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13 hours ago, John Kowalski said:

Does this book elaborate on the newspaper sources for Permindex's funding, does it say how they found out about the J. Henry Schroder Banking Corporation involvement with this company?

I would not be the person to ask that question, Mr. Kowalski.

My sincere apologies.

However, Mr. James DiEugenio is a member of the forum, perhaps it would be wise to ask him where he got that information.

I'm just a humble boy armed with a library card, some bizarre life experiences and the cognitive skills the creator blessed me with.

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Robert,

I would be very interested. I have looked into Dinkin. Others have gone deep.  Never have seen any record of those names. If they came only in the 1970s it would make me suspicious that he was embelishing. But please post a llink.

-Stu

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53 minutes ago, Stu Wexler said:

But please post a link.

 

I'll get on that as soon as possible, like I said, It'll take some doing, but I'm quite sure they were the personal notes of Richard Schweiker or Gary Hart.

I think it was Schweiker's personal notes that contain a flow chart of Souètre, Banister, Harvey and Dinkin.

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I just would like to note that I have read all I can stomach of John Bevilaqua's ramblings about hidden ciphers found in books written a full decade before President Kennedy was murdered, as have many other members of this forum.

HOWEVER, I personally (and so did my late friend Hank Albarelli) believe his research into the "far-right" of U.S. politics in the late 1950's and early 1960's is spot on. Especially the fascist connections surrounding the Governor Ross Robert Barnett's "Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission", Maj. Gen. Charles Andrew Willoughby's "Comité International de Défense de la Civilisation Chrétienne" (the International Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture)", Robert John Morris's "Defenders of American Liberties", Frank Voelker Jr.'s "Louisiana State Sovereignty Commission", Wickliffe Preston Draper's "Pioneer Fund", Maj. Gen. Barry Morris Goldwater's "1964 Presidential Campaign" (which I personally believe was some type of counterintelligence operation to upset the 64' election in LBJ's favor and splinter the Republican Party into the crypto-fascist mockery it is today) and William Frank Buckley Jr.'s "Young Americans for Freedom" organization (which in 1963, was being used as some sort of intelligence front for domestic fascists like Fulton Lewis Jr., Hans F. Sennholz, Ronald Wilson Reagan, James Strom Thurmond Sr., Larrie Schmidt and Joe Grinnan).

The purpose of this post is to expound on the international "Stay-behind" army connections to the elements marching against President Kennedy in 1963.

And since the above organizations are domestic in nature, it would be prudent to prove at least a working relationship with the CIA's Domestic Operations Division, which would be William F. Buckley Jr.'s former boss, the Office of Policy Coordination's Chief of Station in Mexico City and "Operation 40" assassin, Everette “Eduardo” Howard Hunt Jr.

I should note before moving forward, that when E. Howard Hunt was the Office of Policy Coordination's Chief of Covert Action in Tokyo, Japan, where he was intimately involved in a Central Intelligence Agency program that hired "Yakuza" thugs to infiltrate leftist organizations, code-named "BGSAMURAI". E. Howard Hunt's liaison to the Japanese Mafia underworld was Gen'yōsha chieftain Yoshio Kodama (co-founder of the Asian People's Anti-Communist League). Mr. Kodama was saved from the hangman after WWII by Maj. Gen. Charles Andrew Willoughby's personal intervention. Kodama's mafia army was integrated into US Army Col. Joseph "Jack" Young Canon's "Z-Unit", an interim intelligence force that conducted kidnappings, torture and assassinations against social-democratic organizations in post-war Japan, of which the later "Field Operations Intelligence" organization would recruit heavily from (Richard Case Nagell, the man hired to "shadow" Lee Harvey Oswald's movements in late 1963 was a Field Operations Intelligence officer).

Lt. Col. Canon was the leader of "stay-behind" commando forces in pre-revolutionary Cuba and effectively penatrated Fidel Castro's "Movimiento 26 de Julio" organization.

E. Howard Hunt's boss in Tokyo was Hans V. Tofte, Charles Tracy Barnes liaison between the Domestic Operations Division and Richard McGarrah Helms' Directorate of Operations.

