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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 1 Num. 6
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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RESOLVED: President Kennedy was killed as the result of a
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conspiracy.
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[Continuation of my transcription of a radio debate which took
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place in the Fall of 1993 between Peter Dale Scott and Gerald
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Posner. Today, Mr. Scott gives his rebuttal to Mr. Posner's
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opening remarks.]
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MODERATOR: Thank you, Mr. Posner. Mr. Scott, you have 6 minutes
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for rebuttal.
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PETER DALE SCOTT: Our audience has just heard the kind of people
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that Mr. Posner believes in: The KGB and (I'll come back to this
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later) Marina Oswald.
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Marina Oswald, for whom, by the way, I have great compassion at
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that time, was being so obviously coerced by the very people who
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were interviewing her at that time, that she changed her stories
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repeatedly at that time. It was quite obvious she was trying to
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tell what the government wanted her to tell in order to avoid
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being deported. The Warren Commission knew this, and wrote a memo
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in February of 1964 saying, "Marina has repeatedly lied on
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matters of serious concern to this commission." And it's very
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revealing, I think, that when they knew this in February, when
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they came to write their report in June and July, they had such
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trouble linking Oswald to the gun and to the act of shooting
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*anyone* -- let alone General Walker -- that they had to rely on
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the testimony of a liar. And uh so, unfortunately, does Mr.
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Posner.
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Mr. Posner believes in the KGB. Let me tell you, the readers,
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that he believes even more in the CIA. And, in fact, [he] tells
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us that he got certain things from the CIA. He says, for example,
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Mr. George De Mohrenschildt (a friend of Oswald's with obvious
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intelligence background -- although he had other aspects to his
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background as well), he says, "had no intelligence connection to
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the CIA." How do we know? Mr. Posner says, "Because the CIA has
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told us so."
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But if Mr. Posner would do what I do, which is to look at the
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documents, he would see that despite what he [De Mohrenschildt]
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told people, when he left Dallas in '63, he went to Washington.
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He took part in a meeting with CIA agents and more importantly,
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Army Intelligence agents, before going to Haiti as a business...
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whatever it was... but certainly *about* Haiti. Since then, a CIA
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contract agent has said it was about the overthrow of the
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government in Haiti. And this is the sort of thing you won't find
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in Mr. Posner's book.
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I object very much to that long quote from my book, which was
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about how many *enemies* Kennedy had in 1963. I certainly did not
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say that they all killed the President. I said on the contrary
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that... You know, so many people think that I'm saying the
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President was killed because of his Vietnam policy. And I was
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trying, on the contrary, to "open it out," to say that there were
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many coalitions that were angry with Kennedy in 1963 -- the joint
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chiefs and the military being an important one. But organized
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crime, the teamsters, (and you've heard the list) also... But I'm
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certainly not saying that they all killed the President. I'm
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saying don't *misread* me to think that I have named the killers.
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And I said, in fact, at the beginning of the book, Mr. Posner (if
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you'd started on page 1), that I do *not* in this book try to say
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who the killers are!
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So now, finally, General Walker... I have written about General
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Walker in all of my preceding books. And the bullets that you and
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I have both talked about -- which were too mangled to be
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identified in April when it was shot at General Walker, but
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somehow has become identifiable in November of 1963 and was
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identified as having been shot from Lee Harvey Oswald's
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Mannlicher-Carcano [Italian rifle]. You didn't mention, Mr.
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Posner, that (I hope I get this the right way around), that in
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April it had been identified as copper-jacketed but by the time
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it was November it was now steel-jacketed. So that that bullet is
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just one example of the kind of things that "happened" to
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evidence that were kept in the hands of the Dallas police or
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later, in the FBI, and which are, for me, a major part of the
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case that this was a conspiracy involving people both outside the
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government shooting the President, and also people inside the
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government guaranteeing an absolutely sure-fire case. That the
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truth would be so explosive and the "phase 1" stories, as I call
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them, of communist conspiracy would be so threatening for an
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unnecessary war, that all kinds of people would be coerced to
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accept what I call the "phase 2" story -- that Oswald acted
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alone. A story equally false, but not as likely to lead to the
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death, unnecessary death, of thousands of lives.
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So, it is true that you focus on the life of Oswald. I believe if
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you were to write a book about the murder of Trotsky, you would
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probably write a whole book about the character and the
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personality defects of the gunman who killed Trotsky! But surely
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it's important to go *back* from the case and look at the links
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between that gunman and Stalin back in Moscow.
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And I'm not, I think by nature, someone who begins with a
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conspiracy theory. But having looked for so long at the Kennedy
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assassination -- and particularly at the anomalies in the
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relationship between Oswald and the FBI, between Ruby and the
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Dallas police, and then the concerted effort to say that these
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people were "loners" when if we know *anything*, that's exactly
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what they weren't. That we absolutely are forced to look beyond
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the personality of Oswald in this case, and try to fit
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together... And it's more than a conspiracy. It isn't a lot of
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people who could have been identified, it's a...
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[Moderator interrupts and tells Mr. Scott that his 6 minutes have
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expired.]
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MODERATOR: Thank you, Mr. Scott. Mr. Posner, you have 6 minutes
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for your rebuttal.
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(to be continued)
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