THE DIVINE SKEIN AT DEALEY PLAZA
PSYCHO
or PSYOP? FREUD verses SUN TZU
By
William Kelly
The
assassination of President John F. Kennedy remains a Watershed event in modern
American history, the ramifications of which have yet to be fully realized. The
details of the crime, the acoustics, ballistics, autopsy and medical evidence
are covered elsewhere. This report and the ones that follow concern the covert
intelligence operations that resulted in the murder of the president and the
black propaganda operations that continue to this day, manipulating the news
and judicial system to shield those responsible.
The time
and the place – 12:30 p.m., Friday, November 22, 1963, Houston and Elm streets,
Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas, are notched in our national subconscious, and the
picture of that square acre of time and place are etched in our collective
memories.
If
Dealey Plaza were pictured as a giant mosaic wall mural, broken into pieces
like a puzzle, we would have a pretty good idea of what occurred there. Only a
few pieces are still missing – the faces in the shadows, the names of the
mangers pulling the strings of the puppets and pawns, details unnecessary to understand
the nature of the plot.
Although
there are many theories as to what happened in Dealey Plaza on that day, the
events as they actually occurred only happened one way, and it is the
responsibility of the independent researchers, journalists, professors and
historians to determine that truth as close as possible.
Some
people might consider the crime ancient history, even though it is such a
current event that indictments can still be brought down for those responsible
for crimes, if not homicide and conspiracy, then obstruction of justice,
destruction of evidence and perjury. Besides the issues concerning the accuracy
of our historical perspective, truth and the pursuit of justice, it is
important to know for oneself whether the death of the president was an
unplanned, spontaneous act of a lone madman or a very well planned and executed
coup d’etat.
John F.
Kennedy was either killed by a deranged lone-nut, as the official Warren
Commission concluded, or he was the victim of a covert action team of clandestine
agents, as much of the evidence suggests. The truth is either one way or the
other, but cannot be both.
If the
assassination of JFK was the work of a lone-nut madman, the lessons to be
learned from the tragedy are far less significant than if Kennedy was killed as
part of a coup, as the ramifications stem into the realms of truth, justice,
responsibility and national security.
Not for
the sake of argument, but for the sake of analysis, a competent homicide
investigation would proceed first by assuming that JFK was killed as an act of
elimination. An understanding of current events and the details of the crime
also suggest that what happened at Dealey Plaza was not only the product of a
conspiracy, but by a much more clearly defined MO – Modus Operandi – that of a
covert intelligence operation.
Although
anyone with the training and knowledge can conduct such operations, the murder
of the president, because of the extensive cover-up that occurred after the
fact, must have had its origin in the very heart of the U.S. government. If it
was an independent operation, a renegade group or the work of foreigners, those
responsible would have been pursued to the ends of the earth. Instead, the
evidence leads directly inside the government itself. Those responsible for
what happened at Dealey Plaza took over the government and controlled the
investigation of the crime.
But
because the modus-operandi MO – is that of a covert operation, by its very name
and nature is meant to be hidden and concealed, so as to protect the real
sponsors, in order to see it you must look at it through a special spectrum.
This ‘crystal ball’ is similar to an onion, an analogy John Judge likes to use,
as it has layers of deception that must be pealed off, revealing layers of
truth, and can only be understood if you are educated in the history and
trained in the crafts and techniques covert intelligence operations.
Allen
Dulles’ book The Craft of Intelligence was published in 1963, and was
the book that he was promoting when he visited Dallas shortly before the
assassination. In it Dulles notes that the biographical method of study is a
good way to learn and understand practically any subject. Pick a person and
learn everything you can possibly know about them. Note 1.
And he
suggests that Sun Tsu’s book The Art
of War is very special and worthy of attention. 2.
As for
biographies, Lee Harvey Oswald is one of the first characters you have to come
to know in order to understand the assassination. The primary, but not first
suspect, Oswald “is your man,” as LBJ told the Dallas authorities, and no
conspiracy, so the official investigators pretty much handed the American
public the head of Oswald on a platter.
