Dr. Jose Rivera

[Jack White]

I would be interested to know just why ADELE was chosen as a subject. Her tale has the

unmistakable air of truth to the smallest of details. I find particularly interesting the use

of the Lifesaver mints as a vehicle for drug ingestion. What I have never understood was

Rivera's foreknowledge of events, down to tiny details WHICH HAD TO BE PLANNED IN

ADVANCE, such as a phone number in New Orleans, assassination details, etc. I believe

Adele, but I find it HARD TO BELIEVE that such minute planning was done so far in advance

of November. And what was his motive in telling her these things? How was she to be used?

I feel that her story is just the tip of a very big PSY OP operation, and would lead somewhere

if we had the capability of penetrating the secrecy.

I hope Adele will not be insulted if I make what I think are pertinent observations:

Young female medical student: Adele, Judyth

Doing important medical research: Adele, Judyth

New Orleans: Adele, Judyth

Connections to important medical people: Adele, Judyth

Bizarre story relating to Lee Harvey Oswald: Adele, Judyth

Possible victim of mind control: Adele, Judyth

Foreknowledge of JFK assassination: Adele, Judyth

Is there a pattern here? Could there be a possible connection between these separate

strange events? I have long suspected that Judyth's strange tale could be an "implanted

memory" by hypnosis or other means WHICH SUCCEEDED. With Adele, the attempted

memory implant FAILED. If such happened, for what purpose was someone doing this?

And what was Rivera's role?

Jack

Hello Jack,

I don't know how quite to answer your post regarding your comparisons. However, I truly appreciate your supportive statements. Thank you.

I can contribute this. There is a book, written in 1976, 1977 by Donald Bain titled The Control of Candy Jones in which is described the hypnotic (plus drugs) control of Candy Jones from 1961 through 1975. She was used as a courier of information by the CIA between agents within the United States and from the US to those overseas in Taiwan. An alternate personality was created, "Arlene Grant", in her to do this work. Her husband, Long John Nebel, a nighttime radio talk host in New York, was able to discover this personality and identify her hypnotist, CIA Dr. Gilbert Jensen, in Oakland, California. I want to point out that this covered a number of years and required much effort and time by the hypnotist; it was not based on a one or two session meeting. To maintain such a narrative might require a long period of reinforcement with frequent meetings with the hypnotists, as in the case of Candy Jones. I merely present this as something which might support your hypothesis.

There are other explanations, which I cannot go into at this time. Hypnotic suggestion is a very important area to explore, I think.

Adele

Thanks, Adele...I have indeed read THE CONTROL OF CANDY JONES, and it

is one reason for my speculation that people like Rivera may have been

attempting the same purpose with YOU for some unknown reason. The

same applies to Judyth...to me all her tall tales seem like an implanted

false memory somehow forced on her by someone. Had you not resisted

Rivera, you might have had some tall tale to tell about YOU AND OSWALD

if you had followed through on his instructions.

Thanks for sharing your story with us!

Jack

[William Kelly]

For some reason, why aren't I surprised and suspicious that the new chief suspect the FBI targeted in the ANTHRAX investigation, worked at the same Fort Deitrick Army Bio warfare lab as Col./Dr. Jose Rivera, a "person of interest" if not a chief suspect in the assassination of President Kennedy?

Maybe that's the little corner in the beauracracy where they administer such things as assassinations and weapons of mass destruction.

In any case, I'd like to hear from others on whether or not this presents an opportunity to call more public and mainstream attention to Colonel Rivera, and make him a real "person of interest," not only to us, but to those who are trying to make sense of the Anthrax attack.

BK

[John Bevilaqua]

Where is the mention in this thread that H. Warner Kloepfer was a member of Wickliffe Draper's American Eugenics Society in 1956

along with a bunch of other "Nazi brain scientists" interested in Mengele's "Twin Studies" like Kloepfer?

Wickliffe Draper had sponsored "Twin Studies" via the U. of Minnesota and The Pioneer Fund as well.

Mengele and Draper were 2 peas in a pod. Maybe they were twins too? Twin supporters of Adolph Hitler and his program for

abolition of the Jews, and for the creation of programmed assassins as well, that is.

NOW, are you all beginning to see the IMPORTANCE of Wicklffe Draper and The Pioneer Fund since 1937? I hope so.

http://www.all.org/abac/aes.txt

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Kloepfer, H. Warner; Member 1956, 1974

Personal:

Tulane University School of Medicine (assoc. prof. anatomy 1952-77,

emeritus 1977-(1979); Member, American Society of Human Genetics 1954;

detection of genetic carrier

Publications:

1960 "Genetic Signposts of Preventive Medicine", Eugenics Quarterly, v.

7, no. 2; 1955 "Heredity Counseling, Starting a Heredity Clinic" Eugenics

Quarterly, v. 2, 3 "An investigation of 171 possible linkage

relationships in man" Annals of Eugenics, Cambridge, England 1946, 13,

35-71

Source: EQ 1956; Osborne list; Psychological Abstracts 192756; Membership

list, American Society of Human Genetics, AJHG 1954; AMWS 1979

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Gedda, Prof. Dr. Luigi; Member (Foreign) 1956, 1972

Personal:

b. 1902; MD; Director, Instituto di Genetica Medica e Gemellologia

'Gregorio Mendel', Piazza Galeno 5, Rome, Italy 1956, 1972; Prof. and

Head of Dept. of Medical Genetics, University of Rome 1967, 1972,

attached to Univ. 1954); Member: International Fertility Assoc. 1972,

International Union for the Scientific Study of Population 1972, Societa

Italiana di Genetica Medica 1972, American Society of Human Genetics

1954; ex head of Italian Catholic Action

Publications:

1970, 1960 Advisory Board, Mankind Quarterly, (see v.1, #1, 1960; v.

11, #1, 1970); 1955 "Lo studio dei Gemelli" Acta Genet. Med. Gem., 4,

3-10 ("Twin research is useful in studying the frequency and causation of

the physical and psychological characteristics of a population" Psych.

Abstracts 1927-58 p. 1369); 1954 "Twin Studies" Eugenics Quarterly, 1,

171-75; editor, Acta Geneticae Medicae et Gemmellogiae" Vol. 1 #1 Jan.

1952; 1951 Studio dei Gemelli. Rome; supporter of von Verschuer q.v., who

was Josef Mengele's co-researcher in Auschwitz; former head of Italian

Catholic Action Source: EQ 1956; The Last Nazi.; Membership list, American

Society of Human Genetics, AJHG 1954

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Goethe, C. M.; Member 1956

Personal:

b. 1875; d. July 8, 1966; Charles Matthias; m. Mary Glide 1903; son of

Henry John Goethe, Banker; Methodist; lived in Sacramento; financed

Eugenics Society of Northern California; Save the Redwoods League;

"Honorary Chief Naturalist", National Park Service; Patron, American

Society of Human Genetics 1954

Publications:

1936 "Patriotism and Racial Standards", Presidential address to Eugenics

Research Association 1936, Eugenical News, v. 21, #4, p. 65, 1936

Quotes:

Immigration:

"The unique Immigration Quota Acts of 1921-2-4 ... By their enactment a

first class power wrote into law the concept of thedesirability of racial

homogeneity ... The Nordic stream ... had become a trickle ... Followed

these Quota Acts which said to the world: America, still overwhelmingly

Nordic, proposes so to remain! These acts began a gigantic eugenical

experiment in population control. ... Germany is but one of six European

nations engaged in sterilization ... Does there exist in America an

adroit censorship to bar any advocacy of the desirability of conserving

Nordic homogeneity? ... Should we not consider substituting `race

consciousness' for `race prejudice' ... The Harmon Foundation has opened

our eyes. The birth rate of the 20% on relief has speeded up ... war

has, for centuries, always first destroyed our best Nordics ... David

Starr Jordan [is] teaching us ... that our Civil War definitely

eliminated ... strains that cannot be replaced .. Athens ... commenced to

admit the immigrant mongrels of Asia Minor, of Africa, vassalage to Rome

became certain" (from "Patriotism and Racial Standards", Presidential

address to Eugenics Research Association 1936, Eugenical News, v. 21, #4,

p. 65, 1936)

"Man ... wastes everything ... transplanting English sparrows and

starlings to displace our native birds" (from obit, San Francisco

Chronicle, Monday, July 11, 1966, p. 4)

Source: EQ 1956; Membership list, American Society of Human Genetics,

AJHG 1954

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Gordon, Robert A.; Member 1974

Personal:

Dept. of Social Relations, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, Maryland 1974

Publications:

1993 The Battle to Establish a Sociology of Intelligence: A Case Study in

the Sociology of Politicized Disciplines by R. Gordon, Johns Hopkins

1993); 1991 "Universities Violated Academic Principles in Pioneer Fund

Ban", The Review, Univ. of Delaware, Oct. 29, 1991; 1987 "SES versus IQ

in the Race-IQ-Delinquency Model", International Journal of Sociology and

Social Policy, v. 7, no. 3, p. 30 ff; 1986 "IQ Commensurability of

Black-White Differences in Crime and Delinquency" paper presented at

American Psychological Association, Washington, DC; 1985 "The Black-White

Factor is `g' ", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, v. 8, p. 229 ff; 1980

"Research on IQ, Race and Delinquency: Taboo or Not Taboo", in Taboos in

Criminology, (ed.) Edward Sagarin, Sage; 1978 "Comment on 'Delinquency,

Sex and Family Variables' by Andrew", Social Biology v. 24, 4; 1975

"Crime and Cognition: An Evolutionary Perspective" in Proc. of II

International Symposium on Criminality, v. 4 , Sao Paulo International

Center for Biological and Medico-Forensic Criminology (the ?impartial?

center that claimed to have determined by a study of exhumed bones that

the Nazi eugenicist and criminal, Josef Mengele, was dead)

Unpublished: "An Explicit Estimation of the Prevalence of Commitment to a

Training School, to age 18, by Race and by Sex"

Background:

Gordon and others complain that their academic freedom is infringed by

attacks on their funding. However they don't admit their eugenic

orientation. Academic freedom is freedom to tell the truth as one sees

it; not freedom to deceive as the moment seems to require.

Source: Osborne list

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Gosney, E. S.; Advisory Council 1929; (Member, Eugenics Research

Association 1938)

Personal:

California sterilizations

Source: Eugenics Feb., 1929; ERA list 1938

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Gottfried, Samuel; Member 1956

Personal : Sacramento, California 1956

Source: EQ 1956

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Kopp, Dr. Marie E.; Member 1938

Nazis and Eugenics:

"Laws of eugenic importance have been very numerous since the National

Socialist Labor Party came to power in 1933" from "A Eugenic Program in

Operation" EN, 1938; Frederick Osborn was present when this statement was

made.(Eugenical News)

Source: AESM, May 1938

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Lenz, Widukind; Member 1974

Personal:

b. 1919; son of Fritz Lenz who was used by Hitler in Mein Kampf; MD

Germany 1943, Griefswald; taught at Gottingen, Kiel, Hamburg; Prof. of

Human Genetics, Hamburg Univ. 1962-65; Director, Institute of Human

Genetics, 44 Munster, Vesaliusweg, West Germany, 1965-(1978); succeeded

O. F. von Verschuer, Josef Mengele's co-researcher at Nazi Auschwitz, as

Prof. of "Human Genetics" at the Munster address given above; Prof. of

Human Genetics, Univ. of Munster 1965- (1972); discovered that

thalidomide was the cause of birth defects

Source: Osborne list; WSWISE 1972; The Genetics of Hand Malformations,

1978,V. McKusick q.v., p. 147

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Extra! January/February 1995

Racism Resurgent

How Media Let The Bell Curve's Pseudo-Science Define the Agenda on Race

By Jim Naureckas

When the New Republic devoted almost an entire issue (10/31/94) to a debate with the authors of The Bell Curve, editor Andrew Sullivan justified the decision by writing, "The notion that there might be resilient ethnic differences in intelligence is not, we believe, an inherently racist belief."

In fact, the idea that some races are inherently inferior to others is the definition of racism. What the New Republic was saying--along with other media outlets that prominently and respectfully considered the thesis of Charles Murray and the late Richard Herrnstein's book--is that racism is a respectable intellectual position, and has a legitimate place in the national debate on race.

The Bell Curve was accorded attention totally disproportionate to the merits of the book or the novelty of its thesis. The book and its dubious claims set the agenda for discussions on such public affairs programs as Nightline (10/21/94), the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (10/28/94), the McLaughlin Group (10/21/94), Charlie Rose (11/3/94, 11/4/94), Think Tank (10/14/94), PrimeTime Live (10/27/94) and All Things Considered (10/28/94).

In addition to the above-mentioned New Republic issue, the "controversy" made the covers of Newsweek (10/24/94) and the New York Times Magazine (10/9/94), took up nearly a full op-ed page in the Wall Street Journal (10/10/94), and garnered a near-rave review from the New York Times Book Review (10/16/94; Extra! Update, 12/94).

