They Killed Our President

by Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell, David Wayne

  131 Savage, Gary, JFK: First Day Evidence (The Shoppe Press: 1993), 158.

  132 Ibid.

  133 Savage, JFK: First Day Evidence, 159.

  134 Ibid.

  135 Savage, JFK: First Day Evidence, 162.

  136 Wim Dankbaar, “A 7.65 Mauser,” retrieved 19 April 2013: youtube.com/watch?v=-RGZPa8FdbA

  137 The JFK History Forum, “The Mauser Explained,” retrieved 19 April 2013: jfkhistory.com/forum/index.php?topic=736.0

  138 Wim Dankbaar, “A 7.65 Mauser,”: youtube.com/watch?v=-RGZPa8FdbA

  139 Dick Russell, The Man Who Knew Too Much: Hired to Kill Oswald and Prevent the Assassination of JFK (Carroll & Graf: 2003), 568.

  140 Ibid, 569.

  141 Gary Mack, 16 July 1999, “NBC Announces Enfield .303 Rifle Found on TSBD 6th,” citing NBC, There was a President: 70 Hours & 30 Minutes-The Weekend No One Will Ever Forget (Random House: 1966): educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?s=feb030e01b96e1d3b8680ac5fece9439&showtopic=19810&st=15

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  No Fingerprints

  Apartial fingerprint was reportedly lifted by Dallas Police from the left side of the trigger housing of the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle. Examination of the print and comparison to Oswald’s only matched in 3 points of identity. Legal jurisdictions vary cross-country, requiring from a 6-point to 12-point certain match verification for conviction parameters.142 Therefore, only a 3-point match is incredibly weak and dramatically insufficient for a professional determination of a match. So much for the fingerprint evidence.

  As for the rest of the print evidence supposedly against Oswald, a partial palm print was found on the rifle, but it’s also a convoluted piece of evidence. First off, the palm print wasn’t on the outside portion of the rifle where a shooter, or anyone else, would actually touch it. It was only found after taking the rifle apart and was a partial print of someone’s palm, which—they say—matched Oswald’s palm.143 However, there was also a very disturbing “interrupted chain of evidence” concerning the entire matter. The FBI could not match the palm print to Oswald. Then, according to funeral home director Paul Groody, some very serious government agents came to the funeral home while Oswald’s body was there and insisted on being alone with the corpse; after which the director of the funeral home testified that he found a lot of ink on the deceased Oswald’s hands that hadn’t been there previously.144 Then, the Dallas Police Department said they had taken a palm print and that it was a match to Oswald. Plus, the Dallas police admitted to also taking Oswald’s prints after he was dead.145 Let’s put it this way—you wouldn’t have to be a famous TV lawyer like Perry Mason to keep Oswald from getting convicted on the fingerprint evidence. As one thorough summary of all the print evidence concluded:

  The inability of the FBI examiners to detect anything other than faint fingerprints on the rifle; the failure of the Dallas police to supply the FBI with contemporaneous photographs of the palm print; and the lack of any official announcements about an incriminating palm print, make it not unreasonable to suppose that the palm print on the rifle was manufactured after the event, and that there is consequently no evidence that Oswald had handled the rifle at all.146

  Oswald paraffin tested negative for nitrates on his right cheek, which is an indication that he probably hadn’t fired a rifle recently. He tested positive for nitrates on his hand, which is an indication that he may have been in contact with a firearm—or been in contact with urine, or with the ink used for fingerprinting, or any number of other things which are known to corrupt the results of paraffin testing. And we already know he was in contact with a handgun because he was found carrying one. But that certainly does not equate with having fired a rifle.

  Taken in totality, the crime scene “evidence” against Oswald is so thoroughly convoluted that any decent criminal defense attorney could have totally demolished it in a courtroom. That’s why they had to make sure that Oswald didn’t get to a courtroom. As we shall soon see, there were some very good reasons that Oswald had to be eliminated before he could talk.

