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GPH wrote:
Bill:
Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza DeBayle traveled to New York City during the Summer of 1970, and this was so that he might attend the 25th anniversary of his assassinated father's signing of the original draft Charter of the United Nations.
During that same week he came down to Port Norris, NJ to visit with us [Capt. Hans Guda Milton, et al.] at the local [DOD contractor] boat yard -- situated on the Delaware River. He, and his armored car "convoy" cohorts admired the converted "Bug-Eye" Schooners -- purchased as additions to his ever growing lobster fishing fleet industries.
YO! GERR....NOW YOUR RUMMAGING AROUND IN MY BACKYARD.
PORT NORRIS, NJ IS JUST UP THE MAURICE CREEK, WHICH IS PRETTY RURAL.
CAPT. MILTON SOUNDS LIKE AN INTERESTING CHARACTER, TYPICAL JERSEY PINEY FISHERMAN.
I LIKE THE IDEA OF REFERBISHING THE OLD SCHOONERS WITH DIESELS. I'M SURE THE HULL DESIGN WAS JUST AS SLEEK AND FAST AND GOOD IN SHALLOW WATERS. THERE'S ONLY ONE OF THE OLD OYSTER SCHOONER FLEET LEFT ALIVE - THE M.J. MEERRIWALD, WHICH WAS FOUND ABANDONED AND BEACHED IN THE MARSHS [NOT FAR FROM WHERE THE PARALAX VIEW NOVEL'S HERO IS KILLED]. IT HAD BEEN REFITTED WITH A DIESEL, SO MAYBE IT WAS ONE OF MILTON-SOMOZAS.
IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT ANASTASIO HIMSELF WAS IN PORT NORRIS. HE WAS SUPPORTED BY THE CIA'S PHILADELPHIA BAGMAN - CUMMINS CATHERWOOD, AND CIA GUY G. WHARTON SHOBER AND HIS CUBAN AID RELIEF (CAR). SHOBER WAS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF HANNAHAMAN HOSPITAL IN PHILADELPHIA (ARMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE) WHERE HE ARRANGED FOR ANASTASIO SOMOZA TO RECEIVE AN HONORAY DEGREE - OVER THE OBJECTONS OF FACULTY AND STAFF - WHICH MAY BE AT THE SAME TIME AS THE VISIT YOU DESCRIBE.
The schooners, [originally built as single & two masted sailing vessels] had been converted to diesel power years before.....We had purchased two of the schooners, [one for $5,500 & the other for $6,500] and they were the "Crown Jewels" of that fleet. Somoza was extremely pleased, and handed the boat yard owner a paper bag full of cash. He told him to continue with the "corking", [caulking of the hull seams] engine rebuilding, etc.; "El Prez" then departed in a roar of armored cars -- all escorted by Secret Service, NJ State, NY State, and a few very happy local & county police cars and motors.
The boat yard owner asked: "...And just who was that gentleman...and why all of the hullabaloo with the cop cars...??!! I responded: "....John...what you are really asking is...who the hell was that masked man...?!!"
Even after a short explanation, he was even more mystified; as he had never even heard of a country called "Nicka-wawg-waw" and could even care less. He was thoroughly unimpressed. I told him to just count the money, and give us a receipt -- and "don't sweat the petty xxxx"!!
Once back in Miami, at Capt. Milton's "7 Seas Enterprises, Ltd." office [7th floor, Ingraham Building, downtown Miami] we finished up the "Mackerel Fleet" sales exemption documents for the Dept. of Commerce....[Capt. Milton was well known to Grant Stockdale, and Hans had completed a "Marine Survey" of His ?? yacht a few weeks before his tragic fall ?? from his office !!]
MILTON 7 STOCKDALE? BIG JOHN WILL TWITCH WHEN HE READS THAT. THE RATS WILL PLAY WHILE THE CATS AWAY.
WILL CHECK MY LOCAL SOURCES ON YOUR CAPT. MILTON.
YOU GOT ANY MORE ON THE 7 SEAS ENTERPRISES?
MUST TALK SOME MORE ABOUT THE BOATS - THE REX AND THE NEW LCS?
B. KELLY
BKJF.3@YAHOO.COM
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You have a large number of hypotheses as I read the above Bill. You'll be a busy boy!
Under your research methodology heading, I'm usually used to seeing how the variables of a theory will be tested. Gathering subject data and utilizing statistical analysis will probably not be called for unless you're doing something I'm not aware of. Are you doing a literature review or contacting primary/secondary/tertiary sources to bolster your tenants (sp) for each theory? Are you eventually headed towards a publication? I'm curious. Jason Vermeer
Hello Jason,
Not interested in debate or publishing theories, but heading to court, to see if indictments can be issued for crimes related to the assassination, and maybe back to Congress for hearings on compliance with the JFK Act. Subject data will be tested as evidence in a court of law.
Are you living anywhere near Cedar Rapids?
Also, besides what's in Mellen's book, do you have any more on the Customs angle?
Bill Kelly
bkjfk3@yahoo.com
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Ah, Yes, Shelly.
I'm more of a Yeats man.
"Turning ad turning on the widening gyre,
The falcon cannont hear the falconer;
Things fall apat; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The cremony of innocense is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity...." (The Second Coming)
And Stephen, being from Cambridge, have you ever checked out the records of Cambridge University or have any interest in the Philby/Burgess/McLean/Blunt spy ring?
Blunt came to USA in fall of 63' to give lectures at Penn State University Art School, where Julio Fernandez, Jr. was in attendence at the time, and activelly engaged in anti-Castro activities. James Bond, the American author of the book Birds of the West Indies, from whom Ian Fleming appropriated the name for 007, also attended Cambridge. V. Mitrokin, the KGB Archivist with JFK Assassination disinformation also ended up at Cambridge. It must be a very interesting place.
And, BTW, Guy Fawks is the name of one of my favorite pubs in NYC.
B. Kelly
bkjfk3@yahoo.com
For William.Last came anarchy he rode
on a white horse, splashed wth blood
he was pale, even to the lips
like death in the apocalypse
and he wore a Kingly crown
and in his grasp a sceptre shone
on his brow this mark I saw
I AM GOD, AND KING, AND LAW.
Percy Bysshe Shelly.
Written on the occasion of the massacre carried out by troops acting under the orders of the British Government, at Peterloo, Manchester 1819. Read the whole poem, a brilliant expose of the brutality of the the State, WHEN PEOPLE GET IN THE WAY OF VESTED INTEREST'S.
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Hi William,
1) I like your ideas.
2) I like the way you write.
3) I'm trying to help you keep this on the "front page."
FWIW, Thomas
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Hello Thomas,
Many thanks for your response.
I developed my hypothesis after an exchange of emails with Ken Rahn, who I finally met at the DC Conference last November.
My ideas on the assassination, taking the evidence to a grand jury in particular, developed over time, years, decades on this, trying to figure out a place where the truth and new evidence could be developed and justice given some consideration.
I posted this to see if anybody else is interested in, rather than debate, following this route to the truth, as I don't consider the assassination of JFK history or debateable, but an acative homicide investigation. And it is quite apparent that the network responsible for his death is still very active.
Thanks for the response.
Sometimes you don't know if anybody is listening.
More to come,
B. Kelly
bkjfk3@yahoo.com
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In "Disappearing Witnesses," Penn Jones wrote: "(Elardio) Del Valle had been identifying some men in a photo taken in New Orleans for Jim Garrison. One of the men in the photo was Lee Harvey Oswald."
1) Does anyone know whether or not this is true? If it is true, then:
2) Which photo was Jones writing about? Is it from the film footage (taken by a television station) of L.H.O. handing out his infamous "Fair Play for Cuba" flyers?
3) Do you think this is why Del Valle was killed?
Thomas,
Gordon Winslow, the archivist of city of Miami, who put together the original JFK Researchers Directory, and attempted to have the tapes of the COPA-CUBAN meetings transcribed, once did a COPA conference presentation on the details of the Del Valle murder, debunking many of the distorted reportings on the incident. I'm not familiar with those details but they might be on his web site, I think it's called Cuban Archives or something like that. The DelValle murder is also mentioned in Mellen's book.
GPH and others probably know more, but Gordon's site is where I would go to answer your questions.
B. Kelly
bkjfk3@yahoo.com
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Sitting on one's glasses reminds us that hindsight is 20/20...and expensive.
I broke my glasses just as I sat down to be sworn in as one of the first people to testify before the ARRB, so I had to dispose of my notes and wing it.
And, GPH, I also was in one of Gordon Winslow's early Research Directories, as I thought it would hook up researchers with similar interets, increase networking and prevent duplication. Boy was I wrong.
I'm also anxious to hear some more reports from Dallas.
Each of the three conferences this weekend ended with a panel on what to do next.
I'd like to know what was discussed along these lines, if anybody was there at any of them.
BK
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You know, I've been trying to think of where I first got that information.
Maybe Marrs' book.
I remember being mad that it didn't have an index, so that narrows it down a bit.
Bill,
You're probably thinking of Penn Jones Jr.'s Forgive My Grief. Jones appears to have been first to publish this story, his source unknown, with the name spelled Zangetti, as Jones also spelled it in the linked article.
There is a short entry on this guy in Bensons' Who's Who in the JFK Assassination (Benson spells it Zangretti after Marrs), and the only source he cites is Forgive My Grief IV, 108-109.
FWIW (usually not much) Posner also cites Jones as the source, and writes (CC p. 493), "There is no support for Jones's claim, and the author could find no record of such a death."
Ron
Thanks Ron,
Well, I'm glad the Poz closed the case on Mr. Z. So we don't have to waste our time going down that alley.
BK
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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
APPROACH – My approach is that of a normal, independent homicide investigator whose responsibility is to identify, locate and preserve evidence of crimes that can be presented in a court of law.
HYPOTHESIS : Fr. Gr. An unproven theory, proposition, etc., tentatively accepted to explain certain facts or (working hypothesis) to provide a basis for further investigation, argument, study, etc.; a tentative theory provisionally adopted to explain certain facts and to guide in the investigation of others – frequently called a working hypothesis; as, the nebular hypothesis. Something assumed or conceded merely for the purpose of argument or action; as start with this hypothesis – Syn. Postulate, assumption, supposition.
– I have developed a series of hypothesis that have focused my research and when followed, will lead to those responsible for the murder of JFK.