While many of these discussions included sharp criticisms of the book, media accounts showed a disturbing tendency to accept Murray and Herrnstein's premises and evidence even while debating their conclusions. "While Murray and Herrnstein base their findings on various surveys and extensive research, many of the conclusions they draw are fiercely disputed," declared Robert MacNeil (10/28/94). "You've written a long book," Ted Koppel told Murray (10/21/94). "I assume a great deal of work and research went into it. But the problem is your book has become a political football."

While Murray and Herrnstein were generally characterized as sober social scientists, their critics were sometimes identified with censorious political correctness: "Both Murray and Herrnstein have been called racists," wrote Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen (10/18/94). "Their findings, though, have been accepted by most others in their field, and it would be wrong--both intellectually and politically--to suppress them." Proclaimed Newsweek's Geoffrey Cowley (10/24/94): "As the shouting begins, it's worth noting that the science behind The Bell Curve is overwhelmingly mainstream."

Murray himself doesn't think that the research they relied on was so mainstream. "Some of the things we read to do this work, we literally hide when we're on planes and trains," Murray told the New York Times Magazine (10/9/94).

Pioneers of Eugenics

As well they might. Nearly all the research that Murray and Herrnstein relied on for their central claims about race and IQ was funded by the Pioneer Fund, described by the London Sunday Telegraph (3/12/89) as a "neo-Nazi organization closely integrated with the far right in American politics." The fund's mission is to promote eugenics, a philosophy that maintains that "genetically unfit" individuals or races are a threat to society.

The Pioneer Fund was set up in 1937 by Wickliffe Draper, a millionaire who advocated sending blacks back to Africa. The foundation's charter set forth the group's missions as "racial betterment" and aid for people "deemed to be descended primarily from white persons who settled in the original 13 states prior to the adoption of the Constitution of the United States." (In 1985, after Pioneer Fund grant recipients began receiving political heat, the charter was slightly amended to play down the race angle--GQ, 11/94.)

The fund's first president, Harry Laughlin, was an influential advocate of sterilization for those he considered genetically unfit. In successfully advocating laws that would restrict immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, Laughlin testified before Congress that 83 percent of Jewish immigrants were innately feeble-minded (Rolling Stone, 10/20/94). Another founder, Frederick Osborn, described Nazi Germany's sterilization law as "a most exciting experiment" (Discovery Journal, 7/9/94).

The fund's current president, Harry Weyher, denounces the Supreme Court decision that desegregated schools, saying, "All Brown did was wreck the school system" (GQ, 11/94). The fund's treasurer, John Trevor, formerly served as treasurer for the crypto-fascist Coalition of Patriotic Societies, when it called in 1962 for the release of Nazi war criminals and praised South Africa's "well-reasoned racial policies" (Rolling Stone, 10/20/94).

One of the Pioneer Fund's largest current grantees is Roger Pearson, an activist and publisher who has been associated with international fascist currents. Pearson has written: "If a nation with a more advanced, more specialized or in any way superior set of genes mingles with, instead of exterminating, an inferior tribe, then it commits racial suicide" (Russ Bellant, Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican Party).

"Leading Scholar"

These are the people that financed nearly all The Bell Curve's "data" on the connection between race and intelligence. (Murray and Herrnstein themselves have not been funded, although Weyher says of Herrnstein, "We'd have funded him at the drop of a hat, but he never asked"--GQ, 11/94.)

Take the infamous Chapter 13, which Murray has often claimed is the only chapter that deals with race (far from it--there are at least four chapters focused entirely on race, and the whole book is organized around the concept).

Murray and Herrnstein's claims about the higher IQs of Asians--widely cited in the media as fact--are almost entirely cited to Richard Lynn, a professor of psychology at the University of Ulster.

In the book's acknowledgements, Murray and Herrnstein declare they "benefitted especially from the advice" of Lynn and five other people.

Lynn has received at least $325,000 from the Pioneer Fund (Rolling Stone, 10/20/94). He frequently publishes in eugenicist journals like Mankind Quarterly--published by Roger Pearson and co-edited by Lynn himself--and Personality and Individual Differences, edited by Pioneer grantee Hans Eysenck. Among Lynn's writings cited in The Bell Curve are "The Intelligence of the Mongoloids" and "Positive Correlations Between Head Size and IQ."

Murray and Herrnstein describe Lynn as "a leading scholar of racial and ethnic differences." Here's a sample of Lynn's thinking on such differences: "What is called for here is not genocide, the killing off of the population of incompetent cultures. But we do need to think realistically in terms of the 'phasing out' of such peoples.... Evolutionary progress means the extinction of the less competent. To think otherwise is mere sentimentality." (cited in Newsday, 11/9/94)

Elsewhere Lynn makes clear which "incompetent cultures" need "phasing out": "Who can doubt that the Caucasoids and the Mongoloids are the only two races that have made any significant contributions to civilization?" (cited in New Republic, 10/31/94)

Lynn's fingerprints are all over the footnotes to Chapter 13. In discussing the question of Asian intellectual superiority, Murray and Herrnstein say that the affirmative position has been well defended by Lynn, but that the question can only be decided by "data obtained from identical tests administered to populations that are comparable except for race."

"We have been able to identify three such efforts," the authors announce--two that support the concept of Asian superiority and one that does not. A review of the footnotes reveals a sleight of hand: The two tests that support Lynn's thesis were conducted by Lynn himself. (See New York Review of Books, 12/1/94.)

Credibility Gap

Media reports also treated as fact Murray and Herrnstein's claim that black IQs are 15 points lower than whites. "For as long as Americans have been IQ-tested, blacks have trailed whites by that 15-point margin," ABC's Dave Marash reported for Nightline (10/21/94). "Murray sees in the consistency of these gaps proof that intervening to raise low IQs just doesn't work."

But The Bell Curve cites as its primary sources for this assertion R. Travis Osborne, Frank C.J. McGurk and Audrey Shuey--all recipients of Pioneer grants. Osborne, who has received almost $400,000 from Pioneer, used his "research" into black genetic inferiority to argue for the restoration of school segregation (Newsday, 11/9/94).

And, in fact, even the data collected by these racists does not show a consistent 15-point gap. The studies they present show a wide range of results, ranging from no black/white IQ disparity at all to the absurd finding that most African-Americans are severely retarded.

As for the "consistency of the gaps," even The Bell Curve acknowledges that more recent tests have shown a narrower black/white difference, ranging from seven to 10 points. SAT tests have shown a similar convergence. But Murray and Herrnstein warn that "at some point convergence may be expected to stop, and the gap could even begin to widen again"--because "black fertility is loaded more heavily than white fertility toward low-IQ segments of the population." In other words, the bad genes will triumph, no matter what the evidence says.

That sort of circular argument abounds in The Bell Curve. Although sociologist Jane Mercer has shown that supposed racial differences in IQ vanish if one controls for a variety of socio-economic variables, the authors reject her method because their theories assume that low IQ causes people to be poor, rather than poverty causing low IQs. Similarly, even though IQ tests show that average scores are rising--by as much as 15 points since World War II--"real" IQs must be falling, since low IQ women are having more babies.

Giants in the Profession

Another person whose advice Murray and Herrnstein "benefitted especially from"--and who shows up constantly in their footnotes--is Arthur Jensen, whose very similar claims about blacks having innately lower IQs were widely discredited in the 1970s. The Pioneer Fund has given more than $1 million to this "giant in the profession," as Pioneer chief Weyher describes him (GQ, 11/94). And it's easy to see why: "Eugenics isn't a crime," Jensen has said (Newsday, 11/9/94). "Which is worse, to deprive someone of having a child, or to deprive the child of having a decent set of parents?"

Elsewhere, Jensen has worried "that current welfare policies, unaided by genetic foresight, could lead to the genetic enslavement of a substantial portion of our population." (cited in Counterpunch, 11/1/94)

Murray and Herrnstein also rely heavily on Thomas Bouchard, whose study of separated-at-birth twins has "proved" that not only is intelligence largely genetically determined, but so are religiosity, political orientation and leisure-time interests. The Bell Curve uses Bouchard to rehabilitate Sir Cyril Burt, whose twin-based evidence for inherited intelligence is now believed to be fraudulent. Their logic is that Burt's research must have been sound, because Burt's findings closely resemble Bouchard's, and Bouchard's research is "accepted by most scholars as a model of its kind."

That illustrates the sort of scholars Murray and Herrnstein associate with. More reputable researchers have raised many questions about Bouchard's work: While other twin researchers estimate that 50 percent of the average variation in intelligence can be attributed to heredity, Bouchard comes up with 70 percent. Even the twin studies that came up with more conservative estimates of intelligence's "heritability" (itself a highly dubious concept) are flawed because the supposedly "separated-at-birth" twins usually turn out to have been raised in close proximity; Bouchard refuses to let skeptics examine the case histories of the twins he studied, essentially rendering his research into so many "Believe It or Not!" anecdotes (Scientific American, 6/93; The Nation, 11/28/94).

Bouchard, of course, is also a major recipient of Pioneer money--"We couldn't have done this project without the Pioneer Fund," he told GQ (11/94). And he's a colleague and mentor of (and has some peculiar views in common with) perhaps the crankiest of all of Pioneer's beneficiaries, J. Philippe Rushton.

"More Brain or More Penis"

Rushton (who's gotten more than $770,000 from Pioneer) has transformed the Victorian science of cranial measurement into a sexual fetish--measuring not only head and brain size, but also the size of breasts, buttocks and genitals. "It's a trade-off: More brain or more penis. You can't have everything," he told Rolling Stone's Adam Miller (10/20/94), explaining his philosophy of evolution.

Rushton was reprimanded by his school, the University of Western Ontario, for accosting people in a local shopping mall and asking them how big their penises were and how far they could ejaculate. "A zoologist doesn't need permission to study squirrels in his backyard," he groused (Rolling Stone, 10/20/94).

Rushton's creepy obsessions intersect with the ugliest sides of politics: A 1986 article by Rushton suggested that the Nazi war machine owed its prowess to racial purity, and worried that demographic shifts were endangering our "Northern European" civilization. Rushton co-authored a paper that argued that blacks have a genetic propensity to contract AIDS because of their "reproductive strategy" of promiscuous sex (cited in Newsday, 11/9/94). The other author was Bouchard, the author of those amazing twin studies celebrated in mainstream news outlets.

It's not surprising that Murray and Herrnstein would defend Rushton, writing that his "work is not that of a crackpot or a bigot, as many of his critics are given to charging." But it's startling that a science writer for the New York Times, Malcolm Browne, would actually endorse Rushton's book (10/16/94). Echoing The Bell Curve, Browne respectfully concludes his summary of Rushton's bizarre theories with: "Mr. Rushton is nevertheless regarded by many of his colleagues as a scholar and not a bigot." ("Browne doesn't identify these 'colleagues,' but I expect he means Professor Beavis and Professor Butthead," the Toronto Star's Joey Slinger wrote--10/20/94.)

Political Timing

Anyone who flipped through the footnotes and bibliography of Murray and Herrnstein's book could see that there was something screwy about their sources. And there is hardly a proposition in their book that had not been thoroughly debunked more than a decade ago by Steven Jay Gould's classic work on the pseudo-science behind eugenics, The Mismeasure of Man.

So why is The Bell Curve suddenly an "important book" that needs to have cover stories, news broadcasts, even whole magazines devoted to it? In large part, because the book is well-timed to take advantage of a resurgence of racism in U.S. media and society--a racism that does not want to face up to its own identity.

In a proposal outlining the book, Murray wrote that there is "a huge number of well-meaning whites who fear that they are closet racists, and this book tells them they are not. It's going to make them feel better about things they already think but do not know how to say." (New York Times Magazine, 10/9/94) The Bell Curve does indeed tell closet racists that they aren't racist, and makes them feel better by saying that their prejudices are grounded in science.

The Bell Curve also fits in well with some current political agendas. The immigration issue has been seized upon by the U.S. right wing, as it has by the far right in other countries. Much of Murray and Herrnstein's book is devoted to suggesting that "Latino and black immigrants are...putting some downward pressure on the distribution of intelligence."

The connection between the book and the anti-immigrant movement is, once again, the Pioneer Fund; the fund has always feared immigrants, although its concerns have shifted from Poles and Italians to blacks and Latinos. The leading anti-immigration group in the U.S. is the Federation for American Immigration Reform (unfortunately sharing an acronym with the media watch group FAIR); the federation has received more than $1 million in Pioneer money, which was critical in getting the organization off the ground. (See Extra!, 7-8/93.) Pioneer also funds the American Immigration Control Foundation, a more overtly racist group whose work is cited by Murray and Herrnstein.

