Published: Monday, Nov. 18, 2002

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November 18-22

Of the portentous events in American history which occurred in this week, the most significant by far was the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, on Nov. 22, 1963. President Kennedy's murder, and the subsequent failure of the U.S. Establishment and population to discover and tell the truth about its real authors, was the signal event in the transformation of the United States, from being the postwar superpower with the capability, and budding commitment, to a global mission of doing good, into becoming the post-industrial, would-be imperialist wreck that it is today.

As EIR founder Lyndon LaRouche has often pointed out, President Kennedy came into office with the potential, and strong inclination, to follow in the footsteps of the only great U.S. President in the 20th century, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. While surrounded by Utopian lunatics in the military and the foreign policy establishment—including the young Henry Kissinger and McGeorge Bundy—the World War II veteran Kennedy fought energetically against the One World government, Wellsian schemes which this crew hoped to ram through, now that they had the American military commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, out of the way.

President Kennedy's boldest initiative, taken only four months after he was inaugurated, was the announcement of the manned Moon mission, a mission which threatened to unleash the best scientific and moral capacity of the United States. But that was not all. Kennedy also came to be increasingly at loggerheads with his would-be controllers in the foreign-policy arena. He nixed some of the worst proposals (like that calling for the U.S. to carry out a bombing of a U.S. aircraft that would be blamed on the Cubans, and used as an excuse for war), fired Henry Kissinger, got through the Cuban Missile Crisis without being trapped into launching World War III, and was about to make the decision to deploy out of Vietnam, despite recommendations from his military advisers to commit a massive troop deployment to the area.

For all these reasons—but, more importantly, what the accomplishment of this directionality in foreign and economy policy would mean for the role of the United States—President John Kennedy was a threat to the British-American oligarchy which was determined to control the United States.

EIR's investigations over the years on the Kennedy assassination have been definitive in identifying the nexus which organized the murder, and the cover-up, of the murderers. The central institution involved was the Permindex organization, which was tied directly into circles around the British Monarchy, Prince Philip's World Wildlife Fund, and the Special Operations Executive. The tentacles of this institution extended into New Orleans (where they were investigated by District Attorney Jim Garrison), Canada (where they were represented by British intelligence agent Major Louis Mortimer Bloomfield), and Europe, where Permindex operatives were involved in the attempted assassination of French General Charles de Gaulle.

Looking behind the particulars, what is clear is that it was the high levels of British Intelligence, with its American collaborators, who were determined to get President Kennedy out of the way.

There's a long history of such British Intelligence-authored assassinations of American Presidents, ranging from Abraham Lincoln, to James Garfield, to William McKinley. In each case, the British were fearful of the threat to their financial and political control, from an emerging American republican power, led by an extraordinary leader occupying the Presidency of the United States. These oligarchical agents feared the President Kennedy would be one such leaders.
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