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Every president has been manipulated by national security officials”: David Talbot exposes America’s “deep state” From World War II though JFK, "The Devil's Chessboard" explores how Allen Dulles used the CIA as a tool of elites BY LIAM O'DONOGHUE SALON.COM OCTOBER 15, 2015 http://www.salon.com/2015/10/15/every_president_has_been_manipulated_national_security_officials_david_talbot_investigates_americas_deep_state/

Poster's note: strongly suggest listening to the commentary on the link. Lyndon Johnson led a ‘coup d'etat’ against JFK: Scholar PressTV October 13, 2015 http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/13/433263/CIA-kennedy-assassination

Part 2 of the interview of David Talbot on Democracy Now: The Rise of America’s Secret Government: The Deadly Legacy of Ex-CIA Director Allen Dulles Pt. 2 http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2015/10/14/the_rise_of_america_s_secret

David Talbot writes on Facebook today: There are trolls in the kitchen at Amazon -- a reviewer gave my book one star, claiming that the Kindle version has no citations. Completely false, as other readers are pointing out. Readers -- please set Amazon straight by pointing this out: http://www.amazon.com/Devils-Chessboard-Dulle…/…/ref=sr_1_1… Meanwhile, the book rose to #322 on the Amazon list this morning and is being hotly debated in the media, including The Daily Beast and the UK Daily Mail. Writin' is fightin' -- as Ishmael Reed once observed. And I'm in a dogfight.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-man-who-knew-too-much-about-richard-nixon/2015/10/12/fa87b954-7063-11e5-8d93-0af317ed58c9_story.html

David Talbot interviewed on Democracy Now today. http://www.democracynow.org/2015/10/13/the_rise_of_americas_secret_government David Talbot's comment on Facebook today: Thanks to Amy Goodman for having me as a guest today on her indispensable show "Democracy Now!" The vital importance of alternative media was brought home for me once again this week as I begin my book tour. I've been bumped off one network TV news program at the last minute (when my publicist asked the producer why, he was simply told "politics.") And I was told that a major East Coast newspaper that reviewed my earlier books will not touch this one. Let the media gatekeepers and CIA media spinners know they don't control our democracy. Please spread the world about "The Devil's Chessboard" -- the book they don't want you to read.

Years after Dallas razed Lee Harvey Oswald’s Oak Cliff apartment, city sends $40,000 bill By Robert Wilonsky Published: October 10, 2015 Dallas Morning News http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/2015/10/years-after-dallas-razed-lee-harvey-oswalds-oak-cliff-apartment-city-sends-40000-bill.html/

MSNBC interview of Ray Locker on October 12, 2015: http://www.msnbc.com/reporters-notebook/watch/-nixon-s-gamble--told-by-editor-ray-locker-542939203781

The Strange Death of Dr. Mary Sherman Nola.com (Times-Picayune) July 18, 2014 http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/07/in_the_death_of_doctor_mary_sh.html

Secret Nixon Archive Paints Disturbing Portrait of a Presidency The Washington Post October 11, 2015 http://www.washingtonpost.com/rweb/top/secret-archive-reveals-nixon-thought-vietnam-bombing-didzilch/2015/10/11/474072afe78a41d5bc6e2e143f72c5c2_story.html

Secret Nixon Archive Paints Disturbing Portrait of a Presidency The Washington Post October 11, 2015 http://www.washingtonpost.com/rweb/top/secret-archive-reveals-nixon-thought-vietnam-bombing-didzilch/2015/10/11/474072afe78a41d5bc6e2e143f72c5c2_story.html

Origins of the Radical Left By Steven Hager September 19, 2015 https://stevenhager420.wordpress.com/2015/09/19/origins-of-the-radical-left/

The Holy Grail of the JFK Story By Jefferson Morley Salon.com Nov. 22, 2011 http://www.salon.com/2011/11/22/the_holy_grail_of_the_jfk_story/

David Talbot's comment on Facebook Oct. 9, 2015: Unfortunately book tours aren't what they used to be. After speaking in Brooklyn, I'll be appearing at Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington DC on the evening of Thurs. Oct. 15 and then it's back home to San Francisco, where I'll be on permanent display for weeks. (Will post my Bay Area dates soon.) Then it's on to Dallas to give the keynote speech at the JFK Lancer conference on Friday Nov.20. And that's all she wrote...until further notice. If there's a university or organization in your area that wants to explore my book's "deep history" and stir up a lively discussion, let me know!

Lee Harvey Oswald’s Twenty-Four Years November 19, 2013 Frontline http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/biographies/oswald/twenty-four-years/

You Think the NSA Is Bad? Meet Former CIA Director Allen Dulles. In a new book, David Talbot makes the case that the CIA head under Eisenhower and Kennedy may have been a psychopath. By Aaron Wiener on Sat. October 10, 2015 6:00 AM PDT Motherjones Magazine http://m.motherjones.com/media/2015/10/book-review-devils-chessboard-david-talbot

Who was Lee Harvey Oswald? Interview: Robert Oswald November 19, 2013 Frontline http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/biographies/oswald/interview-robert-oswald/

http://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/deciders-david-talbot-cia-central-library-dweck-cen-101315 David Talbot is speaking at the Brooklyn Public Library next Tuesday. David Talbot wrote on Facebook: Hey Brooklyn, just in time for Halloween -- I'm coming your way. Join me and the brilliant Joel Whitney (founding editor of Guernica -- a web publication you must read -- and author of an upcoming book on the CIA's culture war) for a discussion about "Spooking America: Secrecy vs. democracy." Tues. Oct.13 at 7:30 pm at the Brooklyn Public Library. Afterwards, we'll all repair to a nearby bar (followed by our agency minders) and play a drinking game while we watch Bernie duke it out with Hillary at the first debate. But that doesn't start until 9 pm ET. Plenty of time to get spooked before that.

