Phil Shenon at it Again - Promoting the Castro Cover
Story
Putting Phil Shenon and his theories into a proper
perspective.
Phil Shenon is unlike Gus Russo, Bob Baer, Brian
Latell, Carlos Bringuier and Max Holland, all former CIA officers, agents and
assets who promote the official cover-story for the Dealey Plaza Operation -
Oswald did it alone but Castro encouraged and manipulated him. Phil Shenon is
supposed to be a reputable former New York Times reporter and otherwise
respected journalist but who parrots the party line even though he doesn't have
the clear connections that make him a certifiable disinformation agent like the
others have.
Shenon says that he himself was encouraged by
anonymous former Warren Commission attorney to take on this story -
shunned by most in the mainstream media as a career killer. While John Newman
suspects the anonymous WC attorney was the late Arlen Specter, I believe it was
Sam Stern, a former Warren Commission attorney whose House Select Committee on
Assassinations interview I consider Smoking Document #2 - for a number of
reasons.
Shenon is clear that he is not interested in the
truth behind the assassination, he accepts the false fact that Lee Harvey
Oswald was the lone shooter, and is only interested in the well debunked
cover-story that Castro was behind Oswald and the assassination,which is
part of a clearly defined disinformation campaign that was designed to deceive
those who purse the actual killers.
As an introduction to this false story - designed to
deceive, Shenon focuses on a former State Department official who learned (from
a certified CIA agent) of and reported on a Mexico City "Twist Party"
where Oswald was encouraged to kill JFK by Cuban embassy officials at the home
of Sylvia Duran, a Cuban embassy employee who did deal with Oswald when he was
seeking a visa to Cuba.
Shenon mentions that also attending the Twist Party
were two American Gringos, one of whom was a film actor, who were close to
Oswald at the party and were seen with him walking on the street the next
morning. While Duran refused to identify the American film actor, who she
apparently knew well, because he was still alive and she wanted to protect
him.
The records recently released under the JFK Act
include a CIA report on a wiretap of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City that
picked up a post assassination phone call from Richard Beymer asking
specifically for Sylvia Duran. When told she was not there, he asks how she
was, indicating that he knew she was taken into custody by the Mexican police
and was tortured. He also asks if she was home - implying he knew where she
lived.
When I contacted Bymer he claimed he didn't remember
a Twist Party but that was something he and his friend would have done, as they
were young, single, footloose Americans below the boarder, and he didn't know
or remember Sylvia Duran. His traveling companion, Bradley Pierce, a New York
City bar owner who became a Catholic Priest, recalled to me that they were in
Mexico for only a few weeks and were there at the time of the assassination -
so they couldn't have attended a Twist Party when Oswald was officially there a
month earlier.
Father Bradley recently passed away, but not before
I talked with him, a good man who I wanted to meet to learn the story of how a
bar owner became a priest.
As I reported in Lobster Magazine:
When his book was published Shenon was featured on
National Public Radio (NPR) "Fresh Air" program with Dave Davies, who
asked Shenon if he cooperated with other assassination researchers, and Shenon
responded by saying he tried, but they won't accept him because he doesn't
agree with their conspiracy theories.
Well there is a tight knit network of assassination
researchers who do cooperate and share information and discoveries, but it
isn't their conspiracy theories Shenon disagrees with, it's that they don't buy
Shenon's completely debunked conspiracy theory that Castro was behind what
happened at Dealey Plaza.
Russo, Latell and Shenon get their books published,
Bob Baer gets a TV series and Max Holland gets CIA grants to promote fake
Soviet disinformation being behind conspiracy theories, while the real
disinformation – that Castro was behind the Dealey Plaza operation is relegated
to my blogs and the work of a few series researchers – Peter Dale Scott, John
Newman and Dan Hardway.
Now why won't Dave Davies interview any of those
assassination researchers who do agree and cooperate and write books - some of
whom have signed on to the Ten Points of Agreement manifesto - including David
Talbot (Who DD did interview for "Brothers"),
John Newman, Peter Dale Scott, Lisa Pease, Dick Russell, Joan Mellen, Jefferson
Morley, et al. - there are many others. Why can't they get equal air time to
refute Phil Shenon's nonsense.
Now Shenon uses the death of the widow of a State Department diplomat who tried to call attention to the discredited Twist Party story to promote the Castro did it theme again, and I'm sure we will here from him again on this.
Thanks to Andrew Kreig for calling attention to this
WP article.
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