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    David Talbot: Allen Dulles, CIA and Rise of America's Secret Government

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    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.

    David Talbot: Allen Dulles, CIA and Rise of America's Secret Government

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    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!

    David Talbot: Allen Dulles, CIA and Rise of America's Secret Government

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    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.

    JFK Assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald Conferences 2015

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    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

    Yes, the CIA Director Was Part of the JFK Assassination Cover Up

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    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.

    Yes, the CIA Director Was Part of the JFK Assassination Cover Up

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    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

    Latest legal brief filed by Jefferson Morley in Morley v. CIA

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    Tom:

    I have not followed closely enough the long-running developments in Jefferson Morley's case to be in a position to answer your question adequately. Here, however, is a link to the article that contains more complete news about the significance of the recent legal brief that Morley's lawyer filed in the case.

    http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/news/the-latest-legal-brief-in-morley-v-cia/#more-19916

    David Talbot: Allen Dulles, CIA and Rise of America's Secret Government

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    David Talbot posted today on his Facebook page:

    This epigraph with which I start "The Devil's Chessboard" neatly sums up the modus operandi of CIA spymaster Allen Dulles, whose dark shadow continues to hang over America. It's from one of my favorite spy novels, "A Coffin for Dimitrios," by Eric Ambler: "The Colonel laughed unpleasantly.'My dear friend, Dimitrios would have nothing to do with the actual shooting. No! His kind never risk their skins like that. They stay on the fringe of the plot. They are the professionals, the entrepreneurs, the links between the businessmen, the politicians who desire the end but are afraid of the means, and the fanatics, the idealists who are prepared to die for their convictions. The important thing to know about an assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.'"

    Ambler wrote that a quarter century before JFK died in Dallas..but you get the point.

    http://www.amazon.com/Coffin-Dimitrios-Vintage-Crime-Lizard-ebook/dp/B005PRJKYU/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444160814&sr=1-3&keywords=eric+ambler+books

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