tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12459443483211466432024-03-19T02:33:01.263-07:00JFKcountercoupWilliam Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.comBlogger1010125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-20559653894946517832024-03-08T11:34:00.000-08:002024-03-12T22:12:50.315-07:00Magic at Dealey Plaza <p> <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Magic at Dealey Plaza</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“I have
his brains in my hand. I love you Jack, I love you Jack,....the magic is
gone…Now, I think that I should have known that <b>he was magic all along</b>….” -
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“The day
they blew the brains of the king<br />
Thousands were watching, no one saw a thing. It happened so quickly, so quick, by surprise. Right there in front of everyone’s eyes. <b>Greatest magic trick ever under the sun. </b>Perfectly executed, skillfully done…..”
– Bob Dylan – “Murder Most Foul” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> “President Kennedy’s assassination was the
work of magicians. It was a stage trick complete with actor’s accessories and
props. And when the curtain fell the actors and even the scenery, disappeared.
But the magicians were not illusionists, but professionals, artists in their
own right.- <i>Fairwell America</i> by
James Hepburn – aka French Intelligence officers Philippe de Vosjoli, M. Andre
Ducret<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">While
the assassination may have appeared to be magic to some, it was actually a
trick, a trick devised, practiced and conducted by men, and as President
Kennedy said, “problems created by men
can be solved by mem,” and the murderous trick can be deciphered and
understood. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I’d like
to rephrase the JFK assassination argument from whether it was a conspiracy or
not, to whether the president was murdered as the result of the spontaneous
actions of a deranged lone-nut without any discernable motive, or was he killed
by a well planned, practiced and successfully executed covert intelligence
operation that was designed to decieve. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As Gene
Wheaton – the Ultimate Whistleblower said of the assassination: “it was
convoluted, but not complicated,” and it was a well developed plan, not a plot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Most of
those who propose the assassination was a conspiracy also portray a plot, as in
the movies Executive Action and JFK, men sit around drining and smoking and
talking about how to wack JFK, when in reality, it was a well conceived,
practiced and execuited plan – starting out as a contingency plan in case it
was needed. And when properly execuited, appears to be magic, or as Sun Tzu put
it – a Divine Skein, as God would have it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">While
the Great Wizzard appears to be almighty, when you pull back the curtains you
see there’s only a man there pulling the puppet strings, a fortune teller, the seller
of potions, a con artist and confidence man, and as John Kennedy himself said,
problems created by man can be solved by men, and this is one of them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">There
are a few basic principles to most magic tricks – and the key word is tricks
because the magic is only in appearance. Two of the basic principles are slight
of hand – and misdirection or deception. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
assassination of a president in broad daylight in front of his wife, the Secret
Service and hundreds of witnesses is more than just a magic trick, it’s a Big
Con. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">General
William Odom, the former Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (ACSI) and
head of the National Security Agency (NSA) was once asked what makes a good
intelligence case officer, Odom thought for a second and replied “The Sting.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
movie with Paul Newman and Robert Redford?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“That’s
it!” said Odom, “the con!” Actually The Big Con.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[Thomas
Powers, <i>Intelligence Wars – American
Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda</i>]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And like
witch crafts, the crafts of intelligence can be read in books, but only
conveyed by a master, in a master-apprentice relationship – the tricks of the
trade. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When
Allen Dulles arrived at the first meeting of the Warren Commission he brought
along a copy of a book American Assassins by Robert Donovan, the same guy who
wrote PT-109. This book, as Dulles explained, makes the case that American
assassins, unlike their European counterparts, are lone nut cases rather than
connspirators, though it was pointed out that a half-dozen people were hung for
their participation in the assassination of President Lincoln. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rather
than Donovan’s book, Dulles should have passed around copies of his own, then
recently published book, The Crafts of Intelligence, believe to have been ghost
written by E. Howard Hunt, that explains some of the tricks of the intelligence
trade. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When I
saw the movie “The Sting,” I immediately recognized that it was based on a book
I had picked up at a garage sale and read – David Maurer’s “The Big Con,” about
the unique slang and lingo of confidence men. Maurer was Kentucky linguist and
based his book on his study of their slang. Maurer’s assistant confirmed to me
that Maurer had the same reaction as I did when he saw the movie, and sued the
producers for not giving him credit. The screenwriters claimed they never even
read his book, but they had to admit they had when they couldn’t come up with
any other published source for the name of “Gondorf,” the character played by
Paul Newman which was based on a real confidence man mentioned only in Maurer's
book "The Big Con."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Odom’s
response clearly indicates he was once a student of Paul Linebarger at the
Center for International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, where Linebarger
taught psychological warfare and covert intelligence operational procedures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Other
students of Linebargers included Ed Lansdale, David Atlee Phillips and E.
Howard Hunt, who Linebarger said, “had black minds.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">One
approach the English have adapted to certain crimes is the Modus Operandi – MO
– and in this case the MO of the assassination of President Kennedy must be
viewed as a covert intelligence operation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As
former CIA Chief of Station in Moscow Rolf Larrson said at the CAPA conference
in Dallas November, 2021, only a few men were capable of pulling off such a
covert operation – and he named five – Allen Dulles, William Harvey, Desmond
FitzGerald, James Jesus Angleton and Jacob Easterline.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In his
book “<i>Portrait of a Cold Warrior”</i> Joseph
Smith writes about taking Linebarger’s classes.\<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Smith
relates how Linebarger not only used his own classic text
book “Psychological Warfare,” that delineates various levels of
propaganda from white to black, with black being clearly and falsely identified
as originating from the opposition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Smith
wrote: “Black propaganda operations, by definition, are operations in
which the source of the propaganda is disguised or misrepresented in one way or
another so as not to be attributable to the people who really put it out. This
distinguishes black from white propaganda, such as news bulletins and similar statements…”<br />
<br />
“Paul Linebarger’s was a seminar in black propaganda only,” writes Smith. “He
loved black propaganda operations probably because they involved the
wit-sharpening he loved to talk about. Also, he was so good at them that his
was one of the inventive minds that refined the entire black operations field
into shades of blackness. Linebarger and his disciples decided that propaganda
that was merely not attributable to the United States was not really black,
only gray…This left the term black propaganda for a very special kind of
propaganda activity. Black propaganda operations were operations done to look
like, and carefully labeled to be, acts of the Communist enemy….”<br />
<br />
According to Smith, besides classes in propaganda, Linebarger also had his
students read David Maurer’s book “The Big Con,” also published
as “The American Confidence Man,” which gave good insight into how
case officers could run operatives and conduct successful covert operations.<br />
<br />
David Maurer’s book, originally a linguistic text on the unique language and
slang of thieves, con artists and confidence men, led Maurer to uncover and
detail the inner workings of the Big Con, and that was the basis of the script
for the movie “The Sting,” as referenced by Odom.<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As Smith
wrote: “I want you all to go out and get a copy of David Maurer’s classic
on the confidence man. It’s called ‘The Big Con,’ and its available
now in a paperback edition,” Paul continued. “That little book will teach you
more about the art of covert operations than anything else I know.”<br />
<br />
Smith quotes Linebarger as saying, “Maurer’s book will give you a lot of ideas
on how to recruit agents, how to handle them and how to get rid of them
peacefully when they’re no use to you any longer. Believe me, that last one is
the toughest job of all.”<br />
<br />
"We were all soon reading 'The Big Con,'” Smith wrote. “The tales it told
did, indeed, contain a lot of hints on how to do our jobs. For me one sentence
seemed to sum it all up beautifully, ‘The big-time confidence games,’ wrote
Maurer, ‘are in reality only carefully rehearsed plays in which every member of
the cast EXCEPT THE MARK knows his part perfectly.’”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> “A
note of caution that Linebarger added to these discussions of black operations
sounds like a bell down the years,” wrote Smith, quoting Linebarger as saying,
“I hate to think what would ever happen,” he once said with a prophet’s voice,
“if any of you ever got out of this business and got involved in U.S.
politics. These kinds of dirty tricks must never be used in internal U.S.
politics. The whole system would come apart.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Well
these kinds of dirty "magic" tricks were used before Watergate,
including what happened at Dealey Plaza, and the whole system did come apart.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Just as
linguist David Maurer learned the secrets of the Big Con through the study of
the unique language of the con artists, we can only learn the means and methods
of the covert operators by learning the terminology they use in crafting their
covert operations - the Lingo of Dealey Plaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Some key
words are mutually used by the Big Con con-artists as well as the covert
operators – such as Inside Man and Outside Man to distiguish those who work in
an office (such as JMWAVE), and those who go out on the street and
recruit agents and operators that the confidence men called “Ropers.” Then
there are “cut-outs” to keep operators apart, case officers to direct the
operators, team leaders to run crews, and the use of codes and ciphers to
prevent others from learning the process……..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">MORE TO
COME <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-great-game-act-of-man-god-or-magic.html?m=1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-great-game-act-of-man-god-or-magic.html?m=1</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-28937815181411112532024-03-04T21:32:00.000-08:002024-03-12T13:56:55.625-07:00Admitted Assassin - Roscoe White and the Murder of President Kennedy <p>Admitted Assassin - Roscoe White and the Murder of President Kennedy - (Peniel Unlimited , LLC 2023) by Ricky White as told to J. Gary Shaw and Brian K. Edwards. <br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEir3Rrf3Wd4Sb42cS1HF1nzIdMMREGvmAcn3qVhHi1RVrLhvlMVHc7nkVyNCUqcgANlJmaCrImIptumDBft5QoWVvwA6xF76ZXLl0KYZ6DpqneyY4RB4VJMmjMWSE4otTJUmZ_LNJf3supkkXMdHi2esdMk4ciJHy0LDqdTfeSl66pFUloFGog2oljSPlo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="187" data-original-width="125" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEir3Rrf3Wd4Sb42cS1HF1nzIdMMREGvmAcn3qVhHi1RVrLhvlMVHc7nkVyNCUqcgANlJmaCrImIptumDBft5QoWVvwA6xF76ZXLl0KYZ6DpqneyY4RB4VJMmjMWSE4otTJUmZ_LNJf3supkkXMdHi2esdMk4ciJHy0LDqdTfeSl66pFUloFGog2oljSPlo" width="160" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6F_8A3H9QzwW2y8PZEycC3T1fzE14FlsdmjcYQGgJCsuOBdWxGnuFEh-wDcV2t6OodqhuYB24Jg3dAflsQPct_bBet6Iz3TkqTbuiiTy5g6YxCbf7v5glOXTEqVcRxlkb3ZWIucoN9hui57WjzOb1yiDRCegJzULay4hAINUShhtpbHZdp48NEZb6yPQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="232" data-original-width="218" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6F_8A3H9QzwW2y8PZEycC3T1fzE14FlsdmjcYQGgJCsuOBdWxGnuFEh-wDcV2t6OodqhuYB24Jg3dAflsQPct_bBet6Iz3TkqTbuiiTy5g6YxCbf7v5glOXTEqVcRxlkb3ZWIucoN9hui57WjzOb1yiDRCegJzULay4hAINUShhtpbHZdp48NEZb6yPQ" width="226" /></a></div></div><br /> Roscoe White <p></p><p>Just when you thought the Roscoe White story was put to rest decades ago, well think again, as Gary Shaw and Brian Edwards have brought it back in light of what we now know today. </p><p>Gary Shaw is one of the longest running and most respected Dallas based researchers, while Edwards is an experienced police investigators who has taken a serious interest in the assassination. </p><p>I always thought that there was more to the Roscoe White story, especially after it was attacked so viciously by both lone nutters and conspiracy theorists alike. But there are a few undeniable and unchallenged facts that should make the story worth while pursing. - Roscoe White served in the US Marine Corps with Oswald in San Diego, traveled on the same ship to Japan, and served at the same bases as Oswald in the far east. </p><p>Roscoe White began work for the Dallas Police Department at the same time Oswald began work at the Texas School Book Depository and Roscoe's wife Geneva began to work as a hostess at Jack Ruby's Carousel Club. </p><p>They are firmly established facts that should make anyone take further interest in Roscoe White, and his son Ricky took that interest. </p><p>Years ago, Gary Shaw was partners with Larry Howard and Bud Fensterwald in the JFK Assassination Information Center, which was situated on the third floor of a retail mall in the West End district, directly behind Dealey Plaza. I visited there a few times, and got to know and like the principles. </p><p>Larry Howard gave me the three cassette tapes of the Air Force One radio transmissions that he said came from the LBJ Library, and I think I put them to good use. </p><p>They were the first to take interest in the Roscoe White story, as explained by Ricky White, and they assisted in the investigation of a number of leads that the late Roscoe White had left behind. He had been severely hurt in an explosion at work - some believe was not accidental, and on a death bed confession to his pastor admitted involvement in the murder of the president. </p><p>In the course of his investigation of his father's background, Ricky White found his father's footlocker, a diary-journal containing his acknowledgement of being a gunman behind the picket fence on the Grassy Knoll, a bank bag with two keys, a scrapbook of news clips and photos, and a waterproof container in which three orders were given to MANDARIN - Roscoe White's code name in the Office of Naval Intelligence - aka Naval Intelligence Service. </p><p>I am familiar with other ONI-NIS letters and orders and they are very similar to the MANDARIN teletype- no official letterhead. </p><p>As I have written extensively about the ONI-NIS connections to the assassination, as the authors acknowledge, I refer to the only "smoking" document from the files of the director of ONI, that reports he had two undercover informants in Jack Ruby's Carousel Club who maintained the microphones and sound equipment. They reported they saw Oswald there.</p><p>What I didn't know, and learned from this book, is that one of the informants worked with Roscoe White as part of the security of a major defense contractor.</p><p>Like all networks, spider webs or intelligence networks, or what Sun Tzu called a skein - fishing net, the connections come together at certain points.</p><p>In the course of assisting Ricky White in his investigation, Washington D. C. attorney Bernard Festerwald took interest, as did Congressional investigator Kevin Walsh. While Festerwald, who founded the Assassination Archives and Research Center (AARC), thought there was substance to the Roscoe White story, Walsh disagreed and returned to DC in disbelief. Fensterwald then died suddenly, and some say suspiciously. </p><p>Although they called a press conference to announce and release their findings, and received much publicity, the whole story seemed to just fade away and die, until now, as it is being renewed by Shaw and Edward. </p><p>While some say the evidence was created and planted, that too would be a crime and conspiracy.</p><p>As Shaw and Edwards acknowledge this when they write, "There remains a remote possibility this evidence may have been prepared and planted to further confuse or discredit independent research into the assassination. The authors do not believe this is so."</p><p>"The existing evidence strongly suggests that Roscoe White himself carefully preserved this self-incriminating evidence, believing it would someday be discovered and disclosed."</p><p>And Roscoe White was better suited and qualified than the assassin on a number of counts.</p><p>And besides the evidence collected, and Roscoe White's deathbed confession there are a number of other witnesses to him being behind the fence on the Grassy Knoll. </p><p>Motorcycle policeman Bobby Harges saw Roscoe White there, as did Beverly Oliver, who knew him as "Genevia's husband." </p><p>Then there's Mike Robinson, a 14 year old who watched the motorcade with his friend Glenn, whose father was 33 year veteran DPD Captain Frank Martin. After the shooting the boys visited Glen's father on the third floor of City Hall and were there when Oswald was brought in. There they witnessed officer Bobby Hargis slam his helmet into a wall. Hargis had seen Roscoe White on the Grassy Knoll.</p><p>After awhile Mike had to go to the bathroom, but because there was so much activity on the third floor Captain Martin took him down to the basement where the police officer's lockers were located. While the story was first brought out by Walt Brown, the authors put it this way:<br /></p><p>"Mike was completely alone when he entered the restroom. He entered one of the stalls and sat down. Just then the silence was broken by three individuals in mid-conversation as they entered the restroom. Unsure whether he was supposed to be in the officer's facility, Mike lifted his feet ad 'hid' in stall." </p><p>"Initially, the men whispered, but eventually, one of the men raised his voice and used profanity. Mike recalled one of the men said, 'You knew you were supposed to kill Lee, then you stupid son of a bitch, you go and kill a cop.' Then another man entered the restroom and the first three immediately stopped talking. The newest man to enter, whom Mike saw through the small gap between the stall and the stall door, was wearing a blue police uniform. This man stood at the urinal, did his business and left." </p><p>"Mike heard one of the original three men state, 'Lee will have to be killed before they take him to Washington,'" </p><p>"Eventually, the three men left the restroom, but Mike stayed behind for several minutes before he exited the stall. As he passed through the police locker room, one officer, while changing out of his uniform, stared at Mike as if to say, 'Were you there when we were?" </p><p>Later Robinson was shown pictures of police officers and he selected the one of Roscoe White as the officer who stared at him in the locker room.</p><p>Now to me that story is believable and convincing, as is the rest of this book. </p><p>It is written short and sweet, Hemingwayish style, so it is easy to read, and touches on all the necessary details in a chronological way that isn't confusing.</p><p>But this story isn't over yet. The authors are asking readers to help identify some of the individuals in photos in the scrapbook, and the mysterious "C. Bowers," allegedly author of the three MANDRIN documents. New Orleans researcher John Gooch has already come up with Dr. Cecil Bowers, who does have a Navy background. </p><p>There are other key characters like Roscoe White that should be re-evaluated again in a similar fashion - Curtis Leverne Larry Crafard, Thomas Beckham, Jack Lawrence, Roy Truly, Jack Crichton, Dr./Col. Jose Rivera, Larry Meyers, Michael Paine and his mother Ruth Forbes Paine Young.</p><p>While the book is available over Amazon, its suggested you order direct from the publisher Michael Marcades - Rose Cheramie's son, at Peniel Unlimited, LLC, www.peielunlimited.com. </p><p>Bill Kelly</p><p>billkelly3@gmail.com </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>MORE TO COME - STAY TUNED</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-4716025496582752432024-02-21T12:55:00.000-08:002024-02-21T12:55:47.061-08:00The Mafia at Dealey Plaza <p> The Mafia at Dealey Plaza </p><p>The Mafia and the Mob are two different things. The Mafia is a very distinct, Italian organized criminal group, while the mob can be any group of organized criminals. </p><p>The Mafia came into the JFK assassination picture even before JFK was president. It was during the Eisenhower administration when the CIA's Richard Bissell had his agent James O'Connell visit Las Vegas in order to see if they could develop mutual plans to kill Cuban premier Fidel Castro. </p><p>O'Connell first checked in with former FBI agent Robert Maheu, who told O'Connell that the man to see was John Rosselli, the right hand man of Chicago mafia boss Sam Giancana, who controlled all the illegal rackets west of Chicago. </p><p>Rosselli and O'Coonnell agreed, though Rosselli explained he would have to run the idea past his boss Giancana, who said that since it was a Havana operation, it had to include Santo Traficante of Tampa and Havana. Traficante said he could arrange for Castro to be poisoned by a chef who ran a restaurant that Castro frequented. The CIA passed the poison and $10,000 in cash to the expected executioner, but nothing happened. </p><p>After considering other exotic methods of murder including exploding cigars and sea shells and a tainted wet suit that was to be given to Castro, it was decided to have snipers shoot Castro in the head when he drove by in an open jeep, as he often did. Castro did visit the former Xandau Dupont estate on the north shore east of Havana, and there was only one road to it that ran through the resort town of Veradero. The plan was called the Pathfinder Plan. </p><p>And it just so happened that Dr. Rolando Cubella (AMLASH) reportely had an apartment in Veradero that could be used as a staging area. </p><p>The Pathfinders were the most elite of the Bay of Pigs brigade, and especially trained to infiltrate Cuba before the invasion and lay the ground work among the local dissidents. When the invasion failed, some of the Pathfinders were rounded up, killed or imprisoned, but some escaped back to Florida where the reunited at the CIA's JMWAVE base at the University of Miami. </p><p>There they were given additional training by CIA trainers John Harper, an explosives and sniper expert, infiltration and exfiltration expert Carl Jenkins, and the Mafia's John Rosselli, who was dressed in a US Army officer uniform and went by the names of Colonel Rawliins. </p><p>Rosselli's CIA case officer, James O'Connell, was replaced by William Harvey, the head of the CIA's ZR/RIFLE assassination project, and he arranged for Rosselli to help train the anti-Castro Cubans including the Pathfinders. </p><p>Two US Army Ranger Captains, Bradely Ayers and Edward Roderick, were also cross posted to the CIA by USMC Gen. Brute Krulak, who was responsible for the Pentagon's assistance to the CIA for covert operations, especially those in Cuba and Vietnam. </p><p>They set up remote bases in the Florida everglade swamp to continue the training in small boat handling, and at Point Mary near Key Largo to train the snipers. </p><p>Even after William Harvey was fired as head of the Cuban desk by RFK, Harvey continued to act as Rosselli's case officer, and they last met in the spring of 1963 in Miami, with Harvey picking up the tabs for their hotel, meals and drinks, using the ZR/RIFLE account to pay those bills. </p><p>FitzGerald briefed the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon on their covert operations in Cuba, and Gen. Krulak's aide Col. Higgins took notes, which reflected the fact that FitzGerald said the CIA had studied the German military's Jully 20 1944 Valkyrie plot to kill Hitler in detail, in order to develop </p><p>Harvey was replaced by Desmond FitzGerald, who also acted as the case officer for Cubella (AMLASH), who was meeting with CIA agents including FitzGerald himself to plan the assassination of Castro. </p><p>MORE TO COME ON THIS.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-37561570744686099822024-02-21T12:29:00.000-08:002024-02-21T12:33:34.225-08:00The Atlantic City Mob Museum <p> <a href="https://shorelocalnews.com/the-case-for-an-atlantic-city-mob-museum/" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"></a></p><p>THE ATLANTIC CITY MOB MUSEUM </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBwRVNHIH9Rm1rd9-ZVtctjVNJxIYTJFlEbdN1MNR81ekbupah_3vn_jCvbcInKSucnVMe7R35ZVLjNWDoSLt21Sl98Ygl4Jsuklaom5njEksgOJWsh45J-HcLQsS5_e8ThuvtNxpr1aZgWrliIHRtU_x1UJwHg5HEh9v6c-QY8Aq73eawUg-gNkoaf-I" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="1000" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBwRVNHIH9Rm1rd9-ZVtctjVNJxIYTJFlEbdN1MNR81ekbupah_3vn_jCvbcInKSucnVMe7R35ZVLjNWDoSLt21Sl98Ygl4Jsuklaom5njEksgOJWsh45J-HcLQsS5_e8ThuvtNxpr1aZgWrliIHRtU_x1UJwHg5HEh9v6c-QY8Aq73eawUg-gNkoaf-I" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>The mobsters walking down the Atlantic City boardwalk, including Meyer Lansky, Al Capone, Lucky Luciano and Nucky Johnson. Note; This is a composite photo put together by William Randolph Herst syndicate. </p><p class="MsoNormal">This story originally appeared in the Jersey Shore Local Newsmagazine </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="https://shorelocalnews.com/the-case-for-an-atlantic-city-mob-museum/">https://shorelocalnews.com/the-case-for-an-atlantic-city-mob-museum/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">There
isn’t an Atlantic City Mob Museum, yet, but there should be one.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Las
Vegas Mob Museum is now the most popular tourist attraction in Vegas outside of
the casinos, even though the history of the mob there pales in comparison to
Atlantic City.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">While
mobsters didn’t arrive in Las Vegas until Bugsy Siegel built his Flamingo
Hotel-Casino in 1946, Atlantic City has a history of mobsters dating back to
the 1890s, and is infamous for the long reigns of such noteworthy city bosses
as Enoch “Nucky” Johnson and Hap Farley for most of the 20th century.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
Vegas Mob Museum even celebrated the 1929 Atlantic City Conference of crime
bosses from around the country in an exhibit focusing on Al Capone’s attendance
at the proceedings. The conference was ostensibly held to celebrate Meyer
Lansky’s wedding, but the actual reason was to decide what to do with Capone:
the mob boss behind the infamous St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago which
killed seven and brought unwanted scrutiny on all of the mobsters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Lansky
kept a low profile because he wasn’t Italian like most of the mobsters; he was
a Jewish accountant who handled the mob’s money. The organization, at least in
New York City, was run by old-timers they called “Mustache Petes,” who were at
war with one another. Lansky was childhood friends with Charles “Lucky” Luciano
and Bugsy Siegel, who were in the mafia and were preparing to take over the
rackets after the Mustache Petes killed each other off.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Luciano
called for the 1929 conference and arranged for it to be held in Atlantic City,
which was known as an “open” city where Nucky Johnson ran things. Luciano
invited all the big-city mob bosses from around the country to be there. The
new Convention Hall on the Boardwalk had just been completed, and the mobsters
mostly stayed at the President Hotel at the south end of the Boardwalk. They
met casually at bars and restaurants, and walked along the beach in small
groups so the sounds of the breaking waves drowned out their conversations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The main
topic was what to do with Capone, who brought the heat down on all of them by
killing off Bugs Moran’s gang in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre that same
year. While they discussed what to do with him, Capone reportedly hid out in
the men’s locker room of the Atlantic City Country Club in Northfield.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Another
topic on the agenda was a permanent solution to mob violence. Luciano advocated
Lansky’s proposal – to run their businesses like major corporations do, complete
with a board of directors. If there were a problem between different city mobs,
the board would negotiate a solution. They were called the National Syndicate
of Organized Crime or just the Syndicate, while the board was called the
Commission. Luciano was appointed the chairman, while big-city bosses would
have “sitdowns” together including bosses from Philadelphia, Boston, New
Orleans, Chicago, Tampa and Havana.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Most of
their profits at the time were generated by bootlegging. The end of prohibition
was coming which meant that they would have to get into other businesses.
