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because such participants are fearful of getting
killed if they talk.
Ideally, the most effective reply to an intelligence
assassination would be investigation by counter-
intelligence machinery. However, when your own
government is involved in the assassination, there
is no counter-intelligence - machinery to conduct the
investigation. At all events a county operation
cannot effectively bring to trial within the county
men who have participated in a national coup d'etat.
Q.
7.
Clay Shaw has told the press that he was one of Kennedy's
political supporters. It will be recalled that Oswald's
murderer, Jack Ruby, said the same thing. From your own
investigation, what was Shaw's political affiliation in
November, 1963? Lee Harvey Oswald's? Jack Ruby's?
David Ferrie's?
A.
The political affiliation of individuals working for a
powerful intelligence agency is not always relevant
with regard to a single mission. In my judgment the
primary motivating factor on the part of each individual
involved in the assassination was simply the fact that
he was participating in a mission. This has been parti-
cularly evident to us with regard to the agents of the
federal government who penetrated our office and interfered
with our efforts to get at the truth. There was no
apparent concern on their part with regard to the fate
that befell John Kennedy. They were each performing
a
mission.
To a technician working for a super-state a mission is
neither moral nor immoral -- one performs it because he
has received orders and because he likes his position
as part of a powerful organization. Eichmann, for
example, did not hate the Jews in Germany although he
transported millions of them to be killed. He was a
technician, pleased with his role as part of a powerful
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