While a
typical homicide investigator on the street may not have the historical
background or training in intelligence operations, and may not have the
investigative resources federal governmental agencies have at their disposal, a
common man’s instincts will tell you something and lead you to clues worth
pursing. Every homicide investigator begins with a body, and a suspect who can
usually be identified as one who had the means, motive and opportunity to
commit the crime. We have that with John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lee Harvey
Oswald.
Their
paths crossed at Dealey Plaza, an intersection out of the Twilight Zone, one
that we keep going back to see if we went in the right direction when we left
there.
Oswald
had the means, the U.S. Marine Corps training, the experience and the tools –
the ability to kill. He also had the opportunity since he worked in a building
at the scene of the crime, which makes JFK one of the few assassination victims
who, rather than being stalked by his assassin, is delivered to the window his
killer.
The
problem with Oswald is that he did not have a motive. He actually liked JFK.
Not even the Warren Commission, even though they concluded Oswald was the
assassin, could determine a motive for the murder. 3.
But the more you learn about Oswald, rather than finding the psychotic,
homicidal maniac, you realize he was merely a pawn in a much bigger game of
power politics, a game that continues to this day.
Although
Oswald may have been a loner, he was seldom alone and not deranged. He was
definitely an operative agent, although exactly who he was an agent for has yet
to be precisely determined, but can be.
At an
early meeting of the Warren Commission Allen Dulles handed out copies of a book
he recommended the other Commissioners read – Robert Donovan’s The
Assassins. 4.
Donovan’s The
Assassins purports to show how American assassins are all psychologically
deranged loners, but commissioner John J. McCloy called Dulles on this notion,
pointing out that Lincoln’s assassination was a conspiracy since
co-conspirators were hung along with John Wilkes Booth.
But
Dulles paraphrases Donovan, the author of the book, saying that Booth was such
a dominating person in the plot that it almost wasn’t a conspiracy.
And
Dulles wasn’t the first to suggest the accused assassin was crazy, as Donald
Gibson points out in, JFK
Assassination Cover-up (Donald Gibson. P.99), which also gets into the
Dulles-McCloy exchange over the Lincoln conspiracy. 5.
It is
worth quoting Gibson as he writes:
…As was
noted earlier, James Reston had suggested, less than 24 hours after the
assassination, that this act was committed by one person and that it reflected
a “strain of madness” in the country. The New York Herald Tribune had
editorialized on November 23 that the assassins in the United States are
typically “crazed individuals” and are “real lunatics.” On November 25, the
Wall Street Journal asserted that assassins are “idiots” and suffering with
“hysteria.” Also, in Dallas, Mayor Earle Cabell was quoted in the November 23
Dallas Morning News describing the assassination as the work of a maniac, as an
“irrational act” of a “deranged mind.” As documented earlier, this was not the
view of the police officials or the district attorney.
(Allen)
Dulles was the former head of the Central Intelligence Agency. He had the
experience in intelligence work and in international affairs. He was one of the
most sophisticated men in the world. Later, we will discuss the relationship
between Dulles and the other early sources of the lone-nut theory. This man
probably was not just repeating what he had seen in the newspapers, unless what
was appearing in the media immediately after the assassination and what he
tried to impose on the Commission had a common source.
On
December 5, (Earl) Warren briefly mentioned the mental illness issue. He then
also brought this up and he began but did not get to finish a description of a
book he had been reading which focused on “the psychiatric angle.”
On
December 16, Dulles was far more aggressive in his promotion of this “angle.”
Dulles was handing out copies of a book which analyzed seven previous attempts
on the lives of U.S. Presidents. Dulles was giving this book to members of the
Commission and to the Commission’s lawyers. As indicated by Dulles, the theme
of the book was that such attempts were typically the acts of lone individuals,
usually individuals with mental disorders. The book that Dulles was pushing was
The Assassins by Robert J. Donovan. Although Dulles did not identify it, the
Donovan book was published in the year mentioned by Dulles as the publication
year and Donovan’s book contains a statement that is almost identical to
something said by Dulles.
In
response to a comment from McCloy that there was a plot in the Lincoln
assassination, Dulles noted that that was true “but one man was so dominant it
almost wasn’t a plot.” In his book, Donovan, who was in 1963 the New York
Herald Tribune’s Washington bureau chief, argued that in the U.S.,
assassinations were the work of individuals and he went on to say:
This was
true even in the Lincoln assassination, in which, though other conspirators
were involved, Booth was the moving spirit and dominated his accomplices to
such an extent that the plot was the product of one man’s will.”
