Gene Wheaton:CIA and the Military Industrial Complex

[Tim Carroll]

Oliver North is a patriot. Danny Ortega, besides being a Communist, was a child molester.

Call me an optimist, but I would hope that Gratz would recognize that the above observation is beneath him. On one hand he argues that he loathes illegal and immoral state-sanctioned activities, then speaks up to support a U.S. enabler of drug smugglers and death squads with a developed taste for the blood of Catholic clergy. I loved North's murdered nuns by the side or the road, or the dozens of men drawn and quartered on the airstrip at the Quintaro Ranch in Vera Cruz. A real class act. No ... better to make him a foreign affairs correspondent for the "F-word" network. You know the one; the one that has Mark Fuhrman for criminal affairs, Bob Bennett for ethics, and G. Gordon Liddy for domestic politics.

Regarding the disgusting comment about Daniel Ortega, nothing of that sort should be said about anyone without solid evidence. In the case of a Western Hemisphere communist, what are the chances of such an assertion being baseless propaganda? Do we really believe that Ortega was more flawed than the Somozas, individually and collectively? I'd sincerely like for Tim Gratz to admit that the above quote was an imprudent, unjustified and inappropriate comment, reflecting a degree of bias he claims to eschew. Call it a moment of weakness ... please.

T.C.

[Tim Gratz]

Tim Carroll wrote:

Regarding the disgusting comment about Daniel Ortega, nothing of that sort should be said about anyone without solid evidence. In the case of a Western Hemisphere communist, what are the chances of such an assertion being baseless propaganda?

The facts:

Mr Ortega's trouble is nasty indeed: accusations from his step-daughter, Zoil-amer-ica Nar-va-ez, of sexual abuse dating back to her childhood. Her charges, made repeatedly since early in the year, have split his party, which he still leads, and may end his political career, if not quite yet. He has heart problems; they may one day prove convenient.

Not quite sure how Operation Mockingbird got to Zoil-america when she was yet a child . . .

And consider this amazing story about the Sandinistas!!

Incest in Nicaragua

Violeta's case

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By Elke Kreutzer

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Incest is a crime that attacks children of all countries, social class, religion or race, as is clear from the reports published in Nicaragua. The first of them was, of course, the accusation of sexual abuse introduced by Zoilamerica Narvaez against his stepfather Daniel Ortega, former president of Nicaragua, head of the Sandinista Party and candidate to the presidency.

Political considerations and the undue influence of the former president produced a sentence, by a judge considered as faithful political crony of Ortega, in which she declared that the crime had been affected by the statute of limitations. The names in this judicial proceeding were internationally exploited and Zoilamerica, the abused minor, was transformed into “political prostitute” and accused by her own mother of being a xxxx for political reasons.

But this not the only case, another one in which a 6 year old girl was violated and required surgical reconstruction of her anus, has also highly political motivations and affects a high officer of the Sandinista party.

Violeta , who has accused her father of sexual abuse, has fled to Miami with her mother and sister to wait for the judicial authorities of Jinotega, Nicaragua to finally pronounce the guilt of innocence of the abuser, Heberto.

The Mother of Violeta came to Miami, for fear of the abuser, Heberto, who was a former Prosecutor of Justice in Nicaragua, during the Sandinista Revolution.

Violeta does not want to return to Nicaragua, she wants to start a new life. She is currently in the fifth grade, has adapted, and is in a bilingual program and has won many awards for being a good student.

Her mother said that she is “waiting for the justice of man and the same time that of God, because only he and we know of the pain and cross that we carry for the evil of that man”. Violeta's tragedy was made public in October of 2001, after which she started to complain of problems to use the restroom, high fevers, and intense pain in the genital area, among other symptoms. Many doctors examined her, until she was admitted into the Jinotega's Victoria Hospital and the specialists discovered that she was the subject of sexual abuse, after a series of tests and exams.

The child then confessed the truth, hidden from fear and shame. She accused her father as the abuser and the family accused him criminally before the judge of Jinotega, Nicaragua.

On April 2002, according to the written testimony of the mother of the child, the jury was fixed, but was rescheduled due to the protest made by children and adolescents outside the court, that insisted in justice in favor of the child and punishment of the abuser.

The jury rescheduled for April 12th, 2002, a little after noon, and ended close to 1 a. m in the following day. The members of the jury assured that they would deliver the results in record time, in about 15 minutes they declared the accused Heberto, innocent.

Violeta's family has decided to find justice in the Inter American Human Rights Commission of the Organization of American States, accusing the Nicaraguan Government for obstructing justice in the sexual abuse case.

