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Mama’s Boy’ Opening this week at Good Theater, the play explores the relationship between Lee Harvey Oswald and his mother. BY BOB KEYES STAFF WRITER PORTLAND (MAINE) PRESS HERALD October 25, 2015 http://www.pressherald.com/2015/10/25/mamas-boy-tells-a-story-behind-the-story-of-the-jfk-assassination/

Great true story. Great appropriate solution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=neJIPEaxzvs

David Talbot interview available Oct. 29. http://www.blackopradio.com/schedule.html

Response to Bob Woodward Charges Against RN October 22, 2015 The Richard Nixon Foundation http://www.nixonlegacy.org/the-new-nixon/2015/10/response-to-bob-woodwards-charges-against-rn

Review of the new book, "Lady Bird and Lyndon" by Betty Boyd Caroli in the Wall Street Journal Oct. 24-25, 2015: http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-port-in-the-storm-1445634472 http://www.amazon.com/Lady-Bird-Lyndon-Marriage-President/dp/1439191220/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1445726924&sr=1-1&keywords=lady+bird+and+lyndon+the+hidden+story+of+a+marriage+that+made+a+president

The War That Made the CIA Review by Alexander Rose Oct. 23, 2015 The Wall Street Journal http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-war-that-made-the-cia-1445619365?alg=y Review of the new book “Disciples” by Douglas Waller From the review: Several years ago Douglas Waller wrote a superb biography of “Wild Bill” Donovan, legendary head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) – the precursor to the CIA during World War II… Now he has written a sequel to include four of Donovan’s “Disciples”-- each of whom would eventually run the CIA. I’ll get to them in a minute but let me say that “Disciples” is a fantastic book, one of the very finest accounts of spookery I’ve seen… Mr. Waller’s quartet are Allen Dulles, William Casey, William Colby and Richard Helms. They were four very different men, but they were all one-man dogs when it came to their unstinting loyalty to Donovan….. That all of the Disciples would come to grief in the postwar years – Dulles for the Bay of Pigs fiasco, Colby for revealing CIA malfeasances, Helms for misleading Congress for operations in Chile, and Casey for Iran-Contra – should not detract from their amazing adventures in the spy trade during the glory years of the OSS. With this wonderful book, Mr. Waller had done them signal service by bringing their stories to wider public attention. http://www.amazon.com/Disciples-Missions-Directors-Fought-Donovan/dp/1451693729/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1445722405&sr=1-1&keywords=disciples+waller

Interview of St. John Hunt on October 20, 2015, about the life and times of E. Howard Hunt, his father, and of his mother, Dorothy, whom he believes was murdered in December 1972. The last 15 minutes of the interview are especially riveting.

LBJ and Jacqueline Kennedy, 3/25/65, 4.56P.

From the 2009 article: In 1977 the Caseys purchased 1240 North Ocean Blvd. from Granville Morse, shuttling between Mayknoll, their Long Island compound, and Palm Beach. Days before William Casey was scheduled to testify at televised hearings about his role in the Iran-Contra affair, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor; shortly thereafter, he died, leaving history to Lt. Col. Oliver North and Bob Woodward. And while, the timing of Casey’s demise is often the subject of speculation, it has never reached the air-thin level of the Kennedy assassinations. [Note on Casey’s bookshelf was Fletcher Prouty’s “The Secret Team.”] http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/guest-diary/2009/palm-beach-real-estate-roulette

Congratulations, Vince, on your new book. It appears to be a solid contribution to knowledge about the assassination. I hope it receives the book reviews it deserves in the mass media.

CIA files on the Allen Dulles – Ian Fleming connection Published March 7th 2014 http://www.spyculture.com/cia-files-on-the-allen-dulles-ian-fleming-connection/

While still a college student, I worked with Guy Banister in New Orleans to oppose the 1959 World Youth Festival in Vienna that Gloria Steinem discusses. Her remarks at the time seem to me to be naïve as to the ways of the CIA uses people. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.assassination.jfk/7fKgzfeYtpI

Gloria Steinem discusses her time with the CIA

Poster's note: Is there a conspiracy involved here? From the article: The center says that the office of Angelina Godoy was burglarized sometime between Thursday and Sunday. Godoy reported that the hard drive contained “about 90 percent of the information” relating to research in El Salvador that is the foundation of a freedom-of-information lawsuit the center filed Oct. 2 against the CIA. The lawsuit alleges that the CIA has illegally withheld information about a U.S.-supported El Salvador army officer suspected of human-rights violations during that country’s civil war in the 1980s against leftist rebels. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/files-for-lawsuit-against-cia-stolen-in-break-in-at-uw/

