Douglas Caddy

Joe: I just read your commentary above. You are a talented writer with each sentence being thought-provoking. Why not start your own blog and let non-forum people benefit from your insights?

Paul: I included the link in my article in which Dark Journalist interviewed Robert Merritt in Feb. 2018 about his three meetings with Nixon in July 1972. But here it is again: https://www.darkjournalist.com/s-merritt.php Courts are empowered to seal cases, documents and other related legal matters. This is a common practice. Congress can request that a matter in question be unsealed but the court has complete discretion in deciding whether to grant the request or not. John Dean could have taken his copy of the Huston Plan and delivered it to Congress. Instead he delivered it to Chief Judge John Sirica. This was because both Dean and Sirica were central figures in the implementation of the Huston Plan. By giving it to Sirica and not to Congress Dean knew the Plan would be put under court seal where it sits undisclosed today. Dean also knew Sirica would appreciate what he did because it protected the Judge from exposure and accordingly Dean was treated with kid gloves by the judge and served about four months "incarceration' for his crime in covering up Watergate. Dean's "incarceration" brings to mind the "incarceration" that the Florida judge imposed on Epstein in which he was only "locked up" at night and was free during daytime. Dean, too, enjoyed being free in the daytime but was "locked up" at night. I believe Nixon, a Quaker, was a mystic and did take his order from above and followed it to the T. Nixon was following the order when he used Merritt as the person to get his envelop to Kissinger in 1972. The other envelop, the one hidden in the White House Library by Nixon in 1972, bore on its outside "To be opened in 2018,." which was when it was discovered and opened. Merritt, fearful he was dying, used me and my autobiography to get the story told publicly of what Nixon had said to him and of the two envelops. Merritt lost faith in the FBI when the agents he was assigned to work with forbade him in the spring of 1972 to attend his mother's funeral in West Virginia. He defied their order and attended her funeral. At the time the FBI was concentrating all is resources on capturing the leaders of the Weather Underground and did not want Merritt to get distracted from this assignment by going home to West Virginia to his mother's funeral. It was this that led to the break between him and the Bureau. Merritt told me that for eight years thereafter he cursed God every day for taking of his mother from him. Then one day he was seated on the steps of St. Mathews Cathedral in Washington and had the urge to enter it. Once inside he saw a statue of Christ on the cross and above it a bush. As he watched the bush came alive as if on fire and he heard his mother's voice. She told him in a gentle but stern voice to get over her death. She said his life had an important purpose and he should get on with his life and fulfill that purpose. Then her voice ceased and the bush returned to its normal state. I have known only one other person who had a similar experience. He was a detective with the New York Police Department and was known to be scrupulously honest and dedicated in his work. All of this is foreign in conception to most people in this day and age. However, if next year is to be cataclysmic for America and the world then one might expect a mystic such as Nixon to make such a prediction. Cataclysmic means violent change or upheaval. We shall not have to wait long to see if Nixon's early warning about 2020 comes true.

You must have skipped that class in U.S. history and thus missed how President Roosevelt skillfully orchestrated the destruction of the neo-Nazi movement that was active in the years just preceding WWII. Hopefully you will not skip seeing when the American public awakens to President Trump's glorification and promotion of the present neo-Nazi movement and takes its wrath out against him on Election Day in November 2020 if he has not been removed from office before then.

We need someone who can channel FDR to get his advice on how to handle Trump and his new neo-Nazi political crusade.

ABC National News recently reported a brief item that the U.S. Assistant Attorney General had been informed by the warden that the suicide watch on Epstein had been cancelled. That was the full extent of the news report. The Assistant Attorney General would have reported this promptly to U.S. Attorney General Barr who in turn would have informed President Trump. It was at this "green light" point in time that the carefully planned murder of Epstein likely sprung into action.

