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OM
W
AS
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ON
1
NE
WS
PA
Pc rs
CIA
Covering U
p Spy Scandal —
Pages 4-5
Wh
o Sh
ot Ken
ned
y? Wh
o Ben
efits? —
Pag
e 3
41.S. K
ills Order to
. . an
d L
o,
I Am
With
Yo
u A
lways'
U.S
. Kills O
rder to Stu
mp for `E
RA
Looph
ole Lets S
tuden
ts Du
ck Loan
s —
Page 14
`Peace' P
act Oversold
, Overp
riced
—P
ages B-1 to B
-4•
Foreign
Farm
Produ
cts Poison
You
—
Page 17
Establishm
ent Media F
ools Public —
Page 15
Am
erica is ex
perien
cing a
spiritu
al rev
ival, a
nd
B
etsy L
uca
s of P
hillip
sbu
rg, P
a., is in
the v
an
gu
ard
of th
e C
hristia
n r
en
aissa
nce. W
hile
Ch
ristia
n
Am
erica p
repares to
celebra
te the resu
rrection
of
Jesu
s Ch
rist, thou
san
ds o
f dev
ou
t Ch
ristian
s are
org
an
izing
a n
atio
na
l rally
in W
ash
ing
ton
, D.C
., on
M
ay 1
. For th
e d
eta
ils ab
ou
t how
you
can
p
articip
ate, see p
age 9
. S
PO
TL
IGH
T P
HO
TO
Can
ada May S
plit Apart
—P
atio
. 20
SP
OT
LIG
HT
Ap
ril IS, 19793
Who W
ould Have Benefited the M
ost?
Another V
iew of K
ennedy Assasinadon
IISC
LO
OV
IL T
1 S
PO
TL
IGH
T
By M
artin
Price
Harold W
eisberg, considered by many to be the
dea
n o
f the a
ssassin
atio
n b
uffs a
nd
wh
o
ind
epen
den
tly examin
ed th
e slaying of P
res-id
ent Joh
n F
. Ken
ned
y for more th
an 15 years,
has con
clud
ed th
at the in
ternation
al ban
kers
and
ind
ustrialists w
ho reap
ed b
illions in
profits
from U
.S. in
volvemen
t in V
ietnam
and
other so-
called
"lim
ited w
ars"
were th
e men
most
pro
ba
bly
beh
ind
the su
ccessful p
lot to
kill
Ken
ned
y. In
an exclu
sive interview
with
Th
e SP
OT
-L
IGH
T W
eisberg
, wh
o o
ver th
e yea
rs ha
s p
ub
lished
five "u
nd
ergroun
d"
book
s dealin
g w
ith K
enn
edy's sla
yin
g la
rgely
at h
is ow
n
expen
se, noted
that in
determ
inin
g wh
o migh
t h
ave killed
the p
residen
t it is imp
ortant to ask
tw
o questions: "Who w
ould have benefited? And
of those w
ho w
ould
have b
enefited
, wh
o was in
a p
osition to set u
p L
ee Harvey O
swald
?"
Dism
issing an
y major, organ
ized in
volvemen
t by either right-w
ing or left-wing political groups,
Weisb
erg's exhau
stive stud
ies have led
him
to con
clud
e that th
ose with
both
mean
s and
motive
were th
e very
men
wh
o fea
red a
nd
dislik
ed
' Ken
ned
y's foreign p
olicy initiatives w
ith regard
to eith
er Sou
th V
ietnam
or the S
oviet Un
ion, or
both
. H
e notes: "
Th
ere was a very p
owerfu
l, very w
ell-conn
ected grou
p w
ho w
ere opp
osed to th
e liq
uid
ation of th
e Vietn
am ad
ventu
re, and
wh
o feared that K
ennedy was m
oving to disengage us from
wh
at they saw
as a poten
tially lucrative
war. T
his grou
p in
clud
ed m
any p
ersons, b
ut
most n
otably th
ose wh
o mad
e fabu
lous p
rofits out of our involvem
ent and the tons of materials,
,1 equ
ipm
ent an
d oth
er goods w
asted th
ere. Th
e secon
d grou
p—
and
these largely in
tertwin
ed
with
tha firs
t—w
ars
'inep
t-Lain
of n
r Nra
ha
ryla
rtfh,
time after W
orld W
ar II and
eventu
ally turn
ed
Sen
ate investigator.
