tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5226351427918075122024-02-26T09:35:10.073-08:00JFKCountercoup2William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.comBlogger1147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522635142791807512.post-85478788387301078122023-06-30T21:11:00.001-07:002023-06-30T21:11:13.475-07:00Pakistan Report on Biden Dismissing JFK Act <p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">Biden
Issues Memo Concluding Review Of JFK Assassination Records - White House</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="https://www.pakistanpoint.com/en/story/1716994/biden-issues-memo-concluding-review-of-jfk-assassinatio.html">https://www.pakistanpoint.com/en/story/1716994/biden-issues-memo-concluding-review-of-jfk-assassinatio.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <a href="https://www.pakistanpoint.com/en/author/anas-khan-6.html" target="_blank">Anas
Khan</a> 4 hours ago<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">WASHINGTON
(Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 01st July, 2023) US President Joe Biden has
issued a memorandum concluding the review of declassified records related to
the 1963 assassination of former President John Kennedy, <a href="https://www.pakistanpoint.com/en/tag/white-house.html" target="_blank">White
House</a> spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre announced.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"As
part of the Biden-Harris administration's continued commitment to <a href="https://www.pakistanpoint.com/en/tag/government.html" target="_blank">government</a> transparency
and accountability, President Biden issued a memorandum today concluding the
review of records <a href="https://www.pakistanpoint.com/en/tag/from.html" target="_blank">from</a> President John F. Kennedy's assassination records
collection. Under President Biden's leadership, agencies have fully
declassified over 16,000 records since 2021," Jean-Pierre said on Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
action reflects Biden's instruction that <a href="https://www.pakistanpoint.com/en/tag/all.html" target="_blank">all</a> information
related to Kennedy's assassination should be released except when the strongest
possible reasons counsel otherwise, Jean-Pierre said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"As
a <a href="https://www.urdupoint.com/education/results.html" target="_blank">result</a>, over 99 percent of the records in the collection
are now publicly available at the National Archives," Jean-Pierre said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In
keeping with Biden's direction, the National Archives will digitize the entire
collection to make it more accessible to the public, she added.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Kennedy
was assassinated on <a href="https://www.pakistanpoint.com/en/tag/november.html" target="_blank">November</a> 22,
1963 while riding in a motorcade in <a href="https://www.pakistanpoint.com/en/tag/dallas.html" target="_blank">Dallas</a>,
Texas. The president was shot by US Marine Corp veteran Lee Harvey Oswald,
according to the official Warren Commission report released in 1964.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
Warren Commission's report was initially sealed until 2039 before <a href="https://www.pakistanpoint.com/en/tag/congress.html" target="_blank">Congress</a> passed
the so-called JFK Records Act in 1992, which directed the National Archives and
Records Administration to develop a collection on the assassination.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
official narrative has been the subject of intense criticism whereby a number
of alternative theories to explain Kennedy's assassination have since been
offered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522635142791807512.post-8689012227831920712023-06-24T08:53:00.004-07:002023-06-24T08:53:35.285-07:00Why RFK, Jr. Will Be the 2004 Democratic nominee THE HILL <p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">From The
Hill – Washington D.C. Capitol Hill News</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Why I
believe RFK Jr. will be the 2024 Democratic nominee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">BY
DOUGLAS MACKINNON, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR - 05/27/23 12:00 PM ET<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
<a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4020920-why-i-believe-rfk-jr-will-be-the-2024-democratic-nominee/">https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4020920-why-i-believe-rfk-jr-will-be-the-2024-democratic-nominee/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">If the
shocking 2016 presidential election of Donald J. Trump taught us anything, it
should be that voters can still be unpredictable and unpollable, and that
millions of them believe that the entrenched elites from both political parties
no longer hear their voices or speak for them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Voters
are continually seeking a new champion. Will Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. become
such a champion? I believe so — at least as far as the Democratic primary
process is concerned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When
that process is final and all the votes from the primaries and caucuses have
been tabulated, I believe Kennedy will emerge as the Democratic nominee for
president in 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Cue the
laughter and pejoratives. Most from the left. Some from the right. In our
increasingly polarized times, everything seems to be viewed through the prisms
of ideology, tribalism, anger, hate and the outright dismissal of voices in
opposition to our own. But if we choose to put down those often-distorted
prisms and open our eyes, there are still facts, figures and pragmatic reasons
as to why the less obvious (or the most ridiculed) might still be the correct
answer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">My first
reason for predicting a Kennedy nomination is that I am still not convinced
President Joe Biden will actually run for reelection, primarily because of
concerns regarding his advanced age and the perception of cognitive decline.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">With
regard to Biden’s age being a roadblock to a 2024 campaign, we have this from
former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who was asked about it at
the Financial Times Weekend Festival: “His age is an issue. And people have
every right to consider it.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In
a Quinnipiac poll out this week, 65 percent of voters said they think
Biden, 80, is too old for a second term. That’s a share that could very well
continue to rise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But for
the moment, Biden has declared his intention to run for reelection. And therein
lies reason number two why I believe Kennedy will be the eventual nominee. The
longer Biden stays in the race, the more he hurts the chances of undeclared
Democratic contenders such as Vice President Kamala Harris, California Gov.
Gavin Newsom, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg or even former First
Lady Michelle Obama. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As Biden
lets other potential candidates twist in the wind, Kennedy continues to
crisscross the nation taking almost every media opportunity given to him — even
and especially those on the right, such as Fox News and the New York Post.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Of
course, one of the reasons Kennedy is appearing on conservative outlets is
because many in the now-activist mainstream media refuse to give him a
platform.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Back in
1975 and 1976, when former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter ran his longshot campaign
for the White House, some in the media also refused to give him a platform. But
they did so because they ignorantly dismissed his campaign as a joke, not
because they were personally or ideologically opposed to his policies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Today,
many in the media refuse to have Kennedy on because they are outraged that he
dared to question the lockdowns, masking and vaccine mandates that came in the
wake of the COVID-19 virus. Additionally, I believe many of them are simply
running interference for the Biden White House. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But
again, there is a real danger in viewing the political process with ideological
blinders permanently attached to your face. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch
recently used a statement in a lawsuit over the Title 42 public health order to
give a scathing overview of how civil liberties were trampled during the COVID
era. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
U.S., he wrote, may “have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil
liberties in the peacetime history of this country….Executive officials across
the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale. Governors and
local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes.
They shuttered businesses and schools, public and private. They closed churches
even as they allowed casinos and other favored businesses to carry on. They
threatened violators not just with civil penalties but with criminal sanctions
too.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Many on
the left now condemning Kennedy as an “anti-vaxxer” might have no problem with
these draconian actions. But guess what? Tens of millions of Americans did and
still do.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">These
Americans are going to be very open to hearing Kennedy’s voice as he barnstorms
the nation in the face of a liberal media blackout. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The next
reason why I believe Kennedy will prevail is that he is far from the “one
issue” candidate some in the media believe him to be. He is speaking to
multiple issues a majority of voters want addressed — issues which have been
upending their quality of life for years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Kennedy’s
“ace in the hole” may very well be his simplified campaign message: “Tell the
truth.” He pledges to roll up his sleeves much like his dad did in the 1960s
and engage in honest conversations with the people. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Next,
because of the Kennedy name coupled with his own stated values, RFK Jr. will
make tremendous inroads with Black, Hispanic and disenfranchised voters — a
large part of the Democratic base.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">After
Kennedy met with the editorial board of the New York Post, the
editors wrote: “Kennedy has real conviction and charisma, and he’s
fiercely independent of many of the party’s reigning pieties — all of which
should appeal.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">His
message should most especially appeal considering the latest Monmouth
University poll declaring that only 16 percent of respondents said the
U.S. is headed in the right direction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/4061068-bidens-drug-price-controls-are-disastrous-are-they-also-unconstitutional/" target="_blank">Biden’s drug price controls are disastrous — are they also
unconstitutional?</a><a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/4065497-who-is-lying-merrick-garland-or-the-whistleblowers/" target="_blank">Who is lying? Merrick Garland or the whistleblowers?</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Sixteen
percent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
headline for that Post editorial read: “Biden’s a fool to ignore the RFK Jr.
challenge.” To that list of “fools” I would add the activist media and the
Democratic Party. Despise him all you want, but Kennedy is already polling at
20 percent against Biden as his pragmatic voice continues to reach more and
more Americans in search of a champion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Douglas
MacKinnon, a political and communications consultant, was a writer in the White
House for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and former special
assistant for policy and communications at the Pentagon during the last three
years of the Bush administration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522635142791807512.post-21931317448617692952023-06-24T08:45:00.000-07:002023-06-24T08:45:04.457-07:00Randy Benson at AU on June 10, 2023 <p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">Randolph
Benson</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And We
Are All Mortal:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A
Commemoration of the 60th anniversary of JFK’s American University “Peace
Speech”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Delivered
by Randolph Benson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">12 Noon,
June 10, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We
gather today to commemorate the 60th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's American
University commencement address, also known as his "Peace Speech",
here at the very spot of the speech.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This
gathering was first held in 1999 by Coalition on Political Assassinations
co-founders John Judge and Bill Kelly, and longtime COPA board member, T
Carter. I first came in 2002, where I filmed the first frames of my film The Searchers.
John Judge held this every year until his death in April 2014. While no one can
possibly replace John, as a former member of COPA and a mentee of John’s, I
felt it was important to continue this tradition, and I’ve held this every year
since John’s death and will continue to do so as long as I’m able.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In the
spring of 1963 President Kennedy began to feel that there was a possibility for
some kind of new movement in our relations with the Soviet Union. He began to
look for an opportunity to make what was described by National Security Advisor
McGeorge Bundy as a “peace speech.” This was a project that was kept extremely
confidential in the White House. Bundy began in a quiet way to get from two or
three members of the White House staff ideas which might go into such a speech.
Speechwriter and presidential advisor Ted Sorensen worked on it. The president
thought a great deal about it, talked with Sorensen and Bundy and made clear
the point of view and the ideas that he wanted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A draft
of the speech emerged and it was shown to a small group in the White House. The
president had been in Hawaii and on the Friday before the Monday commencement
Ted Sorensen flew to Honolulu with the draft of the speech and the president
worked on his final revisions on his way back to Washington.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">According
to Presidential historian Arthur Schlesinger, the speech was not shown to the
State Department or to the Defense Department until two days before the speech.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">At noon
on Monday, June 10, 1963 Kennedy addressed the graduating class of American
University delivering the following words (abridged):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">There
are few earthly things more beautiful than a university wrote John Masefield
and his tribute to English universities and his words are equally true today.
He didn't refer to spires or towers, to campus dreams and ivied walls.
Masefield admired the splendid beauty of the university, he said, because it
was “a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, for those who
perceive truth may strive to make others see.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I have
therefore chosen this time in this place to discuss a topic on which ignorance
too often abounds and the truth is too rarely perceived. Yet it is the most
important topic on earth: world peace. What kind of peace do I mean and what
kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana, forced on the world by American
weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I'm
talking about genuine peace. The kind of peace that makes life on earth worth
living; the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build
a better life for their children. Not merely peace for Americans but peace for
all men and women. Not merely peace in our time, but peace for all time. I
speak of peace because of the new face of war.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">First
let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it's
impossible. Too many think it’s unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist
belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is
doomed and that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept
that view. Our problems are man-made therefore they can be solved by man; and
man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human
beings. Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable and
we believe they can do it again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">There is
no single, simple key to this peace; no grand or magic formula to be adopted by
one or two powers. Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum
of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of
each new generation. For peace is a process -- a way of solving problems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">No
government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as
lacking in virtue. As Americans, we find communism profoundly repugnant as a
negation of personal freedom and dignity. But we can still hail the Russian
people for their many achievements in science and space, in economic and
industrial growth, in culture, in acts of courage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">So let
us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our
common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved. And
if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe
for diversity. For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we
all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our
children's futures. And we are all mortal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We shall
also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the
strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its
success. Confident and unafraid, we must labor on -- not towards a strategy of
annihilation but towards a strategy of peace.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This
speech was immediately to become known around the world as JFK’s Peace Speech.
This speech received very little coverage in the news here in the United
States, however it was front page news in papers around the world. In fact,
Soviet Premier Kruschev ordered the speech to appear of the front page of the
state newspaper, Pravda.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">JFK then
aggressively initiated a number of unilateral policy changes in line with what
he expressed in this speech:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">On June
28, JFK signed and had delivered to the Joint Chiefs of Staff National Security
Action Memorandums – NSAMs - 55, 56, 57, which ordered:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
Joint Chiefs of Staff would be wholly responsible for all covert and
paramilitary actions in peacetime, which was effectively removing all power
from the CIA and placing it within the Pentagon, who answered directly to the
President, with all of the oversight of the Executive and Legislative branches.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This has
been accepted as JFK’s first step in “splintering the CIA into a thousand
pieces and scattering them into the winds”, as he said he would after the Bay
of Pigs in 1961.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">On
August 5, representatives of the United States, Soviet Union and Great Britain
signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited the testing of
nuclear weapons in outer space, underwater or in the atmosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">On
September 20, President John F. Kennedy gave a speech at the United Nations
that proposed converting the “moon race” to a cooperative venture with the
Soviet Union.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">On
September 21, JFK ordered the evaluation of massive wheat sales to the Soviet
Union, and talks began between our two countries on September 30 and lasted
until November 5. The agreement had then begun its process of inter- and
intra-governmental review.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">On
October 11, he signed NSAM 263, and delivered it to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
It reads, in part:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">At a
meeting on October 5, 1963, the President considered the recommendations
contained in the report of Secretary McNamara and General Taylor on their
mission to South Vietnam.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
President approved the... implementation of plans to withdraw 1,000 U.S.
military personnel by the end of 1963. We recommend that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A
program be established to train Vietnamese so<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">that
essential functions now performed by U.S. military personnel can be carried out
by Vietnamese by the end of 1965. It should be possible to withdraw the bulk of
U.S. personnel by that time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">President
Kennedy was assassinated about six weeks later, on November 22. On November 26,
just four days after the assassination, the new president, Lyndon Johnson,
signed NSAM 273 which reversed Kennedy’s Vietnam withdrawal policy, approved an
expansion of America’s involvement in the Vietnam war and approved covert
military and non-military action into Cambodia and Laos, which put the CIA back
in its pre-NSAM 263 position.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In the
following months, the wheat sales were scrapped, nuclear testing re-started,
the expansion of the military state accelerated as well as the war in Vietnam.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">However,
on this spot, at the moment, 60 years ago, President John F. Kennedy gave us
his vision for peace. For that he was murdered. For that, we must find common
ground, acknowledge our shared humanity, and work together. As JFK stated,
“confident and unafraid, we must labor on...towards a strategy of peace”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Thank
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PART I - PURPOSE, POLICY AND IMPLEMENTATION<br />
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Section 101. Purpose. This order delegates authorities and addresses national
defense industrial resource policies and programs under the Defense Production
Act of 1950, as amended ("the Act"), except for the amendments to
Title III of the Act in the Energy Security Act of 1980 and telecommunication
authorities under Executive Order No. 12472.<br />
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Sec. 102. Policy. The United States must have an industrial and technology base
capable of meeting national defense requirements, and capable of contributing
to the technological superiority of its defense equipment in peacetime and in
times of national emergency. The domestic industrial and technological base is
the foundation for national defense preparedness. The authorities provided in
the Act shall be used to strengthen this base and to ensure it is capable of
responding to all threats to the national security of the United States.<br />
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Sec. 103. General Functions. Federal departments and agencies responsible for
defense acquisition (or for industrial resources needed to support defense
acquisition) shall:<br />
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(a) Identify requirements for the full spectrum of national security
emergencies, including military, industrial, and essential civilian demand;<br />
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(b) Assess continually the capability of the domestic industrial and
technological base to satisfy requirements in peacetime and times of national
emergency, specifically evaluating the availability of adequate industrial
resource and production sources, including subcontractors and suppliers,
materials, skilled labor, and professional and technical personnel;<br />
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(c) Be prepared, in the event of a potential threat to the security of the
United States, to take actions necessary to ensure the availability of adequate
industrial resources and production capability, including services and critical
technology for national defense requirements;<br />
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(d) Improve the efficiency and responsiveness, to defense requirements, of the
domestic industrial base; and<br />
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(e) Foster cooperation between the defense and commercial sectors for research
and development and for acquisition of materials, components, and equipment to
enhance industrial base efficiency and responsiveness.<br />
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Sec. 104. Implementation.<br />
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(a) The National Security Council is the principal forum for consideration and
resolution of national security resource preparedness policy.<br />
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(b) The Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency ("Director,
FEMA") shall:<br />
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(1) Serve as an advisor to the National Security Council on issues of national
security resource preparedness and on the use of the authorities and functions
delegated by this order;<br />
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(2) Provide for the central coordination of the plans and programs incident to
authorities and functions delegated under this order, and provide guidance and
procedures approved by the Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs to the Federal departments and agencies under this order;<br />
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(3) Establish procedures, in consultation with Federal departments and agencies
assigned functions under this order, to resolve in a timely and effective
manner conflicts and issues that may arise in implementing the authorities and
functions delegated under this order; and<br />
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(4) Report to the President periodically concerning all program activities
conducted pursuant to this order.<br />
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(c) The head of every Federal department and agency assigned functions under
this order shall ensure that the performance of these functions is consistent
with National Security Council policy and guidelines.<br />
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PART II - PRIORITIES AND ALLOCATIONS<br />
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Sec. 201. Delegations of Priorities and Allocations.<br />
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(a) The authority of the President conferred by section 101 of the Act to
require acceptance and priority performance of contracts or orders (other than
contracts of employment) to promote the national defense over performance of
any other contracts or orders, and to allocate materials, services, and
facilities as deemed necessary or appropriate to promote the national defense,
is delegated to the following agency heads:<br />
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(1) The Secretary of Agriculture with respect to food resources, food resource
facilities, and the domestic distribution of farm equipment and commercial
fertilizer;<br />
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(2) The Secretary of Energy with respect to all forms of energy;<br />
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(3) The Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to health
resources;<br />
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(4) The Secretary of Transportation with respect to all forms of civil
transportation;<br />
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(5) The Secretary of Defense with respect to water resources; and<br />
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(6) The Secretary of Commerce for all other materials, services, and
facilities, including construction materials.<br />
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(b) The Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the heads of those
departments and agencies specified in subsection 201(a) of this order, shall
administer the Defense Priorities and Allocations System ("DPA")
regulations that will be used to implement the authority of the President
conferred by section 101 of the Act as delegated to the Secretary of Commerce
in subsection 201(a)(6) of this order. The Secretary of Commerce will
re-delegate to the Secretary of Defense, and the heads of other departments and
agencies as appropriate, authority for the priority rating of contracts and
orders for all materials, services, and facilities needed in support of
programs approved under section 202 of this order. The Secretary of Commerce
shall act as appropriate upon Special Priorities Assistance requests in a time
frame consistent with the urgency of the need at hand.<br />
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(c) The Director, FEMA, shall attempt to resolve issues or disagreements on
priorities or allocations between Federal departments or agencies in a time
frame consistent with the urgency of the issue at hand and, if not resolved,
such issues will be referred to the Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs for final determination.<br />
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(d) The head of each Federal department or agency assigned functions under
subsection 201(a) of this order, when necessary, shall make the finding
required under subsection 101(b) of the Act. This finding shall be submitted
for the President's approval through the Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs. Upon such approval the head of the Federal
department or agency that made the finding may use the authority of subsection
101(a) of the Act to control the general distribution of any material
(including applicable services) in the civilian market.<br />
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(e) The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs is hereby
delegated the authority under subsection 101(c)(3) of the Act, and will be
assisted by the Director, FEMA, in ensuring the coordinated administration of
the Act.<br />
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Sec. 202. Determinations. The authority delegated by section 201 of this order
may be used only to support programs that have been determined in writing as
necessary or appropriate to promote the national defense:<br />
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(a) By the Secretary of Defense with respect to military production and
construction, military assistance to foreign nations, stockpiling, outer space,
and directly related activities;<br />
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(b) By the Secretary of Energy with respect to energy production and
construction, distribution and use, and directly related activities; and<br />
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(c) By the Director, FEMA, with respect to essential civilian needs supporting
national defense, including civil defense and continuity of government and
directly related activities.<br />
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Sec. 203. Maximizing Domestic Energy Supplies. The authority of the President
to perform the functions provided by subsection 101(c) of the Act is delegated
to the Secretary of Commerce, who shall redelegate to the Secretary of Energy
the authority to make the findings described in subsection 101(c)(2)(A) that
the materials (including equipment), services, and facilities are critical and
essential. The Secretary of Commerce shall make the finding described in
subsection 101(c)(2)(A) of the Act that the materials (including equipment),
services, or facilities are scarce, and the finding described in subsection
101(c)(2)(B) that it is necessary to use the authority provided by subsection
101(c)(1).<br />
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Sec. 204. Chemical and Biological Warfare. The authority of the President
conferred by subsection 104(b) of the Act is delegated to the Secretary of
