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Jun 5, 2022 · Helms replies, “So President Kennedy thought.” Spliced with film footage of JFK’s assassination, the exchange implied enemies of Kennedy’s Cuba policy were behind his assassination.
Jan 14, 2023 · File. A stunning, long-overlooked Nixon Watergate-era tape shows Richard Nixon warning CIA Director Richard Helms that he knows of CIA involvement in the murder of John F. Kennedy- “I...
Nov 1, 2002 · He himself had been instrumental in the publication of the first JFK assassination conspiracy theory. CIA files uncovered by a civilian watchdog panel in 1998 revealed what Helms sought to...
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- Unwelcome Questions
Other than its violent end, Thomas’ story resembles that of John Whitten,a senior CIA official, who died in 2000. Whitten too paid a price for asking JFK questions. In 1963 Whitten served as chief of the Mexico desk in the clandestine service. He came up through the agency’s Berlin base where he pioneered the use of the polygraph in counterespionag...
Thomas and Whitten’s story also resembles that of Win Scott, the veteran chief of the agency’s Mexico station in the 1960s. As told in my 2008 biography, Our Man in Mexico,Scott and his deputy Ann Goodpasture, launched their own private investigation of Oswald at the same time as Thomas. Like Thomas, Scott came to reject the official theory of a “l...
For Thomas’s obituary, the Post turned to an outside writer, former New York Times reporter Philip Shenon. The author of two well-reported books about the Warren Commission and 9/11 Commission, Shenon reported Thomas’s story for The Guardianlast spring. In the Post, Shenon wrote: Thomas’s “unwelcome questions,” Shenon contends, concerned a possible...
In their autobiographies both Richard Helms and E. Howard Hunt say they are puzzled by Nixon's belief that the CIA, the Bay of Pigs Operation and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy were in some way connected. It has to be remembered that Nixon first made this claim in 1969, three years before Watergate.
Nov 9, 2023 · The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 mandated that “all Government records related to ... Richard Helms, summoned the DRE’s young secretary-general, Luis ...
Aug 3, 2017 · That seems to suggest the memo was given to former Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms, who led the agency from 1966 to 1973, when he was later summoned to testify secretly to Congress ...
