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In 1969 Bud Fensterwald formed the Committee to Investigate Assassinations (CIA)

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BERNARD FENSTERWALD

During 1975 "Bud" Fensterwald was this researchers major antagonist. He did all that he could to discredit my work. Bernard Fensterwald was born August 2, 1921, in Nashville, Tennessee, the son of a wealthy clothing merchant. In 1941 his mother, Blanche Fensterwald, was a delegate to the Southern Conference on Human Welfare, sponsored by the Southern Regional Council. According to Julius Mader, the CIA had used the Southern Regional Council in some unspecified manner during the 1960's. [FBI MURKIN 44-3886-4358; FBI WFO 62-112697-1] The NY Office of the FBI prepared a report on Blanche Fensterwald on August 24, 1956. She was mentioned in four other FBI files. In 1942 Bernard Fensterwald graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard. He served in the Navy in World War II, and received a degree from Harvard Law School in 1949. That year, Bernard Fensterwald was the Subject of an FBI applicant type investigation. Bernard Fensterwald entered the Georgetown University School of Advanced International Studies, a private institution, and received an M.A. in 1950.

FENSTERWALD AND SENATOR JOSEPH McCARTHY

In February 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy (Rep.-WI) claimed that the State Department was harboring more than 200 members of the Communist Party. Senator Joseph McCarthy demanded that the State Department fire them. These charges were largely unfounded. In the from 1951 to 1956 Bernard Fensterwald worked for the State Department as an Assistant Legal Advisor. Bernard Fensterwald defended several State Department employees accused by Senator Joseph McCarthy of Communist affiliation. Some may have been CIA agents who used State Department cover. Senator Joseph McCarthy: "Case No. 11: This individual was an OSS analyst from July 1943 to August 1945, and was employed in the State Department Map Intelligence Division after August 1945. He is a regular reader of the Daily Worker. He has a job with the CIA as of today." [FBI 121-23278-13X]

BERNARD FENSTERWALD IN CONGRESS

SENATOR THOMAS C. HENNINGS

In 1957 Bernard Fensterwald left the State Department and was hired by Senator Thomas C. Hennings (Dem.-MO) as an investigator for the Senate Committee on Constitutional Rights. In 1957, with his mother, Fensterwald visited the Soviet Union. In 1957 the FBI stated, "Fensterwald has gone out of his way to be helpful." On May 14, 1957, Fensterwald contacted Louis B. Nichols of the FBI. Senator Henning had been asked to introduce legislation to block the deportation of Pierre LaFitte. (LaFitte was mentioned in Ovid Demaris' Green Felt Junge, a book about Las Vegas gambling interests). "I told Fensterwald that this, of course, was a matter for the Immigration Service and on a purely personal and confidential basis the Senator should be exceedingly cautious before he got out on a limb; that if he inquired into LaFittes background he would find an extensive record; and that under no circumstances would the Bureau support LaFitte. I told him officially, of course, we could not take a position but that, personally, we would hate to see some friend embarrassed and he should be very cautious. Fensterwald stated that was enough for him. (Paragraph deleted)" [FBI 66-18621-269] In 1959 Fensterwald was the Subject of an applicant-type inquiry conducted by the FBI.

SENATOR ESTES KEFAUVER

In 1955 Bernard Fensterwald was a foreign policy advisor to Senator Kefauver(Dem.-TN). In 1956 Senator Kefauver accepted the Vice-Presidential nomination on the Adlai Stevenson ticket, but both were defeated by the re-election of Dwight Eisenhower. On March 12, 1961, Bernard Fensterwald replaced Paul Rand Dixon as an investigator for the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee headed by Senator Estes Kefauver. Paul R. Dixon became head of the Federal Trade Commission. In 1961 Senator Estes Kefauver was investigating the drug industry. Hank Messick reported Senator Estes Kefauver fired Bernard Fensterwald.

In May 1963 Kefauver was hosptialized in Bethesda Naval Hospital with a case of Asian influenza. On August 8, 1963 Kefauver was hospitalized at Bethesda with what was described as a mild heart attack. He first believed he was suffering from actute integestion. Tests at the hospital disclosed the heart attack. He was ordered to get several weeks of bedrest, however his condition worsened and on August 10, 1963 - while awaiting open-heart surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Kefauver died of a ruptured aorta which caused a massive hemorrhage. His body was taken home to Madisonville for burial and no autopsy was performed. The cause of death was listed as a dissecting aneurysm, or balloning of the aorta. Was this a drug-induced myocardial infarction?

The possible motive here theoretically may have involved the CIA winning the confidence of the mob along with eliminating a likely Vice Presidental candidate had Lyndon Johnson not decided to forgo name a Vice President and instead waited for the 1964 elections. President Johnson did not want to erode democracy.

THE COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE ASSASSINATIONS

In January 1969, two months after having left Senator Edward V. Long's "Get Robert F. Kennedy Subcommittee," Bernard Fensterwald founded the Committee To Investigate Assassinations, which was allegedly dedicated to finding the real assassins of John F. Kennedy. ANGLETON'S Deputy, James Hunt, asked the FBI for more information on the Committee To Investigate Assassinations. [FBI 62-19060-6681] The CIA: "Our records show that Richard Sprague, a management consultant and photographic researcher, appeared in a New York Times article of May 24, 1968, in which he claimed that within an hour of the assassination of President Kennedy three men may have been pulled off freight cars in a railroad yard near Dealey Plaza. We have no further identifiable record of him."

ANALYSIS

The Committee to Investigate Assassinations was formed by Fensterwald and Sprague, not to reveal the truth about the Kennedy assassination, but to suppress it. A lot of researchers like Jim Lesar, Kevin Walsch and others were fooled by Fensterwald and worked with him and were influenced by him.

BERNARD FENSTERWALD AND JAMES EARL RAY

In the Spring of 1970 James Earl Ray hired Bernard Fensterwald as his attorney; he fired him in 1976. In June 1974 Bernard Fensterwald filed a motion to grant James Earl Ray a new trial on the basis of alleged collusion between William Bradford Huie and the former attorneys of James Earl Ray.

Bernard Fensterwald was involved with a lot of bogus activity surrounding the King assassination. In September 1974, Robert Livingston, a Memphis lawyer and Special Deputy Sheriff, held a press conference at which he announced: "There were three gunmen, one from the underworld who is now serving a sentence in a Canadian prison and proposes to testify to give a complete expose of the King murder case and to give names and telephone numbers of the four...wealthy, socially prominent Americans...one black...who hired him...for $100,000 to kill King."

Robert Livingston contacted Memphis attorney Russell X. Thompson and asked him to represent these hired killers, who agreed to testify if they were granted complete immunity. Russell X. Thompson was known as a liberal, and represented the NAACP. Russell X. Thompson received a phone call from one of the alleged gunman who wanted $3000 to come to Memphis.

Bernard Fensterwald and Robert Livingston allegedly met one of the gunman in Detroit, then took him to Tennesse to see James Earl Ray. James Earl Ray refused to speak with him and the "hired gun men" story proved false. Priscilla Johnson's former husband, George McMillan, believed he knew the identity of one of the hired gun men. George McMillan did a book on the Martin Luther King killing, Portrait of an Assassin. "I have always believed that James Earl Ray did it alone" said George McMillan. In 1994 James Earl Ray became suspicious of Bernard Fensterwald: "When he first started representing me he appeared very diligent; however, after he obtained the evidentiary hearing in the Memphis Federal Court he appeared to become very defensive in prosecuting the matter. He wouldn't permit his associate, Jim Lesar, to ask certain witnesses questions. Lesar's intentions were okay but he did not have the experience to brief a H.C. case. After the evidentiary hearing in Memphis, Fensterwald asked me to let Lesar file the briefs to the 6th circuit and argue them at the hearing. At that time Lesar was young and not a cr. attorney. The next time I saw Fensterwald was 15 years later (1990), I think, in Brushy Mountain prison. He showed me a picture along with some information about a dude named Smith...Fensterwald asked if Smith was Raoul. Now Smith was an Anglo and I assumed he spoke with a Texas accent, i.e. he had very little in common with Raoul. About three months ago I filed an FOIA request with the FBI/JD asking for Fensterwald's private files." [ltr.from Ray to AJW 8.31.94, 5.4.94; MURKIN FBI 44-38861-5955, 5950, 5957, 5948, 5947]

JAMES McCORD AND FENSTERWALD

On May 24, 1972, JAMES W. McCORD retained Bernard Fensterwald as his counsel in Watergate. After he was arrested at Watergate, McCORD was going to blame the break-in on the CIA, but McCORD changed his mind. McCORD stated: "I have released Gerald Alch as my defense attorney in the Watergate case [and hired Bernard Fensterwald who put up $40,000 bail for McCORD]. In a meeting recently in which our defense plans for Watergate trial were discussed, Alch persisted in a proposal that I claim the Watergate operation was a CIA operation. That is flatly untrue, and when I rejected it, he then went on to make a second proposal. The second proposal then was that I claim that the four Cubans and I cooked up the bugging operation on our own. This was also untrue." [Ervin Hearings p3444] Gerald Alch denied McCORD'S charges. He said that McCORD'S statement that he told McCORD that his CIA records could be altered to support the claim Watergate was a CIA operation was also false.

Gerald Alch, a former associate of F. Lee Bailey who is now a judge in Massachusetts, testified to the Senate Select Committee on Illegal Campaign Activities: "Bernard Fensterwald said to McCORD, 'The reporters have been asking me whether or not you or I had ever had any past relationship? I told him that we had...Well, after all, you have in the past submitted me checks which were donations to the Committee To Investigate Assassinations.' McCORD smiled and said 'That's right.'"

McCORD ASSOCIATES

The Committee To Investigate Assassinations was funded by McCORD ASSOCIATES, which for all practical purposes, was a CIA proprietary. The CIA reported that U.S. Attorney Earl Silbert "is aware that Ralph True was going to go to work for McCORD. [He] would like to know of any other individuals who possibly had been talked to by McCORD when looking toward employment."

The CIA listed 12 former CIA employees who had applied to McCORD ASSOCIATES for work:

(1) William Francis Shea. Entered On Duty 1951, Office of Strategic Research, DDI Intelligence Officer (deleted). The Office of Personnel referred Mr. Shea to McCORD Associates in 1971, and Dr. Edward M. Gunn indicated that Mr. Shea is affiliated with the Institute for Protection and Safety Studies, Inc.

(2) Therese Mae Shea. Entered on duty at the CIA in 1948. Wife of William Francis Shea. Hired by McCORD as secretary.

(3) James Corbin Fitchett. Entered On Duty 1951. Was supposed to be hired June 30, 1972, to work with the Committee to Re-elect President NIXON.

(4) Ross Ward Lambert as former OSS employee, served with the Agency from January 11, 1965, to August 9, 1971, and was a GS-13, Contract Employee assigned to the Special Operations Division/DDP, at the time of his resignation. Mr. Lambert served (deleted). Took job elsewhere.

(5) Louis Edgar Sherrad. Served with the Agency from July 2, 1952, until January 31, 1969, when he resigned. Security Officer assigned to the Security Research Staff. Background centers on industrial and physical security.

(6) Ralph Orlando True. Entered On Duty 1950. Still Agency employed. Ralph Orlando True was also supposed to retire on June 30, 1972, and join McCORD ASSOCIATES.

(7) Dr. Edward Mansfield Gunn. Entered On Duty 1955. Served with the Agency until May 31, 1971, and was a GS-17, Deputy Director of Medical Services, at the time of his retirement. Dr. Gunn was interviewed by an Office of Security representative on June 19, 1972, and discussed in some detail his involvement with the Institute for Protection and Safety Studies, Inc. which is affiliated with McCORD Associates and occupies space in the same offices. Hired.

(8) Dr. Jacob Victor Golder. Former GS-15, Chief of Psychological Services Staff/Office of Medical Services.

(9) Harry Thayer Mahoney. Entered On Duty 1951. In 1972 he was a GS-14 Operations Officer assigned to Western Hemisphere Division/DDP. He had been acquainted with HOWARD HUNT and McCORD through the years. In 1976 Harry T. Mahoney worked for the Burns International Investigation Bureau. Mahoney had written CIA Agent David McLean a letter mentioning FRANK STURGIS. [Harry Mahoney 1110 Shady Lane, Wheaton, Il. 60187 AFIO 1994;Counterspy Spring 1976]

(10) James Louis Baker. Entered On Duty 1951. Contract was allowed to expire on June 24, 1972. GS-12. Operations Officer assigned to (deleted). Not interviewed by McCORD because he took a job with the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs effective as of June 26, 1972.

(11) George Theodore Stanton. Served with the Agency from August 4, 1947, to January 8, 1972, and was a GS-14, Operations Officer, assigned to the Counter-Intelligence Staff/DDP. Dr. Gunn indicated that Mr. Stanton has been serving as a consultant to the Institute for Protection and Safety Studies, Inc.

(12) Walter Edward Brayden. Entered On Duty 1947. Hired. Intelligence Officer, DD/P. In April 1972, he served as guard for Mrs. Martha Mitchell on a trip to Chicago. The CIA reported that McCORD "gave him his expense account money in ten new one hundred dollar bills. McCORD wanted Braydon to carry a gun, and when Braydon showed reluctance McCORD told him it was OK since he was working to the Attorney General of the U.S. O'Malley also said that Brayden performed security sweeps of the office of the Committee to Re-elect the President." [CIA Memo For: DD/Pers/SP Subject: Meeting with Frank O'Malley]

Well, my last post looks a little shaky after you posted that Bill, thank God, I never claimed to know everything about everything...lol

But on a more serious note, I have become a lot more interested in activities which center on Edward Long's Subcommittee

ie Guy Johnson, Gordon Homme Jr., and the allegations of Jack Martin regarding the Homme Report......

Interest may be further piqued by what Douglas Valentine wrote in his article, a portion of which is included below....