Defense. This authority may not be further delegated by the Secretary.<br />
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PART III - EXPANSION OF PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY AND SUPPLY<br />
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Sec. 301.<br />
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(a) Financing Institution Guarantees. To expedite or expand production and
deliveries or services under government contracts for the procurement of
industrial resources or critical technology items essential to the national
defense, the head of each Federal department or agency engaged in procurement
for the national defense (referred to as "agency head" in this part)
and the President and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States
(in cases involving capacity expansion, technological development, or
production in foreign countries) are authorized to guarantee in whole or in
part any public or private financing institution, subject to provisions of
section 301 of the Act. Guarantees shall be made in consultation with the
Department of the Treasury as to the terms and conditions thereof. The Director
of the Office of Management and Budget ("OMB") shall be informed when
such guarantees are to be made.<br />
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(b) Direct Loan Guarantees. To expedite or expand production and deliveries or
services under government contracts for the procurement of industrial resources
or critical technology items essential to the national defense, each agency
head is authorized to make direct loan guarantees from funds appropriated to their
agency for Title III.<br />
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(c) Fiscal Agent. Each Federal Reserve Bank is designated and authorized to
act, on behalf of any guaranteeing agency, as fiscal agent in the making of
guarantee contracts and in otherwise carrying out the purposes of section 301
of the Act.<br />
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(d) Regulations. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is
authorized, after consultation with heads of guaranteeing departments and
agencies, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Director, OMB, to prescribe
regulations governing procedures, forms, rates of interest, and fees for such
guarantee contracts.<br />
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Sec. 302. Loans.<br />
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(a) To expedite production and deliveries or services to aid in carrying out
government contracts for the procurement of industrial resources or a critical
technology item for the national defense, an agency head is authorized, subject
to the provisions of section 302 of the Act, to submit to the Secretary of the
Treasury or the President and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United
States (in cases involving capacity expansion, technological development, or
production in foreign countries) applications for loans.<br />
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(b) To expedite or expand production and deliveries or services under
government contracts for the procurement of industrial resources or critical
technology items essential to the national defense, each agency head may make
direct loans from funds appropriated to their agency for Title III.<br />
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(c) After receiving a loan application and determining that financial
assistance is not otherwise available on reasonable terms, the Secretary of the
Treasury or the President and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United
States (in cases involving capacity expansion, technological development, or
production in foreign countries) may make loans, subject to provisions of
section 302 of the Act.<br />
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Sec. 303. Purchase Commitments.<br />
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(a) In order to carry out the objectives of the Act, and subject to the
provisions of section 303 thereof, an agency head is authorized to make
provision for purchases of, or commitments to purchase, an industrial resource
or a critical technology item for government use or resale.<br />
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(b) Materials acquired under section 303 of the Act that exceed the needs of
the programs under the Act may be transferred to the National Defense
Stockpile, if such transfer is determined by the Secretary of Defense as the
National Defense Stockpile Manager to be in the public interest.<br />
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Sec. 304. Subsidy Payments. In order to ensure the supply of raw or
non-processed materials from high-cost sources, an agency head is authorized to
make subsidy payments, after consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury
and the Director, OMB, and subject to the provisions of section 303(c) of the
Act.<br />
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Sec. 305. Determinations and Findings. When carrying out the authorities in
sections 301 through 303 of this order, an agency head is authorized to make
the required determinations, judgments, statements, certifications, and
findings, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Energy or
Director, FEMA, as appropriate. The agency head shall provide a copy of the
determination, judgment, statement, certification, or finding to the Director,
OMB, to the Director, FEMA, and, when appropriate, to the Secretary of the
Treasury.<br />
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Sec. 306. Strategic and Critical Materials.<br />
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(a) The Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Secretary of
Defense as the National Defense Stockpile Manager and subject to the provisions
of section 303 of the Act, is authorized to encourage the exploration,
development, and mining of critical and strategic materials and other
materials.<br />
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(b) An agency head is authorized, pursuant to section 303(g) of the Act, to
make provision for the development of substitutes for strategic and critical
materials, critical components, critical technology items, and other industrial
resources to aid the national defense.<br />
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(c) An agency head is authorized, pursuant to section 303(a)(1)(B) of the Act,
to make provisions to encourage the exploration, development, and mining of
critical and strategic materials and other materials.<br />
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Sec. 307. Government-owned Equipment. An agency head is authorized, pursuant to
section 303(e) of the Act, to install additional equipment, facilities,
processes, or improvements to facilities owned by the government and to install
government-owned equipment in industrial facilities owned by private persons.<br />
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Sec. 308. Identification of Shortfalls. Except during periods of national
emergency or after a Presidential determination in accordance with sections
301(e)(1)(D)(ii), 302(c)(4)(B), or 303(a)(7)(B) of the Act, no guarantee, loan
or other action pursuant to sections 301, 302, and 303 of the Act to correct an
industrial shortfall shall be taken unless the shortfall has been identified in
the Budget of the United States or amendments thereto.<br />
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Sec. 309. Defense Production Act Fund Manager. The Secretary of Defense is
designated the Defense Production Act Fund Manager, in accordance with section
304(f) of the Act, and shall carry out the duties specified in that section, in
consultation with the agency heads having approved Title III projects and
appropriated Title III funds.<br />
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Sec. 310. Critical Items List.<br />
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(a) Pursuant to section 107(b)(1)(A) of the Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
identify critical components and critical technology items for each item on the
Critical Items List of the Commanders-in-Chief of the Unified and Specified
Commands and other items within the inventory of weapon systems and defense
equipment.<br />
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(b) Each agency head shall take appropriate action to ensure that critical
components or critical technology items are available from reliable sources
when needed to meet defense requirements during peacetime, graduated
mobilization, and national emergency. "Appropriate action" may include
restricting contract solicitations to reliable sources, restricting contract
solicitations to domestic sources (pursuant to statutory authority),
stockpiling critical components, and developing substitutes for critical
components or critical technology items.<br />
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Sec. 311. Strengthening Domestic Capability. An agency head, in accordance with
section 107(a) of the Act, may utilize the authority of Title III of the Act or
any other provision of law, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, to
provide appropriate incentives to develop, maintain, modernize, and expand the
productive capacities of domestic sources for critical components, critical
technology items, and industrial resources essential for the execution of the
national security strategy of the United States.<br />
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Sec. 312. Modernization of Equipment. An agency head, in accordance with
section 108(b) of the Act, may utilize the authority of Title III of the Act to
guarantee the purchase or lease of advance manufacturing equipment and any
related services with respect to any such equipment for purposes of the Act.<br />
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PART IV - IMPACT OF OFFSETS<br />
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Sec. 401. Offsets.<br />
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(a) The responsibilities and authority conferred upon the President by section
309 of the Act with respect to offsets are delegated to the Secretary of
Commerce, who shall function as the President's Executive Agent for carrying
out this authority.<br />
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(b) The Secretary of Commerce shall prepare the annual report required by
section 309(a) of the Act in consultation with the Secretaries of Defense,
Treasury, Labor, State, the United States Trade Representative, the Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency, the Director of Central Intelligence, and the
heads of other departments and agencies as required. The heads of Federal
departments and agencies shall provide the Secretary of Commerce with such
information as may be necessary for the effective performance of this function.<br />
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(c) The offset report shall be subject to the normal interagency clearance
process conducted by the Director, OMB, prior to the report's submission by the
President to Congress.<br />
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PART V - VOLUNTARY AGREEMENTS AND ADVISORY COMMITTEES<br />
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Sec. 501. Appointments. The authority of the President under sections 708(c)
and (d) of the Act is delegated to the heads of each Federal department or
agency, except that, insofar as that authority relates to section 101 of the
Act, it is delegated only to the heads of each Federal department or agency
assigned functions under section 201(a) of this order. The authority delegated
under this section shall be exercised pursuant to the provisions of section 708
of the Act, and copies and the status of the use of such delegations shall be
furnished to the Director, FEMA.<br />
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Sec. 502. Advisory Committees. The authority of the President under section
708(d) of the Act and delegated in section 501 of this order (relating to
establishment of advisory committees) shall be exercised only after
consultation with, and in accordance with, guidelines and procedures
established by the Administrator of General Services.<br />
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PART VI - EMPLOYMENT OF PERSONNEL<br />
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Sec. 601. National Defense Executive Reserve.<br />
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(a) In accordance with section 710(e) of the Act, there is established in the
Executive Branch a National Defense Executive Reserve ("NDER")
composed of persons of recognized expertise from various segments of the
private sector and from government (except full-time federal employees) for
training for employment in executive positions in the Federal Government in the
event of an emergency that requires such employment.<br />
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(b) The head of any department or agency may establish a unit of the NDER in
the department or agency and train members of that unit.<br />
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(c) The head of each department or agency with an NDER unit is authorized to
exercise the President's authority to employ civilian personnel in accordance
with section 703(a) of the Act when activating all or a part of its NDER unit.
The exercise of this authority shall be subject to the provisions of
subsections 601(d) and (e) of this order and shall not be re-delegated.<br />
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(d) The head of a department or agency may activate an NDER unit, in whole or
in part, upon the written determination that an emergency affecting the
national security or defense preparedness of the United States exists and that
the activation of the unit is necessary to carry out the emergency program
functions of the department or agency.<br />
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(e) At least 72 hours prior to activating the NDER unit, the head of the
department or agency shall notify, in writing, the Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs of the impending activation and provide a copy of
the determination required under subsection 601(d) of this order.<br />
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(f) The Director, FEMA, shall coordinate the NDER program activities of
departments and agencies in establishing units of the Reserve; provide for
appropriate guidance for recruitment, training, and activation; and issue
necessary rules and guidance in connection with the program.<br />
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(g) This order suspends any delegated authority, regulation, or other
requirement or condition with respect to the activation of any NDER unit, in
whole or in part, or appointment of any NDER member that is inconsistent with
the authorities delegated herein, provided that the aforesaid suspension
applies only as long as sections 703(a) and 710(e) of the Act are in effect.<br />
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Sec. 602. Consultants. The head of each department or agency assigned functions
under this order is delegated authority under sections 710(b) and (c) of the
Act to employ persons of outstanding experience and ability without
compensation and to employ experts, consultants, or organizations. The
authority delegated by this section shall not be re-delegated.<br />
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PART VII - LABOR SUPPLY<br />
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Sec. 701. Secretary of Labor. The Secretary of Labor, identified in this
section as the Secretary, shall:<br />
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(a) Collect, analyze, and maintain data needed to make a continuing appraisal
of the nation's labor requirements and the supply of workers for purposes of
national defense. All agencies of the government shall cooperate with the
Secretary in furnishing information necessary for this purpose, to the extent
permitted by law;<br />
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(b) In response to requests from the head of a Federal department or agency
engaged in the procurement for national defense, consult with and advise that
department or agency with respect to (1) the effect of contemplated actions on
labor supply and utilization, (2) the relation of labor supply to materials and
facilities requirements, and (3) such other matters as will assist in making
the exercise of priority and allocations functions consistent with effective
utilization and distribution of labor;<br />
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(c) Formulate plans, programs, and policies for meeting defense and essential
civilian labor requirements;<br />
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(d) Project skill shortages to facilitate meeting defense and essential
civilian needs and establish training programs;<br />
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(e) Determine the occupations and skills critical to meeting the labor
requirements of defense and essential civilian activities and, with the
assistance of the Secretary of Defense, the Director of Selective Service, and
such other persons as the Director, FEMA, may designate, develop policies
regulating the induction and deferment of personnel for the armed services,
except for civilian personnel in the reserves; and<br />
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(f) Administer an effective labor-management relations policy to support the
activities and programs under this order with the cooperation of other Federal
agencies, including the National Labor Relations Board and the Federal
Mediation and Conciliation Service.<br />
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PART VIII - DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE INFORMATION AND REPORTS<br />
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Sec. 801. Foreign Acquisition of Companies. The Secretary of the Treasury, in
cooperation with the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the
Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy, the Department of
Agriculture, the Attorney General, and the Director of Central Intelligence,
shall complete and furnish a report to the President and then to Congress in
accordance with the requirements of section 721(k) of the Act concerning
foreign efforts to acquire United States companies involved in research,
development, or production of critical technologies and industrial espionage
activities directed by foreign governments against private U.S. companies.<br />
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Sec. 802. Defense Industrial Base Information System.<br />
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(a) The Secretary of Defense and the heads of other appropriate Federal
departments and agencies, as determined by the Secretary of Defense, shall
establish an information system on the domestic defense industrial base in
accordance with the requirements of section 722 of the Act.<br />
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(b) In establishing the information system required by subsection (a) of this
order, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Commerce, and the heads of
other appropriate Federal departments and agencies, as determined by the
Secretary of Defense in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, shall
consult with each other for the purposes of performing the duties listed in
section 722(d)(1) of the Act.<br />
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(c) The Secretary of Defense shall convene a task force consisting of the
Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of each military department and the
heads of other appropriate Federal departments and agencies, as determined by
the Secretary of Defense in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, to
carry out the duties under section 722(d)(2) of the Act.<br />
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(d) The Secretary of Defense shall report to Congress on a strategic plan for
developing a cost-effective, comprehensive information system capable of
identifying on a timely, ongoing basis vulnerability in critical components and
critical technology items. The plans shall include an assessment of the
performance and cost-effectiveness of procedures specified in section 722(b) of
the Act.<br />
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(e) The Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Bureau of the Census, shall
consult with the Secretary of Defense and the Director, FEMA, to improve the
usefulness of information derived from the Census of Manufacturers in carrying
out section 722 of the Act.<br />
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(f) The Secretary of Defense shall perform an analysis of the production base
for not more than two major weapons systems of each military department in
establishing the information system under section 722 of the Act. Each analysis
shall identify the critical components of each system.<br />
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(g) The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce,
and the heads of other Federal departments and agencies as appropriate, shall
issue a biennial report on critical components and technology in accordance
with section 722(e) of the Act.<br />
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PART IX - GENERAL PROVISIONS<br />
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Sec. 901. Definitions. In addition to the definitions in section 702 of the
Act, the following definitions apply throughout this order:<br />
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(a) "Civil transportation" includes movement of persons and property
by all modes of transportation in interstate, intrastate, or foreign commerce
within the United States, its territories and possessions, and the District of
Columbia, and, without limitation, related public storage and warehousing,
ports, services, equipment and facilities, such as transportation carrier shop
and repair facilities. However, "civil transportation" shall not
include transportation owned or controlled by the Department of Defense, use of
petroleum and gas pipelines, and coal slurry pipelines used only to supply
energy production facilities directly. As applied herein, "civil transportation"
shall include direction, control, and coordination of civil transportation
capacity regardless of ownership.<br />
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(b) Energy means all forms of energy including petroleum, gas (both natural and
manufactured), electricity, solid fuels (including all forms of coal, coke,
coal chemicals, coal liquification, and coal gasification), and atomic energy,
and the production, conservation, use, control, and distribution (including
pipelines) of all of these forms of energy.<br />
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(c) "Farm equipment" means equipment, machinery, and repair parts
manufactured for use on farms in connection with the production or preparation
for market use of food resources.<br />
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(d) "Fertilizer" means any product or combination of products that
contain one or more of the elements -- nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium --
for use as a plant nutrient.<br />
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(e) "Food resources" means all commodities and products, simple,
mixed, or compound, or complements to such commodities or products, that are
capable of being ingested by either human beings or animals, irrespective of
other uses to which such commodities or products may be put, at all stages of
processing from the raw commodity to the products thereof in vendible form for
human or animal consumption. "Food resources" also means all starches,
sugars, vegetable and animal or marine fats and oils, cotton, tobacco, wool,
mohair, hemp, flax fiber, and naval stores, but does not mean any such material
after it loses its identity as an agricultural commodity or agricultural
product.<br />
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(f) "Food resource facilities" means plants, machinery, vehicles
(including on-farm), and other facilities required for the production,
processing, distribution, and storage (including cold storage) of food
resources, livestock and poultry feed and seed, and for the domestic distribution
of farm equipment and fertilizer (excluding transportation thereof).<br />
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(g) "Functions" include powers, duties, authority, responsibilities,
and discretion.<br />
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(h) "Head of each Federal department or agency engaged in procurement for
the national defense" means the heads of the Departments of Defense,
Energy, and Commerce, as well as those departments and agencies listed in
Executive Order No. 10789.<br />
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(i) "Heads of other appropriate Federal departments and agencies" as
used in part VIII of this order means the heads of such other Federal agencies
and departments that acquire information or need information with respect to
making any determination to exercise any authority under the Act.<br />
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(j) "Health resources" means materials, facilities, health supplies,
and equipment (including pharmaceutical, blood collecting and dispensing
supplies, biological, surgical textiles, and emergency surgical instruments and
supplies) required to prevent the impairment of, improve, or restore the
physical and mental health conditions of the population.<br />
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(k) "Metals and minerals" means all raw materials of mineral origin
(excluding energy) including their refining, smelting, or processing, but
excluding their fabrication.<br />
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(l) "Strategic and Critical Materials" means materials (including
energy) that (1) would be needed to supply the military, industrial, and
essential civilian needs of the United States during a national security
emergency, and (2) are not found or produced in the United States in sufficient
quantities to meet such need and are vulnerable to the termination or reduction
of the availability of the material.<br />
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(m) "Water resources" means all usable water, from all sources,
within the jurisdiction of the United States, which can be managed, controlled,
and allocated to meet emergency requirements.<br />
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Sec. 902. General.<br />
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(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 902(c) of this order, the
authorities vested in the President by title VII of the Act may be exercised
and performed by the head of each department and agency in carrying out the
delegated authorities under the Act and this order.<br />
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(b) The authorities which may be exercised and performed pursuant to subsection
902(a) of this order shall include (1) the power to redelegate authorities, and
to authorize the successive re-delegation of authorities, to departments and
agencies, officers, and employees of the government, and (2) the power of
subpoena with respect to authorities delegated in parts II, III, and IV of this
order, provided that the subpoena power shall be utilized only after the scope
and purpose of the investigation, inspection, or inquiry to which the subpoena
relates have been defined either by the appropriate officer identified in
subsection 902(a) of this order or by such other person or persons as the
officer shall designate.<br />
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(c) Excluded from the authorities delegated by subsection 902(a) of this order
are authorities delegated by parts V, VI, and VIII of this order and the
authority with respect to fixing compensation under section 703(a) of the Act.<br />
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Sec. 903. Authority. All previously issued orders, regulations, rulings,
certificates, directives, and other actions relating to any function affected
by this order shall remain in effect except as they are inconsistent with this
order or are subsequently amended or revoked under proper authority. Nothing in
this order shall affect the validity or force of anything done under previous
delegations or other assignment of authority under the Act.<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522635142791807512.post-53454878942340086862023-04-28T09:31:00.000-07:002023-04-28T09:31:02.258-07:00Dear David, Re: Spy Among Friends <p> Dear David Talbot</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Having read your recent mention of the British TV series Spy
Among Friends, I realize you were judging the art and acting, however I’d like
to call your attention to my reaction to the series and the possible
implications for JFK research. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2023/03/spy-among-friends-at-dealey-plaza.html">https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2023/03/spy-among-friends-at-dealey-plaza.html</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2023/03/spy-among-friends-continued.html">https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2023/03/spy-among-friends-continued.html</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2023/04/spy-among-friends-iii-more-jfk.html">https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2023/04/spy-among-friends-iii-more-jfk.html</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I consider uncovering Philby and the Cambridge spy ring a
Deep Political Event in the Peter Dale Scott mold, one that still has important
implications as far as security and secrets go. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And John Newman’s Uncovering Popov’s Mole has some important
things to say about it. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The duplicity between competing government intelligence
agencies should be exposed because the public is also dupped as well. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bill Kelly </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">April, 2023 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Billkelly3@gmail.com">Billkelly3@gmail.com</a></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522635142791807512.post-83063770508576355092023-03-05T11:38:00.002-08:002023-03-05T11:38:21.557-08:0012 Reasons - With Commentary <p> 12 Reasons Why Oswald Wasn't the 6th Floor Shooter</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">JFKcountercoup Thursday, March 24, 2022 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1) There is no evidence Oswald ever bought or owned bullets
or ever shot that rifle at any time. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">J. r. Bonner: you buy them with cash and don't get a receipt
. i do it all the time till this day .</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/553546571932211/user/645798213/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXTd0L3Tnes4oXqcmqNlVfY6ynZF6f1G1qRmudWhkLZVxyGWSNqKaXWYIY6AHbo1aZJ12vrgipGrWCcpc_FQzWLh6vQ7lELtooN9pxeojxC5G1XncGOgTmDtKYCAfsC0egxd6aW9_apSS72fmXELcfw&__tn__=R%5d-R">Frank
Badalson</a> - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/553546571932211/user/100008170637045/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXTd0L3Tnes4oXqcmqNlVfY6ynZF6f1G1qRmudWhkLZVxyGWSNqKaXWYIY6AHbo1aZJ12vrgipGrWCcpc_FQzWLh6vQ7lELtooN9pxeojxC5G1XncGOgTmDtKYCAfsC0egxd6aW9_apSS72fmXELcfw&__tn__=R%5d-R">J.r.
Bonner</a> this nonsense of buying bullets...and having to prove someone
bought bullets.......is the most ludicrous thought one can have....not
surprising he thinks this way. In no case in history has it been required to prove
that a suspect bought bullets for their gun that they shot someone with.
Absolutely a most profound poorly informed remark.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">BK: Well, former FBI agent Bill Turner said that “when
investigating hired killings and political assassinations it’s not who pulled
the trigger that counts, but who bought the bullets.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Daniel Girard: There is no evidence he did not either.
However, there is a testimony from a Dr Homer Wood stating that he saw Oswald
practicing in the Sportdome Gun Range. So, if this story is true, it means that
Oswald must have bought bullets somewhere at some time. But then, this is no
proof that Oswald was not on the 6th floor at the time of the shooting. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Girard Also says: There is no evidence he did not either.
