#1284 – Dan Hardway

Dan, an attorney, worked with Edwin Lopez and Robert Blakey in the HSCA This interview from 2017, show #822 The HSCA Lopez-Hardway Report, Oswald, the CIA, and Mexico City When Dan was getting too close to certain issues, CIA brought in George Joannides Joannides covered-up David Phillips' propaganda activities linking Oswald to Castro Phillips was not rogue, possibly he was used from within the Agency Dan did this work 40 years ago, he has not had the time to keep up with research There was Intelligence involvement in setting up the cover-up in advance Was CIA involved in the assassination? We tried not to speculate Is CIA suspect? Yes. Evidence? Clearly enough to merit further investigation The built-in function of plausible deniability, propaganda, black operations Oswald could not have been set up better, very sophisticated, detail and coordination OurHiddenHistory's Oswald, the CIA, and Mexico City audiobook There is evidence Oswald went to Mexico City. Did he go? I don't know Evidence, indications, testimony, records, questionable A distinct possibility he could have been impersonated in Mexico City The kind of details we get hung up in, in an Intelligence operation, we can expect Pretty sure a photo was obtained and a tape recording survived, they ended up in Dallas FBI saw a photo and heard a tape, neither one of them were of Oswald Gary Cornwell wasn't very supportive of Dan and Eddie Most HSCA staffers were at least agnostic on the issue of conspiracy Eddie and Dan got a lot of insulation from Bob (Blakey) Sprague and Tanenbaum, went in thinking they could act like prosecuting attorneys A Congressional Investigation could not indict, did not have prosecutor authority When it blew up, they left, a huge mess, doubt whether it would finish What Blakey could do was produce a report and suggest legislation Dan started in the dark, they found the basis of what the ARRB found and disclosed Cover-up does not prove conspiracy, other possible motivations to cover-up CIA admitted participating in a benign cover-up, Thank You Phil Shenon (10/2015) Dan's blog, realhillbillyviews.blogspot.com CIA was declassifying the Lopez-Hardway report at three days per four paragraphs Someone, maybe CIA, made marginalia notes in the declassified draft People plotting to kill Castro, could have been in on killing Kennedy It takes painstaking work to pull out the threads and make the connections It's now a historical rather then a forensic investigation Select Committees are limited in time, purpose, and funding Speculation, animosity about the King investigation, Southern congressman Mickey Goldsmith, sharp, supportive, backed up Dan and Eddie with CIA Our motto was "Reality is Irrelevant" The Prosecutor's Tale (July 14, 2016) Play Dan Hardway   (13:13)   Youtube 50 Reasons for 50 Years... Episode #44 Information They Were Seeking Presenter - Dan Hardway Dan Hardway served as an investigator for the HSCA late 1970s Along with colleague Ed Lopez, Hardway was assigned to the CIA file The information they developed was immediately classified In this series exclusive, Hardway discusses his experiences