.......Furthermore, on 23 January, 1967, Lapham [CIA Assistant General Counsel Anthony Lapham]met with Dr Sidney Gottlieb and several other CIA and Treasury officials in sensitive discussions concerning an investigation by Senator Edward Long (D-MS). As Chairman of the Subcommittee on Invasion of Privacy, Long was probing allegations of illegal wiretapping by various branches of the US government, and his staff had stumbled on the existence of the MKULTRA safehouses. A 30 January, 1967, memorandum, written by Gottlieb, records the CIA's on-going efforts to conceal its involvement with the MKULTRA safehouses from Senator Long. When asked if the CIA was using the Narcotics Bureau as a "front" for domestic operations, Gottlieb said no. He told the Treasury Department officials that the "pads" were only used for routine narcotics operations.

http://www.nthposition.com/sexdrugsampthe.php

The one organization which is not mentioned in all of this which is the Office Of Naval Intelligence, which was the background of some of the persons in Long's Subcommittee, the problem with the Homme Report, if indeed such a document even exists, is that unless I am mistaken, Sen. Edward Long chaired several different Subcommittee's, although the "Get Robert Kennedy" Subcommittee would seem the obvious choice.....

Favor to an old friend.......

Martin F. Dardis, 83; Investigator Linked Watergate Crime to Nixon

By Patricia Sullivan

Washington Post Staff Writer

Friday, May 19, 2006

Martin F. Dardis, 83, whose investigative skills connected the Watergate burglars to President Nixon's Committee to Reelect the President and who also brought down drug smugglers, gun runners and embezzlers in 1970s-era Miami, died of vascular disease May 16 at a nursing home in Palm City, Fla.

A legendary character in the international criminal world of South Florida, Mr. Dardis was the chief investigator to Dade County's state attorney Richard E. Gerstein and, later, Janet Reno. He went undercover to break up drug rings in the late 1970s and was forced to flee the state for almost 20 years as a result of death threats. He became an investigative reporter for Sports Illustrated magazine, cracked the Pete Rose gambling scandal and co-wrote a book about the influence of money in the National Basketball Association.

"He was dogged, determined and pursued the objectives of whatever he was after with an intensity that was remarkable," said former attorney general Janet Reno. "He was just a very determined person who understood human nature and was tremendous. I found him to be really committed to civil liberties."

In his most famous case, Mr. Dardis was tipped off to a Miami bank's role in the June 1972 burglary of the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee. By tracing the sequentially numbered $100 bills found in the burglars' pockets, he learned that one accused burglar, Bernard Barker of Miami, had deposited a check endorsed by Kenneth H. Dahlberg, he told then-Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein.

Dahlberg, the Midwest finance chairman for the 1972 Nixon reelection campaign, subsequently told Post reporter Bob Woodward that the check came from campaign contributions and that he didn't know how Baker had gotten it; Dahlberg had given the check to either the national committee's chief fundraiser or its treasurer.

That was the first big break in what came to be known as the Watergate scandal.

Mr. Dardis didn't like how he was portrayed in Woodward and Bernstein's book, "All the President's Men," or in the subsequent movie, in which his character was played by actor Ned Beatty. Mr. Dardis complained that the movie made him look like a buffoon -- and a badly dressed one, at that.

At the 20th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, Mr. Dardis told the Miami Herald: "I was a guy who always thought my country could do no wrong. But I have been suspicious of federal agencies ever since. I can't help it. To this day it bothers me. I was embarrassed for the country."

He was born in Endicott, N.Y., and, with an eighth-grade education, left home to ride the rails. The 16-year-old lied about his age to enlist in the Army and spent the next eight years at war. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge and rescued one American flier from behind enemy lines. The pilot, who mistook him for a German and almost shot him, was none other than Kenneth H. Dahlberg, who became the Republican fundraiser from Minnesota.

Mr. Dardis and his companions, pinned down on their half-track trucks along the Arlon-Bastogne road and under bombardment, shot down two German planes with 37mm cannons and 50-caliber machine guns. By the time they got back to headquarters, they had missed the awarding of Silver Stars. Mr. Dardis rectified that 46 years later, when the evidence he painstakingly collected and presented to the Pentagon resulted in Silver Stars for the members of his unit. The award guarantees his burial in Arlington National Cemetery. He also was awarded a Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts.

After the war, he worked as a police officer in New York and Florida until going to work for the Florida attorney general in the 1960s. He moved to the Dade County state attorney's office in the mid-1960s.

His work was central in prosecuting the most outrageous criminal conduct during a period of deadly crime sprees. Edward Carhart, the principal deputy prosecutor in the state attorney's office at the time, called Mr. Dardis "the world's greatest investigator."

In the late 1970s, he went undercover, posing as a crooked cop in a cigarette smuggling operation. One thing led to another, and the case ended up bringing down a drug ring with annual sales of $500 million. Threats that the experienced investigator judged credible drove him and his family out of Miami, all the way to Upstate New York and his hometown of Endicott.

He worked for Sports Illustrated from about 1980 until last year. He co-wrote "Money Players: Days and Nights Inside the New NBA" (1997), a book that revealed players with gambling debts, point-shaving scandals and the effect of big money on the sport. He returned to live in South Florida in 1997.

Three of his marriages ended in divorce. Survivors include his wife of 42 years, Barbara Dardis of Palm City, Fla.; and six children.

As Mr. Dardis aged, he began to think more about the war and the small town where he was born. One of his daughters, Erin Dardis of Miami, said he spent years raising money to build a monument in Endicott for those killed in U.S. wars.

"It was so much work, so much effort. He really loved it for so long," she said. "It was one of his most favorite places in the world. He'd go stand there with a rag and clean it off until it shone."

Martin Dardis, 83, Watergate Investigator, Dies

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: May 20, 2006

PALM CITY, Fla., May 19 (AP) — Martin F. Dardis, chief investigator for the Dade County state attorney, who linked the Watergate burglars to President Richard M. Nixon, died here on Tuesday. He was 83.

The cause was vascular disease, said his daughter, Erin Dardis.

Mr. Dardis traced money found on the Watergate burglars to the Committee to Re-Elect the President. That discovery led to the uncovering of further misdeeds, which eventually forced Nixon to resign.

In 1972, Mr. Dardis was tipped off to a Miami bank's cash connection with the Watergate burglars and subpoenaed its records. He learned that one burglar, Bernard L. Barker, had worked with the Central Intelligence Agency during the Bay of Pigs and held an account with a recently deposited $25,000 check from a major Republican fund-raiser.

Bob Woodward, who reported on Watergate for The Washington Post, has called that check the "connective tissue" that linked the burglars to Nixon's re-election campaign.

Mr. Dardis later said he was misrepresented in Carl Bernstein's and Mr. Woodward's book and subsequent movie, "All The President's Men," in which he was portrayed by Ned Beatty. Mr. Dardis told The Miami Herald last year that the movie had made him seem like a shabbily dressed "buffoon."

Mr. Dardis, a high school dropout who lied about his age to join the Army at 16, was awarded a Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts and Silver Stars for gallantry after rescuing an American pilot in World War II.

All of the posts on this thread have one common denominator, despite the divergence of viewpoints regarding Fensterwald and his motivations, real or imagined usage of position, et al. We are all posting here because of the inherent belief that for the most part the investigators of 1963 didn't investigate as much as obfuscate......

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Robert, in your post immediately above this one, you quote a reference to CIA counsel, Anthony Lapham, which appeared originally in your post on the first page of this thread. Anthony Lapham, then just 31 years old, was not employed at CIA in 1967, so I doubt he is the relevant Lapham.

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40C13F83C5A0C768DDDA80994DE404482

By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Published: November 15, 2006

...In 1967, Mr. Lapham joined Shea & Gardner, and he became a partner three years later. He returned there after his C.I.A. tenure....

If my suspicion about the CIA's intent to confuse is valid, this adds to it, especially since it contains no attempt at clarity; there is no mention that Lewis H Lapham was sometimes mistaken for a former high ranking CIA official by the same name.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/arts/01lapham.html

Lewis H. Lapham in the office of Lapham's Quarterly, which is in space rented from The Nation.

By TIM ARANGO

Published: November 30, 2009

...Both Mr. Lapham’s journal and his manner suggest he is happy where he is. Over a dinner of steak and mashed potatoes and a glass of wine at Union Square Cafe, Mr. Lapham related the story of when, fresh from Yale, he applied for a job at the C.I.A., then a bastion of Ivy League elitism.

The first question he was asked in the interview was, “When standing on the 13th tee at the National Golf Links in Southampton, which club does one take from the bag?”

“They wanted to make sure you were the right sort,” Mr. Lapham recalled. He found the question off-putting and dropped his spy ambitions for journalistic ones (although he points out that he knew the right answer — a 7-iron).

Many years later, Mr. Lapham’s connections have come in handy, helping to generate donations for his current project. School ties run deep, and one donor is George LaBalme, who is older than Mr. Lapham and was several years ahead of him at Hotchkiss....

A reason I am wondering if it was confusion by intent is because Anthony and his brother, Lewis H Lapham of Harper's magazine, were so much more prominent and thus, mistaken for the relevant Lapham.

http://www.suzanmazur.com/?p=34

The CIA, Narcotics Underworld: Doug Valentine IV

August 19, 2007

Article – Suzan Mazur

Several years ago, when I was trying to make the distinction between Lewis Lapham, the Editor of Harper ‘s Magazine — whose roots are in an old San Francisco banking family — and Lewis Lapham, the Central Intelligence Agency’s man, I was directed Several years ago, when I was trying to make the distinction between Lewis Lapham, the Editor of Harper‘s Magazine — whose roots are in an old San Francisco banking family — and Lewis Lapham, the Central Intelligence Agency’s man, I was directed to author Doug Valentine by Lou Wolf, Editor of Covert Action Quarterly, who described Valentine as one of the most knowledgeable people on the CIA.

Valentine told me the two Laphams were not the same man. I was relieved. But in the next breath he said that Tony Lapham, Harper‘s Editor Lewis Lapham’s brother, had been both a covert CIA agent and General Counsel to the CIA, appointed in 1976 by then Director of Central Intelligence, George H.W. Bush. I was again concerned.

Lewis Lapham has since left Harper‘s to start his own publication....

It seems a similar attempt at confusing background and identity as this was.:

In a CIA document dated 23rd August, 1957, Priscilla Johnson McMillan was described as being born in Stockholm, Sweden, on 23rd September 1922. It also stated that during the Second World War she was "utilized by OSO (Office of Special Operations) in 1943 and 1944". John M. Newman has speculated that Johnson was being given a cover story of someone who had a "good security record".

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKjohnsonPR.htm

I came to know of this because of AJ Weberman's work.: (View it in "quick view", quick and easy...)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=On+April+10%2C+1958%2C+Cord+Meyer+and+Lewis+J.+Lapham+of+the+International&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

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...On January 25, 1957, Priscilla Johnson's Operational Approval was canceled when

(Deleted) SR/10 sent a Request For Cancellation of Approval to Chief, CI/OA: "SR/10

has no further interest in SAC. Please cancel." The next trace was a card: "Johnson,

Priscilla 3819 (deleted). Memo to CH/CI/SRS, February 25, 1957, p.1."

On April 10, 1958, Cord Meyer and Lewis J. Lapham of the International Organizations

Division sent this message to (deleted):

From wealthy, Long Island family. Excellent scholastic rating. Application

Kubark employment 1952 rejected because some associates and

memberships would have required more investigation than thought

worthwhile. Once member United World Federalists: Thought liberal,

'goofy, mixed-up' when applied Kubark employment. No headquarters

record prior Kubark use.

Louis Jay Lapham (born October 5, 1920) received a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1954.

When the above message was written, Lapham was in Paris, under State Department

cover. In 1967 Lapham went to Vietnam where he worked in OPERATION PHOENIX.

Lapham was the Director for Political Research of the CIA from 1974 to 1976, and

Assistant to the Deputy Director from 1977 to 1978....

Lewis Jay Lapham was station chief in Saigon during the Tet Offensive. I found this fascinating because

just weeks before, he must have hosted two visitors on a fact finding mission, Rep. GHW Bush and TJ Devine.

So, Anthony Lapham at age 31, would not have been CIA counsel meeting with Sidney Gottlieb in Jan., 1967, and I

suspect Lewis J. Lapham would have been too busy to attend that meeting, but it is possible.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&tbs=bks%3A1&q=lewis+lapham+pacification+cadre&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: Counterinsurgency and ... - Page 50

Mark Moyar - 2007 - 448 pages - Preview

Komer did share control over the CIA's pacification division — known as the RD Cadre division — with John Hart, the CIA station chief in Saigon, and he gave instructions to the division's head, Lewis ("Lew") Lapham, more often than did ..

This obit clears up much of the confusion, why don't journalists like Susan Mazur use it to do so?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&tbs=nws%3A1%2Car%3A1&q=cia+He+is+survived+by+his+wife+and+boyhood+sweetheart+Carol+Martens+Lapham&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

OBITUARIES

Pay-Per-View - Washington Post - Apr 16, 1999

Lewis J Lapham 78 who was the CIA's top officer chief of station in Vietnam ... He is survived by his wife and boyhood sweetheart Carol Martens Lapham a ...

On edit, I notice now that Valentine writes in his book, "The strength of the wolf: the secret history of America's war on drugs," that Anthony Lapham was an assistant to David Acheson in 1966, and is listed as an Asst. U.S. Attorney at that time. Valentine writes that Anthony Lapham "directed FBN agent Andrew Tartaglino to shut down a second MKULTRA safehouse on (105 West) 13th Street in New York. Valentine writes that Lapham was then a covert CIA agent. Valentine is the only source I can find for this. I doubt that an Asst. US Attorney could serve as a covert CIA agent simultaneously.

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The Fenster was a lobbyist for Hoffa and Organized Crime. Under the guise of protecting privacy rights etc he went after those who went after Hoffa and his flunkies. He worke for Long who was a Hoffa puppet. Later on his job was to cover up Ruby's connection to OC, Teamsters, Marcello etc. He was more dangerous than I first thought.