However, there is a testimony from a Dr Homer Wood stating that he saw Oswald
practicing in the Sportdome Gun Range. So, if this story is true, it means that
Oswald must have bought bullets somewhere at some time. But then, this is no
proof that Oswald was not on the 6th floor at the time of the shooting. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/553546571932211/user/575083031/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXTd0L3Tnes4oXqcmqNlVfY6ynZF6f1G1qRmudWhkLZVxyGWSNqKaXWYIY6AHbo1aZJ12vrgipGrWCcpc_FQzWLh6vQ7lELtooN9pxeojxC5G1XncGOgTmDtKYCAfsC0egxd6aW9_apSS72fmXELcfw&__tn__=R%5d-R">Vicente
S. Velasco</a> - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/553546571932211/user/1158409574/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXTd0L3Tnes4oXqcmqNlVfY6ynZF6f1G1qRmudWhkLZVxyGWSNqKaXWYIY6AHbo1aZJ12vrgipGrWCcpc_FQzWLh6vQ7lELtooN9pxeojxC5G1XncGOgTmDtKYCAfsC0egxd6aW9_apSS72fmXELcfw&__tn__=R%5d-R">William
Kelly</a>, I read your article and your arguments are weak. Here is a rebuttal
for your first five points: The first
point is very weak. As it applied to Oswald, there was no law or regulation
that prohibited him from purchasing ammunition. He could buy the ammo from
anywhere it was available. There would be no paper records of the purchase
unlike that of firearms. He could have just bought it locally and there would
be no record thereof.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 2) Oswald's brother Robert wrote in his book -
"If Lee did not practice with that rifle in the days and weeks before the
assassination he didn't take the shots that killed the president and wounded
governor Connally." And the WC says the rifle remained in the blanket in
the Paines garage from the time it was brought back from New Orleans until the
morning of the assassination, and was never used for practice. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Daniel Girard: The correct phrase in the book is:” If Lee
did not practice with that rifle in the days and weeks before the
assassination, then I would say that he didn't take the shots that killed the
president and wounded governor Connally.” Robert says this because of the
”eagerness by the Commission to dismiss the one group of witnesses who give us
a clear idea of when and where and how Lee learned to use his new rifle with
the precision he displayed on November 22”. And the WC has no witness to claim
the rifle did not move from the Paines garage before November 22. But then,
this is no proof that Oswald was not on the 6th floor at the time of the
shooting.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Vincent Velasco: Another weak argument. Whether Oswald found
time to practice on his rifle is irrelevant. He could have just done some
dry-firing on his rifle to work out the kinks, and squeeze off some rounds in
some secluded area. Note that he bought the rifle because he wanted to kill
General Walker and would not have seen the necessity of using it until he read
about the motorcade by the 20th of November. And there was no doubt in Robert
Oswald's mind that his brother did it.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 3) Both persons - the only persons to eyeball the
package Oswald put in the back seat of Frazers car, Fraser and his sister said
the package was too small to contain the rifle, even when broken down. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Since neither Randle nor Frazier did precisely measure the
package and the rifle, it is difficult to ascertain. Randle said the package
could have measured “more than 2 feet”. This is quite crude and not explored
enough in her testimony. And Frazier “did not pay much attention to it” to be
able to measure its length. But then, this is no proof that Oswald was not on
the 6th floor at the time of the shooting. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">VV: Buell Frazier did
not pay much attention to the package and accepted Oswald's curtain rod
explanation without question. How could he know the exact dimensions of the
bag?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 4) When breaking for lunch the floor laying crew raced
down on both elevators and Oswald told them to send one back up for him,
clearly indicating his intention to return to the lower floors. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DG: Since both elevators were still on the upper floors
after the shooting, this is an indication that Oswald did not use either of
them. But then, this is no proof that Oswald was not on the 6th floor at the
time of the shooting.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 5) Shelley saw Oswald on the first floor at 12 noon
standing by the telephone, as if waiting for a call. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DG: This, if true, happened 30 minutes before the shooting,
therefore, it is no proof that Oswald was not on the 6th floor at the time of
the shooting.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 6) Oswald said that while reading a newspaper in the
Domino Room on the first floor, where his jacket was later found on a window
sill, he noticed two black workers walk past who were on the way to the 5th
floor. They later testified they did walk past the Dominio Room, so how did
Oswald know they went by if he wasn't there? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DG: The two black workers denied having seen Oswald anywhere
after 11:55. So you have the choice between believing Oswald, who
pathologically lied during interrogation, or two witnesses who had nothing to
gain to lie. And Oswald could have deposited his jacket in the morning. The
fact that he did not pick it up after the shots shows how hurried he may have
been to leave the building. Still, this is no proof that Oswald was not on the
6th floor at the time of the shooting.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 7) A secretary said she saw Oswald on the lower floors
at 12:15, when people on the street saw a man with a rifle on the 6th floor, a
man who could not have been Oswald if he was on the lower floors. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DG: Mrs Arnold said 12:15, then 12:25. And don’t forget that
she said she “caught what she thought of a fleeting glimpse of someone looking
like Oswald”. In any case, she was standing outside and had her view to the
inside of the building completely blocked by the people standing in the
entrance of the TSBD. She likely saw Lovelady because he was wearing a similar
pattern-checked shirt. And, even if she saw someone she thought was Oswald at
12:15, this is no proof that Oswald was not on the 6th floor at the time of the
shooting.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">8) After watching the motorcade from the curb, TSBD VP Ochis
Campbell told a reporter that when reentering the building he saw Oswald
standing next to the storage cabinet under the stairs to the second floor.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DG: This is from the New York Herald Tribune article called
“Capture: It’s all over now” which contains a mashup of early reports about the
assassination (no reporter names mentioned), full of mistakes. And Campbell’s
report is in direct contradiction with all his other statements. This cannot be
used in trying to establish that Oswald was not on the 6th floor at the time of
the shooting.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 9) If Oswald or anyone ran down the back stairs from
the 6th floor they would have had to pass Dougherty on the 5th floor landing
and the secretaries supervisor on the 4th floor landing, but didn't. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DG: If Oswald or anyone ran down the back stairs from the
6th floor they would have had to pass Dougherty on the 5th floor landing and
the secretaries supervisor on the 4th floor landing, but didn't.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dougherty’s testimony is so full of hesitations and
contradictions, it cannot be considered in any serious analysis of the case.
And Styles and Adams testimonies indicate that they went down the stairs later
than Oswald may have done. So, this cannot be considered as proof that Oswald
was not on the 6th floor at the time of the shooting. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DG: When DPD officer Baker arrived on the 2nd floor
following Roy Truly, he noticed Oswald through the window of the closed door
that led to the lunchroom and investigated. If Oswald was the 6th floor shooter
and came down those steps, he would have had to go through that door, but
didn't or Truly, ahead of Baker would have seen him moments before Baker saw
him through the window. But Truly didn't see him because Oswald entered the
hallway to the lunchroom from the secretaries office, the same way he left with
a coke.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 10) When DPD officer Baker arrived on the 2nd floor
following Roy Truly, he noticed Oswald through the window of the closed door
that led to the lunchroom and investigated. If Oswald was the 6th floor shooter
and came down those steps, he would have had to go through that door, but
didn't or Truly, ahead of Baker would have seen him moments before Baker saw
him through the window. But Truly didn't see him because Oswald entered the
hallway to the lunchroom from the secretaries office, the same way he left with
a coke. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DG: One easier explanation is that Truly did not look in
that direction, he was more focussed on going up the stairs. Still, this is no
proof that Oswald was not on the 6th floor at the time of the shooting.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 11) If Oswald had been the 6th floor gunman, blew the
president's head open, ran across the 6th floor, ditched the rifle, ran down
the steps in less than 90 seconds, he would have been hyperventilating and out
of breath, as Marina said he was an hour after the Walker shooting. But Truly,
Baker and a secretary who saw him said Oswald was cool, calm and collected, and
not like anyone who just killed someone and ran across a floor and down 4
flights of steps. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DG: If Oswald had been the 6th floor gunman, blew the
president's head open, ran across the 6th floor, ditched the rifle, ran down
the steps in less than 90 seconds, he would have been hyperventilating and out
of breath, as Marina said he was an hour after the Walker shooting. But Truly,
Baker and a secretary who saw him said Oswald was cool, calm and collected, and
not like anyone who just killed someone and ran across a floor and down 4 flights
of steps.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Numerous people have recreated Oswald’s flight from the
sniper’s nest to the 2nd floor lunchroom, taking time to “ditch the rifle” in
less than 90 seconds, less than 60 seconds actually. Without running. And none
was “out of breath”. This cannot be considered as a proof that Oswald was not
on the 6th floor at the time of the shooting because he had plenty of time to
get to the lunchroom before Baker saw him.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 12) Both eye witnesses to the 6th floor gunman said he
wore a white shirt, while Oswald wore brown. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DG: Eyewitness testimony is notoriously inaccurate, this has
been proven in several experiments involving dozens of people seeing the same
event perpetrated by the same individual but could not be unanimous in his
description. But then, in plain daylight, if you would happen to look at
someone hiding in the shadow of a window and wearing a white T-shirt, this is
what would have been visible. But then, eyewitnesses did see a gunman at the
window of the 6th floor. It could have been Oswald so this cannot be considered
as proof that Oswald .was not on the 6th floor at the time of the shooting.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">VV he did wear a
white t-shirt . that day . he was arrested with it on </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">BK: A white undershirt, beneith the brown open colar shirt.
So he took the brown shirt off to take the shots, then put it back on while he
was running down the steps? That’s Vinnie Travolta dancing around the facts. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 13) Bonus item - Amos Eunis, one eye witnesses, said
numerous times in his short WC testimony, that the 6th floor gunman had a very
distinctive bald spot, a characteristic not shared with Oswald. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DG: See previous item 10 about eyewitness testimony. This
cannot be considered as proof that Oswald was not on the 6th floor at the time
of the shooting.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 14) Brennan, the other eyewitnesses, told a policeman
that if he saw the gunman again he would recognize him. Standing at the bottom
of the front stairs next to a police car Brennan saw, recognized an d pointed
out to a policeman the black workers from the 5th floor window, who were taken
in for questioning. Moments later however, he didn't recognize Oswald as the
6th floor shooter as he walked out the door, went down the steps and walked
east on Elm. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DG: That is because he did not look at him, so simple. Yet,
this cannot be considered as proof that Oswald was not on the 6th floor at the
time of the shooting.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 15) Going against those who claim he did it for
historical recognition, Oswald denied committing the deed and told his brother
not to believe "the so called evidence," and I think we should take
that advice. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DG: Yes, we should take advice from everything Oswald has
said during his interrogation, should we not? And you seem to forget that
Robert Oswald is convinced his brother is guilty. Still, this cannot be
considered as proof that Oswald was not on the 6th floor at the time of the
shooting.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">BK Notes: Those who continue to maintain that Oswald was the
lone shooter and there was no conspiracy must resolve each of these items,
while if one is correct, Oswald is exonerated. And these are some of the
reasons why most people do not believe Oswald was the lone assassin or the
assassin at all and was what he claimed to be – a Patsy.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/553546571932211/user/100008170637045/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXTd0L3Tnes4oXqcmqNlVfY6ynZF6f1G1qRmudWhkLZVxyGWSNqKaXWYIY6AHbo1aZJ12vrgipGrWCcpc_FQzWLh6vQ7lELtooN9pxeojxC5G1XncGOgTmDtKYCAfsC0egxd6aW9_apSS72fmXELcfw&__tn__=R%5d-R">J.r.
Bonner</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">i have limited knowledge</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">BK: We recognize that. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2. oswald's brother said he did it . there's no evidence he
didn't practice with it .</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. frazier said he didn't pay much attention to the package
.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">true frazier didn't believe the rifle would fit in the
package .</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">4. clearly to have the elevator to go down to escape and not
be seen on the stairs .</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">5. president was shot at 12:30</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">what he was doing at 12</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">isn't relevant .</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">why is this relevant ?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">6. he had been working there for months , you do a normal
routine . he knew that routine . and he knew they would be there .</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">7. which secretary are you referring to?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">you'll have to be more specific . are you saying the one
that saw him with a coke ?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">8. how can he be under the cabinet when the dpd saw him in
the lunchroom at the coke machine ?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">was this after wards?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">time?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">9. he took the elevator you were crying about</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">in #4.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10. truly was one the first floor when baker came in</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">neither could see oswald on the second floor or how he got
there .</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">11. no he wouldn't be out of breath , they've done this
several times in re enactments . he had plenty of time .</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">12. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">so i answered yours</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">let's see if you can answer mine .</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">who's rifle was found on the sixth floor of the tsbd that
day ?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">BK: Oswalds</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2. was lho an employee</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">of the tsbd and at work that day ?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">BK: Yes</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">who's palm print was found on the rifle barrel of the found
gun on the 6 th floor that day ?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">BK: Oswalds </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">when oswald was arrested what clothing did he have on in his
mug shot?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He was arrested with a brown open collar shirt. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">brennan saw oswald fire the rifle .</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">his description was pretty spot on .</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">BK: Brennan didn’t ID
Oswald. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">how did he see oswald if he was in the lunch room?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">was he in on the frame up?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">why did oswald leave the building and go home and get a
pistol </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">BK: He suspected somethi ng was up. If he knew he would need
it why didn’t he take it with him to work? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">who was alek hidell ? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">BK: One of Oswald’s aliases</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">who is lee harvey oswald ?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">BK: You tell me. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">how did the bullets match up to the rifle ?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">BK: The shells matched up to the rifle, only the magic
bullet and the unspent bullet were left. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">how did the casings match up to the rifle?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">BK: You mean the shells? They had been run through that
chamber at some point in time. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">how did the casings match to the pistol ?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">BK: I don’t know. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Why don’t all conspiracy theories come to the same
conclusion? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">BK: I don’t study silly conspiracy theories, I am trying to
resolve a homicide. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">why is there 25 different ones and only one ln ? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">BK: Because only one of them is correct. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/553546571932211/user/645798213/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXTd0L3Tnes4oXqcmqNlVfY6ynZF6f1G1qRmudWhkLZVxyGWSNqKaXWYIY6AHbo1aZJ12vrgipGrWCcpc_FQzWLh6vQ7lELtooN9pxeojxC5G1XncGOgTmDtKYCAfsC0egxd6aW9_apSS72fmXELcfw&__tn__=R%5d-R"><o:p></o:p></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522635142791807512.post-66037526465746987432023-02-17T12:03:00.003-08:002023-02-17T12:03:52.874-08:00FOREKNOWLEDGE AND JFK ASSASSINATION<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Foreknowledge & JFK Assassination</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">FOREKNOWLEDGE AND JFK ASSASSINATION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sun Tzu said: “Now the reason the enlightened Prince
and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their
achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“What is called foreknowledge cannot be elicited
from spirits nor from gods. Nor by analogy with past events, nor from
calculations. It must be obtained from men who know the enemy situation.” – The
Art of War – Chapter XII – Employment of Secret Agents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One of the hallmarks and “fingerprints of
intelligence” that makes the assassination of President Kennedy a covert
intelligence operation is the foreknowledge certain people had of the event,
and expressing it to others before it occurred.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">– Bray – See: Bray v. Bendix trial transcripts re:
JEFCOTT.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">– Cambridge, England – Telephone call. See: Bowen,
Howard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">– Cheramie, Rose – Jack Ruby associate. See:
Louisiana State Police (HSCA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">– Dinkin, Eugene B. – American soldier in Germany,
claims to have picked up on the assassination plot from Army Security Agency
monitor of OAS, the Algerian French Generals, went AOL and tried to inform
American ambassador. See : Russell, Dick, TMWKTM.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">– Grace, William – “Shortly before the assassination
an executive of the Grace Lines was found unconscious in the street. Taken to a
hospital, he mumbled that the president was to be shot. He had an appointment
with Army Intelligence agents before he was found.” – (Paris Flamonde, The
Kennedy Conspiracy). Also : “An executive of the Grace Lines suffered a
concussion after coming into contact with an Army Intelligence agent. While in
a delirium he said, ‘The President is in danger!…”. [Also NoteLHO wrote to
mother/brother he “made reservations on a Grace liner.” ]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">– Martinez, Jorge Soto – On Nov. 1, told Lillian
Springler at Parrot Jungle in Miami JFK to be killed by “Lee, been to Russia,
Mexico.” JSM lived in apartment above Mike McLaney’s garage, former Cuban
Customs, worked at Fountainblu Hotel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">– Martino, John – To his wife, on the morning of the
assassination (See: Summers, Vanity Fair, SWHT), also Larry Hancock’s “Someone
Would Have Talked.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">– Milteer, Joseph – (RIP Feb. 28, 1974) Alias Samuel
Steven Story. See: William Agusta Somerset – Agent 88 – undercover
conversations. NO, April 63.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">– Odio, Syliva – See: Fonzi, Gaeton (HSCA; The Last
Investigation)/ Russell, Dick (TMWKTM).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">– Oxnard, California telephone call – See: Peter
Noyes, Legacy of Doubt.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">– Paine, Michael – Was talking about political
assassination as JFK was being killed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">– Philbrick, Herbert – See: Jean Hill. Philbrick
expressed foreknowledge of the assassination.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">– Rivera, Jose, Dr. (Col. USAR) – See: Adele Edisen
(ARRB). Rivera not only expressed foreknowledge of JFK’s assassination, but
also of his son Patrick’s premature death and that LHO would move into the
apartment on Magazine Street, New Orleans before LHO knew.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">– Underhill, G. Garrett – See: Turner, William,
Ramparts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522635142791807512.post-59641868619241626052023-02-17T11:40:00.003-08:002023-02-17T11:40:41.505-08:00Are There CIA Connections To Oswald?<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Are there CIA connections to Lee Oswald? – Part 1</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">JEFF MEEK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Voice correspondent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/crime/2020/05/25/are-there-cia-connections-to-lee-oswald-part-1/113744782/">https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/crime/2020/05/25/are-there-cia-connections-to-lee-oswald-part-1/113744782/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rolf Mowatt–Larssen spent 25 years working for the
CIA as an intelligence officer, going undercover and serving in various
domestic and international posts, like chief of station in Moscow. His awards
include the CIA’s Director’s Award and Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal,
to name a few.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He hunted moles and hired spies during his career
and spoke about his thoughts on the JFK assassination at a Citizens Against
Political Assassinations (CAPA) meeting in Dallas. Drawing on years of
experience and access to files, he laid out a possible explanation of how Lee
Harvey Oswald could have been set up as the assassin of President Kennedy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mowatt-Larssen began his presentation, titled
“Marked for Assassination: Who Killed JFK?” by asking a question. How could the
CIA keep a secret for 56 years? Answering that question he said it’s because as
an organization the CIA was not the killer of Kennedy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">However, he said a small group of rogue CIA
personnel could have done it and there would be no records of their actions,
adding that was the case with several operations he was involved with, no
records, not a hint of his actions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In his scenario, only top CIA people could have been
involved due to their experience and competency. A rogue operation would be
indistinguishable from a lone gunman to the extent the operation was planned
and carried out flawlessly by experts (operations officers) in the craft of
intelligence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mowatt-Larssen said it all starts with James
Angleton, chief of counterintelligence at the time, and the man who would have
had the reports coming in on Oswald starting back in 1959 when Oswald defected
to Russia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Solving the mystery involves 4 considerations:
motive, access to recruiting Oswald, opportunity to misappropriate CIA sources
and the ability to sell the lone gunman cover story. And there is a wild card
to consider, as well, he said, that being coincidence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The motive: the huge failure at the Bay of Pigs in
April 1961, when Kennedy refused air cover to support the U.S. - driven
invading anti-Castro Cubans who were quickly defeated, killed and imprisoned.
And the Oct. 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when hawks would again have seen
Kennedy as a weak sister, not standing up to the global Communist threat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Access: the recruiting of Oswald in Dallas (without
CIA knowledge). Someone would have had to make a “pitch” to Oswald.
Mowatt-Larssen said Oswald was on CIA radar for years because of his 1959 defection
to Russia, but it wasn’t until the April 10, 1963, attempt on the life of
General Edwin Walker that would have spurred CIA planners into action, because
it could have been the beginning of actions used to demonstrate Oswald as a
killer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Oswald’s ctions included coming up with a detailed
plan to kill Walker, such things as taking photos of the area and looking into
escape routes and a hiding place for his rifle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Who would have made that pitch, that access agent?
There are a couple of possibilities: George DeMohrenschildt who knew Oswald had
a rifle, who asked Oswald if he shot at Walker, which shocked Oswald, and who
had contacts with CIA for many years. Or DeMohrenschild’s handler, J.
Walton Moore, the CIA chief in Dallas for domestic contacts. (Note: On March
29, 1977, hours after the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)
highly regarded investigator Gaeton Fonzi tried to contact DeMohrenschildt, he
committed suicide. Local P.D. called DeMohrenschildt’s death very
strange. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Earlier that day author/researcher, Edward J.
Epstein interviewed DeMohrenschildt and has said DeMohrenschildt told him CIA
had asked him to keep tabs on Oswald. And in Fonzi’s book, “The Last
Investigation,” Fonzi says the HSCA never truly delved into most of the
evidence dealing with CIA-Oswald connections).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Oswald, Mowatt-Larssen said, had an ego, was
vulnerable and could be blackmailed to the extent that a CIA asset could have
told him they knew he shot at Walker, but would keep quiet about it if Oswald
would work with him. Mowatt-Larssen noted that like many of his own operations,
there would be no record of any of this in CIA documentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Shortly after the Walker shooting they would have
wanted Oswald out of town, so they sent him to New Orleans. Interestingly, at
about this time, DeMohrenschild and Moore also left Dallas. Oswald went to New
Orleans with orders to establish anti-Castro connections, which he did with
people like Carlos Bringuier, Guy Banister, and David Ferrie who were also CIA
connected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mowatt-Larssen says at this point, Oswald is not
sure of what’s going on, what he’s actually involved with and who’s behind
these associations he’s making. He’s distressed and begins to look for a way
out. He begins using an alias (A.J. Hidell) and, like DeMohrenschild and Moore,
wants out of the country. So he goes to Mexico City to get a visa to travel to
Russia via Cuba, but his efforts are thwarted. He’s turned down at both the
Russian and Cuban embassies, which are under heavy CIA surveillance with
cameras and bugging devices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So Oswald returns to Dallas, again meets with the
CIA access agent (perhaps Maurice Bishop who many, including Fonzi, think is
CIA officer David Atlee Phillips) and is re-recruited. It’s explained to him
that an escape route is in place for him, a car perhaps just a few blocks away,
then a flight out of the country, piloted by Ferrie, a former commercial
airline pilot and associate of New Orleans mob boss Carlos Marcello. Trust us,
he’s told. We’ll get you out of Dallas. You’re the gunman at the rear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As soon as you shoot, leave the rifle and leave the
depository with nothing incriminating.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mowatt-Larssen said there could be a need to
eliminate Oswald and here again is where the Mafia comes in. CIA had been
working with the Mob for years trying to assassinate Castro and the Mafia would
also have knowledge and access to a local nightclub owner, Jack Ruby, to do
their bidding.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Killing Kennedy would benefit both the CIA and the
Mafia. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The former CIA officer said when Oswald blurted out
at Dallas Police Headquarters that ‘I’m just a patsy,” it shows that he knew
he’d been set up and abandoned. Evidence of this is Oswald’s actions after
leaving the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD), where just by coincidence,
Mowatt-Larssen said, he happened to get a job.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Oswald, who had meticulously planned the Walker
shooting, had no exfiltration plan, because he had been told by his handler
that a plan was in place for him, but there was no plan in place as Oswald
found out after leaving the TSBD. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mowatt-Larssen sees Oswald as panic-stricken at this
point. Here’s a guy who had a meticulous plan to escape the shooting of General
Walker, but obviously has no plan after shooting the President. The getaway car
is nowhere to be found, so he’s on his own. He first gets on a bus that begins
to take him right back to the scene of the crime. So he gets off the bus, gets
a taxi and has the driver drop him off blocks from where he lives at 1026 N.
Beckley. Arriving a little before 1 p.m., he grabs a jacket and his revolver.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Minutes later he is stopped by DPD officer J.D.
Tippit, who he shoots and then runs away, discarding his jacket to again change
his appearance. He hides in a darkened theater, wondering what to do next. But
his suspicious actions on Jefferson St. were noticed by shoe store worker
Johnny Brewer who saw Oswald duck into the alcove of the store when police cars
came by and then sees Oswald go into the Texas Theater without buying a ticket,
thus police are called to the scene. He’s arrested, pulls a gun on Officer M.N.
McDonald and slugs him, in a useless attempt to free himself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mowatt-Larssen ends with this note: even if the CIA,
as an organization, got wind of all this there is no way they would come
forward because it would mean the end of the CIA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As for clues to learn more, Rolf suggested looking
at 3 CIA employees – Jake Esterline - Station Chief of the JMWAVE station in
Miami that headed up anti-Castro operations, Charles D. Ford - also involved
with anti-Castro Cuban operations) and J. Walton Moore - CIA head in Dallas.
