Priscilla McMillan and the JFK Disinformation Campaign (cont.)
The death of Pricilla McMillan — one of the chief architects of the Lee Harvey Oswald legend as a deranged lone assassin — has given the willfully ignorant U.S. media another excuse to parrot its lies about the John F. Kennedy assassination. The McMillan obituary in the New York Times — by a useful idiot named Sam Roberts — is a classic example of this continuing coverup. Oswald, who was never prosecuted and insisted on his innocence to the moment he was gunned down by a Mafia thug, is referred to in the Times’s lead as the “assassin” of President Kennedy. Not “alleged assassin” — or, more accurately, the young man with the “fingerprints of intelligence” all over him (according to Senator Richard Schweiker, who investigated the Kennedy murder in the 1970s) who was set up to be a fall guy — or “patsy,” in Oswald’s own word. The New York Times, like the rest of America’s head-in-the-sand corporate media, has convicted Oswald on its own, without a trial and without ever actually investigating the crime of the 20th century.
Nowhere in the Times’s obit is there any mention of the cozy relationship between McMillan and the CIA. (Just like you will never see any honest introspection in its pages about the newspaper’s own long relationship with the intelligence establishment.) McMillan, who kept traveling to the Soviet Union in the 1950s as a journalist, was described by the CIA as a “witting source.” Try as they might, members of the Warren Commission — under the sway of former CIA director Allen Dulles and other fixtures of the power elite — could find no convincing motive for Oswald’s alleged murderous act. In fact, he was said to be fond of the president, as McMillan who interviewed the so-called defector (but likely a U.S. spy) discovered. But later, in her book Marina and Lee — lavishly praised by another intelligence-friendly journalist, Thomas Powers, in the Times — McMillan framed Oswald as a deeply aggrieved, violence-prone man “with a desperate desire to transcend the obscurity and impotence to which fate was inexorably confining him.”
McMillan’s dark portrait of Oswald bore no relation to the real young man, who was an idealistic and liberal patriot from a humble background — and in way over his head in the labyrinth of U.S. Cold War espionage, as his widow Marina later described him.
Fortunately, for those who want the truth, and can handle the truth about the Kennedy assassination — that milestone event that has warped the rest of American history — there is still courageous filmmaker Oliver Stone, whose new documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, just premiered at the Cannes festival. Watch this rapturous reception of Stone at Cannes and his opening remarks before a screening of the film. And reflect on why you as Americans are still being kept in the dark by the newspaper of record and the other bastions of truth.
