Monday, October 19, 2020

JFK Virtual Conferences 2020

 JFK VIRTUAL CONFERENCES 2020 

Conferences on any topic are important. Books are usually two years behind what is known, and conferences give experts a chance to make presentations on what they know now. 

There was a major academic conference on Guatemala shortly before Operation Success, and there were two conferences on Cuba before the Bay of Pigs. 

My first conference on the JFK assassination was at the New York University (NYU) School of Law in the late 70s, where I met Penn Jones, Mae Brussell, Sylvia Meagher, Fletcher Prouty and other other early first generation critics of the Warren Report. 

Then there were two ASK conferences in Dallas promoted by a commercial company that got John Judge to say that we don't need to pay someone to make a profit off of us, we can produce our own conferences, so we had a little side bar lunch meeting on the last day of the conference at the West End Pub where about a dozen intrepid souls began what became COPA. COPA sponsored two major conferences in Washington DC, during one of which Professor George Michael Evica and Debra Conway called me over to their table against a wall and told me they were thinking of starting a new organization to educate the next generation of researchers, which became JFK Lancer. The more the merrier I thought, but decided to stay with COPA. 

After two decades of COPA vs. LANCER holding competing conferences in Dallas, two other conference sponsors emerged, Judyth Vary Beaker and Dennis Denton. While JVB is well known for professing to be Lee Oswald's New Orleans lover, Denton is a mid-west College professor whose academic interest in the assassination is offset by his friendship with a number of silly conspiracy theorists, who he gives stage presence to. 

In 2013 there was a very good conference at the Cyril Wecht Institute of Forensic Pathology and Law in Pittsburgh, and then the following year a major conference sponsored by the Assassination Archives and Research Center (AARC) at Bethesda in Washington D.C.  While I don't understand why, Professor Denton held a conference on the same topic at a hotel just outside Washington at the very same time. 

Dr. Wecht was asked to speak at both, and he did, much to the chagrin of those who told him he would be sharing the same stage with Professor Fetzer and other questionable characters. Wecht correctly called Fetzer and the others by an expletive, but kept his commitment and said that he did not endorse the beliefs of anyone else who shared the same stage with him, and that he talks to anyone who asks him. 

And that was just the beginning. With the death of John Judge and the dissolving of COPA, Dr. Wecht became chairman of CAPA - Citizens Against Political Assassinations, and began holding events in Dallas, but he also spoke at JVB's conference and visited Lancer, where Debra Conway asked CAPA to take over her November in Dallas Lancer conference in 2019, which they did. 

Now in 2020, with the Covid virus, racial riots and a presidential election, there will be four virtual JFK Conferences, and Dr. Wecht will be speaking at two of them - Denton's JFK/CSI Dallas,  which will be the first out of the gate, and CAPA. 

JVB and Lancer will also be holding virtual conferences as well, so there will be four.

Project JFK/CSI Dallas will hold their virtual webinar on November 14-15 - [ProjectJFK/CSIDallas.com] at a cost of $40 for students and $60 for Adults. 

Speakers include: David Denton, Casey Quinlan, Brian Edwards, David Knight, J. Gary Shaw, Dr. Michael Chesser, Dr. John Newman, Jimmy Langkop,  Larry Rivera, Bill Simpich, Dick Russell, Robert Groden, William Law, Jim Jenkins, and Dr. Cyril Wecht.

Lancer, Nov. 20-22, [ jfklancer.com v] has a student price of $34, conference only $65 and digital download for $119. 

So far they have announced Jim DiEugenio, Bill Simpich, Robert Groden, Russ Baker, Alan Dale, Larry Hancock, William Law, John Newman, Stu Wexler and a slew of others - David Boylan, Pamalaw McElwain-Brown, Johnny Cairns, Doug Campbell, Brent Holland, Pete Mellor, Chuck Ochelli, Scott Reid, Carmine Savastano, Mark Shaw, Mike Swanson, Greg Wagner, and Steve Roe, who I have been dueling with over the internet. 

Judyth Vary Baker's conference will be held Nov. 20-21-22 - via Zoom - costs $35, or attend in person  for a "virus-free mini-conference" in Dallas $135. While she has not yet announced those who will be making presentations, she has scheduled a tour of Dallas, a dinner with her, a continuation of the annual Grassy Knoll moment of silence, and she is selling her signed and numbered art work "Jackie With Betrayers at Dealey Plaza." 

CAPA will be doing something a little different this year. Instead of a regular conference with speakers making presentations, CAPA will be dedicating the first day - Friday, to students and teachers, and focusing on educating young people about the assassination. 

Saturday will be devoted to the Media and the JFK Assassination, with a  live round-table discussion on how the media covered - and still covers the assassination, with a number of special guests. 

Sunday will include individual presentations. 

All three days are free to CAPA members who have paid their $50 annual dues, or you can just join CAPA to view these events and presentations -  [ http://CAPA-US.org / Citizens Against Political Assassinations ]

GREETINGS FROM CAPA

We hope all of you are persevering through these most difficult times.

This is an update for CAPA’s virtual conference in November. We have changed the dates for the regular conference in order to have the student day of the conference on Friday the 20th. We thought it best to have the student day during the week when they are either in school or online for their classes rather than a weekend day. The attendees of the regular conference are invited to attend the student day as well. The new dates for the regular conference are 21-22 November.

Below is a recap of the presentations:

We are planning to have at least a half-day, and possibly longer, on the subject of “The JFK Assassination and the Media,” a topic that has not been discussed and investigated by the mainstream media. We will be showing a documentary by John Barbour entitled “The American Media & the 2nd Assassination of John F. Kennedy” and will also have a panel discussion on the issue. Dr. Cyril Wecht will be on the panel along with John Barbour, James Wagenvoord (who worked at Life Magazine in 1963), Russ Baker, and Mark Crispin Miller (Professor of media studies at New York University). Andrew Kreig will be the moderator of the panel.

Dr. Wecht will speak about his new book coming out next year entitled “JFK Assassination – Post-Mortem Dissection of Warren Commission Report.”

Tink Thompson (previously listed as a speaker) will not be able to participate. However, Gary Aguilar will speak in his place about the contents of Tink’s new book.

Judge Brandon Birmingham and Toby Shook will speak about the Ruby trial.

James Wagenvoord will speak about his experiences working at Life magazine in 1963. He spoke last year and has much more to share.

Russell Kent (who holds a BSc honors degree in physiology from the University of London and joined the Laboratory of Applied Physiology at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School), will speak about the House Select Committee on Assassinations Forensic Pathology Panel: how it was formed, how it worked and some of its conclusions.

David Denton will speak on the subject “The Newly Released Documents: What they say about William Harvey’s potential participation in the JFK murder and the faulty intelligence that JFK received about Vietnam.”

Dick Russell will be speaking (topic TBD).

Mark Crispin Miller will speak on the subject “The weaponization of the term ‘conspiracy theory’ from 1967 to 2020, drawing inferences from the attacks on JFK/Dallas investigators to the even more aggressive censorship and slander of those looking into other, later evident conspiracies.

