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Danny Vasquez, who appears to have an inexhaustible collection of JFK assassination photographs and documents, wrote on Facebook today: Dallas County deputy constable Seymour Weitzman also ran toward the top of the grassy knoll – where he found a man carrying Secret Service identification. Weitzman later identified this man as Bernard Barker, a CIA asset and the future Watergate burglar who would lead the four-man contingent of Cuban–born Watergate burglars from the Miami area. Barker was an expert at surreptitious entries, planting bugs and photographing documents. He was a close associate of Florida Mafia godfather Santos Trafficante, and of Mob-connected Key Biscayne banker Bebe Rebozo – Richard Nixon's bosom buddy. Barker was a veteran CIA asset. Along with JFK assassination suspects Howard Hunt, Frank Sturgis and David Ferrie, he had helped plan the unsuccessful 1961 CIA-sponsored invasion of Cuba, a mission fathered by Vice President Richard Nixon. The actual invasion was finally carried out at the Bay of Pigs under President Kennedy. The CIA recruited the Mafia to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro at about the same time the exile invaders waded ashore. Barker's day job was a real estate agent on Key Biscayne. And he was a close friend and neighbor of fellow CIA asset Eugenio Martinez – the Watergate lock-picker. Martinez's real estate firm had extensive dealings with Bebe Rebozo, and had brokered Nixon's purchase of a house on Biscayne Bay. In the immediate aftermath of the Watergate arrests, President Nixon was anxious about his pal Rebozo's vulnerabilities. On White House tapes released many years later, after hearing that Howard Hunt's name turned up in two of the burglars' address books, Nixon had a question for his chief of staff, Bob Haldeman: "Is Rebozo's name in anyone's address book?" Haldeman answers, "No … he (Rebozo) told me he doesn't know any of these guys." Sounding rather dumbfounded, the president responds: "He doesn't know them?" If Weitzman was correct in fingering Barker, the CIA man would have had no trouble obtaining Secret Service credentials. CIA operatives have a way of coming up with badges and other items to suit their various goals (As a Nixon White House spy, Howard Hunt once wore a speech alteration device and a red wig to a secret encounter.) Barker wasn't the only future Watergate conspirator to reportedly show up in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Under oath, CIA operative Morita Lorenz placed CIA agents Hunt and Frank Sturgis at the assassination scene. This claim was bolstered by two other local law enforcement officers who reported encountering men on the grassy knoll who identified themselves as Secret Service agents – yet the Secret Service maintained that none of its agents were in Dealey Plaza right after the shooting. For the record: Deputy Constable Weitzman told the Warren Commission he encountered "other officers, Secret Service as well" on the grassy knoll. In 1975, he told reporter Michael Canfield the man he saw produced credentials and told him everything was under control. He said the man had dark hair, was of medium height, and was wearing a light windbreaker. When shown photos of Frank Sturgis and Bernard Barker, Weitzman immediately pointed at Barker, saying, "Yes that's him." Just to make sure, Canfield asked, "Was this the man who produced the Secret Service credentials?" Weitzman responded, "Yes, that's the same man." Dallas patrolman J. M. Smith also ran up the grassy knoll. At the top, he smelled gunpowder. Encountering a man, he pulled his pistol from his holster. "Just as I did, he showed me he was a Secret Service agent … he saw me coming with my pistol and right away he showed me who he was." In the mid-70s, Dallas police sergeant David Harkness told a House committee, "There were some Secret Service agents there – on the grassy knoll – but I did not get them identified. They told me they were Secret Service." According to a Secret Service report in the National Archives, "All the Secret Service agents assigned to the motorcade stayed with the motorcade all the way to the hospital, none remained at the scene of the shooting."

