On November 22, 1963, JFK was shot. The government blamed the shooting on Lee Harvey Oswald, a Marine who defected to the Soviet Union, but was mysteriously allowed back into the United States, even though he could not possibly have done it himself (similar to the Mandalay Bay shooting invovling Stephen Paddock, a man who died in early 2009). Two days later Oswald was killed in police custody. The Warren Commission came up with crazy theories to explain what happened, including a “magic bullet” that defied the laws of physics, so a single shooter could be blamed. CIA was behind it, and they put out a memo, “Countering Criticism of the Warren Report,” to stop citizens from questioning the official narrative.
Ask yourself: If CIA killed the president in 1963, and his brother in 1968, would they have stopped there? What else would they have done? And what are they doing now?Less than two months before JFK’s assassination, in a secret meeting, Robert McNamara recommended the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam, and Kennedy agreed. McGeorge Bundy, a member of Skull and Bones, attended the meeting….Meanwhile, Averell Harriman, another member of Skull and Bones, had staged a coup in South Vietnam only three months earlier, and had ordered the assassination of South Vietnam’s president without Kennedy’s approval, which led to increased Viet Cong attacks and a series of eight successive governments in South Vietnam. Harriman was single-handedly destabilizing the region, although he would later participate in peace talks, while Bundy pressed for stronger American involvement. The same day that Kennedy was shot, the Politburo of North Vietnam had just entered into a two-week debate as to North Vietnam’s position regarding the liberation of South Vietnam. Sound like a coincidence? One faction, supported by the Soviet Union, and led by Ho Chi Minh, supported a cautious approach, under which North Vietnam would have minimal involvement in the war in the South. Another faction, supported by the People’s Republic of China, and led by Le Duan, supported an aggressive approach, under which North Vietnam would attack. With Kennedy out of the way, guess who won?
Immediately after the CIA/MJ12 killed Kennedy, America’s position on Vietnam changed. Johnson kept all of Kennedy’s foreign advisors on board, and “men” like Bundy and Harriman continued to run the show. Days after Kennedy’s burial, Johnson authorized CIA OPLAN 34-A, a program of commando raids against North Vietnam. And, less than one year later, OPLAN 34-A led to the Gulf of Tonkin incident, to America’s retaliation, to the introduction of the NVA’s main force in the South, and to America’s commitment to the war. While Kennedy had planned to withdraw all troops, Johnson increased America’s commitment from 16,000 to 23,000 the year after the assassination. It looks as though Kennedy was murdered as well as Diem so they could draw the United States and the North Vietnamese into an escalating war. But why?
Of course, there were the profits to be reaped by their corporate masters, at the cost of over 1,353,000 lives. Dow made napalm. Monsanto made agent orange. Bell, Boeing, and Sikorsky made choppers. Lockheed, McDonnell, and Douglas made planes. And RMK-BRJ, the Vietnam Builders, entered into no-bid contracts. The Department of Defense spent $168 billion dollars—that’s one trillion in today’s money—on the war we lost.
There were also profits to be made in the Golden Triangle, next door to Vietnam. In the Secret War in Laos, CIA worked with Gen. Vang Pao to make the country the world’s largest exporter of heroin. Using Air America, they flew drugs across Burma, Thailand, and Laos—while they also ran guns and traded slaves. Southeast Asia became the main supplier of raw materials for heroin in the United States—while, wrapped in the flag, the government poisoned Americans at home.
