THE MAFIA AND THE GOVERNMENT:

TWO FACES OF THE SAME COIN

By Steve Erdmann

(Copyright C, 2016, Steve Erdmann- All Rights Reserved)

<Edited by Robert D. Morningstar>

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“Could the Mob change the parade route, Bill, or eliminate the protection for the President?  

“Could the Mob send Oswald to Russia and get him back?  Could the Mob get the FBI the CIA, and the Dallas Police to make a mess of the investigation?  

“Could the Mob appoint the Warren Commission to cover it up?  Could the Mob wreck the autopsy?  Could the Mob influence the national media to go to sleep?

“And since when has the Mob used anything but .38’s for hits, up close.  The Mob wouldn’t have the guts or the power for something of this magnitude.  Assassins need payrolls, orders, times, schedules.  This was a military-style ambush from start to finish… a coup d’etat with Lyndon Johnson waiting in the wings.”  — Jim Garrison, speaking in Oliver Stone’s movie “JFK.”

The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination draws on multiple and alleged interviews with two dozen associates of John and Robert Kennedy, in addition to former FBI, Secret Service, military intelligence, and Congressional personnel, who provided supposed first-hand information.

The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination also uses government files, including the detailed FBI confession of notorious Mafia godfather, Carlos Marcello, to openly reveal what the authors imagine are those who killed JFK.  Using information that appears to be undisclosed and never published before, the book uses Marcello’s own words to his closest associates to describe the supposed plot.  The book consists of  what appears to be a library of information concerning Lamar Waldron’s and Thom Hartmann’s belief about mobster godfathers Carlos Marcello’s and Santo Trafficante’s plot to kill JFK, as was discovered in problematic FBI CAMTEX files.

The authors tell of Marcello’s prison cellmate’s (Van Laningham) recorded interview/confession on the mobs’ murder of John Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.  The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination book also alludes to supposed new files and information that the authors claim were not available to Congress, which has seemingly only emerged in recent years, and supposedly and completely explains for the first time how Marcello and Trafficante committed and got away with the crime of the 20th century.

(The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination, Lamar Waldron, Counterpoint, 1919 Fifth Street, Berkeley, Ca. 94710, http://www.counterpointpress.com, 2013, 519 pages, $28,00). [1]

Waldron tells of an era when mob rule was immense, and Mafia Kingpin Carlos Marcello ‘owned’ “mayors, judges, governors, members of congress and senators.”  Marcello employed his “own high-powered Washington lobbyist” and a “powerful Washington law firm.”

Marcello, says Waldron, didn’t need “approval from the national Mafia Commission before undertaking major hits.”   This often included government officials who posed a threat (such as the 1954 murder of Alabama’s anti-mob Attorney General-elect). Marcello’s empire grossed about $2 billion a year.

The alleged break in the investigation of the murder of John Kennedy came when the FBI operated a wire-tape “sting” with Marcello’s prison cellmate, Van Laningham.  The code-name CAMTEX operation ran from 1985 to 1986.

  Carlos Marcello in Court

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The overall review of the authors’ books, which included two earlier books Ultimate Sacrifice and Legacy of Secrecy, reveal:

1. Godfather Carlos Marcello of Louisiana joined forces with Santos Trafficante of Tampa mob rule and Johnny Rosselli, a Chicago mob don, to plan the murders of JFK and were also involved in the murders of RFK and Martin Luther King Jr.
2. Jimmy Hoffa was involved in the effort to destroy the Kennedys.  Hoffa bribed Richard Nixon.
3. The single bullet theory is wrong.  Kennedy was killed by hired killers who were connected to the Marcello crime family.  They may have come from as far afield as France.
4. The authors assert that AMWORLD was the plan to invade Cuba on December 1, 1963 to overthrow Castro and place General Almeida in control of a U.S. friendly democratic regime.
5. A mob hit was planned on JFK in both Chicago and Tampa in November 1963 before the successful hit in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
6. The CIA was affiliated with the Mob in Anti-Castro plots. Richard Helms the CIA director and Howard Hunt were involved in covert planning and the training of anti-Castro forces for the invasion of the Bay of Pigs.
7. Arch segregationist Joseph Milteer and wealthy far right fringe men were paid by Marcello to hire James Earl Ray to hit RFK.  Jimmy Hoffa was involved in the effort to destroy the Kennedys.  Hoffa bribed Richard Nixon.
8.  Many of the persons involved in the President Kennedy assassination were also involved in Watergate.  They did not want word of the covert governmental actions against Castro to leak out to the public.

Author’ s Note: ->  The authors Waldron and Hartmann also use the same gymnastics and semantics to place the blame of the murder of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., on the mob as well, for many of the same reasons: these contortions are amply rebutted by critics, but are beyond the breath of this article. — S.E.

NAMING THE ASSASSINS

To the point:  Marcello hired two European hit-men that were brought into Dallas, hidden by mobster Joe Campisi at his Dallas restaurant (the CIA supposedly verified that they had come into the US through Canada and from Italy).  Waldron also says that assassin Jean Souetre was in Dallas on November 22 (and was actually an alias of Michel Victor Mertz). Waldron says that CIA operatives were also seen behind the Grassy-Knoll fence at that time (Page 10). CIA officer David Morales also claimed a part (page 2). Waldron also talks about hitmen Herminio Diaz and Charles Nicoletti, and one or two of Rosselli’s “trained Cuban exile sharpshooters.”  Waldron specifically labels such accusations as “rumor” (p. 279).

Elsewhere, outside of Waldron’s tomes, Chauncey Holt (Self-Portrait of a Scoundrel), a forgery expert for the mob who produced Secret Service credentials for Dallas, and was confessed to be one of the “three hobos” taken off the railroad cars that day, told about CIA asset Aldo Vera, Charles Harrelson, Leo Moceri and Richard Montoya (Charles Rogers) also being behind the picket fence.

http://rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=34625&start=135

MULTIPLE CASTRO PLOTS

A fascinating aspect are the many Castro assassination plots that appeared surrounding the mob and the CIA; many mobsters or Mafiosos were also CIA assets ranging from Carlos Marcello to Jack Ruby to Lee Harvey Oswald.  Concurrent Castro assassination plots which involved both the government and the mob makes one wonder who really was in charge in clandestine operations: Was it truly the “government/CIA horse” or the “Mob/CIA cart,” or visa versa?

A close alliance between the U.S government/CIA and the mobster empires seemed to be more than coincidental; more of a mutual attraction to both operating clandestinely for motivational purposes which “served to fuel the frustration of many Americans–and some members of Congress — that the Mafia seemed to operate with near impunity under J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI and the rest of the Eisenhower-Nixon administration…the Eisenhower-Nixon administration, including FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, had basically taken a hands-off approach to organized crime…one might think the Phenix City assassination would have caused the Eisenhower Nixon Administration to declare war on organized crime, but it didn’t. J. Edgar Hoover continued to turn a blind eye toward the Mafia in general and Marcello in particular.”  (pp. 90-92.)   Consequently, Waldron points out the Mafia’s use of “bribes” to control officials and business (pp. 464, 480).

The biggest collusion seemed to be the mutual interests in the assassination attempts of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro (638 murder attempts to date) by programs invented by both, the U.S government/CIA and the mob; the mob having lost lines of income from casinos and mafia-controlled business since their expulsion from Cuba.  Those programs by both factions are described in this “short list”:

• The JFK-Almieda coup plan (May 29, 1963).
• The CIA-Mafia plots.
• The JURE plan as run by Ray Manolo.
• The AMTRUNK plan.
• The Cuba Contingency Plan (pages 271-272).
• The AMWORLD and JFK’s Cuban-American training at Fort Benning – aka CAMCO.
• ZR/RIFLE – QJWIN.

A CIA ASSET: Mobster Johnny Roselli

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TWO FACES OF THE SAME COIN

In the “mutual interests” of both the U.S government/CIA and the Mob to search out and secure clandestine “assassins” to use in these programs, a number of Mobsters became “CIA assets” and worked with and became employed in various ways by the CIA.  The following is another “short list” of officials or entities that worked with the CIA (and other agencies) on plots and plans (many with mob connections):

Lee Harvey Oswald – CIA asset/Mafia/Naval Intelligence.

David Morales – CIA asset/Mafia.

Thomas Arthur Vallee – CIA asset/Mafia.

Tony Verona – Mafia/CIA asset.

Eladio del Valle – CIA asset/Mafia

Miguel Casas Saez – CIA asset/Mafia

Angel Dominguez Martinez – CIA asset/Mafia

Gilbert Lopez – CIA asset/Mafia.

Desmond Fitzgerald – CIA asset/Mafia.

Michel Victor Mertz (alias Jean Souetre) – CIA asset/Mafia.

Howard Hunt – CIA asset/Mafia.

Sam Giancana – Mafia/CIA asset.

Rolanda Cubela – CIA asset/Mafia.

Jimmy Hoffa – Mafia/CIA asset.

Antonio Veciana – CIA asset/Mafia.

David Atlee Phillips – CIA asset/Mafia.

George Joannides – CIA asset/Mafia.                            

Carlos Marcello – Mafia/CIA asset.                              

Santo Trifficante – Mafia/CIA asset.

Loren Hall – CIA asset/Mafia.

Guy Banister – CIA asset/Mafia.

Benard Barker – CIA asset/Mafia.

William Harvey – CIA asset/Mafia.

James O’ Connell – CIA asset/ Mafia.

John Roselli – CIA asset/Mafia.

Charles Nicolletti – CIA asset/Mafia.

Manuel Artime – Mafia/CIA asset. 

Alberto Fowler – CIA asset/Mafia.

While the list may not be all-inclusive, and there will always been some debate of the CIA/Mafia ingredients which constituted the mixture, it does indicate the far-reaching integration of both CIA/government agents co-joined and aligned with Mob connections.   Waldron occasionally peers into this alliance, when he tells on page 468:

“One government informant, Charles Crimaldi, said that Giancana was killed by someone who worked for the CIA, though the hit man was acting on his own and not at the request of officials. Since several CIA assets and officials also worked with the mafia, the hit man could have been someone with ties to both the mob and the agency.”   Waldron also says on page 278: “…it’s also likely they weren’t the only shooters but simply the ones provided by Marcello.”

The reader will notice the constant “distancing” the two authors (Waldron and Hartmann) go through to separate the CIA from the skullduggery of the mob in various “not-really-the-CIA-did-it comments.”