Lansky proposed gambling: big-time casino gambling beginning in Florida and
Havana where Lansky had connections with the Cuban dictators, especially
Fulgencio Batista. Lansky arranged for legal Havana casinos to be located only
in large hotels, and the Syndicate bosses would own all those hotels, mainly
patronized by American tourists.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As for
Capone, he had to take the rap for the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and do jail
time. So he took a train to Philadelphia where he was met by a friendly
policeman he knew, turned over his revolver, and was arrested for having the
weapon. Given a one-year sentence handed down by a bought-off judge, Capone was
incarcerated at Eastern State Penitentiary, now a popular Philadelphia museum,
where his cell is a prime tourist attraction. He was allowed to have rugs, a
lounge chair, a comfortable bed, a radio and had food catered to him until he
was released after nine months on good behavior.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Luciano
was also arrested and put in jail, but during World War II he made a deal to
help US Navy Intelligence protect American docks and shipping from Nazi
saboteurs, paving the way for the successful invasion of Sicily. He was
released from prison because of his patriotic assistance to the war, but he was
forced into exile, first going to Havana, then a popular tourist and gambling
destination for Americans, where they held another conference before Luciano
retired to Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When the
Mustache Petes faded away, Luciano took control of New York where there were
five mafia families. Other areas with representatives on the board included
Angelo Bruno of Philadelphia, Carlos Marcello of New Orleans, Russell Buffalino
of Northeast Pennsylvania, Sam Giancana of Chicago, and Santo Trafficante of
Tampa and Havana. Each one of these bosses was given a percentage of the casino
profits – illegal casinos in Saratoga, N.Y., Florida, and legal casinos in
Havana and Las Vegas.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When the
Flamingo, Bugsy Siegel’s hotel casino in Las Vegas, opened in 1946 and quickly
foundered, the mob bosses were tired of his excuses and bankrolling him. He
owed them $10 million, an unpayable amount, so on the orders of the Commission
he was killed – shot in the head by a sniper as he sat in the Hollywood
apartment of his girlfriend, Virginia Hill.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">With
Luciano gone, the five New York mafia families fought among themselves and Sam
Giancana assumed a leadership role, obtaining control of all the mob rackets
west of Chicago including Detroit, California, and Las Vegas, where his
right-hand man, John Rosselli, was put in control.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Old man
Joe Kennedy owned many of the Canadian whiskey and Caribbean rum companies,
which were legal in those countries. Kennedy sold his liquor to American
bootleggers in the prohibition era, including Nucky Johnson and Sam Giancana,
and he owned a piece of the Cal-Neva Lodge casino hotel near Lake Tahoe.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">He sold
his Tahoe interests to Giancana who had his friend, Frank Sinatra, front for
him as the owner. Sinatra brought in his trusted friend, Skinny D’Amato, to run
the casino.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">D’Amato
owned the 500 Club in Atlantic City where Sinatra often performed. D’Amato’s
family ran the 500 Club while Skinny was in Nevada. Sinatra was also pals with
Joe’s son, Senator John Kennedy, future president of the United States. They
drank, smoked cigars and had romantic ties to the same women, including Judith
Campbell, who was also Giancana’s girlfriend.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8bFRPU_U6sTAX4Ou7eyuEhhDqYrAgNzl7G0EELzgm6yZXygAaPGQ3L_2K1llSLuFfo3MauatmItM5sxgXkHeKGTNpp5WzyA3eXYKl46IZeJBTwMeT62pJYhjpKpECrzNyLToCXvev0-dctwNis4wdEdaD-C5EBLeUbeoY1Z7PXw4-naX90tkcD17p8bI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="714" data-original-width="1000" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8bFRPU_U6sTAX4Ou7eyuEhhDqYrAgNzl7G0EELzgm6yZXygAaPGQ3L_2K1llSLuFfo3MauatmItM5sxgXkHeKGTNpp5WzyA3eXYKl46IZeJBTwMeT62pJYhjpKpECrzNyLToCXvev0-dctwNis4wdEdaD-C5EBLeUbeoY1Z7PXw4-naX90tkcD17p8bI" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /> JFK and Sinatra at the Inagural Ball </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When JFK
ran for president, Sinatra provided his theme song, “High Hopes,” and D’Amato
helped JFK win the critical West Virginia primary to get him the nomination.
Giancana ensured that Illinois would go with Kennedy in the election. Sinatra
was put in charge of providing the entertainment for Kennedy’s inauguration and
helped arrange for Atlantic City to get the 1964 Democratic National Convention
when it was assumed Kennedy would be renominated. Events would play out
differently, however.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGW6LxHwMLotuBTjnruEaUZABX2O3kPFTx55xsyW22Mu7rkj4l3nVoFUTD-EN8QSEag_ayijd9sjgd1GBF6K_vsC3ycvby_FzY_3kUYcCQjiV44pryJbv2T8q5R023Q5J7N9jrdaXe9BkxLFe-E6fh4WiGeMq53ljOq8uLyGtu8NsemNmUILFXLqfZyzg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="649" data-original-width="1000" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGW6LxHwMLotuBTjnruEaUZABX2O3kPFTx55xsyW22Mu7rkj4l3nVoFUTD-EN8QSEag_ayijd9sjgd1GBF6K_vsC3ycvby_FzY_3kUYcCQjiV44pryJbv2T8q5R023Q5J7N9jrdaXe9BkxLFe-E6fh4WiGeMq53ljOq8uLyGtu8NsemNmUILFXLqfZyzg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /> Skinny D'Amato advising Sen. JFK during campaign stop in New Jersey </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Judith
Campbell served as a courier between JFK and Giancana, and even visited the
White House. But when FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover found out about the
relationship, he warned the president through Kennedy’s brother, Attorney
General Robert F. Kennedy, that the FBI was onto the relationship and that it
was unwise and dangerous. So Kennedy broke off his association with Campbell
and Giancana, as well as Sinatra. Giancana and Sinatra didn’t like having a
falling out with the president, whom they helped get elected, especially when
JFK’s brother began to prosecute the mobsters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Then,
just like Bugsy Siegel, JFK was shot in the head by a sniper and killed. While
Lee Harvey Oswald was blamed for the crime, Giancana and Rosselli were
considered suspects, and Rosselli was murdered shortly after testifying in a
secret congressional session about the assassination. Giancana was killed
shortly before he was to testify. All of this is the subject of a major motion
picture, now in production, titled “2 Days, 1963.” Directed by David Mamet, it
stars Al Pacino, Sylvester Stallone, Shia LaBeouf and Courtney Love.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">So when
the Super Bowl is played in Las Vegas this weekend, the most popular tourist
attraction besides casinos and football will be the Las Vegas Mob Museum where
you can learn all about the history of organized crime, the Syndicate and the
Commission and how it all began in Atlantic City.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Mob
Museum, which opened in 2012, is a nonprofit corporation, but is very
successful, charging $25 admission and featuring photos, films and lectures.
Such a museum should be established in Atlantic City, with seed money from the
Atlantic City Casino Reinvestment Development Authority and a building
furnished from unused property owned by the city.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Right
now there is no Atlantic City Mob Museum, but there should be and can be, if
the powers that be deem it worthwhile.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">NOTE
ABOUT SOURCES – Information about the 1929 conference of mob bosses in Atlantic
City can be found on the Las Vegas Mob Museum website. Background on Joe
Kennedy, Sam Giancana, Cal-Neva Lodge, Judith Campbell and JFK is from Seymour
Hersh’s “The Dark Side of Camelot.” The best source on Skinny D’Amato, Frank
Sinatra and the 500 Club is Jonathan Van Meter’s “The Last Good Time.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="mailto:Billkelly3@gmail.com">Billkelly3@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-76373611929076032192024-02-16T12:03:00.000-08:002024-02-19T18:35:31.059-08:00Was the Real James Bond a Spy? <p> Was the Real James Bond a Spy? </p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuhICLLUYtleS6SctGZvXMzXW5X6vqcJE2HVJflotPUV4Y3g5RxWXetiTbiIs3Q6vtF0j4syNAnvW6jKJ_x1SEHaNkthVlzZH_SsWDtU8VS0U2kvAT4ig9tdmra3IyRvGRvPDuEV6cyDE90Df73dD6LX8bshO07dn0uegzjNXBePZmosBSN3PTpAZBmbI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="202" data-original-width="250" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuhICLLUYtleS6SctGZvXMzXW5X6vqcJE2HVJflotPUV4Y3g5RxWXetiTbiIs3Q6vtF0j4syNAnvW6jKJ_x1SEHaNkthVlzZH_SsWDtU8VS0U2kvAT4ig9tdmra3IyRvGRvPDuEV6cyDE90Df73dD6LX8bshO07dn0uegzjNXBePZmosBSN3PTpAZBmbI" width="297" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Well the evidence is not as strong as it is for two other Ian Fleming characters from Philadelphia - Cummins Catherwood, who was featured as Milton Krest in the short story The Hybred Rarity, or Henry Pleasants, 007-s frequent CIA sidekick Felix Leiter, as both were strongly affiliated with the CIA. Catherwood allowed his non-profit Catherwood Foundation to be used by the CIA to fund covert operations, as revealed by David Wise and Thomas Ross in their book The Invisible Government. </p><p>Wise and Ross also reveal that former OSS officer Henry Pleasants, who debriefed Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen, also wrote classical and jazz music reviews for the Philadelphia Bulletin and New York Times, a background Fleming attributes to Felix Leiter in Live and Let Die when Leiter accompanies James Bond to a jazz club in Harlem. Pleasants later became the CIA Chief of Station in Bonn, Germany while continuing writing about music. </p><p>And both men had connections to Fleming. One of the members of the Catherwood Fund board of directors was a friend of Ian's brother Peter Fleming, and after thinking about it for a few moments, Pleasants told me that his wife Virginia, a former harpsacordist in the Philadelphia Orchestra, was in a small chamber music group in London with Fleming's sister, who played the cello. </p><p>As for James Bond, the Curator of Birds at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences and author of the book Birds of the West Indies, he attended Cambridge University, the school of spys, most notably the Cambridge Spy ring (Kim Philby et al.), and was a member of the Pitt Club, that Guy Burgess would also be a member of. </p><p>Mrs. Bond, in on of her books about her husband - Far Afield in the Caribbean, mentions that in 1938 James Bond sailed on a tramp steamer with Somerset Maugham, a famous writer and important British spy who was sent to Russia in 1917 to prevent the Communist revolution, a mission that failed but emphasized his importance. </p><p>Maugham, the author of numerous classic novels such as The Razors Edge, also wrote Ashenden, one of the earliest spy novels based on his own, personal experiences.</p><p>Did Maugham recruit Bond on that voyage? When I asked Bond about meeting Maugham, he said Maugham said he was on his way to Devil's Island, and didn't talk much. But I also noticed, on the book shelf next to the door of his apartment, was a complete works of first edition volumes of Somerset Maugham, so Bond must have read him, something he failed to do with any of Ian Fleming's books. </p><p>I also recalled that during England's war with the Argentina over the Faulkland islands, a TV cliip showed British soldiers being briefed on the terrain they would expect when they landed, a briefing by the last Englishman who was on that beach - a birdwatcher. </p><p>In 1948 Bond did sail with Catherwood on his yacht The Vigilant, visiting remote out island like Old Providence, where Morgan the Pirate's treasure was rumored to be burried. When I asked Bond about Catherwood, he didn't have anything nice to say. Bond described him as a imprudent millioinaire who made the voyage unbearable. But the Bond and Catherwood connection is set in stone aboard the Vigilant. </p><p>Mrs. Bond reports that during WWII Bond encountered a German on a mountain in Haiti, and though it important enough to report the fact to the FBI, but they then began investigating Bond, why was he there? </p><p>Bond was also investigated by J. Edgar Hover's FBI after the Cambridge spy ring was uncovered, as all Americans who attended Cambridge were. </p><p>And as Mrs. Bond recounts in her books, James Bond was at the Bay of Pigs a few weeks before the CIA backed anti-Castro brigade landed there. And he picked up some important intelligence information - that new roads had been constructed to that remote swamp. Did Bond convey that information to the CIA? </p><p>In his new biography of James Bond, Jim Wright mentions my work and association with Bond, and questioning whether or not Bond was a spy, but he says that he could not obtain Cummins Catherwood's CIA file even though Catherwood's CIA credentials had been exposed, not only by Wise and Ross in The Invisible Government, but by Joseph Smith in his Portrait of a Cold Warrior as he used the Catherwood Foundation as a front for his CIA mission to the Phillipines. </p><p>And of course, Kim Philby, the most important double agent of all time, reported in his book My Silent War, that when he was British Secret Intelligence Service liaison to the CIA, Frank Wisner explained to him how they were using private Foundations as a cover for their covert operations. </p><p>So the answer to the question of whether the real James Bond was a spy must remain inconclusive, but maybe someday the records of the agency will reveal the truth. </p><p>Billkelly3@gmail.com </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-50520401083956206052024-02-02T14:13:00.000-08:002024-02-16T12:10:11.912-08:00How I Came to Meet James Bond <p> How I Came to Meet James Bond - William Kelly billkelly3@gmail.com </p><p>It was in the course of my JFK Assassination research when I came across the real James Bond. It must have been some November anniversary, probably around 1973-5, when Philadelphia Magazine ran a story of the Philadelphia connections to the assassination. </p><p>The late great Alan Halpern was the editor then, and his protege Gaeton Fonzi was off to Washington or Florida working for Sen. Richard Schweiker and the Church Intelligence Committee and later the House Select Committee on Assassinations, so the article was written by another good investigative reporter Michael Malowe. </p><p>Warren Commission lawyers William Coleman and Arlen Spector were both from Philadelphia, as was later HSCA chief counsel Richard Sprague. Then living there at the time were Ruth Paine, Michael Paine's mother Ruth Forbes Paine and her husband Arthur Young, the inventor of the Bell Helicopter, as well as Priscilla Johnson, critics professor Joshia Tink Thompson, film buff Robert Groden and my old college mate John Judge. </p><p>As I was born and raised across the Delaware River in Camden, NJ, I often visited Judge, who worked at a Quaker center on Walnut Street near Rittenhouse Square and lived in a Germantown mansion with two other former University of Dayton school mates, where we would listen to Mae Brussell "World Watcher" radio broadcast tapes. </p><p>One of John's jobs at the Quaker center was to call supporters on the phone and ask for donations, and one day he told me he called Ruth Paine and she made a donation. </p><p>The Philadelphia magazine article in question included an interview with Ruth Paine, but it also somehow connected her to a mysterious foundation - the Catherwood Foundation, which was connected to the CIA. </p><p>The book The Invisible Government (Wise and Ross) exposed the CIA's foundation system for financing covert operations, listing the Catherwood Fund among a dozen or so others. Double agent Kim Philby, in his book My Sikent War, related how while he was the British SIS liason to the CIA Frank Wisner explained to him how rich Americans were convinced to establish foundations and funds the CIA could funnel their money through, so it was a secret only kept from the American people.</p><p>So I did what I routinely do when I come across a new name and went to the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin archives, called the morgue, where I looked up Cartherwoods file.</p><p>The Bulketin paid old ladies tjo clip every story, circle each name mentioned, and place the clipping in an envelope with that person's name on it, that was fiked in metal cabinets alphabetically.</p><p>Cummins Catherwood's envelope was bulging with clips that I took over to a nearby table to read. It was late at night so few people were around but the editor Tom Flynn came over and asked what I was working on.</p><p>As a millionaire who inherited his millions from a family munitions industry, his CIA work clearly stood out, as the Catherwood Fund backed the Cuban Aid Relief, established to support anti-Castro Cuban professionals in exile.</p><p>Catherwood also used his tax exempt Fund to have a large sailing yacht built, the Vigilant, that in 1948, he took four scientists to Caribbean out islands, one of whom studied mollusks, another was "James Bond, whose main interest is birds."</p><p>At first I thought it was a joke, a CIA agent using James Bond as an alias, but then looked at the date- 1948, and realized it was before Ian Fleming made James Bond the world's most famous spy.</p><p>With that I packed it in, and put Catherwoods envelop back in the filing cabinet and went over to visit a friend, WMMR radio news man Bill Vitka. Sitting listening to records and sipping wine, I told him about Catherwood and Janes Bond, and he recalled reading an interview with Ian Fleming in which he said he took the James Bond name for 007 from a Philadelphia ornithologist.</p><p>Later, when I returned to the Bulletin clipping morgue, I took out the envelope labeled Bond, James, and confirmed Vitka's memory.</p><p>The one and only real James Bond is the Philadelphia ornithologist who wrote the field guide Birds of the West Indies, a copy of which I obtained from the Princeton Antique Book shop in Atlantic City.</p><p>I obtained Bond's address at Hill House in Chestnut Hill, a suburb of Philadelphia from the public phone directory, and while John Judge waited in the car, walked up to that apartment building next to the train station. </p><p>When I told the door man-security guard I was visiting James Bond, he directed me to the elevator and said his apartment was on the 10th floor 1007. Ha, another coincidence.</p><p>I nocked on the door, my copy of his book in my hand, and when Mrs. Bond answered, I held it up and asked if Mr. Bond would sign my copy of his book. She invited me in, and called out, "Jimmy!, there's a young man here to see you."</p><p>Jimmy, I thought, was a real American and not the prim and proper English James.</p><p>Mr. Bond emerged from a back room wearing a tuxedo, much as his Hollywood namesake wore. They were going out that night to attend a charity ball, he explained, and said, "Let's see what you have here- an early first edition on which he enshrined, "To Bill Kelly, good birding, - James Bond."</p><p>At the Bond's invitation I returned a few more times, purchased and read Mrs Bond's books - "How 007 Realy Got His Name," "Far Afield in the Caribbean," and "To James Bond, With Love."</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-67771188125562161942024-01-30T13:15:00.000-08:002024-02-02T11:46:11.682-08:00James Bond, Ian Fleming, Lee Harvey Oswald and JFK <p>James Bond, <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> LHO and JFK</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Previously posted in part: </span><a href="https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2012/05/007-lho-jfk.html">https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2012/05/007-lho-jfk.html</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTJsO5jGxOBf4fCT89XPrrLCUopGPVlqUEr2Ybrm1_am3qLk4wDUV7entR-i1FylnKLj-Wd6rpCwgWrloeFUGNiEL2e1sQQ6NW-TwGbK9W3Mbxa78CTCoMllelp57y4M5GZ_58srChTKnvdOmhyJ8ngyQS8wgqPjt0x7yyIRRNIboydOmh3Mxznh4X_xE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="189" data-original-width="267" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTJsO5jGxOBf4fCT89XPrrLCUopGPVlqUEr2Ybrm1_am3qLk4wDUV7entR-i1FylnKLj-Wd6rpCwgWrloeFUGNiEL2e1sQQ6NW-TwGbK9W3Mbxa78CTCoMllelp57y4M5GZ_58srChTKnvdOmhyJ8ngyQS8wgqPjt0x7yyIRRNIboydOmh3Mxznh4X_xE" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the course of reading Nicholas Shakespeare’s new
800 page biography - Ian Flaming: The Complete Man I noticed or recalled a
number of associations with JFK that are relevant to his
assassination and are worth mentioning,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Peter Dale Scott first turned me on to Robin
Ramsay’s UK based Lobster Journal “that looks at the impact of the intelligence
and security services on history and politics, from espionage to dirty tricks.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Some years ago Ramsey ran my review of Phil
Shenon’s JFK assassination book “A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History
of the Kennedy Assassination,” that’s primarily devoted to the Mexico City
“Twist Party,” and I tracked down the two American Gringos who were ostensibly
with the accused assassin of the President and Cuban embassy officials.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">For more on Shenon and the Twist Party::
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1245944348321146643/6777118812556216194">JFKcountercoup:
A Cruel and Shocking Twist</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">With the impending release of Shakespeare’s new
biography “Ian Fleming: The Complete Man,” ( Penguin, 2022) <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1245944348321146643/6777118812556216194">https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/441629/ian-fleming-by-shakespeare-nicholas/9781787302419</a> )
Robin Ramsey arranged for me to get an advanced copy to read and r<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">While many back issues are available to read free, I
recommend you subscribe to Lobster, ( <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1245944348321146643/6777118812556216194">https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/issue/88/</a> ),
where you can also read my review in Issue 88, ( <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1245944348321146643/6777118812556216194">https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/88/oo7s-real-mission-continues/</a> ).</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As I write at Lobster – There are three things that
I thought should be rectified about Fleming that his previous biographies
got wrong: why Fleming began the first 007 novel <i>Casino
Royale,</i> an accurate portrait of the real James Bond – the Philadelphia ornithologist
and author of the book Birds of the West Indies, and the real persons
known to Fleming that he used as characters in his stories.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As Shakespeare finally acknowledges Fleming began
his first 007 novel Casino Royale because of what they called at the
time - The case of the missing diplomats – Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean. The
revelations about the Cambridge spy ring was what instigated Fleming to write
“the spy story to end all spy stories,” which leads me to the associations
with JFK and his assassination.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">With the disappearance of Burgess and MacLean,
Fleming sent Mercury News correspondent Richard Hughes to Moscow where it was
arranged for Hughes to meet Burgess and MacLean, confirming their defection.
