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the actual conspirators were holding back in the event that they needed
some trump card. And you will recall that it was James Angleton who was
the CIA official who was the loudest advocate of the theory that Lee Harvey
Oswald was, at the very least, a "pro-Castro agitator" who was busy
meeting in Mexico with a KGB assassinations expert.
In his book, The Man Who Knew Too Much, author Dick Russell paints a
very plausible case that a long-time U.S. intelligence operative, Richard Case
Nagell, may have been under the direction of the KGB in an attempt to infiltrate
the assassination conspiracy. Nagell does appear to have been enmeshed in
various aspects of the conspiracy, but that doesn't mean that the KGB was
manipulating the conspiracy but was instead monitoring a conspiracy or
conspiracies—and they may not have even initially known that it was an
assassination conspiracy.
Do you absolutely discount any involvement in the assassination by
Cuban dictator Fidel Castro?
Absolutely. I don't think there's any doubt that Castro himself would
have realized what a drastic, drastic mistake it would have been for himself
to even be implicated in any aspect of any conspiracy even vaguely
associated with the assassination or attempted assassination of John F.
Kennedy. Fidel Castro is not stupid. Were it ever pinned on Castro, there
undoubtedly would have been a national and international demand for
Castro's head. So Castro obviously had no interest in driving a stake
through John F. Kennedy's heart.
We know now, many years later, that JFK was moving toward a form
of detente with Castro, but at the same time, it seems, JFK was no doubt
keeping his options open vis-à-vis the Cuban leader. However, it's very
clear that the real conspirators behind the assassination who were
manipulating Lee Harvey Oswald were doing so in such a fashion as to
make it appear as though he were a "pro-Castro agitator." What does that
say? If Castro were behind the conspiracy, he certainly wouldn't have
manipulated Oswald in such a fashion. If Castro had any inkling that there
had been an assassination conspiracy afoot, it would have been in Castro's
interests to call it to JFK's attention. Castro knew nothing of a conspiracy.
We can discount any involvement by Castro.
Isn't it possible that "rogue elements" in both the CIA and the
Mossad were involved in the JFK assassination and that high-level CIA
and Mossad people had nothing to do with the conspiracy?
No, it is not possible that the JFK assassination was orchestrated by
"rogue elements" of the CIA and the Mossad. The "rogue element" cop-out
is tired and worn. When we look at those in the CIA who were involved in
strange activities relating to the assassination—particularly the effort to
suggest that Lee Harvey Oswald was meeting with a KGB assassinations
specialist in Mexico City—we find not only David Atlee Phillips, chief of
the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division but also, of course, James