Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups (36 page)

The fact that the Military Intelligence abort team flew Johnny Roselli into Dallas on the morning of the assassination is a highly probable indication that Roselli (who in addition to being hooked up with the Chicago Mob, was also very hooked up with U.S. Intelligence and its anti-Castro ops) was crucial in the penetration of the plot to kill JFK. The intent of bringing him to Dallas with the abort team is indicative that he was to inform his co-conspirators that the game was up and to abort the assassination. Johnny Roselli apparently did what U.S. intelligence had told him to do, bringing in that message—right into Dealey Plaza itself—that “the CIA had called the hit stopped.”
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As a result, Roselli also reportedly balked at being specifically involved in the shooting. As Chuck Nicoletti, the premier hit man in the entire country at the time, put it:

“Well, he doesn’t want to go against the orders of the CIA. What he wants, he wants to call it off. He flew in here as an abort team. They flew a plane in here especially with him on it, to tell us to call it off.”
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U.S. intelligence knew about the assassination attempt, even to the point of being aware of the specific location for the planned hit—having penetrated the plot through Roselli—so they frantically rushed in an elite Military Intelligence unit to abort the assassination, and
even
got the message to “stand down” to the shooting team.
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However, according to the scenario from the Chicago Mafia’s James Files—subscribed to by former FBI Special Agent and Organized Crime expert Zack Shelton—Nicoletti countered with an argument of his own: that it was “The Man” (Sam “The Man” Giancana, head of Chicago Mafia) who had written this “contract” and only The Man himself could call it off:

“ ... you know we can’t call this off. Only one man can stop it ... I’m not going on somebody else’s word ... As far as it is right now, I have a go from the boss.”
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So the hit was a “go” anyway. According to the hearsay evidence (Nicoletti told his bodyguard, who then told it to us)—in what was arguably one of the most important conversations of the entire twentieth century—Nicoletti trumped Roselli’s argument with history—changing logic that could be traced straight back to the streets of Chicago:

“Fuck ‘em. We
go.”
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And then, reportedly, they “went”—it was “a go.” And in the messy manner in which history actually happens, that’s quite possibly what took place. With a willing accomplice sitting right in the White House Oval Office, any so-called investigation would clearly be
in name only.

Two of the men who were closest to President Kennedy get the “last word” here:

Dave Powers, Special Assistant to the President of the
United States
(in car behind President Kennedy):

“Dave Powers, Special Assistant to the President, was riding only ten feet behind Kennedy’s limousine in Dallas. He clearly saw at least two shots from the infamous grassy knoll in front of the motorcade—evidence of a conspiracy, since Oswald was allegedly firing from the rear, on the 6th floor of the Texas ok Depository building. Powers felt they were “riding into an ambush” and said that he was pressured to change his story by the Warren Commission.”
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Kenny O’Donnell, Special Assistant to the President of the
United States
(in car behind President Kennedy):

The following is an excerpt from a book by former Speaker of the House, Tip O’Neill:

I was having dinner with Kenny O’Donnell and a few other people at Jimmy’s Harborside Restaurant in Boston, and we got to talking about the assassination.

I was surprised to hear O’Donnell say that he was sure he had heard two shots that came from behind the fence.

“That’s not what you told the Warren Commission,” I said. “You’re right,” he replied. “I told the FBI what I had heard but they said it couldn’t have happened that way and that I must have been imagining things. So I testified the way they wanted me to. I just didn’t want to stir up any more pain and trouble for the family.”

“I can’t believe it,” I said. “I wouldn’t have done that in a million years. I would have told the truth.”

“Tip, you have to understand. The family—everybody wanted this thing behind them.”

Dave Powers was with us at dinner that night, and his recollection of the shots was the same as O’Donnell’s.”
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