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Hi everyone, in the photos section of Henry Hurts “Reasonable Doubt” there is a photo of Oswald with a man he apparently described to Marina as “Alfred from Cuba”. The photo was found amongst his effects. Hurt places is to the right of a photo of Jean Soutre claiming they bear a resemblance. I have never seen this photo before and I know a lot of doubt has been cast on the Soutre/Mertz Corsican connection since the book was written but has anyone like @Larry Hancock @Bill Simpich @James DiEugenio identified the man in the course of their biographical on Oswald and his associations? I have attached scan from the book below.

I’ve come across quite a few articles and books quoting the Mock Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald done in 1992 for the American Bar Association. I know Posner used failure Analysis Associates work as a basis for some of his claims and I see it brought up quite a bit in regards to reconstructions. Im looking to get transcripts or clips from some of the expert witnesses, specifically the likes of Dr Martin Fackler to check some claims. Does anyone know if any of these are available online? I’ve been able to find a few clips on YouTube (but they’re mostly highlight reels), and text of the closing arguments from places like the Weisberg archive. Any links to these or additional info on the background of the trial and the individuals involved is greatly appreciated.

I’ve read aspects of the Roscoe White story in bits and pieces throughout the years, and never gave it much serious thought. A few nights ago I watched this video “Evidence Of Revision – JFK Assassination Rarities” on YouTube. It put some pieces together in a startling way, and I’m doing some more research into it. I’m curious as to what others here think, and if anyone knows of any further research. The section concerning Roscoe White is between 16:00 and 35:35. I also consulted Livingstone’s “High Treason 2” and the revised version of Marrs’s “Crossfire” for more information. From my research, these seem to be many of the facts: Geneva White – Roscoe’s wife Worked for Jack Ruby Says she confirms existence of Roscoe’s diary Says she overheard Ruby and Roscoe planning to kill JFK Owned an alternate version of the backyard photo of Oswald Ricky White – Roscoe’s son Says Roscoe’s diary existed and contained information about Roscoe’s role in the JFK assassination Says the FBI absconded with the diary Has copies of alleged CIA cables obliquely referring to the assassination Reverend Jack Shaw Says he took deathbed confession from Roscoe Says he audio taped Geneva’s recounting of her experiences Says he also had a CIA affiliation? Other witnesses of unknown name and number Recall seeing Roscoe’s diary Roscoe White Knowledgeable about photography? Was, or was about to become, a police photographer? Joined Dallas PD early October 1963 (a little over a week before Oswald got his job at the TSBD) Former Marine as was Oswald, sailed on the same ship as Oswald going to Japan Marine-era photo of Oswald and a man with bump on right wrist and face that resembles Roscoe White Mysterious death in an explosion, allegedly saw someone leaving the scene just prior Allegedly gave deathbed confession to Rev. Jack Shaw Chin resembles chin on Oswald’s backyard photograph Posture resembles posture on Oswald’s backyard photograph Bump on right wrist resembles bump on Oswald’s right wrist in the backyard photograph - Roscoe’s alleged diary reportedly has a brief description of what he did that day, from Ricky White’s memory. It allegedly indicated that Roscoe shot from the grassy knoll and rode with Tippit to pick up Oswald. Roscoe tried to get Tippit to drive Oswald to Redbird airport. When Tippit balked and suspected Roscoe’s and Oswald’s involvement with the reports coming in about JFK, Roscoe had to kill Tippit. The weird thing is, this seems to explain some things. Acquilla Clemons described seeing two people at the scene of Tippit’s killing (though the physical description of one of them doesn’t seem to match either Oswald or Roscoe.) And, if Roscoe was the shooter on the grassy knoll dressed in a policeman's uniform, then that appears to explain Badgeman. (For the record, I am agnostic on Badgeman's existence.) I believe Tippit had some clothes hanging in the back of his police car, if I recall correctly. Roscoe could have changed out of his policeman's uniform and into street clothes after giving the signal by honking outside Oswald's rooming house. I believe Earlene Roberts said she saw two policemen in the police car honking outside, So, normally I would be able to discount a lot of this. I did discount a lot of it when I heard just bits and pieces. The matching chin doesn’t prove anything, but they do match. The posture doesn’t prove anything, yet it too matches the backyard photograph. The bump on the wrist, however, can’t easily be dismissed. If Roscoe was previously knowledgeable about photography, that also seems quite suspicious. The statements of Rev. Jack Shaw, while not conclusive, are compelling, in my opinion. I'd like to know more about his tapes of Geneva and what became of them. The fact that Geneva worked for Ruby is certainly quite a coincidence and difficult to write off as happenstance. And that Roscoe joined the Dallas police department less than two months before the assassination makes me very suspicious. But the one thing that seems to be the biggest is that the White family owned an alternate pose of the backyard photograph. A pose that was re-created by investigators PRIOR to its official discovery. I don’t know how that ownership of that alternate photo could be anything but damning. You’d have to ignore all of the other “coincidences” and believe that Roscoe was just a random cop that just happened, by another coincidence, to be in a position to steal an important and incriminating piece of evidence in the crime of the century, wouldn’t you?

The expedite check on George de Mohrenschildt was initiated by Gale Allen, a case officer in the Domestic Operations Division of the CIA. This request was made on April 29, 1963, and was relayed through Anna Panor. The context and exact reasons for this expedite check remain unknown. This request coincided with de Mohrenschildt's trip through Washington, D.C., New York, and Philadelphia in the spring of 1963. The interest from Gale Allen in de Mohrenschildt during this period is noted as significant, especially considering that there is no detailed information about what the de Mohrenschildts were doing or whom they were in contact with during this trip. One known associate of Gale Allen was Thomas J. Devine, a former CIA staff employee. Devine later became an oil-wildcatting associate of George Bush, and their joint activities led to the establishment of Zapata Oil in 1953. After selling Zapata Oil, Bush entered politics while Devine joined the investment firm of Train, Cabot and Associates in New York. This relationship between Devine and Bush continued through the late 1960s, including the period when Bush served as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Gale Allen was aware of the project WUBRINY/LPDICTUM, which involved proprietary commercial operations in Europe and was connected to Devine and Bush. This project and its associations were known to Allen through his role at the CIA However, further detailed information about other known associates of Gale Allen, specifically in the context of his work with the CIA, is not readily available in open sources. The nature of intelligence work, especially during the era in which Allen was active, often involved maintaining secrecy about personal and professional associations. Consequently, comprehensive public records of his associations might not be fully documented or accessible.

