Fix the Bus

These were the men of the Star Chamber, who made the decision to have John Kennedy removed as President of the United States.

• John McCloy
• Allen Dulles
• Averell Harriman
• Henry Cabot Lodge
• Dwight Eisenhower

Their decision was all done under the guise of plausible deniability. All they said was that urgent regime change was necessary.

They never ordered him to be killed, but that was implicit.

All of these men were men of respect, beyond reproach,. They would never be challenged or thought of as possessing ill will.

Some may argue that these men were of such impeccable character that they would not do such a thing.

I argue that their so-called impeccable credentials and their knowledge of themselves as being untouchable led them to do such a thing.

Dwight Eisenhower was universally adored. Parades were held in his honor.  He was elected twice as President of the United States.

Who could possibly think ill of Dwight Eisenhower? Certainly not the greatest generation.

The other men of the Star Chamber were known to Washington insiders but largely unknown to the American public. This was the era where no Internet existed.

Harriman and Lodge, of course, had been elected to public office, so were known – but only to a local population.

Principally, they were names that were occasionally found in articles on the front page of the newspaper.

No one would conceivably look at these man and say: Oh, they are so evil.

For the most part, they operated in the background in the murky world of international intrigue, negotiation and trade deals.

Each one though, had his own particular axe to grind with John Kennedy.

Henry Cabot Lodge was part of the Lodge family, which had a long running battle with the Kennedy family over control of power in the state of Massachusetts.  Lodge had worked hard to help elect Ike as President of the United States in 1952. Lodge was Nixon’s running mate in 1960, and Eisenhower preferred that he return to the United States and run against Goldwater in 1964. Clearly Lodge was a trusted man, an elite man.

Allen Dulles,  the former Director of the CIA, was sacked by John Kennedy for his performance in the   Bay of Pigs operation.  Dulles was a graduate of Princeton and a former member of the OSS. His brother John Foster Dulles was Ike’s Secretary of State. Dulles was integral in the establishment of the Gehlen group which was comprised of former Nazi spies. Dulles knew many secrets.

Averell Harriman, who thought of himself as the most knowledgeable person on world affairs, was largely relegated to a second tier status within the Kennedy administration. This had to hurt his pride.  As the scion of the Hariman family which controlled Brown Brothers Harriman, this Skull and Bones member was heavily connected into the power structure of the ruling class in America.  

Dwight Eisenhower thought Kennedy was inexperienced. He thought he representative a cult of personality.  He also didn’t like his policies of what he felt represented exorbitant spending.

John McCloy, the ultimate corporate insider, and the representative of the Rockefeller family merely felt that Kennedy’s policies were unworkable.  McCloy was the agent of Chase Manhattan bank.  As a young man, fresh out of Harvard Law, ,he had personally tutored the young Rockefeller lads – Nelson and David.

All of them had dedicated their lives to enforce  a Pax Americana upon the globe.  Their goal unequivocally was for America to replace the British empire.

Along came an upstart named John Kennedy with a different vision. He articulated this vision most effectively in his speech at American University in June 1963 when he stated that we, America, did not desire to enforce a  Pax Americana upon the world.

In so doing he was repudiating the life’s work of these five men.

But it wasn’t just words at American University that doomed John Kennedy. He backed it up with actions by implementing Alliance for Progress in Latin America, independence for Indonesia, non-intervention in Vietnam, revoking the oil depletion allowance, a no invasion policy for Cuba, taking on US Steel, and many other actions among them an investment in technology in developing nations to lift them out of poverty. In this manner their out of control populations could be curbed. This was a quite different approach than your typical sterilization program that many elites in the United States and Europe subscribed to. Their approach was to keep developing nations poor, dumb and exploitable; and if their populations grew out of control, well, famine and the laws of Robert Malthus would take care of that.

What JFK believed was that America should be a partner with the other nations of the world to make them better. He did not believe that America should be a force of exploitation to benefit Corporate America.

And thus these five men in consultation with others made the executive decision to have John Kennedy removed from power.

There are no records, there are no transcripts, there are no photographs of their meeting although a good bet is that they met at Arden, the family home of the wealthy Harriman family in upstate New York.

Their life’s  work stands as testament to their deed.

All five men were heavily invested in Corporate America. All five men were heavily invested in America’s foreign intervention in other governments via the CIA.  All five men were highly supportive of the United States, overthrowing governments and engaging in assassinations.  

All were admirers of the bigot, Winston Churchill, who said of the Bengalis while they were dying of famine that they had brought this calamity upon themselves by breeding like rabbits. The leaders of Great Britain has said the same about the Irish in the 1840s.

Three of the men, McCloy, Dulles , and Eisenhower were responsible for the creation and establishment of the CIA.

Two of the men, McCloy and Harriman were heavily invested into the banking establishment of the United States.

Three of the men, Eisenhower, Harriman and Lodge, were political operatives who went far in helping establish our foreign policy before and after World War II.

Two of the men, Harriman and Lodge, were responsible for sending the vital communication which enabled the generals in Vietnam to assassinate President Diem thus altering the course of the Vietnam war.

Two of the men, McCloy and Dulles, worked at two of the most powerful law firms in the nation.  McCoy had worked at Cravath, Swain and Moore.   Dulles had worked at Sullivan and Cromwell, which figured prominently in the shenanigans of the United Fruit Company in Guatemala.

Two of the men, Dulles and McCloy sat on the Warren Commission investigating John Kennedy‘s death.

All men had known each other since World War II.

They knew each other socially. They knew each other professionally.

They were the 1890ers. All men were born in and about the years 1890 to 1895.   As such they were a generation ahead of John Kennedy.

They saw themselves as wiser more experienced men.

They were the creators of the New World Order and they were the apotheosis of fascism.

Someone had to make the executive decision to proceed with the removal of JFK.

It’s not possible that a minor figure undertook this decision on his own.

These were the men of the Star Chamber.

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