Mr. Tofte was commanding "Stay-behind" commando raids into North Korea using Atsugi Air Force Base (where Lee Harvey Oswald was deployed) as a forward operating base to train anti-communist insurgents and interrogate and torture POWs. Hans V. Tofte's adjutants were OSS commandos Colwell E. Beers (who was then United States Army Air Corps Capt. E. Howard Hunt's OSS handler during WWII), and Maj. John Kirk Singlaub, future commander of Maj. Gen. Edward Geary Lansdale's "OPLAN-34A" program and president of the World Anti-Communist League. The commander in charge of POW interrogation activities was Lt. Col. Philip James Corso, who would later be involved in a massive counter-intelligence "disinformation" campaign pitting the FBI, the State Department, and the CIA against each other, claiming that each of them had hired Lee Harvey Oswald at some point in his life.

Lt. Col. Corso was also in charge of a "Stay-behind" army called "The Volunteer Freedom Corps".

 Hans V. Tofte was, during World War II, Maj. Gen. Charles Andrew Willoughby's chief of crypto-linguistic intelligence in the Philippines. During the Korean War (while he was chief of the State Department's Office of Policy Coordination's covert action in that theater) Mr. Tofte's counterpart in the CIA's Office of Special Operations was George E. Aurell. 

George E. Aurell was later, not only Maj. Gen. Edward Geary Lansdale's liaison during Hukbalahap revolution (of which Lee Harvey Oswald was purportedly involved with), but according to Mr. Bill Simpich, he was Dorothe Kerans Matlack's of the Interagency Defector Committee's personal liaison to Richard Helms' Directorate of Operations. Ms. Matlack was a Assistant Chief of Staff of Intelligence for Army Intelligence liaison to "Operation 40" assassin David “El Indio” Sánchez Morales' Caribbean Action Center at JM/WAVE.

BUT I DIGRESS...

 

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Before moving on, I should note, the CIA cryptonym "BG/SAMURAI" that provides evidence of OPC Tokyo Covert Action Chief E. Howard Hunt and Gen'yōsha chieftain Yoshio Kodama working together can be found at the following link: https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2018/104-10119-10143.pdf

Here is a link also showing that the Japanese Communist Party knew E. Howard Hunt was CIA: https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2018/104-10119-10142.pdf

Here is another "BG/SAMURAI" CIA document from around the time E. Howard Hunt was the Tokyo, Japan Covert Action Chief, concerning the use of Taketora Ogata, the former President of the Intelligence Bureau under the brutal Kuniaki Koiso controlled ultranationalist Sakura Kai government: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/OGATA, TAKETORA VOL. 4_0008.pdf

Here is a document identifying E. Howard Hunt's CIA asset Taketora Ogata as a "...wanted as a war criminal..." and "...member of the Black Dragon Society..." and apparently controlling all media outlets in post-war Japan: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/OGATA, TAKETORA VOL. 1_0001.pdf

 

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William Frank Buckley Jr.'s "Young Americans for Freedom", specifically it’s incarnation in 1963, astounds me to no end how many overt, thru and thru fascists occupy the highest levels of its organizational structure.

I consider the fact that Y.A.F. was behind the "Welcome To Dallas, Mr. Kennedy" ads a manifestation of psychological warfare meant to terrorize and intimidate. Very similar to the stay-behind operations conducted by Yves Guillou's "Ordem Central e Tradição"...


And in continuing with the purpose of this post, expounding on the international "Stay-behind" army connections to the elements marching against President Kennedy in 1963, let us examine the Mr. William F. Buckley’s connection’s to those elements.


The following quotes are from Professor Jeffery M. Bale’s mind-bending book “The Darkest Sides Of Politics I: Postwar Fascism, Covert Operations And Terrorism


The following quote can be found on page 207, in the notes section of Chapter 3 titled “Postwar “Neo-Fascist” Internationals, Part II: Aginter Presse and the “strategy of tension” in Italy

 

