in the nuclear field.

Therefore, I asked our scientists to review the alternative schedules of visits we and you had proposed. If Israel’s purposes are to be clear beyond reasonable doubt, I believe that the schedule which would best serve our common purposes would be a visit early this summer, another visit in June 1964, and thereafter at intervals of six months. I am sure that such a schedule should not cause you any more difficulty than that which Mr. Ben-Gurion proposed in his May 27 letter. It would be essential, and I understand that Mr. Ben-Gurion’s letter was in accord with this, that our scientist have access to all areas of the Dimona site and to any related part of the complex, such as fuel fabrication facilities or plutonium separation plant, and that sufficient time to be allotted for a thorough examination.

Knowing that you fully appreciate the truly vital significance of this matter to the future well-being of Israel, to the United States, and internationally, I am sure our carefully considered request will have your most sympathetic attention.

Sincerely,
John F. Kennedy
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/israel/documents/exchange/01-01.htm
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"My friend, my name is Roy Kellerman. I am special agent in charge of the White House detail of the Secret Service. We are taking President Kennedy back to the capitol."

"You are not taking the body anywhere. There's a law here. We're going to enforce it."

Admiral George Burkley, White House Medical Officer, said, "Mrs. Kennedy is going to stay exactly where she is until the body is moved. We can't have that … he's the President of the United States."

"That doesn't matter," Dr. Rose replied rigidly. "You can't lose the chain of evidence."

For the second time that day, there was little doubt in my mind as to the significance of what was happening before me.

"Goddammit, get your ass out of the way before you get hurt," screamed another one of the men in suits. Another snapped, "We're taking the body, now."

Strange, I thought, this President is getting more protection dead than he did when he was alive.

- Dr. Charles A. Crenshaw, attending physician at Parkland Memorial Hospital  http://www.jfkmontreal.com/inside_parkland.htm

author said:

JFK came into office as a cold warrior, but by the time of his assassination he was not.

Many of the materials necessary to establish this fact are readily available to research for oneself, but if you want to skip a few steps you could read "Jfk and the Unspeakable" by Jim Douglass.

Hello Joe,

I haven't read JFK and the Unspeakable yet, but I have listened to Jim Douglass when Len's had him on as a guest, and Douglass himself doesn't claim that Kennedy had made a full conversion to the status of "peacenik." (my term) "He wasn't Ghandi," is how I'd paraphrase his remarks. I think that would be quite an understatement. Yes, there's lots of material to research out there. Do you have any opinion about a Mossad link to the assassination? That seems to be a possibility that few want to consider, although Garrison himself reportedly came to believe it was true.
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from "Empire as a Way of Life"
by Dr John Marciano, Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Cortland

John F. Kennedy dramatically increased US imperialism in Latin America, something that liberal admirers of the late president refuse to acknowledge. He “campaigned in the 1960 presidential election as a committed militarist” and promised “to establish a new foundation on which to ensure the continuance of American power in such changing times.” He attempted to maintain US hegemony throughout the hemisphere in the face of powerful movements for radical change. The key was to appear to support the ideals of these movements while at the same time deepening US militarism against them.

Despite his image as an “idealist,” it was during Kennedy’s era that national security states in Latin America “strengthened and in some cases created by the US … began to transform themselves into command centers of the region’s death-squad system [which] executed hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans and tortured tens of thousands more.” This is an absolutely critical point: the real – as opposed to the fantasy – Kennedy helped lay the groundwork for later genocidal levels of violence throughout the region.

Historian Richard Walton has analyzed Kennedy’s foreign policies in Latin America in Cold War and Counterrevolution. Walton argues that the context for Kennedy’s aggression in Latin America and his terrorist acts against Cuba are to be found in Cold War efforts to increase US military superiority over the Soviet Union. Immediately after his inauguration in 1961, Kennedy moved to increase US military strength across the board, including a dramatic jump in the nuclear missile program. This was barely two weeks after Eisenhower warned us about the dangers of the “military-industrial complex” in his farewell address.