Similarly, the book also meshes well with conservative efforts to drastically restrict welfare spending. Murray has long been associated with the idea of eliminating welfare, and now with The Bell Curve he produces a eugenic justification: "The United States already has policies that inadvertently social-engineer who has babies, and it is encouraging the wrong women.... We urge that these policies, represented by the extensive network of cash and services for low-income women who have babies, be ended."

For Their Own Ends

Many pundits carefully distanced themselves from the book, then made use of its claims to push their own ideological ends. In a New Republic column (10/31/94), Mickey Kaus argues against a genetic basis for IQ differences, saying, "There are obvious policies that might change the black 'environment' and therefore black IQ scores." But what's his example of such a program? "Abolition of cash welfare," he suggests.

The McLaughlin Group (10/21/94) featured a whole parade of this sort of pseudo-critic: While no one wanted to embrace wholeheartedly Murray and Herrnstein's genetic determinism, almost all were happy to make use of the conclusion The Bell Curve draws from the eugenic argument: that the poor and non-white are getting what they deserve.

Thus Pat Buchanan declared: "I think a lot of the data are indisputable.... It does shoot a hole straight through the heart of egalitarian socialism which tried to create equality of result by coercive government programs."

And Michael Barone: "The implication of their argument is, if they're right, that we really should not engage in a lot of government social engineering to create equal outcomes and so forth. They'd have to throw all the Chinese out of the Higher Math Department."

Morton Kondracke found this message: "It does undermine the case, John, for racial quotas, which is the form of discrimination in our society."

Clarence Page, the token liberal on the panel, described Murray as a personal friend, and gave a lukewarm critique: "It's got some good data, but it's Murray's conclusions that he doesn't prove."

It was left to John McLaughlin, of all people, to say the obvious about The Bell Curve: "It is largely pseudo-scientific and it is singularly unhelpful."

[Robert Howard]

For some reason, why aren't I surprised and suspicious that the new chief suspect the FBI targeted in the ANTHRAX investigation, worked at the same Fort Deitrick Army Bio warfare lab as Col./Dr. Jose Rivera, a "person of interest" if not a chief suspect in the assassination of President Kennedy?

Maybe that's the little corner in the beauracracy where they administer such things as assassinations and weapons of mass destruction.

In any case, I'd like to hear from others on whether or not this presents an opportunity to call more public and mainstream attention to Colonel Rivera, and make him a real "person of interest," not only to us, but to those who are trying to make sense of the Anthrax attack.

BK

You'll pardon me, but I will not comment on the last post, as it is all a little too out of my area, but I do want to categorically affirm that Linda Minor is absolutely correct regarding Delk Simpson being the person she came up with in relation to the subject in that part of this thread, not only that but Colonel Simpson's son died circumstances unknown, before the Colonel himself apparently sent a very tersely worded letter to the HSCA, if I am correct, and afterwards Colonel Simpson died. Apparently Colonel Simpson's son made the assertion about the "bagman in the JFK Assassination."

It's on maryferrell.org, if you give me a bit of time I will provide the URL.

Why is Linda not around these day's?

She is aces, and that is definitely a compliment.

Also corroboration forthcoming on another area, one of the Doctor's associated with Jack Ruby, Doctor Coleman Jacobsen knew Jack Ruby so well that Jack Ruby even had been over to their home before the assassination.

[William Kelly]

It's fun to speculate, and sometimes the speculation proves correct, but for whatever reason, Adele's story and the association of Col. Jose Rivera with the assassination provides a lot of investigative leads that have yet to be followed.

Identification of Rivera's DC secretary, the two Army officers in the WWII era photo of Rivera, and the Army officer Rivera met in DC (who was involved in photographing demonstrators on the West Coast, identifying them through the photos and putting them in a computer data base), are all doable, and could lead to additional records and witnesses.

Rivera must have been a close associate of those plotting the murder of the President, or an active participant in the scheme, so the more that can be learned about him the easier it will be to identify his cohorts, if anybody is interested.

BK

In February 1971 Dr. Jose A. Rivera was among the delegation of Texas officials officially welcomed to Washington at a reception at the Smithsonian given by the Texas State Society. Also in attendance was the daughter of Col. Howard Burris, representing her long departed grandfather, Governor Beauford Jester. We can only wonder at the irony injected by the display of a statue at the reception created by Elizabet Ney, a famous 19th century sculptress who lived in Texas: Lady MacBeth, who could not wash the blood off her hands for the killing of her king. Shakespeare would have loved it.

See attached article in pdf.

Dr. Jose A. Rivera, who is in medical research at the NIH, and who worked at Brooke Medical Center for five years, came with his wife.

Kathryn Burris, granddaughter of former Governor Buford Jester and daughter of Col. Howard Burris of San Antonio attended the reception.

Mrs. Charles P. Cabell is always at the Texas gatherings with Dallas' representative and with Mrs. Earle Cabell. See

http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_...e/rambler1.html

Texas_Delegation_1971.pdf

Well, that seems to place Rivera in the same room as Charles P. Cabell, doesn't it?

And it appears to be a very crowded room.

Was it Mae Brussell or John Judge who said that the best sources of accurate information are obits and society columns, which suddenly rings true.

Oh, And Jack White's points are well taken.

BK

Interesting set of friends he had and people he knew! He gets more interesting the more one looks! Perhaps the reason he didn't publish much was he was a lousy scientist and perhaps it was because he was not primarily a scientist/researcher, but rather under the cover of one - much the way Didi Morales was listed as in the Army, but worked for the CIA, etc. I wonder what Rivera's reall affiliation was - let alone his real job?

Even more than placing Dr. Rivera in the room with the wives of the Cabell brothers from Dallas, who may well be the ones who set up the annual reception, was the mention of his having been at Brooke Army Medical Center for five years prior to his appointment to the NIH. Brooke is in San Antonio, located at Fort Sam Houston, the military base where Robert E. Lee, Pershing, Arthur MacArthur, Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur each was assigned at different (sometimes overlapping) times.

Even more interesting, to me, is the naming of Kathryn Burris as being in attendance on that occasion in 1971. Her father Col. Howard Burris had been in charge of LBJ's inauguration activities in 1965 and was mentioned by Richard Bartholomew in his insightful manuscript, Possible Discovery of an Automobile Used In the JFK Conspiracy--the link to which I posted earlier. Therein, Richard stated, after showing that George DeMohrenschildt attempted to get help from LBJ by dropping the name of mutual friends, Howard and Barbara Jester Burris:

As previously mentioned, Howard Burris was Vice President Johnson's military representative and an Air Force intelligence officer. He is also much more.98

John Newman first learned of Howard Burris in the course of researching his book,

JFK and Vietnam

. Newman connected Burris with a pattern of gross deceptions involving battlefield statistics that took place in 1962. Kennedy and McNamara were being lied to while Johnson was being given the truth through a secret back-channel.

The end point of that secret back-channel was Howard Burris

. Burris would write the final memoranda that Johnson received concerning combat intelligence. Newman had discovered a foreign policy situation where the President and the Vice President were getting briefed in opposite terms. It is comparable to a hypothetical situation in which, during Operation Desert Storm, George Bush is lied to and Dan Quayle gets the truth about the status of the U.S. led coalition forces in the Persian Gulf.99

"I often get asked," Newman said, "about what was the exact back-channel. How did it function? How did it get there? And the best I can determine f

rom ground zero in Vietnam all the way back to the Vice President's desk is a chain of Air Force intelligence officers all the way to Burris

."100

In May 1961, during the Johnson trip to Vietnam,

Burris was being rehearsed on how to control LBJ

in the context of that trip. He was told what he could say or could not say to the vice president; which is amazing because ostensibly he works for the vice president. No one should be able to tell an Air Force colonel what he can and cannot tell to a vice president. The question is: Who is telling him? The answer is

the boys in the woodwork

.

There is another time period in Newman's book which deals with the back-channel to LBJ. Newman had long discussions with Burris about where he got this. "And the answer was

the boys in the woodwork

. And the question was: Who are the boys in the woodwork? And the answer was: `Well I'd rather not really say and bring all of that up. You, I know, you're one of them.' Alright, I'm military, I also have an intelligence background. Peter Dale Scott and I have been working very closely on a number of issues. He's writing a book as a matter of fact. He was assuming for a while that it was military. And I said, `Peter, it may not be that. It may be Langley.' He said, `Why do you say that?'

Well there's

one more piece

. Burris told me that later on

, `McCone put a stop to what I was getting from him.' This was relating to the combat intelligence. McCone was directing CIA. And all of the clues I got out of this fellow on who his contacts were -- my own interpretation was that they were in fact CIA. I don't know that for sure."101

Information about Burris originally began to surface with the book

The Senator Must Die

by Robert Morrow. Morrow wrote about two colonels whom he did not name. In 1977 a young man was hitchhiking in Baltimore who had a story he wanted to tell about his father's involvement in the Kennedy assassination. Robert Morrow happened to pick him up.102

The young man learned that Morrow had investigated aspects of the JFK assassination.

He told Morrow a story about his father, a former Air Force intelligence officer, who was involved in the Kennedy assassination.

The young man had witnessed

his father, who was very close to Lyndon Johnson, taking money to Haiti during 1963

. Not only did he see the money he heard the telephone conversations as well.103

Not really believing him, Morrow put the story out of his mind -- until the Colonel, the young man's father, went to his son's girlfriend and confessed. He said, "Everything my son told you (to the girlfriend and to Morrow) is true. Can you get me immunity from the House Select Committee?"

This conversation took place in 1977

.104

The Colonel admitted it. And this offer to testify if given immunity was given to Committee Chairman Louis Stokes in 1978. Assassination researcher Gus Russo reportedly saw the affidavit and spoke to the people involved. But when Robert Morrow gave the affidavit to the HSCA it ended there. The HSCA did not want to deal with it.105

The names of these colonels aren't given in the book.

Morrow gives them the code names "Intellfirst" and "SIO"

(First Intelligence Officer and Second Intelligence Officer). There are a few clues given in the book. He gives a couple of Air Force assignment clues in Europe; what they had done in the forties and fifties. They are at the top of the military intelligence ladder. They are connected to the CIA.106

Following Morrow's clues,

Russo discovered their identities

. He then located one of the colonels -- the one who wanted to go to the HSCA, "Intellfirst." Russo and Jim Marrs and another researcher went to meet

"Intellfirst" at his home in Florida

. He is eighty years old. They said they were researching the Johnson Administration and that

they knew he was on Johnson's Inaugural Committe

e.107

"Intellfirst" bought their story and invited them in. They got his whole biography from him and his military record. Russo and Marrs did not bring up the subject of Kennedy but "Intellfirst" did and he talked about how he hates the Kennedys. He gave them his whole background.108

The first thing he wanted to talk about was his good friend Howard Burris

.

They were on the Inauguration Committee together

.

They worked for Air Force intelligence and the CIA.

He said they were CIA all the time. They ran around the world.

They were friends with Charles Cabell.

109

"Intellfirst" was air attache in Hong Kong. He was in Rumania. He was in France. He retired from the military and worked for Martin Marietta in the early sixties selling defense contracts to his former Air Force superiors. And all the while his closest buddy was Howard Burris. That is the first name he mentioned to Russo and Marrs.110

When he worked for Martin Marietta he was the liaison to NATO. This was during the late fifties and early sixties when they bought the Jupiter missiles to put in Turkey. Kennedy had wanted the missiles removed from Turkey.

The very people who defied Kennedy's orders were this colonel's NATO clients -- the ones to whom he was selling the missiles. They were the ones who did not listen to Kennedy when he ordered them to keep these missiles out. They were all against Kennedy

.111

When he was selling the missiles for Martin Marietta after he retired he had another buddy, a Colonel Anderson, who was with NATO in Europe. "Intellfirst" admitted that they were drinking champagne in Paris on the day Kennedy was assassinated. They were toasting Kennedy's death. He admitted all of this to Russo and Marrs. The girlfriend of the son of "Intellfirst" went to the HSCA with this story and it died there.112

Armed with this information Russo went back home to verify the colonel's history. Marrs did the same and they learned more about him. Russo then started reading about Howard Burris. He discovered Burris was Air Force intelligence. He is very close friends with Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms.

He is from Texas and has oil money. Russo also learned that Howard Burris is in George de Mohrenschildt's address book four times. Next to one of the entries there is a slash. It says, "Howard Burris / Haiti.

"113

"Intellfirst" is so high up in intelligence that reporters refer to him for special sound bites and for blurbs for articles on occasion. His name is not commonly known but people in the business have reason to have heard of him.114

The critical thing for Gus Russo was that "Intellfirst" admitted what his son said was true and offered to talk to Congress. And there are other coincidences like de Mohrenschildt's phone book. Not only was de Mohrenschildt writing to LBJ in the spring of 1963 and for years after, so was "Intellfirst." According to Russo there are many of his letters at the LBJ Library. They all knew each other. And

they were all tied to this NATO network who was defying Kennedy

.115

Russo went back to Florida to do more research into this and to look for the son. What he found instead was that the son had possibly been murdered. He was found on the streets of Florida City naked and curled up in the embryo position as if he had been tossed aside. The official medical report said his blood alcohol level was one-point-one which is not high enough to kill a man who is six-foot-four; or even enough to cause him to pass out. It was speculated that he choked on his own vomit although there was no evidence of that. At age thirty-eight he apparently just died. He was cremated two days later by his father, "Intellfirst." Although they have a family plot in Virginia he cremated his only son who was telling everybody his father killed Kennedy.116

Colonel Howard Burris retired in 1964 and has remained in private business and civilian life. Some personal information was learned from his resume (obtained by

researcher Larry Haapanen

from the LBJ Library), and a

record from researcher Mary Ferrell's files

.