Edited December 3, 2005 by Tim Gratz

[Tim Gratz]

Tim Carroll wrote:

Regarding the disgusting comment about Daniel Ortega, nothing of that sort should be said about anyone without solid evidence. . .

Well, this Forum regularly permits people to post remarks branding some great Americans (and other innocent parties as well) as murderers without a shred of evidence . . . I happen to think accusing someone of murder or of participating in a conspiracy to commit murder is quite disgusting.

Edited December 3, 2005 by Tim Gratz

[Tim Carroll]

Tim Carroll wrote:Regarding the disgusting comment about Daniel Ortega, nothing of that sort should be said about anyone without solid evidence. . . Well, this Forum regularly permits people to post remarks branding some great Americans (and other innocent parties as well) as murderers without a shred of evidence....

I don't do that and as I said, I optimistically expect better from Tim Gratz.

The facts: Mr Ortega's trouble is nasty indeed: accusations from his step-daughter, Zoil-amer-ica Nar-va-ez, of sexual abuse dating back to her childhood.... And consider this amazing story about the Sandinistas!!

Incest in Nicaragua

Violeta's case

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By Elke Kreutzer

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Incest is a crime that attacks children of all countries, social class, religion or race, as is clear from the reports published in Nicaragua. The first of them was, of course, the accusation of sexual abuse introduced by Zoilamerica Narvaez against his stepfather Daniel Ortega, former president of Nicaragua, head of the Sandinista Party and candidate to the presidency.

Is this stepchild accuser a girl or a boy? What would reactionary counter-revolutionists offer a stepchild for discrediting information against a communist? Look at what was done over Elian Gonzales.

T.C.

[Tim Gratz]

Tim my comment about accusing people of being murderers or conspirators without any possible basis for doing so was certainly not directed at you. I assume you knew that, and my apologies to you if you did not, so I am glad to clear it up for the record.

It seems quite clear that Ortega was guilty of child abuse with his step-daughter, however. I am unaware of any suggestion that she was manipulated by anyone.

Edited December 3, 2005 by Tim Gratz

[Tim Carroll]

Tim my comment about accusing people of being murderers or conspirators without any possible basis for doing so was certainly not directed at you. I assume you knew that, and my apologies to you if you did not, so I am glad to clear it up for the record. It seems quite clear that Ortega was guilty of child abuse with his step-daughter, however. I am unaware of any suggestion that she was manipulated by anyone.

I didn't take the comment about false accusations personally. We should be able to be proud of our participation here without such ugly personal attacks. So back to me telling you how full of crap you are. If you haven't heard of false accusations of molestation, especially as a power leverage, then let my common sense be the suggestion of which you are aware that the child may have been manipulated. Regardless, it's unseemly and beneath a discussion of international relations. It reminds me of Joan Mellen's description of Jim Garrison's testacles.

T.C.

[Tim Gratz]

And let us not forget Clay Shaw's solitary nipple!

[Terry Mauro]

John one immediate problem I noted with this guy's remarks is that he claimed some CIA guys schemed to put Bush in power through the use of Ronald Reagan as a figurehead.

Well having been involved in GOP politics in that period (you'd never guess who my first choice for the GOP nomination was in 1980, BTW) I know there was a bitter fight between Reagan and Bush for the GOP nomination. And as you may very well recall, Reagan almost selected Ford rather than Bush for his VEEP choice.

So the notion that some CIA kingmakers put Reagan and Bush together is just plain wrong.

Wheaton also states:

Reagan never really was the president. He was the front man. They selected a guy that had charisma, who was popular, and just a good old boy, but they got George Bush in there to actually run the White House. They’d let Ronald Reagan and Nancy out of the closet and let them make a speech and run them up the flagpole and salute them and put them back in the closet while these spooks ran the White House

This too is nonsense. Reagan had policies that were anathema to Bush supporters. Reagan's policies were dependent upon the advice of his conservative counselors, e.g. Ed Meese, although James Baker, a Bush man, was certainly influential.

And the true-blue Reagan conservatives were quite disappointed with the changes GB I effected when he took over in 1988. It was then that the true Bush people first took over the WH.

In fact there was an interesting article in the "New York Times Magazine" a while back that GB II was a lot closer philosophically and politically to RR than he was to his own father.

So Wheaton's notion that in the 1980s Reagan was not really president but the country was being run by GB I and his pals the CIA "spooks" is akin to what comes out of the south end of a bull.

Surely you knew this much about American politics, John?

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Well, Jeez Louise! And, I thought it was someone named Donald Regan who was running the White House during Reagan's "Kukla, Fran, and Ollie Show". Silly Me. BTW, whatever happened to that guy?