JFK asked for huge increases in military spending despite “intelligence studies that revealed” there was no “missile gap” with the Soviet Union. Walton asserts Kennedy shared the view of other US presidents such as Teddy Roosevelt, i.e., “… the US has the unique right to intervene by force of arms in the domestic affairs of other nations.” This arrogant view became a cardinal tenet of US policy after WW II under both Democrats and Republicans. The US reserved this right for itself but was quick to condemn any nation acting in a similar manner, e.g., condemning Soviet actions in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Kennedy was obsessed with Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution, approving Operation Mongoose that included assassination attempts against Fidel and terrorist attacks against that nation. To undermine Cuban influence in Latin America, Kennedy combined violence with the rhetoric of democratic concern, e.g., the Alliance for Progress. The rhetoric, however, was aimed here at home against US citizens, since he never intended to attack deep-seated social and economic injustices abroad. His imperialist, class-based policies were continued by Johnson and Nixon, and culminated in the genocidal US-supported death squad regimes under President Reagan.

Kennedy supported the invasion of Cuba in April 1961, proving, in Walton’s view, that “he was prepared to violate the territorial integrity of a sovereign state [and] violate … international law,” as well as an American pledge “not to intervene in the domestic affairs of hemisphere states.” In a public statement shortly after the invasion, Kennedy lied about US involvement. “Any unilateral American intervention, in the absence of an external attack upon ourselves or an ally, would have been contrary to our traditions and to our international obligations.” He made this statement before major US newspaper editors: not one confronted him on this egregious distortion of the truth, in keeping with the mass media’s lapdog tradition of supporting US aggression.

Walton writes that this was an “extraordinary statement. No only was the invasion planned by the US, but the US recruited, paid and trained” an exile force that had “American military equipment [and were] trained by American military men…. The warplanes were American, flown by Americans.… American ships carried the invaders, and American naval units accompanied them. Americans were killed in the operation. To claim that America did not intervene was to lie and be caught in a lie.”

Walton challenges the so-called “crowning” achievement of Kennedy’s administration: JFK’s handling of the Cuban missile crisis in the fall of 1962. Although it has been called Kennedy’s “greatest triumph,” Walton profoundly disagrees: “… [Kennedy’s] decision to go to the brink of nuclear war was irresponsible and reckless to a supreme degree…. [He] … consciously risked nuclear catastrophe….”

When one looks objectively at JFK’s record of infamy in Latin America: the numerous assassination attempts on Castro’s life and hundreds of terrorist acts against Cubans (which went far beyond Kennedy’s era and have killed more people in that nation in the last 47 years than the number of US citizens killed in 9/11), the Bay of Pigs invasion, the missile crisis, US efforts to destabilize the government in the British Guiana (now Guyana), the refusal to support the elected Dominican leader Juan Bosch when he was overthrown by a military coup in September 1963, and national security state violence throughout Latin America, they reveal a violent leader who was a supporter of entrenched class rule in Latin America.

In their analysis of contemporary US imperialism, writers and activists John Bellamy Foster and Robert McChesney (Pox Americana) also place the recent history of US aggression in Latin America in the context of the Kennedy era. In a June, 1963 speech, Kennedy declared that the US sought peace in the world, “not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.” He dismissed as “wholly baseless and incredible” – as Marxist propaganda – the charge that the US was engaged in imperialism in Latin America and elsewhere. The facts prove otherwise. Including his administration and continuing to the present, covert and outright US imperialist actions in Latin America attacked Cuba, British Guiana, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Grenada, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Haiti and Venezuela.

Kennedy’s policies had helped lay the foundation for what ultimately became the death-squad regimes in El Salvador and Guatemala. Even though “there was not even a whiff of rural insurrection” in El Salvador in the early 1960s, this did not stop “agents from the State Department, Green Berets, CIA and USAID [that] organized … groups that would become the backbone of that country’s death-squad system” – led by soldiers who were often trained by the US at Fort Benning, Georgia. A Pentagon report stated that it was “precisely the young, aggressive, US-trained officers … who are the most intoxicated by the extreme right’s vision and … who commit many of the worst atrocities.”  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/369757.html

The Cuban revolution was declared to be socialist by Fidel Castro speaking before an approving crowd as US planes flew over Havana dropping bombs. The April 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion had begun. Following its rapid failure, President JF Kennedy instituted a blockade of Cuba, which remains today.

