Checkmate

     John F. Kennedy had it in mind to assassinate Fidel Castro.  Operation Mongoose, a linking of the CIA with the American Mafia, overseen by John and Robert Kennedy, was a program designed to seek and execute ways of killing Castro as well as to subvert the Cuban government's ability to provide for its citizens.  They had their good qualities but their Cuba policy was one of the ways the Kennedy Brothers were shits.
     John Kennedy inherited from Eisenhower what came to be known as the Bay of Pigs operation (or fiasco).  In April 1961, CIA-trained Cuban paramilitary units attacked Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, but were decimated or captured by the Cuban air force and army, who were, understandably, defending their country against invasion.  Kennedy withheld air cover for the invasion, not wanting to overtly involve the United States military.  His actions spared the United States being regarded in the international community as a perpetrator of naked aggression against a sovereign nation, but earned him the enmity of CIA officials (including that agency's Director, Allen Dulles, who was fired by President Kennedy after the botched invasion).  Cubans in exile from Castro's new order also turned against Kennedy.  Many of these exiles had been among the lost island's upper class.  They had the attitude one would expect from rich people who've lost their property, estates, casinos, their economy based on oppression of the working class.  They'd had it good under U.S.-backed dictators like Fulgencio Batista.  The U.S. Mafia owned and operated casinos in Havana until Castro closed them.
     The main motive for U.S. elites (including Mafia chiefs) in the elimination of Fidel Castro was monetary and exploitation of natural resources, but over the next fifty-plus years this was translated by the U.S. news media as Democracy versus Communism.
     In the 1980s, columnist Jack Anderson had a plausible enough theory about the John F. Kennedy assassination.  He took as his starting point Operation Mongoose, specifically Attorney General Robert Kennedy's involvement in it.  Robert Kennedy was an exceptionally complicated man, someone who evolved over time, ending up as a peace candidate for President (what got him killed).  Deeply focused on prosecuting organized crime personalities during the Kennedy Administration, he nevertheless participated in anti-Castro activities also engaged in by the same organized crime personalities he was opposed to.  He probably played a "long game," justifying his actions according to the ends desired.
     Jack Anderson's theory has some anti-Castro Cuban exiles, connected to Operation Mongoose, planning an assassination attempt involving snipers against Castro, but later turning the same plot against John F. Kennedy after the President's "betrayal" in the Bay of Pigs disaster.
     The CIA handlers overseeing the Bay of Pigs invasion were deeply dismayed by Kennedy's lack of action in committing U.S. Navy warplanes.  One of them, David Atlee Phillips, described the scene as CIA men monitored the invasion by radio.  He said that once it was clear the invasion had failed, that Kennedy had betrayed them all, a CIA man puked into a garbage can.  Phillips was involved in the overthrow of the Arbenz government in Guatemala.  He also may have had ties to Lee Harvey Oswald under the alias "Maurice Bishop."  Curiously, E. Howard Hunt, best known as one of the Watergate burglars but also implicated, by his own deathbed confession, in the JFK assassination, was known as "Knight."  It begs the question: were other CIA agents known by the names of chess pieces?  It seems to me that Lee Harvey Oswald should've been called "Pawn."
     Cuba, it seems to me, is the foundation of the John F. Kennedy assassination.  When Anderson presented his "backfire" reverse-engineered JFK kill theory during a TV special airing in 1988, twenty-five years after the assassination, his program was just one of several then dealing with the event.  At that time, there was more of a willingness in the news media to at least entertain some ideas about this important turning point in U.S. and world history.  Pushback came from the usual voices who had been saying all along that JFK was murdered by one man with no connections to anyone.  Yet, the strangeness of Oswald's activities couldn't be explained away.  He'd been a U.S. Marine based at Atsugi Air Base in Japan, operating radar.  From that base flew the top secret spy plane, U-2, in missions over the Soviet Union.  When Oswald defected to the Soviet Union, it wasn't long before the Soviets shot down a U-2.  They suddenly knew the high altitude at which the plane flew.  The plane's pilot, Francis Gary Powers, was captured and later revealed his suspicion that Oswald had traded his knowledge of the U-2s altitude capabilities for his stay in the Soviet Union.