[Trump's rallies today smack of the same White Nationalism that preceded World War II. He has said he wants it so that the People will obey his every command.] America Made Lady Liberty a Hypocrite Invoking the poem at her base is the wrong response to Trump’s latest move to keep out nonwhite immigrants. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/opinion/statue-of-liberty-trump-immigration.html

Chilling video. We have been down this road before and rallied to survive. https://anightatthegarden.com/

Epstein had broken bones in his neck. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/autopsy-finds-broken-bones-in-jeffrey-epsteins-neck-deepening-questions-around-his-death/ar-AAFPxjP?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=UE07DHP

Jeffrey Epstein's Death Was On 4Chan Before Officials Announced It — And Authorities Had To Look Into It About 38 minutes before news outlets first reported Jeffrey Epstein's death in prison, a 4chan user published a detailed post about it. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/fdny-review-jeffrey-epstein-4chan-post?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bfsharefacebook&ref=mobile_share&fbclid=IwAR1QUJZ0-AxCD_g8oXNfzHRs6PK_G3zwf4jzMzwceY0nS8TFXwCW_kuT-Zk

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/14/jeffrey-epstein-accuser-sues-financiers-estate-and-ghislaine-maxwell

This article by Robert Merritt appears in Watergate Exposed that I co-wrote which published by Trine Day in 2010: The secret key to the Watergate break-in When Carl Shoffler arrested the five Watergate burglars on June 17, 1972 at 2:30 AM, he claimed that he found one key on the person of the burglar known as Eugenio Martinez. He asserted that the key was taped on the front of a notebook found on Martinez and that he subsequently inscribed his own notes in his detective’s pad about what he had found relating to the arrests. Martinez’ notebook, bearing Shoffler’s initials with the key taped on it, was later placed in the U.S. National Archives, where it sat for almost two decades before being noticed. This key was the subject of an A&E Investigative Report broadcast in 1992 with the title of “Key to Watergate.” Officer Shoffler was interviewed in the program. Here is the link to the A& E Investigative Report: https://www.watergate.com/john-dean/key-to-watergate Shoffler lied in his official police report on the burglars’ arrest. In actuality there were two keys involved and he removed both keys, not just one, from Eugenio Martinez. The key that he removed and disclosed was a key to the desk of a secretary at the Democratic National Committee. The key that he failed to disclose was a blank safe deposit box key that he had arranged to have placed in the secretary’s desk prior to the break-in as part of his plan to set up the burglars. I have personal knowledge about the second key. About a week before the arrests took place Carl asked me to go to a local locksmith and purchase a blank safe deposit key, which I did. When I returned to our apartment Carl produced a one page document that had encrypted writing on it. He explained to me that the writing was gibberish. He handed the one page document to me using only his fingernails. After I took the document he asked that I fold it so that it would fit inside a white no. 10 business envelop, which he also provided to me using only his fingernails. He directed me to place the document and the key inside the envelop. As I did so I purposely pressed my thumb down hard on the document so that if it later became an issue my thumb print could be traced, as well as all my other fingerprints on the paper, key and envelop. I licked the envelop and sealed it with the encrypted document and key inside. Shoffler then directed me to insert the envelop into an inside pocket of the jacket he was wearing. Why did I purposely leave my fingerprints? Because I had begun not to trust Shoffler fully after the sudden disappearance of my close friend, Rita Reed. If something had happened to Rita because she knew too much, then I figured something could happen to me. My fingerprints on the key, document and envelop were a form of insurance for me, or so I thought. When he employed his triangulation wiretapping after June 3 he led the burglars to believe that a safe deposit key and paper inside an envelope in the secretary’s desk would lead them to a treasure trove of vitally important documents. Possession of the documents would ensure the victory of President Nixon in his re-election campaign and bestow other political benefits. Shoffler, using his wiretap triangulation, also managed to persuade the burglars to move the planned break-in date from June 18 to June 17, which was his birthday. He did so without the burglars being aware that the conversation that they had wiretapped detailing the safe deposit key in the secretary’s desk and June 17 date was a set up conversation orchestrated by him and had no connection to the offices of the Democratic National Committee. In the orchestrated conversation Shoffler indicated that the key to open the secretary’s desk was under her telephone on top of her desk. There is an open question even today whether the burglars’ wiretap operation was wiretapping the Democratic National Committee. It may be that their wiretap operation was instead wiretapping the