In 1967, President LB Johnson, then bogged down in war against the Indo-Chinese peoples, expressed to a reporter: “We were running a goddamn Murder Incorporated in the Caribbean.” He said so after learning the CIA had used the Mafia to try to assassinate Fidel Castro. The CIA was also infecting humans, animals and crops with poisons, terrorizing its people from the air and on the ground.
- Ron Ridenour  http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/half-century-of-cuban-revolution-challenges-2/

author said:

JFK wasn't a peacenik, but his dealings with the Joint Chiefs had taught him they were maniacs willing to blow up the world, which he was not prepared to do. Although the American University speech goes pretty far in that direction and it seems clear that he was going to pull out in Vietnam.

It's possible that the Mossad played some role in the assassination, but basically I think it's a distraction. The level of control established on the day of the assassination points to an internal process. Mossad simply does not have control over the codebooks in the military planes, or the ability to shut down the phones in DC, or control the parade route, etc.

Mossad certainly has the ability to shut down phone systems and access our codebooks today, if not in 1963. And, actually, I'm not sure they couldn't have done it back then, either, in collusion with the CIA. The State of Israel benefited tremendously from the death of JFK, just as it benefited greatly from 9-11. Do you think James Jesus Angleton just might've had a hand in Kennedy's murder? How about Frank Sturgis and Clay Shaw?
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In addition to owning counterintelligence, Angleton also had control over the FBI’s relationship with the Agency (he owned the liaison relationship between FBI and CIA), and sole control of the Israeli desk, which included liaison with their intelligence service, the Mossad.  http://www.ctka.net/pr700-ang.html

In addition to trying to ferret out "moles," Angleton was involved in other facets of the "spook" business, including disinformation and personally overseeing formation and ongoing liaison with the Israeli foreign intelligence arm, Mossad. His early work in Italy is thought to have laid the groundwork for later cooperative associations with Mafia figures when their particular "talents" and connections were required. Conspiracy theorists believe there is evidence to link Angleton, directly or indirectly, with involvement in the John F. Kennedy assassination; the slaying of a JFK mistress, Mary Pinchot Meyer; and the suspicious "suicide" of a senior CIA official by carbon monoxide poisoning, among others.  http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/32253.php

Based on his own extensive study of the JFK assassination Cuba's former chief of counterintelligence, General Fabian Escalante Escalante, told journalist Claudia Furiati that Cuban intelligence had determined that, in fact, "Sturgis was in charge of communications—receiving and transmitting information on the movement at Dealey Plaza and the motorcade to the shooters and others."

If Sturgis was involved in the actual mechanics of the assassination, the historical evidence suggests that Sturgis could have been functioning as a knowing Mossad tool in the conspiracy.

The truth is that going back some fifteen years prior to the JFK assassination, Sturgis had worked for the Mossad.

...we not only find CIA asset Clay Shaw of New Orleans tied to the Mossad through his association with the Permindex operation (as were Banister and Ferrie), but we also find two other CIA-connected players in the anti-Castro operations out of New Orleans (Sturgis and Hemming) were in the Mossad's sphere of influence. And Lee Harvey Oswald is tied to all of the key players involved. http://www.saveourwetlands.org/mossadrolejfkass03.html

Joe, do you think the skipper of PT109 would've turned his back on the crew of the USS Liberty while Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats were attacking her, even strafing US sailors in lifeboats, as LBJ did? Johnson had no problem with Israeli nukes, either. It could be said that JFK's death was therefore mutually beneficial to both LBJ and Israel, couldn't it? In the same way, both Bush and Israel benefitted from 9-11. The Israelis were indeed aware of every move the alleged hijackers (true identities unknown to this day) made, and yet the attacks succeeded spectacularly. Obviously, their "warnings" didn't amount to much.
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On June 8, 1967, the Israelis attacked the USS Liberty, in international waters, 13 miles off the coast of the Sinai Peninsula, and tried to sink it, and kill all 294 American on board the spy ship (“Assault on the Liberty,” James M. Ennes, Jr. and James Bamford’s “Body of Secrets.”) The Israelis then falsely claimed it was just a case of “mistaken identity.”

However, according to Peter Hounam, the author of the expose’, “Operation Cyanide,” the murderous Israeli attack was a set up to blame the Egyptians and bring the U.S. into the 1967 war on their side. The Liberty was a “sitting duck” for the Israeli jet planes’ missiles and rockets and their torpedo boats. The attack lasted at least 75 minutes, killing 34 brave Americans and wounding 172 others. Liberty survivor, Petty Officer Ernie Gallo, said, “I mean for a group of people who are supposed to be the children of God, (the Israelis) they didn’t show any mercy for us.”