(H#1) – The assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the murders of J.D. Tippit and Lee Harvey Oswald were homicides, the prosecution of which is an indictable offense at any time, with no statute of limitations. Since homicide is considered the highest form of crime under our system of justice, the judicial system should respond accordingly if there is evidence of criminal conspiracy in their deaths.
(H2) The accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, whether he was a shooter, patsy or was in any way connected to the assassination of the President, had numerous associations with many different intelligence services, both foreign and domestic, and utilized standard intelligence operational procedures in many of his activities (i.e. military background, use of aliases, forged identity documents, trained in foreign language, electronics, interrogation techniques, use of codes and ciphers, etc.). Therefore, his motive and the Modus Operandi (MO) of the assassination was that of a covert intelligence operation, and it should be investigated as such.
(H3) Even if the assassination of JFK was the work of a covert intelligence operation, which is designed to insulate, protect and hide the actual sponsors, the murder can be solved using standard homicide investigation techniques and/or counter-intelligence procedures, although results of CI investigation cannot be used in court.
(H4) The individuals responsible for the covert operation that resulted in the death of the President were serial killers in the sense they had committed political assassinations before 11/22/63 and have done so since, using standard covert operational procedures as their MO.
(H5) The covert operation that resulted in the murder of President Kennedy included a Black Propaganda Operation (Black Prop Op), which began prior to 11/22/63 which was designed to attribute blame for the assassination on Fidel Castro of Cuba. Those individuals who orchestrate this campaign are part of the same network that sponsored the events that occurred at Dealey Plaza.
(H6) Covert operational procedures can be utilized by anyone trained in such techniques, and only individuals, and not governmental organizations and agencies can be indicted for murder and/conspiracy or crimes related to the assassination.
(H7) Those individuals who sponsored the covert operation that resulted in the death of the President were also involved in similar covert operations aimed at Fidel Castro, as well as other clandestine projects that included MK/ULTRA, U2, Operation Wringer and Project Paperclip.
(H8) The Dealey Plaza operation was directly related to one covert operational mission to kill Fidel Castro – the mission of the Rex (See: NYT, Nov. 1, 1963).
(H9) Those who expressed foreknowledge of the assassination of JFK before it occurred were somehow associated with the sponsoring parties.
(H10) Because of the expressed foreknowledge, the let down in security at the time of the assassination, and the failure to properly investigate and prosecute those responsible, the assassination can be considered a coup d’etat, and those technicians who conducted the assassination operation were directly associated with those who took over the government and protected the responsible parties.
PLAN A – OBTAIN A NEW ROUND OF DEPOSED TESTIMONY UNDER OATH –
1) Congressional Hearing (– List Committees – ie. Government Operations)
2) Libel Trial - Posner, Lampert, et al - pick one -
3) Civil Suit – Ala MLK -
4) Grand Jury – Ala Medgar Evers – A D.C. Fed. Grand Jury, ala Dupont Circle, would immediately require a new, independent forensic autopsy of victims.
5) Homicide – On going related homicide investigations ( See: Related Unsolved Homicide List)
6) Other – List possibilities ?
PLAN B – FULL COURT PRESS - Focusing on FOIA & Civil Suit
(In tantum, run simultaneous with PLAN A -)
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G. Douglas is a real jerk but he's also a pro. This is an obvious black prop op, made to appear as if it came from USSR but actually comes from some domestic agency, probably as a prank.
Lisa on the other hand, is a first rate researcher who gave a very persuasive talk at the 40th annivesary Dallas COPA on James Jesus Angleton, one of the principal characters of Regicide.
I was going to update this review, but I don't have the time at the moment.
B. Kelly
An Analysis of "Regicide - The Official Assassination of JFK -
With documentation compiled by Robert T. Crowley, former Asst. Dep. Dir. for
Clandestine Operations of the CIA," by Gregory Douglas (Monte Sono Media,
Huntsville, Al. 2002 ) ISBN 1-591 48-297-6.
By William Kelly, Jr.
Bkjfk3@yahoo.com
June, 2002 /Reposted July, 2003;
Reposted November 20, 2005
The word "regicide" means "to kill a king," and this book tries to put a familiar spin on the assassination of President Kennedy with questionable documents that places the blame for the murder squarely on the CIA, with the cooperation of the top officials of the National Security Agency (NSA), the FBI and Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).
While the premise is simple, it becomes all the more confusing because the source of the documentation is reputedly the late Robert T. Crowley, identified as the former Asst. Deputy Director for Clandestine Operations of the CIA, whose Washington Post obit of October 10, 2000 is one of the first documents presented. It is also one of the few that is verifiable, and while I haven't really checked that reference yet, I'm beginning to suspect it as well. I also wonder if Crowley himself is a real person or if he's just a straw character in the storybook ostensibly penned by “Gregory Douglas,” whose identity has yet to be decisively characterized.
Since this book is classified as "non-fiction," I'll treat it as such, and certainly the primary characters are real, or were at one time, but the supporting documents throw the whole story out of kilt, and while easy to call a "hoax" or "fraud," it is less easy to explain the motivation behind creating this fantastic facade.
Besides the Washington Post obit for Crowley, who is identified as the source of the material, the other documents that make up the basis for the book includes 1) a previously released and verifiable FBI memo regarding a phone conversation between President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) and J. Edgar Hover (JEH), shortly after the assassination; 2) a cover letter to Director (DIA) with official Defense Intelligence Agency logo, dated 20 April 1978 re: "Soviet Intelligence Report on Assassination of President Kennedy," signed by VEDDER B. DRISCOLL, Col. USA, Chief, Soviet/Warsaw Pack Division, Directorate for Intelligence Research; 3) "ENCLOSURE A - THE SOVIET INTELLIGENCE STUDY (translation) Items # 1 - 81 (pages 1 - 10); 4) "ANALYSIS OF THE SOVIET INTELLIGENCE REPORT" (p 11 - 19); 5) Aide-Memoire R.T. Crowley, 2pp. to James Jesus Angleton (JJA), dated Aug 10, 1962; 6) "OPERATION ZIPPER document, cover page, (p. 1-28); 7) List of Abbreviations used in the Zipper Document (p. 220); 8) Organizational Chart of the CIA (circa 1960s); 9) Index of Names (with text; incomplete); 10) Appendix listing #1 (p.125-166) entitled "Alphabetical Listing of CIA and Other Intelligence Sources."
Now I'll get back to the alleged translation of the "Soviet Study," the reputed DIA "response" to the "Soviet Study" and the Aide-Memoire and Operation Zipper, but first I want to dispose of #10), which purports to be a listing of "CIA and Other Intelligence Sources," but has since been identified as a list of general and associate members of the Association of
Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO), which was founded by the late David Atlee Phillips, and includes such JFK assassination luminaries as Mary Ferrell, Gus Russo and Mark Zaid, as well as everybody and anybody who paid their $40 dues. That Mr. Gregory Douglas either didn't bother to learn what the list really is, or did learn and didn't bother telling us, makes me
extremely leary of what else he has to say.
John Judge was the first to tell me that the list was that of AFIO members, plus a few others peppered in, a fact confirmed by FOIA attorney Mark Zaid and private eye Robert Holmes, also on the list. Holmes, who operates Holmes High Tech security firm out of Somers Point, New Jersey (near Atlantic City), is a card-carrying member of the AFIO and pulled out his card
when asked what he thought the list was. A former policeman and Navy veteran, I asked Holmes to look at the other documents - the Zipper document in particular, and he said that in the case of that type of operation there would be no official documentation or any such "paper trail."
Of the other documents, reading backwards, and passing over the book's incomplete index, obsolete CIA chart and list of abbreviations, we'll look at the "T O P SECRET OPERATION ZIPPER 22 DEC 1963" document first before taking on the so-called "Soviet Study" and DIA "Analysis."
Each letter in the title of the ZIPPER doc is C A P I T A L I Z E D, underlined by each letter and one space apart - while the date is underlined differently, whatever that administrative style means to those who can interpret and decipher official docs, please let me know. To me, it is most similar to typical Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) official documents in that it doesn't have an official logo or masthead. It's just typed, with a manual typewriter that could be positively identified, if anyone wants to go to the trouble, by it's soft left side W and other peculiar annomalies.
The OPERATION ZIPPER doc limits it's distribution to : DCI, JJA, MC, RTC and WKH, which if you check the list of abreviations, means it went to Director of Central Intelligence (John McCone), James Jesus Angleton (head of counter-intelligence CIA), CIA/NSA official Marshall Carter, Robert T. Crowley, the initials of which are underlined and include a checkmark next to it - and William King Harvey, the CIA agent introduced to JFK as "America's James Bond."
All of these characters, other than Crowley, are a familiar part of the Rogues Gallery of JFK assassination suspects, as are most of the other characters - except perhaps - G. Fini, one of the four Coriscian assassins - the Grassy Knoll shooter, and the one who got away, ...., who is mentioned in the Zipper doc but not listed in the abreviations or index, Benjamen Bowman,
the Isralie MOSSAD operative who spirited the other three Corisicans out of Dallas in David Ferrie's plane, and then there's the mysterious ARM, the initials of the Zipper participant who apparently arranged for the Secret Service stand down in Dallas. While I can't think of anyone off the bat, I'll bet that Vince Palamara can fit a name to A.R.M, a trap door we're suppose to
fall in and believe that we found another piece of the puzzle and confirm the bonifides of the rest of these bogus documents.
The Zipper document gives times - to the second - and dates of Zipper "conferences," which are defined as meetings and telephone conversations that take place from March, 1963 thru November, 1963. The document is dated December 22, 1963, and some lunch meetings are identified as being held at The University Club and The Metropolitan Club in Washington.
While the cover letter document from "Col. Driscoll" at DIA looks good at first glance, the attached documents - the so-called "Soviet Study" and the DIA analysis are quite fancifull, but no Defense Intelligence Agency analysist worth his salt would write anything like what this guy puts on paper and Colonel Driscoll, if such a person actually exists, and he will confirm his signing off on this document, then he should be indicted for obstruction of justice and conspiracy and treason.
The "Aide de memoire" is reportedly a post assassination memo from Crowley to James Jesus Angleton, aka JJA, giving a report on how the operation is playing out, still looking for Fini - the one who got away - he sleeked out on a bus to Mexico City and disappeared in Spain - if you believe this quite incredible scenario. "And I'll be sure," Crowley tells JJA, "to
get you an autographed singed copy of the Warren Report for your files." Yea, right, we'll check that with JJA's personal files, I'm sure a treasure trove of top secret documents like Crowley compiled.