QUOTE — "...Parvulesco’s involvement in international anti-communist networks is also revealed in his own correspondence. For example, in a 10 May 1962 letter to James Burnham, the former American Trotskyist turned anti-communist who thereafter became involved in many covert projects during the Cold War, Parvulesco identified himself as the chief of the “external apparatus” of a Europe- and Latin American-based organization called the Organization de l’Armée Secrète “Charlemagne,” which (according to that same organization’s 23 April 1962 intelligence report, also sent to Burnham by Parvulesco) claimed to represent the “European, Catholic, and social revolutionary current” within the OAS, the current opposed to the Salan/Gardy faction. In his letter, Parvulesco suggested that Burnham collaborate with the OAS Charlemagne group and urged the American to meet him in Madrid – where Parvulesco then lived – the next time he was in Europe. After meeting with an American recommended by Burnham in Spain, Robert Minelli, Parvulesco (using the pseudonym “Pierre-André Manda”) wrote Burnham another letter on 2 June 1962, in which he revealed that the OAS Charlemagne group was only the “visible tip” of another secret organization whose highest echelon was known as AMSAR, the very group later identified by Giannettini. AMSAR itself comprised an external apparatus, an internal apparatus, and an intelligence apparatus called the Direction Générale de la Conjoncture Atlantique (DGCA: Directorate General of the Atlantic Conjuncture), a name which clearly reveals its Atlanticist geopolitical orientation. Indeed, Parvulesco argued in this second letter that a united Atlantic Community was alone capable of saving the West at this moment of crisis. AMSAR therefore hoped to undertake intelligence and other types operations in cooperation with NATO, including operations beyond the Iron Curtain. Finally, in a 3 June 1962 letter written to William F. Buckley Jr., editor of The National Review, “Manda” indicated that Giannettini was his organization’s chief in Italy and that the Italian would henceforth be contacting Buckley using the pseudonym “Marjorie Levin.” All of these French-language documents can be found in the Hoover Institution Archives, James Burnham collection, Box 10, folder (Subject File) 5: OAS “Charlemagne.”  — END QUOTE.

 

I just want to say I nearly fell out of my seat when I read the above information for the first time. 


I mean, this is proof positive that William F. Buckley Jr. was in the 1962-1963 time period, in direct contact with Jean Parvulesco, the chief of all covert operations for an anti-Salan/Gardy, pro-Catholic faction of the French terrorist group “Organization de l’Armée Secrète”, code-named “Charlemagne”, operating in Italy and its primary commander of all operations was Guido Giannettini, working under the umbrella of an even more covert organization called “Directorate General of the Atlantic Conjuncture”, which was the intelligence gathering arm of AMSAR!

I should note that William F. Buckley Jr. was an operational CIA agent in Mexico City in the 1950’s, his immediate supervisor was Everette “Eduardo” Howard Hunt Jr., the CIA’s Domestic Operations Division Chief Of Covert Action in 1963!

Not to mention the connections of James Burnham, himself a founder of far-right "National Review" magazine and apparently a central player when it comes to the creation of "stay-behind" forces in Western Eurasia, which he did while he was the commander of the "Political and Psychological Warfare" division of the Office of Policy Coordination in 1948. Mr. Burnham also co-founded the audacious CIA controlled money-laundering front organization, called the "Congress for Cultural Freedom" with CIA Covert Action Chief Thomas Wardell Braden!

Of course James Burnham's counterpart on the Psychological Strategy Board and Operations Coordinating Board, US Army General Charles Douglas Jackson, is the very man who acquirers the infamous "Zapruder Film" for another CIA controlled front, "Time-Life" magazine. 

And C.D. Jackson was a member of the infamous "Bilderberg Group", an organization, as I shall soon demonstrate, that was founded by "Axis Powers" WWII war criminals and CIA controlled "stay-behind" revolutionaries.

I will continue soon with the forces behind "AMSAR", “Organization de l’Armee Secrete-Charlemagne” and "Bilderberg Group"

Stay tuned!

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Working backwards, I'm not sure if I can draw this

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I mean, this is proof positive that William F. Buckley Jr. was in the 1962-1963 time period, in direct contact with Jean Parvulesco

from documentation that says stuff like this - 

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All of these French-language documents can be found in the Hoover Institution Archives, James Burnham collection, Box 10, folder (Subject File) 5: OAS “Charlemagne.” 

It's great that Bale says various documents squirrelled away somewhere might possibly say what he says they do, but why do we have to pay a visit to the Hoover Institution to check it? Bale indicates that he's seen the documents. Wasn't he allowed to make copies? Other authors have no problem reprinting sources, either in the back of the book, or online. Here, Bale has a long detailed paragraph dwelling on the contents of letters that he says exists deep in some archive somewhere, but he doesn't provide the source material and offers no explanation in that section as to why he couldn't. The only proof I gained from that paragraph is that Bale has said something about materials we can't easily check.