BERNARD FENSTERWALD

During 1975 "Bud" Fensterwald was this researcher’s major antagonist. He did all that he could to discredit my work. Bernard Fensterwald was born August 2, 1921, in Nashville, Tennessee, the son of a wealthy clothing merchant. In 1941 his mother, Blanche Fensterwald, was a delegate to the Southern Conference on Human Welfare, sponsored by the Southern Regional Council. According to Julius Mader, the CIA had used the Southern Regional Council in some unspecified manner during the 1960's. [FBI MURKIN 44-3886-4358; FBI WFO 62-112697-1] The NY Office of the FBI prepared a report on Blanche Fensterwald on August 24, 1956. She was mentioned in four other FBI files. In 1942 Bernard Fensterwald graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard. He served in the Navy in World War II, and received a degree from Harvard Law School in 1949. That year, Bernard Fensterwald was the Subject of an FBI applicant type investigation. Bernard Fensterwald entered the Georgetown University School of Advanced International Studies, a private institution, and received an M.A. in 1950.

FENSTERWALD AND SENATOR JOSEPH McCARTHY

From 1951 to 1956 Bernard Fensterwald worked for the State Department as an Assistant Legal Advisor. Bernard Fensterwald defended several State Department employees accused by Senator Joseph McCarthy of Communist affiliation. Some may have been CIA agents who used State Department cover. In 1953 Senator Joseph McCarthy led a Senate fight against the confirmation of intelligence community insider Charles E. Bohlen as Ambassador to the USSR. The attacks of Senator Joseph McCarthy on the CIA culminated on July 9, 1953, when his assistant, Roy M. Cohn, called the Agency and demanded that William Bundy, a Special Assistant to the Deputy Director of Intelligence, testify before Senator Joseph McCarthy's Committee. Allen Dulles refused to allow William Bundy to appear. When NIXON backed Allen Dulles, Senator Joseph McCarthy was defeated. William Bundy became head of the International Organization Division of the CIA, London CIA Chief of Station, and Assistant Deputy Director, (Plans) under CIA Director William Colby. [Winks Cloak & Gown p444] In 1958 Fensterwald wrote a paper entitled The Anatonmy Of American “Isolationism” and Expansionism Part I.

The author of this study is currently administrative assistant to a United States Senator. However research was begun in 1954 at Cambridge University where he was studying on a leave of absence from the Department of State. At that time he was an assistant to the department’s legal advisor. He is a graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Law School and the School of Advanced International Studies of John Hopkins University. [http://jcr.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/2/2/111]

SENATOR ESTES KEFAUVER

In 1956 Bernard Fensterwald worked for Senator Estes Kefauver (Dem.-TN) who had conducted televised hearings into the Mafia. Kefauver had called for the resignation of Mafia associate Morris Shenker from the Democratic National Committee. Shenker would get Fensterwald his next position in government and the possibility exists that Fensterwald was Shenker’s spy. Shenker also represented many OC figures when they had been called to testify by the Kefauver Committee. In 1956 Senator Kefauver accepted the Vice-Presidential nomination on the Adlai Stevenson ticket, but both were defeated by the re-election of Dwight Eisenhower.

In 1957, with his mother, Fensterwald visited the Soviet Union. In 1957 the FBI stated, "Fensterwald has gone out of his way to be helpful." On May 14, 1957, Fensterwald contacted Louis B. Nichols of the FBI. Senator Henning had been asked to introduce legislation to block the deportation of Pierre LaFitte. LaFitte was a hardcore international criminal who had been previously deported back to his native France. While awaiting deportation he turned snitch and testified against his cellmate. The Mafia had a contract out on him and it did not want him deported as that would make it harder to eliminate him. An unnamed FBI official reported:

I told Fensterwald that this, of course, was a matter for the Immigration Service and on a purely personal and confidential basis the Senator should be exceedingly cautious before he got out on a limb; that if he inquired into LaFittes background he would find an extensive record; and that under no circumstances would the Bureau support LaFitte. I told him officially, of course, we could not take a position but that, personally, we would hate to see some friend embarrassed and he should be very cautious. Fensterwald stated that was enough for him. (Paragraph deleted) [FBI 66-18621-269]

In March 1957 the FBI seized Hoffa in a plot to bribe a Senate Staff Aide on the Senate Select Committee on Labor and Management Practices. Robert Kennedy said the approach to the staff member had been made by attorney Hyman Fishbach. Fishbach had accused Senator Margret Chase Smith of Maine of harboring communist inclinations when he went after HOFFA in 1957. The Justice Department dropped the charges against Fishbach. In March 1961 Fishbach was injured when a bomb exploded as he turned on the ignition to his car. In 1959 Fensterwald was the Subject of another applicant-type inquiry conducted by the FBI. On March 12, 1961, Bernard Fensterwald replaced Paul Rand Dixon as an investigator for the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee headed by Senator Estes Kefauver. These hearings send several prominent electrical company executives to prison for price-fixing. Paul R. Dixon became head of the Federal Trade Commission. In 1961 Senator Estes Kefauver was investigating the drug industry. Hank Messick reported Senator Estes Kefauver fired Bernard Fensterwald. In May 1963 Kefauver was hospitalized in Bethesda Naval Hospital with a case of Asian influenza. On August 8, 1963 Kefauver was hospitalized at Bethesda with what was described as a mild heart attack. He first believed he was suffering from acute indigestion. Tests at the hospital disclosed the heart attack. He was ordered to get several weeks of bed rest, however his condition worsened and on August 10, 1963 – while waiting open-heart surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Kefauver died of a ruptured aorta which caused a massive hemorrhage. His body was taken home to Madisonville for burial and no autopsy was performed. The cause of death was listed as a dissecting aneurysm, or ballooning of the aorta. Was this a drug-induced myocardial infarction?

Circa 1967 Bernard Fensterwald left the State Department and was hired by Senator Thomas C. Hennings (Dem.-MO) as an investigator for the Senate Committee on Constitutional Rights. At this time the Democratic Party in Saint Louis, Missouri, was controlled by Morris Shenker, casino owner, Mafia house counsel and influence peddler at the highest levels of government. In 1951, when a Democratic Congressman from St. Louis Missouri died, the Republican opponent of the man the Democrats picked to run for his seat stated that her opponent had been handpicked by Morris Shenker. In 1954 Shenker had represented Truman pal Paul Dillon when Dillon was charged with not reporting income he received for facilitating the paroles of Mafia figures.

SHENKER AND HIS PUPPET EDWARD V. LONG

In 1960 Senator Thomas C. Hennings died of stomach cancer, and Edward Vaughan Long (born July 18, 1908) was appointed to take his place in Congress. Senator Edward V. Long was elected to a full six year term in 1962. Senator Edward V. Long was named Chairman of the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure in 1963. In the mid-1960’s Senator Edward V. Long was approached by Teamster Union boss James Hoffa, who was shopping for a congressional committee to investigate the tactics of United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Jimmy Hoffa was intent on retaliating against United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy for having exposed the connections of the Teamsters Union to organized crime, and for having indicted him on wiretapped evidence. Senator Long agreed to take up Jimmy Hoffa’s fight against Robert F. Kennedy’s alleged violations of civil liberties – for a price. Senator Edward V. Long was connected to Jimmy Hoffa through Attorney Morris Shenker, who worked on a five-figure retainer for Jimmy Hoffa. Senator Edward V. Long had received $48,000 from Morris Shenker for having referred Jimmy Hoffa to him. Senator Edward V. Long admitted living in the same Washington, D.C., apartment building as Jimmy Hoffa and said he had met him on several occasions.

Senator Long selected Bernard Fensterwald as his Chief Counsel. Bernard Fensterwald was described as a heavy John F. Kennedy financial supporter who harbored a grudge against the Kennedys for having failed to give him the Ambassadorial post he had coveted. [William Lambert Life 5.26.67] Long and Fensterwald represented the interests of Organized Crime in the United States Senate. Long could not submit a bill that would legalize loan sharking, prostitution etc but under the guise of protecting “civil rights” he could go after the politicians and law enforcement officials who were going after the Teamsters and their brothers in the Mafia. Bernard Fensterwald even had the nerve to demand the FBI reveal the names of organized crime figures who were the Subjects of mail covers. Life Magazine reported:

Three days later in Washington under the guise of getting urgent information for some future public hearings Chief Counsel Fensterwald began an unusual series of interviews of Justice Department lawyers and Carmine Bufalino case defendants. The transcripts of these secret interviews, which were never made public, begin with the statement that ‘the Subcommittee met, pursuant to notice…Bernard Fensterwald Jr. Chief Counsel for the Subcommittee presiding’ because no Senator was present. Notwithstanding Fensterwald’s effort to give these sessions the appearance of an official proceeding, the interrogation could not be conducted under oath. Fensterwald for that matter could not ‘preside’ at a session of the committee. That is a privilege reserved for Senators. It was apparent from Fensterwald’s questions that he had access to testimony taken in William Bufalino’s Detroit lawsuit, and that his aim was to try to link Detroit police to the IRS, thence to Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the Justice Department, as parties to a wiretapping conspiracy against Hoffa. The parade of witnesses included William Hundley, former Chief of the Organized Crime Section, plus several lawyers still working in the section; a former Justice Department lawyer who was hostile to Robert Kennedy, and several Detroit area law enforcement officials. [LIFE – May 26, 1967]

William Bufalino was an OC house counsel who represented HOFFA. Bufalino’s complaint contained two counts. The first count set forth a claim for damages in the amount of $1,550,000, alleging that defendants tapped the telephone line serving plaintiff’s residence and intercepted and divulged the contents of telephone calls of plaintiff, his wife and children, and also alleged that plaintiff’s private, confidential and privileged conversations and communications with his clients were invaded, thereby causing serious harm to him in his profession as a lawyer and to the offices which he held. The second count was for damages in the amount of $2,100,000, alleging a conspiracy to tap plaintiff’s telephone lines and intercept and divulge the contents of telephone calls in violation of his contractual rights and his right to privacy. After Hoffa’s disappearance from a parking lot in a Detroit suburb, Mr. Bufalino said he believed the union leader had been involved in an effort by the Central Intelligence Agency to arrange for American members of the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro, the Cuban President. Under Mr. Bufalino’s theory, Mr. Hoffa was killed to prevent him from disclosing anything about the alleged plot.

The Life Magazine article determined that Senator Long and his Chief Counsel Bernard “Bud” Fensterwald was strongly influenced to take up the investigations of Federal snooping by friends who were high in the teamsters union. The hearings conducted by Fensterwald “blunted the Justice Department’s Organized Crime Drive by discrediting its participating governmental agencies; in particular the IRS.” The article also stated that Senator Long had misused his investigating subcommittee – first as an instrument of for trying to keep Jimmy Hoffa out of prison; subsequently for trying to get Hoffa’s conviction reversed.

Mr. Fensterwald said Life Magazine had not established any connection between the wiretapping investigation and the efforts by Hoffa and his counsel to keep the teamster leader out of jail or get a reversal of his conviction. Mr. Fensterwald also intimated that the information about the referral fees had been leaked to Life Magazine by the IRS, which has been a principal object of Long’s inquiring. Fensterwald claimed, “We have tried to stay out of all cases in litigation. We have stayed religiously clear of the Hoffa case.

[COUNSEL DEFENDS MOTIVES OF LONG; Denies Wiretap Inquiry Was Designed to Help Hoffa Close Friend of Senator Dirksen Rarely at Sessions By E. W. KENWORTHY Special to The New York Times May 22, 1967]

Fensterwald accused Robert Kennedy of having planted an article in Life Magazine about Hoffa thereby trying Hoffa through the media. RFK had put Life Magazine in touch with Baron, a disgruntled Teamster. According to Robert Kennedy “There was a connection between Mr. Sam Baron and Life Magazine over whichI had no control and which was only to be published in case Mr. Baron was killed.”

Fensterwald observed that there was nothing in the document describing plans for a possible article in Life to indicate that the article was to be published only in case of Mr. Baron’s death. ‘The article at that stage’ Mr. Fensterwald said, ‘had not been written. This was an arrangement whereby I understand it; you were putting what would normally be described as ‘a fink’ in touch with Time Life to write a magazine article?” Normally described as what?’ Mr. Kennedy asked. “Fink F-I-N-K” Mr Fensterwald said spelling the word. “A stool pigeon. Does that word strike a chord?” “I thought it was a citizen who was reporting information and evidence in connection with illegal activities.” The Senator said. “Let me say” Mr. Kennedy resumed, “I am shocked to hear that. I think there have been a lot of loyal people, if I may say Mr. Counsel that provided information to the United States Government in connection with Communist activities, underworld activities, narcotics activities at great risk to their own lives and I that is that has been very, very helpful to the United States. And it is also you position Sir” Mr. Fensterwald went on, “that it is proper for an attorney General to take sure people, even when a case is under investigation and indictment, and attempt to see that their testimony is printed in the public press rather than being taken in court.” That is not the way it was done, Mr. Counsel” the Senator replied, “I never did anything like that.”

It was true that the Internal Revenue Service had leaked word of Morris Shenker’s payment to Senator Edward V. Long to William Lambert of Life magazine. In the mid-1960s, Florida Governor Claude Kirk commissioned Wackenhut to help fight the “war on organized crime”; this $500,000 contract lasted about a year and led to more than 80 criminal indictments, including many local politicians and government employees. Kirk was asked by Bernard Fensterwald about the possibility of a security risk or a conflict. Fensterwald also subpoenaed Post Office officials and questioned them about the use of mail covers and peep hole that allowed postal office personnel to read letters without opening them.In January 1975 Bernard Fensterwald testified on behalf of Morris Shenker at a Hearing of the Gaming Control Board in Nevada.

The FBI stated:

A review of Bureau file reveals no information directly connecting Senator Long with the leadership of La Cosa Nostra or other top racket figures. A review of data regarding certain of Long’s legal clients “shared” with Shenker, who has represented Teamster boss James Hoffa and who is described as being connected with various racket figures, shows connections with the hoodlum element and activities of questionable legality. [FBI 92-6054-2227]

In 1967 Senator Edward V. Long was called before the Senate Ethics Committee and questioned about his connections to Jimmy Hoffa. In 1967 Frederick Praeger published The Intruders by Senator Edward V. Long. The book was dedicated to Fensterwald. Senator Edward V. Long was forced to resign in December 1968. The government service of Bernard Fensterwald ended with the downfall of Senator Edward V. Long. [FBI WFO 112697-1; NYT 3.28.73] In November 1971 Fensterwald stated that the FBI “was lax in investigating organized crime because many Congressmen had connections with the mafia.” [62-113904-40]

Fensterwald was a disgruntled Kennedy supporter who was going to settle his vendetta with the Kennedy’s by hooking up with James Riddle Hoffa. I thought Fensterwald was working for the CIA but I was wrong. He was working for the mob AND the CIA. By 1966 the CIA had an interest in protecting certain members of organized crime, since the CIA worked with them in anti-Castro plotting. Whenever the CIA had an interest in something, such as McCarthy going after CIA agents under State Department cover, Fensterwald was on the scene.

