From: jad@Turing.ORG (John DiNardo)
Subject: Part 22, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy
Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk 
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy 
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:53:59 GMT

        I made the following transcript from a tape recording 
        of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station
               WBAI-FM (99.5)
               505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl.
               New York, NY 10018       (212) 279-0707

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                        (continuation)
GARY NULL:
My guests today are Jerry Policoff and Jim Marrs. We're going to
come back to them in just a few moments. Jerry and Jim, we're
going to take a ten-minute break because this week, and I believe
next week, WBAI, this non-commercial station which is part of the
Pacifica Radio Network, is in the midst of its fund-raising, and
we use this opportunity three times a year to raise funds so that
this station can continue.

.....

Right now, we're doing our special report on the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy. It will continue until we've laid out
all of the evidence that we have; each day another new piece of it.
Now, let's go back to our main program.

We're talking about the John Kennedy Assassination. On our
conference phone right now -- and I appreciate their patience for
standing by -- is Dr. Cyril Wecht, and also talking to us on
another conference phone is David Lifton.  Dr. Wecht, you've been
listening patiently, and I thank you very much for your patience.
Would you be kind enough to share with us your concern about the
Warren Commission's findings and what you feel is the weak link in
that evidence, and what you would propose we should be paying some
attention to?

CYRIL WECHT:
Yes.  Mr. Null, I'll just be able to make a brief statement because
the time has run out for me at my end. I'm sorry. I would have
enjoyed talking to you more. My concerns about the Warren Commission
Report have been a matter of record. They're now going back
some twenty-seven years. I believe I'm the only non-Government-
affiliated forensic pathologist to have testified three times under
oath in this matter before Federal District Court Judge Charles
Hallock[sp] Jr. in Washington, D.C. in 1969, as a prelude to the
Clay Shaw Trial in New Orleans, and before the Rockefeller
Commission in 1975 .....

.....  [side A of tape ended]

.... CIA clearance. Any staff member who was reviewing CIA 
documents, before he could leave, had to submit notes to the CIA
for review. And basically, the course of the investigation changed.
And all of a sudden the main suspect was Organized Crime. To put a
historical context on this, only slightly before the House
Assassinations Committee began its work, the [Sen. Frank] Church
Committee had ended its work. And, although they didn't review
whether or not there was a conspiracy, they did review the work
of the FBI and the CIA in terms of their initial investigations of
the assassination. And the result was a blistering indictment of
their investigations; in fact, their non-investigations. The Church
Committee made it very clear that J. Edgar Hoover had decided,
immediately after the assassination, that Lee Harvey Oswald was
the assassin. As the main investigative arm of the Warren
Commission, that certiainly put handcuffs on the Warren Commission.

The CIA was guilty of obfuscation at every turn, in terms of
whether Oswald was a CIA agent, had ever worked for the CIA, his
connections or his activities in Mexico City; in fact, whether
that even was Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexio City, which is doubtful;
his connections with Guy Bannister and various anti-Castro groups
in New Orleans. All of that was TOTALLY obfuscated by the CIA.
So, with that in its historical context, you have to really look
at the FBI and the CIA as clearly, at least, suspects when you're
investigating the Assassination.  That was never done by [Chief
Counsel] Blakey!  Members of the staff [of the House Select
Committee on Assassinations] who weren't cleared by the CIA were
fired.  Frankly, even at one point it was discovered that the
autopsy photos and X-rays, which were in the files of the House
Committee ..... somebody had broken into the room in which the
autopsy photos and X-rays were kept, and had hurriedly made an
examination of them, ripping some file folders in the process.    
A fingerprint examination revealed that the person who had broken
in was the CIA liaison between the Committee and the CIA. That
person was fired, but it didn't seem to have, in any way, raised
any questions with Blakey in terms of the role of the CIA.

GARY NULL:
Isn't that a federal offense: breaking and entering, and
tampering with information?

CYRIL WECHT:
I would certainly think so.

GARY NULL:
To my knowledge, no one from the CIA has EVER actually been put on
trial for ANY crimes. Have they?

CYRIL WECHT:
No. Never.

GARY NULL:
So what we have is an agency that was repeatedly spying on its own
citizens, interfering in special investigations -- and yet no one
was calling the CIA to account. And, as a result, to this day, the
CIA is still being able to do virtually anything that it wants.

CYRIL WECHT:
Yes. And, as a matter of fact, one of the Committee staffers told
me that, back at the time that the Committee was investigating,
one of the staffers basically put some hard questions to Blakey,
in terms of his acceptance of anything that the CIA told him.
He said, and this is a quote: "You don't think they would lie to
me, do you? I've been working with these people for twenty years."
That really puts into perspective where Blakey was coming from.

GARY NULL:
Alright. Le's go to a few other issues here. Let's take a look at
the NBC documentary on Jim Garrison.

CYRIL WECHT:
Okay.  I have to preface this by saying that I really think that
there were a lot of things wrong with the Garrison Investigation,
but it's really clear, from the outset, that the Government was
VERY concerned about what was going on in New Orleans and about
what was going to come out. We know that one of the things that
the House Committee found, but didn't publish -- thanks to        
Mr. Blakey -- was that the CIA infiltrated eleven of its agents
into Garrison's investigation. We know that the Justice Department
was spoon-feeding information to Clay Shaw's lawyers.

>From the beginning, the media, rather than taking an arms-length
view and holding back to see what Garrison had .... the media was,
almost from the beginning, almost prosecutorial in terms of the
way they went after Garrison. NBC ran a one-hour documentary
during prime-time. It was produced by Walter Sheridan, who had
never been a journalist all of his life. He had been a private
investigator. He had worked for the Kennedy family. We don't
really know what his agenda was here, but he certainly was not a
reporter. He was accused of bribing witnesses.  The documentary,
from beginning to end, was an incredible indictment of Garrison.
                      (to be continued)
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      If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please
      assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards,
      and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. 
      As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass-media's thirty-year
      cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of 
      the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes
      ever more striking.

         John DiNardo

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