Gary Buell

http://rakemucker.blogspot.com/2008/01/did...-oswald-to.html "In the book, Chief: My Life in the L.A.P.D., Daryl Gates writes that the Los Angeles Police Department had a special intelligence unit that ran a program which sent American spies to Russia, totally clandestine and under deep cover. This was during the during the same period when Lee Harvey Oswald made his strange trip to the Soviet Union. A natural question arises; was the accused assassin part of the program?" The CIA of course has worked with police intelligence units.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Graham_Stanton "William Graham "Bill" Stanton (18 August 1917- 6 December 1999) was a British author and radio playwright." "In 1977, Stanton's first book Treason For My Daily Bread[6] was published. This was a fictional work around the assassination of John F. Kennedy." http://www.billstanton.co.uk/novels/treason.htm "Bill was commissioned by a publisher, Tom Todd, to write a thriller about the J F Kennedy assassination. The story follows the life and misfortunes of Mikel Lebadev, a Ukranian man trained by the KGB, and who subsequently found himself stateless. "

I am currently reading Secrets & Lies: A History of CIA Mind Control & Germ Warfare by Gordon Thomas. One of his main sources was William Buckley of the CIA (not the National Review editor) who eventually was tortured to death by Islamic extremists. Fascinating material on MKULTRA and some of the people involved. On the assassination: p.265 "During his stay in Mexico, Buckley met with the CIA's station chief in the city. The man told him that the only excitment in his work had been the discovery that a former radar operator in the U.S. Marine Corps, having defected to the Soviet Union in 1959, had shown up in the city in the company of a KGB officer. They had made several trips to the Soviet and Cuban embassies as well as mixing with various groups of Cuban exiles in the city. The station chief said he had filed a report on the matter but there had been no follow-up from Langley. The man was Lee Harvey Oswald." p. 267 "When Buckley returned to Langley, he found the Agency gripped in a collective paranoia. The belief in an elaborate plot to murder the President had taken root early on when an Associated Press wire message annunced that a Secret Service agent and a Dallas policeman had been shot and killed in the vicinity of the assassination. The message had been quickly corrected. But it took many hours before the CIA was ready to let go of the idea that the Russians had struck. The belief was reinforced when Buckley mentioned what the station chief in Mexico had told him about Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who had been seized for carrying out the killing. "In moments," he was to remember, "the whole of the Operations area was in uproar. Men were sent to Mexico, to Florida, to infiltrate the Cuban community. To anywhere that Oswald had been, may have been, could have been--and sometimes where he manifestly had not been."

