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INRM
12th October 2011, 05:41 PM
CIA/JFK Assassination Theories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theory)

Allen Dulles and Frank Wisner in the CIA

Looking back at the way the CIA was created can give a glimpse on the reason Allen Dulles as head of the CIA and Frank Wisner as head of covert operations may have had to mastermind the assassination of J.F.K. The CIA. Before it was called the CIA, it was a group created by private citizens and corporate businessmen and Wall Street lawyers directed by Allen Dulles, who set up a schema to operate an intelligence service outside the government. In addition to gather intelligence for the country, one of its objectives was to gather information for own and friend corporations represented by this lawyers and to perform clandestine operation to defend such domain.

This agency may have been created many years before Allen Dulles headed it. It is unknown the real origin of it, but most likely was created by few influential families owning important corporations and occupying influential position in the government and possibly made with members of ex-members of post-World-War-One OSS intelligence group. Several members of Allen’s family had played important roles in previous governments. His paternal grandfather, John Watson Foster, for instance was a lawyer, American military man, journalist and diplomat that served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison in 1892 and 1893; and Robert Lansing a person related by marriage to his family, who was Secretary of State from 1915 to 1920 under President Woodrow Wilson.
<SNIP>; breach of rule 4.
The Mitrokhin materials, one of the most notorious leak of KGB archives because of its volume and importance for the west, shows that the KGB intelligence had reasons to believe that the CIA was behind Kennedy’s murder.

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JoeTheJuggler
12th October 2011, 05:45 PM
Rather than posting a huge quotation from Wikipedia about a Conspiracy Theory in the U.S. Politics subforum, it'd be better if you summarize what you're interested in, and post it in the appropriate subforum.

INRM
12th October 2011, 08:03 PM
It's not so much Kennedy's death; it's the formation of the OSS and CIA. Is this part true?


INRM
Remember, no matter how I die; it was murder :p

Gazpacho
12th October 2011, 09:22 PM
The CIA conducted covert operations before 1952, such as the intervention Italy's 1948 elections. From its creation in 1948, the CIA was authorized to gather intelligence and "such other functions and duties as the President shall direct," i.e. active operations. Up until 1953 and Operation Ajax, the CIA was often in a junior role to MI6.

Dulles & co. were well-connected to business interests and, in some instances, managed intelligence data so as to create the apparent need for a covert operation, when it supported the interests of particular western companies.

You can think of the CIA up until 1976 as a nexus between private business and US foreign policy, through which each one had access to the resources of the other.

timhau
12th October 2011, 10:20 PM
CIA/JFK Assassination Theories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theory)

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If it was meant as a link to Wikipedia followed by an overlong quote then yes, it is correct.

Robert Prey
13th October 2011, 04:23 AM
CIA/JFK Assassination Theories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theory)



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What's your point?

Shrike
13th October 2011, 04:59 AM
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I don't take orders.

Spindrift
13th October 2011, 06:22 AM
CIA/JFK Assassination Theories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theory)



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Happy to discuss this post.

You posted a very large quote and were yellow carded. This happens a lot with noobs, but you've been around a while, so one would expect you know you're not supposed to do that.

I think your wikipedia URL was very well formed and the link works properly.

Your title "Is This Correct?" has been answered. Obviously the post wasn't correct or you wouldn't have gotten carded. Please be careful next time.

JoeTheJuggler
13th October 2011, 07:32 AM
It's not so much Kennedy's death; it's the formation of the OSS and CIA. Is this part true?


Then no, your post was not correct. You linked to and quoted a section about the CT about an alleged CIA plot to assassinate JFK and not to a section about the history of the OSS and CIA.

Try this link for the history: https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/history-of-the-cia/index.html