Alexander Irwin Rorke, the son of Alexander Rorke, a Manhattan district attorney, was born on 9th August 1926. After graduating from St. John's University he attended the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.

During the Second World War Rorke served as a military intelligence specialist in the U.S. Army. He was responsible for the security of five German provinces and participated in the first postwar roundup of Communist agents in the Allied military zones of Germany.

After the war Rorke married Jacqueline Billingsley, the daughter of Sherman Billingsley, the owner of the New York Stork Club. Rorke became a freelance newsman.

According to a declassified FBI document, Rorke began working for the CIA in 1960. His contact officer was Commander Anderson of the United States Navy who was assigned to the CIA office in New York. Rorke later joined Frank Sturgis, in attempts to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro in Cuba.

On 19th December 1961, Rorke and Sturgis, who was known as Frank Fiorini at the time, were involved in a CIA operation that included dropping over 250,000 anti-Castro leaflets on Cuba. Rorke was later interviewed by the FBI about these anti-Castro activities. The FBI report on this interview stated: "Rorke advised that in the event Fiorini would be arrested for his anti-Castro activities, he, Rorke, having good connections with a well-known newspaper chain, will make plenty of trouble for those involved.For the information of the Bureau, the newspaper chain, will make plenty of trouble for those involved."

Rorke and Geoffrey Sullivan made several flights over Cuba, including a bombing raid on a refinery area near Havana on 25th April 1963.

Later that year Rorke began working for Luis Somoza, former president of Nicaragua. Jacqueline Rorke said her husband told her he was going to Mangua to see Somoza about opening an export-import business, but that he and Sullivan filed a flight plan in Fort Lauderdale for Panama. After refueling at Cozumel, they changed the flight plan to make Tegucigalpa, Honduras, their destination.

Rorke and Sullivan and a passenger identified as Enrique Molina Garcia, took off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida on 24th September, 1963. Later that day their aircraft disappeared while flying over Cuba. According to a statement released by Sherman Billingsley: "They were last seen when they were kidnapped or captured and are being held by the agents of an unfriendly government or, possibly, by that government itself."

Rorke was declared legally dead in 1968.

This interesting statement is to be found in a brief biography on the web by D C McJonathan-Swarm.

His plane, flown by commercial pilot Geoffery Sullivan, disappeared on 24 September 1963 enroute to Cuba just two months before the Kennedy assassination. His father-in-law, Sherman Billingsley, held a press conference at the Stork club offering a $25,000 reward for his return with that of his pilot. It was rumored that the CIA was involved because of his friendship with and allegiance to Kennedy. In 1975 the CIA described him a "former witting collaborator (relationship terminated)." J Edgar Hoover wrote "No. I do not want in any way to get involved in this....H" on papers pertaining to correspondence and inquires by Billingsley.

Havana Journal (25th July, 2007)

An American woman has sued Cuban leader Fidel Castro, alleging he caused the wrongful death of her pilot father after he was shot down over Cuba and imprisoned in 1963 while on a covert mission.

Sherry Sullivan filed her lawsuit in May in Waldo County Superior Court, but the judge delayed action until last week while considering how to serve papers to the defendants, who also include Castro’s brother Raul, the Cuban army and the Republic of Cuba.

The judge decided to send a certified Spanish translation of the suit to Cuba by registered mail, but has yet to receive proof of its delivery to the parties named.

The lawsuit alleges that Geoffrey Francis Sullivan, who was 29 at the time, was captured after being shot down and that he died while being held in a Cuban jail for political prisoners. His daughter contends that Fidel Castro had “intentionally, unlawfully and with complete disregard for human life” caused Sullivan’s imprisonment and eventual death.

No formal record of the death was ever recorded. The Social Security Administration has declared that Sullivan is dead, and the Department of Veterans Affairs has listed him as missing in action.

“I don’t have any actual proof that my father was executed, but I believe he was,” Sullivan told the Bangor Daily News.

The lawsuit says Geoffrey Sullivan and New York newspaperman Alexander Irwin Rorke Jr., who was believed to be a CIA operative, took part in numerous anti-Castro operations in the three years leading up to their disappearance.

The last known sighting of the pair was when they took off from Mexico on Oct. 1, 1963, in a twin-engine Beechcraft. A month earlier, Sullivan and Rorke allegedly had taken part in a bombing run over Cuba, an act that received widespread news coverage and identified both men as being involved.

Sullivan, 52, said she has devoted her life to “uncovering the truth” about her father, but was stymied in her repeated attempts to gather information from government agencies. She has more than 100,000 pages of documents related to the case, she said.

Her suit states that she “has credible information from a variety of independent, identified, sources that her father was captured and held by Fidel Castro and the government of Cuba” in violation of international law.

The suit says Castro and his co-defendants are liable under a 1996 U.S. law that allows victims of states identified as sponsors of terrorism to sue for damages.

In recent years, Castro’s regime has been repeatedly sued in American courts. The damages are generally to be paid from Cuban assets frozen by the Kennedy administration.

Rorke says his CIA contact was Commander Anderson of the U.S. Navy. I wonder if this was George Whelan Anderson:

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/gwanders.htm

Rorke takes off on Sept. 24, 1963 for Nicaragua and vanishes.

Then there's this Sept. 30, 1963 document that
"Has been removed and placed in the Special File of Records Branch."

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=2

I'd also point out that Adml. George Whelan Anderson, Jr.,
suspected as being the "Commander Anderson" in the Sturgis/Rorke file," was also "president of the Metropolitan Club in Washington D.C."

According to Gregory Douglas, in his book Regicide, the Metropolitan Club in Washington was one of the places where the JFK assassination conspirators met for lunch and to plan Operation Zipper.

http://www.metroclub.org/default.aspx?

p=DynamicModule&pageid=235855&ssid=89149&vnf=1&ns=true

This seems to me that this is an important development. George Whelan Anderson, Jr was Chief of Naval Operations in charge of the US blockade of Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.

Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, viewed Anderson's behavior during the crisis as one of "mutiny". JFK agreed with McNamara and he brought an end to a service career that many had believed would lead to his appointment as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. JFK forced him from office and then appointed him as Ambassador to Portugal.

According to David Kaiser's book, Ameican Tragedy: “The Secretary of Defense (McNarmara) was having a difficult spring, but seemed to be riding higher than ever. He was struggling from Congress over his refusal to authorize a new manned bomber, and his award of the contract to build the TFX fighter plane to General Dynamics instead of Boeing had become the subject of a congressional investigation. He had just secured the President’s agreement to relieve Admiral George Anderson as chief of naval operations, apparently because Anderson refused to tailor his TFX testimony to McNarmara’s specifications, and to reappoint Air Force Chief of Staff LeMay for just one year. According to Anderson, McNamara had stated that the TFX dispute was the greatest crisis of his career, and that he had to be proven right, no matter what happened.” (page 201)

Kaiser argues that: “Anderson convincingly argued (in his JFK oral history testimony) that events during the Cuban missile crisis were not the reason he was relieved. According to McGeorge Bundy’s recollection, McNamara wanted to remove both Anderson and LeMay, but had to choose between them.” (page 525)

See the following thread for the connections between the TFX Scandal and the assassination of JFK:

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=6250

Finally struck me. The Light Dawns on Marblehead. There was a very distinct link between Frank Sturgis and Charles Willoughby which
I should have noticed many years ago but I did not realize that there was such a strong relationship between Rorke and Sturgis even
though they were both active in South Florida anti-Castro intrigues. And Rorke's work on Charles Willoughby's Anti-Communist Liaison - Committee of Correspondence is easy to overlook or forget because he was the least important of the leadership there. Damn. The fact that
Rorke was missing or dead before the JFK hit also made me cross him off some lists or ignore him. People used to ask me where was the
link between this high level Morris and Willoughby crowd and the South Florida Soldiers of Fortune and I always drew blanks. Oh well.
No one is perfekt.


Alexander Rorke was one of the handful of people heading up Charles Willoughby's Anti-Communist Liaison - Committee of Correspondence along with Rev. Billy James Hargis, Edward Hunter ("Brainwashing") and that White House correspondent, a woman, whose name escapes me now... Sarah McClendon perhaps? She actually approached me during a Washington, DC JFK conference when Al Gore, Jr. was speaking at the same hotel, with someone who attended the Providence conference when I presented on Willoughby: "Looking for Hate in all the Right Places."

Another story on Willoughby was later printed in HighTimes Magazine under a smokescreen. (Pun intended.) He steered her in my direction. (No pun intended.) And she then quizzed me over lunch about why I thought Willoughby was a principal in the JFK plot. I had no idea who she really was at that time and I just gave her the standard published story lines including the Dick Russell informant's reference. She was just on an intelligence gathering mission, I concluded a few years later when I read her obituary. She was known for her long rants and difficult
questions at White House Press Corps news conferences. She was basically a right-wing wacko and nutball who had to be humored for decades by various Presidents. JFK stopped calling on her because of her wacked-out and embarrassing questions and she hated him for it apparently.

She worked for some small dry gulch tumbleweed-swept right wing Texas newspaper and met Willoughby and Morris through the Dallas John Birch Socieity apparently. Why they picked her for their Anti-Communist Liaison - Committee of Correspondence is beyond me. Any ideas?

Does she deserve a distinct thread on Spartacus? She is on Wikipedia, I think. Can't say for sure.

Report from TF in Florida, on a court's ruling that Rorke's partner's daughter wins the case because it was ignored by Cuba. But read down to the last response, by Peter Tabor, son of the legendary Robert B. Tabor. And Frog, that wasn't an eagle, that was a Predator Drone taking your picture - BK

One of our ‘South Florida Research Group’ members has been successful in suing the Cuban Government, and now will await the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
This has been an ordeal for Ms. Sullivan. Her dad was honored by the Governor of Maine a few years ago, when he designated Geoffrey Sullivan special recognition, and conducted a full Military Honor Ceremony with Native American Music and Traditional Honor Guards with rifle salutes. I was proud to be a part of the audience, where an American Bald Eagle flew over the ceremony, adding to the emotional mood of the day. Only one Bangor TV Station recorded the event, however.

Frog

Miami Herald 21 August 2009

BLOG: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colad...arded-21m-.html

Daughter of missing flyer is awarded $21M

A Maine court has found the Cuban government responsible for the death of a U.S. Air Force veteran whose plane may have been shot down over the island in 1963 while carrying out a covert mission, The Bangor Daily News reported Thursday.

Maine Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Hjelm awarded Sherry Sullivan, the daughter of Geoffrey Sullivan, $21 million in damages, plus interest.

Geoffrey F. Sullivan was 29 when he disappeared after taking off in a twin-engine Beechcraft from Cozumel, Mexico, on Sept. 24, 1963, with a man believed to have been a CIA operative and gun runner for anti-Castro activists. At the time, there were rumors that Sullivan was captured when the plane crashed in Cuba and that he was imprisoned for some time thereafter.