Also, this year we are planning a special day-long conference for high school, college, and law school students to be held on Friday, November 20.  We want to get more young people interested in this tragic event that changed the course of our country and hopefully enlist them in our cause. We are planning a program that will give them the opportunity to see what President Kennedy was like as a person and a president and educate them about the truth of the assassination. The event will be free to students attending high schools, universities and law schools. I am attaching a special invitation to students. If you know any students who might be interested, please pass this on to them. I am sending invitations to institutions in and around Dallas. If any of you have suggestions for other universities/law schools/high schools to include in the invitations, please let me know and I will see that they receive it.

The registration fee for all attendees of the regular conference will include attendance for the student day. Below is the scheduled program:

John Barbour will introduce the program and speak about his life experiences which include how he came to be the creator of the first reality show on TV and his association with Jim Garrison (the District Attorney in New Orleans who brought the only case about the JFK assassination to court and who was the lead character of the Oliver Stone film, “JFK”).

Andrew Kiel, who spoke at our conference last year, is putting together a video collage of President Kennedy’s press conferences, inaugural address, missile crisis speech, and others.

The documentary “A President Betrayed” which illuminates the challenges JFK faced from his adversaries and from his own administration.

The documentary “JFK - The Case for Conspiracy” produced by Robert Groden will highlight the assassination and the deception and misinformation resulting in a cover-up by the Warren Commission. All the doctors who treated JFK at Parkland Hospital give their testimony about what they saw in Trauma Room One.

Two or three knowledgeable people will be available to answer questions from students.

(Tentative) We will also present a high school teacher, Stu Wexler, who will talk about how his history class helped write a bill that was introduced in congress that would push the federal government to expeditiously release records relevant to civil rights cold cases, thereby proving that it is still possible for citizens to make a difference.

Check out our video ad for the conference at:  http://iwebresults.com/c/capa-2020.mp4

We will provide further updates as we proceed closer to the date of the conference. Everyone who either joins CAPA or renews their membership for at least $50 will have free access to our online program this year. After you join/renew membership, a coupon will be emailed to you for the conference. New members will also receive free access to some of the videos of the 2019 conference which includes the following presentations: Court of Inquiry (Lee Harvey Oswald), Rolf Larsson (former CIA), Judge Birmingham (Ruby trial), Andrew Kiel (J. Edgar Hoover, LBJ and the Secret Service), John Newman (Turning Antonio Veciana’s Misdirection into a Roadmap), Oliver Stone (remarks), Dr. Cyril Wecht (keynote) “Post JFK, RFK, MLK Related Deaths – Circumstantial or Orchestrated?”

Please check our website - registration will be available in the coming week.

Thank you all for your support of CAPA and its worthy cause - Pursue the release of withheld records -  Find the Truth -  Seek Justice.

Best regards, Glenda de Vaney, CAPA Program Chair

STUDENT INVITATION TO CAPA 2020 JFK CONFERENCE

Learn about President John F. Kennedy – the man and the president − and about his assassination which changed the course of our nation.

Join us for a virtual conference, specifically for students, about our 35th President and what happened when he was in office, one of the most perilous times in our country. 

His death was a tragic loss to the citizens of our country and, indeed, to the entire world which looked to  his leadership as a stabilizing force for good. 

You will see him at his press conferences, smart and witty. He was the first president to give routine press conferences. Before him, presidents only had a press conference when something important was going on. It was must-see TV for everyone. You will see clips from his inaugural address, his famous speeches, his address to the nation during the Cuban Missile Crisis and his speech in Berlin where thousands gathered to hear him. 

A documentary entitled “A President Betrayed” illuminates the challenges JFK faced, not only from foreign adversaries but from his own administration.

The documentary “JFK - The Case for Conspiracy” will highlight the assassination and the deception and misinformation resulting in a cover-up by the Warren Commission. All the doctors who treated JFK at Parkland Hospital give their testimony about what they saw in Trauma Room One. 

John Barbour, who was the creator of the first reality show on TV, will introduce the program and speak about his life experiences which include his association with Jim Garrison (the District Attorney in New Orleans who brought the only case about the JFK assassination to court and who was the lead character of the Oliver Stone film, “JFK”).

Knowledgeable experts on the assassination will be available to answer questions from the students. The conference will last approximately five hours including breaks.

The conference will be on Friday, November 20th and will be free to all students and teachers – entire classes may sign up. Please go to our website – www.capa-us.org  to register. If you have any questions regarding the conference, please contact Glenda de Vaney at visionsoffrance@cox.net. 

Video ad for the conference: http://iwebresults.com/c/capa-2020.mp4









MORE TO COME - Stay Tuned. 



















Thursday, October 15, 2020

The Significance of the CIA's Hitler Plot Study

 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CIA's HITER PLOT STUDY 

It is incredulous that in 1963 the CIA could conduct a “detailed study” of the July 20, 1944 German military plot to kill Hitler, to be adapted for use against Fidel Castro, but today they can find no record of it what so ever among its extensive files. The CIA claimed that it could only find one mention of it at all in all of their records.

Even though there’s no written record of their “detailed study” in the CIA files today, we have come to know a lot about it, and don’t need their study to know how the German military plotted to kill Hitler, and we’ve seen how the same basic plan was used in the attempted assassination of Castro, via Dr. Rolando Cubella (AMLASH), and we can also see how the same procedures were used against President Kennedy.

For starters, the total absence of any record at al on this major historical event, when there should be, and there are distinct references to it in other records (ie. The Higgins Memo), certainly indicates these records have been intentionally purged, and their disappearance validates Professor Peter Dale Scott’s “Negative Template” thesis, that the most significant records no longer exist.

Actually, to one acute observer, who has followed this case since the beginning, there are many good reasons for the CIA to purge it’s files on any mention of the July 20, 1944 plot to kill Hiter, code named “Valkyrie.”

The significance lies in the fact that it isn’t about the failed coup attempt against Hitler, or the failed attempts to kill Castro, or even the successful assassination of President Kennedy, even though we’ve only come to focus on it as it is mentioned in the records released under the JFK Act of 1992, but rather the significance is because the “Valkyrie” plan became the re-useabe template for all political assassinations and coup d’etats the CIA used throughout the world over decades.

To encourage disgruntled military officers to revolt against their leader, assassinate him and take over the government is not an idea unique to the German military during World War II, nor unique to Cuba, where the CIA could identify only 10 military officers disenchanted with Castro, though they didn’t have the confidence to communicate with each other, as the CIA’s Desmond FitzGerald put it to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

That was not a problem with the highest level U.S. military officials in 1963, as the Joint Chiefs of Staff were unanimous in their objections to the President’s policies and leadership.

JFK himself said that a military coup as portrayed in the book (and movie) Seven Days in May was possible, IF there was a Bay of Pigs type of incident, a Cuban Missile Crisis in which the President ignored the advice of his military generals, and then, if there was a third similar type of incident, that could be a trigger to motivate them to take action and move against the President.

And that third similar type of incident was the supposedly secret Backchannel negotiations with Fidel Castro that were on-going at the time of the assassination. JFK’s aide and historian Arthur Schlesinger said that if the anti-Castro Cubans were made aware of those talks, they would have the motive to kill the President. And it seems that the Republican ambassador to Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge told them.

Again however, as our astute observer noted, the CIA files on the Hitler Plot no longer exist, not because of Hitler, Castro or Kennedy, but because that plan – it was a plan, not a plot, that plan has been adapted as a template for re-useable use – and was used in Guatemala, Iran, Vietnam, Cuba, the Congo, Dominican Republic, Egypt and at Dallas, as well as many other countries where the US or CIA wanted a friendly and easily manipulated government in place.