At th
e time of th
e Ken
ned
y killin
g, he w
as in
the p
rocess of liqu
idatin
g a profitab
le chick
en
farm in suburban M
aryland Which had over the
yea
rs beco
me th
e dep
osito
ry fo
r literally
h
un
dred
s thou
sand
s of pages of govern
men
t d
ocu
men
ts wh
ich h
e ha
s sha
ken
ou
t of th
e Ju
stice Dep
artmen
t, the F
BI an
d th
e Cen
tral Intelligence A
gency through numerous F
reedcm
of Inform
ation A
ct suits.
Weisb
erg says that h
e becam
e interested
in
undertaking the probe—w
hich subsequently has con
sum
ed virtu
ally his every w
akin
g hou
r—"
becau
se of the m
agnitu
de of th
e crime an
d
becau
se it wa
s incon
ceivable to m
e that su
ch a
saw the F
BI report I had heard it from
reporters in
Dallas. T
hey k
new
that th
e prison
ers were
jamm
ed at the window
s, looking out. Yet none of
these people was ever seriously questioned. T
his is ju
st one exam
ple of w
hat an
d h
ow im
portan
t evidence w
as excluded." W
ith regard to the Central Intelligence A
gency W
eisberg b
ecomes even
more veh
emen
t. He
won't say the agency as a w
hole was involved in
the killing. But he does not rule out the possibility
that a clique within the agency played som
e role in
plottin
g the p
residen
t's death
. Moreover, h
e blam
es the agency's most recent leaders for their
various parts in suppressing evidence from both
the Warren C
omm
ission and from the public.
Weisb
erg, wh
o (as a former O
SS
officer) was
more or less p
resent at th
e creation of th
e CIA
, n
otes that th
e agency "
contain
s an in
ner circle
wh
ich op
erates in its ow
n m
ann
er—u
ltimately
no
t respo
nsib
le to a
ny
on
e." H
e bla
mes th
e a
gen
cy's n
um
erou
s failu
res on
its lon
g
dependence on Ivy League leadership w
hich has, over the decades, continued to "inbreed" instead of bringing in fresh "blood." C
IA D
IRE
CT
OR
SA
YS
PO
LIC
Y IS
TO
LIE
T
hro
ug
h a
lon
g a
nd
costly
Freed
om
of
Information A
ct suit, Weisberg obtained w
hat is p
erhap
s the earliest p
roof of how
the C
IA an
d
FB
I operate. He successfully pried loose, from
the N
ational A
rchives, top
-secret testimon
y by
former C
IA d
irector and
Warren
Com
mission
m
ember A
llen Dulles w
hich was long kept secret
on grounds of "national security." T
he h
earing testim
ony, w
hich
occurred
on
January 27, 1964, centered on the FB
I's denial of a n
ews story allegin
g O
swald
had
been
an
inform
ant for the bureau. In
a discu
ssion am
ong W
arren reeeieein
e
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00
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0 0
. s ■C
laAC
ILLI w
1.41e ail V
Ci U
LL_L
U11. 1
11.
both
. H
e notes: "
Th
ere was a very p
owerfu
l, very w
ell-conn
ected grou
p w
ho w
ere opp
osed to th
e liq
uid
ation of th
e Vietn
am ad
ventu
re, and
wh
o feared that K
ennedy was m
oving to disengage us from
wh
at they saw
as a poten
tially lucrative
war. T
his grou
p in
clud
ed m
any p
ersons, b
ut
most n
otably th
ose wh
o mad
e fabu
lous p
rofits out of our involvem
ent and the tons of materials,
equ
ipm
ent an
d oth
er goods w
asted th
ere. Th
e secon
d grou
p—
and
these largely in
tertwin
ed
with
the first—
were u
ncertain
of, or vehem
ently
opposed to, the policy of detente being pursued by K
enn
edy.
. "
Th
e key to u
nd
erstand
ing th
is is Ken
ned
y's sp
eech at A
merican
Un
iversity and
his call for a
limited
nu
clear test agreemen
t with
the S
oviets. P
eople have forgotten this now for the m
ost part, b
ut it w
as im
porta
nt a
s a sig
nal th
at h
e was
finally grasp
ing th
e foreign p
olicy reins. T
he
Cu
ban
missile crisis m
arked
a turn
ing p
oint for
Ken
ned
y. Un
til then
he w
as a largely ineffectu
al p
residen
t, an
d th
ere were m
an
y p
eop
le wh
o
wan
ted h
im to rem
ain so."