David Talbot writes on Facebook today: With the publication of my new book, "The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America's Secret Government," less than a month away, I want to shamelessly tease you all with some tidbits from the book. So here's the first one: Among the more despicable things that Allen Dulles, America's most legendary spymaster, did was to collaborate with prominent Nazis before, during and after World War II. One of the worst war criminals with whom Dulles consorted was Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler's intelligence chief on the bloodlands of the Eastern Front. After the war, Dulles helped install Gehlen as West Germany's powerful intelligence chief. The two men maintained a chatty, cozy relationship throughout the rest of their lives, exchanging Christmas cards, gifts etc. Dulles brought Gehlen to America for periodic visits -- on one such trip, the CIA even treated Gehlen to seats at Yankee Stadium for the final game of the epic 1951 "subway World Series" that pit the Yankees' aging legend Joe DiMaggio and rookie star Mickey Mantle against another future Hall of Famer, the NY Giants' Willie Mays. As DiMaggio played in the final game of his career (with the Yankees winning the close game and taking the series), Gehlen watched Joltin' Joe trot off into the sunset -- instead of facing a war crimes tribunal, as he should have.

Mr. Current Intelligence An Interview with Richard Lehman By Richard Kovar . Lehman played a key role in supervising the Agency.s current inteffigence support for the White House, including its briefmgs of presidential candidates. Editor.s Note: Dick Lehman devel oped the President.s Intelligence Check List, or PICL (pronounced .~pickle.9 for President Kennedy in June 1961. The Kennedy White House had become overwhelmed with publicationsfrom the intelli gence community, many of which were duplicative in nature, and important pieces of information were beginning to fall between the cracks. The President and his advis ers wanted one concise summary of important issues that they could rely on, and Lehman provided that sum mary in theform of the PICL. Kennedy.s enthusiastic response to the PICL ensured that it became an Agency institution. Former Deputy Directorfor Intelligence R. Jack Smith writes in his memoir, The Unknown CIA, that the President engaged in an .. . . exchange ofcom ments with its producers, sometimes praising an account, sometimes criticizing a commenl~ once object ing to the word .boondocks. as not an accepted word. For current intel ligencepeople~ this was heaven on earth!. (The PICL was renamed The President.s Daily BriefPDB] in the Johnson administration.) For many years thereafter, Lehman played a key role in supervising the Agency.s current intelligence sup portfor the White House, including its briefings ofPresidential candi dates. Former Deputy Directorfor Intelligence (DDI) Ray Cline in his book The CIA Under Reagan, Bush, and Casey, calls him .the longtime genius of the President.s special daily intelligence report.. Dick Lehman joined the Agency in 1949 and servedfor 33 years before retiring. As a jun~or analysl he worked in the Ge~.ieral Division of the Office ofReports and Estimates (ORE) using SIGIJVT to puzzle out the organization and output of var ious Soviet industrial ministries. He then spent much ~fhis career in the Office of Current Intelligence (OCI), eventually serving as its Director from 1970 to 1975. Lehman also served as Director of the Office of Strategic Research from 1975 to 1976, as Deputy 1~o the DCIfor National Intellige~.zcefrom 1976 to 1977, and as Chairman of the National Intelligence Council from 1979 to 1981. In the interview excerpts thatfol low, Lehman recalls the challenges associated with briefing DCI Allen Dulles, recounts how the PICL was born, summarizes how the Agency got to know Presidents-elect Rich ard Nixon, fimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, and gives his can did assessment of thefamous A Team/B Team exercise conducted in 1976 on Soviet intentions and capabilities. This interview was conducted 28 February 1998 as apart of the CIA History Staffs oral history program. https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol44no3/pdf/v44i3a05p.pdf

Quoting from above: "Promoting this is par for the course for Caddy." I am not promoting the conference. I am merely posting information about it on the forum. I have never met Judyth Baker or corresponded with her. A few persons have biased and pre-disposed ideas about what can and cannot be posted on the forum. As I have said here many times in the past, I primarily make postings for informational purposes, leaving it up to the reader to evaluate. Some of my postings may not even reflect what I personally believe but having knowledge of their content may still have value. A minute minority apparently would prefer not to even be aware that there will be an Oswald Conference in New Orleans next month so that they can continue to live in their own self-contained bubble, unaware of the reality of events take place in society today. Such a head-in-the-sand position is to be pitied.