"This crowd really believes that the unwashed masses are ignorant, that we are people who are not capable of governing ourselves, that we need this elitist group to control the country, and the world --these guys have expanded. They look at the United States not as a country, not in any kind of patriotic mode now, but they look on it as a state within a world that they control [how about as a comodity, my emphasis TM]. And that’s this attitude that they have. They’re not unlike any other megalomaniac in the world. They’re nutty as fruitcake, but they’ve got distinguished gray hair, three-piece dark suits and they carry briefcases, and they’ll stand up and make speeches just as articulate as anybody in the world, but they don’t socialize and function outside their own little clique."

They used to call G. Gordon Liddy, "the most dangerous man in the world". Now he does the University circuit, recruiting Skull and Bones grads.

Well, it figures. Just another bunch of extremely affluent and wealthy psychotic sociopaths running the show! Business as usual. Same old, same old. Nothing's much changed since our own homegrown coup d'etat took effect in late 1963. But, don't dare mention it to the huddled masses. They'll never believe you anyway. It's too scarey for them to comprehend. Yeah, that's because they're brainwashed by their MTV's, HumVee's, and holy-rolling religious creeds. "BUILD IT AND THEY WILL BUY", regardless of whether they can afford it or not. A debtor nation in more ways than one. You're a real jokester, T.G.

[John Simkin]

This CIA document was declassified in 1993. It shows that Gene Wheaton was telling the truth when he claimed that Carl Jenkins was involved in the plot to assassinate Fidel Castro:

Edward S. Cates, Chief, Imagery Exploitation Group, Memorandum (21st March, 1975)

1. On 19 March, Dino A.Brugioni, Chief, Western Geographic Division, informed me that three personnel assigned to his division had told him that while serving at JMWAVE, Miami, Florida or in the Imagery Analysis Service in Washington during the 1960's, they had ,heard references to assassination plans on Fidel Castro

2. On 20 March, I met with the following NPIC personnel who had either served in the Imagery Analysis Service or at JMWAVE on Cuban related problems: Gordon Duvall, Earl Shoemaker, Tom Helmke, Bruce Barrett, Reyes Ponce, George Arthur; Eugene Lydon, and William Hanlon. The purpose of this meeting was to ascertain whether their participation was related to case officer generated materials or bona fide operations.

3. There appeared to be two plans involving Fidel Castro and an incident that may have been related to Raul Castro.

The plans involving Fidel, to the knowledge of our people, were:

(i) A folder, stored in the Photo Interpretation area at JMWAVE contained materials relating to a plan to assassinate Castro in the Bay of Pigs resort area where he maintained a yacht and was known to vacation. The plan, possibly with the codeword : PATHFINDER, apparently had been disapproved and was not under active consideration at the time. Our people did not participate actively in the plan in any regard.

(ii) While assigned to the Imagery Analysis Service, a, number of our photo interpreters supported Carl Jenkins of the DD/P concerning a plan to assassinate Castro at the DuPont Varadero Beach Estate, east of Havana. Castro was known to frequent the estate and the plan was to use a high-powered rifle in the attempt. The photo interpretation support was restricted to providing annotated photographs and line drawings of the estate. To our knowledge, this plan also was never implemented.

4. The incident involving Raul Castro was not a formalized plan. It considered of a paramilitary raid on Santiago de Cuba harbor. There was a rumor at JMWAVE that, while exiting the harbor, Raul Castro's home had been fired upon by a paramilitary case officer named "Rip" Robertson.

5. To the best of my knowledge, these facts represent the totality of any participation by our personnel in these matters. We have no further knowledge that the Fidel Castro operation ever advanced beyond the planning stage.

[John Simkin]

This is what Gene Wheaton said in his letter to the Assassinations Records Review Board (15th February, 1995):

I am faxing you one page of a CV prepared by a retired CIA officer who was a very close friend of mine in the mid-1980s. Our friendship was so close that I kept a bedroom in his home in Adington, Va, socialized with him and his wife (a high-level active CIA officer) and was virtually with them 24 hours a day.

Through him I met many of the Bay of Pigs veterans, both Cuban and American. We had many intimate discussions about covert operations, Kennedy assassination, etc.

He was totally in charge of infiltrating sabotage and assassination teams into Cuba from 1960 onward (see * on his bio).

I had discussions with him and one of his key Cuban agents about obtaining immunity for them if they would come forward about their knowledge of involvement in the Kennedy assassination plots. This man's programs included JMWAVE, Mongoose, ZR-RIFLE, among others, operating out of the Miami Station.