The
implication of this is that if conspiracies have leaders, they aren’t
conspiracies! Donovan’s analysis contained another ingredient that was
important in Dulles’s proffered conclusions about the assassination, i.e., that
the assassins were usually crazy. Donovan’s conclusion: By and
large the true story behind the assassination and attempted assassinations of
American presidents is that the assassins not only were lone operators, but
were, most of them, men suffering from mental disease, who pulled the trigger
in the grip of delusion…
When
Donovan later wrote the introduction of the Popular Library Edition of The
Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of President Kennedy, he applied
his generalization to the Kennedy assassination:
“For the
murder of President Kennedy was so horrifying, so senseless, so heart-rending
that the act was difficult to comprehend in terms of the average person’s
experience. To anyone who happened to know the history of assassinations of
American Presidents, Lee Harvey Oswald conformed remarkably to the pattern of
obscure misfits, loners, fanatics, cranks and mentally deranged and deluded men
who committed these historic crimes. Indeed he even bore a vague physical
resemblance to them.”
“To
millions everywhere, however, the crime in Dallas was too momentous in all its
implications to be accepted as the pitifully simple thing it was, the solitary
act of a deranged and deteriorating wanderer, taking his revenge on the world
by destroying one of its finest living figures. Surely, it seemed to many –
especially to many abroad – there MUST be a further explanation, a more complex
cause, a plot, a conspiracy.”
Donovan
uses about eight different terms to suggest that Oswald was a lone nut. The
official line that developed during the hours immediately following the
assassination had not changed; it was restated with even greater emphasis by Donovan.
Donovan
was not your everyday journalist. Although he never graduated from college, he
was the Washington correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, and later the
LA Times, and had written the best seller “PT 109,” that was made into a
movie. 6.
Donovan’s Assassins was published in 1955
(Harper, NY), and after Dulles’ genuflection, he also wrote the introduction
to A Concise Compendium of the Warren Commission Report (Popular
Library, NY, 1964), which continued promoting the lone-nut thesis. 7.
The
attempt to attribute psychological motives to the accused assassin continues,
and many millions of words have been written on the subject, with Donovan’s
original seven case studies being expanded to over eighty subjects included in
the Secret Service Exceptional Case Study. 8.
One of
the problems with all of these official academic psychological studies of
assassins is they accept the false premise that Oswald was the assassin of
President Kennedy, when in fact it can be reasonably demonstrated that he was
what he claimed to be – a Patsy. So these authorative studies are of one animal
– the Patsy, when they wrongfully assumed they were studying another animal –
the Assassin. 9.
Whether
assassin or fall-guy, Oswald was a covert intelligence operative, and in fact
he sets the mold for what I call the Covert Operative Profile that can be used
in the analysis of political assassins, just as the academic studies profile
psychotics. 10.
Rather
than use Donovan’s The Assassins as a primer on political assassinations
for the Warren Commissioners, Dulles should have handed out copies of Sun
Tzu’s The Art of War, which he recommends highly in The Craft of
Intelligence for anyone who wants to try to understand the arcane world of
clandestine espionage and covert intelligence operations.
Just as
psychotic assassins are described by armchair psychoanalists as various types
of paranoid skidso maniacs, covert operators can also be defined more precisely
by the type of secret agents they are.
In his
book The Craft of Intelligence Dulles elaborates on this theme when
he writes, “In a chapter of The Art of War called the ‘Employment of
Secret Agents,’ Sun Tzu gives the basics of espionage as it was practiced in
400 B.C. by the Chinese – much as it is practiced today. He says there are five
kinds of agents: native, inside, double, expendable and living. ‘Native’ and
‘inside’ agents are similar to what we shall later call ‘agents in place.’
‘Double,’ a term still used today, is an enemy agent who has been captured,
turned around and sent back where he came from as an agent of his captors.
‘Expendable agents’ are a Chinese subtlety which we later touch upon in
considering deception techniques. They are agents through whom false
information is leaked to the enemy. Sun Tzu says they are expendable because
the enemy will probably kill them when he finds out their information was
faulty. ‘Living’ agents to Sun Tzu are later-day ‘penetration agents.’ They
reach the enemy, get information and manage to get back alive.”
