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1963

Hal Puthoff Worked for eight years in the Microwave Laboratory at Stanford University till 1971

Martin Luther King delivers his famous speech, “I Have a Dream” during the “March on Washington.”

10 May 1963 – General Walker shot at in his home. ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 319

5 June 1963 – Decision for Texas trip made at meeting with Kennedy, Johnson, and Connally at the Cortez hotel in El Paso Texas.

25 Sept. 1963 – Antonio Veciana travels to Dallas for a meeting with Maurice Bishop (A.K.A.David Atlee Philips). In the lobby of the Southland building, Veciana sees Bishop speaking to a man Veciana later identifies as Lee Harvey Oswald. ref. Last Investigation, p 141.

1 Oct. 1963 – Reporter Arther Krock, citing a dispatch from Vietnam reporter Richard Starnes writes, “The CIA’s growth was likened to a malignancy which the very high official was not sure even the White House could control any longer. If the United States ever experiences an attempt at a coup to overthrow the government it will come from the CIA and not the Pentagon. The agency represents a tremendous power and total unaccountability to anyone”. ref. Last Investigation, p 422

11 Oct. 1963 – Kennedy signs National Security Action Memorandum(NSAM) #263 signalling his intention to withdraw troops from Vietnam. ref. JFK, CIA, Vietnam by Prouty, p xxiii.

16 Oct. 1963 – Oswald begins job at Texas School Book Depository. He reportedly obtained it through a contact of Ruth Paine. ref. Last Investigation, p 422.

23 Oct. 1963 – Ruth Paine makes notation on her calender – ‘LHO purchase of rifle.’ ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 293

8 Nov. 1963 – SS Agent Winston Lawson is briefed and receives a tentative schedule of Texas trip from SS Agent Roy H Kellerman who was the agent in charge of arranging the timetable for trip and responsible for motorcade route.

8 Nov. 1963 – Governor Connelly confirms trip to Dallas on November 21–22/63. ref. Warren Commission, (W.C.)

Oswald writes to, “Dear Mr. Hunt, (Most likely Howard E. Hunt.) I would like more information concerning my position. I am asking only for information. I suggaest that we discuss the matter fully before any steps are taken by me or anyone else. Thank you, Lee Harvey Oswald. ” ref. Last Investigation, p 423; ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 324; ref. Crossfire (Letter shown in full)

Oswald delivers a note to Dallas FBI HQ where Agent James Hosty is told to destroy it by Special Agent in Charge, Gordin Shanklin. ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 261

15 Nov. 1963 – Motorcade route reviewed but was unchanged. ref. W.C.

16 Nov. 1963 – Dallas Times Herald reported that the Presidential motorcade “apparently will loop through downtown area, probably on Main street on its way to Trade Mart”. ref. W.C.

17 Nov. 1963 – An FBI Teletype is recieved, directed to all field offices to contact CIs (confidential informants) to determine whether a revolutionary group was a potential threat to the president during his Dallas trip November 22 – 23. ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 77

18 Nov. 1963 – SS Agents Lawson and Sorrels with Dallas police assistant Chief Charles Batchelor drive motorcade route verifying that it could be driven in 45 minutes and was unchanged. ref. W.C.

19 Nov. 1963 – Newspaper published precise route mentioning the turn into Elm into Houston then onto the freeway. ref. W.C.

20 Nov. 1963 – Two Dallas Police Officers witness a “mock target practice” going on at the picket fence atop the knoll. They arrived in time to see the partipants depart in haste, and only write a report of the incedent subsequent to November 22. ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 132

20 Nov. 1963 – Newspaper reports motorcade route on front page. ref. W.C.

20 Nov. 1963 – Rose Cheramie is thrown from a car, taken to hospital, and while there tells doctors that JFK is going to be killed in Dallas. ref.Crossfire, p 401.