“Start with motive, combined with the ability to pull it off,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I still believe in the agency and I still believe
in our government,” the long time agent said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Readers may wonder, as I have many times, why would
an organization use someone like Oswald for an assassination plot? Oswald, we
are told, was a malcontent, a loser, a loner, angry at the U.S. and later the
Soviet system of government. Why would a person like that be recruited?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">According to author James H. Johnston, in his
excellent book, “Murder Inc.; The CIA Under John F. Kennedy,” he was told,
while serving as a lawyer for the 1975 Senate Intelligence Committee, by a
briefer, that this is “precisely” the kind of person the Soviets used during
World War II.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Noting John Barron’s 1974 book, “KGB: The Secret
Work of Soviet Secret Agents,” the Soviets searched for people who “were hurt
by fate….those suffering from an inferiority complex, craving power and
influence….defeated by unfavorable circumstances…..the sense of belonging to an
influential powerful organization will give them a feeling of superiority…..for
the first time in their lives they will experience a sense of importance.”
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As Johnston points out, the Warren Commission noted
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. He sought
for himself a place in history – a role as a ‘great man’.” To me that
sounds like a close match for whom intelligence agencies look for in terms of
recruits.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I was impressed with Mowatt-Larssen’s presentation.
I disagree on some of his points, but wanted an expert opinion, so I contacted
Jefferson Morley, author of 2 highly regarded books that relate to the JFK
assassination: “Our Man in Mexico,” and “The Ghost: The Secret Life of
Spymaster James Jesus Angleton.” Morley, along with John Newman, author of
“Oswald and the CIA,” have worked tirelessly for years to pry information from
the CIA by taking the agency to court as well as finding related documents. I
attempted to contact Newman without success.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So what about the presentation Mr. Morley? Morley’s
thoughts, first noted in “Counterpunch,” January 2020 issue and the Mary
Ferrell Foundation website, are that the presentation was compelling. “What he
brings to the historical record of JFK’s murder is not new facts, but an
original frame of analysis. He sees Dealey Plaza through the eyes of a covert
operator.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Morley spent time with Mowatt-Laurssen after the
presentation and has more thoughts to share. “I learned Mowatt-Laurssen
embraces the theory that the JFK assassination was the work of rogue CIA
officers. Is he advancing some hidden institutional agenda to shape perception
of the JFK assassination story? Maybe, but after spending time with him I
have no reason not to take at face value his sincere interest in the JFK story.
Certainly no retired CIA officer has ever publically offered an interpretation
of Nov. 22, 1963 that is so grounded in tradecraft and the documentary record,
and so incriminating of agency personnel.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Others are not so sure saying Mowatt-Larssen is just
the latest CIA attempt at covering up what really took place.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Part 2 . <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/crime/2020/06/03/are-there-cia-connections-to-lee-oswald-part-2/113354066/">https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/crime/2020/06/03/are-there-cia-connections-to-lee-oswald-part-2/113354066/</a><a href="https://popup.taboola.com/" target="_blank"><o:p></o:p></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Within the CIA was James Angleton’s Special
Investigations Group (SIG), part of CIA’s Counterintelligence (CI) department.
SIG/CI had what’s called a “201” file on Lee Oswald as of Dec. 9, 1960, 3 years
before the assassination. That 201 file was opened by Angleton staffer Ann
Egerter. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On May 17, 1978, she was questioned by the House
Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). During the questioning she
explained what a 201 file was, and why such a file would be opened. A 201 was
opened on those people who SIG/CI saw as being of an intelligence interest or
for some reason under suspicion of being a security risk. And it’s clear in the
testimony that SIG/CI gets involved with matters relating to “agency
personnel.” Does that include Oswald? Egerter had previously said in a March
31, 1978, interview with the HSCA that the SIG office “spied on spies.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Was Oswald 1 of those spies?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Why the date of Dec. 9, 1960, for opening a 201 on
Oswald? As far as we know, nothing of significance occurred on that date
(he was in Russia at the time). Why wouldn’t a 201 file have been opened on
Oswald when he told the American Embassy in Moscow, on Oct. 31, 1959, that he
was defecting and was a U.S. Marine with radar secrets he could share? Could it
be that CIA knew about Oswald in 1959, but didn’t want other agencies aware of
him until Dec. 1960?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The CIA has said the 201 file opening date is as a
result of Oswald’s name appearing on a list of defectors that was sent to them
by the State Department. But other records show that list was sent to CIA on
Oct. 25, 1960.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Therefore it seems possible that SIG, run by
Angleton, probably was aware of Oswald before opening the 201 file. CIA saw him
as being of intelligence interest. This is confirmed by CIA document
104-10067-10212, dated Nov. 25, 1963, which concludes by saying “…..that we
showed operational intelligence interest in the Harvey story.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On Nov. 3, 1994, authors/researchers Jefferson
Morley and John Newman interviewed CIA employee Jane Roman, who worked in the
liaison staff of Angleton’s CI staff as a releasing officer. She handled many
Oswald-related documents. She told them that she had signed off on a document -
an FBI report on Oswald’s Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) activities in New
Orleans - which she knew to be untrue. She also distanced herself from the
matter saying she was not in on any “hanky-panky as far as the Cuban situation.”
And she made an incredible statement when asked about the issue of an untrue
report saying, “Well, to me, it’s indicative of a keen interest in Oswald, held
very closely on a need-to-know basis.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And there is this: a May 23, 1963, report made by
Angleton to CIA Deputy Director of Plans (DDP), Richard Helms, and disseminated
throughout the intelligence community, the Dept. of State, FBI, U.S. Coast
Guard, USIA, Department of Defense and elsewhere (but not the White House). It
was about Cuban control and action capabilities covering training of
subversive, sabotage and espionage agents in Cuba and the development of Cuban
Communism. It describes the types and extent of Cuban government controls of
the population in Cuba and summarizes the means by which the Cubans can place
its personnel and use those of other countries for pro-Cuban activities. Under
a section called “Suppression of travel information,” Angleton talks about
travelers who wish to conceal the fact that they have visited Cuba.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The document states, “For such persons the Cuban
government issues visas to Cuba on separate paper, so that no mark of entry to
Cuba appears in the regular passport. An American citizen, for example, can
enter Mexico with a tourist card, not even a passport, and obtain a separate
visa to Cuba from the Cuban consulate in Mexico City. He can go to Cuba and
return, supplied with a new tourist card obtained in Cuba, without any
indication that he has ever been there.” Sound familiar?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Four months later, this is exactly what Lee Harvey
Oswald was up to. How would he know how to go about this? When Oswald showed up
in Mexico City, stopping at Cuban and Soviet embassies, Mexico City CIA Deputy
Chief of Station Allan White told the HSCA that Oswald “became someone of
considerable operational interest.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the CIA tried to hide things by not allowing the
HSCA the opportunity to interview other relevant Mexico City CIA staffers,
adding that no such interview is to be arranged and HSCA “should not speak to
them even if they were locatable by other means.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Even before the HSCA’s existence, Angleton testified
on Sept. 24, 1975, before the Church Committee on intelligence agencies,
saying, “It is inconceivable that a secret intelligence arm of the government
has to comply with all overt orders of the government,” thus basically saying
CIA withholds information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Additionally, back in March 1964, DDP Helms told
Angleton subordinate Ray Rocca, that Angleton “would prefer to wait out the
(Warren) Commission” in terms of supplying documents and interviews. The same
was true during the HSCA investigation, as noted in Gaeton Fonzi’s “The Last
Investigation,” which gives an example of a staffer’s attempt to get files from
the CIA and the run around that followed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1993, Soviet Col. Oleg Nechiporenko, stationed in
Mexico City at the time of Oswald’s visit, published a book, “Passport to
Assassination.” In that book he talks about Oswald in Mexico City and that
Oswald hinted that he was on a secret mission while in Russia back in 1959 to
1962. And, as Oswald left the Russian Embassy, he “raised the collar of his
jacket to conceal his face and thus attempt to avoid being clearly
photographed.” This strongly suggests Oswald knew of the CIA’s surveillance of
the Embassy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">CIA, in 1967, likely because of the Garrison
investigation of Clay Shaw in New Orleans, also made plans to counter criticism
of the Warren Report, noting that public opinion and critics are increasingly
showing a belief that Oswald did not act alone. “This trend of opinion is a
matter of concern to the U.S. government, including our organization,” says an
April, 1967 CIA document which has a note in the lower right corner saying,
“Destroy when no longer needed.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And there is a document that shows that Warren
Commissioner Allen Dulles, former director of CIA and fired by JFK after the
failed Bay of Pigs invasion, advised the agency on how to respond to Warren
Commission requests.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dulles also, during a Jan. 27, 1964, Commission
executive session discussion about agents and handlers, said that records
“might not be on paper,” and added that whoever recruited an agent wouldn’t
tell, not even under oath.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And there is a letter from HSCA chairman Louis
Stokes to the CIA dated Oct. 13, 1978, that complains about CIA not handing
over requested documents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One reason the committee did not receive documents
is because the CIA’s liaison to HSCA was the same man, George Joannides, that
handled aspects of anti-Castro Cuban operations back in 1963. Thus a conflict
of interest, for sure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is significant for several reasons. First,
because of Joannides firsthand knowledge of 1963 events he would know what not
to send the committee. Secondly, he had a strong reason not to assist the
committee because it would have opened up a huge can of worms regarding Oswald
and those Cuban ops. Thirdly it would show continued CIA deception because
Joannides name could have been on the related documents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Taking all this into account I think it’s clear that
a CIA – Oswald connection, at some level, existed from 1959 until Nov. 22,
1963. If that’s not the case then why are there many documents on Oswald
at several government agencies? Why are some documents still being withheld?
Why have agency personnel admitted an operational or intelligence interest in
Oswald if there was no interest? And why all the obfuscation by the CIA during
governmental investigations of Oswald?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A few other tantalizing tidbits: Dallas Mayor Earle
Cabell was a CIA contact since 1956. His brother, Gen. Charles Cabell was a CIA
deputy director. Among Oswald’s possessions was a small Minox spy camera.
Dallas police detective Gus Rose has stated that it was found in Oswald’s sea
bag in Ruth Paine’s garage and that the FBI tried to get him to change the
record to say it was a Minox light meter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Right after the shooting in Dallas, Robert Kennedy
called CIA and asked if they were involved in his brother’s murder. He also
asked CIA Director John McCone and McCone denied it, which one would expect.
Robert Kennedy also checked into anti-Castro involvement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The point being that on Nov. 22, 1963, JFK’s
brother/U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy suspected others were involved.
Why? In my opinion because RFK was well aware of CIA/Mafia/anti-Castro Cuban
operations, he knew their capabilities and their hatred of his brother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Space does not allow for even more documentation of
CIA hindrance of investigations and interest in Oswald, so I end with this: an
example of interest in Oswald can be seen in CIA document 104-10051-10167. It’s
a 16-page document listing various reports, files and documents about Oswald.
In other words, it took 16 pages just to list them all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If readers have questions or want the documentation
for this story contact me at jmlunker@suddenlink.net.<o:p></o:p></span></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522635142791807512.post-43310480527822815552023-02-02T18:48:00.003-08:002023-02-02T18:48:51.561-08:00NARA Seeks Check for Classified Docs <p> National Archives asks representatives of past six
administrations to check for classified documents</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/national-archives-classified-documents-past-administrations/">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/national-archives-classified-documents-past-administrations/</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">CBS News BY KATHRYN WATSON AND JENNA GIBSON</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">UPDATED ON: JANUARY 26, 2023 / 9:19 PM / CBS NEWS</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The National Archives and Records Administration is asking
representatives of the six most recent past presidential administrations to
comb through their personal records again to check for any <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-documents-classified-house-oversight-committee/" target="_blank">classified or other presidential records</a>, according to the
text of a letter obtained by CBS News. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The request comes after documents with classification
markings were found at the private residences of former <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-pence-classified-documents-indiana-home/" target="_blank">Vice President Mike Pence</a>, former <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-trump-handled-classified-documents/" target="_blank">President Donald Trump</a> and <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-center-classified-documents/" target="_blank">President Joe Biden</a>. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/26/politics/archives-letter-former-presidents-vice-presidents-classified-documents/index.html" target="_blank">CNN</a> was first to report the requests from NARA to past
presidents and vice presidents. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-look-at-the-law-governing-presidential-records/" target="_blank">Presidential Records Act</a>, passed during former President
Jimmy Carter's administration but not effective until the Reagan administration,
outlines requirements for the preservation and turning over of all presidential
records upon leaving office. The National Archives is responsible for the
storage and safekeeping of those records. Letters were sent to representatives
of the Trump, Obama, W. Bush, Clinton, H.W. Bush and Reagan
administrations. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"Over the last year there have been several instances
reported in the media where records containing classified information and
subject to the Presidential Records Act (PRA) have been identified outside of
the physical custody of the National Archives and Records Administration,"
the letters say. "... The responsibility to comply with the PRA does not
diminish after the end of an administration. Therefore, we request that you
conduct an assessment of any materials held outside of NARA that relate to the
Administration for which you serve as a designated representative under the
PRA, to determine whether bodies of materials previously assumed to be personal
in nature might inadvertently contain Presidential or Vice Presidential records
subject to the PRA, whether classified or unclassified."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> The United States National Archives building is shown
on October 26, 2017 in Washington, DC. MARK WILSON / GETTY IMAGES</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The most recent revelations of records marked as classified
came from Pence, whose team disclosed earlier this week that documents marked
classified were found at his Indiana home and turned over to authorities. The
documents were among boxes of briefing books and papers dealing with foreign
trips, according to two people familiar with the discovery of them. Part of the
explanation from one source is that Trump discouraged aides from preparing to
move out, so "Pence's aides didn't begin packing until after the <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/feature/assault-on-the-us-capitol/" target="_blank">Capitol attack</a>." </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This summer, the FBI executed a search warrant at <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-search-timeline-mar-a-lago-justice-department/" target="_blank">Trump's primary residence at Mar-a-Lago</a> that yielded
hundreds of documents marked classified. The National Archives had asked the
Justice Department to intervene after multiple requests to turn over
documents. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/special-counsel-trump-investigations-merrick-garland/" target="_blank">special counsel to investigate</a>. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Biden White House has been tight-lipped when asked
repeatedly by reporters whether the administration should reform its procedures
for classified records, or whether all past former presidents should check
their records for any classified documents. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"I would refer you to the White House Counsel office.
I'm just not going to comment on any change of procedure — procedure, how
things should move forward," White House press secretary Karine
Jean-Pierre said in the unhelpful phrase that has become all-too familiar to
White House journalists. "I would refer you to the White House Counsel's
office." </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">According to a source familiar with the matter, on Nov. 10,
a senior official in the Justice Department National Security Division wrote a
letter to Mr. Biden's legal team asking for their cooperation with the
department's inquiry into the documents.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Justice Department official asked specifically that Mr.
Biden's legal team secure the materials from the Penn Biden Center and refrain
from further reviewing them or moving them, the source said. The official also
requested that the Biden team provide the Justice Department formal consent to
review the Penn Biden materials and provide a list of other known locations
where relevant materials might be stored, per the source.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The source said that the Biden team agreed that they would
inform the Justice Department if they learned, or had reason to believe, such
records might be in any other location.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate
intelligence committee told "<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mark-warner-marco-rubio-trump-biden-documents-senate-intelligence-committee-face-the-nation/">Face
the Nation</a>" that they needed to access to the documents found in Trump
and Mr. Biden's possession. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"Our job is not to figure out if somebody mishandled
those. Our job is to make sure there's not an intelligence compromise,"
Democratic Senate intelligence committee chair Mark Warner said. "And
while the director of national intelligence had been willing to brief us
earlier, now that you've got the special counsel, the notion that we're going
to be left in limbo and we can't do our job — that just cannot stand."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">CBS News has reached out to representatives of former
officeholders. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A source close to former President Obama said they turned
over everything to NARA upon Mr. Obama's departure from office. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Freddy Ford, former President George W. Bush's aide said,
"All of our presidential records — classified and unclassified — were
turned over to NARA upon leaving the White House." </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Former President Bill Clinton's office said, "All of
President Clinton's classified materials were properly turned over to NARA in
accordance with the Presidential Records Act." </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A spokesperson for Carter told CBS News they "looked
into this" and "no one at The Carter Center, in President Carter's
personal office, or the current director of the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
recalls any instance of classified documents being found at his home or
office."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">FBI Director Christopher Wray, at an unrelated press
conference on Thursday, said, "We have had for quite a number of years any
number of mishandling investigations. That is unfortunately a regular part of
our counterintelligence division's and counterintelligence program's
work."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">— Robert Costa, Arden Farhi and Nancy Cordes contributed to
this report. </p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522635142791807512.post-76288082290341573432023-01-26T11:47:00.000-08:002023-01-26T11:47:02.955-08:00Oversight Committee Stacked with Anti-Biden Republicans <p> <a href="https://palmer.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/dream-team-oversight-committee-stacked-conservative-firebrands">https://palmer.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/dream-team-oversight-committee-stacked-conservative-firebrands</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dream Team: Oversight Committee Stacked with Conservative
Firebrands</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">January 17, 2023</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://palmer.house.gov/media/in-the-news">In The
News</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/17/dream-team-oversight-committee-stacked-with-conservative-firebrands/" target="_blank">View Article Here</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/author/jdixonhamilton/" target="_blank" title="Posts by Jordan Dixon-Hamilton">JORDAN DIXON-HAMILTON</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">17 Jan 2023</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The House Republican Steering Committee on Tuesday selected
several conservative firebrands to serve on the Oversight Committee during the
118th Congress, including multiple members who previously had their committee
assignments stripped by House Democrats during the previous Congress.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The GOP-led House Oversight Committee will be <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1615444129143472128" target="_blank">composed</a> of Reps. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND), Lauren
Boebert (R-CO), Tim Burchett (R-TN), Eric Burlison (R-MO), Byron Donalds
(R-FL), Chuck Edwards (R-NC), Russell Fry (R-SC), Marjorie Taylor Greene
(R-GA), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Nick Langworthy (R-NY), Jake LaTurner (R-KS), Gary
Palmer (R-AL), Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Scott Perry (R-PA), Lisa McClain
(R-MI), Pete Sessions (R-TX), and William Timmons (R-SC).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“I’m honored to be joining the House Committee on Oversight
and Accountability,” Boebert <a href="https://twitter.com/RepBoebert/status/1615439321531822081" target="_blank">tweeted</a> after
the Steering Committee’s selections. “Chairman @RepJamesComer, let’s get to
work!”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Steering Committee selections will have to be approved
by a vote from the entire House Republican conference, which “typically
approves the Steering Committee’s recommendations,” according to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3816612-marjorie-taylor-greene-paul-gosar-get-committee-assignments-back/" target="_blank">The Hill</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the weeks leading up to the 118th Congress, Biden’s White
House <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/29/biden-administration-not-comply-house-republicans-outstanding-oversight-requests/" target="_blank">announced</a> they would not co comply with GOP oversight
requests until they officially took majority control of the House.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has
recently begun probing President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents
after <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/11/politics/biden-classified-documents/index.html" target="_blank">reports</a> that several boxes of White House records from
his tenure as vice president were found in multiple locations.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Reps. Green and Gosar’s appointments to the Oversight
Committee are significant because both members were stripped of their committee
assignments by Democrats during the previous Congress.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">House Democrats in February 2021, just one month after she
took office, voted to remove Green from her committee assignments amid
controversy surrounding her social media activity.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then, in November 2021, House Democrats voted to remove
Gosar from his committee assignments, which included the Oversight Committee,
after he posted a controversial anime edited video to his Twitter account.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Along with investigating Biden’s handling of classified
documents, the Republican-led Oversight Committee has also <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1608484499666653190" target="_blank">pledged</a> to investigate the Biden White House for
several things, including the ongoing border and fentanyl crises, the energy
crisis, Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, Hunter Biden’s business dealings,
and the origins of the coronavirus.</p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522635142791807512.post-84780896403282233152023-01-11T10:59:00.000-08:002023-01-11T10:59:01.814-08:00The Joint Chiefs of Staff meet with German General Staff 11/22/63<p> According to William Manchester in his award winning <i>The
Death of a President:</i> November 22-November 25, 1963,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Friday, November 22 in Washington DC, "Tight
security was also enforced in the Pentagon's Gold Room, down the hall from
McNamara, where the Joint Chiefs of Staff were in session with the commanders
of the West German Bundeswehr [armed forces of the Federal Republic of
Germany]. General Maxwell Taylor, the Chiefs' elegant, scholarly Chairman,
dominated one side of the table; opposite him was General Friedrich A.
Foertsch, Inspector General of Bonn's armed forces. Everyone was dressed to the
nines—the Germans out of Pflicht [duty], the Americans because they knew the
Germans would be that way—and the meeting glittered with gay ribbons and braid.
. . .</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Simultaneously the Pentagon’s command center sounded a
buzzer, awakening General Maxwell Taylor, who was napping in his office between
sessions with the Germans. McNamara had a tremendous reputation, and
he deserved it. Despite his deep feeling for the President — the
emotional side of his personality had been overlooked by the press, but it
was very much there — he kept his head and made all the right moves. An
ashen- faced aide came in with the bulletin. Jerry Wiesner studied the
man’s expression as the secretary read it. Wiesner thought: The Bomb’s
been dropped. McNamara quietly handed the slip around — Wiesner felt
momentary relief; anything was better than a nuclear holocaust — and then the
Secretary acted quickly. Adjourning his conference, he sent Mac Bundy back
to the White House in a Defense limousine and conferred with Taylor and
the other Joint Chiefs. Over the JCS signature they dispatched a flash warning
to every American military base in the world; </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1. Press reports President Kennedy and Governor Connally of
Texas shot and critically injured. Both in hospital at Dallas, Texas. No official
information yet, will keep you informed. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Manchester continues . . . In the Pentagon
McNamara and the Joint Chiefs remained vigilant, though after their
conference in the Secretary's office the Chiefs decided they should leave
sentry duty to subordinate sentinels and rejoin their meeting. General
Taylor in particular felt that it was important to present a picture of
stability and continuity, that it would be an error to let their visitors
from Bonn suspect the depth of the tragedy until more was known. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At 2:30 he and his colleagues filed back into the Gold Room.
He told the Germans briefly that President Kennedy had been injured.
General Friedrich Foertsch replied for his comrades that they hoped the injury
was not too serious. The Chiefs did not reply, and for the next two hours
they put on a singular performance. Aware that the shadow of a new war
might fall across the room at any time, they continued the talks about
dull military details, commenting on proposals by Generals Wessel and
Huekelheim and shuffling papers and directives with steady hands. Even for
men with their discipline it was a stony ordeal, and it was especially
difficult for Taylor, who had to lead the discussion and whose appointment
as Chairman had arisen from his close relationship with the President. As
America’s first soldier he would be expected to make the first military
decision should war come. Meanwhile he had to sit erect and feign an interest
in logistics and combined staff work. At 4:30 the meeting ended on
schedule. The Joint Chiefs rose together and faced their rising guests.
