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We can only speculate as to the motivation of Hunt and the CIA in this
regard. What we do know, however, is that it was Israel's friend at the CIA,
the enigmatic James Jesus Angleton, who was the prime mover behind the
memorandum that would have been used to frame Hunt for involvement in
the assassination.
Was Angleton simply looking out for the interests of the CIA? Or was
he also looking out for his own interests? And if so, what were those
interests? What did Angleton know about the JFK assassination?
Angleton sent E. Howard Hunt to Dallas just prior to the assassination.
What was Angleton's purpose in doing so?
And why was Angleton involved in the sensitive, top-secret CIA
Mexico City intrigue which took place over a month prior to the JFK
assassination, linking Lee Harvey Oswald to the Soviets and Castro's Cuba?
Angleton's link to Israel and its Mossad is the key to understanding
Angleton's unusual behavior that we have outlined.
The Mossad loyalist, James J. Angleton, was the central player in the
intrigue between the CIA and the Mossad in the JFK assassination.
Never-before-published information that we will be reviewing later in
this chapter confirms our contention that Angleton was indeed the primary
high-level CIA collaborator in the JFK assassination conspiracy.
Angleton was the CIA figure involved with the Mossad—if not in the
actual planning of the JFK assassination itself—then certainly in key
aspects of the subsequent cover-up. E. Howard Hunt, indeed, may have been
Angleton's fall guy—another patsy—from the beginning.
HUNT'S SILENCE
What role did E. Howard Hunt play in Angleton's game of intrigue?
Hunt himself is not saying. He has, instead, chosen to deny any
responsibility or involvement—for whatever reasons—and bitterly contests
any suggestions of his connection to the events in Dallas.
Perhaps he does so for several reasons. One reason may be that Hunt—
like many of his colleagues in the CIA—did not necessarily regret the
assassination of JFK. Hunt was bitter toward Kennedy for the president's moves
against the CIA and Hunt himself probably felt then (as perhaps he does
today) that Kennedy was getting a taste of his own medicine.
What's more—and perhaps most importantly, in a personal sense for
Hunt—the ex-CIA man cannot fail to note that many of the key JFK
assassination witnesses over the years have met early—and violent—deaths.
And like all people Hunt wants to live.
Whatever Hunt does know, we will probably never find out—and Hunt
intends to keep it that way.
In the February 1, 1992 edition of his newsletter, New American View,
a monthly critique of the Israeli lobby and its power in America, Marchetti
recently commented on the renewed furor over the JFK assassination.
Marchetti's words speak for themselves: