Collection of Assorted Newspaper and Magazine Clippings: Jfk Assassination, Conspiracy Theories, Etc

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Rosell says, "Now we are the first to deny it. Your agency we'd have one exactly the same."

"Crazy," says Daisy.

Well, then, where can the commission go to establish the fact? Bob says they seem to have gotten themselves into a box. Some suggest the commission go to the attorney general. Sankin says he doesn't see how Attorney General Robert Kennedy can come right out and ask Howet what was happening.

McCloy wants the reasons for that spelled out. His outrage at the reversal of power inside the Justice Department warms the cold transgression: "Just why would it be embarrassing for the attorney general of the United States to inquire of one of his agencies whether or not this man who was alleged to have killed the president of the United States was an agent? Does the embarrassment supersede the importance of getting the test evidence in such a situation as his?"

Senator John Sherman Cooper says that for Bobby Kennedy to do so would imply that Bobby thought there was something wrong in the bureau. Even so, McCloy says, "It still wouldn't divert me from asking. It is an awkward affair. But as you said the other day, ruth is our only client."

Boggs agrees and McClay says, "I don't think we could recognize that any door is closed to us unless the president closes it to us." McClay says he wants to get to the bottom of all this.

Dulles says McCloy may be asking the impossible. "How," asks Dulles, "do you disprove a fellow was not your agent?"

Boggs wonders whether Dulles, as head of the CIA, had had agents with no records.

"The record might not be on paper." says Dulles. "But on paper [we] would have hieroglyphics that only two people knew what they meant, and nobody outside of the agency would know and you could say this meant [one] agent and somebody else could say it meant another agent."

Begins mentions the U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers. Dulles says Powers had a signed contract with the CIA. Bags says, "Let's say Powers did not have a signed contract but he was recruited by someone in CIA. The man who recruited him would know, wouldn't he?"

"Yes," says Daisy, "but he wouldn't eat."

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McClow says, "We couldn't tell it to his own cSett."

Dulles says, "He might or he might not. It he was a bad one, he wouldn't."

Begins may have shawm up his hands here. What you do is you ... make no problem utterly impossible because you say this matter can't be dissipated under any circumstances.

Dulles says, "I don't think it can, unless you believe Mr. Hoover, and so forth and so on, which probably most of the people will."

Furthermore, Hoover may have had a reason to hire Oswald. "It is Mr. Hoover's job to watch the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and try to penetrate it in any way he could," says Duilles. But he doesn't believe the FILI did hire Oswald. "He was not the kind of fellow that Hoover would hire . . . He was so stupid."

McCloy says, "I wouldn't put much confidence in the intelligence of all the agents I have run into. I have run into some awfully stupid agents."

Dulles says, "Not this irresponsible." (Iresponsible is a strange description of an assassin of a president. If Oswald was a lone nut, then "irresponsible" is simply the wrong word. To whom would Oswald be responsible?).

McCloy counters. "Well, I can't say that I have run into a fellow comparable to Oswald but I have run into some very limited mentalities both in the CLA and the FBI."

The commission's meeting room rumbles with what the stenotypist describes as "laughter."

The man who immediately agrees with Warren is the one man on the commission who should know. Says Dulles, "Terribly bad characters."

Warren tries to sum up: "Agencies do employ undercover men who are of terrible character."

Rankia is impatient with all this. "Would it be acceptable to go to Mr. Hoover," says Rankia, "and tell him about the situation and that we would like to go ahead and find out what we could about those—"

"Well, Lee," interrupts Warren, "I wouldn't be in favor of going to any agency and saying, 'We would like to do this.' I think we ought to know what we are going to do and do it, and take our chances one way or the other. The most fair thing to do would be to try to

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CIA, the mission that you would know

these investigations and people com-

piled on the agencies was fantastic.

You can not know about all of that."

"Not" replied Dollas. "But by this time I would have known whether we did like him or not."

Mickey says, "You would know in this case who if there was anybody, who would have hired Oswald, who it would be."

Dallas admits that he'd know what area to look in. "Someone," he concludes, "might have done it without authority. The CIA has no charter to hire anybody for this kind of work in the United States. It has abroad, that is the destination. But the CIA has no charter. I don't say it couldn't possibly have done it but it has no charter of authority to run this kind of agent in the United States."

Was the CIA involved with Oswald? There is reason to believe that the CIA performed its own unpublicized investigation on Oswald after the association. Yet there's little on the record of what the CIA told the Warren Commission.

This is serious business and McCloy lodges the first open complaint about the situation: "I would think the time is almost overdue for us being as dependent as we are on FBI investigations, the time is almost overdue for us to have a better perspective of the FBI investigation than we now have."

Rankin takes part of the blame for that. He says that he and his staff need more time to study the FBI's supplemental report, given to them two weeks before. He says the supplemental report answered many of the commission's questions—but not all of them: "There are vast areas that are unanswered at the present time," says Rankin. And then he explains the trouble he is having with the FBI. "Part of our difficulty," he says, "is that they have no problem. They have decided that it is Owald who committed the assassination, they have decided that no one else was involved, they have decided—"

Senator Russell interrupts. "They have tried the case and reached a ver- sit on every aspect."

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