My thanks to Jim DiEugenio for such a wide-ranging and informative 2 hours & 40 minute interview. We covered the JFK60 anniversary, the Cyril Wecht conference, the Dallas gathering this year, medical evidence, the autopsy, Roger Stone’s LBJ-Did-It Book, Richard Nixon’s role in the conspiracy, and much more. Jim’s been a pretty regular guest on Maverick News, and it’s always a pleasure. This latest show was our best interview yet. Enjoy, friends…

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Was Jean Rene Souetre expelled from Fort Worth 18 hours after the JFK Assassination? A friend just sent me this article over concerning Hunt, JM Wave, Heroin and much more. ——————————- CIA, NATO and the Great Heroin Coup: How Miami Became the Center of International Fascism and the Murder of President Kennedy Cynthia Chung 14 hr ago 18 2 This is Part 4 to a five-part series. [Refer here for Part 1 and Part 2, the latter which goes over how the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement Post WWII was Bought and Paid for by the CIA. Part 3 is essential reading prior to this paper, which discusses key elements of NATO’s Operation Gladio.] Operation Underworld & the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) Charles “Lucky” Luciano (1897-1962) was the most powerful and successful gangster in American history. He is considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States for having established The Commission in 1931. In 1936 Luciano was convicted for compulsory prostitution and running a prostitution racket. He was sentenced to 30 to 50 years in prison, but during WWII, the U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) made him an offer. Luciano was promised eventual liberty in return for delivering the southern Italian Mafia as the fifth column backing the Allied cause against Mussolini. This would be the seed that would generate the powerful Mafia families of southern Italy, assigned by the United States to act as praetorian guards within the stay-behind armies. Meyer Lansky, head of the Jewish mob, became the liaison between Luciano and ONI and Operation Underworld was born. Luciano ordered his men to obey Lansky who became essentially the head of a large portion of the Italian-American Mafia. Thomas Dewey (then Governor of New York), although responsible for putting Luciano in prison, pardoned him in 1946 due to his service towards the Allied cause and Luciano was deported to Italy along with some of his lieutenants, however, not before he met with agents of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services). In June 1973, Le Monde spelled out the American side of the intelligence-Mafia connection: This special relationship between the Mafia and these intelligence agencies would go strong for several decades and has lasted to this day. Meyer Lansky’s Cuban Empire Meyer Lansky (1902-1983) together with Lucky Luciano created the National Crime Syndicate, known simply as ‘the Syndicate’ for short. Lansky was the Syndicate’s financial wizard and its chairman from around 1947. In the early fifties, he began building his Cuban Empire, headquartered in Havana. Lansky literally governed Cuba over the head of the dictator Fulgencio Batista. When free elections chased his close friend and Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista from office in 1944, Lansky also left Cuba, entrusting his empire to the Trafficante family headed by Santo Sr. (Santo Trafficante became the heir to the Luciano network in Cuba). Lansky and Batista settled in Hollywood, Florida, just north of Miami. Before long, Lansky was running an illegal casino empire on the east coast and expanded the narcotics trade founded by Lucky Luciano. The older Mafia dons deemed the narcotics trade taboo, so Lansky’s wing of the Syndicate cornered the market with Trafficante’s eldest son Santo Jr., overseeing heroin traffic. When Santo Sr. died in 1954, Santo Jr. Trafficante became Lansky’s right-hand man and manager of his Cuban interests. When Lansky’s illegal casinos in Florida were shutdown in 1950, Lansky promoted Batista’s return to power in Cuba. And thus, likely not coincidentally, Fulgencio Batista who served as the elected president of Cuba from 1940-1944, returned to Cuba as a U.S. backed military dictator from 1952-1959, until he was overthrown by the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro. With Castro at the helm of Cuba, Lansky and Trafficante were in trouble, they had been given a clear message by Castro that they were no longer welcome in the Cuban kingdom. Along with Lansky and Trafficante, half a million Cubans left the island in the years following, and a quarter of a million made their new home in Florida, the site of Trafficante’s new headquarters. After having been driven out of Cuba and his casinos shutdown in Florida, Lansky created a similar gambling paradise in Nassau, Bahamas. Besides the gambling take, the greater part of the incredible bonanza from U.S. narcotics deals, the Corsicans share included, was laundered via Lansky’s Miami National Bank, to Nassau and to numbered accounts in Switzerland and Lebanon. (2) Lansky would eventually become the world’s uncrowned narcotics king. His decisions affected everyone, including the bigwigs in France and Italy. Lansky’s connections ran through Las Vegas, Rome, Marseilles, Beirut and Geneva. Miami as the New Center for Internacional Fascista Early in 1980, Alan Pringle, head of the DEA’s Miami office, told an Associate Press reporter that Miami banks constitute “the Wall Street” of the drug dealers. (3) It was Henrik Kruger who first exposed this in 1980 with his superbly researched book “The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence & International Fascism,” where Miami was revealed to be the new center for this international fascism as a consequence of the “great heroin coup.” It is beyond the scope of this essay to go through this in detail, however, the important points demonstrated by Kruger are that the Corsican mafia (with Turkey and Lebanon as raw producers) were replaced as the main producers and dealers of high-grade heroin by the Sicilian mafia – along with Southeast Asia and South America. This transition was supported and enforced by the CIA who controlled the DEA. Nixon’s “War on Drugs” did shutdown certain producers and channels of heroin, but it was ultimately designed to open up new producers and channels that would be under a tighter American control. Just like in Vietnam, the French would be pushed out of any authority by the Americans and they were to be from now on subservient to this new king of the jungle. Lansky’s Syndicate was instrumental in guiding this transition safely into the hands the CIA and its allied intelligence agencies, largely affiliated with NATO’s Operation Gladio. Miami became a center of operation for not just Meyer Lansky but for the CIA as well in all-things-heroin and in time Cuba. Henrik Kruger writes: [Note: CORU was a Cuban exile umbrella organization; Coordinacion de Organisaciones Revolucionarias Unidas. CORU’s headquarters were in Miami.] The significance of Miami in the netherworld of international fascism remains one of America’s better kept secrets. Its tendrils stretched across the Atlantic to the Aginter operation, originally in Lisbon, and Skorzeny quietly sitting in Madrid at