This is a classic black propaganda operation that deserves deeper analysis. As with all black prop ops, it is information that purports to come from the opposition - "the Soviet Study," but actually stems from U.S. intelligence sources - DIA - "Driscoll" and CIA Crowley, who sent the docs to writer and "historian" - I can't call him a journalist - Gregory Douglas - if
that is his real name and he is in fact a real person - as I suspect this whole thing is a hoax. And not a simple one at that, but a specific covert op - the purpose of which has yet to be determined.
One major aspect of the "Soviet Study" and the Zipper Doc is discussion of the backchannell communication links that JFK and RFK had established with Kruschev and Castro, skipping the standard State Department and CIA lines of power, just as he had done when excluding the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) from the disarmament negotiations. The Northwoods plan to instigate an invasion of Cuba thru terrorist action and blaming it on Castro and Cuba, is also a big part of the Zipper scenario, and I suspect that it is not a coincidence that the NSA leaked the Northwoods material to James Bamford while Crowley gave these docs to Gregory Douglas, as they overlap and appear to confirm each other. But what are they really trying to tell - sell us? The NSA doesn't just give journalists tours of their operations, and retired CIA
officers don't just send documents to writers from the grave. There is a reason behind all this that isn't what it appears to be.
As it has been pointed out on the internet in other "reviews" of this book, "Regicide" is just one of a series of books being published as written by Gregory Douglas, the first of which contains a purported "interview" with former Gestapo chief Henrich Mueller, who ostensibly escaped Nurrenberg because he was recruited by the CIA and brought to America as part of the
Project Paperclip operation that actually did bring in former Nazi scientists like Weiner Von Braun (NASA) and Gen. Dorenberger (Bell Hell) and the designer of the first jet fighter (Collins Radio), and Gen. Reinhard Gehlen (CIA). But was Mueller among them?
It was the search for Muller, Douglas tells us in his book, that led him to Crowley and the "official" documents on the JFK assassination. Under the chapter “The Crowley Papers,” Douglas tells us, “In 1963, the author met a German Luftwaffe officer who lived in Palo Alto, California. His name was Frederick Laegal, and he was employed in the medical department of Stanford University…” Now this is the same Stanford University where the Hover Institute is located and where Sergi DeMornschildet worked at the time of the assassination. Sergi is the brother of the George DeMohrenschildt, the guy that these documents claim was the man who tipped off the CIA about Lee Harvey Oswald’s employment at the Texas School Book Depository on the motorcade route. This is despite the fact that DeMohrenschildt was in Haiti and totally out of touch with Oswald and his activites.
“At one point,” writes Douglas, “Laegel indicated that he had a friend who knew even more about the period than himself, and eventually the author came into contact with Heinrich Muller, then a resident of Piedmont, California. These ongoing contacts and interviews with the former head of the Gestapo led to the books based on Muller’s papers and eventually to an approach by Robert Crowley, a retired high-level CIA official, in 1993.”
“Crowley was working with British author John Costello,” Douglas informs us, “and in return for papers concerning British surveillance of Ambassador Joseph Kennedy in 1939, Crowley and Costello supplied the author with official documentation on Muller’s postwar employment by the American intelligence community. In 1994, the author published the first of his series on the papers of Heinrich Muller, once Chief of the German Gestapo. The first work appeared in Germany and was subsequently published in English in 1995 by Bender Publishing. When these appeared, there was considerable official, but very private, concern expressed in CIA circle due to the inflammatory issued raised.”
Douglas says he was then contacted by Dr. William Corson, of Potomic, Maryland, regarding the name of the CIA official who interrogated Muller in Switzerland in 1948 – James Speyer Kronthal, the 1948 station chief of Bern, Switzerland. Corson, of course, is a former USMC officer and historian of American intelligence agency operations. Crowley then admitted that He was the man “who had worked with Muller when the former Gestapo chief arrived in Washington in 1948.”
Now backing up a bit, British author John Costello has authored a number of books on British intelligence operations, including one book on Kim Philby and the Soviet Cambridge cell of British double-agents – a story that got Costello killed – murdered on a train or a plane – while tracking down some of his suspects. In fact, most of the people mentioned by Douglas are dead, which is suspicious in itself.
From the looks of it, this book is in the same class as Clifford Irving’s Howard Hughes Diary, and as Irving had previously been a world class art forger, and an excellent artist of that genre, it appears “Mr. Douglas” has also previously been up to similar shennagans.
With a tip of the hat to Tim Howells, and a feather in his cap for pointing out to us a London Sunday Observer book review (April 21, 1996) “Spin Time for Hitler” by Gitta Sereny, in which she calls “Douglas” out for promoting a classically forged documents regarding the “interrogation” of Muller and his escape to America with the assistance of the CIA.
Although it’s very long, it’s an important story to know in evaluating the authenticity of “Regicide.”
In her Observer review of Douglas’ book on Muller’s “interrogation,” Gitta Sereny writes:
“The first is a curious tome, available by direct order from the so-called publishers (in America one James Bender,…in Germany the right-radical Druffel Verlag, who have published books by old Nazis). Lip-smackingly called “Gestapo Chief: The 1948 Interrogation of Heinrich Muller,” it is subtitled “From US Secret Archives.” The author’s name is given as Gregory Douglas; his address, shown in a series of letters from the CIA which he reprints, is 23, West Alexander Avenue 10, Merced, California 95348. Now I am quite familiar with this man, though under a different name. He has many of them. I knew him as Peter Stahl and my husband and I, researching this fantastic story, visited him in Merced in July 1988. In November the previous year Stahl and sent me by courier what he announced as an ‘extraordinary document’ that he had just ‘come into his hands’. It was not only extraordinary, but shocking – a much censored photocopy of a seven-page CIC (later CIA) ‘agent report’ to all appearances copied from originals in a US intelligence archive. Dated November 1948, it was signed by two Berlin-based CIC officers, Andrew L. Venters and Severin F. Wallace.”
“The report, titled ‘Ubersee’ (‘Overseas’), stated that Soviet Intelligence had discovered that two SS generals, Odilo Globocnik and Heinrich Muller, had been spirited out of Europe in 1945 by the Americans with the connivance of the British. Heinrich Muller had been the head of the Gestapo, and it had long been rumored that he had survived and was living in the Soviet Union. Odilo Globocnik, however, who as the head of the ‘Aktion Reinhard’ – ‘the organization in charge of the murder of the Jews in occupied Poland’ was at the top of the Allied war criminals lists, was known to have committed suicide in May 1945, after being caught by the British in a hut in the Austrian Alps. There was even a much reprinted (though unclear) photograph of him dead, taken by a British officer and entitled ‘The worst man in the world’.”
“If this document was genuine, the British and the Americans, outrageously, would have helped two of the worst Nazi evil-doers escape justice which, without doubt, would cause one of the greatest scandals since 1945. Therefore, before seeking any backing for research and keeping my interest secret, I had to authenticate the documents. For this I turned to one of America’s leading archivists, Dr. Robert Wolfe, at the U.S. National Archives. As horrified as I was by the document, he undertook to search for the originals and to authenticate the signatures. Two months later, he told me that Venters and Wallace had indeed been CIC officers in Berlin: the signatures checked out and neither he nor two other top people he had consulted could fault the photocopied documents. He was however, he said, encountering unusual reticence and even opposition from other agencies in his search for the originals. We were concerned lest the secret should slip out before I could research the background of the story.”
“My photographer husband Don and I now with the backing of the Times, left immediately for Trieste, Globocnick’s last posting as SS head of police. Over the next weeks we followed his trail, his escape over the mountains with chests of valuables, to the alpine hut where he was finally arrested, and to the castle in the town of Paternion, in the Austrian province of Carinthia, where British intelligence troops held him and where, when identified, he allegedly committed suicide.”
“By June 1988, we had seen everybody still alive who had had anything to do with Globocnick’s life, including the British officers who saw his corpse,…Everything about the alleged suicide, including the famous photograph, was decidedly fuzzy, and even the British Army records at Kew of his capture and death were contradictory. I felt neither comfortable about the documents, nor by this time about Stahl (aka Douglas). He talked too much, had too many pet theories about Joe Kennedy, the President’s father; about Churchill and Roosevelt and secret advance knowledge of Pearl Harbor; about Roger Casement: Stahl (Douglas) urged too hard, wanted too little. By the time we arrived at his door in Merced in July 1988, I strongly suspected that the papers were forged.”
“Just as we were about to abandon the search for lack of definite proof, we found in Germany a former CIC officer who had served with the two men whose signatures were on the document. He looked at it with astonishment. ‘It was done by someone exceptionally well-informed: he was able to get the right stamps, knows the format, the language and was able to copy, superbly, the signatures,’ he said. ‘He slipped up in one way only: he didn’t know the two men.’ The ex-CIC man had shared quarters with Venters for several years; he was his friend. ‘Andrew was an Austrian by birth and a Jew,’ he said. ‘But that was not the main thing: the main thing is that he was a profoundly cultured man of total integrity who would never, under any circumstances whatsoever, have been part, even with retrospective knowledge, of such a cover-up. Globocnick, to him, was not just the devil incarnate, but dirt: he could not have written and could not have signed such a report. He would have preferred to kill himself. This document is a very clever but quite outrageous forgery.’ Two days later, the Austrian widow of the British officer who had taken the photograph of Globocnick’s corpse found for us in her attic in Vienna another picture taken at the same time, this one not in the least fuzzy: Globocnik was dead.”
“Mr. Douglas-Stahl’s book is as much a fake as the document he sent me eight years ago. In his acknowledgements he maliciously thanks me for my ‘research into the authenticity of the key documents, without which this book could not have been written’.”
“We don’t know whether and where ‘Gestapo’ Muller survived and, if he survived, who he talked to. What is certain is that he never had the conversations reprinted here: Mr. Douglas-Stahl has Muller recite here all the stories Peter Stahl told me over the years – ‘Casement, Churchill, Roosevelt, the bombing of Dresden….and of course all about Globocnik: alive, after having been saved by the nasty British for money. And then, folded into it all, more falsehoods about the Final Solution itself, that one crime that none of these obsessed people can leave alone.”
Well the thing that troubles me most about Mr. Douglas is he doesn’t come across as even remotely interested in questioning whether these documents he’s pawning off on us are legitimately real or not, and if not, why not and what it’s all about. He takes them for face value even though he acknowledges receiving them in the mail from a dying man – the deputy director of Clandestine Operations of the CIA – and keeps quite about them until after the man is dead.