21 Nov. 1963 – John and Jackie Kennedy departed on Air Force One for a two-day, five-city tour of Texas.

Wanted For Treason

A handbill circulated on November 21, 1963 In Dallas, Texas, one day before the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

John F. Kennedy announces, the day before his assassination: “We seek a free flow of information… we are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” Nov. 21, 1963.

McGeorge Bundy, then assistant to President Kennedy, signs the key first draft of NSAM 273, in contradiction to all previous Kennedy policy. ref. JFK, CIA Vietnam by Prouty, p xii.

FRIDAY 22 Nov. 1963 – the 1,036th day of JFK’s presidency, a light rain was falling, but a crowd of several thousand had gathered in the parking lot outside the Texas Hotel where the Kennedys had spent the night. A platform had been set up and the President came out to make some brief remarks without a raincoat or umbrella.

JFK in Fort Worth

Notice the smirky look on Lyndon Johnson’s face. Did he have a secret?

“There are no faint hearts in Fort Worth,” he began, “and I appreciate your being here this morning. Mrs. Kennedy is organizing herself. It takes longer, but, of course, she looks better than we do when she does it.” He talked about the nation’s need for being “second to none” in defense and in space, for continued growth in the economy and “the willingness of citizens of the United States to assume the burdens of leadership.” The audience loved him and that love was palpable as John Kennedy reached out to shake hands amidst a sea of smiling faces.

Back inside the Hotel, he addressed a breakfast meeting of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce for about 12 minutes. His talk began, as usual, with humor and the audience loved him! He proceeded to talk about defense projects, emphasizing the role of the military in maintaining peace: “. . . to that great cause, Texas and the United States are committed.”

“Committed” was his last publicly spoken word.

The 1,037th day never came.

Listen to: Remarks at the Breakfast of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, November 22, 1963

11:00 a.m. – Julia Ann Mercer, drives down Elm street, her way is blocked by a green Ford pickup truck. A young man removes a long paper bag, she can see the outlines of a rifle in the bag, and he walks with it to the top of the grassy knoll. She also sees the driver of the truck, whom she later identifies as Jack Ruby, (before he shot Oswald). ref. Crossfire, p 18.

11:10a.m. – “The presidential party left the hotel and went by motorcade to Carswell Air Force Base for the thirteen-minute flight to Dallas. Arriving at Love Field, President and Mrs. Kennedy disembarked and immediately walked toward a fence where a crowd of well-wishers had gathered, and they spent several minutes shaking hands. The First Lady was presented with a bouquet of red roses, which she brought with her to the waiting limousine.

Governor John Connally and his wife Nellie were already seated in the open convertible as the Kennedys entered and sat behind them. Since it was no longer raining the plastic bubble top had been left off. Vice President and Mrs. Johnson occupied another car in the motorcade.

11:30 a.m. – “The procession left the airport and traveled along a ten-mile route that wound through downtown Dallas on the way to the Trade Mart where the President was scheduled to speak at a luncheon. Crowds of excited people lined the streets waving to the Kennedys as they waved back.

11:45 a.m. – Oswald is left on sixth floor of the TSBD as fellow workmates leave to go to Lunch break. He yells, “Guys, How about an elevator?” And then adding “Send one of the elevators back up”. ref. Conspiracy – Who Killed Kennedy?, p106

11:50 a.m. approx – TSBD foreman Bill Shelley said he saw Oswald near the telephone on the first floor. Conspiracy – Who Killed Kennedy?, p 107

12:00 p.m. approx – Jack Ruby is seen sitting in an office at the Dallas Morning News by newspaper employee Wanda Walker. ref. Crossfire, p 327.

TSBD employee Eddie Piper said he actually spoke to Oswald, “Just at twelve o’clock, down on the first floor”.

12:10 p.m. approx – Lee Bowers, a railway supervisor located in a tower behind the knoll fence, sees a 1959 Oldsmobile cruise the area. And at 12:20p.m., a Black 1957 Ford also did the same and left. Then a third car, a 61 or 62 Chevrolet Impala entered the area, parked out of his sight near the decorative masonry wall, then reappeared immediately after the last shot. ref. Crossfire, p 75-76.

