Recently Declassified Documents Support The 1979 House Select Committee on Assassinations Conclusion That Former President John F Kennedy Was Probably Assassinated in a Conspiracy Involving Carlos Marcello

January 3rd, 2019

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In 1979, The House Select Committee on Assassinations report on JFK’s 1963 assassination included the following conclusions:

“The Committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that President

John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.”

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-1c.html

“(6) Carlos Marcello.–The committee found that Marcello had the motive, means and

opportunity to have President John F. Kennedy assassinated, (263) though it was unable to

establish direct evidence of Marcello’s complicity.”

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-1c.html#summary3

“(7) Santos Trafficante.–The committee also concentrated its attention on Santos Trafficante, the La Cosa Nostra leader in Florida. The committee found that Trafficante, like Marcello, had the motive, means, and opportunity to assassinate President Kennedy.”

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-1c.html#summary3

“The committee found that the quality and scope of the investigation into the possibility of an organized crime conspiracy in the President’s assassination by the Warren Commission and the FBI was not sufficient to uncover one had it existed. The committee also found that it was possible, based on an analysis of motive, means and opportunity, that an individual organized crime leader, or a small combination of leaders, might have participated in a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy. The committee’s extensive investigation led it to conclude that the most likely family bosses of organized crime to have participated in such a unilateral assassination plan were Carlos Marcello and Santos Trafficante. (261) While other family bosses on the commission were subjected to considerable coverage in the electronic surveillance program, such coverage was never applied to Marcello and almost never to Trafficante. (262)”

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-1c.html#summary3

While the 1979 House Select Committee on Assassinations report found that former president John F. Kennedy was “probably assassinated” in a conspiracy involving Marcello and Trafficante, it noted that it was unable at the time to establish “direct evidence” of Marcello’s involvement in JFK’s assassination.

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-1c.html#summary3

In 1993, the ‘79 House Select Committee on Assassinations Chief Counsel and Staff Director, G. Robert Blakey, wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post noting that the CIA had withheld critical information from the Warren Commission despite a presidential order requiring all government agencies to cooperate.

“When the Church Committee in the mid-’70s revealed that the CIA had plotted with the Mafia to kill Fidel Castro in the early ’60s, I remained only an interested observer. Yet the CIA, it appeared, had withheld this information from the Warren Commission despite a presidential directive to all governmental agencies to cooperate.”

In the 1993 Washington Post article, Blakey also essentially debunked the 1964 Warren commission’s conclusion that “the evidence does not establish a significant link between Ruby and organized crime…” by revealing clear connections between Jack Ruby and organized crime figures closely linked to Carlos Marcello. These revelations included the fact that Jack Ruby was close friends with a high ranking member of the Dallas mob under Marcello named Joseph Campisi, who dined with Ruby the night before JFK’s assassination at Campisi’s restaurant (the Egyptian Lounge) and who regularly visited Ruby in jail after Ruby shot and killed Oswald.

“Based on its evaluation of the record, however, the Commission believes that the evidence does not establish a significant link between Ruby and organized crime. Both State and Federal officials have indicated that Ruby was not affiliated with organized criminal activity.400 And numerous persons have reported that Ruby was not connected with such activity.”

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/appendix-16.html

“It is difficult to dispute the underworld pedigree of Jack Ruby, though the Warren Commission did it in 1964. Posner similarly ignores Ruby’s ties to Joseph Civello, the organized crime boss in Dallas. His relationship with Joseph Campisi, the No. 2 man in the mob in Dallas, is even more difficult to ignore. In fact, Campisi and Ruby were close friends; they had dinner together at Campisi’s restaurant, the Egyptian Lounge, on the night before the assassination. After Ruby was jailed for killing Oswald, Campisi regularly visited him. The select committee thought Campisi’s connection to Marcello was telling; he told us, for example, that every year at Christmas he sent 260 pounds of Italian sausage to Marcello, a sort of Mafia tribute. We also learned that he called New Orleans up to 20 times a day. ”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1993/11/07/murdered-by-the-mob/590c014a-a3b4-4f6d-b5a2-189249cd5663/?utm_term=.8589c119aeef

