Re: 1961 Photos: JFK With Allen Dulles And John McCone

[David Von Pein]

Many kooky conspiracy theorists think that these pictures depict JFK
posing with the people who murdered him:

http://Kennedy-Photos.blogspot.com#Kennedy-Dulles-McCone-1961

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FROM VINCENT BUGLIOSI'S "CIA" CHAPTER IN "RECLAIMING HISTORY":

"We know that no one has ever come up with any evidence of any
kind that the CIA decided to kill Kennedy, and got Oswald or anyone
else to do the job for it. Indeed, despite the admitted problems
Kennedy had with the CIA over the Bay of Pigs invasion, William Colby,
who was a ranking official in the CIA during the period of the
assassination and went on to become CIA director, would later write,
"The fact of the matter is that the CIA could not have had a better
friend in a President than John F Kennedy. He understood the Agency
and used it effectively, exploiting its intellectual abilities to help
him analyze a complex world, and its paramilitary and covert political
talents to react to it in a low key way."

And in 1996, the CIA released a study titled "Getting to Know
the President, CIA Briefings of Presidential Candidates, 1952-1992,"
by the CIA deputy director for intelligence, John L. Helgerson. ....
On the issue so dear to conspiracy theorists—the CIA's alleged
animosity for Kennedy, and hence, its motive to kill him—it is very
noteworthy that Helgerson's study reported that "the [CIA's]
relationship with Kennedy was not only a distinct improvement over the
more formal relationship with Eisenhower, but would only rarely be
matched in future administrations."

And alluding, by implication, to the strained period with
Kennedy following the Bay of Pigs invasion in April of 1961, the
report goes onto say that "in November 1961, Allen Dulles had been
replaced by John McCone, who served Kennedy as DCI [Director of
Central Intelligence] for almost two years. In the early part of this
period, McCone succeeded in rebuilding the Agency's relationship with
Kennedy. McCone saw Kennedy frequently, and the President—more than
any other before or since—would telephone even lower level Agency
officers for information or assistance." "

-- Page 1190 of "Reclaiming History: The Assassination Of
President John F. Kennedy" by Vincent T. Bugliosi