KEY FIGURES RE-RECONSIDERED

KEY FIGURES RE-RECONSIDERED

Col. Fletcher Prouty USAF (Ret) – I first met Col. Prouty at the NYU Law School conference, sitting in on his lecture on the basics of covert intelligence operations. As he explained then, you must learn how covert intelligence operations work before you can even approach what happened at Dealey Plaza, let alone understand it.

Years later, as he was portrayed as “Mr. X” in Oliver Stone’s JFK, John Judge introduced him to the National Public Radio host who broadcasted daily out of American University. Then John filled in for someone who couldn’t make it to the American University program on Film and Politics, which was cablecast over ESPN – and gave John Judge his first big audience. Prouty was maligned for speaking before right wing audiences, but he was good friends with my former neighbor Ralph Cox, the former Navy pilot and US Overseas Airlines, that the CIA put out of business.

While many researchers still malign Prouty for his sometimes radical beliefs, no one can take away the fact that he was an Air Force Colonel who served in the Pentagon as the liaison to the CIA, and was the first person to call my attention to General “Brut” Krulak, the head of the military’s support for CIA covert activities, especially against Cuba. Krulak assigned the Ranger Captains Bradley Ayers and Edward Roderick to the CIA at JMWAVE to train the anti-Castro Cuban commandos. And it was Krulak and Prouty who say they think they see Gen. Lansdale in photos of Dealey Plaza in the immediate aftermath of the assassination.

Captain Bradley Ayers USA Ranger (Ret) – Bradley Ayers realized that the anti-Castro Cubans he trained at JMWAVE bases in Florida, for covert intelligence missions against Cuba, were somehow involved in the assassination of President Kennedy, he just didn’t know how. He wrote two books on the subject, the first “The War That Never Was” went to an Indiana publisher, whose attorney just happened to be William Harvey, after he had left the CIA. Since Ayers didn’t sign a CIA security oath that required him to have anything he wrote officially vetted by the CIA before publication, it was left to Harvey to censor aspects of the book that he felt violated their security – including all references to Gordon Campbell, the head of JMWAVE Maritime operations and Ayers’ boss.

Then, years later, a film of the Ambassador Hotel in the aftermath of the RFK shooting featured a number of interesting faces, two of whom Ayers miss-identified as JMWAVE Operations Chief David Morales and Gordon Campbell.

Another important witness who also miss-identified these men in the film was Wayne Smith.

Wayne Smith – State Department Staff at US Embassy in Havana w/ David Morales and Sam Kail, told me that he was in an amateur theater troup in Havana with David Atlee Phillips, and knew Morales and Sam Kail from his work at the US Embassy there.

David Atlee Phillips – Former CIA officer, Western Hemisphere Division chief, head of Cuban Covert Operations, worked out of Mexico City when Oswald ostensibly visited there, and identified as the mysterious “Maurice Bishop” spymaster described by Antonio Veciana, who met with Oswald in Dallas in the summer of 1963.

Col. Sam Kail – US Army Intelligence officer, stationed at the US Embassy in Havana when Castro took over, met with Veciana and Col. Brandy – the director of the Havana Hilton, where Castro stayed when he took over power. Kail later worked for Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (ACSI) with Dorothie Matlack, and both interviewed George deMohnrenschildt, after he left Oswald and saw the rifle, but before he went to Haiti.

David Morales – Head of Covert Operations at the CIA’s JMWAVE Station, miss-identified by Ayers and Wayne Smith as being in the RFK Ambassador film.

Gordon Campbell – Head of JMWAVE Maritime Operations, and Ayers’ boss in the CIA, miss-identified as being in the RFK Ambassador film, reportedly died in 1962, though Ayers claims he worked with Campbell AFTER the apparent date of his death. Campbell lived with his wife on a boat in a Florida marina.

At first I didn’t understand how Campbell could have died and still be alive? Until I listened to Gene Wheaton’s interview with a Minnesota documentary film maker, that details exactly how they do it. Wheaton, who served in the US Marines, Army and Air Force at different times, said that the Air Force had a foreign program where a covert operative would be assigned to a fake cover job overseas, and while ostensibly there, delivered to another country to work undercover on a covert operation, usually a “wet” one where people are murdered. Then they are brought back to their cover job, and then returned to their regular job.

Wheaton on Project Diogenes ZD - JFKCountercoup2: Zeta-Diogenes - ZD - USAF Assassination Project

Bradley Ayers also recalls Gordon Campbell’s “outside man,” – named Karl – who had previously worked in Germany (probably for William Harvey), and dealt with the Cuban Commando teams. According to Ayers, when his assignment at JMWAVE was over, Karl was taken up in a helicopter and in Ayers’ presence, was thrown out of the helicopter and killed. And Ayers was a witness and had to write a report on it. I don’t believe Karl was killed at all, but it was some kind of magic trick just to get Ayers to write Karl off as dead, so he could go on to work on another covert intel op in another arena. And the same thing may have happened to Gordon Campbell.

In any case, these are the men who were heavily involved in CIA covert ops against Cuba who were intentionally discredited because they knew too much.