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New Orleans Conference schedule as announced: http://oswaldconference.com/?page_id=246

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Lyn Colodny on Facebook today posted this: It was Woodward who twice in May and July of 1973 recommended that the Watergate Committee call Butterfield. I discussed this with Butterfield in this interview in March of 1987. BUTTERFIELD/COLODNY INTERVIEW EXCERPT RE: WOODWARD 3/25/87 COLODNY: So that raised a question. In your case the question is why did Bob Woodward bring you to the Watergate Committee's attention, that's one of the things that we feel a great, do a great deal on in the book. BUTTERFIELD: Huh, huh. COLODNY: Were you aware that he was the driving force before you, about you being called? BUTTERFIELD: Well, but, ah, no except that it made sense, yeah, I guess I was. He was a good friend of, ah, I forget that . . . COLODNY: Scott Armstrong's. BUTTERFIELD: . . .Armstrong. COLODNY: Scott Armstrong. BUTTERFIELD: Scott Armstrong and Scott was the chief briefer or the debriefer and they were pals and I, you know, I had, I had a, you know, I was not a functionary although, uh, Haldeman and Nixon both would like to pretend I was. I was on the senior staff and, and I was, uh, you know, on the senior staff meetings in the morning. My office did adjoin the Oval Office. I was, I was in and out more times every day than anyone. I was the first guy to see the President every morning and the last guy to see him at night. But it's not unusual in, on the face of it, see. COLODNY: So Woodward, Woodward. . . BUTTERFIELD: I was in charge, but I was in charge of all administration. COLODNY: Right. BUTTERFIELD: So, so I was in a position to know relationships of one aide to the other and each aide to the President as well as anyone, save Haldeman. COLODNY: Like. . BUTTERFIELD: Maybe, and maybe Steve Bull. COLODNY: Did you know about the Woodward - Armstrong relationship on the day you went to the, to the Hill? BUTTERFIELD: No, I did not. COLODNY: No, and you did not know and you, when Armstrong was questioning you with Don Sanders,. . . BUTTERFIELD: Oh no, I did not know that, uh, uh. COLODNY: You, you had no idea there was a relationship there? BUTTERFIELD: No, no. COLODNY: The boy, they were boyhood friends and so on. Woodward. . . BUTTERFIELD: Sure, but, but, but I'm saying that may well be but on the other hand it could be that, you know, have we really talked to everybody over there, how about this guy Butterfield, what the hell is that? COLODNY: Yeah, but that isn't, that isn't what happened. And, and that's, that's a, that's the problem. Woodward did something that a good investigative reporter wouldn't have done. You don't go turn your sources over to a committee. You try and get the story yourself. And Woodward. . . BUTTERFIELD: Your witness, your witness. . . COLODNY: . . .and that, that, that waves a big red flag to our readers saying wait a minute what is this guy on May 17th and it wasn't like he showed up late, he was there the first day the Committee met publicly to recommend you be called. And he says why he, he uh, recommended you because he believed that you had something to do with internal security. BUTTERFIELD: Yeah, I did. COLODNY: Well but he interpreted that to mean . . . BUTTERFIELD: Yes. COLODNY: . . .that you were involved in wire tapping as . . . BUTTERFIELD: Huh, huh. COLODNY: . . .that, that's his version. BUTTERFIELD: I see. COLODNY: It had something to do, cause he knew that Mardian, who was in charge of internal security at the Justice Department, was handling the wire taps. BUTTERFIELD: Yeah, I see. COLODNY: In other words it wasn't cause you sat outside the President's door that Woodward was interested in you, he says you're, himself, that he put two and two together. BUTTERFIELD: Yeah. COLODNY: You follow me? BUTTERFIELD: Yeah, sure I follow you.

http://www.c-span.org/video/?20346-1/book-discussion-silent-coup-removal-president

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Nixon Legacy Series: Evan Thomas Richard Nixon Foundation Published Sept. 10, 2015