Fortunately, the intimate and ‘far-too-close’ tight relationship between the Mob and CIA was seen in the comments of many researchers and mobsters together; in discussing events of the Kennedy election to the Presidency, the death of Marilyn Monroe, and, the assassination of John Kennedy, mobster Sam Giancana told his brother,  Chuck Giancanna, of the hydra-monster alliance of the CIA with the Mob:

What about the assassination of JFK?  …

Was it the Mob or the CIA?

“Mooney leaned forward:  ‘Look, this is one of the Roman gods.  This one has two faces…two sides.  That’s what we are, the Outfit and the CIA…two sides of the same coin.  Sometimes our government can’t do shit on the up-and-up.   Sometimes they need a little trouble somewhere or maybe they need some bastard taken care of … Jesus, they can’t get caught doin’ shit like that.  What if people found out?  But we can.  Guns, a hit, muscle…what ever dirty work needs to be done.   We’re on the same side, we’re workin’ for the same things…we just look different.  So…we’re two sides of the same coin…If you think we had Truman…let me tell you…we got this deal sewn up. Ike, all he does is play golf.'”

“‘So that’s what you like about the guy,’ Chuck teased.”

“‘Shit, he’s a pigeon…it’s Nixon that’s got the power.  He’s the one with the backing of the big money, like Hughes and the guys in California and the oilmen in Texas … Hump says Nixon’s gonna call us if he needs a little hardball behind the scenes.'”

“From now on you can call me Sam Giancana, civil servant.”

http://doubleuoglobe.com/vol6/cn6-90.html

Double Cross by Sam and Chuck Giancana. (New York: Warner Books, 1992.)

The following were excerpts from the book,  America’s Corrupt War on Drugs–and the People, by  Captain Rodney Stich, where he told of the multiple CIA/Mafia connections in crimes that involved money laundering, drug smuggling, and assorted clandestine activities.

One such informant was Richard M. Taus who had been a Special Agent for the FBI from 1978 to 1988, during which time he was assigned to organized crime and foreign counter-intelligence operations.  He held the responsible position of relief Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) in the New York City area.

In addition to his FBI duties, Taus was a Pilot-In-Command (PIC) flying missions for the FBI’s New York Field Office.  The New York Times Reference Book for the Year 1988 lists Taus under “FBI Events.”

In the 1980s he conducted an undercover operation as part of a group consisting of 17 special agents.  He also held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the aviation branch, U.S. Army Reserve.  Originally, Taus was with the OSS and then the CIA and military intelligence.

DUAL CIA-MAFIA TIES

Dee Ferdinand, daughter of mobster Albert Carone of the Gambino crime family, described her father’s concurrent relationship with the Mafia, the New York City Police Department, and the CIA.

Dee pointed out that what she described was confirmed by independent sources, including Jim Rothstein of the New York Police Department and CIA operatives Gunther Russbache­r and Oswald LeWinte­r.  She filled in missing Mafia and CIA links that FBI Special Agent Richard Taus had suspected during his FBI investigations.

“Having grown up in a Mafia family and being friends with top Mafia bosses, Dee was very helpful in explaining the complex relationship between the Mafia and the CIA,” said Stich.  “She explained details of her father’s activities as a CIA paymaster, moving money to and from the Mafia families in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, the CIA, the Mossad‘s involvement, and payoffs to the New York City police department.”

Taus had given Stich a list of some of the Mafia figures that he investigated. Dee Ferdinand said that some of the names were family members; “Angelo Ruggiero was my father’s cousin.”  Neil Dellacroce was related to Ferdinand’s father, referring to Joe Percillia by his alias, “Joe Pickle.”  Dee Ferdinand said that they were with the Genovese family and the Gambino family as they merged.  They were also with the Colombo family.

Albert Carone was primarily connected with the Genovese and then with the Gambino family, and also the Colombo family through Joe Percillia.  She said her father also had lesser connections to other Mafia groups.

A thorough reading of the book continued to demonstrate the close alignment of the government and mobsters.

Growing Up in a Mafia Family: FBI Veteran Reveals CIA-Mafia Ties – Rodney Stich [Investigator and a hardcore-corruption-fighting whistleblower] September 1, 2014.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140901200523-29817943-fbi-veteran-reveals-cia-mafia-ties

ANTOINETTE GIANCANA

Antoinette Giancana not only said that there were strong ties between the CIA and the mob, but that her father, Sam, had been “running a scam in order to pocket millions of dollars in CIA funding.”

According to declassified CIA “Family Jewels” documents, a plan in 1960 between Miami Syndicate leader, Santo Trafficante, Robert Maheu, Johnny Roselli (a Los Vegas mobster) in developing a $150,000 plan to “remove” Castro.  The plan apparently did not materialize; however, Giancana authorized using poison pills.  Nominees Juan Orta and Anthony Verona, however, failed in their attempts.

“Verona requested $10,000 in expenses and $1,000 worth of communications equipment,” said MafiaWiki.  “However, it is unclear how far the second attempt went, as the entire program was cancelled shortly thereafter due to the launching of the Bay of Pigs invasion.”

http://mafia.wikia.com/wiki/Sam_Giancana

Assassination researcher, Robert P. Morrow, debunked the work of Waldron and Hartmann as a clever cover-up of the real motive of the murder of JFK: it was a “coup d’état” rather than a “mob hit.”    Lyndon Johnson, the CIA and the shadow government of Texas oil men and Rockefellers, said Morrow, murdered John Kennedy.   Morrow said that that fact is craftily hidden by Waldron-Hartmann from the readers view.  Robert Morrow explained:

“The big problem with these ‘Mob did it’ scenarios is that:

“1. They either ignore or twist who Oswald was, which is really inexcusable today in light of so much good work by writers like Newman and Armstrong.

“2.  They do not relay how the cover up actually went into effect almost immediately in Dallas, Washington and New Orleans: Which is something we can prove today.

“3.  They do not explain what two keystones of the plot and the cover-up are: Mexico City and Bethesda.

“4. They do not explain why the cover up has lasted 47 years–which it has.

“5.  They do not explain the reversals of policy that took place in Cuba and Vietnam, almost immediately afterwards. Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh and also Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty by Russ Baker.”

Robert P. Morrow on March 19, 2011.

http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Secrecy-Long-Shadow-Assassination/dp/1582435359

JERRY-RIGGED THEORY

JFK Researcher, Herbert L. Calhoun, likewise was critical of the authors’ “soft pedaling” of CIA’s Richard Helms’ “nest of vipers”:

“Helms is the only human being in the known universe with the omnipresence, panoramic overview of the whole assassination landscape, and meta-manipulative and operational skills and capabilities, to have been able to actually carry out all the various nested phases of the plots that were needed to end up with a perfectly orchestrated murder at high noon in Dallas on November 22, 1963.”

It was the CIA, said Calhoun, which carried out all the “necessary phases” of the assassination and cover-up, the botched autopsy, and even the murders of John Roselli and Sam Giancana — a jerry-rigged scenario by Waldron and Hartmann “that someone in the clock tower at Langley had to have murdered JFK.  The JFK assassination was not just an intelligence operation, it was an intelligence operation par excellence, one of a very, very high order, perhaps the best ever.”

Calhoun pointed out the firing of Allen Dulles, Charles Cabell and Richard Bissell from their CIA “perch” also involved the twenty-two or so “back channel messages” sent between Sam Giancana and JFK by courier and shared girlfriend, Judith Campell Exner telling of the “trio’s” actions of treason in the Bay of Pigs operation.

“…it was because two of the key mob players were engaged in a ‘double game’ to inform JFK of the treason going on behind his back at Langley that the trio was fired and the head of the CIA snake was eventually cut off.”

Calhoun continued:  “It was Langley, not the mob, not Lee Harvey Oswald that decided that JFK had to die.  And to carry out that execution, it was also Langley that concocted an exquisitely complex, devious, and it must be said, elegant intelligence operation to kill both our President and our democracy.”

 A New “Jerry-rigged limited hang-out” scenario to Protect Richard Helms?

Herbert L. Calhoun on November 27, 2011

http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Secrecy-Long-Shadow-Assassination/dp/1582435359.

http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Secrecy-Long-Shadow-Assassination/product-reviews/1455124966

Boyce Harton’s comment about Ultimate Sacrifice and Legacy of Secrecy summarized the general consensus:

“Too little attention given to JFK’s back channel to Castro, and once again the evidence does not support the authors strong conclusions about JFK’s commitment to the coup, given the backchannel and given the authors seemingly predetermined view that the Mafia was more to blame than the CIA…However, this book suffers from the same problem as the last one. It assumes too much power for the Mafia and too little for the CIA.”  –Boyce Harton,  January 29, 2009.

http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Secrecy-Long-Shadow-Assassination/dp/1582435359.

THE FARM

Noted JFK researcher and author, David Talbot (founder and lead editor for Salon Magazine) told of disowned CIA Director, Allen Dulles, hunkered-down at a remote northern Virginia CIA facility called The Farm (an alternate CIA command post) during the whole murderous weekend when JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald were eliminated.  Likewise, Talbot spoke of CIA-assassin- official William Harvey being flown into Dallas early in November 1963 from Rome.

“This is a remarkable sighting,” said Talbot, “because to place someone like William Harvey, the head of the CIA’s assassination unit, put there by Allen Dulles, in Dallas in November of ’63 before the assassination is a very important fact.  The CIA, by the way, refuses, even at this late date, to release the travel vouchers for people like William Harvey.”

Did the CIA Boss Bring in the Head of the CIA’s Castro Assassination Team to Kill JFK?

October 19, 2015

 http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/10/did-the-cia-boss-bring-in-the-head-of-the-cias-castro-assassination-team-to-kill-jfk.html

                                       THE ALTERNATIVE CONSENSUS                                      

The following are statements by Kennedy researchers that lay out a deeper, alternative and just as genuine Kennedy-murder-scenario (Kennedy63):

“Now, here is the sum of this reasoning: CIA dons military uniforms and ranks, works with national and international crime syndicates,” said Kennedy63, “and still has EXECUTIVE ACTION capabilities (worldwide). Given the wide and deep propensities of the CIA, how could anyone doubt CIA involvement? Washington and many local governments (most departments) were so corrupted by organized crime, favoritism, and deference to powerful people, which most people did what they were ‘told’ to do, rather than make life hard for themselves or family members.”  — Kennedy63, March 24, 2014 at 9:25 p.m.

 http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/did-mafia-bosses-admit-involvement-in-jfks-assassination/

“The Mafia-sourced explanation, the Unspeakable-rs think,” said Nicholson Baker, “is no more than a convenient blame-shifting distraction, a ‘false sponsor’ pushed on the public by the CIA to divert attention away from a much bigger plot that originated deep within the hard-right Invisible Government.  (And to a limited degree, of course, they’re right: the CIA is an opportunistic fungus, and its apologists have often used the practice of ‘limited hangout’ to shield from public view its history of murderous screw-ups.).”  — Dallas Killers Club-How JFK Got Shot, Nicholson Baker, The Baffler No. 25, 2014.

http://thebaffler.com/salvos/dallas-killers-club

THE JFK HIT WAS SYSTEMIC

“I think that the hit was systemic, that the entire military industrial complex was involved.  But this does not mean every single person working in military industry, or in government or the intelligence community.  This system is hierarchical and compartmentalized; machinists, foot soldiers and filing clerks do their jobs on a need to know basis, and they need know very little.

