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declares “Y’all gotta start thinking on a different level – like the CIA does. We’re
through the looking glass. Here white is black and black is white.” 700
Later in the film, a skeptical investigator for Garrison questions why the probe
does not focus on the mob. Garrison responds “I don’t double their involvement…but at
a low level. Could the Mob change the parade route…or eliminate the protection for the
President? Could the Mob send Oswald to Russia and get him back? Could the Mob get
the FBI, the CIA, and the Dallas Police to make a mess of the investigation? Could the
Mob appoint the Warren Commission to cover it up?” Garrison declares “This is a
military-style ambush from start to finish…a coup-d’etat with Lyndon Johnson waiting in
the wings.” 701
Much of Garrison’s ideas about the assassination derive from a mysterious
character called “X” – an unnamed government official familiar with U.S. intelligence
who meets with the DA in Washington. “X” explains to Garrison that the main
beneficiary of the assassination is the military-industrial complex that Kennedy’s
predecessor, Dwight D. Eisenhower, warned about. The defense establishment wants to
continue the war in Vietnam, while Kennedy is planning to withdraw U.S. troops from
the country. “X” tells Garrison that Johnson countermanded Kennedy’s order to
withdraw 1,000 troops from Vietnam shortly after taking office. That became a key issue
in the controversy over JFK. Garrison seems overwhelmed, and says he did not realize
Kennedy was “so dangerous to the establishment.” “X” says “That’s the real question,
700 Sklar and Stone, 59.
701 Sklar and Stone, 136.
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