Final_Judgment

278 Double Cross In Dallas? [217]
Marchetti's article is very interesting in many respects. First of all, as
noted previously, Hunt himself initially admitted that he believed that the
story had a basis in truth—that it was plausible, that indeed his former
colleagues in the CIA did consider framing him for involvement in the JFK
assassination.
The origin of the memorandum linking Hunt to the JFK assassination
is interesting as it is presented by Marchetti. He describes it as a
memorandum that “the agency just happened to stumble across in its old
files." In other words, one might presume from Marchetti's flippant
reference, the CIA had, instead, perhaps concocted the memo. That the
agency "just happened to stumble across" the memo at a time when public
suspicion of CIA involvement in the JFK assassination was growing is, of
course, interesting, to say the least.
If Hunt were indeed in Dallas either on the day JFK was killed—or even
the day prior—it would look suspicious. Hunt's long-standing involvement
with anti-Castro Cubans through the aegis of his CIA activities—would
make Hunt a likely suspect were he, in fact, proved to have been in Dallas
at the critical time.
As Marchetti points out, linking Hunt to the JFK assassination would
be a cover story that the public would easily accept. The CIA, as an
institution, would absolve itself of any responsibility, having thrown Hunt
to the wolves as an independent operator out of the CIA's control. Indeed,
the CIA could then lay claim to having "solved" the JFK assassination at
last. Hunt's alleged involvement would also draw in a number of other false
flags—not only the anti-Castro Cubans, but also "right wingers" in general.
What's more, considering Hunt's involvement in Watergate (and with
Richard Nixon having left the presidency in shame), Nixon himself may
have taken some of the heat with many of the public suspecting the very
worst—that perhaps Nixon might have had a hand in arranging the JFK
assassination.
Not only had Nixon been involved in the earliest high-level anti-Castro
planning, alongside Hunt and the CIA, but Nixon himself had been
vanquished in the 1960 presidential campaign by Kennedy. That one of
Nixon's Watergate burglars was being implicated in the JFK assassination
would do no service to Nixon's already tarnished image.
Marchetti also pointed out that "The fact that some [of Hunt's to-bealleged
co-conspirators] may have had connections with organized crime will
prove to be only incidental in the long run."
This "limited hangout" by the CIA would have, as a consequence,
covered up the role of the Israeli-linked Meyer Lansky Organized Crime
Syndicate. To delve too deeply into the real origins and linkage of the crime
network would have dragged the Israeli connection into the open—if pursued
to its logical conclusion.
Now, obviously, the scenario presented in Marchetti's article—the
framing of Hunt by the CIA—never, in fact, took place. That it had a basis
in truth—that Hunt was being pondered as a "fall guy"—however, seems
apparent.