the centre of his arms smuggling web. To Kruger, the Miami-Lisbon-Madrid-Rome axis was the logical continuation of the CIA’s record in forging alliances with high poopoo officials. The neo-fascist Paladin Group as well as the Spanish intelligene agency, La Dirección General de Seguridad (DGS) were both run by the poopoo war criminal Colonel Otto Skorzeny. Miami was an international junction and all-purpose clearing house for the CIA’s hugely lucrative narcotics rackets and much else besides, including international terrorism or as Kruger put it “the merger of European and American fascism was toasted in Miami.” Miami CIA station JM/WAVE, was a major U.S. covert operations and intelligence gathering station which operated from 1961 to 1968. It sponsored a series of hit-and-run attacks on strategic Cuban targets and involved greater manpower and expenditures than the Bay of Pigs itself. Some 300 agents and 4600 Cuban exiles operatives took part in the actions of JM/Wave. Kruger writes: “As later revealed, one of its last operations was closed down because one of its aircraft was caught smuggling narcotics into the United States…In the JM/Wave period a great expansion in China [Kuomintang] Lobby-Trafficante-Cuban exile-CIA connections occurred.” Kruger writes: JM/Wave covered anything and everything Cuban, wherever in the world it might be. CIA maintained its largest station JM/WAVE and operated a bustling network of paramilitary training bases as well as safe houses. Howard Hunt and Bill Harvey both worked for JM/Wave who will we come to know shortly. Miami Cubans joined Aginter Press terrorists in Guatemala. One hundred Florida-based Cubans joined the Aginter Press-ELP fascist army in Spain, where they became involved in acts of terrorism. [Note: Aginter Press is the training and distribution base for the French fascist paramilitary of the OAS who largely worked for NATO’s Gladio, see Part 3.] At this point, we should be seeing a picture that has painted NATO/CIA/Italian-American Mafia/Cuban exiles/and fascists including Nazis all working for the same apparatus and essentially the same goal: to overthrow democratically elected leaders and replace them with dictators and fascist right-wing governments. The profits of the narcotics trade are used in turn to fund right-wing terrorist activity globally, using the model of Gladio. The “great heroin coup” that Henrik Kruger exposed was about having complete control over the profits of heroin for this very purpose. Nixon’s White House Plumbers and “The War on Drugs” The history of Nixon’s involvement in Watergate is intertwined with that of his personal involvement with drug enforcement. Nixon’s public declaration in June 1971 of his war on heroin promptly led to his assemblage of the White House Plumbers, Cuban exiles and even “hit squads” with the avowed purpose of combating the international narcotics traffic. Kruger writes: [Note: Frank Sturgis (original name Frank Fiorini) was one of Trafficante’s CIA contacts. In the late 1960s, Sturgis ran the Miami-based International Anti-Communist Brigade (IACB), said to be financed by Meyer Lansky’s Syndicate. (4)] E. Howard Hunt’s credentials go as far back as WWII, stationed in Kunming South China in the province of Yunnan while working for the OSS. The OSS was backing Chiang Kai-shek and his Kuomintang (KMT) army, who were supposedly fighting the fascist Japanese while also fighting a civil war with the Chinese communists under Mao Zedong. Yunnan under Chiang Kai-shek (along with a faction of the OSS’s overseeing), became the center of Chinese opium cultivation and Kunming the hotbed of military operations, including Claire Chennault’s 14th Air Force and Detachment 202 of the OSS (the predecessor of the CIA). [More on KMT’s alliance with the CIA et al. in the global heroin traffic in an upcoming paper.] This is where Hunt met Lucien Conein, Captain of the French Foreign Legionnaire-turned OSS agent. Kruger writes: To be clear here, what Kruger is referencing as the China/Cuba/Latin America Lobby is not in reference to their communist leaders but rather their fascist leaders; Chiang Kai-shek, Batista, and the Latin American fascist dictators. Indochina remained Conein’s base of operation after WWII, when like Hunt he slid over from the OSS to its successor the CIA. He then operated throughout South and North Vietnam, Cambodia, and Burma and became the top U.S. expert on the area as well as on the opium smuggling Corsican Mafia. Peter Dale Scott wrote in his foreword to Kruger’s “The Great Heroin Coup”: Kruger writes: In 1952, President Arbenz of Guatemala pushed through a sweeping land reform bill which aimed at redistributing 70% of the country’s farm acreage back to the people and out of the hands of the 2% landowners. Amongst that 2% was the United Fruit Company, which had multiple ties to Washington DC and the CIA, including Walter Bedell Smith (former Director of the CIA) who was on its board after the coup, Henry Cabot-Lodge’s family fortunes on the Cabot side and Allen and Foster Dulles’s law firm Sullivan & Cromwell. (5) On behalf of United Fruit, the CIA orchestrated a coup and E. Howard Hunt was the agency’s chief political action officer to overthrow Guatemala’s President Arbenz in 1954. (6) Kruger writes: Along with the CIA’s new official drug policy came the unofficial one. The latter dirty work was performed by a large faction within the DEA who tolerated, if not outright encouraged, a large and apparently independent army of Cuban exile terrorists (trained by the CIA) and available for action in Latin America at the request of its presiding dictators. However, this was all supposed to have happened nearly a decade sooner. According to a June 2, 1964 New York Times article: Nixon was Vice President to Eisenhower for 8 years, from January 1953 to 1961. Nixon was supposed to have the upcoming Presidency, everyone knew it, but Kennedy (who was aware of this secret invasion plan) was able to take the election from underneath Nixon’s nose because of his calculated hard stance against Castro and support of a rebellion in Cuba during the public debate, whereas, Nixon thought it best to pretend to oppose such a thing because he thought it would compromise the actual plan to do that very thing. And just like that, decades of planning went out the window, Nixon was out and Kennedy was in. The Northwood Plot, the Bay of Pigs and Operation “Elimination by Illumination” Kennedy was not the only one to crash the party. The overthrow of Batista and the expulsion of Lansky’s Cuban Empire including its heroin trade by Fidel Castro in 1959 was problematic to say the least for such long-term plans. Fidel Castro, like de Gaulle, was a master at thwarting assassination attempts and coups. Castro would govern Cuba from 1959 to 2011. Castro’s Cuba was considered unacceptable for the very plain reason that he was upsetting the status quo of how “business” was supposed to be done. There was a lot of money that was lost for big business with Castro’s takeover, not just for Lansky’s Syndicate but for such Fortune 500 names as United Fruit Company, U.S. Steel, DuPont and Standard Oil (among many others) which tells you something about the real sort of business these companies are involved in. (7) Thus, Castro had to go. And in came the CIA and Pentagon to the rescue, or at