The purge of the CIA files on the Valkyrie Hitler Plot is reminiscent of Edward Lutwak’s book “Coup d’etat – A Practical Handbook,” being banned throughout South America, where dictators were afraid the processes described in the book would be used against them, and they were right, just as the CIA is right in that their detailed study of the Hitler Plot would expose their procedures for assassinations and coups throughout the world.

Did the CIA officers responsible for responding to the AARC FOIA request for their “detailed study” of the Hitler Plot recognize that their records must have been purged?

In one of their responses to the AARC request the CIA acknowledged that they asked the official CIA historian David Robarge about the “Hitler Study” records, and he should have known if the records had been removed or destroyed.

The memos, emails and phone call records requested by the AARC that are being withheld under the “deliberative clause” would tell us, and the Supreme Court’s determination on that could have a major impact on all FOIA cases that withheld because of the deliberative clause.

BK NOTES: This will be the last of a series of articles I have posted recently, and I will try to put them in their proper sequence for those who are new to this line of inquiry. I am working on an article on the four major virtual JFK conferences that will take place this November, an important update on the whereabouts of General Curtis LeMay at the time of the assassination, and I will review Dr. Cyril Wecht’s new autobio – The Life and Deaths of Dr. Cyril Wecht that has just been released. Stay Tuned.

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Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Key Elements of the Valkyrie Plot @ Dealey Plaza

 Key Elements of the Valkyrie Plot 

There were five key elements of the Valkyrie Plot to kill Hitler. 

1) The use of standard covert operational procedures, including the use of code words (Valkyrie), operating on a need to know basis, strict lines of authority, etc. 

2) Getting the victim to approve the plan and operation - as Von Stauffenberg did get Hitler to approve the Valkyrie plan, that was presented to him as mobilizing the Home Guard in response to a national emergency - the example given was a revolt of the millions of foreign slave laborers in Germany at the time, though the death of Hitler would also trigger it. And Hitler did approve it. 

3) The use of the Home Guard as "boots on the ground" to undertake the primary tasks of securing all key government buildings, radio, newspapers and media outlets. 

4) Control of all communications and media, as Stauffenberg put it, 'So only the Conspiracy speaks." 

5) Blame the assassination on the opposition - in this case the SS and Gestapo. 


The only major aspect of the Valkyrie plot that failed was the mechanism of death - the bomb, and that failed for a number of reasons. Those who have studied the July 20, 1944 attack on Hitler have pointed to a number of reasons for the failure. 

The first was the moving of the meeting at the last minute from an underground concrete command post with no windows to an above ground, wood clapboard map room. If the meeting was held as planned, everyone in the room would have been killed. 

A second reason for the failure was the fact that only one of the two bombs was detonated, and the second bomb not included in the briefcase that contained the bomb. Even without being detonated, the explosion of the first bomb would have set off the second bomb and doubled the extent of the damage. The undetonated bomb was kept in the briefcase of Stauffenberg's assistant and thrown out a car window during their escape. 

And a third reason the bomb failed to kill Hitler was because after Stauffenberg placed the case with the bomb next to Hitler, after he left the room another officer moved the case to the other side of a heavy oak leg that supported the map table, which deflected the impact of the bomb from Hitler. 

APPLICATION OF THESE PRINCIPLES TO DEALEY PLAZA 

These five key aspects of the Valkyrie plot to kill Hitler can be seen at Dealey Plaza. 

1) What occurred at Dealey Plaza was a covert intelligence operation, the evidence of which can be found in the fact people had foreknowledge of the plan, covert operational procedures were used, as well as the five key aspects of the Valkyrie plot, that fits like a glove over Dealey Plaza. 

The attack on JFK was given a code name, E. Howard Hunt said it was called "The Big Event," Gregory Douglas, a con artist called it Operation Zipper, while I just refer to it as The Dealey Plaza Operation (DPO). 

2) Just as Von Staufenberg got Hitler to approve the plan, JFK was asked many times to approve the CIA's plans to assassinate Castro, but he refused. JFK and the National Security Council (NSC) did approve however, violent CIA plans to attack Cuba with CIA trained Cuban commandos in order to affect the Cuban economy. RFK himself was introduced to the JMWAVE CIA officials and some of the commandos who took part in the raids against Cuba, blowing up economic targets, infiltrating men and arms and exfiltrating others. 

While some anti-Kennedy baiters insist JFK and RFK approved some of the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Castro, - the UK Telegraph newspaper recently said that was common knowledge, there are no witnesses or documentary evidence of such approvals. JFK told a number of journalists and close friends that the CIA was trying to get him to approve the assassination of Castro but he balked at such an idea. The Pathfinder plan, in which the CIA trained Cuban commando teams as snipers who were to shoot Castro as he drove by in an open jeep on the way to the DuPont's Xandau estate in Varadaro, as he frequently did, was according to one CIA document "disapproved by higher authority" (aka JFK and RFK). Even Desmond FitzGerald acknowledge he lied to Rolando Cubella (AMLASH) when he told him that RFK had approved the plan to kill Castro. 

Even though JFK and RFK did not officially approve the murder of Castro, they did approve many of the commando raids against Cuba, and RFK believed that one of those teams, perhaps even the one he met at the remote JMWAVE base in the Florida Everglades, was responsible for the Dealey Plaza Operation, and according to friends and relatives, RFK felt guilty for his role in the death of his brother. 

3) The use of the Home Guard to carry out the tasks on the ground can be seen at Dealey Plaza in the use of the Texas National Guard and U.S. Army Reserves, of which there are many examples. For one, the Pilot Car, a white Ford sedan, a mile in front of the motorcade, was to look for any possible trouble, but didn't observe any. The Pilot Car was driven by Dallas Police Deputy Chief George L. Lumpkin, who was also an U.S. Army Reserve officer. Lumpkin invited his commanding officer Lt. Col. George Whitmeyer to ride along in the middle of the back seat of the car, even though he wasn't known to or approved by the Secret Service. 

While they didn't report on all the open windows or the people gathered along the overpasses, as they were supposed to do, Lumpkin did stop the car at the intersection of Houston and Elm to tell the traffic policeman on duty there, as well as the sixth floor sniper above him, that the motorcade was only a few minutes behind them. 

After following the limo to Parkland and learning of the death of the President, Lumpkin returned to Dealey Plaza where he met with Texas School Book Depository superintendent Roy Truly. Despite the fact that Truly had seen Oswald in the Second Floor lunchroom a minute and a half after the shooting, and gave him a pass, Truly falsely said Oswald was the only employee missing, and called the administration office and obtained Oswald's address - at Mrs. Paine's house in Irving. Truly told Lumpkin that Oswald was suspiciously missing, and gave Lumpkin Oswald's Irving address as they went to the sixth floor where homicide Capt. Fritz was examining the rifle. Lumpkin gave Fritz Oswald's name and address, and Fritz then walked across the street where he met Sheriff Bill Decker in a short meeting that has never been documented. Fritz then went back to his office and asked a policeman to go out to Irving and get Oswald, but Fritz was told, "No need to Captain, there he sits," arrested as a suspect in the murder of Tippit. 

For more on the activitiesof the Texas National Guard and Army Reservists in the assassination see: Colonels at Dealey Plaza. 