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11 hours ago, Anthony Thorne said:

Here, Bale has a long detailed paragraph dwelling on the contents of letters that he says exists deep in some archive somewhere, but he doesn't provide the source material and offers no explanation in that section as to why he couldn't. The only proof I gained from that paragraph is that Bale has said something about materials we can't easily check.

Mr. Thorne, I requested specifically not to use my posts as a battleground to fire volleys across another person's proverbial bow, especially if they are ignorant of attacks on their professionalism (what are we, pubescent teddy-boys, picking a beef in the dark?)

If you have a problem with the formatting of Professor Bale's work, perhaps you should contact him directly. He is a professor in the Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies Program at the renowned Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California.

Professor Bale's office on campus is McGowan Building MG200D, his work telephone is (831) 647-6603 and his work email is jbale@miis.edu

Mr. Thorne, I am sure, if you reach out in a professional manner, Professor Bale will provide you with the information you seek.

 

I should note, as an aside, that members of the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command utilize Professor Jeffrey M. Bale's published work as basis for anti-terrorism operations in combat, as well as work published by Professor Peter Dale Scott, author and activist Martin A. Lee, Los Angeles Police Department narcotics detective Michael Craig Ruppert, historian Daniele Ganser, investigative journalist and author Kevin J. Coogan and neo-conceptual artist Mark Lombardi.

I know this to be a fact, because I was an intelligence and combat support operative for the United States Army Field Artillery Branch and I saw their publications used extensively in rear-echelon teaching environments and to deadly effect in real-world combat operations. 

And before we argue the merits of why the United States is engaged in wars in the Near East, I will state parenthetically, that I am a victim of what is colloquially called "Poverty Draft."

Simply put, I had no choice, either I joined the military and ate three meals a day, or I joined a gang on the Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians Reservation, where I grew up the hard way.

I liked my odds of survival in Afghanistan.

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From my reading of Mr. Thorne’s posts and his engagement on this thread I would venture a guess that he is intensely interested in the subject of stay behind forces in Europe and their connections to CIA and Army Intelligence. So am I, which is why I asked you where you found evidence of Dinkin naming names on his intercepts. I downloaded Mr. Bale’s book and tried to read it, made it through some. His footnotes are often more interesting than the text. All of it is very dense, and sometimes pages will be just lists of names and connections. I for one don’t doubt his research ability, but he could use an editor for the purpose of overview. I admittedly just don’t have the patience to slog through the meticulous detail that he offers. Please don’t take umbrage. 
I would add that Mr. Simpich is, I believe, following a similar path, but starting the other way around, with Army Intelligence in Dallas and it’s undeniable link with DPD. It’s all crucially important, and it’s shocking that it’s taken so long to really look deeply into the most obvious clues pointing to the Dallas Right Wing conspiracy to kill a President who was seeking rapprochement with the Soviets and Cubans in the interest of a lasting peace and an end to the destructive Cold War and the isms and ideologies at its core. Peter Dale Scott lit the path that we are now following.

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Before moving on with the other "Stay-behind" elements connected to characters surrounding the murder of President Kennedy, I would like to continue just for a moment with William Frank Buckley Jr. and a very revealing answer he gave to Attorney Mark Lane, when asked who he believed murdered JFK.

The following is a direct transcribed quote from the 01 December 1966 broadcast of the television show "Firing Line". The episode is titled, "The Warren Report: Fact or Fiction?" and can be found at the following link: https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/5973

 

Quoting now, Mr. Buckley's response to the question of who he believed murdered President Kennedy:

QUOTE "…it seems to me, that uh it would just be absolutely divine, if it could be proved that ah, ahh, Mr. Oswald was subsidized by H.L. Hunt, and the John Birch Society, the Minutemen, given a little moral support by National Review, ahh, that ah, Goldwater cleared it, uh, that, that would be sort of the, the um, the um, ne plus ultra, in causing delight, in many quarters of the United States…" END QUOTE.

With this one statement, former CIA covert action operative William F. Buckley Jr. is, in my considered opinion, planting the idea in the minds of the viewers of the broadcast, like a well-trained psychological warfare specialist, that the named persons and organizations are above suspicion, because he mentioned them in a whimsical, almost comedic manner. He "defused" the idea the far-right had anything to do the assassination on a structural level, in the minds of his viewers.

