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For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. After sixty years and six investigations, what do we now know that we didn't in 1963? Who should get credit for all this new understanding?

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. As the investigations progress, as more truth comes out, as the trail leads investigators to the Agency, CIA operatives continue dropping dead at an alarming rate. As the cover-up is exposed, more FBI operatives with knowledge of its institutional participation in the cover-up turn up dead. Does anyone still think Oswald killed President John F. Kennedy?

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. Richard Billings and George Joannides' purpose on HSCA was to keep the conspiracy AWAY from the CIA. What do Sheffield Edwards, William Harvey, William Pauley, Charles Nicoletti, and George de Mohrenschildt have in common? They all worked for the CIA and together, with Carlos Prio, had knowledge of the CIA's role in the JFK assassination conspiracy. What else do they have in common? They all died BEFORE their testimony could be taken by the HSCA. Two on the SAME DAY, one week before another one died. Three by "suicide". One by 3 bullets to the back of the head. One by "heart disease", and another by "natural causes". Do you believe in coincidences?

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. Like Allen Dulles in the Warren Commission, George Joannides was a CIA infiltrator, inserted into the HSCA to sabotage the committee from within. Few people knew more in 1963 about the anti-Castro organizations plotting against Castro and Kennedy than Joannides. Fewer still had direct contact with these organizations AND the government patsy - Lee Harvey Oswald - during this period. And, as it turns out, who was involved in the sheepdipping of Oswald? That's right, George Joannides. The fact the CIA would send a material witness to act as liaison between the HSCA and the CIA, controlling which Agency documents the committee can see, proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the CIA never intended to be an honest broker in ANY of the JFK assassination investigations. Which begs the question...why?

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. The Warren Commission was rigged. J. Edgar Hoover controlled the evidence. Allen Dulles controlled the committee. Thirteen years later, the HSCA was also rigged. When Congressman Downing and Chief Counsel Richard Sprague made clear their intentions of beginning their investigations with the CIA and its contrived Mexico City story, the Agency sprang into action, having its minions in Congress and the media smear both men and the HSCA publicly. The resulting power struggle left Downing and Sprague out in the cold, replaced by a compliant Congressman Stokes and an easily-duped HSCA Director G. Robert Blakey. The CIA offered a limited hangout - JFK was killed by a conspiracy of anti-Castro Cubans, Lee Harvey Oswald and organized crime - while maintaining its own (and the FBI's) plausible deniability. What began with so much promise was compromised by the intelligence community again.

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. Like the Shaw Trial, the Church Hearings witnessed some high-profile deaths (and/or disappearances) of potential JFK assassination witnesses, including Roger Craig, Sam Giancana, Jimmy Hoffa, and Johnny Roselli.

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. The Church Committee got more than it bargained for when it examined the "Family Jewels", learning about covert ops whose main purpose was human experimentation on pools of unwitting subjects including North Korean POW's, South Vietnamese noncombatant civilians, and eventually - inmates, students, and patients in the United States. From whom did the CIA learn its tricks of the trade? Nazi doctors and scientists who conducted their twisted experiments on their own unique pool of unwitting human subjects - the inmates of the concentration camps. This is a truth many Americans don't want to confront. This is a part of our history many Americans don't want to admit happened. But it did.

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. According to the Church Committee, the FBI assassinated Fred Hampton...and probably Martin Luther King, Jr. as a part of the COINTEL counterintelligence operation J. Edgar Hoover launched against the Black Panthers and the SCLC. According to the Church Committee, the CIA seeded propaganda to foreign media outlets, intending for it to be subsequently picked up by US media outlets. Furthermore, it infiltrated and co-opted US media outlets, bought US media personalities, and propagandized the American people, destroying the credibility of the 4th Estate and the American people's faith in the news in the process. Most scary is the fact that Operation Mockingbird is the one CIA program without a termination date - meaning it is ongoing. How did the FBI and CIA go rogue? One can hardly imagine a scenario more scary than the FBI acting as a state-sponsored Secret Police and the CIA serving as the regime-sponsored controller of information. Is this America?

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. Investigation #3...more collateral damage. Deaths by suicide. Deaths by "unknown causes". Deaths by suspicious car accidents. Deaths by poison? Deaths by heart attacks. Death by cancer. The list is long. What isn't long is the list of important witnesses who lived to tell their tale. In keeping with a pattern (Warren Commission, Shaw Trial), the Watergate Investigation left a trail of dead bodies in its wake.

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. Nixon's domain included the White House, the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), and the Plumbers. The CIA infiltrated all three and ratfucked Nixon's entire presidency. The question is...why?

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. If you're Richard Nixon, the CIA tipped the scales in favor of JFK in the 1960 election. If you're Richard Nixon, the FBI won't help you prevent White House leaks of classified documents. If you're Richard Nixon, the Joint Chiefs are spying on you, stealing and copying your memos. If you're Richard Nixon, you're surrounded by snakes - two of whom you don't realize until it's too late (CIA Director Richard Helms and WH aide Alexander Haig). If you're Richard Nixon, what do you do?

