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A Special Team from Military Intelligence Was Sent to Dallas

Two veteran Military intelligence operatives—Richard Case Nagell, documented in the book The Man Who Knew Too Much, and William Robert Plumlee—have come forward with information dramatically changing the landscape surrounding the JFK assassination as we now know it.

The testimony of William Robert “Tosh” Plumlee contained some important revelations. It’s authentic because he’s the “real deal”: I showed you his intelligence bona fides in the earlier entry in the evidence section, “Oswald was a U.S. intelligence operative.”

Plumlee’s background was profiled in the book, Dead Wrong. His testimony is still considered too hot to handle; most of it remains under seal and classified “Top Secret, Committee Sensitive,” and it revealed some very important information that we had not known previously.

A “rescue team” was flown into Dallas by U.S. military intelligence.⁴⁸³ The team members referred to it as an “abort team,” because it was to abort an assassination attempt. You might be asking yourself the question: Why didn’t they just tell the Secret Service to stop President Kennedy’s motorcade trip? But as you’ll soon see in the testimony of Secret Service Special Agent Abraham Bolden, for some reason there was a tight clampdown for national security purposes. In fact, in Chicago, the President’s trip plans were cancelled—and then the Secret Service was ordered to destroy all evidence of the cancellation, as well as the foiled conspiracy plot that was the reason for the cancellation. So there were apparently other forces at work and—for whatever reason—in Dallas it apparently wasn’t deemed feasible to simply “tell the Secret Service.” After Chicago, there were also conspiracy plots in Miami and Tampa, and those were apparently foiled by successful U.S. intelligence intervention. So in Dallas, they apparently planned to successfully intervene again.

Instead they flew in a special team—military intelligence with CIA logistical support. They were well-trained and knew what to look for. Plumlee co-piloted that flight into Dallas on the morning of November 22, 1963, and went with team members into Dealey Plaza. He testified to all this in Congress. I can’t show you his Congressional testimony, but Plumlee has also documented most of the facts in a sworn legal affidavit that was published in 2012. That testimony reads like a real spy thriller, made all-the-more real because of its historical significance in the JFK case:

Upon reaching Dealey Plaza, the Intel Team split in three directions, looking for three or more shooters or teams that could form a triangulated crossfire. I was asked to act as a spotter, reconnoitering the south knoll in this operation with my friend and operational partner, “Sergio.”

We were also looking for a diversionary act, something that would give shooters an opportunity to secretly set up. Therefore, while people were congregating around Elm Street and the Book Depository and we heard sirens coming closer, instead of looking toward the commotion, we looked away from it, scanning the perimeter and looking for a shooter or shooters attempting to set up triangulation shooting in a kill zone that we had identified.

We arrived at the plaza too late to abort the assassination; there was not enough time, our people were not in position and our communications between scattered team members were very poor.⁴⁸⁴

That affidavit also showed us that Chicago mobster Johnny Roselli (whom Plumlee knew and transported on many occasions) was so well known in the CIA/military intelligence operations against Cuba that he was even given an operational cover name: Colonel Ralston. Plumlee flew Rosselli to locations many times and also took Roselli’s fellow Chicago hit man, Chuck Nicoletti, to certain locations on behalf of U.S. intelligence:

I piloted many covert missions for the United States government in the years just prior to the assassination of President Kennedy. John Roselli, also known to me by his intelligence codename “Colonel Ralston” a.k.a. “Rawlston” was a passenger on many of my flights in Florida, Cuba, and Texas. I knew Roselli was part of covert intelligence operations and I have personally had irrefutable confirmation on many occasions to that fact.

Roselli was so well-known in covert Intel circles that he was usually referred to simply as “The Colonel.” I was aware of the ongoing assassination attempts toward Fidel Castro at the time.

I also transported Charles Nicoletti on two separate occasions; to Santa Barbara, California and Las Vegas, Nevada. I knew Nicoletti as “Raven”; a codename given to me by my case officer as the person I was to transport.⁴⁸⁵

Plumlee has a new book this year that details his actions even more; it’s appropriately entitled, Deep Cover, Shallow Graves.⁴⁸⁶

Now get this: Mobster Johnny Roselli was on that flight into Dallas with the Special Team:

I co-piloted a flight that infiltrated a Military intelligence team into Dallas on the morning of November 22, 1963, in an attempt to abort the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This mission was at the direction of the Pentagon with CIA logistical support. John Roselli was a passenger on that flight. Intelligence for our mission, after some confusion, had identified Dealey Plaza as the sight for the operation of an assassination attempt.⁴⁸⁷

Plumlee’s description of the events of that day also confirms that there were multiple shooters from multiple directions. It was a highly compartmentalized mission—this was big stuff.

I do not know the names of most of the men who were on that mission because those type of operations are intentionally structured in a manner that minimizes individual knowledge.

In “Black Operations,” one does not ask questions of others— that is an unwritten rule. The official post-mission debriefing took place at West Palm Beach, Florida on November 25, my birthday. That debriefing was conducted by Rex Beardsley, Bob Bennette and Tracy Barnes.⁴⁸⁸

So—we now know that U.S. intelligence was not only aware of the earlier conspiracy plots against President Kennedy’s life in Chicago, Miami, and Tampa—it was also aware of the conspiracy plot in Dallas and even got a Spec Op Team into Dealey Plaza that almost prevented the assassination.

And we also know that, just like with the earlier plots, for some reason even for the Secret Service, it was all very hush-hush; paper trails disappeared on all of those plots and on intelligence efforts to abort them. And agents were told not to write anything down or say anything to anybody, but to just forget it ever happened.⁴⁸⁹

⁴⁸³ Belzer & Wayne, Dead Wrong, 111–115.

⁴⁸⁴ Ibid.

⁴⁸⁵ Ibid.

⁴⁸⁶ Robert Plumlee, Deep Cover, Shallow Graves (TrineDay: 2013).

⁴⁸⁷ Belzer & Wayne, Dead Wrong, 111–115.

⁴⁸⁸ Ibid.

⁴⁸⁹ Bolden, The Echo From Dealey Plaza; Waldron & Hartmann, Ultimate Sacrifice; Belzer & Wayne, Dead Wrong.