Dallas ’63 by Peter Dale Scott

Author:Peter Dale Scott
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781504019897
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

5. The Dyadic Deep State and Intrigues Against JFK

Introductory Summary

In this chapter we will examine how numerous anti-Communists in what I have called the Birchite anticommunist complex were mobilized against Kennedy while alive, and presented false theories about his assassination after (and possibly even before) his death.

One chief reason for the Birch Society dislike of Kennedy was his failure to invade Cuba: first after the collapse of the Bay of Pigs operation, and again one year later in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Those in the military who wished also to attack the Soviet Union were still further appalled by Kennedy’s rapprochement with Khrushchev after the Missile Crisis. This became evident with the President’s American University speech of June 10, 1963, when he called for a “reexamination” of American attitudes towards Russia, and warned that a course towards nuclear confrontation would be “evidence only of the bankruptcy of our policy—or of a collective death-wish for the world.”

Many also disliked the Kennedy brothers for their response to a 1962 riot at Ole Miss with more than twelve thousand U.S. Army soldiers, climaxing a fixed battle that left two people dead.1 When Robert Kennedy then remanded General Edwin Walker, one of the mobilizers of the mob at Ole Miss, for psychiatric examination, “The John Birch Society and other far-right groups heralded this as an example of the ‘Kennedy police state.’”2

In my recent book, The American Deep State, I focused on the dominant internationalism in this country of Wall Street and big oil. I had only a couple of paragraphs in which I acknowledged that there was also an entrenched resentment in this country towards Wall Street, which dated back to even before the Civil War. This chapter will look at that widespread, entrenched resentment among prominent people, especially but not just in the American South and Southwest.

This will force us to recognize that the American deep state is one whose very power generates, dialectically, a powerful opposition. In The American Deep State I devoted only a few lines to the oppositional faction of right-wing Texas oilmen and the John Birch Society, opposed to the relative internationalism of Wall Street. But under Kennedy (as for the next two decades) America was so deeply divided, from top to bottom, that it was, for a while, in effect a dyadic deep state.

In this situation the presidency was, not just under Kennedy but also under his next four successors, no longer the prevailing power.

Milteer, Del Valle, Giannettini, and Northwoods

Before discussing the Birch Society in more detail, this chapter will begin with what a right-wing extremist, Joseph Milteer, predicted about the Kennedy assassination. From this we will look at related efforts inside the government, to falsely implicate in the assassination a Cuban, Paulino Sierra Martinez, who had been assigned to work on defusing the risk of a U.S.-Soviet confrontation, by Robert Kennedy’s friend Enrique Ruiz-Williams.

But we shall also look at Milteer’s association with senior military veterans, such as former Marine General Pedro del Valle, and other prominent figures

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