least that was how the script was supposed to go… Kennedy was inaugurated January 20th, 1961. Along with inheriting the responsibility of the welfare of the country and its people, he was to also inherit a secret war with communist Cuba run by the CIA. The Bay of Pigs fiasco, or more aptly called treason, went from April 17th to 20th 1961, which led to the firing of CIA Director Allen Dulles, CIA Deputy Director for Plans Richard M. Bissell Jr. and CIA Deputy Director Charles Cabell (for more details on this refer here). Kruger writes: Peter Dale Scott writes in his foreword to Kruger’s “The Great Heroin Coup”: Further, the Bay of Pigs operation was in fact meant to fail. It was meant to stir up a public outcry for a direct military invasion of Cuba. On public record is a meeting (or more aptly described as an intervention) with CIA Deputy Director for Plans Richard Bissell, Joint Chiefs Chairman Lyman Lemnitzer, and Navy Chief Admiral Burke basically trying to strong arm President Kennedy into approving a direct military attack on Cuba. Admiral Burke had already taken the liberty of positioning two battalions of Marines on Navy destroyers off the coast of Cuba “anticipating that U.S. forces might be ordered into Cuba to salvage a botched invasion” (for more on this refer here). There would be many more attempts to assassinate Castro and attempts at coups. One of the kookier plans would come from, not surprisingly, covert operations expert Edward Lansdale who was chief of the Saigon Military Mission and a protégé of General Lemnitzer; who wanted to send a submarine to the shore outside Havana where it would create an inferno of light. At the same time, according to Lansdale’s plan, Cuba-based agents would warn the religious natives of the second coming of Christ and the Savior’s distaste for Fidel Castro. The plan was called “Elimination by Illumination,” but was ultimately shelved. (8) It would be funny if such plans stayed on paper, but these men were responsible for the torture and deaths of countless individuals for the plans that made it into reality. As soon as General Lemnitzer became Army Chief of Staff in 1959, he installed Lansdale at a desk in Deputy Defense Secretary Gilpatric’s office in the Pentagon. Lansdale was put in charge of Operation Mongoose under direct patronage of Lemnitzer with the main object to eliminate Castro in direct defiance of federal law prohibiting political assassinations. Operation Mongoose was an extensive campaign of terrorist attacks against civilians and covert operations carried out by the CIA and was run out of JM/Wave in Miami. Lansdale would participate in many covert operations including raids and bombings in Cuba and other targets all over Latin America. In March 1962, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, not taking a hint as to what happened to Dulles, Bissell and Cabell, decided it would be a good idea to propose Operation Northwoods to President Kennedy for approval. Operation Northwoods was a proposed false-flag operation against American citizens, which called for CIA operatives to both stage and actually commit acts of terrorism against American military and civilian targets and subsequently blame the Cuban government in order to justify a war against Cuba. The plan was drafted by General Lemnitzer specifically and has a striking similarity with NATO’s Operation Gladio (see Part 3). The logic of Northwoods was the stripe of Gladio. The general staff inclined towards prefabricated violence because they believed benefits gained by the state count more than injustice against individuals. The only important criterion is reaching the objective and the objective was right-wing government. Operation Northwoods memorandum March 13, 1962. There was not a single item in the Northwoods manual that did not amount to a blatant act of treason, yet the U.S. military establishment dispatched “Top Secret – Justification for U.S. military Intervention in Cuba” straight to the desk of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, for onward transmission to President Kennedy. Needless to say President Kennedy rejected the proposal and a few months later General Lemnitzer’s term was not renewed as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, having served from October 1st 1960 to September 30th 1962. However, NATO lost no time, and in November 1962 Lemnitzer was appointed commander of U.S. European Command and as Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO, the latter to which he served from January 1st, 1963 to July 1st, 1969. Lemnitzer’s was a perfect fit to oversee the cross-continental Gladio operations in Europe. Lemnitzer was a prime motivating force in setting up the Special Forces Group in 1952 at Fort Bragg, where commandos were trained in the arts of guerilla insurgency in the events of a Soviet invasion of Europe. Before long the men who proudly wore distinctive green berets were cooperating discreetly with the armed forces of a string of European countries and participating in direct military operations some of them extremely sensitive and of highly dubious legality. One of these operations of highly dubious legality was the NATO/CIA coalition which had sponsored at least two attempts to assassinate President de Gaulle. In response to this, de Gaulle had kicked NATO’s headquarters out of France, removed France from NATO and had given Lemnitzer a summary order to quit NATO (See Part 3). Permindex and the World Trade Center (WTC) were also implicated in these assassination attempts on de Gaulle’s life and were forced to shutdown their Swiss headquarters, as per de Gaulle’s orders, more on this shortly. If President de Gaulle’s orders had been denied, he would have been prepared to go to war over these matters, and thus there was a bit of reshuffling, but essentially the game continued intact. To the CIA and Pentagon, Kennedy was a bull in a China shop. Kennedy’s insistence to supervise unorthodox warfare inhouse, his backing off in the U.S.-Soviet missile crisis, the removal of frontline missiles from Turkey, undermining and scheming to end the Vietnam war, upsetting Cuban exile operations and reversing America to peacetime footing when it was perfectly obvious the Pentagon thought the threat of the Soviets and Chinese was never greater. And the ultimate insult, the firing of CIA godfather Allen Dulles and the First Chief of Staff General Lemnitzer packed off to exile. The CIA, Pentagon and NATO were in agreement. Kennedy had to go. Gladio, Permindex, World Trade Centre, and the OAS as instruments of MURDER INC. Ferenc Nagy was briefly premier of Hungary until the communists took over and forced him from office May 1947. Nagy was granted asylum by the U.S. and emigrated to the Washington DC area in 1948, where he went to work for the FBI. He then became an intimate of Frank Wisner, the CIA’s Deputy Director of Special Plans (and right-hand man of Allen Dulles and their CIA rogue operation OPC). The CIA shopfront Permindex (Permanent Industrial Expositions) was incorporated in Basel with Nagy as president in 1956, on the eve of the Hungarian uprising. Nagy was also director of the World Trading Centre (aka CMC or Centro Mondiale Commerciale) in Rome, and president of its American board. Richard Cottrell writes in his “Gladio: NATO’s Dagger at the Heart of Europe”: