Robert Emmett Johnson Options

[John Simkin]

Thought it might be worth starting a thread on Robert Emmett Johnson. This is his namebase entry:

http://www.namebase.org/xjet/Robert-Emmett-Johnson.html

Haiti 1963

Hinckle,W. Turner,W. The Fish is Red. 1981 (242-3)

As you can see, very little is known about him. Here is a photograph taken in 1944.

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[John Simkin]

Robert Emmett Johnson has been discussed on the Forum before. Gerry Hemming has made several important contributions:

Gerry P. Hemming (26th October, 2005)

"Los Comandos Mambises" was the general reorganization of the Guatemala/El Salvador death Squads funded by the MNR ["Nat'l Revolutionary Movement", which was founded by Castillos Armas' handlers during the "Guatemaltazo" (PB/SUCCESS): Jack Clements, Whiting Willauer, Wm. D. Pawley, and two other U.S. Ambassadors, et al.] The public spokesman for the "Mambises" was CIA/journalist Salvador Lew -- a close buddy of Paul Bethel & Dave Phillips. The top dog in Guat. was Mario Sandoval Alarcon, and in El Salvador it was the "very" late Col. Jose Maria Rene Chacon [boss of the "Treasury Police" which operated out of fire-stations. Chacon was written into the script for Jimmy Woods AMEMB/EL SALVADOR garden party confrontaion with the CIA/COS -- screenplay written by Oliver Stone: movie title "Salvador" (also starring Jim Belushi)

Col. Chacon was taken out by a hit team set up by Robert Emmett Johnson ["Raul" of MLK, Jr.] who left the DomRep with Espaillat for work with the RCMP "Security Service' & FBI Lagats in Montreal. The hit was funded by wealthy oligarchs of both countries who, after hiring us to investigate, discovered that the "nasty-old-commies" ("Faribundo Marti", et al.) where NOT behind the kidnappings of the rich kids. Though we traveled to Guat/Salv to complete our investigation, we turned down the "Neutering" contracts because of their long list of targets: which included Arch-Bishop Romero, and 24 other priests, labor leaders, and military pogues !!

My exact verbage: "...Y'all are offering $250,000 so that my guys...who recently were run out of Nicaragua...would 'do their ongoing duty'...well, gentlemen...they are in the 'hay-hauling business right now.. and that is the kind of 'pocket change' that they carry in their $400 'Luchesse' boots & and their 'Ostrich-skin' wallets...!!" "...They just recently turned down a gold dredging security job with Lester Logue on the Piragua River in Southern Venezuela....for more than twice that amount...!!"
[The rich guys brought to the meeting [Sheraton Airport Hotel -- early 1980] had all received their entire educations here in the States, and spoke perfect American English without a hint of accents.]

However, I did insist that Chacon be taken out with sawed-off shotguns, rather than silenced MAC-10s -- so that he would feel the exploding car window glass, and hear the loud blasts. They followed my script, and if any family or friends of that "Hijo de Puta y Maricon" are reading this: I am in the telephone book here in Fayetteville...Y'all stop by and visit now...Ya hear !

Gerry P. Hemming (24th September, 2005)

I identified Bernie de Torres even after both Gene Propper & Gaeton Fonzi [held to NDAs they signed] used code-words when referring to him. [see "Labyrinth" ("TB") & "Carlos" (The Last Investigation) for reference] One of our guys was dispatched to Dealey Plaza that week by Colonel Arturo Espaillat, who was then based in Montreal. A month later, he recounted said "mission" to me after too many beers, and was furious at having been used once again by Robert Emmett Johnson, the "Raul" of the MLK, Jr. matter.

Gerry P. Hemming (27th August, 2005)

Edwin Anderson Collins was murdered by Castro "fellow-travelers" upon their discovery of his identity, and just a few weeks after he was tasked to penetrate their "protest march" from Canada, down the east coast, and on to Havana, and GITMO. Steve Wilson and I identified his body at the Medical Examiner's morgue, and when I questioned an assistant there as to the severe lacerations, cuts and bruises on Eddy's face and scalp - he responded that: "This was most likely due to crabs and other critters munching on the corpse post-mortem!!"

Upon my questioning exactly how a corpse (in salt water) might continue to bleed, acquire bruises, and suffer contusions and edema after only 8 hours + in Biscayne Bay (400 yards off the docks of Dinner Key & City Hall) - police detectives Tony Fontana and Bill Cloy charged into the room demanding to know our purposes.

