More Evidence Emerging of the KGB's Hand in Killing JFK
Are Further Facts Emerging In Support of the late Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa's Version of How Oswald Shot Kennedy? And What Does It Matter?
A few weeks back as part of my ongoing series on antisemitism in culture I laid out a summary of the JFK assassination conspiracy theory advocated by a gifted, unique writer I used to edit, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest ranking defector ever to break with the Soviet bloc. (See his books here.)
I emphasized that while I sympathize with his version of why the assassination supposedly happened and how so much conspiratorial confusion has emerged since, there just didn’t seem enough hard, concrete evidence to prove it yet that the KGB was ultimately behind the plot to murder a president. Well, perhaps that time of looking for further facts to back up Pacepa’s theory is coming to a close.
The Biden administration just released 8,000 more documents related to the assassination. Politico has a preliminary report of what to expect within the new trove and this in particular caught my eye, emphasis added:
Oswald’s Mysterious Trip to Mexico City
Several of the newly declassified documents will refer, directly or indirectly, to the activities of the undercover CIA operatives in the agency’s Mexico City station who mounted an aggressive surveillance operation against Oswald when he visited the Mexican capital in September 1963, just several weeks before the assassination. Previously released files from the CIA’s Mexico station show Oswald, a self-declared Marxist who apparently sought to obtain a visa to defect to Cuba, made contact in the Mexican capital with Soviet and Cuban spies, including a KGB assassinations specialist. Those documents suggested the CIA’s Mexico station bungled evidence that, had it been passed on quickly to the Secret Service and other agencies in Washington, could have saved Kennedy’s life.
Now what possible reason would Oswald have for secretly meeting in a foreign country with a KGB assassinations specialist if he was not in fact trained to work with him? If Oswald was wholly acting on his own, how does this meeting make any sense whatsoever?
Or here’s another tricky question to ponder: why would so much of this information and the fingerprints of the KGB on the assassination be hidden and obscured for so long? Well, it sounds like part of it is not because the CIA was responsible for killing Kennedy so much as they FAILED in saving his life. They weren’t covering their killing, they were covering their ass.
But there’s another side of it too. It was not in the US government’s interest AT ALL during the Cold War to lay out evidence against the Soviet Union for Kennedy’s death. Why? Because then most Americans would be as angry at Russia as I’ve been for the last decade. There would be calls for war to get justice for a murdered president.
Well, I got in trouble a bit last week with my confessional broadside against my home state of Indiana and “midwest culture” at large.
A number of people seemed to mistakenly think that my concluding provocations of “fuck Indiana, fuck the Midwest” meant I was attacking every single person who lived here. I certainly was not. My critique was of the dominant cultural attitudes which have developed over the last 200 years or so. I certainly admit the obvious fact that there are some decent people here who don’t live by the cruel cultural norms which traumatized me so deeply.
So now, when I conclude here saying a similar foul-mouthed provocation - FUCK RUSSIA! - obviously don’t interpret that as some sort of bigotry against all Russian people. Individual Russians are each individuals and make their own choices about which values, ideologies and cultures they’re going to choose to follow.
But come on: Russian culture writ large is fucking terrible. This is a sad, cold place based on lies, deception, and authoritarianism. It has a deep history going back centuries which does not value freedom like America does. I prefer the controversial historical analysis of the late historian Richard Pipes, who argued in numerous books that the problems of Soviet Russia go back long before Lenin. Czarist Russia was just as crappy and oppressive on a cultural level as Leninist and then Stalinist Russia.
Seriously: if their culture wasn’t so terrible and depressing, why would such a big chunk of the population be drinking themselves to death? This is horrific:
It’s difficult to overstate how serious Russia’s alcohol problem is.
More than 30% of all deaths in Russia in 2012 were attributable to alcohol, according to WHO data crunched by the OECD. That’s by far the highest among the nations it tracked…
Russians live some of the shortest lives in any large economy. Life expectancy for a Russian man was roughly 65 years in 2012, compared to 76 years for the US and 74 for China…
A paper published in 2013 found that relatively high levels of alcohol-related deaths can be found in Russian data going back to the late 19th century.
So my proposal in response to this is pretty simple. Given the country’s genocidal war against Ukraine, its interfering in our elections here in America, kidnapping our basketball players, and that it historically qualifies as what President Donald J. Trump once called “shithole countries,” I think that Russia needs to be “put in its place” and reminded of the fact that they are not a “world power” deserving of global leadership.
Vladimir Putin has so much blood on his hands at this point that it is more than morally justifiable for him to be assassinated. And then make it look like the FSB, the successor to the KGB, did it. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, as the saying goes. Russia owes us a dead president. Fuck Putin. Kill him and bring freedom to Russia, Ukraine, and the 410 political prisoners in his atrocious jails.