[ JFKcountercoup: Colonels at Dealey Plaza / JFKCountercoup2: Colonels at Dealey Plaza in Alpha Order  ] 

4) The control of communications was accomplished through a number of means. For one all of the Air Force One, Secret Service and even SAC radios were controlled through the Collins Radio "Liberty" station radio relay center in Cedar Rapids Iowa, because all of the sideband radio used were made and maintained by Collins Radio. Art Collins was a close personal friend and fellow HAM radio operator with General Curtis LeMay, chief of staff of the Air Force. At the time Collins was director of the Texas Graduate Research Center in Dallas that prepared engineers to work for the Dallas area defense contractors - Bell Helicopter, General Dynamics, Collins Radio, etc., that JFK mentions in the first paragraph of his undelivered speech. The White House Communications Agency (WHCA) ran the radios through their temporary radio shack set up at the Dallas Sheraton Hotel suite, and recorded everything, though only a small portion of those tapes have been released. 

A second means of control of communications was the Dallas Emergency Communications Command Post, an underground bunker under the Science Museum at the Dallas Fairgrounds. This communications hub, that coordinated communications between authorities and major defense contractors, also utilized Collins Radio sideband radios and could monitor and record all official communications. This communications command post was under the control of US Army Reserve Col. Jack Crichton, commander of the 488th Intelligence unit. Crichton arranged for a Russian translator for Marina when she was first questioned by Dallas police, and half of the Dallas Police Special Services Unit(SSU) policemen were also US Army Reservists under Crichton's command. Because the SSU ran undercover agents, handled drug cases and organized crime, their headquarters was not at City Hall but at the Dallas State Fairgrounds, not far from the Emergency Communications and Command bunker. 

A third means of control of communications was through the CIA's operation Mockingbird, in which the owners and producers of all major newspapers, radio, TV and media had pledged cooperation with the CIA. This can be seen in operation when Assistant Dallas District Attorney Bill Alexander was drawing up the charges against Oswald and was being encouraged by Philadelphia Inquirer editor Joe Goulden to charge Oswald with being part of a Communist Conspiracy. Goulden was one of David Atlee Phillips assets and a close personal friend who is now overseeing Phillips' papers. When LBJ, back at his VP office in the Executive Office Building learned of this, he called the Texas Attorney General, and Dallas DA Henry Wade was tracked down at a Dallas restaurant and told to tell Alexander not to charge Oswald with aiding a Communist Conspiracy, as the radio was reporting he was going to do. Wade immediately went back to his office and confronted Alexander and settled the matter. 

5) Just as the Valkyrie plan to kill Hitler was going to blame the assassination on SS and Gestapo, the Dealey Plaza Operation called for the assassination of JFK to be blamed on Communists, Oswald and pro-Castro Communists, as Phillips and Goulden attempted to do. 

In addition, DPD officer and member of the Special Services Unit and US Army Reserve officer Strickland - sent a report to the US Air Force Strike Command - that JFK had visited a week earlier, informing them that the assassination was a Cuban Communist plot, apparently expecting them to prepare for an attack on Cuba in response to the assassination. 

In the days and weeks afterwards, dozens, not one or two but dozens of CIA officials, agents, operatives and media assets attempted to blame the assassination on Castro, what they call an "active measure" that continues today through the efforts of CIA agents Brien Latell and Bob Baer and their media assets like Gus Russo and Phil Shenon, all of whom still promote the discredited attempt to falsely blame Castro for the Dealey Plaza Operation. 

So there you have it, the five key aspects of the Valkyrie Plot to kill Hitler that fits like a glove over the Dealey Plaza Operation. 

Friday, September 25, 2020

Kelly Declaration AARC v. CIA Re: Detailed Study of Hitler Plot

 BK NOTES: While the Supreme Court is only considering the deliberative clause withholdings in the case, that will tell us the extent of the search of CIA records in this case, they may review the following details if they read my declaration filed in the appeal, that I elaborate on in my detail in the post that follows. 

JFKcountercoup: AARC v. CIA Re: The CIA's Detailed Study of the Hitler Plot

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Kelly Declaration AARC v. CIA Re: Detailed Study of Hitler Plot

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

____________________________________

ASSASSINATION ARCHIVES AND        :

RESEARCH CENTER                                 :

Plaintiff                                                         :

v.                                                                    :            Civil Action No. 17- 00160(TNM)                    

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY     :

 Defendant.                                                    :                                                            

  __________________________________  :          

Declaration of William E. Kelly, Jr.

     I hereby declare and state that:

1. I am a journalist, historian and author of two published regional history books, who has spent considerable time, since 1969, tracking down and interviewing JFK Assassination witnesses.

2.   In the course of my research in January 1995 I interviewed Volkmar Schmidt over the telephone, a conversation taped with his permission and subsequently transcribed and posted on the internet.

3.   In that interview Schmidt told me that he hosted a February 22, 1963 party at his Dallas residence for the expressed purpose of introducing Lee Harvey Oswald to Michael Paine.

4. While Michael Paine did not attend that party, his wife Ruth Hyde Paine did and met Oswald’s Russian wife Marina, and they became close friends until the day of the assassination.

5. At the same party Volkmar Schmidt said he had an extended 2-hour conversation with Lee Harvey Oswald in which he used a “reverse psychology” technique taught to him by his surrogate father, doctor Whilhelm Keutemeyer, professor of psychosomatic medicine at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. 

6.   Keutemeyer, Schmidt said, had two associates who were part of the July 20, 1944 plot to kill Hitler, Herr Von Halen and dr. Adam von Trott zu Solz, both executed for their roles in the plot.

7. Schmidt admitted mentioning the July 20, 1944 plot to Oswald and suggested right wing General Edwin Walker should be killed, much like Hitler should have been.

8.   Not long after their conversation Oswald purchased a rifle through the mail using the alias “Hidel” traceable to him when he could have bought an untraceable weapon at any Dallas sporting goods of department store with no identification.

9.   Oswald is accused of taking a shot at Walker through a window at his home on April 10, 1963, a shot that missed, with the remains of the bullet in the Kennedy Collection at the National Archives. 

10.  Shortly after the Walker shooting Oswald relocated to his hometown of New Orleans where he got a job and an apartment while his wife Marina resided with Ruth Hyde Paine in Irving, Texas, before Ruth H. Paine drove Marina and the rifle to New Orleans.

11.  CIA Cuban Desk chief Desmond FitzGerald, looking for disenchanted Cuban military officers or anyone close to Castro, met with Dr. Rolando Cubela Secades (AMLASH) to encourage him to kill Castro, and another CIA case officer met with Cubela in Brazil on September 7, 1963.

12. On September 7, 1963 Fidel Castro visited the Brazilian embassy in Havana and denounced US backed commando raids and attempts to kill Cuban leaders, as reported in an Associated Press dispatch published on September 9, 1963, ostensibly read by Lee Harvey Oswald in the New Orleans newspaper. 

13.  In September 1963 Ruth Hyde Paine visited her relatives, including her husband Michael’s mother Ruth Forbes Paine Young - a close personal friend and traveling companion of Mary Bancroft.

14.  During World War 2 Mary Bancroft worked closely with Office of Strategic Services (OSS) officer Allen Dulles in Switzerland and they were closely associated with Nazi military intelligence officer Hans Bernd Gisevius, a major participant in the failed July 20, 1944 plot, assisting him in his escape from Germany. 

