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"menu boy" <ilSTOPITmobix@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:5d7fe.4068-bH1.131@trndny08...
> was obstructed by two of the CIA's most potent allies:
> the major media and friendly public figures. In the latter
> category, Olmsted especially highlights the deadly role of Henry
> Kissinger. But as Victor Marchetti revealed to me, there was also
> something else at work behind the scenes. In an interview in his
> son's office in 1993, Marchetti told me that he never really
> thought the Agency was in danger at that time. He stated that
> first, the CIA had infiltrated the staff of Church's committee
> and, second, the Agency was intent on giving up documents only in
> certain areas. In Watergate terminology, it was a "limited-
> hangout" solution to the problem of controlling the damage.
>
> The Escape Route
>
> The issue that had ignited so much public interest in the
> hearings had been that of assassination. CIA Director Bill Colby
> very clearly drew the line that the CIA had never plotted such
> things domestically. Colby's admission was a brilliant tactical
> stroke that was not appreciated until much later. First, it put
> the focus on the plots against foreign leaders that could be
> explained as excesses of anti-communist zealotry (which is
> precisely what the drafters of Church's report did). Second, all
> probes into the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK would be off-
> limits. The Church Committee would now concentrate on the
> performance of the intelligence community in investigating the
> death of JFK; not complicity in the assassination itself. This
> distinction was crucial. As Colby must have understood, the
> Agency and its allies could ride out exposure of plots against
> Marxists and villains like Castro, Patrice Lumumba of the Congo
> and Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic. The exposure of
> domestic plots aga
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