Douglas Caddy

Joseph McBride wrote on Facebook yesterday: Donald Trump and George W. Bush cannot admit error, but John F. Kennedy did. As I write in INTO THE NIGHTMARE, "While historians, with their longer perspective, have even less of an excuse to overlook the truth than journalists do, it may not be surprising that many journalists still cling so stubbornly to the disproven lies and myths of a story [JFK's assassination] the media blew so badly fifty years ago; admitting to grave errors is no more common in the media than it is in government. President Kennedy, a former journalist himself, did not labor under that deficiency: He told the American Newspaper Publishers Association after the Bay of Pigs fiasco in April 1961, 'This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for, as a wise man once said: "An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.' (The wise man Kennedy quoted was the chemist and author Orlando A. Battista.)"

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Here is commentary on this topic by Joan Mellen that I am posting with her permission: ---------------------- A few of us have for some years been searching for a copy of the Bruce-Lovett Report, an assessment of the CIA's clandestine services, written at the request of President Eisenhower by the premier ambassador of the twentieth century, David K. E. Bruce, with the assistance of Harry Truman's Secretary of Defense, Robert Lovett. (In 1979-80 I wrote a book called "Privilege" about the unexplained death of the second of David Bruce's daughters and have taken an interest in Mr. Bruce since that time). The context of the Bruce-Lovett Report was that the assignment first went to James Doolittle, the air force general who bombed Japan in retaliation for Pearl Harbor, and who "wrote" his report, admittedly, with the help of Allen Dulles. The Doolittle Report, which is available, justifies CIA's crimes and misdemeanors as part of a violence that began with the misappropriation of the land of native Americans. David Bruce, who served on Eisenhower's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, was a considered choice, not only for his rational and measured approach to history, but for his intelligence background. Not only had he been chief of OSS operations in London, but he wrote an important article in 1946 for the Virginia Quarterly Review warning against the creation of a central intelligence agency and the abuses that such an entity might embrace. In that article, Mr. Bruce wonders even whether gestapo-like activities might reside in the future of such an institution. Doug Caddy notes an article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., which references this document carelessly, but which is of interest since a copy of the Bruce-Lovett Report was last seen by Arthur Schlesinger in the papers of Robert F. Kennedy at the Kennedy library, from which it subsequently disappeared. Neither President Eisenhower's papers, nor David Bruce's, nor Robert Lovett's, nor Arthur Schlesinger's, contain a copy. I was taken aback by the disrespectful tone of Mr. Kennedy's politico article and its reference to the "so-called 'Bruce-Lovett Report'." The Bruce-Lovett Report is passionate, critical, defiant, and authored by a figure who never sought notoriety and never ran for office. It's among the most important documents to have been created in CIA history. Does Mr. Kennedy have a copy? It would be a service to history were he to make it available. Mr. Kennedy refers to the fact that his grandfather was a signatory. Yes, Joseph P. Kennedy sat on the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board at the time, although how such a figure, a man who lobbied against the U.S. sending aid to the Loyalists in Spain who were facing Generalissimo Franco, could have been chosen to sit on that board I cannot imagine. Certainly the elder Kennedy deserves no credit for David Bruce's righteous indignation at CIA's interventions in foreign governments. Joan Mellen

A provocative speech by an articulate orator https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Px-mmxtUgmU

From the article: But thanks in large part to Allen Dulles and the CIA, whose foreign policy intrigues were often directly at odds with the stated policies of our nation, the idealistic path outlined in the Atlantic Charter was the road not taken. In 1957, my grandfather, Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, sat on a secret committee charged with investigating the CIA’s clandestine mischief in the Mideast. The so called “Bruce-Lovett Report,” to which he was a signatory, described CIA coup plots in Jordan, Syria, Iran, Iraq and Egypt, all common knowledge on the Arab street, but virtually unknown to the American people who believed, at face value, their government’s denials. The report blamed the CIA for the rampant anti-Americanism that was then mysteriously taking root “in the many countries in the world today.” The Bruce-Lovett Report pointed out that such interventions were antithetical to American values and had compromised America’s international leadership and moral authority without the knowledge of the American people. The report also said that the CIA never considered how we would treat such interventions if some foreign government were to engineer them in our country. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/rfk-jr-why-arabs-dont-trust-america-213601

http://www.ipsnews.net/2015/01/opinion-sabotaging-u-s-cuba-detente-in-the-kennedy-era/