In 1994, Frank Ragano published “Mob Lawyer”. Frank Ragano was Carlos Marcello, Santos Trafficante, and Jimmy Hoffa’s attorney. In Mob Lawyer, Ragano claimed that he relayed a message from Hoffa to Trafficante and Marcello to murder the president (Kennedy). In his book, Ragano added that in 1987, shortly before Trafficante’s death, Trafficante admitted to Ragano that Trafficante and Marcello had killed the president (Kennedy) stating “I think Carlos f**ked up in getting rid of Giovanni (John) — maybe it should have been Bobby.”

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-684-19568-1

https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Santos_Trafficante_-_It_Should_Have_Been_Bobby.html

https://apnews.com/80182423bc7a738bde2714580b1ba911

In 2008, Lamar Waldron published “Legacy of Secrecy”. Legacy of Secrecy included a document from a 1986 FBI report stating that a reliable confidential source was told by Carlos Marcello on December 15th, 1985, that Marcello had former President John F. Kennedy assassinated. The FBI report included the following quote allegedly stated by Marcello:

“Yeah, I had the son of a bitch killed. I’m glad I did. I’m sorry I couldn’t have done it myself.” The reliable confidential FBI source was later identified as Carlos Marcello’s Texarkana prison cell mate and undercover FBI informant Jack Vanlaningham.

https://pagesix.com/2009/01/06/jfk-assassination-confession/

https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Legacy_of_Secrecy.html

Note – This document is available online from the Marry Ferrell Foundation website. Lamar Waldron stated in his follow up book to Legacy Of Secrecy, “The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination” that this record can now be found in person at the National Archives as record DL 283A-1035-Sub L.

In 2011, former FBI informant Jack Van Laningham posted on his own website that he had acted as an FBI informant in the FBI’s CAMTEX operation which secured admissions and evidence that linked Marcello to the ordered hit on former president John F. Kennedy.

“While in prison, Jack befriended one of the most brutal mob bosses in the world, Carlos Marcello. Carlos was made by Lucky Luciano and ran a crime network that spanned the entire south, including Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. His iron fist was not just limited to the U.S., as he also controlled the casinos in Cuba.

While in prison, Jack was approached by The FBI. They leaned on him and cajoled him to work as an informant. Jack served in the longest running FBI sting to date, called CAMTEX. Jack put his life on the line for over two years, securing admissions and evidence that linked Marcello to the ordered hit on John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa. Lamar Waldron’s “Legacy of Secrecy” outlines in great detail, Marcello’s ties to Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby…

The chess game between Marcello and Jack will be played out on the big screen in the movie “Legacy of Secrecy”, produced by and starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Van Laningham, and set for a November 2013 release”

http://jackvanlaningham.com/bio.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20111021224853/http://jackvanlaningham.com/bio.html

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2218442/

https://www.showbiz411.com/2013/05/16/dicaprio-deniro-russell-taking-on-jfk-assassination

As part of the 2017 JFK Assassination records release, it was revealed that Jack Ruby asked FBI informant Bob Vanderslice if he would “like to watch the fireworks” while facing the Texas School Book Depository Building in Dallas shortly before JFK was assassinated on the morning of November 22, 1963.

“The informant stated that on the morning of the assassination, Ruby contacted him and asked if he would ‘like to watch the fireworks,'” an FBI record dated April 6, 1977, says. “He was with Jack Ruby and standing at the corner of the Postal Annex Building facing the Texas School Book Depository Building at the time of the shooting. Immediately after the shooting, Ruby left and headed toward the area of the Dallas Morning News Building.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jack-ruby-lee-harvey-oswalds-killer-told-fbi-informant-to-watch-the-fireworks-day-jfk-died-documents/

Additional Resources:

https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/JFK_Assassination.html

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-1c.html

https://opensourcejfkresearch.wordpress.com/2019/01/03/best-information-on-the-jfk-assassination-1-year-after-the-2017-jfk-partial-records-release-research-as-of-10-2-18-2/