Here are several takeaways of what Bobby Ray Inman told me on April 2, 2009: 1) He is convinced that Fidel Castro was behind the JFK assassination 2) He is totally convinced that the 1980 Reagan campaign, particularly campaign manager William Casey, made a deal with the Iranians to NOT release the American hostages until after the 1980 presidential election 3) Inman believes that Israel intentionally attacked the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967 (something that he has said many times before)
Robert Morrow – April 2, 2009 interview with Admiral Bobby Ray
Inman in his corner office at Gefinor Ventures in downtown Austin, TX
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Ray_Inman
http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/directory/faculty/bobby-inman
Here is what he said. Bobby Inman told me today that he will take to
his grave the conviction that Castro was behind the murder of JFK. He told me
that Castro knew in advance about the plans for the Bay of Pigs Invasion and
that if Castro had penetrated that, then surely he would know of Robert
Kennedy's plans to assassinate him with Operation Mongoose, the CIA and the
Mafia. So Inman that's that Casto killed JFK before the Kennedys could kill
him. The part that Inman could not figure out was the role of Jack
Ruby, except as to speculate that the Mafia was using Ruby as a way of covering
for the Kennedys, in case any word would leak out from Oswald regarding the
Kennedys' ties to the Castro assassination plans or the mafia.
[Footnote: when I asked Ron Paul about one
month ago who HE thought killed JFK, he speculated also that it had been
Castro, as a blowback against American attempts to kill him and interfere in
Cuban politics.]
Inman talked about Oswald going to the
Cuban Embassy in Mexico and said that Oswald had made a trip to Cuba.
I told Inman that I thought that Lyndon
Johnson was involved in the JFK assassination and he said, no, LBJ was not
involved because the Kennedy's had shut him completely out of anti-Castro
operations.
I asked Inman if Edward Lansdale or David
Atlee Phillips were involved in the JFK assassination, and he said no, they
were involved in anti-Castro efforts.
I asked Inman if George Herbert Walker
Bush had been a member of the CIA BEFORE his term as agency director began Jan.
30, 1976 - Jan 20, 1977. Inman said no, Bush was appointed to the CIA by Ford's
Chief of Staff Rumsfeld to get Bush out of politics, so he would be so tainted
by the CIA that he could not enter elective politics.
Inman also said that when Bush was head of
CIA that Inman, then at DIA, worked professionally very close with
Bush. Apparently, Inman and GHWB are close friends today that was the
impression that I got.
I showed Inman a James Files document,
with Inman's name on it and Inman had no idea what it was and said it was a
fabrication.
I asked Inman about Chip Tatum, former CIA
assassinations guy, who supposedly quit because he was asked to neutralize Ross
Perot in the 1992 election. Inman had not heard of Tatum and said it was
probably a story, not true at all.
I asked Inman if he thought the death of
William Colby (April 27, 1996) was a "hit" or an assassination. Inman
told me he did not know. Inman was certainly open to the possibility that it
could have been an assassination. He said that after Colby got sacked as head
of the CIA in the 70's, by Rumsfeld, because Colby was being too open with the
Church Committee that Colby suffered from fits of depression. Inman said that
Colby's wife later accepted that Colby's death was a suicide. Suicide by drowning,
I said? Yes Inman speculated as possible.
I asked Inman if he knew if E. Howard Hunt
had been paid off and by whom during Watergate and Inman said he did not know
anything about the Watergate burglars. He did mention that Nixon thought that
the anti-war protestors were being funded by Moscow and that perhaps this money
was flowing through the DNC. And the burglars thought that if they could get
inside Larry OBrien's office safe there would be proof of these ties.
I asked Inman about James Angleton and he
said that he had met him once and that Angleton was a "zealot" and a
"total paranoid." Inman talked about a damn good Moscow station chief
who had been axed because of someone's paranoia.
I asked Inman if he was sacked in 1994 as
a nominee for the Dept. of Defense by the pro Israel lobby. Inman said YES that
is exactly what happened. Israel and Ariel Sharon were feeding the US media and
US Jews stories that Inman was not a friend, even an enemy of Israel. Even
after Inman had withdrawn as a candidate, 2 rounds of anonymous phone calls
were made to the media that Inman really withdrew because he was a homosexual.
Inman had limited Israel to satellite maps of 250 miles around Israel when
Inman was in the government, after Israel bombed the Iraq nuclear generators. I
think Inman was at CIA at this time.
Inman said that he was completely convinced that William Casey was
making a deal with the Iranians in 1980 to delay the American hostages from
coming home. Inman said that he did not think George Herbert Walker Bush was
involved in this deal because Casey “hated” Bush.
Inman also told me
that William Casey wanted to engage the Russians and destabilize some of their
client states in Central Asia with covert operations. Inman, when he said this,
looked amazed at the brashness and boldness of William Casey.
I also talked to Inman
about the book Al Martin Conspirators: Confessions of an Iran Contra Insider.
When I mentioned the part about Jeb Bush and Oliver North being heavily
involved in drug smuggling in the 1980’s, Inman appeared uncomfortable. Inman
told me that he had investigated Agency drug smuggling of the early 1970’s …
and, yes, it was occurring, but he emphasized that these were former CIA
employees.
Likewise, when I mentioned to Inman that I thought that Allen Dulles was tending to the Agency’s business on the Warren Commission, Inman gave me the look of a kid who has been caught with his arm half way down a cookie jar.
FOLLOW
UP INTERVIEW WITH ADM. INMAN on March
23, 2018 at 5:45PM
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