Kennedy assassination aborted U.S. reconciliation with Cuba Sierra Leone Times Wednesday 13th May, 2015 From the article: In October 1963 Kennedy met with the editor of the Socialist newsweekly L'Observateur, Jean Daniel, knowing he was visiting Cuba in early November 1963 and was hoping to interview Castro. "I believe there is no country in the world, including all the African regions, including any and all the countries under colonial domination, where economic colonization, humiliation and exploitation are worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my own country's policies during the Batista regime," Kennedy told an amazed Daniel. "I believe that we created, built and manufactured the Castro movement out of whole cloth and without realizing it I believe that the accumulation of these mistakes has jeopardized all of Latin America." "I can assure you that I have understood the Cubans. I approved the proclamation which Fidel Castro made in the Sierra Maestra when he justifiably called for justice and specially yearned to rid Cuba of corruption," Kennedy said. "I will go even further to some extent it is as though Batista was the incarnation of a number of sins on the part of the United States. Now we shall have to pay for those sins. In the matter of the Batista regime, I am in agreement with the first Cuban revolutionaries. That is perfectly clear," Kennedy told the reporter. ------------------------------------ And this today: http://www.infowars.com/obama-theres-little-difference-between-communism-and-capitalism/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDalM4YsAm4&sns=fb

Paul: It is my recollection that Hunt blamed CIA Deputy Director Gen. Pearr Cabell, and Deputy Director for Plans Richard Bissell. Hunt never mentioned Allen Dulles, perhaps because he was close to Dulles and in fact thought the world of both Dulles brothers. It has been many years since I have read Hunt’s book on the Bay of Pigs, “Give Us This Day.” He covers this in his book. Larry Hancock has made a major contribution to understanding what occurred: http://www.larry-hancock.com/Bay%20of%20Pigs%20Revisited.htm

Paul: I apologize for the delay in responding to your inquiry. For the first time in my life I have been hit with a debilitating allergy attack due to an intense tree pollen count in Houston. I turn 78 years old tomorrow and learn from my doctor that with getting old allergy attacks become common. Howard Hunt never affirmed or denied to me that he was in Dallas on the day JFK was assassinated. That said, Howard was preoccupied with the tragedy of the Bay of Pigs. We had countless conversations and invariably he would bring up the Bay of Pigs disaster, which he blamed on certain high CIA officials. However, I have seen a video interview of him in which he blames JFK as much as these CIA officials. His close contacts in the Cuban-American community in Miami were with those who blamed JFK solely for the Bay of Pigs debacle. Some of these men were burglars he recruited for Watergate. From what I have read and heard over the years and from the public comments and writings of St. John Hunt there appears to be strong circumstantial evidence that Howard was in Dallas just before and on the day of JFK's assassination.

New FBI Cuba Documents http://aarclibrary.org/new-fbi-cuba-documents/ [John Newman posted this information on Facebook today]

The photo bears a strong resemblance to Hunt.

Paul: None of the tramps looked like E. Howard Hunt in my opinion.

Danny Vasquez posted this on Facebook today: Abraham Zapruder films the assassination of JFK with his 8mm camera According to Harrison Edward Livingstone in “Killing The Truth”, once Zapruder turns his undeveloped movie film over to the printing lab, copies are immediately duplicated and distributed as follows: 1. FBI lab 2. Dallas FBI office 3. Washington, DC, FBI office 4. Henry Wade 5. Dallas Police 6. & 7: Two copies for the two couples who owned the film lab 8. Secret Service copy 9. Somewhere along the line, H.L. Hunt had his copy from the start.“... standard Kodak practice was to punch [a] processing number after the last image on the second side [of the film itself]. If this practice had been followed with the Zapruder film, then a 0183 should have appeared after the motorcade side. None of the remaining numbers (the image of 0183, then punched 0186) coincide with this practice. A review of the intact original home movie side might prove enlightening; unfortunately, it remains unlocated. . . The chain-of-custody affidavits (for reasons unknown) do not mention serial number 0184, which remains a mystery -because it has never been located and because the Kodak lab has no record of any roll of film that would correspond to it (critics have suggested that this was the Hunt copy.)” MIDP The chain of possession of Zapruder’s film, following the assassination, has been seriously questioned by a great many researchers. Homer McMahon, head of the color lab at the National Photographic Interpretation Center describes receiving the film from a Secret Service agent who flies it to Rochester for development before bringing it to the NPIC. McMahon’s recollections will be corroborated by one of his assistants, Bennett Hunter, who will also be eventually interviewed by the ARRB. As best as these two men recall, they receive the film on the weekend immediately after the assassination. McMahon recalls seeing the film porjected at least 10 times that night. It is his opinion, based on this viewing, the JFK was shot 6 to 8 times from at least three directions, but the Secret Service agent tells McMahon that there were just three shots, and that these all came from the Book Depository. McMahon and his assistant are told to keep their work secret and are phohibited even from telling their supervisors (who are not present.) More recently, William Reymond: , a French journalist, claims to have seen a different film in France, which may be either H. L. Hunt’s copy or a descendant of it. Was the original switched at the Jamieson laboratory for a copy and then given to the Secret Service for transportation to Rochester that same evening?