Senator Edward V. Long planned to call Robert Maheu to testify about invasions of privacy by private investigators. The CIA feared that its involvement with Robert Maheu and Johnny Rosselli would have surfaced during these hearings. The CIA reported:

Upon notification for appearance before the Subcommittee, Mr. Maheu contacted his attorney, Edward Morgan of Washington, D.C. Mr. Morgan in turned contacted Mr. Morris Shenker, an attorney in Saint Louis, Missouri, who personally knows Senator Edward V. Long. It is reported that a meeting was arranged to discuss the appearance of Mr. Maheu before the Subcommittee which meeting was attended by Senator Long, his staff assistant Mr. Bernard Fensterwald (who is performing the staff work for the Subcommittee hearings) Mr. Morgan and Mr. Shenker.

On June 6, 1966, Robert Maheu told CIA’s Director of Assistant Deputy Director of Security, (IOS) James P. O’Connell, that he got

…the impression from Morgan, who is still dealing with the Saint Louis attorney [shenker], a personal friend of Senator Long, that the Committee has done some additional checking, and earlier information regarding Maheu’s activities may not be as solid as earlier believed. I next asked Robert Maheu if Bernard Fensterwald had actually identified Sam Giancana, Onassis, Niarchus etc. by name as he had previously indicated to Colonel Sheffield Edwards and myself. He replied in the affirmative, and speculated that this convinced him someone has been ‘talking.’ He conjectured that several people knew about the bug on Onassis’s New York office, including Taggart who, to date, has not contacted him. John Frank, former CIA employee, and a John Geraghty (phonetic), a free lance newspaperman who was employed by him at the time. In the case of Sam, Ed Dubois and a couple of his technicians were aware of Maheu’s tie-in with Giancanna. While Bob [Robert Maheu] was not identified in the press as being involved, he was definitely linked as a result of the technicians identified in the press as being involved, he was definitely linked as a result of the technician, who, when arrested and detained at the Sheriff’s office in Las Vegas, failing to locate Dubois, telephoned Maheu directly at the Kennelworth Hotel, Miami Beach, in the presence of Sheriff’s personnel, to advise him of his compromise. According to Maheu, neither Dubois nor his employees, were aware of the true relationship between Maheu and Sam.

The CIA then reported:

According to Maheu, Shenker has some strong hold on Senator Long and also has Bernard Fensterwald indebted to him as he got Fensterwald his job...Maheu claims that this case could be “closed-up” if we merely approach Senator Long, and say that the questioning of Maheu might be harmful to the national security. He implies that while Senator Long has agreed not to call him, the Senator is looking for something on which to base this decision and our approach would be sufficient to clinch the situation.

The CIA felt “...Fensterwald will approach us about any problem areas from our point of view.” [CIA Memo DD/CIA from Houston 6.21.66] The CIA reported:

In 1966 information was received by the Agency indicating that the Senate Administrative Practices Subcommittee, under the chairmanship of Senator Edward Long, had advised Maheu that his testimony was desired concerning his relationship with Onassis, Savros Niarchos, Sam Giancanna and (Deleted as of 2010). The Subcommittee interest was invasion of privacy and particularly the use of audio devices by private investigators. In July 1966, Senator Long was alerted to the fact that the Agency had had sensitive operational contacts with Maheu. Senator Long was told that the Agency had used Maheu over the years, on a number of occasions, but that he never had been asked to engage in any wiretapping and had never engaged in any such activities on our behalf. Office of Security files do not indicate whether or not Maheu did appear before this Subcommittee, although it appears that he did not.

Robert Maheu never testified. The subcommittee held widely publicized hearings and damaged Robert F. Kennedy, but not the CIA. The CIA compiled a dossier on Senator Edward V. Long. [NYT 1.17.75 p9] Maheu died August 6, 2008 at age 90.

THE DEATH OF EDWARD LONG

On November 6, 1972, ex-Senator Edward V. Long died. Thomas Osborn, prosecuting attorney of Audrain County, who has been appointed a special investigator in the Long case said that Miss Helen Dunlop [Long’s mistress and secretary] had not told authorities about Mr. Long’s proported statement on being poisoned until early April 1973. She told him that a box of candy had arrived at Mr. Long’s estate called Brookville Farm in Clarksville, Mo. November 2, 1973 and that she had typed a letter of thanks to an unidentified suburban man whose business card accompanied the box. Miss Dunlop, who is 46, told investigators she later saw the box opened at the Brookville Home November 5 when she visited the Senator. On November 6, 1973 she said, she was notified that the Senator was ill and went to Brookville, where Mr. Long complained that the candy tasted bitter and that he thought he had been poisoned because his arms and legs felt numb. A few hours later, before a physician could arrive Mr. Long was dead. The candy was never recovered. The man whose name was on the business card said he had not been associated with the business noted on the card when the candy was send and has denied sending it to Mr. Long. He was not identified by authorites. (NYT April 21, 1973) In April 1973 the body of Edward V. Long was exhumed. The only identifiable substances found in his stomach were parts of an undigested apple. [NYT 5.3.73] Judging from his past associations Long very well might have been poisoned by an untraceable poison. If this was the case it was the CIA, not the mob.

THE COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE ASSASSINATIONS

In January 1969, two months after having left Senator Edward V. Long’s “Get Robert F. Kennedy Subcommittee,” Bernard Fensterwald founded the Committee To Investigate Assassinations, which was allegedly dedicated to finding the real assassins of John F. Kennedy. ANGLETON’S Deputy, James Hunt, asked the FBI for more information on the Committee To Investigate Assassinations. [FBI 62-19060-6681] The CIA:

Our records show that Richard Sprague, a management consultant and photographic researcher, appeared in a New York Times article of May 24, 1968, in which he claimed that within an hour of the assassination of President Kennedy three men may have been pulled off freight cars in a railroad yard near Dealey Plaza. We have no further identifiable record of him.

The Committee to Investigate Assassinations was formed by Fensterwald and Sprague, not to reveal the truth about the Kennedy assassination, but to suppress it. Many of JACK RUBY’S CALLS A lot of researchers like Jim Lesar, Kevin Walsch and others were fooled by Fensterwald and worked with him and were influenced by him.

BERNARD FENSTERWALD AND JAMES EARL RAY

In March 1969 Fensterwald told the press that the CHRIST tramp, who he called Frenchy resembled the sketch of Ray’s “Raoul.”

JFK, KING DEATH LINK IS CLAIMED

(Washington UPI) A private committee contends it has found a link between the slaying of JFK and MLK Jr. Bernard Fensterwald Jr. told a news conference Monday the alleged link is a picture taken of in Dallas an hour after Kennedy was shot. The photograph is a blown-up shot of a man supposedly being arrested in Dealey Plaza in Dallas. Fensterwald exhibited the photograph and said the man pictured strongly resembled a police sketch made in Memphis from accounts of eyewitnesses to the King assassination.

In a Ramparts Magazine article written in 1968 William Turner had pointed out the resemblance between the CHRIST tramp and the MLK assailant sketch. Fensterwald was going to overshadow Turner so that he would be sure that anyone with further information would approach him and not Turner.

In the spring of 1970 James Earl Ray hired Bernard Fensterwald as his attorney; he fired him in 1976. In June 1974 Bernard Fensterwald filed a motion to grant James Earl Ray a new trial on the basis of alleged collusion between William Bradford Huie and the former attorneys of James Earl Ray. Bernard Fensterwald was involved with a lot of bogus activity surrounding the King assassination. In September 1974, Robert Livingston, a Memphis lawyer and Special Deputy Sheriff, held a press conference at which he announced: “There were three gunmen, one from the underworld who is now serving a sentence in a Canadian prison and proposes to testify to give a complete expose of the King murder case and to give names and telephone numbers of the four...wealthy, socially prominent Americans...one black...who hired him...for $100,000 to kill King.”

Robert Livingston contacted Memphis attorney Russell X. Thompson and asked him to represent these hired killers, who agreed to testify if they were granted complete immunity. Russell X. Thompson was known as a liberal, and represented the NAACP. Russell X. Thompson received a phone call from one of the alleged gunman who wanted $3000 to come to Memphis.

Bernard Fensterwald and Robert Livingston allegedly met one of the gun man in Detroit, then took him to Tennessee to see James Earl Ray. James Earl Ray refused to speak with him and the “hired gun men” story proved false. Priscilla Johnson’s former husband, George McMillan, believed he knew the identity of one of the hired gun men. George McMillan did a book on the Martin Luther King killing, Portrait of an Assassin. “I have always believed that James Earl Ray did it alone” said George McMillan. In 1994 James Earl Ray became suspicious of Bernard Fensterwald:

When he first started representing me he appeared very diligent; however, after he obtained the evidentiary hearing in the Memphis Federal Court he appeared to become very defensive in prosecuting the matter. He wouldn’t permit his associate, Jim Lesar, to ask certain witnesses questions. Lesar’s intentions were okay but he did not have the experience to brief a H.C. case. After the evidentiary hearing in Memphis, Fensterwald asked me to let Lesar file the briefs to the 6th circuit and argue them at the hearing. At that time Lesar was young and not a cr. Attorney. The next time I saw Fensterwald was 15 years later (1990), I think, in Brushy Mountain prison. He showed me a picture along with some information about a dude named Smith...Fensterwald asked if Smith was Raoul. Now Smith was an Anglo and I assumed he spoke with a Texas accent, i.e. he had very little in common with Raoul. About three months ago I filed an FOIA request with the FBI/JD asking for Fensterwald’s private files. [ltr.from Ray to AJW 8.31.94, 5.4.94; MURKIN FBI 44-38861-5955, 5950, 5957, 5948, 5947]

In 1983 an administrative law judge ruled that the 22 members of a disbanded Navy intelligence unit that spied on maritime operations around the world were government employees even though they had signed contracts with front corporations set up to cloack their naval ties. They Navy had argued that the former spies were ineligible for normal civil service benefits. Fensterwald won the case.

JAMES McCORD AND FENSTERWALD

On May 24, 1972, JAMES W. McCORD retained Bernard Fensterwald as his counsel in Watergate. After he was arrested at Watergate, McCORD was going to blame the break-in on the CIA, but McCORD changed his mind. McCORD stated:

I have released Gerald Alch as my defense attorney in the Watergate case [and hired Bernard Fensterwald who put up $40,000 bail for McCORD]. In a meeting recently in which our defense plans for Watergate trial were discussed, Alch persisted in a proposal that I claim the Watergate operation was a CIA operation. That is flatly untrue, and when I rejected it, he then went on to make a second proposal. The second proposal then was that I claim that the four Cubans and I cooked up the bugging operation on our own. This was also untrue. [Ervin Hearings p3444]

GERALD ALCH

Gerald Alch denied McCORD'S charges. He said that McCORD'S statement that he told McCORD that his CIA records could be altered to support the claim Watergate was a CIA operation was also false. Gerald Alch, a former associate of F. Lee Bailey who is now a judge in Massachusetts, testified to the Senate Select Committee on Illegal Campaign Activities: "Bernard Fensterwald said to McCORD, 'The reporters have been asking me whether or not you or I had ever had any past relationship? I told him that we had...Well, after all, you have in the past submitted me checks which were donations to the Committee To Investigate Assassinations.' McCORD smiled and said 'That's right.'"

McCORD ASSOCIATES

The Committee To Investigate Assassinations was funded by McCORD ASSOCIATES, which for all practical purposes, was a CIA proprietary. The CIA reported that U.S. Attorney Earl Silbert

…is aware that Ralph True was going to go to work for McCORD. [He] would like to know of any other individuals who possibly had been talked to by McCORD when looking toward employment.

The CIA listed 12 former CIA employees who had applied to McCORD ASSOCIATES for work:

(1) William Francis Shea. Entered On Duty 1951, Office of Strategic Research, DDI Intelligence Officer at the time of his resignation. He had (deleted as of 2010) resigned in lieu of termination and may not be to favorably disposed toward the Agency. As previously indicated, his wife, Therese Mae Shea, works as a secretary at McCord Associates. The Office of Personnel referred Mr. Shea to McCORD Associates in 1971, and Dr. Edward M. Gunn indicated that Mr. Shea is affiliated with the Institute for Protection and Safety Studies, Inc.

(2) Therese Mae Shea. Entered on duty at the CIA in 1948. Wife of William Francis Shea. Hired by McCORD as secretary.

(3) James Corbin Fitchett. Entered On Duty 1951. Was supposed to be hired June 30, 1972, to work with the Committee to Re-elect President NIXON.

(4) Ross Ward Lambert a former OSS employee, served with the Agency from January 11, 1965, to August 9, 1971, and was a GS-13, Contract Employee assigned to the Special Operations Division/DDP, at the time of his resignation. Mr. Lambert served extensively in the Far East Division overseas posts, and there was a previous security interest in the case because of his daughter’s involvement in activities of the Students for a Democratic Society, SDS. The Office of Personnel referred Mr. Lambert to McCord Associates but he took a job elsewhere.

(5) Louis Edgar Sherrad. Served with the Agency from July 2, 1952, until January 31, 1969, when he resigned. Security Officer assigned to the Security Research Staff. Background centers on industrial and physical security.

(6) Ralph Orlando True. Entered On Duty 1950. Still Agency employed. Ralph Orlando True was also supposed to retire on June 30, 1972, and join McCORD ASSOCIATES.

(7) Dr. Edward Mansfield Gunn. Entered On Duty 1955. Served with the Agency until May 31, 1971, and was a GS-17, Deputy Director of Medical Services, at the time of his retirement. Dr. Gunn was interviewed by an Office of Security representative on June 19, 1972, and discussed in some detail his involvement with the Institute for Protection and Safety Studies, Inc. which is affiliated with McCORD Associates and occupies space in the same offices. Hired.