Burris was born near San Antonio on April 26, 1918 (Ferrell indicates April 18, 1926). He graduated from West Point in 1942. During World War II he commanded bomber units in England and France during two combat tours from 1943 to 1945. Ferrell lists him as "Deputy Commanding Officer" of the 386th Bombardment Bomber Group Ninth Air Force. From 1945 to 1949, Burris was Headquarters Commandant for the Continental Air Command; was assigned to staff support at the United Nations; and was involved in a "Special Mission to Government of Mexico." From 1950 to 1952 he was aide to Air Force Secretary Finletter, and became the executive officer to Air Force Secretary Talbott in 1953. From 1954 to 1957 he was attache to the U.S. Embassy in Switzerland. From 1957 to 1960 he served as International Liaison Officer, Department of the Air Force and was assigned to a special mission to Hungary, Poland, and the Soviet Union (1959). In 1961 he became Vice President Johnson's assistant for national security affairs. His foreign decorations were the Croix de Guerre (with Silver Star) from France; the Royal Order of the Sword from Sweden; and the Medal of Merit from Brazil.117 According to the record from Mary Ferrell's files:

Colonel Burris was supposedly original case officer for Nosenko. When Nosenko defected, Burris was called back to Switzerland. He was intelligence officer who ran Nosenko in Switzerland in Jan. 1964.118

Other sources indicate that Burris was in business with Nosenko's case officer. In an article written in 1991, Robert Morrow referred to an Air Force colonel who sounds like Intellfirst and to his "counterpart" who is also a colonel. This counterpart, after retiring, set up a firm in Paris, France as a cover for intelligence operations. In this firm, Morrow writes, "The colonel's counterpart had a partner who just so happened to be the case officer of Yuri Noshenko [sic], the famous Russian defector who, in 1964, made overtures to our embassy in Geneva, Switzerland about Lee Harvey Oswald working for the Russians." Larry Haapanen, in a letter to this author, wrote, "As far as I know, the only person who would be so described as Nosenko's case officer would be Tenant Bagley, who is mentioned in various published accounts of the Nosenko affair."119

Link to footnotes:

http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_...er1.html#N_119_

Since first reading Richard's manuscript, I have spent years on assorted trails of research, eventually learning that the name of the murdered son of an Air Force officer in Florida, who was a friend of Burris and member of the LBJ inaugural committee could only have been "Air Force Colonel Delk Simpson, an acquaintance of both LBJ military aide Howard Burris and CIA officer David Atlee Phillips"

http://ctka.net/pr199-russo.html

On JULY 10,1990 the name of "former U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. 0. Delk Simpson, a top intelligence officer who served as an attache in Hong Kong," appeared in the PACIFIC STARS AND STRIPES:

RELUCTANCE ON THE part of military and State Department officials to release decades-old information on POW and MIA sightings has

fueled support in Congress for the so-called Truth Bill, House Resolution 3603. The bill would declassify hundreds of crates of intelligence reports, enemy documents, photographs and personal letters of men who disappeared during World War II, and the Korean and Vietnam wars.

As more and more once-secret documents are released, some former military officials have stepped forward, claiming that Korean War

soldiers were abandoned in prison to resolve a standoff with the Communists, who vehemently denied all sightings in Siberia and China when the reports began surfacing in the early 1950s.

"It's long overdue to tell Americans what happened and wash this bad odor clean," said former U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. 0. Delk Simpson, a top intelligence officer who served as an attache in Hong Kong. Simpson contends that hundreds of American POWs, including many blacks, were seen by a Polish refugee at Manchouli on the China-Soviet border as they boarded Soviet trains bound for Siberia in 1951 and 1952.

"This Polish refugee was working on the railroad in Manchouli and was standing just a few feet away from these American soldiers. He heard them speaking English and was close enough to draw their Air Force insignia for me," Simpson said in a phone interview from Florida.

As it turns out, Lt. Col. Simpson had been in the news 45 years earlier, under a headline which read: "Four American Airmen Freed By Red China". The Associated Press article appeared May 31, 1955, beginning:

HONG KONG Of)—Four U. S. Air Force pilots, released from prison by Communist China, crossed the border into Hong Kong early today. First reports said the men wore in "fairly good physical condition." Lt. Col. O. D. Simpson, U.S. air attache told them: "We have been waiting a long time for this."

The release was announced by Red China's Premier, Chou En-Lai, who was later linked to the Nixon back channels that opened up Red China to U.S. trade. For an interesting, but off-topic, connection with current President Bush, see this link: http://www.eunuch.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=5880

Note: I have quite a few copies of articles about the capture and release of the POWs in China and would be glad to send to anyone who requests a copy.

But, to try to stay on-track here, I think it would be most interesting to try to link the Peruvian born Dr. Rivera to this same network of Air Force intelligence.

Aside: This intel group predates CIA, although some elements of it may have been incorporated into the CIA and continued to be funded through it. However, because of compartmentalization, it clearly was operating independently of any control by any civilian elected officials of which we are aware, i.e. JFK. Possibly it was being run out of entrenched bureaucracy within the State Department which had historical involvement in trade negotiations and financial investments of U.S. bankers in Asia and South America? Part of that history relates to what Nathaniel Heidenheimer mentioned at this thread:

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=13179

Before the days of the CIA, foreign intelligence was privately funded by such investment syndicates made up of bankers who had political connections to elected officials. Trade agreements were drawn up within the State Department and enforced through the Consular Service and the military (as attested by General Smedley Butler). The people who had been trained under that system did not just disappear in 1947 when the CIA was set up. I believe it was their intent to transfer the funding mechanism to the control of the federal government, yet maintain its secrecy and independence from changes that might be wrought by congressional or executive elections. It is as though the philosophy of businessmen and bankers is that they are working for the country, should not be questioned or subject to oversight by any constitutional restraint. But that's another topic.

[Robert Howard]

It's fun to speculate, and sometimes the speculation proves correct, but for whatever reason, Adele's story and the association of Col. Jose Rivera with the assassination provides a lot of investigative leads that have yet to be followed.

Identification of Rivera's DC secretary, the two Army officers in the WWII era photo of Rivera, and the Army officer Rivera met in DC (who was involved in photographing demonstrators on the West Coast, identifying them through the photos and putting them in a computer data base), are all doable, and could lead to additional records and witnesses.

Rivera must have been a close associate of those plotting the murder of the President, or an active participant in the scheme, so the more that can be learned about him the easier it will be to identify his cohorts, if anybody is interested.

BK

In February 1971 Dr. Jose A. Rivera was among the delegation of Texas officials officially welcomed to Washington at a reception at the Smithsonian given by the Texas State Society. Also in attendance was the daughter of Col. Howard Burris, representing her long departed grandfather, Governor Beauford Jester. We can only wonder at the irony injected by the display of a statue at the reception created by Elizabet Ney, a famous 19th century sculptress who lived in Texas: Lady MacBeth, who could not wash the blood off her hands for the killing of her king. Shakespeare would have loved it.

See attached article in pdf.

Dr. Jose A. Rivera, who is in medical research at the NIH, and who worked at Brooke Medical Center for five years, came with his wife.

Kathryn Burris, granddaughter of former Governor Buford Jester and daughter of Col. Howard Burris of San Antonio attended the reception.

Mrs. Charles P. Cabell is always at the Texas gatherings with Dallas' representative and with Mrs. Earle Cabell. See

http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_...e/rambler1.html

Texas_Delegation_1971.pdf

Well, that seems to place Rivera in the same room as Charles P. Cabell, doesn't it?

And it appears to be a very crowded room.

Was it Mae Brussell or John Judge who said that the best sources of accurate information are obits and society columns, which suddenly rings true.

Oh, And Jack White's points are well taken.

BK

Interesting set of friends he had and people he knew! He gets more interesting the more one looks! Perhaps the reason he didn't publish much was he was a lousy scientist and perhaps it was because he was not primarily a scientist/researcher, but rather under the cover of one - much the way Didi Morales was listed as in the Army, but worked for the CIA, etc. I wonder what Rivera's reall affiliation was - let alone his real job?

Even more than placing Dr. Rivera in the room with the wives of the Cabell brothers from Dallas, who may well be the ones who set up the annual reception, was the mention of his having been at Brooke Army Medical Center for five years prior to his appointment to the NIH. Brooke is in San Antonio, located at Fort Sam Houston, the military base where Robert E. Lee, Pershing, Arthur MacArthur, Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur each was assigned at different (sometimes overlapping) times.

Even more interesting, to me, is the naming of Kathryn Burris as being in attendance on that occasion in 1971. Her father Col. Howard Burris had been in charge of LBJ's inauguration activities in 1965 and was mentioned by Richard Bartholomew in his insightful manuscript, Possible Discovery of an Automobile Used In the JFK Conspiracy--the link to which I posted earlier. Therein, Richard stated, after showing that George DeMohrenschildt attempted to get help from LBJ by dropping the name of mutual friends, Howard and Barbara Jester Burris:

As previously mentioned, Howard Burris was Vice President Johnson's military representative and an Air Force intelligence officer. He is also much more.98

John Newman first learned of Howard Burris in the course of researching his book,

JFK and Vietnam

. Newman connected Burris with a pattern of gross deceptions involving battlefield statistics that took place in 1962. Kennedy and McNamara were being lied to while Johnson was being given the truth through a secret back-channel.

The end point of that secret back-channel was Howard Burris

. Burris would write the final memoranda that Johnson received concerning combat intelligence. Newman had discovered a foreign policy situation where the President and the Vice President were getting briefed in opposite terms. It is comparable to a hypothetical situation in which, during Operation Desert Storm, George Bush is lied to and Dan Quayle gets the truth about the status of the U.S. led coalition forces in the Persian Gulf.99

"I often get asked," Newman said, "about what was the exact back-channel. How did it function? How did it get there? And the best I can determine f

rom ground zero in Vietnam all the way back to the Vice President's desk is a chain of Air Force intelligence officers all the way to Burris

."100

In May 1961, during the Johnson trip to Vietnam,

Burris was being rehearsed on how to control LBJ

in the context of that trip. He was told what he could say or could not say to the vice president; which is amazing because ostensibly he works for the vice president. No one should be able to tell an Air Force colonel what he can and cannot tell to a vice president. The question is: Who is telling him? The answer is

the boys in the woodwork

.

There is another time period in Newman's book which deals with the back-channel to LBJ. Newman had long discussions with Burris about where he got this. "And the answer was

the boys in the woodwork

. And the question was: Who are the boys in the woodwork? And the answer was: `Well I'd rather not really say and bring all of that up. You, I know, you're one of them.' Alright, I'm military, I also have an intelligence background. Peter Dale Scott and I have been working very closely on a number of issues. He's writing a book as a matter of fact. He was assuming for a while that it was military. And I said, `Peter, it may not be that. It may be Langley.' He said, `Why do you say that?'

Well there's

one more piece

. Burris told me that later on

, `McCone put a stop to what I was getting from him.' This was relating to the combat intelligence. McCone was directing CIA. And all of the clues I got out of this fellow on who his contacts were -- my own interpretation was that they were in fact CIA. I don't know that for sure."101

Information about Burris originally began to surface with the book

The Senator Must Die

by Robert Morrow. Morrow wrote about two colonels whom he did not name. In 1977 a young man was hitchhiking in Baltimore who had a story he wanted to tell about his father's involvement in the Kennedy assassination. Robert Morrow happened to pick him up.102

The young man learned that Morrow had investigated aspects of the JFK assassination.

He told Morrow a story about his father, a former Air Force intelligence officer, who was involved in the Kennedy assassination.

The young man had witnessed

his father, who was very close to Lyndon Johnson, taking money to Haiti during 1963

. Not only did he see the money he heard the telephone conversations as well.103

Not really believing him, Morrow put the story out of his mind -- until the Colonel, the young man's father, went to his son's girlfriend and confessed. He said, "Everything my son told you (to the girlfriend and to Morrow) is true. Can you get me immunity from the House Select Committee?"

This conversation took place in 1977

.104

The Colonel admitted it. And this offer to testify if given immunity was given to Committee Chairman Louis Stokes in 1978. Assassination researcher Gus Russo reportedly saw the affidavit and spoke to the people involved. But when Robert Morrow gave the affidavit to the HSCA it ended there. The HSCA did not want to deal with it.105

The names of these colonels aren't given in the book.