http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/2015/10/dont-panic-that-gunfire-coming-from-dealey-plaza-today-is-from-the-112263-set.html/

JFK: declassified documents reveal a cunning and cagey president By Alan Yuhas October 7, 2015 The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/07/jfk-kennedy-declassified-documents-reveal-a-cunning-and-cagey-president

http://caravantomidnight.com/ John B. Wells was a superb host on coasttocoastam on weekends for about five years. A year ago he was let go because he is too hard-core, a real truth-seeker. He has legends of loyal fans who listen to his new program (see above) and never lacks great guests willing to appear on his show.

Kris Millegan posted this schedule on Facebook today: Dallas “JFK CONFERENCE” SCHEDULE FRIDAY, November 20, 2015 CONFERENCE ROOM 4:00 -5:00am: REGISTRATION 5:00 -5:10pm: WELCOME – Kris Millegan 5:15 – 6:15pm: – Robert Groden 6:30 – 7:30pm– Fernando Faura 7:45 – 9:00pm: Peter Dale Scott 9:00 – 11:00 Meet the Speakers” in Hotel Bar SATURDAY, November 21, 2015 8:00 -9:00am: REGISTRATION 9:00 – 9:15am: John B. Wells 9:15 – 10:30am: Jim Barthelho 10:45 – 12:00pm: John Delane Williams LUNCH 12:00 – 1:00pm 1:00 – 2:30 Autopsy Panel – William Law, James Jenkins, Hubert Clark, David Mantik, and others 2:45 – 3:45pm: Ed Tatro 4:00 – 5:15pm: Andrew Kreig Dinner 5:15 – 6:30 pm 6:30 – 9:15pm: LBJ Panel and Speakers – Phil Nelson, Barr McClellan, Roger Stone and more .. 9:30 – 11:00 “Meet the Speakers” in Hotel Bar SUNDAY, November 22 8:00 -9:00am: REGISTRATION 9:00 – 9:15am: John B. Wells 9:15- 10:15am Bill Kelly 10:30 – 11:30 St. John Hunt 12:00-12:45 Dealey Plaza – Moment of Silence 12:45-2:00pm Lunch 2:00 – 3:15pm: Panel – Peter Dale Scott, Ed Haslam and Mystery Guest 3:30 – 4:45pm: Judyth Vary Baker 5:00 -6:15pm: Ed Haslam

John Newman wrote on Facebook today (10/7): I have now read the David Robarge piece. It's actually one declassified chapter from a book he wrote on DCI John McCone's history as the Director of Central Intelligence. The chapter is "DCI McCone and the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy." It is an important analysis that Shenon has clearly cherry picked through (which is what Shenon did with the HSCA work on the case), taking and spinning sentences that paint McCone as the leader of an effort to steer the Warren Commission away from the critical facts supporting Shenon's theme that RFK got his brother killed. There is no support for this kind of agitprop in the Robarge chapter, although one can wonder about the timing of its declassification and whether McCone's actions at the time (which he later regretted) would help the current campaign to breathe life into the Castro-did-it myth. Researchers will find a lot of important details--names of CIA officers and their roles in the rush of events after the assassination. When you have read this chapter, it is clear that Robarge is not arguing or even implying that Castro killed Kennedy and that RFK was responsible.

John Newman wrote on Facebook today: Shenon’s latest piece in Politico (“Yes the CIA Director was Part of the JFK Assassination Coverup”) is a continuation of the newest stage—begun in 2013—of the propaganda campaign to convince Americans that Robert Kennedy got his brother John killed and then worked to cover it up. The genesis of this new stage was a call from a Warren Commission lawyer to Shenon, who then fed Shenon and used him as the mouthpiece for this outrageous scheme. The Castro-did-it propaganda was part of the true coverup of the plot to kill JFK, and it was in play even before the shots were fired in Dallas. But I knew when I read Shenon’s 2015 paper edition of his book, A Cruel and Shocking Act, that we would be facing a newer, carefully orchestrated campaign to stick it to the Kennedys right at the time when the battle lines are being drawn to force the release—as required by the JFK Records Act—of the remaining JFK records by October 2017. Now, Shenon takes a recently released internal CIA analysis (which also dates to 2013) about DCI McCone blocking the CIA’s anti-Castro plots from the Warren Commission, and uses it to bolster his (Shenon’s) baleful version of history. I will comment on that (David Robarge’s) analysis after thoroughly reading it. Shenon’s Politico piece ends by restating a myth he hopes to make stick: that President Johnson appointed former DCI Allen Dulles to the Warren Commission “at the recommendation of then Attorney General Robert Kennedy.” I will hold back here on commenting about this fabrication because David Talbot’s new book, The Devil’s Chessboard, (to be released next week) so thoroughly (pp. 572-574) demolishes it

The CIA Keeps (Accidentally) Legitimizing JFK Conspiracy Theories B y Charles P. Pierce October 7, 2015-10-07 www.esquire .com http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a38623/cia-jfk-conspiracy-theories/