Shakespeare quotes Christopher Moran as saying “Mercury looks like a spy
operation. It smells like a spy operation, ergo, I think it is a spy
operation.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Though Shakespeare describes the Mercury news
syndicate as a virtual spy network, he doesn’t do the same for the North
American Newspaper Alliance (NANA), owned by Fleming’s close friends and
wartime associates Ivor Bryce (SIS) and Ernest Cuneo (OSS), whose names are
also portrayed as characters in 007 novels. They hired Fleming as a
foreign editor, and one of their correspondents Priscilla Johnson (McMillan)
interviewed former US Marine defector Lee Harvey Oswald in Moscow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">John Judge and I wrote about this in more detail in
an essay Bottlefed by Oswald’s NANA – <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1245944348321146643/6777118812556216194">https:/archive.politicalassassinations.net/2012/07/was-oswald-bottlefed-by-nana/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Shakespeare mentions Priscilla Johnson as the author
of Lee and Marina, a book that portrays accused assassin Lee Oswald
as a lone nut, but one who was an avid reader of Ian Fleming’s James Bond
books, as was President Kennedy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Shakespeare writes: “It was not
merely John F. Kennedy who was overly influenced by Ian
Fleming’s novels and engaged in secret plots. Another Bond fan was the
emotionally disturbed young man who killed him. At 9 p.m. on Thursday 21
November 1963, a private screening of “From Russia with Love” was
held for fifty guests in the White House projection room….”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It was Fleming’s novel “From Russia with
Love,” that President Kennedy’s secretary Evelyn Lincoln added to the list
of books the President read because she thought the list was all boring
history. When the list was published in Life magazine it boosted the sales of
Fleming’s 007 series. It was also one of the books found among Lee Harvey Oswald’s
effects in his boarding house room.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The complete list as published in Life Magazine:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1245944348321146643/6777118812556216194">http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Ready-Reference/JFK-Miscellaneous-Information/Favorite-Books.aspx</a><br />
<br />
Lord Melbourne by David Cecil<br />
Montrose by John Buchan<br />
Marlborough by Sir Winston Churchill<br />
John Quincy Adams by Samuel Flagg Bemis<br />
The Emergence of Lincoln by Allan Nevins<br />
The Price of Union by Herbert Agar<br />
John C. Calhoun by Margaret L. Coit<br />
Talleyrand by Duff Cooper<br />
Byron in Italy by Peter Quennell<br />
The Red and the Black by M. de Stendhal<br /><b>
From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming</b><br />
Pilgrim's Way by John Buchan<br />
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon<br />
Writing and Speeches of Daniel Webster<br />
Andre Malraux<br />
The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman<br />
Henry Clay by Carl Schurz <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As noted: Dave Powers later added a few titles to
the list, and Kennedy’s secretary Mrs. Lincoln later acknowledged she
added “From Russia with Love” to the list of otherwise dull and
academic books to give it a human touch with a book she knew Kennedy had read
that ordinary people could identify with.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The “From Russia with Love” story concerns
the theft of a Russian Lector cipher machine from their embassy in Istanbul,
which reflects on the theft of the real German Nazi Enigma cipher machine that
was successfully broken by the British during WWII, a secret that was kept for
thirty years after the war. And Shakespeare tells us that both Ian and his brother
Peter Fleming were among the small Bigot List of those who had access to the
secrets revealed by the codebreakers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The story also has Russian assassin Donovan Grant
attempting to kill James Bond and retrive the cipher machine. Shakespeare says
that Fleming named the SMERSH assassin Donovan Grant after Gen. William
Donovan, head of the OSS, and that “Since August, Oswald had used the pseudonym
‘Alik James Hidell.’"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">While everyone speculates that "Hidell"
was meant to match Fidel, Shakespeare tells us, "The middle name ‘may have
been taken from James Bond,’ according to his biographer, Priscilla Johnson
McMillan, who, who had interviewed Oswald in Moscow after his defection in
October 1959,” But Shakespeare fails to note that at the time McMillan interviewed
Oswald the defector in Moscow she was working for Bryce, Cuneo and Fleming at
NANA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“It is not unreasonable to suppose,” writes
Shakespeare, “that once Oswald returned to America in June 1962, tail between
his legs, and learned of the President’s widely publicized reading habits,
the fictional career of Donovan as ‘the chief executioner’ of SMERSH offered an
alternative vision of how his defection was to have played
out. Kennedy saw himself as Bond, and Oswald, in a warped version, as
example of Bond’s would-be assassin, Donovan Grant – only successful….” That
may be a stretch, but one that is made by Priscilla Johnaon and Shakespiere,
not me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Fleming did meet JFK. As recounted in all three of
Fleming biographies, Fleming met and had dinner with Senator John F. Kennedy at
his home, when he was visiting his close friend Oatsie Leiter, a Georgetown
neighbor of JFK and Jamaican neighbor of Fleming. Over dinner, JFK asked
Fleming what James Bond would do about Fidel Castro, to which Fleming replied,
“ridicule, chiefly.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Shakespeare fails to mention that Fleming anoits
007’s CIA sidekick with the name Felix Leiter, and that the family of Oatsie
Leiter’s husband John once owned the Virginia land that the CIA headquarters
was built on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Soon after becoming President JFK requested
that the CIA send over “America’s James Bond” and the portly, pear shaped
William Harvey showed up at the oval office, leaving his pistols with the
Secret Service at the door. While Harvey didn’t look like James Bond, he was
just as lethal, and is now even considered a suspect in the murder of the
President. Harvey also was one of the first to claim, after attending a party
at Philby’s apartment, that Philby and Burgess were Soviet spies,
and JFK did play an unintentional role in the exposure of the
Cambridge spy ring.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">President JFK appointed Michael Straight
to head a new arts commission, but when Straight found his background was to be
closely vetted by the FBI, he confessed that there was an attempt to recruit
him into the Cambridge spy ring while he was a student there. Besides Philby,
Burgess, McClean, Straight threw another name into the spy ring – Sir Anthony
Blunt, the surveyor of the Queen’s pictures. It was Straight's confession that
led Philby to flee to Moscow himself. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">While Straight claimed not to have provided them
with any useful information, as publisher of his family’s liberal New
Republic magazine, he did print some of Philby’s articles and in London
Fleming visited the American millionaire Whitney Straight, brother of Michael
Straight in order to discuss Burgess and MacLean, who Straight also knew at
Cambridge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The former assistant to the chief of British Naval
Intelligence christened his secret agent Double-Oh Seven - 007 - James Bond,
who was licensed to kill on behalf of her majesty’s secret service, while
having the cover job of an import-export agent for Universal Export. A few
years later, Lee Harvey Oswald, just out of the US Marine Corps, boarded a
tramp steamer in New Orleans and sailed for Europe on the
first leg of a journey that would take him behind the Iron Curtain as a
“defector” to the Soviet Union. The passport that Oswald turned over to
the US Embassy in Moscow when he announced his defection indicated
that his profession was “Import-Export” agent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In fact, Oswald, before enlisting in the US Marines,
did work at an import and export firm in New Orleans. As explained by his
brother Robert (Lee – A Portrait of Lee, Coward-McCann, 1967, p. 74),
“In November (1955) he (Lee) went to work as a messenger and office boy for a
shipping company, Gerald F. Tujague, Inc. He made only $130 a month, but it
must have seemed like a lot of money to him, since it was his first full-time
job. Mother said he was generous with his money…Feeling prosperous, now that he
had a regular income, Lee bought other things, too. Mother said he paid $35 for
a coat for her, bought a bow and arrow set – and gun…I remember that gun…Lee
really seemed to enjoy his work at Tujague’s for a while. He felt more
independent than ever before, and he liked the idea of working for a shipping
company. When he first told me about it, he was eager, animated and genuinely
enthusiastic. ‘We’re sending an order to Portugal this week,’ he’d
tell me. Or, ‘I received a shipment from Hong Kong, just this morning.’ It
was a big adventure to him – as if all the company’s ships were his and he
could go to any of the places named on the order blanks he carried from one
desk to another. It made him feel important, just to be on the fringes of
something as exciting as foreign trade.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Tujague later came back on the record as a leading
member of the Friends of a Democratic Cuba in New Orleans and was said to be on
the board of directors of a bank that also included John Mecom, who employed
George DeMohrenschildt and sent him to Europe, which led to him being
debriefed by the CIA. So both Oswald and DeMohrenschildt, although their
lives wouldn’t entwine until years later, were both employed by directors of
the same bank, an indication they were both working for the same economic interests
years earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Gerald F. Tujague (10 HSCA, 134, note 64;
CE2227, 25 H 128) Owner of a New Orleans shipping company that
sixteen year old Oswald worked for from November 10,
1955 to January 14 1956, shortly before he enlisted in the USMC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Trujague was Vice President of Friends of
Democratic Cuba, an anti-Castro Cuban group incorporated in New
Orleans on January 6, 1961, which also included Guy Banister on its
board of directors. On January 20, 1061, when Oswald was in
the USSR, two men visited the Bolton Ford dealership in New
Orleans and inquired about the purchase of trucks for their organization,
the Friends of Democratic Cuba, using Oswald’s name. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Was there a reason for Oswald to list his occupation
as “import-export agent” on the passport he used to defect to Russia, and
was it in any way associated with import-export agency he worked for
in New Orleans shortly before enlisting in the Marines? Or was it
some kind of inside joke, tongue in cheek reference to James Bond’s occupation
as an import-export agent for Universal Export?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In JFK & 007, Less Sanger Golden (alias
Author337) perpetuates the myths and takes note of the mutual associations of
007 and Camelot, as well the Oswald connection. Golden wrote: “Meanwhile, the
James Bond novels were having a huge impact on another young man, Lee Harvey
Oswald. He too was a fan of the novel From Russia with Love, a story
of political defection that oddly mirrors Oswald’s own defection to
the Soviet Union. In the story, James Bond wisps the young Russian Tatiana
Romonvav across the iron curtain with promises of decadent western luxuries.
While in Russia, Lee Oswald similarly swept young Marina Prusakova off of
her feet and brought her to America with promises of a better life.
But when things started going badly, Tatiana and Marina realized that perhaps
they were in for more than they had bargained for.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As Golden also noted other similarities when he
wrote: “If JFK represents all the most charming aspects of James Bond, then
perhaps Lee Oswald is a reflection of his dark side. His rages, his wrath. The
irony inherent in any substantive comparison of JFK and 007 is inescapable. For
while James Bond is a timeless figure, JFK was a figure taken before his time.
And while James Bond is unkillable, we all that the same cannot be said of Jack
Kennedy.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After Oswald living in New
Orleans in the summer of 1963, Oswald took a number of books out of the
local New Orleans library. A Warren Commission memorandum included
the list of the books that Oswald checked out of the New Orleans Library. First
on the list is “Goldfinger,’ and it officially notes that the author is IAN
FLEMING, the book was checked out – 9/19/63 (Sept. 19) and the return
date is indicated as 10/3/63 (October 3). “Goldfinger” wasn’t
the first 007 novel that Oswald checked out, as the records show that he had
previously taken out “Thunderball” and “From Russia With
Love.” Another 007 book “Moonraker” was also checked out on the same
date as “Goldfinger,” both of which were returned on October 3. For
assassination investigators the problem with Oswald’s “Goldfinger” is
that, according to the records of the New Orleans Library, the book was
returned on October 3, 1963, a full week after Oswald, the friendless
loner had left New Orleans. If Oswald was on a bus from Mexico to Texas on
that day, who returned the book to the New Orleans library?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Of course if Lee Harvey Oswald was the real assassin
of the President of the United States, these books would have been given a
through going over and psychoanalysts would have given their interpretation of
the assassin’s state of mind at the time, but since Oswald was a patsy, and
framed for the crimes, just as he claimed, there has been no real attempt to
even try to understand the psychological makeup of the patsy. If he had been
the actual triggerman and assassin, then it would be a different story. In any
case, Oswald is one of the most thoroughly analyzed patsies in history, so we
know a lot about him, much more than we know about the actual assassins. One of
the things we know is that he read a lot, and we know what he read from the
library records.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Oswald did take an literary interest in the subject
of espionage, as another book he checked out was, “Five Spy Novels.” <br />
<br />
The President’s wife Jackie was as well-read as her husband, and later became a
book editor and publisher. She also took notice of Ian Fleming’s novels, though
she may not have gotten the joke, but she is credited with recommending
Fleming’s books to CIA director Alan Dulles. Dulles also enjoyed
Fleming’s stories and tried to cultivate a similar genre
of CIA themed literature that would do for the agency what Fleming’s
books did for the British spy agencies. Both E. Howard Hunt and David Attle
Phillips wrote a number of officially approved fictional pulp paperback novels
that were similar to Fleming’s 007 stories in style and content.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">While “Casino Royale” was the first 007 novel,
the story had been adapted to an American television show, so the first 007
major motion picture was “Dr. No,” which Oswald could have and probably did
see. <br />
<br />
In 1961, Kennedy watched the first James Bond film, Dr. No, in a
private White House screening, and in part to Kennedy’s influence, the next
movie was based on “From Russia, With Love,” and according to William
Manchester, it would be the last movie that the president saw,
on November 20, 1963, the evening before he left for Texas. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Vincent Canby made the observation: “Whether
accurately or not, the first films made from the Bond novels came to
characterize a number of aspects of the Kennedy Administration with its
reputation for glamour, wit and sophistication, and its real-life dram and
melodrama. Indeed, the President himself could be seen as a kind of Bond
figure, and the 1962 Cuban missile crisis as a real-life Bond situation.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Any cursory review of the books we know Oswald read
should begin with “Goldfinger,” which opens with a quote above the table
of contents that reads: “Goldfinger said, ‘Mr. Bond, they have a
saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third
time it’s enemy action.’” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">While some of these incidents are speculative, some
are coincidences and other perhaps hapenstance, if the happenstances and
coincidences are added up, one must come to the conclusion that it is neither
happenstance nor coincidence but intentional covert action.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As David Atlee Phillips said, “The intelligence
profession does not encourge one to believe in coincidence as an explanation
for events.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="116" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtOEwi98RtiZbAzsoUWSgI2R6gagA40YsqG0qmJJyyVrQkWS_GYTWsjyuuZ41-s1TXkieFx2ThmBvJmDce1jOu62IIgQpDFAE6KDEkG2SIxp3yH22IjLyXrNuutQBlH3ttAgAz0-ommMG3E8nRopPx6QI0OobeQtIzkUuiNaqFZb5zJ0fjZLh1nJcfklY" width="174" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">HUGH
AYNESWORTH – August 2, 1931 – December 23, 2023 </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">As Hugh
Aynesworth just passed away earlier this week, I thought I would revive one of
the articles I did on him as part of the Real Disinformation Agents at Dealey
Plaza. While Aynesworth, like myself, also wrote about psycho serial killer Ted
Bundy, he tried to portray Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused killer of President
Kennedy, in the same light, refusing to acknowledge Oswald’s many intelligence
connections, as he himself had..</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">Aynesworth reported to the CIA’s Domestic
Contact Agent in Dallas J. Walton Moore, who was the CIS controller for George deMohrenschildt and Col.
Lawrence Orlov. Orlov accompanied deMohrenschildt to visit Oswald for the first
time, after getting the go-ahead from Moore. While deMohrenschildt often had dinner
with Moore, Orlov played racket ball with him every day, so they had a personal as well
as professional relationship. And Moore and the CIA were closely monitoring events. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">HUGH
AYNESWORTH <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As a
local reporter for George Bannerman Dealey’s Dallas Morning News, Hugh
Aynesworth was all over the place during the assassination weekend. He was at
Dealey Plaza, the Tippit murder scene, the Texas Theater where the accused
assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested, the house in Irving where Oswald’s
wife lived, the rooming house where Oswald lived and the Dallas Police
Department where he was killed.<a name="_ednref1"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_edn1" title="">[1]</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It’s
important to mention Aynesworth’s background and his presence at so many crime
scenes because while it always seemed suspicious, and his CIA ties were
confirmed with the release of CIA records by the JFK Act.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As Jim
DiEugenio notes, “many more pages of documents have been released showing how
tightly bound Aynesworth was with the intelligence community. It has been
demonstrated that Aynesworth was – at the minimum – working with the Dallas
Police, Shaw's defense team, and the FBI. He was also an informant to the White
House, and had once applied for work with the CIA. As I have noted elsewhere, in
the annals of this case, I can think of no reporter who had such extensive
contacts with those trying to cover up the facts in the JFK case...”<a name="_ednref2"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_edn2" title="">[2]</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rex
Bradford, the web master of Mary Ferrell’s extensive files on the case wrote<a name="fn_2">, </a>“Declassified documents show that Dallas reporter Hugh
Aynesworth was in contact with the Dallas CIA office and had on at least one
occasion ‘<a href="http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=594957" target="_blank" title="mffabspageid:594957"> offered his services to us</a>.’
The files are chock full of Aynesworth informing to the FBI, particularly in
regard to the Garrison investigation….Also of note is a message Aynesworth sent
to…LBJ's White House, in which Aynesworth wrote that ‘My interest in informing
government officials of each step along the way is because of my intimate
knowledge of what Jim Garrison is planning.’” <a name="_ednref3"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_edn3" title="">[3]</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Most
incredible however, is the CIA report written on October 10, 1963 when J.
Walton Moore, the head of the Dallas CIA Domestic Contacts Division reported to
the Chief of the Contact Division on “the possibility of Hugh Grant Aynesworth
making a trip to Cuba.”<a name="_ednref4"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_edn4" title="">[4]</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">One
month before the assassination J. Walton Moore - the same CIA agent who has
been meeting regularly with the accused assassin’s best friend George
DeMohrenschildt, is also meeting with Hugh Aynesworth about going to Cuba.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Moore’s
first mission with the OSS during Word War II was to China with Charles Ford,
who later became the CIA agent assigned to work with RFK at JMWAVE. Using an
Italian alias, Ford worked with John Rosselli, the mafia boss the CIA
previously recruited to kill Castro. In his interview with the Church
Committee, Ford said they were trying to overthrow, not kill Castro, but those
who have it in for RFK use Ford as a lynchpin to crucify Bobby, as we have seen
with Sy Hersh in the Dark Side of Camelot, Evan Thomas in Robert
Kennedy – His Life , and David Kaiser in The Road to Dallas ,
and Max Holland. But with the release of Ford’s records by the JFK Act, they
have all gone silent. <a name="_ednref5"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_edn5" title="">[5]</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">However
there could be an association between Hugh Aynesworth, J. Walton Moore, Charles
Ford and David Atlee Phillips, especially in regards to the timing of Moore’s
memo and Phllips’ travels, not just as it relates to Cuba, but to what happened
at Dealey Plaza. This is especially so since J. Walton Moore – the CIA contact
agent to the accused assassin’s best friend, served in the same capacity with
Hugh Aynesworth about a trip to Cuba a month before the assassination. And the
day before Aynesworth met with Moore, David Phillips was at JMWAVE, the CIA’s
Miami, Florida base, where anti-Castro operations were planned and carried out.<a name="_ednref6"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_edn6" title="">[6]</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">How did
these damning records get released? And if this was released, what’s in the
thousands of documents that are totally redacted or are still partially
withheld for reasons of national security? Many of these withheld records
include many pages of the files of Hugh Aynesworth, Priscilla Johnson and
Gordon McLendon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As David
Talbot points out, “…some of these journalists did the CIA’s bidding: see, for
instance, a January 25, 1968 CIA memo on Hugh Aynesworth, who covered the JFK
assassination, first for the Dallas Morning News and then Newsweek .
Aynesworth – who at one time, according to the memo, ‘expressed some
interest…in possible employment with the Agency’ – was considered by the CIA to
be a solid ‘Warren Commission man on the assassination.’”<a name="_ednref7"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_edn7" title="">[7]</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And
indeed he was. He eagerly did the agencies bidding to squash the Garrison
investigation, and he doesn’t consider the Kennedy assassination among the
unsolved homicides in his 1994 book Murders Among Us: Unsolved Homicides,
Mysterious Deaths and Killers at Large .<a name="_ednref8"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_edn8" title="">[8]</a> But his
article, “The Strangest Story I Ever Covered,” details how he came to expose
the head of the local crime commission was himself a criminal who had crafted a
new identity to hide his past. So Aynesworth is capable of uncovering
conspiracies when he wants to. If he applied the same investigative skills to
the homicide at Dealey Plaza, perhaps he would have helped uncover the truth
instead of promoting the cover story and blaming the murder on the patsy.<a name="_ednref9"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_edn9" title="">[9]</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joseph
Goulden was one of Hugh Aynesworth’s colleagues who also covered the events in
Dallas and also pushed the lone-nut myth. When rumors began to circulate that
Oswald was an FBI informant, and was even assigned an informant number,
Aynesworth, along with Houston reporter Lonnie Hudkins and Goulden, floated the
story that they had made up an informant number to make it seem real. The
Warren Commission held a closed door executive session to discuss it, and
former CIA director Allen Dulles explained that even if Oswald was an
informant, there would be no record of it, though there was a record of Jack
Ruby being such an FBI informant.<a name="_ednref10"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_edn10" title="">[10]</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Just as
there was a lot of friction between the FBI and the Dallas Police, there was
also friction between the FBI and the Secret Service and the FBI and the CIA.
So Goulden’s story actually took some of the heat off the CIA, especially in
regards to Oswald’s defection to the Soviet Union and his trip to Mexico City,
both of which called unwanted attention to CIA operations they wanted to keep
secret.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It was
also a diversion that appeared to dissipate when Aynesworth and Goulden
acknowledged the story was bogus. So the idea of Oswald as intelligence
operative went south and the public image now became one of the deranged loser,
and lone nut assassin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Today,
both Aynesworth and Goulden write for the Washington Times newspaper,
founded by Sun Myung Moon and owned by the Unification Church, who some suspect
acts as a front for the CIA.<a name="_ednref11"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_edn11" title="">[11]</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When
Priscilla Johnson McMillan testified before the House Select Committee on
Assassinations (HSCA), she said that in the course of researching Marina’s
story, she discovered who actually obtained and leaked Oswald’s “Historic
Diary” to the Dallas Morning News and Life magazine.<a name="_ednref12"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_edn12" title="">[12]</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Who was
it? Hugh Aynesworth. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">NOTES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">HUGH
AYNESWORTH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_edn1"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_ednref1" title=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[1]</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Anyesworth on the weekend
of the assassination.<br />
<a href="http://www.mywesttexas.com/top_stories/article_38b31e0a-eb9b-5a22-9dc6-21674b814a2e.html" target="_blank">http://www.mywesttexas.com/top_stories/article_38b31e0a-eb9b-5a22-9dc6-21674b814a2e.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_edn2"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_ednref2" title=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[2]</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> DiEugenio, James. <a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/hugh-aynesworth-never-quits" target="_blank">“Hugh Aynesworth Never Quits”</a>. Also See: James
DiEugenio <a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/these-are-your-witnesses" target="_blank">"These are Your Witnesses?"</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_edn3"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_ednref3" title=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[3]</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Bradford, Rex. On
Aynesworth. Bradford, Rex. Kennedy’s Ghost. <a href="http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Essay_-_Kennedys_Ghost#fn_2" target="_blank">http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Essay_-_Kennedys_Ghost
- fn_2</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_edn4"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_ednref4" title=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[4]</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Moore, J. Walton.
Aynesworth to Cuba. Offers Services to CIA: On October 10, 1963 J. Walton Moore
wrote to the Chief, (Domestic) Contact Division on the possibility of Hugh
Grant Aynesworth Making Trip To Cuba. <a href="http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=594957" target="_blank">http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=594957</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_edn5"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_ednref5" title=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[5]</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> 5) Moore, J. Walton and
Charles Ford, Ford Report Sept. 28, 1962 <a href="http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55224&relPageId=43" target="_blank">http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55224&relPageId=43</a>;
Ford & Bobby, - Sy Hersch in the Darkside of Camelot, Evan
Thomas Robert Kennedy – His Life (p. 178), and David Kaiser in The
Road to Dallas notes (47-48 p.446). Max Holland writes about “The Paper
Trail” in his Washington Decoded blog: <a href="http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/files/conspiracy_theories_keep_coming_but_under_scrutiny_the_plot_gets_thinner.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/files/conspiracy_theories_keep_coming_but_under_scrutiny_the_plot_gets_thinner.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_edn6"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_ednref6" title=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[6]</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> 6) Scott, PD. – Phillips at
JMWAVE. Oct. 63. PDS Deep Politics III – <a href="http://www.history-matters.com/pds/DP3_Overview.htm#_ftn196" target="_blank">http://www.history-matters.com/pds/DP3_Overview.htm - _ftn196</a> From
about October 1 to October 9 Phillips made a quick trip, authorized by the
Special Affairs Staff, to Washington and then Miami.<a href="http://www.history-matters.com/pds/DP3_Overview.htm#_ftn193" target="_blank" title="">[193]</a> On October 1 the Mexico City CIA
station also sent a cable directing that a diplomatic pouch, sent on October 1
to Washington, should be held in the registry until picked up by “Michael C.
Choaden” (i.e. Phillips) presently TDY (temporary duty) HQS.”<a href="http://www.history-matters.com/pds/DP3_Overview.htm#_ftn194" target="_blank" title="">[194]</a><a href="http://www.history-matters.com/pds/DP3_Overview.htm#_ftn195" target="_blank" title="">[195]</a> The date October 1 catches
our eye, in as much as it is the date of the alleged Oswald-Kostikov intercept.
One is also struck by Phillips’ presence in the Miami JMWAVE station from
October 7-9. There are reports that Rosselli, who had good standing in the
JMWAVE station, met on two occasions in Miami in early October with Jack Ruby.<a href="http://www.history-matters.com/pds/DP3_Overview.htm#_ftn196" target="_blank" title="">[196]</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_edn7"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_ednref7" title=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[7]</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Talbot, David. Re;
Aynesworth. Talbot, David Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy
Years . (P. 445 Notes: 390) …Talbot Note: NARA record number
104-10170-10230. Offers Services to CIA: <a href="http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=594957" target="_blank">http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=594957</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_edn8"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_ednref8" title=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[8]</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Aynesworth, Hugh. Murders
Among Us: Unsolved Homicides, Mysterious Deaths and Killers at Large (signet
& Onyx True Crime, 1994 w/Stephen Michaud) <a href="http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Murderers-Among-Us-Stephen-G-Michaud-Hugh-Aynesworth/9780451170576" target="_blank">http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Murderers-Among-Us-Stephen-G-Michaud-Hugh-Aynesworth/9780451170576</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_edn9"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_ednref9" title=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[9]</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Aynesworth, Hugh.
