Gary Wean, US Navy WWII, joined LAPD in 1946, motorcycle policeman, detective, and later detective with LADA, kept tabs on California gangsters like Nicky Cohen, and hung with a Hollywood crowd that included Medal of Honor recipient and actor Audie Murphy.
It seems that it has escaped the attention of assassination researchers but Wean wrote a book in the 1980s, The Fish in the Courthouse about official corruption in California, which included a segment about his association with Murphy and Murphy's friend Dallas Sheriff Bill Decker, and how they introduced Wean to John Tower, who told them the real story of the assassination.
According to Wade Frazier [at http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm
], "True skepticism means pursuing the truth, not dismissing something out of hand."
In this extended and elongated article Wade Frazier tells Wean's story and asks that it be seriously reconsidered in light of the NORTHWINDS records and other new research in the assassination when he writes:
….Gary relates many amazing incidents in his book There's
a Fish in the Courthouse. Gary was from the old school: he believed in
the ideal of law enforcement, and that through a properly functioning legal
system there could be a more just society.
When I met Gary in early 1989, he gave me the best
advice I could get: no organization in America would help Dennis, either
governmental or private. Dennis’ experience was not that unusual.
U.S. judicial gangsterism was normal, but nearly always covered up or misrepresented
by the media, as they are an integral part of the system. Gary's
advice kept me from wasting my time seeking somebody in the United States
government to help. Gary’s insight helped lead to Dennis’ miraculous
release from jail. In my hour of need, Gary was generous with his time,
sincere, and helpful.
The first edition of There's a
Fish in the Courthouse was published in 1987, and tells of an incredible
meeting that Gary attended in late 1963. One of
Gary's friends was Audie
Murphy, America's most decorated war hero who became a Hollywood movie
star. During World War II, Murphy took on hundreds of German soldiers and
six tanks single-handedly near Holtzwihr France, while he was firing a machine
gun from atop a burning vehicle filled with explosives. It stands as one
of the most heroic feats from any war. Murphy suffered from “shell shock”
(now called Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome) for the rest of his life.
One of Murphy's friends was Bill Decker, the sheriff
of Dallas County. Decker came to California regularly on business, and
when he came to town, Gary would arrange for Murphy, Decker, himself and his partner
to dine at the Police Academy. About two weeks after the JFK
assassination, in early December 1963, Decker was in town and they all had
lunch together. The topic of conversation quickly turned to what arms
experts across the nation were discussing: how could Oswald have made those
shots with that poor shooting position and mediocre rifle to kill John
Kennedy? Nobody at that table thought it was possible for Oswald to have
made those shots. After they arrived at their conclusion, Decker told
them that he knew Oswald had not fired the shots, and that a man in
Dallas wanted to talk to somebody about it. Oswald died while being
transferred to Decker’s custody. Decker knew somebody who could set the
record straight, and wanted to talk to somebody not connected to Dallas or
Washington. Murphy was interested, and the next week, Murphy, Gary and
his partner were flying to Ruidoso, New Mexico to meet Decker and his
friend.
They met at the airport and went to
a diner to talk. The man who came with Decker was named John.
According to John, Oswald was anything but a “lone nut.” He was a U.S.
intelligence agent acting under the direction of E. Howard Hunt. Oswald
had been recruited into military intelligence when he joined the Marines.
His hanging out in an expensive Tokyo nightclub as a private, his learning
Russian at the highly sensitive U-2 base in Japan, his defection to the Soviet
Union and other oddities were all part of his intelligence career (which
probably began even before his Marine days, when he was a cadet in 1955 in
David Ferrie’s Civil Air Patrol unit. “Coincidentally,” Oswald began his
“fascination” with communism at the same time). Oswald was developing
"communist" credentials for his future activities in infiltrating
communist organizations. It was a fairly normal American intelligence
path.[4]
Oswald was inducted into CIA covert activities and
came under Hunt’s direction. Hunt was a major player in mounting the
failed Bay of Pigs invasion, and he, as with many others in the military and
CIA, blamed Kennedy for the failure (Kennedy refused to call in openly American
air support). Hunt dreamed up the crazy assassination attempts on Castro
that the United States tried. His mission in life was eliminating
Castro. Oswald came into his control, and was thrown into the cauldron of
the Cuban exile communities in Miami and New Orleans. Oswald did not
initially know what his mission would be.