Taylor said evenly, “I regret to tell you that the President of the United
States has been killed.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Germans, bred to stoicism, collapsed in their chairs.</p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522635142791807512.post-52123231589646551242023-01-03T10:31:00.000-08:002023-01-03T10:31:07.781-08:00More on Dr. Fritz Remmler <p> Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm "Fritz" Remmler (1890-1972),
Hunter & Falconer</p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br />
<a href="https://www.africahunting.com/threads/dr-friedrich-wilhelm-fritz-remmler-big-game-hunter-falconer.3561/">https://www.africahunting.com/threads/dr-friedrich-wilhelm-fritz-remmler-big-game-hunter-falconer.3561/</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Friedrich Remmler was born to a German family Son of a
German father and a Swedish mother, Remmler grew up in Finland and developed a
passion for hunting at an early age. As a teenager, he acquired and trained a
golden eagle for hunting, becoming the first hunter in Finland to do so. This
led to the opportunity to hunt on the Kirgiz steppe with the Kazakhs, expert
falconers whose eagles took down full-size wolves.<br />
<br />
Remmler started to go on the hunting expeditions, through his father’s business
contacts, he was invited to a wolf hunt on a Russian estate where the
vodka-drenched all-night carousing is more dangerous than the animals.<br />
<br />
In his book he skis after lynx in the bitter cold of a Finnish winter, spends a
terrifying night adrift on an ice floe while hunting seals, is nearly washed
out to sea on an island duck hunt, and meets a mysterious hunter who calls in
wolves by howling. Later, running a business that supplies live animals to
zoos, Remmler takes on the challenge of trapping live moose in nets. and grew
up in the Grand Duchy of Finland, hunting & shooting at every opportunity
in what is now Finland, Karelia and Russia. He pursued wolves with borzois as a
guest of the Neratovs, ran down lynx, bears & more wolves with famous
Finnish huntsmen, hunted seals on ice floes with commercial sealers where he
was swept off in an ice storm, surviving only by luck.<br />
<br />
He visited Russia's great eagle market at Orenburg, and made innumerable
observations on the society around him. After WWI Remmler he ran a business in
Finland, collecting wild animals live for zoos and collections around the
world, pioneering the safe trapping of elk. Remmler came to Canada from Germany
in 1951 and was employed as a gamekeeper for General Motors, where he helped
maintain land owned by the automaker on Griffith’s Island on Georgian Bay, near
Owen Sound, Ont. He also spent four years working as an officer of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police.Eventually, he and his family emigrated to rural
Ontario where he wrote this memoir.<br />
<br />
He retired in 1964 but that didn’t mean he had stopped working. He continued to
dabble in films, making children’s movies for the National Film Board of
Canada, most notably, 1966’s “The Bear and the Mouse”, a variation on a fable
by Aesop where mouse comes to the aid of a trapped bear in return for past
favour. The bear catches and then frees a mouse; later, the mouse chews an
escape route for his trapped friend. He passed away in 1972 as a result of a
massive heart attack.<br />
<br />
“The Memoirs of a Hunter- Experiences in Finland and Russia, 1904-1930”
(published in August 2009.) The book is a true tale of hunting in the frozen
wilderness of another time. Friedrich describes his adventures in graphic
detail. His words are complemented by illustrations by Russian artist Vadim
Gorbatov. Ingmar Remmler was doing a little housecleaning when he came across a
hidden gem that had been buried for more than 35 years. It was a 450-page
manuscript, written in German, that was completed by his father Friedrich,
shortly before he died at 82 years of age in 1972 “I found the manuscript at
home,” Ingmar said as he held up the work. “My father had originally written it
back in 1972. He submitted it to publisher but they rejected it. They said it
was too long.”<br />
<br />
It is an astonishing account of hunting, trapping and hawking from a lost
manuscript boxed in a cellar for over thirty five years .This is a staggering
true-life adventure of deep snow, dark forests and times and places long since
claimed by history. Described in graphic detail and illustrated by renowned
Russian artist Vadim Gorbatov, this mesmerising account will captivate not only
the hunter, but anyone interested in wildlife and the outdoors. This is a
fascinating - and perhaps unique - account of a life divided between middle
class St. Petersburg, the Russian aristocracy and the vast multinational
peasantry.<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">……by an
Administration being sued because<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">of their
refusal to release in a timely<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">fashion
records records related to the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">assassination
of JFK let's go ahead and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">put this
up on the screen This from NBC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">News the
headline is what are they<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">hiding
group sues Biden and National<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Archives
over JFK assassination records<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">as a
reminder the JFK records act which<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">was
signed into law by Bill Clinton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">required
the document to be made<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">available
by October of 2017. President<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Trump
sort of kicked the ball down the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">road to
Biden Biden has continued to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">push
forward the date when those records<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">will be
released raising a lot of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">questions
about what it is that they are<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">so
worried about revealing join us now<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">we have
a guest who's actually quoted in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">that
article who caught my attention<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">he's the
former CIA agent and actually<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">former
Moscow station Chief Ralph Moet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Larson
he's also senior fellow at the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Belfor
Center at the Harvard Kennedy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">School
great to have you sir welcome<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">good to
see you sir it's good to be here<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">thank
you so you had a quote in that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">article
and you lay down you know based<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">on your
long history and experience with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the
agency what you think is the most<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">plausible
explanation of who was behind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the plot
to kill Kenny I'll read the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">your
quote here and then you can sort of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">elaborate
you say what I think happened<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in a
nutshell is that Oswald was<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">recruited
into a rogue CIA plot this<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">group of
three four or five Rogues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">decided
their motive was to get rid of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Kennedy
after the Bay of Pigs Cuban<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Missile
Crisis because they thought it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">was
their patriotic Duty given the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">threat
the country was under at the time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">and their
views which would be more<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Hardline
or more radically<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">anti-communist
and very extreme<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">politically
so<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">um is
that some of what you think might<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">be
revealed in this document uh this<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">document
release if they ever ultimately<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">come out
what do you think could be in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">those
documents that would be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">interesting
to the public<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">yeah I
think it's pretty clear that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">after 60
years the documents should be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">released
with the exception of a few<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">things
that might just frankly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">compromise
something that the people in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the U.S
government should keep secrets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">so it's
not an unconditional release<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">everything
position I have it's after 60<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">years
the truth belongs to the American<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">people
the American people should know<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the full
truth I think it's worth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">pointing
out before I offer any comment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">on my
own theories is that our own<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">government
in 1979 put out a report from<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the
house assassination committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">hearings
that had crucial findings that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">started
with the idea that there<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">probably
was an assassination uh a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">conspiracy
to to assassinate John F<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Kennedy
which means it's not really a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">pure
conspiracy theory it's something<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">our own
government believes that same<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">report
included the findings that the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">U.S
government in all probability was<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">not
involved whether that would be CIA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the
president FBI or any other arm of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the U.S
government and I think it after<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">60 years
if the U.S government itself<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">was
involved in the assassination of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Kennedy
we would all know about it uh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">because
we couldn't keep that secret for<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">for 60
years if it was a government plot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">at the
same time the findings included<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the uh
the Judgment that it wasn't the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Russians
the Soviets or the Cubans or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">organized
crime that set out to kill the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">president
so that leaves the theory that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">if there
was any sort of conspiracy uh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">it
includedly Harvey Oswald but also<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">probably
a small number less than a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">handful
of people from the government<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">who had
the motivation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the
means and the opportunity to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">potentially
kill the president so that's<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">what I
think the the documents will will<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">help
shed light on for the serious<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">researchers
and historians who still<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">want to
know the full truth to look at<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">those
that that those documents to see<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">whether
we can still piece together uh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the
information that would end the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">mystery
of who really killed JFK right<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">and what
leads you though to that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">conclusion
and and why do you have<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">confidence
that it would even be in the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">documents
I mean my understanding of the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">revelations
of MK Ultra cointelpro the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">only
reason we even know about it is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">because
documents were basically stolen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">by a
bunch of activists which allowed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">foia
people to know exactly what to foia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">otherwise
it was such a tightly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">controlled
program the documents<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">themselves
would have been effectively<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">lost to
history into the church<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">committee
so why should we expect that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">60 odd
years later that a similar kind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">of
cover-up hasn't happened in that way<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">well I
don't think there will be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">documents
where once the documents are<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">released
we're going to collectively say<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">oh wow
that's what happened I think<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">again
it's going to provide the basis to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">to
continue research to finally I'm not<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in the
school of uh believers who think<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">that
this mystery will never be solved<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">because
it's been so long I think we<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">have to
keep at it and the reason we<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">have to
keep at it is the truth is more<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">important
than anything else what we do<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">know is
even before the Kennedy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">assassination
uh there were things that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">CIA uh
itself<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">failed
to disclose that covered up in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">fact it
was a very fascinating uh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">studies
of intelligence article in 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">that
essentially said John McCone who<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">was the
director of CIA after<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">um Helms
have been fired by Kennedy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">after
the Bay of Pigs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">deliberately<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">withheld
information and deceived the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">committee
in the Warren Commission when<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">they
asked him to testify so what that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">proves
is regardless of the reason and I<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">don't
think it was to cover up any sort<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">of
knowledge of the Kennedy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">assassination
the agency was worried at<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the time
about lots of things that could<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">have had
tangential connections to the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Kennedy
assassination I would call that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the
covert action culture of the time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the
assassination of the attempts to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">kill
Castro the dealings with organized<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">crime to
do that overthrow governments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in Latin
America there were a number of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">activities
the CIA was was conducting at<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the time
that that the CIA was clearly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">trying
to cover up and not disclose in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the
aftermath of the president's<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">assassination
so I think the reason<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">probably
unfortunately this would be a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">very bad
reason of my judgment to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">withhold
documents that the agency or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the US
government are embarrassed about<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">what the
disclosures of these documents<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">might
reveal about other things that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">would to
me be an unacceptable reason to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">keep
this secret we should know at this<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">point
more more about those activities I<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">might
point out that at the time Kennedy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">was
killed the CIA wasn't even under any<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">form of
effective Congressional<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">oversight
that didn't happen until 1979<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">with the
church commission hearing so<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">again
it's it's it's the idea of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">disclosure
and transparency is a duty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">and if
there's a a strong extenuating<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">reason
why these documents should not be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">revealed
I think it would be wise forget<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">about
the legality and the law it would<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">be wise
for the U.S president to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">indicate
exactly what that would mean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">that
would that be that would cause him<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">to
decide not to release these documents<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">that
that belong to the American people<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">frankly
not to the CIA well and the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">current
stance has hardly been<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">convincing
to the American public a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">majority
of whom still believe that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">there is
more to the story than the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">official
government narrative here and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">part of
what makes you so interesting is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">that you
have so many years of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">experience
with the agency could you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">speak to
how what you learned about how<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the
agency operates how that informs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">your
theory of what you think the most<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">plausible
scenario is here<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">yeah
that's the question that got me<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">interested
in this I I like so many<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Americans
uh I'm very interested in what<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">really
happened I think it's a piece of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">our
history we need to know I didn't<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">become
even uh suspicious that there<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">might be
a a explanation where three to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">five
people might have conspired to work<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">with
Oswald to kill Kennedy until I<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">examine
that as a possibility and I<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">realized
wait a minute if if there was a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">small
conspiracy of a very few number of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">people
who could keep the secret for 60<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">years
and take the secret to their grave<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">be it
fully witting collaborators with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Oswald
in the plot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">um then
I I thought the most likely<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">explanation
would be some CIA officers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">at the
time this is very this really<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">pains me
to even suggest this and I'm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">not
saying I can I certainly can't prove<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">it I
think it's something that needs to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">be fully
explored is the idea that it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">looks
kind of like a CIA operation in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">terms of
the motive that would be the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">president
uh betrayed for example uh the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">all the
people the CIA worked with at<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the time
to overthrow Castro at the Bay<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">of Pigs
when he called out to Bay of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Pigs uh
people would say well that's no<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">motive
to kill the president but it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">might
you have to add to that perhaps<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">some of
these maybe same people who<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">thought
again a very few small number of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">people
who thought that the uh you the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">president
gotten over his head with with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">uh the
Russians in the in the Cuban<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Missile
Crisis and and there were civil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">rights
problems at the time and the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">country
was highly polarized I know now<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">we're
living in a time when the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">country's
almost as polarized as it was<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in the
1960s but it was a time AI when<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">there
were extreme views on all sides<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">about
the politics about what was<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">happening
in the country and it's not<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">unimaginable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">that a
very small number of people<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">thought
they were being Patriots if they<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">were to
do something this monstrous<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">again
this is not something I accuse the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">agency
of or think the agency had any<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">direct
knowledge of but I when you look<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">at the
key officials then and afterwards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">even
presidents later like Richard Nixon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">and
Lyndon Johnson and others they all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">suspected
there was a conspiracy I think<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the most
disappointing thing to me as an<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">American<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">because
I serve the people first and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">then I
think of myself as a CIA offer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I'm a
Citizen First the most<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">disappointing
thing about this is our<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">leaders
we couldn't trust our leaders to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">tell us
the full truth we couldn't trust<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">our
leaders to ensure that we knew the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">full
truth they wanted to spare us from<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the
truth and I have never in my<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">lifetime
been comfortable with the idea<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">that our
leaders should know something<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">that in
some way at some point the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">American
people also don't know yeah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">what
impact do you think that has had on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">um the
public because even if like<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">regardless
of what really happened you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">have a
majority of Americans who think<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the
government is lying to them I mean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">what do
you think this is the result<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">from
that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I'm so
happy you asked me that question<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">and we
didn't do any sort of rehearsal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">on all
this so I was wondering where you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">were
going to come at it from and this<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">to me is
one of the crucial questions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">and the
reason I agreed to do the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">interview<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">um I'm
not here to prove I think there's<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">a
conspiracy of CI officers did that is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">my fear
that is my concern and that like<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">other
conspiracies of that kind small<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">group of
people work together on to kill<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the
president is is we should still<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">examine
thoroughly but the reason why we<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">should
release the documents is that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">we're at
historic levels of mistrust of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">our
government in general<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">usually
because the government withhelds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">things
from us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">that we
have a right to know that we<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">need to
sanction and it hasn't just been<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in the
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after 60 years when a law<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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passed to release it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<br />
I just finished reading your new article on the Cuban Missile Crisis<br />
and the Assassination. Great stuff as always. Very informative and<br />
inspiring.<br />
<br />
The whole piece about Arthur "Art" Lundahl was new to me,
and I found<br />
it terribly interesting. I had never heard of Lundahl but can tell
you<br />
for certain he's got Swedish ancestry, as Lundahl is a uniquely<br />
Swedish surname. I looked up his Wikipedia but there wasn't a whole<br />
lot of biographical info on him.<br />
<br />
You mentioned that Arthur Schlesinger had entered in his journal that<br />
"when he asked RFK about the assassination, RFK replied that the CIA<br />
thought there were two gunman, probably based on Lundahl's briefing."<br />
That's what really caught my eye. I know Schlesinger had been<br />
"agnostic" (let's put it) about the assassination, but I had never<br />
come across this piece of information. Would you happen to have a<br />
reference to where one can find it?<br />
<br />
The two-gunmen analysis jibes with John Orr's and my own, which is<br />
based on Orr's but also the acoustics evidence. If you reconcile the<br />
two, you'll have five shots fired from two locations, by two gunmen<br />
that is. Both were located behind the limo, one at the TSBD sniper's<br />
nest and the other, on the roof of the County Records Building Annex.<br />
<br />
I've fine-tuned the synthesis and the resulting sequence reads as follows:<br />
<br />
1. First shot fired at Z186, passes limo at Z187. Report reaches "bike<br />
with mike" at Z188, Zapruder at Z190.<br />
2. Second shot fired at Z214, hits Kennedy at Z216. Report reaches<br />
"bike with mike" at Z216, Zapruder at Z218.<br />
3. Third shot fired at Z234, hits Connally at Z236. Report reaches<br />
"bike with mike" at Z236, Zapruder at Z238.<br />
4. Fourth shot fired at Z311, hits Kennedy at Z313. Report reaches<br />
Zapruder (direct) at Z315, "bike with mike" (echo) at Z325.<br />
5. Fifth shot fired at Z324, passes limo at Z326. Report reaches<br />
Zapruder (direct) at Z328, "bike with mike" (echo) at Z333.<br />
<br />
This sequence is consistent with Zapruder's film, the dictabelt<br />
acoustics, and with the Alvarez jiggle chart. It's also broadly<br />
consistent with Orr's analysis, with a few adjustments to accommodate<br />
the other sources.<br />
<br />
Note also that there is NO WAY a third shooter was firing from the<br />
Grassy Knoll, and NO WAY Kennedy was hit twice in the head. All of<br />
that is pure clown show stuff, which is quite easy to prove.<br />
<br />
In your article, you refer to the PATHFINDER plot to kill Castro, "by<br />
shooting him in the head as he rode by in an open jeep". I did not<br />
know Brugioni wrote that memo, nor did I know he had been involved<br />
with developing the Zapruder film. So that's also terribly interesting<br />
and I will set aside time to look into it.<br />
<br />
Regarding "shooting him in the head", note that the shooter on the<br />
CRBA roof in Dealey Plaza fired twice and hit Kennedy both times –<br />
first in the back and second, of course, in the back of the head. Why<br />
fire twice at Kennedy, only wounding him the first time? The wounding<br />
shot was placed near the spine to immoblise him in the "Thorburn<br />
position", which is an involuntary neurological reaction to such<br />
spinal wounds, forcing up the elbows and folding in the arms towards<br />
the throat.<br />
<br />
Once you're hit in the spine, you're completely immobilised and simply<br />
can't move – nor do or say anything much, except for involuntarily<br />
move the arms like Kennedy did in the Zapruder film as the limo<br />
emerged from behind the road sign. That's important as the head will<br />
be kept still and thus easier for the assassin to target with the<br />
second kill shot. A headshot is otherwise a risky proposition as<br />
people constantly move their heads around, which could easily cause<br />
the shot to miss its target.<br />
<br />
Speaking of Schesinger, as an anecdotal aside, I was actually invited<br />
to his home once – for a cocktail party at that. That was in winter<br />
1998/99, my then-girlfriend was working with the grand old man's son,<br />
Stephen Schlesinger, at the World Policy Institute. So we got invited<br />
to this little shindig thing at the Schlesinger residence, a stately<br />
second-floor apartment overviewing the East River, in the diplomat<br />
quarters right north of the UN Building. Arthur was there to receive<br />
us, sitting in a chair in front of his fireplace, bowtie and all. A<br />
very "Breakfast at Tiffany's" experience!<br />
<br />
Are you in New Jersey, Bill, or is that only a figment of my imagination?<br />
<br />
Best regards,<br />
- Per<br />
<br />
<br />
Per Berglund, PhD (economics)<br />
formerly global head macro quant, senior research fellow, PwC New York<br />
now retired and safely ensconced in Stockholm, Sweden</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ARTHUR C. LUNDAHL, 77, DIES</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/bart-barnes/">Bart Barnes</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">June 25, 1992</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur C. Lundahl, 77, a pioneer in photographic
intelligence and the art of photographic interpretation who in 1962 informed
President Kennedy that the Soviet Union had installed missiles in Cuba, died of
respiratory failure June 22 at Suburban Hospital.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mr. Lundahl was the first director of the Central
Intelligence Agency's National Photographic Interpretation Center, and in that
capacity he reviewed aerial photographs of construction activity in a field
near San Cristobal, Cuba, that were taken in early October. On Oct. 16, he
reported his findings to the president.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"Mr. President, I am as sure of this as a photo
interpreter can be sure of anything," former colleague Dino A. Brugioni
quoted him as saying in a book on the Cuban missile crisis, "Eyeball to
Eyeball." " . . . I am convinced they are missiles."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Those findings led the president to impose a naval blockade
and quarantine on Cuba. The crisis passed when the Soviets withdrew the
missiles.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A Navy veteran of World War II, Mr. Lundahl began his career
as a photo interpreter in the Aleutian Islands, where he analyzed photography
obtained on reconnaissance flights over Japan.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After the war, he came to Washington as civilian chief of
the photogrammetry division of the Naval Photographic Center. Later he became
assistant chief engineer there. By the early 1950s, he had developed a
reputation as a brilliant photo interpretation specialist and photo scientist
who also was an articulate speaker with a talent for making highly technical
material understandable to laymen.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This led the CIA to hire him to organize and develop its
fledgling photographic intelligence division to process and interpret
photography from U-2 reconnaissance flights, which were opening new directions
in the intelligence field. For the first time, intelligence agencies had
available precise and current data on land mass and physical installations
throughout the world.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This intelligence-gathering process originally was intended
to collect information on the Soviet Union, but it also was used elsewhere. Mr.
Lundahl regularly briefed President Eisenhower, the secretaries of state and
defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the photographic findings.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After Francis Gary Powers's U-2 was shot down over the
Soviet Union in 1960, the National Security Council ordered that a centralized
photo interpretation center be set up for all the intelligence agencies. Mr.
Lundahl was named its first director in December 1961.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Operating out of the Steuart Motor Car Co. building at Fifth
and K streets NW in Washington, Mr. Lundahl's unit reviewed photographs the
next fall of what at first glance appeared to be farmland in Cuba. But
enlargements of the photographs allowed the interpreters to discover objects
such as missile transporters, launcher-erectors and other equipment indicating
the installation of a missile base. It was that information that he took to the
president.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A resident of Bethesda, Mr. Lundahl was born in Chicago. He
graduated from the University of Chicago, where he later was an instructor in
photogrammetry, photo interpretation, cartography and surveying as part of a
war training program.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He retired from the National Photographic Interpretation
Center in 1973 because of severe arthritis. He also retired from the Naval
Reserve as a captain that year.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At his retirement, Mr. Lundahl received the CIA's
Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the Presidential National Security Medal and
the Defense Intelligence Agency director's Exceptional Civilian Service Award.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The citation on the CIA medal called Mr. Lundahl "a
superb technician in the science of photographic interpretation and
photogrammetry with few, if any, peers."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mr. Lundahl also received an autographed picture of former
Intelligence director Allen W. Dulles. "Art Lundahl has done as much as
any man I know to protect the security of this nation," was the
inscription.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mr. Lundahl was a member of Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church
and the Cosmos Club, and he was a former president of the American Society of
Photogrammetry.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">His wife of 42 years, the former Mary Emily Hvid, died in
1986.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Survivors include two children, Ann and Robert Lundahl, and
a granddaughter, all of Chevy Chase.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">RODERIC W. MOSES.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Security Specialist</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Roderic W. Moses, 52, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel
who was a security specialist and senior vice president of a Rosslyn technical
services firm, died of a heart attack June 16 at a hospital in Moscow, where he
was on a business trip. A resident of the Washington area off and on for 20
years, he lived in Alexandria.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Col. Moses retired from the Air Force in 1982 after more
than 20 years of service. Since then he had worked for EG&G Dynatrend as a
physical security and property management specialist.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">His Air Force posts included Vietnam, where he was an
operations and intelligence officer; the Pentagon; Maxwell Air Force Base in
Alabama; Bitburg, Germany, and Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He worked on security for nuclear weapons and against
terrorist attacks and had testified before Congress on national security
matters. He helped form the team that installed the first operational security
system for ground-launched Cruise missiles.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A native of Eau Claire, Wis., Col. Moses was a graduate of
the University of Wisconsin. He received a master's degree in criminal justice
from Troy State University and did additional work at the University of
Southern California, the Air Command and Staff College and the National FBI
Academy.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">His military decorations included the Bronze Star, four
Meritorious Service Medals and four Air Force Commendation Medals.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He was a member of the Air Force Security Police
Association, the American Defense Preparedness Association, the Retired
Officers Association and Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Alexandria.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">His marriage to Mary Gayle Asher ended in divorce.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Survivors include his wife, Emily Currie-Moses of
Alexandria; two children from his first marriage, Tiffany P. Moses and Todd R.