I am a member of a tiny group that believes Hillary will have to drop out of the presidential campaign at some point because of her health issues and/or legal difficulties stemming from her email scandal. If this were to happen, Sanders would most likely be the Democrat's presidential nominee and between his call for revolution and that of Donald Trump both parties would be altered forever. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/06/law-enforcement-officials-medical-professionals-theres-something-seriously-wrong-hillary-clintons-health/

Robert is immune as to what people think about him. Obviously his coup in getting elected Travis County Republican Chairman is going to attract lots of attention to his prior extreme antics and over the top statements. The Republican Party leaders actually do look ridiculous because they knew he was on the Republican primary ballot and they did not mount an effort to educate the party faithful as to who he was and what he stood for. Now they've got a real problem on their hands but most likely with the power they have they will find a solution of sorts. I am a Bernie Sanders supporter who, like Trump, is trying to upend the political establishment. The chickens are indeed coming home to roost and it is about time. I have read that Robert supports Ted Cruz and has attacked Trump. I find this strange but let us not forget we are talking about Robert Morrow. Here is Roger Stone's take on Cruz, which is a forerunner of what Trump will use against Cruz in the next debate: http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/26/who-is-the-real-ted-cruz/

Frank Mankiewicz's wry take on Hollywood and Washington By Ray Locker , USA TODAY 2:02 p.m. EST March 6, 2016 http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2016/03/06/so-as-i-was-saying----my-somewhat-eventful-life-frank-mankiewicz-book-review/80524774/

Roger Stone, who is a close friend of Robert Morrow and co-author of a book with him, gave Robert the idea of running for Travis County (Austin) Republican Chairman. Both Roger and Robert are Libertarians and former Republicans. Robert's candidacy and election is in sync with Roger's brilliant plotting over a year ago of Donald Trump's campaign whose aim is to shake up and destroy the entrenched political establishment in both parties. Personally I applaud what Robert has done and admire his guts in undertaking the endeavor that has made the Austin Republicans, headed by Gov. Abbott and former Gov. Perry, look ridiculous. You have to live in Texas as I do to comprehend the utter corruption of the state government under the Republicans who have ruled Texas politics for three decades. It was just as bad when the Democrats ruled for decades as one-party government brings out the worst. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/opinion/sunday/chickens-home-to-roost.html

Gerald Ford White House Altered Rockefeller Commission Report in 1975 http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB543-Ford-White-House-Altered-Rockefeller-Commission-Report/

Exit Strategy: In 1963, JFK ordered a complete withdrawal from Vietnam By James K. Galbraith https://www.bostonreview.net/us/galbraith-exit-strategy-vietnam

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/29/the-redacted-truth-how-the-cia-lies-to-its-own-employees/

There are three parts to this interview, with revelations progressing as each part is played, right up to the end of Part 3 in which President Roosevelt's suicide by pistol is discussed. Part 1: “The Bombshell Before Roswell,” Cape Girardeau, MO https://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=2402&category=Environment

World War II Missions of CIA Directors Are Subject of Book Discussion http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2016/16-044.html?loclr=eaue

Here are the faces of those deemed by The New York Times to be most powerful in American society. How can the JFK assassination research community capture the attention of some of these persons to the significance and relevance of our work to society today? Is this even feasible? http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/26/us/race-of-american-power.html

UFO’s and the Ancients http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2016/02/27 Jim DiEugenio to be interviewed on Saturday, Feb. 27.