The KGB Sabotaged Presidential Protection Before Assassinating JFK

[Anthony Frank]

Part 1

Four KGB officers inside the CIA, all of whom had been “detailed” to the Secret Service, were riding in the Secret Service follow up car. One of them was running board agent Tim McIntyre. The KGB officers knew that there would be a problem if the other three running board agents, Landis, Ready, and Hill, took action to protect the President when the gunfire began. If it were going to be a successful assassination, the KGB officers most certainly had to do something about the other three running board agents.

McIntyre’s partner, KGB officer Glen Bennett, took decisive action to make sure the three agents would not be a problem. Warren Commission Exhibit 1020 contains a news article stating that Secret Service agents were “in the Fort Worth Press Club the early morning of Friday, November 22, some of them remaining until nearly 3 a.m. . . . . They were drinking. One of them was reported to have been inebriated.”

It also states that after leaving the Press Club at “nearly 3 a.m.,” the Secret Service agents went to “an all-night beatnik rendezvous called ‘The Cellar.’”

Secret Service Chief James Rowley testified to the Warren Commission that Bennett and the three running board agents that needed to be disabled, Landis, Ready, and Hill, had participated in the drinking and late night activity. They all had to wake up early, get ready, and report for the 8 a.m. shift, just a few short hours after their all-night partying with Bennett.

Secret Service Chief Rowley wrote a letter to the Warren Commission stating, “The first duty of agents in the motorcade is to attempt to cover the President as closely as possible and practicable and to shield him by attempting to place themselves between the President and any source of danger . . . . Agents are instructed that it is not their responsibility to investigate or evaluate a present danger, but to consider any untoward circumstances as serious and to afford the President maximum protection at all times.”

Special Agent Landis, who was assigned to the right rear running board, is just one example of a Secret Service agent not being able to perform his “first duty” of affording the President “maximum protection at all times.” In the agents’ reports on the drinking incident, Landis admitted that he did not leave the all-night beatnik rendezvous, otherwise known as The Cellar, until “approximately 5:00 a.m.”

Landis’s report states that after he arrived at Dallas Love Field at 11:35 a.m., less than an hour before the assassination, he “walked to where the motorcade vehicles were parked.” He then stood by the Presidential follow-up car and thought it would be funny to ask Special Agent Kinney, the agent who would be driving the follow-up car, where the follow-up car was. In Landis’s own words, “I remember speaking to him and standing by the follow-up car and jokingly asking him if he could tell me where the follow-up car was.”

Landis also “walked over to Special Agent Win Lawson just to double check to see if I was still assigned to work the follow-up car as had previously been arranged.” (Landis was clearly hoping against hope that he would not have to stand upright on an outside running board.)

Landis wrote that when the Presidential follow-up car “started moving,” he was standing “with my right leg on the running board and my left leg up and over and inside the follow-up car. I stayed in this position until we were leaving the airport area and remarked that, ‘I might as well get all the way in,’ and I did so.”

Landis wrote that after he climbed all the way into the Presidential follow-up car and sat down, Roberts told him to “get back on the outside running board ‘just in case.’” As the highest-ranking Secret Service agent in the car, KGB officer Emory Roberts certainly did not want to be scrutinized for allowing Landis to sit inside the car during the assassination. Roberts knew, however, that Landis was in no shape to be on guard against a Presidential assassination.

Landis wrote that when the Presidential limousine and the follow-up car were turning left onto Elm Street to go past the Texas School Book Depository, which would be the only building on the President’s right side, he “made a quick surveillance of a building which was to be on the President’s right once the left turn was completed.”

He described the Book Depository as a “modernistic type building,” and he wrote that when the first shot was fired, it “sounded like the report of a high-powered rifle from behind me, over my right shoulder.”

Landis also wrote, “There was no question in my mind what it was,” but Landis ignored the fact that Agents are instructed it is “not their responsibility to investigate or evaluate a present danger.”

He stated that after definitively hearing the report of a high-powered rifle, “My first glance was at the President,” and then, “I immediately returned my gaze over my right shoulder toward the modernistic building I had observed before.”

His report states that it was just “a quick glance” at the Texas School Book Depository, and he “saw nothing.” But he continued to violate the directive not to investigate or evaluate a present danger when, after seeing “nothing,” he “immediately started scanning the crowd at the intersection from my right to my left.”

