The CIA's Role in John F. Kennedy's Assassination: An Overview of Michael Collins Piper's "Final Judgment"
by Victor Thorn
NOTE: The information below is derived from Michael Collins Piper’s Final Judgment. My role is that of a reviewer, and all credit for the research must be given to Mr. Piper. I urge everyone to purchase a copy of this book.
Final Judgment is published by The Center for Historical Review, 132 Third Street, SE, Washington, DC, 20003
Quite possibly the most important court trial of the 1990’s (yes, even more relevant than O.J.) was E. Howard Hunt vs. The Spotlight newspaper. Although I won’t delve into the circumstances surrounding it, juror Leslie Armstrong told The Spotlight in their November 11, 1991 issue, “Mr. Lane [representing the defendant] was asking us [the jury] to do something very difficult. He was asking us to believe John Kennedy had been killed by our own government. Yet when we examined the evidence closely, we were compelled to conclude that the CIA had indeed killed President Kennedy.” This information is extremely important to 20th century history, yet the mainstream media gave it virtually no coverage due to its explosive nature. I suppose they were saving everything to see if O.J.’s glove fit.
The vital point being made, and one confirmed by the Church Committee in 1975, was that a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy did exist, and that it extended directly into the U.S. Government. To fully understand the ramifications of this information, one needs to be aware of what the CIA has been doing since it formed out of the OSS after WWII. Although time prevents me from engaging in a lengthy discourse, you should research “Project Paperclip” where Nazi scientists were secretly relocated to America after the war. You can also investigate the CIA’s illegal mind control experiments, their illicit drug tests on unwitting subjects, their drug trafficking activities, how they’ve successfully infiltrated the American corporate media, and their assassinations of various world leaders. In other words, these guys have, and still are, dirty up to their eyeballs.
To fully understand not only this branch of Intelligence, but also the broader spectrum of how our world works, we need to realize that what is depicted on the nightly news is not an accurate representation of reality. Rather, the true impetus, or driving force behind our global political system, is rarely ever seen by the American public. The real decision-makers lurk in the shadows, plotting and planning, then using their ‘operational arms’ such as the CIA, Mossad, other intelligence agencies, and Organized Crime to do their bidding. As Michael Collins Piper tells us, these groups – the money launderers, drug dealers, killers and crooks – are the only entities able to operate outside of societal laws and mores. The Controllers – international bankers, heads of multinational corporations, and top ranking members of secret societies – “guide” our world, then use their “implementers” to carry forth their decisions. Politicians are one of the “guises” used in front of the scenes, while the CIA, Mossad, and Mob take care of their dirty dealings far-removed from public scrutiny. I’m sorry to say, but this is the way our world operates.
One of the primary reasons that John F. Kennedy got assassinated was because he dared to interfere with this tenuous framework of power. More specifically, JFK, realizing how out-of-control these various agencies were, wanted to rein them in and bring them all under one roof, giving his brother Bobby jurisdiction over all of them. He also planned on getting rid of master-manipulator J. Edgar Hoover (who was very aware of their plans, but out of sheer self-interest had no incentive to uncover the truth about Kennedy’s murder). To make matters worse for himself, Kennedy fired CIA Director Allen Dulles, who was one of the dirtiest backroom wheeler-dealers of all-time. (Incredibly, Dulles would later serve on the Warren Commission! Talk about having the deck stacked against you.)
Arthur Krock wrote in The New York Times about this battle between Kennedy and the CIA on October 3, 1963, saying that the CIA “represents a tremendous power and total unaccountability to anyone.” Krock also referred to someone close to Kennedy in the White House who said that if anyone ever tried to takeover the U.S. Government, it would be the CIA, and that JFK was no longer able to keep them in reins. Now remember, this was only a month-and-a-half before that fateful day in Dallas.
Reinforcing how out-of-control the CIA was at this time, attorney and researcher Mark Lane wrote in The Spotlight on February 17, 1992, “President Kennedy sent Henry Cabot Lodge, his Ambassador to Vietnam, with orders to the CIA on two separate occasions and in both cases the CIA ignored these orders, saying that it was different from what the agency thought should be done. In other words, the CIA had decided that it – not the president – would make the decisions as to how American foreign policy should be conducted.”
Is this situation starting to become clearer to you? Can you see to what proportions the CIA had grown? Kennedy was treading through very treacherous waters, but the straw that broke the camel’s back was only reported years later by The New York Times on April 25, 1966. It seems that Kennedy was so intent on exercising his ELECTED powers and not allowing them to be usurped by power-crazed individuals in the intelligence community that he threatened to “splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the wind.” By uttering these words, Kennedy’s fate was sealed, for now he had struck at the very core of the Controller’s power center!