Paese Sera also alleged that Ferenc Nagy had funded the OAS through the World Trade Centre (WTC) and Permindex, who in turn was funded by the CIA. None of these companies seemed to ever engage in any visible commercial activities. Jim Garrison was the District Attorney of New Orleans from 1962 to 1973 and was the only prosecutor to bring forth a trial concerning the assassination of President Kennedy. During his investigation, Garrison came across numerous connections, though at the time did not know enough to connect all of the dots. One important dot was Guy Banister, former chief of the Chicago FBI office and deputy superintendent of police in New Orleans who began his career in WWII with the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). Banister in his “retirement years” had set up his own small detective agency which was conveniently located directly across the street from the offices of ONI and the Secret Service. Furthermore, across Lafayette Park and a short walk down St. Charles Avenue was the headquarters of the CIA. Garrison writes in “On the Trail of the Assassins”: Garrison uncovered the Banister apparatus, which was part of a supply line that ran along the Dallas-New Orleans-Miami corridor. These supplies consisted of arms and explosives for use against Castro’s Cuba. David Ferrie, who was former OSS worked for Guy Banister and Clay Shaw (also former OSS). Ferrie was one of the leaders of the local Cuban Revolutionary Front. Garrison discovers during his investigation that Banister was engaged in the training and equipping of commando units for paramilitary action inside Cuba. Jack Ruby had a special relationship with the Dallas office of the FBI. In 1959 Ruby met at least nine times with one of the Dallas Bureau’s agents. At that time he also purchased a microphone equipped wrist watch, a bugged tie clip, a telephone bug, and a bug attache case. These facts suggest that Jack Ruby was probably a regular informant with the local Bureau office. (9) Garrison continues: Garrison discovers that both the entrance to 544 Camp and 531 Lafayette (the address to Banister’s detective agency) led to the same place. Thus, tying Oswald, whom the Warren Commission had readily labeled a pro-Castro communist, directly with Banister and his Cuban exile operations. Garrison also discovers that George de Mohrenschildt was the “baby-sitter” (10) of Oswald. In WWII, de Mohrenschildt had worked for French Intelligence and among his close friends was Jean de Menil the president of Schlumberger Corporation which had close ties with the CIA. (11) Garrison writes: Garrison continues: Among the World Trade Centre board of directors according to the article published by Paesa Sera in 1967, were Gutierrez di Spadaforo Italian prince and member of the House of Savoy, who was undersecretary of agriculture for Il Duce, Benito Mussolini. Through his daughter-in-law, Spadaforo was related to poopoo minister of finance, Hjalmar Schacht. Another member of the board of directors was Guiseppi Zigiotti, who was also president of the Fascist National Association for Militia Arms. And earlier mentioned, Ferenc Nagy was the president of the American board. Le Devoir wrote in early 1967 “Nagy…maintains close ties with the CIA which link him with the Miami Cuban colony.” Nagy later emigrated to the U.S. and settled in Dallas, Texas. (12) Paesa Sera reported: George de Mohrenschildt according to Garrison was probably given no indication of what lied down the road, but there is now little doubt that he had been operating under deep cover as an agent of the CIA. De Mohrenschildt convinced Oswald to move to Dallas, then Oswald is dispatched to New Orleans for sheep-dipping (made to look like a pro-Castro communist) courtesy of Guy Banister. Oswald is then introduced to Ruth Paine via de Mohrenschildt. Paine is the person who helped Oswald get a job at the Texas School Book Depository. (13) George de Mohrenschildt had supposedly “committed suicide” on March 29th 1977, only hours after arranging to meet an investigator from the House Select Committee on Assassinations. * * * E. Howard Hunt, made infamous as one of Nixon’s White House Plumbers caught in the Watergate scandal and subsequently serving 33 months in prison, was not quite the bumbling fool that he was portrayed to be, although he did most certainly ruin his own life and the life of his family; his daughters’ blaming him (with due cause) for the death of their mother and his two sons becoming meth addicts and drug dealers. Hunt in fact confessed to his estranged first son whom he named Saint John, that he knew the secrets to Kennedy’s murder when he thought he was on his deathbed. In fact, he would live four years more and would once again turn his back on his son, criticizing him for a life that amounted to nothing and demanding all the JFK memos he had given Saint returned to him. Saint who was concerned that these secrets would be buried along with his father, attempted to get as much out of him before he died, some of this information was published in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. Among the names mentioned by E. Howard Hunt implicated in the murder of Kennedy was Bill Harvey. Harvey joined the CIA in 1947 (at its very inception) and ran the CIA’s Berlin station during the 1950s. While in Germany, Harvey worked closely with Reinhard Gehlen’s notorious organization and Gehlen came to consider him a “very esteemed [and] really reliable friend.” (14) In November 1961, Harvey was put in charge of the top-secret CIA operation to kill Castro code named ZR/RIFLE. (15) He began to work directly with Mafia ambassador at large, Johnny Rosselli (whom E. Howard Hunt also worked with). David Talbot writes in “The Devil’s Chessboard”: Bill Harvey was positioned as Rome station chief, after Cuba, to oversee Gladio operations in Italy. Harvey was reportedly with Mark Wyatt (another CIA agent stationed in Italy) attending a meeting at the Gladio base in Sardinia when they heard the news that President Kennedy had been shot. (16) However, Bill Harvey was in Dallas in November 1963, according to Wyatt who told French investigative journalist Fabrizio Calvi in an interview about Operation Gladio. (17) House Assassinations Committee investigator Dan Hardway, who was assigned by the panel to probe possible CIA connections to JFK’s murder, observed years later: (18) Talbot writes: Thus, it should be no surprise that among the strange and murderous characters who converged on Dallas in November 1963 was a notorious French OAS commando named Jean Souetre, who was connected to the assassination plots against President de Gaulle. Souetre was arrested in Dallas after the Kennedy assassination and expelled to Mexico. (19) Recall from Part 3 of this series, that the OAS is a leading fascist terrorist unit made up of former French military and intelligence officers which played a starring role in Gladio Operations throughout Europe, South America and beyond. Kruger concludes: [Part 5 will conclude the series and situate the context of Ukraine today.] Cynthia Chung is the President of the Rising Tide Foundation and a writer at Strategic Culture Foundation, consider supporting her work by making a donation and subscribing to her substack page. This article was originally published on by Strategic Culture Foundation.