     Oswald was allowed back into the U.S., without being questioned by the CIA (or so the CIA claimed), although in recent years they admitted the obvious fact that they questioned him extensively.  The CIA is, of course, an outfit based on lies.  True in 1963 and in 2018.
     Oswald spent a lot of time in the Dallas area with a White Russian right winger, George De Mohrenshildt, who also knew George H.W. Bush.  Bush was Director of the CIA in the mid-1970s.  He's one of only two people I'm aware of who, when asked where he was the day John Kennedy was killed, couldn't remember where.  For younger readers, imagine not remembering how you found out about the 9/11 attacks or where you were when you found out about them.  It means, quite obviously, that Bush and Richard Nixon (the other person I know of who didn't recall his whereabouts on the day JFK died) lied when they said they didn't know the answer to that easily answered question.                 Bush, as it turns out, was in Dallas that day, and so was Richard Nixon.
     This doesn't necessarily mean anything, although it's weird that the only two people I've ever heard of who were unable to answer the question "Where were you when JFK died," both later became U.S. Presidents.  What are the chances of that?  Pretty good, perhaps, if the two men in question are intimately connected to the national security state at the highest level and are both mass murderers involved often in the subversion of other nation's governments including our own.
     It says something meaningful about the real nature of the John F. Kennedy assassination.  Powerful men are, at least tangentially, involved.  George H.W. Bush, as well as being close to George De Mohrenshildt, is also friends with John Hinckley's father.  This means that Bush is two degrees of separation from Lee Harvey Oswald, and two degrees from John Hinckley, two infamous American assassins.  Can you say that about yourself?
     Who stood to gain from Ronald Reagan's death in 1981?  Is it wrong of me to ask such a question when the man who stood to gain the most from that death has just lost his wife, Barbara?
     Jack Anderson's theory, as I mentioned above, is plausible enough; it's one of many plausible theories, but the truth of the matter was probably a mixture of elements that didn't necessarily involve a large number of people, but could've been coordinated by intelligence professionals (like David Atlee Phillips) skilled at subversion, the spreading of misinformation, the use of unwitting human tools (Oswald himself possibly).
     CIA professionals had, by the early 1960s, been fucking with people for quite a while; they're even better at it now.  One theory, explicated in a thick book, has it that Allen Dulles himself engineered the JFK assassination.  Maybe so.  He was intimately involved in smuggling Nazis out of Europe at the end of World War Two.  What kind of son of a bitch can do something like that?  The kind of evil piece of shit that engineers the killing of a U.S. President and then gets himself onto the official board of inquiry investigating the murder?  Dulles served on the Warren Commission, what is still the official version of events in Dallas in 1963.  In spite of grievous logical flaws, the findings of the Commission place all the blame on the confused alleged Communist, Oswald, leaving the CIA, Mafia, Operation Mongoose, out of it almost entirely.  It's as if there's nothing weird about a Marine defecting to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, and being allowed to return to the U.S. with no trouble at all, married to a young Russian woman, too, and then hanging out with right wing Russian exiles of an aristocratic bent rather than Communists.  
     The U.S. news media have cooperated willingly in the cover-up of the truth about the JFK murder.   It's an unsolved case.  A homeless person's death by stabbing under a railway bridge might get more closure in an investigation than JFK received.  Both such murders should always be investigated and, if possible, solved.  I don't think Sherlock Holmes would disagree with that.
     Donald Trump has given indications that he believes JFK was killed as the result of a conspiracy.  This kind of speculation on his part gets pooh-poohed by news media people, but Trump is actually part of the majority of Americans who don't accept the official version.  Trump, himself on the receiving end of U.S. intelligence activities attempting, successfully, to steer his policies towards aggressive war and subversion toward Russia, must know by now that he, too, could be bumped off by the same kinds of human reptiles who killed both Kennedys, so our current President more and more pulls the rope that rings the bell the intelligence community wants to hear.  Hence, his recent reversal on Syria.

                                                                              Vic Neptune