If you think I can help, we will have to meet. Dr. Tunheim has my bio. If you need another copy please let me know.

Note: The USMC Reserve Unit that my associate established was in the New Orleans area to act as a cover for CIA Latin-American Operations.

I have blanked out his I.D. until we can meet to discuss this further.

[John Simkin]

This is the report that Anne Buttimer, Chief Investigator for the Assassination Records Review Board, wrote after meeting Gene Wheaton on 11th July, 1995 (dated 12th July, 1995)

Wheaton began by telling me he would only give me limited information over the telephone although he was willing to meet me face to face to provide as much information as he had. He said he had no physical proof of what he would eventually tell the Board; however he said he does have a number of documents which he will need to show me in order for me to believe what he has to say.

By way of providing background on himself Wheaton explained he is a 59 year old retired miliatry intelligence officer. He works as a consultant investigating terrorist attacks around the world and said he expects his telephone will ring in the next few days with an offer to work on the Oklahoma City federal building bombing. He said if this happens he will also probably be called to Washington DC and would meet with me here. If he does not he would still agree to meet with us but would have to do so on the West Coast. He lives in Riverside County, California near Palm Springs.

Wheaton told me that from 1984 to 1987 he spent a lot of time in the Washington DC area and that starting in 1985 he was "recruited into Ollie North's network" by the CIA officer he has information about. He got to know this man and his wife, a "'super grade high level CIA officer" and kept a bedroom in their Virginia home. His friend was a Marine Corps liason in New Orleans and was the CIA contact with Carlos Marcello. He had been responsible for "running people into Cuba before the Bay of Pigs." His friend is now 68 or 69 years of age.

Over the course of a year or a year and one-half his friend told him about his activities with training Cuban insurgency groups. Wheaton said he also got to know many of the Cubans who had been his friend's soldiers/operatives when the Cubans visited in Virginia from their homes in Miami. His friend and the Cubans confirmed to Wheaton they assassinated JFK. Wheaton's friend said he trained the Cubans who pulled the triggers. Wheaton said the street level Cubans felt JFK was a traitor after the Bay of Pigs and wanted to kill him. People "above the Cubans" wanted JFK killed for other reasons.

Wheaton said we must look at his friend and his associates in order to know what really happened to JFK. One of those associates was I. Irving Davidson who was/is "the bag man for the intelligence community." Davidson runs a group called the Timber Center which handles payoffs and payments for the CIA, the NSA and the Pentagon. He is a friend of Jack Anderson's and was indicted with Carlos Marcello in the 1980's on a Teamster's kick-back charge. Davidson is a non-practicing attorney in Washington D.C. He is now about 70 years old.

Wheaton said he would speak to the Board confidentially but would not allow his name to be used publicly because his friend and the friend's associates "said they would destroy me int he media witha blitz of disinformation to destroy my professional reputation. They will make me out to be a conspiracy nut. I'm not afraid of them, I've been a cop too long and besides, they only kill the people on the inner circle. The rest of us end up having our reputations destroyed."

Wheaton concluded by saying "this matter is not complex but it is convoluted. I need to show you the paper trail to show the contacts of these people."

[Thomas Graves]

Well, it figures. Just another bunch of extremely affluent and wealthy psychotic sociopaths running the show!

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Oh No! Not affluent AND wealthy, too! (That combination is worse than EFFLUENT!)

Just kidding, Thomas

(Actually I agree with you, but don't tell Tim G)

Stools!!

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[John Simkin]

Gene Wheaton, note to the Assassinations Records Review Board on National Air notepaper (undated)

Carl (Jenkins) was my (National Air) Washington, D.C. rep. who connected me to Nestor Pino, Bill Bode, Rob Owen, Vaughn Forrest, Chi Chi Quintero, Nestor Sanchez, et al. I was V.P. of National Air in 1985-86 (see my Bio).

[John Simkin]

Gene Wheaton tried really hard to get his story out. However, it is clear that the ARRB managed to cover-up the involvement of Carl Jenkins in the assassination of JFK. After three years with nothing happening, Wheaton wrote to the ARRB again.

Gene Wheaton, letter to the Assassination Records Review Board (31st March, 1998)

Ref the attached letters from your former Chief Investigator Anne Buttimer, Edq dated 16 May 95, and 12 July 1995. Ms Buttimer and I had several contacts by phone/fax as well as the meeting on 11 July 95, in the Washington, D.C. area.