Both Captain Ward Boston, an ex-Navy attorney, who participated in a Court of Inquiry, with respect to the Liberty, and Admiral Thomas Moorer, a former Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chief of Staff, (who recently died) believe that President Lyndon Baines Johnson ordered a massive “cover-up” after the attack by the Israelis. (10/23/03, CBSNews.com)

Just imagine for one moment, if an individual dedicated to putting America’s interests first - before the interests of the Zionists - had been the U.S. President on June 8, 1967. Instead of recalling our aircraft that were on their way to rescue the Liberty, he (or she) would have ordered them to continue on their mission, not only to defend the Liberty and to stop the massacre, but to retaliate against the Zionist aggressors by bombing their naval base at the port of Ashdod, their military headquarters at Tel Aviv and Haifa, and for good measure, dropping a few MX missiles on Dimona, their secret nuke-making plant, located in the Negev desert. If, only?
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/4731/

- In attacking the USS Liberty, Israel committed acts of murder against U.S. servicemen and an act of war against the United States.
- The White House knowingly covered up the facts of this attack from the American people.
http://www.realnews247.com/uss_liberty_betrayal_moorer.htm


http://www.ussliberty.org/index2.html

And McNamara burns in hell... ;-)

author said:

Paraphrasing JFK:

This is like the Mossad 9/11 stuff. There is evidence to show that the Mossad were spying on the alleged hijackers and, indeed, Israel was one of the many countries to warn the U.S. about the terrorist attacks. That's not the same thing as causing the attacks.

These events are the result of internal processes. The people who work within these internal departments are the ones with the power to deliver the results we all see.

EXACTLY.

Many of us have come to the realization that Israel has played a major role in 9-11 (PNAC, dancing Israeli spies, Odigo, Wolfowitz Doctrine, The Clean Break, Netanyahu and Silverstein phone buddies, Israeli security in charge of US airports, Marvin Bush in charge of security of WTC at time of attacks, implosions, explosions, Silverstein said on video “they decided to pull it” with regards to WTC building 7 which was not even hit by a jet, and it takes weeks to set up an implosion, the resulting “war on terror” based on false info provided by Israel’s Mossad, and so on and so forth— see the DVDs and research on the internet using google). Therefore any book, DVD, film or article which does not point to or even allude to the role of Israel in 9-11 is obfuscating and hiding the Truth about 9-11.  http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=624

..."the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor!"



Put this name into your system: Dov Zakheim
From 1985 to 1987 he was deputy under secretary of defense for planning 
and resources, and held various other senior Pentagon posts in the 
Reagan administration. He was previously with the Congressional 
Budget Office. Zakheim is currently corporate vice president of Systems Planning Corporation (SPC), a high-technology research, 
analysis, and manufacturing firm, and chief executive officer and 
president of SPC International, Inc. In 1998, Zakheim, an expert in ballistic missiles, worked in 1998 with Rumsfeld Commission. More significantly, he is a long time Bush associate, having served as a 
policy advisor to the governor during the 2000 campaign. In May, 2001, Zakheim was sworn in to the Bush Administration as Under 
Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) of the DOD.

Zakheim's company produces advanced Command Transmitter Systems, designed to provide "remote control and flight termination functions through a fully redundant, self-contained solid state system." The unit is just 5 feet high and can be mounted easily on a mobile platform. Although designed to control unmanned flights such as Global hawk from remote positions on the ground, one British aviation engineer said after 9/11 that the planes used in the attacks could have been equipped with, or suitable for, such remote control units.
http://cleveland.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/14509.php

Rabbi Zakheim not only was remote control specialist, he also was very well acquinted with financial affairs of the Pentagon. In March 2001, that is 6 months before 9/11, Zakheim was appointed comptroller at the Pentagon. He was hired to shed some light about some trillions missing in the books. Now is that a coincidence or what! A guy who worked 4 years as CEO for a company specialized in remote control moves to a new job in a new building which gets hit by a plane. And where did it hit? At an almost empty, newly renovated part of the Pentagon. So here comes Hanni Hanjour, dedicated to sacrifice his life in his resentment against all those Americans 'enjoying their freedoms'; he ignores breathtaking targets like the White House or Capitol Hill; he could have nose-dived in a straight line onto the Pentagon. He does not. Instead he makes an almost impossible 270 degrees turn to park his plane into exactly that spot that solved all of Zakheim's problems. http://www.how911wasdone.blogspot.com/#zakheim

