wo years after the Warren Commission findings were made public the Assassination's Committee (another group investigating JFK's wrongful death) found that there were at least two shooters and that there probably was a conspiracy. CIA operative Robert Morrow explains "I bought the three Manlicher rifles that would be used to shoot Kennedy and I supplied Kennedy's three hit squads with communication devices more sophisticated than any previously designed" (Morrow xi). Two men sniper teams are often used by the military where one-man fires and the other retrieves the shells and acts as a lookout (Groden 225). Several teams of two snipers would ensure the assassination as well as make the assassination appear that it was performed by a lone gunman (Morrow 190). Eyewitnesses that claim to have heard automatic weapons or actually several different shooters firing simultaneously would also support this. Other eyewitnesses claim to have heard shots fired from the knoll, saw smoke and some even said they smelled gunpowder behind the fence (Lane 43-45). At the time of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, an unsuccessful attempt by United States-backed Cuban exiles to overthrow the government of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, the CIA had gone from an intelligence gathering and coordinating agency to one that overthrew governments and plotted the assassination of foreign leaders. The secrecy of this agency was controlled strictly on an individual need to know basis. There were divisions within the CIA that blamed and hated Kennedy for its failure at the Bay of Pigs. In addition, the agency knew that Kennedy's Vietnamization policy (NSAM #263) was the first step involved in its elimination. The CIA had to kill Kennedy to save themselves. After the assassination, the cover-up began and Oswald was set up as the easy mark. Only an agency trained in covert operations could possess the capabilities needed to initiate the assassination and the power to cover up th...