12:15 p.m. – Carolyn Arnold sees Oswald eating lunch on the second floor lunchroom. ”Oswald was sitting in one of the booth seats on the right hand side of the room as you go in. He was alone as usual and appeared to be having lunch. I did not speak to him but I recognized him clearly.” ref. Crossfire, p 49; Conspiracy – Who Killed Kennedy?, p 108

12:15 – 12:20 p.m. – TSBD employee Bonnie Ray Williams leaves the sixth floor after eating his lunch, he saw nobody ref. Crossfire, p 49; Conspiracy – Who Killed Kennedy?, p 106

12:15 p.m. – Witness Arnold Rowland observes man with rifle at the Westeren end of TSBD. ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 300

12:18 p.m. approx – A young man suffers some sort of seizure in front of the book depository. ref. Crossfire, p 42

12:19 p.m. – Police Radio “code 3” (haste), for ambulance for Dealey Plaza. The ambulance arrived and picked up a suspected epilectic, departing at 12:25 p.m., and was taken to Parkland Hospital where his admittance was never recorded. ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 137

12:20 p.m. – Bonnie Ray Williams, left the 6th floor after finishing his lunch and using the elevator joined co workers on the 5th floor to watch the motorcade. ref. Crossfire, p 47.

The car turned off Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 12:30 p.m. As it was passing the Texas School Book Depository gunfire suddenly reverberated in the plaza. Bullets struck the President’s neck and head and he slumped over toward Mrs. Kennedy. The Governor was also hit, in the chest.”

12:30:40 sec p.m. – Police Radio. Bill Decker orders officers to the “Railroad track area just North of Elm.” ref, Treachery in Dallas, p 136

12:32 p.m. – Breakdown of Washington D.C.’s telephone system for almost 1 hour. (Though Hoover’s line remains fuctional?) ref. Conspiracy of Silence, p 71.

12:33 p.m. – Lee Harvey Oswald leaves Depository and boards bus ref. W.C

12:37 p.m. – Sergent Harkness reports he has a witness who had pinpointed the window. (Howard Brennan)

12:38 p.m. – JFK arrives at Parkland Hospital. ref. Best Evidence, p 710.

12:40 p.m. approx. – Police officer Roger Craig sees a white male running down the hill from the direction of the book depository and climbs into a waiting Rambler station wagon and drives off. Claims it was Oswald. ref.Crossfire, p. 329

12:40-45 p.m. – Oswald gets off bus and boards second taxi after allowing a woman to take first taxi, talls driver William Whaley, “500 North Beckley Street” ref. WC

12:45 p.m. – Description put out about suspect on Dallas police radio. “The wanted person in this is a slender white male about thirty, five feet ten, one sixty five, carrying what looked to be a 30.30 or some type of Winchester”.

Officer Tippit told by H/Q dispatcher to “go to central Oakcliff area”.
ref. Rush to Judgement, p 194.

12:48 p.m. – Police Radio in refrence to the location of the assassin. “He is thought to be in the Texas School Book Depository here on the North West corner of Elm and Houston.” ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 35

12:49 p.m. – Capt Talbert giving orders on Police radio. “Have that cut off on the back side will you? Make sure nobody leaves there”. (Refering to the Depository). ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 143

12:51 p.m. – Homicide Cheif William Fritz calls in to the dispatchers office from his post at the Trade Mart to ask if JFK will still be going to the site. He is told, “It’s very doubtful.” ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 150

12:54 p.m. – Officer Tippit calls into H/Q, and is asked if he is in Oakcliff area. He replies, “Yes”. ref. Rush to Judgement, p.194.

1:00 p.m. – JFK PRONOUNCED DEAD ref. Best Evidence, p 710.

Police search the bus that Oswald had boarded and recently left. ref.Treachery in Dallas, p 150

Police car no 207 stops outside Oswald’s rooming house, and sounds horn twice.

