Documents Reveal Two US Soldiers Overheard Plot To Kill JFK—and Were Committed After Reporting It

 Washington, D.C. – Despite receiving little attention in the mass  media, the November 2017 and April 2018 release of more than 35,000 and  18,000 documents by the Trump Administration, relating to the  assassination of former President Kennedy—which had been withheld from  the public for more than 50 years—sheds new light on the president’s  murder and the two soldiers who attempted to stop it. While the mainstream media did cursorily cover the two releases,  virtually none of the coverage was aimed at the most damning  revelations, which included the fact that two U.S. soldiers in  separate locations uncovered cryptographic messages indicating that  President Kennedy was going to be assassinated, prior to his murder in  Dallas. 

Ominously, both of these soldiers were subsequently institutionalized  after attempting to get the information they had uncovered to  authorities. The first case involves an army code breaker named Eugene V. Dinkin. U.S. Army Private First Class Eugene Dinkin served in Metz, France, in the 599th Ordinance  Group and worked in the cryptography section of his unit. His duties at  Metz reportedly included deciphering cable traffic from the European  Commands, NATO, etc. A report by Citizens for Truth About the Kennedy Assassination (CTAKA) explained: 

On September, 1963, Dinkin noticed material in the  Army newspaper, Stars and Stripes, and other print publications,  that was negative toward the president and his policies and implied that  he was a weak president in dealing with the Russians. The examples that  he found became more negative, the suggestion being that if he were  removed as president it would be a good thing. By mid-October Dinkin had  found enough information—some of it subliminal—that he was convinced  that a plot was in the works. One driven by some high-ranking members of  the military, some right-wing economic groups, and with support by some  national media outlets… Dinkin’s studies forced him to conclude that the plot would  happen around November 28, 1963, and that the assassination would be  blamed on “a Communist or a Negro”. He then sent a registered letter to  Attorney General Robert Kennedy. When he got no reply, he decided on  other options.

Dinkin gathered his evidentiary material in late October 1963, which  included psychological sets he had uncovered that he believed were being  used to induce a specific state of mind into citizens’ consciousness  regarding President Kennedy in the run-up to his assassination and he  went to the U.S. Embassy in Luxembourg in an effort to meet with Mr.  Cunningham, the Chargé d’Affaires. Despite Dinkin informing Cunningham by phone that he had important  information about a plot to assassinate Kennedy, Cunningham refused to  meet with him or look at his evidentiary data. 

Upon returning to Metz, his superiors informed him that he was  scheduled to undergo a psychological evaluation on November 5, 1963.   Dinkin then decided he had to leave his unit and go to Geneva,  Switzerland, in an attempt to get this information to someone that could  potentially assist in thwarting the assassination attempt. Despite unsuccessfully attempting to speak to the editor of the newspaper, Geneva Diplomat, and a Newsweek reporter, who refused to listen to the information, Dinkin was able to speak to the secretary for Time-Life who was located in Zurich. 

The documents  reveal that on November 6, 1963, Dinkin went to the press room of the  United Nations office in Geneva, where he informed reporters about the  assassination plot. Reporter, Alex des Fontaines, a freelancer for Time-Life and Radio Canada,  later told authorities that he and a female reporter both recalled  Dinkin discussing the evidence he had uncovered regarding an  assassination plot. In fact, the information from Dinkin actually  prompted Des Fontaines to file the story on November 26, 1963. 

Additionally, an FBI Airtel from the Paris Legation to FBI Director  Hoover of February 27, 1964, provides evidence that the FBI was aware of  Dinkin’s information, as the Airtel notes that on November 8, 1963—over  two weeks before Kennedy’s assassination—a message containing  references to Dinkin’s activities noted that his statements and actions  had apparently received considerable publicity. 

The documents reveal that despite a wide range of U.S.  government officials being made aware of Dinkin’s information, they all  failed to report the assassination plot to the White House or Secret  Service. 

Dinkin was placed in detention upon his return on November 8 and held  until November 13—when he was taken to Landstuhl Hospital in Germany  for a psychological evaluation, and was subsequently transferred to  Walter Reed Naval Hospital, where he was held for four months until he  was discharged. While Dinkin was being detained, a man who claimed to be from the  Department of Defense visited him and asked him for the data he had  collected regarding the assassination plot. Dinkin reportedly told the  man where the papers were located. Upon his release, he realized that all of his data he had collected had been taken. 

In an interview with FBI agents, he said he believed that there had  been a plot perpetrated by a “military group,” and abetted by newspaper  personnel working with the group that plotted to assassinate President  Kennedy. In a completely separate case, two newly released CIA documents reveal  that prior to November 1963, Air Force Sergeant David Christensen, who  was stationed at Kirknewton, Scotland, intercepted communications that  an assassination attempt would be made on President Kennedy. 

The documents reveal that Christensen, while stationed at a CIA  listening post at an RAF base, reportedly intercepted communications  about a plot to assassinate Kennedy—but few other substantive details  surrounding exactly what he heard are available. After hearing something he clearly was not intended to hear, and  trying to get it sent to NSA, Christensen, like Dinkin, was reportedly  committed to a mental health institution. The fact that the cases of these two separate U.S. servicemen were  withheld for over 50 years after the assassination clearly leads one to  believe that this information was withheld for a reason. If these were  two cranks, then why would these reports only be surfacing after 50  years? The testimony of these men was hidden and kept secret for 50 years,  as what they heard clearly implied a plot that went well beyond the  single-gunman theory of the Warren Commission.