prostitution ring being operated from an apartment in the Columbia Plaza Apartments across the street from the Watergate complex. The prostitution ring allegedly serviced referrals by telephone from someone inside the Democratic National Committee. The burglar having the most knowledge about the burglars’ wiretap operation was James McCord. After Shoffler returned to my apartment at 7 A.M. on June 17, he roused me from sleep and embraced me and kissed me. He was obviously elated. He said to me, “Thanks to you my operation was a total success. I arrested five burglars. But you must promise me never to tell what you know.” He then showed me the blank safe deposit key that he had withheld from the arrest record, which he had arranged to be planted beforehand in the secretary’s desk. He told me that Martinez was hiding both keys – the first one to open the desk and the second the safe deposit key -- in one of his hands at the time of the arrests and that he physically forced Martinez to surrender both keys. He also showed me the envelop that I had sealed earlier with the key and encrypted writing inside. It had been opened. He told me that he was going to destroy the envelop, encrypted document and key. He then left my apartment, telling me that he was going to grab breakfast at the nearby Hartnett Hall restaurant and then proceed to the courthouse to assist in the arraignment of the burglars. As the A&E video clearly shows, the investigation of the actual break-in on June 17 was given sparse attention in contrast to the thorough investigation given the cover-up that followed, whose aim was to remove Nixon from office. Howard Liebengood, Counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee, asserts in the video that “I must tell you that I am disturbed about the Watergate break-in and that I am convinced that what we don’t know about the Watergate break-in may well be more important than what we do know twenty years after.” In the months that followed the arrests, Shoffler in conversations with me would repeatedly refer to the team of burglars of Liddy, Hunt, McCord and the four Cuban-Americans as his “little duckies.” He was especially contemptuous of Liddy and chortled when Liddy, after he was found guilty, boasted that he planned to remain quiet. In reality Shoffler was fearful that if Liddy did talk, he would provide sufficient information and clues that would lead to discovery of Shoffler’s role in setting up the burglars, a role that Liddy was unaware of. Liddy’s plan to remain quiet fit in perfectly with Shoffler’s own plan, which had duped the burglars from its beginning. He later expanded his “little duckies” pejorative category to everyone involved in the Watergate saga – President Nixon, the Senate Watergate Committee, the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, the media, etc. -- as being his “duckies.” He said, “It is like shooting ducks sitting in a pond with a blindfold on.” Since he held the ace card in clandestinely setting up the burglars, Shoffler could direct its ultimate outcome from behind the scenes. In fact shortly after he made the arrests Shoffler telephoned the Washington Post and reported what had occurred. This inaugurated a relationship with the Post. Shoffler was the primary Deep Throat, out rivaling Mark Felt in his disclosures to the Post. I believe that Mark Felt had knowledge that a planned break-in of some sort was in the works. It was he who directed FBI Agents Tucker and O’Connor to visit and quiz me about the rumor they had picked up that I knew something about a planned break-in. Their visit came a day or two after I informed Shoffler and his two associates on June 3 of what Rita Reed had told me. Why did Felt and the FBI agents never acknowledge their prior knowledge that a break-in had been in the offing? I strongly suspect they felt that their doing so would lead directly to me and once I became a central figure in Watergate I would be forced to disclose to the investigative authorities the numerous crimes that I had committed under the FBI’s COINTELPRO. Disclosure of these crimes might have meant Felt, Tucker and O’Connor would have faced prosecution for directing these crimes be done. (As it turned out, Felt was later indicted in 1978 and stood trial for certain activities that he had engaged in as part of COINTELPRO.) So it was in the interest of the FBI that I remain silent and out of the public spotlight after the break-in case broke on June 17. In viewing the video, special attention should be given to Shoffler’s eye movements, facial expressions, body language, and oral statements. He boasted to me on numerous occasions that, as a military intelligence agent, he had been trained to lie without being detected. However, a careful watching of him being interviewed shows that he was not a total master at doing this. In his burning quest to become the celebrity known as the most famous policeman in the world, Shoffler designed a secret plan that forced a sitting president from office, destroyed the faith of the American people immeasurably in their system of government, and launched a bitter political partisanship that has divided the country ever since. It boggles the mind that a single individual could have so changed the course of history, but this is what Shoffler, in his own way an evil genius, accomplished.