After scanning the crowd, Landis “began to think that the sound was a firecracker,” even though it “sounded like the report of a high-powered rifle,” and there was “no question” in his mind as to what it was. A few seconds later, “the next shot was fired” and Landis “thought that maybe one of the cars in the motorcade had a blow out that echoed off the buildings.” Landis then “looked at the right front tire of the President’s car.”

Special Agent Landis’s own report makes it clear that he was dazed and confused while the President was being assassinated. His report makes it clear that when he arrived at the Dallas airport less than an hour earlier, he was in no shape to perform his “first duty” of affording the President “maximum protection at all times,” not only because of the consumption of alcohol just hours earlier, but also because of a definitive lack of sleep.

Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas, who was riding with Vice President Lyndon Johnson directly behind the Presidential follow-up car, could plainly see the reactions of Secret Service agents during the assassination. Yarborough’s affidavit to the Warren Commission states that when he heard the first shot, he “thought immediately that it was a rifle shot.”

Yarborough’s affidavit also states, “All of the Secret Service men seemed to me to respond very slowly, with no more than a puzzled look. In fact, until the automatic weapon was uncovered, I had been lulled into a sense of false hope for the President’s safety by the lack of motion, excitement, or apparent visible knowledge by the Secret Service men that anything so dreadful was happening. Knowing something of the training that combat infantrymen and Marines receive, I am amazed at the lack of instantaneous response by the Secret Service when the rifle fire began.”

Senator Yarborough was clearly witnessing the results of what the KGB did to sabotage Presidential protection.

(To be continued in Part 2)

All of this information, with citations for every document, can be found in my book at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07V9JT65Y

[Anthony Frank]

Part 2

KGB officer George Hickey, who was riding in the back seat, wrote that it was at “the end of the last report” that he “reached to the bottom of the car and picked up the AR-15 rifle, cocked and loaded it, and turned to the rear.” Hickey picked up the AR-15 rifle only after a bullet struck President Kennedy in the head, more than five seconds and possibly as many as eight seconds after the first shot.

KGB officer Glen Bennett, who was in the back seat with Hickey and only “temporarily assigned to the White House Detail,” wrote in his “Protective Assignment” report that after seeing the last shot strike the President in the head, he “immediately hollered ‘he’s hit’” and then “reached for the AR-15 located on the floor of the rear seat. Special Agent Hickey had already picked-up the AR-15.”

But before seeing the last shot strike President Kennedy in the head and before saying anything, Bennett watched silently as President Kennedy was shot in the back.

Bennett wrote that he “looked at the back of the President” and “saw the shot hit the President about four inches down from the right shoulder.” Even though Bennett saw the President take a bullet in the back, Bennett sat there and said absolutely nothing. It was not until one of the assassins’ bullets struck President Kennedy in the head that Bennett hollered, “He’s hit!”

After five to eight seconds of gunfire, President Kennedy sustained a fatal head wound, at which point Hickey and Bennett realized the plan had come to fruition, and they had an instantaneous response. Hickey belatedly “picked up the AR-15 rifle” and “turned to the rear,” and Bennett exclaimed, “He’s hit!” and reached for the AR-15 rifle that Hickey was already holding.

McIntyre, the only KGB officer on a running board, wrote that the President’s car was 200 yards from the underpass “when the first shot was fired,” and “after the second shot” he “looked at the President and witnessed his being struck in the head by the third and last shot.”

Special Agent Ready, who stood on the right front running board, wrote in his report that after hearing “what appeared to be firecrackers going off . . . . I immediately turned to my right rear trying to locate the source but was not able to determine the exact location.”

Ready also wrote that he “heard someone” inside the follow-up car say, “He’s shot.” (That would most likely be Bennett, the KGB officer in the back seat who exclaimed, “He’s hit,” or it could be Emory Roberts, the KGB officer in the front seat who turned around and exclaimed, “They got him! They got him!”)

After hearing someone say that the President has been shot, Ready “left the follow-up car in the direction of the President’s car,” but he was “recalled” by Roberts “as the cars increased their speeds.”

Ready, being closest in proximity to the President, should have been the very first agent to shield the President, but he made no mention of seeing President Kennedy get shot, and he was oblivious to the President being shot in the head until he heard someone say something. His ignorance of the President being shot would be due to “trying to locate the source” of “firecrackers” for five to eight seconds.

Ready was clearly suffering from the effects of alcohol and a lack of sleep when he spent five to eight seconds violating the directive not to “investigate or evaluate a present danger.”

Special Agent Clint Hill was standing on the left front running board next to Kinney, the driver, and Hill went into action only after he saw the President react to being shot. The facts bear out Hill’s remarkably slow reaction time, as he, too, had engaged in the late-night drinking and partying.

