HSCA

HSCA
Abbreviation	HSCA
Formation	1976
Extinction	1978
Status	semi-captured
Type	investigatory
Interests	Martin Luther King/Assassination, John F. Kennedy/Assassination, Robert F. Kennedy/Assassination
Subpage	•HSCA/Premature deaths
Membership	•  Thomas N. Downing •  Henry B. Gonzalez •  Louis Stokes •  L. Richardson Preyer •  Walter E. Fauntroy •  Yvonne Brathwaite Burke •  Christopher Dodd •  Harold Ford Sr. •  Floyd Fithian •  Robert W. Edgar •  Samuel L. Devine •  Stewart McKinney •  Charles Thone •  Harold S. Sawyer

The US House Select Committee on Assassinations (HCSA) was a followup to the Hart-Schweiker and Church Committee hearings that had revealed CIA "ties" to assassinations. It was established in 1976 to investigate the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. It was given twelve months (later extended to sixteen) and hired 150 staff to complete its work.

Many honest members of the committee were seriously committed to discovering the truth, so the group should not be likened to whitewash investigations such as the Warren Commission of the 9/11 Commission. The HSCA reflected serious concern about the rise of assassination in USA as a political tool. It was semi-controlled by the cabal, but exposed some malfeasance. It was a stimulus to the growth of the supranational deep state.

Exposure

The chairman Frank Church holds a CIA poison dart gun that could cause either cancer or a heart attack.

The HSCA exposed some assassination technologies developed by the CIA. Frank Church dramatically displayed a CIA revealed dart gun that was capable of giving people either cancer or a heart attack (an interesting exposure when considering the fate of Allan Francovich, one of the foremost critics of the agency). It was also revealed to have stocks of shellfish toxin sufficient to kill thousands of people, violating a prohibition against using assassination for political purposes.

Cover-up

“Despite fairly effective efforts within Congress to sabotage the HSCA, the HSCA posed large problems for the Cabal. Honest investigators within the HSCA were more or less on the trail of the conspirators in JFK's killing. Many individuals involved in the Coup of ’63 were scheduled to testify before the HSCA. In order to prevent these actors from testifying, the death squads operated by the Cabal worked overtime. 21 people involved in the Coup who were subpoenaed to testify before the committee died under mysterious circumstances. Many died just before their scheduled testimony. For example, in 1977 seven senior FBI officials called to testify at the HSCA died within a six month period.”
Mark Gorton (2013) 

Many low- and mid-level spooks assassinated just before they were due to testify. A few more senior ones died sudden and voilent deaths which are widely believed related. George de Mohrenschildt, Lee Harvey Oswald's handler, was killed in March 1977 and John Paisley in September 1978.

Conclusion

In 1978 the HCSA issued its final report, concluding that Kennedy and Martin Luther King were very likely assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. Much of the HSCA's evidence was sealed for 50 years under Congressional rules.

Fall out

In the light of this pressure, the CIA was no longer seen as a safe base of operations, so "the decision was made to move many mechanisms of the secret government into the private sector". Peter Dale Scott suggests that these offshore milieux - such as Le Cercle and The Safari Club - were probably more or less unknown to CIA Director Admiral Stansfield Turner, so by the late 1970s, the deep state was more secure than ever.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Date
1960s	“After five decades, the mysteries behind the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X may finally get the scrutiny they deserve. A group consisting of relatives of the Kennedy and King families, as well as their confidantes and other prominent voices, is calling for a Truth and Reconciliation Committee to get to the bottom of these tragic murders.”	19 January 2019
Document:Fifty Years of the Deep State	“Honest investigators within the HSCA were more or less on the trail of the conspirators in JFK's killing. Many individuals involved in the Coup of '63 were scheduled to testify before the HSCA. In order to prevent these actors from testifying, the death squads operated by the Cabal worked overtime. 21 people involved in the Coup who were subpoenaed to testify before the committee died under mysterious circumstances. Many died just before their scheduled testimony. For example, in 1977 seven senior FBI officials called to testify at the HSCA died within a six month period.”

 

Known members

8 of the 14 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke	California politician and lawyer who sat on the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
Christopher Dodd	US lobbyist, lawyer and politician. MPAA CEO
Thomas Downing	Chairman of the House Select Committee on Assassinations
Walter E. Fauntroy
Floyd Fithian	US congressman and one of the fourteen members of the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
Stewart McKinney
L. Richardson Preyer	Democrat member of US House Select Committee on Assassinations
Louis Stokes	Leader of the 1976 House Select Committee on Assassinations

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