Robert Merritt wrote this in Watergate Exposed that was published in 2010 by Trine Day: The secret key to the Watergate break-in When Carl Shoffler arrested the five Watergate burglars on June 17, 1972 at 2:30 AM, he claimed that he found one key on the person of the burglar known as Eugenio Martinez. He asserted that the key was taped on the front of a notebook found on Martinez and that he subsequently inscribed his own notes in his detective’s pad about what he had found relating to the arrests. Martinez’ notebook, bearing Shoffler’s initials with the key taped on it, was later placed in the U.S. National Archives, where it sat for almost two decades before being noticed. This key was the subject of an A&E Investigative Report broadcast in 1992 with the title of “Key to Watergate.” Officer Shoffler was interviewed in the program. Here is the link to the A& E Investigative Report: https://www.watergate.com/john-dean/key-to-watergate Shoffler lied in his official police report on the burglars’ arrest. In actuality there were two keys involved and he removed both keys, not just one, from Eugenio Martinez. The key that he removed and disclosed was a key to the desk of a secretary at the Democratic National Committee. The key that he failed to disclose was a blank safe deposit box key that he had arranged to have placed in the secretary’s desk prior to the break-in as part of his plan to set up the burglars. I have personal knowledge about the second key. About a week before the arrests took place Carl asked me to go to a local locksmith and purchase a blank safe deposit key, which I did. When I returned to our apartment Carl produced a one page document that had encrypted writing on it. He explained to me that the writing was gibberish. He handed the one page document to me using only his fingernails. After I took the document he asked that I fold it so that it would fit inside a white no. 10 business envelop, which he also provided to me using only his fingernails. He directed me to place the document and the key inside the envelop. As I did so I purposely pressed my thumb down hard on the document so that if it later became an issue my thumb print could be traced, as well as all my other fingerprints on the paper, key and envelop. I licked the envelop and sealed it with the encrypted document and key inside. Shoffler then directed me to insert the envelop into an inside pocket of the jacket he was wearing. Why did I purposely leave my fingerprints? Because I had begun not to trust Shoffler fully after the sudden disappearance of my close friend, Rita Reed. If something had happened to Rita because she knew too much, then I figured something could happen to me. My fingerprints on the key, document and envelop were a form of insurance for me, or so I thought. When he employed his triangulation wiretapping after June 3 he led the burglars to believe that a safe deposit key and paper inside an envelope in the secretary’s desk would lead them to a treasure trove of vitally important documents. Possession of the documents would ensure the victory of President Nixon in his re-election campaign and bestow other political benefits. Shoffler, using his wiretap triangulation, also managed to persuade the burglars to move the planned break-in date from June 18 to June 17, which was his birthday. He did so without the burglars being aware that the conversation that they had wiretapped detailing the safe deposit key in the secretary’s desk and June 17 date was a set up conversation orchestrated by him and had no connection to the offices of the Democratic National Committee. In the orchestrated conversation Shoffler indicated that the key to open the secretary’s desk was under her telephone on top of her desk. There is an open question even today whether the burglars’ wiretap operation was wiretapping the Democratic National Committee. It may be that their wiretap operation was instead wiretapping the prostitution ring being operated from an apartment in the Columbia Plaza Apartments across the street from the Watergate complex. The prostitution ring allegedly serviced referrals by telephone from someone inside the Democratic National Committee. The burglar having the most knowledge about the burglars’ wiretap operation was James McCord. After Shoffler returned to my apartment at 7 A.M. on June 17, he roused me from sleep and embraced me and kissed me. He was obviously elated. He said to me, “Thanks to you my operation was a total success. I arrested five burglars. But you must promise me never to tell what you know.” He then showed me the blank safe deposit key that he had withheld from the