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Russell has also pointed out that the anti-Castro Cuban exiles now
believe that there was much more going on behind the scenes than even they
realized at the time.
According to Russell, "[Legendary longtime CIA contract agent] Gerry
Patrick Hemming, who still keeps his ear to the ground in Miami's Little
Havana, maintains that some of the exiles who thought they knew the score
in 1963 have today become convinced that they were being used.
"They were incited to an anti-Kennedy fervor by being let in on the
secret knowledge that Kennedy was seriously exploring accommodation with
Castro. They were told that their dream of retaking their homeland was
dead—unless something drastic was done. They took the bait.
"Should it have become necessary in the design of the behind-the-scenes
planners, the exiles were also expendable. Implicating a few Cuban refugees
in the assassination was not desirable, but it would not come at a high cost,
especially if . . . they had worked diligently to build a cover as Castro
agents.
"Small cogs in the wheel, they could also be made to disappear. So
Cuban exiles were merely the base of the pyramid. They had no power to
initiate the cover-up that followed. And neither did organized crime." 626
WHO HAD THE POWER?
Hemming himself has spoken of at least one faction of anti-Castro
Cuban exiles who seemed to be out of the conventional loop. According to
Hemming: "It's hard to say exactly who this select group of Cuban exiles
was really working for. For a while they were reporting to Bill Harvey's ex-FBI
CIA guys. Some were reporting back to [J. Edgar] Hoover, or the new [Defense
Intelligence Agency].
'There was a third force—pretty much outside CIA channels, outside our
own private operation down in the [Florida] Keys—that was doing all kinds
of shit, and had been all through 1963. [emphasis added]
"Then after the assassination, a lot of us presumed that somewhere down
the line, the KGB was orchestrating with Fidel to do the Dallas job. Not
until later did we figure out that most of the exiles being approached were
being set up as patsies themselves.
"And not by Castro or the Russians. It was domestic. Somebody like J.
Edgar Hoover. Who else had the power?" 627
Dare we suggest an answer to Hemming's question—"Who else had the
power?" Obviously, the answer is this: Israel, its Mossad and Israel's
powerful domestic American lobby and its contacts at all levels.
In fact, there have been several widely-read works relating to the JFK
assassination which have indeed suggested that Oswald, at least, was roped
into some sort of "dummy assassination" type of operation which he was
led to believe was of the nature described by Gary Wean's source in Dallas.
Executive Action, the book loosely based on the film of the same
name, presents Oswald as being manipulated in this fashion. Likewise with
former CIA contract agent Robert Morrow's work, Betrayal, which Morrow