by Ron Unz, The Unz Review:
The Trump Administration recently declassified and released some 60,000 government documents relating to the JFK Assassination, provoking a great deal of discussion on social media and the rest of the Internet. This prompted Mike Whitney to interview me on that subject, providing me an excellent opportunity to draw together and summarize the many articles I had published from 2018 onwards on that infamous historical event.
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As I explained at length, there seemed strong, even overwhelming evidence that Israel and its Mossad had played a central role in the death of our president and also the killing of his younger brother Robert a few years later.
President Kennedy had been embroiled in a bitter political battle with Israel over the latter’s illegal nuclear weapons development program, a program that he had sworn to eliminate. He was also determined to break the growing power of the Israel Lobby in the U.S. These two issues provided the obvious motives for his killing.
Meanwhile, the younger Kennedy was struck down just after his victory in the winner-take-all California primary seemed to assure him of the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination. He had told his circle of friends and advisors that if he reached the White House, he would track down and bring to justice those who had been responsible for the death of his older brother.
This persuasive framework was first worked out almost exactly thirty years ago by the late journalist Michael Collins Piper. But the exceptionally explosive nature of the Piper Hypothesis has ensured that it has been almost totally ignored, never mentioned either by the mainstream media, nor by more than a tiny sliver of the multitude of JFK Assassination researchers.
My analysis also pointed to the other key figures very likely involved in the plot. These included Vice President Lyndon Johnson, whom the Kennedys were on the verge of dropping from the reelection ticket, destroying politically, and sending to prison, and James Angleton, the CIA’s long-time counter-intelligence chief.
For decades Johnson had been regarded as one of America’s most pro-Israel political figures, while Angleton was considered so close to the Israeli Mossad that he was widely suspected of having become an outright asset of that foreign intelligence service. Therefore, both these individuals would have naturally cooperated with Israel on the assassination, with Johnson playing an especially important role in orchestrating the subsequent cover-up.
My lengthy article presenting all this important material has quickly become one of my most popular pieces of the last twelve months:
As mentioned, one of the main motives for JFK’s killing was his effort to sharply curtail the growing political power of the Israel Lobby, and his death immediately reversed that project. During the sixty-odd years that followed, AIPAC and its allies have grown so enormously powerful that they currently control all but a handful of the members of Congress. For example, in an interview last year with Tucker Carlson, Rep. Thomas Massie revealed that nearly all of members of the House and the Senate currently have their personal AIPAC handlers, who direct their votes on related issues.
The same situation seems the case with the Trump Administration. It recently launched an absolutely unprecedented political crackdown on America’s most elite academic institutions, forcing them to eliminate any criticism of Israel or its policies in their curriculum or by their students.
In a particularly shocking development, masked federal agents have been deployed to arrest students merely for criticizing Israel in campus op-eds or public demonstrations, either seizing them by raiding their dorms or abducting them from the streets of their cities. This is an absolutely unprecedented violation of our Bill of Rights and academic freedom, fully reminiscent of authoritarian dictatorships.