My review: Programmed to Kill, according to neocon Michael Ledeen, "must be considered one of the basic books about the Kennedy assassination." That fact is, in itself, almost enough for us to consider it disinformation. But good disinformation contains a kernal of truth so let us consider Ion Pacepa's book in that light. Pacepa was, before he defected to the West in 1978, national security advisor to Romanian dictator Nicolae Cezsusescu and acting chief of his foreign intelligence service. He makes a case that Lee Harvey Oswald was recruited by the KGB, and returned to the United States, at their direction, to kill President Kennedy. Khrushchev tried unsucessfully to cancel Oswald's mission but Oswald went ahead on his own and committed the assassination. Khruschchev then had Ruby kill Oswald, to keep this all a secret. One cannot help but wonder why he did not have Oswald killed before the assassination rather than after. (Or maybe they did; one thinks of Richard Case Nagell.) Pacepa's case is rather circumstantial, derived from his familiarity with the operational patterns and practices of Soviet bloc intelligence. The only actual evidence in the book is that he claims to know "for a fact" that Oswald's friend and mentor, George de Mohrenschildt, was an agent of Soviet bloc intelligence. On the evening of November 26, 1963 General Sakharovsky, chief of the PGU, the foreign intelligence arm of the KGB, arrived in Bucharest. His purpose was "to unleash a diversionary intelligence effort aimed at directing world attention away from the Soviet Union and focusing suspicion for the killing of President Kennedy on the United States itself." The program, which continued for years, was called Operation Dragon. This suspicion was inevitable as the accused assassin had defected to the Soviet Union and had married a Soviet woman before returning to the United States. And there was another problem: his closest friend in the United States was a Russian emigre. The general did not mention his name but did mention the international association that had once sent him to Belgrade. An associate of Pacepa's named Doicaru checked the records of the Rumanian intelligence service, the DIE: He remembered that the DIE station in Belgrade had once wanted to recruit an American with a German name who was assigned to Yugoslavia as a representative of the International Cooperation Administration. "I was right," Doicaru told us when he returned. "George de Mohrenschildt" was the name of the man who seemed to fit Sakharovsky's description. DIE archive records showed that in 1957, when de Mohrenschildt had been assigned to Belgrade, the DIE station there had spotted him as a target for recruitment. In those days, however, the rule was that, before trying to recruit a foreigner, the DIE first had to ask Moscow for a name check on the target individual. In this case the PGU had answered that de Mohrenschildt was already "taken." Pacepa next makes his case that Oswald was recruited by the PGU in Japan. The case is circumstantial but quite plausible and he may well be right. Oddly, though, he completely ignores the possibility that Oswald might have been already under the control of American intelligence, that he might have been what is called in the trade a "dangle." I do not see how the Soviet's could ever have been certain that Oswald was really working for them. They would have played along, no doubt, but that they would have used an agent of doubful reliability, and one who, at that, had such an obvious connection to them, for a mission so important as the assassination of an American President simply defies belief. As I said, though, Pacepa is fairly plausible in his description of how Oswald was likely recruited and managed by the PGU. To make his case, though, he has to counter the testimony of Yuri Nosenko, an earlier defector who maintained that the KGB had minimal interest in Oswald and certainly never recruited him. Nosenko's credibility has been hotly contested. James Angleton went to his grave convinced that Nosenko was a fake defector, sent to draw attention away from the Soviet's role in the assassiation. Pacepa, however, maintains that Nosenko was the real thing, but that he was working in the wrong wing of Soviet intelligence to really know what was going on with Oswald. He worked for the domestic wing, the VGU, rather that the foreign wing, the PGU, that would have recruited Oswald. Pacepa maintains, rather plausibly, that the PGU would not have informed the VGU that Oswald was working for them and, in fact, would have gone to greath lengths to conceal it. As evidence that Nosenko did not really know what was going on Pacepa cites several facts. First, that "Nosenko had no knowledge that OSWALD ever directed a communication of any type to the American Embassy in Mosco." Second, that Nosenko was unaware that Oswald had visited the American Embassy in Moscow in October of 1959. Also that Nosenko was unware of Oswald until he declared his intention to defect, although Nosenko should have been routinely advised when Oswald was first issued his visa to visit the Soviet Union. Pacepa's descriptions of Soviet and Eastern bloc intelligence patterns and practices are fascinating. It seems to me quite plausible, even likely, that they recruited Oswald in Japan and kept in touch with him after he returned to the United States. If so, they would have been horrified to learn that he had been accused of the assassination of Kennedy, as were many, perhaps, in the CIA.

So that it's clear, Tim, this story was written by Joseph Cannon in his blog, to which I provide the url.

From Joseph Cannon's blog Cannonfire: A while back, I promised to tell an odd story about Gore Vidal. Now the time has come. I don't know how much of what follows is true. I give it to you as it was given unto me by two independent sources, neither of whom I can name. The rules of blogland allow one to offer an account such as this one with the proviso that the reader should not accept without verification. Indeed, the reason why I tell this tale in public is to encourage someone to look into it. As some of you may recall, Gore Vidal had an odd reaction to Oliver Stone's 1991 film "JFK." Vidal denounced the work as anti-gay, and he switched his theory of the assassination from "the CIA did it" to "the mob did it." (He may claim that he never made this switch, but ink and oxide testify otherwise.) Yet he seemed fascinated by the movie -- perhaps because it contains a screen depiction of Clay Shaw, the man charged by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. Vidal knew Shaw. Both men were well-educated "same sexers" (to use Vidal's preferred term) with literary leanings, although Shaw had but one completed play to his resume, while Vidal is perhaps the finest American novelist of his generation, and certainly the greatest political essayist since Orwell. (To read the rest, click "Permalink" below) In a public lecture which I used to have on tape, Vidal claimed that Shaw resembled his aunt, which may or may not be unfair. I would like to draw your attention to another lady who resembled Clay Shaw. If you watch the film "JFK" again, take careful note of the scene in which everyone files into the courtroom. Tommy Lee Jones, playing Shaw, briefly kisses the cheek of a silver-haired lady who looks for all the world like the real Shaw. Stone never explains her presence. According to the information I received from two sources, she appeared on screen as an inside joke. That woman was the real-life niece of Clay Shaw, whom Stone had encountered in the course of his research. During her time on the set, she told inquisitors something quite odd: She said that Clay Shaw did not die of lung cancer in 1974 at the age of 61, in his home in New Orleans, as the press reported. Of course, others have alleged that the death was mysterious. He did not receive an autopsy, and the death certificate was signed by his personal physician, who told the police that Shaw had developed lesions in the brain. A neighbor contacted police after seeing a body taken out of the residence, covered with a sheet. (According to one rather wild tale, the same neighbor saw a body being taken into the home an hour before. I've never seen that yarn in print and thus do not believe it.) The coroner was so concerned about the speed of the man's burial that he proposed an exhumation -- an idea which was soon nixed. Previously, I had always dismissed allegations that the death of Clay Shaw (who smoked heavily) was in any way mysterious. Still, it should be noted that his death came just a short while after Victor Marchetti had revealed to the world that Shaw had -- contrary to his sworn testimony -- been involved with the CIA. Which brings me back to the niece -- or rather, to the woman my sources claim is the niece. When she announced that the death was staged, her listeners naturally asked what became of Clay Shaw. She answered that he went off to stay with a friend who maintained a villa in Italy. Presumably, Shaw there spent his few remaining days in peace. Is this story true? Again, I don't know. That is why I encourage others to double-check. Anyone attempting to do so should first ask: "Who among Shaw's friends had a villa in Italy?" http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2007/12/gor...ay-shaw_09.html

