Paul Brancato

What was the McMahon issue? I’ve tried to contact Newman more than once, unsuccessfully. Turf wars, closed shops. The article you linked by Morley indicates he wasn’t about to climb on the Tennent Bagley train. Newman certainly has, and he clearly sees Golitsyn as the real defector and Nosenko as the fake one. It’s like Angleton’s ghost with Bagley as the medium. It is interesting, as you point out, that Newman went on this tangent, and my inclination is to view him as the pied piper.

This post especially.

I found it, but not access to read it. Would you mind taking some time to explain exactly what you’re thinking? Your last few posts are intriguing but I don’t know some of the references.

You are referring to an article he wrote called ‘the fourth mole’? How can we access it?

Do we know the identity of Litamel-3?

Did the folks arguing here twice ignore your posted link to an interesting article? Sure, we can argue about this death or that death, about how to calculate probabilities. But the notion that people weren’t being killed as part of the ongoing conspiracy is just absolutely ludicrous, and I can’t believe that some of you would even approach that level. The main point, and I think Bill got to this quite well, is that a carefully curated list of deaths of journalists following the case early on, and as others have pointed out witnesses dying around the time of both the Garrison trial and the HSCA hearings, is the most convincing evidence of not just the conspiracy on the day of, but of the depth of the conspiracy going forward. Busting the single bullet theory was good, and few would argue that it has been shone to be fallacy at best, but it doesn’t show the venality of the perpetrators going forward in time. One can find excuses for the Warren Commission, not that I believe them btw, but suspicious deaths in such large numbers going forward in time for 15 years puts things in its proper context. And let’s include RFK, MLK, Malcom X here too, because the context is the continued overthrow of anything or anyone that stands in the way of the power elite.

The information in this series of posts about dead journalists is new information for me, and I think Bill Simpich makes a good case that these deaths may have dampened the enthusiasm of other journalists to follow the trail they were trying to blaze.

I’ve read both books, both great and important works.

Thanks for sharing this Doug.

Wow Bill - some doozies here since your last post. It seems to me that Newman is on the wrong track. I may be mistaken, but having had many exchanges with Tommy Graves years ago before he left the forum, I think he sees a Soviet plot to kill JFK. it also seems to me that Newman is heading in the same direction. Your research on Golitsyn and Angleton and Tennent Bagley shows the trio to be paranoid at best, and certainly up to something nefarious. Can I use the word ‘liars’? Might I ask - what is your impression of where Newman is going with all this? Blunt, Bagley, Solie? It feels like a resurrection of James Angleton.

The last time I gave it a try I asked whether Otto Skorzeny and Arnold Silver knew each other, and the response was that Otto killed Arnold during the war. Your point is well taken

How do you think that happened?

I’d like more of that

I can’t see much either, but Dallas police uniforms would make sense, certainly a favorite disguise for mafiosi. And there’s the police themselves, and officer Tippit,, whose death might be seen differently if he was a shooter. There were shots coming from at least one other direction, possibly more. Your point about shooters with foreign accents is well taken - plenty of home boy haters who could shoot.

My understanding is that Newman’s June Cobb file has disappeared.

Do you have a theory about who the three men were?

Oswald’s particular use of words in describing his views during these interviews sounds like a set piece, if that’s the correct term, a deliberate use of language describing his Marxism that come not from any deeply held beliefs but rather part of a crafted persona. It’s just not real. Reminds me of an undercover narc I once had a confrontation with trying to disguise his true identity by using hip jargon meant to convince me he was a legitimate dealer. Oswald is spouting jargon.

Small note for what it’s worth - Seagrams Mexico was run by Colonel Brandstetter. According to his autobiography he was tasked in 1980 by US Army Intelligence, for whom he worked, with finding a secure home in Acapulco for none other than Licio Gelli.

Interesting thread - thanks Geo. Have you read Italian journalist Michele Metta’s much more recent look at Permindex membership and connections?

James Day has written several interesting articles, which are linked to the one on the Mauser. He has done a lot of interesting research tying in to his book on the Mad Bishops.

John - I am so glad he made this short. Both Peter Levenda and Professor Caulfield appear in the film and have done such good research on this nexus of Christian Right and southern racists. I found the Wandering Bishops book to be a slog, but I’ll go back to it and see if I can finish it. I liked what might seem to be a flaw in the film, which is that David Ferrie isn’t particularly the focus of it. Rather it’s the hatred that JFK received from these ‘brethren’.

I like that idea, and the apt comparison to Junior. As for Isis, whatever letter follows, I think we created it.

So who chooses the expert Posner? A press agent who makes sure his name comes up first?

I like this simply put article, laying bare the unacceptably ignorant BBC.

Agree with Sandy. The military was in position at the autopsy, and were completely infiltrated into the Dallas Police and Dealey Plaza. I can make no sense out the continued secrecy surrounding the JFK assassination if it was simply a mafia hit. And even looking at the kingpin mafiosi, I’m more tempted to view Trafficante and Lansky with suspicion because they were never prosecuted. Marcello making statements in custody taking the blame could just as well be covering for the real kingpins.