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Wednesday, November 01, 2017

Why Not Release All the Kennedy Documents?

Last week Donald Trump released a bunch of documents related to the investigation of the Kennedy assassination. After millions of people dug through the document dump, apparently there were no new revelations.

However, Trump did not release everything. He held back certain documents.

For the last 50 years most of the speculation about the assassination has been about the magic bullet theory, the number of shooters, and whether Oswald acted alone. That's less interesting than the real question: who ordered the shooting?

Various conspiracy theories have posited that the CIA, the Cubans, and the mob. However, let's look back on the assassination in light of what we know today.

Oswald, a US marine, had defected to the Soviet Union in 1959. In Minsk Oswald married a Russian woman. Oswald returned to the US in 1962. Oswald was an agitator for a pro-Cuba group. Oswald visited the Soviet embassy in Mexico days before killing Kennedy.

The most obvious and logical conclusion is that the Russians had been grooming Oswald as an assassin for years, and they gave the order to kill Kennedy.

Why would the Russians do that? Well, Kennedy had embarrassed them mightily the year before during the Cuban Missile crisis. He called the Russians' bluff. Kennedy had also plotted to assassinate their puppet Castro and was interfering with their machinations in southeast Asia.

The CIA and the FBI most likely came to this same conclusion, but getting hard evidence to prove it would be almost impossible. And what good would it do? If it got out that Oswald was a KGB assassin our only public recourse would be to go to war, which would result in nuclear Armageddon, which neither the US nor Russia wanted.

Fast forward to today. If the documents do in fact implicate the Russians it would be extremely embarrassing to Trump since he's being investigated for colluding with the Russians to win the election. Holding back these documents now makes him look complicit in the coverup of the assassination of Kennedy.

I'm not the only one to come to this conclusion. After thinking this through I did some Google searches, and the top hit was this story on, of all places, Fox News. The conclusion of the author, Douglas Schoen:
It is clear that the reason for this withholding is that these files must involve Russia and to this day, we do not know is the role that Soviet Russia played in President Kennedy’s assassination.
The reason this is important is that we're seeing the same pattern of Russian interference in American politics today. The Russians are manipulating popular opinion with their propaganda outlets, stretching their tentacles into Facebook and Twitter, spreading lies and sowing division.

They've even sent Russian women to the United States to infiltrate the alt-right movement. Like Lee Harvey Oswald, alt-right pioneer Richard Spencer married a Russian woman. Another Russian woman in the US is Lana Lokteff, who runs an alt-right propaganda mill with her Swedish husband.

Also, note that there are Russian connections to Islamic extremist attacks in the United States in the last few years: yesterday's attack in New York was committed by Sayfullo Saipov, a man from Uzbekistan, a former Soviet Republic. The Boston Marathon bombers, Dzhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, were Russian-speaking Chechens. Chechens have been convicted of numerous assassinations of politicians and journalists who were opposed to Putin. The Russians have assassinated Putin's enemies across the world, including the United States and Britain.

Russia's propping up of Assad in Syria escalated the number of refugees fleeing to Europe, giving cover to many ISIS terrorists who committed massive attacks in France, Britain and Belgium, destabilizing many European governments and precipitating the breakup of the EU.

Given how so many of Putin's enemies wind up dead, it's not surprising that Trump doesn't want to cross the Russians by releasing documents that implicate them in Kennedy's assassination. Trump's constant kowtowing to Putin clearly indicates he is afraid of the Russian's wrath.

The Russians are waging an all-out cyber and propaganda war on the United States, trying to divide and conquer us with race baiting and similar divisive issues. Are we going to let Trump's Russian puppet masters drive into another Civil War, or are going to unite against the real threat: the destruction of democracies across the world, riven by racial animosity fueled by Russian hate-mongering?

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