Morrow gives them the code names "Intellfirst" and "SIO"

(First Intelligence Officer and Second Intelligence Officer). There are a few clues given in the book. He gives a couple of Air Force assignment clues in Europe; what they had done in the forties and fifties. They are at the top of the military intelligence ladder. They are connected to the CIA.106

Following Morrow's clues,

Russo discovered their identities

. He then located one of the colonels -- the one who wanted to go to the HSCA, "Intellfirst." Russo and Jim Marrs and another researcher went to meet

"Intellfirst" at his home in Florida

. He is eighty years old. They said they were researching the Johnson Administration and that

they knew he was on Johnson's Inaugural Committe

e.107

"Intellfirst" bought their story and invited them in. They got his whole biography from him and his military record. Russo and Marrs did not bring up the subject of Kennedy but "Intellfirst" did and he talked about how he hates the Kennedys. He gave them his whole background.108

The first thing he wanted to talk about was his good friend Howard Burris

.

They were on the Inauguration Committee together

.

They worked for Air Force intelligence and the CIA.

He said they were CIA all the time. They ran around the world.

They were friends with Charles Cabell.

109

"Intellfirst" was air attache in Hong Kong. He was in Rumania. He was in France. He retired from the military and worked for Martin Marietta in the early sixties selling defense contracts to his former Air Force superiors. And all the while his closest buddy was Howard Burris. That is the first name he mentioned to Russo and Marrs.110

When he worked for Martin Marietta he was the liaison to NATO. This was during the late fifties and early sixties when they bought the Jupiter missiles to put in Turkey. Kennedy had wanted the missiles removed from Turkey.

The very people who defied Kennedy's orders were this colonel's NATO clients -- the ones to whom he was selling the missiles. They were the ones who did not listen to Kennedy when he ordered them to keep these missiles out. They were all against Kennedy

.111

When he was selling the missiles for Martin Marietta after he retired he had another buddy, a Colonel Anderson, who was with NATO in Europe. "Intellfirst" admitted that they were drinking champagne in Paris on the day Kennedy was assassinated. They were toasting Kennedy's death. He admitted all of this to Russo and Marrs. The girlfriend of the son of "Intellfirst" went to the HSCA with this story and it died there.112

Armed with this information Russo went back home to verify the colonel's history. Marrs did the same and they learned more about him. Russo then started reading about Howard Burris. He discovered Burris was Air Force intelligence. He is very close friends with Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms.

He is from Texas and has oil money. Russo also learned that Howard Burris is in George de Mohrenschildt's address book four times. Next to one of the entries there is a slash. It says, "Howard Burris / Haiti.

"113

"Intellfirst" is so high up in intelligence that reporters refer to him for special sound bites and for blurbs for articles on occasion. His name is not commonly known but people in the business have reason to have heard of him.114

The critical thing for Gus Russo was that "Intellfirst" admitted what his son said was true and offered to talk to Congress. And there are other coincidences like de Mohrenschildt's phone book. Not only was de Mohrenschildt writing to LBJ in the spring of 1963 and for years after, so was "Intellfirst." According to Russo there are many of his letters at the LBJ Library. They all knew each other. And

they were all tied to this NATO network who was defying Kennedy

.115

Russo went back to Florida to do more research into this and to look for the son. What he found instead was that the son had possibly been murdered. He was found on the streets of Florida City naked and curled up in the embryo position as if he had been tossed aside. The official medical report said his blood alcohol level was one-point-one which is not high enough to kill a man who is six-foot-four; or even enough to cause him to pass out. It was speculated that he choked on his own vomit although there was no evidence of that. At age thirty-eight he apparently just died. He was cremated two days later by his father, "Intellfirst." Although they have a family plot in Virginia he cremated his only son who was telling everybody his father killed Kennedy.116

Colonel Howard Burris retired in 1964 and has remained in private business and civilian life. Some personal information was learned from his resume (obtained by

researcher Larry Haapanen

from the LBJ Library), and a

record from researcher Mary Ferrell's files

.

Burris was born near San Antonio on April 26, 1918 (Ferrell indicates April 18, 1926). He graduated from West Point in 1942. During World War II he commanded bomber units in England and France during two combat tours from 1943 to 1945. Ferrell lists him as "Deputy Commanding Officer" of the 386th Bombardment Bomber Group Ninth Air Force. From 1945 to 1949, Burris was Headquarters Commandant for the Continental Air Command; was assigned to staff support at the United Nations; and was involved in a "Special Mission to Government of Mexico." From 1950 to 1952 he was aide to Air Force Secretary Finletter, and became the executive officer to Air Force Secretary Talbott in 1953. From 1954 to 1957 he was attache to the U.S. Embassy in Switzerland. From 1957 to 1960 he served as International Liaison Officer, Department of the Air Force and was assigned to a special mission to Hungary, Poland, and the Soviet Union (1959). In 1961 he became Vice President Johnson's assistant for national security affairs. His foreign decorations were the Croix de Guerre (with Silver Star) from France; the Royal Order of the Sword from Sweden; and the Medal of Merit from Brazil.117 According to the record from Mary Ferrell's files:

Colonel Burris was supposedly original case officer for Nosenko. When Nosenko defected, Burris was called back to Switzerland. He was intelligence officer who ran Nosenko in Switzerland in Jan. 1964.118

Other sources indicate that Burris was in business with Nosenko's case officer. In an article written in 1991, Robert Morrow referred to an Air Force colonel who sounds like Intellfirst and to his "counterpart" who is also a colonel. This counterpart, after retiring, set up a firm in Paris, France as a cover for intelligence operations. In this firm, Morrow writes, "The colonel's counterpart had a partner who just so happened to be the case officer of Yuri Noshenko [sic], the famous Russian defector who, in 1964, made overtures to our embassy in Geneva, Switzerland about Lee Harvey Oswald working for the Russians." Larry Haapanen, in a letter to this author, wrote, "As far as I know, the only person who would be so described as Nosenko's case officer would be Tenant Bagley, who is mentioned in various published accounts of the Nosenko affair."119

Link to footnotes:

http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_...er1.html#N_119_

Since first reading Richard's manuscript, I have spent years on assorted trails of research, eventually learning that the name of the murdered son of an Air Force officer in Florida, who was a friend of Burris and member of the LBJ inaugural committee could only have been "Air Force Colonel Delk Simpson, an acquaintance of both LBJ military aide Howard Burris and CIA officer David Atlee Phillips"

http://ctka.net/pr199-russo.html

On JULY 10,1990 the name of "former U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. 0. Delk Simpson, a top intelligence officer who served as an attache in Hong Kong," appeared in the PACIFIC STARS AND STRIPES:

RELUCTANCE ON THE part of military and State Department officials to release decades-old information on POW and MIA sightings has

fueled support in Congress for the so-called Truth Bill, House Resolution 3603. The bill would declassify hundreds of crates of intelligence reports, enemy documents, photographs and personal letters of men who disappeared during World War II, and the Korean and Vietnam wars.

As more and more once-secret documents are released, some former military officials have stepped forward, claiming that Korean War

soldiers were abandoned in prison to resolve a standoff with the Communists, who vehemently denied all sightings in Siberia and China when the reports began surfacing in the early 1950s.

"It's long overdue to tell Americans what happened and wash this bad odor clean," said former U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. 0. Delk Simpson, a top intelligence officer who served as an attache in Hong Kong. Simpson contends that hundreds of American POWs, including many blacks, were seen by a Polish refugee at Manchouli on the China-Soviet border as they boarded Soviet trains bound for Siberia in 1951 and 1952.

"This Polish refugee was working on the railroad in Manchouli and was standing just a few feet away from these American soldiers. He heard them speaking English and was close enough to draw their Air Force insignia for me," Simpson said in a phone interview from Florida.

As it turns out, Lt. Col. Simpson had been in the news 45 years earlier, under a headline which read: "Four American Airmen Freed By Red China". The Associated Press article appeared May 31, 1955, beginning:

HONG KONG Of)—Four U. S. Air Force pilots, released from prison by Communist China, crossed the border into Hong Kong early today. First reports said the men wore in "fairly good physical condition." Lt. Col. O. D. Simpson, U.S. air attache told them: "We have been waiting a long time for this."

The release was announced by Red China's Premier, Chou En-Lai, who was later linked to the Nixon back channels that opened up Red China to U.S. trade. For an interesting, but off-topic, connection with current President Bush, see this link: http://www.eunuch.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=5880

Note: I have quite a few copies of articles about the capture and release of the POWs in China and would be glad to send to anyone who requests a copy.

But, to try to stay on-track here, I think it would be most interesting to try to link the Peruvian born Dr. Rivera to this same network of Air Force intelligence.

Aside: This intel group predates CIA, although some elements of it may have been incorporated into the CIA and continued to be funded through it. However, because of compartmentalization, it clearly was operating independently of any control by any civilian elected officials of which we are aware, i.e. JFK. Possibly it was being run out of entrenched bureaucracy within the State Department which had historical involvement in trade negotiations and financial investments of U.S. bankers in Asia and South America? Part of that history relates to what Nathaniel Heidenheimer mentioned at this thread:

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=13179

Before the days of the CIA, foreign intelligence was privately funded by such investment syndicates made up of bankers who had political connections to elected officials. Trade agreements were drawn up within the State Department and enforced through the Consular Service and the military (as attested by General Smedley Butler). The people who had been trained under that system did not just disappear in 1947 when the CIA was set up. I believe it was their intent to transfer the funding mechanism to the control of the federal government, yet maintain its secrecy and independence from changes that might be wrought by congressional or executive elections. It is as though the philosophy of businessmen and bankers is that they are working for the country, should not be questioned or subject to oversight by any constitutional restraint. But that's another topic.

Linda,

That's a lot to digest in one sitting.

When I read the news article about the reception and Burris' daughter, I too thought of Richard Bart's fine article on the Ramblin' Rambler.

I had missed Newman's account, and didn't know of the Gus Russo/Marrs quest. Now there's an odd couple.

"They call me Gus" Russo is from Baltimore, and followed Morrow's leads, but I don't think we will ever get the results of Russo's inquiry as he seems to be debunking conspiracy leads and favoring the mobsters now.

While the attribution of Air Force personell as CIA officers is common (ie Lansdale), I thik they were all in LeMay's loop. And whether actually AF or CIA, they have names and real identities.

Thanks again for all you do,

BK

I think I should mention that it was I who paid for the trip and planned the trip for Marrs and Plumlee to go visit Col. 'Intelfirst', based on information I had obtained from Gary Shaw, I believe. I, should have gone also, but had reason to remain in San Diego, so didn't. I was shocked to hear that Russo [who at that time I was only vaguely aware of from some Dallas conferences] met them at the airport - having found out [by means I can not understand!] what they were doing and who they were going to visit and inserted himself into the 'visit' with some vague mention that I had approved his joining. I had NOT and never would have, had I heard/known beforehand. I only heard after the fact. Plumlee went along with the hope he might be able to either identify the man or ask important questions, based on events and persons Tosh knew at the time. It was from this incident that a red-flag went-up in my mind at to who/what Russo was.

Here is the link where Mrs Coleman Jacobson mentions Jack Ruby's visits, in and of itself, there is nothing strange about it, but a pre-existing relationship should have been divulged at the time of the Warren Commission hearings. She even mentions that Ruby took care of the Jacobson's dogs when they went on vacation.

WCD 223/71

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=339971

[William Kelly]

It's fun to speculate, and sometimes the speculation proves correct, but for whatever reason, Adele's story and the association of Col. Jose Rivera with the assassination provides a lot of investigative leads that have yet to be followed.

Identification of Rivera's DC secretary, the two Army officers in the WWII era photo of Rivera, and the Army officer Rivera met in DC (who was involved in photographing demonstrators on the West Coast, identifying them through the photos and putting them in a computer data base), are all doable, and could lead to additional records and witnesses.

Rivera must have been a close associate of those plotting the murder of the President, or an active participant in the scheme, so the more that can be learned about him the easier it will be to identify his cohorts, if anybody is interested.

BK

In February 1971 Dr. Jose A. Rivera was among the delegation of Texas officials officially welcomed to Washington at a reception at the Smithsonian given by the Texas State Society. Also in attendance was the daughter of Col. Howard Burris, representing her long departed grandfather, Governor Beauford Jester. We can only wonder at the irony injected by the display of a statue at the reception created by Elizabet Ney, a famous 19th century sculptress who lived in Texas: Lady MacBeth, who could not wash the blood off her hands for the killing of her king. Shakespeare would have loved it.

See attached article in pdf.

Dr. Jose A. Rivera, who is in medical research at the NIH, and who worked at Brooke Medical Center for five years, came with his wife.

Kathryn Burris, granddaughter of former Governor Buford Jester and daughter of Col. Howard Burris of San Antonio attended the reception.