A few months ago the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin received a treasure trove of materials: the private collections of both the late Richard Goodwin and his wife Doris Kearns Goodwin. Doris did a forum at the LBJ Library in September to talk about what’s in the boxes, with Don Carleton, Director of the Briscoe Center for American History at UT Austin. The collection should be open to researchers around the first of the year. Digitization process is ongoing as we speak. I’m from Austin, have done a lot of work w/ the Briscoe Center and LBJ Library over the decades. They are one of the best archives in the nation. Can’t wait to dive into this collection! 🗄🗃📄

This excellent longform podcast is all about dat Bush! It takes you on quite an interesting 2-hour journey… thought the hosts did a pretty solid job of it!

It only took 2 hours for Gerald Posner to review ALL those new JFK Assassination documents today. (speed reader extraordinaire!) He was quick to assure the public on Dan Abrahms News Nation prime time evening show that there’s “nothing to see here.” Welp, I guess that seals it. No need to actually read all those thousands of files, then. Gerry just saved us all a crap ton of work! 😝

You can skip 35 min but he admitted Oswald was intelligence at the 1hr 7min mark G. Robert Blakey is the nation's foremost authority on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO), has served on the Notre Dame Law School faculty for more than 30 years. He teaches in the areas of criminal law and procedure, federal criminal law and procedure, terrorism, and jurisprudence. Blakey was Chief Counsel and Staff Director to the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations from 1977 to 1979, which investigated the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. under the direction of Louis Stokes. Blakey also helped Stokes draft the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. He and Richard Billings, the editor of the final report of the Committee, would later write two books about the assassination. Out Of The Blank #1264 - G. Robert Blakey

That sweet moment when “Oswald acted alone” author Gerald Posner (“Case Closed”) xxxxs around & finds out in his own Twitter poll. 😆 The comments section is pretty fun reading: Gerald Posner: JFK Poll

President Putin unveiled a new statue of Fidel Castro in Moscow on Nov. 22. Interesting timing… Video of Castro statue unveiling Putin praised the Communist Cuban leader in his remarks: Putin full speech 11/22/22