“A systemic hit of JFK means that there was a consensus at the highest levels of government and business to remove Kennedy.  A coup d’etat.” — Willy Whitten.

http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Secrecy-Long-Shadow-Assassination/dp/1582435359

“That Allen Dulles exercised enormous power,” said James A. Warren on October 13, 2015, “and abused that power in myriad ways; that he ordered assassinations of undesirables abroad; that his CIA destabilized foreign governments in the Third World based on grossly exaggerated assessments of Soviet subversion; that he integrated high-level Nazi intelligence agents into CIA and West German intelligence networks—all these allegations are clearly borne out by the facts presented here, and confirmed by the work of many other investigators.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/13/did-allen-dulles-order-the-hit-on-jfk.html

JFK Assassination researcher, James Fetzer, concluded:

“But the mob could not have altered X-rays under control of medical officers of the US Navy, agents of the Secret Service, or the president’s own personal physician.  Neither pro-, nor anti-Castro Cubans could have substituted another brain for that of JFK.

“And even if the Soviets had the capacity to fabricate movies comparable to that of the CIA and Hollywood, it would have been unable to get its hands on the Zapruder film.  These things could only have been done with complicity from the highest levels of the American government.”

“Unfortunately, their scenario is completely ludicrous.”

“(1) After the abortive ‘Bay of Pigs’ fiasco, JFK had entered into agreements with the Soviet Union that the US would not invade Cuba, which he could not have been broken, even covertly, without profoundly tarnishing Kennedy’s reputation and that of the US.

“(2) There are more than 15 indications of Secret Service complicity in setting Kennedy up for the hit.

“(3) The autopsy X-rays were altered to conceal a massive blow-out to the back of the head and by adding a 6.5 mm metallic slice.

“(4) The home movie of the assassination was re-created to remove incriminating evidence, including that the driver, William Greer, brought the limousine to a halt after bullets began to be fired.”

 http://jamesfetzer.blogspot.com/2015_09_30_archive.html. 

See also: Assassination Science: Experts Speak Out on the Death of JFK, James Fetzer, Carus Publishing.

                                              NOT A TRUE CONFESSION                                                            

JFK researcher, Jeff Morley, said on March 24, 2014 that prisoner Van Allingham did not confess what the FBI said he confessed:

“But those claims are impossible to corroborate,” according to Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan.   (Summers was author of Not in Your Lifetime, one of the best books about JFK’s assassination.  Swan was co-author of their book on the Sept. 11 attacks, The Eleventh Day).

“Two FBI agents who supervised the wiretapping of Marcello at a federal prison told Summers and Swan that Marcello never made the remarks attributed to him.

“Summers and Swan also found that Trafficante’s widow, his two daughters, and several friends and neighbors disputed Ragano’s account.  So the ‘Mafia done it’ theory of JFK’s death lacks evidentiary support on a key point.”

http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/did-mafia-bosses-admit-involvement-in-jfks-assassination/

Jim DiEugenio typified the many critics of Waldron/Hartmann and he had devoted several reviews and analyses of their work pointing out the untrue, misleading and strained results of their tomes.   He also found fault with the CAMTEX scenario.

Waldron alluded to the CAMTEX file as a startling new discovery of some sort (found in 2006), when, in fact, DiEugenio talked about being sent the file by researcher Peter Vea in 1997, ten years before Waldron and Hartmann found them, and before the authors claimed in Legacy of Secrecy to being published for the first time (page 46).  Even Vincent Bugliosi referred to them in his book Reclaiming History (pages 658-659).

Vea and DiEugenio concluded that Marcello showed signs and conditions of Alzheimer’s disease, and by 1988-89, Marcello was in full deterioration from Alzheimer’s and a series of strokes that contributed to his sordid confessions to various people.

“And later on, when told about the jailhouse informant’s accusation that he had Kennedy killed,” said DiEugenio, “Marcello replied that this was ‘crazy talk’”.   (Bugliosi, op cit p. 658.)

http://ctka.net/reviews/legacy_secrecy.html

CIA RELEASED DOCUMENTS

Noted JFK researcher, John Simkin, said the information Waldron and Hartmann received was typical of government disinformation:

“Lamar was a victim of a CIA disinformation campaign.  These ‘leaked’ documents completely changed the direction of his work.  He constantly told me that the CIA would officially release documents that would support his story.  This never happened and as a result he was discredited.  He is not the first researcher to suffer from so-called friends within the CIA.” — Jim DiEugenio, September 21, 2011, 6:53 AM.

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=11208&page=3

Journalist, Anthony Frewin, was likewise skeptical of the “mob did it” theory (Marcello was promised early release for his cooperation with agents) and he said as much in “An Offer We Can Refuse” in Lobster Magazine where he also questioned the mentality of Carlos Marcello and accused the authors of “cherry-picking” the evidence to take the “heat” off the government (whereby the authors [Waldron/Hartmann] had been given all too much mysterious cooperation).

http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-hidden-history.pdf

Noted JFK researcher, William Davy, also highlighted the fact that Florida Department of Law Enforcement special agent, Ken Sanz, while cooperating in the research on a book about mobster Santos Trafficante, also denied any evidence that Trafficante was the perpetrator of such a Miami assassination plot (which Edwin Black definitely proved to be a real plot, minus any Trafficante planning).  Said Sanz: “In all the research I’ve done on the matter, I’ve never heard of such things;  Never.  And quite frankly, it’s fresh on my brain.” [2]        –William Davy, 2010.

http://www.ctka.net/reviews/waldron_updated.html

Fellow JFK researcher, Joan Mellen, furthermore pointed out the occasions where Bobby Kennedy was not nearly as adamant in his opposition to Marcello as the Waldron/Hartmann authors campaign:

“Those who put forth this view forget that Bobby Kennedy was not entirely an enemy of the Mafia, for example, during Operation Mongoose, a 1963 effort to rid us once and for all of Fidel Castro, which Bobby pursued with enthusiasm. Bobby had his CIA assistant Charles Ford, aka Charlie Fiscalini, take a trip to Canada to locate organized crime hit men to assist in the assassination of Fidel Castro.”

http://joanmellen.com/wordpress/2014/04/30/lecture-two-lyndon-johnson-and-mac-wallace-sunday-april-2/#sthash.O2XrJt6U.dpuf

STRAIGHT OUT OF LANGLEY

The biography of (the sometimes co-author and research adjunct to Waldron), Thom Hartmann looks like a scene out of the movie THE GHOST WRITER [3]:

Hartmann has associated with a spray of billion-dollar companies about the globe, “400 of the Fortune 500 companies as well as the NSA, CIA, and other government agencies.”

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thom_Hartmann

Hugh Manatee Wins pointed out the obvious implications here:  “Hartmann is so obviously a CIA asset…his two assassination books are right out of Langley…you didn’t know he’s a silver-tongued alphabet gatekeeper?” [4]

http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?p=258839

 — Hugh Manatee Wins, Friday, April 10, 2009, 1:44 am.

FREIGHTENING SIMILARITIES

Many investigators knew that the differences between how the Mob operated compared with the operation of the “strings” of popular government (that any dissimilarity existed as so much prosaic-isms and sophistry): when it gets down to the matter of power, control and greed, there is no difference:

Joy Pullman, managing editor of The Federalist, put it this way:

“The ultimate way to earn power over other people is to threaten not just their livelihood, but also their lives, and the lives of those they love.  On that note, perhaps it’s appropriate to mention that the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of Education each have their own SWAT teams.”

http://thefederalist.com/2014/06/26/the-age-of-mafia-government

Even closer, Code Zero website details twelve specific similarities between the mob and general government structure (as it is today):

“I’ve written here some the similarities I can see immediately without really giving it much thought and you may agree that it is a frighteningly close comparison.

“Two groups of people engaging in the same activities with one goal in mind: More Money.  One group calls itself a Government whilst they call the other group The Mafia.”

https://canislupuspc.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/the-frightening-similarities-between-our-government-and-the-mafia/

MAFIA STATE OF MIND

Tyler Durden on his Zerohedge.com news site (February 6, 2014) quoted contributor Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds.blog in outlining six unavoidable characteristics of common government and the mob, and Hugh-Smith also added:

“Once the mafia state of mind has seeped into every nook and cranny of the society and economy, it’s not even recognized as corruption: it’s simply the way the system works. [5]

“We recently spent a few days with a friend who was born and raised in Sicily who now lives elsewhere in Europe with his wife (also Italian, from Naples).  Though we talked of many things, one of his comments struck me like a bolt of lightning.

“The Mafia isn’t about shoot-outs, he said; the mafia is a state of mind….”  [6]       

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-06/mafia-state-mind

With a cogent summation reflecting the general and on-going JFK assassination debate, in his “State Secret, Bill Simpich once again similarly resolved in:

https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/State_Secret_Conclusion.html

“This work is integral to all movements that build civil society in the United States and around the world.  Assassinations are a heinous tool used to prevent individuals and movements from realizing their potential.  Assassinations are designed to break the spirit of the people.

“Do we want to maintain our integrity as a people?  The only way is to stand shoulder to shoulder and get it done.  Many champions fighting for social change have fallen to forces that avoid the light.  The path to justice is to name those forces and to take decisive action.”