(8) Dr. Jacob Victor Golder. Former GS-15, Chief of Psychological Services Staff/Office of Medical Services.

(9) Harry Thayer Mahoney. Entered On Duty 1951. In 1972 he was a GS-14 Operations Officer assigned to Western Hemisphere Division/DDP. He had been acquainted with HOWARD HUNT and McCORD through the years. In 1976 Harry T. Mahoney worked for the Burns International Investigation Bureau. Mahoney had written CIA Agent David McLean a letter mentioning FRANK STURGIS. [Harry Mahoney 1110 Shady Lane, Wheaton, Il. 60187 AFIO 1994; Counterspy Spring 1976]

(10) James Louis Baker served with the Agency from July 2, 1952 until June 24, 1972 when his contract was allowed to expire. Mr. Baker, a GS-12. Operations Officer assigned to Special Operations Division/DDP, was in Saigon, South Vietnam from April 1968 to July 24, 1971 when he was returned to Headquarters because of serious (deleted) problems involving his wife. Divorce proceedings continued through early 1972, and his case has been monitored by the Office of Personnel. Subject was referred to McCord Associates by the Office of Personnel, but he acquired a position with the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs effective as of June 26, 1972. His application may possibly be on file at McCord Associates.

(11) George Theodore Stanton. Served with the Agency from August 4, 1947, to January 8, 1972, and was a GS-14, Operations Officer, assigned to the Counter-Intelligence Staff/DDP. Dr. Gunn indicated that Mr. Stanton has been serving as a consultant to the Institute for Protection and Safety Studies, Inc.

(12) Walter Edward Brayden. Entered On Duty 1947. Hired. Intelligence Officer, DD/P. In April 1972, he served as guard for Mrs. Martha Mitchell on a trip to Chicago.

The CIA reported that McCORD

…gave him his expense account money in ten new one hundred dollar bills. McCORD wanted Braydon to carry a gun, and when Braydon showed reluctance McCORD told him it was OK since he was working to the Attorney General of the U.S. O'Malley also said that Brayden performed security sweeps of the office of the Committee to Re-elect the President. [CIA Memo For: DD/Pers/SP Subject: Meeting with Frank O'Malley]

Shea gave up eavesdropping and in 1980 wrote “The role and function of technology in American popular music, 1945-1964.” Mr. Fitchett holds an M.A. in government from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and an A. B. in political science from the American University in Washington, D.C. He is a former Trustee and Chairman of the Board of the Boston Society for Information Management. Mr. Fitchett often speaks at national conferences and has published in health care journals and texts. Ross Ward Lambert was an expert on computer enhancement of sound and computer voice recognition. In April 1947 Ralph Orlando True, Jr., was an OSS agent and assistant attaché in Greece working under Thomas Karamessines. Doctor Gunn was hired by McCord Associates to poison people! Harry Thayer Mahoney was a retired CIA agent and author of numerous books chronicling espionage and documenting the lives of Communists like Leon Trotsky. Harry was a CIA historian. George Stanton wrote "Defense Against Communist Interrogation Organizations." [studies in Intelligence 13, no. 4 (Fall 1969)]

THE DEATH OF MARTHA MITCHELL

AJ WEBERMAN TURNS MARTHA MITCHELL ON TO

THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE JFK HIT AND WATERGATE

Martha Mitchell died on June 1, 1976. She was 57. Her physician, Dr. Klaus Mayer, attributed her death to multiple myeloma, a rare type of malignancy that attacked bone marrow, complicated by hemorrhage and terminal bronchial pneumonia. Martha Mitchell was unconscious as a result of a heart attack. In 1994 Dr. Klaus Mayer stated: "There was nothing suspicious about her death. She had a not-so-rare type malignancy which is almost always fatal, and in her case, it was. She was bleeding from the G.I. tract, but that's not so unusual either. She drank a fair amount. Her illness was complicated by hemorrhage and terminal bronchial pneumonia because she was on cortisone-like drugs which provoke that sort of thing. She had an autopsy. When we saw her she was slowly, but surely, going to die of a disease that everybody I've ever known would die of. She was being treated for bone marrow cancer before I saw her. That was a straight forward disease. There is no way of giving it, or inducing it. Not even radiation. What is interesting is how she was treated in California after she squealed on the NIXON administration. She claimed, and I have no evidence to work on, things like that may have occurred before she suspected it. But not for a period of time. No one got near her at the hospital or at home. She was in the advanced stages of a malignant disease."

Most of the applicants referred to McCORD ASSOCIATES by the CIA were hired. What they were to do for McCORD ASSOCIATES remained a mystery. McCORD knew CHRIST and ANGLETON. McCORD might have been in Dealey Plaza disguised as a Secret Service agent. He looked the part. Why had he supported an organization like the Committee To Investigate Assassinations which was supposed to uncover his crime?

McCORD, LOUIS RUSSELL AND FENSTERWALD

Louis Russell was the intermediary between McCORD ASSOCIATES and Bernard Fensterwald. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Louis Russell was the son of an FBI Agent. In 1937 he joined the Bureau, and worked there until 1944, when he was forced to leave because of alcoholism. From 1945 to 1954, Louis Russell worked as an investigator for the House Un-American Activities Committee and became its Chief Investigator in 1949. Louis Russell worked with NIXON on the Alger Hiss case. In 1954 he was fired for drinking, but was reinstated by Senator James O. Eastland (Dem.-MS), and remained with the House Un-American Activities Committee until 1966. In January 1972 Louis Russell met with JAMES McCORD, and was hired by the Committee to Re-elect President NIXON and by McCORD ASSOCIATES and by Fensterwald’s COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE ASSASSINATIONS. [FBI DC 139-166 rel. 6.27.72] Louis Russell was interviewed by Special Agents of the FBI on June 29, 1972:

He does not recall ever receiving a phone call on April 25, 1972, from McCord Associates to the phone number 234-9746 which is the pay telephone located in the hall of the rooming house where he resides. He advised that he does know JAMES McCORD of McCORD Associates and that he is employed by JAMES McCORD. He stated that the phone call could have been taken by any of the tenants living in the rooming house...He first met JAMES McCORD in January or February 1972 at Scholls Restaurant in Washington, D.C. at which time McCORD asked him to work for him as an investigator for the National Committee to Re-elect the President. He stated that McCORD said he was recommended to by someone, whose name he did not disclose. Russell advised that this is probably correct as he has done investigative work in an around Washington, D.C. for some time. He said his first job was to do a background check on a female, name 'Jane' (LNU) who was in the employ of the National Committee to Re-elect the President. He said for that job he received $40 paid by check in advance by McCORD. His next job was a background check on a male 'hippie' messenger for the National Committee to Re-elect the President. He said for that for this job he received $25. He advised he was also asked to check out a magazine by the title of The Sociables and a woman by the name of Rita Gerin. He gave written reports to McCORD on all the above cases. On June 1, 1972, McCORD put him on retainer of $710 per month to continue until the Presidential Election was over with the purpose of investigating Jack Anderson to determine the source of Anderson's information. He furnished McCORD with one report on Anderson for which he received $75. He stated that he worked this case solely during the month of June but that now that the 'Democratic Committee Bugging Incident Occurred' he does not know if he will still be employed by McCORD. He advised that he also worked for McCORD as a security guard at 1701 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C. for about two weeks prior to being put on retainer by McCORD. He said that it was his understanding he was employed by the National Committee to Re-elect the President and was hired by JAMES McCORD. His checks were drawn on the Maryland National Bank on the account of Mr. and Mrs. James McCORD or McCORD Associates. He couldn't remember which.

He said that he saw JAMES and Mrs. McCORD last night at their home, but that they did not discuss the break-in of the Democratic National Headquarters, nor did McCORD give any information as to Russell's current employment status with the National Committee to Re-elect the President. As far as the Anderson investigation was concerned Russell stated that he was never told what person, or persons, in the National Committee to Re-elect the President was interested or requested the Anderson investigation.

Russell advised that his background concerning investigative work started in 1937 when he was a Special Agent for the FBI. He was employed by the FBI from June 1937 until 1944, when he left the FBI because of personal reasons; i.e. first wife committing suicide and his becoming a heavy drinker. He stated that most of his work in the FBI was in the Washington, D.C. area. After 1944 he worked in many varied jobs and found work wherever he could. From 1945 until 1954 he worked as an investigator for the House Committee on Un-American Activities and was fired in 1954 for drinking, but was reinstated in 1957 by Francis B. Walter. He stayed with the House Committee on Un-American Activities until 1967. Since that time he has worked varied jobs, but mainly doing investigations and background checks for clients. He admitted that at one time he was an alcoholic, and a member of Alcoholic's Anonymous. He ran a home for Alcoholics Anonymous from February 1969 to 1970. He stated that his name has appeared in the following books: Six Crisis by RICHARD NIXON, The Committee by Walter Goodman and The Witness by Whitaker Chambers.

The Senate Select Committee on Illegal Campaign Practices stated in its Minority Report:

The Committee did review evidence of a potential link between JAMES MCCORD and the security guard force [of the Watergate Hotel] in the person of Mr. Louis Russell as follows. On June 8, 1973, Mr. F. Kelly Chamberlain, ex-Vice President of General Security Services, Inc. (In charge of the Watergate security force), advised the staff the Mr. L. J. Russell did 'piece work' for that organization between December 1971 and March 1972. Chamberlain stated that Russell's work had no relation to the Watergate complex and that he had no knowledge of any acquaintance between Russell and Frank Willis, the guard who reported the possibility of illegal entry on June 17, 1972, to the police...The Louis Russell referred to by Mr. Chamberlain is the same person employed by JAMES MCCORD on June 16, 1972, through June 17, 1972. Russell advised the staff that he had worked for General Security as late as January 1972, but that he did not know Frank Willis...Russell stated that he never met any Watergate figures other than MCCORD; was not aware of MCCORD'S Watergate-related plans or activities until learning of the arrests in the newspapers on June 18, 1972. Russell did state that he had eaten at the Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge across from the Watergate on the night of June 16, 1972, but that his presence there on the eve of the break-in was merely coincidental...On July 3, 1972, Russell told the FBI that he had eaten at the Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge between 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on June 16, 1972, because he had fond memories of that restaurant. Russell asserted he did not see McCORD while he was at Howard Johnson's and was able to identify photographs of Baldwin and HUNT, but he could not remember where he had seen them. On May 9, 1973, Russell advised the Chief Counsel of this Committee that he maintained no bank account prior to 1969 and could produce no statements for the Committee. Mr. William Birely advised the Committee on August 27, 1973, that he had known Russell for approximately two years and that he employed Russell as a researcher on a part-time basis and rented Russell quarters adjacent to his office space. He described Russell as a Democrat who was extremely critical of President NIXON. Louis James Russell died on July 2, 1973, without being re-interviewed by the staff.

On July 2, 1973, about a month after Judge Gerald Alch testified about McCORD'S connection to Fensterwald, Louis Russell, 61, was found dead of a heart attack in the home of his daughter in Maryland. He had previously been in Washington Adventist Hospital, but had been released about ten days before he died. He was never questioned by the Senate Select Committee on Illegal Campaign Activities. The request of Alger Hiss for a ruling on the death of Louis Russell was turned down. [KGB Yakovlev Wash. Silhouettes p122] McCORD stated:

A false allegation was made shortly after March 23, 1973, that E. HOWARD HUNT and FRANK STURGIS were in Dallas at the time the President was killed, and a photograph was circulated purporting to be HUNT and STURGIS there at the time. Persons I know circulated and touted the story to the press, knowing the allegation was false in its entirety, and further that the men in the photographs bore no resemblance whatever to HUNT and STURGIS. I know that HUNT was not in Dallas and had no connection whatever with the President's death...Great anguish and damage has been done to HUNT, and no doubt will be taken into consideration by a parole board considering his release from prison.

[McCORD ltr. to Dan Schultz 12.17.76] On November 10, 1973, McCORD threatened to sue Paul Krassner, the publisher of the Realist, for libel, after Krassner ran an article by Mae Brussell that linked McCORD to Dealey Plaza.

McCORD AND LEE PENNINGTON

Leonard W. Pennington, left his job with the FBI, where he served as liaison with the American Legion, to help organize the American Security Council. Pennington became the Internal Security Editor and Washington Bureau Chief of the American Security Council. In 1964, Lee Pennington was involved in an investigation of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for the American Security Council. The Director of the American Security Council, John Fisher, also a former FBI Special Agent, telephoned the FBI in 1964 and told the Bureau that Lee Pennington knew someone who knew the Paine family. [NYT 7.3.73; FBI CG 62-6115 12.5.63] From 1983 to 1984 John Fisher raised money for the Nicaraguan Contras. In 1985 he joined the World Anticommunist League (whose members included Alpha-66) in its fight against the Sandinistas.

The report of Senator Howard Baker on the CIA's involvement in Watergate stated that Lee Pennington was a "domestic agent...possibly in violation of the CIA's Charter." In August 1975 there was a break-in at the home of Senator Howard Baker, however, no valuables were reported missing. [Wise American Police State p164]

THE TWO PENNINGTONS

The CIA reported:

The Pennington Matter: For many years a man named Lee Pennington has been retained by the CIA as a Confidential Informant. His compensation from the CIA has been $250 per month. Mr. Howard Osborn stated that he has no idea what kind of information has been supplied to the Agency by Pennington in exchange for the compensation paid him.

In August 1972 Mr. Osborn was on vacation during the time his deputy (Deleted) was in charge of the Office of Security. (The Office of Security had been designated by the DCI as the liaison with all other governmental agencies and departments relating to Watergate matters).