Sullivan's daughter sued the Castro brothers and Cuba in May 2007. According to Hjelm, "the government of Cuba failed and refused to provide any information." Last week, Hjelm issued a default judgment in favor of the daughter. To read The Daily News' account, click here.

---Renato Pérez Pizarro.

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8/20/09
Maine woman wins lawsuit against Cuba

$21 million awarded in death of father
By Walter Griffin
BDN Staff

BANGOR DAILY NEWS FILE PHOTO BY LINDA COAN O'KRESIK

Sherry Sullivan looks through some government documents about her father, Geoffrey Sullivan, who disappeared on September 24, 1963 during a flight to Honduras.

BELFAST, Maine — A Maine court has found the Republic of Cuba guilty of the wrongful death of an American veteran believed to have been shot down while on a covert mission over the island decades ago.

In finding in favor of Stockton Springs resident Sherry Sullivan, Waldo County Superior Court Justice Jeffrey Hjelm granted her damages of $21 million plus interest. Sullivan is the daughter of Geoffrey Sullivan, whose plane is believed to have disappeared over Cuba in October 1963.

“I’m just overwhelmed,” Sullivan said Wednesday. “It was never about money; it was to find out what happened to my father. The answer to finding my father is not what I got.”

Sullivan filed her suit against Cuba in May 2007. Also named were former President Fidel Castro, President Raul Castro and the Cuban army. Those names were dismissed without prejudice by Hjelm because it could not be determined whether they were ever served the documents. The Swiss Embassy in Havana served a copy of the suit to the Cuba Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sept. 22, 2008. Cuba never responded to the suit leading Justice Hjelm to issue his default judgment on Aug. 10.

Justice Hjelm ordered that a pre-judgment annual interest rate of 5.99 percent be added to the $21 million along with a post-judgment interest rate of 6.40 percent for every year the Cuban government fails to pay the damages.

Damages have been paid to other litigants from Cuban assets frozen by the U.S. government shortly after the Castro revolution in 1959. According to The Associated Press, at the end of 2005, approximately $270 million in Cuban assets were frozen in U.S. bank accounts.

Hjelm found that Sullivan suffered through years of uncertainty, not really knowing what happened to her father and not knowing whether he was alive or dead. He found that Cuba repeatedly ignored her requests for information.

“This uncertainty has devastated Ms. Sullivan’s life,” Hjelm wrote.

Geoffrey Francis Sullivan was 29 years old when he disappeared. He was an Air Force veteran and held a commercial pilot’s license. He also served in the Army National Guard where he met Alexander Irwin Rorke Jr., a New York newspaperman, who was believed to be an operative of the Central Intelligence Agency who ran guns to Cuba.

The last known sighting of Geoffrey Sullivan was when he took off from Mexico in a twin-engine plane accompanied by Rorke.

A month earlier, Sullivan and Rorke had allegedly taken part in a bombing run over Cuba in a refurbished B-25 bomber. That daring act received widespread newspaper coverage at the time, and both men were identified as being involved.

The official story was that their plane disappeared somewhere over Central America, but Sullivan believes he was held in a Cuban jail for at least a decade and later executed as a spy. She was 5 years old when her father disappeared and has been investigating his fate for decades. The Department of Veterans Affairs has listed Sullivan as “missing in action.”

Her father was an ardent Cold War warrior, and Sullivan over the years has gathered thousands of pages of documents from that era, many of which were submitted with her suit.

In his ruling, Justice Hjelm cited reports of witnesses that seemed to place Sullivan in Cuba. Included was one from the U.S. State Department of “rumors” from Cuban refugees that Rorke and Sullivan crashed in Cuba and that one died. In addition, an American detained in Cuba in 1969 told authorities he heard Sullivan’s name mentioned by Cuban military police. Another American imprisoned in Cuba reported that he was detained in a cell next to Sullivan.

Hjelm found that despite those documents and many other requests filed by Sullivan over the years, “The government of Cuba has failed and refused to provide any information.” He also found that Maine and federal law provided him with the authority to rule on the suit against a foreign government.

Sullivan said similar suits filed by victims of the Cuban Revolution under anti-terrorism statutes have proved successful in courts in Florida and elsewhere. She said she was unsure when she would collect her award, but that it had taken others up to three years to collect frozen Cuban assets. If she does receive the money, she said, it will be used to help her daughters and grandchildren and to keep searching for the truth of what happened to her father.

In the meantime, Sullivan will continue to press the U.S. and Cuban governments for information about her father.

“I never, never once asked for money. I was in court asking for information, either from this government or the Cuban government, and I just can’t get it done. I’m still determined to get to the truth,” she said. “The money will surely make life easier for everybody. It will give me more funds to travel and interview people. I’ve done this investigation on a dime all these years.”

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This is just discusting. You attack another country, and you disappear and they pay you cash for your mercenary acts. It is just like maine to continue to give away other peoples money. No physical evidence just rumors and inuendo. No wonder every person with their hand out comes to Maine. That away judge. If after 46 years the US government wont release any documents if there ever was any to release you just gave the cash away.

On 8/20/09 at 7:35 AM, quink2495 wrote: R

the infoman apparently information isn't your strong suit, since if you READ the article the lady never asked for any money, the judge decided to award her some anyway. She wanted INFORMATION which she still hasn't gotten. Yes, the U.S. would probably not give information to the families of people who attacked it covertly, or would at least give it out sparingly, but it has been long enough that most of it should be. The law grants judges leeway to dispatch a case how they see fit, and all Cuba had to do was say "Hey, that guy attacked us, we imprisoned him, he died" and that would have probably been close to the end of it.

On 8/20/09 at 7:48 AM, JoePlum wrote:

Well, judges don't make awards that aren't asked for, so even if money wasn't a priority for Ms. Sullivan, her lawyers must have included a request for money damages in the original complaint. To me, the more interesting question, which was not discussed in the article, is whether Ms. Sullivan has some sense of interconnectedness and compassion for Cubans' dilemmas, in addition to her own understandable sense of loss.

On 8/20/09 at 7:53 AM, Telefunkinu47 wrote: \

Got to agree, quite the BS here..

So what the hell difference does it make if this guy went missing in Cuba, Iraq, Afghanistan or wherever. Take your pick! OMFG! Only in America!!

On 8/20/09 at 8:39 AM, theinfoman wrote:

I see that Quint 2495 does not know the law. You don't get what you don't ask for. It was court shopping through and through. When someone says its not about the money then they should imediately make a motion to the court that the judgement is satisfied. But we all know how the cash really feels. Well we will use it for this and that. Oh and here is another one for you Quint 2495. Never has the freezing of assets against a government hurt the government it has always and will always hurt the people who paid the taxes to put it there. Almost forgot lawyers who make the best lobster feed might try to tell you they did it for the cause (which i am waiting to hear next) but they will take the cash too seeing as it was awarded. 8 million for thier 40 percent and all of their costs after they get t heir fee. Its all about cash.

On 8/20/09 at 8:53 AM, jersk9 wrote:

I have to agree with infoman. What kind of precedence is this. Now, theoretically, every person who is caught spying can have a lawsuit claim. They knew what they were doing and getting into. You play the game you pay the price.

On 8/20/09 at 9:54 AM, tabitham84 wrote:

Wow. I am all for this woman searchng for information about her dad, but.. he was serving in the military.. if she can be awarded this money, (which doesnt get awarded unless it was asked for b/c it needs to be put into court documents), what is stopping any other family out there for the wrongful death of their husbands, sons, fathers, brothers, sisters, wives, daughters, and etc, from sueing the pants off Iraq, and Afganistan. I think it's just a little greedy, and a reason for Cuba to retaliate and want to attack America for freezing their accounts. Kinda stupid in my opinion for this woman to be awarded any money. If she does get the, how about she give up the search for information, donate the money to a VERY needy cause, and let her father rest in peace. He served our country, and she should be damn proud and remember him as a soldier who did his job.

On 8/20/09 at 10:27 AM, berquis wrote:

A person can sue Cuba if their family member, who was millitary personnel and knew that they could get killed, died there? Honestly?

On 8/20/09 at 12:15 PM, DavidReed wrote:

Sounds like most of these comments are made by people who are just peeved they didn't think of it first.

I hope Ms. Sullivan finds what she's looking for.

-David

On 8/20/09 at 12:20 PM, JonAlbrecht wrote:

I appreciate the woman's sufferring, but ....Every one here makes a lot of assumptions. The only facts appear to be that people saw him take off from Mexico and that he previously bombed Cuba in violation of how many laws. No one know whether he flew to Cuba or somewhere else. They just know he didn't land in Mexico. This case should have been thrown out.

On 8/20/09 at 12:21 PM, ralphmcdevitts wrote:

jeolousy is ugly.

On 8/20/09 at 12:41 PM, Telefunkinu47 wrote:

Class envy???? LOL......

Only in America.

On 8/20/09 at 2:46 PM, ronaldo82k wrote:

Lets sue the Germans for WWII, the Russians from the cold war and the Bermuda Triangle for all the planes and ships that have disappeared over the years. All that money can fix our economy.

On 8/20/09 at 3:43 PM, blueskiesaboveme wrote:

Does this have anything to do with the Bay of Pigs?

On 8/20/09 at 5:34 PM, PeterTaber wrote:

While I can empathize with Ms. Sullivan in her distress over the unanswered question of her father's fate, it's hard to make much sense of Justice Hjelm's ruling. I have as personal an axe to grind as she but I hardly think I deserve to profit monetarily. In 1963, my father, the eminent guerrilla warfare expert and partisan of the Cuban Revolution, Robert B. Taber, was in Oriente Province witnessing the misery that people like Mr. Sullivan visited upon the Cuban people. (Two years earlier at the Bay of Pigs he was severely wounded when mercenaries like Mr. Sullivan took part in in a now-legendary fiasco of an invasion that ended in their humiliating and well deserved defeat.) In Oriente Province, people like Mr. Sullivan carried out bombing raids upon innocent civilians and dropped weapons and other military supplies to U.S.-supported thugs on the ground. It was there also that people like Mr. Sullivan conducted biological warfare operations from the air intended to wipe out Cuba's swine in order to deprive its people of much needed protein. These were covert activities involving the very same kind of non-military actors that our government today refers to as terrorists. These were international war crimes for which the United States has never been brought to justice. Indeed, much of the relationship of Cuba with respect to the United States has been that of a victim to a bully. In 1898 the U.S. stepped in and robbed the Cuban people just as they were emancipating themselves from Spain. For the next six decades our country exploited the Cuban people at every turn, taking their land, dominating their economy, imposing a constitution that allowed American forces to invade at will, turning Havana into a brothel and putting in place some of the most ruthless dictators the Western Hemisphere has ever seen. How ironic that when people our government today calls terrorists -- people like Mr. Sullivan -- are captured, it imprisons them at Guantanamo, a prime piece of Cuban real estate the U.S. saw fit in 1898 to help itself to for all time. Justice Hjelm's absurd monetary award ruling is just more of the same.