“Strangest Story I Ever Covered”. <a href="http://www.dmagazine.com/Home/1983/08/01/The_Strangest_STORY_1_Ever_Covered.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.dmagazine.com/Home/1983/08/01/The_Strangest_STORY_1_Ever_Covered.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_edn10"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_ednref10" title=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[10]</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Meagher, Sylvia. Accessories
After the Fact (p. 348) Oswald FBI Informant. Also see Spook
Journalist Goulden: <a href="http://www.dcdave.com/article1/081198.html" target="_blank">http://www.dcdave.com/article1/081198.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_edn11"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_ednref11" title=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[11]</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Aynesworth and Goulden
at Washington Times .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Aynesworth
on Pedophile N.O. Priest - <a href="http://www.bishopaccountability.org/news3/1991_05_14_Aynesworth_SexTapes_Dino_Cinel_1.htm" target="_blank">http://www.bishopaccountability.org/news3/1991_05_14_Aynesworth_SexTapes_Dino_Cinel_1.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Goulden
on Espionage for Washington Times : <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/24/espionage-28603365/" target="_blank">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/24/espionage-28603365/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_edn12"></a><a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza#_ednref12" title=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[12]</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Priscilla Johnson and
Oswald’s Diary. PJM on Aynesworth got it from John Thorne, Esq. and
Martin. <a href="http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=95330&relPageId=27" target="_blank">http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=95330&relPageId=27</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b> Real
Disinformation Agents at Dealey Plaza – Posted by Jimmy DiEugenio in 2011</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Part 3 - <a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza">https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-jfk-part-3-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Part 2 - <a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalist-jfk-part-2-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza">https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalist-jfk-part-2-the-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Part 1 - <a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-and-jfk-part-1-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza">https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/journalists-and-jfk-part-1-real-dizinfo-agents-at-dealey-plaza</a></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-88273312586102299412023-12-27T12:04:00.000-08:002024-01-30T13:22:26.685-08:00Leonard Bernstein and JFK <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEia_YtcofcUHk_s9GIUUrGebEK6cFrJX7YB6VbnMzrXiEMmPRVC5xhsbDuUI2ebcFxrBRB4rMqmK6FwwTQPfmPKmT_PyzgiHA0UpusAGykh4PQGbX3982zVy46_eDnkdZx6biQo3ef8IxV_SusWRGeaP1IpGWaaRg1f_jNi2nqgD4nOx8qNJ8ieRrLZyHY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="203" data-original-width="248" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEia_YtcofcUHk_s9GIUUrGebEK6cFrJX7YB6VbnMzrXiEMmPRVC5xhsbDuUI2ebcFxrBRB4rMqmK6FwwTQPfmPKmT_PyzgiHA0UpusAGykh4PQGbX3982zVy46_eDnkdZx6biQo3ef8IxV_SusWRGeaP1IpGWaaRg1f_jNi2nqgD4nOx8qNJ8ieRrLZyHY" width="293" /></a></div><br /> Leonard Bernstein and JFK<div><br /></div><div>"Two things are necessary to achieve great things - a plan of action, and not enough time." - L. Bernstein<br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bradley Cooper, star
of American Sniper, is now portrying Leonard Bernstein in a new major motion
picture that requires me to bring up the following - </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In 1980, Bernstein was booed and hissed on stage when he
said:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"We don't dare confront the implications. I think we've
all agreed there was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy, and we just don't
want to know the complete truth. It involves such powerful forces in what we
call high places that if we do know, everything might fall apart. We don't dare
confront the implications."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is an update on what I wrote a few years ago: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2018/03/leonard-bernstein-and-jfk-we-dont-dare.html?m=1">https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2018/03/leonard-bernstein-and-jfk-we-dont-dare.html?m=1</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Just as JFK’s 100 birthday was celebrated in 2017, Leonard
Bernstein’s 2018 centennial is being recognized and celebrated, and should
reflect his feelings on JFK and his assassination.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As one of America’s premier composers and conductors,
Bernstein was not only a contemporary of JFK at Harvard, but a New York City
neighbor, acquaintance and personal friend who dined often together.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Among other things, Bernstein composed the music for the hit
Broadway play and movie West Side Story, that featured Natalie Wood and actor
Richard Beymer.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0tCQNsQkTt4ZM1rM6N-iTYH0FrIaQlO5BnvOOomQpG-twuY1CCtNRiS4ThWShGfqyih9od3V7QKQ4Hy3HYSYHllKQ2TizhecywLXeDXw2jOpRezj7SC6zJk30rkm_ezjxVHPXrL23g-0gElIw8nohpnaFqatABxzpGVLJIwOPZp9dWBHRvc8QILI4vQM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="159" data-original-width="318" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0tCQNsQkTt4ZM1rM6N-iTYH0FrIaQlO5BnvOOomQpG-twuY1CCtNRiS4ThWShGfqyih9od3V7QKQ4Hy3HYSYHllKQ2TizhecywLXeDXw2jOpRezj7SC6zJk30rkm_ezjxVHPXrL23g-0gElIw8nohpnaFqatABxzpGVLJIwOPZp9dWBHRvc8QILI4vQM" width="320" /></a></div><br /> n n Richard Beymer and Natalie Wood <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Beymer figures prominently in the recently released records
under the JFK Act as someone who associated with Syliva Duran, the Mexican
national who worked at the Cuban embassy in Mexico City and dealt with both
Beymer and the accused assassin of President Kennedy, both of whom wanted visas
to Cuba.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wood and Beymer played a contemporary Romeo and Julet in the
movie, and while Wood’s suspicious death is being reinvestigated today, Beymer
was a subject of CIA records recently released under the JFK Act - CIA phone
taps of the Cuban embassy, where he called after the assassination seeking
information on Syliva Duran.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Beymer was one of the two American Gringos who reportedly
attended a Twist Party hosted by Duran where Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused
assassin of the President, was said to have been encouraged to kill JFK by
those from the Cuban embassy.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">While Duran knew the name of the American film actor, when
she was interviewed by reporters she suspected he was still alive and refused
to identify him to protect him.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">From the government records recently released under the JFK
act, CIA wiretap documents identify Beymer. When contacted recently Beymer
acknowledged being in Mexico for a film festival, and visiting the Cuban
embassy in an attempt to get a visa to Cuba, but he said he doesn’t recall
attending a Twist Party or meeting Oswald, though attending a Twist Party is
something they would have done, being two footloose Americans below the border.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Who was Beymer’s companion? The other Gringo, Beymer said,
was Bradley Pierce, then a New York City bar owner who is then a Catholic
priest, who has since passed away. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Father Bradley Pierce recalls being in Mexico City on the
day of the assassination, exiting the elevator in a hotel lobby to learn that
the president had been killed, but he doesn’t recall a Twist Party or meeting
the accused assassin. Since they were only in Mexico a few weeks, and were
there at the time of the assassination, they weren’t there when Oswald was
there in late September and early October.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">While Beymer said he didn’t remember Sylvia Duran, a CIA
wiretap report indicates he knew her well enough to call the Cuban embassy and
ask for her by name, and inquire as to how she was, indicating he knew she had
been violently interrogated by Mexican police after the assassination.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There are reports that under interrogation Duran confessed
to meeting Oswald outside the Cuban embassy and having an intimate relation
with him. A friend of Duran said that she met Oswald at Sanborn’s restaurant,
near the American embassy, where others said they saw Oswald leave the
restaurant on the back of a motorcycle on the way to the Cuban embassy to try
to get a visa to Cuba.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Another unsubstantiated report has Duran taking Oswald to a
more fancy restaurant where they met the Cuban ambassador to Mexico, a story
repeated by a doctor who treated the CIA backed Cuban refugees in Florida for
Catholic Welfare, an organization supported by the CIA’s Catherwood Foundation.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">While it is unlikely Duran had a sexual affair with Oswald,
she most certainly did have an affair with Carlos Lechuga, the Cuban ambassador
at the UN who was the key intermediary in the back channel negotiations between
JFK and Castro at the time of the assassination. It is possible she also had an
intimate affair with Richard Beymer, the American film actor who she tried to
protect, and who may be trying to protect her.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But what are they protecting? Their infidelities? Or
something more?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Beymer was the on screen lover of Natalie Wood in the
contemporary adaption of Romeo and Juliet, that had a music scored by Leonard
Bernstein, a personal friend and associate of President Kennedy.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In 1962 Leonard Bernstein introduced seven year old Chinese
cellist Yo-Yo Ma, in a concert attended by President Kennedy. A year later JFK
was dead and Bernstein was greatly affected by his murder.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As explained by the official New York Philharmonic history:
the Death of the President The Philharmonic and Leonard Bernstein
Respond: News of President John F. Kennedy's assassination reached the New
York Philharmonic during an afternoon subscription concert led by George Szell.
Following Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 3, the Orchestra's manager Carlos
Moseley broke the news to the audience and canceled the rest of the program.
The remaining concerts that weekend replaced the overture with the funeral
march from Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Eroica, performed without applause. (Now available on Youtube) </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On November 24, Leonard Bernstein conducted Mahler's
Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, in a televised tribute to President Kennedy. Not
only was it the first time the complete symphony was televised, but performing
Mahler for an event of this nature was unprecedented. (Now available on Youtube) </p><p class="MsoNormal">At the United Jewish
Appeal Benefit the next day, Bernstein explained his novel decision to program
this work rather than the expected Eroica or a requiem....</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Since the tribute to JFK, Mahler symphonies have become part
of the standard repertoire for national mourning. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In explaining why he chose to play that hopeful music rather
than a funeral durge, Bernstein quoted Kennedy as saying, “America’s leadership
must be guided by learning and reason.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Learning and reason: precisely the two elements that were
necessarily missing from the mind of anyone who could have fire that impossible
bullet. Learning and reason: the motto we here tonight must continue to uphold
with redoubled tenacity, and must continue, at any price, to make the basis of
all our actions.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As Bernstein said, - We
refuse to confront the truth and its implications “because everything will fall
apart.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Everything fell apart, and now we must confront the
implications.</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyt9l7OWEF4nkZs7CwjKLt3ifo_lmN7ghRw4wBTLKC_pFdonDaP0qFsuD182nkvPomK6G6vekfyG8mWa7xObHwdcDJ_zuQ0kM_UlhbEbNIRdNWfrfOXu5mL-oVvnwCuCEh6CDip3y1Rc8qk9PTYZKIUdXhFXwZq9_pdihwnXxvzZiSaRVk7yu9OllIvpI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="241" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyt9l7OWEF4nkZs7CwjKLt3ifo_lmN7ghRw4wBTLKC_pFdonDaP0qFsuD182nkvPomK6G6vekfyG8mWa7xObHwdcDJ_zuQ0kM_UlhbEbNIRdNWfrfOXu5mL-oVvnwCuCEh6CDip3y1Rc8qk9PTYZKIUdXhFXwZq9_pdihwnXxvzZiSaRVk7yu9OllIvpI" width="181" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p></div>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-32676720227953803392023-12-21T10:36:00.000-08:002023-12-21T10:36:21.199-08:00Some Important New Documentary Films on JFK <p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">Since I have been very busy reading Nicholas Shakespeare's new biography of Ian Fleming, and writing a review of it for Robin Ramsey over at Lobster in the UK, - that should be out in the next issue before the end of the year, I was prevented from writing about the new films and books that have come out for the 60th anniversary of JFK's death. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">My T<span> & RC associate Dan Storper did that in a letter to T&RC members and was kind enough to allow me to use it here. When I get a chance I will also list the new books that are out or coming out that I think are important and review them if I can. - All the Best - Bill Kelly - Billkelly3@gmail.com </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">Dear
Friends,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I’d like
to wish you happy holidays and a more peaceful New Year. At the same time, I
think it’s crucial to try to understand how we arrived at the divided world
we’re living in today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
first episode of the new film series Four Died Trying (<a href="https://www.fourdiedtrying.com/" target="_blank">fourdiedtrying.com</a>),
now out on Amazon and other outlets, explains why and how the efforts of JFK,
MLK, Jr, Malcolm X and RFK to pursue peace and justice were destroyed by forces
in the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about. The first
film introduces the series with new films every couple of months. You’ll hear
from more than 100 well-known government figures, activists and family members
ranging from Andrew Young and Martin Luther King III to Kathleen Kennedy
Townsend and Adam Walinsky.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rob
Reiner & Soledad O’Brien’s Who Killed JFK? now on its 6th episode,
explains some of the forces behind JFK’s assassination and why it still matters
today (available wherever you listen to podcasts).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Barbara
Shearer & Susan Zirinsky’s JFK: The Parkland Doctors, on Paramount
Plus and Amazon, is a film built around seven Parkland doctors in Dallas who
first witnessed JFK’s body and were threatened by military and political
figures to lie about the clear evidence of multiple shooters. It is well-done,
interesting and clearly disproves the official story.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">These
films and podcast help demonstrate that the progressive ideals of peace and
justice pursued by JFK were destroyed by forces opposed to democracy, peace and
justice. To understand them, we encourage you to view these films, listen to
the podcast and read exceptional books like JFK and the Unspeakable and The
Devil’s Chessboard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Truth
and Reconciliation Committee (<a href="http://www.americantruthnow.org/" target="_blank">www.americantruthnow.org</a>) that I co-chair offers a
selection of other resources that help explain the journey from the 1960s to
today. It was co-founded by truth-seekers including Daniel Ellsberg, Martin Sheen,
David Crosby, Kennedy & King family members and others who believe
democracy was hijacked in the 1960s and that its time to learn from it and help
America and the world move forward in a more positive way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Sincerely, Dan Storper<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-28228051503083847252023-12-20T12:13:00.000-08:002023-12-20T15:21:37.198-08:00Greetings from JFKCountercoup Readers <p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mr. Kelly,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">For many years now I have read your blog, as it has
always been an Bookmark for me and a place for 11/22/63. I just wanted to
say "Thank You, very much" for all the great research and effort you
have done for the community. I find great comfort in it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I was 9 years old on 11/22/63. JFK' death has always
haunted me and I guess traumatized me in some way. I recall asking my Dad
about it at the time, but he was very noncommittal about what was happening and
if a true story of what really happened after what transpired that weekend. He
also said it would be 50 years before the whole truth comes out and that stuck
with me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Your latest post about your fascinating journey into 11/22/63 and the late John Judge (I met
him at American University, remembrance reading of JFK 6/63
Speech) and Biden's final order on JFK records has me feeling saddened that 60
years later, we still don't have the whole truth, although we are a lot closer,
thanks to people like you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Again, Thank you and I look forward to your next post. - Larry
Bettis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Hey Bill, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Paul Nahra here. Hope you remember me, I was a
friend and colleague of John Judge and introduced myself briefly to you at the
Duquesne conference previous to this last one. I've been meaning to get in
touch with you for awhile now, but am prompted to do so today on this sad
anniversary. Thank you for your posts of the last few days on JFK Countercoup,
CAPA is Kaput and the tribute to COPA and John. That is some fabulous
history. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> I was sorry to read about the
conflicts with and disrespect from CAPA. It reminded me of an interaction I had
with Marilyn Tennenoff a few years ago. I was in York PA visiting my cousin and
I arranged to meet with her at John's archive, the hidden history center. She
has an occasional intern come in, but I feel like people, including
myself, have been cataloguing that collection for twenty years, and each half
completed effort would be lost before the next attempt would begin. Anyway, she
mentioned to me that you had requested she return a box of yours with material in
it that you wanted to revisit, and that she was disinclined to allow it out of
the collection. I disagreed strongly with her, first because she could have
Xeroxed whatever she wanted before she gave you back the originals. But
secondly, and I don't know if you remember but I was at John Judge's when you
dropped off a few boxes because you needed a safe place to store them, I forget
if it was because you had flooding, or you were moving, that was the first time
we met. So John was a temporary custodian of your material, in my view, and you
should have every right to have them returned. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In any event I have suspicions
about anyone who is getting in the way of you doing your excellent work. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Though
Marilyn was always very kind to me when I visited John in those last few years.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>[<b>BK Notes:</b> When I first met Marilyn at a Pittsburgh conference she told me directly that she had no interest in John's political assassination, COPA and Hidden History work. Then when she was made executor of his estate and saw the bank accounts she took them, along with John's five figure life insurance. There is nothing she has that I need or want. The HHM she hijacked will hang like an anvil around her neck until she lets it go. She should donate everything to the Wecht Collection at Duquesne University Library, but won't, as long as she gets donations for the now truly secret Hidden History Museum. And Glenda DeVaney has done to CAPA what Marilyn Teennenoff did to COPA - destroyed it from within.</i></span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> ]</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> I was excited to read of your
plans to gather your best posts and curate the essential moments from COPA's
history and indeed the history of the last 60 years. I am an archivist at heart
and have a good collection of COPA conference videos, dvds and abstracts,
perhaps I can help you out in some way. I have found that none of the COPA
videos come up on a rudimentary you tube search online, and I hope that can be
corrected somehow. I am not much of a computer person but I would be happy
to go through those conferences and try to isolate the important speeches. Or
perhaps I could send you copies if you find things are missing from your own
collection. Or help in some other way!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Hope to hear back from you when
you get some time, Bill. Happy Thanksgiving to you, and thanks again for all
your good and important work. - Paul
Nahra<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Kudos, Bill for this vigilance and dedication which
seems especially pertinent to the issues of disclosure and destruction of vital
records in the JFK case. More now in this 60th anniversary year. I am grateful
for the opportunity to gain valuable insight from your frequent postings, so
thanks again and help us keep the kettle on the boil! - Greg
Giorgio <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Great Work, as always. Much appreciated. - Brandon <o:p></o:p></span></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-32736485169078292022023-12-09T09:52:00.000-08:002023-12-09T12:49:04.808-08:00Stauffenberg and Doolittle <p>Stauffenberg and Doolittle </p><p>I'm back to JFK after spending time reading Nicholas Shakespeare's 800 page biography of Ian Fleming, and will be posting more frequently now. I will post a link to my review as soon as it is available. </p><p>For starters, I recently picked up two other biographies at a used book store - Stauffenberg - The Architect of the Famous July 20 Conspiracy to Assassinate Hitler, by Joachim Kramarz and an introduction by H.R. Trevor-Roper (Macmillan, NY, 1967) and Gen. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle's autobiography "I Could Never Be So Lucky Again." (Bantam, 1991).</p><p>Kramarz's Stauffenberg is a very objective study of the plot, that was also, according to Desmond FitzGerald, "studied in detail" by the CIA to be used against Fidel Castro, a study that despite being lost by the CIA, can be seen to have developed into the AMLASH plot involving Dr. Rolando Cubela. </p><p>Kramarz does mention Hans B. Gisivious, the Nazi officer who was befriended by Allen Dulles and kept Dulles informed of the development and ultimate failure of the plot, but Kramarz does not have much confidence in Gisiviou's perspective of things. Items that I will quote at length ASAP. </p><p>As for Doolittle, I was less interested in his planning and leadership of the bombing raid over Tokyo than I was of his appointment by President Eisenhower as head of the Doolittle Commission, the three man overview of CIA covert intelligence operations. </p><p>Doolittle says that only one copy of the report was made and he handed it directly to President Eisenhower, and only devotes a few paragraphs of the book to this important aspect of his career. </p><p>Doolittle writes: "In November 1952, General Eisenhower was elected to the presidency. Despite the controversy I seemed to raise whenever I was party to a government stud and its resultant report, someone was pushing my name with the planners of the incoming administration to become the next Secretary of the Air Force. I was not and am not a politician. My identity has always been with aviation technological progress, and I do not like partisan politics to enter into the equation when it comes to issues affecting aeronautical developments. Being active in the Air Force Association at that time, I realized that politics entered into many basic technological decisions affecting the future of our defense establishment , but I was never comfortable when I felt the nation's survival depended on technical decisions made solely to satisfy biased political ends. </p><p>I did not feel that accepting a political appointment as the civilian head of the Air Force fitted my nature or my desire to serve in a nonpartisan capacity.....</p><p>....In 1954, President Eisenhower asked me to chair a committee to study the Central Intelligence Agency. Sen. Joseph McCarthy had loudly claimed that communists had infiltrated the agency, and he had raised such a fuss that the President had no choice but to have a committee appointed to look into his accusations. Concurrently, he appointed General Mark Clark to head another committee to study the possible reorganization of the agency.....</p><p>We could not reveal the details of our CIA investigation, but our committee found the agency was doing a creditable job and was "exercising care to insure the loyalty of its personnel." <br /><br />I so reported to the President. In my cover letter I noted that there were important areas in which the CIA's organization, administration, and operations could and should be improved. The agency was aware of those problems, and steps were being taken toward their solution. Only one copy of that report was made and I handed it personally to the President.</p><p>He wrote me a thank-you letter saying, "Both the report itself and the discussion I was privileged to have with the group when the report was presented here were of unusual value in providing an appraisal and stocktaking of those operations." </p><p>My appointment had its detractors. Westbrook Pegler, a nationally syndicated columnist, called our study a "whitewash" and wrote: </p><p>"I see no reason to place any value on the report which James H. Doolittle has made for President Eisenhower, on the mysterious, secretive, and sinister agency of our government called the Central Intelligence Agency. To begin with, I know a little about Doolittle's career but absolutely nothing which seems to qualify him as a competent man in this field.....He was a friend of Ike and a protege of Roosevelt and he was favored by an overload of rank which presents him to history as a Lieutenant General. Although, this inflation, or dilution, of rank has worked to the popular discredit of the titles of Admiral and General in their several degrees..." </p><p>Naturally, this column made me furious but I knew there was nothing I could do about it. It was his opinion and he was privileged to render it in print, but I have often wondered what the basis was for it......</p><p>It is very interesting that our old friend William Pawley was also a member of this committee. </p><p>The Doolittle Report - From the CIA site: <br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP86B00269R000100040001-5.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1702240609624000&usg=AOvVaw0WIjz_M9XtXXPxzSGIRlXk" href="https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP86B00269R000100040001-5.pdf" rel="noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank">https://www.cia.gov/readingroo<wbr></wbr>m/docs/CIA-RDP86B00269R0001000<wbr></wbr>40001-5.pdf</a></p><div class="yj6qo" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></div><p>More on Gisivious and Stauffenberg coming as well. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-22161428721100438892023-12-03T11:52:00.000-08:002023-12-03T12:02:40.553-08:00"Conspiracy" - the New "N" Word <p> “Conspiracy” – the New “N” Word</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_Q-HPs6T2ZQwjPP9XRxLbkKQhkoEhljOyUCtRO0B-b-hapai3Nig0c1QEIWO-q0hRTtxlSyEwhIFTZIGxfoJnO6yvQFmqmDHf-KsGOYG7UbvIHnDgkHgeEOyFDNcu4AgWs-24qgH6xqaUEtwz61JvdqIMMjWX2SZDdM9OUJgZST7J5pf3VkWhZbGqRJc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="183" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_Q-HPs6T2ZQwjPP9XRxLbkKQhkoEhljOyUCtRO0B-b-hapai3Nig0c1QEIWO-q0hRTtxlSyEwhIFTZIGxfoJnO6yvQFmqmDHf-KsGOYG7UbvIHnDgkHgeEOyFDNcu4AgWs-24qgH6xqaUEtwz61JvdqIMMjWX2SZDdM9OUJgZST7J5pf3VkWhZbGqRJc" width="159" /></a></div><br />In the course of my interaction with multiple, dedicated
lone nutters who continue to promote the idea that one man alone was
responsible for the murder of the president, one thing became quite clear –
they are not so much interested in learning the full truth about the death of
the president, but rather are concerned, focused and committed to debunking the
many silly conspiracy theories that have been devised since the failure of
government investigations to resolve the matter. <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have debunked more conspiracy theories than they can
imagine, but since the official story is also proven wrong, one of the
conspiracy theories must be correct. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Since most “conspiracy
theorists” (aka CTs) and all Lone Nutters (LNers) believe they are crack sure as to who killed
JFK, and promote their suspect, and I, after over fifty years studying this
case, still do not know who killed JFK, I put them in the same sinking,
stinking boat. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Even the term Conspiracy Theorist, was not popularly used
until after JFK was killed, and was devised by the CIA psychological warfare
department to describe those who were critical of the Warren Commission and its
conclusions, it has become something of misnomer – and improperly used to
describe crazy people who believe in all kinds of crazy things. </p><p class="MsoNormal">There is even a new line of books by prominent academics who, rather than investigate the truth, write about the silly conspiracy theories and study those who believe and promote them. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I thought we were investigating an unresolved homicide. </p><p class="MsoNormal">LNers want to talk about the evidence, but can't write a paragraph or post without referring to conspiracy theorists. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Lners however, are strictly focused on the conspiracy theories, and debunking them, one and all, but put all CTs in the same pot,
just as I put them all in the same boat. As John Judge said, “All conspiracy
theories are not created equal,” and “you can call me a conspiracy theorists if
I can call you a coincidence theorist,” because that’s what they would have
you believe. All of the things that came
together to result in the assassination of the president were simply
coincidences. But as David Atlee Phillips said, “The intelligence profession
does not encourage one to believe coincidence as an explanation for events.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So in order to disparage my own thinking about the
assassination, I too have been branded a conspiracy theorist, but take
exception to it, as does Jefferson Morley, since I don’t know who killed the
president, do not point a finger at any particular suspect, and don’t have a
theory to promote, other than what occurred at Dealey Plaza was a very well
planned out and executed covert intelligence operation. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Most dedicated Lners are proud of the fact that they once
held an open, inquiring mind and considered themselves conspiracy theorists,
but then woke up and now see the light. One such LNer, Todd Vaughan, who knows
that I detest the idea of conspiracy theorist – called me in a post “CT, CT,
CT, CT,” as if repeating it over and over it would hurt my feelings. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It just got me to understand that “Conspiracy” is the new “N”
word – and used in the same disparaging way that the “N” word was. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My late, great friend and associate comedian Dick Gregory,