There
are many different English translations of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War but Dulles notes, “For my remarks on Sun Tzu I
am indebted to the recent excellent translation of the Art of War with
commentaries by General Sam Griffith (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963).” 11.
Dulles
continues: “To Sun Tzu belongs the credit not only for this remarkable analysis
of the ways of espionage but also for the first written recommendations
regarding an organized intelligence service. He points out that the master of
intelligence will employ all five kinds of agents simultaneously; he calls this
the ‘Divine Skein.’ The analogy is to a fish nest consisting of many strands
all joined to a single cord. And this by no means exhausts Sun Tzu’s
contribution. He comments on counter-intelligence, on psychological warfare, on
deception, on security, on fabricators, in short, on the whole craft of
intelligence. It is no wonder that Sun Tzu’s book is a favorite of Mao Tse-tung
and is required reading for Chinese Communist tacticians. In their conduct of military
campaigns and of intelligence collection, they clearly put into practice the
teachings of Sun Tzu.”
“Espionage
of the sort recommended by Sun Tzu,” writes Dulles, “which did not depend upon
spirits or gods, was, of course, practiced in the West in ancient times also,
but not with the same degree of sophistication as in the East; nor was there in
the West the same sense of craft or code of rules so that one generation could
build on the experiences of another.”
Today,
the same crafts and techniques are used, just as they were used centuries ago
by Sun Tzu. There have been advances however, not only in the crafts and
techniques of espionage, but also in the technique of criminal profiling, a new
tool in which criminal behavior is categorized in a similar way.
The
category Oswald belongs to, since he should not be among the psychotics studied
by the academics, is the Covert Operative Personality, which also includes
other rogues of similar persuasion – Feliz Rodriguez, Frank Forini Sturgis,
Gerry Patrick Hemming, Richard Case Nagel, Michael Townley, Frank Terpel, El
Nosair Sayyid, Ali Mohammad, et. al.
The
Covert Operational Profile fits those who are military trained, usually USMC,
and from a military family, fluent in a foreign language, can travel extensively,
maintains safe house and dead drops, is familiar with codes, ciphers and covert
communication techniques, works on an operational need-to-know basis and does
not talk about any clandestine affairs.
Of
course Allen Dulles recognized these traits in Oswald, the primary suspect, but
instead of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, as Dulles recommends in the very
beginning of The Craft of Intelligence, he promotes Donovan’s psychotic
assassins.
In The
Craft of Intelligence Dulles wrote: “But in the craft of intelligence the
East was ahead of the West in 400 B.C. Rejecting the oracles and the seers, who
may well have played an important role in still earlier epochs of Chinese
history, Sun Tzu takes a more practical view.”
“What is
called ‘foreknowledge’ cannot be elicited from spirits, nor from gods, nor by
analogy with past events, nor from calculations,” he wrote. “It must be
obtained from men who know the situation.” [See: Note 16]
In “The Art of War,” Sun Tzu wrote about The Employment of Secret Agents. “Now
the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy
wherever they move, and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men, is
foreknowledge.”
Sun Tzu:
“Now there are five sorts of secret agents to be employed. These are native,
inside, double, expendable and living. A native agent is one of the nationality
of the enemy. An inside agent is one who lives and works in the enemy camp. A
double agent is an enemy agent who works for both sides. An expendable agent is
one that can be cut loose after achieving his goal. A living agent is one that
can get into the enemy camp and return with information. When these five types
of agents are all working simultaneously and none knows their method of
operation, they are called ‘The Divine Skein,’ and are the treasure of the
sovereign.”
Although
satellite and communication intelligence have become more significant in
today’s world of espionage, the nature of the clandestine network in action –
the “Divine Skein” is still the most reliable means of learning the intentions
of other people and governments and acting covertly against them.
In this
regard, little has changed since the days of Sun Tzu. The same type of agents
are classified and utilized today, as they were in the ancient Chinese
dynasties as well as on November 22, 1963 at Dealey Plaza. Now their means and
method is known as “covert intelligence operations,” and are
“compartmentalized” on a “need to know” basis, so each member of the network
team only knows his job and role, and may not even know who he is actually
working for.