Moses, both of Chelmsford, Mass.; his mother, Doris Wray Moses of Altoona,
Wis.; a brother, Richard W. Moses of Menomonie, Wis., and a sister, Marilee
Moses-Bennett of Chippewa Falls, Wis.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ARTHUR LEWIS QUINN.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lawyer</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur Lewis Quinn, 91, a retired Washington lawyer who was
an authority on the sugar industry and a past president of the Society of
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, died of heart ailments June 24 at the home of a
daughter in Miami.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mr. Quinn was born in Portsmouth, N.H. He moved to
Washington in 1920, and he graduated from Georgetown University Law School.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the 1920s, he worked for the State Department on claims
against Mexico. In 1933, he entered the private practice of law.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In 1940, after a period as a member of a law firm, Mr. Quinn
became a sole practitioner. In 1963, he was joined by his son, Arthur Lee
Quinn. They practiced together until 1980, when the father retired from the
firm of Hamel, Park, McCabe & Saunders, where he was of counsel.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Much of Mr. Quinn's work involved the sugar industry. In his
book "The Super Lawyers," a study of the Washington legal
establishment, Joseph Goulden referred to the Quinns, father and son, as
"the uncrowned kings of the sugar lobby." Mr. Quinn numbered among
his clients Tate & Lyle and other firms prominent in the sugar trade.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mr. Quinn, who had lived in Miami since 1989, was a former
member of the parish of Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church in Washington.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">His wife, Elizabeth White Quinn, died in 1978.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In addition to Arthur Lee Quinn, who lives in Potomac,
survivors include two daughters, Mary Immer of Miami and Elizabeth Kelly of
Annandale; 11 grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.nga.mil/innovators-leaders/Arthur_C_Lundahl_.html">https://www.nga.mil/innovators-leaders/Arthur_C_Lundahl_.html</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As the father of modern imagery analysis, Arthur Lundahl
briefed President John F. Kennedy on critical intelligence issues. As head of
the National Photographic Interpretation Center — a predecessor to NGA —
Lundahl kept Kennedy informed of Soviet movements during the Cuban Missile
Crisis. He has been honored by presidents and was even inducted into the Order
of the British Empire with the rank of Honorary Knight Commander by Queen
Elizabeth II.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lundahl was inducted into the GEOINT Hall of Fame in 2001.</p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522635142791807512.post-15272835661749627492022-09-08T11:02:00.001-07:002022-09-08T11:02:16.335-07:00David Talbot on Why JFK Still Matters <p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "inherit", "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">DAVID TALBOT :</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For all those who couldn't be there... my Saturday speech:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why JFK Still Matters</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Speech at Sonoma Community Center, June 4, 2022, sponsored by
the Praxis Peace Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We live in dreary times. Joe Biden has become a war and oil
president, just when we desperately need the Democrats to fight like hell for
their failing domestic agenda – the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, the end
of student aid bondage, criminal justice reform, reproductive rights, gun
control.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We’re now facing the real prospect of a Republican resurgence in
the midterm elections --- and a Trump restoration in two years. In other words,
an American nightmare. My prediction? Phony GOP populism will trump failing
corporate liberalism.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And if Trump and his Republican confederates steal the next
presidential election, will we loyal Americans have the nerve to take back our
democracy?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our only hope – and it’s a slim one – is that the Democrats stop
listening to Senators Manchin and Sinema and the party’s billionaire
benefactors and follow the lead of the militant labor activists and political
leaders who are breathing fire into American life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Democrats need look no farther than their own past.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Once upon a time, we had a Democratic president who engaged
directly with the most burning issues in America. That’s not how the presidency
of John F. Kennedy gets taught in school rooms or on TV shows. But JFK was the
type of brave, principled leader we desperately need today. I’ve written two
books that examine the Kennedy presidency and its violent termination –
“Brothers” and “The Devil’s Chessboard.” And I could talk all day about why JFK
was a unique leader – and why he was killed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But today I will just focus on the final months of his 1,000-day
presidency. Perhaps someday the eternal flame that burns next to his Arlington
resting place will light our way forward.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In early June 1963, while President Kennedy and his brother
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and several of their aides closely monitored
the crisis, Governor George Wallace stood in the doorway of the admissions
building on the University of Alabama campus and blocked Deputy Attorney
General Nick Katzenbach and two African American students – Vivian Malone and
James Hood – from desegregating the all-white university. Wallace finally stood
aside, after President Kennedy federalized Alabama’s National Guard, with
Wallace denouncing the federal government’s “military dictatorship.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But it’s important to note that President Kennedy was willing to
shed blood to integrate the university. People had died just months before
during a segregationist riot at Ole Miss that JFK had quelled only when Army
troops finally showed up on his orders. The night before Malone and Hood were
to integrate the University of Alabama with federal support, there was a big Ku
Klux Klan cross burning near the campus. Federal marshals were issued a shoot
to kill order by President Kennedy if anybody attacked the black students. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kennedy was also willing to split his own party -- shedding the
Dixie Democrats, who had been a key part of the party coalition since the days
of FDR, to advance the cause of civil rights. After losing the showdown with
Kennedy at the university, Wallace told the press: “I say the South next year
will decide who the new president’s gonna be. Because you can’t win without the
white South. And you’re going to see the South is going to be against some
folks.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wallace’s grim view of Kennedy was widely held throughout the
white South, nearly all of which JFK expected to lose in the ’64 presidential
election. That’s why Kennedy was leaning toward keeping Lyndon Johnson on his
ticket, despite his growing political baggage – and that why’s he felt
compelled to visit Texas in November of that year.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On the same sweltering day in Tuscaloosa, Alabama that President
Kennedy and his men stood down Governor Wallace and his segregationist
followers, JFK decided to go on TV and deliver the most powerful civil rights
speech of his presidency. His top aides – including Ted Sorensen, Larry O‘Brien
and Kenny O’Donnell – were all against him givng the speech, arguing that it
would further isolate him politically. But JFK was for it – and the speech he
gave in the White House that night, written by wordsmith Sorensen and partly
ad-libbed by the president himself – should be viewed on YouTube by every
citizen in our still racially divided nation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here is some of what President Kennedy said that night:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“This is not a partisan issue. We are confronted primarily with
a moral issue. It is as old as the Scriptures and as clear as the American
Constitution.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be
afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat
our fellow Americans as we want to be treated. If an American, because his skin
is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send
his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the
public officials who will represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full
and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have
the color of his skin changed and stand in his place?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln
freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They
are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from
social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its
boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kennedy, “vowing that the time has come for the nation to
fulfill its promise,” announced his intention of introducing in Congress what
became the historic civil rights bill of 1964. LBJ get credit for it – but it
was Kennedy who took the bold political step of introducing the bill and who
gave it its most passionate endorsement.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In fact, after Kennedy’s White House address, Martin Luther King
Jr, hailed it as “one of the most eloquent, profound and unequivocal pleas for
justice and freedom for all people ever made by a president.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What makes this even more of a milestone in the Kennedy
presidency is that only the day before – on June 10, 1963 – JFK also delivered
what became known as the Peace Speech at American University. These twin speeches
– on the most controversial issues of the day, civil rights and the Cold War –
demonstrate that Kennedy was willing to plunge into the burning house to lead
the country in the right direction.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In this remarkable speech, which Kennedy’s defense secretary
Robert McNamara told me years later should also be viewed by every American,
JFK did something that no American president had done before or has done since.
He called on his fellow Americans to change their consciousness about war and
peace – and to empathize with the Communist enemy, the enemy we had been taught
to fear and hate.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“In short, both the United States and the Soviet Union have a
mutually deep interest in a just and genuine peace and in halting the nuclear
arms race. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we
all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our
children’s future. And we are all mortal.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Peace Speech paved the way for the limited nuclear test ban
treaty, which banned the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons – the first
nuclear treaty of the Cold War. President Kennedy was alarmed by reports that
traces of radioactive poisoning were showing up in children’s bones and teeth
and in the breast milk of nursing mothers. Ted Sorensen later told me that JFK
decided to run for president in 1960 because as a student of history he feared
a nuclear Armageddon could break out despite world leaders’ best intentions.
Kennedy already prevented one such nuclear holocaust during the Cuban Missile
Crisis in October 1962. And he was committed to deescalating Cold War tensions
with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Khrushchev and JFK’s wily negotiator Averell Harriman had
hammered out the test ban treaty over the summer months in Moscow. But Kennedy
feared that he’d be unable to gather the 67 votes in the Senate he needed to
ratify the treaty. Indeed, Republican Senate leader Everett Dirksen and
anti-Communist nuclear scientist Edward Teller were leading a successful
resistance on Capitol Hill – aided by the Pentagon and CIA. (At one point
during the anti-treaty campaign, as I revealed in “Brothers,” the Air Force
under the belligerent leadership of Gen. Curtis LeMay -- pictured below -- even
hid an Air Force officer who could prove if the Russians were abiding by the
treaty.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To win the critical battle over the test ban treaty, the Kennedy
brothers decided to play Washington hardball – a tough game that today’s
Democrats seem to have no skill at playing. Finding out that Dwight Eisenhower
– the former president who ironically had warned the nation about the growing
power of “the military-industrial complex” as he left the White House – was the
power behind the opposition to the treaty, the Kennedys put the squeeze on him.
Eisenhower had let it be known that if the Kennedy brothers’ Justice Department
dropped its corruption case against his White House chief of staff Sherman
Adams, they “would have a blank check with me.” The Kennedys let Ike know they
wanted more than his gratitude – they wanted him to drop his opposition to the
treaty. The old general reluctantly agreed. And with Senator Dirksen suddenly
singing the treaty’s praises, it was easily ratified by the Senate on September
24, 1963.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These landmark political battles – over civil rights and national
security – demonstrate the true courage of the Kennedy presidency. They also
help explain why President Kennedy was a marked man when he flew to Dallas on
November 22 of that year. Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk who was a passionate
critic of the Cold War mass death cult, sagely remarked on the fragility of the
Kennedy presidency while JFK still occupied the White House. Only by a
“miracle,” he predicted, would Kennedy “break through” the nuclear hysteria of
the era. “But such people,” Merton wrote, “are before long marked out for
assassination.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Allen Dulles, the deeply sinister CIA spymaster fired by
President Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs debacle in April 1961, snarled to a
journalist years after JFK’s assassination: “That little Kennedy… he thought he
was a god.” In fact, Kennedy – who at 6’ 1” was not “little” by the way -- had
no such divine delusions. He knew he was a deeply flawed man. But as president
he had the courage of his convictions. And if he had been allowed to live – and
if leaders like Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy had been allowed to live –
our country would have gone in a very different historical direction.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But John F. Kennedy and the others were killed for a reason.
Their enemies triumphed. It’s our duty, our responsibility, as American
citizens to grapple with this this fraught history. Because the past is never
past. As Orwell taught us, he “who controls the past controls the future.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thank you</span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522635142791807512.post-21955749140196772052022-09-06T10:23:00.002-07:002022-09-06T10:23:10.134-07:00Jefferson Morley <p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefferson-morley-6074215?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAADzrCcBsSe5frdnX-rd_XZ9E_ugIHrcU4w" target="_self"><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefferson-morley-6074215?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAADzrCcBsSe5frdnX-rd_XZ9E_ugIHrcU4w" target="_self"><span style="color: blue;">Jefferson Morley(He/Him) • 1stEditor,
Reporter & Historian3d • 3 days ago<o:p></o:p></span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 2012, I co-founded JFK Facts, a
blog, with Rex Bradford of the Mary Ferrell Foundation. Our goal was to counter
the pervasive phenomenon of poorly informed journalism about the assassination
of JFK. The facts of the JFK story, we believe, are more important than the
"theories."<br />
<br />
Ten years later, with 3,078,788 pages views and 50,810 comments, the concept
has proven sound. JFK Facts journalism has been picked up by NYT, WaPo, CNN, Fox,
Politico, Associated Press, Economist, Newsweek, and the Miami Herald, to name
just a few. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=journalism&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6971850869726224384"><span style="color: blue;">#journalism</span></a><br />
<br />
Now JFK Facts is taking the next step toward decisive clarification of
Kennedy's assassination. JFK Facts, the blog, is now JFK Facts, the Substack
Edition.<br />
<br />
With the new platform comes a new focus: to expose, undermine and defeat the
CIA's strategy for evading JFK accountability. We know about this strategy from
the history of CIA malfeasance in the investigations of JFK
assassination--malfeasance that continues to this.<br />
<br />
People ask what is my JFK theory and I invariably disappoint the questioner by
saying, my only JFK theory is that the CIA can be made to obey the law in 2022.
This theory, I must admit, is unproven.<br />
<br />
But, I insist it is plausible. President Biden has issued an order calling for
"maximum disclosure" by December 15, 2022. All indications are that
the CIA intends to keep its JFK secrets in defiance of Biden's order. But if
the agency's intention to hide incriminating secrets is exposed to Congress and
the public, then U.S. officialdom may be shamed or forced into doing something
that is, according to the JFK Records Act, FIVE YEARS OVERDUE. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=law&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6971850869726224384"><span style="color: blue;">#law</span></a><br />
<br />
And what are those secrets? That's what I'll be reporting on in JFK Facts/Substack
Edition. To get the full story, you'll have to subscribe.<br />
<br />
I can tell you this: There is now compelling evidence the CIA is hiding the
existence of at least one CIA operation, never acknowledged publicly, that
targeted one Lee Harvey Oswald for intelligence purposes, starting in January
1963. If there was such an operation, documentation of it is known to exist and
is possession of the CIA. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=intelligence&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6971850869726224384"><span style="color: blue;">#intelligence</span></a><br />
<br />
If I'm wrong--if this is just another preposterous "conspiracy
theory"--the CIA can release these records tomorrow and prove me the fool.
To which I say, "Go ahead. Make my day."<br />
<br />
The fact that the CIA will do no such thing is telling.<br />
Consistent with its deceptive actions in 1963, 1978, 1997, and 2017, the CIA
will disavow any knowledge of this operation. Indeed, certain Agency officials
today are seeking to make sure that this documentation is NOT made public on
December 15, 2022.<br />
<br />
Against such obfuscation, JFK Facts/Substack Edition, seeks nothing less than
full JFK disclosure in 2022.<br />
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Joseph B. Smith <i>Portrait of a Cold Warrior – Second Thoughts of a Top CIA
Agent</i> (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1976) P. 59.</b><br />
<br />When Smith was being prepared for training his recruiter told him: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">..“As far as psychological warfare is concerned, it’s a brand new field. We
are all learning. You remember it was one of Hitler’s strongest weapons. The Communists
depend on it a lot to. We figure that if we analyze what they’re doing and
study the countries in our area closely, we can beat them at their own game.”<br />
<br />
“Oh yes, another thing,” she added, “We won’t be able to spare you for any
clandestine tradecraft training. That would take another three months. We need
you now. You’ll have to learn the business on the job. I’m afraid.”<br />
<br />
“Well,” she added as an afterthought, “we will be able to help you with
psychwar. Paul Linebarger, our consultant, is one of the few real experts and
he gives evening seminars for us. We’ll try to get you into one of them after
you’ve settled in.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b>ASSASSINATION AS A CONTINGENCY </b><br />
<br />
.......One important contingency to consider in case a situation worsened rapidly
and a take over by the Communist guerrilla armies appeared imminent was the
operational effectiveness of assassination of the leaders of these groups.<br />
<br />
For example, in Indochina, would the Viet Minh fall apart if Ho Chi Minh were
assassinated? He appeared to be the soul of the movement. The evidence
indicated that he was the one man nearly all Vietnamese respected and his
efforts had provided the decisive cohesion that held the Communist cause
together. If he were removed, wouldn’t this one death perhaps save the lives of
many?<br />
<br />
This was the key point on which discussions of assassination turned, the same
kind of reasoning that led to the dropping of the first atomic bomb. An
assassination meant the death of one person. If the situation is one of armed
combat, killing is an accepted activity. Maximum accomplishment via minimum
violence became a primary consideration.<br />
<br /><b>
Thus assassination was always a contingency action to be included in the plans,
though approval would have to come from the National Security Council before
any assassination was attempted.</b> Another practical problem was where to find
the assassins. The reading of case studies of the successful assassinations by
Soviet secret service counterparts, such as the killing of Trotsky, wasn’t much
help because the Soviets service exercised a control over its agents we could
not impose, certainly not on Asians. That left only criminals and cranks to be
considered for recruitment to perform this service...P. 75...</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b>LINEBARGER'S CLASS </b><br />
<br />
All this was far in the future and far less important to me in the early winter
of 1952 than the fact that I got the chance to attend Paul Linebarger’s seminar
in psychological warfare. Linebarger had served as an Army psychological
warfare officer in Chungking during the war. He had written a textbook on the
subject in 1948<br />
<br />
In 1951 he was serving as the Far East Division’s chief consultant. He also
served as the Defense Department in the same capacity, giving advice on U.S.
psychwar operations in Korea, and he was professor of Asian politics at the
School for Advanced International Studies of the John Hopkins University. His
book by this time had gone through three American editions, two Argentine
editions and a Japanese edition.<br />
<br />
He was far from a textbook warrior, however. He best described himself when he
wrote the introduction to his book, “Psychological warfare involves exciting
wit sharpening work. It tends to attract quick-minded people – men full of
ideas.” His wits scarcely needed sharpening, and he was never at a loss for an
idea.<br />
<br />
The seminars were held in eight weeks, every Friday night at his home. Going to
Paul Linebarger’s house on Friday evenings was not only an educational experience
for those who attended the seminar, it was also an exercise in clandestinity.
<b>Learning covert operational conduct was considered part of the course</b>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Each
seminar was limited to no more than eight students. They were told to pose as
students from the School of Advanced International Studies, to go to Paul’s via
different routes, and to say they were attending a seminar on Asian politics.
Senator McCarthy had alerted everyone to the possibility that Communist
operators might be expected to turn up at almost any place in Washington. The
School of Advanced International Studies had its campus in Washington, but over
in Baltimore at the main campus of John Hopkins University, Owen Lattimore, the
expert on Asian geography, held sway. McCarthy had called Lattimore the
principal agent of Communist China in the United States.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Although no one called Paul Linebarger the principle agent of Chiang Kai-shek,
his father had been Sun Yat Sen’s legal advisor and Paul never hid his full
devotion to the Chinat cause. The feeling of the clash of mysterious powers was
abroad in the cold winter nights around Paul’s house. It could just be possible
that some Communist surveillant might follow one of the students up Rock Creek
Park to 29th Street. They might even be operating from the Shoreham hotel, a
few blocks away. We had been thoroughly indoctrinated in the fear of Communist
subversion....It would be difficult to say whether it was the political
atmosphere in general, the office routine of the day just closed, or the drawn drapes
in Linebarger’s living room, but students at the seminar met in an
appropriately conspiratorial mood tht raised the level of their appreciation of
their subject.<br />
<br />
The mood was fitting if not essential to an understanding of the material. The
first point that Linebarger made was that the purpose of all psychological
warfare is the manipulation of people so that they are not able to detect they
are being manipulated. Wartime psychwar had been a matter of undermining the
enemy civilian and military will to continue the fight. The audience, in brief,
was very clearly defined. Determining just who it was they wanted to manipulate
and for what ends was also pretty clear to the OPC personnel. Their targets
were the Communists and their allies. Having this firmly in mind, any methods
of manipulation could be used, especially “black propaganda.”<br />
<br />
Black propaganda operations, by definition, are operations in which the source
of the propaganda is disguised or misrepresented in one way or another so as
not be attributable to the people who really put it out. This distinguishes
black from white propaganda, such as news bulletins and similar statements
issued by one side in a conflict extolling its successes, of course, or other
material just as clearly designed to serve the purposes of its identifiable
authors.<br />
<br />
During World War II black propaganda operators had a field day. German black
operations against the French consisted of such enterprises as sending French
soldiers letters from their hometowns telling them their wives were committing
adultery, or were infected with venereal diseases, giving away mourning dresses
to women who would wear them on the streets of Paris, or intercepting telephone
communications in the field and giving confusing or contradictory orders.<br />
<br />
Paul Linebarger’s was a seminar in black propaganda only. One reason for this
was that the United States already had an overt propaganda agency as part of
the cold war apparatus. In those days this was run directly by the State
Department, but in 1953 it would become formalized into the United States
Information Agency and become an independent government agency responsible for
worldwide United States propaganda operations. Furthermore, the view of the
state of affairs in the world was that was the fundamental assumption of all
OPC activities was that the United States was faced everywhere with an enemy
that was using an untold array of black psychwar operations to undermine the
nations of the world in order to present us with a fait accompli one fine morning
when we would wake up to find all these countries under Communist control.
Hence, it was vital to understand all about such operations from a defensive
standpoint if nothing else. There was, however, something else. This was an
attitude produced by the mixture of ancient wisdom that a good offense is the
best defense, and the spirit of the times that made the existence of conspiracy
seem so real. It was good to feel that we were learning how to beat the
Communists at their own game.<br />
<br />
Paul Linebarger loved black propaganda operations probably because they
involved the wit-sharpening he liked to talk about. Also, he was so god at them
that his was one of the inventive minds that refined the entire black
operations field into shades of blackness. Linebarger and his disciples decided
that propaganda that was merely not attributed to the United States was not
really black, only gray. To be called black it had to be something more.