15.  While visiting the Youngs in September 1963, Ruth Hyde Paine wrote to the pregnant Marina in New Orleans suggesting she return to Texas and live with her in Irving until the baby is born. For her response Marina was instructed to write to her in care of “Arthur Young – Paoli, Pa.”. 

16.  Marina accepted and on September 24, 1963 Ruth Paine left the Young’s farm and drove to New Orleans, picked up Marina and the rifle and drove them to Texas while Oswald went to Mexico City.

17.  The following day, September 25, 1963, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Chaired by Air Force Chief of Staff General LeMay (while General Taylor was in Vietnam), met at the Pentagon where they were briefed on CIA covert operations in Cuba by Desmond FitzGerald.

18.  A memo/ minutes of the meeting was written by Col. Walter M. Higgins, Jr., assistant to General Victor H. Krulack, who was SACSA – Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities. In his memo Higgins wrote that FitzGerald reported that the CIA was preparing a “detailed study” of the July 20, 1944 plot against Hitler to be adapted for use against Castro in Cuba. Higgins wrote that FitzGerald, “Felt that there had been great success in getting closer to the military personnel who might break with Castro, and stated that there were at least ten high-level military personnel who were talking with CIA but as yet are not talking to each other, since that degree of confidence has not yet developed. He considers it as a parallel in history: i.e., the plot to kill Hitler; and this plot is being studied in detail to develop an approach.” (emphasis added).

19.   In October 1963 Ruth Hyde Paine helped Oswald obtain a job at the Texas School Book Depository, a building owned by D. H. – David Harold Byrd, a close personal friend of Air Force Chief of Staff General Curtis LeMay, who chaired the September 25, JCS meeting at the Pentagon. 

20.   On November 22, 1963 D. H. Byrd was in Africa on a safari with Werner von Alvensleben, a German hunter who wrote an essay in support of the July 20, 1944 coup plotters and whose father was identified in an OSS document as an “assassination specialist.” Werner von Alvensleben’s favorite rifle was a Mannlicher-Schonauer, the Greek version of the Mannlicher rifle allegedly used in the assassination of President Kennedy.  In December 1963 von Alvensleben visited Byrd in Dallas. 

21.   On November 22, 1963 at the time of the assassination, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were meeting with the German General Staff that included two former Nazi officers who were directly involved in the July 20, 1944 plot, including Gen. Hans Speidel and Gen. Adolf Heusinger.

22.   D. H. Byrd later told friends, including the president of the Dallas Morning News, that he had removed the southeast corner window of the Texas School Book Depository, from which he believed the shots that killed the president to have originated, and displayed it in his home with his animal trophies, “where it became the centerpiece of many social gatherings”.  

23.  The request for these records are not broad, but very precise, and they should be looked for among the records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Asst. Army Sec. Joe Califano, Gen. Krulak’s papers, the files of Desmond Fitzgerald and Rolando Cubella, as well as any of those involved in planning for the covert operations in Cuba in 1963. When the CIA says that the July 20, 1944 plot to kill Hitler “is being studied in detail to develop an approach,” to kill Castro, then it is impossible for there to be no documentary record of this “detailed” study.  And considering the numerous other associations between the July 20, 1944 plot within the JFK assassination narrative, its significance cannot be over stated.

      I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.

Executed on November 12, 2017.                 _____/s/ William E. Kelly, Jr. ____(Signature)

Orignially Posted:

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Monday, September 21, 2020

The Valkyrie "Hitler Plot" At Dealey Plaza

 THE VALKYRIE “HITLER PLOT” AT DEALEY PLAZA 

On July 20, 1944 the German military plot to kill Hitler culminated in an explosion in a map room at the Wolf’s Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. 

The assassination and coup plan, code named “Valkyrie,” was actually years in the making and has had repercussion for decades into the future, including now.

When the explosion didn’t kill Hitler and the coup attempt failed, most of the participants were rounded up and executed, and retribution and reprisals against their families was swift and deadly.

Colonel Claus Count Schenk von Stauffenburg, who planted the bomb, left the building and flew to Berlin. He thought for sure Hitler was killed in the explosion, but that belief was rebuffed by Hitler himself, who went on the radio to assure everyone he was still alive.

Hitler kept a scheduled meeting with Italian fascist Benito Mussolini, who had been rescued from a mountain prison by commando leader Otto Skorzeny, who led the roundup of plotters.

[ https://www.history.co.uk/article/operation-eiche-the-rescue-of-benito-mussolini ]

Colonel von Stauffenburg, General Friedrich Obricht and a few key plotters were immediately executed. Field Marshall Romell, who was aware of the plot, was permitted to commit suicide in exchange for the survival of his family and have a formal state funeral. Ludwig Beck, formerly chief of the general staff also committed suicide.

Others escaped the manhunt, including two officers who were on the West German General Staff during the Cold War – Generals Hans Speidel and Adolf Heusinger, both of whom visited the Pentagon on November 22, 1963 and were meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff when the assassination occurred.

Among those who escaped was Hans Bernd Gisevius, a German (Abwehr) intelligence officer and principle liaison between the German resistance and OSS officer Allen Dulles in Switzerland. Dulles’ main assistant Mary Bancroft served as the OSS case officer with Gisevius. Gisevious hid out in the basement of a friend in Berlin until Dulles and Bancroft got him forged papers identifying him as “Dr. Hoffman,” and a train ticket to Switzerland.

Gisevious testified against the Nazis at Nurenburg, sending some to the gallows, and for his cooperation was brought to the United States by Dulles. Gisevious was given a generous allowance and for a while stayed at the home of Tom Braden, who was head of the CIA’s International Operations Division. Mary Bancroft translated Gisevious’ autobiography and his personal History of the Third Reich.

And like other former German Nazis who cooperated with the Americans, and brought to the United States under Operation Paperclip – he was given a job with a major defense contractor.

On July 20, 1954, the tenth anniversary of the Valkyrie plot, then CIA director Allen Dulles had a public diner with Hans B. Gisevious, who was working at the time in Dallas for Dulles’ good friend Neil Mallon.

The July 20, 1944 Valkyrie attempt to kill Hitler is mentioned numerous times throughout the JFK assassination narrative, and a document released under the JFK Act is currently under submission to the U.S. Supreme Court.

What are the Valkyrie plot associations with the assassination of President Kennedy?  

1)      VOLKMAR SCHMIDT AND LEE HARVEY OSWALD

When Lee Harvey Oswald returned to Texas from the Soviet Union, where he had defected after being discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps, he lived in Dallas with his Russian wife and daughter. There Oswald was befriended by George deMohrenschildt, a White Russian petroleum geologist.

When deMohrenschidt was preparing to leave for a job in Haiti, he arranged for his friend Volkmar Schmidt to have a February 22, 1963 house party where the Oswalds could meet Ruth and Michael Paine. DeMohrenschidt thought Oswald and Michael Paine had similar ideological philosophies and wanted them to meet. 

Schmidt shared the house with two other Magnolia Oil company engineers, Norman Frederickson and Everett Glover.

While Michael Paine didn’t attend the party, Ruth Paine and Marina Oswald became fast friends, and remained so until the assassination. While Ruth and Marina talked in Russian in a bedroom, Schmidt held a lengthy discussion with Oswald.