Hill’s report states that he heard “a noise similar to a firecracker” that “came from my right rear, and I immediately moved my head in that direction.” When Hill moved his head “in that direction,” his “eyes had to cross the Presidential automobile,” and he “saw the President hunch forward and then slump to his left.”

Hill “jumped from the follow-up car and ran toward the Presidential automobile,” after which he “jumped onto the left rear step of the Presidential automobile.” Hill, who was oblivious to the first shot, told the Warren Commission that he was not “up on” the limousine until after the last shot “removed a portion of the President’s head.” After five to eight seconds of gunfire, Hill had not yet past the left front fender of the Secret Service follow up car.



The above frame from the “Muchmore” film shows President Kennedy being shot in
the head after five to eight seconds of gunfire. Hill has just come off the running
board and has not yet passed the left front fender of the Secret Service follow-up
car. Like running board Agents Landis and Ready, Hill was suffering from a lack of
sleep and the consumption of alcohol just a few hours earlier.

Secret Service policy clearly dictates that Hill, who was oblivious to the first shot, should have immediately jumped from the running board and ran toward the Presidential limousine instead of moving his head in the direction of what he called “a noise similar to a firecracker.” Secret Service agents are not supposed to look back thinking that they should, or somehow can, determine if someone has fired a rifle or simply set off a firecracker.

Hill went into action only because he saw the President “hunch forward and then slump to his left” while he was turning to look back toward the “firecracker” noise.

After Drinking and Staying Up All Night, These Three Running
Board Agents Were Clearly Disabled During the Assassination.



In the photo above, Special Agent Clint Hill, wearing sunglasses and standing on the left “front”
running board, is clearly resting atop the car door and leaning into the car with his right leg
crossed in front of his left as the assassination continues to unfold.

Ready and Landis are standing on the right-side running boards and looking back after the first
shot. KGB officer Tim McIntyre is behind Hill and focused across the car on Ready and Landis.

Roberts is the KGB officer in the front passenger seat quietly watching the assassination unfold.
More than three seconds after this photo was snapped, President Kennedy was shot in the head,
after which Roberts turned to McIntyre and exclaimed, “They got him! They got him!”

It’s all in my book. Click the link.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07V9JT65Y

[Jerry Organ]

Can you show a similar assassination or shooting event (civilian, not active military) where people were unaware a weapon was to be fired, did not see the person firing, and then reacted as if it was gunfire on the first shot?

[Bill Chapman]

Part 2

KGB officer George Hickey, who was riding in the back seat, wrote that it was at “the end of the last report” that he “reached to the bottom of the car and picked up the AR-15 rifle, cocked and loaded it, and turned to the rear.” Hickey picked up the AR-15 rifle only after a bullet struck President Kennedy in the head, more than five seconds and possibly as many as eight seconds after the first shot.

KGB officer Glen Bennett, who was in the back seat with Hickey and only “temporarily assigned to the White House Detail,” wrote in his “Protective Assignment” report that after seeing the last shot strike the President in the head, he “immediately hollered ‘he’s hit’” and then “reached for the AR-15 located on the floor of the rear seat. Special Agent Hickey had already picked-up the AR-15.”

But before seeing the last shot strike President Kennedy in the head and before saying anything, Bennett watched silently as President Kennedy was shot in the back.

Bennett wrote that he “looked at the back of the President” and “saw the shot hit the President about four inches down from the right shoulder.” Even though Bennett saw the President take a bullet in the back, Bennett sat there and said absolutely nothing. It was not until one of the assassins’ bullets struck President Kennedy in the head that Bennett hollered, “He’s hit!”

After five to eight seconds of gunfire, President Kennedy sustained a fatal head wound, at which point Hickey and Bennett realized the plan had come to fruition, and they had an instantaneous response. Hickey belatedly “picked up the AR-15 rifle” and “turned to the rear,” and Bennett exclaimed, “He’s hit!” and reached for the AR-15 rifle that Hickey was already holding.

McIntyre, the only KGB officer on a running board, wrote that the President’s car was 200 yards from the underpass “when the first shot was fired,” and “after the second shot” he “looked at the President and witnessed his being struck in the head by the third and last shot.”

Special Agent Ready, who stood on the right front running board, wrote in his report that after hearing “what appeared to be firecrackers going off . . . . I immediately turned to my right rear trying to locate the source but was not able to determine the exact location.”