For several reasons however, I don’t believe that, and tend to think that this operation, whoever is behind it, is being run by very living people, still playing the Great Game. And it isn’t beyond us to figure out.
What is especially galling about “Regicide” is that after faithfully promoting these entirely questionable documents, Douglas ends the book with a chapter called “Envoy,” which promotes John Jacob Nutter’s truly fine book “The CIA’s Black Ops: Covert Action, Foreign Policy, and Democracy” (Prometheus Books, Amherst, N.Y.).
The book also includes what is called “Aide-Memoire,” a memo to JJA – James Jesus Angleton from “Crow” aka Robert T. Crowley, which states in part, “…This gives us the opportunity of silencing anyone who might express dangerous opinions about Dallas. Hover also suggested, and I agree, that instead of attempting to shut down controversial books, that we encourage the publication of ‘not’ books. That way, the public will soon grow tired of questions and go on their merry way. The forthcoming Commission report is a wonderful piece of creative writing and will be extensively promoted by our good friends at the NY Times. The question of the surviving member is still of concern but hopefully, the reward will flush him out. I will get Allen to autograph a copy of the final Commission report for both of our personal libraries.”
William E. Kelly, Jr.
Browns Mills, N.J.
June 15, 2001
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Thank you, Bill. Any idea why he knew what he did?
You know, I've been trying to think of where I first got that information.
Maybe Marrs' book.
I remember being mad that it didn't have an index, so that narrows it down a bit.
My books were packed away last year and I drove them in a truck to John Judge's archives in DC, so now I can only use them when I'm there, and only have a half-dozen books to work with where I'm at.
As for Mr. Z., I think he was an oil man, there was a mention of being from Chicago and hooked up with the mob. There's also that Cuban connection to Oklahoma, where a car load of Cubans stop for gas.
Cold case files must be routinely reviewed every few years, so it shouldn't be difficult to get the info from the relevant police department's homicide squad.
B. Kelly
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I found this on the Internet (in an article on "mysterious deaths").
On December 8, 1963 the body of Jack Zangetty was found floating in an Oklahoma lake with bullet holes in his chest, and he had been dead for about two weeks. After the assassination Zangetty, the manager of a modular motel complex near Lake Lugert, Oklahoma, had remarked to some friends that “Three other men, not Oswald, killed the President.” He had also stated that “A man named Ruby will kill Oswald tomorrow and in a few days a member of the Frank Sinatra family will be kidnapped just to take some of the attention away from the assassination.”
Does anyone know the original source of this story and whether it is credible?
TIM, I got Mr. Zangretti, spelled with an R, down in my TOP 20 list of related, unsolved homicides, and the Lake Lugert, in Texas, but I recall him being in Oklamhoma. These are not mysterious deaths, but certifiable murders, with no statute of limitations. I don't recall my source, but will check it out.
B. Kelly
RELATED UNSOLVED HOMICIDES – And their Jurisdictions. Human Hearts.
1)Henry Marshall – June 3, 1961 – Franklin, Texas. Gassed with Carbon Monixide then shot seven times with rifle.
2)John F. Kennedy – November 22, 1963 – Dallas, Texas. Shot in head by sniper(s).UNSUB#1 & UNSUB#2.
3)J.D. Tippit – November 22, 1963 – Dallas, Texas. Dallas policeman shot by pedestrian. UNSUB #3.
4)Lee Harvey Oswald – November 24, 1963 – Dallas, Texas. Suspect shot by JACK RUBY in police custody.
5)Karyn Kupcient – November 26, 1963 – Los Angeles, California. Strangled in apartment. UNSUB #4.
6)Jack Zangretti – December, 1963 – Lake Lugert, Chicago mobster shot by UNSUB #5 in gangland style.
7)Jim Koethe – September 21, 1964 – Dallas, Texas. Reporter assaulted in apartment by UNSUB #6.(Same MO as 4)
8)Mary Pinocot Meyer – October 12, 1964 – Georgetown Canal, Washington D.C. Assaulted by UNSUB #7.
9)Elidio Delvalle – February, 1967 – Miami, Florida. Murdered in automobile on streetcorne by UNSUB #8.
10)Martin Luther King, Jr. – 1968 – Memphis, Tenn. Shot by sniper UNSUB #9
11)Robert F. Kennedy – June, 1968 – Los Angeles, California. Shot by handgun UNSUB #10 with Sirhan B. Sirhan.
12)Salvadore Allende – September 11, 1972 – Santiago, Chile. Assassinated during military coup.
13)Charles Horman – September, 1972 – Santiago, Chile. Murdered by assassination squad of Augusta Pinochet.
14)Jose Dela Torriente – April 12, 1974 – Florida. Former Collins Radio Cuban, shot by sniper UNSUB #11
15)Dave Yaras – 1974 – Chicago. Mobster murdered gangland style. UNSUB #12
16)Charles Nicoletti – 1974 – Chicago. Murdered gangland style. UNSUB #13
17)Sam Giancana – 1975 – Chicago. Murdered gangland style. UNSUB #14
18)John Roselli – July, 1976 – Florida. Shot on boat, chopped and deep sixed in oil can. UNSUB #15
19)Orlando Letelier/Ronnie Moffitt – September, 1976. Dupont Circle, Washington D.C. Double bombing victims.
20)Navy Lt. Pitzer. Bethesda, Maryland. Suspicious death, considered murder. UNSUB #16
“I met Murder on the way –
He had a mask like Castlereagh:
Very smooth he looked, yet grim;
Seven bloodhounds followed him.
All were fat; and well they might
Be in admirable plight,
For one by one, and two by two,
He tossed them human hearts to chew.”
- The Masque of Anarchy. From: “Studies In Murder” by Edmund Lester Pearson.
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Tim Carroll
*Did Scaramanga have one nipple or three?
Tim,C., I think three, in the movie, though the books are always different.
Thanks to Mr. Gratz, The Man With The Golden Gun - is the one.
And a tip of the hat to Mr. Hemming for his well earned insight.
BK
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Mr. Kelly, I was not baiting anyone but I was hoping for a response because I was wondering if the character Hammerstein was based on a real person from the Batista regime. I am sure one member knows who was the chief of counterrintelligence for Batista.
JHC, Tim,
stop calling me Mr. Kelly, I keep snaping to attention.
I don't think you were baiting me now, it just so happens that I have a lot of information on this line of inquiry, re: Ian Fleming and company.
While I have spent a considerable amount of time lining up Fleming's fictional characters with their real life counterparts, I have yet to get to Mr. Hammerstein. Maybe we can cut to the chase and see if there are any real researchers on this forum who can narrow it down a little bit.
If his real life counterpart was the head of Batista's counter-intelligence, I'm sure JPH can fill us in, complete with the personal neuances of same.
And btw, Joan Mellen, unintentionally exposes another Fleming character - Clay Shaw = Scaramanga.
JM mentions in her attention to detail in one of the most disquisting paragraphs of AFTJ, "....Logan's testimony is in part cooroborated by his knowledge that Shaw had only one nipple...." a unique infliction and characteristic of Ian Fleming's fictional villan Scaramanga, played by Roger Moore in the movie.
Now let's ID Hammerstein.
BK
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Most members are no doubt aware of Ian Fleming's dinner with JFK in the spring of 1960 in which Fleming proposed some rather incredible suggestions on how to deal with Castro. Two years earlier, however, Fleming was apparently pro-Castro and he predicted Castro's victory almost to the month it happened!
In 1958 Fleming wrote a James Bond short story, "For Your Eyes Only", the plot of which bears little relation to the Bond movie with the same name.
In the story Bond is directed by his superior M to murder, assassinate, some men who killed (in Jamaica) two British citizens, the Havelocks who were old friends of M's. The main villain was named Hammerstein. Bond justifies his order thusly:
There were no doubts in Bond's mind. He didn't know the Havelocks or care whjo they were. Hammerstein had operated the law of the jungle on two defenseless old people. Since no other law was available, the law of the jungle should be visited upon Hammerstein. In no other way could justice be done. If it was revenge, it was the revenge of the community [as determined by M and Bond--Tim]."
Vigilante justice, of course.
So who was Hammerstein? The ex-Nazi chief of Batista's counterintelligence!
TIM, SOMEHOW I FEEL YOU ARE BAITING ME ON THIS.
ALL OF IAN FLEMING'S FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ARE BASED ON REAL PEOPLE AND HAVE REAL PEOPLE COUNTERPARTS, MOST PART OF THE GREAT GAME OF ESPIONAGE.
WHILE I'VE YET TO IDENTIFY THE HAVELOCKS, AS YOU MENTION WITH HAMMERSTEIN, THERE ARE CLUES TO THE REAL IDENTIES WITHIN FLEMING'S FICTIONAL TEXT AND REAL LIFE.
BESIDES THE REAL JAMES BOND - WHOSE IDENTIFY FOR 007 WAS TAKEN FROM AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGIST JAMES BOND, AN ASSOCIATE OF CUMMINS CATHERWOOD - WHO FLEMING PARODIES AS VILLAN MILTON CREST IN THE HYBIRD VARITY.
WHEN FLEMING WAS IN DC HE RAN INTO A FRIEND, MRS. LEITER, WHO INVITED FLEMING TO DINNER WITH THEN SENATOR KENNEDY. IT WAS LEITER WHOSE LAST NAME WAS APPROPRIATED BY FLEMING FOR 007'S CIA SIDEKICK FELIX LEITER (I MIGHT BE SPELLING THESE NAMES SLIGHTLY WRONG), WHOSE CHARACTER WAS TAKEN FROM FORMER OSS AND BERLIN STATION CHIEF HENRY PLEASANTS (WHO DEBRIEFED GEHLEN).
THEN THERE'S WILLIAM GRACE OF J.P. GRACE LINES, WHO SHARED A GUANO ISLAND WITH DR. NO., AND COULD BOFIELD BE BLOOMFIELD AND PERMINDEX BE THE REAL LIFE MIRROR ORG FOR SPECTRE?
I WOULD VENTURE THAT THE REAL LIFE CHIEF OF BATISTA'S COUNTERINTELLIGENCE FITS THE DESCRIPTION OF FLEMING'S HAMMERSTEIN VERY CLOSELY, AS FLEMING, LIKE THE PARALEX VIEW'S SINGER, KNEW WHAT HE WAS WRITING ABOUT, BUT HE COULDN'T WRITE NON-FICTION.
