Final_Judgment

284 Double Cross in Dallas? [223]
Phillips, if anybody, should have known inasmuch as he had been CIA
station chief in Mexico City at the time of Oswald's alleged visit.
(There have been allegations also, incidentally, that Oswald may have
been spotted in Dallas with a CIA operative known as "Maurice Bishop"
whom many believe, in fact, was Phillips.)
In a rather fierce debate with Mark Lane at the University of Southern
California, a somewhat distressed Phillips confessed: "I am not in a position
today to talk to you about the inner workings of the CIA station in Mexico
City . . . but I will tell you this, that when the record comes out, we will
find that there . . . is no evidence to show that Lee Harvey Oswald visited
the Soviet Embassy." 597
WARREN 'HELD HOSTAGE'
According to Mark Lane: The magnitude of this CIA misconduct can
be fully understood only when its conspiracy to cover up is traced to its
origin. For the CIA charade, which evidently included employing an
imposter for Oswald, began no later than October 1, 1963.
"One month and twenty-two days before President Kennedy was
assassinated, the CIA had set into motion a series of events apparently
designed to prevent any American institution from ever daring to learn the
truth about the assassination, an assassination that had not yet taken place.
"More than seven weeks before President Kennedy was murdered, the
CIA was dramatically and falsely establishing a link between Lee Harvey
Oswald and a Soviet diplomat, whom the CIA would later designate as the
KGB authority on assassinations in the United States." 598
As a consequence, the Warren Commission, confronted by the CIA
with what appeared to be possible Soviet involvement in the Kennedy
assassination, moved to suppress what it mistakenly believed to be "the
truth."
The fate of the world was in the hands of Chief Justice Earl Warren and
his fellow commission members. If the public learned that Oswald was a
pawn of the Soviets, a nuclear war could break out. As Mark Lane
commented, Warren was "held hostage" 599 by the CIA's provocative lie.
During his debate with David Atlee Phillips, Mark Lane exposed all of
this before the audience. When confronted and following his confession that
Oswald had not been at the Soviet Embassy, Phillips suggested essentially
that he didn't want either the CIA or himself to be held responsible for "some
CIA guy that I never saw [who] did something that I never heard of.” 600
Now while Phillips was being disingenuous at best, the fact is that it
was indeed someone whom he certainly knew who was behind the Mexico
City scenario. It was none other than his CIA colleague, James J. Angleton.
ANGLETON & MEXICO CITY