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 JFK PostScript

 Duck and Cover on the Grassy Knoll

http://abcnews.go.com/assets/static/interactives/jfk-zoom/img/thumb3.jpg?v=2

http://www.wtxl.com/news/local/jfk-years-later-the-day-that-changed-america/article_cf6b4fbc-537b-11e3-a91a-001a4bcf6878.html

 “The Ghost Writer”

A Cinematic Parallel of Thom Hartmann 

When Ruth Lang sees the writer raising a glass, she is kept from following him by Emmett (the CIA handler) and other assistants.   As the writer leaves the party, he attempts to take a taxi.  Then, as he crosses the street off-camera, a car accelerates in his direction, and sound effects and flying papers indicate that he has been hit. (See footnote number three.)

https://ardnas20.wordpress.com/2010-movie-watched-list/

https://ardnas20.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/the-ghost-writer.jpg

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THE GHOST WRITER

http://www.mauvais-genres.com/en/vintage-movie-posters/8262-the-ghost-writer-french-movie-poster-15×21-2010-roman-polanski-ewan-mcgregor-3700865426249.html

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Lee Harvey Oswald in the Military

http://www.icollector.com/Lee-Harvey-Oswald-s-Hand-noted-1956-US-Marine-Corps-Platoon-Photograph_i17516241

http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/18132/17516241_3.jpg?v=8D0919754AEC8F0

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JFK Researcher & Author -Lamar Waldron

http://www.ctka.net/reviews/waldron_updated.html  

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[1]  Lamar Waldron’s recent book is part of a trilogy, Ultimate Sacrifice (2008), co-authored with Thom Hartmann, and Legacy of Secrecy (2013), Counter Pointe Publishers.  We will refer to all three at frequent points throughout this article as a composite thesis.

[2]   William Davy also said:  “Further, there is an almost pathological use of conditionals; may have, perhaps, could have, if, etc.  Conversely, there is an overabundance of hackneyed declaratives where conditionals should have been used, as well as an over-reliance on unnamed sources. And yet this dogged pursuit and elucidation of the documentary record is supposed to be the sine qua non of these two books. (Along with the dubious information they gleaned from interviewing Cuban exile Harry Ruiz Williams).”

This appears to be true in all of the Waldron/Hartmann books (SE).[3]  

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Writer_(film)

 “The Ghost Writer (released as The Ghost in the United Kingdom and Ireland) is a 2010 British political thriller film directed by Roman Polanski.  The film is an adaptation of a Robert Harris novel, The Ghost, with the screenplay written by Polanski and Harris.  It stars Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, and Olivia Williams”…(the movie demonstrates the twists and turns of CIA undercover skullduggery:  some  scenes)

(After several clues found by the previous ghost-writer before his death, the new writer investigates leads that tell him his predecessor had discovered a CIA connection in which a Professor Paul Emmett had been training Lang’s wife as a CIA plant. The new writer [having traced Emmett’s CIA background on the Internet] confronts Lang while in flight and is rebuffed.)

“Upon leaving the aircraft, Lang is assassinated by a British anti-war protester, who is in turn shot by Lang’s bodyguards. Nevertheless, the writer is asked to complete the book for posthumous publication, as in light of Lang’s death it will be a certain best-seller.

“Amelia invites the writer to the book’s launch party in London, where she unwittingly tells him the Americans tightened access to the book, as the ‘beginnings’ contained evidence threatening national security.   She also tells him Emmett was Ruth’s tutor when she was a Fulbright scholar at Harvard.   The writer realizes the clues were hidden in the original manuscript in the opening words of each chapter, and discovers the message: ‘Lang’s wife Ruth was recruited as a CIA agent by Professor Paul Emmett of Harvard University.’   He concludes that Ruth shaped Lang’s every political decision to benefit the U.S.A. under direction from the CIA.

“The writer passes a note to Ruth telling his discovery.  She unfolds the note, and is devastated.   When she sees the writer raising a glass, she is kept from following him by Emmett and other assistants.   As the writer leaves the party he attempts to take a taxi. Then, as he crosses the street off-camera, a car accelerates in his direction, and sound effects and flying papers indicate that he has been hit.”

[4]  Waldron and Hartmann pin high-hopes on the disclosing of the so-called Kennedy assassination files in a few years.  That this will actually take place, many are doubtful, and just as doubtful is the reality that the files will be uncensored, not tampered with, unblemished or manipulated.

[5]   “Corporate power permeates the entire social fabric of our society.  Along with owning the media, the corporate business class…controls much of the rest of America too, including its financial, educational, medical, cultural, and recreational institutions.  Thus, the dominant capitalist interests not only structure the way the media report reality, they structure much of the reality itself.   The ideological character of the news, then, is partly a reflection of the journalist’s ‘routine reliance on raw materials which are already ideological’” — Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media, Michael Parenti, St. Martin’s Press, 1986.    

[6]  https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/cia-mind-control-program-did-it-really-end/

“Marks continued to press the CIA for more MKULTRA information.  He explained to me what then happened.   A CIA official told him the following: in 1962, after ten years of mind-control experiments, the whole program—which supposedly was shut down—had actually been shifted over to another internal CIA department, the Office of Research and Development (ORD).

“The ORD had a hundred boxes of information on their MKULTRA work, and there was no way under the sun, Marks was told, that he was ever going to get his hands on any of that.  It was over.   It didn’t matter how many FOIA requests Marks filed.   He was done.   The door was shut. Goodbye.

“The CIA went darker than it ever had before.   No leaks of any kind would be permitted.

“In case there is any doubt about it, the idea of relying on the CIA to admit what it has done in the mind-control area, what it is doing, and what it will do should be put to bed by John Mark’s statements.   The CIA always has been, and will continue to be, a rogue agency beyond the reach of the law.”

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The Precision of the Sniper

“Caesar!  Beware the Ides of March”

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The Two Faces of Government

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Steve Erdmann – Investigative Journalist

“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.  We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”

Frederick Douglass

DEAD MAN WALKING

FERRIE’S FATAL JFK FIASCO

 IN 3 PARTS

By Steve Erdmann

(Copyright 2015, Steve Erdmann – All Rights Reserved)

<Edited by Robert D. Morningstar>

David Ferrie at St. Charles’ Seminary in the early 1940s

PART I:

THUNDER & LIGHTNING

Judyth Vary Baker knew David Ferrie as a man of many faces:  legal advisor for New Orleans Mafia Don, Carlos Marcello, aircraft pilot for several Mafia families, CIA asset, defrocked priest, anti-Castro adventurer, seducer of men and teenage boys, participant in an anti-Castro bioweapon plot, and a key to the JFK assassination.

“The Coup d’ Etat in 1963 took control of an inconvenient two-party system to run its self-protecting corporate agenda, with the CIA, FBI, banking interests and the military-industrial complex cooperating,” says Baker …

“And when the Supreme Court recently ruled that corporations could, in essence, buy any and all political candidates through ‘donation,’ with no limit on what could be spent to influence votes, the American government became a prostitute whose services were purchased by the highest bidders.”

DAVID FERRIE: Mafia Pilot, participant in anti-Castro Bioweapon Plot, Friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and the Key to the JFK Assassination, Judyth Vary Baker, TrineDay LLC, P.O. Box 577, Walterville, Oregon, 97489, 1-800-556-2012.   For details, Contact: Publisher@TrineDay.net, www.trineday.com, 2014, 521 pages, $24.95.

David Ferrie’s connections to the Military-Industrial-Complex began in early 1952 when he became involved in the New Orleans Civil Air Patrol (CAP).  There, Ferrie began instructing air cadets, often in summer encampments at the local air force bases.

Ferrie became a CAP commander in 1953.  Lee Harvey Oswald enrolled as a CAP cadet only July 27, 1955  (Serial No. 084965).

Oswald attended meetings at Moisant CAP Squadron, Lakefront and Abita Spring, Louisiana.

Eddie Voebel, a friend of Oswald, said that Oswald “had been a cadet in Ferrie’s CAP squadron in 1955 and that the recalled Oswald attended a party at Ferrie’s then-home at 209 Vinet Street.”

Researcher Lee Farley mentioned that David Ferrie was instrumental in “grooming” Oswald and his consequential enlistment in the United States Marines.  Ferrie told the local Marine Corps recruiter that Oswald would be good in the CIA because “he could keep his mouth shut.” (Page 73.)

THE HEATH KIT CONNECTION

In 1953, David Ferrie developed an interest in philosophy and took a course at Tulane University, site of the Tulane University School of Medicine

At this famous clinical research center, Dr. Robert Heath, M.D. (a CIA-funded medical researcher charged with finding “the human pleasure center” in the brain), had 120 psychiatric patients on whom he used subcortical electrode stimulation.   One of the fascinating people who would “drop by” to visit Heath’s clinic was David Ferrie.

    Dr. Robert G. Heath 

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/25/us/robert-g-heath-84-researcher-into-the-causes-of-schizophrenia.html

In 1954, Ferrie began studying for a doctorate in psychology from the University of Phoenix.  Ferrie spoke of his “bringing patients” to Heath’s office and, also, flying “sensitive” psychiatric data between Tulane’s Psychology Department and other hospitals and departments.  CIA agents approached Heath to conduct human and animal tests of bulbocapnine.

The U.S Army funded a Tulane Electrical Brain stimulation program conducted by Dr. Robert Heath, and (according to Australian psychiatrist, Dr. Harry Bailey) used blacks because “they were everywhere and cheap experimental animals.”

In June-July, 1967, Ferrie wrote a thesis for his PhD in psychology about hypnotherapy and received his PhD. in psychology.

FERRIE AND VOODOOISM

It was speculated that Ferrie was involved in a matrix of activities including his Civil Air Patrol activities, his job as a pilot at Eastern Airlines, pilot for mobster Carlos Marcello’s lawyers (and flying to Guatemala to smuggle Marcello back into theU.S. after his deportation by AG Robert F. Kennedy), and, according to Victor Marchetti, “had in fact been employed by the CIA.” 

Victor Marchetti was Deputy Assistant to the CIA Director. — Richard Helms (page 82).

“THE PROJECT”

To Develop a Bioweapon Against Fidel Castro

David Ferrie was additionally connected, it was speculated, to the CIA’s MKULTRA (mind control) program through Dr. Alton Ochsner (one-time friend of Office of Strategic Services [OSS] Chief “Wild Bill” Donovan), and Dr. Mary Sherman, a cancer researcher .

Ferrie met Dr. Oschsner through Dr. Sherman, both cleared for work on a “Sensitive Position” (Page 97.)  Baker later learned that it was referred to as “The Project”: A cancer experiment to develop a cancer serum as a bioweapon to be used against Fidel Castro.

In order to convince Baker of the reality of The Project, as government sponsored, she is introduced to a gruff detective and CIA/FBI asset, Guy Banister, who speaks at length of his clandestine contacts:

“Ferrie’s project was legitimate.  Even the CIA was backing it, along with the city’s crime boss, Carlos Marcello,” says Baker. “Banister was quite serious.”