Peter Taber

Searsport

On 8/20/09 at 8:40 PM, daniels wrote:

I guess I need to vent...these comments are made by the same 20 (maybe) people, sitting in their subsidized housing, smoking thier Pall Mall cigarettes that I help buy, and don't have a clue. When you start producing, not consuming, then start passing judgement.

Hey, good news for Sherry on both scores. I spoke with her in the mid 1990's about other possibilities leading to the deaths of her father and Rorke, but they were just speculations.

One theory of mine was that Frank Sturgis took some of the hollow cinder blocks forming the "fence" separating our house from his little Cuban exile "safe house" in Grapeland Heights
in Miami, then stuffed them with explosives and gave them to Sullivan and Rorke to be used as homemade "bombs over Havana". I caught Sturgis stealing cinder blocks twice and
the 2nd time I gave him nasty bastidge hell, and threatened to call the police if any more cinder blocks disappeared. And I was only about 15-16 at the time but yelling from inside my
bedroom castigating him through an open window, so I could pretend that I was anyone I wanted to be. My voice was pretty deep for a teeny bopper when I wanted it to be. Called
him every Spanish cuss word I knew from "pinga" to "maricón" and everything else in between. He just quietly and angrily put the cinder blocks back without even looking up at me.
My thought was that whenever 2 of those cinder filled blocks were knocked against each other, sparks were generated and flew a few feet at night. If a load of these were in the
plane and they toppled over or banged into each other, the homemade explosives might have ignited and caused the plane to burn, or explode then crash on Cuban soil. Sherry was
willing to consider that possibility instead of Cuban artillery gunners being so good that they could shoot a plane out of the sky without help from Russian technology. Either way
her father apparently survived and was in Cuban prisons for an extended period. Hope she gets her funds from the $270 million plus interest of frozen Cuban funds.

This is Sherry Sullivan, daughter to Geoffrey Sullivan who disappeared with Alexander Rorke in 1963. My father and Alex had a secret meeting by driving from Waterbury Connecticut to somewhere along the coast, perhaps New Haven area. This occurred in the summer of 1963. They first drove to a mansion with guarded gates, went inside, then were escorted onto a boat for a secret meeting at sea. I've done some researching on who may have owned this type of property at that time. It must have been someone high up in the ranks. Any thoughts on this subject would be appreciated. My new email is sassully@roadrunner.com

The book Cloak and Gown or some of the books and papers on Skull and Bones might give mention of some of the spooks in the New Haven area who fit the details you might have. A few of the Yale profs were recruiters. Did either Rorke or your father go to Yale or have a good friend who did? Yale has always been spook recruitment central. 

Hi Sherry,

Good to see you on this forum. The person who comes to mind who was living on or near the coast in Connecticut at that time is none other
than William F. Buckley, Jr. the founder of Young Americans for Freedom and a member of one of the first American families ever to call on the
U.S. military to bail them out of a sticky situation when their properties had been seized by a foreign power. In his case, Pantapec Oil was seized by
the Mexican government when Pancho Villa was very active in that region and Gen. John J. Pershing went after them with a full expeditionary force.

I have actually traced the history of the following persons and their involvement in that infamous Pancho Villa campaign which set the standard for various
military interventions in the ensuing years.

1) Major General Charles A. Willoughby as a young Army officer who later made his immense fortune by using his knowledge about the start of the ending
Korean War to profit immensely on the international soybean futures market. He and H. L. Hunt had cornered the soybean market just weeks or months
in advance of the Korean War then Willoughby dressed a company of South Korean regulars in North Korean uniforms on some ruse and had them shot dead
in order to use that as justification for the outbreak of the Korean War. All this is documented in The Origins of the Korean War Volumes I and II by a professor
from Northwester whose name escapes me now. (Prof. Bruce Cumings, is the spelling I think with one M.)

2) William F. Buckley Jr.'s father William F. Buckley, Sr. who lost millions when Pantapec Oil was expropriated. Richard Condon wrote about Buckley by
referencing: "...that fascinating young man who wrote about man and God at Yale." In fact the title was God and Man at Yale. Condon really meant:
"...that FASCIST bastidge, William F. Buckley, Jr. from Yale."

3) George Otis Draper, the cousin of Wickliffe Preston Draper who lived in nearby Hopedale, MA
(Wickliffe was also the 1st cousin of Andrew Preston who started The Boston Fruit Company which
later became United Fruit which had holdings not only in Cuba but throughout Central America and
the Caribbean islands.) United Fruit originated the concept of "The Banana Wars" which resulted in
at least 5 military interventions after World War One. Both the Forbes, the Drapers, the Prestons,
the Cabots and the Dulles brothers were MAJOR stockholders in United Fruit of course and when
Castro took over Cuba United Fruit lost millions of dollars worth of properties.

Regards,
John

Of course, there was always Sherman Billingsley, who was Alexander Rorke's father in law as I recall. He owned The Stork Club
in Manhattan but lived on the shore in Connecticut as well as far as I can determine. The Buckley's were from Darien which had miles of beachfront
property. Could have been either one of them your father visited or even someone else. More likely to have been Billingsley but
it could have been that Fascist bastidge Buckley, too.




http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2009/03/02/...club/#more-6452

Hi Sherry,

May I suggest you check out Wilbur Baldinger?

James

Hi James,

Long time no hear. Or long time no here, either. Would you please send Sherry an eMail to sassully@roadrunner.com with your contact information? She has some really old photos with some unidentified suspects and/or perps which she would like you to review and then circulate through back channels as privately as possible among some of your contacts and friends.

Can you tell us more about this Wilbur Baldinger character you mentioned? Turns out that Sherman Billingsley used to pay Sherry's
father in cash for his piloting duties, and the Billingsley Connecticut home was somewhere between Darien and New Haven on the
Connecticut coast. Billingsley owned The Stork Club in Manhattan but lived in Connecticut apparently. I am still trying to track down
the address of his former residence. He apparently owned a yacht as well. There is an actor named Billingsley still alive today also from Connecticut who might be Sherman's son. Sherry thinks that it is pretty likely that Sherman Billingsley's home and yacht were the
usual destination of both Alexander Rorke, Billingsley's son-in-law, and Geoffrey Sullivan on their Connecticut road trips.

Thanks,
John B

The Stork Club's owner and operator, John Sherman Billingsley, is even more closely identified with the speakeasy era and his story is that of a Horatio Alger with a twist. As sometimes happens, the owner is far more colorful than the club itself.

Sherm, as his intimates know him, was born in the back room of a grocery store at a former whistle stop called Enid, Oklahoma ("Dine" spelled backwards, he explains)—one of a family of nine children. He has been identified with the liquor business, one way or another, since (the story goes) he started selling booze to the Indians at the age of 7.

This future arbiter of New York's cafe society quit school at the fifth grade and started on an adventurous career that brought him via Detroit to New York in the middle of the Prohibition period. He sold Bronx real estate, operated a drugstore and dispensed liquor (on prescription). Until he opened his first speakeasy in 1926 his nearest approach to being a restaurateur was as a sandwich counterman. His first Stork Club (he still can't remember just what suggested the name) at 152 W. 58th St. was demolished by prohibition agents. The one next was the New Stork Club at 51 1/2 E. 51st St. The third and current club of that name was started in 1934, about a year after repeal, at 3 E. 53rd St.

Originally popular only with theatrical and professional people, the STORK was taken up by the debutantes and youthful collegiate set largely because of a class magazine article by then society columnist Inez Robb. The youngsters, most of them from our "better" families, lent glamor to the place and they in turn loved it because "good, old Sherm" never let them pay a check. And the STORK CLUB'S vast popularity with newspaper people, it must be confessed, has been due mostly to Sherm's largesse.

Billingsley's giveaways—a surefire bid for patronage —have included raffles; gay "balloon nites," with many balloons containing $100 bills; free champagne and perfume (N.B. Sherm owns the perfume company)—and cost as high as $250,000 a year. Sherm's generosity with his clientele included gifts of suspenders and neckties to the gentlemen, gold compacts for the ladies and even diamond-studded bracelets to certain of his favorites. All this paid off in free publicity (Sherm 34 frowns on conventional advertising) and started the STORK CLUB on the road to success.

The STORK expanded many times within the 8-story building owned by Billingsley and is now a series of rooms on several floors. The famous Cub Room, of limited capacity, is the hardest to get into and that could be its chief attraction. The main room lost some of its popularity with dancers because Sherm, who doesn't dance, insists on the bands playing his choice of tempo instead of that preferred by them.

Sherm himself is something of a paradox. His blue eyes, ruddy cheeks, sandy hair, shy, soft-spoken manner and conservative dress suggest an English country squire. But his placid appearance is misleading. Actually, Sherm is more temperamental than a grand opera tenor, with a flamboyant imagination and a positively Machiavellian gift for intrigue, with the imbalance of a total lack of humor.

Barring customers from his club for real or fancied grievances—sometimes for nothing more offensive than having been photographed in a rival restaurant or carrying matches other than the STORK CLUB'S—is part of his stock in trade. (Some suspect it is another way of milking the press for publicity.) His written memoranda to his employees are collector's items and the stories about the alleged espionage and counter-espionage that goes on behind the scenes at the STORK-tapped telephones, hidden tape recorders, etc.—are hilarious, though to some extent fictional. Actually,only the important areas—check room, entrance way to the Cub Room, main room, kitchen, etc.—were wired for sound, a push-button system enabling Billingsley to eavesdrop at any time from his office up-stairs.

Although not a restaurateur, per se, Billingsley does know the restaurant business. He is a perfectionist, as any employee—or former employee—can attest.

Firing help, for no apparent reason, seems to have been a favorite indoor sport of the STORK CLUB'S boss and many a rival restaurant, staffed by STORK-trained former employees, prospers because of it. Fired with-out notice, after a 24 years' association with Billingsley, was Frank Harris, now manager of the highly successful EDEN Roc.

Other STORK CLUB alumni at EDEN Roc are Gregory (22 years with Sherm) ; Jack Spooner, Leo Spitzel, Jimmy Coulias, Andrew—Ole Anderson (20 years apiece), and Red Cronin (6.) Ed Wynne of the HARWYN CLUB served his apprenticeship at the STORK and so did Maurice D'Euphemia, who now has his own place, MAURICE. Scatti of the MONT D'oR was with Billingsley about a dozen years, and Jack Entratter, who later went from the COPACABANA to make a great name for himself at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas.