BK
BKJFK3@YAHOO.COM
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[quote name='John Simkin' date='Oct 23 2005, 07:33 AM' post='42841']
John wrote:
Dave Perry, Dave Reitzes and John McAdams have also refused to answer my questions on the Forum.
So far Gus Russo and Dale Myers have not replied to my emails. However, I live in hope.
As you can see, there is a pattern here. Those authors who believe in the lone gunman or the Castro/KGB theory prefer one way communication. This is understandable given the intellectual battering that people like Mel Ayton and yourself have received on this Forum.
I am not at all surprised these authors won't respond to questions. Their purpose is to distort the truth, not search for it. (imho)
Dawn
MAYBE WE CAN STURR UP THE POT A LITTLE BIT.
DAVE PERRY IS A TEXAS BASED DEBUNKER, WHO FOR INSTANCE, UNCOVERED THE FORGERS OF THE DPD ARREST REPORT OF JACK RUBY AND LHO BEING IN AN ARGUMENT DURING OSWALD'S WEEK LONG RESIDENCE AT MARY BLEDSOE'S ROOMING HOUSE. WHILE THE SAID PEPETRADORS THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE, IT IS ACTUALLY FABRICATION OF EVIDENCE IN A HOMICIDE AND OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, IF WHAT THEY CLAIM IS TRUE. I HAPPEN TO BELIEVE THE REPORT IS AUTHENTIC.
REITZES IS A FRUSTRATED NEW YORK ACTOR AND SELFPROFESSED RESEARCHER AND NOW INTERNET DEBUNKER, AND EXAMPLE OF WHICH IS HIS DISTORTED AND FALSE CLAIM THAT THE PHONE CALL BETWEEN G. RAY GILL'S LAW OFFICE IN NEW ORLEANS AND JEAN WEST'S APARTMENT HOUSE IN CHICAGO IS INSIGNIFICANT SINCE IT CAN'T BE PROVEN DAVID FERRIE MADE THE CALL. THAT CALL IS EVIDENCE OF CONSPIRACY, WITHOUT A DOUBT, AND CAN BE SHOWN TO BE IN A COURT OF LAW.
THE FIRTS TIME I HEARD OF MCADAMS WAS WHEN HE 'PENETRATED' A COPA CONFERENCE IN DC UNDER AN FALSE IDENTITY, AND WE DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS HIM UNTIL THE NEXT DAY'S WASHINGTON TIMES RAN A PICTURE OF HIM AND QUOTED HIM AS A TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF THE KINDS OF CONPIRACY BUFFS - LIKE TRECKIES, GO TO THESE KINDS OF CONFERENCES.
I HELD THE HIGHEST ESTEME FOR GUS RISSO WHEN WE WERE IN DC LOBBYING FOR THE JFK ACT BACK IN THE EARLY 1990S, AND CONSIDERED HIM, LIKE ME, AN INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH. HE LIVED WITH HIS MOM IN BALTIMORE FOR AWHILE AND HAD TROUBLE FINDING A PUBLISHER, AND WE GOT ALONG OVER LUNCHES AT THE DC CAFETERIAS. THEN HE GOT SOME $ FROM TV DOCUMENTARY AND FLEW OFF TO INTERVIEW THE FAKE TRAMPS (GEDNEY, ET AL) AND PROCLAIMED THEM GENUINE, AND THEN STARTED GETTING CHUMMY WITH EX-CIA OFFICIALS AND BOUGHT INTO THEIR PROGRAM. HIS BOOK, "LIVE BY THE SWORD," IS AN ANTI-KENNEDY DIATRIDE THAT CONCLUDES THAT JFK GOT WHAT WAS COMMING TO HIM FOR ALL THINGS CUBAN, AND BOBBY WAS EQUALLY TO BLAME.
THEN WHEN I WANTED TO GET THE ATLANTIC CITY SECTIONS OF THE KIEFHAVER MOB COMMITTEE FILES, ONCE THEY WERE RELEASED AFTER 50 YEARS, THE NARA SAID THEY HAD TO REVIEW THEM FIRST. BUT THEN GUS COMES OUT, A FEW MONTHS LATER, WITH HIS HISTORY OF THE CHICAGO MOB BASED ON THE KEIFHAVER COM RECORDS - WHICH JOHN MCCAIN SO GENEROUSLY GAVE HIM ACCESS TO.
DALE MYERS IS AN APPOLOGIST FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS AND A PROTECTOR OF THE TIPPIT FAMILY. HIS COMPUTER GRAPHICS ARE WORTHLESS AND HIS BOOK 'WITH MALICE' FAILS TO INCLUDE THE MOST IMPORTANT DETAILS OF THE MURDER OF J.D. TIPPIT. IF INDEED OSWALD KILLED JFK, SHOT JBC AND MURDERED TIPPIT, HE WOULD BE CONSIDERED, IN HOMICIDAL INVESTIGATION TERMS, A SPREE KILLER, HAVING ESTABLISHED MORE THAN ONE MURDER SCENE WITHIN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. THE FIRST POLITICAL SPREE KILLER ON RECORD, AND CERTAINLY THE SECOND CRIME IS THE ROSETTA STONE TO THE WHOLE THING, AS DAVID BELIN POINTED OUT.
IT'S JUST A SHAME THAT BELIN AND MYERS ARE WRONG ABOUT THE SINGLE ASSASSIN AND DISTURBED MURDERER SCENARIO, AS IF THERE WAS A NORMAL HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION OF BOTH OR EITHER, THE TRUTH WOULD HAVE COME OUT.
WHEN I FIRST MET DALE MYERS, SIGNING BOOKS AT THE TSBA CIRCUS - I SHOWED HIM REFERENCES IN TONY SUMMER'S BOOK - ON THE SHELF IN THE BOOKSTORE - TO THE HSCA INQUIRY - I CAN'T CALL IT AN INVESTIGATION - INTO TIPPIT'S BEST FRIEND CARL MATHER, AND THE FACT HIS CAR WAS SEEN NEAR TIPPIT'S MURDER, WITH LHO BEHIND THE WHEEL. HE SAID IT WASN'T A SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH FACT.
NOR DOES HE BOTHER TO MENTION THAT TIPPIT MOONLIGHTED AS A SECURITY BOUNCER AT THE BULL PEN BARBEQUE DRIVE IN, OWNED BY JACK RUBY'S FIANCIAL BACKER, RALPH PAUL, AND OTHER UNSEEMING DETIALS OF TIPPIT'S LIFE AND CAREER, ESPECIALLY AS THEY ENTWINE WITH HIS DEATH.
PERRY, REITZES, RUSSO, MCADAMS AND MEYERS, THEY ARE POMPUSS, EGOTISTICAL WRITERS WITH COMMON AGENDAS - TO SPIN THE TRUTH TO PROTECT THOSE WHO HAVE THUS FAR GOTTEN AWAY WITH MURDER.
SORRY I HAD TO SHOUT, BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE I GET THEIR ATTENTION.
BILL KELLY
BKJFK3@YAHOO.COM
I have not been able to contact Tony Summers. I would indeed love to have him on the Forum answering questions about his research. Please let me know if you have his email address.
Back in 86 I wrote to Tony SUmmers in Ireland and received a brief response, wherein he mainly quoted from his book "Conspsiracy" and made clear he was not interested in corresponding with anyone on this case.
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The Maryland conference sounds fantastic Bill. Do you know if any of these talks/papers will be made available online or in book form?
You know John,
They all videotape and make DVDs, but if its not a transcript its not citable research.
All of the conferences should be transcribed.
I'll look into it.
Also, as for your question regarding different orgs cooperating, I could tell you the history and explain it somewhat, but it would be a waste of time.
BK
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from mcadams site:
"On July 4, 1939, oil tycoon Colonel D. Harold Byrd purchased the building at public auction.
Byrd's career included co-founding the Civil Air Patrol and funding his explorer cousin, Admiral Richard E. Byrd, who named an Antarctic mountain range after the Colonel.....
What McAdams won't tell you:
Admiral Richard E. Byrd's early Antarctic expeditons used primitive radio communications that the US Navy couldn't pick up, but a young ham radio enthusist from Cedar Rapids could on his homemade set - Arthur Collins, whose Collins Radio became the military's main radio supplier during WWII and afterwards with SAC, NASA and AF1. Art Collins was a close friend of Curtis LeMay.
Collins Radio provided cover for the CIA's ship the "Rex" in 1963 and for thed construction of the NRO HQ as recently as 1994.
And JD Tippit's best friend Carl Mather, whose car was seen near the scene of Tippit's murder, was the Collins Radio technician on the VP plane. [see: The Collins Radio Connections - COPA Abstract 1994]
The Byrd Connection can go a long way.
BK
bkjfk3@yahoo.com
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It looks a very good line-up. I will be in Dallas while it is on but will not be able to attend because of the JFK Lancer Conference. There is also another good conference taking place in Washington at the same time. It is a shame that the various organizations could not get together to avoid these clashes.
And here are details on the AARC conference:
Date :
November 18-20, 2005
Where :
The Bethesda Hyatt Regency Hotel 7400 Wisconsin Avenue, N .W . Bethesda, Maryland
Thursday Evening , November 17 - 7 :00 - Registration - 9 :00 PM
Friday Morning. November 18 - 7 :00 AM - Registration
"CRACKING THE JFK CASE" CONFERENCE PROGRAM
8:00 AM – Opening Remarks : Jim Lesar, J .D . President, Assassianton Archives & Research Center
I . What Does the New Evidence Tell It About The CIA’s Connection to the Crime?
8 :15 AM Joan Mellen, Ph.D. - A Farewell to Justice : Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case That Should Have Changed History
9 :30 AM Jefferson Morley Washingtonpost.com - What Mexico City Station Chief Win Scott Knew : CIA Deception Around Oswald's Visit to Mexico City
10 :15 AM Break
10 :30 AM David Talbot Salon.com - If There Was a Conspiracy Why Didn't Bobby Do Anything About It?
11 :15 AM Panel Discussion David Talbot, Joan Mellen, Jefferson Morley, Prof . Gerald McKnight, Prof . David Wrone, Anthony Summers
12 :00 AM Lunch Break
Friday Afternoon, November 18
II . Why Was Kennedy Killed? An Examination of the Probable Motives
1 :00 PM . Seven Days in May : The Military James Bamford vs . JFK
2 :00 PM Former Senator Gary Hart - The Church Committee and the Still Unanswered Questions
3 :15 PM Break
3 :30 PM Prof. David Wrone - JFK, LBJ, and the American Empire
4 :30 PM Session Ends
Friday Evening, November 18
There will be a showing of films, probably two of the following three: “JFK” (director’s cut), “The Warren Commission” (produced by Chip Selby) or “Rush to Judgement.”