Eddy Collins was one of our best swimmers, as evidenced when he was blown overboard (sans UDT the same life jacket he is pictured wearing in the No Name Key pix) - along with Dickey Chappelle, Hargraves, and Felipe Vidal on a Cuba run during early 1964.

Wilson and I tracked down the now hiding boat crew a few days later, and with less than Abu-Ghraib measures, thoroughly "interviewed" them.

Their "official" story to the police was that Eddy was drunk and that he had dived overboard to recover a dinghy which had cast adrift that night. Despite witnesses ashore reporting screams beforehand - they had insisted that had he uttered one sound they could have turned the boat around, located and recovered him. (They admitted to the police that they had motored to the dock, and "immediately" called the police??) The live-aboard boaters and shrimpers who already knew Eddy over the years, wondered about the great discrepancies in timing, especially the police report (initial call) showing that this was made some 45 minutes after the boaters heard the screams and turned on their searchlights (evidenced in their official log books). They had asked the "hippies" what was going on only 5 minutes after the screams, and just after the "protestor" boat was being tied to the dock.

Eddy Collins had been recruited by FBI agents (MIA/FO), and John Evans of the "Johns Committee" (Red-Squad) in Tallahassee - to assist in monitoring the "peace marchers". The "Mounties" (R.C.M.P.) had inserted two assets into the group in Canada, and one of these had operated together with one of our guys, who, the year previous, had worked a joint CSS/RCMP/FBI operation involving Nicaraguans, Cubans, and other foreign nationals embarking on a mission to attend training camps inside Cuba.

This operation was assisted by Col. Arturo Espaillat, Robert Emmett Johnson, and leaders of the right-wing "R'assemblent Nationale" (FRN); who were battling with the Marxist FLQ in Montreal (Front D'Liberation Quebeqous).

However, our guy had suffered blown cover via a Johnson screw up, wasn't interested in the Op, and recommended Eddy in his stead.

See also:

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=3450

[Lee Forman]

Is there something someplace about Emmet Johnson learning his tradecraft someplace in Asia? Thought I may have read that someplace.

The Argosy piece belongs here.

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[James Richards]

Lee,

Yes, the American ex marine referred to was Robert Emmett Johnson.

James

[John Simkin]

This is what I have managed to find out about Robert Emmett Johnson.

He joined the merchant marines in the early 1940s. In 1948 he served with the Sixth Marines in Tsingtao, China. During the Korean War he was USMC Press Attache on the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt.

After leaving the United States Navy Johnson worked for President Anastasio Somoza in Guatemala. This was following by employment with Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. It is believed that Johnson was involved in bringing in the weapons for the Central Intelligence Agency that was used to assassinate Trujillo on 30th May 1961.

It is rumored that Johnson was the lover of journalist Dickey Chapelle, who became the first American journalist to die in Vietnam when she stepped on a landmine on 4th January, 1965.

Robert Emmett Johnson moved to Canada where he worked for the International Services of Information, which was a CIA front.

During the 1970s it is believed that Johnson's was employed by the British intelligence services to hunt down and kill members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). It has also been claimed that Johnson was involved in the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero on 24th March, 1980. The assassination had been ordered by Roberto D'Aubuisson, the founder of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA).

Johnson used the aliases Robert Jones and Robert Roman and wrote several article for Soldier of Fortune and True Magazine. He also ghost wrote Trujillo: The Last Cesar for Arturo R. Espaillat, former head of Trujillo’s Military Intelligence Service, and Manual For The Mercenary Soldier under the alias Paul Balor.

Robert Emmett Johnson died of throat cancer in 1992.

See the following for the links:

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

[James Richards]

Johnson used the aliases Robert Jones and Robert Roman and wrote several article for Soldier of Fortune and True Magazine. He also ghost wrote Trujillo: The Last Cesar for Arturo R. Espaillat, former head of Trujillo’s Military Intelligence Service, and Manual For The Mercenary Soldier under the alias Paul Balor. (John Simkin)

The first print runs of 'Manuel For The Mercenary Soldier' had a photo of Mitch WerBell in battle gear with game face on gracing the cover.

The truth is, Johnson was an excellent writer. His piece, 'I Stuck Pins In A Voodoo Dictator' which appeared in a 1968 edition of 'True Magazine' was very good indeed.

FWIW.

James

This post has been edited by James Richards: May 26 2006, 09:04 AM

[John Geraghty]

Robert Emmett Johnson moved to Canada where he worked for the International Services of Information, which was a CIA front

If Johnson was in Canada in 67/68, this would tie in well with what Gerry Hemming said about Johnson being Raul in the MLK case, as Ray entered Canada and subsequently escaped from there also.