On Max Clark and Project Rock (copied and pasted from my blog) "Covert History"): Max Clark, Oswald and Project Rock One of the names in Lee Harvey Oswald's address book was Mrs. Max Clark, the Russian-born wife of Max Clark, the Chief of Security at the Corvair plant of General Dynamics in Fort Worth. Peter Dale Scott, one of the keenest minds among assassination researchers, had this to say about Max Clark in his unpublished essay "Government Documents and the JFK Assassination": In his curious "translation" of Marina Oswald's testimony, Peter Gregory, who was a close friend of Max Clark and his Russian wife, suppressed the name of one of the Oswald's contacts in the Russian community: other testimony suggests that the missing name was almost certainly that of his own friend Clark. This pattern of cover-up was repeated by the Warren Commission. Scott has this to say about Corvair in his unpublished book-length manuscript "The Dallas Conspiracy": Corvair, up to the time of the Kennedy assassination was being investigated by a Senate committee for possible major scandals surrounding the controversial contract award to build the TFX experimental fighter plane. CIA analysts examined the listings in Oswald's address book and ran name traces on them. From CIA document RIF#104-10111-10125, dated January 12, 1959 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Security Suppport Division ATTENTION:: Chief, IB/4 FROM: Project ROCK/IDIO/ ph._________ (Illegible) (Clearance) re: CLARK, Max Edward DPD-SO 10291 GIST: Clearance determination requested on the above employee(s) of the cited project. DETAILS: Attached is (are) PSQ on above employee(s) of the cited project, who is (are) of interest to this office in connection with Project ROCK. The Subject(s) will become aware that his (their) firm has undertaken a Top Secret government project, and will also become exposed to, and familiar with, highly sensitive technical equipment which is being developed. This raises the question: just what was Project Rock? Another document gives us a clue. Another name in Oswald's address book is Bill Stuckey, who was a journalist who interviewed Oswald in New Orleans. In attempting to trace this name analyst M.D. Stevens came up with one Clarence William Stuckey, who, as it turns out, was not the Bill Stuckey in Oswald's book. This Stuckey, however, according to CIA document RIF#104-10439-10222 was "originally of interest to CIA in 1955 in connection with project ROCK [AQUATONE (OARFISH)]. At that time he was (or recently had been) employed by the Lockheed Aircraft in Burbank, California. Although this was the wrong Stuckey please note that the CIA did not think it odd that Oswald was apparently linked to two people cleared for the same secret project. The use of the codenames OARFISH AND AQUATONE do give us an idea as to just what Project Rock was. Both names related to the top-secret U-2 project which was built at Lockheed Aircraft. And Oswald, of course, was familiar with the U-2 from his time at Asugi Air Force Base in Japan. One other person, who Oswald did not know (to my knowledge) was cleared for Project Rock. That would be, according to CIA document RIF#104-10106-10582, dated 9/17/59, legendary CIA officer William Harvey: It is requested that the file of the above captioned Staff Employee be reviewed with regard to a security determination fo utilization on Project ROCK.

