The
April 5 issue of Rolling Stone features the
deathbed confession of CIA operative and key Bay of Pigs/Watergate/Nixon
administration figure E. Howard Hunt,
The Last Confession of E. Howard
Hunt by Erik Hedegaard
from "Rolling Stone", March 21, 2007 (Saved version
here).
This piece is significant not only for its exploration
of Hunt, but for breakthrough information that appears
to thoroughly corroborate the work of key John F.
Kennedy assassination researchers and historians.
Who killed
JFK?
According
to Hunt’s confession, which was taken by his son, St.
John (“Saint”) Hunt, over the course of many personal
and carefully planned father-son meetings, the following
individuals were among the key participants:
Lyndon
B. Johnson: LBJ, whose own career was assisted by
JFK nemesis J. Edgar Hoover (FBI), gave the orders to a
CIA-led hit team, and helped guide the Warren Commission/lone
gunman cover-up.
Cord
Meyer: CIA agent, architect of the Operation
Mockingbird disinformation apparatus, and husband of
Mary Meyer (who had an affair with JFK).
David
Atlee Philips: CIA and Bay of Pigs veteran.
Recruited William Harvey (CIA) and Cuban exile militant
Antonio Veciana.
William Harvey:
CIA and Bay of Pigs veteran.
Connected to Mafia figures Santos Trafficante and Sam
Giancana.
Antonio Veciana:
Cuban exile, founder of
CIA-backed Alpha 66.
Frank Sturgis:
CIA operative, mercenary,
Bay of Pigs veteran, and later Watergate figure.
David Morales:
CIA hit man, Bay of Pigs
veteran. Morales was also a figure involved with the
assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Lucien Sarti:
Corsican assassin and drug
trafficker, possible “French gunman,” Grassy Knoll (second)
shooter.
Would Hunt
continue to tell lies on his deathbed? Perhaps. Would
Hunt tell a final tall story or two, to protect himself,
or perhaps deal one final slap in the face to the US
government (which made him a fall guy for Watergate)?
Yes. Would Hunt hide the involvement of certain
individuals to whom he remained loyal, including people
who are still alive? Certainly. Anything from an
operative like Hunt can only be accepted with caution
and healthy skepticism.
Nevertheless, Hunt’s scenario has the ring of truth.
Each of the
named names are well-known CIA and CIA-linked players
exposed by many researchers and historians who have
detailed the enduring connection from the Bay of Pigs
and the Dallas hit to Watergate and Iran-Contra.
The Hunt
confession vindicates generations of historians,
researchers and whistleblowers who have given their
lives and careers to expose the truth about Dealey Plaza.
While there are too many to name, they include, but are
not limited to (and in no particular order): Jim
Garrison, Mark Lane, Fletcher Prouty, Josiah Thompson,
Carl Oglesby, Peter Dale Scott, Anthony Summers, Robert
Groden, Victor Marchetti, David Lifton, Harrison
Livingstone, Michael Canfield, A.J. Weberman, Sylvia
Meagher, William Turner, Jim Marrs, Pete Brewton, John
Newman, Philip Melanson, Hal Verb, Mae Brussell, Harold
Weisberg, Oliver Stone, Mike Ruppert and Dan Hopsicker,
Jim diEugenio and Linda Pease.
Meanwhile,
the criminal deceptions of the US government and its
corporate media, the Warren Commission, and the dirty
work of cover-up specialists such as Gerald Posner and
Mark Fuhrman, and the legions of JFK assassination
revisionist/theorists, deserve a final rebuke, and
eternal scorn.
Highlighting Hunt’s role
Although
the Rolling Stone piece does not address it, the
Hunt confession directly corroborates two classic
investigations that previously exposed the role of Hunt.
They are Mark Lane’s Plausible Denial and Michael
Canfield/A.J. Weberman’s Coup D’Etat in America.
Lane’s book details how he took Hunt to court, and won a
libel suit, essentially proving that the CIA murdered
JFK, and that Hunt lied about his whereabouts. The
investigation of Canfield and Weberman identified Hunt
and Frank Sturgis as two of the three “tramps” arrested
at Dealey Plaza.
Time has
only made these investigations more relevant. More than
ever, their books, and those of the JFK historians and
researchers above listed, deserve to be found, read and
studied.
Hunt to
Nixon to Bush
The
Rolling Stone piece fails to go after the roles of
Richard Nixon and George Herbert Walker Bush. But the
Hunt confession, if accurate, leads directly to them, to
their lifelong associates, and all the way to the
present George W. Bush administration.
The
Dallas-Watergate-Iran-Contra connection has been
thoroughly documented by the key JFK researchers, and in
particular, in the work of Peter Dale Scott, one of the
very first to show the deep political continuity across
three decades. Daniel Hopsicker’s Barry and the Boys
goes into even more detail on the players.
Consider
the career of George H.W. Bush. He was a Texas oilman
(Zapata Oil) and a CIA operative, involved with the Bay
of Pigs. Bush’s name was found in the papers of George
DeMohrenschildt, one of Lee Harvey Oswald’s CIA
handlers. As documented by Pete Brewton, author of
The Mafia, the CIA and George Bush, Bush was deeply
connected with a small circle of Texas elites tied to
the CIA and the Mafia, as well as the Florida-based
CIA/anti-Casto Cuban exile/ Mafia milieu As Richard
Nixon’s hand-picked Republican National Committee
chairman, and later as CIA director, Bush constantly
covered-up and stonewalled for his boss about Watergate,
which itself (by the admission of Frank Sturgis and
others) was a cover-up of the JFK assassination.
Tracking
any of the individual CIA operatives involved with the
Bay of Pigs, it is impossible to ignore or deny direct
connections to George H.W. Bush and his crime family,
across the Kennedy assassinations, covert operations in
Indochina and, later, Latin America.
Beyond any
reasonable doubt, the US government murdered John F.
Kennedy. There are people still alive today who were
involved directly and indirectly implicated. Some are
probably even serving in positions of high influence.
Some still have never been identified or touched.
All of these individuals still need to be pursued,
exposed, and brought to justice.