  142 Gary Savage, JFK: First Day Evidence (The Shoppe Press: 1993), 105, 116.

  143 Savage, JFK: First Day Evidence, 105.

  144 Michael T. Griffith, “Was Oswald’s Palm Print Planted On The Alleged Murder Weapon?: Some Questions About The Latent Palm Print,” 2012: mtgriffith.com/web_documents/ palmprint.htm Also see Oswald’s Palm Prints, retrieved 11 April 2013: garvandwane.com/conspiracy/oswalds_palm_prints.html

  145 Savage, JFK: First Day Evidence, 111.

  146 22 November 1963: An Introduction to the JFK Assassination, citing Sylvia Meagher, Accessories After The Fact: The Warren Commission, The Authorities & The Report (Random House: 1988), retrieved 11 April 2013: 22november1963.org.uk/oswald-fingerprint-palmprintevidence

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  Oswald was a U.S. Intelligence Operative

  Lee Harvey Oswald was an operative for U.S. intelligence. It’s been established that his public “defection” to the Soviet Union was actually part of a False Defector Program that was being run by the CIA and ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) out of a facility in Nags Head, North Carolina, in the 1950s. That fact has also been cross-corroborated by two CIA special operations people who were very familiar with that terrain.

  William Robert “Tosh” Plumlee is a U.S. intelligence veteran with a career in covert operations spanning over fifty years. He was one of the whistleblowers who alerted the U.S. Congress to the illegal activities during the first Bush Administration that wound up being known as the Iran-Contra scandal. Plumlee’s intelligence “bonafides” can be accessed on the Internet.147 Of particular note is a letter from then-U.S. Senator Gary Hart to Senator John Kerry regarding the importance of Plumlee’s help in the investigation.148 Read it yourself so you can see how “for real” this guy is: toshplumlee.info/pdf/sengaryhart.PDF

  Plumlee’s early intelligence training coincided with the training that Lee Harvey Oswald received. Aware of the significance of the fact that Oswald was present during the course of government-sponsored intelligence training, Mr. Plumlee agreed to document those circumstances in a sworn affidavit. In that affidavit, he clearly documents the context of Oswald’s intelligence training:

  I first met Oswald at Illusionary Warfare training [propaganda, language instruction, false identities, maintenance of cover stories, etc.] at Nag’s Head, North Carolina in 1957. Oswald was taking language courses at the same complex where I was taking Illusionary Warfare training classes. These courses, at the time, were referred to as ‘Spook School’ and were preparatory to ‘going covert in international operations.’ Everybody who was there was CIA or Military intelligence, or at least they were in some form of government training for their particular covert mission.149

  Plumlee saw Oswald again, as the marine was shipping out from Hawaii, and more importantly, also encountered the fellow operationally in Dallas:

  Several years later, in 1962, I accidentally ran into Oswald again in Dallas at a Cuban ‘safe house’—an apartment house behind the house where he had rented a room on North Beckley Street in Oak Cliff. I thought it strange that he was present in the course of a government-sanctioned gunrunning operation in which I was a participant.150

  Plumlee checked with his military superiors and they verified Oswald’s intelligence “bonafides”:

  When I asked about this strange encounter or coincidence, I was told that Oswald was somehow associated with ONI intelligence.

  It was also confirmed to me by my associates that Oswald was connected in some format as an operative of sorts. At that early date, that was as far as it went. This limited information was passed to me through my liaison with Captain Edward G. Seiwell of the Fourth Army Reserve, Dallas, Love Field, and Captain Gilbert C. Cook of a special unit from the 49th Armored Division, 156th Tank Battalion, connected to the 112th MIG (Military Intelligence Group), Dallas, Texas and San Marcos, Texas. I was informed by them that Oswald was somehow attached to ONI and was or had been, active at two known ONI
facilities in the Dallas area; Hensley Field in Grand Prairie, Texas and a facility at Bachman’s Lake, near Dallas’ Love Field. They were confident in their statements, regarding Oswald’s affiliation with ONI.151

  Plumlee was involved in government-sanctioned gunrunning operations to Cuba and realized that Oswald’s presence in those same circles was related to operational activity:

  Oswald also had access to another safe house for a very short time on Elsbeth Street, a few blocks from the Beckley street address where a Cuban, whom I knew by the name of Fernandez, had a room. These individuals were known by me to be functioning operationally at that time with the Alpha 66 anti-Castro group out of Miami, Florida. My operational understanding and assumption was that Oswald was working some form of military operations associated with the Dallas gunrunning operations of the time.152