Hunt was paranoid about Oswald's Russian wife,
thinking that she might be a Russian spy, so Oswald could tell her nothing
about his activities. Oswald’s joining Fair Play for Cuba and his staged
“murder attempt” on General Walker were all part of giving Oswald “credentials”
that would make his upcoming performance more believable. Hunt had
concocted the most bizarre assassination intrigue of all time. Oswald was
going to participate in a fake assassination attempt on John Kennedy, and frame
Castro for it. Oswald’s apparent visit to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico
City was part of laying an elaborate trail to Cuba. Hunt believed that if
Castro could be implicated in an assassination attempt on JFK, the American
people could be riled up into supporting an outright invasion of Cuba.
JFK was not aware of the fake assassination plan,
but high-ranking officials in the government and his administration were.
Military intelligence, the FBI and the CIA were all involved. Oswald was
initially leery of Hunt’s plan, but with assurances and after seeing the
high-level people involved, he went along with it. Oswald was to fire his
rifle into the air, then go into hiding, and the false trail to Cuba was
laid. He could come home to a hero’s welcome and live a normal life after
America had finished mopping up Cuba.
But something went horribly wrong. The fake
assassination turned into a real one. Somebody had infiltrated the
operation, interposed the mission and killed JFK. The real assassins
tried killing Oswald after JFK was killed, but policeman Tippit was in the
wrong place at the wrong time and was killed. Oswald escaped, to be
captured alive. John said that he knew that Oswald would not have shot a
policeman under any circumstances.
At the end of his mind-blowing tale, John handed over
a thick manila envelope, sealed with wax with a thumbprint on it, that
contained the documents John said would prove his story.
Murphy, Gary and his partner went back to
California. They knew that the situation was too big and dangerous for
them to pursue. John said that if he went public with his story, he would
quickly disappear, never to be heard from again. A few days after that
meeting, Decker called Murphy. As John was telling his story, the CIA and
intelligence community was in shock. They did not know what to do,
paralyzed with fear. As they recovered from their shock, they saw
themselves facing the firing squad if their involvement in the assassination
intrigue became known. The intelligence community decided they would do everything
they could to cover their tracks, invoking “national security.” Decker
told Murphy that John had given him the envelope of documents in a moment of
panic, and that if Murphy did not give the envelope back, he would be
“destroyed.” Murphy did some fast thinking and told Decker that they had
torn the envelope into pieces and threw them out of the airplane as they were
flying back to California.
That is what Gary says he witnessed, and I believe
him. In the first edition of his book, Gary hid John's identity.
Because John was dead when Gary published the second edition of his book in
1996, Gary revealed that “John” was John Tower, the Senator from Texas and
George Bush’s little buddy who he nominated to be the Secretary of
Defense.
Gary wrote his book in the early 1970s. New
evidence keeps coming to light regarding the JFK assassination. Because
of what Gary saw, I knew that Oswald was not a lone nut. The center of
gravity of my research into the JFK assassination has been to see how it correlated
with Gary's testimony. Every piece of credible evidence I have seen
supports Gary’s story, and none contradicts it. Particularly impressive
has been the recent revelations of Operation Northwoods,
where the U.S. government was going to stage terrorist acts in America to
manipulate Americans into supporting an invasion of Cuba. Gary’s story touches upon many facets of the JFK
assassination evidence, including Oswald's military intelligence days, his
association with the Cuban exiles, the “Texas Connection,” the “Republican
Connection,” the oilman connection, the George Bush connection, the CIA
connection, the FBI connection and others.
Up until now (2002), Gary's
testimony has been ignored by virtually everybody involved in investigating the
JFK assassination. Gary is the only surviving member of that meeting with
John Tower. Tower and Murphy both died in private plane “accidents” that
may not have been accidental....
[BK Note Gary Wren has also since died]
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