M
OT
IVE
AN
D M
EA
NS
Wh
ile Weisb
erg does n
ot nam
e any n
ames in
h
is theorizin
g on w
ho sp
ecifically migh
t have
seen th
e Ken
ned
y slaying, h
is ideas b
uttress T
he
SP
OT
LIG
HT
'S lon
g-held
conten
tion th
at the
forces o
f intern
atio
nal b
usin
ess an
d b
ig
ban
kin
g—as p
ersonified
by th
e Rock
efellers and
th
eir Cou
ncil on
Foreign
Relation
s, Trilateral
Com
missio
n, etc.—
were clea
rly in
a u
niq
ue
position
not on
ly to arrange an
d to carry ou
t the
assassination
bu
t to orchestrate th
e massive
coverup
that follow
ed it.
Weisb
erg is particu
larly vehem
ent ab
out th
e coveru
p. H
e asserts: "T
here w
as never a real
officia
l inv
estiga
tion
of th
e Ken
ned
y a
s-sassin
ation. 'B
egin w
ith th
at un
derstan
din
g and
th
en k
now
that it (i.e., th
e coverup
) crossed all
political lin
es. Lyn
don
John
son,"
he ad
ds, "
was
qu
ite shrew
d in
placin
g the m
ajor respon
sibility
for the probe on the 'conservatives.' When, after
all, did
you ever h
ear of a major p
residen
tial com
mission
comp
osed p
rimarily of m
emb
ers from
the op
posite p
olitical party?"
T
HE
CH
ICK
EN
HO
US
E P
AP
ER
S
Weisb
erg, 6
3, is a
on
e-time in
vestig
ativ
e rep
orter, served w
ith th
e OS
S d
urin
g and
for a
JO
HN
F. K
ENN
EDY
thin
g co
uld
hap
pen
in th
e Un
ited S
tates o
f A
merica an
d th
at both
the p
ress and
the p
ub
lic cou
ld b
e totally closed off from
the tru
th."
W
eisberg, who has com
e to believe firmly that
Lee H
arvey Osw
ald was "sim
ply a patsy" for the rea
l killers, h
as co
mp
iled rea
ms o
f lon
g-
sup
pressed
governm
ent d
ocum
ents evid
encin
g the deliberate "ineptitude" of the C
IA, F
BI and
other official b
odies in
volved in
the K
enn
edy
probe. F
BI S
AY
S E
YE
WIT
NE
SS
RE
PO
RT
"NO
T P
ER
TIN
EN
T"
On
e FB
I report h
e examin
ed recen
tly, for exam
ple, sh
owed
that th
e coun
ty jailhou
ee in
Dallas w
as located on
the seven
th floor of a
bu
ildin
g on th
e north
east end
of Dealey P
laza, and that the prisoners—
who crow
ded around the w
ind
ows as K
enn
edy's m
otorcade w
as passin
g b
y—h
ad a u
niq
ue van
tage-poin
t to witn
ess the
killin
g. Th
e report also revealed
at least one
prison
er took th
e initiative of goin
g to the F
BI
and of stating he saw a m
an with a rifle at a fifth-
floor window
of the Texas B
ook Depository—
not at th
e sixth floor (w
hich
Osw
ald alleged
ly shot
from). In review
ing this report, an FB
I agent had m
ade th
e notation
: "N
ot pertin
ent."
H
is anger risin
g even tod
ay, Weisb
erg notes:
"This w
as known at the beginning. B
efore I ever
Information A
ct suit, Weisberg obtained w
hat is p
erhap
s the earliest p
roof of how
the C
IA an
d
FB
I operate. He successfully pried loose, from
the N
atio
nal A
rchiv
es, top
-secret testimon
y b
y
former C
IA d
irector and
Warren
Com
mission
m
ember A
llen Dulles w
hich was long kept secret
on grou
nd
s of "n
ational secu
rity."