Bear in mind, E. Howard Hunt was editing William F. Buckley's notes for his broadcasts and articles: https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2018/104-10119-10085.pdf

 

 

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35 minutes ago, David Andrews said:

Review of Bale from the Lobster website (#75):

lob75-darkest-sides-politics.pdf 59.87 kB · 3 downloads

 

I wonder how Bale explains the links between the Saudis and the US. Sure it’s oil. But why, if 9/11 was a pure expression of legitimate Islamic Jihadism, would the trail from 9/11 to the Saudis be covered up by Congress and Bush?  If Al Qaida is the enemy, then who are we to cover up its Saudi backers, and shut down air travel for several days while flying Saudis and Bin Laden family members out of the country? Why not show the world Bin Laden’s corpse before dumping it in the Pacific? Who brought down building 7? 

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1 hour ago, Paul Brancato said:

I would add that Mr. Simpich is, I believe, following a similar path, but starting the other way around, with Army Intelligence in Dallas and it’s undeniable link with DPD. It’s all crucially important, and it’s shocking that it’s taken so long to really look deeply into the most obvious clues pointing to the Dallas Right Wing conspiracy to kill a President who was seeking rapprochement with the Soviets and Cubans in the interest of a lasting peace and an end to the destructive Cold War and the isms and ideologies at its core. Peter Dale Scott lit the path that we are now following.

 

1 hour ago, David Andrews said:

Review of Bale from the Lobster website (#75):

 

Organically speaking, the "far-right", Mafia, Army Intelligence, Dallas Police, they are all at some level, infiltrated by CIA, specifically the Domestic Operation Division, Mr. Brancato. It's not that these organizations are a synthetic "whole", but a stove-piped, cellular, highly compartmentalized monstrosity.

I mean, it appears that Paul M. Rothermel Jr., who was Nelson Bunker Hunt's chief of security, was a full-fledged Central Intelligence Agency operative for decades. Clinton Williams "Clint" Murchison Sr. sat on the board of directors of the Empire Trust Company, a front company/ money laundering operation for CIA. David Harold "Dry Hole" Byrd sat on the board of directors of Nafco Oil and Gas Inc. while Col. John Alston “Jack” Crichton, a lifelong CIA operative, was president. 

Since it is an established fact that Hunt, Murchison, and Byrd were backing the “John Birch Society”, “Alpha 66”, “Omega 7”, the “California Rangers”, the “Minutemen”, the “Ku Klux Klan”, the “Christian Knights of the Invisible Empire”, “United Christian Posse Association”, the “Defenders of the American Constitution”, "Conservatism U.S.A.", the "Young Americans For Freedom", the “National States' Rights Party”, the “Constitution Party” and the “White Citizens' Councils”, then it must be stated once and for all, that the Central Intelligence Agency was funding these right-wing paramilitary organizations, using Hunt, Murchison, Byrd and about a three dozen other businessmen as literal dummy fronts.

I am directing my energies currently in researching two sister organizations known respectively as “Foreign Intelligence Digest” and the “International Committee For The Defense Of Christian Culture”. These two organizations were being fully funded by the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Allen Welsh Dulles personally! The man who received these funds personally from the CIA director was none other than the founder of the CIA’s Special Activities Division (which was known at its inception as the United States Army “Field Operations Intelligence”), former commander of Army Intelligence in the Pacific, Maj. Gen. Charles Andrew Willoughby.

And it should be noted that one of Maj. Gen. Willoughby’s closest confidants was Lt. Gen. Pedro Augusto del Valle, who was one of the founders of “Operation Gladio” with Allen Dulles. I would go a step further and say all of the right-wing paramilitary groups that were spawned out of the era of “McCarthyism” were an extension of Operation Gladio in the Western Hemisphere. 

A domestic "Gladio" operation. That is what the "far-right" in the United States was in 1963. A domestic "Gladio" operation.

Maj. Gen. Willoughby was personal friends with Allen Dulles and Nelson Bunker Hunt. The intersection of fascist power that these three men could wield was enough to murder the president of the United States.

Lyndon Baines Johnson was a pimp. Maj. Gen. Willoughby owned the streets.