Mrs. Charles P. Cabell is always at the Texas gatherings with Dallas' representative and with Mrs. Earle Cabell. See

http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_...e/rambler1.html

Texas_Delegation_1971.pdf

Well, that seems to place Rivera in the same room as Charles P. Cabell, doesn't it?

And it appears to be a very crowded room.

Was it Mae Brussell or John Judge who said that the best sources of accurate information are obits and society columns, which suddenly rings true.

Oh, And Jack White's points are well taken.

BK

Interesting set of friends he had and people he knew! He gets more interesting the more one looks! Perhaps the reason he didn't publish much was he was a lousy scientist and perhaps it was because he was not primarily a scientist/researcher, but rather under the cover of one - much the way Didi Morales was listed as in the Army, but worked for the CIA, etc. I wonder what Rivera's reall affiliation was - let alone his real job?

Even more than placing Dr. Rivera in the room with the wives of the Cabell brothers from Dallas, who may well be the ones who set up the annual reception, was the mention of his having been at Brooke Army Medical Center for five years prior to his appointment to the NIH. Brooke is in San Antonio, located at Fort Sam Houston, the military base where Robert E. Lee, Pershing, Arthur MacArthur, Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur each was assigned at different (sometimes overlapping) times.

Even more interesting, to me, is the naming of Kathryn Burris as being in attendance on that occasion in 1971. Her father Col. Howard Burris had been in charge of LBJ's inauguration activities in 1965 and was mentioned by Richard Bartholomew in his insightful manuscript, Possible Discovery of an Automobile Used In the JFK Conspiracy--the link to which I posted earlier. Therein, Richard stated, after showing that George DeMohrenschildt attempted to get help from LBJ by dropping the name of mutual friends, Howard and Barbara Jester Burris:

As previously mentioned, Howard Burris was Vice President Johnson's military representative and an Air Force intelligence officer. He is also much more.98

John Newman first learned of Howard Burris in the course of researching his book,

JFK and Vietnam

. Newman connected Burris with a pattern of gross deceptions involving battlefield statistics that took place in 1962. Kennedy and McNamara were being lied to while Johnson was being given the truth through a secret back-channel.

The end point of that secret back-channel was Howard Burris

. Burris would write the final memoranda that Johnson received concerning combat intelligence. Newman had discovered a foreign policy situation where the President and the Vice President were getting briefed in opposite terms. It is comparable to a hypothetical situation in which, during Operation Desert Storm, George Bush is lied to and Dan Quayle gets the truth about the status of the U.S. led coalition forces in the Persian Gulf.99

"I often get asked," Newman said, "about what was the exact back-channel. How did it function? How did it get there? And the best I can determine f

rom ground zero in Vietnam all the way back to the Vice President's desk is a chain of Air Force intelligence officers all the way to Burris

."100

In May 1961, during the Johnson trip to Vietnam,

Burris was being rehearsed on how to control LBJ

in the context of that trip. He was told what he could say or could not say to the vice president; which is amazing because ostensibly he works for the vice president. No one should be able to tell an Air Force colonel what he can and cannot tell to a vice president. The question is: Who is telling him? The answer is

the boys in the woodwork

.

There is another time period in Newman's book which deals with the back-channel to LBJ. Newman had long discussions with Burris about where he got this. "And the answer was

the boys in the woodwork

. And the question was: Who are the boys in the woodwork? And the answer was: `Well I'd rather not really say and bring all of that up. You, I know, you're one of them.' Alright, I'm military, I also have an intelligence background. Peter Dale Scott and I have been working very closely on a number of issues. He's writing a book as a matter of fact. He was assuming for a while that it was military. And I said, `Peter, it may not be that. It may be Langley.' He said, `Why do you say that?'

Well there's

one more piece

. Burris told me that later on

, `McCone put a stop to what I was getting from him.' This was relating to the combat intelligence. McCone was directing CIA. And all of the clues I got out of this fellow on who his contacts were -- my own interpretation was that they were in fact CIA. I don't know that for sure."101

Information about Burris originally began to surface with the book

The Senator Must Die

by Robert Morrow. Morrow wrote about two colonels whom he did not name. In 1977 a young man was hitchhiking in Baltimore who had a story he wanted to tell about his father's involvement in the Kennedy assassination. Robert Morrow happened to pick him up.102

The young man learned that Morrow had investigated aspects of the JFK assassination.

He told Morrow a story about his father, a former Air Force intelligence officer, who was involved in the Kennedy assassination.

The young man had witnessed

his father, who was very close to Lyndon Johnson, taking money to Haiti during 1963

. Not only did he see the money he heard the telephone conversations as well.103

Not really believing him, Morrow put the story out of his mind -- until the Colonel, the young man's father, went to his son's girlfriend and confessed. He said, "Everything my son told you (to the girlfriend and to Morrow) is true. Can you get me immunity from the House Select Committee?"

This conversation took place in 1977

.104

The Colonel admitted it. And this offer to testify if given immunity was given to Committee Chairman Louis Stokes in 1978. Assassination researcher Gus Russo reportedly saw the affidavit and spoke to the people involved. But when Robert Morrow gave the affidavit to the HSCA it ended there. The HSCA did not want to deal with it.105

The names of these colonels aren't given in the book.

Morrow gives them the code names "Intellfirst" and "SIO"

(First Intelligence Officer and Second Intelligence Officer). There are a few clues given in the book. He gives a couple of Air Force assignment clues in Europe; what they had done in the forties and fifties. They are at the top of the military intelligence ladder. They are connected to the CIA.106

Following Morrow's clues,

Russo discovered their identities

. He then located one of the colonels -- the one who wanted to go to the HSCA, "Intellfirst." Russo and Jim Marrs and another researcher went to meet

"Intellfirst" at his home in Florida

. He is eighty years old. They said they were researching the Johnson Administration and that

they knew he was on Johnson's Inaugural Committe

e.107

"Intellfirst" bought their story and invited them in. They got his whole biography from him and his military record. Russo and Marrs did not bring up the subject of Kennedy but "Intellfirst" did and he talked about how he hates the Kennedys. He gave them his whole background.108

The first thing he wanted to talk about was his good friend Howard Burris

.

They were on the Inauguration Committee together

.

They worked for Air Force intelligence and the CIA.

He said they were CIA all the time. They ran around the world.

They were friends with Charles Cabell.

109

"Intellfirst" was air attache in Hong Kong. He was in Rumania. He was in France. He retired from the military and worked for Martin Marietta in the early sixties selling defense contracts to his former Air Force superiors. And all the while his closest buddy was Howard Burris. That is the first name he mentioned to Russo and Marrs.110

When he worked for Martin Marietta he was the liaison to NATO. This was during the late fifties and early sixties when they bought the Jupiter missiles to put in Turkey. Kennedy had wanted the missiles removed from Turkey.

The very people who defied Kennedy's orders were this colonel's NATO clients -- the ones to whom he was selling the missiles. They were the ones who did not listen to Kennedy when he ordered them to keep these missiles out. They were all against Kennedy

.111

When he was selling the missiles for Martin Marietta after he retired he had another buddy, a Colonel Anderson, who was with NATO in Europe. "Intellfirst" admitted that they were drinking champagne in Paris on the day Kennedy was assassinated. They were toasting Kennedy's death. He admitted all of this to Russo and Marrs. The girlfriend of the son of "Intellfirst" went to the HSCA with this story and it died there.112

Armed with this information Russo went back home to verify the colonel's history. Marrs did the same and they learned more about him. Russo then started reading about Howard Burris. He discovered Burris was Air Force intelligence. He is very close friends with Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms.

He is from Texas and has oil money. Russo also learned that Howard Burris is in George de Mohrenschildt's address book four times. Next to one of the entries there is a slash. It says, "Howard Burris / Haiti.

"113

"Intellfirst" is so high up in intelligence that reporters refer to him for special sound bites and for blurbs for articles on occasion. His name is not commonly known but people in the business have reason to have heard of him.114

The critical thing for Gus Russo was that "Intellfirst" admitted what his son said was true and offered to talk to Congress. And there are other coincidences like de Mohrenschildt's phone book. Not only was de Mohrenschildt writing to LBJ in the spring of 1963 and for years after, so was "Intellfirst." According to Russo there are many of his letters at the LBJ Library. They all knew each other. And

they were all tied to this NATO network who was defying Kennedy

.115

Russo went back to Florida to do more research into this and to look for the son. What he found instead was that the son had possibly been murdered. He was found on the streets of Florida City naked and curled up in the embryo position as if he had been tossed aside. The official medical report said his blood alcohol level was one-point-one which is not high enough to kill a man who is six-foot-four; or even enough to cause him to pass out. It was speculated that he choked on his own vomit although there was no evidence of that. At age thirty-eight he apparently just died. He was cremated two days later by his father, "Intellfirst." Although they have a family plot in Virginia he cremated his only son who was telling everybody his father killed Kennedy.116

Colonel Howard Burris retired in 1964 and has remained in private business and civilian life. Some personal information was learned from his resume (obtained by

researcher Larry Haapanen

from the LBJ Library), and a

record from researcher Mary Ferrell's files

.

Burris was born near San Antonio on April 26, 1918 (Ferrell indicates April 18, 1926). He graduated from West Point in 1942. During World War II he commanded bomber units in England and France during two combat tours from 1943 to 1945. Ferrell lists him as "Deputy Commanding Officer" of the 386th Bombardment Bomber Group Ninth Air Force. From 1945 to 1949, Burris was Headquarters Commandant for the Continental Air Command; was assigned to staff support at the United Nations; and was involved in a "Special Mission to Government of Mexico." From 1950 to 1952 he was aide to Air Force Secretary Finletter, and became the executive officer to Air Force Secretary Talbott in 1953. From 1954 to 1957 he was attache to the U.S. Embassy in Switzerland. From 1957 to 1960 he served as International Liaison Officer, Department of the Air Force and was assigned to a special mission to Hungary, Poland, and the Soviet Union (1959). In 1961 he became Vice President Johnson's assistant for national security affairs. His foreign decorations were the Croix de Guerre (with Silver Star) from France; the Royal Order of the Sword from Sweden; and the Medal of Merit from Brazil.117 According to the record from Mary Ferrell's files:

Colonel Burris was supposedly original case officer for Nosenko. When Nosenko defected, Burris was called back to Switzerland. He was intelligence officer who ran Nosenko in Switzerland in Jan. 1964.118

Other sources indicate that Burris was in business with Nosenko's case officer. In an article written in 1991, Robert Morrow referred to an Air Force colonel who sounds like Intellfirst and to his "counterpart" who is also a colonel. This counterpart, after retiring, set up a firm in Paris, France as a cover for intelligence operations. In this firm, Morrow writes, "The colonel's counterpart had a partner who just so happened to be the case officer of Yuri Noshenko [sic], the famous Russian defector who, in 1964, made overtures to our embassy in Geneva, Switzerland about Lee Harvey Oswald working for the Russians." Larry Haapanen, in a letter to this author, wrote, "As far as I know, the only person who would be so described as Nosenko's case officer would be Tenant Bagley, who is mentioned in various published accounts of the Nosenko affair."119

Link to footnotes:

http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_...er1.html#N_119_

Since first reading Richard's manuscript, I have spent years on assorted trails of research, eventually learning that the name of the murdered son of an Air Force officer in Florida, who was a friend of Burris and member of the LBJ inaugural committee could only have been "Air Force Colonel Delk Simpson, an acquaintance of both LBJ military aide Howard Burris and CIA officer David Atlee Phillips"

http://ctka.net/pr199-russo.html

On JULY 10,1990 the name of "former U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. 0. Delk Simpson, a top intelligence officer who served as an attache in Hong Kong," appeared in the PACIFIC STARS AND STRIPES:

RELUCTANCE ON THE part of military and State Department officials to release decades-old information on POW and MIA sightings has

fueled support in Congress for the so-called Truth Bill, House Resolution 3603. The bill would declassify hundreds of crates of intelligence reports, enemy documents, photographs and personal letters of men who disappeared during World War II, and the Korean and Vietnam wars.

As more and more once-secret documents are released, some former military officials have stepped forward, claiming that Korean War

soldiers were abandoned in prison to resolve a standoff with the Communists, who vehemently denied all sightings in Siberia and China when the reports began surfacing in the early 1950s.

"It's long overdue to tell Americans what happened and wash this bad odor clean," said former U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. 0. Delk Simpson, a top intelligence officer who served as an attache in Hong Kong. Simpson contends that hundreds of American POWs, including many blacks, were seen by a Polish refugee at Manchouli on the China-Soviet border as they boarded Soviet trains bound for Siberia in 1951 and 1952.

"This Polish refugee was working on the railroad in Manchouli and was standing just a few feet away from these American soldiers. He heard them speaking English and was close enough to draw their Air Force insignia for me," Simpson said in a phone interview from Florida.