In essence, Michael Collins Piper points out that Kennedy had done, or intended to do, four things that filled the CIA with rage:
1) Fired Allen Dulles.
2) Was in the process of founding a panel that would investigate the CIA’s numerous crimes.
3) Put a damper on the breadth and scope of the CIA.
4) Limit their ability to act under National Security Memoranda 55. Colonel Fletcher Prouty spoke of the CIA’s reaction. “Nothing I had ever been involved with in my entire career had created such an uproar. NSAM 55 stripped the CIA of its cherished covert operations goal, except for some small actions. It was an explosive document. The military-industrial complex was not pleased.”
One of these incensed individuals was CIA Chief of Counter-Intelligence, James Jesus Angleton. Assuming this post in 1954 under the guidance of two truly dirty dogs – Allen Dulles and Richard Helms – Peter Dale Scott wrote in Deep Politics and the Death of JFK that Angleton “managed a ‘second CIA’ within the CIA.” Angleton operated so far beyond his legal parameters that he, along with William Harvey, formed the ZR/Rifle Team and hired the shooters who were to take out Cuban leader Fidel Castro. And although I won’t delve into details at this point, Piper points out in Final Judgment that these were the same trigger men used for the Kennedy assassination.
More importantly, Angleton formed an extremely close relationship with the Mossad and David Ben-Gurion, and was fully aware of the Israeli Prime Minister’s hatred for JFK. Angleton became so intimate with the Israeli’s that he even helped them develop their secret nuclear program, while the CIA and Mossad became as one in the Middle East – a virtually indistinguishable entity working in unison to carry out their mutual goals.
The Mossad, you must know, has been called by Michael Collins Piper “the driving force behind the conspiracy” to kill JFK. Andrew Cockburn, appearing on C-Span’s Booknotes on September 1, 1991, described their relationship with American intelligence. “There has been since almost the earliest days of the Israeli state and the earliest days of the CIA a secret bond, basically by which Israeli intelligence did jobs for the CIA and the rest of American intelligence. You can’t understand what’s going on with American covert operations and the Israeli covert operations until you understand this secret arrangement.”
Another extremely important point that Michael Collins Piper brings up in Final Judgment is that during the time of Kennedy’s assassination, Yitzhak Shamir (later Israeli Prime Minister) was the head of a Mossad hit squad that hired a trigger man from the SDECE (French intelligence) to kill President Kennedy. This information is confirmed by the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz on July 3, 1992 when they reported that Yitzhak Shamir was once a underworld terrorist that became a Mossad agent, then later led an assassination team from 1955-1964. The Washington Times lends further credibility to this stance by reporting on July 4, 1992 that not only did this secret assassination team exist, but that they “carried out attacks on perceived enemies and suspected Nazi war criminals.” If you remember my piece last week, David Ben-Gurion called JFK an “enemy of the state of Israel.” From my perspective, that would make him a PERCEIVED ENEMY!
Now, if we consider for a moment that Yitzhak Shamir hired one of the hit men from France’s secret service – the SDECE – what makes this situation even more bizarre is who James Jesus Angleton – the primary CIA force behind Kennedy’s assassination – was with on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It was Colonel Georges de Lannurien, Deputy Chief of the SDECE! They were both at CIA headquarters in Langley to get ready for hands-on damage control in case something went awry. In effect, then, we have the triangulation of three intelligence agencies – the CIA, Mossad, and SDECE – all converging around the murder of President Kennedy, while they made certain that Lee Harvey Oswald had already established links with Cuba and the Soviet Union so that a Communist “Cold War” cover story could be forwarded in the American press!
How did these intelligence agencies pull it off? Well, let me leave you with a quote from retired Air Force pilot Fletcher Prouty that Michael Collins Piper used to shine some light on this situation. Prouty tells us, “One of the primary necessary measures in an assassination plot is the process of removing or otherwise breaching the intended victim’s blanket of security.” He continues, “No one has to direct an assassination – it happens. The active role is played secretly by permitting it to happen … This is the single greatest clue - who has the power to call off or reduce the usual security precautions that are always in effect whenever a president travels?”
Now who do YOU think had the ways, means, and motive to erase President Kennedy’s security that afternoon in Dallas? The Russians? No. The Cubans? No. The Mob? No. I’d place my bets on the CIA! Now are things starting to become clearer?
(As a side-note, who do you think had the ways, means and motivation to cover-up the truth about the 9-11 terrorist attacks in the media - a group of rag-tag terrorists, or the CIA? It’s something to consider.)
(to be continued)