Parkland hospital. Darrell Tomlinson discovers the stretcher bullet 399 which rolls out from under a mat when stretcher bumps the wall. ref. Best Evidence, p 90.

Oswald enters the Texas Theater according to theater assistant manager shortly after 1:00 p.m.. ref. Crossfire, p 353.

1:04 p.m. – Oswald seen standing at bus stop outside his rooming house by his landlady. ref. Rush to Judgement, p 159.

? p.m. – David Ferrie takes a mysterious 364 mile drive in the afternoon. ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 131

1:05 p.m. – South of Dallas three men pulled over, one identifies himself as a Secret Service agent and states “We are in a hurry to get to New Orleans to investigate part of the shooting.” However there is no record of Secret Service being dispatched to New Orleans on the day of the assassination.

1:08 p.m. – Officer Tippitt makes two attempts to call H/Q, but dispatcher does not reply. ref. Rush to Judgement, p 195.

1:10 p.m. – T.F..Bewley comes upon J.D Tippit’s body in the street. As he gets out to help he looks at his watch, which reads 1:10p.m. ref. Conspiracy – Who Killed Kennedy?, p 122

1:12 p.m. – Policeman Luke Mooney finds shell casings on sixth floor of Depository. ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 143

1:15 p.m. – Oswald buys popcorn at concession stand inside Texas theatre, according to concession stand operator Boroughs ref. Crossfire, p 353.

1:16 p.m. – Police told “Officer Tippit has been shot.” by civilian Domingo Benavides using Tippit’s police car radio. ref. Crossfire, p 348.

1:20 p.m. – Jean Hill in live television report states she heard shots from the Knoll. ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 153

1:22 p.m. – Rifle found on sixth floor of Book Depository, first identified as 7.5 German Mauser.

Police radio call goes out describing Tippit’s killer as about 30, 5ft 8in black hair and slender. ref. Unanswered Questions, p 105.

1:25 p.m. approx – Capt Fritz is given Oswalds name and adress and description by Roy Truly, then later returns to police HQ without ever issuing an all-points bulletin for Oswald. When he arrives Oswald is already there. ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 153

1:25 p.m. – Police radio reports finding of a white jacket in parking lot. ref.Rush to Judgement, p 191.

1:30 p.m. – Seth Kantor encounters Jack Ruby at Parkland hospital and has brief conversation with him. ref. Crossfire, p. 366.

1:35 p.m. – Police Radio. The TSBD is mentioned, “It’s secure now.” ref.Treachery in Dallas, p 143

1:36 p.m. – Police Radio from scene of Tippit’s murder, “I got an eyeball witness to the getaway man – that suspect in this shooting. He is a white male … apparently armed with a .32, dark finish automatic pistol…” ref.Conspiracy – Who Killed Kennedy?, p 119

1:45 p.m. – Police Radio “Have information, a suspect just went into Texas theatre on West Jefferson”. ref. Unanswered Questions, p 112.

1:55 p.m. – Police arrest Oswald at Texas theater as suspect in shooting Tippit. ref. Best Evidence, p.710.

2:00 p.m. – Bullet 399 handed to SS Agent Richard Johnson at Parkland Hospital by Chief of Parkland Hospital security O.P.Wright. ref. Best Evidence, p. 591 & 652.

2:04 p.m. – Kennedy’s body leaves Parkland Hospital.

2:14 p.m. – Kennedy’s body arrives at Love Field Airport

2:15 p.m. – Oswald taken into Dallas Police Dept ref. W C

2:18 p.m. – Casket placed aboard Air Force One

2:30 p.m. approx – J. Edgar Hoover calls Robert Kennedy to inform him that the killer was an ex-marine who defected to the Soviet Union and was also known to be a pro-communist nut. ref. Treachery in Dallas. p 259

Lyndon Johnson takes the oath of office at 2:38 p.m. on November 22nd on Air Force One. His first message to the national is brief: “I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help, and God’s.” He takes firm command of the government and reverses nearly everything JFK set in motion.