My father was a very stoic, alpha guy, born in 1946, at the start of the boomer generation, perhaps a celebration at the end of the war. I never saw him cry until he was old and grey at his first cousin’s funeral. There was an exception in his youth, that was as a 17 year old when he heard the news that JFK had been shot dead in Dallas. He said; lots of people wept, almost inexplicably for a man they never knew, on the other side of the world. It was a spontaneous reaction from deep within. We have these tribal inclinations from the depths of antiquity in our evolutionary past, that are hard wired. The west and free world had just endured the death of their spiritual leader. A man with many of the qualities that men and women desired in different ways. A leader who had to face a tremendous spectre at the most dangerous time in history. It was JFK who said “we shall bear any burden” and he was a man who held the weight of the world and human destiny on his shoulders. When you lose a leader like that, it was bound to destabilise people. In some ways it was the death of their hope and optimism, and the renewed fear that we would return to the despair and trauma of the world wars. People use the word seminal too frequently these days, but, that moment left an indelible mark on human history, with all of the ingredients of a greek tragedy. I discovered JFK through the words of my father but, only really began to understand John F Kennedy and his significance in my mid 30’s. I stumbled across one of his speeches and experienced the charisma, the charm, the wit, the class of what a true leader should be. It was very apparent how bankrupt we’d been since in these departments on the leadership front. I say we; because despite being a Brit with Irish and Scotch ancestry, America has led the world in my time, it set the example, it was the harbinger of progress in my lifetime, as well as my fathers, and everybody in the culture lost something when JFK died. The skeptics will ask what JFK did? They’ll downplay his significance, standing on his memory. What I would say to them is; you had a room full of generals wanting to nuke the USSR (and China) in a first strike policy, creating untold destruction, on an unimaginable scale. It could have ended the world. My mother and father were well within the Soviet strike capability. Would Britain be a radioactive wasteland now? President Kennedy, his brother Robert and McNamara were the only ones against this first strike policy in that tense room. This act of aggression would have likely killed at least 140 million Americans, which to the maniacal generals was acceptable collateral damage. He recognised mediation was necessary between the US hardliners and the Soviet Union. He made concessions, recognising that the enemy needed to feel they had gained something by also stepping back. President Kennedy paid in blood for his conviction to peace, detentes and rapprochement's. He said “we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures.” He didn’t want his kids or anyone else’s being exposed to radioactive rain and cancers. He pushed for the nuclear test ban treaty, at a time when western and eastern nations were hell bent on producing ever more powerful nuclear weapons. Did you know the 1954 Castle Bravo nuclear test could have killed everyone on earth, and the military decided that as the risk was small, to proceed with it?! Christ, the world JFK inherited from Eisenhower was one hell bent on its own destruction. Governments and people were still gripped by a fear psychosis from world war two. We should be grateful that JFK took us back toward some of the ideas of FDR, who was also not a proponent of a neo-colonialism. For those who critique JFK, we surely all recognise he was human, a man who made mistakes, like every one of us and every man in history. But, in a world where we knit pick at every tiny detail, what is the bigger picture we should see with JFK? My conclusion is that the world was better off with him than without him. Has America or the world had a better leader since? JFK was very bright, he was reasonable, he had a class, a quality, that hasn’t been emulated since. He also listened hard. The reason so many gravitated to him worldwide is that he represented something better. His new frontier represented hope, optimism, just a chance at something better. Who wouldn't want that after the despair of the middle of the twentieth century? Who wouldn’t have wanted a better future for their children? We never saw John F. Kennedy grow old, his flaws were never really exposed in his lifetime. Because of that he is frozen in time, still somewhere near his youth. We hold any of his perfection dear and perhaps hold others to that standard. For those who say that we didn’t have time to see him fail miserably, I would say that we also didn’t have time to see him be all that he could. Had he lived 5 more years or twenty more years, perhaps the world we live in now would be profoundly better? His life was an unfinished work. what we are left with is his legacy. A legacy that the supporters of his assassination have done their best to rewrite, and diminish the importance of. I would say in the worlds of Tennyson (used in the Oliver Stone film, JFK); “do not forget your dying king.” Lest we forget, your king didn’t have to work. He could have made the easy choice and lived off his father’s wealth, Joe Snr was the 14th richest man in America. He could have also made the safe and easy choice not to betray his social class. He could have acquiesced, gone with the grain on so many occasions. Instead he took the more unpopular, difficult path, “not because it was easy, because it was hard”, which proved more injurious to himself and family. It takes tremendous courage to take the course that JFK did. He trusted his instincts and chose to have the brightest people around him that he could. What an attractive thing it was to see a leader with courage and conviction. JFK lived every moment, he had to, as a guy who had his last rights read four times before Dallas. His Addisons, Colitis, lifelong sickness made him make the most of every single minute. I am certain he didn’t want to die but, viewing his reading list tells me that he knew their was no value in an ignominious death at the hands of an illness that had caused him so much suffering. He battled and fought his entire life. He projected vim and vigour, whilst quietly suffering, in and out of hospital. He didn’t want to be pitied or looked upon as weak. Most of us have no idea what its like to have the sword of Damocles hanging over our heads, in our prime, that our life and all that we love could be gone any day. JFK chose to live every moment, and “face any foe”. He knew who most of his enemies were. As Marcus Aurelius once said; one can only smile in the face of death. He didn’t cower from his, not in the Pacific in WW2 or in Dallas. A cynic can say that he never should have gone to Dallas. What kind of a leader hides in his own country? What kind of a country do you live in if the most important man can’t travel safely? JFK was taken, tragically, mercilessly, in the most heinous way. But, JFK never took a step back from challenges, he tried somewhat in vain. In my opinion we should celebrate courage, bravery, and conviction to ideals. These were the ways of the ancient Greeks and Roman’s that JFK read about. Perhaps we are lucky that this public execution happened in some small or big way? Yes, democracy, the free world, hope and optimism lost, and those are huge things. Would we care so much about JFK and his death now should he have been taken by fever or a plane crash? His death was an example to anyone else that thought about idealism or betraying their class. It also gave JFK a degree of immortality, it marked a turning point in history, one that can never truly be forgotten, and one that is taken into our hearts. The JFKA has forced us to educate ourselves and reeducate ourselves, we should all be grateful. There is tremendous value in martyrdom. As long as you recognise that’s what he was, and not some poor victim of a disenfranchised pro-communist nut. Those of us with a hint of intelligence understand that a conspiracy killed JFK. With all of that said and considered, there is one thing that you should all think about, if nothing else above appeals. Before JFK, MLK Jr and others, black people and people of colour in America walked the land not free. They were oppressed by a system, living in fear and hate, no opportunity to have confidence or the most basic fundamentals in life. JFK just being alive, meant those people who suffered so much, could hold their heads just a little bit higher. Their spirits were lifted. You should be glad he existed for the briefest of moments. JFK was a part of setting a new trajectory. He made things just that little bit better. The world is bereft of these characters, today. America is a nation of immigrants, JFK’s family were some of them too. Perhaps that is where his empathy came from. American exceptionalism is a strange term. It’s perhaps commonly accepted opinion that it was a myth, it never really existed to some. In my opinion, even though America has a short history, there have certainly been exceptional Americans. Was JFK one? He wrote “Profiles in courage” as a young man. It was clear he knew where the bar or threshold was set in terms of heroism or standards. Perhaps JFK was an exceptional American, some of his ideals and thoughts surely were. He inspires me, he is one of my heroes. We need these archetypes in our lives, people that inspire us and make us want to do better. RIP President John F. Kennedy.