Schmidt was a German oil geologist who was working in Canada when I talked with him at length over the phone. Schmidt was one of the hosts of the Dallas house party set up for Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife to meet Michael Paine and his wife Ruth.

According to Schmidt Oswald talked for hours with him; Schmidt recalled to me that he used a “reverse psychology” technique on Oswald taught to him by a German psychologist. Schmidt reported that he talked to Oswald about General Walker, and suggested that Walker was a fascist who should be assassinated before he got too powerful, much like Hitler should have been killed, specifically mentioning the July 20, 1944 failed attempt to kill Hitler. Schmidt said he felt guilty for planting the seed in Oswald to shoot Walker, and he felt bad every time he drove through Dealey Plaza.

For the complete conversation see: 

http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2008/01/volkmar-schmidt-interview.html

2)      PROFESSOR WHILHELM KEUTEMEYER – Von Halen and Von Trott

In his telephone conversation with me Schmidt said that Professor Whilhelm Keutemeyer was not directly involved in the Valkyrie plot but many of his friends were in the circle of those who tried to kill Hitler. “Stauffenberg, and several of his close friends were executed, and one of the sons of his friends, became  a very close friend of mine. Fritz from Holland - Frederick Von Halen. He was actually arrested before the plot came out. He knew about the plot and was tortured to death. And another gentleman who was involved was Von Trott, a friend of Kuetemeyer.”

“Dr. Kuetemeyer was a psychosomatic medicine specialist, but he also followed Jung and he treated patients as a psychiatrist and he was also a professor of religion at Heidelberg University. He lectured on literature and such….I grew up in his house basically. My father had passed away and so half the time I stayed there….I got a job with Magnolia in Germany because I worked for the German subsidiary as a co-op student in Germany, so they hired me after I graduated. They interviewed me in Paris and hired me on the strength of my thesis.”

According to Schmidt, “Oswald found out that if you really want to do something you can succeed in a lot of things, it just takes determination. That’s how he learned Russian, hea? It took incredible determination. And he pulled himself out of really low class upbringing in Fort Worth, which was hell, so he was a bitter young man because of social injustice, which quite frankly existed in Texas especially. So he was a nothing, who tried to make something out of himself…”

“Professor Kuetemeyer told me you know, to deal with people like this who are disturbed, you have to use empathy, be slightly over zealous yourself to link up with them and that total insanity, towards reality. When I heard how hateful he was towards Kennedy and Cuba, which was kind of irrational, I tried to say "hey, there’s something much more real to be concerned about," because I don’t know about Castro, but I know about this Walker, he’s kind of a Nazi, yea? Not so bad as those Nazis in Germany, but I had specifically mentioned to Lee Harvey Oswald, that Walker had given a speech to the students at the Mississippi campus and those guys went off and killed a couple of journalists.”

I asked Schmidt if he thought his conversation with Oswald about Walker may have instigated him to take a pot shot at him?

Schmidt: “Yes, he did, and naturally it was a terrible responsibility, and for years when I drove past the underpass I literally had to cry because, you know. But I exonerate myself completely because I had the best intent, embarrass Kennedy, and I certainly didn’t tell him to take a pot shot at him.  I may have triggered it. Actually, a few days after I talked with him, he bought his weapons.”

DeMohrenschildt belatedly revealed that Oswald had given him a copy of the backyard photo of him with the rifle and pistol and Communist publicatiions, which was enscribed by Marina with the notation: “Hunter of Fascists, Ha, Ha!”

“One thing is that the DeMohrenschildts were terribly afraid of all kinds of things, people disappearing and what not, and were afraid to talk about it. They also said that Oswald didn’t do it, but I think it could have been that they had the key in their hand. When they saw this nut giving them a picture with, "the Nazi killer." It was totally irresponsible for George deMohrenschildt not to make a noise about it. He told me about it.”

And he knew that Oswald had the rifle and may have taken the shot at Walker because the last time deMohrenschildt visited Oswald, saw the rifle in the closet, which sparked deMohrenschildt to refer to the Walker shooting by saying: “How did you miss?”

3) GEORGE DEMOHRENSCHILDT AND THE WALKER SHOOTING

The Walker Shooting has been a significant but unexplored aspect of the Kennedy assassination.

Former New York Times reporter Phil Shenon wrote a book – A Cruel and  Shocking Act – about a house party in Mexico City where Oswald was supposed to have been encouraged to kill JFK by Cuban embassy employees. But the historic Oswald wasn’t there at the time. Furtermore, the rujmor that Castro was behind the Dealey Plaza Operation was a pre-planned disinformation campaign that failed; yet the vestigial notion remains a CIA “active measure” with the likes of Shenon and Gus Russo writing books and former CIA agents Brien Latell and Bob Baer writing books and making multi-part TV series on it, even though it isn’t true.

And here we have a house party where Oswald reportedly was encouraged to kill General Walker, and Oswald is accused of attempting to shoot Walker and of killing the President, yet nobody seems interested.

Former CIA official Rolf Mowatt-Larssen is not your typical former CIA officer.

https://www.belfercenter.org/person/rolf-mowatt-larssen

Larssen, in his November 2019 CAPA presentation in Dallas and in the recently released Japanese documentary film, breaks from the traditional CIA response to conspiracy allegations by blaming Castro.

Instead Larssen postulates Oswald was recruited as a covert intelligence operative by a rogue element in the CIA. Larssen says that the Walker shooting was the type of thing that the CIA would look for to blackmail a person to do their bidding, and he thinks that was possible with Oswald after the Walker shooting, IF the CIA were aware of Oswald’s role. And the postulation that the CIA had knoweldge of deMohrenschildt’s allegation regarding Walker may not be a matter of pure speculation after all.  

Well after leaving Dallas, and on his way to Haiti to work for a year for Papa Doc, and plot against him, George deMohrenschildt met with some CIA agents in New York City in the offices of John Train, an official responsible for running CIA proprietary companies, like airlines (Air America) and publications (The Paris Review).

Among those deMohrenschildt met in New York City were CIA officer Thomas Devine (WUBRINY/1), a former partner in Zapata Oil with George H. W. Bush (and Neil Mallon?), a partner in the investment firm of Train, Cabot and Associates.  

https://jfkcountercoup2.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-real-john-train-real-john-train.html

https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKdevineTJ.htm

Did deMohrenschildt tell them the most potentionally significant piece of intelligence he possessed – that Oswald had a rifle and took the shot at Walker?

After meeting with the CIA in New York City deMohrenschildt went to Washington D.C. where he met with Dorothie Matlack and Colonel Sam Kail of military intelligence, specifically ACSI – Assisatnat Chief of Staff for Intelligence. Kail was the Army liaison officer at the American embassy in Cuba when Batista fled and Castro assumed power. Kail worked closely with David Atlee Phillips and “Maurice Bishop” told Anthony Veciana to contact Kail. John Newman says that the recently released records indicate Veciana was operated, not by the CIA but by Army Intelligence. And Colonel Frank “Brandy” Brandstetter, the manager of the then brand new Havana Hilton, was a US Army Reserve officer officially in Col. Jack Crichton’s 488th USAR Intelligence out of Dallas, but reported directly to ACSI in DC, specifically to Dorothie Matlack. After Batista fled on New Year’s Eve 1959, Dr. Rolando Cubella of the DRE took over Batista’s office but Castro, when he got to Havana, accepted Col. Brandy’s offer to stay in the Penthouse of the Havana Hilton.