 

Thanks for the link to the Lobster review, Mr. Andrews.

Both books are a brilliant anti-fascist tour de force, in my humble opinion. Though, as Mr. Brancato pointed out, they are not for the person who likes to skim a book. Heavily annotated, with native language text used throughout.    

 

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8 minutes ago, Paul Brancato said:

I wonder how Bale explains the links between the Saudis and the US. Sure it’s oil. But why, if 9/11 was a pure expression of legitimate Islamic Jihadism, would the trail from 9/11 to the Saudis be covered up by Congress and Bush?  If Al Qaida is the enemy, then who are we to cover up its Saudi backers, and shut down air travel for several days while flying Saudis and Bin Laden family members out of the country? Why not show the world Bin Laden’s corpse before dumping it in the Pacific? Who brought down building 7? 

Professor Bale does not tackle it at all. He plays it real safe, and does not delve into those connections.

However, he does present the fascist connections of Al Taqwa Bank and François Genoud to Saudi Investment Company and Baudoin Dunant and only infers connections to "Kontrgerilla" (the Turkish branch of Operation Gladio), the "Ülkü Ocakları" and CIA connections to the assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II.

As for World Trade Center 7 and the Bin Laden family's movements on 9/11 I suggest Mr. Brancato, you look into Michael Springmann, head US consular official in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and what he had to say about CIA interference in his office and Indira Singh's revelations about a little company called "PTECH".

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Rob - not sure why the fuss. I’m aware of the details about Bale, I’ve read the earlier thesis version of his book (which I’ve linked here and on another forum) and I know about Bale’s recent professional accomplishments. I checked his website after first looking at his thesis nearly two years ago or more.

And I’m not sure if querying parts of the footnote is intended to be a ‘shot across the bow’. My post came about after you wrote that Bale’s paragraph was ‘proof positive’ of something. If you were writing an article or legal document, and someone asked you for proof of something, would you respond “See? Bale said that someone else had once said it, in a footnote.” All that would draw from the original questioner is a shrug.

In Bale’s defense it would be hard to reprint every source material in a work as long as his two volume set, and his original thesis was written something like a quarter of a century ago, so it’s understandable he didn’t make an effort to copy the materials to put it online. But your posts have a lot of assertions - many of which seem to bear fruit when Googled - and this one stood out. Bale has said there’s a series of French language documents in the archives of an Institution somewhere that say various things. When Joan Mellen does this in her footnotes I’ve seen various reviewers and posters pay attention but not treat it as the final word, since it’s unverified. Here in this thread Bale has done the same thing, and you’ve written it’s proof positive of a particular fact.

If you’d simply written ‘according to Bale’, and then qualified it with ‘if true’ when discussing the implications, I wouldn’t have bothered posting what I wrote, as I wouldn’t have had any issues with it. Because if what Bale asserts is true, and various papers in an archive, when translated, do say what he says they do, then yeah, it’s certainly of interest. But at this point the argument asks me to take on faith that (a.) Bale is correct, that (b.) his translation of the documents is accurate, and probably also (c.) that the documents are all sitting in the archives there fine and dandy a quarter century after he first did his research. Again, most of Bale’s book was written in the early 90’s - or earlier, as that’s when he finally presented his thesis, and it probably took a while to put together. So we may be talking closer to 30 years now.

I find the arguments interesting and I like the fact that you’re clearly inclined to dig deep into various sources, but there’s a reason the Gladio story remains inconclusive, and it’s largely because guys like Philip Wilan and some others only treat as verified stuff that they’re able to verify, and they make note of the other stuff that they haven’t been able to verify - in footnotes or interviews - as either being interesting, or suggestive, or they just note that another author has made the claim while they haven’t been able to verify it themselves. If you’d lean towards doing the same occasionally - and possibly you have in some of your much longer posts, as there were a couple of enormous ones that I confess I didn’t finish - I’d have no problems at all. And I don’t really have any problems with what you’re writing now, either. But maybe you could treat the assertions by Bale the same way every other author, even the good ones, generally gets treated, and not tell us something has been 100% conclusively verified when no-one has had a chance to verify it other than him. And by treating it as an assertion - of interest, sure - I don’t feel the need to dial up Bale on the phone and ask him if he’s got a photocopy to loan out from his personal archives, thanks.

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