Furthermore, they divided gray propaganda into shades of gray. So-called light gray
was defined as propaganda that was not attributed to the United States
government, but instead, for example, to a group that was known to be a
friendly source. Medium gray or “gray gray” was the term LInebarger used for
propaganda that was attributed to a neutral source or, in any case, to one that
was not suspected to be about to say anything friendly concerning the United
States or its national or international policies. Dark gray was the term for
propaganda attributed to a source usually hostile to the United States. This
left the term black propaganda for a very special kind of propaganda activity.
Black propaganda operations were operations done to look like, and carefully
labeled to be, acts of the (Communist) enemy.<br />
<br />
Not only was the attribution given the source of the propaganda activity used
as a criterion for defining what kind of propaganda it was, but equally
important was the kind of message used. Gray activity involved statements or
actions that supported U.S. policies. Black propaganda operations, being
attributed to the enemy, naturally did not. In fact, black propaganda, to be
believable, supported the enemy’s positions and openly opposed those of the
United States.<br />
<br />
Gray propaganda was considered to be useful because it added strength to our
side by putting praise of the United States or, at least a reasonably stated
understanding of U.S. positions, in the mouths of those whom the world at large
would not identify as U.S. spokesmen giving out the official line. In one
sense, gray propaganda is a close cousin of the endorsement in a commercial
advertising campaign. Where the Clandestine Services came in was in the role of
sponsor – but a sponsor that was not supposed to be known to anyone who heard
or read the endorsement of the U.S. government’s policy product...<br />
<br />
Mostly however, we followed our mentor through a series of actions that were to
be attributed to various of our Communist enemies……Saying that the Communists
were evil was merely talk. Doing something evil, disguised as Communists, would
have real credibility.<br />
<br />
Linebarger was always careful to point out that to have a chance of success,
these black operations must be based on good solid information about how the
Communists Party we proposed to imitate actually conducted its business...</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><i> [Communists Huks in the Phillipines used as an example BK Notes that Ed Lansdale had Linebarger flown to the Phillipines in order to train Napoleon Villanuve, who later helped Lansdale train the anti-Castro Cubans for the Bay of Pigs].</i><br />
<br />
It may seem curious, but it did not bother anyone at the seminar to be blithely
engaged in planning a forgery, although no one there had ever been arrested for
any serious crime. Otherwise they would not have been there. They would not
have been granted the necessary security clearance to have gained employment by
the Clandestine Services. The finer points about forgery, however, were
actually the most fascinating to this group: how to obtain authentic paper, how
to be sure to use the same kind of typewriter that Huk orders were usually
written on, and of course, how to be certain to use the proper language that
would make our work indistinguishable from the real thing. These were the
topics examined with the most minute care.<br />
<br />
Linebarger undertook a kind of group therapy approach to try to show us that
tricking someone into believing that black is white comes naturally to
everybody and is something that is practiced from childhood.<br />
<br />
“Look,” he began, “can’t you remember how you fooled your brothers and sisters
and your father and mother? Try to remember how old you were when you first
tricked them.”<br />
<br />
This got the class confessional under way. Soon people began recalling how they
had stolen their brother’s and sister’s favorite toys…..As the stories
progressed from grade school to high school and college capers, the tales of
manipulation of parents and peers grew darker, if not black to the point of
Linebarger’s definition of black operations. Everyone had either forged the
time of return from when coming back to a dormitory after hours or forged
parents’ signatures to bad report cards, or used false credentials to buy a
drink when under age.<br />
<br />
We found these exchanges so interesting that we decided to open each evening’s
session with twenty minutes of confessions. They undoubtedly helped us to study
the art of falsifying Communist documents with the high enthusiasm we all
developed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">After listening to these recitals for a couple of weeks, Linebarger asked,
“Haven’t any of you done anything more exciting than figure out ways to have
your drinking and sexual adventures? I know none of you as in a psychwar outfit
during the war, but has anyone done anything more nearly operational?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">To everyone’s surprise Boston Blackie, our group anti-hero and skeptic was the
one who replied....“...there was a referendum in Massachusetts on the question
of birth control information...Then one of the priests got an idea. He
suggested that we explain to the parishioners that if the voters approved the
change in the law and permitted birth control information to be legally
disseminated, this would mean that they would have to get a written permit from
the government if they wanted to have a baby...<br />
<br />
Linebarger thought this was an excellent story. He beamed, “I wish we had
access to Church records for the past thousand years, we’d have so many case
histories that we would be sure to find something to fit all our needs in Asia
right now. The Catholic Church didn’t last this long as an unalternable
institution without giving God’s will some assistance.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b>DAVID MAURER AND THE BIG CON </b><br />
<br /><b>
“I want you all to go out and get a copy of David Maurer’s classic on the
confidence man. It’s called <i>The Big Con,</i> and it’s available now in a paperback
edition,” Paul continued. “That little book will teach you more about the art
of covert operations than anything else I know.”</b><br />
<br />
“Your job and the confidence man’s are almost identical. The point of our
little confessionals has been to show you what I mean by that statement. I’m
happy to say I think you’ve been getting it...”<br />
<br />
“Of course, your motives and those of the confidence men are different. He
wants to fleece his mark out of his money. You want to convince a Chinese, a
Filipino, and Indonesian, a Malay, a Burmese, a Thai, that what you want him to
believe or do for the good of the U.S. government is what he thinks he himself
really believes and wants to do.”<br />
<br />
“Maurer’s book will give you a lot of ideas on how to recruit agents, how to
handle them and how to get rid of them peacefully when they’re no use to you
any longer. Believe me, that last one is the toughest job of all.”<br />
<br />
We were all soon avidly reading <i>The Big Con.</i> The tales it told did, indeed,
contain a lot of hints on how to do our jobs. For me one sentence seemed to sum
it all up beautifully, “The big-time confidence games,” wrote Maurer, “are in
reality only carefully rehearsed plays in which every member of the cast except
the mark knows his part perfectly.” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">* [ David W. Maurer, <i>The Big Con </i>(New
York: Pocket Books, 1949), p. 102.]<br />
<br />
Besides this course reading, exchanges of experiences, development of model
situations, study of Communist propaganda, especially its style and content
with an eye to copying them, Paul taught by the oldest method, precept. His
injunction was to follow the example of proven successful practitioners.<br />
<br />
He had two leading operational heroes whose activities formed the basis for
lessons he wanted us to learn and whose examples he thought we should follow.
One was Lt. Col. Edward G. Lansdale, the OPC station chief in Manila, and the
other was E. Howard Hunt, the OPC station chief in Mexico City. Both of them
had what he called “black minds,” and the daring to defy bureaucratic
restraints in thinking up and executing operations. He had a number of stories
to tell about the exploits of both. He was particularly fond of Lansdale, whom
he claimed had “invented” the Philippine Secretary of Defense, Ramon Magsaysay,
around whom he built a plan of action that was slowly but surely bringing the
Huk uprising to an end. His esteem for Hunt lay in his admiration for what he
considered Hunt’s great ability to invent a clever way to thwart the Communists
in their efforts to achieve success in the everyday affairs of life. He had a
favorite Lansdale story and a favorite Hunt story to illustrate what he admired
in each, and to demonstrate two widely different kinds of black operations.
Lansdale’s was somewhat complex and required the support of a number of people
and pieces of equipment. Hunt’s was disarmingly simple.<br />
<br />
Lansdale ordered a careful study of the superstitions of the Filipino peasants,
their lore their witch doctors, their taboos and myths. He then got hold of a
small aircraft and some air-to-ground communications gear. He would fly the
aircraft over areas where Huks were known to be hiding and broadcast in the
Tugalog language mysterious curses on any villagers who designed to give the
Huks food and shelter...<br />
<br />
Linebarger’s Howard Hunt story was much less heavy. It also fitted better
Linebarger’s definition of a black operation. No one had quite the heart to ask
him whether the Filipino spirits to whom the curses were attributed were
Communists, as his definition of black propaganda would require, and, if so,
were they cursing their own team, the Huks.<br />
<br />
Linebarger liked to stress that his Hunt story was a good example of how to
cause the Communists a lot of grief on a low budget. Hunt learned that a
Communist front in Mexico was planning a reception to honor some Soviet
visitors. Drinks, refreshments, and a lunch were planned for the event. Hunt
got hold of an invitation. He then went to work with a friendly printer and
printed up three thousand extra invitations, which he had widely distributed.<br />
<br />
On the day of the reception, Hunt got the desired results. Before the reception
was a quarter underway, the Communists had run out of food and drink…..The
cause of the Soviet-Mexican friendship was definitely damaged, at least for a
while.<br />
<br />
A note of caution that Linebarger added to these discussions of black operations
sounds like a bell down the years. He would explain, after someone had come up
with an especially clever plan for getting the Communists completely
incriminated in an exceedingly offensive act, that there should be limits to
black activities.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b>“I hate to think what would ever happen,” he once said with a prophet’s voice,
“if any of you ever got out of this business and got involved in U.S. politics.
These kinds of dirty tricks must never be used in internal U.S. politics. The
whole system would come apart.”</b><br />
<br />
I remember there was a nodding of heads when Linebarger delivered this
admonition. I do not recall that anyone agreed in a loud, firm voice. Perhaps
his remark was thought to be really rather irrelevant. We had more serious
business to attend to.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We would say goodnight to Paul in the vestibule of his house, and slip, one by
one, out into the night to our cars parked a discreetly different distances
from his home. We had just completed another session in the act of confounding
our enemies. We were inspired to go back to work the following week and look
for fresh opportunities to devise new operations against the Communists.... (P.
86)</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b>THE
PROOF IN THE PROPAGANDA – Black Prop Ops and the Assassination of JFK</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
Actually there were two conspiracies associated with the assassination of
President Kennedy – the first was the arrangement of his murder, the second
concerns the cover-up and thwarting of justice. The second conspiracy continues
today.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
The evidence in both cases is in the form of fingerprints – the fingerprints of
distinct intelligence techniques at work. Evidence of the first conspiracy
comes in the form of foreknowledge, individuals who had knowledge of the
assassination before it occurred and expressed this knowledge to others. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://jfkcountercoup.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/foreknowledge-jfk-assassination/">Foreknowledge & JFK Assassination | JFKCountercoup</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
Fifth century Chinese philosopher and author of the classic manual “The Art of
War” said that foreknowledge cannot be elicited by spirits or obtained by magic
but rather can only be acquired from an operational network of spies.
“Foreknowledge,” he said, “is the reason the enlightened prince and the wise
general conquer the enemy whenever they move.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
Proof of the second conspiracy stems from the fact that black propaganda
operations were utilized before the assassination, and continue to operate
today to maintain security and protect those responsible for the first
conspiracy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
That people had foreknowledge of the assassination before it occurred and black
propaganda operations were conducted in concert with the murder indicates that
the assassination was carried out by trained covert intelligence operatives and
not by a lone, deranged nut case or the Mafia. This does not preclude however,
members of organized crime or crazy people from being involved in the
operation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
That Fidel Castro and Cuba were behind the assassination is disinformation and
the deception plan behind the black propaganda operation conducted in concert
with the President’s murder. Over a dozen incidents, most if not all of which
can be traced back to the same source, attempt to portray the assassination as
the work of Castro or his G2. [See: List – B]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
Tracing the deceptive disinformation back to its source should also give us the
source of the operation that resulted in what happened at Dealey Plaza.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
Since disinformation, propaganda and psychological warfare operations utilize
explicit techniques, they can be identified, isolated and studied as to their
content, intention and source, and thus provide a window into the nest of the
responsible party.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <b>
According to Ladislas Farago such, “Black Propaganda is a fundamental
intelligence operation,…because it never identifies its real source and
pretends to originate within or close to the enemy.”</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
Paul Linebarger, a professor at the School for Advanced International Studies
at John Hopkins University, also taught the black arts of propaganda and
psychological warfare operations at his Washington D.C. home. Every Friday
evening student spys would take round-a-bout means to unobtrusively get to his
house where they learned the secret techniques of propaganda and deception.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
One of his students, Joseph Burkholder Smith (<i>“Portrait of a Cold Warrior”</i> G.
Putnam/s Sons, N.Y., 1976), relates how <b>Linebarger explained that Black
Propaganda is “carefully labeled to be acts of the enemy.”</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
Not a subject found in the curriculum of most colleges, the textbook is rare,
Linebarger’s <i>“Psychological Warfare – International Propaganda and
Communications” </i>(Arno Press, 1948, 1952, 1972, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, N.Y.)
is a still used by today’s psychological warriors.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
According to Linebarger, “Psychological warfare, in the broad sense, consists
of the application of parts of the science called psychology to the conduct of
war; psychological warfare comprises the use of propaganda against the enemy,
together with such military operational measures as may supplement the
propaganda. Propaganda may be described in turn, as organized persuasion by
non-violent means. War itself may be considered to be, among other things, a
violent form of persuasion. War is waged against the minds, not the bodies of
the enemy.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
Specifically defined, <b>propaganda consists of the planned use of any form of
public or mass produced communication designed to affect the minds and emotions
of a given group for a specific public purpose, whether military, economic or
political. Military propaganda consists of the planned use of any form of
communications designed to affect the minds and emotions of a given enemy,
neutral or friendly foreign group for a specific strategic or tactical purpose. </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
Note that if the communication is not planned, it cannot be called propaganda,
and that if does not originate from an intelligence agency or service, it is
not disinformation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
Linebarger developed the STASM formula for spot analysis, in which propaganda
can be distinguished by the consideration of five elements – 1) Source, 2)
Time, 3) Audience, 4) Subject, 5) Mission. According to Linebarger, this
formula works best in the treatment of monitored materials of which the source
is known. First point to note is the character of the source – the true source
(who really got it out?), the ostensible source (whose name is signed to it?);
also the first use source (who used it the first time?) and the second source
(who claims merely to be using it as a quotation?).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
It is soon evident that the mere attribution of source is a job of high
magnitude. A systematic breakdown of the STASM formula produces the following
analysis outline: applicable to any single propaganda item, civil or military,
in war or peace, spoken, visual or printed. There are five kinds of propaganda:
Defense – maintains an accepted form of social action; Offensive – interrupts
social action not desired; Conversionary – change allegiance; Divisive – split
apart enemy compoents; Consolidation – insure compliance of occupied civilians;
Counterpropaganda – refutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
Security is designed to deep useful information from reaching the enemy, while
propaganda operations are designed to get information to him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> “Propaganda is directed to the subtle niceties of thought by which people
maintain their personal orientation in an unstable interpersonal world,” wrote
Linebarger. “Propaganda must use the language of the mother, the schoolteacher,
the lover, the bully, the policeman, the actor, the ecclesiastic, the buddy,
the newspaperman, all of them in turn. And propaganda analysis, in weighing and
evaluating propaganda, must be even more discriminating whether the propaganda
is apt to hit its mark or not.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Black
Propaganda Operations affiliated with the Assassination of JFK:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1) A
leaflet was distributed to the Florida Cuban community in November, 1963 that
warned of an “Act of God” that would put a “Texan in the White House.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2) Lee
Harvey Oswald’s Fair Play for Cuba Committee activities in New Orleans in the
summer of 1963.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3) Oswald’s
visit to the Cuban and Russian embassies in Mexico City in Sept., 1963.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4) The
photographs of Oswald brandishing a rifle and pistol and copies of two leftest
but contradictory magazines in his back yard.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">5) The
last two issues President Kennedy dealt with before leaving the White House for
Texas concerned his backchannel negotiations with Fidel Castro at the UN and
the discovery of a cache of weapons in Venezuela that appeared to have come
from Cuba. The weapons story was later discovered to be over a year old and
planted by the CIA to falsely implicate Cuba.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">6) Julio
Fernandez, one of three anti-Castro Cubans whose boat was financially supported
by Clair Booth Luce, called Luce, wife of the publisher of Time-Life on the
evening of the assassination to report information on Oswald’s activities in
New Orleans. Fernandez, a former Cuban publisher, was married to an attorney
who worked for Catholic Welfare Services in Miami.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">7) In
Miami, shortly after the assassination, Dr. Jose Ignorzio, the chief of
clinical psychology for the Catholic Welfare Services, contacted the White
House to inform the new administration that Oswald had met directly with Cuban
ambassador Armas in Mexico.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">8) In
Mexico City, David Atlee Philips of the CIA debriefed a Nicaraguan intelligence
officer, code named “D,” who claimed to have seen Oswald take money from a
Cuban at the Cuban embassy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">9) In
New Zealand, U.S.A.F. Col. Fletcher Prouty read complete biographies of Oswald
in the local papers hours after the assassination, indicating to him that a bio
of Oswald was pre-prepared.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">10) Brothers
Jerry and James Buchanan, CIA propaganda assets, began promoting the
Castro-did-it theme immediately. According to Donald Freed and Jeff Cohen (in
Liberation Magazine), the source of the Buchanan’s tales was the leader of the
CIA supported International Anti-Communist Brigade (IAB). “Back in Miami,” they
wrote, “a high powered propaganda machine was cranking out stories that Oswald
was a Cuban agent…” Sturgis is quoted in the Pampara Beach Sun-Sentinel as
saying that Oswald had talked with Cuban G-2 agents and fracassed with IAB
members in Miami in 1962.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">11) Jack
Anderson used Sturgis and mobster John Rosselli to keep the Castro plot
propaganda story going well into the 1970s.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">12) The same “propaganda machine” was still pumping out the same lines in 1976 when
Gaeton Fonzi interviewed Sturgis, who said that he had recently ran into a
friend who worked for the “company” who reminded him of an incident he had
completely forgotten about. Sturgis suddenly recalled, “that he had heard about
a meeting in Havana about two months before the Kennedy assassination. At the
meeting there were a number of high-ranking men, including Castro, hs brother
Raul, Ramiro Valdez, the chief of Cuban intelligence, Che Guevara and his
secretary Tanya, another Cuban officer, an American known as ‘El Mexicano,’
and,…oh, yea; Jack Ruby. And the meeting dealt with plotting the assassination
of President Kennedy.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">13) Seith
Kantor, a Scripps-Howard News Service Reporter in Dallas during the
assassination, couldn’t understand why his telephone call records from Parkland
Hospital were being withheld because “disclosure would reveal confidential
source of information.” When Kantor checked his own records he discovered his
editor had told him to call another reporter in Florida or some deep background
on Oswald. The reporter in Florida had everything on Oswald, FPFCC, Russian
defection, New Orleans radio debate, etc., but instead of using it himself, fed
it to Kantor. The reporter was Hal “the Spook” Hendrix, who won the Pulitzer
Prize for his coverage of the Cuban Missile Crisis and earned his nickname when
he “reported” on the Dominican Republic Coup on September 24, 1963, the day
before it happened. His CIA affiliations became better known when he went to
work for ITT in Chile and was found guilty of withholding information from a
Congressional committee concerning his role in the Chilean coup.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">14) While
other major news organizations have been exposed as CIA media assets, such as
CBS News, Life Magazine, the North American Newspaper Alliance and the Copley
Newspaper chain, the Scripps-Howard News Service (SHNS) stands out not only
because of the Kantor-Hendrix connection, but because of the March 12 news
report out of Washington. An obvious black propaganda operation that stems from
NSA intercepts (note that the NSA does not issue press releases), and continues
to implicate Castro in not only the assassination of President Kennedy, but in
the planning of an assassination on President Reagan. This story is remarkably
similar to the one that Sturgis tells [in #12] and includes many of the same
conspirators. [See: SHNS Story]. Also please note that two weeks after this
obvious piece of black propaganda disinformation was published, President
Reagan was shot in front of the Washington Hilton by John Hinkley.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b>Clear Example
of Black Prop Op and JFK Assassination.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b>Why
weren’t the records of this incident released by the NSA under the JFK Act?</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Scripps-Howard
News Service – By R. H. Boyce. Thursday, March 12, 1981<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Washington
– The National Security Agency has alerted the CIA, the White House and State
Department to a Latin American newspaper report saying Cuban President Fidel
Castro is plotting the assassination of President Reagan, Scripps-Howard News
Service has learned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
The NSA, which monitors published and broadcast information around the globe,
does not makes such “alert” messages available to the press. But SHNS obtained
a copy, which was marked “for official use only.” It included the text of the
newspaper report as well as a garbled message about the news story directed to
the head of Castro’s controlled news agency, Presna Latina.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
Without revealing its sources, the news report, published yesterday in the
Caracas, Venezuela, newspaper El Mundo, asserted the assassination plot called
for the slaying to be carried out by Illich Ramirez Sancho, an international
terrorists known as Carlos the Jackal. Carlos is said to have organized the
massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany,
and has been involved in dozens of terrorists acts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
U.S. officials said the NSA’s action in alerting the U.S. intelligence
community “suggests that while they are not necessarily ready to believe the
report of an assassination plot, nevertheless they (NSA) find it at least
worthy of looking into.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
The Caracas newspaper story said the assassination plan, “was discussed in a
meeting of the International Trust of Crime in Cojimar, an exclusive beach club
east of Havana, with the participants of Montonero and Tupamaro thugs, Illich
Ramirez, Ramiro Valdez, Cuban Police Minister Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Fidel
Castro.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
No identification was found of Ramiro Valdez. Montonero “thugs” are terrorists
operating primarily in Argentina while Tupumaros thugs operate in Uruguay. The
article said Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasir Arafat also
participated in the plan.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
Presna Latina (Latin Press) often has been used by Castro for political ends.