Banister’s agency was involved, not only with Mary Sherman’s bioweapon project, but also with the CIA, crime boss Carlos Marcello (because of the Intelligence alliances), and a spy ring against Castro and Communist activities (Banister was a former FBI agent (once, at his height heading the Chicago FBI Office).  After leaving Chicago, Banister continued to gather evidence against the corrupt New Orleans Police Department.

“When Dr. Sherman shows me a powerful new cancer developed over the past year, I am stunned by its vigor,” says Baker about 1963.

“I agree to do what I can to stabilize the cancer and help transform it from a mouse cancer to one that will attack human tissues, only later will I realize that the cancer could be stolen and used to silence political enemies ‘forever.’”

Dr. Alton Ochsner in Surgical Garb

Judyth Baker’s early career into cancer research and her connection with Dr. Alton Ochsner was amply illustrated in her book “Me & Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald,” TrineDay Publishers, 2010.

New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison summarized an understanding about the “anti-Castro” Radical right situation, stated in Garrison’s November 22, 1967 Playboy Magazine interview: members of the paramilitary right, anti-Castro exiles, were extremely worried about Jack Kennedy’s policy of détente succeeding.

http://www.maebrussell.com/Garrison/Garrison%20Playboy%20Intvw%201.html

The CIA was involved in much of this intrigue in a “mixed bag” of Minutemen, Cuban exiles, other anti-Castro “adventurers” training for a “foray” into Cuba. Along with an assassination attempt on Fidel Castro — there was also the bioweapon Project of Mary Sherman.

“David Ferrie, who operated on the ‘command’ level of the ultra-rightists, was deeply involved in this effort,” says Baker. (p. 224)

BUGGING DEVICES

One of the earlier choices by Banister for someone to be Ferrie’s laboratory assistant was Michael Riconusciuto, “a young genius in electronics, biochemistry, chemistry and computers…” (For more information about Rinconusciuto and his place in the espionage web, see “The Octopus from Hell,” Parts I and II:

 http://ufodigest.com/article/octopus-hell-0704

Riconusciuto may have aided Banister in various “bugging” operations, such as placing devices in Clay Shaw’s house in the summer of 1963;  Riconusciuto was adept at installing “bugging devices” and electronic surveillance equipment.

Baker lists witnesses that saw Banister and Ferrie together, such as Vernon Gerdes, Dr. Michael Kurtz, George Higgenbotham, Rick Bauer, William Gaudet, and Sergio Arcacha Smith (pp. 240-242).

Baker was concerned for the rapid expansion of the Ochsner-Sherman “Project.”

About August 1, 1963, Baker says: “…deep-freezing this new backup material suggests that we aren’t developing this biological weapon just for Castro.  We are about to make this cancer truly immortal…the city is a hot bed of Cold War operations of all kinds.  The Project has required massive funding.  Only one entity could afford everything happening here in New Orleans.”  (pp. 245-246)

The TRAINING FILM

One of the bits of evidence of Oswald’s participation into the CIA’s various escapades was the “training film” of anti-Castro infantry near Bedico Creek near Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana in early September 1963.  The film was seen by several people, such as Robert K. “Bob” Tanenbaum of the House Select Committee on Assassination (HSCA), researchers Larry Hancock and Dick Russell, and Banister associate, Delphine Roberts.

The film showed, according to Tanenbaum, Antonio Veciana of Alpha 66, Guy Banister, David Atlee Phillips, Lee Oswald and David Ferrie (pp. 253, 264).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_K._Tanenbaum

Baker describes a trail of incidents and witnesses showing that Oswald, Ferrie, the CIA, FBI, and the Mob were intricately connected; we can only highlight a few points, but the reader is welcome to search out the further connections described and exposed in the book.

                                   Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans                                       The Fair Play For Cuba Committee (of One)

An FBI informant, Joe Hauser, in his assisting FBI wiretaps of Mobster Marcello’s phone (161 reels of tape), told author John H. Davis that agent Hauser “personally knew Oswald.” (p. 265)

Another witness was FBI agent Warren DeBrueys (pages 266-267).  Oretas Pena also said he saw Oswald with local chief Warren DeBrueys in August, 1963 (page 269).

ZOMBIE COLONIES

Baker speaks about prisoners from the Angola prison who were often used for “secret research” in a special Tulane University Research Unit at the East Louisiana State Hospital in Jackson.  “These experiments were supported by a grant from the Commonwealth Fund,” says Baker, “later identified as a CIA front.” (Comparative Effects of the Administration of Taraxein, d-LSD, Mescaline, and Psilocybin to Human Volunteers [Heath, Silva].)

East Louisiana State Hospital in Jackson, LA

William Livesay, a prisoner at Angola, told Baker about his experiences with these experiments.  If the patients survived, they were sent directly to the “zombie colonies” at Jackson State Hospital where “they wait to die and are buried in the Jackson graveyard so that security can be maintained and the truth about what was done to them completely covered.”   (page 275)

According to Baker, Lee Oswald was selected to make a trip to Mexico City to transport the biologically engineered materials that would eventually kill Castro of “natural causes,” which would actually be “lung cancer.”  Following this venture, Oswald and Baker would continue to do blood tests at Jackson State Hospital.

INTERMEZZO

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THE DARK in THE CELLAR

INCIDENTS SURROUNDING JFK’S MURDER

The following are multiple tidbits that tend (in the opinion of Judyth Baker and others) to support Baker’s Ferrie/Oswald scenario:

Texas Theater Manager Butch Burroughs said that he sold Lee Oswald popcorn in the Texas Theater at the time that Officer Tippit was shot.

David Ferrie carried with him a file, which author Prof. Joan Mellon said Ferrie referred to as “the Bomb,” along with a diagram in a “file, 1963” portraying an automobile in an aerial view of Dealey Plaza…” (HSCA report of January 11, 1978). (p. 321)

An “Abort Team” was mentioned by Lee Oswald and William “Tosh” Plumlee (CIA contract pilot), and mentioned to author Jim Marrs.

The infamous November 21, 1963 “party” at the oil baron Clint Murchison mansion in Dallas, Texas consisting of Richard Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover, H.L. Hunt, John Curington, George Brown of Brown + Root, former Texas Republican Congressman Bruce Alger, and John J. McCloy.  McCloy, in turn, would be placed on the Warren Commission within a week of the murder of JFK:

JFK Researchers Edgar Tatro and Harrison E. Livingstone confirmed Madeline Brown’s story (LBJ”s mistress), and wrote on September 3, 2014:

“The party happened.” (pp. 330, 331, 334)

The famous “Altgens photo” showed that when the first shot was heard, Secret Service agents did not look up at the 6^th floor of the Book Depository but, rather, they looked ahead, or at the Dal-Tex building.

James T. Tague was standing near the triple underpass and hit on the cheek by a piece of street curb struck by one of the assassin’s bullets, possibly from the Dal-Tex Building, not the Book Depository.

The photos of Lee Oswald showing raised handcuffed wrists were his gesture to show newsmen that, to answer their questions, he was indeed handcuffed:  It was NOT a “Communist salute.”

Attorney Dean Andrews confessed that Oswald was just “a patsy,” adding: “I like to live. If they can get the President, they can crush me like a bug” (December 29, 1963). (p. 373.)

ADDITIONAL MYSTERY STRAINS  

Near the end of March, 1964, Betty Rubio, while working at the Lakefront Airport, saw Ferrie get out of a plane, talk to Rubio, and then go back to the plane and meet Clay Shaw.  They talked for a while and then separated.

Guy Banister was found naked and dead on June 6, 1964 from an alleged “heart attack.”  His wife, Delphine Roberts, said that it was murder, but “it was made to look like a natural death.”

Anna Lewis said in a 2000 videotape: “He had a bullet in him, but they said it was a heart attack.”

On or near July 11, 1965, David Ferrie was associated in flying individuals to Freemason Island.  Matt Milligan of Trans-Gulf Seaplane Service identified photos of Andrew Blackmon and Clay Shaw.

JACK RUBY: THE ULTIMATE MK-ULTRA VICTIM

According to Earl Ruby in HSCA testimony, and writer Greg Parker, Jack Ruby’s “cancer” was possibly “artificially induced.” 

Dr. Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West: Baker outlines that Dr. Louis Jolyon West had been cleared at Top Secret for his work on MK-ULTRA.

“CIA documents show that grants were given to Dr. West for studies,” says Baker, “entitled, ‘Psychophysiological Studies of Hypnosis and Suggestibility’ and ‘Studies of Dissociative States.’ ’’  West had examined Jack Ruby in his jail cell (p. 387).

Also read in the works of Colin Ross, MD:  “One such example that Ross writes about is Dr. Louis Jolyon West. While Dr. West’s curriculum vitae doesn’t mention that he received Top Secret clearance from the CIA as the contractor on MKULTRA Subproject 43, CIA documents show that grants were given to Dr. West for studies entitled, Psychophysiological Studies of Hypnosis and Suggestibility and Studies of Dissociative States.”         http://solpotes.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html

FURTHER ATTEMPTED MURDERS

David Ferrie had worked as a pilot for Al Crouch’s Saturn Aviation and flight school in November, 1966.  Ferrie was fired on February 7, 1967, and would have been the pilot for a cross-country flight, but Crouch asked another pilot, “Bob,” to fly instead.

Bob’s wife, “J.G,” spoke coincidentally to Baker sometime in 2013 about the crash of the 7^th of  February 1967 in Slidell.  According to J.G, Ferrie was fired “because Crouch was scared to death.” 

Crouch needed a pilot right way and J.G’s husband was selected.  The crash was blamed on pilot error for not properly fueling the plane, but “Bob” had a receipt that proved he had refueled.

“From his unique perspective, Bob, trapped as he was in the plane,” says Baker, “could see that the fuel tank had been punctured.” (pp. 393-394)

Editor’s note:  The implication given here is clear, i.e.  that Ferrie sabotaged the airplane in revenge for being fired.  Why else could Crouch have been “scared to death” of Ferrie?

David Ferrie, at times, says Baker, suffered mentally for his guilt over his bisexuality (and the fact that it prevented him from becoming a priest); sometimes Ferrie would torture and whip himself (pages 255-260).  The image that came to mind to this writer, was the semblance to the fictional Opus Dei character (the albino) Silas or Simon, in Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code,”who would whip himself mercilessly.

DAVID FERRIE: -> DEAD Man Walking

Ferrie began his last days of life by hiding out in the Airport’s pilots’ lounge and rest-overnight area, from about February 8 to 16, 1967.