Ready also wrote that he “heard someone” inside the follow-up car say, “He’s shot.” (That would most likely be Bennett, the KGB officer in the back seat who exclaimed, “He’s hit,” or it could be Emory Roberts, the KGB officer in the front seat who turned around and exclaimed, “They got him! They got him!”)

After hearing someone say that the President has been shot, Ready “left the follow-up car in the direction of the President’s car,” but he was “recalled” by Roberts “as the cars increased their speeds.”

Ready, being closest in proximity to the President, should have been the very first agent to shield the President, but he made no mention of seeing President Kennedy get shot, and he was oblivious to the President being shot in the head until he heard someone say something. His ignorance of the President being shot would be due to “trying to locate the source” of “firecrackers” for five to eight seconds.

Ready was clearly suffering from the effects of alcohol and a lack of sleep when he spent five to eight seconds violating the directive not to “investigate or evaluate a present danger.”

Special Agent Clint Hill was standing on the left front running board next to Kinney, the driver, and Hill went into action only after he saw the President react to being shot. The facts bear out Hill’s remarkably slow reaction time, as he, too, had engaged in the late-night drinking and partying.

Hill’s report states that he heard “a noise similar to a firecracker” that “came from my right rear, and I immediately moved my head in that direction.” When Hill moved his head “in that direction,” his “eyes had to cross the Presidential automobile,” and he “saw the President hunch forward and then slump to his left.”

Hill “jumped from the follow-up car and ran toward the Presidential automobile,” after which he “jumped onto the left rear step of the Presidential automobile.” Hill, who was oblivious to the first shot, told the Warren Commission that he was not “up on” the limousine until after the last shot “removed a portion of the President’s head.” After five to eight seconds of gunfire, Hill had not yet past the left front fender of the Secret Service follow up car.



The above frame from the “Muchmore” film shows President Kennedy being shot in
the head after five to eight seconds of gunfire. Hill has just come off the running
board and has not yet passed the left front fender of the Secret Service follow-up
car. Like running board Agents Landis and Ready, Hill was suffering from a lack of
sleep and the consumption of alcohol just a few hours earlier.

Secret Service policy clearly dictates that Hill, who was oblivious to the first shot, should have immediately jumped from the running board and ran toward the Presidential limousine instead of moving his head in the direction of what he called “a noise similar to a firecracker.” Secret Service agents are not supposed to look back thinking that they should, or somehow can, determine if someone has fired a rifle or simply set off a firecracker.

Hill went into action only because he saw the President “hunch forward and then slump to his left” while he was turning to look back toward the “firecracker” noise.

After Drinking and Staying Up All Night, These Three Running
Board Agents Were Clearly Disabled During the Assassination.



In the photo above, Special Agent Clint Hill, wearing sunglasses and standing on the left “front”
running board, is clearly resting atop the car door and leaning into the car with his right leg
crossed in front of his left as the assassination continues to unfold.

Ready and Landis are standing on the right-side running boards and looking back after the first
shot. KGB officer Tim McIntyre is behind Hill and focused across the car on Ready and Landis.

Roberts is the KGB officer in the front passenger seat quietly watching the assassination unfold.
More than three seconds after this photo was snapped, President Kennedy was shot in the head,
after which Roberts turned to McIntyre and exclaimed, “They got him! They got him!”

It’s all in my book. Click the link.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07V9JT65Y

Kennedy didn't want agents standing on the sides of the limo: People were there to gawk at JFK & Jackie, not bodyguards.

It's all in my books 'If He Did It' and the sequel 'Okay, Okay... He Did It, Already'

[Anthony Frank]

Kennedy didn't want agents standing on the sides of the limo: People were there to gawk at JFK & Jackie, not bodyguards.

This has nothing to do with the sides of the limo.

Policy dictates that all the running board agents should have leaped from the running boards at the sound of the first shot, but for five to eight seconds Senator Yarborough, who was riding directly behind the Secret Service follow-up car and who knew with certainty that a rifle shot had been fired, observed a “lack of motion, excitement, or apparent visible knowledge by the Secret Service men that anything so dreadful was happening.”

[Bill Chapman]

This has nothing to do with the sides of the limo.

Policy dictates that all the running board agents should have leaped from the running boards at the sound of the first shot, but for five to eight seconds Senator Yarborough, who was riding directly behind the Secret Service follow-up car and who knew with certainty that a rifle shot had been fired, observed a “lack of motion, excitement, or apparent visible knowledge by the Secret Service men that anything so dreadful was happening.”