who helped get the Zapruder film on national TV, wrote a book he titled “Nigger,”
and dedicated to his mother, because he could say the word and write about it
openly. Now, only other black people can
call other black people “nigger” as it has risen to the level of a word
censored by the mainstream media. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gregory described a “nigger” as an unruly black man who
didn’t hold a job, sold drugs, fathered children with different women, a
deadbeat dad who didn’t care for his kids, lived with a single mom in a Section
8 welfare apartment and was what the word described them as. </p><p class="MsoNormal">It is, in the same vein, as what Martin Luther King was saying when he wanted black men to be known for the content of their character rather than the color of their skin, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now the word “conspiracy” has rose to the same level, and as
Todd Vaughan has used it to try to discredit me, it is used in the same
derogatory way. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Today, the “C” word is the new “N” word, no longer used to
describe a crime committed by more than one person, but used in a disparaging
way to cast a negative light on anyone who is critical of the official version
of events – especially in regards to the assassination of President Kennedy.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Billkelly3@gmail.com">Billkelly3@gmail.com</a></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-26907327230764642162023-11-21T22:28:00.000-08:002023-11-28T10:15:59.285-08:00November 22, 1963 - November 22, 2023 - 60 Years After <p>November 22, 1963 - November 22, 2023 - Sixty Years After </p><p>Sixty years ago I was a 12 year old grade school student at St. Joseph's in East Camden, N.J., when shortly after 1:30 pm, EST, the principle nun came on the intercom to announce that the President had been shot and that school was being suspended for the rest of the day. </p><p>I walked home to 362 Garden Avenue and began climbing the Wheeping Willow Tree in the backyard when the phone rang, and I ran in the back kitchen door to answer the wall phone. It was my father, a Camden policeman - who told me not to leave the yard, as the President was killed and "we don't know what this is all about." </p><p>I wondered then - what the murder of a president could in any way influence me, a kid playing in the yard? </p><p>And it's still not over, as the influence is still affecting not only me but all of us. </p><p>A few years later, in 1968, as a 17 year old Camden Catholic High School student, I opposed the war in Vietnam, and came "clean for Gene" McCarthy, the poet Senator from Minnesotta who also opposed the war in Vietnam, and after narrowly defeating President LBJ in New Hampshire, forced him to decide not to run for re-election, that opened the door for RFK to run, as also as a peace candidate. </p><p>I will never forget the morning my father woke me up to inform me that RFK had been killed in California, after defeating McCarthy in the primary election there, so I went to Chicago to the Democratic National Convention as a McCarthy campaign worker, and while wearing a jacket and tie, I was caught up in the street riots that really radicalized me. </p><p>The following year, 1969, as a freshman at the University of Dayton, Ohio, I stopped by two tables that were set up outside the JFK Student Union lunchroom, one manned by two US Marines recruiting students to join their ROTC program, and the other by a long haired hippie I learned was John Judge. </p><p>Judge, who was promoting military men to become consciencious objectors to the war, handed me a copy of Playboy Magazine and asked me to read the interview with New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. I knew a little about Garrison, my father, who worked as a detective in the Camden Country Prosecutors Office through a half dozen DAs, said that Garrison was just another politician looking for publicity to get votes. </p><p>But the Playboy interview sparked my interest, and Judge took me over to the new campus library and showed me where the 26 volumes of Warren Commission testimony and evidence was kept, and I began reading, and also reviewed copies of a magazine Computers and Automation, that had a series of photos on the assassination along with a number of articles. </p><p>Judge and I were sitting in the JFK Student Union lunchroom drinking coffee in 1972 as I read the Dayton Daily News, and began reading a short news report buried deep in the paper that detailed the Watergate breakin, complete with names - Bernard Barker, Eugenio Martinez, E. Howard Hunt, Frank Sturgis, G. Gorden Liddy. "Let me see that," Judge exclaimed, and after reading it for himself, said "These are the same muther fuckers who killed JFK." </p><p>We then went over to the UD library and began looking up the names in Whose Who in Washington books and found most of them, and copied their background details, expanding our research from JFK to Watergate. </p><p>Judge convinced the Student Body President, then Kevin Keefe, to bring in Mae Brussell from California to be a speaker. She did a weekly radio show from Carmel, California, called World Watchers, in which she tried to connect the dots of those who were running the shows - in Vietnam, Cuba, Dallas, Chicago, where ever there was a news story she would fill in the details. When she was finished with her lecture, I carried her bag of books to John Judge's car as she was to spend the night at John's apartment, and out of the darkness a man emerged and introduced himself as a friend of Mae. Ah, yes, Mae said, recognizing him, and thanking him for checks he sent her to support her research. "It's my conscience money," he said. And later, in talking to Judge, we noticed how much he resembled and spoke like Lee Harvey Oswald, and it turned out, had a similar background and may have been one of the impersonators. </p><p>Since John Judge was from Washington D.C., we often went there, and attended some of the Watergate and later Church and House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) public hearings, as well as one of the first JFK Assassination Conferences at NYU Law School in New York City, where I met Mae again, as well as other first generation Warren Commission critics - Sylvia Meagher, Penn Jones, Ralph Schoeman and Col. Fletcher Prouty. </p><p>I attended a lecture by Prouty held in a physics conference hall, where he explained how covert intelligence operations worked, and how you had to understand these principles in order to understand what really happened at Dealey Plaza when JFK was killed. </p><p>Eventually Judge and I formed the Committee for an Open Archive, that became, along with the Assassinations Archives and Research Center (AARC) and Jim DiEugenio's outfit, the basis for the Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA), that became a major watchdog organization over the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) and lasted over 20 years. </p><p>In 1992, at the urging of Jim Lesar, director of the AARC, I obtained a $3,000 grant from the Fund For Constitutional Government Investigative Journalism Project, that I used to buy a round trip ticket from Atlantic City to California and back, via Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Dallas, San Diego, Los Angeles and points in between, visiting other researchers, JFK witnesses and suspects. <br /><br />I often stayed with Judge in Washington D.C. and we became Archive Associates, visiting the old National Archives in downtown DC and the new Archives II in College Park, Md., where the JFK Collection is kept. </p><p>When in Dallas one time I visited the Assassination Information Center, that was set up in a storefront on the third floor of a mall in the West End, behind the School Book Depository and Dealey Plaza. There I obtained three cassette tapes of Air Force One radio transmissions, that over the course of six months or so, I transcribed and posted at my JFKCountercoup blog. </p><p>Once when Judge and I visited the Archives II, I asked for and made a copy of what the ARRB called the "Andrews AFB Logbook for November 22, 1963," and also posted on my blog, that detailed the timing of the take off and landings of various planes, including AF1, the Cabinet Plane and the jet that brought AF Chief of Staff General LeMay back to DC in the immediate aftermath of the assassination, as he had been hunting and fishing in North Michigan and Canada. </p><p>When the reel to reel tapes of AF1 radio transmission were discovered among the effects of General Clifton, JFK's military aide, I obtained a copy from NARA and transcribed them as well, combining the longer length with what was on the cassettes that were released by the LBJ library in the mid-1970s. </p><p>From the Clifton tapes I learned the identity of two individuals, one Robert Patterson, a military officer, code named STRANGER who was in the White House Situation Room at the time of the assassination and can be heard on conversations with AF1 and the Cabinet plane. </p><p>There is also a Colonel Dorman, who identified himself as General LeMay's aide, who had an important message for LeMay, who was then enroute fo DC from Canada, but the message is not on the existing tapes. </p><p>I then learned about Ed Primeau, a Michigan Acoustics Forensic expert who agreed to combine the two existing tapes, and clean them up of static and noise so they can be heard more clearly. He also mentioned that there are many clear splices in both copies, so there is still an even longer, unedited tape out there somewhere, or it was intentionally destroyed. </p><p>I presented this clear and combined tape to the Wecht Conference in Pittsburgh during the 50th anniversary conference in 2013, and also arranged for it to be aired over WLFR - FM, the Stockton University, NJ student radio station on November 22, that year, 50 years to the hour it was originally broadcast. </p><p>Then, I really believed that by today, we would have all of the records as required by Congress under the JFK Act of 1992, and we would be much further along than we are. </p><p>I have been writing what I have learned over the years, decades, at my blogs JFKCountercoup and JFKCountercoup2, and will be putting the best of the posts together in one volume of my work, along with some of my personal narrative and an appendix - anthology of other works - news reports, magazine articles, book excerpts and transcripts of TV shows, films, movies and conference presentations that I mention in my own work and feel important to preserve in one place. </p><p>Besides collecting all of these works together, I will be continuing my research to try to answer the outstanding questions, and focus my work on areas that no one else seems to be doing. I don't want to repeat the same things over and over, nor engage in silly arguments over the acoustics, single bullet theory, Zapruder film, authenticy of photos or any of that. <br /><br />Rather, instead of arguing, or focusing on who killed JFK and why - I will, to the best of my ability, address and answer the other question - How - how as JFK killed? - What was the mechanism of death, and how did those actually responsible get away with it? </p><p>I have decided to devote at least one more year to this endeavour, and will also continue some other writings I have been working on that I will fill you in on when I can. </p><p>In the meantime, I am quite somber on this 60th anniversary, as it isn't what I expected it to be, and rather than get depressed, I look forward to yet another year of continuing this quest, this great adventure that we are all involved in. </p><p>Bill Kelly </p><p>To comment on this story or this series you can contact me anytime: </p><p>billkelly3@gmail.com </p><p>609-346-0229</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-54607494813705004442023-11-20T10:08:00.000-08:002023-11-25T06:26:04.128-08:00Relevant News Articles <p>Relevant News Articles </p><p>In the course of compiling a JFK Anthology, I have broken down items for inclusion into various categories - News Reports, Feature Articles, Book Excerpts, and Transcripts of Films, Videos, Interviews and Conference Presentations. </p><p>As far as News Reports go, there are a number that fit into my own work - </p><p>1) September 9th - Associted Press Report of Harker's 7th interview with Fidel Castro at the Brazilian embassy reception in Havana in which he complained about CIA trained terrorists attacking Cuban industrial facilities and that American leaders would not be safe if they tried to kill Cuban leaders, at the very same time a CIA agent met with Dr. Rolando Cubeala (AMLASH) in Brazil, to discuss killing Castro, indicating he was a double agent. </p><p>2) November 1, 1963 New York Times article on the CIA Raider Ship Rex, docked at Palm Beach, Florida not far from the Kennedy compound. The NYTs identify the ship as having just returned from a mission to Cuba where it deposited anti-Castro Cuban commandos with high powered rifles sent to kill Cuban leaders. The commandos were paid and trained by the CIA at their Miami JMWAVE station. The boat, the NYTs reprots, was previously owned by Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, sold to an oil company and leased to the Collins Radio Company of Richardston, Texas for "electronics research." '</p><p>3) The November 23, 1963 New York Herald Tributne report from Dallas that quotes Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) Vice President Ochis Campbell as saying that when he reentered the building after the shooting he saw Lee Harvey Oswald standing next to the stairs to the second floor. </p><p>4) The 1980 Scripts Howard News Service (SHNS) report, "leaked from the NSA" - National Security Agency, that says "Castro was planning to assassinte President Reagan as he had previously killed President Kennedy." John Hinkley shot Reagan a few weeks later. </p><p>5) JFK visit to the USAF Strike Force in Florida a week before he was assassinated. </p><p>6) News reports on the Chicago murder of Sam Giancana shortly before he was to testify before Congress about his knowledge of CIA-Mafia plots to kill Castro, and news reports from Miami on the murder of John Rosselli shortly after he did testify before secret Congressional hearings about the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Castro, that he was involved in. Both of these are still unsolved cold case homicides that can and should be legally resolved. </p><p>7) London Sunday Times interview with US Navy Lt. Commander Thomas Narut at a NATO conference in Norway, who said the Navy used the MMPI to test recruits, looking for the Passive-Aggressive personality to train as assassins.</p><p>8) </p><p> Others - more to come. </p><p>Relevant Feature Articles</p><p>1) McCleans Mag. article on the conversation overheard at Canadian Airport lounge.</p><p>2) Gaeton Fonzi article on David Atlee Phillips in Washingtonian Magazine.</p><p>3) New Republic articles by Jean Daniel on his interviews with JFK and Castro.</p><p>4) Castro on the Grassy Knoll - </p><p>5) Italian magazine article on Permindex.</p><p>6) Bill Turners Articles in Ramparts.</p><p>7) Philadelphia Magazine article on assassination by Mike Mallow that mentions Mrs. Paine and Catherwood Foundation.</p><p>8) Life Magazine Column by Clare Booth Luce about her "Cuban Boys" that ran terrorist raids into Cuba.</p><p>9) Ladies Hime Journal article about CBL's phone call 11/22/63 from the leader of the JMWAVE team Julio Fernandez who said he had photos and recordings of Oswald proving him to be a Castro sympathizer.</p><p>10) Tony Summers article in Vanity Fair on his interviews with John Martinos widow and son. </p><p>11) Max Hollands article in CIA publication on how the KGB duped Jim Garrison.</p><p>12) Dick Russell's articles in Village Vouce.</p><p>13) William Weston articles in Third Decade on Oswald sightings.</p><p>14) SOF article on Bayo-Pawley mission</p><p>15) </p><p>Bill Kelly's article on The Collins Radio Connections.</p><p>14) John Judge and Bill Kelly's article Bottlefed By Oswald's NANA.</p><p>15) OTHERs coming.</p><p>Send Suggestions to billkelly3@gmail.com </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-45242423547816580532023-11-16T07:39:00.000-08:002023-12-20T13:50:57.175-08:00Why CAPA is Kaput. <p> Why CAPA is KAPUT</p><p>And why I am not in Pittsburgh</p><p>When John Judge died, and the Coalition On Political Assassinations (COPA) was wrongfully dissolved after 20 years as the most effective active group, I initiated a conference call among serious researchers to form a new organization that became CAPA.</p><p>I suggested the name Citizens Against Political Assassinations because I thought a group of like minded individuals could work together towards common goals. Boy was I wrong.</p><p>I nomined Dr. Wecht to be chairman, as he was for COPA, and I served as its first secretary for the first four years, preparing agendas, writing minutes and editing two 20 page news letters. The newsletters were discontinued when Gerry Policof decided social media platforms were superior, so I began a CAPA Facebook group. </p><p>At my request, Glenda replaced me as CAPA secretary, so I could devote more time to research and headed the Research Committee.</p><p>No one in the JFK community had heard of Glenda DeVaney before. She wrote a letter to her California senator asking her to support the release of the JFK records, and shared the letter with Dr. Wecht, who asked her to join the CAPA Executive Board, saying that we were a group of men, needed a women on board, and I agreed. She said she lived in San Diego, and was somehow affiliated with the Navy, then denied the Navy connection. </p><p>Policoff and Larry Schnapf left the board after a "falling out" with Dr. Wecht, and Policoff died in a traffic accident after complaining of being poisoned. Schnapf and Bill Simpuch, who headed the CAPA Legal Committee, both left and filed their suit against Biden and NARA under the Mary Ferrell banner instead of CAPA.</p><p>Simpich told me he left because Secretary Glenda had insulted him and his conference contacts he had faithfully provided her when requested. Glenda took over as conference chair. It was a successful conference at the Dallas Marriott, and those I had requested made presentations - Dr. Newman, Jeff Morley, and former CIA officer Rolf Mowett Larrson, all of whom made significant contrabutions. I also spoke on the release of the records. </p><p>Unfortunately my debit card was rejected at the desk, and when I told Dr. Wecht, he had CAPA pay for my room with the understanding I would pay it back, which I did to the tune of $500 over a period of a few months. Of those dozen whose flights and hotel bills were paid by CAPA, all doctors, lawyers and producers (Oliver Stone included), who earn six figures a year, I was the only one to reemburse CAPA. </p><p>With the arrival of COVID, Glenda chaired the 2021 virtual conference, and strongly objected to my video presentation on 2 taped interviews with Gene Wheaton and Lee Shephards interview with Carl Jenkins, but she was unamously over ruled by the rest of the CAPA Board. </p><p>While my presentation ran, Glenda added a disclaimer on the program of her disapproval, though I believe it was one of the most important presentations in that conference, researach that is actually panning out, and others, besides myself, - Dan Storper, Larry Hancock, Matt Ehling and Dan Alcorn, are following up on those leads today. </p><p>It was also the first indication to me that there was a serious problem with Glenda, a rare name that she shares with the Good Witch of the East in the Merry old land of Oz. Sometimes I feel that is where CAPA is. </p><p>Glenda chaired the organization of the in-person November 2022 conference in Dallas, but didn't bother asking the Research Committee for any advice as to the state of the research. And I didn't attend as I was recovering from a serious illness that required a blood transfusion, and was in a COVID lockdown with two members of my household testing positive. </p><p>I did however, write a blogpost promoting the conference a month before hand, and went on Len Osanic's Black Op Radio and promoted it, and arranged for Dr. Wecht and Glenda to appear on the show to promote the conference. I also made arrangements for someone to pick up Dr. Wecht at the Dallas Airport and take him to his hotel and return him to the airport when the conference was over.</p><p>When Michael Nurko, a former COPA member, could no longer be treasurer, Glenda made arrangements for her accountant to be the paid treasurer, so now she was conference chair, secretary and controlled the bank account, that because of a few generous doners, was now five figures. </p><p>The largest expenditure of late was to give thousands of dollars to a guy to make a digital survey of Dealey Plaza, even though Larry Schnapf and John Orr spent $30,000 of their own money to so a more detailed survey two years earlier, and reported on it at a CAPA conference. The two surveys should be compared, but Schnapf and Orr are no longer with CAPA. </p><p>She also hired a Facebook "analytics" guy for $700 to build a social media campaign but he learned that I had already started a CAPA Facebook group seven years earlier that had over 3,000 followers. So Glenda asked me to make him a co-administrator, which I did, and the first thing he did was to remove me as an administrator. The notice from Facebook that this occurred was another indication that something was seriously wrong, and that Glenda was behind it.</p><p>When I complained, Glenda sent me a letter that she had wrote saying that the CAPA Board had voted to remove me for "not supporting CAPA," an outrageous claim since I have done more to promote CAPA than anyone other that Dr. Wecht. She said Dr. Wecht had signed off on the dismissal, and shortlhy there after I received a form letter complete with letterhead from Dr. Wecht saying the Board voted to remove me, but the letter was returned to him as it had a wrong address, so it was emailed to me. </p><p>The wrong address was not the only thing wrong, as when I polled the Board, both Nurko and Dr. Aguilar said that they were never asked to vote on such a measure, and would not vote to remove me if they were asked. So it was only Glenda, who talks privately with Dr. Wecht on the phone, who convinced Dr. Wecht to remove me for "not supporting CAPA." It is a ruling that I am the only person ever to be charged with and probably the last. It is certainly not a rule on the books that can be applied, and was made up, by Glenda, just for me. </p><p>When I contacted Dr. Wecht's son Ben and asked him what was going on - he replied, "You don't know what its like taking care of a 92 year old father," but I did, I informed him that I took care of my mother from when she was 85 until she passed at 92, so I do understand. And my mother kept her wits about her until the very end. </p><p>And I give Dr. Wecht a bye and forgive him for his transgressions, but I sort of feel like the Kurt Douglas Colonel in Seven Days in May after learning his hero was a bookie and a traitor, and I feel by the man I admired most betrayed me.</p><p>In his autobiography "The JFK Assassination Dissected," Dr. Wecht wrote: "John Patrick Judge co-founded the Committee for an Open Archives in 1990 to push for full public disclosure of the JFK case. Prior to the JFK Records Act, Judge and his group had already been instrumental in getting many files declassified. Judge was also executive secretary of the Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA), a group for which I served as first elected chairman....William Kelly, the other co-founder of the Committee for an Open Archives, was a journalist who wanted material released involving John Martino....After Judge's death, COPA disbanded, and Bill Kelly helped to form Citizens Against Politcial Assassinations (CAPA), of which I serve as chairman of its Executive Committee...." </p><p>I didn't just help form CAPA, I instigated it, attened every meeting, and actively promoted CAPA on my blog dozesn of times, even after I was unofficially ousted by Glenda, with the approval of Dr. Wecht, for the outrageous and unsupportale charge of "not supporting CAPA." </p><p>A lawyer associate asked me if I thought Glenda was assigned to infiltrate CAPA and minimilize me as a threat, as her opposition to my 2021 Presentation suggested, and I said no, she was just a mean, scorned and vindictive women who privately conBoard the now vulnerable Dr. Wecht to do her bidding and eliminate me from the CAPA board.</p><p>Unlike the Assassinations Archive and Research Center (AARC), where the longtime director Jim Lesar was recently replaced by the very capable Dan Alcorn when Lesar became ill, there is no one who can fill Dr. Wecht's shoes and assume chairmanship. Dr. Aguilar maybe. But he is too busy to attend meetings. And the game is almost over. Time is running out and there is no stopping it. </p><p>Dr. Wecht was a great chairman, ran meetings according to the agenda and was fair and even in his decisions, other than to remove me from the Board. As he was once wrongfully charged for things he didn't commit, I know he understands how I feel. </p><p>And Glenda is a mother, and she should understand that I feel like CAPA was my baby that she has stole. </p><p>Dr. Wecht apparently is no longer capable of conducting the twice monthly conference call meetings as he used to, and I'm sorry for that. So it's over. CAPA is K-Caput.</p><p>In Pittsburgh Dr. Wecht was granted a well deserved Lifetime Achievement Award and his legacy is set and cannot be taken from him. </p><p>The November 2923 Pittsburgh conference is, in Dr. Wecht's words, "The Last Hurrah," and indeed it is. </p><p>The most important thing that has developed is the establishment of a permanent Wecht Collection at the Duquesne University Library, where Dr. Wecht's books and papers will be kept and others added to them. </p><p>I was going to drive Michael Nurko's 300 books to Pittsburgh to add to that collection and may still do that but decided not to attend the conference for all of these reasons. </p><p>But because a half-dozen people have inquired as to why I am not there, I decided to write this so everyone interested can know the truth. </p><p>Like COPA and other similar organizations, CAPA didn't fail because of any attacks from those we acuse of being political assassins or conspirators against democracy, its demise can only be attributed to petty personal jealousies and power plays by mean, vindictive people. </p><p>As Walt Kelly.s Pogo says: "We have met the enemy and he is us." </p><p>All of this occured a year ago and I did nothing. </p><p>Since I was not officially removed by a vote of the Board, I consider myself a CAPA founder and board member, and therefore offer the motion to fund the Wecht Collection with CAPA funds. Because there is a large among of money in the CAPA account, I suggest that it be turned over to Ben Wecht to hire an assitant librarian to catalogue the conents of the Wecht collection at the library and open it to researchers, something we have been talking about for decades. </p><p>Since the CAPA Board never voted to remove me, I consider myself a Citizen Against Political Assassintaions and submit the motion to have the remaining CAPA funds transferred to Ben Wecht to hire an assistant librarian to catalogue the Wecht Collection and any additional items that will be added to it. </p><p>Mike Nurko said he agreed with this idea, and thus seconds the motion that all CAPA members should weigh in on. </p><p>At least something good will come out of all this. </p><p>After organizing the Committee for an Open Archives, the Coalition on Political Assassinations and Citizens Against Political Assassinations, I am going to try to form a new, hopeully permanent institution - the Center for the Study of Political Assassinations (CSPA) - that will be based in DC and eventually have a brick and mortor base of operations. </p><p>I will also be writing a full and complete history of both COPA and CAPA, from their beginnings to their demise, after I finish a few other projects I am working on. </p><p>God Bless Dr. Wecht. </p><p>Billkelly3@gmail.com </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-9846784716414877342023-11-08T10:15:00.006-08:002023-11-08T10:15:41.192-08:00Kenn Thomas - RIP <p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Kenneth Francis Thomas</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiPcXj_Ls6LbjlulaNOiU02PMzppnxRR-xZQ1cdPnAELsFPhoebguuMfYfnY5F__3AaGE1n9AQ_-kJimw5_3KHHN3bkWsdedoGh28942R70XAh1XNV9wtIWNLIA587ZTdjYCdIL_FyUuxl00R0P-gR_TMpGcP4RvdiopQUt2OLhgC44uxJCRJv_LfrZLU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="300" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiPcXj_Ls6LbjlulaNOiU02PMzppnxRR-xZQ1cdPnAELsFPhoebguuMfYfnY5F__3AaGE1n9AQ_-kJimw5_3KHHN3bkWsdedoGh28942R70XAh1XNV9wtIWNLIA587ZTdjYCdIL_FyUuxl00R0P-gR_TMpGcP4RvdiopQUt2OLhgC44uxJCRJv_LfrZLU" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kenn Thomas – RIP <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I was sorry to learn of the death of Kenn Thomas, a
long time associate who I met on an AMTRAK train as he recognized me from
having attended a JFK conference in Dallas, the year Bill Clinton was elected
president. I recall that because I was having dinner with Kenn when we passed
through Arkansas, a dry state, so the waiter stopped serving our beer and wine
until we passed the state line. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kenn got off in St. Louis, while I continued on to
Chicago on another leg of my cross-country train trip that I took to meet and
interview other researchers, witnesses and suspects in the assassination,
courtsey of a $3,000 grant from the Fund For Constitutional Government Investigative
Reporters Project. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kenn had a radio program and interviewed me in the
back of the train, then sent me a tape on which you can hear the clacking of the
train wheels in the background. He also gave me some psychedelic mushrooms and
a tape of the Irish rock band movie The Commitments. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kenn was also good friends with John Judge, and was
a source for the manuscript passed among JFK buffs called the Torbitt Document,
ostensibly written by a Texas lawyer with inside knowledge of the conspiracy to
kill the President. Kenn later published the document with his Steamshovel
Press he subtitled NASA, Nazis and JFK. It is the first documented record of
the role of the mysterious Defense Industrial Security Command (DISC)
intelligence network that is run out of Columbus, Ohio, of all places. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kenn also offered to publish my work, and now that
it’s almost ready, I’m sorry to say he can’t be of assistance. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">More on Kenn from the St.Louis papers: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Musician, activist, veteran. An empty-handed army,
who dedicated his life to the People. Celebrated by his wife Ellen, mother
Lorrie, and his children (all the young punks to ever live.) Services: Memorial
at Fortune Teller Bar, 2635 Cherokee Street. May 1, 6-10 p.m. Second line at
8:45. Wear dancing shoes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When he was a young adult, Kenn Thomas, who died in
his sleep on Friday, September 22 at the age of 65, was infamous for answering
the phone, any phone, with just his name: “Kenn.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">No “Hello” or “Thomas Household” or any other kind
of introductory phrase greeted callers, whose time he said he didn’t want to
waste. Of course, he also really liked to keep people on their toes. That was
Kenn – witty, mischievous, and almost always one step ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kenn was born in St. Louis and grew up in and around
Hillsdale and Pine Lawn, where he attended Catholic grade school. His parents
moved around a bit during his youth. An important constant during those early
years and throughout his life were comic books. Over his lifetime, he amassed a
collection of comics that numbers in the thousands. He loved the artwork and
the storytelling and was regularly spotted around town at comic book meetings
and conventions. His favorite comic book artist was Jack Kirby.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As a teenager, Kenn put his substantial artistic
skills to work writing and drawing his own comic strip, “Norm and Andy” for
Normandy High School, from which he graduated in 1976. He earned a Bachelor of
Arts in English and Speech Communication (1980) and a Master of Arts in English
from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where he also spent the majority of
his professional career. He was employed by the University’s Western Historical
Manuscripts Collection and State Historical Society of Missouri as a Senior Manuscripts
Specialist from 1986 until his
retirement in 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kenn was a charming conversationalist who could talk
about anything – music, politics, comic books, and (his favorite) conspiracies.