The
gunmen who killed JFK were well trained and competent professional marksmen and
killers, operating on a need-to-know basis as part of a covert intelligence
operation. The shooters were the easy part, mere technicians. It is the covert
operational managers at the top of the clandestine pyramid who are actually
responsible for the crime, and the subject of this pursuit.
The
accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was an agent trained in what Dulles called
“the crafts of intelligence,” but he wasn’t a very good marksman, and
undependable for that part of the operation. Rather than the assassin, as the
evidence suggests, Oswald was what he claimed to be, an archetypical patsy, the
fall guy set up and framed for a crime he didn’t commit. Oswald was, at various
times in his short, 22 year old career, an inside agent, a living agent,
possibly a double agent, and in the end, an expendable one.
It is
not the pawns in the Great Game we are after, but rather, the Knights, Bishops
and Rooks, the middle managers and who they work for – the intelligence
officers who pull the chains of the puppets and pawns like Oswald, and
Rodriguez, Sturgis and Townley.
Sun Tzu
calls the men at the top “wise generals” and the “sovereign,” and the operations
of the network “The Devine Skein,” giving it a sort of deity or godlike
association, since only the patriarch at the top knows all that is going on
during the game. To the little man on the street it appears to be divine
intervention, or the work of God, when actually it is mere man-made magic.
Professor
Paul Linebarger, who wrote the textbook on psychological warfare, trained three
generations of American spies in the techniques of psychological clandestine
operations – the “black arts,” including E. Howard Hunt, Ed Lansdale and David
Atlee Phillips. 12. (Psychological Warfare, Paul Linbarger)
Besides
his own textbook on propaganda, Linebarger had his students read The American Confidence Man by
David W. Maurer. 13. (The American Confidence Man, Pocket Books, N.Y. 1949).
A
professor of linguistics at the University of Louisville (KY), Maurer’s book
started out as a study of the slang used by swindlers and crooks in the big
time confidence games prevalent in the first half of the last century. Using a
unique social science technique – Maurer introduced himself to the crooks, told
them what he was doing and after obtaining their confidence, learned their
lingo as well as how they pulled off such complicated operations as the Big Con
or “The Big Store,” which was used as the basis of the popular movie, “The
Sting.”
–
Setting up a Big Store in a city where there are lots of transients – Marks,
the store operators pay off the Dicks with the understanding only transients
will be marked by Ropers for a Sting and no locals will be taken advantage of.
The Roper meets a Mark casually, or what appears to be coincidental
circumstances, though he’s actually been selected out of a crowd because of his
profile – class, money, out of his home element, etc. and is brought to the Big
Store where the Roper passes the Mark off to the Inside Man, who sets up the
Sting. The Wire is the operation used in the movie “The Sting,” though there
were other similar, totally theatrical productions like The Ring and The Stock,
which also end with the money being given to the thieves without the Mark even
knowing he was robbed.
“The big
time confidence games are in reality, only carefully rehearsed plays in which
every member of the cast – Except the Mark, knows his part perfectly.” – David
Maurer.
In the
Big Store that is Dealey Plaza, JFK was the Mark, John Connally roped him and
Lyndon Johnson played the Inside Man and greased the official Dicks. And it was
the American people who were swindled of their democracy, without even knowing
how they did it. Well now we know how they did it and can illustrate it quite
clearly for anyone who wants to know.
As with
The Sting, the behind the scene network of operators that makes up the Devine
Skein is compromised of many different types of people, from street-wise con
artists to suave, Ivy League corporate executives and bankers in business
suits.
Now
ordinary people can look into the glass onion and see The Big Picture, like a
moving picture that leaves Dealey Plaza into the cool, dark tunnel and then
emerges into the light of day on the trail of the assassins, the picture moves
wherever the evidence leads, to places on the board and individuals who are
players in the Great Game, whether they want to be or not.
The
names of the real assassins of President Kennedy may never become as famous as
Lee Harvey Oswald, but I am convinced that we will come to know them, even if
they are now dead. We look into the Glass Onion, enter the ‘wilderness of
mirrors,” not to name the guilty, but for the adventure of answering the
questions, figuring out the riddles, to learn the how and the why, and to view
today’s circumstances with the proper perspective.
