Recently, Vincent Salandria brought to my attention an item that illuminates further the nature of the internal squabblings within state power during the early sixties that place in context the elimination of John F. Kennedy.

A memoir by journalist Willie Morris describes visits by Morris to Allen Dulles not long before Dulles's death. [1] During an evening at Dulles's Georgetown residence, the inveterate raconteur regaled Morris with spy stories and his many years serving state and private power. As Dulles escorted Morris about, he suddenly blurted out the remark: "That little Kennedy...he thought he was a god." Morris was dumbfounded, but did not attempt to press Dulles on the meaning of the remark.

Dr. E. Martin Schotz has looked at Dulles's statement with the critical acuity flowing from his experience as a child and adult psychiatrist. Schotz notes that what we say about others and the world around us always reflects something of what we feel about ourselves. Is it implausible to reason that Dulles was expressing his resentment of Kennedy, who had the audacity to fire God, the one true God? One does not have to accept Dr. Schotz's analysis to see this remark as anything other than the expression of contempt by one man for another.

Dulles's small remark goes considerably further (not that the record is not already replete) in belieing the propagandistic notion fostered by the media and certain writers on the assassination that Dulles was enamored of Kennedy, that he was so concerned for the Kennedys he went so far as to join the Warren Commission to prevent the public from scrutinizing Kennedy sins. Did the man who made the above sinister remark care a whit about protecting Kennedy medical secrets, or about representing JFK's policies as anything other than the very worst manifestation of U.S. interventionism?

The Dulles remark, coupled with the research of the past thirty years, and even a cursory study of real existing foreign policy and those who effectuated it in the early 60s, tell us precisely who killed John Kennedy and why.

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