Final_Judgment

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What you had was a conspiracy of power politics: a variety of special
interests working together. You also had the Lansky-dominated "Mafia"
elements who were concerned about the Kennedy administration's war on
organized crime and who were also helping finance the anti-Castro Cuban
exiles on a variety of fronts. And as many people know even "the Mafia"
financed Castro himself in the beginning, hoping to be in his good graces if
and when he came to power. So there were definitely a lot of conflicting
forces at work. I might add also that even within the anti-Castro Cuban
exile community, which has the general profile among many JFK
assassination researchers as being "right wing," the fact is that there were
actually many "left wingers" who were opposed to Castro.
There were many factions within the Cuban community. In fact, a lot of
veterans of the anti-Castro wars of the early 1960's even perceived "right
winger" E. Howard Hunt to be sympathetic to the left wing elements among
the anti-Castro Cubans. The liberal-oriented among those in the JFK
assassination research community do not understand this, but it is definitely a
factor to be considered. So you can't even really pinpoint the CIA itself as being
"right wing" or "left wing" when you really begin analyzing the situation.
There are many old CIA hands who are bitter even today about the
influence of the "liberals" in the CIA's factional squabbles involving the war
against Fidel Castro.
Let's get away from these terms such as "left wing" and "right wing"
and view the JFK assassination conspiracy as an alliance among diverse
interests (many of which intersected) but all of whom stood to benefit from
the assassination of President Kennedy.
Isn't it possible, in the end, that the Soviet KGB—or some faction
within the KGB—was actually behind the JFK assassination
conspiracy, manipulating "right wingers" in the CIA and among the
anti-Castro Cuban exiles and even in the mob and the Mossad?
Yes, it's entirely possible, but highly unlikely. In the world of
intelligence anything is possible. Things are not always as they appear to
be. But let's look at the Soviet motivation in general. What motivation
would the Soviets have in killing JFK and substituting Lyndon Johnson as
the American president? LBJ, in a sense, had a reputation of being even
more anti-communist than JFK. It's highly unlikely that they would have
preferred LBJ over his predecessor. I've never seen anyone put forth
anything even bearing a semblance of credibility that would prove this. It's
possible that there may have been somebody somewhere in the midst of the
JFK assassination conspiracy who was somehow a KGB double agent, but
obviously there was so much over-lapping of the various intelligence
agencies in this conspiracy that it's possible that there was even an Irish
secret agent mixed up in the conspiracy, wittingly or unwittingly.
As Mark Lane pointed out in Plausible Denial, the effort to blame the
assassination on the KGB was one of the many cover stories laid down by the
real conspirators. Perhaps the KGB cover story was one of several that