John

[John Simkin]

This biography of Ulius Louis Amoss appears on the University of Oregon "Subject guide to Conservative and Libertarian materials, in Manuscript collections."

http://libweb.uoregon.edu/speccoll/guides/conservative.html

Amoss, Ulius L., 1895-1961.
Papers, 1941-1964.
10 boxes; 5 lin. Ft.

Amoss was dedicated to a career in espionage. He started with the war work of the International Committee of the YMCA in Greece, then set up an export business, Gramtrade International Corporation, of which he was president from 1936 to 1942. In 1942, the government took over the business when Amoss was ordered to report to the army. While in the Armed Forces, Amoss served as Director of the Balkan Desk for Information, and Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Ninth Air Force, among other positions. After his discharge in 1946, he formed the International Services of Information Foundation, Incorporated (ISI), a non-profit, privately owned and operated intelligence service whose purpose was to collect and disseminate information from overseas countries. He also formed the U.L. Amoss Syndicate in 1948, which in turn invested in other corporations. In 1954, Amoss discovered the hair restoring product Grecian Formula 16; Amoss sold his stock in the formula in 1957 after discovering it had undesirable side effects. Amoss also wrote articles for magazines and gave numerous speeches promoting ISI.

The papers include correspondence, manuscripts, speeches, espionage material, military material, and some printed matter. The manuscripts include material for an unwritten autobiography of Amoss, with the proposed title “Easier Said Than Done.”

Coll. 5, PH 126

I have just been sent a document that is dated 10/9/99 and is stamped EYES ONLY and DO NOT COPY. It includes some very interesting information about Ulius Louis Amoss and Robert Emmett Johnson.

This document points out that Amoss was a member of the OSS. While he was chief of station in Cairo, Egypt, he "recruited, trained and launched numerous teams of assassins that carried out hits on various targets all over North Africa, Southern Europe, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal." General Donovan officially fired Amoss but in reality he was kept on the OSS payroll in an undercover capacity.

After the war he worked for Frank Wisner at the CIA (OPA). That International Services of Information (INFORM) was a CIA "commercial cover" operation. In 1961 Amoss recruited Robert Emmett Johnson. According to this document: "At this time he (Johnson) was already in close touch with the various independent Cuban Exile anti-Communist groups in Miami and elsewhere."

The document goes on to say that in 1962 Johnson, now working for INFORM, was also a member of InterPen. Later that year Johnson invited Robert K. Brown (USAR/CounterIntelligence Corps) to a InterPen meeting in Miami. Brown was the publisher of Alberto Bayo's "100 Questions for a Guerrilla". This book included an article written by Ulius Amoss called "Leaderless Resistance" which "referred to the proper strategy for conducting resistance operations against Castro and inside/outside of Cuba". The document also goes onto say: "Also included were numerous fotos of the G/W instructor cadre of InterPen which were taken by Brown at the Everglades training camp."

At the bottom of the document are the words: "Note: Robert Emmett Johnson and Colonel Amoss had some very interesting contacts."

[John Simkin]

James, if Ulius Louis Amoss died on 9th February, 1961, do you know who was running the International Services of Information (INFORM) in 1962-63?

[James Richards]

James, if Ulius Louis Amoss died on 9th February, 1961, do you know who was running the International Services of Information (INFORM) in 1962-63?

Sorry, John, I don't.

BTW, there was a very good article published in the 1950's written by John Kobler and titled, "He Runs A Private OSS" which was about Amoss. I lost my copy of it many years ago but it might be worthwhile to hunt out as material on Amoss is few and far between.

FWIW.

James

[John Bevilaqua]

This biography of Ulius Louis Amoss appears on the University of Oregon "Subject guide to Conservative and Libertarian materials, in Manuscript collections."

http://libweb.uoregon.edu/speccoll/guides/conservative.html

Amoss, Ulius L., 1895-1961.
Papers, 1941-1964.
10 boxes; 5 lin. Ft.

Amoss was dedicated to a career in espionage. He started with the war work of the International Committee of the YMCA in Greece, then set up an export business, Gramtrade International Corporation, of which he was president from 1936 to 1942. In 1942, the government took over the business when Amoss was ordered to report to the army. While in the Armed Forces, Amoss served as Director of the Balkan Desk for Information, and Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Ninth Air Force, among other positions. After his discharge in 1946, he formed the International Services of Information Foundation, Incorporated (ISI), a non-profit, privately owned and operated intelligence service whose purpose was to collect and disseminate information from overseas countries. He also formed the U.L. Amoss Syndicate in 1948, which in turn invested in other corporations. In 1954, Amoss discovered the hair restoring product Grecian Formula 16; Amoss sold his stock in the formula in 1957 after discovering it had undesirable side effects. Amoss also wrote articles for magazines and gave numerous speeches promoting ISI.

