Thread: Kennedy Assassination and Soviet KGB Connection Explored

Kennedy Assassination and Soviet KGB Connection Explored in Book
by Michael Ledeen (more by this author)
Posted 12/28/2007 ET



A new book from General Ion Mihai Pacepa is cause for celebration, because he is among a tiny handful of people who know a lot about the intelligence services of the Soviet Empire, and because he writes about it with rare lucidity, always with an eye to helping us understand our world. His first book, “Red Horizons,â€

Sounds like a load of BS to me. This part is pretty lame:

Why were the Soviets so desperate to stop Oswald? Surely not because they had suddenly developed moral qualms about assassination, and least of all because Khrushchev -- who had ordered the operation in the first place– -- ad decided Kennedy was a good guy. Khrushchev didn’t just call off Oswald’s operation, he cancelled all assassinations after a KGB agent had been caught in West Germany in the course of a similar operation. The Soviet dictator decided it was best to lie low for a while, and several murderous plots were put on hold. This, too, was part of Pacepa’s work.

I don't think it was the KGB. Oswald had little contact with them outside of his time in Minsk. Although, Minsk was a place where assassins were trained. IMO, the Soviets had little use for Oswald. They were all over him during his stay in the USSR, and thought little of him.

I think it was Castro pushing his buttons.

Some of the stuff Pacepa says is true-he couldn't have risen that high in the Roumanian intelligence hierarchy if he was a complete nut-but a lot of his allegations verge on the fanciful. I believe that Arafat was a homosexual, for example, but the idea of him sleeping with the head of Force 17 while under surveillance by his friend Ceausescu strikes me as outlandish.

The assertions in this book are probably cut from the same cloth.