He was a polymath, talented in multiple areas, and could pick up new skills
seemingly effortlessly. He was a writer, an artist, a researcher. He could understand
and explain even the densest literary works (Pynchon was his favorite). He took
an acting class once and blew everyone away with his portrayal of Cardinal
Wolsey. He was a gifted speaker with a DJ’s voice and worked at KWMU on the
weekends for a few years when they still played music. He reviewed rock
concerts in the 1980s for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat and co-hosted a music and talk show on KDHX in its early on-air
days, where they primarily played and discussed the music of Bob Dylan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He was part of a small but (obsessively) devoted
local group of Dylan diehards who saw every concert and got together to talk
about and listen to Dylan recordings and bootlegs regularly. He loved the Beat
poets and Timothy Leary and could claim a friendly connection to William Burroughs,
for whom he accepted the honor of induction into the St. Louis Walk of Fame in 1990
when Burroughs was too frail to travel to his hometown. Kenn will be buried a
stone’s throw from Mr. Burroughs at the beautiful, historic Bellefontaine
Cemetery in North St. Louis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kenn published a conspiracy magazine, Steamshovel
Press, and wrote or co-wrote 10 books on conspiracy topics, including “The
Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro.” He regularly
contributed to other periodicals, wrote introductions to other writers’ books,
and spoke about his research internationally at conferences. A full list of his
works can be found on his Wikipedia page. He donated his papers to the
University of Missouri.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Continued at: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://stlouiscremation.com/obituaries/kenneth-francis-thomas/">https://stlouiscremation.com/obituaries/kenneth-francis-thomas/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-34276777709737777922023-10-26T11:29:00.003-07:002023-10-26T11:52:14.163-07:00A Spys Disinformed Propagation of the Assassination <p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">A Spy’s
Disinformed Propagation of the Assassination </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">By <a href="mailto:Billkelly3@gmail.com">Billkelly3@gmail.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Former
CIA agent Bruce Held is writing a blog post on a Spys View of American History,
the details of which clearly indicate can be classified as very distinct
disinformation and black propaganda. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Bruce
Held’s post on his 60 Years Ago Today blog falsely claims that Lee Harvey Oswald
was inspired to kill the President after reading Daniel Harker’s September 9th
1963 Associated Press (AP) article published in the New Orleans newspaper
reporting on Harker’s September 7th
interview with Fidel Castro at the Brazilian embassy in Havana. Held calls
attention to the article that is indeed a significant piece of assassination
evidence, although he misinterprets it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Harker’s AP article is the most frequently
used source for those who try to pin the Dealey Plaza donkey tail on Fidel
Castro, but is also an important lead into the nefarious counter-intelligence
operations that have a bearing on the assassination. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Held
writes: “Castro had made an impromptu appearance at a reception hosted by the
Brazilian Embassy in Havana on Saturday evening, 7 September. He took the
initiative to approach an American journalist named Daniel Harker and offered
him a quick interview. In the interview Castro said, ‘We are prepared to
fight them and answer them in kind. United States leaders should think that if
they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves
will not be safe. Let Kennedy and his brother Robert take care of themselves
since they, too, can be the cause of an attempt which will cause their deaths.’”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
article published in the New Orleans Times Picayune on page 7 of the September
9th edition, has a headline that refers to Castro’s rant against the US
government approved terrorist attacks against Cuban industrial targets by the
CIA paid and trained Cubans that operated out of the JMWAVE station, notably
the Pathfinders. Some of them were captured and tortured and admitted that the
CIA paid and trained them. Some, like those who were captured in the late
October raid by the CIA raider ship Rex, head high powered rifles with scopes,
that CIA raider ship Captain Rolando Martinez said “weren’t for shooting rabbits.”
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Castro
knew they were gunning for him, he just didn’t know if the Kennedy brothers had
approved those CIA backed assassination missions, and there is no documented
proof that they did, while there is documented proof that JFK had two
backchannel communications going with Castro, one at the UN and another with
French journalist Jean Daniel. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When
Castro’s comments to Harker were quoted over the media, a handful of men (FitzGerald,
his two assistants Bruce Cheever and Samuel Halpern and possibly one or two
others) at the Cuban desk in the basement of the CIA headquarters at Langley
knew that the date of the interview – September 7th, and the location – the Brazilian
embassy, were significant indications that Castro knew about the meeting
between Dr. Rolando Cubela (AMLASH) and Desmond FitzGerald’s agent Nestor
Sanchez in Bolivia that very day. And the fact that a Cuban businessman had
warned the CIA that Cubela was a “dangle,” a fake agent attempting to lure
those who opposed Castro out into the open. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Held
continues: “Castro made these threatening comments because he knew that a
senior Cuban government official was meeting in Brazil at that very time, 5-8
September, with a senior CIA officer named Nestor Sanchez. The senior Cuban
official, Rolando Cubela, volunteered to assassinate Castro and establish a new
Cuban government that was less hostile to the United States. Sanchez told
Cubela that his proposal would be brought to the attention of the “highest
levels” of the US government and promised a response at their next meeting,
scheduled for 29 October in Paris.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">What
Held doesn’t tell you is that Nestor Sanchez’s boss and case officer Desmond
FitzGerald, who had replaced William Harvey as head of the Cuban desk,
personally met with Cubela in Paris and convinced him that the Kennedys did
approve of assassinating Castro when in fact FitzGerald later testified that he
never told them, or CIA director John McCone, who he knew to be Catholics who
opposed murder on principle. While FitzGerald has the name associated with the
Kennedys of Boston, the looks and charisma, he was not a Kennedy nor did he
inform them of the Castro assassination operation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">According to Held, “By speaking to Harker, Castro had gone out of his way to warn the CIA
that he knew about the ongoing discussions with Cubela. Unfortunately, we
ignored the warning. What we found out some years later was that Cubela was a
double agent. He was not working with the CIA; he was working for Cuban
Counterintelligence. Everything the CIA would ask Cubela to do would be
immediately reported back to Castro.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Yes, we
agree that Cubela “But in the Harker interview, Oswald must have felt that
Castro was speaking directly to him.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But, and
it’s a BIG But – we haven’t even established that Oswald actually read that
issue or that article. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Held: “Five
months before he had attempted to assassinate Edwin Walker in an effort to earn
a place for himself in Cuba.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But how
is the Walker shooting related to Cuba, or an effort to earn a place for
himself in Cuba? That is not established either. Oswald told Marina he tried to
kill Walker because he was a fascist like Hitler who should have been
assassinated as well. Nothing about Cuba. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Held: “Just two weeks before he had renewed
practicing with his sniper rifle,” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But wait
a minute, the Warren Report concluded that Oswald didn’t practice with the
rifle, nor did he ever purchase or have ammunition. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Held: “….explaining
to his wife, ‘Fidel Castro needs defenders. I’m going to join an army of
volunteers. I’m going to become a revolutionary.’”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Wow, I
never heard that before. And it’s not footnoted, other than claiming Marina
said it and I don’t believe she did. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“The
threats against President Kennedy from Castro himself would have a profound
impact on Oswald - - and, in 11 weeks, on the nation.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But were
they threats or a warning? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
Murder, Inc. that LBJ referred to was the mechanism “we were running a Murder,
Inc. in the Caribbean,” and while Castro did have spies everywhere, including
infiltrating JMWAVE, he tried and executed his opponents (ala American William
Morgan), and didn’t have a mechanism like our Murder, Inc. – aka ZRRIFLE, that
could do it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
obvious question isn’t whether Oswald knew of the Harker interview, and Castro’s
statements, or if Castro attempted to retaliate against JFK, but whether the
Murder, Inc. Boys at JMWAVE redirected their target from Castro to JFK, as they
certainly hated him as much as they did Fidel Castro. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And we
know from the comments of Desmond FitzGerald after being informed of the
assassination, wondering if his Cubans were involved, and the recently released
Heath Memo, that there were those in the CIA itself who also suspected this
immediately after the assassination and conducted an investigation of the
JMWAVE station, the results of which have not been forthcoming. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">More on Disinformation at Dealey Plaza </p><p class="MsoNormal">In Deep Politics III Peter Dale Scott writes:<br />
<br />
“In the days after the murders in Dallas, the U.S. Was flooded with dubious
stories, most of them swiftly discredited, linking Oswald to either a Cuban or
Soviet conspiracy. Those which most preoccupied the FBI and CIA all came out of
Mexico. These stories exhibited certain common characteristics. -
They all came from either directly from an intelligence source, or from someone
in the hands of an intelligence agency - The Stories changed over
time, to support either a pro-conspiratorial hypothesis (“Phase One”) or a
rebuttal of this (“Phase Two”).- The Warren Commission was led to believe
that the“Phase One”stories were without basis. In fact a number of unresolved
anomalies suggest that behind them was some deeper truth, still not revealed.-
In retrospect, these stories should not have been taken seriously. In fact the
CIA was able to rely on them, not as a source of truth, but as a source of
coercive influence over the rest of the government. It will help us to
understand what was going on if we refer to the stories, not as 'information'
or even as 'allegations,' but as MANAGED STORIES. To say this leaves open the
question of who were the ultimate managers?”<br />
<br />
Scott: “I do wish to argue that these managed stories, fleeting and
insubstantial though they are, were of central importance in determining the
outcome of the Kennedy assassination investigation. In succeeding years,
furthermore, the discredited 'Phase-One' stories have been revived to
manipulate public opinion, even after the CIA and FBI had agreed on a
'Phase-Two' interpretation of Oswald's movements in Mexico City. In 2013, for
example, the discredited Garro story of the twist party was revived in a
mainstream book by Philip Shenon.”<br />
<br />
Newman: “The plot to assassinate President Kennedy was designed to deceive both
people in the government and the public at large. A convincing trail of
evidence was established to make it appear that the Kennedy brothers’ plan to
overthrow Castro had been turned around and used against them by Fidel himself,
resulting in the assassination of President Kennedy."<br />
<br />
“There is an unstated corollary principal in the game of deception that Allen
Dulles was kind enough to give us. Once a “single piece” of a black
operation has been compromised, the entire fabric of that operation can
potentially unravel.”<br />
<br />
You can't understand what happened at Dealey Plaza unless you understand the
fundamentals of psychological warfare, disinformation and black propaganda –
because that's the part of the Dealey Plaza operational plan that failed, that
failed in its contention that Castro Cuban Communists were responsible for the
assassination, and because it failed it gives us a good glimpse into the
Looking Glass and brings us very close to those who designed the plan,
especially the part that failed.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2015/06/disinformation-at-dealey-plazq.html">https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2015/06/disinformation-at-dealey-plazq.html</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2015/04/list-of-psychwar-black-prop-ops.html">https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2015/04/list-of-psychwar-black-prop-ops.html</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">For an opposing perspective here’s a Naval War College
Review of a book “Disinformation, Misinformation and the ‘Conspiracy” to Kill
JFK Exposed” (Hamden, Conn. Archon Books, 1987) that dismisses all conspiracy
theories and concludes JFK was killed by a deranged lone nut. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4213&context=nwc-review">https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4213&context=nwc-review</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">xxxxxxxx</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-6958596694750142052023-10-18T11:52:00.012-07:002023-10-20T01:42:27.105-07:00More Disinformation and Black Propaganda - from the CIA <p><span>More </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">Disinformation
and Black Propaganda at Dealey Plaza – Castro on the Grassy Knoll</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi60vM5cukLW5qyhyK1niFtEsgQmxcfRK07oNKV1zwcfsgXKbR_-t3O2SuzoLkT3jVrQXSkNBBcsuC1YO1apgcR7kY9CKcXOSJ2xo47R6Z8rK-pV5OPbt1EwLTOouu9CfftFcgcBqgVSBtoxtfM3E3oTVaybKoEy86PNpBsq9Q0Aw-Y62-qS2nqrVnS84o/s275/download.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi60vM5cukLW5qyhyK1niFtEsgQmxcfRK07oNKV1zwcfsgXKbR_-t3O2SuzoLkT3jVrQXSkNBBcsuC1YO1apgcR7kY9CKcXOSJ2xo47R6Z8rK-pV5OPbt1EwLTOouu9CfftFcgcBqgVSBtoxtfM3E3oTVaybKoEy86PNpBsq9Q0Aw-Y62-qS2nqrVnS84o/s1600/download.jpg" width="183" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><span style="text-align: left;">'</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><span style="text-align: left;">Proof of the Plot and a Conspiracy - Disinformation and Black Propaganda Were Used </span></span></div></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">By Bill
Kelly – <a href="mailto:Billkelly3@gmail.com">Billkelly3@gmail.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
evidence and proof there was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy in Dallas
is contained in the disinformation and black propaganda campaigns to blame the
murder on Fidel Castro of Cuba. It is what the CIA calls “an active measure” as
these media campaigns continue today, as most recently exhibited by Bruce Held,
in his continuing series “A Spys Guide to American History.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://bruceheld.substack.com/p/60-years-ago-today-the-plot-begins"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">https://bruceheld.substack.com/p/60-years-ago-today-the-plot-begins</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In it,
Held writes on – September 9, 2023 that, “Lee Harvey Oswald got the idea of
assassinating President Kennedy 60 years ago today. Up until that day he was
desperate to get to Cuba but he was well disposed toward the President. Indeed,
he and his wife Marina had a photo of Kennedy alongside a photo of Fidel Castro
on their mantel piece. That all changed on Monday morning, 9 September 1963,
when Oswald read an interview of Castro which made the front page of the New
Orleans Times Picayune as well as every other major newspaper in the US.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Hold on
right there, as Oswald told Michael Paine, “you have to read between the lines”
to get the full story from blatent propaganda. First off, Oswald was very</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> “well
disposed toward the President,” in fact liked him a lot, and everyone who
knew Oswald also knew that. It is also a false assumption that Oswald killed
the President he liked so well, as there is a lot of information available that indicates he was
not even on the sixth floor of the building at the time of the shooting and
was, as he claimed to be, a patsy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In
addition, we do not know for a fact that Oswald even read the article in
question, that was not on the front page of the New Orleans Times Picayune, but
on page 7. We also know for a fact that the very frugal Oswald did not
subscribe to his hometown newspaper, and did not buy it frequently, if at all,
as fellow employees at the Texas School Book Depository said Oswald read discarded
copies left around the lunchroom by others. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The news
article written by Daniel Harker of the Associated Press (AP) of his three hour
long interview with Castro at the Brazilian embassy two night previous – on September
7, 1963, is indeed an important piece of the JFK assassination puzzle, but not
as it is deliberatly misinterpeted by those who propagate the “Castro did it”
disinformation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Here we are using the classic definition of “disinformation” – delibertly false
information distributed by an intelligence source in support of a covert
intelligence operation, so it is not only false, but is promoted by sources
that can be traced to an intelligence agency or network. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The idea
that Castro was behind the assassination of JFK is not only clearly classified
as disinformation, but is also black propaganda – as defined by the CIA’s Paul
Linebarger, who wrote the Army’s manual on Psychological Warfare and Propaganda
during the Korean War. He continued to teach the concepts to CIA officers and
agents as a professor of the John's Hopskins Center for International Studies. The term “disinformation”
comes from the Soviet’s “Dizinformation” agency while “propaganda” stems from
the Vatican’s department for the propagating the faith. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[For
more on Disinformation at Dealey Plaza see:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[<a href="https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2015/06/disinformation-at-dealey-plazq.html"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2015/06/disinformation-at-dealey-plazq.html</span></a> ]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Linebarger
broke propaganda down into five different types, ranging from white – a press
release, to shades of grey and black –
with black being the attribution of a covert intelligence action to the enemy,
in this case the covert action being the assassination and the enemy being
Castro. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As the
first fake conspiracy theory to surface in the media in the immediate aftermath
of the murder, what Peter Dale Scott calls the “Phase One Cover Story,” the
idea that Castro had JFK killed was very distinct disinformation and black
propaganda widely promoted by many – dozens of CIA officers, agents and their
assets, including those in the media. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">After
Oswald was arrested, blamed for the murder of the President and a policeman and
his basic background became widely known, District Attorney Henry Wade went to
dinner at a fancy Dallas restaurnat and left it for his assistant DA William
Alexander to write up the indictment of Oswald. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Thanks
to Vincent Bugliosi (Reclaiming History</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">), we know that at that time, Alexander was communicating with
Phildadelphia Inquirer Washington DC editor Joseph Goulden, who was trying to
get Aldexander to charge Oswald with killing the President to “further a
communist conspiracy.” While Bugliosi doesn’t tell you, Goulden was then a
media asset of CIA official David Atlee Phillips, and</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> now oversees Phillips’
archives. So Phillips and Goulden were two of the earliest proponents of the
assassination being the result of a “communist conspiracy.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When LBJ
learned of this, when he was back at his VP office in the Executive Office
Building, he had his aide call the Attorney General of Texas – and had him
track down DA Wade at his dinner table, and have him return to his office to
confront Alexander and make sure he did not charge Oswald with “furthering a
communist conspiracy." That</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> led directly to PDS’s “Phase Two Cover Story,” the
equally false but more palatable deranged lone nut scenario, that most
Americans still do not believe.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When
HSCA investigator Dan Hardway interviewed David Phillips he asked Phillips why
a number of his associates and intelligence assets tried to blame Castro
immediately after the assassination, and while Phillips acknowlded knowing
them, he didn’t know why they tried to blame Castro. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But that
Oswald was the shooter in the window must be accepted as a principle for the “Castro
did it” aspect to be even considered, so both cover stories are still in play,
at least as far as Bruce Held and company are concerned. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The fact
that this very clear and distinct disinformation and black propaganda effort of
the assassination being the result of a Cuban Communist Conspiracyy continues
today, even after being proven false. That makes it not only an “active measure” but
one that is current and not ancient history, as Bruce Held and the CIA would
have us believe. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It would
take quite a long time to run down all of those who promote this discredited conspiracy
theory, but some deserve at least a little attention. I put them in two
categories – the self acknowledged CIA agents and those without clear
intelligence connections but who propagate this theory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Besides
Bruce Held, who I presume we will be hearing more from as he runs down his “Sixty
Years Ago Today” the CIA’s Mockingbird taught the orchestra to play, there’s a number of others. One is Brian Latel, who wrote a book on a former Cuban radio technician who manned the
Cuban-Russian radio listening post. When he defected he claimed that Castro himself
instructed him to listen to the radio broadcasts from Texas when the President
was there, that to Latel is proof that Castro knew the assassination would take
place. Well to any reasonable, rational person, that would tell them Castro
knew the President would be in Texas, not a state secret, and not that he would
be assassinated. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[For more
on Latell - <a href="https://jfkfacts.org/former-cia-analyst-brian-latell-cuban-intelligence-officers-were-complicit-in-kennedys-death/"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://jfkfacts.org/former-cia-analyst-brian-latell-cuban-intelligence-officers-were-complicit-in-kennedys-death/</span></a> / <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/16059536"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/16059536</span></a> / <a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2012/0319/JFK-assassination-Did-Castro-know-before-it-happened"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2012/0319/JFK-assassination-Did-Castro-know-before-it-happened</span></a> ]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Then
there’s Bob Baer, the CIA agent and his LAPD nodding sidekick who apparently
had unlimited funding for his TV series JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_Declassified:_Tracking_Oswald"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_Declassified:_Tracking_Oswald</span></a>
/ <a href="https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2017/05/jfk-declassified-episode-2-more-dis.html"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2017/05/jfk-declassified-episode-2-more-dis.html</span></a> ]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Baer traveled to Minsk and Mexico City to try to prove that Oswald was a Communist agent
secretly run by the KGB and Castro. His only proof that Oswald was controlled
by Castro agents is the fact that he attended a bull fight in Mexico City where
he could have secretly met Cuban agents among the tens of thousands of
spectators. The only proof Oswald actually attended a bullfight is a postcard
he ostensibly brought back from Mexico found among his effects after the
assassination. Some proof. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Besides
the admitted CIA agents, I hate to write "former CIA agents" because that would
be an oxymoron, - David Atlee Phillips, Bruce Held, Brian Latel and Bob Baer,
there’s a number of others who chime in the Mockingbird choris without direct
ties to the agency – most notably Gus Russo, Phil Shenon and James Johnson. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I knew
Russo very well when we shared lunchs together while lobbying for the JFK Act
in Washington, and he came across as a truly independent researchers like
myself, until, as John Judge told me, Russo was seen having lunch with some
high level CIA officials. He then changed his tune to the Castro did it theme,
got a book contract for “Brothers In Arms” (
<a href="https://jfkfacts.org/the-problem-with-politicos-jfk-conspiracy-theory/"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://jfkfacts.org/the-problem-with-politicos-jfk-conspiracy-theory/</span></a> ), and then another book on the Chicago mobsters. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Former
New York Times reporter Phil Shenon went on the Castro did it trail at the
request of a former Warren Commission lawyer who he refuses to identify (but is
probably Arlen Spector or Sam Stern), and wrote a book on his campaign – “A Cruel
and Shocking Act.” In it Shenon tries to make the claim that while in Mexico
City Oswald attended a”Twist Party” with Syliva Duran, members from the Cuban
embassy and two American “Gringos,” one a famous actor who Duran refused to
identify. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[ For
the CIA’s review of Shenon’s book <a href="https://www.cia.gov/static/Review-Cruel-and-Shocking.pdf"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://www.cia.gov/static/Review-Cruel-and-Shocking.pdf</span></a> ]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Well I
identified them from CIA phone intercepts as actor Richard Beymer (West Side
Story/ The Longest Day) and former NYC bar owner and later Catholic priest
Bradley Pierce, who told me that they were in Mexico at the time of the
assassination and not when Oswald was there. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[ My
take on the Twist Party: <a href="https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-cruel-and-shocking-twist.html"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-cruel-and-shocking-twist.html</span></a>
]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Then there’s
James Johnson, a former Church Committee lawyer who recently wrote “Murder,
Inc.” that was published during the Covid crisis so it didn’t get much
publicity, and he zeros right in on the CIA plots to kill Castro and what LBJ
called “Murder, Inc. in the Caribbean,” that WE were running, not Castro. But
instead of focusing on the JMWAVE based mechanisms our CIA set up to kill Castro, Johnson
says that the obvious question is whether Castro retaliated and had JFK killed. No,
the obvious question is whether Our mechanisms set up to kill Castro were
redirected to JFK in Dallas, but Johnson doesn’t bother to go there. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As
Jefferson Morley says, Johnson is a different type of fish than self
acknowledged CIA agents Phillips, Latel, Baer and Held. But like Russo and Shennon, he
still propagates the false illusion of Castro’s complicity, when we know as an
established fact that Castro had nothing to do with the Dealey Plaza operation. That is other than to be a victim, like Oswald, of the disinformationa and black
propaganda campaign to take the blame for the conspiracy. And there certainly was a conspiracy, one still going on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">How do
we know Castro was not behind the Daley Plaza operation – the conspiracy? Well
for one we have the reports of the late Jean Daniel, a French reporter who was
with Castro at the time of the assassination and observed his immediate
reaction – shock and saying “This is very bad.” Daniel, as he reported in The New Republic, had spent time with
President Kennedy earlier and JFK gave Daniel a message for Castro, one of
possible reconcellation, which coincided with the back channel negotiations
between Castro and JFK that were then ongoing at the UN. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In
addition, just as the Cuba-Soviet lisenting post monitored American radio
communications, the National Security Agency (NSA) monitored all foreign
broadcasts, tapped telephones and installed electronic devices (bugs)
in all communist embassies abroad. They got the immediate reactions of the
Communist officials of the news of the assassination and knew that Castro was not involved.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A
representatvie of the Warren Commission, as well as members of the House Select
Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) personally met with and interviewed Castro and came away
with the conviction that he had nothing to do with the murder of the President.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">So the idea Castro was behind the assassination conspiracy is clearly disinformation and black propaganda and were used as part of the
assassination operation from its beginnings and today is proof that whatever
you believe occurred at Dealey Plaza, it was a covert intelligence operation and
thus a conspiracy. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And now
we have Bruce Held’s 60 Years Ago Today – Oct. 16 – Oswald starts work at the
TSBD, that is also full of disinformation and propaganda, so it looks like I
will have to just follow this guy around and correct him as he goes along. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[ <a href="https://bruceheld.substack.com/p/60-years-ago-today-oswald-starts"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://bruceheld.substack.com/p/60-years-ago-today-oswald-starts</span></a>
]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">What
Bruce Held quotes from Daniel Harker’s September 7-9<sup>th</sup> 1963