While Mr. Osborn was on vacation an FBI Agent named Arnold Parham contacted the Office of Security and requested information on a man simply known as 'Pennington.' The request was directed to Steve Kuhn of the Office of Security. Steve Kuhn's Deputy, Hollis Whitaker, took the request of Agent Arnold Parham to (deleted as of 2010) and asked whether the FBI should be given the names of both Penningtons or just one of them. (Deleted as of 2010) [Gaynor] instructed Whitaker that Parham should be supplied only with the name of Cecil Harold Pennington, a retired employee of the CIA, who was not related in any way to Lee Pennington. [Cecil Harold Pennington was a former CIA Staff Employee, who retired in 1961.] (Deleted as of 2010) instructed Whitaker that Lee Pennington's name should not be given to Parham.

On August 25, 1972, the FBI reviewed Cecil Pennington's CIA file. The FBI found: "No indication from CIA record that Cecil Pennington served as McCORD'S supervisor." When the FBI interviewed Cecil Pennington, it found that "he was associated with, and was a co-worker (not supervisor) of McCORD, but has had no contact with McCORD since he retired in April 1961."

The CIA reported:

(Deleted as of 2010) [Gaynor] instructed Hollis Whitaker that Lee Pennington's name should not be given to Parham. (Deleted as of 2010) would have known that JAMES McCORD, while he was employed in the Office of Security, had acted as the Case Officer for Lee Pennington, that McCORD was involved in the Watergate break-in, and that the FBI was really interested in Lee Pennington.

Howard Osborn states that all of the above information came to his attention in February 1974 and that he had no knowledge of it until that time.

Lee Pennington and a man named (Deleted as of 2010) were the only two confidential informants who Osborn can think of who were employed as such by the Office of Security during his tenure with that office. (This is in addition to CIA employees and the employees of propriety investigating companies who have been used as informants.) [several lines deleted]

Mr. Pennington was apparently terminated as a CIA informant on December 31, 1973. Howard Osborn states that he started action to terminate (Deleted as of 2010) in about January or February 1973. He thought that (Deleted as of 2010) had never provided anything to the Office of Security and that it was no crime to have a domestic informant.

Both Pennington and (Deleted as of 2010) had been informants for the Office of Security for many years. They had been retained in that capacity even before Osborn became Deputy Director of Security in 1963.

PENNINGTON BURNS McCORD'S FILES

In February 1974, in connection with a search of files in the Office of Security, some indication was turned up the Howard Osborn had been informed in January 1973 about the fact that Lee Pennington had entered the home and office of McCORD at the request of Mrs. McCORD on January 22, 1972, to locate and destroy records which would have revealed a 'link' between McCORD and the CIA. Howard Osborn denies that he ever received any such information. The information was allegedly given to him by Paul Gaynor, Chief of Security Research, in the Office of Security.

Paul Gaynor retired in 1973 at the request of Osborn, who had been directed to cut out a GS-16 from his staff in a personnel reduction move. He states that Mr. Gaynor accepted his request gracefully and retired.

Osborn and Paul Gaynor have never discussed with each other the subject of Lee Pennington or the deception practiced on the FBI in August 1972. Osborn does not think that Gaynor opened up the subject, but he does believe that Gaynor has testified before either one of the Congressional Committees investigating Watergate of the Special Prosecutor's Office.

After Mr. Gaynor retired, Lou Vasaly of the Office of Security has handled contacts with (Deleted as of 2010) and Pennington. In January or February 1974 Mr. Osborn sent Sidney Steinbridge of the Office of Security to New York to terminate (Deleted as of 2010).

On September 1, 1972, Lee Pennington was interviewed by the FBI. Lee Pennington stated:

He has been acquainted with McCORD since the mid-1950's and since the Watergate incident on June 17, 1972, Lee Pennington met with McCORD about six times. One or two days after McCORD'S arrest, Lee Pennington brought dinner to the McCORD family at their residence. He made no mention of having seen Mrs. McCord burn any papers or that he participated in such a burning. We did not recheck with CIA as there was no reason to do so.

In January 1973 Howard Osborn, the Director/Office of Security of the CIA ordered that all CIA files about Lee Pennington be removed from the CIA Watergate files. As a result of this, the Director/Office of Security was forced to resign. No investigation concerning Lee Pennington's involvement in the alleged burning incident was requested by the Special Prosecution Force. [5.1.74 Memo Agent Angelo J. Leno, WFO/USA Earl J. Silbert]

Senator Howard Baker said Lee Pennington burned McCORD'S files in McCORD'S home, two days after the Watergate break-in. Senator Howard Baker believed Lee Pennington told Paul Gaynor of this activity in June 1972. Paul Gaynor, who had been slated to be hired by McCORD ASSOCIATES after his retirement, denied it, although he could not deny his association with McCORD:

On June 23, 1972, Leo J. Dunn, Deputy Director, Personnel Security, CIA, advised telephone number (deleted) is a CIA number for Paul Gaynor who would retire as of June 30, 1972, as Chief, Research Division, Office of Security, CIA. Dunn furnished a June 21, 1972, memorandum regarding (deleted) association with McCORD and a copy of his biographical data. [FBI Bufile 4679-647X]

McCORD communicated with Paul Gaynor after Watergate. In a memorandum for the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Richard Helms, from CIA Inspector General William V. Broe, Potential Flap Activities, Contacts With Watergate Figures [5.21.73 rel. 8.15.76], it was noted:

McCORD had written letters to the Agency since his arrest. The first dated July 29, 1972, was addressed to Richard Helms and was handled as a routine crank letter until it was recognized that the "JIM" who signed it was McCORD. Later letters from McCORD were addressed to Paul Gaynor at his home address. The fact that these letters have been received has been very tightly held. No action was taken in regard to them.

The letters reported that pressure was being put on the burglars to blame the CIA for Watergate. Richard Helms never gave the letters to Watergate prosecutors, however, in May 1973, they were uncovered by the Office of the Inspector General of the CIA and released.

Lee Pennington spoke with Senator Howard Baker, in February 1972; he died suddenly of a heart attack on December 19, 1972. Lee Pennington did not testify before the SSCIA or the Ervin Committee. His relationship with McCORD and the Office of Security of the remained a mystery. [CIA 777-336A; Ross & Wise Inv. Gov. p187; Baker Report p14; NYT 1.5.75; FBI CG 62-61115-12.5.63]

On September 18, 1972, a message from (deleted) was sent to the Acting Director of the FBI, Attention Domestic Intelligence Division, captioned "Bernard Fensterwald Jr. - Freedom of Information Act." It read: "Rebucab September fifteen last. Ltr to CIA September 22, 1972." [FBI 62-112697-18] This concerned the Fenster’s request for photos of the man first thought to OSWALD photographed leaving the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. In November 1973 the CIA had an interest in Bernard Fensterwald's assassination research conference and supplied the FBI with a schedule.

Bernard Fensterwald went into partnership with the co-counsel of John Dean, Robert McCandless. Coincidently, Dean married Senator Henning’s daughter Maureen Henning. Robert McCandless was linked to Southern Capital, which John Marks, a former State Department Intelligence Analyst, called "the CIA's largest remaining proprietary." [Miami Herald 7.18.76] John Marks wrote:

Lawyers who have had ties with CIA proprietaries have also represented well-known figures in politically charged cases. Robert McCandless resigned as a partner (from Burwell, Hansen and McCandless) in 1973 in order to serve as co-counsel to John Dean. Jeb Magruder, another key witness against NIXON aides in Watergate trials, had a lawyer, James Bierbower, who had served as Vice President of Southern Air Transport, one of the CIA's largest air proprietaries. To complete the circle, James Bierbower worked out of the same office, in the mid-1960's, as Southern Capital's Marvin Evans, and Marvin Evans later shared space with the Robert McCandless firm." [Agee & Wolfe Dirty Work p133]

Robert McCandless commented to this researcher:

I never had anything to do with anything other than law firms. I don't know what you mean. None of it is true, I never had any ties to Southern Capital. I never shared space with Marvin Evans. He has his facts wrong.

In 1992 the Bush Adminstration ordered McClandless to stop providing legal services to the military dictatorship of Haiti. McCandless, who ran Minnesota Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey's 1968 Democratic presidential campaign, said he collected more than $100,000 in fees from the Haitians. Bernard Fensterwald's offices were above those of Intertel. In 1975 Senator Howard Baker revealed that Bernard Fensterwald had a CIA file. [NYT 1.17.75] In late 1976 the Washington Star ran an article, "IS FENSTERWALD A CIA PLANT?," written by Bill Choyke of the Capitol Hill News Service that concerned Bernard Fensterwald's attempt to become Chief Counsel of the HSCA:

Committee Vice Chairman Rep. Henry Gonzalez, the Texas Democrat who introduced the first resolution calling for an assassination inquiry, has privately voiced his strong opposition to Fensterwald having any role on the committee, even as an unofficial advisor...In a telephone interview Fensterwald first acknowledged that he had connections with the CIA and then scoffed at the suggestion. 'I am on the payroll,' he said. However, when pressed, he said he had 'nothing to do with the CIA. There is absolutely no reason to think I am a member of the CIA, absolutely no vestige of evidence of any kind.'

In another interview Bernard Fensterwald was asked:

The Committee to Investigate Assassinations has long been suspected by some people of being somehow connected with the CIA and you yourself being labeled possibly a CIA agent or CIA plant. Are you in fact a CIA agent of any sort?

Bernard Fensterwald responded:

No, I'm a full-time lawyer. Neither I, nor my partner, have ever been affiliated with the CIA, or worked for the CIA, either with, or without, pay in any way, shape or form. I have no idea where the rumor started. I don't know anyone that knows anything about my history that has ever made such an accusation. On the converse side, going back to the early 1960's, when I worked for the Senate, as counsel for one of its committees, I did an investigation on the CIA, and since then I have represented a number of clients in cases against the CIA, to the extent that if there's any evidence at all, it points in the other direction. [interview with Wash. Star Staff writer Michael J. Satchell.]

This article was reprinted in the Classified CIA Operations Center News Service and marked "Distribution II." [Allen v DOD CIA 20866- 0815] In 1977 Bernard Fensterwald was audited by the Internal Revenue Service. [Wall Street Journal 3.23.77]

JOHN ARTHUR PAISLEY

In June 1979 Bernard Fensterwald represented the family of John Arthur Paisley. John Arthur Paisley was a former CIA official who worked for the Agency on a contractual basis, who, according to Tad Szulc, was involved with Yuri Nosenko. The two men became friends, and John Arthur Paisley frequently visited Yuri Nosenko. Inquiry Magazine reported:

Mary Ann Paisley thinks her husband's death may be related to Yuri Nosenko...At the request of Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana, the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the FBI began a counter-intelligence analysis of the Paisley case...the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Stansfield Turner says Yuri Nosenko has 'no recollection of ever meeting Paisley.'

Author Jim Hougan cited a letter Mrs. Paisley wrote to Stansfield Turner, in which she mentioned that she had worked for Kathrine Hart [the wife of John L. Hart] when she was in the CIA. ANGLETON told Look Magazine, "To my knowledge Paisley was never involved in the clandestine side. I have doubts that he knew Yuri Nosenko." [cited in Inquiry 11.15.79] Joe Trento and William R. Corson reported John Arthur Paisley worked with Bruce Solie. Bruce Solie, 75, died on December 25, 1992, after 28 years of CIA service.

John Arthur Paisley was sailing on the Chesapeake Bay on September 23, 1978. In his possession was a briefcase of Secret documents that dealt with the Soviets. The next day John Arthur Paisley was found in the bay, with two diver's belts weighing a total of 38 pounds strapped to his upper abdomen. The autopsy report stated the cause of death was a "Gunshot wound, penetrating head, close contact range. Entrance in left occipital parietal region with powder deposition within wound and on skull. Crania-cerebral injury. Missile recovered, large caliber, deformed, jacketed, lead. Trajectory: left to right (cannot be further evaluated)."

The gun was never recovered. Was the death of John Arthur Paisley a suicide or a murder? Had John Arthur Paisley put on the weight belts, leaned over the edge of the boat, shot himself, then fallen overboard with his gun? The Maryland County Coroner concluded: "John Paisley, a 55 year old white male showing advanced decomposition changes, died of a penetrating gunshot wound to the head. The manner of death is undetermined. Signed Russell S. Fisher, M.D., Chief Medical Examiner." The boat belonging to John Arthur Paisley was found by Maryland Park Rangers. The CIA was first on board and recovered the Secret documents. Why had John Arthur Paisley taken these documents with him if he intended to kill himself? Bernard Fensterwald called the CIA and asked the Agency to "make available for him to interview a number of Agency personnel that appear in a telephone list finder which belonged to Mr. Paisley." [CIA FOIA Req. #F93-0041 OGC-2 Routing and Record Sheet 1.29.79]

HEMMING AND FENSTERWALD

HEMMING told this researcher:

Fensterwald gave me a lot of money, and went through a lot of files, with no return to him at all. He was supposed to give me $100,000 cash (because he didn't want it traced to him) to reorganize his office. Fensterwald said, 'You're so close to this xxxx everybody's wondering why you couldn't stop it, or not appear to be part of it.' There's xxxx he didn't want to know cause he didn't need his family threatened. Bud put McCORD on the phone in May 1975. I had talked to him on the phone during the Garrison investigation. He introduced me to Oliver Stone. What if I told you about a hypothetical classic CIA penetration operation, and Fensterwald financed it for me? You wouldn't be surprised? Kennard Smith, who had worked with Elliot Ness, recommended a covert operation in which people could get killed. There would be shooting. Bud didn't want him to set that up by himself. Fensterwald's CIA people had told him that's risky xxxx, we don't deal in that area. This means palace-level intrigue. We don't do that kind of stuff anymore. He didn't clear it with them, but he told them where he was going to go, and who he was going to talk to. I'm not saying the date, cause I'm not going to go into the operation. Fensterwald reminded me of Pawley. He was serious minded when it came to the security of this country. He loved the goddamned Jews too much.

In 1976 HEMMING asked for

All reports, records and files held by the FBI, CIA, and other agencies, reference to activities of the defendant acting as an investigator concerned alleged CIA activities involving divers conspiracies on the parts of John O'Hare, AKA Colonel Grey, John Kern, and former treasury agent Kennard Smith. [uSDC Miami 76-371-CrCa]

It was suggested to HEMMING that Bernard Fensterwald did damage control for the Agency. He responded:

Could be. If somebody hired him to do something that's completely legal and was in the parameters of the law profession, what the xxxx is he to say or do? And he did it two or three times and it worked out real good, hey, who's he to challenge who the client is? I don't think Fensterwald thought the CIA was the enemy of the United States.