As it turns out, Lt. Col. Simpson had been in the news 45 years earlier, under a headline which read: "Four American Airmen Freed By Red China". The Associated Press article appeared May 31, 1955, beginning:

HONG KONG Of)—Four U. S. Air Force pilots, released from prison by Communist China, crossed the border into Hong Kong early today. First reports said the men wore in "fairly good physical condition." Lt. Col. O. D. Simpson, U.S. air attache told them: "We have been waiting a long time for this."

The release was announced by Red China's Premier, Chou En-Lai, who was later linked to the Nixon back channels that opened up Red China to U.S. trade. For an interesting, but off-topic, connection with current President Bush, see this link: http://www.eunuch.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=5880

Note: I have quite a few copies of articles about the capture and release of the POWs in China and would be glad to send to anyone who requests a copy.

But, to try to stay on-track here, I think it would be most interesting to try to link the Peruvian born Dr. Rivera to this same network of Air Force intelligence.

Aside: This intel group predates CIA, although some elements of it may have been incorporated into the CIA and continued to be funded through it. However, because of compartmentalization, it clearly was operating independently of any control by any civilian elected officials of which we are aware, i.e. JFK. Possibly it was being run out of entrenched bureaucracy within the State Department which had historical involvement in trade negotiations and financial investments of U.S. bankers in Asia and South America? Part of that history relates to what Nathaniel Heidenheimer mentioned at this thread:

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=13179

Before the days of the CIA, foreign intelligence was privately funded by such investment syndicates made up of bankers who had political connections to elected officials. Trade agreements were drawn up within the State Department and enforced through the Consular Service and the military (as attested by General Smedley Butler). The people who had been trained under that system did not just disappear in 1947 when the CIA was set up. I believe it was their intent to transfer the funding mechanism to the control of the federal government, yet maintain its secrecy and independence from changes that might be wrought by congressional or executive elections. It is as though the philosophy of businessmen and bankers is that they are working for the country, should not be questioned or subject to oversight by any constitutional restraint. But that's another topic.

Rather than look for a Rivera ink to the back channel USAF network of Colonels, why not follow the link that we do have (Gratus to Linda) The Texas Delegation - and what brought together their kids in DC - with Lady McBeth - the Society Arts League?

Also, consider Rivera's being stationed at Brooks, the Shriner's association with the military medicine at that base, JFK's visit there the day before he is murdered, and the listing of the visit in the Presidential Diary as the official reason for the entire trip to Texas. Who arranged that?

BK

[William Kelly]

William Manchester, in his book The Death of a President, details what JFK did at Brookes, breaking off the planned tour to visit a particular part of the research hospital, and talk with some doctors who, if they had that equipment, could possibly have saved his son who had died shortly after birth. The death of this child was predicted by Dr. Jose Rivera in April, months before the baby died.

Also note the presence of Air Force Secretary Zuckert, a suspicious suspect in some minds.

http://www.jfklibrary.org/jfkl/modules/dia...;m=6&y=1961

REMARKS AT THE DEDICATION OF THE AEROSPACE MEDICAL HEALTH CENTER, NOVEMBER 21, 1963

President John F. Kennedy

San Antonio, Texas

Mr. Secretary, Governor, Mr. Vice President, Senator, Members of the Congress, members Of the military, ladies and gentlemen:

For more than 3 years I have spoken about the New Frontier. This is not a partisan term, and it is not the exclusive property of Republicans or Democrats. It refers, instead, to this Nation's place in history, to the fact that we do stand on the edge of a great new era, filled with both crisis and opportunity, an era to be characterized by achievement and by challenge. It is an era which calls for action and for the best efforts of all those who would test the unknown and the uncertain in every phase of human endeavor. It is a time for pathfinders and pioneers.

I have come to Texas today to salute an outstanding group of pioneers, the men who man the Brooks Air Force Base School of Aerospace Medicine and the Aerospace Medical Center. It is fitting that San Antonio should be the site of this center and this school as we gather to dedicate this complex of buildings. For this city has long been the home of the pioneers in the air. It was here that Sidney Brooks, whose memory we honor today, was born and raised. It was here that Charles Lindbergh and Claire Chennault, and a host of others, who, in World War I and World War II and Korea, and even today have helped demonstrate American mastery of the skies, trained at Kelly Field and Randolph Field, which form a major part of aviation history. And in the new frontier of outer space, while headlines may be made by others in other places, history is being made every day by the men and women of the Aerospace Medical Center, without whom there could be no history.

Many Americans make the mistake of assuming that space research has no values here on earth. Nothing could be further from the truth. Just as the wartime development of radar gave us the transistor, and all that it made possible, so research in space medicine holds the promise of substantial benefit for those of us who are earthbound. For our effort in space is not as some have suggested, a competitor for the natural resources that we need to develop the earth. It is a working partner and a coproducer of these resources. And nothing makes this clearer than the fact that medicine in space is going to make our lives healthier and happier here on earth.

I give you three examples: first, medical space research may open up new understanding of man's relation to his environment. Examinations of the astronaut's physical, and mental, and emotional reactions can teach us more about the differences between normal and abnormal, about the causes and effects of disorientation, about changes in metabolism which could result in extending the life span. When you study the effects on our astronauts of exhaust gases which can contaminate their environment, and you seek ways to alter these gases so as to reduce their toxicity, you are working on problems similar to those in our great urban centers which themselves are being corrupted by gases and which must be clear.

And second, medical space research may revolutionize the technology and the techniques of modern medicine. Whatever new devices are created, for example, to monitor our astronauts, to measure their heart activity, their breathing, their brain waves, their eye motion, at great distances and under difficult conditions, will also represent a major advance in general medical instrumentation. Heart patients may even be able to wear a light monitor which will sound a warning if their activity exceeds certain limits. An instrument recently developed to record automatically the impact of acceleration upon an astronaut's eyes will also be of help to small children who are suffering miserably from eye defects, but are unable to describe their impairment. And also by the use of instruments similar to those used in Project Mercury, this Nation's private as well as public nursing services are being improved, enabling one nurse now to give more critically ill patients greater attention than they ever could in the past.

And third, medical space research may lead to new safeguards against hazards common to many environments. Specifically, our astronauts will need fundamentally new devices to protect them from the ill effects of radiation which can have a profound influence upon medicine and man's relations to our present environment.

Here at this center we have the laboratories, the talent, the resources to give new impetus to vital research in the life centers. I am not suggesting that the entire space program is justified alone by what is done in medicine. The space program stands on its own as a contribution to national strength. And last Saturday at Cape Canaveral I saw our new Saturn C-1 rocket booster, which, with its payload, when it rises in December of this year, will be, for the first time, the largest booster in the world, carrying into space the largest payload that any country in the world has ever sent into space.

I think the United States should be a leader. A country as rich and powerful as this which bears so many burdens and responsibilities, which has so many opportunities, should be second to none. And in December, while I do not regard our mastery of space as anywhere near complete, while I recognize that there are still areas where we are behind--at least in one area, the size of the booster--this year I hope the United States will be ahead. And I am for it. We have a long way to go. Many weeks and months and years of long, tedious work lie ahead. There will be setbacks and frustrations and disappointments. There will be, as there always are, pressures in this country to do less in this area as in so many others, and temptations to do something else that is perhaps easier. But this research here must go on. This space effort must go on. The conquest of space must and will go ahead. That much we know. That much we can say with confidence and conviction.

Frank O'Connor, the Irish writer, tells in one of his books how, as a boy, he and his friends would make their way across the countryside, and when they came to an orchard wall that seemed too high and too doubtful to try and too difficult to permit their voyage to continue, they took off their hats and tossed them over the wall--and then they had no choice but to follow them.

This Nation has tossed its cap over the wall of space, and we have no choice but to follow it. Whatever the difficulties, they will be overcome. Whatever the hazards, they must be guarded against. With the vital help of this Aerospace Medical Center, with the help of all those who labor in the space endeavor, with the help and support of all Americans, we will climb this wall with safety and with speed-and we shall then explore the wonders on the other side.

Thank you.

Note: The President spoke at the Aerospace Medical Health Center at Brooks Air Force Base, Tex. His opening words referred to Secretary of the Air Force Eugene M. Zuckert, Governor John B. Connally of Texas, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Senator Ralph W. Yarborough of Texas.

Public Papers of the Presidents [472] JOHN F. KENNEDY, p. 882.

NOTE: The report "U.S. Participation in the UN" is Department of State Publication 761, International Organization and Conference Series 45 (Government Printing Office, 1963, 452 PP.).

Edited June 14, 2009 by William Kelly

[Robert Howard]

William Manchester, in his book The Death of a President, details what JFK did at Brookes, breaking off the planned tour to visit a particular part of the research hospital, and talk with some doctors who, if they had that equipment, could possibly have saved his son who had died shortly after birth. The death of this child was predicted by Dr. Jose Rivera in April, months before the baby died.

Also note the presence of Air Force Secretary Zuckert, a suspicious suspect in some minds.

http://www.jfklibrary.org/jfkl/modules/dia...;m=6&y=1961

REMARKS AT THE DEDICATION OF THE AEROSPACE MEDICAL HEALTH CENTER, NOVEMBER 21, 1963

President John F. Kennedy

San Antonio, Texas

Mr. Secretary, Governor, Mr. Vice President, Senator, Members of the Congress, members Of the military, ladies and gentlemen:

For more than 3 years I have spoken about the New Frontier. This is not a partisan term, and it is not the exclusive property of Republicans or Democrats. It refers, instead, to this Nation's place in history, to the fact that we do stand on the edge of a great new era, filled with both crisis and opportunity, an era to be characterized by achievement and by challenge. It is an era which calls for action and for the best efforts of all those who would test the unknown and the uncertain in every phase of human endeavor. It is a time for pathfinders and pioneers.

I have come to Texas today to salute an outstanding group of pioneers, the men who man the Brooks Air Force Base School of Aerospace Medicine and the Aerospace Medical Center. It is fitting that San Antonio should be the site of this center and this school as we gather to dedicate this complex of buildings. For this city has long been the home of the pioneers in the air. It was here that Sidney Brooks, whose memory we honor today, was born and raised. It was here that Charles Lindbergh and Claire Chennault, and a host of others, who, in World War I and World War II and Korea, and even today have helped demonstrate American mastery of the skies, trained at Kelly Field and Randolph Field, which form a major part of aviation history. And in the new frontier of outer space, while headlines may be made by others in other places, history is being made every day by the men and women of the Aerospace Medical Center, without whom there could be no history.

Many Americans make the mistake of assuming that space research has no values here on earth. Nothing could be further from the truth. Just as the wartime development of radar gave us the transistor, and all that it made possible, so research in space medicine holds the promise of substantial benefit for those of us who are earthbound. For our effort in space is not as some have suggested, a competitor for the natural resources that we need to develop the earth. It is a working partner and a coproducer of these resources. And nothing makes this clearer than the fact that medicine in space is going to make our lives healthier and happier here on earth.

I give you three examples: first, medical space research may open up new understanding of man's relation to his environment. Examinations of the astronaut's physical, and mental, and emotional reactions can teach us more about the differences between normal and abnormal, about the causes and effects of disorientation, about changes in metabolism which could result in extending the life span. When you study the effects on our astronauts of exhaust gases which can contaminate their environment, and you seek ways to alter these gases so as to reduce their toxicity, you are working on problems similar to those in our great urban centers which themselves are being corrupted by gases and which must be clear.

And second, medical space research may revolutionize the technology and the techniques of modern medicine. Whatever new devices are created, for example, to monitor our astronauts, to measure their heart activity, their breathing, their brain waves, their eye motion, at great distances and under difficult conditions, will also represent a major advance in general medical instrumentation. Heart patients may even be able to wear a light monitor which will sound a warning if their activity exceeds certain limits. An instrument recently developed to record automatically the impact of acceleration upon an astronaut's eyes will also be of help to small children who are suffering miserably from eye defects, but are unable to describe their impairment. And also by the use of instruments similar to those used in Project Mercury, this Nation's private as well as public nursing services are being improved, enabling one nurse now to give more critically ill patients greater attention than they ever could in the past.

And third, medical space research may lead to new safeguards against hazards common to many environments. Specifically, our astronauts will need fundamentally new devices to protect them from the ill effects of radiation which can have a profound influence upon medicine and man's relations to our present environment.

Here at this center we have the laboratories, the talent, the resources to give new impetus to vital research in the life centers. I am not suggesting that the entire space program is justified alone by what is done in medicine. The space program stands on its own as a contribution to national strength. And last Saturday at Cape Canaveral I saw our new Saturn C-1 rocket booster, which, with its payload, when it rises in December of this year, will be, for the first time, the largest booster in the world, carrying into space the largest payload that any country in the world has ever sent into space.

