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<blockquote data-quote="Mustard" data-source="post: 340432" data-attributes="member: 46">Generally, yes. In the case of the Dallas storyline, the CIA were trying to cover up their own errors as well. B.D. was obviously a mercenary that they were watching and didn&#039;t like most of his activities that were presumably going against their intelligence aims. They wanted to scare J.R. before he did any business with B.D., but scared him after the deal had been done instead. After the ugly fallout, the CIA and Ewing Oil just wanted it all buried for good. Even Jeremy Wendell leaning on the CIA alone, while the news was still buried, wouldn&#039;t have been enough in itself at that time. Wendell did have clout to open doors though and he needed proof so that the Justice Department gets seriously interested in Ewing Oil breaking US federal law. Once it all comes out, the CIA then has to abandon Ewing Oil and let the Justice Department take over. Ewing Oil was then shut down by the Justice Department.As I previously mentioned, J.R. played with this sort of fire before with funding the counter-revolution in Southeast Asia and shipping oil to Cuba. His luck eventually ran out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustard, post: 340432, member: 46"] Generally, yes. In the case of the Dallas storyline, the CIA were trying to cover up their own errors as well. B.D. was obviously a mercenary that they were watching and didn't like most of his activities that were presumably going against their intelligence aims. They wanted to scare J.R. before he did any business with B.D., but scared him after the deal had been done instead. After the ugly fallout, the CIA and Ewing Oil just wanted it all buried for good. Even Jeremy Wendell leaning on the CIA alone, while the news was still buried, wouldn't have been enough in itself at that time. Wendell did have clout to open doors though and he needed proof so that the Justice Department gets seriously interested in Ewing Oil breaking US federal law. Once it all comes out, the CIA then has to abandon Ewing Oil and let the Justice Department take over. Ewing Oil was then shut down by the Justice Department. As I previously mentioned, J.R. played with this sort of fire before with funding the counter-revolution in Southeast Asia and shipping oil to Cuba. His luck eventually ran out. [/QUOTE]

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