One of the agents on the Queen Mary running boards (right front, I think) was told (or decided on his own) to not attempt to catch the Kennedy limo as it sped away. Too fast, you see. Hill was personally responsible for Jackie and reacted appropriately, demonstrating that he was the best of the bunch on the day.

[Richard Smith]

This has nothing to do with the sides of the limo.

Policy dictates that all the running board agents should have leaped from the running boards at the sound of the first shot, but for five to eight seconds Senator Yarborough, who was riding directly behind the Secret Service follow-up car and who knew with certainty that a rifle shot had been fired, observed a “lack of motion, excitement, or apparent visible knowledge by the Secret Service men that anything so dreadful was happening.”

A different time with overworked, older and understaffed agents who did not receive the type of training that they would now.  This was a sudden event.  The agents were caught by surprise and it was over in a matter of seconds.  With nearly 60 years of hindsight, it is easy to say that they should have reacted sooner but in those days when you could drive the President around in an open car on a preannounced route, they were caught by surprise.  We live in a different time when the President goes nowhere that isn't secured.  A security state.  1963 was a more innocent time when it was hard to imagine a nut like Oswald shooting the president.

[Anthony Frank]

One of the agents on the Queen Mary running boards (right front, I think) was told to (or decided) to not attempt to catch the Kennedy limo as it sped away. Too fast, you see. Hill was personally responsible for Jackie and reacted appropriately, demonstrating that he was the best of the bunch on the day.

If you had read my post, you would have seen that it is Ready, who did not leave the running board until JFK was shot in the head after five to eight seconds of gunfire, and he was unaware of JFK being shot in the head until he heard someone in heard someone in the follow up car say that JFK was shot.

The limo did not increase in speed until JFK was shot in the head after five to eight seconds of gunfire.

As my book (and my post) states:
Special Agent Ready, who stood on the right front running board, wrote in his report that after hearing “what appeared to be firecrackers going off . . . . I immediately turned to my right rear trying to locate the source but was not able to determine the exact location.”

Ready also wrote that he “heard someone” inside the follow-up car say, “He’s shot.” (That would most likely be Bennett, the KGB officer in the back seat who exclaimed, “He’s hit,” or it could be Emory Roberts, the KGB officer in the front seat who turned around and exclaimed, “They got him! They got him!”)

After hearing someone say that the President has been shot, Ready “left the follow-up car in the direction of the President’s car,” but he was “recalled” by Roberts “as the cars increased their speeds.”

Ready, being closest in proximity to the President, should have been the very first agent to shield the President, but he made no mention of seeing President Kennedy get shot, and he was oblivious to the President being shot in the head until he heard someone say something. His ignorance of the President being shot would be due to “trying to locate the source” of “firecrackers” for five to eight seconds.

Ready was clearly suffering from the effects of alcohol and a lack of sleep when he spent five to eight seconds violating the directive not to “investigate or evaluate a present danger.”

As for Hill, he photos below tell a very clear story.



The above frame from the “Muchmore” film shows President Kennedy being shot in
the head after five to eight seconds of gunfire. Hill has just come off the running
board and has not yet passed the left front fender of the Secret Service follow-up
car. Like running board Agents Landis and Ready, Hill was suffering from a lack of
sleep and the consumption of alcohol just a few hours earlier.

Secret Service policy clearly dictates that Hill, who was oblivious to the first shot, should have immediately jumped from the running board and ran toward the Presidential limousine instead of moving his head in the direction of what he called “a noise similar to a firecracker.” Secret Service agents are not supposed to look back thinking that they should, or somehow can, determine if someone has fired a rifle or simply set off a firecracker.

Hill went into action only because he saw the President “hunch forward and then slump to his left” while he was turning to look back toward the “firecracker” noise.

After Drinking and Staying Up All Night, These Three Running
Board Agents Were Clearly Disabled During the Assassination.



In the photo above, Special Agent Clint Hill, wearing sunglasses and standing on the left “front”
running board, is clearly resting atop the car door and leaning into the car with his right leg
crossed in front of his left as the assassination continues to unfold. Hill apparently did not even
hear the first shot.

Ready and Landis are standing on the right-side running boards and looking back after the first
shot. KGB officer Tim McIntyre is behind Hill and focused across the car on Ready and Landis.

Roberts is the KGB officer in the front passenger seat quietly watching the assassination unfold.
More than three seconds after this photo was snapped, President Kennedy was shot in the head,
after which Roberts turned to McIntyre and exclaimed, “They got him! They got him!”

It’s all in my book. Click the link.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07V9JT65Y