Despite what anti-Conspiracy advocate Gerald Posner states at the end of Mr. Shane's article, evidence such as the McCone-Rowley Memorandum would not necessarily be destroyed by the CIA. It is infinitely easier to misplace it in the wrong file, so that it is years before the evidence sees the light of day. This is what happened with the photo of the two shell casings and the one live round in the Baltimore FBI office, as well as the inventory list presented earlier. Destruction of Kennedy Assassination related files is a felony; misplacing them--in a document collection with 15 separate files of as many as 641 pages (see above)--is a "regrettable mistake."
The CIA, in spite of its press, is not some all-powerful, 100-percent efficient government entity that operates with a single mind in singular pursuit of its objectives. It makes mistakes. Lots of them. Everyday of the year. From the Tet Offensive, to the Iranian Revolution, to the Fall of the Berlin Wall; the CIA's mistakes are legendary and legion. This was the reason they needed to employ someone like Mr. Joannides at the HSCA to help cover-up the things that they missed.
Like the McCone-Rowley Memorandum.
Am I one hundred percent certain of my analysis of of the McCone-Rowley Memorandum, and the conclusions which I have reached regarding it? The answer is no, I'm much smarter than that. But when we are dealing with the Wonderland rabbit warren that is the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, no information should be dismissed out of hand because it is "too good to be true," or that its point of origination is suspicious or unreliable. One must always keep Sherlock dictum in mind that "when you have eliminate the impossible, whatever is left, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." I would like to see the original source document for all of the myriad copies of the McCone-Rowley Memorandum online, and examine it in person, in order to verify my theory. But we must not dismiss it out of hand: as Sci-Fi icon Robert A. Heinlein once stated, the best way to lie is to tell the truth, but tell it so outrageously that no one believes you. The McCone-Rowley Memorandum certainly fits the criteria for that scenario.
George Orwell stated in Nineteen Eighty-Four, "Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship." President Kennedy once said he wanted to take the CIA, and "break it into a thousand pieces." This alone was motive enough for many former and current members and associates of the CIA in 1963 to help kill JFK, and then to help cover-up the crime.
Text of the McCone-Rowley Memorandum in full:
Subject: Central Intelligence Report on the assassination of John Kennedy.
In response to the request made by your office on 24 February 1964 re: Lee Oswald's activities and assignments on behalf of this agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation, there follows a narrative summary of the internal subversive activities of the Oswald subject.
I recommend that unless the Commission makes a specific request for specific information contained herein, that this information not be volunteered. This agency has reason to assume that some junior Commission staff members may be potential sources of leaks to the news media or to other agencies; due to the highly sensitive nature of the enclosed material, it would certainly be in the national interest to withhold it at this time -- unless there is, of course, a specific request made.
It is my understanding that Mr. Hoover has certain sensitive information within his agency, which has be transferred to his own personal files for safekeeping; he concurs that no material should be voluntarily given to the Commission which might affect the status of field operatives or their safety. He is particularly concerned about the De Bruey memorandum, which Central Intelligence has obtained and which, I understand, you have obtained. It is imperative that this information, at least for the time, remain under wraps.
Oswald subject was trained by this agency, under cover of the Office of Naval Intelligence, for Soviet assignments. During preliminary training, in 1957, subject was active in aerial reconnaissance of mainland China and maintained a security clearance up to the "confidential" level. His military records during this period are open to your agency and I have directed they be forwarded to the Commission.
Subject received additional indoctrination at our own Camp Peary site from September 8 to October 17, 1958, and participated in a few relatively minor assignments until arrangements were made for his entry into the Soviet Union in September 1959. While in the Soviet Union, he was on special assignment in the area of Minsk. It would not be advantageous at this time to divulge the specifics of that assignment; however, if you wish this information, it can be made available for your personal inspection within the confines of our own offices, or I can send it by courier on the condition that it not leave the custody of the courier. I am concerned that if this information were in any way disclosed to the wrong persons, it would lead the media to erroneously claim this agency, and perhaps others, were directly involved in the Dallas action. While the persons involved were in the employ of this agency, as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, it is virtually impossible for this or any agency to maintain full, 24-hours-a-day responsibility over its operatives.
At the time of the Dallas action, the Oswald subject was only seldom in our employ; after the Soviet assignment, we found him to be unreliable and emotionally unstable. He was of little use to us after his marriage and De Bruey, from what I understand, concurred in this. He was provided with a few unimportant infiltration assignments and proved of little or no value. It is possible that Oswald, given his instability, might have been involved in some operation involving Hoffa, as noted in SAIC Bertram's report to your agency dated 1/3/64. Mr. Hoover advises that his agency is trying to determine whether Hoffa might have been involved laterally or vertically with the Dallas assassination I have advised that I would be interested in seeing the results of that investigation.
Mr. Hoover advises that the facts given in SAIC Bertra[m]'s 1/3/64 report are basically correct. His agency has advised Deputy Sweatt against any further unauthorized statements to the news media which might adversely affect the investigation. Mr. Hoover advises he has no knowledge of how Deputy Sweatt obtained his information, as there is no record of the agency distributing any such information to Sweatt or any other member of Dallas Sheriff's office. It is regrettable that this information has come to the attention of the news media, but I am sure Mr. Hoover will be able to clarify the situation.
Speculation within this agency -- and this is only speculation at this point -- is that Oswald subject became unstable following surgery April 1, 1961, in the Minsk Hospital. He may have been chemically or electronically "controlled"... a sleeper agent. Subject spent eleven days hospitalized for a "minor ailment" which should have required no more than three days hospitalization at the most. Six days after his release, he met Marina Prusakova. This agency is particularly interested in her intelligence background and I have requested a report on same from our Soviet Embassy contact.
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