Flight student Bruce Nolan said of Ferrie:  “One day in early 1967, I arrived for a lesson and found Ferries limped over a desk, crippled by a blazing headache.  He could not fly.  He could barely open one eye.  I shoveled him into my car.  He asked to be taken to his home on Louisiana Avenue Parkway.  I got him to the porch and watched him scuffle inside.”

Nolan never saw him again.

The news media, at that time, was busy covering Jim Garrison’s investigation along with an occasional story written about Ferrie.  In an interview with Garrison investigators on February 18, 1967, Ferrie voiced great skepticism of the single-bullet theory.

                                               Civil Air Patrol Camp 1955                                                         David Ferrie (circled) on the left with Lee Harvey Oswald, right

In 1967, the famed group photo of Lee Oswald with his CAP squadron (above)  was “no longer on display on the living room wall, along with other CAP group photos” .  Other evidence of Lee Oswald knowing David Ferrie had also disappeared.

Ferrie’s interview given to DA Jim Garrison’s investigators while he stayed at the Fontainebleau Motor Hotel eventually vanished.   David Ferrie himself vanished from the same hotel on February 19, 1967.

The next day, February 20, 1967, Ferrie called Raymond Broshears, a former roommate, to report his fear of being killed, stating plainly: 

“No matter what happens to me, I won’t commit suicide.”

“A secret report generated by the FBI on May 22, 1968,” says Baker, “confirms that Garrison planned to arrest Ochsner, a Reily coffee executive, and others associated with the New Orleans Project.” (p. 415)

DOCTOR MINYARD’S REPORT

The body of Ferrie was found deceased about 11:50 a.m. on February 22, 1967 by Jimmy Johnson.  The coroner’s staff arrived at 12:30 p.m.

Three suspicious “suicide notes” were eventually found.  Dr. Frank Minyard theorized it was a murder because of contusions to the mouth.  “Dr. Minyard says David Ferrie was murdered.” (p. 435)

On February 23, 1967, Eladio Ceferino del Valle, ex-Cuban congressman, associate of David Ferrie, and an anti-Castro activist, was found dead in his automobile in Miami: beaten, tortured, and shot in the chest.  Eladio del Valle and Ferrie had flown “anti-Castro sorties” in the past, as well as had involvement with Miami mobster, Santos Trafficante.

“Numerous deaths, however, are still classified as ‘natural’ along with a plethora of suicides, murders and ‘accidental deaths’ that can no longer be ignored,” says Baker.

MISSING LOG BOOKS

JG, while working for Al Crouch, began to get harassing phone calls about Ferrie’s pilot log books.  JG later disclosed that said log books were confiscated by the felonious “spy” investigator for Jim Garrison, William Gurvich, a turncoat.  “He was going behind Garrison’s back,” said JG.

“That dirty word ‘conspiracy,’ which actually accounts for most evil-doing on the planet,” says Baker, “are avoided most by those who perpetuate it.”

Similar sentiments were voiced by Robert Tannenbaum, HSCA Deputy Counsel, said after Tannenbaum originally discounted Garrison’s suspicions and investigation: “And then I read all this material that came out of (CIA Director Richard) Helms’s office, that in fact what Garrison had said was true. They (CIA agents) were harassing his witnesses, they were intimidating his witnesses.” (Bob Tannenbaum, Probe, July-August 1996 [Vol. 3, No. 5].) (pp. 431, 435)

The reader will have to make further analysis of Baker’s book, which has elaborate appendices concerning testimonies, autopsies, and further information on David Ferrie’s life.

BRIEF BACKGROUND: THE CRITICS

Baker has accumulated a number of critics that relentlessly follow her and try to poke holes in her story about her New Orleans experiences with, what she says, are members of the conspiratorial underworld in the Kennedy murder.

The critics feel they have a strong complaint as it is based on the many seeming contradictions in the story and testimony of Judith Vary Baker.

However, as Baker pointed out to Erdmann, this happened often when debunkers are dedicated to finding such missteps and colloquial comments in daily conversation (imagine someone following behind you and perpetually examining your every word or move).

It would not be difficult to blacken one’s name if the critics’ research was not based on the totality of facts and information.  Some critics have even opened websites and blogs dressed in nothing but what appears to be jealous vindictiveness, and according to Baker, the wish to get some type of revenge.

Baker covers some of the attacks.  Take note, in the following, some identifying details are Xed over to afford protection to all mentioned parties:

Speaking of Xxxxxxx’s comments on Baker’s contradictions:

“… so-called ‘contradictions’ come from lifting comments from various parts of my manuscript and making it seemed that I reversed things, as well as form emails. The man altered. Xxxxxxx corresponded with me and pretended to be my friend. Then he demanded that I hand over my book to (another debunking group), or he would publish what you are citing.   He even claimed I said Lee was not circumcised, as if I would talk about such a thing to him, when all we talked about was how to help his Sharpei dogs’ skin condition, before I began sharing emails with him.  These emails he cites are using statements taken out of context or deliberately altered! I would make a statement and by adding one word or a question mark, he changed the meanings. Note that Xxxxxxx has NEVER published anything significant after he began attacking me and Jim Garrison, unless you think his ‘Pxxxxxxxx Sxxxxxxxx’ site that he told me was paid for by Xxxxxxx (he denies this now), or his JXX online (another Xxxxxxx site) are to be considered worthy of citing … His JFK 100 list against Stone’s JFK is so unfair, getting on Oliver Stone’s case because Stone made the movie that opened up the ARRB and all those files got released.  Xxxxxxx treated the movie, which took some liberties for dramatic effect, as a DOCUMENTARY.  From that false position he made up his 100 objections to the movie.  He also claimed Dave Ferrie never confessed to Lou Ivon and Moo Moo Sciambra. This is not true…

“(If Erdmann would write questions to Baker) … I would be happy to reply.  But since you are relying on my enemies to bring up questions for you, and want me to write what would be extensive essays in response, for I would have to prove much more than they, and then they would just bring up new objections, as they are not there to learn, but only to destroy.  I am just shaking my head.  What problems do you have with the book?  What questions would you ask?  Xxxxxxx’s ‘contradictions’ were previously answered in my own essays online.  Of course he won’t tell you where the essays can be found (Hint: at -> judythbaker.blogspot. com, etc.).  

What kind of reputation does Xxxxxxx have?  Has he ever spoken at a conference?  No.  Has he written a book (only for his article on Clinton and Jackson)?  No.  Has he anyone who respects him except the Xxxxxxx contingent?”  (July 28, 2015, 10:13 pm.)

Baker brings up a few “why ifs” that are interesting (but far beyond the scope of this article to include them here in their entirety).  “Second, you should go to my Facebook page and see what I am going through right now. Ask yourself why they are trying to break my password and get into judythbaker.com, after judythbaker.org was taken over and is being used to ruin me.” (July 28, 2015, 9:42 a.m.)

Baker emphasizes that those who have questions about her claims should contact her personally for answers, either through her publishers or contact points on the Internet or Facebook.

What isn’t covered is “why” are some of the rabid and vicious attacks on the veracity of Baker’s claims.

“Howard” (howpl) gave some insight in his April 8, 2004 comments:

“I have known Judyth Baker for 5 years.  (I also “know” [Wim] Dankbaar from a Usenet newsgroup, though we have never met.)  I am writing this note in the hopes that this is a group of educators (as opposed to Prof. Xxxxxxx, the immoderate ‘moderator’ of that newsgroup) whose ‘article’ on Ms. Baker, is a pile of trash.  Pardon the immoderate language, but this nominal academic has been particularly destructive.  Anyone who has spent the number of hours it takes to see Judyth’s evidence and hear her story knows that she is the genuine article. Xxxxxxx never even met her, though her door was wide open and her telephone number widely circulated.
“I co-wrote a book with Judyth, and also spent 14 months going back and forth with 60M on their intention, stated quite emphatically on the last go-round, to do a segment favorable to her.  As Don Hewitt later said on C-SPAN, ‘the door was slammed in our face.’  Now what do you think he meant by that.  The forces arrayed against Don Hewitt – the godfather of investigative journalism (on TV at least) were that powerful.  Both he and Wallace believe her story, but as the diligent Nigel Turner segment proved, you really do have to hear the WHOLE story and see the evidence in context.  It was nice, and I am thankful for the courage he showed, but viewers should not have had to rely on the talking head alone.
“Unfortunately, so-called ‘researchers’ in the JFK community, who spent little time interrogating her and viewing her evidence, have — to protect their own books — fought hard and fought dirty to sabotage both the book and the 60 Minutes show.  They tried hard to stop Turner, too.  This may surprise you, but the only thing that surprised me was the intensity of it.  Who knew there were conspiracy theorists willing to go this far.  Case in point:  At the annual Lancer Conference, held in Dallas, panelists have been informed that they may not discuss Ms. Baker’s story.  For this and other atrocities, the head of Lancer has disgraced the research community.  I am sure that Dankbaar has joined this forum in the hopes of finding a true academic sanctuary where open discussion is treasured, not banned.
“As for me, I am not sure that I can respond in a detailed manner to questions that come up here. It has been a wild, tiring, and discouraging five-year ride.  But I do want it on record somewhere that I believe Judyth Baker knew the real Lee Harvey Oswald.  I believe it without a single doubt.  As she told me at the outset, the truth is complicated, but it is logical.  But nobody has time for complicated in today’s world. It takes too much work.”

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=515

John Simkin perhaps gave the most concise summary of the events (March 13, 2004, 8:59 am & April 26, 2004, 7:53 am):

“Researchers are divided on Baker’s story: a number of researchers have seen most or all her original evidence files and defend her (such as Jim Marrs, Martin Shackelford, Wim Dankbaar, Howard Platzman) while other researchers attack her story … Baker points out that almost all the researchers who have attacked her story have never met her or viewed her original evidence files.  Far too many people involved in this case are quick to make abusive comments about the people they disagree with.  I don’t see why we cannot disagree politely with each other.  The main objective is to reach the truth.  I believe the best way we can achieve this is by having an open, rational debate.”

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=515

One might add to that: that there are bits and pieces of circumstantial evidence that incessantly materializes to bolster her claims, such as Dr. Ochsner knowing Lee Oswald:

“Many people may think there are no documented ties of Ochsner to Oswald, but there are: Here is one:

http://www.conelrad…..php?platter=19

Impression by Dr. Alton Ochsner, world famed surgeon and President of both the Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation and the Information Council of the Americas [INCA], who perhaps was the only listener who knew of Oswald’s defection before the debate.

It’s a record from the kitchen of INCA, the right wing CIA-sponsored organization founded by Ochsner, reiterating the guilt of Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone assassin, with personal comments of Alton Ochsner himself (see middle photo on the back cover).”   (Wim Dankbaar, March 29, 2004, 10:00 am.)