LYNDON LAROUCHE

When crypto-Nazi Lyndon LaRouche was indicted for Obstruction of Justice in 1987 he hired Bernard Fensterwald as his attorney. On April 2, 1991, Bernard Fensterwald, 69, died of a heart attack at his home in Alexandria, Virginia. He had become a Senior Partner in Bernard Fensterwald and Alcorn. [FBI 62-112697-18 w/h] Fensterwald's death was his greatest contribution to assassination research.

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Robert, in your post immediately above this one, you quote a reference to CIA counsel, Anthony Lapham, which appeared originally in your post on the first page of this thread. Anthony Lapham, then just 31 years old, was not employed at CIA in 1967, so I doubt he is the relevant Lapham.

(quote)http://select.nytime...DA80994DE404482

By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Published: November 15, 2006

...In 1967, Mr. Lapham joined Shea & Gardner, and he became a partner three years later. He returned there after his C.I.A. tenure....(/quote)

If my suspicion about the CIA's intent to confuse is valid, this adds to it, especially since it contains no attempt at clarity; there is no mention that Lewis H Lapham was sometimes mistaken for a former high ranking CIA official by the same name.:

(quote)http://www.nytimes.c...s/01lapham.html

Lewis H. Lapham in the office of Lapham's Quarterly, which is in space rented from The Nation.

By TIM ARANGO

Published: November 30, 2009

...Both Mr. Lapham’s journal and his manner suggest he is happy where he is. Over a dinner of steak and mashed potatoes and a glass of wine at Union Square Cafe, Mr. Lapham related the story of when, fresh from Yale, he applied for a job at the C.I.A., then a bastion of Ivy League elitism.

The first question he was asked in the interview was, “When standing on the 13th tee at the National Golf Links in Southampton, which club does one take from the bag?”

“They wanted to make sure you were the right sort,” Mr. Lapham recalled. He found the question off-putting and dropped his spy ambitions for journalistic ones (although he points out that he knew the right answer — a 7-iron).

Many years later, Mr. Lapham’s connections have come in handy, helping to generate donations for his current project. School ties run deep, and one donor is George LaBalme, who is older than Mr. Lapham and was several years ahead of him at Hotchkiss....

(/quote)

A reason I am wondering if it was confusion by intent is because Anthony and his brother, Lewis H Lapham of Harper's magazine, were so much more prominent and thus, mistaken for the relevant Lapham.

(quote)http://www.suzanmazur.com/?p=34

The CIA, Narcotics Underworld: Doug Valentine IV

August 19, 2007

Article – Suzan Mazur

Several years ago, when I was trying to make the distinction between Lewis Lapham, the Editor of Harper ‘s Magazine — whose roots are in an old San Francisco banking family — and Lewis Lapham, the Central Intelligence Agency’s man, I was directed Several years ago, when I was trying to make the distinction between Lewis Lapham, the Editor of Harper‘s Magazine — whose roots are in an old San Francisco banking family — and Lewis Lapham, the Central Intelligence Agency’s man, I was directed to author Doug Valentine by Lou Wolf, Editor of Covert Action Quarterly, who described Valentine as one of the most knowledgeable people on the CIA.

Valentine told me the two Laphams were not the same man. I was relieved. But in the next breath he said that Tony Lapham, Harper‘s Editor Lewis Lapham’s brother, had been both a covert CIA agent and General Counsel to the CIA, appointed in 1976 by then Director of Central Intelligence, George H.W. Bush. I was again concerned.

Lewis Lapham has since left Harper‘s to start his own publication....(/quote)

It seems a similar attempt at confusing background and identity as this was.:

In a CIA document dated 23rd August, 1957, Priscilla Johnson McMillan was described as being born in Stockholm, Sweden, on 23rd September 1922. It also stated that during the Second World War she was "utilized by OSO (Office of Special Operations) in 1943 and 1944". John M. Newman has speculated that Johnson was being given a cover story of someone who had a "good security record".

http://www.spartacus...FKjohnsonPR.htm

I came to know of this because of AJ Weberman's work.: (View it in "quick view", quick and easy...)

http://www.google.co...l=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Page 44

...On January 25, 1957, Priscilla Johnson's Operational Approval was canceled when

(Deleted) SR/10 sent a Request For Cancellation of Approval to Chief, CI/OA: "SR/10

has no further interest in SAC. Please cancel." The next trace was a card: "Johnson,

Priscilla 3819 (deleted). Memo to CH/CI/SRS, February 25, 1957, p.1."

On April 10, 1958, Cord Meyer and Lewis J. Lapham of the International Organizations

Division sent this message to (deleted):

From wealthy, Long Island family. Excellent scholastic rating. Application

Kubark employment 1952 rejected because some associates and

memberships would have required more investigation than thought

worthwhile. Once member United World Federalists: Thought liberal,

'goofy, mixed-up' when applied Kubark employment. No headquarters

record prior Kubark use.

Louis Jay Lapham (born October 5, 1920) received a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1954.

When the above message was written, Lapham was in Paris, under State Department

cover. In 1967 Lapham went to Vietnam where he worked in OPERATION PHOENIX.

Lapham was the Director for Political Research of the CIA from 1974 to 1976, and

Assistant to the Deputy Director from 1977 to 1978....

Lewis Jay Lapham was station chief in Saigon during the Tet Offensive. I found this fascinating because

just weeks before, he must have hosted two visitors on a fact finding mission, Rep. GHW Bush and TJ Devine.

So, Anthony Lapham at age 31, would not have been CIA counsel meeting with Sidney Gottlieb in Jan., 1967, and I

suspect Lewis J. Lapham would have been too busy to attend that meeting, but it is possible.

http://www.google.co...l=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: Counterinsurgency and ... - Page 50

Mark Moyar - 2007 - 448 pages - Preview

Komer did share control over the CIA's pacification division — known as the RD Cadre division — with John Hart, the CIA station chief in Saigon, and he gave instructions to the division's head, Lewis ("Lew") Lapham, more often than did ..

This obit clears up much of the confusion, why don't journalists like Susan Mazur use it to do so?

http://www.google.co...l=&oq=&gs_rfai=

OBITUARIES

Pay-Per-View - Washington Post - Apr 16, 1999

Lewis J Lapham 78 who was the CIA's top officer chief of station in Vietnam ... He is survived by his wife and boyhood sweetheart Carol Martens Lapham a ...

On edit, I notice now that Valentine writes in his book, "The strength of the wolf: the secret history of America's war on drugs," that Anthony Lapham was an assistant to David Acheson in 1966, and is listed as an Asst. U.S. Attorney at that time. Valentine writes that Anthony Lapham "directed FBN agent Andrew Tartaglino to shut down a second MKULTRA safehouse on (105 West) 13th Street in New York. Valentine writes that Lapham was then a covert CIA agent. Valentine is the only source I can find for this. I doubt that an Asst. US Attorney could serve as a covert CIA agent simultaneously.

DEATHS(2)

The Sun - Feb 12, 1953

GUERIETE E., beloved wife of the late Charles Colby Crooks, Sr., and mother of Mrs, John W. Blgham, Mrs. Robert B. Macatee. Mrs. Ivan C. Dresser. Mrs. Leroy Wagstaff, Mssrs. Charles C, Jr., W. Stuart and Gordon L. Crooks.

http://educationforu...showtopic=19221

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Marguerite Wagstaff, Painter, Is Dead at 91 - New York Times

www.nytimes.com › COLLECTIONSBRAZIL

Oct 17, 1990 – Marguerite Falkenburg Wagstaff, a painter and a former tennis champion in ... After the death of her first husband, she married LeRoy Wagstaff,

In the article image above, it is mentioned that the bride is the niece of Mrs. Ivan Dresser, and that Priscilla M. Johnson of Locust Valley is a bridesmaid.

The 1953 Obit excerpt displayed above tells us that Mrs. Robert Macatee, mother of the bride in the above article image, Mrs. Ivan Dresser, and Mrs. Leroy Wagstaff were all sisters.

This info supports that Priscilla Johnson's friend, the bride, was the first cousis of Jinx Falkenburg, who married Yale Bonesman John Reagan "Tex" McCrary in 1946. Cousin Jinx was so close to Jock Whitney that she lived on his estate from 1946 to 1992, and she and Tex named their son Kevin Jock Whitney. Priscilla's friend Jane Macatee Davidson was the wife of British Ambassador in Laos from 1973 to 1975 while CIA's Charles Whitehouse was U.S. Ambassador in Laos from 1973 to 1975.

Tex McCrary was a 1932 Yale grad and Bonesman, Paul Denckla Mills was a 1932 Yale grad and Bonesman.

Stewart B. Iglehart was a 1932 Yale grad and Bonesman. Stewart's father was D. Stewart Iglehart, president of WR Grace.

Tex's brother Douglas A. McCrary was a 1937 Yale grad, tapped for Scroll and Key. Paul Denckla Mill's brother, Samuel Wynn Mills, was a 1937 yale grad, tapped for Scroll and Key.

Douglas A. McCrary married Stewart B. Iglehart's sister, Wendy.

Their daughter, Wendy, married Henry Reynolds Breck:

Frank Wisner : Biography

www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKwisner.htm

by John Simkin - More by John Simkin Frank Gardner Wisner was born in Laurel, Mississippi, in 1910. ..... Henry Breck, a junior CIA officer out of Groton and Harvard, watched his grim-faced elders as

http://www.smokershistory.com/Whitney.htm

William Collins Whitney, S&B 1863

...Their daughter, Burks Bingham, married Anthony A. Lapham, general counsel of the C.I.A., the son of Lewis A. Lapham, S&B 1931.

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New York Times - Sep 20, 1964

Lewis H.-Laphm. served as best man for his brother. The ushers were-Michl Thomas, L.. St0ddd Horn; Martin Hoffmnn; Frederick Holborn, James Whelpley, James Hoge, James Meeker and Ronald S0. Women :guests wore ....

Henry R. Breck Weds Miss McCrary

‎New York Times - Jan 21, 1973

Henry R. Breck Weds Miss SMcCrary Miss Wendy Iglehart McCrary was married in St. James' Episcopal Church here yesterday afternoon to Henry Reynolds ...

PriscillaJohnsonDouglasMcCraryIglehartBreckLapham.jpg

Other coincidences are that in 1964, Anthony A. Lapham married Burk Bingham, cousin of Jock Whitney. Henry R. Breck was not a member of Lapham's wedding party; not unusual since Breck and Lapham had not attended prep school (Groton v. Phillips Andover) college (Harvard v. Yale) or law school together (Oxford v. Georgetown).

However, by 1973, as you can read in the article image of the wedding of Douglas A. McCrary's daughter Wendy and Henry R. Breck, Breck had become so close to Lapham that Breck is the godfather of Lapham's son, Nicholas, and Anthony Lapham is Breck's best man.

The two men did not serve in the same branch of the military and the CIA's descriptions of their careers do not overlap, up to 1973, in any way.

Also in 1973, Bush friend Thomas J. Devine married the daughter of Samuel Wynn Mills, the 1937 yale classmate of Douglas A. McCrary.

In 1976, George HW Bush was appointed DCI, with no officially admitted to, prior experience qualifying him for that position, and Anthony A. Lapham, with similar officially described, unqualified background at CIA, became CIA counsel.

Mr. Bush, under scrutiny in 1975 as the first politician appointed to head the agency, searched to find someone outside the political and intelligence worlds. Mr. Lapham came from the Washington law firm Shea & Gardner, which was later absorbed by the firm Goodwin Procter, whose headquarters are in Boston.

Much has also been written of the closeness of Bush's lifelong friend, Robert Macauley, to the WR Grace Corp.

Ritter Inquiry Leading Many To Quit Board - Page 3 - New York Times

www.nytimes.com › COLLECTIONSNEW BOARD

May 1, 1990 – Mr. Macauley, who joined the board and became chairman after Mr. ... Mr. Macauley's former college roommate, and, through J. Peter Grace Jr., .

So, we are left to wonder what instigated, in the 1960's and 1970's, the massing of Whitney directed Bonesmen, especially in such an indiscrete and open way, with contradictory, sloppy loose ends like the ones presented here, still emerging. Despite the revelations of author Douglas Valentine, reinforced with the details here, the CIA and the media have stubbornly clung to their false narratives. Who are Priscilla Johnson, Skull and Bones, George Bush and his unsavory friends in high places, and when will they be confronted, unmasked and disgraced, for all time?

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While I could speculate on Fensterwald's connections, I'll leave his defense to someone who actually knew him. I would like to gently correct John, before he decides that I'm CIA, that it was HUAC, not HCUA. I think it also should be pointed out that there was at least some truth to the Garrison/mob connection story, in that Garrison made several trips to Vegas on the house and was believed to have met with Rosselli.

C'mon Pat. There was never anything to this fairy tale. Bill Davy exposed this for what it was in his fine book Let Justice be Done, which you apparently have not read. ANd that was published back in the nineties.

What's worse is Garrison denied knowledge of Marcello's position in the mob until the day he died.

Wrong. What Garrison actually said is that he operated out of Jefferson Parish, which was out of his jurisdiction. But Garrison did bust the bars that were owned and operated in New Orleans by Marcello during his campaign against B girl drinking rackets.

I honestly believe the wide-spread theory that BillingsBlakeyFensterwald were all CIA assets is a bit paranoid.

Uh, did you not read Fonzi's book? Have you not talked to Ed Lopez? Blakey did so much cover up for the CIA both during and in the writing of the report that it is pretty obvious by now. (But you wrote this a long time ago so I hope your position is altered.) During the whole Regis Blahut controversy, Blakey served as a CIA informant on George Lardner, who was working on the story. As per Billings, he was in on Operation TILT. Which was meant to put Kennedy's back against the wall on Cuba.