Th
e hearin
g testimon
y, wh
ich occu
rred on
January 27, 1964, centered on the F
BI's denial of
a n
ews sto
ry a
llegin
g O
swald
had
been
an
inform
ant for the bureau. In
a discu
ssion am
ong W
arren C
omm
ission
mem
bers con
cernin
g the valid
ity of Hoover's
den
ial and
mean
s by w
hich
the story cou
ld b
e even further discredited, D
ulles—discussing the
agen
cy h
e had
so recen
tly h
ead
ed u
nd
er P
residen
t Eisen
how
er—ad
mitted
that it is C
IA
po
licy to
lie, even
un
der o
ath
, ab
ou
t their
ind
epen
den
t agents an
d in
forman
ts, wh
om
Du
lles at o
ne p
oin
t termed
"terrib
ly b
ad
characters." "R
AS
PU
TIN
" AN
GE
LT
ON
HE
LP
S
Weisb
erg placed
the b
lame for th
e CIA
's coverup of inform
ation pertinent to the Kennedy
assassination
at the feet of form
er Cou
nter-
intelligen
ce Ch
ief James J. A
ngleton
, of former
Director of O
peration
s ("d
irty tricks"
) the late
T.H
. Karam
essines, an
d of form
er Director
Rich
ard H
elms. A
mon
g the m
any th
ings w
hich
these m
en particularly did not want m
ade public, h
e add
s, were th
e comm
ents D
ulles m
ade ab
out
the a
gen
cy. W
eisberg
no
tes, "W
ha
t Du
lles essentially said, after all, w
as that the CIA
would
lie abou
t anyth
ing, at an
y time an
d to an
yone."
A
ngleto
n, w
hom
Weisb
erg d
escribes a
s a
"w
ould
-be R
aspu
tin,"
and
the real lead
er in
manipulating the C
IA coverup, w
as revealed by T
he S
PO
TL
IGH
T (N
ov. 28, 1977) as the U
.S.
intelligence official who w
orked closely with the
Israeli intelligen
ce arm, th
e Mossad
, and
as the
man
wh
o a
lleged
ly co
nsp
ired w
ith Isra
eli D
efense Minister M
oshe Dayan in the nefarious
1967 Israeli attack on
the "
U.S
.S. L
iberty"
in
which hundreds of A
merican seam
en were killed
and injured. W
ith regard
to the H
ouse. A
ssassination
s C
om
mittee, w
ho
se pla
ns fo
r still an
oth
er w
hitewash w
ere disrupted by the discovery of a d
ictabelt record
ing th
at show
ed u
nd
er analysis
that four shots killed Kennedy rather than three
(Continued on page 14)
,27
-?;
King H
oliday Fought
(Continued from
page 12)
the S
ou
thern
Ch
ristian
Lea
dersh
ip
Con
ference N
ew Y
ork C
ity office or any
other A
dd
ress to wh
ich it m
aybe m
oved.
An
d it is reason
able to assu
me th
at
surely his brother, Senator Kennedy, the
chairm
an of th
is comm
ittee and
one of
the cosp
onsors of th
is bill, k
now
s that
Kin
g was con
tinu
ally surrou
nd
ed b
y
comm
un
ists and
procom
mu
nists.
Kin
g had
an an
imosity tow
ard th
e
Kennedys w
hich didn't end with R
obert,
for it ran all the way to the W
hite House.
On
e FB
I mem
o co
nta
ined
"K
ing's
vilification of the late President (John F
.
Ken
ned
y) and
his w
ife."
Is this th
e man
ner of citizen
we w
ant
to hon
or with
a nation
al holid
ay? His activities to su
bvert th
e well-b
eing of
Am
erica alone cry ou
t "NO
!"
AB
on
e top
-secret mem
o o
n K
ing
poin
ted ou
t: "A
t presen
t there are 57
investig
ativ
e-typ
e techn
ical su
rveil.
lan
ces in o
pera
tion
an
d th
ree are
awaitin
g installation
." T
he size alon
e
reflects the degree of concern. And every
senator sh
ould
have th
at same con
cern
abou
t mak
ing a n
ational h
ero out of
such
an alleged
sub
versive.
Hoover pointed out that:
Mr. K
ing h
as pu
blicly stated
that h
e
will create m
assive civil disob
edien
ce,
In the n
ation's cap
ital and
in 10 to 15
major cities th
rough
out th
e U.S
. in th
e
sprin
g of 1968 if certain com
mitm
ents
are not forth
comin
g from C
ongress in
the civil righ
ts field. A
n aid
e of Kin
g has
stated
"Jail w
ill be th
e safest p
lace in
Wash
ington
. D.C
. this sp
ring."
Kin
g did
n't p
ractice civil disob
ed-
ience, th
ough
he called
it that; h
is forte
was an
archy.
As th
e FB
I director w
arned
:
Com
mu
nists con
tinu
e to influ
ence th
e
organ
izatio
n so
d th
e in
fluen
ce is
increa
sing. R
ecently
a m
emb
er of th
e
Nation
al Com
mittee of th
e Com
mu
nist
Party. U
.S.A
., was h
ired as aid
e to the
presid
ent of th
e SC
LC
.