PART II:

The World of the Unseen – Out of the Cryptex

Reading about and describing some of the multiple attacks and confrontations that Judyth Vary Baker has encountered resembles some of the scarier tactics that intelligence operations have created from their literal and figurative dungeons of torture.

THE PROBLEM THAT GOES BEYOND

One can speculate that from most outward appearances, the researchers that lean towards conspiracy in the murder of John F. Kennedy, and those elements associated in highlighting a conspiracy, are often confronted by critics that speak from prior dispositions that run together in dark circles, “wolf packs,” and often with vile malevolence.  Such vice (seen so repetitiously) could be associated with various mental states such as xenophobia (fear of the unknown), mythophobia (fear of myths), rhabdophobia (fear of criticism), or heresyphobia (fear of challenges), and can also be aligned with a greater inner sanctum motivator: megalomania and authoritarian personality disorder, particularly in the arena of intelligence and governmental control.

Journalist Cameron Reilly introduced one of the government’s sub rosa intelligence projects this way:

“Mockingbird isn’t some conspiracy theory – like MKULTRA and the 638 attempts at assassinating Fidel Castro, it’s a genuine part of CIA history.  Mockingbird has been written about in detail since the late 70’s, but it’s one of those pieces of U.S. history that isn’t talked about much in the mainstream media.  Why?  I assume because they would prefer people don’t know about it as it would make them ask too many questions, such as ‘how do we know the CIA isn’t controlling the media today as well?’ “

“It’s also one of those events in history that should help us all realize that we’ve been manipulated and lied to by the government and the media in the past so it’s entirely rationale to believe they might be manipulating and lying to us still today.”

Reilly went on to describe Operation Mockingbird as a sophisticated ruse by the CIA and the U.S corporate media to spread intentional lies to the American people and international readers.

http://cameronreilly.com/category/geopolitics/cia/

May 26, 2012

Steven Jacobson and Steve Kangas spoke in a piece entitled Media and Mind Control in America:

“Journalism is a perfect cover for CIA agents.  People talk freely to journalists, and few think suspiciously of a journalist aggressively searching for information.   Journalists also have power, influence and clout.   Not surprisingly, the CIA began a mission in the late 1940s to recruit American journalists on a wide scale … The agency wanted these journalists not only to relay any sensitive information they discovered (and write about and replay information when requested…SE).”

Early progenitors of the project, said Jacobson-Kangas, were Frank Wisner, Allan Dulles, Richard Helms and Philip Graham (Graham was the husband of Katherine Graham, today’s publisher of the Washington Post). The sub rosa project included 25 media organizations and 400 journalists (or more), according to 1975 findings of the Church Committee, and read like a Who’s Who of Journalism:

Philip and Katharine Graham (Publishers, Washington Post) William Paley (President, CBS) Henry Luce (Publisher, Time and Life magazine) Arthur Hays Sulzberger (Publisher, N.Y. Times) Jerry O’Leary (Washington Star) Hal Hendrix (Pulitzer Prize winner, Miami News) Barry Bingham Sr., (Louisville Courier-Journal) James Copley (Copley News Services) Joseph Harrison (Editor, Christian Science Monitor) C.D. Jackson (Fortune) Walter Pincus (Reporter, Washington Post) ABC NBC Associated Press United Press International Reuters Hearst Newspapers Scripps-Howard Newsweek magazine Mutual Broadcasting System Miami Herald Old Saturday Evening Post New York Herald-Tribune, the New York Herald-Tribune, the Saturday Evening Post, Scripps-Howard Newspapers, Hearst Newspapers, the Associated Press, United Press International, the Mutual Broadcasting System, Reuters and the Miami Herald and many others.

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/cia-media.htm

It is believed that Steve Kangas was working on a book about CIA covert activities when on 8th February, 1999, he was found dead in the bathroom of the offices of Richard Mellon Scaife, the owner of the Pittsburgh Tribune [Scaife was a person that Kangas believed was a CIA operative].  He had been shot in the head.  Popular status quo was told that he had committed suicide; other people believe he was murdered.

In an article in Salon Magazine [19th March, 1999], Andrew Leonard asked:

“Why did the police report say the gun wound was to the left side of his head, while the autopsy reported a wound on the roof of his mouth?  Why had the hard drive on his computer been erased shortly after his death?  Why had Scaife assigned his No. 1 private detective, Rex Armistead, to look into Kangas’ past?”

INTERMEZZO

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The Darkest Part of the Cellar

EXPANSIVE MEDIA MACHINE

Greg Burnham, who quoted extensively from Operation Mockingbird: How Democracy was manipulated through the mainstream Media (Staffan H. Westerberg and Pete Engwall), has disclosed additional facets of the intelligence scam:

“In the early 1950’s, CIA launched a propaganda program put together utilizing the expansive media machine within the United States…probably the most important vehicle ever for the power that is behind the CIA to control and manipulate the public…perhaps the most devastating Intel project ever inflicted on the American people and democracy in the United States.  Today most people have never heard of it, and the majority of JFK researchers rarely bring the truth of Mockingbird into their research equation.

# Reporters on the CIA payroll forcing witnesses to change their story.

# Special assets within the media who affect others to act and report incorrect conclusions, opinions and perceptions.

# CIA directing assets within the media.

# Editors who can review texts and change facts to suit.

# Reporters and other assets in the field become watchdogs for developing news.

# Editors that step in to defend and shift focus.

# Assets that control debates and create diversions.

# News organizations and chief editors who avoid critique and project the official line.

# Media organizations that project false images and scenarios.

# Media Management that work with policies and establish in-house views – which leads to a hidden culture.

# Agency infiltrating social media.

# Photo editors that manipulate images.

# Falsification of historical events and interactions and influence with private researchers.

# Disinformation campaigns.”                                                

 http://assassinationofjfk.net/operation-mockingbird/

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Part III:

INTELLIGENCE ConTROLS

The Website, http://100777.com/brainwashing, has compiled a comprehensive list of recognized intelligence controls, listed here for the readers’ viewing pleasure, in their entirety:

MUTLIPLE SECRET OPERATIONS in society, document created 25/09/2014 – 10:59, updated 29/09/2014 – 10:43 by cybe: originally from:

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/se111/61_years_after_the_failed_bay_of_pigs_invasion/

These are offered with the admonition, by cybe, that those who discover conspiracies are not crazy, but those who deny same are ignorant.

To wit:

Operation Northwoods
“A series of proposals which called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or other operatives, to commit acts of terrorism in US cities and elsewhere”

Editor’s Note: Readers can download the official Department of Defense document (Operation Northwoods)  directly from the National Security Archives by clicking the link below:

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf

Plain Text Copy of Operation Northwoods:

http://cryptome.org/jcs-corrupt.htm

End of Editor’s Note

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PART III (Continued)

The Informant named “Curveball” who lied about WMDs in Iraq, was
“An Iraqi citizen who defected from Iraq in 1999, claiming that he had worked as a chemical engineer at a plant that manufactured mobile biological weapon laboratories as part of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction program.  His allegations were subsequently shown to be false”

Testimony of Nayirah
“The Nayirah testimony was a fake testimony given before the non-governmental Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990 by a woman who provided only her first name, Nayirah.”

Operation Black Eagle
“Operation Black Eagle became a network of 5000 people who made possible the export of arms in the direction of Central America, and the import of drugs from the same direction. ”

Operation Mockingbird
“a secret campaign by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to influence media. ”

The Special Collection Service
“A highly classified joint U.S. Central Intelligence Agency-National Security Agency program charged with inserting eavesdropping equipment in difficult-to-reach places, such as foreign embassies, communications centers, and foreign government installations.”

Project MKULTRA
“A U.S. government human research operation experimenting in the behavioral engineering of humans … MKUltra used numerous methodologies to manipulate people’s mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, as well as various forms of torture.”

Operation Paperclip
“was the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) program in which over 1,500 German scientists, technicians, and engineers from Nazi Germany and other foreign countries were brought to the United States for employment in the aftermath of World War II. ”

Downing Street Memo
“…Sometimes described by critics of the Iraq War as the ‘smoking gun memo’, is the note of a secret 23 July 2002 meeting of senior British Labor government, defense and intelligence figures discussing the build-up to the war, which included direct reference to classified United States policy of the time.”

A TELECOMMUNICATION INTERCEPTION FACILITY

Room 641A
“is a telecommunication interception facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. National Security Agency that commenced operations in 2003 and was exposed in 2006.”

Gulf of Tonkin Incident
“also known as the USS Maddox Incident, is the name given to two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin.”  <Editor’s note: Both of which were staged by the U.S. to justify US attacking North Viet Namese targets.>

COINTELPRO
“an acronym for COunter INTELligence PROgram) was a series of covert, and at times illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.”

Project MKDELTA
“MKDELTA, and its associated program MKULTRA, were mind control and interrogation operations run by the Central Intelligence Agency.  Both MKULTRA and MKDELTA involved the surreptitious use of LSD and other biochemical in clandestine operations…”

Rex 84 Plan
“A classified ‘scenario and drill’ developed by the United States federal government to suspend the United States Constitution, declare martial law, place military commanders in charge of state and local governments, and detain large numbers of American citizens who are deemed to be ‘national security threats’, in the event that the President declares a ‘State of National Emergency.’”

Project Artichoke
“A CIA project that researched interrogation methods and arose from a Project BLUEBIRD.  The project studied hypnosis, forced morphine addiction (and subsequent forced withdrawal), and the use of other chemicals, among other methods, to produce amnesia and other vulnerable states in subjects.”

Project MKOFTEN
“A covert Department of Defense program developed in conjunction with the CIA. A partner program to MKSEARCH, the goal of MKOFTEN was to ‘test the behavioral and toxicological effects of certain drugs on animals and humans’”.

Operation Dormouse
“The idea was that by exposing the MKULTRA program by essentially offering it to the press, any investigative attempts into the Project Artichoke would be diverted.”

Operation Ajax
“The overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh on 19 August 1953, orchestrated by the United Kingdom (under the name ‘Operation Boot’) and the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project”

THE BUSINESS PLOT

The Plot to kill FDR…by BANKERS
“The Business Plot was an alleged political conspiracy in 1933.  Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler claimed that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans’ organization and use it in a coup d’état to overthrow President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, with Butler as leader of that organization.”

CIA Front Companies
“An airline listed as Foreign Corporation in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is alleged to be a front company for the Central Intelligence Agency.”