arrest record, which he had arranged to be planted beforehand in the secretary’s desk. He told me that Martinez was hiding both keys – the first one to open the desk and the second the safe deposit key -- in one of his hands at the time of the arrests and that he physically forced Martinez to surrender both keys. He also showed me the envelop that I had sealed earlier with the key and encrypted writing inside. It had been opened. He told me that he was going to destroy the envelop, encrypted document and key. He then left my apartment, telling me that he was going to grab breakfast at the nearby Hartnett Hall restaurant and then proceed to the courthouse to assist in the arraignment of the burglars. As the A&E video clearly shows, the investigation of the actual break-in on June 17 was given sparse attention in contrast to the thorough investigation given the cover-up that followed, whose aim was to remove Nixon from office. Howard Liebengood, Counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee, asserts in the video that “I must tell you that I am disturbed about the Watergate break-in and that I am convinced that what we don’t know about the Watergate break-in may well be more important than what we do know twenty years after.” In the months that followed the arrests, Shoffler in conversations with me would repeatedly refer to the team of burglars of Liddy, Hunt, McCord and the four Cuban-Americans as his “little duckies.” He was especially contemptuous of Liddy and chortled when Liddy, after he was found guilty, boasted that he planned to remain quiet. In reality Shoffler was fearful that if Liddy did talk, he would provide sufficient information and clues that would lead to discovery of Shoffler’s role in setting up the burglars, a role that Liddy was unaware of. Liddy’s plan to remain quiet fit in perfectly with Shoffler’s own plan, which had duped the burglars from its beginning. He later expanded his “little duckies” pejorative category to everyone involved in the Watergate saga – President Nixon, the Senate Watergate Committee, the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, the media, etc. -- as being his “duckies.” He said, “It is like shooting ducks sitting in a pond with a blindfold on.” Since he held the ace card in clandestinely setting up the burglars, Shoffler could direct its ultimate outcome from behind the scenes. In fact shortly after he made the arrests Shoffler telephoned the Washington Post and reported what had occurred. This inaugurated a relationship with the Post. Shoffler was the primary Deep Throat, out rivaling Mark Felt in his disclosures to the Post. I believe that Mark Felt had knowledge that a planned break-in of some sort was in the works. It was he who directed FBI Agents Tucker and O’Connor to visit and quiz me about the rumor they had picked up that I knew something about a planned break-in. Their visit came a day or two after I informed Shoffler and his two associates on June 3 of what Rita Reed had told me. Why did Felt and the FBI agents never acknowledge their prior knowledge that a break-in had been in the offing? I strongly suspect they felt that their doing so would lead directly to me and once I became a central figure in Watergate I would be forced to disclose to the investigative authorities the numerous crimes that I had committed under the FBI’s COINTELPRO. Disclosure of these crimes might have meant Felt, Tucker and O’Connor would have faced prosecution for directing these crimes be done. (As it turned out, Felt was later indicted in 1978 and stood trial for certain activities that he had engaged in as part of COINTELPRO.) So it was in the interest of the FBI that I remain silent and out of the public spotlight after the break-in case broke on June 17. In viewing the video, special attention should be given to Shoffler’s eye movements, facial expressions, body language, and oral statements. He boasted to me on numerous occasions that, as a military intelligence agent, he had been trained to lie without being detected. However, a careful watching of him being interviewed shows that he was not a total master at doing this. In his burning quest to become the celebrity known as the most famous policeman in the world, Shoffler designed a secret plan that forced a sitting president from office, destroyed the faith of the American people immeasurably in their system of government, and launched a bitter political partisanship that has divided the country ever since. It boggles the mind that a single individual could have so changed the course of history, but this is what Shoffler, in his own way an evil genius, accomplished.

