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Who Killed Kennedy and Why? 'NFor a Labor o ' Who killed Kennedy and why? By RALPH SCHOENMAN remote the old otter. These were the units which began what Oliver Stone's new film about the assas- became the Bay of Pigs invasion. It was an sination of President John F. Kennedy operation coordinated by the National (J,F.X)has precipitated a firestorm of criti- Security Councils of the Eisenhower and film in the establishment press and on tele- Kennedy administrations. The military vision. The tenor and tone of the onslaught command officer was deputy head of the indicate that this film. like the investigation C.I.A., Major General Chalice Cabell. and by New Orleans District Attorney lint the potitscul officer in charge was then Vice Garrison. on whose inquiry .1.F K. is based. President Richard Nixon. has touched a very raw nerve. lack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald, The Warren Commission !named for its whose postal boxes were side by side in the chairperson. Earl' Warren. Chief Juelue of New Orleans post office near Camp street. the U.S. Supreme Count was established in associated with both E. Howard Hunt and 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson to Clay Shaw. F.. Howard Hunt, who was the "investigate" the assassination. It was com- director of the top secret land technically posed of such figures as Alan Dulles, the illegal) Domestic Operations Division of director of the C.I.A. who was fired by the C.IA., was given the task of preparing a Kennedy after the failure of the Invasion of replacement government in Havana. Hunt Cuba ax the Bay of Pigs; John J. McCloy. set up thc "Cuban Revolutionary Council." major banker of the iron industry who toured European capitals instructing U.S. Role oh Clay Shaw chum regimes to "shut down" press specu- The operational tenter of the C.I.A.'s lation about conspiracy. and Congressman Cuban government-to- be was 544 Camp Gerald R. Ford. known as J. Edgar Street in New Orleans. It was to become a Hoover's man on Capitol Hill. famous address, the lynch pin of Jim The Warren Con:miasma had so inves- Garrison's investigation and the point of tigative staff and relied exclusively an the convergence between Clay Shaw, Lee F.B.I. and the C.I.A. to provide date and Harvey Oswald and lack Ruby. witnesses. Long before the Warren The "Who Killed Kennedy Committee" Commission ended its nominal inquiry and investigation into the assassination unsay- published its 26 volumes of testimony and reed, in particular, the activity of two orga- document'. in unpublished conclusions thnt nizations. They shared members of their a "demented loner" had done the deed had respective boards of directors and they were been orchestrated by the established meas. called Centro Mondiele Commerciale or Despite this. glib of the public disbelieved C.M.C. ( World Trade Centerl and the official fictioe shout who killed John F. Permanent Industrial Expositions or Kennedy and why. "Perrnindex." Donald's conneetions in C.I.A. C.M.C. was founded in Montreal in 1956 cad centered in Rome, to board of directors Alone among public officials, the Diann included three C.I.A. operations officers) Attorney of New Orleans. Jim Damson. former Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc upon learning that Lee Harvey Oswald had Nagy. Major L.M. Bloomfield of Montreal been living and working in •New Orleans and Clay L. Shaw_ Bloomfield was a major shortly before going to Dallas, began an stockholder. He was also a former officer of investigation. II led him to indict apromi- the Office of Strategic Services (0.S.S.), a nent society figure and international busi- ranking officer of the little-known Division nessman, Clay Shaw, who was known as Five of the F.B.I. and a personal confidante the director of the International Trade Mart of J. Edgar Hoover. in New Orleans. Clay Shaw of New Orleans listed his Damson charged him with conspinicy In directorship of Permindex in Who's Who In assassinate the president, maintaining that The Southwest (1962). Shaw had been a top Shaw was pan of a high-level governmemal officer of the Office of Strategic Services plot involving the C.I.A.. leader, of the mil- had no pan di its execution. Ruby 's role in supplying him and the (0.S.S.1. the predecessor of the Central itary and corporate niters in a coup dews Ho was. we established, an intelligence Committee with information on "subset. Intelligence Agency. assigned to the head- Serious invenigelion of the alsuonation own of the U.S. government who, dung awes" in the trade onion avasemenk quarter. of Winston Chinshili. It was while has led many to this inexorable conclusion. his arranged "defection" to the Soviet Upon his transfer to Dallas. Texas. he in the O.S.S. that Shim became director of In December 1963, shortly after the Union, maintained topsecurny