  So Plumlee puts it point-blank:

  Oswald was Military intelligence. He was operational in military ops. I know that from both direct experience and from liaison with my superior intelligence officers. That’s not an allegation— that’s a fact. Oswald was Military intelligence.153

  That information was cross-confirmed by longtime CIA officer, Victor Marchetti. Marchetti corroborated the False Defector Program being run out of the facility at Nags Head, North Carolina, during the same time frame:

  One of these activities was an ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) program which involved three dozen, maybe forty, young men who were made to appear disenchanted, poor, American youths who had become turned off and wanted to see what communism was all about. Some of these people lasted only a few weeks. They were sent into the Soviet Union, or into Eastern Europe, with the specific intention the Soviets would pick them up and ‘double’ them if they suspected them of being US agents, or recruit them as KGB agents. They were trained at various naval installations both here and abroad, but the operation was being run out of Nags Head, North Carolina.154

  And the CIA’s Marchetti also confirmed that that’s exactly what was going on with Oswald:

  Interviewed from his Northern Virginia home, Marchetti confirmed the existence of the ONI base to me privately, saying the plan was to send young men to the Soviet Union as defectors, but who in actuality were hoping to be picked up as agents by the KGB. This process is known as ‘doubling,’ as the young men would then in effect be double agents for both American and Soviet intelligence. Once placing an agent in the KGB, American intelligence could then begin funneling in disinformation. According to Marchetti, this was the plan for Oswald.155

  These guys obviously knew what they were talking about.

  That was also confirmed by U.S. Senator Richard Schweiker, who was Co-Chairman of a U.S. Senate Subcommittee to investigate the JFK assassination in 1975. Senator Schweiker substantiated that Oswald’s phony defection to the Soviet Union in 1959 was actually part of an intelligence operation, the False Defector Program:

  The accused assassin was the product of a fake defector program run by the CIA.156

  Think about it. It makes total sense. How else could a guy like Oswald have gotten in and out of Russia so easily, right at the height of the Cold War? It was all spy games and both sides knew it.

  If you saw the show I did on the JFK assassination on Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura in 2010 then you know that Marina Oswald, wife of the accused, also strongly believed that her husband was working for U.S. intelligence.157 I posted that episode online because it’s got very important information and we need to keep the truth available: youtube.com/watch?v=sfDASCapA9Q.

  David Atlee Phillips was a very high-ranking officer at the CIA, rising all the way to Director of Western Hemisphere Operations. It’s a little-known fact and you probably won’t hear it on television unless it’s coming from my mouth, but it’s true nonetheless: Phillips admitted CIA involvement in the assassination. Here’s what he said near the end of his life:

  My final take on the assassination is there was a conspiracy, likely including American intelligence officers.158

  Phillips also left behind this remarkable comment in an unpublished manuscript, which mirrors what many thought was his exact role and how he knew exactly what he knew:

  I was one of the two case officers who handled Lee Harvey Oswald. After working to establish his Marxist bona fides, we gave him the mission of killing Fidel Castro in Cuba . . . I don’t know why he killed Kennedy. But I do know he used precisely the plan we had devised against Castro.159

  There are a lot of things in Oswald’s background that make it pretty freaking obvious that he was involved in covert operations:

  A military doctor noted that on his medical record that Oswald should not be reprimanded for venereal disease because it was contracted “in the line of duty.” Oswald was associated with prostitutes at a posh nightclub in Tokyo who were suspected by U.S. intelligence of passing secrets to the Communists;160

  Oswald failed a Russian proficiency test on February 25, 1959. Only six months later, he was totally fluent, as witnessed by two native speakers (his wife and George de Mohrenschildt). Russian is an extremely difficult language, so either he was given intensive language training by U.S. intelligence or it was his intelligence “double” (see point 19) who was actually the Russian speaker;161

  Even though the CIA lied and said that Oswald was not debriefed when he returned to the United States from the Soviet Union, it has been established that he actually was debriefed. A CIA officer confirmed his viewing of the CIA debriefing report of Oswald;162

  While still in the Marines in Japan, he was involved in the defection-targeting of Soviet Colonel Nikolai Eroshkin;163

