Just to keep the record straight .... Hosty did NOT deny the encounter with Jack Revill.... But Hosty DID attempt to lie his way clear of making the rash statement that the FBI knew that Lee Oswald was capable of murdering the President.
Jerry, we've all seen the slithering slime in Washington lie about some crooked enterprise that they have been involved in .... "Well that depends on what you mean by alone" ...."I did not have sex with that woman"
Well that's exactly what Hoover's letter to Rankin was....Hoover knew that Hosty had not said 'WE DIDN'T DREAM THAT HE'D DO IT" ....Hoover added that so that he could deny the entire statement of ..."We knew that he was capable of assassinating the President
but we didn't dream that he'd do it "Hosty knew that Lee had made the hollow threat that "Someone should shoot that S-O-B Kennedy" and Hosty was working under the scheme that Lee Oswald would be linked to Fidel Castro when he blurted that out to Jack Revill. Hosty thought the plan was to show that Lee Oswald was an agent of Fidel Castro, and use the murder of JFK as a pretext to attack Cuba.