2:25-4:04 p.m. – Oswald interrogation in Office of Captian Will Fritz.

2:47 p.m. – Air Force One airborne.

3:30 p.m. – Police officers arrive at the residence of Michael and Ruth Paine, Ruth indicates that she has been expecting them.

3:54 p.m. – NBC Newsman Bill Ryan announces on national television that “Lee Oswald seeems to be prime suspect in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.”

4:00 p.m. – Situation room of the White House communications center informs Lyndon Johnson that the assassination is the act of one lone individual and that no conspiracy exists.

4:45-6:30 p.m. – Second interrogation of Oswald in Captain Fritz’s Office.

5:00 p.m. (CST throughout for coordination of data) – Air Force 1 arrives Andrews Air Force base Washington D.C., total flight time 2hrs 15min. ref.Best Evidence, p 680.

Before Air Force One landed in Washington, J. Edgar Hoover made it known that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assissin and there was no conspiracy. ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 79

5:30 p.m. approx. – Deputy sheriff Roger Craig identifies Oswald as the man he saw running toward the Rambler station wagon. When asked about the station wagon Oswald replies, “That station wagon belongs to Mrs Paine, don’t try to tie her into this. She had nothing to do with it.” ref. Rush to Judgement, p 159.

5:30-6:30 p.m. – SS Agent Richard Johnson hands bullet 399 to SS Chief Rowley at Executive building in Washington D.C. ref. Best Evidence, p 646.

6:20 p.m. – Oswald taken to second lineup, and yells to reporter’s in hallway, “I didn’t shoot anyone.”

6:30 p.m. – Lineup for Witnesses Cecil J. McWatters, Sam Guinyard, and Ted Callaway.

7:05 p.m. – Oswald charged with Tippit’s murder. ref Treachery in Dallas, p 5

7:15 p.m. – First incision at Kennedy autopsy.

7:50 p.m. – SS Chief Rowley sends bullet 399 to FBI laboratory. ref. Best Evidence, p 646.

7:50 p.m. – Oswald taken to third lineup for Witness J.D. Davies.

7:55 p.m. – Oswald yells at reporters in hallway “I’m just a patsy”.
ref, (Entry in Seth Kantor’s notebook) Treachery in Dallas, p 293

7:56 p.m. – Third interrogation of Oswald in Captain Fritz’s Office.

8:55 p.m. – Oswald’s Fingerprints, Identification, Paraffin tests – All in Fritz’s Office.

11:00 – 11:20 p.m. – Oswald “Talked to” by FBI Agent M. Clements and Police Officer John Adamcik.

11:20 – 11:25.p.m. – Oswald is taken to press conference. Oswald is asked if he is a member of The Free Cuba Committee, but before he answers, Jack Ruby standing up the back, corrects the reporter and says, “That’s The Fair Play For Cuba Committee”. Oswald is asked by a reporter “Did you kill President Kennedy?” Oswald replies, “No I have not been charged with that. In fact nobody has said that to me yet. The first thing I heard about that is when the newspaper reporters asked me that question.” Oswald is told by a reporter, “That you have been charged” (with the murder of Kennedy.) Oswald looks baffled as he is lead away.

11:26 p.m. – Oswald charged with President Kennedy’s murder. (Oswald is not told of this charge).

SATURDAY 23 Nov. 1963 – Copy of Oswalds passport file is accidentally destroyed while it was being Thermofaxed. ref Treachery in Dallas, p 303

12:30 – 1:00 a.m. – Darrell Thomlinson is awakened by a phone call from the FBI, and is told to keep his mouth shut about the bullet he found on the stretcher at Parkland Hospital ref. Best Evidence, p 591.