Saturday Morning, September 18
9 :30 AM - Prof. John Newman - James Jesus Angleton and the Assassination of President Kennedy
Richard Whalen - The Truth at the Bottom of the Bay of Pigs
Prof. Peter Dale Scott - Joseph Milteer, Pedro del Valle, Northwoods, and the Strategy of Tension
III Crime Scene Evidence.
Dr. Randolph Robertson - Crime Scene Evidence : Why Oswald Alone Could Not Have Killed Kennedy
10 :45 AM Dr. Gary Aguilar - The Evidence That Kennedy Was Hit Twice in the Head
11 :45 noon lunch break
Saturday Afternoon, November 19th
III . Crime Scene Evidence (cont .)
1 :00 PM Patrick M. Grant, Ph. D. Proper Assessment of the Bullet Lead Evidence from the Assassination of
President Kennedy, Part I
1 :45 PM Erik Randich, Ph. D. Proper Assessment of the Bullet Lead Evidence from the Assassination of President Kennedy, Part II
2 :30 PM Josiah Thompson, Ph. D. - Bedrock Evidence in the Kennedy Assassination : Where Can You Find It?
3 :15 PM Panel on the Photographic Evidence Josiah Thompson, Prof . David Wrone, Rollie Zavada
3 :45 PM Break
4 :00 PM Richard Garwin, Ph.D. - New Analysis Confirms That the "shots" on the Dallas Police Department Tapes Occurred
5 :00 PM Don Thomas, Ph.D.- Critics and Critiques of the Acoustical Evidence in the Assassination of President Kennedy Occurred About One Minute After the President Was Shot
7 :30 PM Dinner .
Saturday Evening, November 19th
After dinner speech G. Robert Blakey : "Second Thoughts”
Sunday, September 19
IV. The News Media and the Assassination of President Kennedy
9 :40 AM Dan Alcorn The Danger of Secret Power in Democracy
10 :00 AM Clayton Ogilvie The Hood College Library
10 :15 AM The Mary Ferrell Foundation Website Staff representative
10 :30 AM Break
10 :45 AM Panel : How Do We Overcome News Media Resistance? Anthony Summers, Richard Whalen, Jefferson Morley, David Talbot
The Press and the Assassination of President Kennedy : An American Journalist's "Mea Culpa"
A BBC Journalist and Author's Perspective on the Press and the Assassination of President Kennedy
11 :30 AM
V. What We Should Do to Move the Case Forward?
Specific Proposals Jim Lesar, Jefferson Morley, David Talbot, Richard Whalen, Dan Alcorn.
12 :45 PM Concluding Remarks Jim Lesar, J .D .
1 :00 PM Conference Ends
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While I can't be there, a lot of my friends and associates will be, and I hope some people from this foum stop by the Hotel Lawrence for some or all of the program. I relinquished my time to Joan Mellen so should could have a full hour to make her presentation. And I see she is bringing along her ex-husband Ralph, a first generation researcher and major character in her book. - BK
DALLAS COPA Digging Up History
11th Annual Regional Meeting
Coalition on Political Assassinations
November 18-20, 2005
Hotel Lawrence, 302 S. Houston St., Dallas, TX
Schedule
Friday, November 18
Adolphus Hotel, 1321 Commerce Street (shuttle available from Hotel Lawrence)
5-6 pm Drinks and dinner at Bistro Lounge (individual bills)
6:30-7:00 pm Keynote: Rep. Cynthia McKinney
Sylvia Meagher Lifetime Achievement Award presentation
7-9 pm Walt Brown and Paul Krassner – comic relief
Saturday, November 19
Hotel Lawrence, 302 S. Houston Street (second floor meeting rooms)
Books and resource room open during all events
9 am – 10:30 am – JFK, the investigations
David Wrone on the Zapruder Film
Robert Groden on the HSCA
Jerry McKnight on the Warren Commission
Walt Brown on the Warren Commission
10:30 am – 12:00 pm – The Suspects
Paris Flammonde on The Kennedy Conspiracy
Ralph Schoenmann on Bertrand Russell’s Tribunal
Dick Russell on The Man Who Knew Too Much
Dave Starks on Gerald Posner and the counter-critics
1:00 – 2:30 pm - LBJ and the JFK Assassination
Billie Sol Estes on LBJ
Ronnie Dugger on JFK and Dallas
Barr McClellan, on JFK and Dallas
Ed Tatro on the History Channel series
2:30 – 4:00 pm – Archiving the Assassinations
Philip Melanson, PhD – The RFK collection at U Mass Dartmouth
Rex Bradford – the digital archives of the AARC
Jerry McKnight – the Weissberg archive at Hood College
Ben Rogers, curator of the Penn Jones collection at Baylor University
Chris Pike, collecting Penn Jones materials
Clay Carson, curator of the ML King Papers Project at Stanford
Sam Anderson, director of the Malcolm X Museum at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem
Summer Reese, curator for Larry Teeter’s papers on RFK case
4:00 – 5:00 pm – COINTELPRO – The Murders of “Black Messiahs” and Peace Candidates
Sam Anderson, director of the Malcolm X Museum
Nick Kotz on LBJ and MLK
T Carter and Lyndon Barsten on James Earl Ray
Dr. William Pepper on MLK and RFK
Philip Melanson, PhD on MLK and RFK
Hotel Lawrence, 302 S. Houston St.
7-8 pm Dick Gregory
8-11 pm Video presentations – mixed topics
Sunday, November 20
Hotel Lawrence, 302 S. Houston St.
Books and resource room open during all events
9:00 – 9:30 am – Jim Garrison’s case
Joan Mellen on “The Alternative Patsy”
9:30 – 10:30 am – Digging Up History, Opening Files and Cases
T Carter and John Judge on the MLK Records Act HR 2554
Bill Kelly on opening a Grand Jury investigation on JFK
Dr. William Pepper on reopening RFK, a civil suit
Dick Gregory on finding the truth
10:30 am – 12:00 pm – The 9/11 Omission
John Judge on the McKinney Congressional Briefings, Brain Trusts and Able Danger
T Carter on Flight 77
Michael Nurko on latest evidence
12:00 – 1:00 pm – The Future of COPA – roundtable discussion
Tuesday, November 22
12:30 pm – Annual Moment of Silence, Grassy Knoll, Dealey Plaza with speakers following to commemorate the 42nd anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Registration $50 or $20/day, payable at event.
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Hello Bill Turner, a true Friend of JFK, and one of my personal heros.
I reading Joan Mellon's "Farewll to Justice" I expected her to have an attitude towards some of those who undermined Garrison's investigation, and to pinpoint the press that was bought off and the infiltrators who disrupted justice, but I was kind of surprised at some of her insinuations, especially towards Bill Turner.
In calling attention to Edgar Eugene Bradley, Carl MacIntyre's California assistant, Turner investigaged a legitimate suspect, and Garrison indicted him, but Mellen says, "...Neither Ivon nor Alcock would have been capable of the incompetence volunteers William Turner and 'Bill Boxley' now exhibited...No agreater disservice was done to Jim Garrison's work than Turner's and Boxley's targeting of Edgar Eugene Bradley..."
(p. 264)
There are official documents that reflect the fact and Mellen herself speculates that Edgar Eugene Bradley was mistaken or confused with Eugene Hale Brading - aka Jim Braden - who was taken into custody as a suspicous person at Dealey Plaza, and MacInytre was certainly a major operatior (more on that if requested), and Turner was certainly justified to investigate him.
I'd like to know Bill Turner's response to Mellen's book.
Also, Bill Turner's investigation into the CIA ship "Rex" is really significant and I'd like to call attention to that line of inquiry specifically, and all of the great work he's done in general. One of the first articles I read on the JFK Assassiantion was by Bill Turner in Ramparts, about the New Orleans angles, so I guess I can blame him for sparking my interest in this subject.
Bill Kelly - A friend of Bill Turner.
bkjfk3@yahoo.com
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Bill wrote:
Opening the records is beyond anything partisan, democrat or republican, liberal or conservative, right wing or left wing, it's a matter of the American people having access to their own history.
Could not agree with you more.
One thought: to get a bill past a GOP controlled Congress, even though as you note it should not be a partisan matter, it might have been helpful to start with some Republican sponsors. The reputation of Rep. McKinney is not the highest among Republicans, of course.
Yes, I hear you on that point Tim, and it will be important to get the Republicans on board. They got her kicked out after six terms for implying US intelligence knew more about 9/11 beforehand, and now she's back and they put her on the House Armed Services Commitee - what were they thinking? My Congressman, Jim Saxon (R.NJ) is also on that committee and I'm going to talk to him about it.
Cynthia is scarry. she's a black women scorned, she's back and she's mad.
And now I know what you are doing up at this hour (5:45 am EST) on line - you really do monitor John's forum 24 hours just to keep it straight, right?
BK
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Hi Tim,
Thanks for that list, but as you were posting it I was also cutting and pasting the list into the original post.
I noticed that there are three Republicans from Florida on the Committee. Maybe you can hit them up for support.
Opening the records is beyond anything partisan, democrat or republican, liberal or conservative, right wing or left wing, it's a matter of the American people having access to their own history.
And what are you doing up at this hour?
Bill Kelly
bkjfk3@yahoo.com
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John Judge of the Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA) has been working with Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D.Ga.) on a number of projects, including the release of the MLK Assassination investigation records of the House Select Committee on Assassinatons (HSCA).
John pretty much wrote the MLK Act that was recently introduced in Congress, basing it mainly on the JFK Assassination Records Act, which took many years of lobby efforts to get passed, and would not have passed at all if Oliver Stone didn't mention the sealed records at the end of him film "JFK".
We originally lobbied Congress to do away with the law that sealed all Congressonal records for 50 years, which would have included the MLK records of the HSCA, but after the reaction to "JFK" Congress decided to order the release of all JFK assassination records from all government agencies, and not all Congressional records. When Stone testified at a Congressional hearing, he asked, "What do I have to do to get the MLK assassination records released, make a movie about that too?"
Well Judge and McKinney have been working on this for quite awhile and now is the time to get other Congressmen to sign on to the act and to get those on the government reform committee to hold hearings and get the bill out of Committee and onto the floor for a vote as soon as possible.
If any American citizen is a constituent of any of the representatives on the government reform committee, it would be of great signifiance to write them a letter requesting that they support the MLK Assassination Records Act and ensure that it passes in this Congress.
