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together along with another friend of Wean's and the talk turned to the JFK
assassination.
(Decker, it might be noted, appears to be one Dallas law enforcement
official who is definitely in the clear as far as any involvement in the
assassination is concerned. It was Decker, in fact, who had ordered his men
to investigate the railroad yard behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll
from where shots at the president's motorcade appeared to have
originated. 610 Were Decker a co-conspirator he certainly would not have
assisted in the capture of the president's assassins.)
Decker told Wean that he was certain that Lee Harvey Oswald was
innocent of the president's murder. The three gentlemen, all of whom were
familiar with firearms, didn't believe that Oswald could have carried out the
crime with the weapon he was alleged to have used.
`A TERRIBLE DOUBLE CROSS SOMEWHERE'
However, Wean reports that Sheriff Decker proceeded to elaborate
further, saying, "I have another reason, much stronger, for knowing Oswald
never shot JFK. There's a man in Dallas I've known a longtime. He knows
the entire truth about Oswald's involvement.
"He's scared to death to go to the Dallas P.D. or FBI. There has been a
terrible double cross somewhere and everybody is scared shitless of
everybody else. You wouldn't believe the crazy suspicions and accusations
heaped on all law enforcement in the south by the imbeciles in D.C. and the
chaos it has created."
"There was no conspiracy in my sheriff's department involving the
assassination nor in the Dallas P.D. I've known all these people too long. I
would have known it. Believe me, something as 'crazy' as this I'd feel it in
my bones." 611
Wean remembered this conversation and later, during a trip to Ruidoso,
New Mexico in the company of Audie Murphy, Wean was introduced to
Decker's source from Dallas, whom Wean says was named "John."
According to Wean's source, CIA man E. Howard Hunt was indeed
involved with Lee Harvey Oswald—but not in planning the president's
assassination. Wean reports that John told him that Hunt had something
else in mind altogether.
Essentially, according to Wean's source, Hunt—like other leaders in the
anti-Castro movement—was becoming frustrated with the Kennedy'
administration's moves to achieve at least an informal detente with Castro.
Hunt, of course, had devoted much energy to the drive to undermine Castro
and now all of his work was being undone.
Wean quoted his source as describing what happened: "Hunt's festering
frustration conceived what's become the most bizarre political assassination
intrigue of all time. His scheme was to inflame American people against
Castro and stirring patriotism to a boiling point not felt since Pearl Harbor.
Enraged Americans would demand that our military invade Cuba wiping out