re: Ron Paul: "Coup" Against America Happened In 1963 When Kennedy Was "Murdered By CIA”

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If the CIA killed Kennedy it wasn’t due to his lack of support for the military complex or his support for Paperclip

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Is that JFK memo to the CIA about UFOs real?
April 21, 2011, 12:01 PM CDT / Source: Space.com
By By Natalie Wolchover

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A story that combines UFO cover-ups with the assassination of John F. Kennedy is a gold mine for conspiracy theorists. And that's just what author William Lester says he uncovered while conducting research for a new book on Kennedy: a memo written by JFK and addressed to the CIA in which the president requests confidential information about UFOs. In the never-before-seen, top secret memo supposedly written on Nov. 12, 1963, the president ordered the CIA director to organize the agency's intelligence files relating to UFOs, and to debrief him on all "unknowns" by the following February. Ten days later, Kennedy was assassinated.

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Alternatively, even if the burned memo is fake but the newly surfaced memo is real, there are several perfectly logical reasons why Kennedy might have written it. Lester believes the president was interested in UFO intelligence for three reasons.

First, Lester said, Kennedy was concerned that UFOs seen by the Soviets would be misinterpreted by them as being U.S. aircraft behaving provocatively. This may be what Kennedy implied when he (allegedly) wrote, "It is important that we make a distinction between known and unknowns in the event the Soviets try to mistake our extended cooperation as a cover for intelligence gathering of their defense or space programs."

The second reason for Kennedy's inquiry could have been his obvious interest in space travel; at the time of his (alleged) writing, NASA was a new agency, Lester explained, and "the whole question of outer space and life in outer space was at the forefront of everybody's thinking."

Third, there was a natural concern about UFOs at the time due to a spurt of incidents thought to be sightings. In the 1960s, nearly everyone was interested in UFOs — JFK, NASA, the CIA and citizens alike.

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