This is only a partial list; actually enough employees have been fired from the STORK to staff a half dozen other clubs. One waiter was summarily discharged for presenting gardenias to dames whom Sherm didn't fancy; a bartender was dropped merely for getting his name in a Broadway column. However, none would deny the value of his training under the most unpredictable man in the restaurant business.

Several years ago Billingsley launched a television program from the STORK with himself as star, using his cafe society customers as window dressing. But close-ups revealed Sherm as something less than the polished personality that he had been reputed to be. In fact he pulled so many verbal boners that he became known as the "Sam Goldwyn of TV." This type of public exposure for a club that had always played up its exclusiveness was probably a mistake in the first place. Many people who had watched the show on TV found they couldn't get into the Club itself, so the publicity backfired.

For several years now there has been a picket line outside the STORK due to some union trouble and this, too, has somewhat dimmed the popularity of Billingsley's boite. But those who know Sherm best predict eventual vindication and victory for his side of the argument. Anyone who could survive the gangster wars of the bootlegging era would have to be courageous, tenacious and tough. Sherman Billingsley is all three.

Prices are actually not too high and a visit to the STORK is indicated for out-of-town visitors, for the sake of curiosity if nothing more. They may get their feelings hurt to find the velvet rope up, but that should be considered part of the experience. Many of our best people enjoy the distinction of having been barred at the STORK.

Billingsley's restaurant at 94 Park Ave. is operated by Fred Billingsley, one of Sham's brothers, but is in no way connected with the STORK CLUB.

This guy Wilbur Baldinger was about as Progressive and Liberal as they come. He wrote for The Nation and The New Republic
and was a staunch union advocate, a constant campaigner for civil rights, equal rights and human rights. His papers are stored
at the Walter Reuther Library the union leader. He also worked for The National Civil Liberties association. Do you have the right guy here? He was part of Americans for Democratic Action.

He also HATED right-wing extremists and the likes of Billy James Hargis and Robert Morris both of whom were on his
watch list. (see below) He planned to write an expose of Hargis and Morris in fact. He was NOT rich by any means and certainly could not afford a Connecticut mansion, on the water with a giant yacht. He was a big fan of JFK, Thurgood
Marshall and Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island. He was anti-Fascist to the core.

7-19 Baldinger, Wilbur, "The Era of the Fascist Front," 1957

He even had another Manchurian Candidate bastidge on his hit list besides Robert Morris...

9-11 Committee for a Free Gold Market, Major George Racey Jordan, 1956-63

He was even following the Congress of Freedom and Constitution Party psychos....

9-17 Committee of the States, 1969-73

9-18 Congress of Freedom, 1956-66

9-19 Constitution Party, 1956-66

9-2 Headlines and What's Behind Them, Joseph P. Kamp, 1952-68

6-22 thru 23 Immigration; clippings, 1950-75

6-24 Senate Internal Security Subcommittee; clippings, 1961-76


He was after just about every well known Fascist in the USA


9-22 thru 24 Courtney, Kent, Conservative Society of America, Independent American, 1956-70

9-25 Defenders of American Education, 1957-68

9-26 Defenders of American Liberties, Robert Morris, 1962-64

9-27 Defenders of the American Constitution, 1956-75

9-28 DeMille Foundation, 4956-59

9-29 Appeal to Reason, The, Lawrence Dennis, 1957-62

9-3 Human Events; clippings, correspondence, 1957-73

9-30 Facts Forum, 1954-62

9-31 Fascists, 1947-66

10-10 Institute for American Strategy, 1961-71

10-11 thru 12 Christian Crusade, Billy James Hargis, 1961-76

10-13 Church League of America, Major Edgar C. Bundy, 1955-67

What the heck did he have to do with JFK's assassination?


[Box 1]

OS 4 Baldinger, Wilbur; New York Daily PM articles, 1944-46

[Box 2]

2-1 thru 44 National Civil Liberties Clearing House; minutes and meeting material, 1965 May-1970 Dec

[Box 3]

3-1 thru 2 National Civil Liberties Clearing House; minutes and meeting material, 1971

3-28 thru 58 Civil Liberties Bulletin, 1949 Jun-1971 Jan

3-3 thru 27 National Civil Liberties Clearing House Administrative Committee; minutes and meeting material, 1959 Nov-1971

3-59 Finance reports, 1951-69

3-60 thru 61 National Civil Liberties Clearing House Annual Conference, 1st-22nd; reports and programs, 1949-70

3-62 Conference speeches: Senator John F. Kennedy, Thurgood Marshall, William Douglas, Hon. Harry P. Cain, Richardson Dilworth, Hon. Claiborne Pell, Dore Schary, Rep. John Lindsay, Roy Wilkins, 1959-63

3-63 Certificate of incorporation, 1964

3-64 Mailings, 1960-65

3-65 Baldinger, Mary Alice; personal, 1965-70

3-66 Ford Foundation; clippings, 1955-69

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[Box 4]

4-1 thru 2 Scrapbook; "The Guild Years: The Gathering Storm,” 1939-41

4-12 thru 13 Scrapbook; "The Guild Years: Reading From the Left,” 1943-44

4-14 thru 15 Scrapbook; "The Guild Years: Washington and PM,” 1945-55

4-16 thru 18 Scrapbook; Baldinger articles, 1945-65

4-19 thru 23 Scrapbook; "Around City Halls,” 1962-74

4-3 thru 5 Scrapbook; "The Guild Years: The Raging Storm,” 1941

4-6 thru 8 Scrapbook; "The Guild Years: In the Hot Seat,” 1941-44

4-9 thru 11 Scrapbook; "The Guild Years: Political Action Fronts,” 1943-44

[Box 5]

5-1 thru 6 Scrapbook; "Around City Halls,” 1971-76

5-10 Labor--general; clippings, report, 1950s-70s

5-11 Labor law; clippings, reports, 1950s-70s

5-12 Teamsters; clippings, 1960s-70s

5-13 thru 14 International labor; clippings, 1950s-70s

5-15 Maritime, docks; clippings, 1960s-70s

5-16 thru 17 Press; clippings, 1960s-70s

5-18 Steel; clippings, 1960s-70s

5-19 thru 20 Autos; clippings, 1960s-70s

5-21 thru 22 Coal; clippings, 1960s-70s

5-23 Electrical; clippings, 1960s-70s

5-24 Farm; clippings, 19660s-70s

5-25 AFL-CIO; clippings, 1960s-70s

5-7 USCM; press releases, pamphlets, 1963-71

5-8 Jansen, Don, Political Color of the Guild Reporter, The; graduate thesis, University of Minnesota, 1948

5-9.A Labor Department; clippings, 1950s-70s

[Box 6]

6-1 ADA (Americans for Democratic Action); clippings, 1960s-70s

6-11 thru 20 Supreme Court of the United States; clippings, 1958-76

6-2 thru 6 Civil rights; clippings, 1957-75

6-21 Communists; clippings, 1965-75

6-22 thru 23 Immigration; clippings, 1950-75

6-24 Senate Internal Security Subcommittee; clippings, 1961-76

6-25 Reapportionment; clippings, essays, 1964-73

6-7 Business political action, 1950s-60s

6-8 Politics; clippings, 1960s-70s

6-9 thru 10 Congressional voting record; ADA press, 1950s-76

7-1 Reapportionment; clippings, 1962-64

7-10 Mafia; "The Honored Society," New Yorker series, 1960s

7-11.A Harris, Richard, "New Justice," New Yorker, 1972

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[Box 7]

7-12 thru 13 Justice Department; clippings, 1950s-70s

7-14 thru 15 Nixon, Richard; clippings, 1971-76

7-16 Autographs, 1920s-60s

7-17 Baldinger, Wilbur, Newsweek article drafts, correspondence, 1949-55

7-18 Baldinger, Wilbur, "The Union Wreckers;" Communist history of United Electrical Workers Local 447, 1955

7-19 Baldinger, Wilbur, "The Era of the Fascist Front," 1957

7-2 thru 3 Natural resources; clippings, 1950s-70s

7-20 Baldinger, Wilbur, "The Faces of Children;" integration in District of Columbia, 1956

7-21 Baldinger, Wilbur; miscellaneous manuscripts, 1955-56

7-22 USCM; presidents reports, 1963-70

7-23 USCM; speech drafts, 1962-68

7-24 Baldinger, Wilbur, "New CATV Frontiers,” 1961

7-25 thru 26 CATV (Community antenna television), 1960-62, 1971-76

7-27 Electronic design; correspondence, 1961-62

7-28 Magazine correspondence, 1956-61

7-29 Baldinger, Wilbur, New Leader, Nation, New Republic; articles, correspondence, 1946-50

7-30 Progressive correspondence, drafts, 1947-59

7-31 Police; clippings, 1971-76

7-32 Revenue sharing; clippings, 1969-76

7-4 thru 5 Nixon, Richard; clippings, 1962-71

7-6 Agnew, Spiro; clippings, 1968-74

7-7 Anti-trust; clippings, 1954-75

7-8 Ford, Gerald; clippings, 1974-76

7-9 Congress; clippings, 1971-75

[Box 8]

8-1 National Urban Coalition; clipping, publications, 1969-71

8-10 thru 11 Housing; clippings, 1971-76

8-12 Lobbies; clippings, 1970-75

8-13 Manpower, poverty; clippings, 1971-76

8-14 Obituaries, 1970s

8-15 thru 17 Mayors; clippings, 1967-76

8-18 Urban issues; clippings, 1970-71

8-19 Internal Security Subcommittee (Senate); clippings, 1956-61

8-2 USCM; memos, 1969-74

8-20 thru 21 Loyalty oath; clippings, 1957-75

8-22 Spies, Wennerstrom; New Yorker series, 1966

8-23 thru 24 Spies; clippings, 1961-76

8-25 SACB (Subversive Activities Control Board); clippings, 1963-73

8-26 HUAC; clippings, 1960-75

8-27 Freedom School; clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, 1956-67

8-28 Freedoms Foundation; clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, 1957-70

8-3 USCM; publication material, 1971

8-4 USCM; publications, 1960s

8-5 Welfare; clippings, 1970-75

8-6 Consumer finance; clippings, 1971-75

8-7 thru 8 Metropolitan areas; clippings, 1960-71

8-9.A Common Cause; clippings, 1970-75

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[Box 9]