From the transcript: "In the Vietnam War, the leaders of the White House claimed at the time that it was a necessary and crucial war, and during it, Rumsfeld and his aides murdered two million villagers. And when Kennedy took over the presidency and deviated from the general line of policy drawn up for the White House and wanted to stop this unjust war, that angered the owners of the major corporations who were benefiting from its continuation. "And so Kennedy was killed, and Al-Qaeda wasn't present at that time, but rather, those corporations were the primary beneficiary from his killing. And the war continued after that for approximately one decade." Perhaps we should invite him to join the group.

For more "evidence" that Jack Ruby is alive: http://coverthistory.blogspot.com/2005/08/...rst-became.html http://coverthistory.blogspot.com/2005/09/...the-secret.html

With respect for Gary Mack, there is a case to be made for explaining the zip code. See post on my blog: http://coverthistory.blogspot.com/2006/12/...t-document.html

Leake died. In 1983 if memory serves. Kurtz interviewed him in 1981.

INVESTIGATION OF A HOMICIDE is one of the rarest and costly JFK books. It is essentially the story of Sgt. Gerry Hill's activities on 11-22. Apparently Bonner was very close to Hill, and the book contains many exclusive photos furnished by Hill. I paid about $50 for my copy about 30 years ago, so I imagine IF A COPY IS AVAILABLE, it would cost several hundred dollars. Hill was everywhere on 11-22, and was long one of my DPD suspects. Especially interesting as I recall is Hill's description of the wallet taken from Hidell in the squad car after his capture. After the book was released, Bonner sort of vanished from this area. I seem to remember Mary Ferrell keeping in touch with her, somewhere on the east coast. Jack A quick search for this book shows Jack is right. The least expensive copy I could find availabe is going for $333. I was extremely fortunate about a year ago to snag a very good copy off e-bay for $35.

Excerpts from Without Honor: The Impeachment of President Nixon and the Crimes of Camelot by Jerry Zeifman, former Chief Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee(1995) "After Hale's disappearance, Lindy and Hale's brother, a Jesuit priest in New Orleans, were fearful that he had been murdered because of his inside knowledge about the role of the FBI, CIA, and organized crime in events leading up to the Kennedy assassination--knowledge that he had acquired as a member of the Warren Commission and that might also have some relevance to Watergate. Congresswoman Boggs had expressed her fears to Congressman Bill Hungate as well as to me and Peter Rodino in the strictest confidence." "In 1971 Boggs had made an extraordinary speech on the House floor. The then-majority leader accused the Department of Justice of using "Gestapo-like" police-state tactics that included bugging the offices and homes of members of Congress and other political leaders--and in some cases using illegally obtained information to blackmail public officials." "The unreported truth was that when Boggs made the speech he ws undergoing psychiatric treatment for manic depression, and the CIA and FBI were concerned that his judgement had become sufficiently impaired to endanger national security."

Naw, Dawn...this guy had rather lie than tell the truth...and it looks like he too was connected to ONI. Now isn't THAT rather interesting? I appreciate your comments though. Nice to see you again. Jack I am pretty much interested in anybody in ONI that links with Oswald, even if peripherally; I have been watching the youtube "The Many Faces of Lee Harvey Oswald," and tend to respect your views and comments, to say the least...[i think you hit dead center re Roscoe White and the backyard photo, BTW......Who is this guy Jack? I vaguely remember you posting on another forum about Oswald's 13 inch head but I do not remember the significance. Enlighten us, please.

Didn't Nixon, or someone associated with him write the Chairman of this Committee asking that Ruby be excused from testifying because he was an informant for Richard Nixon? Steve Thomas There is a document to that effect, the authenticity of which has been challenged by some. For more on this see: http://coverthistory.blogspot.com/2006/12/...t-document.html

FWIW. I posted this photo on my blog and received these comments: Anonymous said... Russell McLarry is my uncle and he is NOT in this picture. 10:55 AM gary said... Anonymous, what can you tell us about your uncle? 11:49 AM Teresa Ravella said... My Uncle Russell was a very outspoken man with a great sense of humor. He was also a wonderful machinist as well. And he made the best barbecue in Texas! He always said, "If you've got a good rub, no sauce needed." I miss him very much...he passed away in Nov. 2002. As far as him being in Canada with Oswald, you've got be kidding. I don't think he ever ventured out of the U.S. (but I'll check with my Mom on that).