interview with Castro really is a significant assassination record, and
deserves a much closer review than what Bruce Held gives it, the subject of
my next article.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">More to
come – Stay Tuned. <o:p></o:p></span></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-80081970682288871142023-10-08T22:31:00.006-07:002023-10-11T05:17:04.716-07:00JFK Confrences November 2023 - 60 Years On <p><b> JFK CONFRENCES - 60 YEARS ON </b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLLVcoh3R65uaiTGshmVlfPsjkiQ9gw9eBkJO3c-x4oEUPcAEWxOUGrjkA1j1Fzpz5PlzzTWt_FuDmOoeOeiC-qopIJHbq4Ce57fx-uvx7QDMD1DFGx56uj4xQzFP3Ua8vIjFmwze6pa_wO4eK2iF28OK2E5RgLDoiDM1w-Md6mOv9IjOxCQ-79mc_0MU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLLVcoh3R65uaiTGshmVlfPsjkiQ9gw9eBkJO3c-x4oEUPcAEWxOUGrjkA1j1Fzpz5PlzzTWt_FuDmOoeOeiC-qopIJHbq4Ce57fx-uvx7QDMD1DFGx56uj4xQzFP3Ua8vIjFmwze6pa_wO4eK2iF28OK2E5RgLDoiDM1w-Md6mOv9IjOxCQ-79mc_0MU" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><b> R</b>egardless of the subject, conferences are important exchanges of information, and usually precede major events. CIA academic assets sponsored conferences on Guatemala in the 50s shortly before they held a coup there, and on Cuba before the Bay of Pigs. </p><p>In the summer of 1963 the CIA's Catherwood Foundation and Pan Am Society co-sponsored a conference of Cuban journalists in exile at the University of Miami (JMWAVE), that I'd like to get more information on, if anyone has the time and inclination to dig into that, send me what you learn. </p><p>John Judge took me to my first JFK Assassination Conference in the late 1970s at New York University (NYU) Law School in Manhattan and introduced me to Penn Jones, Fletcher Prouty, Mae Brussell, Ralph Schoeman and Sylvia Meagher, all of whom I would get to know better over the years that became decades. </p><p>From the time books are written, edited, formatted, printed, marketed and distributed, the information they contain are about two years behind the state-of-the art knowledge, regardless of the subject, which is why presentations at conferences and symposiums are much more up-to-date and valuable. </p><p>It was the ASK Conference on JFK in Dallas in the early 1990s, that I believe was instigated by Gary Shaw, when things began to really take shape, as it was put together by a professional conference company, which sparked John Judge to suggest that we form our own organization to sponsor conferences and the first meeting of COPA - the Coalition on Political Assassinations at the West End Pub in Dallas. </p><p>COPA sponsored two major national conferences in Washington D.C. in its first two years, one at the Sheraton Hotel, where the ghost of Earl Warren still roamed the halls as that's where he lived when he was in Washington. Then COPA began to sponsor annual "regional" conferences in November, and Memphis and LA in regards to MLK and RFK assassinations. </p><p>It was at the second COPA conference when Debra Conway began what would become JFK Lancer, "to educate the next generation of researchers," and she began to hold annual conferences in Dallas that competed with COPA. With the death of John Judge COPA was disbanded but CAPA - Citizens Against Political Assassinations was created under the chairmanship of Dr. Cyril Wecht. </p><p>This November CAPA will be co-sponsoring a JFK conference at the Wecht Institute for Forensic Pathology and Law at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, while JFK LANCER and Olney, Illinois College professor David Denton's JFK Historical Group will hold two conferences in Dallas, each of which has their own attributes. </p><p>The Wecht Conference, organized by Dr. Wecht's competent son Ben, is being called a 'symposium," which in ancient Greece, meant to eat, drink and discuss an important subject together, which is what they will do to honor Dr. Wecht on opening night, and over box luncheon discussions with Robert Groden and Rob Reiner on the following two days. </p><p>As for the presentations to be made, some are scheduled to be making presentations at more than one of the conferences. </p><p>The Pittsburgh Conference will end Friday night, while the Dallas events will continue into Sunday. </p><p><b>CHRIS GALLOP LUNCHEON SYMPOSIUM </b></p><p>In addition, Chris Gallop will hold his 11th annual luncheon symposium at 3132 Milan Street in Fort Worth - that will cost $65, that includes a catered lunch, and feature first generation researcher J. Gary Shaw, former policeman and SWAT team sniper Brian Edwards, Jeff Meek, film maker and professor Randy Benson ("The Searchers"), and Dr. Michael Marcades, son of Rose Cherame. Shaw, the best of the best researchers, will possibly talk about his new book Admitted Assassin, that revives the Roscoe White story, one that I thought had nuggets of truth but was swept under the rug. </p><p>To register for the Gallop Luncheon - cjgallop@yahoo.com - 817-291-1891 </p><p>The JFK LANCER program at the Lorenzo Hotel is being put together by Conway's efficient assistant Gabriella and researcher Larry Hancock, while Denton took over the Judyth Vary Baker conference at the Doubletree Hotel, both of which are always well attended. While the Lorenzo is a short hop to Dealey Plaza, the Doubletree, on Market Street, is in another neighborhood and a cab or Huber ride away. </p><p><b>JFK LANCER </b></p><p>The 27th annual JFK LANCER will run from Friday, November 17 to Sunday, November 19, and include Larry Hancock, who is always a few steps ahead of me in our research, and recently completed a study of UFO reports over US Air Force bases. </p><p>The primary speaker, in my opinion is Dr. John Newman, author of JFK and Vietnam, is writing a series of books on the JFK assassination that are so-far engrossing, along with Alan Dale. </p><p>Others on the Lancer agenda include Alex Harris, Andrew Kiel, Bart Kemp ("Prayer Man"), Brent Hall, Carmine Savastano, Chuck O'Chelli, Eric Hunley, Mark Groubert, James Corbett, Jeff Meek, Jim Gochenaur, Johathan Cairnes, Mathew Douthit (Tippit) Monica Perez Jimenez (the dictator's daughter), Mike Swanson, Paul Bleau, who will give "a modern legislative approach to proving a conspiracy." Rob Clark and Joe Borelli will talk about "the Martins," and there are certainly a few of them. <br /><br />Robert Reynolds Nelson will discuss the Don Newlson story, and Secret Service expert Vince Palamara will give his take on the recent exposed Paul Landis story. <br /></p><p>Larry Hancock and David Boylan have been working together of late and will do presentations on Sylvia Odio and the suspicious events at Redbird Airport and participate in a panel on the Walker Shooting with Greg Douda, who will make a separate presentation on the subject. </p><p>Stu Wexler, whose New Jersey high school social studies class got the Emmett Till bill passed by Congress, an amazing feat, will also be there to discuss accessing records at the National Archives. </p><p>Both Bill Simpich and Larry Schanapf are also scheduled to be at both the Wecht Conference and at LANCER, and while Simpich is slated to talk about those who set up Oswald, a subject he has done in the past, and Schnapf will discuss the Walker bullet in Pittsburgh, I'm sure they will get into the details of their still hot and active federal court case in San Francisco - Mary Ferrell vs. Biden and NARA. </p><p>Mary Ferrell's Rex Bradford is also set to talk about the state of the research, and exciting but sorry state it is in. </p><p>Jefferson Morley is listed as a speaker, but he recently said that he will be going to Pittsburgh, though he could possibly do both. </p><p>Dick Russell, who has taken time off from JFK to write a biographies of - x - and presidential candidate RFK, Jr. </p><p>Prices are set at $180 for the walk in conference, or $220 with digital download, Students pay $35 and $70. The virtual and digital download are $125. </p><p>For more info on the JFK LANCER conference - <a href="https://jfklancerpublications.com/">JFK Lancer</a> and gabriella.jfklancer@gmail.com </p><p>Note: As I learn more about the topics and abstracts of talks I will add them here. </p><p><b>JFK HISTORICAL GROUP </b></p><p><a href="https://www.jfkhistorical.com/">The JFK Historical Group</a></p><p>David Denton's JFK Historical Group has their Project JFK- CSI Dallas that attests to be "a reexamination of the research with fresh eyes and technology," and "The Journey on the Trail of Truth in the JFK Assassination." </p><p>It will include Ed Trato, Gary Shaw, William Law, David Knight, Brian Edwards, Casey Quinlan, Judyth Vary Baker, William Klaber, Randy Benson, Chana Willits, Rick Russo, Kris Millegan, Ryan Jones, Larry Rivera, Gary Fannin, Mal Hyman, Pete Hymans and Greg Bernham, all seasoned researchers. </p><p>( BK Note: When I learn of their topics or get an abstract I will add it here.)</p><p><b>THE WECHT SYMPOSIUM - </b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b>THE JFK
ASSASSINATION AT 60 </b>- </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">22</span><sup style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">ND
</sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">Annual Symposium</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="https://www.duq.edu/academics/colleges-and-schools/science-and-engineering/academics/departments-and-programs/forensic-science-and-law/cyril-h-wecht-institute-of-forensic-science-and-law/the-annual-symposium.php"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://www.duq.edu/academics/colleges-and-schools/science-and-engineering/academics/departments-and-programs/forensic-science-and-law/cyril-h-wecht-institute-of-forensic-science-and-law/the-annual-symposium.php</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Note: College
Students who attend the Wecht Conference can obtain 12 course credits for doing
so. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b>WEDNESDAY
NOVEMBER 15</b> –</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">Keynote Introduction Ken
Gormley, J.D. Keynote address – Dr. Barbara Perry, PhD – “Why JFK’s Camelot Endures
– And Why It Still Matters.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Alec
Baldwin – “Why JFK’s Assassination Will Not Go Away.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b>THURSDAY,
NOV. 16 </b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Criminalistics,
Forensic Science and Medicine – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gary
Aguilar, MD and Josiah Thompson, Ph.D., Doug DeSalles, MD, Bill Simpich,
Esq. – “Converging Lines of Evidence in
the Case for Two Headshots”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Paul
Landis, USSS Ret. – with James Robenalt, Esq. “The Final Witness: A Kennedy SS Agent Breaks
His Silence After Sixty Years.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Doug
Horne (USN R) – “Two Brain Exams” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Brian
Rosella, M.S. – “Forensic Modeling of Human Reactions and a JFK Assassination
Timeline”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Box
Lunch – Order by Nov. 1 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Robert
Groden (By Zoom) – “Documenting the Authenticity of the Zapruder Film” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Lawrence Schnapf, Esq. – “Gaging the Authenticity of the General Walker Bullet” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Donald
Maue “Audio Forensic Analysis of the JFK Assassination” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">David
Mantik, MD, PhD – “As Easy as 1-2-3-4-5 Understanding the JFK Assassination” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Russell
Kent – “Unmasking the Rockefeller Committee Medical Panel” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b>CAPA
DINNER RECEPTION</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Citizens
Against Political Assassinations will host a reception on Duquesne’s campus to
honor Dr. Cyril Wecht with a Profile in Courage award and to hear film director
and producer, Irving Nestor, present findings of his Dealey Plaza 3D scan. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Registration
is due Friday, Oct. 13. $40/plate dinner fee is separate from cost of the
Symposium.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b>FRIDAY,
NOVEMBER 17 – History, Politics and the Future </b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Benjamin
E. Wecht, M.A. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Pamela
Marshall, Ph.D. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Dr. John
Newman, Ph.D. “The Assassination of President Kennedy: Understanding the Cold
War Context.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Jefferson
Morley – “The CIA and JFK: What 30 Years of Reporting Tells Me.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mark de
Valk, Ph.D., M.A. – “Carousel Contortionists: Jack Ruby, His Strippers, and
their Moving Horses.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Daniel
Alcorn, Esq. – “New Findings About TSBD Building Owner David Harold Byrd.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">R.
Andrew Kiel – “Edgar Hoover and Lyndon Johnson and How they Obstructed Justice.”
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rob
Reiner (by Zoom) – “Who Killed JFK?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">James
DiEugenio – “The Death of JFK and the Rise of the Neocons in U.S. Foreign
Policy” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Robert
Menz, M.A. – “An Inside Perspective on the Relationship Between Lee Oswald and
the Paines.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Greg R.
Parker (via pre-recorded Zoom) – “Lee Oswald – The Patchwork Kid.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">David
Montague, Ph.D. – “Lessons from the Assassination Records Review Board: The
Value of Investigative Research with Respect to National Security.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Donald
Urda, J.D. and Michael Volbach, MA, MS – “Our Method of Teaching the
Assassination: Inspiring the Next Generation of Researchers.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">David
Talbot (via Zoom) – “Why Our Side is Losing the Media War.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Ellen
Gawalt, Ph. D. – Closing Remarks </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> ------ </span></p><p>As far as I'm concerned, I was not asked to address any of the conferences, and while I want to attend the Wecht conference in Pittsburgh, I haven't committed myself to do that, yet. </p><p>I believe that Dallas is done, we have been there many times before, and while it will always be the second biggest tourist attraction in Texas, after the Alamo, and someone will always continue the Moment of Silence at the Grassy Knoll at 12:30 on November 22 for as long as our civilization survives, I think that the emphasis should be focused on Washington D.C. </p><p>That's where the evidence and government records are kept at the NARA, where Congress and the Oversight Hearings should be held, and where the answers to the outstanding questions are. </p><p>To comment on this story: Billkelly3@gmail.com </p><p> -------------</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-73295661467476581742023-09-21T17:17:00.005-07:002023-09-25T18:15:25.824-07:00Government By Systematic Institutionalized Assassination <p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> Government
By Systematic Institutionalized Assassination</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"The
assassination of President Kennedy was a coup d'etat." - Dr. Cyril
Wecht <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"I have
always believed and argued that a true understanding of the Kennedy
assassination will lead not to 'a few people,' but to the institutional and
para-political arrangements which contribute to the way we are systematically
governed." - Peter Dale Scott <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Professor
Peter Dale Scott said that at the end of our inquiry we won't find renegade
assassins, but rather an institutionalized assassination system, and if he and
Dr. Wecht are correct in these conclusions, then our suspects are limited to
those who took over the government, hated the President with a passion and had
the power to kill him and get away with it. They also had approvals from the
highest authorities other than the President, and cooperative co-conspirator
necessary for the scheme to succeed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Im sure
there were other official CIA and military assassination projects that we
know about besides the CIA's ZR/RIFLE and the military's Zeta-Dioginese, as we
know the MK/ULTRA project tried to developed programed assassins and Navy Lt.
Com. Thomas Narut told a London Sunday Times reporter that the Navy had a
similar program that recruited special soldiers for training as assassins and
placed them in embassies abroad.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says in the movie Seven Days in May, the
operation must be “deep and dark” – and that’s how such covert ops are
described – black ops, deep and dar,k and if murder is involved, it is a
“wet" operation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
mechanism for murder was put into place, and designed, like all covert
inteligence operaions, on a need to know basis using standard covert op
tradecraft, beginning with a code name.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Now I
have heard a number of code names said to have been used to kill JFK, Zipper,
was one, “The Big Event” was another, and while I am sure there was one, I just
call it The Dealey Plaza Operation (DPO), and if it was a coup, it had
approvals from the highest authroities, who ensured the cover-up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">If a
coup, as I suspect, then all of the major branches of government had to be
either compromised or were “in on it.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We know certain
people were not “in on it,” but were compromised, such as RFK, CIA director
John McCone, and most likely Gen. Maxwell Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
mechanism of murder was already in place to kill Fidel Castro – and while the
others are possibile, William Harvey and the ZR/RIFlE team are the most
plausible, as it centered around JMWAVE, where most of the anti-Castro action
and training took place.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
covert ops run out of JMWAVE were all approved at the highest level – by the
National Security Council’s Special Group and with the addition of RFK. Special
Groip Augumented. And those who planned the assassination of Castro did their
best to convince the Special Group Augumented and RFK to approve the plans –
especially Valkyrie that developed into Dr. Rolando Cubella (AMLASH) and
Pathfinder, the Carl Jenkins’ plan to have snipers shoot Castro as he rode by
in an open jeep. They were the plans to kill Castro that I believe were
redirectd to JFK in Dallas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">While a
number of plans to have Cubans kill Castro were apparently approved, we still
don't know who approved the redirection of these plans from Castro to JFK.
People very high in the government had to.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Besides
the National Security Council Special Group (Augumented) there were two other
groups with knowledge of CIA covert operations – the Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board (FIAB) and the Execuive Committee (ExCom), the small group that
was formed during the Cuban Missile Crisis to form a consensus as to what
action to take, and it stayed together and met informaly afterwards to consult
the president. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For me,
I am focusing on William Harvey, ZRRIFLE and the JMWAVE Pathfinders, as well as
the two known plans to kill Castro that were developed – Valkyrie and
Pathfinder. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But
before putting names into the sliots of assassination
team members, it’s necessary to understand how the mechanism of death was
triggered, and for that we go to Maj. Ralph Ganis, USAF(R), a military
officer and intelligence analyst who purchsed the private papers of Nazi
commando leader Otto Skorzeny on line. He followed them to Texas, where some of
Skorzeny’s businesses were located, fronted by his wife. Ganis recognized the
connections between Skorzeny’s Texas enterprises as an intelligence network,
not necessarily established to earn money, with a special association with Col.
Jack Crichton, head of the 488th Intelligence unit of the US Army
Reserves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In his
book, <i>The Skorzeny Papers,</i> Ganis
explains how the government’s institutionalized the mechanism of murder and how
it was was triggered – a very strict and rigerous process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Ganis
says the procedure for incompascitating a president was similar to the process
of instigating a nuclear war, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Unlike
the regualar contintunity of government line of succession from President to
Vice President to Speaker of the House, the lines of authority tl pull the
nuclear trigger were the same for the use of nuclear weapons – President, to
Secretary of Defense to Assistant Secretary of Defense to the Joint Chiefs of
Staff.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As Ganis
puts it: “The correct way to say it is this - there was an assassination
capability inherent and located within one office of the CIA – that was highly
compartmented and highly controlled. So, it’s not like the entire CIA was
involved. It was literally only one office, and even then, within the office it
was probably on a need to know basis… The capability itself, the Executive
Action capability itself, I equate in the book to the use of Atomic Weapons.
The only way to launch this capability would have been by Executive Order – by
the President, or the National Command authority – that level, - the Secretary
of Defense, at that level. It was a presidential, national command authority
level capability. Somebody at the CIA couldn’t use it. It would even have been
impossible for even rogue use. This was a Command and Control situation. A
target would be designated. But in other words, to use this capability would
have required Executive Approval.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“So this
small office within the CIA – called Staff D. And the guy who ran it was a man
named William K. Harvey, during that time period. He managed the program. He
managed that program – much like maintaining a nuclear bomber. There are US Air
Force personal who man the bomber, and there’s people who maintain the bomber,
but they can’t launch the bomber. That comes from the President. The same with
this capability.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And this
capability – that can only be activated from the highest executive levels of
government, coincides with my thesis that elements of the Valkyrie plan to kill
Hiltler were used, especially the aspect of that plan that had the victim sign
off and actually approve the plan and the operation, as Hitler approved
Valkyrie as an emergency measure to call out the Home Guard, and with the CIA
seeking JFK’s approval of their plans to kill Castro, especially AMLASH and the
Pathfinder Operation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
official approval of the Dealey Plaza Operation by those at the highest level
of government had to be given, though it wasn’t by the President or the
Attorney General or even the NSC Special Group, but by those in the
contintunity of goverenment – LBJ, those in the law enforcment – J. E. Hoover,
and those with the authority to go to war – Secretary of Defense McNamara,
Assst. Secretary of Defense Gilpatrick and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and
conducted in part by the Pentagon's intelligence arm, the office of Assistant
Chief of Staff for Intellugence (ACSI).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It was
not unlike Dr. Strangelove, where a Group Commander sends his nuclear bombers
off to atack Russia based on Wing Attack Plan R – which is activated when
the normal chain of command, the president, is incapacitated or otherwise
unable to function.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In his
book <i>The Day Kennedy Was Shot</i>, Jim Bishop
interviewed some of the White House Communications Agency (WHCA) radiomen, one
of who told him that the power was being distributed through the war lines
rather than the regular continunity of government lines, and that at one point,
it was broadcast on the secure Secret Service “Charlie” channel that “The Joint
Chiefs of Staff are now the president.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Of
course we know that wasn’t true because the Joint Chiefs of Staff, minus AF
Chief of Staff LeMay, were meeting with the German High Command counterparts
are the Pentagon, and chairman Gen. Maxwell Taylor was taking a nap.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But the
approval for triggering the assassination mechanism to kill JFK might have been
sent down the line from the same powers that provide for the launching of
nuclear weapons, which means that Defense Secretary MacNamara, and his
assistant Rosewell Gilpatrick were certainly in the loop.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">MacNamara,
McGeorge Bundy and Dean Rusk were three of the men who were recommended to
President elect Kennedy by Harry Truman’s Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> [<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1245944348321146643/7329566146747658174">https://harvardpolitics.com/presidents-wise-men-president-kennedy-decline-eastern-establishment/</a> ]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">While
much is known about MacNamara, few know much about Gilpatrick, who played a
major role in the Kennedy administration’s defense department, especially in
regards to Cuba and the awarding of the TFX-fighter-bomber contract to General
Dynamics over Boing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gilpatrick’s
law firm had represented General Dynamics and there are a number of characters
in the JFK story with ties to General Dynamics – one of the major defense
contractors in Texas that included former Nazis in its ranks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When the
CIA’s Project Paperclip brought hundreds of former Nazi scientists to America
to work on the Saturn V rocket that would take men to the moon and also sere as
the nuclear missile for decades, they got the major defense contractors to hire
them, and they all did, including Collins Radio, Bell Helicopter and General
Dynamics, who hired former Nazi rocket man General Dornberger as a security
consultant, who worked alongside former FBI agent I.F. Hale.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Hale had
twin sons – who attended Arlington Heights high school with Lee Harvey Oswald,
until Oswald dropped out and enlisted in the Marines. When FBI agents were on a
stake out surveillance of the Las Vegas apartment of mob moll Judyth Campbell
Exner, who was a paramour of Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana and President Kennedy
at the same time, the FBI agents observed the Hale twins break into her
apartment. But then because of their father’s association with the FBI, they
did nothing but report it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And
their mother Virginia, who worked for the Texas Employment Commission, helped
Oswald get the job at Jaggers-Chiles-Stoval, the graphics arts firm that put
arrows and captions on U2 photos of Russia and Cuba during the Missile Crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Besides
the major defense contractors assisting the CIA on Project Paperclip, they are
also associated together with the Defense Industrical Secruity Command – an
association of defense contractors based I Columbus, Ohio, of all places.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The only
reference I know of that associates this defense contractor security
association with the assassiantion of President Kennedy is an unpublished
manuscript that is now probably available over the internet – known as the
Torbett Document, that was said to have been written by a high placed lawyer
who has since been identified.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A Note
on Skorzeny, who was not one of the Nazi military officers involved in the
Valkyrie coup and July 20, 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler. At the time
Skorzeny was leading a glider raid on the Italian alps castle where deposed
fascist dictator Beneito Musellini was being held prisoner.Skorzeny freed him
and delivered him to Hitler in time for lunch the day after the assassination
attempt. Skorzeny then participated in the rounding up of others who opposed
Hitler for imprisonment and essecution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For more