As per Fensterwald, anyone who examines his career has to at least suspect the guy was somehow connected with the CIA. The clearest evidence of that is in an examination of the Watergate affair. Fensterwald replaced Gerald Alch who, correctly, analyzed the break in as CIA connected. When he actually said this to a reporter, he was then sacked. He was replaced by Fensterwald who then said, "We are going after the president." Note the use of the word, "We". McCord, Fensterwald's client, was always the key to what happened that night. The second key was Russell. The former was Fensterwald's client, the latter worked for him. If you really don't believe Russell had a checking account, or could open one, then you probably believe in the Easter Bunny also.

There is a piece of bombshell evidence on Fensterwald that a certain researcher has. I wanted to use it in my book but i deferred to this person. When you read about it, this whole phony debate about Fensterwald will end.

Wow. This is very compelling. I had been hearing rumors abut Bud Fensterwald for decades but never believed them. I also knew too many who found his sudden death suspicious. Reading all of the above is however quite an indictment. Will this additional bombshell be published soon?

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GRACE BRISTED RRIDE OF CHARLES D. JACKSON; Wedding of ...

New York Times - Sep 13, 1931

... Alan Jackson of New York, was best man, and Baron Leopold Buffin of Brussels, Henry Gassaway Davis 3d, George K. Livermore, Henry C. Breck, Ronald M....

Miss Wendy McCrary Fiancee of Henry Breck

New York Times - Nov 19, 1972

20 to Henry Reynolds Breck, a partner in Lehman Brothers, investment bankers here. ... Mr. Breck is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Breck of New York. His faer ...

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Henry R. Breck Weds Miss McCrary

‎New York Times - Jan 21, 1973

Henry R. Breck Weds Miss SMcCrary Miss Wendy Iglehart McCrary was married in St. James' Episcopal Church here yesterday afternoon to Henry Reynolds ...

PriscillaJohnsonDouglasMcCraryIglehartBreckLapham.jpg

Other coincidences are that in 1964, Anthony A. Lapham married Burk Bingham, cousin of Jock Whitney. Henry R. Breck was not a member of Lapham's wedding party; not unusual since Breck and Lapham had not attended prep school (Groton v. Phillips Andover) college (Harvard v. Yale) or law school together (Oxford v. Georgetown).

However, by 1973, as you can read in the article image of the wedding of Douglas A. McCrary's daughter Wendy and Henry R. Breck, Breck had become so close to Lapham that Breck is the godfather of Lapham's son, Nicholas, and Anthony Lapham is Breck's best man.

The two men did not serve in the same branch of the military and the CIA's descriptions of their careers do not overlap, up to 1973, in any way.

.......................................

The very best men: four who dared : the early years of the CIA - Page 91

books.google.com Evan Thomas - 1996 - 432 pages - Preview

"The Brits were the most bloodthirsty of all," said Henry Breck, Groton '54, a CIA case officer in India in the 1960s. "Of course, if you're in a real war you must fight hard — and the upper classes fight the hardest. They have the most to lose."

New York Times Sep 20, 1964. p. 92

Anthony Lapham Weds Miss Bingham

....Miss Burks Yuille Bingham and Mr. Anthony A. Lampham

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....In a recent article in AFP, " The Perfect Terrorist Plan To Level the Twin Towers Created In 1976" by Greg Szymanski,

it was reported that the U.S. Army devised a plan in 1976 to bring down the towers

using commercial airliners and box cutters as weapons.

At the time, George H.W. Bush was head of the CIA and Martin R. Hoffmann was Secretary of the Army.

Hoffmann told AFP that he did not recall being involved in this planning reportedly done by the U.S. Army. An architect, even of destruction, needs a contractor. ....

Kissinger Assailed In Debate on Chile

By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO

Published: June 05, 2004

Correction Appended

The chief Latin American expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, the nation's pre-eminent foreign policy club, has quit as a protest, accusing the council of stifling debate on American intervention in Chile during the 1970's as a result of pressure from former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger.

Kenneth Maxwell, a senior fellow for inter-American affairs at the council, announced his resignation in May 13 letters to James F. Hoge Jr., the editor of Foreign Affairs magazine, where Mr. Maxwell had reviewed a book on American involvement in Chile, and to Richard Haass, president of the council's board.

''There is a question of principle at stake here,'' Mr. Maxwell wrote to Mr. Hoge. ''It was made abundantly clear to me, as you know, that there was intense pressure on you, on Foreign Affairs and on my employer, the Council on Foreign Relations, from Henry Kissinger and others, to close off this debate about accountability and Mr. Kissinger's role in Chile in the 1970's.''

Mr. Kissinger is traveling, said an assistant, Jesse Incao, and could not be reached for comment.

Officials at the Council on Foreign Relations strenuously denied that Mr. Kissinger, whose friends include some of the council's biggest donors, had exerted any pressure, directly or indirectly, to silence Mr. Maxwell on this issue.

The roots of the current dispute date back to last winter, after Mr. Hoge invited Mr. Maxwell to write an extended review of ''The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability'' by Peter Kornbluh (New Press), a book that re-examines the American role in helping to unseat Salvador Allende, the socialist president who died during the military coup that brought the brutal regime of Gen. Augusto Pinochet to power. The book is based on 25,000 United States government documents that were declassified in recent years.

Mr. Maxwell's essay largely summarized the unresolved questions surrounding American actions in Chile, mentioning three issues in particular: the 1970 assassination of a Chilean general, René Schneider; the September 1973 coup against Allende; and the assassination of Orlando Letelier, Allende's former foreign minister, in September 1976.

The review, though critical of Mr. Kornbluh's book in some respects, said that it confirmed ''the deep involvement of the U.S. intelligence services in Chile prior to and after the coup.''

The review outraged William Rogers, the former assistant secretary of state for Latin American Affairs under Mr. Kissinger and a vice president of his consulting firm, Kissinger Associates, who wrote a lengthy response in the following issue of Foreign Affairs.

''There is, in short, no smoking gun,'' Mr. Rogers wrote. ''Yet the myth persists. It is lovingly nurtured by the Latin American left and refreshed from time to time by contributions to the literature and Mr. Maxwell's review of that book.''

Mr. Maxwell fired back, ''William Rogers overreaches.'' He added, ''To claim that the United States was not actively involved in promoting Allende's downfall in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary verges on incredulity.''

After the exchange, Mr. Hoge said, Mr. Rogers approached him once again, saying that Mr. Maxwell's response to his letter had raised new charges that he felt entitled to address. Specifically, Mr. Rogers felt he and Mr. Kissinger were being accused of complicity in the Letelier assassination, Mr. Hoge recalled.

Mr. Maxwell said that he was not accusing the men of complicity but rather of failing to stop the campaign to assassinate opposition figures abroad. He cited an August 1976 order from Mr. Kissinger to ambassadors in South America, to warn governments there that the United States would not countenance political assassinations on its territory. At least in Chile, that order appears not to have been delivered, nor was it insisted upon. The next month, Letelier's car was blown up by Chilean secret service agents on a Washington street.

Mr. Hoge said he had told Mr. Rogers that if he stuck to the historical issue, the journal would not run any response from Mr. Maxwell this time.

''He promised me that I would have the last word and that Maxwell was shut off,'' Mr. Rogers said in an interview this week.

Mr. Maxwell agreed he had said he wouldn't need to respond as long as there were no personal attacks, but he changed his mind after seeing the actual letter.

Mr. Hoge still said no.

Mr. Hoge said he was not reacting to any private pressure from board members or elsewhere, but felt that the time had come to put an end to a debate that was going nowhere.

''I thought both of them had had a good go at their feelings of the Pinochet book,'' Mr. Hoge said.

Whether or not there were any hidden strings pulled to give Mr. Rogers the final word, as Mr. Maxwell claims, the dispute underscores an intense competition under way to shape the way that history is told, particularly regarding the United States involvement in Chile, as more and more documents touching on Mr. Kissinger's legacy are released.

''The key is the suppression of debate on foreign policy by a major figure in a major foreign policy magazine,'' said Mr. Maxwell, who is now headed for Harvard University as a senior fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

Nor was Mr. Kornbluh pleased. He, too, had tried to submit a letter, but was also turned down.

''I thought that Foreign Affairs was being grossly unfair to me as the author of the book that was the foundation for the entire debate, and to Ken Maxwell, who was obviously their own analyst and their own reviewer,'' Mr. Kornbluh said.

The incident has sparked dismay in some quarters. A letter to Foreign Affairs from Latin American experts who are members of the council severely criticized the way the prestigious journal handled the dispute, particularly in denying Mr. Maxwell the right to reply. The decision, it said, ''denied readers an opportunity to weigh competing views, contrary to the journal's policies and traditions.''

This time, Mr. Hoge said, the dissent would appear in the letters column of Foreign Affairs' next issue.

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Other coincidences are that in 1964, Anthony A. Lapham married Burk Bingham, cousin of Jock Whitney. Henry R. Breck was not a member of Lapham's wedding party; not unusual since Breck and Lapham had not attended prep school (Groton v. Phillips Andover) college (Harvard v. Yale) or law school together (Oxford v. Georgetown).

However, by 1973, as you can read in the article image of the wedding of Douglas A. McCrary's daughter Wendy and Henry R. Breck, Breck had become so close to Lapham that Breck is the godfather of Lapham's son, Nicholas, and Anthony Lapham is Breck's best man.

The two men did not serve in the same branch of the military and the CIA's descriptions of their careers do not overlap, up to 1973, in any way.

.......................................

The very best men: four who dared : the early years of the CIA - Page 91

books.google.com Evan Thomas - 1996 - 432 pages - Preview

"The Brits were the most bloodthirsty of all," said Henry Breck, Groton '54, a CIA case officer in India in the 1960s. "Of course, if you're in a real war you must fight hard — and the upper classes fight the hardest. They have the most to lose."

.........

All of the Igleharts associated with "Tex McCrary, his brother, and with Henry Breck are descendants of a son of Jacob Iglehart,

John Iglehart, born in 1745 in Anne Arundel County, MD.:

http://wc.rootsweb.a...oodman&id=I0716

http://familytreemak...1/UHP-0016.html

Tex McCrary fellow Yale Bonesman, Stewart Iglehart, was the brother of Tex's brother's wife, and the uncle of Henry Breck's wife.

Another son of Jacob Iglehart, was James Iglehart, born in 1752 in Prince Georges County, MD:

http://familytreemak...1/UHP-0016.html

James Iglehart's direct descendant married the current Asst. Secretary of State whose parents 1956 wedding is described here.:

So who were John and Jacqueline Kenndy. Did they have a lot in common with their closest friends,

or did they randomly tend to be most comfortable around people who happened to have closer than average ties to the intelligence communtiy? Is there an example of any of their friends publicly objecting to the findings of the Warren Commission, or demanding a deeper investigation into the background of Jack Ruby? I have not included Bill Walton, he deserves his own thread.

Sylvia's husband, Robert O. Blake, Sr., was from Whittier and was close to Nixon. Andre Rheault was a CIA agent at the time he was an usher in their wedding.

http://news.google.c...pg=6946,2944327

SylviaWhitehouseWedJFKAttends.jpg

......

Sylvia Whitehouse Blake's brother, Charles, was described as a CIA agent who moved to the Dept. of State and was U.S. Ambassador in Laos from 1973 to 1975, the exact same time period that Alan Davidson was British Ambassador in Laos. Priscilla Johnson was a member of the Davidson wedding party.

The woman who married Robert O. Blake, Jr., in 1988 is the daughter of the late CIA agent Anne Calhoun Iglehart and the late CIA agent.:

http://articles.balt...ro-sommers-mawr

......In the early 1950s, she was a CIA operations officer for East Germany for two years. In May 1953, she married Frank Feldher Sommers, a CIA officer. They lived in Frankfurt, Germany; Vienna, Austria; Bern, Switzerland; and Vientiane, Laos....

Inglehart Sommer's daughter, "Wing" Sommers Blake and Robert O. Blake, Jr. later divorced and she married a Brown Brothers/Phillips Exeter investment banker who had earlier married the daughter of Standard Oil president Walter Teagle. In that

wedding, John McCloy, Jr. was the best man.

..................

The first time Alistar Keith married, observe who he chose to be at his side.:

Jay Teagle and Alastair Keith, Banker, Are Married in Church in ...

www.nytimes.com/.../jay-teagle-and-alastair-keith-banker-are-marrie...

May 1, 1983 – Jay Teagle and Alastair Keith, Banker, Are Married in Church in Palm Beach. Published: ... John J. McCloy 2d served as best man. Mrs. Keith...

In Fraud Case, Middlemen in Spotlight - NYTimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/business/17hedge.html?pagewanted...

Dec 16, 2008 – For Fairfield Greenwich and a handful of other big feeder funds that were essentially pouring billions of dollars each into Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, ... after several thin years,” wrote John J. McCloy, a banker from Greenwich ... Laura, as the Noels' “best friends for more than 30 years,” in May in ...

Country Club Revokes Membership Of Madoff Feeder Noel Family ...

articles.businessinsider.com/.../30058407_1_tipster-reports-guest-jur... May 12, 2009 – Although the legal jury is still out as to culpability of the Noel family and its Fairfield Greenwich Group in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, the....

Was it unusual for two sons born in the middle of the 18th century to a colonial American settler to have so many descendants, and in the case of Anthony Lapham, close friends of Inglehart descendants, associated with the CIA? I can understand, because it is a small club with only 15 new members "tapped" each year, why a descendant of one of these brothers would be selected by Skull and Bones, but the rest of these associations seem too numerous to be accepted as resulting from a competitive selection process.

In the 1950's the U.S. had a large population and the world's most powerful economy and military, yet the Rockefellers and just a tiny number of others seem to "drive" policy. Middle aged

adults of the 1950's were the children of a generation of Americans who had busted the trusts of the Rockefellers and imposed income and inheritance taxes on them and the other members of their tiny

class of extreme wealth, but in less than a generation, these same families were now in unopposed control of the government, financial, and military policy making apparatus.

Not much seems to have changed.:

http://abcnews.go.co...ntial-run-deal/

.....Petraeus told McFarland that he thought the CIA was ‘a treasure. . . . I think that organization is full of just heroes. Unsung heroes.’ He went on to say, ‘We’re going to be retrenching militarily.’ In contrast, the CIA and the intelligence agencies, “I think, are going to be a growth industry,’ Petraeus said.”

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