9-1 Herald of Freedom, Freedom Club, First Congregational Church, 1964

9-10 "Closer Up,” Don Bell Reports, 1947-61

9-11 Committee for a Free Gold Market, Major George Racey Jordan, 1956-63

9-12 thru 13 Committee for Constitutional Government, 1956-59

9-14 Committee for the Monroe Doctrine, 1962-63

9-15 thru 16 Committee of the 1,000,000, 1963-75

9-17 Committee of the States, 1969-73

9-18 Congress of Freedom, 1956-66

9-19 Constitution Party, 1956-66

9-2 Headlines and What's Behind Them, Joseph P. Kamp, 1952-68

9-20 Coordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms, Inc., 1963-64

9-21 Counterattack, 1959-62

9-22 thru 24 Courtney, Kent, Conservative Society of America, Independent American, 1956-70

9-25 Defenders of American Education, 1957-68

9-26 Defenders of American Liberties, Robert Morris, 1962-64

9-27 Defenders of the American Constitution, 1956-75

9-28 DeMille Foundation, 4956-59

9-29 Appeal to Reason, The, Lawrence Dennis, 1957-62

9-3 Human Events; clippings, correspondence, 1957-73

9-30 Facts Forum, 1954-62

9-31 Fascists, 1947-66

9-32 Federation for Constitutional Government, 1955-65

9-4 Information Digest; clippings, 1976

9-5 Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba, Spruille Braden, 1966-68

9-6 thru 7 Citizens Councils; clippings, 1954-73

9-8 Citizens Foreign Aid Committee, 1958-67

9-9 Citizens Foreign Relations Committee, Committee of Endorsers, 1956-62

[Box 10]

10-1 Fighting Homefolks of Fighting Men, Captain Eugene Guild, 1956-63

10-10 Institute for American Strategy, 1961-71

10-11 thru 12 Christian Crusade, Billy James Hargis, 1961-76

10-13 Church League of America, Major Edgar C. Bundy, 1955-67

10-14 Harvard Veritas Foundation, Alliance Inc., Archibald Roosevelt, 1955-63

10-15 American Academy of Public Affairs, 1962

10-16 American Association of Small Business, 1956-61

10-17 American Challenge, American States Rights Association, 1958-62

10-18 American Coalition, 1956-65

10-19 American Conservative Union, 1964-71

10-2 For America, 1956-73

10-20 American Council of Christian Laymen, Verne P. Kaub, 1957-64

10-21 thru 23 American Economic Foundation, 1956-73

10-24 American Education Association, 1948-62

10-25 American Enterprise Association, 1950-61

10-26 American Enterprise Institute, 1964-66

10-27 American Good Government Society, 1956-61

10-28 American Jewish League Against Communism, 1958-62

10-29 Washington Observer, 1965-70

10-3 Foundation for American Principles and Traditions, 1955-62

10-30 American National Research Inc., Karl Baarslag, 1958-62

10-31 thru 32 American Nazi Party, George Lincoln Rockwell, 1952-75

10-4 Foundation for Economic Education, 1950-57

10-5 Freedom in Action, 1958-60

10-6 Freedom School, 1965-68

10-7 thru 9 Circuit Riders, Inc., 1957-64

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[Box 11]

11-1 American Security Council, 1962-76

11-10 Aware Inc., 1955-73

11-11 thru 13 John Birch Society, Robert Walsh, 1956-76

11-14 Black Muslims, 1960-69

11-15 Book Publishers and shops, 156-74

11-16 thru 17 Buckly, William F. Jr., Young Americans for Freedom, Conservative Party, etc., 1957-76

11-18 Campaign for the 48 States, 1955-59

11-19 Caucasian League, 1963

11-2 thru 5 Americans for Constitutional Action, Men Moreell, 1958-76

11-20 Christian Anti-Communist Crusade, Dr. Fred Schwarz, 1960-72

11-21 USCM; Municipal Employee Safety program, 1962

11-22 USCM; What Mayors Want: Policy Positions of the US Conference of Mayors, 1973

11-23 USCM; The Mayor and Economic Opportunity Programs, 1970

11-24 USCM; The Mayor and Manpower, 1970

11-25 USCM; The Mayor and Federal Aid, 1968

11-26 Colburn, Kenneth, Southern Black Mayors: Local Problems and Federal Responses, 1973

11-27 thru 28 USCM; Community Relations Service reports, 1967

11-6 Americans for National Security, 1963-69

11-7 Americas Future Inc., 1957-73

11-8 Anti-Communist League, 1956-61

11-9 Anti-Communist Liaison, 1963-65

1-2 thru 58 National Civil Liberties Clearing House; minutes and meeting material, 1949 May-1965 Mar

[Box 12]

12-1 USCM (United States Conference of Mayors); Community Relations Service reports, 1967

12-11 AFL-CIO; clippings, 1947-61

12-12 CIO Councils; clippings, 1946-60

12-13 thru 14 CIO; clippings, 1947-57

12-2 thru 3 International labor; clippings, reports, 1946-50

12-4 thru 7 Wallace, Henry A.; clippings, reports, 1947-65

12-8 thru 10 Progressive Citizens of America; clippings, 1946-47

[Box 13]

13-1 AFL; clippings, 1947-55

13-12 Intelligence Digest, Kenneth de Courcy, 1957

13-13 thru 14 International Council of Christian Churches; clippings, 1960-75

13-15 thru 16 Katanga Freedom Fighters, American Afro-Asian Educational Exchange, Marvin Liebman, 1961-70

13-17 thru 19 Ku Klux Klan; clippings, 1946-76

13-2 thru 4 Citizens Committee on the Fair Labor Standards Act; correspondence, reports, 1955-59

13-20 Liberty Amendment Committee, Willis E. Stone, National Committee for Economic Freedom, 1958-71

13-5 thru 8 Politics; clippings, 1948-55

13-9 thru 11 International labor, Lovestone; clippings, 1949-65

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[Box 14]

14-1 thru 2 Liberty Lobby, 1968-76

14-10 National Association for the Advancement of White People; clippings, 1962-64

14-11 National Association of Pro-America, 1956-59

14-12 National Citizens Protective Association, White Sentinel, 1959

14-13 National Economic Council, Mervin K. Hart, 1956-73

14-14 National Education Program, 1958-73

14-15 National Labor-Management Foundation, 1956-63

14-16 National Renaissance Party, 1957-75

14-17 National Right to Work Committee, 1963-76

14-18 National States Rights Party, 1958-68

14-19 National Youth Alliance, 1969

14-20 Nix in '56, Sally Stratton, 1953-57

14-21 Northern World (Northern Europe), 1951-65

14-22 Philbrick, Herbert A.; Americanism Educational League, Constructive Action, US Anti-Communist Congress, 1965-70

14-23 Right-To-Write Committee, 1960-62

14-24 Smith, Gerald L. K., Sam Cook Jr., 1957-75

14-25 Smoot, Dan, 1958-69

14-26 Southern States Industrial Council, 1957-65

14-27 SPX Research Associates, Col. Tom R. Huttono, 1962

14-28 Unification Church, Rev. Sun Myung Moon, 1974-76

14-29 U.S.A., 1956-63

14-3 Life Lines; clippings, 1960-75

14-30 Virginian, The, William Stephenson, 1956-59

14-31 Walker, General Edwin A., 1961-76

14-32 Women's Voice, We the Mothers Mobilize for America, 1956-64

14-33 We the People!, Council of 100, Free Enterprise Federation, 1955-63

14-34 thru 35 Right wing; clippings, 1956-73

14-36 Right wing project; correspondence, 1956-71

14-4 thru 5 Manion Forum, 1956-75

14-6 Liberty Lobby, Trade Policy Committee, 1960-68

14-7 Liberty and Property Inc., Right, Alert Americans Association, 1956-67

14-8 Minutemen; clippings, 1961-73

14-9 Minute Women; clippings, 1962

[Box 15]

15-1 Group Research Inc.; clippings, correspondence, 1958-75

15-18 Loyalty statements for press releases, 1947-52

15-19 Fund for the Republic, B. Carroll Reece, 1955-61

15-2 Group Investigation Associates, 1965-72

15-3 Institute for American Democracy, 1966-75

15-4 Right wing index draft, 1956

15-5 thru 8 Internal Security Subcommittee (Senate); clippings, 1952-56

15-9 thru 17 Loyalty; clippings, 1947-56

[Box 16]

16-1 Reece, B. Carroll, 1953-55

16-10 Loyalty; clippings, 1956-57

16-11 thru 17 Communists; clippings, 1951-65

16-2 thru 5 HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee); clippings, 1953-63

16-6 thru 9 Subversive Activities Control Board; clippings, 1950-63

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[Box 17]

17-1 thru 9 Communists; clippings, 1946-51

17-10 thru 17 Spies; clippings, 1948-67

[Box 18]

18-1 thru 2 Spies; clippings, 1947-48

18-10 thru 16 Civil Rights; clippings, reports, 1949-57

18-17 thru 19 McCarthy, Joseph R.; clippings, 1954-68

18-3 thru 9 Supreme Court of the United States; clippings, 1947-58

[Box 19]

19-1 thru 14 McCarthy, Joseph R.; clippings, 1950-54

19-15 American Flag Committee, W. Henry MacFarland, Jr.; newsletters, clippings, 1967-72

19-16 thru 17 Task Force, Defenders of the American Constitution, 1955-75

19-18 thru 19 Manion Forum, Clarence E. Manion 1957-60

[Box 20]

20-1 thru 8 Manion Forum, Clarence E. Manion, 1961-75

20-10 Cain, Mary, Summit Sun; clippings, Cain editorials, 1956-63

20-11 thru 13 Economic Council Letter, National Economic Council, Inc., 1946-73

20-14 thru 16 National Renaissance Bulletin, National Renaissance Party, James H. Madole, ed., 1953-75

20-17 Liberty Letter, Liberty Lobby, 1963-70

20-9 Dan Smoot Speaks, 1955-63

[Box 21]

21-1 Liberty Letter, Liberty Lobby, 1970-75

21-11 Party platforms, Republican and Democrat, 1932-52

21-12 American Opinion, Robert Welch, 1961 April, May

21-13 Right: The National Journal of Forward-Looking Americanism (also ...Forward-Looking Nationalism, and A Monthly Newsletter Of, by and For the American Rightwing), 1956-60

21-14 Citizen, The, Citizens' Council of America, W.J. Simmons, 1961-63

21-15 Tax Fax pamphlets, The Independent American, 1960-67

21-16 Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., 1967

21-17 thru 19 America's Future: A Weekly Review of News, Books, and Public Affairs, Rosalie M. Gordon, R.K. Scott, 1962-67

21-2 thru 3 Citizens Foreign Aid Committee News, 1960-67

21-20 Things We "Know" That Are Not So, American Economic Foundation, 1963-67

21-4 "Rightists" Groups, Publications, and Some Individuals in the United States (And Some Foreign Countries), First National Directory of; 2nd-6th editions, published by Liberty and Property, 1955-68

21-5 Homefront, Institute for American Democracy, 1967-69

21-6 thru 8 National Right to Work Committee, 1955-63

21-9 thru 10 Subversive Activities Control Board, 1951-55

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[Box 22]