  A spy camera was found in his belongings;164

  Oswald’s notebook not only contained references to guns and microdots (the “method of microscopic photographic reproduction favored by spies”), but also utilized a cryptogram system employed by spies to disguise the information and phone numbers, including the unlisted phone number of Jack Ruby.165

  Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty was the key liaison between the U.S. Air Force and CIA for covert operations. This was a guy who knew his way around the National Security Council and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He studied the assassination for years and concluded that Oswald’s links to the intelligence community were what made him the perfect “patsy”: the perfect guy to set up to take the blame for the assassination because they’d have to slam the door shut on any investigation. And true to form, Colonel Prouty put it bluntly:

  Oswald was a patsy. There’s no question about it.166

  Colonel C. William Bishop was another guy who really knew what he was talking about. Colonel Bishop was the highest-ranking military intelligence officer attached to the CIA’s elite assassination squad called Executive Action. Wanna hear what he had to say about Oswald?

  Oswald was a decoy. There’s no way in hell he could have fired three shots in that space of time, with that accuracy, with that weapon . . . I’ll tell you one damn thing. Whoever set up that poor little son of a bitch did a first-class job.167

  So Colonel Bishop agreed with Colonel Prouty all the way. And all I can say is this—when guys like that are all agreeing, we’d better perk up our ears and pay close attention.

  147 “FBI/DEA/CIA files on William Robert ‘Tosh’ Plumlee,” retrieved 23 April 2013: toshplumlee.info/

  148 Senator Gary Hart, “Letter to The Honorable John Kerry, Chairman, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Communications,” February 14, 1991: toshplumlee.info/pdf/sengaryhart.PDF

  149 Belzer & Wayne, Dead Wrong, “Affidavit of William R. Plumlee,” 111–115.

  150 Ibid.

  151 Ibid.

  152 Ibid.

  153 William Robert Plumlee, interview with author, 12 June 2006.

  154 Anthony Summers, “Interview of Victor Marchetti,” in John Simkin, “Lee Harvey Oswald: Biography,” Spartacus Educational, retrieved 22 April 2013: spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKoswald.htm

  155 Dr. Grover B. Proctor, Jr., “
The Raleigh Call,” 17 July 1980 and 24 July 1980, Spectator Magazine: groverproctor.us/jfk/jfk80.html

  156 Talbot, Brothers, 381.

  157 Jesse Ventura, Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura, 2010, truTV.

  158 Larry Hancock, Someone Would Have Talked: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and The Conspiracy to Mislead History (JFK Lancer: 2006).

  159 Jefferson Morley & Michael Scott, Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA (University Press of Kansas: 2008).

  160 Robert J. Groden, The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald: A Comprehensive Photographic Record (Penguin: 1995).

  161 John Armstrong, Harvey and Lee: How the CIA Framed Oswald (Quasar: 2003).

  162 Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? November 20, 2003, Frontline, PBS; pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/oswald/etc/script.html

  163 Russell, The Man Who Knew Too Much, 72–73.

  164 Judyth Vary Baker, “Oswald Framed: Convenient Lies and Cover-Ups,” June 29, 2011: oswald-framed.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html

  165 Hoke May, “Simple Enciphering System Used To Encode Oswald Notebook—DA,” New Orleans States-Item, 13 May 1967: docs.google.com/viewer?a = v&q=cache:P60YWB3eL g8J:jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%2520Materials/Garrison%2520News%2520Clippin gs/1967/67–05/Item%2520043.pdf+Simple+Enciphering+System+Used + To+Encode+Oswa ld+Notebook%E2%80%94DA,%E2%80%9D+New+Orleans+States-Item&hl = en&gl=us&p id=bl&srcid = ADGEESg-5KJlzwgoflVgEwgAdj4vF2unjPgRehk2ZO07UivJd5Kut6BFbWisyi4GACc5CB5pTNG4DPoaT7Lt1MLRHcrWbK64PGA1v6YgHiXk62z5Ndun7POCli2 ZvwO4TSJJ5DGUysLm&sig=AHIEtbTMJg-KSH-GDP1dApxLWySp1nzHTA

  166 Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, “The Col. L. Fletcher Prouty Reference Site,” retrieved 23 April 2013: prouty.org/

  167 Russell, The Man Who Knew Too Much, 330.

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  Oswald Had A Look-Alike Intelligence Double