Dov Zakheim, the Pentagon's Comptroller (in charge of the money) on 9/11, was co-author of the notorious "Project for a New American Century" September 2000 report that stated the US empire needed a "new Pearl Harbor" and that the US should seize oil-rich Iraq even if Saddam Hussein were deposed. His involvement with PNAC, his previous directorship of a corporation that manufactures remote control flight systems, and his inability to document how the Pentagon has spent our money suggests that real investigations into the crimes of 9/11 and the US invasion of the Middle East would put Mr. Zakheim near the top of the witness list if there is ever a real 9/11 investigation with subpoena power.  http://www.oilempire.us/remote.html#zakheim

...in 2001 Dov was CEO of SPS International, part of System Planning Corporation, a defense contractor majoring in electronic warfare technologies, including remote-controlled aircraft systems, and the notorious Flight Termination System (FTS) technology that could hijack even a hijacked plane and land or crash it wherever.

Wikipedia points out that Zakheim is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and in 2000 a co-author of the Project for the New American Century’s position paper, Rebuilding America’s Defenses, advocating the necessity for a Pearl-Harbor-like incident to mobilize the country into war with its enemies, mostly Middle Eastern Muslim nations.

Dov’s Father, Rabbi Jacob I. Zakheim was born in 1910 and reared in Poland’s swarm of Zionist hard guys, read assassins and bombers. His Polish town, near Bilaystok, also brought us Yitzhak Shir, and family friends included Menachem Begin and Moshe Arens. http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1047.shtml

Prior to 9/11, the FBI had discovered the presence of a massive spy ring inside the United States run by the government of Israel. This seems a harsh gratitude from a nation which obtains 10% of its annual budget from the American taxpayer, $3+ billion a year. Over the years, American taxpayers have been required to send Israel more than four times what the US spent to go to the moon.

What Israel has done in return was to set up government subsidized telecommunications companies which operate here in the United States. One of these companies is Amdocs, which provides billing and directory assistance for 90% of the phone companies in the USA. Amdocs' main computer center for billing is actually in Israel and allows those with access to do what intelligence agencies call "traffic analysis"; a picture of someone's activities based on a pattern of who they are calling and when. Another Israeli telecom company is Comverse Infosys, which subcontracts the installation of the automatic tapping equipment now built into every phone system in America. Comverse maintains its own connections to all this phone tapping equipment, insisting that it is for maintenance purposes only. However, Converse has been named as the most likely source for leaked information regarding telephone calls by law enforcement that derailed several investigations into not only espionage, but drug running as well. Yet another Israeli telecom company is Odigo, which provides the core message passing system for all the "Instant Message" services. Two hours before the attacks on the World Trade Towers, Odigo employees received a warning.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=77744 
Odigo has an office 2 blocks from the former location of the World Trade Towers. 
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/spyring.html?q=spyring.html

The Dancing Israelis on 9/11
After reviewing the evidence, there can only be one logical reason as to why a group (perhaps multiple groups) of young Israeli men, in which some where found out to be Mossad agents, were filming the Twin Towers on 9/11 before the attack and then were celebrating and taking pictures of themselves with the burning WTC in the background; they were in on it.
http://killtown.blogspot.com/2005/11/dancing-israelis-on-911.html

Netanyahu Says 9/11 Was Good For Israel
Asked tonight what the (9-11) attack meant for relations between the United States and Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, the former Israeli prime minister, replied, ''It's very good.''  http://www.infowars.net/articles/april2008/160408Netanyahu.htm

911, Iraq, PNAC, All roads lead to Israel
http://www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons/viewtopic.php?t=1388
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Nixon administration pressured Israel on nukes
http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/06/24/nixon-administration-pressured-israel-on-nukes/



* And I'm pretty sure that Israel started the Korean War, too. ;) Seriously, I absolutely believe that "all roads lead to Israel" with regard to 9-11, although I don't think it was strictly a Mossad operation. With regard to JFK, I basically agree with what Steve said, that it's "an interesting angle," but obviously there'd have to have been major collusion with elements of the U.S. gov't and intelligence apparatus.

