The “key man” had to have the ability to push all the right buttons and get those people-some unwittingly, with only a limited scope of knowledge of the overall plan-to take actions on his command. The catalyst behind the assassination had to have been a singular “driving force” who had to have connections to all the key people in multiple agencies of the federal government as well as to local officials in Dallas, Texas (the previous schemes in Chicago and Miami were most likely merely test runs to assure that all contingencies had been anticipated and that the men involved had been properly prepared for the real event). Edgar Hoover-who also had tentacles throughout the federal bureaucracy but not nearly equal to the powers that Johnson had amassed. Kennedy’s promise to “shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter the remnants to the wind” was being carried out and this infuriated almost everyone at the agency.Such a person had to be driven by passion, and there was no one in Washington who even came close to him in that qualification-certainly not the rather introverted, cerebral, pipe-smoking, tweed-jacketed Princeton alumnus who had previously presided over the CIA, nor the equally deluded and aged head of SOG (his term for “Seat of Government,” being his own government-issued heavy-duty desk chair) J. Saint John Hunt said that shortly before his death, his father had felt “deeply conflicted and deeply remorseful” that he didn’t blow the whistle on the plot at the time and prevent the assassination, but that everyone in the government hated Kennedy and wanted him gone in one way or another. Charles Harrelson was allegedly identified as the third tramp. Other researchers believe the “Hunt tramp” to really be Chauncey Holt, who apparently later confessed to the fact. Weberman, one of the founders of the Youth International Party, the Vippies, published photographs of the tramps and found that two of them bore striking similarities to Hunt and Frank Sturgis, also named by Hunt in the tape as having been played a role in the assassination conspiracy.Īsked for his opinion as to whether his father was indeed one of the Dealy Plaza tramps, Saint John, in a stunning revelation, said one of the tramps indeed looked much like his father did in 1963 (see comparison above).ĬIA operative Frank Stugis’ striking resemblance to one of the “tramps”. The so-called bums (pictured above) were interrogated and later released by authorities shortly after the assassination. Johnson was involved in the planning of the assassination and in the cover-up, stating that LBJ, “Had an almost maniacal urge to become president, he regarded JFK as an obstacle to achieving that.”Īsked if his father followed the conspiracy theories into the Kennedy assassination, Saint John said the elder Hunt did follow the work of AJ Weberman, a New York freelance writer, who in the early 70’s first accused Hunt of being one of three bums who were arrested in Dealy Plaza. Hunt alleges on the tape that then Vice President Lyndon B. Saint John Hunt agreed that the use of this term indicates that Hunt was willing to play a larger role in the murder conspiracy had he been required. Howard Hunt names numerous individuals with both direct and indirect CIA connections as having played a role in the assassination of Kennedy, while describing himself as a “bench warmer” in the plot. Hunt promises that the whole tape will be uploaded soon at his website. The tape was originally 20 minutes long but was edited down to four and a half minutes for the Coast to Coast broadcast. Hunt said that his father had mailed cassette the tape to him alone in January 2004 and asked that it be released after his death. Howard Hunt, appeared on the nationally syndicated Coast to Coast Live radio show to discuss the revelations contained in the tape. Howard Hunt admits he was approached to be part of a CIA assassination team to kill JFK was aired – an astounding development that has gone completely ignored by the establishment media. ( PP) The “deathbed confession” audio tape in which former CIA agent and Watergate conspirator E.