12:35 a.m. – Oswald complains, “That this is the third set of fingerprints, photographs being taken.” ref. The Peoples Almanac, p 49

1:35 a.m. – Oswald officially told that he has been charged with J.F.K.’s murder. ref. The Peoples Almanac, p49

2:15 a.m. – Sheriff’s officer Perry McCoy receives a phone call from a “white male” who says that Oswald is going to be killed during his transfer.

2:20 a.m. – Police lieutenant Billy Grammer also receives a phone call. The caller asks specifically to speak to Grammer, and says, “You know me”. Describes in detail the plans to move Oswald and tells him that other arrangements should be made or, “We are going to kill Oswald right there in the basement”.

3:00 a.m. – FBI Special Agent Vince Drain transports the gun and all other evidence to Washington D.C. ref Treachery in Dallas p 28

10:30 a.m. – 1:10 p.m. – Interrogation of Oswald, Capt Fritz’s office.
ref. The Peoples Almanac, p 49

1:10 – 1:30 p.m. – Oswald visited by Mother, Margurite, and Wife Marina
ref. The Peoples Almanac, p 50

2:15 p.m. – Lineup for Witness William Scoggins and William Whaley
ref. The Peoples Almanac, p 50

3:30 – 3:40 p.m. – Robert Oswald visits Lee for 10 Minutes. Lee tells Robert, “Don’t believe all the so called evidence.”

3:40 p.m. – Lee Oswald calls Ruth Paine and asks her. “Would you please call John Abt (Lawyer) in New York for me after 6:00 p.m.” ref. The Peoples Almanac, p 50

4:21 p.m. – Kennedy’s body returns to the White House. ref. Treachery in Dallas p 5

5:30 – 5:35 p.m. – Oswald has visit with H. Louis Nichols, President of the Dallas Bar Association.

6:00 – 6:30 p.m. – Interrogation in Capt Fritz’s Office, Oswald is shown the backyard photo of him with gun. “That picture is not my mine. The picture has been made by superimposing my face. The other part of the picture is not me at all, I have never seen this picture before. I understand photography real well, and that in time, I will be able to show you that this is not my picture and that it was made by someone else.” ref. The Peoples Almanac, p 50 – 51

SUNDAY 24 Nov. 1963, 9:30 am – Interrogation in Capt Fritz’s Office ref.The Peoples Almanac, p 51

11:00 a.m. – Regeistered Nurse Bertha Lozana recalls “At 11:00 a.m. I was informed by Jill Pomeroy, the ward clerk, that we might prepare for an emergency because there was a large crowd at city hall”. ref. Treachery in Dallas p 169

11:10 a.m. – Preparation for Oswald’s transfer to County Jail ref. The Peoples Almanac, p 52

11:15 a.m. – Inspector Thomas J. Kelly Secret Service, has final conversation with Oswald ref. The Peoples Almanac, p 52

11:17 a.m. – Jack Ruby wires money order at Western Union Office (some 350 feet from Dallas police dept, Main St. ramp.) ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 328

11:21a.m. – Jack Ruby shoots Oswald in basement carpark of Dallas police dept. ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 203

1:00 p.m. approx.– On being told that Oswald is dead, Jack Ruby calms down in his cell at Dallas Police Station ref. Framed, p 41

President Johnson signs NSAM 273, signalling a reversal to JFK’s policy of withdrawing troops from Vietnam. ref. JFK, CIA and Vietnam by Prouty, p 422.

25 Nov. 1963 – FBI Agent Richard Harrison arrives at Miller’s Funeral Home with Rifle (type uknown) and finger print ink. Funeral Director would tell reaserchers that he could not understand the event and that he had a very difficult time getting the black ink off Oswald’s corpse.
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 332

Jacqueline Kennedy carefully directs the details of her husband’s funeral, consulting with historians as to the traditional burial procedures for other presidents who had died in office. The catafalque, which had borne Abraham Lincoln’s casket, is used again. 220 foreign leaders walk in the procession.

