The Warren Omissions by Jack Patterson

against the U.S. JFK ordered a mission into Cuba to overthrow Castro that was severely botched. It told us one thing: JFK didn’t have the guts to launch a full-scale war. Those theories that the CIA wanted JFK dead because Lyndon Johnson was more likely to take U.S. troops into the Vietnam conflict—it makes sense.”
    “I’m following you so far. What are you getting at?”
    “There’s more. What happened after JFK was assassinated? Russian President Nikita Khruschev became erratic about how he wanted to handle defense. Some times he wanted to take a hard-line approach; other times he preferred diplomacy. But when he came out in the summer of 1964 and said he wanted to talk about reaching an arms treaty with the U.S., Khruschev’s own political party shuttled him out faster than he could say, ‘nuclear bomb.’”
    “I’m still waiting for your point.”
    “I think the Kuklovod was trying to start a war back then—and they might be trying to do the same thing today ... in the exact same way. Except this time, they have a president who has no qualms about launching a missile in our direction.”
    Osborne remained quiet.
    “So, what do you think?”
    “Well, it’s a good theory. Not sure how much of it you can prove.”
    “I don’t care about proving it at this point. All I want to do is set every law enforcement agency on high alert for tomorrow’s speech at the U.N. The last thing I want to write about is another assassination attempt. I want to write about the one nobody’s ever been able to figure out—until now.”
    “I think you’ve got some good points, points that would be taken seriously if you were still an operative. But I just don’t see how going on television is going to create more intense security measures tomorrow.”
    “Trust me, it will. Besides, the American public deserves to know that there’s a group trying to infiltrate this country and wreak havoc.”
    “Why do they deserve to know? The public barely knows a shred of the truth when it comes to what’s really going on in this country anyway.”
    “They deserve to know because this group killed our President and now they’re trying to make a move again.”
    “Letting the American people stay in the dark about JFK isn’t the worst thing that could happen to them.”
    “Yeah, but it is if this group somehow gets a foot hold again. Do you even know what   Kuklovod   means?”
    Of course, Osborne knew. He didn’t waste his Russian degree from Princeton.
    “Yes. It means   puppeteer   ,” Osborne said.
    “Exactly. And they’re pulling the strings again. This has got to stop.”
    “No, what has to stop is you. I’m only going to say this one more time, so listen closely: you don’t know what this organization is capable of doing. For your own sake, just let it go.”
    “Just hear me out, Osborne. If the Kuklovod is active again, who knows what their end game is. But all signs are pointing toward a repeat of history.”
    “Fine, post all your cockamamie theories on The National ’s blog site. Just please tell me you’re not going to get on television with these accusations. I’m begging you.”
    Flynn decided to side step the question. “Now how could I do that so quickly?”
    ***
    IT WAS ONLY SEVEN O’CLOCK, which gave Flynn less than two hours to convince one of the cable news network programs being broadcast in New York City that he had discovered who was behind the JFK assassination. If he were anyone else, it would be an impossible task. But his name was James Flynn.
    He placed a call and within minutes he was heading down to one of the area studios to share his theory with the world—a theory with proof.
    It was a risky proposition at best, blurting out who killed JFK without all the hard concrete evidence necessary to publish an article. But there wasn’t time. If the Kuklovod was active on American soil again, Flynn needed to do what he could to get law enforcement looking for them, if not for