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14. What has been the chief obstacle to the criminal
investigation which you are conducting?
A.
There have been two major obstacles. First, the United
States government. Second, the American press. The
first obstacle. exists, of course, as the result of
intention. The second exists because the American press,
by and large, is unaware of the great change which has
occurred in the nature and character of the American
government. Its inability to recognize the arrival of
the warfare state is tragic because there is very little
real hope of rescue from its hidden inhumanity and its
tyranny so long as the press continues to believe that
nothing is happening.
Q.
15. The federal government has persistently resisted your
attempts to examine the Kennedy autopsy documents now
in the National Archives. Is it the government's
position at this time that their use in a criminal
proceeding for conspiracy to murder John F. Kennedy
would jeopardize the national security or is it argued
that it might offend Mrs. Onassis?
A.
The government's legal position in this matter has never
been very clear to me but it is really irrelevant anyway.
The release of genuine copies of the Kennedy autopsy
photographs and autopsy X-rays indeed would jeopardize
the national security -- from within -- because then
everyone in America would realize that the government
had been lying to the world about how John Kennedy was
killed.
However, it is unlikely that such a contingency will
occur. Just as the assassination was a professional
intelligence operation and just as the dissemination
of misleading information has been a professional
intelligence operation -- so the processing of alleged
"authentic documents" will be handled as a professional
intelligence operation. The probability is that in the
not too distant future documents purporting to be the
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