OK, I imagine after reading the header you’re sighing heavily and asking yourself “what is that whacko Brown getting to now”.
Yesterday I was talking to my gringo neighbor, Steve, who relies on short wave radio for news and information. I am as completely unfamiliar with short wave radio as Steve is with computers and the internet, but he reports that he listens a lot to BBC and Radio Netherlands and that the networks carry shows hosted by conspiracy theorists, I supposed one could call them.
Steve reported that he had heard on one of the programs speculation that President Kennedy was assassinated by Texas oil businesspersons concerned that Kennedy planned to end the Oil Depletion Allowance and that Kennedy was acting to deneuter the Federal System, through issuance of Executive Order 11110, and he asked me to research the claims through the internet.
During the conversation Steve asked who I believe killed President Kennedy. I responded that of course I don’t know; but my guess is that he was killed by organized crime interests and Cuban exiles who had been trained by the CIA for the Bay of Pigs Invasion, otherwise known as UCLAs, Unilaterally Controlled Latino Assets.
Rolling my eyes, I returned to my apartment and searched the internet for information related to the two matters of which he had questions. Predictably, I concluded that both speculations are absolute crap.
Serendipitously, today, as I regularly do, I checked the Granma news website and discovered an article referencing the recently released book “Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years” by David Talbot, the founder of Salon, the online magazine. With further searching I came upon this Salon report of the book.
I will leave it to you to read the Salon article if you’re interested; but Talbot reports that almost immediately upon being informed of President Kennedy’s assassination by J. Edgar Hoover, “almost with pleasure, thought Bobby”, Robert Kennedy’s suspicions focused on the mafia, Cuban UCLAs, and the CIA.
Robert Kennedy had been dogging organized crime for almost a decade; the Cuban exile oligarchs were angry with President Kennedy for his failure to provide air support to the Bay of Pigs invasion and for not invading Cuba in response to the Cuban Missile Crises; and the CIA (with George Bush Sr. playing a prominent role in the CIA’s Miami operations, second in magnitude only to CIA headquarters) had developed a close relationship with Cuban UCLAs which it had trained for the Bay of Pigs invasion.
As an aside the Cuban UCLAs later played a role in the Watergate break in, Iran-Contra, and who knows what other nefarious, criminal operations.
I think it’s all worth a read if you’re so inclined.