22-1 Behind the Headlines, John Flynn, 1957-59

22-10 Christian Crusade: The National Christian Americanism Monthly, Christian Echoes National Ministry, Inc., Billy James Hargis, L.E. White, 1959-61

22-11 Virginian, The, William Stephenson, Lacy Jeffreys, 1956-58

22-12 CSG Spotlight (Committee for Constitutional Government), 1956-66

22-2 Labor booklets, 1950s-60s

22-3 Communism booklets, 1929-62

22-4 thru 5 Subversive Activities Control Board, Communist Party, 1950-56

22-6 Welch, Robert; American Opinion, One Man's Opinion, The Life of John Birch, 1954, 1956-58

22-7 American Opinion, Robert Welch, 1959

22-8 thru 9 American Mercury, Russell MaGuire, William LaVarre, Natasha Boissevain, Maurine Halliburton, 1958-60

[Box 23]

23-1 Right to Work National Newsletter, 1956-64

23-10 American Progress, Willis E. Stone, 1956-63

23-11 Freedom Magazine, Willis E. Stone, 1963

23-12 thru 13 Freedom Club, First Congregational Church, 1956-72

23-14 Freedom Club Bulletin, James Fifield, Jr., 1956-72

23-15 What's Happening in America?, American Heritage Protective Committee, 1956

23-16 American Heritage Protective Committee, Blue Book for Patriots, 1956

23-17 Greater Nebraskan, The, George J. Thomas, 1958-62

23-18 Cross and the Flag, The, Gerald K. Smith, 1957, 1960

23-19 Hoke, Henry, It's a Secret, 1946

23-2 FEE, Notes From, Foundation for Economic Education, 1956-67

23-20 Martin, Lawrence, Faceless Informers and Our Schools, 1954

23-21 Operation Abolition, National Council of the Churches of Christ, 12961

23-22 Bagdikian, Ben, What Price Security, 1955

23-23 Taft, Robert Alphonso (US Senator-Ohio), 1950s

23-24 Watts, Rowland, The Draftee and Internal Security: A Study of the Army Military Personnel Security Program, n.d.

23-3 Christian Anti-Communism Crusade Newsletter, Dr. Fred Schwarz, 1961-65

23-4 thru 5 Facts Forum, Robert Dedman, 1955-56

23-6 thru 7 USA: An American Bulletin of Fact and Opinion, Alice Widener, 1954-62

23-8 thru 9 Human Events, Frank Hanighen 1955-63

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[Box 24]

24-1 Taft-Hartleyism in Southern Textiles: Feudalism With a New Face, 1950

24-10 thru 11 Steel unions; clippings, 1947-65

24-12 Railroad unions; clippings, 1954-65

24-13 Telephone unions; clippings, 1962-64

24-14 International Union of Mines, Mill, and Smelter Workers; clippings, 1947-65

24-15 United Packinghouse Workers; clippings, 1949-59

24-16 Maritime unions; clippings, 1946-65

24-17 thru 19 International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union; clippings, 1947-65

24-2 Internal security, 1950s

24-3 Transport Workers Union; clippings, 1947-63

24-4 Textiles Workers Union of America; clippings, 1947-65

24-5 thru 8 Teamsters; clippings, 1947-63

24-9 Teachers unions; clippings, 1947-60

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25-1 Government unions; clippings, 1947-64

25-12 UAW Convention, PM clippings, 1946

25-13 American Communication Association; clippings, 1952-60

25-2 International Fur and Leatherworkers Union; clippings, 1948-57

25-3 Farm unions; clippings, 1953-61

25-4 Electrical unions; clippings, 1947-65

25-5 Coal unions; clippings, 1952-65

25-6 Building trade unions; clippings, 1947-64

25-7 thru 11 Automobile unions; clippings, 1945-61

John,

I'm not saying there is anything sinister about Baldinger or that he was the guy with the property Sherry asked about.

Rorke gave a speech at a meeting of the Anti Communist Liaison after his failed bombing raid into Cuba. Baldinger then allegedly met with Rorke several times and given both men's politics, the reasons would be most curious indeed. Maybe there is something in Baldinger's papers, I don't know.

There is also Rorke and Sullivan's communications with an FAA official named Oscar Bakke, Sullivan's out of date medical certificate for flying at the time he was transporting Rorke back to New York, Rorke's connection to the owner of a CIA operated PBY out of Miami, and to a CIA man named Montgomery Luft - all aspects in the months just before both men disappeared.

FWIW.

James

"... Rorke's connection to the owner of a CIA operated PBY out of Miami, and to a CIA man named Montgomery Luft - all aspects in the months just before both men disappeared. ...'.

James: That was the PBY that was at one time going to be used to remove Eddie Bayo from Cuba. (check Billings background info) The mission failed and Pawley provided a ship to go in a get Bayo and others out off Cuba. that too, failed. (the Thor? or Winder Jammer? been awhile) ( I think Rampart Magazine covered some of this in the mid seventies; "The CIA's Secret Yacht War, by Warren Hinckle) I think Bill Turner might be able to shed a little light on that operation. "Fish are Red", and "Deadly Secrets" come to mind, also.

The PBY was reg to "Texaco Petroleum", and later to, "Atlantic Richfield" One of the pilots who used to fly this PBY, Catalina, was Manuel Rojas a previous "Regina Cuban Air Cargo" pilot. He was earlier with Riddle Airlines back in 1957.

I flew as co-pilot on a few of those early raids into Cuba with Rorke and at one time with Sturges in a C-46 and another in a D-18 Twin Beach, previously (1958-59?) owned by Steve Guthrie. This raid or flight was in early 62 or 63... In 1959 the PBY was used to take some of us off the island of Cuba after a botched landing in a DC-3... FWIW.

Rorke also flew out of a small landing strip near CT "The Sea Spray Inn", which burned down around the sixties, I think. The PBY in question had been retro fitted at one time at LB Smith Aircraft, Miami. (not sure if this was before the BoP or after) It (the PBY) had originally been flown from Maranda Airpark, Tucson to Miami via New Orlanes, as well as two A-26's, which were later used in the BoP and flown by Crispin and Gonzalas in that operation. ( A-26-A or B-26 K; ID N 933 I think it was)

Alex Rorke about this time obtained money from up north (NY) and obtained access to and old navy vessel which became known as the "Raider Ship Rex" and made raids into Cuba from Everglades Fla,. In time this ship became a communications platform for JFK and was berthed near the Kennedy compond at West Palm. Perhaps you already know this, but thought I would bring it up to date for those who might care or be interested in such matters (FWIW)
Now I'll go back under my rock..., I'm not much interested in JFK or Cuba research anymore, to many "Experts" out there.., but I do respect your research and dedication. If you can help Sherry in that regard.., , that would be wonderful.

My take is that Baldinger was the left-wing equivalent of a Sarah McClendon in the typical Spy-vs-Spy, Left vs. Right counter
intelligence detection, mis-direction and defection subterfuges which were always going on between those two sides. In fact Baldinger is one of only 2 or 3 possible sources for all the information which was given to Richard Condon to be used in The Manchurian Candidate to write his "historical novel". The other one, of course, is John Roy Carlson who wrote "Undercover" and the NY Times Best Seller for
1944 called "Under Cover" assuming Carlson was still alive then which I believe he was in fact. (Carlson was really Armen Dernounian I think it was spelled.)

Now that I take a closer look at those people Baldinger had files on, I think he is even more a more likely choice than Carlson/Dernounian.
Baldiner is one of the only ones who ever followed and spied upon the likes of Major George Rackey Jordan from 1956-1963. Notice
how many people had files running up to 1963-64 collected by Baldinger and then he just stopped collecting info after JFK was killed by them? He was onto The Congress of Freedom where Milteer and Somersett had their taped conversations, The Consitituion Party of
Gerald L K Smith and Col. Wm. Potter Gale from California and a bunch of other Manchurian Candidate cronies and bastidges.

Just take a look at Baldinger's short list of villains:

9-26 Defenders of American Liberties, Robert Morris, 1962-64

9-27 Defenders of the American Constitution, 1956-75 General Pedro A. del Valle who was a constant Draper correspondent

9-29 Appeal to Reason, The, Lawrence Dennis, 1957-62 One of the few black Nazis in the history of that movement

9-3 Human Events; clippings, correspondence, 1957-73 The paper sponsored by Wickliffe P. Draper and Frank Hanighen

9-30 Facts Forum, 1954-62 This was Dan Smoot a former FBI man from Texas (Tim Smoot his son
attended college with me as a matter of fact.)

9-31 Fascists, 1947-66 Gee, only 20 years chasing down these Nazi bastidges.

10-10 Institute for American Strategy, 1961-71 These guys were written up in my ManCand internet document.
Kintner and a bunch of other Nazi bastidges

Just about every group or person on Baldinger's lists had something to do with JFK's demise.


9-5 Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba, Spruille Braden, 1966-68

9-6 thru 7 Citizens Councils; clippings, 1954-73 These are The White Citizens Councils

9-8 Citizens Foreign Aid Committee, 1958-67

9-9 Citizens Foreign Relations Committee, Committee of Endorsers, 1956-62

10-11 thru 12 Christian Crusade, Billy James Hargis, 1961-76 Baldinger had a particular interest in the ACL of Willoughby,
Hargis, Rorke, McClendon and Edward Hunter

10-13 Church League of America, Major Edgar C. Bundy, 1955-67

Typing too fast: (correcting typos)

Now that I take a closer look at those people Baldinger had files on, I think he is even more a more likely choice than Carlson/Dernounian.
Baldinger is one of the only ones who ever followed and spied upon the likes of Major George "Racey" Jordan from 1956-1963. Notice
how many people had files running up to 1963-64 collected by Baldinger and then he just stopped collecting info after JFK was killed by them? He was onto The Congress of Freedom where Milteer and Somersett had their taped conversations, The Consitituion Party of
Gerald L. K. Smith and Col. Wm. Potter Gale from California and a bunch of other Manchurian Candidate cronies and bastidges.

Most of you will not want to hear this, but if you want to know who really killed JFK just look at Wilbur Baldinger's watch lists and Richard
Condon's novel, The Manchurian Candidate, plus John Roy Carlson's books and you will have the whole bunch of bastidges delineated and defined and aligned to perpetuity. Add in Russ Bellant's works, and the work of Mae Brussell, Bill Turner and David Emory plus the
4-5 books by Epstein and Forster and you will have it all in one neat package. Do not forget Inside the League by Jon and Scott
Anderson either about the World Anti-Communist League, plus The Russian Fascists by John Roy Carlson and all the recent works
by about Wickliffe Preston Draper since 1994. The whole world only figured out Draper by the 21st Century and I am proud to say
that I was the main driving force behind the entire plot to expose Draper and The Pioneer Fund and their campaigns against humanity.