Jeffrey Epstein Death: 2 Guards Slept Through Checks and Falsified Records https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-jail-officers.html

From the article: But we don’t know that he is dead. This report on Intellihub might be a fabrication posted to attract readers. Or it might be a false report put out by the deep state to distract attention from a suspicious suicide. James Jesus Angleton, head of CIA counter-intelligence, once told me that when the CIA pulls off something, it muddies the waters by placing different and conflicting stories in the media. The result, he said, is that there is too much to investigate, and people end up arguing with one another over which story is correct, and the facts of the event are never investigated. Today with the Internet all sorts of stories can be put into play in order to cover an event in confusion. When you hear someone trying to discredit a view by calling it a “conspiracy theory,” be suspicious. The CIA invented “conspiracy theory” in order to control the explanation of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination by discrediting skeptics of the official explanation. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/08/12/the-epstein-mystery/

New York Times article about the second "guard" who is not identified and how Epstein used a bed sheet to hand himself: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/nyregion/epstein-barr.html

One of the two Epstein guards was not a correctional officer. https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/jeffrey-epstein-had-two-guards-when-he-died-one-was-not-correctional-officer-report/ https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/fox-news-legal-analyst-something-was-introduced-into-jeffrey-epsteins-jail-cell-to-facilitate-his-death/

“Stories within Stories”: The CIA’s Strategies to Dupe the American Public https://www.globalresearch.ca/stories-within-stories-the-cias-strategies-to-dupe-the-american-public/5537635

FBI today raided Epstein's orgy island: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7349729/Dozen-FBI-agents-raid-Jeffrey-Epsteins-Pedophile-Island.html?fbclid=IwAR3V9ywDZvoCvIeyHO5gEdjVlmHg12gemDXYaNG5gjnqviTre-N0RcvGhPQ

RT article: A mystery that may end up rivaling JFK assassination? https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/08/no_author/epsteins-death/

When I posted the Facebook photo of the completed manuscript here on the Forum there was no problem. It became visible immediately. But for some reason Facebook since I posted it here has removed it.

Posted by Leslie Sharp on Facebook yesterday. We eagerly await publication of the book.

FBI Files Linking Roger Stone to Watergate, Espionage https://propertyofthepeople.org/document-detail/?doc-id=4806485-139-4089-2065 https://propertyofthepeople.org/document-detail/?doc-id=4806514-139-121

From the article: The obsession with the identity of Deep Throat sometimes took journalists, including myself, down strange detours. At one point several years after the Nixon resignation, two of us at TIME undertook to try to find the identity of Deep Throat. Although tracking down a competitor's source is not the highest calling of a journalist, we had always been intrigued by the fact that Woodward, at that point a very young and very inexperienced reporter, had managed to find a source as well placed as Deep Throat. We surmised that Woodward, having only been at the Post for a short time and at that covering minor local stories, had to have made this contact at some point in his life before journalism. We first tracked down the people whom he had met at Yale College and who also worked for Nixon and hounded them about their relationship with Woodward. One of those sources told us to look at Woodward's military service. Examining those records we found that he had been a courier from the Pentagon who regularly took documents to the National Security Council offices in the White House. We also learned from Woodward's first wife that she and Bob were occasionally given seats in the President's box at the Kennedy Center. This pointed us toward Alexander Haig, who before becoming Nixon's last chief of staff was military assistant to Henry Kissinger at the NSC. Haig repeatedly denied being Deep Throat, but we never quite believed him. Realizing we couldn't actually prove the connection without Woodward or Deep Throat himself confirming it, we gave up the hunt. The Haig thesis finally proved to be a dead end when about three years ago Felt started to go public about his role as Deep Throat. First, Felt's family attempted to sell his story to national magazines. By then, age had taken its toll and it was difficult to ask him the kinds of specific questions that would have confirmed his claim. There was also the problem that his story's exclusivity could have been quickly eclipsed by Woodward's own account of the relationship. Later, Felt's family and his attorney told the story themselves in Vanity Fair magazine. Woodward subsequently published a short book detailing the relationship, providing the most interesting footnotes to a grim historical moment in the country's history. John Stacks was TIME's Chief of Correspondents from 1987 to 1996; from 1973 to 1975, he coordinated the Watergate reporting of the magazine's Washington Bureau. He is the co-author of Judge John Sirica's memoir of the scandal's legal wrangling. http://content.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1868043,00.html