John Judge will be in Dallas at the Dallas COPA conference and will be available to discuss this issue with anyone interested.
Many thanks to all who respond,
Bill Kelly
bkjfk3@yahoo.com
NOTE FROM JOHN JUDGE:
Friends,
I am working closely with Rep. Cynthia McKinney to support passage of
the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Records Act of 2005, HR 2554. We are
currently calling Congressional offices to seek co-sponsors for the
bill, and to move it to hearings in the House Government Reform
Committee as well as to find someone to sponsor a similar bill on the
Senate side. We have 16 co-sponsor as of the end of this week.
Now is the time for representaives to hear from supporters among their
constituents regarding this bill. If you have a working relationship
with a member of Congress, please contact them and get their support.
They can contact Rep. McKinney's office at 202-225-1605 about this. We
have a deadline of next week for the co-sponsors.
I am attaching a summary of the bill as well if they are not familiar
with it and to give you talking points. It is based on the successful
JFK Records Act and goes beyond that legislation to incorporate many of
the ARRB rules and regulations as well as to correct some of the
shortcomings we discovered. This is a good time to call with the recent
revival of the civil rights community around the death of Rosa Parks
and the discussions about that era in the news. Our history should belong
to us. If anyone asks, the King family is behind the bill and we have
several co-sponsors already.
The bill has been referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
Here is their membership roster:
COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM
2157 Rayburn House Office Building
(202) 225-5074
(202) 225-3974 FAX
Chairman Tom Davis (VA)
Republicans
Christopher Shays (CT), Vice-Chair
Dan Burton (IN)
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL)
John M. McHugh (NY)
John L. Mica (FL)
Gil Gutknecht (MN)
Mark E. Souder (IN)
Steven C. LaTourette (OH)
Todd Russell Platts (PA)
Chris Cannon (UT)
John J. Duncan, Jr. (TN)
Candice S. Miller (MI)
Michael R. Turner (OH)
Darrell E. Issa (CA)
Ginny Brown-Waite (FL)
Jon C. Porter (NV)
Kenny Marchant (TX)
Lynn A. Westmoreland (GA)
Patrick T. McHenry (NC)
Charles W. Dent (PA)
Virginia Foxx (NC)
Vacancy
Democrats
Henry A. Waxman (CA)
Tom Lantos (CA)
Major R. Owens (NY)
Edolphus Towns (NY)
Paul E. Kanjorski (PA)
Carolyn B. Maloney (NY)
Elijah E. Cummings (MD)
Dennis J. Kucinich (OH)
Danny K. Davis (IL)
Wm. Lacy Clay (MO)
Diane E. Watson (CA)
Stephen F. Lynch (MA)
Chris Van Hollen (MD)
Linda T. Sanchez (CA)
C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (MD)
Brian Higgins (NY)
Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC)
Independent
Bernard Sanders (VT)
Several members are part of the Congressional Black Caucus,
progressives
and liberals, or moderate Democrats. The chair and vice chair, Tom
Davis
and Christoper Shays should be approachable on this bill. To date, no
other committee or subcommittee has asked for referral. The chair could
either hold a full committee hearing or assign it to a subcommittee.
There are subcommittees on Government Accountability, Criminal Justice
and National Security, and one of them might be assigned or ask to be.
To learn more about the Committee visit: http://reform.house.gov/
Here is our strategy at this point.
The bill needs more co-sponsors in the House, so please email, fax,
call
or contact your Congressional representative and ask for their
legislative aide. The most important sponsors will be those listed
above, but numbers count.
If your representative is listed above, call and ask for the
legislative
aide that is assigned to their work on the Government Reform committee.
Ask the legislative aides to bring the bill to the Congressperson's
attention. Follow up and develop a working relationship with that aide,
and call back to find out what is happening. We want those
representatives on the Committee to co-sponsor the bill and to ask the
chair, Rep. Tom Davis, or their subcommiteee chair to hold hearings.
We feel if the bill is presented correctly it will not cause a great
deal of controversy. Focus on releasing the historical record on Dr.
King and his life, not on the assassination. Mention that the records
are now 37 years old or older. Mention the success of the earlier JFK
Records Act using the same model, which has led to the release of over
6.5 million pages previously classified. A similar model which has
functioned well is the Nazi War Criminals Records Act, which has
released 8.5 million pages. These are all pieces of our history and
they
belong to the people. These types of legislation are a counter to the
excessive secrecy of the classification system, which made 14.5 million
records classification decisions last year alone.
Please alert us if you are writing or calling a representative on the
Committee or otherwise, and what their response is. We will be actively
tracking the progress and visiting offices here as well to move the
bill
toward hearings and a vote.
This bill is based primarily on the JFK Records Act, but has been
modified to overcome many of the shortcomings of that Act and its
implementation. This Review Board will be more representative of those
seeking release of the files; it will include a citizen advisory
committee; it will not exclude ongoing FOIA requests or court
challenges; it will release all the files in a shorter period of time
from the beginning of the process (7-9 years maximum); and it will
enact
a presumption of release for any files not yet reviewed or subsequently
discovered after the termination of the Review Board and ensure that
any
item found in the future that meets the definition of a related record
will be released under the standards of this act. A more complete
description of the bill and a timeline is attached.
I want to acknowledge the extensive work done to get this bill drafted
and introduced by COPA member researchers T Carter, and Bill Kelly, and
the staff of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Without her help and
encouragement, there would be no bill in the Congress. Passage of this
bill will have an impact on future release of files and a more
permanent model using independent review panels to effect declassification
decisions.
OK, tie up their fax machines, clog their email, burn their phone
lines, dog their personal appearances and make them feel the grassroots
pressure and momentum for this bill. If you are a member of any public
organization that will support the bill, please get them to send
statements to McKinney's office and to get their membership to join in
the pressure on Congress. Let us know about your progress.
Thanks for your support!
John Judge
Coalition on Political Assassinations
PO Box 772
Washington, DC 20044
Thanks - John Judge
SUMMARY OF REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. RECORDS COLLECTION ACT OF 2005
The primary purposes of this Act are:
· The expeditious disclosure of records relevant to the life and assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
· The preservation of all such records for historical purposes.
· Secure a presumption of disclosure to fully inform the public.
· Establish an independent and accountable process for public disclosure.
This Act is necessary because:
· Records might be lost or destroyed which are not subject to disclosure until 2038.
· The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has prevented timely disclosure.
· Executive Order #12356 on “National Security Information” recently eliminated declassification schedules and prevents timely disclosure.
· Previously released records are being evaluated for re-classification.
· Most related records are more than 35 years old, and only in rare cases are there legitimate reasons to protect them from disclosure.
There is a compelling public interest in prompt public disclosure of records for historical and government purposes, and to fully inform the American people about the history surrounding the life and assassination of Dr. King.
The Act will create a Martin Luther King Records Collection at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and will require expeditious transfer of records to the collection.
The Act will disclose a broad range of related records on the life and assassination of Dr. King that have been created, obtained by or came into the possession of earlier investigations, including the:
· Rockefeller Commission
· Church Committee
· Pike Committee
· House Select Committee on Assassinations
· Library of Congress
· National Archives and Records Administration
· Presidential Libraries
· Executive and independent federal agency offices
· State and local law enforcement supporting any federal inquiries
· Deeds and gifts to NARA
The Act defines related records as public or private, regardless of how labeled or identified, that document, report on, analyze or interpret activities, persons or events reasonably related to the life and assassination of Dr. King. These records will include any investigations or inquiries into his life of death by federal, state or local agencies. And any other record not described in the Act that has the potential to enhance, enrich, and broaden the historical record relating to Dr. King.
The Act will also release all types of records, including books, papers, maps, photographs, films, audio and video recordings, digital or computer files, physical evidence and artifacts to the National Archives MLK Collection, including:
· Records created by but no longer in the possession of government agencies, or in the possession of any individual by virtue of service with a government agency, or anyone who obtained a record from any government source or individual
· Intra-agency investigations, analysis or communications, requests by government investigations, and segregated documents or files created by the House Select Committee on Assassinations
· Documents used during declassification reviews of related records, and all other indexes that disclose cryptonyms, code names, symbols, numbers, aliases or identifiers that appear in the records
· Records in repositories and archives of a university, library, historical society or similar organization
· Records under seal by courts or grand juries
· Foreign government records
· Records of federal contractors
· Records of government controlled corporations.
NARA and the government agencies will create an identification aid for each record, which include:
· Books and paper records
· Maps
· Photographs and films
· Recordings
· Computerized files regardless of the storage medium
· Physical evidence and artifacts
And the Archive will insure the provenance, physical integrity and original copies of the records. NARA will also prepare and publish a Subject Guidebook & Index and a central directory of records that will allow access by online searches to records, identification aids and indexes.
All related records will be transferred for immediate release to the Archive or sent for review for redaction or postponement by the MLK Records Review Board, but no record will be withheld indefinitely. The Act outlines the procedures for agencies to determine whether originals or copies of different types of records should be certified and transmitted. No related record may be destroyed, altered or mutilated in any way after passage of this Act. Any record previously declassified and disclosed may not be withheld, redacted, reclassified or postponed for release. Records pending review by the Board will be transmitted to a secure location at their offices. Priority in searching for records will be given to those records previously released or available for declassification in full, as well as any related records pending review under the Freedom of Information Act. Any related records discovered after termination of the MLK Records Review Board or the Act will continue to be reviewed for release under the standards of this Act, not the Freedom of Information Act or other legislation or executive orders concerning declassification.
To facilitate review of records, agencies will provide the MLK Records Review Board with all manuals, instruction materials and guidelines used in their search, organizational charts, filing systems and organization, storage facilities, indexing symbols, and search methods used. The Act also requires them to report any reclassification to a higher level, transfer, destruction, theft or other information regarding the status of related records in their possession.
The National Archives will also create a secondary location for copies of appropriate items in the Collection, in agreement with a public or private institution of higher education, research institution, museum or other archival institution that requests to store them. These institutions must have a proven record of archival collection and preservation, provide maximum public access, and encourage continuing study and education regarding the life and assassination of Dr. King.
In addition, all reproducible items in the Collection at the National Archives will be available for public inspection and copying through an electronic format within 30 days of transmission. Artifacts and physical evidence will be available through photographs or drawings, but additional display, examination or testing of an artifact will be allowed if it will reveal aspects that cannot be determined from the images.