You mentioned the fabled change of the Dallas motorcade route. When do you think it was changed, and who changed it?

Are you still out there, Joe? I hope so.

I can't stop reading this forum and learning, learning, learning.  JFK's letter to the prime minister of Israel regarding "DIMONA", RFK making Israeli lobbyists register as "agents" of Israel, the white van, WTC #7 falling which is now on my "favorites" site and about to be e-mailed to a few friends.  Thank you!  On another thread someone had posted a fake nigerian request for funds letter and signed it "Secretary of the Treasury", USA.  I laughed and laughed.  How clever.  Who are you guys?  For  awhile I've been wondering about the contraption I see on the underbelly of one the planes that flew into the towers and with the Dov Zackheim posting, (remote control) I now get it. Thank you.

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A member argues that JFK was behind the mayhem in Latin America.  Incorrect.  The mayhem doesn't begin until JFK is removed from the scene. Brazil falls almost immediately to a military coup with the rest of Latin America soon following.  David Rockefeller's hands are tied by the Kennedy brothers and only by removing the brothers from power can David Rockefeller start his rape.

The USA was raping Latin America long before either JFK or David Rockefeller were born. Kennedy, on behalf of global capitalism and Amerikan dominance, initiated the Cuban embargo, which continues to cause great hardship for the Cuban people to this day.

History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America
http://www2.truman.edu/~marc/resources/interventions.html

Keep posting, jfkvscia. There are still plenty of beds available here in the asylum.  ;)

"Overall, I'd call the debate a draw. I'll be listening to it a few more times, I'm sure, and I think it was a great idea, well executed.

I'd never heard McAdams speak before. I didn't get the same impression of him that most of the other posters here did; that he was "slick" and deceptive. He just sounded calm and well informed, and I thought he countered DiEugenio very well on some points. When Jim said that JFK wasn't telling the truth to the American people about his intentions in Vietnam, my immediate reaction was "so he was willing to let more GI's die just in order to better his reelection chances? That sucks." That's exactly what McAdams countered with, so I have to give that point to McAdams.

I've looked at McAdam's site quite a few times, and I've got to admit that the information there destroyed some of my long held beliefs and assumptions, such as the "last minute" motorcade route change, and Prouty's assertion that all of the windows in tall buildings along the route should've been closed. When you see other JFK motorcade pics where people are in high windows and on balconies, it kind of shoots that claim down, doesn't it? I'd never have known that Prouty was a spokesperson for Scientology, either, if I hadn't seen that info on McAdam's site.

I'll never believe that all of the medical personnel at Parkland just hallucinated a gaping wound in the back of JFK's head, and I have lots of questions about the (non)performance of the Secret Service that day, and many other things. I still think Oswald was a patsy. But, again, McAdams didn't come off to me like Satan's Uncle or anything. Are you sure that he doesn't just simply believe what he's saying?

Feel free to toss the rotten tomatoes..."


This marks (at least) the second post where Purple Haze not only advocates McAdams' joke of a website, but now he also attempts to humanize McAdams himself. In the process, Purple Haze doesn't pass up the opportunity to throw in a back-handed swipe at Fletcher Prouty for good measure.

Does anybody know the number of a good exterminator?  I smell a rat.

If I didn't know any better, I'd think I was on the IMDB website.

Right, Purple?

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I understand the frustration with the lop-sided MSM propaganda, but I hope that JFK assassination research doesn't devolve into being just another "faith-based religion." Everything should be challenged, and nothing taken for granted.

Religion is not based on facts.  But the JFK assassination is based on facts.  McAdams fudges those facts.  With great relish. There is NO point in going to McAdams' website because we know he is a legendary disseminator of falsities.  For you to encourage people to visit his website shows you are not interested in pursuing the truth. Further, by encouraging people to visit McAdams' website, you are exposing yourself as someone who has an ulterior agenda.

Forum member & visitors,

Does anyone have a NAME & ADDRESS for the producers of the Tom Hanks mini series re: JFK assassination.  I think it would beneficial to have this information so that we can write in advance of this tidal wave.  They must know that other versions of the assassination exists.  Maybe if enough of us write, one of our truth telling guys could be used as a consultant.  Remember the movie JFK had many consultants, as Jim Marrs, Jean Hill, Robert Grodon, etc.  Please let us not sit back passively!