Paul Brancato

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.