29 Nov. 1963 – Warren Commission established

Gerald Ford serves as a member of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy that investigates the assassination and co-authors a book, Portrait of the Assassin (1966). Allen Dulles also serves – remember, he was the guy Kennedy fired.

Rodney Stich’s book “Defrauding America” tells of a “deep-cover CIA officer” assigned to a counter-intelligence unit, code-named Pegasus. This unit “had tape-recordings of plans to assassinate Kennedy” from a tap on the phone of J. Edgar Hoover. The people on the tapes were “[Nelson] Rockefeller, Allen Dulles, [Lyndon] Johnson of Texas, George Bush and J. Edgar Hoover.”

In 1963, George H. W. Bush was living in Houston, president of theZapata Offshore oil company. He denied the existence of a note sent by the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover to “Mr. George Bush of the CIA.” When news of the note surfaced, the CIA first said they never commented on employment questions, but later relented said yes, a “George Bush” was mentioned in the note, but that it was “another” George Bush, not the man who took office in the White House in 1988. Reporters tracked down the “other” George Bush and discovered that he was just a lowly clerk who had shuffled papers for the CIA for about six months. He never received any interagency messages from anybody at the FBI.

It is also worth noting that a CIA code word for Bay of Pigs was Operation Zapata, and that two of the support vessels were named Barbara and Houston.

Many say that George Bush was high up on the CIA ladder at the time, running proprietorial vehicles and placed in a position of command, responsible for many of the Cubans recruited into “service” at the time. All through the Iran-Contra affair, Felix Rodriguez, the man who captured and had Che Guevara killed for the CIA, always seemed to call Bush’s office first.

From The Realist (Summer, 1991):

“Bush was working with the now-famous CIA agent, Felix Rodriguez, recruiting right-wing Cuban exiles for the invasion of Cuba. It was Bush’s CIA job to organize the Cuban community in Miami for the invasion. […] A newly discovered FBI document reveals that George Bush was directly involved in the 1963 murder of President John Kennedy. The document places marksmen by the CIA. Bush at that time lived in Texas. Hopping from Houston to Miami weekly, Bush spent 1960 and ’61 recruiting Cubans in Miami for the invasion. […]

“George Bush claims he never worked for the CIA until he was appointed Director by former Warren Commission director and then president Jerry Ford in 1976. Logic suggests that is highly unlikely. Of course, Bush has a company duty to deny being in the CIA. The CIA is a secret organization. No one ever admits to being a member. The truth is that Bush has been a top CIA official since before the 1961 invasion of Cuba, working with Felix Rodriguez. Bush may deny his actual role in the CIA in 1959, but there are records in the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba that expose Bush’s role…”

On the Watergate tapes, June 23, 1972, referred to in the media as the ‘smoking gun’ conversation, Nixon and his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman, were discussing how to stop the FBI investigation into the CIA Watergate burglary. They were worried that the investigation would expose their connection to ‘the Bay of Pigs thing.’ Haldeman, in his book “The Ends of Power“, reveals that Nixon always used code words when talking about the 1963 murder of JFK. Haldeman said Nixon would always refer to the assassination as ‘the Bay of Pigs’.On that transcript we find Nixon discussing the role of George Bush’s partner, Robert Mosbacher, as one of the Texas fundraisers for Nixon. On the tapes Nixon keeps referring to the ‘Cubans’ and the ‘Texans.’ The ‘Texans’ were Bush, Mosbacher and Baker. This is another direct link between Bush and evidence linking Nixon and Bush to the Kennedy assassination.

So, why would an intelligence agency/secret society want to smuggle drugs and assassinate JFK? Simple: a coup d’etat.

Robert J. Oppenheimer wins the Fermi medal.

Dominican Republic – The CIA overthrows the democratically elected Juan Bosch in a military coup. The CIA installs a repressive, right wing junta.

Ecuador – A CIA-backed military coup overthrows President Arosemana, whose independent (not socialist) policies have become unacceptable to Washington. A military junta assumes command, cancels the 1964 elections, and begins abusing human rights.