Ran across this excellent piece published today by an anonymous blogger who goes by the pseudonym “Marina Oswald.” An excerpt: “Some of the earliest reports from Moscow stressed the fierce struggles Kennedy faced from staunch right-wingers within the U.S. government in the wake of this “terrorist act”, noting “Kennedy’s steps in the direction of clearing the international situation met with sharp opposition from the American madmen.”¹⁵ Yakov Victorov, foreign observer for Pravda, issued a strong defense of President Kennedy’s international record, and drew parallels to President Franklin Roosevelt when it came to his cooperation with the Soviets, calling the wartime leader “one of the great men to occupy the White House,” but intoning that the men who followed Roosevelt strayed from his path. While noting that Kennedy’s record was inconsistent, he was ultimately a rational thinker when it came to the matter of war and peace. Victorov went further, stating “Both Roosevelt and Kennedy shared an understanding of the new factors in the history of mankind” and predicted that future historians would “undoubtedly trace the line from Franklin Roosevelt to John Kennedy.” Victorov went deeper, cutting to the heart of the matter with the simple question: “Who profited from the assassination of Kennedy?” Speaking of wild men and the champions of the cold war, Victorov stated that the dark forces behind the murder felt there was no other way to crush Kennedy’s progress towards international relaxation but through bloodshed. Ending on a note of optimism, Victorov hoped that while the reactionaries were mobilizing to cover up the terroristic act, “we are certain justice will triumph and the assassins will be found.”¹⁶ But the most clear-eyed analysis from Soviet media came with regard to the political ideology behind the violent change in American government, drawing direct parallels to the Third Reich. Two days after the shots rang out, Moscow television commenter Valentin Zorin observed that a large organization had carried out the monstrous act, and that fascists are trying to “revive the ghost” of the Reichstag fire. Like the Nazis did, this commentator pointed out that American fascists were blaming communists for the murder of President Kennedy, which is absurd, since “no one but the enemies of peace and an easing of international tension” would profit from his violent end.” FULL ARTICLE: The Ultra-Reactionaries: Global Analysis of the Dallas Coup

Some kind soul just uploaded 4.5 hours of CNN’s live coverage of the JFK 50 remembrance in Dallas — and around the world. A nice find!

When I lived in Austin back in the 80’s & 90’s there was an excellent cable access TV show called “Alternative Views.” The hosts were very interested in the JFK Assassination and frequently had some big name guests on to discuss the case. On the 25th anniversary in 1988, they had J. Gary Shaw on for a 2 hour interview. Unfortunately if you didn’t live in Austin back then, you probably never got to see this. Thanks to a YouTube channel called The Memory Hole, this rare program has been digitally restored and premiered tonight. Watch here: The Memory Hole channel is airing a lot of rare old Kennedy stuff on this anniversary week. Check out their recent uploads for more goodies!

Here’s our recent Maverick News Channel marathon 3.5 hour longform interview with JFK researcher and author Jim DiEugenio on the 60th Anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, as well as his latest collaboration with Oliver Stone on “JFK Revisited,” the newly-filed National Archives lawsuit over the JFK Records Act, and much more. Enjoy! James DiEugenio interview

This was just uploaded to YouTube today, perhaps for the first time. (I’ve been looking for the HSCA hearings in their entirety online for a while, so this is a real treat to see at last, digitally cleaned up from the old analog tape source.) It’s a 50 minute excerpt from the hearings about the famous DPD motorcycle cop Dictabelt recording which caused the Committee to reverse its initial conclusion that Oswald acted alone. The Memory Hole is a really great resource for lots of vintage news and goodies you won’t find anywhere else. If you browse their YouTube channel, there are even more HSCA videos recently uploaded, and more to come this month.

62 years ago today, two days before the election, the campaign managers for the Kennedy and Nixon campaigns faced off on “Meet the Press.” NBC News just uploaded the full episode, digitally restored. Never looked so good! NBC Meet the Press RFK Interview 1960 Election

Kennedy nerd since childhood; studying the JFK assassination since 1984. Historian, independent journalist (spent 35 years in the mainstream media but I think I’m fully recovered now. 🤕). Currently an occasional co-host of Maverick News from 6-9 p.m. Eastern nightly. Here’s our recent 3.5 hour long form interview with JFK researcher and author Jim DiEugenio on the 60th Anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, as well as his latest collaboration with Oliver Stone on “JFK Revisited,” the newly-filed National Archives lawsuit over the JFK Records Act, and much more. James DiEugenio interview Been reading this forum for almost 20 years, finally took the proverbial plunge and became a member! It’s an honor to be here with so many Kennedy scholars and I look forward to learning more from you all.

John Potash is the author and producer of the book and film, Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA’s War on Musicians and Activists. He previously wrote and produced The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders book and film. He has been featured in television appearances on C-Span’s American History TV, The Reelz Channel, Hollywood DC on RT, and in the A&E’s Who Killed Tupac?, as well as The Real News Network, where he discussed the politics of Tupac's life and assassination. John's new book Shots: Eugenics To Pandemics traces the genocidal, anti-ethnic eugenics movement which resulted in the sterilization and elimination of millions. It exposes how the wealthiest families financed the evolution of eugenics into poopoo Germany, and pushed America into perpetual wars. Out Of The Blank #1202 - John Potash https://youtu.be/LdxlJvmibCA

Reference: Keven Hofeling