ranking and continued to work far the Meyer Lansky the Intemanond Howe-World Trade Center assassination of Kennedy and of his alleged weekly contact with State Department cumporynt of the Mafia — and for J. Edgar in New Orleans, assailant, Ire Harvey Oswald, the Bertrand Intelligence. Lee Harvey Oswald was. to Hooves, notably in Cuba, F.13,L memo 105- The "trade" activity of Shaw 's organiza- Russell Peace Foundation, of which I was fact, a contract employee of the Central 3193 revealed another assignment. As tions included facilitating the banking of then Executive Director, funned the "Who Intelligence Agency and an informant of the opposition to Salina grew. the U.S. intelli- Meyer Lansky and his holdings in the Killed Kennedy Committee" in London. F.B.I. gence services began to hedge their bets. Bahamas — and Burnie, Culla. It was pall Members of the Committee included Our commute wee able to obtain Seam supporting both the brutal Batista regime of the network of the World Trade Center Bertrand Russell, Arnold Toynbee, Lord Service Report 767, which contained and its potential replacement. Association, which encompassed over 50 Boyd-Orr and Hugh Trevor-Roper. Oswald's F.B.I. number — S172 — and his "Ruby." F.B.I. directive 105-3193 stases, world trade mans. The official fiction In the United States C.I.A. number — 110669. Oswald had. OS "arranged illegal nights of weapons from The Hong Kong World Trade Center concerning the assassination of John F. well, a "crypecesecurity clearance.- consis- Miami to the Castro organization in Cuba." served as a satellite computer clearing Kennedy was that the lone assassin who tent with his assignment at Alamo Air Force Gun-running to the July 26 movement was house for du international drug cartel, a killed the president area a Manua who hail base in Japan where he monitored top-secret :Aso an important C.I.A. operation, involv- transnational tracking system for drug trade "defected" to the Slays% Union immediately U2 spy overflights of China and the Soviet ing the "Chief of Police of Hialeah. Fla.. mutes, carriers inventories and rays. It was after leaving the Marine Corps. Upon Union. Leslie Lewis, the sheriff of Dade County the point of convergence of the drug empire returning to the United Stave from the to 1959 he coordinated electronic com- and former Cuban Prime Minister Carlos of the Mafia and C.I.A. Soviet Union. Oswald had organized • munications in a major C.I.A. undertaking Poo." (ibid.) The World Trade Center in New Orleans 'branch" of the Pao Play For Cub• — the covert operation against the Sukarno Ruby 's associate in gun running to the was transmuted to the Intemational Trade COrninittee. His alleged morderoos am was government in Indonesia. which centered on Fultlietha in Cuba was soother C.I.A. liner- Man after Shaw's effective expulsion from supposed to reflect these sympathies. the Mohammad Hama armed insurrection in mire. Frank Florini. also known as Frank Italy by the Italian government. persons In the course of our own investigator. the Celebes islands. Sturgis of later Watergate fame. So rucccas- non grata. The reasons for Shaw ' s deny- we obtained 19 secret files front the offices ful lees Sturgis in organizing arms trawlers Mee from Italy are instructive. of the Danes District Attorney. along with Jack Rohr undercover operative In the July 26 Movement that after victory In 1962. French intelligence services other governmental documents which Oswald. however, was not the only intel- Fidel Castro named Frank -Flormi" Sturgis determined that a principal conduit for the revealed a rather different story. If deeply ligence operative in the assassination sce- head of gaming and gambling in Havana arms and funds of the Organization of the involved wtth the gyrational organizers of nario. His own killer, Jack Ruby, had an and director of air forte intelligence for the Secret Army I.O.A.S.) in Algeria was the Kennedy aseaseinition, Oswald himself equally intniguing past. Ruby had organized new revolutionary government. Sturgis C.M.C. and Perrnindex. The O.A.S. had the murder of Leon Cook, the secretary of placed Jack Ruby in charge of two of the been organized by leading French generals the Scrap Iron and Junk Handlers' local of largest gambling houses in Cuba. and governmental officials opposed to Ralph Sclwertman ss the former Executive the Teamsters union in Chicago in 1939. The Cuban revolution shifted left after neocolonial solution in Algeria, which Director of the Bertrand Russell Peace (Chicago Tribune, Dec. 9, 1939). It was Fidel Castro failed to obtain financial French President Charles de Gadlle and a Foundation. In December 1963. shortly part of the takeover of militant teamster undertakings and an increase in the sugar major section of the French ruling class felt after the Kennedy susassinurion.
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