Conspiracy Theory/Conspiracy Fact

The Hall of Mirrors And Fuzzy Thinking

Individuals that carry out sensitive conspiratorial plans use the blank exterior cover of their organizations to hide in plain sight. These conspiracies are most often executed within a framework of multiple bureaucracies to further compartmentalize, effectuate and dilute the focus on any one actor; with the added effect of providing a larger footprint of bureaucratic defensive reaction.

This short substack entry by David Talbot, author of Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years dispels a lot of the fuzzy thinking around conspiracies in high places:

To be completely accurate, RFK, Jr. doesn’t believe that the CIA as an institution carried out the JFK assassination and cover-up. In fact, he has repeatedly said that the CIA is filled with many patriotic and honorable public servants, like his daughter-in-law Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, who formerly worked for the agency. But the evidence mounts that top CIA officials and ex-officials like Allen Dulles, James Angleton, Richard Helms and William Harvey, as well as leading generals like Air Force chief Curtis LeMay, conspired to kill President Kennedy because they opposed his plans to end the Cold War.