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CIA

Covering U

p Spy Scandal —

Pages 4-5

Wh

o Sh

ot Ken

ned

y? Wh

o Ben

efits? —

Pag

e 3

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ills Order to

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d L

o,

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u A

lways'

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rder to Stu

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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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laAC

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LL_L

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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