Did deMohrenschilt tell the CIA or ACSI officers he met that Oswald had a rifle and took a shot at Walker?

When Marina testified before the Warren Commission she was asked about the Walker shooting. She said Oswald admitted as much, and said that he did it because Hitler should have been killed too, specifically mentioning Hitler. She also wrote “Hunter of Fascists!, Ha, Ha,” on the backyard photo given to deMohrenschildt.

And Colonel Dr. Jose Rivera (USA Reserves), who was stationed at Fort Detrick, Maryland, knew Oswald was involved in the Walker shooting and knew Oswald’s address in New Orleans before Oswald himself knew where he was going to live. (See: Adele Edisen for details).

Shortly after the Walker shooting Oswald took a bus to his hometown of New Orleans, while Marina stayed with Ruth Paine. Finding a job and an apartment, Oswald called Ruth Paine and she drove Marina and the baby and their belongings to New Orleans, where the Oswald stayed for an eventful summer. Oswald tried to infiltrate Carlos Bringuier’s DRE group there, giving Bringuier his US Marine Corps training manual. Then he got into a fight with Bringuiner and two other Cuban exiles while giving out Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) leaflets in front of the International Trade Mart. After a court hearing Oswald engaged in a radio debate with Bringuier and a CIA trained psychological warfare expert.

4) ARTHUR YOUNG and RUTH FORBES PAINE YOUNG  

Sometime during that summer Ruth Paine wrote a letter to the pregnant Marina asking her if she would like to move in with her in Texas until she had the baby. If Marina agreed, she was directed to write a letter to Ruth Paine in care of C/O Arthur Young, Paoli, Pa.

When I first read about that letter in Gerald Ford’s Portrait of the Patsy, err Assassin, I wondered who Arthur Young was, and found him to be one of the most interesting persons I have encountered. The eccentric Princeton-educated inventor of the Bell Helicopter (49A – MASH helicopter), Young was responsible for getting Michael Paine the job at Bell in Texas, where Paine and his wife Ruth Hyde Paine relocated, and invited Marina into their home.

Young’s wife was Michael’s mother – Ruth Forbes Paine Young. Michael’s father Lyman Paine was a rich cocktail party communist and a founder of the Trotskyite Party in the USA. Oswald subscribed to the Ttotskyite Party paper,  – The Militant, a copy of which he is holding in the backyard photos, along with the rifle and pistol.

Michael Paine was living with his mother and Arthur Young at their historic farm in the outskirts of Philadelphia when he met Ruth Hyde at a folk dance. They were married at the Friends Meeting at Media, Pa., where radical leftist militants broke into the Media FBI office and stole their files, including the revealing COINTEPRO documents that detail the FBI’s infiltration of anti-Vietnam war groups. They could never find out who broke into their office until the statute of limitations ran out and some of those responsible came clean.

Ruth Hyde Paine took her children on a summer vacation road trip in 1963, visiting her father in Ohio, her sister, who worked for the CIA in Virginia, and Michael’s mother, first at the Forbes private Naushon Island off Woods Hole, Massachusetts, also often visited by Mary Bancroft and yachtsman Walter Cronkite. Both Ruth Forbes Paine Young and Cronkite, as well as Priscilla Johnson McMillan, were active members of the World Federalists, founded by Cord Meyer, Jr. to support the United Nations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naushon_Island

After visiting Naushon Island with Ruth F. P. Young, Ruth Paine drove to the Young’s Paoil, Pennsylvania farm, where she must have received a letter from Marina agreeing to move in with her. So it is not unreasonable to assume that Michael’s mother and Arthur Young may have known as well.

Arthur Young was a major player in this drama, primarily in obtaining the Bell Helicopter job in Texas for Michael, where they relocaterd from Philadelphia. But Young is not as significant as Michael’s mom – Ruth Forbes Paine Young, as she was also a best friend and traveling companion of Mary Bancroft.

According to Bancroft’s book Autobiography of a Spy, Ruth Forbes accompanied her aboard a steamship to Europe, on which Bancroft met her future husband, a Swiss businessman. Marrying him and relocating to Switzerland – where she was living at the beginning of World War II and where she met OSS officer Allen Dulles, becoming his primary assistant and paramour. She was also the case officer for Hans Bernd Gisevious.

5)  MARY BANCROFT - ALLEN DULLES AND HANS BERND GISEVIOUS

As the story goes, Bancroft was in bed with Dulles one evening when there was knock on the door. Because it was well known that Dulles was an American OSS officer, he was often sought out by those who wanted to give him information or obtain it. Dulles later regretted not answering the door when he learned the visitor was Trotsky himself, an exile from the USSR who was on his way to Mexico City. That’s where he was assassinated by Ramon Mercader, a KGB trained killer. Issac Don Levine, who wrote the story of Mercader and the murder of Trotsky, also arragned for Priscilla Johnson to write Marina’s biography.

More significant to this story however is Dulles’ association with Abwer officer Hans Bernd Gisevious, who was deeply involved in the German military plots to kill Hitler. After planting the bomb that failed to kill Hitler, Col. Von Staffenberg flew to Berlin where Gisevious was writing press releases in support of the coup, but had to go into hiding when the plot failed.

Hiding out in the basement of a friend’s house in Berlin, Gisevious was delivered a package from Dulles and Bancroft that contained forged identity papers for a “Dr. Hoffman,” and a train ticket to Switzerland.

After the war Bancroft translated Gisevious’ autobiography and his personal history of the Third Reich. Dulles arranged for the CIA to give Gisevious and monthly allowance and for him to stay at the home of CIA officerTom Braden and eight kids. Then Gisevious moved to Dallas where he worked at the World Affairs Council for Dulles’ good friend Neil Mallon.

https://www.dfwworld.org/our-history

On July 20, 1954 Dulles and Gisevious celebrated the anniversary of the Valkyrie plot over a public dinner in Washington, D.C. , probably at the Alibi Club, where Dulles was known to frequently dine.

The next day the following article appeared in the Washington Star under the headline – “Key Man in Plot to Kill Hitler Dines Here With Allen Dulles.”

“Two men whose countries were at war against each other ten years ago met here last night to relive in memory the roles they played in the attempt to kill Hitler on July 20, 1944. They were Allen Dulles, chief of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Dr. Hans Bernd Gisevius, one of the few German conspirators who escaped death when the plot failed. He escaped because of Mr. Dulles' aid.”

“Mr. Dulles invited Dr. Gisevus to dinner for ‘a sort of anniversary party’ recalling one of the most amazing intrigues of World War II.”

“The story began when Mr. Dulles went to Switzerland in late 1942 to organize an American espionage center. In Berne he met Dr. Gisevius, who then was German Vice Counsul and actually a member of the Nazi intelligence organization, the Abwehr. Dr. Gisevius was anti-Nazi and convinced as were many of his countrymen, that Hitler was leading the nation to destruction. He put Mr. Dulles in touch with the anti-Nazi underground and the two men secretly worked together to encourage the plots that finally was climaxed by the attempt on Hiter's life.”

