CIA Reactions to JFK Assassination

[Douglas Caddy]

CIA Reactions to JFK Assassination Included “Suspicions of Soviet or Cuban Involvement”; Desire to “Bond” with LBJ

By Jeffrey T. Richelson

Global Research, November 26, 2014

The National Security Archive 20 November 2014

http://www.globalresearch.ca/cia-reactions-to-jfk-assassination-included-fear-of-possible-soviet-strike-against-u-s-desire-to-bond-with-lbj/5416375

[Poster's note: this is being posted for informational purposes only.]

[Terry Adams]

"Fears that Moscow might have masterminded the president’s killing rose sharply when the CIA was unable to locate Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev for 24-48 hours afterwards. Agency officials worried that he was “either hunkering down for an American reprisal, or possibly preparing to strike the United States.” This is from the article that Mr. Caddy posted. Yet like LBJ, there was no effort, nor request, to raise our preparedness for war. defensively or offensively. So, this makes what is written about or by the CIA less than believable, IMO.

Edited November 29, 2014 by Terry Adams

[John Dolva]

"From one 24th vet: My period was an interesting time and encompassed the Berlin Wall Crisis, the Cuban Missle Crisis, and Kennedy's assasanation. The Kennedy matter initially prompted a full blown alert, but quickly cooled down. "

http://www.bobrowen.com/24th/

[Terry Adams]

John, I've never heard this before. I was under the impression that LBJ was going around saying WWIII, but never called for a higher alert. So, I am mistaken about him on this?

[John Dolva]

I don't know Terry. It could be a localised event or a persons experience that someone else may describe differently. It may be aa stnading order event. It may be indicative of some communications that resulted in what he describes as high alert followed shortly by a stand down.

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Edited November 29, 2014 by John Dolva

[Terry Adams]

I can picture that/those scenario(s). Thanks John!

Edited November 30, 2014 by Terry Adams

[Larry Hancock]

Terry, actually the Joint Chiefs first issued a general forces alert and then followed that up in about an hour with an actual elevation of one level of the overall DefCon defense condition status. Of course that would have been way too late in the event that the assassination had truly been a chain of command strike. Beyond that, certain senior commanders had the authority to actually move all or elements of their commands to even higher levels. SAC appears to have done that with its ICBM forces, CINCPAC did it with Naval forces in the western pacific and in Germany the commander moved the Army forces to an elevated state of alert. On a side note, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs also moved local military forces in the DC area to a higher state of alert although he never provided any details of exactly what that involved or why he had done so...