I think the United States should be a leader. A country as rich and powerful as this which bears so many burdens and responsibilities, which has so many opportunities, should be second to none. And in December, while I do not regard our mastery of space as anywhere near complete, while I recognize that there are still areas where we are behind--at least in one area, the size of the booster--this year I hope the United States will be ahead. And I am for it. We have a long way to go. Many weeks and months and years of long, tedious work lie ahead. There will be setbacks and frustrations and disappointments. There will be, as there always are, pressures in this country to do less in this area as in so many others, and temptations to do something else that is perhaps easier. But this research here must go on. This space effort must go on. The conquest of space must and will go ahead. That much we know. That much we can say with confidence and conviction.

Frank O'Connor, the Irish writer, tells in one of his books how, as a boy, he and his friends would make their way across the countryside, and when they came to an orchard wall that seemed too high and too doubtful to try and too difficult to permit their voyage to continue, they took off their hats and tossed them over the wall--and then they had no choice but to follow them.

This Nation has tossed its cap over the wall of space, and we have no choice but to follow it. Whatever the difficulties, they will be overcome. Whatever the hazards, they must be guarded against. With the vital help of this Aerospace Medical Center, with the help of all those who labor in the space endeavor, with the help and support of all Americans, we will climb this wall with safety and with speed-and we shall then explore the wonders on the other side.

Thank you.

Note: The President spoke at the Aerospace Medical Health Center at Brooks Air Force Base, Tex. His opening words referred to Secretary of the Air Force Eugene M. Zuckert, Governor John B. Connally of Texas, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Senator Ralph W. Yarborough of Texas.

Public Papers of the Presidents [472] JOHN F. KENNEDY, p. 882.

NOTE: The report "U.S. Participation in the UN" is Department of State Publication 761, International Organization and Conference Series 45 (Government Printing Office, 1963, 452 PP.).

Couldn't agree more, before it's all said and done knowing the persons stationed at the CIA station in Paris might come in handy at some point.

Regarding the above see

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?_ZUCKERT_EUGENE_M

[Linda Minor]

Rather than look for a Rivera ink to the back channel USAF network of Colonels, why not follow the link that we do have (Gratus to Linda) The Texas Delegation - and what brought together their kids in DC - with Lady McBeth - the Society Arts League?

Also, consider Rivera's being stationed at Brooks, the Shriner's association with the military medicine at that base, JFK's visit there the day before he is murdered, and the listing of the visit in the Presidential Diary as the official reason for the entire trip to Texas. Who arranged that?

BK

Why don't we also consider that Texans have long had an interest in their neighbors in Central and South America, where they were involved in mining and oil drilling even before the CIA was set up. Keep in mind that Col. House was from Texas and put his friends, relatives and business associates in high positions in the Woodrow Wilson administration, while reserving foreign policy for himself, unofficially (secretly) of course. In those days just before and during WWI, House was working with British Intelligence's Sir William Wiseman. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._E._Wiseman

House lived until 1938, secretly engineering the political rise of FDR, whose mother introduced the two men. House and Sara Delano Roosevelt had been good friends for many years. It was during Wilson's administration that the Dulles boys' uncle, Robert Lansing, was groomed in the State Dept, and that he brought his nephews into intelligence operations, again prior to the existence of the OSS or the CIA, but in cooperation with the British. Back then U.S. intelligence was done through military G-2, ONI and a combination of FBI and Consular Service under the Dept. of State.

It should be remembered in this regard that House had Wilson appoint as his secretary of agriculture a man named David F. Houston whose son Lawrence Houston, grew up in Washington, D.C., became an attorney and then the general counsel to the CIA for many, many years. He knew where all the bodies were buried, as did many of the military men stationed in San Antonio at Fort Sam Houston. It was to San Antonio where the Shah of Iran was brought when death was imminent. And it was a son of Col. Howard Burris who had become so close to the Shah's family that he married his niece.

This is the branch of intelligence that was run by Kim Roosevelt, working with the British to get rid of Mossadegh in 1973 in order to protect primarily the British interest in the old Anglo-Persian oil fields of Iran.

President Carter's No. 1 assistant, Hamilton Jordan, was praised to the skies by former Democratic national chairman Bob Strauss at an Iranian embassy dinner the other evening. The party was in honor of Her Imperial Highness Princess Shams Pahlavi, eldest sister of the Shah and owner of the fabulous Moon Palace in Teheran, and Jordan wasn't even there. But when his name came up during cocktails Bob couldn't say enough nice things about him. "I wish he were my son. That's the way I feel about him. I think he's first-rate, a sensitive, warm able human being," stated Strauss and that was only the beginning.

Princess Shams' beauteous young daughter Princess Shahrzad and her American bridegroom, handsome Howard Burris, Jr., were at the dinner along with her brother Prince Shahbaz who is a lookalike for Burris. Out-of-towners among the 50-some guests were Cloris Leachman's husband, producer George Englund, and bis sweet young traveling companion Bonny Graves. Englund ignored the pretty wife of an Iranian diplomat on his right and spent the entire meal talking business to an Iranian man. And when his host, Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi, came over to the table and smilingly suggested a switch of guests because three men were mistakenly seated in a row, Englund quashed the idea because he hadn't finished talking business. Are all Hollywood producers spoiled rotten?

By BETTY BEALE; Syracuse, NY Herald-American--2/13/1977

[Linda Minor]

Also of great interest is the storybook romance of Sherazade, daughter of Princess Shams of Iran, and Howard Burris, Washingtonian by way of Texas and the Johnson Administration. The year-long courtship of the beautiful Princess, who attended Mt. Vernon College here, niece of the Shah of Iran, and the son of a former defense department official, ended with a quiet wedding at the Iranian Embassy in Rome. Formal announcement and the celebration will come in November at the Persian Court.

By FRANCES SMOAK Aiken Standard--11/01/1976

http://www.iichs.org/index_en.asp?img_cat=110&img_type=0

http://www.iichs.org/index_en.asp?id=1817&...&img_type=0

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Sharazad Pahlbod and her husband, Havard Baris and some of their relatives in a party, from the right: Shahyar Pahlbod, Mehrdad Pahlbod, Beatrice Yank (Shahbaz's wife) Shahbaz Pahlbod, Shams Pahlavi, Havard Baris, Sharazad Pahlbod, Taj-ol-Moluk Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Farah Pahlavi, Havard Baris's mother, and his father

http://www.iichs.org/index_en.asp?id=1816&...&img_type=0

Shams Pahlavi

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Wedding party of Shahrazad Pahlbod and Havard Baris (a British subject), from the right: Sharazad Pahlbod, AbdorReza Pahlabvi, Havard Baris Shams Pahlavi, Taj-ol-Moluk Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Farah Pahlavi

[William Kelly]

Where you invited to the reception Linda?

I'm glad to see you back, as I wanted to ask if you had anything interesting on

the deMenils?

Talk about art and society.

Besides owning the company that leased the Houma bunker where they kept arms and ammo, I have a feeling that the deMenil's owned the Picaso painting that was in JFK's suite at the Fort Worth Hotel when he woke up on 11/22/63.

Bill Kelly

Also of great interest is the storybook romance of Sherazade, daughter of Princess Shams of Iran, and Howard Burris, Washingtonian by way of Texas and the Johnson Administration. The year-long courtship of the beautiful Princess, who attended Mt. Vernon College here, niece of the Shah of Iran, and the son of a former defense department official, ended with a quiet wedding at the Iranian Embassy in Rome. Formal announcement and the celebration will come in November at the Persian Court.

By FRANCES SMOAK Aiken Standard--11/01/1976

http://www.iichs.org/index_en.asp?img_cat=110&img_type=0

http://www.iichs.org/index_en.asp?id=1817&...&img_type=0

P 124-285

Sharazad Pahlbod and her husband, Havard Baris and some of their relatives in a party, from the right: Shahyar Pahlbod, Mehrdad Pahlbod, Beatrice Yank (Shahbaz's wife) Shahbaz Pahlbod, Shams Pahlavi, Havard Baris, Sharazad Pahlbod, Taj-ol-Moluk Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Farah Pahlavi, Havard Baris's mother, and his father

http://www.iichs.org/index_en.asp?id=1816&...&img_type=0

Shams Pahlavi

AA 11-1058

Wedding party of Shahrazad Pahlbod and Havard Baris (a British subject), from the right: Sharazad Pahlbod, AbdorReza Pahlabvi, Havard Baris Shams Pahlavi, Taj-ol-Moluk Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Farah Pahlavi

[Linda Minor]

Were you invited to the reception Linda?

I'm glad to see you back, as I wanted to ask if you had anything interesting on

the deMenils?

Talk about art and society.

Besides owning the company that leased the Houma bunker where they kept arms and ammo, I have a feeling that the deMenil's owned the Picaso painting that was in JFK's suite at the Fort Worth Hotel when he woke up on 11/22/63.

Bill Kelly

I wasn't anywhere near the reception. Never a part of that class of folks.

[William Kelly]

Were you invited to the reception Linda?

I'm glad to see you back, as I wanted to ask if you had anything interesting on

the deMenils?

Talk about art and society.

Besides owning the company that leased the Houma bunker where they kept arms and ammo, I have a feeling that the deMenil's owned the Picaso painting that was in JFK's suite at the Fort Worth Hotel when he woke up on 11/22/63.

Bill Kelly

I wasn't anywhere near the reception. Never a part of that class of folks.

I didn't think you were there, Linda.

Do you have anything on deMenils?

Thanks,

Bill Kelly

[William Kelly]

It's fun to speculate, and sometimes the speculation proves correct, but for whatever reason, Adele's story and the association of Col. Jose Rivera with the assassination provides a lot of investigative leads that have yet to be followed.

Identification of Rivera's DC secretary, the two Army officers in the WWII era photo of Rivera, and the Army officer Rivera met in DC (who was involved in photographing demonstrators on the West Coast, identifying them through the photos and putting them in a computer data base), are all doable, and could lead to additional records and witnesses.

Rivera must have been a close associate of those plotting the murder of the President, or an active participant in the scheme, so the more that can be learned about him the easier it will be to identify his cohorts, if anybody is interested.

BK

In February 1971 Dr. Jose A. Rivera was among the delegation of Texas officials officially welcomed to Washington at a reception at the Smithsonian given by the Texas State Society. Also in attendance was the daughter of Col. Howard Burris, representing her long departed grandfather, Governor Beauford Jester. We can only wonder at the irony injected by the display of a statue at the reception created by Elizabet Ney, a famous 19th century sculptress who lived in Texas: Lady MacBeth, who could not wash the blood off her hands for the killing of her king. Shakespeare would have loved it.

See attached article in pdf.

Dr. Jose A. Rivera, who is in medical research at the NIH, and who worked at Brooke Medical Center for five years, came with his wife.

Kathryn Burris, granddaughter of former Governor Buford Jester and daughter of Col. Howard Burris of San Antonio attended the reception.

Mrs. Charles P. Cabell is always at the Texas gatherings with Dallas' representative and with Mrs. Earle Cabell. See

http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_...e/rambler1.html

Texas_Delegation_1971.pdf

Thursday, February 4, 1971 p.7

Delegation Gets Welcome

By HELEN ANDERSON

WASHINGTON – Texas officially welcomed their 92nd congressional delegation at a recent Smithsonian Museum reception given by the Texas State Society.

A marble statute of “Lady MacBeth” done by Texas’ leading 19th century women sculptor, Elizabet Ney, was displayed for the occasion.

ONLY NEW FACES

Democratic Sen. Loyd Benson and Republican Rep. Bill Archor, both of Houston, were the only new faces in the new lineup.

Both have San Antonio ties. Mrs. Beryl Bentsen came up from Mission in 1947 so Lan, the second Bentson son, could be born in Nix hospital.

Mrs. Archer was Pat Moore, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Foster Moore of San Antonio. She atteneded Alamo Heights High School and met Bill Archer on a blind date in San Antonio.

LYNDA BIRD

Lynda Bird Johnson Robb and her husband “Chuck” attended but John Connally did not get there as he was traveling with Vice President Spiro Agnew.

Dr. Jose A. Rivera, who is in medical research at the National Institute of Health and who worked at Brooke Medical Center for five years, came with his wife.

Gen. William Van Brant and Winchester Kelso were there, with their wives. Mrs. Van Brunt was the former Tip Youngblood. The Leon La Lamierres attended. He is a graduate of St. Mary’s.

Mrs. Charles P. Cabell, the former Jacklyn DeHymes, is always at Texas gatherings with Dallas Rep. and Mrs. Earle Cabell.

GONZALEZ STAFFER

Elliot Wong of Rep. Henry Gonzalez’ staff brought her and Mrs. Fhora Fnu, and Robert Trevian, who is taking an FBI course here. Alite Valdez, who attended Blessed Sacrament Academy, was also with the group, as was Gail and Carolyn Beagle and Horschell Davison, Jr.

Kathrya Burris, granddaughter of former Gov. Burford Jester and daughter of Col. Howard Burris of San Antonio attended the reception.

Photo: Statute of Lady Macbeth was on display at Smithsonian for Texas delegation.