James DiEugenio

Robert, Is then Ohr's wife the source for Buzzfeed? Andrew, There was a referendum in Crimea. They did not want to happen there what happened in Ukraine: A Neo Nazi takeover. You need to watch the documentary Ukraine on Fire.

Well, I looked it up at the site Stephanie recommended. It looks like its him since that description matches also, including his WW 2 career.

Well, I think the Watergate imbroglio is more interesting than that. When I get done with my piece you will see what I mean. As per JFK, i think it was more than just canning Dulles. But I do think he was part of the plot.

The alway interesting Milicent Cranor on JFK's throat wound. IMO, she is one of the best in this field. https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/suppressed-evidence-of-jfk-throat-entry

That is really interesting about McCord and Maheu. See, the thing is, the MSM passed off McCord as a put upon technician through the Watergate scandal. But Angleton actually said words to the effect that McCord was not just a technician, he was an operator.

Actually, I have been reviewing this stuff because of this late arriving news about his apparent death. When McCord began to get angry about all this was in late December when his first attorney, Gerald Alch, proposed a CIA cover defense. McCord then began to write letters to Paul Gaynor at the place he used to work at, the SRS division of the Office of Security. He actually advised Gaynor on how to combat this strategy so it would not gain any traction. Then, a few days later, he wrote to John Caufield, who worked for Ehrlichman at the White House. This was the famous, if Helms goes and Watergate is placed at the feet of the CIA, "every tree in the forest will fall. It will be a scorched desert." Well, apparently they did not take this seriously enough. Because Nixon fired Helms anyway. That was apparently the fissure. Because if everyone would have stayed silent, the scandal could have been contained. McCord switched lawyers. His new attorney, Bud Fensterwald, announced they were going after the White House. They did. McCord wrote his letter to Sirica saying there had been perjury in his court and pressure brought to bear to keep quiet. That broke the dam. He later implicated Dean and Mitchell in Watergate.

The problem with that is no one knew where he was anyway. Only one person who reads K and K knew he was in a little town in Pennsylvania. But if you have a family member saying it, and the two notices then its probably true.

Its really something. I don't recall anything like this before. They must have really tried to keep it a secret. I wonder why? Usually Wikipedia will list someone's passing within a day or so.

How do you know Stephanie that its been removed from Find a Grave?

I cannot comprehend why no one brought this up so far. In Shane O'Sullivan's book, Dirty Tricks, on page 405, he writes that McCord passed on in June of 2017. But the family wanted to keep it secret so there was no announcement through an obituary. I know he moved to Pennsylvania to live with his daughter a few years ago. It was a small town so it would be easy to keep it quiet. But is this really true? I wonder how Shane got the info? He says it was through his niece, but that is not who McCord was living with at the time. Its incredible that this could be kept under wraps this long.

How about does anyone live in or near Austin? Drop in on him.

Its a good book. Mal sent me an early draft. Its both detailed and quite expansive. Mal is a really good guy who actually made no bones about running as a liberal in South Carolina. And he actually did pretty well running a gutsy campaign with little money.

Well you have a point there. But the responsible thing to have done was to assign it to someone and say, give me a report in two weeks.

Gene: I have never come across anything that says Ruby was Cohen's guy in Dallas. In fact, its really hard to figure who ran Ruby in Dallas. Or if he was more like a wannabe. Salerno, the HSCA expert, thought that was really what he was. Ruby, quite naturally wanted Candy Barr at his club. Which is why he was being nice to her and brought her a couple of dogs. Candy Barr and Cohen only went together for a couple of months as far as I can tell.

This is getting kind of interesting . Malcolm actually found the letter. Is there any way to track down this Glaze guy now? BTW, what about Blakey just sending the guy a form letter on something as intriguing as this?

Either he made a mistake about the policemen or they were not related to the Oswald shooting. That is interesting about the Hoover call.

I am aware of that Andrew. What I am saying is how was Cohen a part of the whole Caribbean aspect?

I think I saw photos of these elevators. IIRC, they were open not closed compartments.

I don't think that is what Dave is talking about. He is talking about surveillance summaries by the CIA on both consulates.

Welcome Evan. See, very few people followed the progress and the releases of the ARRB. Although they did not do as well as I think they should have, they did have some real achievements. McDonald was one of them.

very interesting Dave. How did Nechiporenko explain this in his book BTW? If I recall did he not say they were playing volleyball or something when they saw Oswald?

Evan: One of the most interesting parts of the ARRB inquiry. From my review of Part 1 of Inside the ARRB: After his ARRB testimony, Gunn and Horne came to believe that by the time of the HSCA, a total of five views taken by Stringer had disappeared. (pp.182-83) Reinforcing this was one of the real finds of the ARRB: an interview done with photographer Karl McDonald. After taking the formal picture of the Board members, Marwell found out that McDonald had been the medical photographer at Bethesda for eight years. Further, that he had been tutored by, and worked with, Stringer. (p. 152) And he had ended up by being that institute's senior instructor in medical photography. In his ARRB interview he shed a lot of light on just how bad the extant pictorial record of Kennedy's autopsy is. 1. He first said that he always developed his own pictures. He never sent anything to Anacostia. 2. He also said that he was always sure to take a battery of full body shots – of which none exist in the Kennedy case. 3. He testified that there was always an autopsy card included with each and every photo. The card included an autopsy number and the year. Again, none exist in the Kennedy case. 4. He said for trauma shots – places on the body where bullets impacted – he always took three views: wide-angle, medium shot, close-up. In light of the above strictures, Gunn asked him to give an overall grade to what purports to be Stringer's work today. McDonald replied that he would grade the collection with very low marks. This was the guy who was taught photography procedure by Stringer. Did Stringer forget the very lessons he once gave? Not likely. One has to ask, why was normal procedure so outlandishly broken in the Kennedy case? All of these are serious breeches in protocol. And this guy was tutored by the man who took the Kennedy photos.

Thanks Rob. In my view its a crucial piece of evidence.

From what I know, it was the guy who wrote the script who got it to Eastwood somehow. But its a good question as to why he agreed to do it.

How close to the original is this film? Do you know?