on Skorzeny and Ganis see:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1245944348321146643/7329566146747658174">https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-skorzeny-papers-evidence-for-plot.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1245944348321146643/7329566146747658174">https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2023/04/skorzeny.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1245944348321146643/7329566146747658174">https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-skorzeny-network-in-dallas.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1245944348321146643/7329566146747658174">https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2021/11/hank-albarelli-jrs-coup-in-dallas.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1245944348321146643/7329566146747658174">https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-us-air-force-at-dealey-plaza.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-68160263710399823542023-09-19T18:43:00.008-07:002023-09-19T22:11:02.139-07:00Nuclear Lines of Command <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivRYx9K98MMwhm0b_CxIaMV5adSQ54VL_jl34e4cL4i-Ft759UqaINLmVyvvETAEKqBD9lqunaCgKZ2vsGgwori4Kux1xcVhEbfrDlS1UfhkeNnwaKy7EeAh3mB1RiRP9YOg5RPc3aRPCBKkIqBQrIGbxubb9-Mljz-gQU3IR8juWlCAjh8GH__Pm7nPk/s226/download.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="226" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivRYx9K98MMwhm0b_CxIaMV5adSQ54VL_jl34e4cL4i-Ft759UqaINLmVyvvETAEKqBD9lqunaCgKZ2vsGgwori4Kux1xcVhEbfrDlS1UfhkeNnwaKy7EeAh3mB1RiRP9YOg5RPc3aRPCBKkIqBQrIGbxubb9-Mljz-gQU3IR8juWlCAjh8GH__Pm7nPk/s1600/download.png" width="226" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Nuclear Lines of Command </span></div><p></p><p>The case of the missing code books on the SAC bombers and the Executive Air Fleet at the time of the assassination sparked my interest in the subject of the nuclear war lines of command, and I have learned a lot. </p><p>During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 President Kennedy was upset, as exhibited in the movie 13 Days, that a regional Air Force general elevated the DEFCON status to 2, one step away from war, without his approval, as he said it sent a message to the Soviets he didn't want to send. The President himself also personally telephoned military officers in Nebraska responsible for launching the nuclear armed missiles, making sure they knew such an order required presidential authority. </p><p>After the Cuban Missile Crisis President Kennedy took an interest in it too, and established the telephone hot line to Moscow and ordered a review of the nuclear warfare lines of command and process, code named Drop Kick, that resulted in the creation of the "football" case with the nuclear codes and the military officer called "Bag Man," who carried it where ever the President went. It was officially called the President's Emergency Satchel. </p><p>In the film Seven Days in May you can see the Bag Man sitting outside the Oval Office and at the swimming pool, following the President where ever he goes. </p><p>I wrote extensively and in more detail about the BagMan and the nuclear football in a blogpost in 2019 that can be read here: <a href="https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2019/02/bagman-and-star-network.html?m=1">JFKcountercoup: BAGMAN, THE NUCLEAR FOOTBALL AND THE STAR NETWORK</a></p><p>The Bag Man at the time of the assassination was Warrant Officer Ira Gearheart, who had the nuclear football bag handcuffed to his wrist. Gearheart was sitting in the backseat of the last car in the motorcade with technicians from the White House Communications Agency (WHCA), who monitored radios in the Pilot car, the lead car, the President's limo, the SS Big Bertha behind it, LBJ's car and the WHCA car at the end of the motorcade. The pilot of AF one was also entuned to the motorcade's security "Charlie" channel, and he remained in his seat listening in while most of the crew went to lunch at Love Field, including WHCA Colonel George McNally, whose code name was STAR. The communications radio and telephone network he ran was known as the STAR network. </p><p>WHCA technicians went everywhere the President was known to be going and set up a secure land line to the STAR network, as they did at all of the hotels on the agenda and at the luncheon site where JFK was due to be at the end of the motorcade. Their base of operations in Dallas was set up at a suite of rooms at the Sheraton Hotel, where George H. W. Bush stayed the night before, where Oswald applied for a job with deMohrenschildt's friend Sam Ballen and was said to have met Maurice Bishop-David A. Phillips in the lobby with Antonio Veciana, where Robert and Marina Oswald's lawyers office was located, and where a reporter left suspicious notes in the wastebasket that sparked an investigation of what he knew. The Sheraton is also part of the Southland Center, where the headquarters of the Haliburton company is listed as 3211 Southland Center. It was certainly a beehive of assassination related activities. </p><p>As the motorcade turned onto Elm Street in front of the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) and the first shot rang out, Will Greer the driver slowed down rather than speed up as he was trained to do, and the lead SS agent Kellerman picked up the radio microphone, squeezed the button and began to talk as the fatal head shot was fired, and was caught on the WHCA tape recording of Charlie Channel, certainly much clearer than the dubious Dallas PD dictabelt recording. But the Charlie Channel recording has never been acknowledged let alone released. </p><p>\When they raced to Parkland hospital LBJ was separated from the Bag Man for the first time and when the WHCA car with the Bag Man finally arrived, the WHCA technicians took control of two of the row of pay phones in the emergency room for linking land lines to the STAR network. </p><p>Then when the SS suddenly took LBJ out of Parkland to AF1 at Love Field, the Bag Man was left behind once again, and had to force his way onto the lap of a policeman to catch up. </p><p>At AF1, there were land lines already set up, and LBJ used it to call the Federal Judge he had appointed who recommended he take the oath of office as soon as possible, and was asked to go to Love Field to administer the oath. LBJ then called Attorney General RFK to obtain the exact wording of the oath of office. And finally he called his personal attorney G. Waddy Bullion, whose inner office conference call phone was listened in to by another attorney in the office who later reported that LBJ instructed Bullion to sell his Haliburton stocks. </p><p>Now this may seem like an insignificant instruction, and I had never heard of Haliburton before former VP Dick Chaney took a job there after leaving the White House, and included Governor John B. Connally on its board of directors.</p><p>I have since learned that Haliburton is the Texas company that actually manufactured the Executive Satche - the nuclear football, the metal case that was used to contain the nuclear codes. </p><p>In the meantime there was considerable uncertainty as to who was really in charge of the government, as Secretary of State Dean Rusk wondered out loud aboard the Cabinet Plane that was missing its code book.</p><p>I first read veteran reporter Jim Bishop's book The Day Lincoln Was Shot while in grade school, and his 1968 book The Day Kennedy Was Shot in high school but it didn't spark my interest in the case, though when I later re-read it I found some interesting tidbits. One was the fact that Bishop had interviewed some of the WHCA technicians who ran Charlie channel in the motorcade and the STAR network from the Sheraton WHCA switchboard, command and control post.</p><p>One of them told Bishop that in the immediate aftermath of the assassination, "Officials at the Pentagon were calling the WHCA switchboard at the Dallas Sheraton asking who was not in command. An officer grabbed the phone and assured the Pentagon that Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and the Joint Chiefs of Staff are now the President." </p><p>While the constitutional lines of authority are well known, and go from President to Vice President to the Speaker of the House, the authority to release nuclear weapons and go to war is different and goes from the President to the Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Roswell Gilpatrick. </p><p>So the WHCA in Dallas was giving the Pentagon the lines of authority to go to war, not the constitutional continuity of government chain of succession. </p><p>We know however that McNamara and the Joint Chiefs were not exercising the war powers of the presidency in those uncertain moments. While I don't know where McNamara was or what he was doing, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were meeting with their West German High Command counterparts. Two of them were involved in the July 20, 1944 Valkyrie plot to kill Hitler, and were very familiar with how such assassinationss, coups and continuity of government plans went. They were perplexed however when Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Maxwell Taylor continued their meeting after being informed the President had been shot. Aind then after being told he had been killed, Taylor took a nap. So they were not in charge of anything, though Air Force Chief of Staff General Curtis LeMay was not present at that meeting but on a hunting and fishing vacation in north Michigan and Canada. </p><p>As LBJ wondered aloud on AF1 during the flight back, "I wonder if the missiles were flying?" we know from the existing AF1 radio transmission tapes and the reports of those who were on board, and as Larry Hancock has pointed out, that LBJ didn't bother to consult with any of his military advisors even when he arrived back at Andrews in Washington D.C. </p><p>The late Daniel Ellsberg has written in one of his books that the nuclear chain of command was not secure, and after John Hinkley shot President Reagan, the Bag Man with the nuclear football was left behind once again, and had to walk the half-mile back to the White House. </p><p>That's when Secretary of State Gen. Al Hague went on live national TV from the White House and announced " I'm in control here," when he really had no authority and was out of the Presidential line of succession or the power to go to war. </p><p>Things were so chaotic in the immediate aftermath of JFK's assassination as to who had the power, the 25th Amendment to the Constitution was passed to detail the continuity of government authorities. </p><p>[ <a href="https://reagan.blogs.archives.gov/2021/01/08/whos-in-charge-the-25th-amendment-and-president-reagans-assassination-attempt/">Who’s in Charge? The 25th Amendment and the Attempted Assassination of President Reagan – The Reagan Library Education Blog</a> ]</p><p>Which brings up the case of the missing Code Books, something that had to be intentional and done by someone with the power to remove them from the safes of SAC bombers and the Executive Fleet planes, and why it was done. </p><p>It ahs been suggested to me by a military man familiar with such things, that the code books were removed in order to short circuit the line of command to go to nuclear war, mainly because it was such an opportunity with the president assassinated and the possibility such radical Pentagon war mongers like Generals LeMay, Powers and Leimeitzer would take advantage of, as they wanted to instigate a first strike against the Soviets and believed they could win such a nuclear war. </p><p>Those planning the assassination operation were aware of this, and removed the code books in order to prevent that from happening, although they did want to blame Fidel Castro for the assassination operation, and have LBJ invade Cuba and remove him, they didn't want to kill 200 million people, including themselves, in the process. </p><p>While I don't know if that is true, it sounds reasonable enough to me, and is at least a valid reason for the removal of the code books at the time of the assassination, </p><p>In addition, as I will elaborate on next, it has been suggested by USAF Major Ralph Ganis (Retired), that the nuclear chain of command was possibly used to authorize the pulling of the assassination trigger in the officially, institutionalized mechanics of murder - ZRRIFLE and/or Zeta-Diogenese, set up by the CIA and the military to kill Fidel Castro. </p><p>To comment on this or anything else - Billkelly3@gmail.com </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIo2v_lvCvFGWF9a25JFjjrFBFy40cZMZSbmUzAyXZs4H3pnrAIHr7wtdc8Hi3TNjlleMPLUMRPhPQ448EROHDLLsYKeBjr1_tanYdyzrzdZSDk9FEod4Mfb4r6jGCuFRxHzPtjIyZnti8sYQJy5QTSmjJXfH_L5gGNyIZ8NytpOR4dCnV-KmDR4Wn9PU/s225/download.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIo2v_lvCvFGWF9a25JFjjrFBFy40cZMZSbmUzAyXZs4H3pnrAIHr7wtdc8Hi3TNjlleMPLUMRPhPQ448EROHDLLsYKeBjr1_tanYdyzrzdZSDk9FEod4Mfb4r6jGCuFRxHzPtjIyZnti8sYQJy5QTSmjJXfH_L5gGNyIZ8NytpOR4dCnV-KmDR4Wn9PU/s1600/download.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-68161038158943940982023-09-17T21:14:00.005-07:002023-09-18T14:12:49.223-07:00The Missing Code Books <p>The Missing Code Books </p><p>I first learned of the code books being missing from from Strategic Air Command (SAC) bombers at the time of the assassination from John Judge, my University of Dayton (UD), Ohio college mate. He gave Conscientious Objector consultations to military men stationed at Wright-Patterson AFB who objected to the war in Vietnam. </p><p>Wright-Pat has millions of dollars in engineering contracts with UD and the two largest institutions in Dayton are joined at the hip.</p><p>While at this social event, Judge said he met some B-52 bomber pilots, who told them about their experiences on 11/22/63 when John asked. </p><p>They - there was more than one, but he talked mostly with one pilot, who said that he was in the air at the time, his leg of the routine 24-7 shift that kept bombers in the air at all times, ala Dr. Strangelove.</p><p>When they learned about the assassination - from commercial radio news, the pilot said he went to the plane's safe, much like Slim Pickens does in Dr. Strangelove, to get the code books to decode any messages or orders they would get. </p><p>But the code book was missing! </p><p>And they didn't get any special orders and returned to base on their regular schedule, where he learned other pilots had discovered the same thing. The code books were missing from the safes of all SAC bombers in the air at the time of the assassination. </p><p>Well I didn't think much of it until a few years later when I read Pierre Salinger's book about his time in the White House as President Kennedy's Press Secretary. In it, he recalled being with the rest of the key cabinet members on an Executive plane flying to Japan for a conference on Vietnam when they learned about the assassination - from commercial radio news. </p><p>When the senior officer on board, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, learned of the news of the assassination, he had Salinger, code name WAYSIDE, make a radio call to the White House - designated CROWN, informing them they were flying to Dallas. Salinger returned and reported that they were to return to Andrews AFB in Washington rather than go to Dallas. Rusk then asked who at the White House gave them those instructions, Salinger returned to the radio and talked with STRANGER in the Situation Room in the White House basement. </p><p>Rusk wanted to know who STRANGER was, and had the safe opened, but the code book was missing! </p><p>Now this is the second time I have heard about missing code books on USAF planes at the time of the assassination, and began to take interest and look into it more closely, as did Philadelphia lawyer Vince Salandria, who discovered that Salinger, in his book, quotes directly from the Air Force One radio transcripts, things that aren't on the existing tape, as released by the LBJ Library in Texas. </p><p>The radio in CROWN the Situation Room was answered by US Navy officer Oliver Hallett, who gave Salinger all the information he had on the President. </p><p>When Oliver Hallett learned from commercial radio news-wire service tickers, like Salinger and Rusk, of the name and background of the accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, he must have been quite surprised to actually know Oswald from their time in Moscow. When Oswald was in the embassy turning over his passport and announcing his defection, Hallett was the Naval attache and in the room, as was his wife, the secretary. Now that to me seems pretty coincidental that the Navy attache in the Situation Room at the White House at the time of the assassination had personal knowledge of the accused assassin. </p><p>And Salandria noticed Salanger, like two other journalists who had read the transcript in the White House (T. White, wm. Manchester), used quotes from the AF1 radio tape transcript that aren't on the existing tape. </p><p>So Salandria wrote to Salinger, asking him about the quotes, and Salinger replied that he obtained a transcript from the JFK Library in Boston and returned it to them after he finished the book. Salandria contacted the JFK Library and they replied that they no longer had the transcript. It too was missing. </p><p>In his account Salinger recalled Dean Rusk as saying, "We have to know who STRANGER is. We don't know what is happening in Dallas. Who the government is now." </p><p>When news of Oswald's arrest came across the news wire, and his background described, Rusk said, "If this is true, this is going to have repercussions around the world for years to come." </p><p>And indeed we are still having repercussions. </p><p>After I transcribed the existing AF1 Radio cassette tapes released by the LBJ Library in the mid-70s, I was surprised to learn years later that a newer, longer reel to reel tape, actually two of them, were found among the effects of General Clifton, the President' military aide. One copy of the tape was auctioned off while the other was released on line by the National Archives (NARA), that I copied and made a transcript of, taking particular note of new conversations that aren't on the LBJ Library cassettes. </p><p>One of the conversations concerns Col. Dorman trying to get an important message to his boss Air Force Chief of Staff General LeMay, who was flying aboard an AF Executive jet from Canada to Washington. </p><p>Another conversation is from WAYSIDE - Salinger, to CROWN - the Situation Room, requesting that they break secure radio communications and identify the name of STRANGER, because the code book aboard the Cabinet plane was missing. </p><p>After a few minutes, CROWN - Oliver Hallett, reports that STRANGER is Major Harold Patterson, a person Salinger knew personally from working with him at the White House, and reported that to Rusk. </p><p>When I first heard the name Major Harold Patterson, I immediately did an internet search, as I had previously done with LeMay's aide Col. Dorman, and found Patterson living in Virginia. I got a phone number for him, and called him on the phone, and he answered and acknowledged he was the Harold Patterson who was STRANGER and assigned to the Situation Room at the time of the assassination,. </p><p>I told him I was listening to him on the Clifton AF1 tape, and heard his conversation with Pierre Salinger, that he distinctly recalled. Patterson confirmed that the code book on the Cabinet plane was missing and they had to break security protocol to identify themselves. </p><p>We talked for about a half hour, and he was very congenial and recalled what it was like to work in the Situation Room at such a time. </p><p>I passed on Patterson's information and phone number to Jefferson Morley, who called a few days after I did, but Patterson clamed up, somebody had gotten to him and told him not to talk. </p><p>In any case, I believe that the missing code books aboard SAC bombers and the Executive fleet was not an accident, but intentional.</p><p>It is now clear that the nuclear war chain of command was disrupted at the time of the assassination. </p><p>When JFK was killed and LBJ became president, LBJ was separated from the Bag Man with the "football," and its nuclear codes. And he didn't seem to care. </p><p>Aboard AF1 LBJ wondered aloud if "the missiles were flying." </p><p>In addition, for a short time the powers of the government were not passed by the normal Continuity of Government succession - President, VP, Speaker of the House, but the nuclear command chain - President-Sec. of Defense- MacNamara, - Asst. Sec. of Defrnse Roswell Gilpatrick. </p><p>I will continue with this line of inquiry and explain why there was an intentional short circuit in the military command at the time of the assassination. </p><p>Billkelly3@gmail.com </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-9508873799107154742023-09-17T10:31:00.004-07:002023-09-17T20:24:16.026-07:00New Orleans Grand Jury Transcripts Digitalized <p> New Orleans Grand Jury Transcripts Digitalized </p><p>One of the main problems in JFK research today is the fact that there is no legal venue to take new evidence or witness testimony, except the court of public opinion, as the Landis episode shows. I made a COPA Conference presentation in Dallas over a decade ago calling for the empanelment of a JFK Grand Jury that would be able to receive evidence and witnesses, as a Grand Jury is the first stop before a murder trial, and the only Grand Jury established for the JFK assassination was empaneled by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison and it did take some amazing testimony. </p><p>So amazing in fact that Garrison's successor Harry Connick, Sr. ordered the transcripts destroyed. </p><p>I awarded the first JFK Elizabeth Ray Award for Historic Preservation to Gary Raymond, for preserving the NO Grand Jury transcripts, and to Andrews Air Force Base janitor Charles Chuck Holmes for salvaging the Andrews Log for 11/22/63, finding it in the trash and to both men for turning over what they saved to the Assassinations Records Review Board (ARRB). </p><p>Elizabeth Ray was the custodian of the Walt Whitman House in Camden, N.J., my hometown, when the race riots of the late 60s and 70s engulfed the city. During such nights of rioting, Ray stood in front of the house she cared for and swung a broomstick at any rioter who came near her, thus preserving the Whitman House and a few nearby buildings that now stand out in a neighborhood of vacant lots. So I named the historic preservation award after her. </p><p>Grand Jury records are normally routinely destroyed after they either indict someone or refuse to indict someone, or the prosecutor refuses to indict, but the New Orleans Grand Jury records are most certainly historic JFK assassination records that the man Harry Conack, Sr. ordered to destroy them instead preserved them. He turned them over to a media friend Richard Angelico, who arranged for them to be given to the ARRB, who refused Connock's order to return them to be destroyed. </p><p>We all know what happened, as David Ferrie and Guy Banister died, and only Clay Shaw was left standing when Garrison got around to indictments, and he was found not-guilty by a jury. But the Grand Jury records include many witnesses that were not called to testify at the trial, and the transcripts of their testimony is extremely important. </p><p>When the ARRB passed on these records to the National Archives and released to the public, the Assassination Archives and Research Center (AARC) made scanned PDF copies of each page, and some testimony ran into the hundreds of pages, and they are posted on line. But you have to click each page to continue reading and it gets tiresome, but now Michael Capass from JFKAssassinationBoards.net [ <a href="https://jfk.boards.net/">Home | JFK Boards</a> ] has digitalized 48 of the transcripts so they can be read more easily read. </p><p>[ <a href="https://jfk.boards.net/thread/772/index-grand-jury-transcripts?page=1&scrollTo=5941">Index of Grand Jury Transcripts | JFK Boards</a> ]</p><p>While there are a lot of big names here - Dean Andrews, Layton Martins, Perry Russo, Mark Lane, Harold Weisberg, William Turner, Kerry Thornley, Marina Oswald, Ruth Paine, Lee Crisman, et al., that people will be interested in what they had to say, one name stands out for me - Thomas Beckham. </p><p>Now that's not a familiar name to most JFK assassination buffs, but Beckham was a former Marine who had a bolt action rifle he liked to cold cock and shoot without bullets, and as an associate of Guy Bannister he was in on the Houma Bunker raid. That raid to obtain arms, explosives and ammunition from a bunker on the former Houma Navy base, is portrayed in Oliver Stone's JFK movie. </p><p>It included David Ferrie, Sergio Aracha Smith, Gordon Novel, Novel's beauty queen wife, Thomas Beckham and a few Cubans, who used a laundry truck supplied by one of the Cubans that some say can be seen in photos of Dealey Plaza at the time of the assassination. It was the Houma Bunker raid that convinced me that these Big Easy Bozos did not pull off the clean and precise military style ambush at Dealey Plaza. </p><p>Who takes their wife along on a mission? Novel did. And Beckham, on the ride back to Bannister's office, where they stashed the goods, threw lit sticks of dynamite out the window, thinking that was funny. </p><p>But Beckham caught my attention when Garrison reported that he had a pass to get on a Strategic Air Command (SAC) Air Force base, that he explained away by saying he obtained it from his business partner, a Colonel Lowry. </p><p>When he testified before the Grand Jury - he also testified before the HSCA, Beckham was asked about the pass and said it was for "Alford, AFB," though that must have been a typing-spelling mistake because there is no Alford AFB. I believe he was referring to Olffutt AF base in Nebraska. </p><p>But its hard to believe Col. Lowry would give Beckham a pass to a base in Nebraska when he was in Louisiana. Was there a SAC base near New Orleans in 1963? Or was it Barksdale, La., where the head of the New Orleans Secret Service office was at the time of the assassination? </p><p>Lowry, Beckham explained, tried to help him by becoming a partner in a used Thrift Shop, though that didn't explain why he had to go on to the base. </p><p>At one point the Grand Jury almost became a runaway grand jury when the jurors themselves began to ask the witness questions, but when Garrison's lawyer asked Beckham about Colonel Lowry, all he said was Lowry was "the operations officer of the planning division of SAC," and pilot of Silver Dollar-Looking Glass - a command and control plane.</p><p>When pressed for details, Beckham said that "it's a long story," and the lawyer questioning him said, never mind.. </p><p>But it is important, as the Silver Dollar-Looking Glass Command and Control Plane was over Dallas at the very time of the assassination - as is demonstrated in this article by Larry Haapanen and Alan Rogers. </p><p>[ <a href="https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=4275#relPageId=13">Kennedy Assassination Chronicles, Volume 8, Issue 2</a> ]</p><p>In any case, Beckham is only one example, the guy I want to know more about and he's in these New Orleans Grand Jury transcripts, and we have Michael Capass to thank for digitalizing them and making them more easy to read. </p><p>And it's a shame we don't have an active Grand Jury today where witnesses and evidence can be presented, especially in regards to the destruction and theft of records from the Archives. </p><p>To comment on this story: Billkelly3@gmail.com </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245944348321146643.post-68338118094466142212023-09-11T22:16:00.008-07:002023-09-12T22:15:00.821-07:00My Take on Landis <p> My Take on Landis </p><p>People want to know what my take on the recent revelations by 88 year old, retired Secret Service agent Paul Landis that is creating something of a media-storm. </p><p>Landis now says that in the immediate aftermath of the assassination he found a full, intact bullet on the back seat of the limo where the President had been sitting. </p><p>He picked it up, put it in his pocket and then walked into the Emergency Room and left the bullet on President Kennedy's stretcher. </p><p>For some of those knowledgeable about the case this is just another link in the broken chain of custody of CE399, the nearly perfect bullet found on an Emergency Room gurney ostensibly used by Texas Governor John Connally. The true provenance of this piece of evidence has always been a matter of speculation and debate - and the subject of many essays - a good one by Dr. Gary Aguilar and Josiah Thompson [ <a href="https://history-matters.com/essays/frameup/EvenMoreMagical/EvenMoreMagical.htm">The Magic Bullet: Even More Magical than We Knew</a> ] .</p><p>Though the Single-Bullet-Theory (SBT) has been the subject of much debate, it is one of a number of linchpins that Warren Commission adherents must cling to for their only suspect to have killed the President alone for not apparent reason. </p><p>The alleged convoluted path of CE399 goes from the rifle found in the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) into the back of the president, exits his throat, enters John Connally, breaks a few ribs, exits Connally, passes through his wrist, breaking more bones and leaving fragments, then lodges in his thigh. </p><p>Though the SBT is attributed to Warren Commission attorney and later Senator Arlen Specter, it was really put forth to him by another WC attorney Joe Ball, but Specter made it famous and almost convincing. </p><p>While the SBT was accepted by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) forensic panel, there was one dissent - Dr. Cyril Wecht, the distinguished president of the American Association of Forensic Pathologists, who challenged his colleagues to come up with one other case study of a gunshot wound bullet doing as much damage yet remain in nearly pristine condition. None of them could, and still can't.</p><p>And ironically, Wecht and Specter were always and remained good friends, something most disagreeing people just can't do. </p><p>From what I understand Landis will make a presentation at the Wecht conference in Pittsburgh this November. </p><p>For my part, the case for conspiracy doesn't rely on disproving the SBT. After all it didn't kill the President, that was accomplished by the bullet that hit JFK in the head, blowing his scull apart, and shattering into many pieces. </p><p>Secret Service Agent Clint Hill, the closest witness, says this is the entrance wound, though he himself describes it as a "grapefruit size" hole in the right rear of the head, an obvious blowout exit wound, as Forensic Pathology 101 says that entrance wounds are small - the diameter of the bullet, while the exit wound is large, as Hill and the Parkland doctors saw it. </p><p>So the whole SBT charade is a floating l- straw man argument, sit it up, blow it down, it really only matters to those who insist on the deranged lone gunman theory, as it is a mandatory requirement of it, but it really doesn't make any difference when it comes to understanding what really occurred. </p><p>What's most interesting about the whole still developing Landis saga, are the responses of the officials and media, and ho-hum reactions of those most knowledgeable about the case. </p><p>For them, the most knowledgeable, there are many outstanding questions - why did he put it on Kennedy's stretcher and not turn it over to a attending doctor or a nearby superior? </p><p>Do you believe Landis or not? </p><p>Many don't, not only for Landis not to have followed basic trained procedures for handling evidence, but some conspiracy buffs point out that Landis was one of the Secret Service agents who stayed up most of the night at The Cellar in Fort Worth, where they serve 190#poof Everclear in their mixed drink cocktails. Though he claimed not to have been drinking, some speculate he did and that influenced his judgement, as it certainly did for most of the Presidential Protection detail. </p><p>If you don't believe Landis why bother taking this any further than the Vanity Fair article? </p><p>If you do, is the bullet he found what we have in evidence as CE399, or was it a different bullet that's not in-evidence? </p><p>For the Warren Commission adherents it must be CE399, as Gerald Posner is promoting it, saying that he now knows how the bullet got on the gurney, so it reaffirms his close minded position, but that's the route he's taking. </p><p>But then where did it come from - Connally's thigh, or JFK's back, that was not known to the Parkland doctors or probed by the Bethesda pathologists, but Dr. Fink, the only one of the three autopsy doctors with any gunshot experience, said the back wound only knuckle deep. </p><p>If it came from JFK's back wound then the SBT is once again out the window. </p><p>So the bullet ballistics don't take us very far without degenerating into the same old arguments. </p><p>While I haven't seen a formal Secret Service response yet, they did parade SS Agent Hill out to talk on NBC News on September 10th, that I haven't seen yet but know that he will denounce Landis, much like they did to Chicago SS agent Abraham Bolden. </p><p>Bolden and Landis are not the only SS agents to come forward with evidence of conspiracy, or at least their beliefs that it was a conspiracy. </p><p>And the media fascination with the Landis story is totally out-of-wack with their failure to pay attention to Jim diEugenio's recent article in his blog Kennedys and King that discusses SS Agent James Mastrovito , who acknowledged to the Assassinations Records Review Board (ARRB)that he was ordered to "cull" JFK assassination documents in his custody, and he believed that meant to destroy them. </p><p> [ <a href="https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/the-mystery-of-kennedy-s-brain-deepens">The Mystery of Kennedy’s Brain Deepens</a> ]</p><p>In addition, and possibly even more significant, Mastrovito had a vial labeled "JFK's brain matter - Armed Forces Institute of Pathology" - that he flushed into a food processor. </p><p>Now how come nobody in the mainstream media aren't interested in that fascinating fact that I first reported in 2014? [ <a href="https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2023/08/jfks-brain-at-armed-forces-institute-of.html">JFKcountercoup: JFK's Brain at Armed Forces Institute of Pathology</a> ] </p><p>Or that Mastrovito was head of the Protective Services Department that kept track of all the threats to the president, one of their most closely guarded files, but one that was finally released in one of the last batches, but went pretty much unnoticed. </p><p>And where were the mainstream media when we heard from Rolf Molf Larrson, or from Felix Rodriguez, Gene Wheaton and Carl Jenkins, three primary witnesses and suspects in the assassination, though people don't even know their names? </p><p>As Jefferson Morley over at JFKFacts put it, maybe this whole Landis thing is a sort of limited hangout for the mainstream media and officials to adopt, even though its pretty late in the game. </p><p>Since this is a still developing story, I'll put off writing any more about it until we see how this plays out. </p><p>Billkelly3@gmail.com </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com5