If the people knew the truth, if the F
BI
tapes w
ere released, I am
confid
ent th
e
Sen
ate wou
ld overw
helm
ingly reject
this bill. It would be political suicide not
to. B
ut b
ecau
se the tru
th is n
ot o
ut,
because people have been fed a false and
mislead
ing im
pression
(Web
ster's de-
finition
of a lie), the w
hole situ
ation is
reversed an
d, for th
e mom
ent it w
ould
appear to be political suicide not to make
Kin
g the h
ero he sh
ould
n't b
e.
An
d th
en th
ere's the cost to th
e poor,
overb
urd
ened
, neg
lected A
merica
n
taxp
ayer. A
ccord
ing to
a L
ibra
ry o
f
Con
gress (Civil S
ervice Div.) stu
dy of
1978, th
e cost to
the ta
xp
ayers fo
r a
nation
al holid
ay is:
$178.502,583salariee for an federal government em
ployee.
15,500,000 prem
ium
for essential govern
men
t corkers
3182.002,SW-total
(holid
ay overtime:
Is it wise to p
ut th
is add
itional b
urd
en
on th
e overtaxed A
merican
taxpayer?
Co
pies o
f the h
ard-h
itting
, factual
testim
on
y b
y S
tan
, wh
ich
inclu
de
secre
t do
cu
men
ts o
f the F
BI, a
re
availa
ble
to m
em
bers
of L
iberty
Lo
bb
y's Bo
ard o
f Po
licy. Sen
d a self-
add
ressed stam
ped
(15 cents) N
o. 10
envelo
pe (4-by-91/4 in
ches) w
ith you
r
request.
Another V
iew
(Con
tinu
ed from
page 3)
and thus that Osw
ald could not have acted alone,
Weisberg has little good to say. H
e attributes the
suicide of Russian em
igre and Osw
ald associate
George deM
ohrenschildt to pressures brought by
com
mittee in
vestig
ators seek
ing h
is testimony.
PO
TE
NT
IAL
WIT
NE
SS
TO
SU
ICID
E
DeM
ohren
schild
t, who (so
me lo
ng b
elieved
)
had
know
ledge o
f Osw
ald's alleg
ed ro
le in th
e
Kennedy a
ssassin
atio
n, to
ok h
is life im
-
med
iately p
rior to
the tim
e he w
as sched
uled
to
speak
with
com
mittee in
vestig
ators, g
ivin
g rise to
specu
lation th
at he m
ight in
fact hav
e been
murd
ered. W
eisberg
rejects this sp
eculatio
n,
sayin
g:
"The H
ouse Com
mittee w
as pressuring him for
testimony. H
e was sick
. His m
arriage h
ad g
one
bad
. He'd
beco
me a co
llege p
rofesso
r and w
as
facing a fo
rced retirem
ent. B
y th
e time all th
e
investig
ators g
ot to
him
, he w
as dep
ressed an
d
suicid
al, and h
e had
just recen
tly b
een released
from
the p
sych
iatric ward
at Park
land H
oS
pital
in Dallas (w
here Kennedy had been pronounced
dead). "I know
that at least one reporter in Dallas had
warn
ed th
e H
ouse
pro
bers to
lay o
ff de-
Mohre
nsc
hild
t or to
at le
ast a
ppro
ach h
im
gently. They just didri't g
ive a dam
n ab
out h
im,
though."
Asid
e fro
m its q
uestio
nable
role
in th
e
deM
ohren
achild
t suicid
e, the H
ouse co
mm
ittee --
gets generally low m
arks from W
eisberg for its
conduct of the controversial and costly probe into
Ken
ned
y's d
eath. E
ven
the co
mm
ittee's last*
min
ute v
indicatio
n o
f Weisb
erg's lo
ng-h
eld
multip
le-assassin th
eory
, about w
hich
he first
wrote in his 1965 book, "W
hitewash I," does not
raise
this re
specte
d a
ssassin
atio
n p
rober's
opinion of their work, for to him
this is simply the
logical, in
evitab
le acknow
ledgem
ent o
f som
e- t
thin
g h
e k
new
all a
long. H
e re
gard
s the
com
mittee's w
ork
on th
e whole as sim
ply
a ;
"rehash
" of all th
e nut th
eories o
f the p
ast, and I
he b
elieves th
at their h
andlin
g o
f the case h
as
merely
contrib
uted
to th
e public's "d
isench
ant-
men
t and d
istrust" o
f the g
overn
men
t. V