An interesting article: http://www.tapsns.com/blog/?p=38 And an interesting comment to it from David Hunt, E.Howard Hunt's son: http://www.tapsns.com/blog/?p=38#comment-1272 Look for an article soon to be in the LA times that will piece a good portion of the JFKA together. EHH confided this information to his sons 4 years before his death. All information was verified by ERIC HAMBURG and a real book will be out with in a year. American Spy was ghost written and has no real value.

See my post at: http://coverthistory.blogspot.com/2007/01/...-wing-of-c.html and follow the links. Are there any other examples of Russo's artwork?

Ford was indeed the last surviving member of the Warren Commission. I'm sure that a number of staff lawyers, etc. are still around, as they tended to be younger.

So this could be yet another flurry of disinformation? Total speculation here: Could be timed to distract from the Gerald Ford role in the cover-ups. I very much doubt it seeing as how it was released by the Irish DOJ and the Galvin story has been around for a number of years. Gary, if you could post those documents or direct me as to whether they are online on the NARA website that would be great. Cheers, John Hit 1 of 3 AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : HSCA RECORD NUMBER : 180-10071-10479 RECORDS SERIES : NUMBERED FILES AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 010106 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : CITIZEN FROM : GALVIN, DOMINICK TO : [No To] TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 07/08/1978 PAGES : 7 DOCUMENT TYPE : LETTER SUBJECTS : GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : OPEN IN FULL CURRENT STATUS : OPEN DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 06/21/1993 COMMENTS : Box 186. Audit history for this Record Identification Form --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hit 2 of 3 AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : HSCA RECORD NUMBER : 180-10096-10445 RECORDS SERIES : NUMBERED FILES. AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 009553 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : CITIZEN FROM : GALVIN, DOMINICK. TO : [No To] TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 06/28/1978 PAGES : 6 DOCUMENT TYPE : LETTER. SUBJECTS : GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE. CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : OPEN IN FULL CURRENT STATUS : OPEN DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 07/06/1993 COMMENTS : Box 175. Audit history for this Record Identification Form --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hit 3 of 3 AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : HSCA RECORD NUMBER : 180-10083-10227 RECORDS SERIES : NUMBERED FILES AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 011147 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : CITIZEN FROM : GALVIN, DOMINICK\ TO : HSCA TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 08/19/1978 PAGES : 10 DOCUMENT TYPE : LETTER SUBJECTS : GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : OPEN IN FULL CURRENT STATUS : OPEN DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 06/24/1993 COMMENTS : Box 203. I do not have these documents. I'll try to post more later on the other material I have. From memory, Galvin was acquainted with a Cuban sailor who warned him that there was going to be an attempt on Kennedy. Jack Ruby's name was mentioned. Galvin phoned the Cork newspaper, as reported in the Kennedy Restoration, but didn't mention Castro or Ruby. Galvin was later interviewed by the Daily Mirror, as I recall.

The Washington Post is covering this story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...2801101_pf.html I believe the man who phoned in the story to the Cork newspaper was Dominic Galvin. There are documents at NARA on him. I also have additional material on him, originally from the files of British researcher Hazel Hales (if memory serves). The material I have includes handwritten letters from Galvin, a newspaper story, and a transcript of an interview by the newspaper with Galvin. If there is interest I could post some of it. It involves an alleged Castro plot to kill Kennedy in Ireland.

The Bertrand Russell Archives are available at: http://www.mcmaster.ca/russdocs/russell.htm There is material on the "Who Killed Kennedy Committee" which is available through the mail for anyone willing to pay copy costs. As I recall it ran to about $100.

I cannot find the obituary on the web. According to Seymour Hersh (The Dark Side of Camelot) Christ was “the best break-in man the CIA had” (page 164). No, I had a look too for the obituary but couldn't find it either. Do you remember the URL of it Gary? Sorry, no. As I recall it was a local newspaper; the story had a photo of Christ and some background about his CIA career, probably from the family. I posted a link to it on one of the forums at the time, but I don't think I saved it.

I saw an article on him online a while back - basically an obituary.

Because he did!!!! Richard you are certainly entitled to your opinion. Perhaps there are those on the forum who will be interested in debating you. Is it necessary to start so many threads? Perhaps we could have one thread where those interested in the LN-CT debate can participate, endlessly debating the single-bullet theory, etc. Or perhaps you would be more confortable over at alt.assassination.jfk