David Phillips and the Abort Team?

[steve manning]

The more I think about the question of whether this was just a cover story or not and whether, two more questions have become clear to me:1. If the CIA was serious about stopping the assassanation, why wouldn't they have got the "orders" to at least a few of the more accessible agents already in the plaza? Namely, James Files? Seems much easier than flying a team in from Florida?2. This also makes me wonder what was really going through David Phillips mind. Would he have known the truth about the matter? He could've surely told Files to walk away, etc.Does this mean it for sure had to be a phony story? Does it suggest then that as one guy said, if there was a real "abort team" they were men who really didn't want JFK to die. Again, what about Roselli? He was with the Abort Team? It all seems to pivot on his wherever his personal loyalties really lied?

[ThomZajac]

steve manning wrote:The more I think about the question of whether this was just a cover story or not and whether, two more questions have become clear to me:1. If the CIA was serious about stopping the assassanation, why wouldn't they have got the "orders" to at least a few of the more accessible agents already in the plaza? Namely, James Files? Seems much easier than flying a team in from Florida?2. This also makes me wonder what was really going through David Phillips mind. Would he have known the truth about the matter? He could've surely told Files to walk away, etc.Does this mean it for sure had to be a phony story? Does it suggest then that as one guy said, if there was a real "abort team" they were men who really didn't want JFK to die. Again, what about Roselli? He was with the Abort Team? It all seems to pivot on his wherever his personal loyalties really lied?Steve, I think it was pretty clear that the CIA was serious having the president killed, NOT stopping the assassination, and that you are putting way too much credibility in the notion that a true abort order may have been given. Again, as far as I know, there are only two sources for the abort order story; Tosh Plumlee and James Files. I think it very likely that Plumlee was given disinformation so that he wouldn't know that he had ferried in agents to SUPPORT the assassination. Files is more difficult for me to understand, but I think Tom is right on the money in the Cover Your Ass explanation; i.e. CIA agents weren't at Dealy Plaza to KILL the president, they were there to PROTECT him. I case things got hot, the players needed deniability.

[Bruce P. Brychek]

Wednesday
11.20.2024
12:37a.m.,
Chicago, Illinois time:

Dear Global Members & Readers:

08.29.2009 - Steve Manning & Thom Zajac Posted & began a brilliant conversation
on David Phillips and the Abort Team.

Much since then has been said & written.

Today ?

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