Through the JFK Looking Glass & Into the Twilight Zone –
Andria Skolnick, moderator of a number of JFK Facebook Groups, has asked the question of why no one has mentioned the subtitle of JFK Revisited – “Through The Looking Glass,” so I will.
First a word about Andrea, a well read and knowledgeable JFK researcher who has been at a just war with Roger Stone for years, and who also has a few unkind words about Oliver Stone, mainly because of his Russian-Ukraine episode, that I know nothing about, but I don’t think is over.
Originally titled Destiny Betrayed – after Jim DiEugenio’s book on Garrison and the New Orleans investigation, the title was changed though Jim is given primary writer’s credit, and it is indeed a well written program.
For the serious JFK book collectors, I have a one of a kind first edition of Jim’s Destiny Betrayed, (a second edition was updated years later), but my copy is signed by both Jim and Oliver Stone, as I purchased it used at the 2019 CAPA conference and had them sign it as they both made presentations. [Serious inquiries for this book can be made – billkilly3@gmail.com].
Of course, Through the Looking Glass is the subtitle of Lewis Carroll’s Children’s tale Alice In Wonderland, which has been made into movies a dozen times, and which the main theme is things are not what they seem on the other side of the looking glass, especially if you follow Ozzy Rabbit into the rabbit’s hole, or eat the mushrooms.
As Grace Slick and the Jefferson Airplane put it -
One pill makes you
larger
And one pill makes you small,
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall.
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall,
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call.
Call Alice
When she was just small.
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had
some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low.
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know.
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead,
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head"
And Ralph Stedman drew it:
Those who claim that Lee Harvey Oswald was a deranged loner who killed the President for his own unknown motives refuse to even bother going into the carnival Funhouse of mirrors, but those who do get closer to the full truth of what really happened at Dealey Plaza that day.
“Wilderness of Mirrors” is also the title of David Martin’s book about – “Intrigue, Deception, and the Secrets that Destroyed Two of the Cold War’s Most Important Agents,” – William King Harvey and James Jesus Angleton – two major players in the Dealey Plaza Operation. It’s also required reading for anyone who really wants to understand how and why JFK was murdered and those responsible got away with it.
[ https://www.amazon.com/Wilderness-Mirrors-Deception-Destroyed-Important/dp/1585748242 ]
The two men who are the primary subjects of Martin’s book have what I call COP – Covert Operational Personalities, as do a dozen others who play a major role in the Dealey Plaza operation.
William King Harvey ran the Berlin Tunnel project before being reassigned to Washington as head of the Cuban desk, what Harvey called Task Force W – set up in the basement of CIA Headquarters in Langley. From there he ran the JMWAVE base in Miami, and the ZR-RIFLE assassination project, as well as being the case officer for Chicago-Vegas mobster John Rosselli, who was the key figure in the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Castro.
When President Kennedy asked to meet “America’s James Bond,” they sent over Harvey, who checked his weapons at the door before entering the Oval Office. But after numerous run-ins with Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Harvey sending in an unauthorized team of anti-Castro Cuban Commandos from JMWAVE during the Cuban Missile Crisis was the final straw and RFK had Harvey reassigned to the CIA station in Rome, though he maintained his case officer relationship and personal friendship with Rosselli. They met for the last time in June 1963 in Miami, where Harvey paid for their hotel rooms and meals on the ZR-RIFLE account.
James Jesus Angleton on the other hand, was the CIA’s long time Counter-Intelligence chief who learned his craft from the best – British Intelligence and KGB double agent Kim Philby. Angleton was the mole hunter, who also kept close tabs on the files of US Marine defector Lee Harvey Oswald, so close he monitored and intercepted the mail of Oswald’s mother.
After the assassination, the CIA appointed liaison to the Warren Commission was too inquisitive and eager to assist them, so he was replaced by Angleton.
While the phrase “Wilderness of Mirrors” was Angleton’s favorite way to describe Soviet disinformation, and is still operative today as can be seen in Rolling Stone’s “review” of Stone’s JFK Revisited-Through the Looking Glass, it can be applied to all intelligence and counter-intelligence operations, especially those of the CIA.
“Looking Glass” is also the code name for the Strategic Air Command (SAC) Airborne Command Post program, that included “Silver Dollar,” the Control and Command plane that just happened to be above Dallas at the time of the assassination, as well as the personal plane of Air Force Chief of Staff General Curtis Lemay, code named “Speckled Trout.” The Looking Glass program was under the command of an Air Force Colonel who befriended some of the New Orleans gang who were investigated by Jim Garrison for their association with the accused assassin in the summer of 1963.
For more on Silver Dollar over Dallas and Looking Glass see: The Call that Came in Out of the Blue [https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=4275 - relPageId=13 / https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2011/06/looking-glass-and-silver-dollar-on.htmlhttps://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2011/06/blog-post.html?m=1 / http://jfkcountercoup2.blogspot.com/2019/08/silver-dollar-and-looking-glass-at.html ]
Another Looking Glass connection to the assassination comes to mind – Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone program “The Mirror.”
Serling, like Corletta King, Ruth Paine, Max Holland and myself, attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, a radical liberal arts school established by Horrace Mann. Serling considered himself first a writer, and was the screenwriter for the “Seven Days in May” movie that President Kennedy assisted in having made.
Shortly after the assassination Serling was also impersonated by someone who wrote letters and op-eds to major mainstream publications, and while the real Rod Serling was deeply troubled by the assassination, he denied writing those penned under his name.
Rod Serling of course, is best known for his Twilight Zone television series, which included one program called “The Mirror,” which starred Peter Faulk (aka Columbo) as Fidel Castro shortly after taking power holed up in the Havana Hilton penthouse with his aides. When he looked in a mirror however, he could see his aides trying to kill him – exactly the idea behind the Valkyrie plan the CIA contrived to get disenchanted Cuban military officers to organize a coup and kill Castro, one of which was Dr. Rolando Cubella (AMLASH).
[ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734663/ / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mirror_(The_Twilight_Zone) ]
The Twilight Zone, as Serling described it, “is a dimension as vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadows, between science and superstition, and lies….”
Through the Looking Glass, as Alice discovered. She went through the Looking Glass, and then followed the rabbit into the rabbit’s hole, and learned that things are not what they seem.
Now you can either chase Ozzy the Rabbit, or you can follow those actually responsible for the Dealey Plaza Operation – the Covert Operational Personalities like William Harvey and James Jesus Angleton – in the Wilderness of Mirrors.
But it is no longer a wilderness, as those who have gone into the maze before us have described it, told us what are the dead end allies, and lead us down those streets that pan out, and explain what really happened in Dallas. As Gene Wheaton put it, - it’s convoluted but not complex, so we can understand the truth, but in order to do so you must look into Castro’s mirror, go through the Looking Glass, and into the Mad House Wilderness of Mirrors, but be sure to take a map or GPS with you.
[ BKNOTES: I am currently working on a review of Dr. Cyril Wecht’s new book Disecting the Assassination, as well as transcribing my 2021 CAPA conference program I did with Matt Ehling, Lee Shepard and William M. Law’s interview with Gene Wheaton that I will post ASAP. I am also anticipting a quick read and rundown summary of the estimated 1,000 new records that will be released next Wednesday, Dec. 15, on orders of President Biden. ]
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