The papers include correspondence, manuscripts, speeches, espionage material, military material, and some printed matter. The manuscripts include material for an unwritten autobiography of Amoss, with the proposed title “Easier Said Than Done.”

Coll. 5, PH 126

I have just been sent a document that is dated 10/9/99 and is stamped EYES ONLY and DO NOT COPY. It includes some very interesting information about Ulius Louis Amoss and Robert Emmett Johnson.

This document points out that Amoss was a member of the OSS. While he was chief of station in Cairo, Egypt, he "recruited, trained and launched numerous teams of assassins that carried out hits on various targets all over North Africa, Southern Europe, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal." General Donovan officially fired Amoss but in reality he was kept on the OSS payroll in an undercover capacity.

After the war he worked for Frank Wisner at the CIA (OPA). That International Services of Information (INFORM) was a CIA "commercial cover" operation. In 1961 Amoss recruited Robert Emmett Johnson. According to this document: "At this time he (Johnson) was already in close touch with the various independent Cuban Exile anti-Communist groups in Miami and elsewhere."

The document goes on to say that in 1962 Johnson, now working for INFORM, was also a member of InterPen. Later that year Johnson invited Robert K. Brown (USAR/CounterIntelligence Corps) to a InterPen meeting in Miami. Brown was the publisher of Alberto Bayo's "100 Questions for a Guerrilla". This book included an article written by Ulius Amoss called "Leaderless Resistance" which "referred to the proper strategy for conducting resistance operations against Castro and inside/outside of Cuba". The document also goes onto say: "Also included were numerous fotos of the G/W instructor cadre of InterPen which were taken by Brown at the Everglades training camp."

At the bottom of the document are the words: "Note: Robert Emmett Johnson and Colonel Amoss had some very interesting contacts."

I have ordered Bayo's book: "150 Questions for a Guerrilla" NOT 100 Questions and when it comes in I can upload
relevant portions. I can also send a copy of an article from 1981 that had a reference to both Ainslinger and Ulius Amoss
and their activities in OSS, with The China Lobby of Robert Morris and Marvin Liebmann, with Thomas J. Dodd of SISS,
and others. Apparently Ainslinger would have been in charge of chasing and prosecuting Rum Runners during Prohibition,
like the Kennedys father perchance? And in 1962 JFK enforced mandatory retirement on Ainslinger after he caused them
some serious embarassments unspecified. He was not happy. The article also has links to John Marks MK/ULTRA articles,
and a whole lot of footnotes which might make more sense to John Simkin and James Richards. I found another link in
a Strength of the Wolf book tying Angleton, Ainslinger and Amoss together. Send me a PM if you want the article. It is
just over 2MB and won't upload directly. James Richards has it already as well.

Ciao.

This post has been edited by John Bevilaqua: Oct 22 2007, 08:51 PM

[John Bevilaqua]

I also ordered several other JFK books from http://www.abebooks.com and will let you know
when they arrive if they contain any items of interest. They have many UK bookdealers in their association and could be
a valuable resource for researchers.

This post has been edited by John Bevilaqua: Oct 22 2007, 08:54 PM

[John Bevilaqua]

Johnson used the aliases Robert Jones and Robert Roman and wrote several article for Soldier of Fortune and True Magazine. He also ghost wrote Trujillo: The Last Cesar for Arturo R. Espaillat, former head of Trujillo’s Military Intelligence Service, and Manual For The Mercenary Soldier under the alias Paul Balor. (John Simkin)

The first print runs of 'Manuel For The Mercenary Soldier' had a photo of Mitch WerBell in battle gear with game face on gracing the cover.

The truth is, Johnson was an excellent writer. His piece, 'I Stuck Pins In A Voodoo Dictator' which appeared in a 1968 edition of 'True Magazine' was very good indeed.

FWIW.

James

Mitch Werbell III the son of a former Czarist officer joins "Czar" Anastase Vonsiatsky from Connecticut, The Manchurian Candidate of
Richard Condon fame and Warren deBrueys from the FBI as other former Czarist sympathizers involved somehow with the JFK conundrum.

This post has been edited by John Bevilaqua: Oct 22 2007, 08:58 PM