Not in Your Lifetime: The Defining Book on the J.F.K. Assassination by Summers Anthony

Author:Summers, Anthony [Summers, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

There is something else, something seen as revelatory by the researchers who have done the most extensive analysis of relevant Agency files.25 It is a CIA response to Station Chief Scott in Mexico, responding to his name trace request of October 8 describing the visit to the Soviet Embassy by the man who was not Oswald. Over three pages, the response summarized Oswald’s history of defection to Russia, marriage to a Soviet citizen, and apparent disillusion with life there:

“Latest HQDS info was [State Department] report dated May 1962 stating [it] had determined Oswald is still U.S. citizen and both he and his Soviet wife have exit permits and Dept [of] State had given approval for travel with their infant child to USA.”

That, however, was not the most recent information CIA headquarters had received on Oswald. The files show that the Agency knew all about his return to the States, that he had since been interviewed by the FBI, about his life in Dallas; correspondence he had had with the Soviet Embassy in Washington, DC, and with communist organizations; his move to New Orleans; his Fair Play for Cuba activity; and his purportedly angry encounter with the DRE’s anti-Castro exiles, and the subsequent arrest. The FBI had copied its most recent FBI report on Oswald’s progress to the CIA less than a week before the incorrect transmission that purported to brief the CIA station chief in Mexico—yet withheld the latest information from him.

The massive omission was hardly inadvertent. The draft of the response to Mexico had been reviewed by three different officers in CIA Counterintelligence, seen and authenticated by the chief of Covert Operations for the Western Hemisphere—which included Mexico—and finally transmitted under the name of Tom Karamessines, assistant to then Deputy Director for Plans Richard Helms. Jane Roman, a senior aide to Counterintelligence chief Angleton, helped prepare and signed off on the inaccurate message. Interviewed in 1995, in retirement, she had extraordinary things to say.

“I’m signing off,” Roman acknowledged, “on something that I know isn’t true.” The message, she said on studying it, was “indicative of a keen interest in Oswald held very closely on the need-to-know basis… . There has to be a point for withholding information …” Those with final authority over the content of the message, Roman speculated, may have thought that “somehow … they could make some use of Oswald. I would think that there was definitely some operational reason to withhold it, if it was not sheer administrative error, when you see all the people who signed off on it.”

If, as Roman explained, she had not had ultimate responsibility for what the message did or did not contain, who had? “The only interpretation I could put on this,” she said—noting the language used in the message and the identity of its signatories—“would be that [the] SAS group would have held the information on Oswald under their tight control.”

The SAS, or Special Affairs Staff, oversaw all anti-Castro operations. “The Cuba task force,” Roman surmised, would have “got word how to handle this… .

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