At the July meeting I furnished her with rather sensitive documents, photos, and information related to the CIA covert connections to Cuba, Florida, Louisiana, Texas and Mexico during the months and years prior to, and after, the assassination in Dallas.

During and after the July 95 meeting Ms. Buttimer stated she wanted to follow-up and expand on the data I provided.

However, she shortly thereafter appears to have suddenly departed from the Board. I have never heard from her again, and no subsequent Board investigator has contacted me. The only thing I receive are the periodic news releases.

I would appreciate it if you would advise me as to any action, research, or follow-up inquiry re the data I provided. I would also request you have Ms. Buttimer contact me, or provide a means for me to contact her.

This is the reply that Weaton eventually got from the ARRB:

Letter from Eileen A. Sullivan, Press and Public Affairs Officer, Assassination Records Review Board, to Gene Wheaton (20th April, 1998)

Thank you for your March 31,1998 letter. Over the years we have received thousands of leads and suggestions regarding the existence and location of records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

We appreciate that you furnished Ms. Buttimer with materials related to the CIA, Cuba, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Mexico City. These are all areas we have explored extensively. Please be assured that all leads are carefully reviewed and always helpful to our efforts. However, due to limited resources, it would be virtually impossible to link any records that have been released as being opened as a result of materials provided by a particular individual.

Our mandate is to be completed on September 30, 1998, and I hope that you understand our priority is to release the remaining records that relate to the assassination. But please know that your contributions to our efforts are appreciated.

Again, thank you for writing. I hope this information is helpful to you.

[John Simkin]

It might be worth summarizing what we know about Wheaton and Jenkins. It is important to discuss what Wheaton’s motive might have been in 1986, 1995 and 2005 in attempting to expose the illegal activities of the CIA.

It is important to stress that in 1986 both Gene Wheaton and Carl Jenkins told Daniel Sheehan about the CIA political assassination squad. They also provided information about other CIA illegal activities concerning Edwin Wilson and the Iran-Contra operation. It is now clear that they told the truth about the last two scandals. The first story is more problematic. Some aspects are true. For example, the existence of a CIA trained assassination team made up of anti-Castro Cubans. However, we now know that in the 1986 story, Carl Jenkins was not named as someone who was involved with this assassination team. However, Jenkins was named in the 1995 and 2005 stories.

It was claimed in 1986 that the reason why Wheaton and Jenkins were coming forward with this information about Ted Shackley, Tom Clines, Edwin Wilson, Richard Secord, etc. was because they had been cut out of these lucrative arms deals. I think this is definitely true of Jenkins. However, Wheaton is a more complicated case. Unlike Jenkins, who later denied he had given this information to Daniel Sheehan, Wheaton was willing to provide his evidence in court (U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, March 1-3 and 7-8, 1988).

In 1995 Wheaton once again tried to get this story out about the CIA assassination team. This time he added that this team was turned against JFK. He also adds that it was Carl Jenkins who was really in charge of this project. He also adds the names of possible members of the assassination team. This included Nestor Pino, Chi Chi Quintero and Nestor Sanchez. Jenkins is also named as the CIA’s contact with Carlos Marcello.

Wheaton makes no attempt to make money out of this information. Instead of going to the media he contacts the Assassination Records Review Board. They don’t seem interested and Wheaton contacts them again in 1998. He is then given the final brush off. He still makes no attempt to obtain money for this story. In fact, the story is left to rest until William Law and Mark Sobel approach him in 2005 about giving an interview concerning documents they had found at the ARRB.

What is Wheaton’s motivation? Has Jenkins done something to upset him? Probably. He is definitely upset by Jenkins’ decision to divorce his wife. But this is unlikely to be a reason to make up stories about him being involved in the assassination of JFK. We have seen people gaining revenge on old enemies by telling stories about them after they have died. However, Jenkins is very much alive. So is Chi Chi Quintero, who is also named during the interview as being involved in the plot against JFK.

Watching the filmed interview I was convinced that Wheaton was telling the truth as he knew it. As far as I am concerned, the only issue is whether Jenkins and Quintero lied to Wheaton about their involvement in the JFK assassination.

What then is Wheaton’s motivation? I believe the clue to this mystery is that in the 1970s he worked as a history teacher. Like most history teachers, he cares about what appears in the history books. He thinks he knows who killed JFK and why and he wants that to be recorded for posterity. I don't think this is too hard to understand. I suppose the real question to ask is, if he is telling the truth, his life is being put at risk. The best protection he can receive is for this story, once told, to be put into the public domain. We all know what happened to people like Bill Hunter, Jim Koethe and Dorothy Kilgallen, who waited too long to publish the information they had on the JFK assassination.