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Civil Air Patrol should be eliminated in every state

Well, the notoriously mysterious Civil Air Patrol is now front-page news.

The March 12 Maui News headline screams, “Air Patrol Turbulence” detailing the various underhanded and secret dealings within the little-known “nonprofit organization staffed by volunteers.”

Any student of American history should recognize the name of this “federally chartered paramilitary” group, due to its involvement in the formation of the plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

In 1955, Lee Harvey Oswald was a 15-year-old CAP cadet in Louisiana, and his squadron leader was none other than David W. Ferrie, one of the first suspects in the days following President Kennedy’s murder.

Lee Harvey Oswald was a young man who lived three lives, a triple agent for the USA, first a Marine with a high-security clearance, then a defector to Russia, then an anti-Castro CIA agent posing as a pro-Castro activist.

All this so he could be framed as the “lone nut” who single-handedly shot our beloved president by the real assassins, who got away with the crime of the century.

I call for the elimination of the CAP here in Hawaii, and in every other state in the union, based on its current actions and its past associations.

Mark Kanae Smith

Wailuku

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