A mobster at Dealey Plaza

 

John F. Kennedy, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Photo: Walt Cisco, Dallas Morning News

Last night I saw Hoods, Spooks, and the Hidden Elite (2009). I already knew that crime boss/accountant Meyer Lansky had protection from the Feds, who were in his debt for helping them out with espionage in WWII. One of Lansky's top men, Chauncey Holt, became entrenched in the CIA. This film is Holt telling his story in 1997 with photos and footage.

An interesting tidbit: Holt claims the Mafia had compromising pictures of J. Edgar Hoover and Tolson. That explains why the FBI seemed "unaware" of organized crime for so long. I don't believe the FBI should even exist, but Hoover seemed pretty bad at his job; he held onto it until his death because he had compromising photos of everyone else.

Holt claims JFK had decided to repair relations with Castro (and the USSR) through back channels. The CIA told Holt of its intention to stage a failed assassination attempt on JFK and blame it on Cuba.

Holt ran the printing presses (fake badges, IDs) for the CIA, which also secretly operated the legitimate business of printing badges and IDs for law enforcement and other officials across the USA. He also oversaw gun alterations. He was to deliver 15 fake Secret Service badges to Dallas and a few guns to Charles Harrelson and Richard Montyoya (aka Charles Rogers). 

His superiors ordered Holt to go to a box car that appeared locked if things got chaotic. There, he found Harrelson and Montoya again. They were the "three tramps." Holt had a fake ATF agent badge to cover for himself and the others.

Agents used the fake Secret Service badges on the street to control the crowd ("You can't go here" type commands to onlookers).

Holt doesn't know who killed Kennedy. He's bothered that the Warren Commission's sole purpose wasn't to find out who killed Kennedy but to pin it on Oswald. The Commission began with a predetermined conclusion.

(That reminds me of the collapse of Building 7. That investigation presumed the conclusion that it burned to the ground and tried to figure out how.)

What's most believable in Holt's story is that he was unaware of the actual mission. That's how conspiracy plots unfold.  

Holt said he saw a lot of gangsters and CIA people near Dealey Plaza, including a contract assassin. Were infamous figures brought to Dallas on pretenses only to confuse them? "What's HE doing here?" One of the reasons Holt might have been there, unbeknownst to him, was to be seen by others.

My Dad was good friends with the late historian Cecil Curry. Curry was good friends with and the biographer of Air Force General and CIA agent Edward Lansdale. While visiting Curry in his office, Dad noticed a photo of the motorcade scene.

Curry pointed out Landsdale in the crowd, saying, "I have no idea what he was doing there."

Holt's story provides insight into what it was like to be one of the "boots on the ground." If true. 

We still don't know who murdered JFK.

My interest is more of fascination at this point. Similar to Jon-Benet Ramsey's murder and other famous mysteries. It'd be nice to know for sure what happened. But what if we never find out? 

If Dallas was a coup d'etat, what does that even mean for us? How was the government "legitimate" before then?

Today, men with guns, known collectively as the government, kill, jail, and extort money from us.  Before 1963, the government did the same to the people.

Calling this state a "Democracy" or a "Republic" doesn't change its nature. Those names confuse the issue by creating the pretense of moral authority to an essentially criminal enterprise.

Is anyone surprised that the government would be in bed with organized crime?

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