There are good reasons to think that the KGB arranged the murders of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy, as well as of other Americans. Note: “good reasons”, not definitive proof. In each case, I will argue that We must consider the KGB the leading suspect. That is a useful perception, and it can guide further investigation that could result in the more definitive finding that It was all the KGB.
First, I will explain how the KGB has emerged as the prime suspect in the JFK assassination. Not only was this the most important and best-known case. New evidence and interpretation point to the KGB and have implications for the other murders. Second, I will treat each of ten KGB murders in summary fashion. Third, I will touch on factors that have hampered resolution of these cases for many decades. Fourth, comparing the cases, I will identify characteristics of the KGB’s art of deniable murder. Fifth, I will draw some conclusions.
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1. The KGB and JFK
Tags: Arthur Paisley, assassinations, CIA, conspiracy theories, Cord Meyer, Dorothy Kilgallen, FBI, Florence Pritchett Smith, George de Mohrenschildt, Ion Mihai Pacepa, Jack Ruby, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy assassination, KGB, Lee Harvey Oswald, Marilyn Monroe, Martin Luther King, Mary Meyer, MKULTRA, Nikita Khrushchev, Robert F. Kennedy, Sirhan Sirhan, William Colby, William J. Bryan MD
Sometimes a storyteller misses the real meaning of the story.
By all accounts, the Cuban Missile Crisis was the most dangerous episode of the Cold War. The United States and the Soviet Union came frighteningly close to launching nuclear attacks at each other. Only fear, luck, and occasionally inspired negotiating moved them onto the path of resolving the crisis−via a humiliating Soviet withdrawal in the face of U.S. nuclear superiority.
Historians have identified many motives for the initial Soviet decision to place missiles in Cuba.
Tags: Allen Ginsberg, CIA, Cord Meyer, Cuban Missile Crisis, Fidel Castro, John F. Kennedy, KGB, LSD, Mary Meyer, Mary Pinchot Meyer, Nikita Khrushchev, Timothy Leary
April 4, 1968. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King was killed by a single bullet as he stood on the second floor balcony outside his hotel room in Memphis. The shot came from high on his right, not on a horizontal trajectory from the rooming house behind the hotel of the alleged assassin, James Earl Ray. Ray, a mediocre shot, would have needed to stand on the edge of the common bathroom tub to see out the window, and a wall (since conveniently removed) would have kept him from aligning the rifle. Ballistics, forensics, and medical evidence all rule him out. The House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that there had been a conspiracy, with Ray as the patsy.
Critical researchers have argued that the federal government, especially FBI or perhaps CIA, carried out the assassination
Tags: assassination, CIA, Eric S. Galt, FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, James Earl Ray, KGB, Martin Luther King, RCMP
August 4, 1962. Celebrity actress Marilyn Monroe died in her bedroom in Los Angeles (or in the guest house near her house, from which she was carried back to her bedroom).
Tags: assassinations, CIA, FBI, JFK, KGB, Marilyn Monroe, MLK, RFK
On April 27, 1996, 76-year old William Colby, former director of the CIA, disappeared from his vacation home on the water at Rocky Point, Maryland. Colby had spent the day at a marina fixing his sloop. He returned home after 6 pm, phoned his wife, who was visiting her mother in Texas, and told her he was tired and would eat supper, then go to bed. He watered his trees, met with his gardener and his visiting sister around 7:15 pm (sunset was at 7:57), and fixed himself a meal. The next day there was no sign of him. Eventually, a neighbor phoned the police. They found his supper half-eaten. The computer and radio were on. His canoe was missing.
By the next day a full-scale search with helicopters and divers was under way.
Tags: assassination, CIA, FBI, forensics, JFK, KGB, Mary Meyer, MLK, RFK, William Colby