Stuxnet
“A computer worm that was discovered in June 2010, and was designed to attack industrial Programmable Logic Controllers or PLCs.”

Project Merrimac
“A domestic espionage operation coordinated under the Office of Security of the CIA.  It involved information gathering procedures via infiltration and surveillance on Washington-based anti-war groups that might pose potential threats to the CIA.”

Project Resistence
“A domestic espionage operation coordinated under the Domestic Operations Division (DOD) of the CIA.  Its purpose was to collect background information on groups around the U.S. that might pose threats to CIA facilities and personnel.”

The Rendon Group that exports PR and Propaganda
“is a public relations and propaganda firm headed by John Rendon, which specializes in providing communications services both nationally and internationally.  The Rendon Group website states, “For nearly three decades, The Rendon Group has been providing innovative global strategic communications solutions from our headquarters in Washington, DC.  TRG utilizes state-of-the-art technology as well as traditional public relations tools, assisting leading commercial, government and military organizations.”

In-Q-Tel – The CIA’s front company, Venture Capital arm that is heavily invested in Google
“a not-for-profit venture capital firm that invests in high-tech companies for the sole purpose of keeping the Central Intelligence Agency, and other intelligence agencies, equipped with the latest in information technology in support of United States intelligence capability.”

Operation Chaos
“was the code name for a domestic espionage project conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency.”

Project SHAMROCK
“Considered to be the sister project for Project MINARET, was an espionage exercise, started in August 1945[1] that involved the accumulation of all telegraphic data entering into or exiting from the United States.  The Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA)[2] and its successor NSA were given direct access to daily microfilm copies of all incoming, outgoing, and transiting telegrams via the Western Union and its associates RCA and ITT.”

SECRET COURT

The FISA Court (Secret)
“A U.S. federal court established and authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to oversee requests for surveillance warrants against suspected foreign intelligence agents inside the United States by federal law enforcement agencies.”

Russell Welch who tried to expose drug ops at Mena, AK, also poisoned with Anthrax
“Welch sounded the alarm for decades about an alleged CIA smuggling operation of cocaine into the United States via Mena in Arkansas, and claimed that Barry Seal was trafficking more than cocaine, and that there were more places like Mena in Oklahoma … Welch claimed he was exposed to military grade anthrax, a poison only available at that time through the U.S. government…”

Gerry Droller
“was a CIA officer involved in the covert 1954 Guatemalan coup d’état and the recruitment of Cuban exiles in the preparation of the Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961.”

The School of the Americas
“is a United States Department of Defense Institute located at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia, that provides military training to government personnel of Latin American countries.”

Journalist/Report Gary Webb
“was an American investigative reporter best known for his 1996 Dark Alliance series of articles written for the San Jose Mercury News and later published as a book.  In the three-part series, Webb investigated Nicaraguans linked to the CIA-backed Contras who had smuggled cocaine into the U.S.  Their smuggled cocaine was distributed as crack cocaine in Los Angeles, with the profits funneled back to the Contras.  Webb also alleged that this influx of Nicaraguan-supplied cocaine sparked, and significantly fueled, the widespread crack cocaine epidemic that swept through many U.S. cities during the 1980s.”

Operation Charly
“was allegedly the code-name given to a program undertaken by the military establishment in Argentina with the objective of providing military and counterinsurgency assistance to Central America to combat left-wing subversion.”

Operation 40
“was a Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored undercover operation in the early 1960s, which was active in the United States and the Caribbean (including Cuba), Central America, and Mexico.  The group was formed to seize political control of Cuba after the Bay of Pigs Invasion.”

Exactly 10 months before the JFK Assassination, on January 22nd, 1963, there was an Operation 40 reunion and night club party in Mexico City.

Editor’s Note: Let us take note in the photo above, the presence of future CIA Director Porter Goss (wearing glasses) sitting on the left bank, leaning back, next to notorious drug-smuggler, Barry Seal.   

According to JFK researcher, Paul Kangas, who was personally involved in Operation 40 and the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the actual invasion of Cuba was headed by “my boss,”  CIA front man                                                                          George H. W. Bush  

Paul Kangas wrote: -> “Cuba owes its existence today to President Kennedy.  If JFK had not stopped those of us in the US military who invaded Cuba, from invading, Cuba today would be just like Haiti.  Bush was in charge of the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.  I was one of the troops invading Cuba.”

Paul Kangas points out: -> “Nixon always referred to the Dallas assassination of JFK as that “Bay of Pigs thing“, according to Halderman in his book on Nixon. By doing so, Nixon “confessed” to the assassination of JFK.  On the White House tapes, you hear Nixon telling Bush and Halderman, ‘We have to pay Hunt $$ 1 million dollars to keep quiet about our role in the Bay of Pigs.’ “”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igNADqtxgBI

End of Editor’s Note

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PART III (Continued)

Operation Midnight Climax
“The project consisted of a web of CIA-run safehouses in San Francisco, Marin, and New York.  It was established in order to study the effects of LSD on unconsenting individuals.  Prostitutes on the CIA payroll were instructed to lure clients back to the safehouses, where they were surreptitiously plied with a wide range of substances, including LSD, and monitored behind one-way glass.  Several significant operational techniques were developed in this theater, including extensive research into sexual blackmail, surveillance technology, and the possible use of mind-altering drugs in field operations.”

Operation Washtub
“was a CIA-organized covert operation to plant a phony Soviet arms cache in Nicaragua to demonstrate Guatemalan ties to Moscow.  It was part of the effort to overthrow the President of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in 1954.”

SPY CATS

Acoustic Kitty
“A CIA project launched by the Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1960s attempting to use cats in spy missions, intended to spy on the Kremlin and Soviet embassies.”

Amalgam Virgo
“was the codename of an Italian Air Force C-47 Dakota aircraft, registration MM61832, used by the Italian Secret Service and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in covert operations. Officially, those operations were limited to electronic surveillance over the Adriatic Sea and interference with the Yugoslavian radar network.”

Project FUBELT
“is the code name for the secret Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operations that were to prevent Salvador Allende rise to power before his confirmation, and promote a military coup in Chile.”

Stargate Project
“was the code name for a project established by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency to investigate claims of psychic phenomena with potential military and domestic application, such as remote viewing, which is the purported ability to psychically ‘see’ events, sites, or information from a great distance.”

Tepper Aviation “is based at the Bob Sikes Airport in Crestview, Florida. The company has a long association with the CIA.  In the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was widely reported to be flying weapons into Angola to arm the UNITA rebels.  More recently, it has been linked with the practice of extraordinary rendition.”

The Church Committee “was the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities.”

Family Jewels “is the informal name used to refer to a set of reports that detail activities conducted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency.  Considered illegal or inappropriate, these actions were conducted over the span of decades, from the 1950s to the mid-1970s.”

The Pentagon Papers – “a United States Department of Defense history of the United States’ political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967…..The papers revealed that the U.S. had secretly enlarged the scale of the Vietnam War with the bombings of nearby Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, and Marine Corps attacks, none of which were reported in the mainstream media.”

Operation Gladio –“a NATO stay-behind anti-communist organization.”

DENOUEMENT

(No Free Press)

SERVE THE MEDIA OWNERS

Writer Mary Louise explained that CIA assignments ranged from intelligence-gathering to serving as go-betweens (aka “cut outs”) at hundreds of businesses and universities, often using Ivy League graduates (such as Yale figures like George Herbert Walker Bush and the Skull and Crossbones Society):

“Many Americans still insist or persist in believing that we have a free press, while getting most of their news from state-controlled television, under the misconception that reporters are meant to serve the public,” said Louise. “Reporters are paid employees and serve the media owners, who usually cower when challenged by advertisers or major government figures.”                                 — Mary Louise, Mockingbird: CIA Media Manipulation [2003].

ROBERT PARRY & EDWARD SNOWDEN

Mary Louise highlighted the work of newsman Robert Parry who wrote about news-breaking affairs in the Iran-Contra episode for the Associated Press:

Parry found that his stories were often ignored by both the press and Congress.  Parry, when working for Newsweek, further witnessed the actual retraction of a true story for political reasons.

In Fooling America: A Talk by Robert Parry, Parry said:

“The people who succeeded and did well were those who didn’t stand up, who didn’t write the big stories, who looked the other way when history was happening in front of them, and went along either consciously or just by cowardice with the deception of the American people.”

http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKmockingbird.htm

Recent history included the famous whistle-blower Edward Snowden who exposed the National Security Agency breech and use of private communication of the citizenry, and according to researcher Kristan Harris, “are attempting to manipulate and control online behavior even going to the extreme of setting people up using what the GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters [UK]) calls ‘Honey Traps.’   They then go on to force you into behavior you may not have been in and use the information to discredit American patriots who oppose the current establishment.”

Glenn Greenwald, a journalist who leaked the information, had stated:

“Over the last several weeks, I worked with NBC News to publish a series of articles about ‘dirty trick’ tactics  used by GCHQ’s previously secret unit, JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group).”

“These were based on four classified GCHQ documents presented to the NSA and the other three partners in the English-speaking ‘Five Eyes’ alliance. Today, we at the Intercept are publishing another new JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group) document, in full, entitled ‘The Art of Deception: Training for Online Covert Operations.’”

“The files showed how shill agents infiltrated the internet to manipulate stage and attempt to corrupt reputations,” said Harris, and Harris strongly questioned the use of espionage against its own citizens. 

“Are these extreme tactics of deception by our government honorable?” Harris asked. “These documents show how the GCHQ trains and engage in ‘false flag operations’ to purposely deceive and set individuals up (online).”

http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/02/25/snowden-training-guide-for-gchq-nsa-agents-infiltrating-and-disrupting-alternative-media-online/

NOT REPORTING TO ANYBODY

Perhaps the American public will need to hunker-down, in some respects, to an on-coming flood of evil, as herewith forewarned in the feelings and words of the late Jim Garrison (On the Trail of the JFK Assassins, page 100 [Russell Baker, p. 432]):

‘“We’re investigating a conspiracy which appeared to have occurred in New Orleans … if they (the government, SE) want to help me, I’ll welcome their help.  But I’m not reporting to anybody.’  Those were strong words…before long,” says Baker, “the most powerful machinery of the government had been uncorked against Garrison…the full story of how Garrison was ham-strung would fill a volume.”

******Jim Garrison

In Memoriam 

Thank you, Jim, for being the only person in America
with the profile and the courage to bring about a trial
in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a trial you should have won. 

 And America lost.

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Steve Erdmann

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                              Sixteen-year-old Judyth Baker in her lab                             experimenting with her mice

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