If
Oswald was just crazy, nothing else would make sense, but when you look at the
Devine Skein through the “Glass Onion” of covert operations, it all makes
sense, and you learn to understand what happened at Dealey Plaza.
As
William Manchester wrote, “…If you put the murdered President of the United
States on one side of the scale and that wretched waif Oswald on the other
side, it doesn’t balance. You want to add something weightier to Oswald. It
would invest the President’s death with meaning, endowing him with martyrdom.
He would have died for something. A conspiracy would, of course, do the job
nicely. Unfortunately, there is no evidence whatever that there was one.” 14.
(The Death of the President, William Manchester, 1967).
But the
evidence is there, if you know what to look for and where to look for it.
People ask all the time, “Who killed JFK?” Well, anyone can know the answer,
but you just can’t say a name, you have to take the inquisitive journey and
learn for yourself, not just who killed JFK, but how and why they did it.
While we
don’t have all the pieces to the big picture and mural puzzle, especially the
one with the “smoking gun,” and there probably are no still secret document
that gives the names to the men who pulled the triggers, the overwhelming
circumstantial evidence fits in very nicely with the covert history of current
events.
The
psychological makeup of that “wretched waif Oswald” is of little consequence,
and all the academic studies of the Patsy are wrong because they are based on
the false premise that he was the assassin.
On the
other hand, an understanding of the Cold War history and the rules of the
Divine Skein puts things in a proper perspective and balances out the scales of
history, if not justice. The tools of the social scientist are limited. We can
read and interview, and in the end we must judge for ourselves what is real and
what is not. A homicide detective once told me that even if you know who
murdered someone, you still need to develop the evidence to convict them in a
court of law. But the counter-intelligence investigator, the journalist and
historian do not have to meet those same standards to know the truth.
Most of
the American people have always known, in fact most assumed or have come to
believe there was a conspiracy at Dealey Plaza. Even if they couldn’t see
through the Glass Onion clearly, they knew in their hearts that something was
wrong, not only with the official version of events, but with our
constitutional democracy.
It has
only been since Watergate in 1972 that the general public became familiar with
the covert operational terms such as “black bag operation” and “executive
action.”
Philadelphia
attorney Vincent Salandria calls it the “Transparent Conspiracy,” where it is
prearranged for anyone who takes up the trail of the assassins to be led into a
labyrinth of never ending false trails, dead ends and Machiavellian intrigues.
“The material we already have demonstrates conclusively that only the only
candidate behind the assassination is the American government,” says Salandria,
“so to go into a microanalysis only gets oneself into a hopeless maze, and we
fail to address the real issues. You can try to develop a model of explanation
of what was going on, what happened and why, but to rehash this is useless.”
15. (The Transparent Conspiracy, Vincent Salandria, COPA Conference, Dallas,
1998, John Kelin, ed.).
With an
understanding of the crafts and history of covert intelligence operations, and
applying standard homicide investigative techniques, the network responsible
for the assassination can be identified. The Divine Skein provides a model of
the labyrinth, a map of the maze from those who have been there to those who
are just taking up the trail and want to take it even further. To understand
the truth of what happened at Dealey Plaza you can’t get caught up in all of
the ballistics, trajectories, acoustics, autopsies and caskets. Forget the
“single-bullet-theory,” suspend judgment on any theories you may have
developed. Take up the trail cold and follow it wherever it leads.
At the
last meeting of the Warren Commission Allen Dulles tried to have all of the
testimony, reports and exhibits classified, but was over ruled by the other
commissioners. “Go ahead and publish the stuff,” Dulles said, “people won’t
read it anyway.”
John
Judge said, “What they are telling us is that ‘We killed the son-of-a-bitch,
and you can’t do anything about it’.”
Well,
Dulles was wrong, and many thousands of people have read it, and I believe we
can do something about it.
My
personal approach is to adapt the style David Maurer developed when he
researched and wrote about the “Big Con,” and get to know the players, the
lingo and the lexicon of the clandestine warriors, learn their history, get to
know their biographies, and where they live, and then slip up next to them and
ask them why they did it.