Get the files from Group Watch in Washington, DC another research think tank sponsored by the AFL-CIO and UAW intelligence gathering groups. These guys were powerless against the likes of Morris, Willoughby, Draper, Angleton, Cline and Buckley though.
Totally powerless. Especially when they had the likes of Thurmond, Helms, Eastland, Tower, Goldwater and company were on their side.

Here is a link to the PBY aircraft site on Wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBY
I never knew what the heck a PBY actually was. PB stands for Patrol Bomber and the letter Y was assigned to Consolidated Aircraft.

Can you tell us more about Wilbur Baldinger and his conversations/meetings with Alex Rorke and what you think the significance
of these meetings might be?

Wilbur Baldinger worked with Wes McCuen from Group Research, Inc. in Washington, DC which was an intel gathering operation
funded by UAW and the Reuthers. They published periodic monographs on their anti-Union foes, their organizations and associates
and their publications. They paid particular attention to some of my suspects and orgs involved with the JFK assassination like
ACL Comm of Correspondence, Intl Assoc for the Adv of Eugenics and Ethnology (IAAEE) the Draper Group, The John Birch Society,
and almost the entire list of Richard Condon's suspects including Major George Racey Jordan who was not followed by anyone else
I am aware of in fact except maybe ADL of B'nai B'rith and Epstein and Forster.

It turns out that Baldinger and McCuen helped prepare The Reuther Memorandum in 1961 and that these two may have been the
main source of information for Richard Condon as he wrote The Manchurian Candidate, in my honest opinion.

In August of 1963 a Kennedy aide named Myer Feldman joined with Senator Gale McGee from Wyoming in issuing a joint recommendation to JFK that he should launch another series of broadsides against The John Birch Society and the right wing in general
using the FCC, the IRS, the U.S. Post Office and other federal agencies to limit the ability of the far right to ply their trade at the
expense of U.S. taxpayers.

Now here is how this attack on the right and Baldinger's contact(s) with Alex Rorke might fit in with this entire scenario:

1) Someone on the far right became aware of Rorke's contact(s) with Baldinger (either clandestine or witting) and in a paranoid
over-reaction decided to terminate Rorke with prejudice due to the recent presence of multiple recent security breeches involving the
anti-Castro community in South Florida.

2) Senator Gale McGhee from Wyoming and Myer Feldman issued their anti-John Birch, and anti-Right Wing manifestos simultaneously in August of 1963 and both of these documents hit JFK's desk courtesy of Myer Feldman. Rorke and Sullivan disappeared in August
of 1963 as well, if I remember correctly. And both the Cubans and the Birchers realized that their operations in Miami had been
severely compromised by some unknown penetration agent or agents. Rorke was in all likelihood NOT the guilty culprit by the way.
There is nothing else to indicate that Rorke had turned informant on both his Birch, ACL Comm of Correspondence and anti-Castro
Cuban exile associates by the way.

3) Since Alex Rorke was very active in The John Birch Society, the leadership most likely then decided to scuttle the plans to allow the anti-Castro exiles in Miami to launch their long planned attempt on JFK in mid-November and then switched their assassination plans to Dallas where the likes of Willoughby, Morris, Walker, Hunt, etc. would be in much better control of the entire situation.

4) At about the same time the Miami PD Intel Division became aware of the Joseph Milteer tape recordings made by Willie Somersett
and they also turned up the heat in Miami, going as far as abandoning the motorcade from Miami Intl Airport to Biscayne Blvd a distance
of perhaps 8-10 miles on Tamiami Trail which is S.W. 8th Street, right through the heart of what was already known as Little Havana.
JFK would probably never have completed this motorcade. The Miami PD realized that protecting him for this entire distance would
have been futile. I personally discussed these issues with both members of the Miami PD and people like SOFs Gerry Hemming and
Roy Hargraves and several others. Their WAS going to be a motorcade in Miami and it WAS cancelled for security reasons despite
what people like Grodie Whineslow have to say about this. Quite frankly, Whineslow and his friend Vilhelm Belly can not be trusted or believed on anything. Nothing. Nothing at all. Ever. Marita Lorenz was telling the truth and they tried to make her out to be a liar.
And for some reason, that guy Gaeton Fonzi sided with them on the Lorenz issue as well. Shame on him. Shame on all of them.

5) After the death of JFK the efforts of Senator Gale McGee, Wilbur Baldinger, Myer Feldman and Wes McCuen plus the "ruthless"
Reuther brothers against the Birch Society and the far right were scrapped entirely since they no longer had the auspices of the offices of JFK to utilize.

And the rest is history.

Author: Jonathan Schoenwald
Title: A Time for Choosing: The Rise of Modern American Conservatism
http://www.abebooks.com

Priced from $3 to $10 a copy. Get this book. And read it. This guy Schoenwald knows what he is talking about and
he touches briefly on the subject of Rorke and Baldinger, too. He also is spot on regarding the McGee Memo as well.

So now the plot thickens even further. If I am reading the fuzzy antecedents below correctly, Rorke himself (and/or Billingsley perhaps) were friendly with and had allegiances to Kennedy. The author, a D C McJonathan-Swarm, implies that this is the reason why the CIA got involved with the disappearance of Rorke and his pilot Geoffrey Sullivan in late September, 1963.

And yet I am told that Rorke was a true John Bircher (or a John Birch penetration agent) who was active in many anti-Communist causes
over the years. And Rorke was with Army Intelligence during World War II and NOT the OSS/CIA. This would explain his associations
with Maj. Gen. Charles Willoughby, Edward Hunter and Sarah McClendon who tried to get into Army Intel during World War II but was rejected apparently.

Just imagine what would be going through your mind if you were either Willoughby, McClendon, or the head of Alpha 66 or the
30th of November Movement and you found out that Rorke was seen talking with Wilbur Baldinger from Group Research, Inc. the
intel gathering agency of the Reuther brothers, authors of The Reuther Memorandum. Everyone at UAW was on the case of The
John Birch Society and looking to get them out of the picture entirely once and for all. And if you were planning covert operations
against JFK or even his murder, like Alpha 66, the Bay of Pigs veterans and 30th of November Movement apparently were at that time and you found out that Rorke and/or Billingsley were FRIENDS of JFK what would you be thinking? Right! Rorke has got to go. Now! There is no way that Rorke and Willoughby would not have known about operations in South Florida planned by the Cuban exiles. Plus all the plans of The John Birch Society, where Willoughby was a prominent strategist, to counter the efforts of the Reuther brothers, the ADL, Senator Gale McGee and Myer Feldman, JFK's staff member.

Rather than risk further security breeches and the scuttling of the murder plot against JFK in Miami or elsewhere I am sure that if I were
either Willoughby or Robert J. Morris or any leader of a South Florida Cuban exile group, I would have had to give the thumbs down on
Rorke in a heartbeat. Especially with all the recent bad luck befalling the likes of various South Florida anti-Castro groups. When you add in the rampant paranoia about the heat being exerted on The John Birchers by Senator McGhee of Wyoming, Wilbur Baldinger, Wes McCuen, Myer Feldman, a Kennedy aide who had numerous ADL contacts, and the Reuther brothers from UAW, too. Even Dr. Fred Scwarz would have cast that ballot against Rorke in a heartbeat. Molina and Sullivan were just innocent bystanders in that entire
plot against Rorke.

The JFK plot was allowed to be nurtured and developed and the only change was the venue. It moved from Miami to Dallas after the motorcade in Miami was cancelled due to other security breeches.

Here are some more Rorke photos from the piece by D C McJonathan-Swarm attached below.




Birth: Aug. 9, 1926
Manhattan
New York County
New York, USA
Death: Sep. 24, 1963

husband of Jacqueline Billingsley. Son of Alexander Rorke a New York City Assistant District Attorney and later a New York State Appellate Judge. A graduate of St. John's University and a student of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He served as a military intelligence specialist in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was responsible for the security of five German provinces and participated in the capture of SS men and the first postwar roundup of Communist agents in the Allied military zones of Germany. His plane, flown by commercial pilot Geoffery Sullivan, disappeared on 24 September 1963 enroute to Cuba just two months before the Kennedy assassination. His father-in-law, Sherman Billingsley, held a press conference at the Stork club offering a $25,000 reward for his return with that of his pilot. It was rumored that the CIA was involved because of his friendship with and allegiance to Kennedy. In 1975 the CIA described him a "former witting collaborator (relationship terminated)." J Edgar Hoover wrote "No. I do not want in any way to get involved in this....H" on papers pertaining to correspondence and inquires by Billingsley. He was declared legally dead in 1968.

Burial:
Body lost or destroyed
Specifically: plane disappeared enroute to Cuba

Created by: D C McJonathan-Swarm
Record added: Nov 09, 2004
Find A Grave Memorial# 9788603

Please note all the groups or persons who showed up in The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon....

9-17 Committee of the States, 1969-73

9-18 Congress of Freedom, 1956-66

9-19 Constitution Party of the USA, 1956-66

9-26 Defenders of American Liberties, Robert Morris, 1962-64

9-27 Defenders of the American Constitution, 1956-75 Gen. Pedro A. del Valle

9-29 Appeal to Reason, The, Lawrence Dennis, 1957-62

9-3 Human Events; clippings, correspondence, 1957-73

10-10 Institute for American Strategy, Franz Straus-Hupe 1961-71

10-11 thru 12 Christian Crusade, Billy James Hargis, 1961-76

10-18 American Coalition (of Patriotic Societies), 1956-65 Draper front organization and The Pioneer Fund MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

10-2 For America, (Bonner Fellers) 1956-73 MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

11-16 thru 17 Buckly, William F. Jr., Young Americans for Freedom, Conservative Party, etc., 1957-76 MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

11-18 Campaign for the 48 States, 1955-59

11-2 thru 5 Americans for Constitutional Action, Men Moreell, 1958-76

11-20 Christian Anti-Communist Crusade, Dr. Fred Schwarz, 1960-72

11-16 thru 17 Buckly, William F. Jr., MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE Young Americans for Freedom, Conservative Party, etc., 1957-76

11-18 Campaign for the 48 States, 1955-59

11-2 thru 5 Americans for Constitutional Action, Admiral Benjamin Moreell, 1958-76

11-20 Christian Anti-Communist Crusade, Dr. Fred Schwarz, 1960-72

11-8 (World) Anti-Communist League, 1956-61

11-9 Anti-Communist Liaison, 1963-65 Willoughby, Rorke, Hunter MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

14-22 Philbrick, Herbert A.; Americanism Educational League, Constructive Action, US Anti-Communist Congress, 1965-70