“Through Mr. Gisevius, Mr. Dulles was able to keep his government advised of the German underground which reached high into the German military. Hitler survived the bomb that exploded in his secret headquarters in East Prussia and ordered a bloody purge of the conspirators. Dr. Gisevius, then in Germany, hid from Hitler's agents until Mr. Dulles managed to smuggle forged identification papers to him. Then, as "Dr. Hoffman," Dr. Gisevius eluded the Gestapo and made his way to Switzerland and safety. Dr. Gisevius now lives in Dallas, Texas.”

https://jfkcountercoup2.blogspot.com/2017/02/dulles-dines-w-hitler-plotter-july-20.html

SEPTEMBER – 1963 – BUSY TIME ON THE DEVIL’S CHESSBOARD

Overall, it was a busy week in late September, 1963, in the immediate buildup to the assassination.

On September 16, someone signed Lee Harvey Oswald’s name on a restaurant registry in Hubertus, Wisconsin, shortly before the President would visit that state on his “Conservation Tour.” Shortly after the assassination a women who identified herself as “Mary” delivered a box of papers that she said Oswald left at her rooming house. Two detectives who went through the box before turning it over to D.A. Henry Wade, mentioned newspaper clippings and papers that referred to a planned assassination of President Kennedy in Wisconsin during the dedication of a lake and damn.

The following day CIA operative William George Gaudet obtained a visa to Mexico one person in line ahead of Oswald. In New York American diplomat William Attwood is informed that Castro wants to reach out and obtain some sort of normalization of relations with the United States, beginning a round of secret meetings between Cuban diplomat Carlos Lechuga and Atwood at cocktail parties at the apartment of ABC TV News reporter Lisa Howard. Lechuga, when previously assigned to Mexico City, had a relationship with Mexican national and Cuban embassy employee Sylvia Duran, while Attwood was the Choate Academy roommate of JFK who introduced him to Mary Pinchot (Meyer).

On September 19th JFK would approve Attwood’s back channel negotiations with Castro as long as they were not made public and it was acknowledged that Castro initiated the proceedings.

On September 20, Richard Case Nagell fired two shots into the roof of the State National Bank of El Paso, getting himself arrested and placed in federal custody. He is in possession of a Mexican tourist card for “Hidel” (aka Oswald).

Ruth Paine arrives in New Orleans after a summer long vacantion in her station wagon, visiting her father in Ohio, sister in Virginia and Michael’s mom Ruth Forbes Paine Young and Art Young at their Paoli, Pa. farm. She stayed the night in New Orleans and leaves the next day with Marina, her daughter and belongings, including the rifle. Early the next morning Oswald left his Magazine Street Apartment in New Orleans, skipping out on a month’s rent, and was last seen by a neighbor walking down the street with two suitcases.

On September 21, JFK and Jackie spend the afternoon aboard the Presidential yacht, Honey Fitz.

 Around the same time David Atlee Phillips is promoted to grade 15 and made Chief of Cuban Operations, Mexico City.

The President’s White House Diary and Desk Calendar at the virtual Oval Office on September 23 reads:

“President Kennedy signs National Security Action Memorandum 261 that assigns the highest national priority to Project FOUR LEAVES to develop and produce a military communications system,” as part of the Defense Production Act (Pub. L. 81-774)

I can find no other mention of Project FOUR LEAVES anywhere, and it is believed to be still classified.

On September 24, The Senate passes JFK’s Limited Test Ban treaty,  departs on his “Conservation Tour,” with the first stop being the home of Mary Pinchot (Meyer), whose conservative Republican mother (and widow of a former governor) is given a special award from the President for donating some of her property to the federal government as parks. Mary accompanies the President for this first leg of the journey.

The President then left for Ashland, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, where it is first publically announced that JFK will visit Texas on November 21 and 22.

6)  DES FITZ BRIEFS THE JOINT CHIEFS OF THE CIA’S HITLER PLOT STUDY

On September 25, 1963 CIA official Desmond FitzGerald briefed the Joint Chiefs of Staff on CIA covert operations against Cuba that could require military assistance; General Krulak, who was responsible for such assistance, sent his adjunct Col. Walter Higgins to the meeting. Higgin’s notes include the referance to the CIA’s “detailed study” of the July 20, 1944 Valkyrie plot that was being adapted for use against Fidel Castro.

Before going into an analysis of that document, and the Supreme Court’s interest in it, there is yet another connection to the Vakyrie plot that needs to be mentioned.

D. H. BYRD

When Oswald returned to Dallas from Mexico, Ruth Paine helped arrange for Oswald to obtain a job at the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD).

The CIA, when it required cooperation from the media and academics, did not go to journalists or professors, but went right to the top – obtaining first the cooperation of the producers and university president. If they were to utilize the TSBD in an operation that required total control over the area, would they would go right to the top, to the building’s owner, in this case David Harold D.H.. “Dry Hole” Byrd?

Byrd was a major Texas oil man and early aviation pioneer, who was co-founder of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) in 1941 with Cord Meyer, Sr., the father of Cord Meyer, Jr. Oswald was a cadet and member of the CAP in New Orleans before he enlisted in the Marines.

Byrd was a cousin of Virginia Senator Harry Byrd and supported the explorations of another cousin Navy Admiral Richard E. Byrd, whose radio reports from the polar regions could only be received by a young Arthur Collins, whose home-built radio in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Collins’ radio was the only receiver that could pick up Admiral Bryd’s radio reports. Collins then established Collins Radio and he received many military contracts during World War II. In November 1963, Collins radios were included in all SAC bombers and the Executive Air Fleet, thanks to Art Collins good friend and fellow HAM radio enthusist Curtis LeMay, Air Force Chief of Staff.

In 1961 Byrd became associated with James Ling and Chance Voght to form Ling-Tempco-Voight  (LTV), a major defense contractor.

7) BYRD AND VON ALVENSLEBEN

At the time of the assassination D. H. Byrd was on a safari in Africa with Baron Werner Von Alvensleben, a German whose father was described in an OSS report as being an “assassination expert.” Von Alvensleben also wrote a post-Valkyrie pamphlet in support of those who plotted against Hitler.

When he returned home after the assassination he brought Von Alvensleben with him as his guest. Byrd then had one of the windows removed from the Sixth Floor of the TSBD and placed it in his trophy room with the heads of dead animals.

8) Then there's the German General Staff visit to the Pentagon on November 22, 1963. They were in a meeting with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Genera Maxwell Taylor when they were notified the President was shot. Two of the generals were part of the Valkyrie plot but escaped retribution. They were mystified at the American's response to the assassination. The meeting continued as if nothing had happened, and when it was over, General Tayor took a nap. 

BYRD AND DOOTLITTLE

Another popular safari hunting partner of D. H. Byrd was General James Doolittle, famous for his WWII 1942 carrier based bombing of Tokyo. Doolittle is less famous for being the principle author of the Doolittle report, which recommended that the CIA be given more covert action authority.


                                                        Byrd, Doolittle and dead lion.

And now D. H. Byrd, Von Alvensleben and Doolittle are the subjects of an FOIA request submitted by D.C. attorney Dan Alcorn, the lead lawyer in the AARC vs. CIA “Hitler Plot” suit that is now a topic of Supreme Court deliberations.

So there you have it – Eight ways that the Valkyrie “Hitler Plot” is mentioned in the JFK assassination narrative.

 BK NOTES: Many thanks to California attorney Patrick McCarthy for taking the time to read and edit this article. 

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