[Billkelly3@gmail.com]
RESEARCH
NOTES:
3. The
Warren Commission Report (1964) http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/ / http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/chapter-7.html – conclusions “…Many
factors were undoubtedly involved in Oswald’s motivation for the assassination,
and the Commission does not believe that it can ascribe to him any one motive
or group of motives. It is apparent, however, that Oswald was moved by an
overriding hostility to his environment. He does not appear to have been able
to establish meaningful relationships with other people. He was perpetually
discontented with the world around him. Long before the assassination he
expressed his hatred for American society and acted in protest against it.
Oswald’s search for what he conceived to be the perfect society was doomed from
the start. He sought for himself a place in history–a role as the “great man”
who would be recognized as having been in advance of his times. His commitment
to Marxism and communism appears to have been another important factor in his
motivation….”
4.
Donovan, Robert; The Assassins (Harpers, 1955, Elek Books, London,
1956)
See: Time review, June 20, 1955. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,861574,00.html
7.
Donovan, R.; Introduction to A Concise Compendium to the Warren Report.
(Popular Library, N.Y.,1964) See: #66 http://www.tomfolio.com/bookssub.asp?subid=1884
Warren Commission. Donovan, Robert J. [Kennedy, John Fitzgerald,
1917-1963]
A Concise Compendium of the Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of
John F. Kennedy. Publisher: NY, Popular Library [1964]. Introduction by Robert
J. Donovan. 637 p.; “Since the tragic death of President John F. Kennedy, a
great controversy, both here and in Europe, has raged over the true facts of
the assassination. To end this debate once and for all, President Johnson set
up the Commission, headed by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Earl Warren.
Now, with the publication of the Warren Commission Report, the public for the
first time can find the answers to such troubling questions as: Was Lee Harvey
Oswald really the killer? Was he alone, or a member of a conspiracy? Just what
were his relations with the far Left, the radical Right, the CIA, and Jack
Ruby? What was the true sequence of events of the terrible crime and its
extraordinary aftermath?” “The conclusive findings of the Official
Investigation into the most shocking crime of our century.”
9. More
Recent Study – Presidential Stalkers and Assassins.
http://www.jaapl.org/cgi/content/full/34/2/154 By codifying their actions
based on motive, presence or absence of delusions, active psychosis, and intent
to do harm, the author presents five descriptive categories that he suggests
capture the various motivations of presidential stalkers and assassins and
characterize the clinical context in which the behavior occurs…
Retired
Brigadier General Samuel B. Griffith II, a noted author, lecturer, and
Sinologue, died unexpectedly 27 Mar. 1983 in Newport, RI. He was born 31 May
1906, Lewiston, Penn.,U.S. Naval Academy 1929, 2nd Lt. USMC,. Second Nicaraguan
Campaign, China, Cuba, and England. In China, language officer at the US
Embassy Peiping. WW II British commando training, England and Scotland; 1st
Marine Div, 1st Raider Bat., Guadalcanal, and 1st Raider Reg. in New Georgia,
Navy Cross, Sept. 1942 for “extreme heroism and courageous devotion to duty” at
Matanikau River, Purple Heart, Army Distinguished Service Cross. U.S. Naval War
College, Newport, R.I., Chief of Staff, Fleet Marine Force, staff of the U.S.
Commander in Chief, Europe, retired from the Marine Corps 1956, after more than
25 years service. Following retirement, Gen. Griffith awarded D.Phil. in
Chinese Military History, Oxford University (New College) 1961, translated Sun
Tzu’s The Art of War,1963 and Mao Tse-tung’s On Guerrilla War, 1978, wrote The
Battle for Guadalcanal, The Chinese People’s Liberation Army, and In Defense of
the Public Liberty. Research Fellow Council on Foreign Relations and Institute
for Defense Studies in London.
12.
Linebarger, Paul; Psychological Warfare – International Propaganda and
Communications by Paul M. A. Linebarger (1948, U.S. Army; Duell, Sloan and
Pearce, N.Y. 1954; Arno Press, 1972),
13.
Mauer, David W.; The American Confidence Man (The Big Con; Pocket
Books, 1949)
The American Confidence Man – (Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, USA,
1974)
14.
Manchester, William; The Death of the President (1967, Harper &
Row, NY )
