James Jesus Angleton

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If there is one person who doesn't seem to receive enough attention in debates and research about the assassination of President Kennedy it is James Jesus Angleton. An article from Press TV contains the statements

"one is that the highest level CIA officer who appears to have ordered the assassination was James Jesus Angleton - the head of counterintelligence; and he was a very close friend of the Israelis. Many consider him to have been an Israeli mole in the CIA".

"And secondly, The financing for the Kennedy assassination was done by a financial group named Permindex. Now, Permindex, which was prosecuted briefly by the New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison turns out to be basically an Israeli company".

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/11/23 ... oup-detat/

There are also claims that Israel was behind President Kennedy's assassination

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/11/23 ... ssination/

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/11/22 ... ssy-knoll/

"It is telling that high-level Israeli CIA mole James Jesus Angleton has managed to stay largely off the radar screen of most JFK assassination investigators, while mid-level guys like Howard Hunt and William Harvey, and low-level guys like Frank Sturgis and David Sanchez Morales, have been widely pilloried for their roles in the JFK killing".

I first found out about Angleton when I read Spy Catcher by Peter Wright.

Peter Wright first met Angleton in Washington in 1957 and he stated that "he had a razor sharp mind and a determination to win the Cold War, not just to enjoy fighting of it". p102

"Angleton's star was fast rising in Washington in the late 1950s, particularly after he obtained the secret text of, Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin from his contacts in Israel". p103

"It was a difficult time for the CIA. Kennedy had just been assassinated and the Warren Commission of inquiry was sitting, and Angleton had pressing problems of his own". p269

"As soon as I told Angleton I was visiting Washington he became quite aggressive. He told me I had no right to visit Washington unless he was in town. At the time I thought his worry was to do with the Israelis. The Middle Eastern situation was brewing up, and Angleton always jealously protected his relationships with the Israeli secret service, Mossad". p347

"In 1970 Angleton suffered the greatest blow of all. He lost his administrative officer and effective number two, Jim Hunt. Hunt was a hard man, who treated Angleton's obsessions with balanced skepticism. He had his feet on the ground, and he made things happen. Angleton, like myself, was a hopeless administrator, and Hunt ensured that papers were circulated, requests replied to, and the day to day routine, upon which an efficient intelligence service relies, was maintained. Without him, Angleton became a ship without an anchor, drifting slowly toward the abyss". p347

Does anybody on WP know much about James Jesus Angleton and Permindex?

So it wanst the Cubans? Niether Castro, nor the anti-castro cubans? And it wasnt LBJ? And it wasnt J. Edgar Hoover? And it wasnt the Mob?

It was the Isrealies who wanted JFK dead?

Why did Israel want him dead?

Americans on WP might be more familiar with Angleton than the British are. Very few people in Britain have even heard of him.

Followed your links.

Just for the record, teams of ballistics experts have proven multiple times that no shots fired from the grassy knoll struck JFK.

i supose 1 supporting factor that Israel could have been behind the assassination was the fact that Jack ruby(birth name was Rubinstein) was jewish.so its possible that ruby and oswald could have been working for the ha mosad.this is the first i have heard of anyone saying that israel\ha mosad ordered kennedy's murder.i would suspect that if there was a real conspiracy someone would have figured it out in 50 years.israel is a bit of a johhny come lately as far as conspiracy theories.

the mob
the CIA
lyndon johnson
the FBI/J.edgar hoover
but those theories only took a decade to come out and have had 40 years of validation,this israel theory has not stood the test of time.if a theory is real there will be evidence and if there is evidence someone smart should hone in on it

i once heard it said George H.W Bush ordered the hit while being an under cover operative of the CIA

watergate burgler E.Howard Hunt suposedly confessed to killing kennedy on his death bed.

so other than the fact you have a jewish individual involved in the crime there is not much to connect israel to the crime

I know about Angelton, and while he was a paranoid, fanatically disciplined cold warrior, I have yet to see anything definite tying him to the Kennedy assassination. As a matter of fact, he had been a friend of Bobby Kennedy, and it was that personal connection that might... might... make his connection to the assassination unlikely.
I also know about Permindex, though this claim that they had had Israeli connections is a new one on me. I think Permindex's connections to the Guy Bannister/David Ferrie Anti-Castro New Orleans underground (and thus to the CIA), as well as to Clay Shaw (Permindex board member, and only individual ever to be tried for the crime), and the European right (including the French army element who had tried assassinating DeGaulle) are provable and are far more significant. I just don't see any legitimate connection to Israel, save for some people saying there was one. I've heard of this Israeli theory, but I've never heard of any concrete evidence tying them to the assassination. And for the motive that Israel allegedly had their American ally killed because he had opposed their having a nuclear weapon is pretty much without substance.

I think I am discussing this subject with the wrong audience. I am no expert on James Jesus Angleton but I probably know more about him, and his connections with Israel, than most users of WP do.