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there would only be “hieroglyphics” or indications that only experts could decipher.
Only two people would know – the agent and the man who recruited him – and Dulles
claimed that the recruiter would not disclose the secret relationship “even under oath.” 40
Dulles was describing the shadowy world of espionage during the Cold War, and the
difficulty in determining the motive of someone like Oswald. Some Warren Commission
critics have criticized the choice of Dulles to be on the Commission since President
Kennedy had fired him as CIA director in the wake of the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion
of Cuba, and Dulles may have been keeping secrets away from the Commission, such as
the CIA plots with the American mafia to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
In the end, the Commissioners declared that they found no evidence of any ties
between Oswald and U.S., Soviet, Cuban, or any other foreign intelligence agency; no
ties between Oswald and organized crime or any other conspirators; and no ties before
the assassination between Oswald and Jack Ruby and the Dallas police officer allegedly
killed by Oswald after the assassination, J.D. Tippit. In its final report, the
Commissioners wrote, they had “found no evidence that anyone assisted Oswald in
planning or carrying out the assassination,” and “no evidence that Oswald was involved
with any person or group in a conspiracy.” 41 However, the Commission added a caveat:
“Because of the difficulty of proving negatives to a certainty the possibility of others
being involved with either Oswald or Ruby cannot be established categorically, but if
40
History Matters Archive. (Warren Commission Executive Session Transcript, January
17, 1964 151-153.)
41
WC Report, 21.
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