French President Charles De Gaulle believed the JFK assassination was a high level domestic American conspiracy and the International Herald Tribune reported this on Oct. 19, 1967
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From a 10/20/1967 Washington Post article, “De Gaulle Viewed Death of JFK as Conspiracy,” based on the previous day’s International Herald Tribune:
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Paris, Oct. 19, 1967
To the large body of frenchmen who believe
President Kennedy was the victim of a deep conspiracy, the chief Frenchman himself
has now been added – President De Gaulle.
A new book by historian Raymond
Tournoux, France’s leading and respected De Gaulle authority, quotes the
General as saying:
“The police were in on the job. Either
they ordered it to be done, or else they allowed it to be done. In any case,
they are in on the job.”
According to Tournoux, this was De
Gaulle’s considered conclusion upon his return from Kennedy’s Washington
funeral in late 1963.
The General’s views are reported in
Tournoux’s new study, “La Tragedie du General” (The General’s Tragedy). It will
be published in a few days, although the magazine Paris-Match has already published
extracts.
(Asked in Washington if the White
House was aware of sentiments attributed to De Gaulle, President Johnson’s
press secretary George Christian said, “I have never heard of this until this
moment.”)
Tournoux, who gathered his material
from exhausting research, among the persons with whom the General talks freely,
reports the following:
In his refusal to believe that the
Kennedy assassination could have been the work of a lone fanatic, de Gaulle
compared it to assassination attempts against himself here in France.
“His story is my story. What happened
to Kennedy almost happened to me. The assassination of the President of the
United States in Dallas is the assassination which could have struck down the
French Chief of State in 1960, 1961, 1962, here or in Algiers.”
De Gaulle also saw a parallel between
the already mounting conflict between whites and Negroes in America and the struggle
between Algerian Moslems and Europeans as a background to the assassination
attempt.
“It’s like a cowboy and Indian story.
But it’s really only an OAS story. “The OAS, or Secret Army Organization, was a
terrorist group which fought to keep Algeria French.)
“The police are thick with the
(Algerian) ultras. The (American) ultras are the Ku Klux Klan, the John Birch
Society and all those secret extreme rightist associations.
“It’s the story which would have
happened to us if we hadn’t given independence to Algeria. It’s the story of
races who can’t get along.”
For the General, Lee Harvey Oswald was
only an unfortunate “front man” designated in advance as the scapegoat to set
off an anti-Communist “which hunt” to “distract attention.”
“They got hold of this Communist who
wasn’t really one, a nullity, a fanatic …a marvelous accused. The idea was to
make people believe that the guy acted out of fanaticism and love for Communism.”
The General said “they” planned to
shoot Oswald on sight to prevent a trial, but things went wrong. Oswald got suspicious
and took flight. A policeman got killed. There were witnesses. A trial had to
be avoided at all cost. Things might have come out.
“So the police got hold of an
informer, someone they had where they wanted him. That guy killed the false
assassin on the pretext of defending Kennedy’s memory.”
“What a laugh,” concluded the General.
“Every police in the world is alike when it comes to dirty work.”
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Charles de Gaulle, who was almost assassinate by the OSA, was convinced
that the JFK assassination was a high level domestic USA plot
Gene
Kelly post (9-28-2022) at Education Forum
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It is instructive to recall Charles de Gaulle's reaction. When
de Gaulle moved to end the French war in Algeria, he induced a strong reaction
from his military and far-right circles, including several assassination attempts
and a coup. De Gaulle was convinced that the French military coup attempts
against him in spring 1961 were instigated by the CIA. President Kennedy told
the French ambassador that he (JFK) was not in full control of his own
intelligence agency. And when JFK was assassinated in Dallas, President de
Gaulle confided that Kennedy was the victim of the same national security
forces that had targeted him. David Talbot addresses this in "The Devil's
Chessboard" and quotes the French President:
“What happened to Kennedy is what nearly happened to me ... His story
is the same as mine ... It looks like a cowboy story, but it’s only an OAS
story. The security forces were in cahoots with the extremists.”
Talbot also highlights the similarities of JFK's murder with the
plot to bring down Charles De Gaulle - the people involved (retired French
generals, rightwing French, poopoo sympathizers, and White Russians), the role
of Allen Dulles, the motive behind it (Algerian independence and fear of
Communist stronghold in strategic, oil-rich North Africa) - all bear an
eerie similarity to the circumstances surrounding the assassination of
JFK. His summary quote about Dulles is right on the money ... Dulles’s
job was to hijack the US government to benefit the wealthy.
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June, 16, 1975 Guardian and Chicago Tribune articles:
The CIA says that it was asked by French hard right radicals in 1965 for help
in murdering Charles De Gaulle
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link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/16/general-de-gaulle-cia-assassination-plot-1975#comments
The
Guardian, June 16, 1975:
This morning’s Chicago Tribune reports
that congressional leaders have been told by CIA officials
that French dissidents approached the CIA 10 years ago to ask for American help
in a conspiracy to kill the French President.
The killer was to be an “old soldier.”
He was to wear a poisoned ring on one of his fingers. And he was to shake the General’s hand in what the Tribune said today would
have been “a clasp...of lethal friendship.”
According
to the newspaper in an exclusive copyrighted story that indicates no sources or
dateline, a CIA officer travelled to Capitol Hill within the past fortnight to
brief Senators and Congressmen on the kind of stories they can expect to
unearth when they read the Rockefeller Commission’s censored (by President
Ford) section on political assassinations; and what to expect when the two
congressional select committees begin to investigate the subject.
In the secret briefing, the CIA man
reportedly told the Congressmen that French dissidents – the Algerian
connection was not mentioned, but the plot was allegedly hatched after the
failure of the 1961 and 1962 OAS attempts on the General’s life – had made
contact with the CIA in 1965 and 1966.
At the time, the Johnson administration
was less than happy with de Gaulle, who was by then an ardent opponent of the
Vietnam war, and had thrown US servicemen out of French military bases.
The plan,
as reportedly put to the CIA, involved infiltrating an agent, wearing the
poisoned ring – perhaps with a curare-tipped
needle on its outer surface – into a group of old soldiers attending a
reception at which the General would appear.
The agent
would wait in line to have his hand shaken, deliberately lagging so that the
General would be tired and his hand would be numb from shaking the hands of so
many more enthusiastic soldiers.
Finally,
that “clasp...of lethal friendship,” and the General would fall to the ground
while the assassin strolled calmly off into the throng.
The
tribune’s sources could not say if the CIA had ever done more than entertain
the plan; no evidence
exists, the paper says, to show that Mr Johnson knew anything of this; and no
one will say if the ring wearing old soldier ever existed.
Only one
thing is certain: de Gaulle is dead. He collapsed watching television at his
home in Colombey-les-deux-Eglises.