No related record may be withheld indefinitely, and there is a strong presumption of release based on weighing the public interest against the gravity of the threat posed by release to the military defense, intelligence operations, or conduct of foreign relations of the United States. Clear and convincing evidence is necessary to create grounds for temporary postponements of release or redaction or records. These grounds are limited to threats to a living intelligence agent whose identity currently requires protection, an intelligence source or method currently in use which has not yet been officially disclosed, disclosures of sources and methods that would interfere with the conduct of current intelligence activities, and any other matter that would demonstrably impair the national security of the United States.
The Martin Luther King Records Review Board will be established as an independent agency with five members, appointed by the President and approved with the advice and consent of the Senate, to facilitate the review and transmission of all related records to the Archivist for public disclosure. The President will also appoint three alternate members to serve on the Board in the case of a vacancy. Nominations will be considered among persons recommended by the Society of American Archivists, the National Bar Association, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.
All nominees to the MLK Records Review Board must be impartial private citizens, not presently employed by any branch of the government, and who have been involved with any official investigation or inquiry into the life and death of Dr. King conducted by any federal, state or local government, and who also have not been previously employed by any intelligence or law enforcement agency relating to Dr. King. These nominees will be distinguished persons of high national professional reputation in their respective fields who are capable of exercising independent and objective judgment to insure the review and public disclosure of all related records, and who appreciate the value of such material to the public, scholars and the government. They will include at least one professional historian, one attorney, one researcher, and one representative of the civil rights community.
All nominees will be granted the necessary security clearances in an accelerated manner prior to being considered for confirmation by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Based on hearings and a vote by the Committee, they will be confirmed by the full Senate. Vacancies will be filled by the same methods. The Review Board will then elect one member as chairperson at its initial meeting. The Act establishes strict standards, procedures and judicial appeals required in the removal of any Review Board member.
All MLK Review Board staff will meet the same qualifications as Review Board members, and their security clearances will be accelerated to allow access to classified records. Employment and initial duties will be dependent on successful security clearance review. The Act provides that all members and staff of the Review Board will be protected under federal laws relating to whistleblowers, particularly relating to the disclosure of improper document retention, release or disclosure.
The Review Board will appoint within 30 days of its inception an independent citizen advisory committee under provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act that includes members of the civil rights community and the King family.
Within 45 days of its first meeting, the Board will appoint a citizen to the position of Executive Director, using the same criteria that apply to qualify Review Board members, and secure necessary security clearances. The Executive director serves as a liaison to the federal offices, and will be responsible for administration of the review of records and all official activities of the Board, but shall have no authority to determine whether any record will be postponed or released to the public. The Executive Director can be removed by a majority vote of the Board for serious cause.
The MLK Records Review Board will have the power to direct government offices to locate and organize related records and transmit them for review or release. Thy may also investigate the facts surrounding the transmission or possession of records, and take testimony of individuals in order to fulfill their responsibilities.
The Board can request the Attorney General to subpoena private persons or government employees to compel testimony or records, and require agencies to account in writing for any previous or current destruction of related records. The Board can receive information from the public about the identification and disclosure of related records, and hold hearings, administer oaths or subpoena witnesses and documents. Acting on a lawful request of the Board, these subpoenas can be enforced by any appropriate federal court. The Review Board can also offer witness immunity to elicit testimony.
The Review Board can also request that the Attorney General petition any court in the United States or abroad to release any sealed information or physical evidence relevant to the life or death of Dr. King, and to subpoena such evidence if it is no longer in the possession of the government. A similar request can be made for release of any information held under the injunction of secrecy of a grand jury. The Act requires the Attorney general to assist the Board in such requests in good faith to unseal any such records. The Secretary of State will contact any other foreign government that may hold relevant information and seek its disclosure, and will report on its progress in a timely fashion to the Review Board. All Executive agencies are required by the Act to cooperate in full with the Review Board to seek disclosure of all related records, consistent with the public interest.
Within 90 days of appointment, the Review Board will publish a schedule for review of all related records in the Federal Register, and begin its review within the next 90 days. In the absence of finding that the record is not related to the life and death of Dr. King, or that information in the record qualifies for postponement, the Board will direct transmission to the Archivist for public release. The Board will determine whether each record will more likely than not enhance, enrich and broaden the historical record of the life and assassination of Dr. King. The Board will announce its determinations concerning records that are related in a Notice of Related Records Designation (NRRD) to be published in the Federal Register.
If the Board decides to postpone release of information in any record, it must set specific conditions and dates for public disclosure related to the specific dates when the reasons for the postponement will end, prior to the set date for complete disclosure established in the Act. The Review Board may also disclose segregable parts, substitutions or summaries of postponed records, in consultation with the originating agency. Decisions by the Review Board concerning postponement or release of records generated by executive agencies can be appealed within 30 days to the President, with a determination by the President within the next 30 days. The Board will make regular reports on its decisions to the President, the federal agencies involved and the Archivist, and will publish the unclassified written certifications of the President regarding postponement or release of related records in the Federal Register and make them available for electronic searches. Every 30 days, starting 60 days after the first decision to postpone a record, the Review Board will notify the public of all such decisions and the grounds for them in the Federal Register and make them searchable electronically. The Review Board will also provide annual reports to Congress, the President, the Archivist and all government agencies whose records have been reviewed, and to the public, until its termination. These reports will include progress on review and disclosure of records, an estimated time and volume of related records to complete their task, any special problems including the level of cooperation or government offices, review actions taken by the board since the last report, suggestions to Congress about additional legislative authority needs, the recommendations of the citizens advisory committee appointed by the Board, any recommendations of the Board, and an appendix of postponed records.
The Review Board will terminate its work no later than 5 years from passage of the Act, unless it votes to extend its term for an additional 2-year period if it has not completed its work. At least 90 days before completing its work, the Board will provide written notice to Congress and the President of its intention to terminate upon a specific date. Upon termination the Review Board will release a public report to the President and Congress accurately accounting all its expenditures and completing other reporting requirements. All records still pending postponement decisions by the Review Board upon termination will be presumed available for release and transmitted to the Archivist for release within 60 days of its termination.
The Committee on Government Reform of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate will have continuing oversight jurisdiction over the Review Board, the Collection and the performance of government agencies. They will hold hearings every two years up to and beyond the termination of the Review Board, or one year after the Archivist certifies that all related records have been fully released to the public. These Committees will have access to all records held or created by the Review Board, and full cooperation from the Board and all federal agencies in their oversight.
The provisions of the Act take precedence over other laws except the privacy provisions relating to records of the Internal Revenue Service, as well as judicial decisions or common law interpretations that would otherwise prohibit disclosure of records. The Act does not eliminate or limit requests for records to any agency under the Freedom of Information Act, save that related records discovered after the termination of the Review Board will be considered for release under the standards of this Act, not the FOIA. The Act precludes judicial review of its decisions, but does not revoke the power of the President, the Congress, the executive branch or any other government entity to review and release records to the public on their own initiative.
Those provisions of the Act relating to the activities of the Review Board will remain in effect until its termination. All other provisions of the Act will remain in effect until such time as the Archivist certifies to the President and Congress that all related records, including any discovered subsequently, have been made available to the public in accordance with the Act.
TIMELINE FOR MLK RECORDS ACT
From the date of enactment:
RECORDS REVIEW BOARD
· Within 45 days nominating organizations will send nominations for the Review Board to the Senate
· Within 90 days the President nominates 5 members and 3 alternates
o Within 30 days after at least 3 nominations are made confirmation hearings will be held in Senate committee
o Within 14 days after confirmation hearings the Senate committee will vote on the nominees
o Within 14 days after the committee vote, the full Senate will vote on confirmation
o Within 30 days of any vote against confirmation of a nominee the President will send another nomination and the Senate will follow the same procedures
· Within 193 days a Review Board will be nominated and confirmed.
· The Review Board will appoint within 30 days of its inception an independent citizen advisory committee that includes members of the civil rights community and the King family.
· Within 45 days of its first meeting, the Board will appoint a citizen to the position of Executive Director
· Within 90 days of appointment, the Review Board will publish a schedule for review of all related records in the Federal Register, and begin its review within the next 90 days.
· Every 30 days, starting 60 days after the first decision to postpone a record, the Review Board will notify the public of all such decisions and the grounds for them in the Federal Register
· Decisions by the Review Board concerning postponement or release of records generated by executive agencies can be appealed within 30 days to the President, with a determination by the President within the next 30 days.
· The Review Board will also provide annual reports to Congress, the President, the Archivist and all government agencies whose records have been reviewed, and to the public, until its termination.
RECORDS COLLECTION
· As soon as practicable government agencies identify and organize related records for transmission.
· Within 45 days NARA Archivist prepares and distributes a standard finding aid and identification form for each record
· Within 60 days NARA starts the MLK Records Collection, and
o Publishes a subject guidance that is searchable electronically
o Creates a central directory of identification aids
· Within 180 days government agencies will locate and review all related records in their possession
· All reproducible items in the Collection at the National Archives will be available for public inspection and copying through an electronic format within 30 days of transmission.
OVERSIGHT AND TERMINATION
· Biannual hearings by Congressional oversight committees will be held up to and including the year in which the Archivist makes a final determination that the collection is complete and fully disclosed to the public.
· Within 5 years of enactment the Review Board will terminate its work, unless it requests an extension of 2 more years.
· At least 90 days before completing its work, the Board will provide written notice to Congress and the President of its intention to terminate upon a specific date.
· Upon termination the Review Board will release a public report to the President and Congress.
From the date of termination of the Review Board:
· All records still pending postponement decisions by the Review Board upon termination will be presumed available for release and transmitted to the Archivist for release within 60 days of its termination.
· One year after termination all related records will be fully released, or
· Eight years after enactment all related records will be fully released, whichever is sooner.
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What happened at Dealy Plaza wasn't a coup d'etat, it was the coup d'grace. The real coup occured at a hotel in Los Angeles during the 1960 Democratic National Convention when Phil Graham was the middleman with all the telephone numbers in blackmailing JFK to take on LBJ as the VP nominee.
BK
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Hi Jason,
Yea, I was wondering if there's a photo of what they called The Fish Bowl - or maybe it's the Glass House, at the Cedar Rapids HQ, where they monitored and relayed the AF1 and SAC radio transmissons. I've corresponded with their corporate library archivist and they've been helpful, and might have a photo.
Also, if your interested, I have David Atlee Phillips' description of Customs in his career opportuniteis in intellignece.
B.K.