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The resurgence of conspiracy theories is all the more remarkable because not a single fact linking Oswald with anyone else in a plot has become known in the eleven years since the Warren Commission issued its 888-page summary and 25 accompanying volumes of exhibits and testimony. Headed by Chief...
Allen Dulles, a former CIA director and member of the Warren Commission, was aware of the CIA attempts to kill Castro; but he never told the commission. Yet that possible motivation for a plot against Kennedy was something the commission was entitled to know.
"It is inevitable," he says about the accumulation of bitterness toward him in much of the press and in Congress. "When you live at this elevation of power for seven years, you gain many critics and very few permanent supporters. There have been no exceptions-Acheson, Dulles, Rusk." His relations...
There is a further mystery as well. It would scarcely have been in character for Dulles to proceed in such a delicate, potentially notorious enterprise without Eisenhower's sanction or at least the authorization of the National Security Council. But there is no record of such authority.
In the wake of the failure at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961 Dulles and Bissell both left the agency. They were succeeded by McCone as director and Richard M. Helms as deputy director for plans. Helms, who had known nothing about the schemes against Castro until he succeeded...