14-23 Right-To-Write Committee, 1960-62

14-24 Smith, Gerald L. K. MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, Sam Cook Jr., 1957-75

14-25 Smoot, Dan, 1958-69

14-26 Southern States Industrial Council, 1957-65

14-28 Unification Church, Rev. Sun Myung Moon, 1974-76

14-29 U.S.A., 1956-63

14-3 Life Lines; clippings, 1960-75

14-30 Virginian, The, William Stephenson, 1956-59

14-31 Walker, General Edwin A., MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE 1961-76

14-32 Women's Voice, We the Mothers Mobilize for America, MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE 1956-64

14-33 We the People!, Council of 100, Free Enterprise Federation, 1955-63

20-1 thru 8 Manion Forum, Clarence E. Manion, 1961-75

20-10 Cain, Mary, Summit Sun; clippings, Cain editorials, 1956-63

20-11 thru 13 Economic Council Letter, National Economic Council, Inc., 1946-73

20-14 thru 16 National Renaissance Bulletin, National Renaissance Party, James H. Madole, ed., See Edward Mavole in MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE 1953-75

20-17 Liberty Letter, Liberty Lobby, 1963-70 MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

20-9 Dan Smoot Speaks, 1955-63

22-7 American Opinion, Robert Welch, 1959 MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

22-8 thru 9 American Mercury, MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE Russell MaGuire, William LaVarre, Natasha Boissevain, Maurine Halliburton, 1958-60

[Box 23]

23-1 Right to Work National Newsletter, 1956-64

23-10 American Progress, Willis E. Stone, 1956-63

23-15 What's Happening in America?, American Heritage Protective Committee, 1956

23-16 American Heritage Protective Committee, Blue Book for Patriots, 1956

23-18 Cross and the Flag, The, Gerald K. Smith, 1957, 1960 MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

Wow.... news travels fast. Real fast.

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Can you tell us more about Wilbur Baldinger and his conversations/meetings with Alex Rorke and what you think the significance
of these meetings might be? (John Bevilaqua)

John,

Unfortunately, I don't know a whole lot here but one would be correct in thinking, as you have done, that the reasons would be of quite some interest for JFK researchers.

Baldinger was known to Agency man Montgomery Luft, as was Rorke, and being able to uncover some background on Luft may bear some very juicy fruit. In addition, Luft was a frequent visitor to South Florida and had some curious connections down there including one with Col. William Bishop.

He also had tenticles into the Baltimore private intel group and by extention into Montreal via our old friend Robert Emmett Johnson. Interesting circle of associations indeed.

Luft is a character that has yet to surface in the JFK mileau but if one is persistent and can get a handle on him, many of the questions we seek may be answered.

FWIW.

James

My first cut attempt at understanding the Baldinger-to-Rorke connections and Rorke's role with Willoughby, Hunter and Hargis at ACL-Comm of Correspondence could be summarized thusly:

1) I could not imagine that people like Willoughby, Hargis, Hunter and McClendon would ever allow Rorke into their inner circles
without first checking out his bona fides to the ultimate degree. He was with Army Intel during World War II and his bio and
credentials were well known to this security sensitive group of mostly former Army Intel types.

2) However, the South Florida anti-Castro types were not quite as sophisticated in the world of counter-intelligence and they could
easily have over-reacted and pointed the guilty finger at Rorke for many of their recently interrupted operations and all the raids against
their launch attempts from South Florida into Cuba.

3) If Rorke or Billingsley were really JFK confidantes and his secret allies, then these suspicions would only intensify especially when
considering possible discussions or meetings among the Cubans and their gringo friends including various SOFs, contract pilots and miscellaneous mercenaries. For the most part these raids were the result of JFK and RFK turning up the heat on South Florida
anti-Castro activities while they were simultaneously planning to put into effect both The Reuther Memorandum and the McGhee
memorandum in an attempt to wipe the John Birch Society off the face of the earth.

4) The anti-Castro Cubans might have acted to sabotage Rorke's plane or his mission in order to remove what they perceived as
a security leak within their own organizations. This may or may not have been rationally and thoroughly justified, but this would not
have prevented some of the more extreme leaders from acting in a pre-emptive strike against Rorke.

5) Without a doubt, the Dallas John Birchers, moved the assassination venue from Miami to Dallas after various rumors of planned attacks against JFK in Miami by both Joe Milteer and the anti-Castro exiles became well know to the Miami PD. Milter was a very close friend of James H. Mavole in the American Nazi Party, and several others involved with both the NSRP and the KKK. Condon refers
to a Edward Madole in Manchurian Candidate.

Tosh,

Thanks for the info on the PBY. Muchly appreciated.

The Manuel Rojas you mentioned, could that have been Carlos Rojas?

This photo below shows Carlos Rojas.

Cheers,

James

Yes James, I believe he was aka as "Carlos", but that was during the days before Castro's Revolution (1958-59...., ( interesting backstory here: Carlos's daughter was said to have been murdered at the "Humboldt Apartment Complex", in Havana, 1958, because of a Batista informats, actions.... ref; M-26-7; Joe Westbrook, ?Chomone, and others, reference the Havana Place Attack ) It is rumored that " Carlos" traced down and found the informat some years later. Carlos captured the one he thought responsible, a man known as, "Marquesto ". Carlos threw him, "Marquesto", out of the back of a C-46 halfway between Cuba and Florida. ...It is said Carlos tracked Marquesto from Cuba to southern Florida for four years)

It would be nice to confirm or have the above story confirmed by the relatives of Rojas as to Carlos and his later JM WAVE activities of the sixties, if their one in the same...???.

P.S. in reference to Texaco PBY. On each side of the cockpit, painted below the windows, was a small painted art logo.., like a patch; It was a, "Black Cat" with a "Red Bird", in its mouth setting on a gree tree limb withjn a round yellow background. Anyone familiar with this logo?

Try posting a request on this site or their related sites:

http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.org/

Someone out there might know about that Texaco PBY logo.

Sherry Sullivan here again. Thanks for all of the replies to my request on CT property. I have a photo taken by Rorke in July 1959 in Costa Rica. These men are obviously signing some type of agreement. Any thoughts on who these people might be? It seems that I am only able to load one photo at a time. I have more if anyone is interested. Thanks, Sherry

Sherry,

Any luck with finding out the owner of the Connecticut home your father may have visited with Rorke? Do you think that it is possible that it could have
been William F. Buckley's home in or near Darien which has miles and miles of beachfront property? Is it worth finding out his address as a possibility?

Has anyone here, besides James Richards who already knows about Morris A. Schapiro and The Boston Metals Processing Company come across his
name before or that of Louis E. Wolfson, who owned both The Miami Beach Sun and a Jacksonville newspaper as well? Wolfson bought out the remnants
of some of the businesses of The Boston Metals Processing Company and merged them into Universal-Marion in Jacksonville, Florida. Wolfson also donated
a serious chunk of change to Jim Garrison during the Clay Shaw trial to help find out who killed JFK apparently. I think that neither Wolfson nor Schapiro
where guilty of any overt, intentional acts which led to the death of JFK but they probably had a pretty good idea who did which is why Wolfson tried to
help Garrison find out the answers to the mystery. Schapiro was basically a truly patriotic Investment Banker for the Pentagon's interests during World
War II and the Korean War, then certain individuals from the CIA, like Ray S. Cline and Harold Chait, took over Schapiro's secret back room banking channels to funnel money to South Florida Soldiers of Fortune and anti-Castro Cuban exiles to help them in their campaigns first against Castro then later against JFK when their attempts
to oust Castro failed entirely. Schapiro owned both The Boston Metals Processing Company and Baldt Anchor and Chain of Chester, PA which were considered
national defense based businesses vital to the security of this country during times of war or international conflicts. Baldt has made anchors and anchor chain for
the U.S. Navy for over 100 years and was also used as a money laundering machine by these CIA types during the Viet Nam War, during Iran-Contra according
to a bank trust officer at Bank of Maryland and possibly even now for the Blackwater private armies run by certain former leaders of The Council for National Policy
like N. B. Hunt, Alton Ochsner, Jr., Tom Ellis, Tim LaHaye, Edwin Meese III and several others just like them. It is time to close the door on this use of corporations doing business with the Pentagon and the DoD to fund private mercenary operations which neither Congress nor the President know about. The Bank of Maryland, Baltimore branch, was used in most of these cases. Ask your congressperson to investigate, intervene and interdict these operations today.

Arleigh Burke and George Anderson.

James

James,

Thanks for these photos as usual. What are the various theories regarding exactly why the CIA, and who within the CIA, would want Alex Rorke dead? I think it was Winslow who floated the theory that the anti-Castro Cuban exiles might have wanted Rorke dead and gone after they identified him as the likely source of recent leaks which led to scuttling or disruption of various anti-Castro missions being launched from the Dade County area and the Keys. And it seems likely that if the far right discovered about Rorke's purported
meetings with Wilbur Baldinger, that would not have sat very well with them either. Now I know about Winslow's controversial reputation in constantly waffling about any possible Cuban exile involvement in the JFK hit despite evidence to the contrary, so what is your take, and Sherry's take on this subject? If in fact, Rorke discovered info about any of their
plans for the pending JFK hit, they would have flipped to paranoid, if they ever thought he would not personally advocate or support such an attack on JFK, especially given his known contacts with both his CIA officer, Commander Anderson of the Navy, and the recent contacts with Baldinger who was very close to the Reuther brothers, also JFK supporters like Rorke allegedly was as well.

1) Do you think Rorke was really an out and out JFK supporter and were the Cuban exiles fully aware of this, if in fact, it was true?

2) Do you agree that there were elements within the CIA who were still very strong JFK supporters who would have had nothing to do with any pending plots to deprive him
of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? The concept of indicting EVERYONE involved with South Florida intelligence operations in the JFK hit is absurd on its face, IMHO.

3) Do you agree that the JFK supporters in both South Florida and within various intelligence agencies would have not even been made privy to any such plans or plots against JFK because of their known allegiances to JFK? This entire plot would have been organized on a need to know basis in order to assure its successful completion.

Thanks.

John,

I too have heard the anti-Castro exiles theory. The contacts I have that were around in the day are pretty tight lipped about Rorke and associates who they themselves can be connected to.

If one was motivated though, I do not believe it is too difficult to connect the dots.

Given that, there are some conflicting opinions regarding Rorke. Some saying he was straight up, others didn't trust him.

Regarding JFK supporters within the ranks of CIA, one must remember that at the time there was a small group of Agency men hovering around South Florida who acted with autonomy. They had no real regard for their superiors who in turn were reluctant in attempting to bring them into line.

These men considered themselves patriots and the Kennedys as traitors.

It was a unique time (1959 - 1964) and to really get a grasp on the way things were done, speaking with those who were there is vital - although it might take some prodding.

James