[THS] JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters

[Peter Webster]

JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters 
by James Douglass

The following excerpt from a June 8, 2008, review by Rick Anez on Amazon.com
explains the connection between Ike's warning and JFK's peace mission and
assassination:

"Douglass credibly illustrates the origin of the Crime of the Century.
During President Truman's administration, the CIA was empowered to be a
paramilitary organization with unlimited powers. Truman's successor,
President Eisenhower, fell out of favor with the CIA when he planned a
summit meeting with Soviet Premier Khrushchev. This was canceled after
a U.S. spy plane crashed in Russia. Eisenhower had reportedly ordered
such flights canceled and had his suspicions about who had ruined his
peace plan. He subsequently issued his warning about the "military
industrial complex" in his farewell address. But he didn't defy "this
conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms
industry." He left that task to his successor, JFK.

The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba was planned by the CIA to regain
control of the island and to re-open the casinos for organized crime.
President Kennedy refused to provide air support for the Cuban brigade
because he knew that he had been lied to by the Joint Chiefs of Staff
and by the CIA; the invasion had been designed to fail without U.S.
support but they hadn't told this to JFK who refused to fall into their
trap. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK once again enraged the CIA
and the Joint Chiefs by resisting their tremendous pressure on him to
take military action which would have led to nuclear war.

Following that crisis, JFK became intent on ending the Cold War by
establishing a peaceful relationship with the Soviet Union. However,
many CIA and Pentagon personnel believed that it was better to be "dead
than red" and that it was preferable to destroy civilization rather
than let the Communists rule. They also knew that war generated
billions of dollars into the arms industry. As a result, they would
repeatedly subvert the President's policies and isolate him within his
own government. Enter some more despicable characters: Richard Bissell,
Charles Cabell, Henry Cabot Lodge, Lyman Lemnitzer, Curtis LeMay and
perhaps the most contemptible of all, Allen Dulles. Ironically, JFK
learned to trust Khrushchev more than people within his own government.

At American University on June 10, 1963, JFK spoke about his desire for
world peace. He communicated his resolve to form a new relationship
with Khrushchev. He spoke about the necessity of a pursuit toward
disarmament. He related his intentions to establish a Nuclear Test Ban
Treaty. He acknowledged his country's past faults and recognized the
Russian people as wanting peace as much as the American people. "And we
are all mortal," he stated. Though this extremely important speech was
ignored in the United States, it was disseminated throughout the Soviet
Union, per order of Khrushchev, who was prepared to respond favorably
to JFK's peace initiative. The speech also certified JFK's death
warrant. With so many powerful enemies opposing his policies and hating
him, JFK didn't have a chance as he was being maneuvered into the
crossfire in Dallas.

President Kennedy was aware of the power of his enemies and he knew the
dangers facing him. But he persevered and mandated that all U.S.
personnel would be withdrawn from Vietnam; he was determined to never
send in combat troops even if this meant defeat. He also refused to
intervene militarily in Laos. He exchanged private letters with
Khrushchev, which infuriated the CIA, and secretly initiated plans to
attain rapprochement with Cuba, which further incensed the Agency.
Cuba's Fidel Castro, whom the CIA hated as intensely as it hated
Kennedy, was equally eager to begin an American-Cuba dialogue. In fact,
Castro was meeting with a JFK representative when the President was
murdered. JFK died a martyr and the forces of evil that killed him also
killed his vision of peace.

Lyndon Johnson, the CIA's ally, assumed the presidency. He canceled
talks with Khrushchev and refused Castro's pleas to continue the
dialogue. He reversed JFK's withdrawal plan from Vietnam as well as his
plan to neutralize Laos. The military industrial complex took control
of the country. The policy of plausible deniability led the way to
assassinations of foreign leaders, the overthrowing of foreign
governments and horrors committed all over the globe. If JFK had not
been murdered, we would not have had the prolongation of the Cold War,
the Vietnam War, Watergate, the purported War on Terror and the steady
moral deterioration of America. Interestingly, one month after JFK's
assassination, President Truman wrote an article for The Washington
Post cautioning about the threat of the CIA taking over America.

The author meticulously examines the evidence and draws conclusions
which ring with unassailable truth: (1) The CIA coordinated and
implemented the assassination of President Kennedy, an act of treason
which destroyed democracy in the U.S. (2) The Warren Commission was
created to propagate lies to conceal the truth from the American
people. (3)There has been a continued cover-up by successive
administrations and their stooges in the mass media. (4)The murder of
JFK is directly related to the current domination of the American
people by powerful oppressors within a shadow government that will
continue to insist that only sustained war can keep the country safe
from its enemies, never admitting that they themselves are the supreme
evil."