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. Evidence of the S Force's involvement in Dallas...and Watergate. Evidence that Nixon presented his aides in an Oval Office meeting during the early days of Watergate. Evidence that disappeared from the White House tapes in the infamous 18.5 minute eraser - blamed on the "Rose Mary Stretch". Evidence that the assassination team authorized by then-Vice President Nixon and the CIA and created to assassinate Fidel Castro, changed targets and killed JFK instead. Evidence that the core S Force participants in the Crime of the Century in Dallas, participated in the Watergate break-in 9 years later. Imagine if Woodward and Bernstein had REALLY followed the money...or if the Senate Watergate Committee had pursued a different line of questioning of Bob Haldeman after he revealed what Nixon meant by the "whole Bay of Pigs thing".

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. The S Force was created to kill Castro. It trained in Mexico to use 3 teams in a triangulated hit on a moving target from distance with high-powered rifles outfitted with scopes. Then Kennedy turned off the anti-Castro operations. To turn them back on again, the S Force changed targets, using the same tactics they'd been trained in, and keeping the same patsy who'd already been set up to take the fall. That's why 8 members of the original S Force were in Dallas on November 22, 1963. When 5 members of the original S Force were arrested at the Watergate in 1972, Nixon panicked. Especially when he realized 3 of the Watergate burglars had been in Dallas (4 if you count Nixon himself). The cover-up of the Watergate Scandal was less about Watergate than it was about Dallas. The same cast of characters caught at the Watergate had assassinated JFK in Dallas 11 years prior. Which is why Nixon kept talking about the "Bay of Pigs" on the tapes - his code for the JFK assassination. If you want to know what Nixon said in the 18.5 minute gap on the smoking gun tape, watch episodes 52 and 53. It will answer a lot of questions.

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. As VP from '52-'60, Richard Nixon was chairman of a very important CIA subcommittee. His involvement with this committee resulted in CIA-sponsored covert operations all over the globe - all in the name of fighting communism. When Castro overthrew Batista in Cuba in 1959, Nixon sprang into action. When the "normal" covert means were insufficient to remove and/or kill Castro, Nixon decided to up the ante.

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. Political operatives traffic in information - especially incriminating information that can be used against their opponents. President Nixon had learned the hard way that Larry O'Brien was a "grand master in the art of political gamesmanship", having been burned by O'Brien & "friends" in the presidential campaigns of 1960 and 1968. He was taking no chances in 1972.

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. Why didn't Nixon destroy the tapes? Why did Nixon listen to Richard Helms? What Presidents played their roles as cover-up artists for the JFK assassination and the Watergate Scandal? What do Lee Harvey Oswald's murder, LBJ's appointment of the Warren Commission, Richard Nixon's resignation, and Gerald Ford's pardon have in common?

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. Nixon listened to Bob Haldeman's idea about creating the Plumbers. He shouldn't have. Nixon also listened to CIA Director Richard Helms and his idea to hire E. Howard Hunt to organize the Plumbers. Again, he shouldn't have. The story of Watergate illustrates how important the voices the president listens to are important.

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. A check from a Mexico City bank. "Very sensitive covert projects further south of the border" (Mexico City). E. Howard Hunt. The "whole Bay of Pigs thing." It's telling that Nixon was more worried about these than the Watergate burglary itself. What gives?

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. The Garrison Group infiltrated Garrison's DA office, leaking the news that David Ferrie was going to be the star witness against the CIA's man in New Orleans - Clay Shaw. Something had to be done. And quick. And not just to David Ferrie, but also to his partner - whom Garrison was seeking to be a second star witness in the case. In other developments related to the JFK case, a presidential candidate who was promising to re-open the case and to end the covert actions capabilities of the CIA had to be dealt with too. And so the collateral damage continues...

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. He lost the trial. Witnesses refused to testify, got trapped on the stand, disappeared, and/or died...subpoenas for evidence and/or witnesses were denied...the "Garrison Group" sabotaged the DA's office from within, the media made Garrison the story instead of the conspiracy to kill JFK...in sum, it was a complete clust$#@*! Did ANYTHING positive come from Jim Garrison's trial of Clay Shaw?

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. The New Orleans connection to the JFK assassination was apparent on the same night as the assassination. And yet, Jim Garrison didn't bring the case until 1967. What delayed the case? The government would have the American people believe Garrison was a glory hound, using the JFK case to position himself for higher office. Given the facts surrounding the origins of the case, was that true?

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. Suspicious, violent, and unexplained deaths clumped around investigations that touched on the JFK assassination. Why so much collateral damage if JFK was really killed by a lone gunman?

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. It's a neat trick, creating a single composite from two witnesses named "Reid". Especially if one of the witnesses has evidence that will destroy your predetermined cover story. This Warren Commission trick went unnoticed until Robert Groden told the world about Geraldine Reid in 2013...50 years after the assassination. Which, I guess, was the point.

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. Any physical evidence indicating a shot from the front negates the cover story. Presumably, a Texas autopsy is an honest autopsy, conducted by independent medical examiners experienced with gunshot victims. Since at least 2 shots came from the front, the cover story would not have survived a Texas autopsy. Thus, the rigging of the case continues with the theft of the President's body. It HAS to.

For more content from Barry Jones, go to sphistory.com. History repeats: 2nd vaccine (Sabin), followed by 2nd warning (Dr. Bernice Eddy), followed by 2nd government dismissal of said warning, followed by disastrous consequences. All because promises were made and money was transacted. Today's episode focuses on the consequences, laying the groundwork for the perversion of science to come. Some things, you just can't make up.