This interview of Ray Locker on Fox News on October 21, 2015, is full of new information and revelations. http://video.foxnews.com/v/4570632297001/the-story-behind-the-collapse-of-the-nixon-presidency/?#sp=show-clips

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Going Online in the Age of Conspiracy Theories Theatlantic.com October 21, 2015 By Adrienne Lafrance From the article: By the 1950s, conspiracy theorists had largely turned their attention to communism. And a decade later, the Kennedy assassination and moon landing both generated enormous conspiratorial buzz. Skepticism of the official account of President John F. Kennedy’s death has, of course, persisted. One of the more ominous characters visible on the Zapruder film, a home movie which captured footage of the president's assassination in 1963, is known as the umbrella man. Standing along the motorcade route beneath a dark umbrella on a sunny day, this mystery man became an obsession among conspiracy theorists. (He was also the subject of a conference for conspiracy buffs as recently as the 1990s.) Was the umbrella secretly a weapon? Was it a tool for signaling to a gunman? Who was this guy? He was, apparently, Louie Steven Witt, who explained his actions in a hearing before the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978. The umbrella was an obscure form of protest—specifically, a reference to appeasement, the foreign policy approach under British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on the eve of World War II. Kennedy’s father, Joseph Kennedy, had been a Chamberlain supporter. “If the Guinness Book of World Records had a category for people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the wrong thing, I would be No. 1 in that position, without even a close runner-up,” Witt said according to several transcripts of the hearing. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/going-online-in-the-age-of-conspiracy-theories/411544/ [Poster's note: This is being posted for informational purposes only.]

David Talbot wrote on Facebook today: Thanks to my friend Oliver Stone for his kind words about "The Devil's Chessboard." Oliver's "JFK" was the shock to the system that got many of us rethinking the national disaster in Dallas. To this day, Oliver remains the only top-tier Hollywood filmmaker with the courage to honestly explore the dark side of American history and politics. I'm very excited to see to his dramatic take on Ed Snowden, now scheduled for release in 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUWFm6b1IPI

The Times has just published my reader's comment on its Bin Laden story: I believe the article should be studied in college and university journalism classes because it presents the dilemma that reporters face when reporting on a highly significant story that may be being twisted by the government for its own purposes at the expense of telling what actually happened. Vice President Biden yesterday was caught in what is alleged to be two versions of what he advised the President on the Bin Laden raid. So there is likely still more information about this event waiting to emerge. This vindicates the Times' article.

Here the Times itself is examining the merits of the story: http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/baquet-on-bin-laden-story-critics-reading-it-wrong/

David Talbot was the guest on coastocoastam last night. It was a terrific interview, filled with facts and revelations. One of the latter was Angleton's statement as he lay dying and facing his Maker that he feared he was going to Hell to join certain CIA colleagues. Talbot also stated that the groundwork for the evil that persists today was laid by Eisenhower when, among other things, he appointed Allen Dulles to the CIA and sanctioned the bloody overthrow of the elected government in Guatemala. Howard Hunt was the CIA agent designated to accomplish the latter. Talbot also said that in his mind there exists the "possibility" that Oswald killed Tippit in the mad rush of events following JFK's assassination. Talbot acknowledged to a caller who phoned in that he had heard rumors about the involvement of Gordon Liddy but that he had done little research into this subject. Here is a summary of last night's program, which does not do justice to Talbot's masterful presentation. http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2015/10/20

The film “Silenced” came out of New York City where its two principal film companies are based, Reframed Pictures and Unjustus. I have not seen the movie but did listen to the fascinating interview of the Hollywood Academy Award nominated director James Spione, Sunday night on coastotcoastam (please read the summary of show in the link below). Based on his interview I feel comfortable in asserting that this is one of the most important films produced in the times in which we live. The persons profiled in it are among the most courageous of all truth tellers and all have paid a horrific price for making public what they know. http://www.reframedpictures.com/ http://unjustus.org/ http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2015/10/18

Today's developments on the death of Bin Laden: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/257430-biden-contradicts-clintons-account-of-bin-laden-raid-decision http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/us/politics/joe-biden-osama-bin-laden.html

Occasionally a terrific film comes out of Hollywood that is free of Tinsel Town political correctness. This is one of those. http://silencedfilm.com/ http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2015/10/18

From the column: I rise in defense of my colleague Jonathan Mahler. Mahler’s cover story in The New York Times Magazine this weekend, titled “What Do We Really Know About Osama bin Laden’s Death?,” grapples with the way journalists on the national security beat covered that singular event. It focuses primarily on two well-known journalists, Mark Bowden and Seymour Hersh. In his article, Mahler raises the possibility that there might have been more to the raid on Bin Laden’s compound in 2011 than the narrative that we’ve come to accept as “the real story.” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/20/opinion/osama-bin-ladens-first-draft.html