Oswald's assassination of Kennedy was guided by hardline Stalinist dissidents suggests new book

'Oswald's assassination of Kennedy was guided by hardline Stalinist
dissidents' suggests new book
By ANI | ANI – 6 hours ago

London, Oct. 24 (ANI): Nearly 50 years after the assassination of
President John F Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, a new
book has suggested that assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was guided by
hardline Stalinist dissidents.

According to the book, 'Spy Like No Other' by Robert Holmes, 3
diplomats, who were actually KGB officers, were involved in the Kennedy
assassination, and were attached to Department 13 of the First Chief
Directorate, specialising in "executive action" of sabotage and
assassination, the CIA said.

In his book, Holmes suggests that Kennedy was most likely the victim of
a rogue element within the KGB, hardline Stalinists who were, by
training and temperament, incapable of taking the humiliation of Cuba
lying down, the Telegraph reports.

According to the paper, Holmes said that they conspired behind the back
of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet premier, to take revenge on Kennedy,
whose cool but resolute stance, bolstered by overwhelming US superiority
in missiles and bombers, had forced the withdrawal of Russian
medium-range nuclear missiles from Fidel Castro's Cuba.

"Cuba was a humiliation of the first order for these men. They believed
in the Stalinist way of doing things: hit your enemy, and hit hard,"
said Holmes.

"Khrushchev and Kennedy didn't become friends in the wake of Cuba but
they were able to see eye to eye, to an extent. They were moving
forward, calming the world down. This group within the KGB didn't want
that; they wanted to fight. They thought Khrushchev should actually have
fired off atomic weapons, and were devastated when he yielded to
American pressure," he added.

He admits he could be wrong, but thinks a rogue element in the KGB is
more plausible than Mafia-CIA-Military-Industrial-Complex, and everyone
else besides, hypotheses, the paper said.

"There's more than a reasonable possibility. I would say that it is all
circumstantial evidence, but if there was evidence that would stand up
in court, we wouldn't be sitting here talking about it. None of the
Kennedy assassination theories would stand up in court. Other
assassination theories require some kind of leap of faith; with mine, it
is only a little step," he said. (ANI)

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