Robert Merritt’s illegal, quasi-criminal and outright criminal activities as the sole employee of the Huston Plan that were authorized by government authorities, including White House and the FBI, began in 1971 and effectively ended in 1973 although he continued for decades to work as a government Confidential Informant. The FBI during the period that the Merritt worked under the Huston Plan also had its own agents engaged in Huston Plan criminal activities in 1972 and 1973 as described in this article about Mark Felt and Edward Miller who later were pardoned by President Reagan. Former President Nixon testified in behalf of Felt and Miller at their trial. Ex-FBI Officials Felt, Miller Guilty in 'Black Bag' Cases https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/11/07/ex-fbi-officials-felt-miller-guilty-in-black-bag-cases/ebf7eb2d-e94d-4478-896f-2d36af7ab760/?utm_term=.da5ff4583099 From the article: "Its job is to work for the people of this country today, just as it was our job in 1972 and 1973 to serve the people, and we did it the way we thought was best. As a matter of fact, the only way we thought was possible," Miller said.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/01/AR2005060101927.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Personal note: I was introduced to Edward Miller in 1984 and was impressed by his patriotism and character. At the time I was Legal Counsel to the Investigative Research Foundation based in Houston. The foundation was sponsoring the first National Conference on Terrorism and we retained Edward Miller to plan the agenda and list of U.S. and international speakers. The 1984 conference, the first of its kind, was an immense success, which can be attributed in large part to the guidance given by him. Some time later when I was in Washington, Edward Miller introduced me to Mark Felt who subsequently wrote about me and my role in Watergate in his autobiography, "A G-Man's Life" published in 2006. It is ironic that Robert Merritt was responsible for the prosecution of Miller and Felt. His closed door testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee and the Watergate Special Prosecutor revealed for the first time the FBI's criminal activities in fighting the Weather Underground that had almost succeeded in blowing up the U.S. Capitol Building and the FBI's actions against other far left anti-war extremist groups. At one point in time Merritt met with Mary Jo White, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and revealed much of what he knew about the FBI's activities under the Huston Plan. According to Merritt White told him the information he possessed could send 250 FBI agents to prison for their actions but for there to be prosecution he would first have to plead guilty to a felony for his role in what had occurred. He decided not to pursue the matter any further at the time but it is my guess that upon his death he has arranged for the full story of what transpired under the Huston Plan to be disclosed. Miller and Felt, as the top FBI officials who directed the illegal activities, were chosen to take the fall with limited disclosure of what had actually occurred. This is why President Reagan not long after their convictions pardoned them. History will show that the Weather Underground and its allied organizations did indeed pose a serious threat to the national security of the U.S. for a period of time.

John Newman wrote on Facebook yesterday: I know many friends of mine are interested in Dr. Jeremy Gunn of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB). So, I am happy to report that I was fortunate to have spent almost all of yesterday with him. I can share that Dr. Gunn has moved to a Middle Eastern country where is enjoying life as an academic--a Professor of Political Science, which is a job I obviously can relate to. He is now a specialist in Middle Eastern History and affairs, and teaches courses in this fi...eld. He is fluent in French. Dr. Gunn is still very interested in the Kennedy assassination case and particularly so in where new research is taking us. As the Executive Secretary of the ARRB, Dr. Gunn managed the entire program until it ended in the late 1990s. We are indebted to him for husbanding and managing--some would say refereeing--the release of millions of JFK records.