The Pressa Latina correspondent in Caracas, at 9:47 a.m. EST yesterday, began
transmitting the El Mundo article by cable to Prensa Latina headquarters in
Havana. NSA monitored it. At the close of the text, Prensa Latina Caracas began
adding what appears to be commentary on the El Mundo report. It reads:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
“Everything seems to indicate that Fidel Castro is planning the assassination
of U.S. President Ronald Reagan in the same way that he previously ordered the
assassination of John F. Kennedy and whose participation the high-ranking U.S.
government circles hid…”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
There the Prensa Latina cable transmission stopped. Had it been ordered broken
off by the Venezuela government, say U.S. officials, NSA would have added the
words: “transmission interrupted,” to show Venezuela’s action. There was no
such NSA notation. Officials provided no explanation of why the transmission
ended in mid-sentence.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">XXXXxxxx</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522635142791807512.post-35873452159300155412022-08-09T20:25:00.003-07:002022-08-09T20:25:54.722-07:00Mark Valenti on Jim Braden <p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">Mark
Valenti writes –</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The book
is shaping up but I'm still looking for connective tissue with a few items. I
want to match Brading's known movements over the years with known Mob activity,
police hustles and even some political stuff that was taking place at the
same time. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I also
need corroboration for a few things concerning Joe Shimon and Brading's time in
New Orleans.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I've
been attempting to run down Brading's records from his time in jail in the late
50s but I've hit a bureaucratic brick wall. I need those records to complete
the picture. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I know
Brading and Pereira ran gambling dens for the mob over the years - they were
reliable money, slick and for a while, untouchable. They hit towns where the
police were on the take, so they operated with impunity. The mob loved those
guys, so much so that Brading became a money courier for Lansky, even with him
traveling to Switzerland. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I'm
chasing two other individuals who performed the same services for the Mob,
whose stories are somewhat similar to Brading's. That can help me nail down
exactly how he operated. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But
Brading ended up in the slammer for a number of years, during which he kept in
close contact with several key mob-affiliated individuals. I'm trying to find
out more about who he was in contact with in those years, because when he came
out, he was set up in high style in Beverly Hills, and he came and went as he
pleased, even rubbing shoulders with J. Edgar Hoover in San Diego. He was a
connected guy. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
believe he was in Dallas to make payments to key players, regardless of
whether or not he knew the reason for the payments. As you know, he was in the
same place at the same time TWICE in one day as Jack Ruby was, the day before
the assassination. Demonstrating that would prove foreknowledge on the part of
the Mob, which would go a long way toward an understanding of how the event
went down. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">My
research has shown: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">*
Brading and George deMohrenschildt were both in the oil fields of Colorado and
Wyoming at the same time in the 50s - very near each other. It beggars belief
that they didn't run in the same circles - everyone knew everyone in those
days. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">*
Michael Paine worked in the same area at the same time for a short while. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">*
Someone named Jack Ruby financed the scam of some of Brading's colleagues during
this period. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">* When
Brading was arrested as a young man, his lawyer was also Al Capone's
lawyer. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">* He
made several trips to Cuba and met up with high roller gamblers associated with
the Mob.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">* He was
an informant to none other than crooked cop Joe Shimon, who later became an
intimate colleague of Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, and who knew a great
deal about JFK's troublesome security just before the assassination. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">*
Brading's pal Victor Pereira was an FBI informant. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">*
Brading once lived in the same apartment complex in Beverly Hills as the one
Marilyn Monroe lived in.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">*
Brading's colleague Roger Bauman was an associate of HL Hunt for years. Bauman
is the man Brading flew into Dallas with. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">* He
spent time on a farm in McHenry Illinois that was deeply connected to the
Mob. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">*
Brading was intimately involved with the widow of a principal member of
Magnolia Oil in Dallas. Of course Magnolia Oil is a hub of JFK-related people.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">* When
Brading was in jail, one of his fellow inmates was Benny Binion, the famous
Dallas gambling boss.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">*
Another connected inmate at that time was James Henry Dolan, who has been
linked to Brading though Dolan's own child</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">*
Another inmate at the time was LA mob boss Mickey Cohen.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">* While
in jail, Brading kept in close contact with the Smalldone mob brothers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">*
Brading was in close proximity to David Ferrie in New Orleans --</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">*
Brading and Ferrie ended up within minutes of each other in Houston in the days
following the assassination. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">*
Brading lied about being in bed with his wife in Los Angeles in June, 1968.
They had split up months previously. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Beyond
all that, Brading avoided telling the truth during his testimony - he
conveniently forgot things and when called on them, he would suddenly remember,
but he was adept at shading the truth so that his true whereabouts during
specific times was nearly impossible to track. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">He lied
about who he knew, where he was, what he was doing and how he got there. <o:p></o:p></span></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522635142791807512.post-26920441924111336392022-08-04T12:43:00.002-07:002022-08-04T12:43:40.595-07:00ABC Opening for Disinformation - Misinformation Reporter - Ha<p> Misinformation Reporter job</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A commitment to reaching out to a diverse range of sources</p>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The ability to manage relationships within ABC
News to maintain the highest journalist standards</span>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522635142791807512.post-41350580192216946902022-08-04T12:33:00.006-07:002022-08-11T12:36:19.097-07:00JFK Assassination Documentaries <p> JFK Assassination Documentaries </p><p>- CBS News TV series on the assassination </p><p>- BBC - Tony Summers documentary - 1978 </p><p>- The Men Who Killed JFK </p><p>- Rush To Judgement - Mark Lane - </p><p>- Oliver Stone and Jim DiEugenio's 2022 documentaries - </p><p> - 2 Hour - - 4 Hour - </p><p>- Randy Benson's The Searchers</p><p>- Truth Is Our Only Client - Kuwait - The Client is not well served </p><p>- The Assassination and Mrs. Paine - 2020 - Max </p><p>- Mark Valante's story of Jim Braden - in the wrokds </p><p>-</p><p>-</p><p>IF YOU KNOW OF ANY THAT I'VE MISSED PLEASE POST IT BELOW OR EMAIL ME: <br /><br /></p><p>billkelly3@gmail.com </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522635142791807512.post-64304956008652292662022-08-04T12:27:00.005-07:002022-08-07T14:55:46.005-07:00Major Motion Pictures Related to JFK <p>Major Motion Pictures Related to JFK </p><p>- Suddenly - with Frank Sinatra as a presidential assassin shooting a high powered rifle with scope from a window. </p><p>- Manchurian Candidate - Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey as returning POWs brainwashed by the Chinese in North Korea to be reactivated as assassins. </p><p>- Seven Days in May - Kurt Douglas film about a military coup to take over the presidency. Filming at the White House approved by President Kennedy. </p><p>- PT109 - Cliff Robertson stars as JFK in the South Pacific during WWII.</p><p>- 13 Days - with Kevin Costner staring as Presidential assistant during the Cuban Missile Crisis. </p><p>- Executive Action - Burt Lancaster leads a team of covert snipers paid by Texas Oil tycoons to kill the President. </p><p>- JFK - Director's Cut - Oliver Stone's movie about New Orleans Jim Garrison's response to the assassination and trial of Clay Shaw. </p><p>- Che - Movie about the life of Che Guevara - Fidel Castro's Argentine doctor associate. </p><p>- Parallax View - Warren Beatty stars as a reporter infiltrating an organization that supplies assassins - and patsys. </p><p>- Valkyrie - The story of the German military plot to kill Hitler, take over the government and seek a negotiated peace. </p><p>- Z - Movie about the assassination of a liberal Greek politician and a prosecutor's determination to identify the culprits. </p><p>- Ruby - The story of Jack Ruby, his mob associations and how he was brought into the plot to kill the accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. </p><p>- Umbrella Man - ? Just heard about this one.</p><p>- Parkland - A non-conspiratorial movie about the assassination with emphasis on Oswald's brother Robert. </p><p>- David Atlee Phillips, wrote an unpolished manuscript about his escape from a German POW camp during WWII that he says was never published or made into a movie because of Stalig 17 and The Great Escape, but that his experiences in the POW camp was his first introduction to intelligence techniques, as also exhibited in those two movies. </p><p>- Love Field - about a vivacious blonde from Dallas who together with a black man, drive across the country to attend JFK's funeral. </p><p>- Bubba Ho Tep - An Elvis impersonator wakes from a coma in an institution believing he is Elvis, and hooks up with a black man who believes he is a still living JFK - and they fight off an Egyptian ghost. </p><p>- 7 Days of the Condor - CIA reader survives an attack on his NYC office and sets out to find out who was behind it. </p><p>- </p><p>IF YOU KNOW OF ANY OTHERS THAT I MISSED - Please post below or email me: </p><p>billkelly3@gmail.com </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522635142791807512.post-49127985929346698122022-07-19T19:58:00.002-07:002022-07-19T20:25:01.517-07:00Sam Giancana <p> Thanks to Dr. Cyril Wecht for tipping me off about an upcoming movie about Sam Giancana's role in the assassination. </p><p>He certainly had a role but was not the mastermind or the one who ordered the hit, as some of his relations maintain.</p><p>Giancana comes into the assassination picture as one of those contacted by CIA officer James O'Connell during the Eisenhower administration and asked to assist the CIA in murdering Fidel Castro.</p><p>At first I"Connelly went to Robert Mahu in Las Vegas for advice and Mahu directed him to Johnny Rosselli, the original dapper don. Rosselli represented the Chicago mobs interests in California and Vegas, and said he had to get permission from his boss, Sam Giancana. </p><p>Giancana suggested they bring in Tampa,Florida boss Santo Traficante, who also ran the rackets in Havana before Castro took over, and still had contacts there.</p><p>At first they planned to poison Castro, passing on the poison pills and $10,000 in cash to an employee of a Havana restaurant where Castro frequented. That never happened.</p><p>Them O'Connell was replaced as Rosselli's CIA case officer by William Harvey, head of the Cuban Task Force W and the ZR-RIFLE assassination project.</p><p>Both big drinkers they became friends and remained so until Rosselli was killed. </p><p>They cut out Traficante and Giancana, and turned to killing Castro with high powered rifles instead of poison. Harvey had Rosselli work on strategy with the anti-Castro Cuban commandos run out of JMWAVE in Florida, where Rosselli was given the cover of an Army officer known as "Colonel Rawlins."</p><p>There were a number of teams, one led by Julio Fernandez, and trained by US Army Ranger Captain Bradley Ayers, who was cross posted to the CIA by General Brute Krulack. That team, trained at Pirates Lair in the Everglades, was also financially supported by Clare Boothe Luce.</p><p>Another team and boat crew were supported by William Pawley, of Flying Tigers fame, who used his own boat in the Bayo-Pawley mission that included Rosselli's good friend John Martino and CIA cowboy Rip Robertson. </p><p>Another team was supported by Rosselli was trained by US Army Ranger Capt. Edward Roderick, John I.F. Harper and Carl Jenkins. They were trained as snipers at Point Mary, then a remote area off of Key Largo.</p><p>Together they were known as the Pathfinders, as they were originally assembled and trained to infiltrate Cuba before the Bay of Pigs.</p><p>During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962, Harvey sent some of the Pathfinders into Cuba, and when Robert Kennedy learned this he called them back, fired Harvey and replaced him with Desmond FitzGerald. </p><p>Harvey was sent to be the CIAs man in Rome, where James Jesus Angleton had served in the OSS during WW2 and Clare Luce Booth had been ambassador. Harvey remained Rosselli's case officer and maintained contact with him. </p><p>They reportedly met for the last time in June, 1963 in Florida, where Harvey picked up the tab for their winning, dining and hotel rooms, paying it on the ZR-RIFLE assassination account.</p><p>There was a pause in the CIA plotting to kill Castro, not only because JFK had "disapproved" the Pathfinder plan to kill Castro by shooting him in the head as he drove by in an open jeep, and Kennedy and Castro were engaged in back channel negotiations at the UN, but for another reason. </p><p>As John Newman has pointed out, Castro had to be alive on November 22, 1963 as he was to be blamed for the assassination of JFK as part of the cover story and deception.</p><p>The CIA-Mafia plots to kill Castro remained a secret, even from the Warren Commission, though Allen Dulles was the head of CIA when O'Connell began them during the Eisenhower administration. </p><p>They remained secret until Jack Anderson revealed them in a syndicated Washington Merry-go-round column as a protege of Drew Pearson. Anderson's source was Johnny Rosselli.</p><p>Giancana said that their participation in the CIA plots to kill Castro would end with their deaths, and he was murdered shortly before he was to testify before a Congressional Committee. Shot in the back of the head while he cooked sausages in his basement, he must have known and trusted his killer, a still unsolved homicide.</p><p>Rosselli testified twice, in secret, but then immediately visited Jack Anderson, who shared DC office space with lobbyists and fixer I. Irving Davidson.</p><p>Rosselli told Anderson he helped train the commandos out of the CIA JMWAVE station, and they were sent in, infiltrated Cuba to kill Castro, but were captured, tortured, and turned, and returned to kill JFK in Dallas.</p><p>I believe, as some of the Pathfinders admitted to Gene Wheaton, that they were paid and trained to kill Castro but redirected their fire to JFK in Dallas. </p><p>Not long afterwards, Rosselli went out on a boat with some people he must have known, and trusted, and was tortured, killed, dismembered, and stuck in an oil barrell that was found floating in a bay. A still unsolved homicide today.</p><p>So Giancana, through Rosselli, played a part in the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Castro, that led to JFKs murder, and were murdered themselves for their roles and breaking their oath of omerta by exposing the plots, it was Rosselli who had a larger role with the anti-Castro Cubans who carried out the operation. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522635142791807512.post-83149178564876692842022-07-01T11:01:00.002-07:002022-07-01T11:01:44.127-07:00Questions re: Volkmar Schmidt <p> Hello Mr. Kelly,</p><div> I am an ordinary citizen just turned 70 so I was 11 when the assassination happened. It has interested me ever since. I have read most books on the lone nut side of things and found those on the conspiracy side of things rather "out there". I am willing to listen but will require proof. This is however not to engender a debate but to ask you some very specific questions regarding Mr. Schmidt. I was very excited to read your interview with him. Largely because, according to the Frontline Documentary he and Oswald connected at the party in early 63 </div><div><br /></div><div> I have always thought that Mr Oswalds motives for killing Kennedy were as follows.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>1. His desire to change history and be famous</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>BK: If this were true he would not have denied committing the crime. You can't get around that. </b></div><div><br /></div><div>2. His idolization of Fidel Castro* and anger at Kennedy regarding his policies directed at Cuba and Castro. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>BK: Oswald was never angry at Kennedy. According to Marina and Ruth and Michael Paine and George deMohrenschildt, he greatly admired JFK. </b></div><div><br /></div><div>3. His anger and resentment at Marina for rejecting him multiple times that Thursday. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>BK: He did not hold anger or resentment against Marina. They had a tempermental relationship that overcame many problems. He had more money at that time than I have most of the time, shared it with Marina, and talked to her about buying shoes for the girls. </b></div><div><br /></div><div>* wanting to name his unborn child Fidel, writing to the FPCC and asking for a photo "suitable for framing would be a nice touch". Suggesting he hijack an airliner to get to Cuba to fight for Castro. <br /></div><div><b><br />BK: These are all tidbits that were developed as part of the very well documented black prop op disinformation campaign, begun before the assassination, to blame the murder on Oswald and Castro. </b></div><div><br /></div><div> My question to you sir is; In an FBI interview (affidavit)? just a few days after the assassination Mr. Schmidt disclaimed any knowledge of any disparaging remarks by Oswald about Kennedy in their two hour chat at the party. Why would he lie? </div><div><br /></div><div><b>BK: To save his skin. For the same reason Mr. White refused to deal with the FBI and Dallas Police after seeing the accused assassin in Carl Mather's car near the scene of the murder of his good friend J.D. Tippit, Mr. Ochus Campbell told a reporter that he saw Oswald on the first floor when he reentered the building immediately after the shooting - they realized, especially after the murder of Oswald, that this was a very serious game and lives were at stake. </b></div><div><br /></div><div>Do you think he was afraid of being blamed for not reporting Oswald, as indeed he blames Mr. De Mohrenschildt ? </div><div><br /></div><div>Did you find Mr. Schmidt credible? </div><div><br /></div><div><b>BK: Yes. </b></div><div><br /></div><div>He seemed very sincere and genuine in the candor with which he spoke. (even if he did throw a few people under the bus). </div><div><br /></div><div><b>BK: The key aspects of his conversation with me is the fact that he was raised by German Dr. Keutemeyer, who was associated with two of the German military officers who plotted to kill Hitler in the July 20, 1944 Valkyrie assassination attempt, and used a "reverse psychology" technique taught to him by Keutemeyer on Oswald in discussing Walker, and suggesting that Walker should be killed as Hitler should have been. This was also related to Marina, and on the back of one of the Backyard Photos given to deMohrenschildt, she wrote "Hunter of Fascists! Ha, Ha." This of course dovetails with the briefing Desmond FitzGerald gave the Joint Chiefs of Staff on September 25, 1963, telling them the CIA was "studying in detail" the July 20, 1944 German military plot to kill Hitler in order to utilize against Castro. When a FOIA request was made to the CIA for that "detailed study," they couldn't find it. </b></div><div><br /></div><div>Did you ever have any follow up with him?</div><div><br /></div><div><b>BK: No</b> </div><div><br /></div><div>Thank You </div><div><br /></div><div>Rick Smoot</div><div><br /></div><div>Seattle Wa. </div><div class="yj6qo"></div><div class="adL"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /></div>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522635142791807512.post-84669221465071347552022-07-01T10:46:00.005-07:002022-07-01T10:46:50.951-07:00More on Gene Wheaton <p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Dear Bill Kelly,</span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Dear Bill Kelly,<div><br /></div><div>I would like to ask you if you believe that Carl Jenkins plotted the assassination of JFK? I asked John Simkin a while ago and he said that he did. But I am skeptical as to why Gene Wheaton said these things, because how likely is it that Jenkins would ever admit it?</div><div><br /></div><div>If you are currently researching more into Wheaton, I would love to hear updates on the case, and whether or not it is possible to get to the bottom of it.</div><div><br /></div><div>Kind Regards,</div>Henry Yang.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">I would like to ask you if you believe that Carl Jenkins plotted the assassination of JFK? I asked John Simkin a while ago and he said that he did. But I am skeptical as to why Gene Wheaton said these things, because how likely is it that Jenkins would ever admit it?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">If you are currently researching more into Wheaton, I would love to hear updates on the case, and whether or not it is possible to get to the bottom of it.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Kind Regards,</div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Henry Yang.</span><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Henry, </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">I believe most of what Wheaton says, but Jenkins was only one of a number of top covert operatives who could have arranged the assassination operation at Dealey Plaza. The others are Rip Robertson, William Harvey, Desmond FitzGerald, James Angleton and a few others. Jenkins is a strong suspect however. </span><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">We have documents that support what Wheaton says - that mention Jenkins as being in charge of the JEMWAVE Pathfinder plan to kill Castro with high powered rifle attack as he rode in an open jeep on the way to the duPont estate in Veradero. </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">That is the plan I believe was redirected to JFK at Dealey Plaza.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Jenkins said he was out of country at the time, but that could be what Wheaton described as Diagonese in action.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">More on Wheaton and Jenkins coming.</div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-size: small;"><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">BK</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Matt Ehling writes: </div><div dir="auto"><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Gentlemen,</p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">At the link is the completed Gene Wheaton research book:</p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dropbox.com/s/702c6v0g8nb1vg7/Wheaton%2520Book%2520r3.pdf?dl%3D0&source=gmail&ust=1656783424490000&usg=AOvVaw151wpsHRQ7L5KqtDF62A7x" href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/702c6v0g8nb1vg7/Wheaton%20Book%20r3.pdf?dl=0" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13.3333px;" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/<wbr></wbr>702c6v0g8nb1vg7/Wheaton%<wbr></wbr>20Book%20r3.pdf?dl=0</a></p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">I'll be creating a small run of paper copies, and will mail you each a copy. Bill, I have your address. Dan, send me a good mailing address when you are back in town.</p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><br /></p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Thanks, and have a good Fourth.</p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><br /></p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Matt</p></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div></div>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522635142791807512.post-60925043217025867432022-06-22T10:29:00.000-07:002022-06-22T10:29:08.225-07:00Conspiracy Theory in America by Lance DeHaven-Smith <p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Many thanks to Larry Haapanen for calling attention to this fine,
academic book by Lance </span><span style="text-align: left;">deHaven-Smith.</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">As we have been deluged with dozens if not hundreds of narratives that
belittle conspiracy theories, putting all together in the same basket, as
if what happened at Dealey Plaza is similar to UFOs and fake news stories, this
book is a fresh and objective look that acknowledges the fact that conspiracies
do occur and the Kennedy assassination is one of them. – BK <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Conspiracy
Theory in America<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Discovering
America<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">By: <a href="https://www.audible.com/search?searchAuthor=Lance+deHaven-Smith&ref=a_pd_Conspi_c1_author_1&pf_rd_p=df6bf89c-ab0c-4323-993a-2a046c7399f9&pf_rd_r=SBSEDJGA8ZXEG19CY9VE">Lance
deHaven-Smith</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Narrated
by: <a href="https://www.audible.com/search?searchNarrator=Bobby+Dobbs&ref=a_pd_Conspi_c1_narrator_1&pf_rd_p=df6bf89c-ab0c-4323-993a-2a046c7399f9&pf_rd_r=SBSEDJGA8ZXEG19CY9VE">Bobby
Dobbs</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/Conspiracy-Theory-in-America-Audiobook/B00NMNZVQK"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://www.audible.com/pd/Conspiracy-Theory-in-America-Audiobook/B00NMNZVQK</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Length:
6 hrs and 39 mins</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 19.5pt; line-height: 115%;">iracy Theory in Amer</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><u><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/dehcon"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/dehcon</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Asking
tough questions and connecting the dots across decades of suspicious events,
from the Kennedy assassinations to 9/11 and the anthrax attacks, this book
raises crucial questions about the consequences of Americans’ unwillingness to
suspect high government officials of criminal wrongdoing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ever
since the Warren Commission concluded that a lone gunman assassinated President
John F. Kennedy, people who doubt that finding have been widely dismissed as
conspiracy theorists, despite credible evidence that right-wing elements in the
CIA, FBI, and Secret Service - and possibly even senior government officials -
were also involved. Why has suspicion of criminal wrongdoing at the highest
levels of government been rejected out-of-hand as paranoid thinking akin to
superstition?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lance
deHaven-Smith asks tough questions and connects the dots among five decades'
worth of suspicious events, including the assassinations of John and Robert
Kennedy, the attempted assassinations of George Wallace and Ronald Reagan, the
crimes of Watergate, the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages deal, the disputed
presidential elections of 2000 and 2004, the major defense failure of 9/11, and
the subsequent anthrax letter attacks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sure
to spark intense debate about the truthfulness and trustworthiness of our
government, <i>Conspiracy Theory in America</i> offers a powerful
reminder that a suspicious, even radically suspicious, attitude toward
government is crucial to maintaining our democracy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">©2013 University of
Texas Press (P)2014 Redwood Audiobooks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">A remarkable
book that critiques the cynical management of domestic political thought by
intelligence agencies in the U.S., particularly the CIA. The phrase “conspiracy
theory” is a highly successful tool for preventing dissent, and marginalizing
the dissenting authors and texts that do sometimes emerge in spite of such
disinformation campaigns. A much-needed corrective to the flood of propaganda
published every day by intellectual prostitutes in our country. Check out the
author on You Tube.</span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="background: white; line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15.0pt;">Critic Reviews<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span class="bc-text"><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(20, 20, 20, 0.65);">"DeHaven-Smith
offers an intriguing take on the origins and implications of conspiracy
theories and the paranoid mindset itself in this accessible academic
study." ( <i style="box-sizing: inherit;">Publisher's Weekly</i>)</span></span></span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span class="bc-text"><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(20, 20, 20, 0.65);">" <i style="box-sizing: inherit;">Conspiracy Theory in America</i> is an
excellent presentation, logical and well documented." (James Richard
Bailey, FiredogLake.com)</span></span></span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>William Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06891936236810260349noreply@blogger.com0