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September 11, 2015 Counterpunch.org Creating a Crime: How the CIA Commandeered the DEA by Douglas Valentine From the article: ….In 1960, when the CIA asked him to recruit assassins from his stable of underworld contacts, Siragusa again claimed to have refused. But drug traffickers, including, most prominently, Santo Trafficante Jr, were soon participating in CIA attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro. As the dominant partner in the relationship, the CIA exploited its affinity with the FBN. “Like the CIA,” FBN Agent Robert DeFauw explained, “narcotic agents mount covert operations. We pose as members of the narcotics trade. The big difference is that we were in foreign countries legally, and through our police and intelligence sources, we could check out just about anyone or anything. Not only that, we were operational. So the CIA jumped in our stirrups.” Jumping in the FBN’s stirrups afforded the CIA deniability, which is turn affords it impunity. To ensure that the CIA’s criminal activities are not revealed, narcotic agents are organized militarily within an inviolable chain of command. Highly indoctrinated, they blindly obey based on a “need to know.” This institutionalized ignorance sustains the illusion of righteousness, in the name of national security, upon which their motivation depends. ……… Indeed, as John Evans noted above, and as the government was aware, the CIA for years had sanctioned the heroin traffic from the Golden Triangle region of Burma, Thailand and Laos into South Vietnam as a way of rewarding top foreign officials for advancing U.S. policies. This reality presented the Nixon White House with a dilemma, given that addiction among U.S. troops in Vietnam was soaring, and that massive amounts of Southeast Asian heroin were being smuggled into the U.S., for use by middle-class white kids on the verge of revolution. Nixon’s response was to make drug law enforcement part of the CIA’s mission. Although reluctant to betray the CIA’s clients in South Vietnam, Helms told Ludlum: “We’re going to break their rice bowls.” This betrayal occurred incrementally. Fred Dick, the BNDD agent assigned to Saigon, passed the names of the complicit military officers and politicians to the White House. But, as Dick recalled, “Ambassador [Ellsworth] Bunker called a meeting in Saigon at which CIA Station Chief Ted Shackley appeared and explained that there was ‘a delicate balance.’ What he said, in effect, was that no one was willing to do anything.” Meanwhile, to protect its global network of drug trafficking assets, the CIA began infiltrating the BNDD and commandeering its internal security, intelligence, and foreign operations branches. This massive reorganization required the placement of CIA officers in influential positions in every federal agency concerned with drug law enforcement. http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/11/creating-a-crime-how-the-cia-commandeered-the-dea/

Announcement by David Talbot, Publisher, Hotbooks http://hotbookspress.com/

President Kennedy dictates notes regarding Vietnam (November 4, 1963)

I do not know why the link is not working. When I posted it, I tested the link and it worked. Now the same link posted by Debra on Facebook this morning has ceased to work. Here is a related message posted by Debra on Facebook this morning: "Please email me right away if you are joining our Dallas Conference Partners. Send your site name and web address and you will be listed on JFK Lancer's site today!! Thanks so much, Debra debraconway@jfklancer.com" I just typed in JFK Lancer on google and it brought up the missing conference home page right away.

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20th annual JFK Lancer November in Dallas Conference held November 20-22 at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, Texas. http://jfklancer.com/Dallas2015/welcome.html

Woodward’s new book: “The Last of the President’s Men” Washington Post September 10, 2015 The Daily 202 By James Hohmann http://link.washingtonpost.com/view/54c198553b35d039718df57231nb4.63dp/79563d83 THE BIG IDEA: Alexander Butterfield, the Richard Nixon aide who publicly revealed the existence of the secret taping system that eventually helped force the president’s resignation, never turned over thousands of documents from his time in the administration to the National Archives. Bob Woodward got access to all of them, and he interviewed Butterfield for 46 hours. “The Last of the President’s Men,” Woodward’s 18th book, will be published Oct. 13. It includes 75 pages of original documents from the trove. “These are the last pieces of the Nixon puzzle,” the Washington Post associate editor tells Carlos Lozada, the paper’s nonfiction book critic. “Butterfield was the consummate gray man, in the background but potent.” As questions about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s use of a homebrew email server at the State Department continue to swirl, the new book – coming more than four decades after Nixon’s resignation – is a potent reminder that fresh information can come to light long after

The New York Times Editorial September 9, 2015 From the editorial: As a direct result, the World Food Program has had to cut rations for 1.6 million Syrians, with refugees in Lebanon allocated just $13 a month. In Jordan, more than 200,000 refugees stopped receiving any food aid at all last week. There are fears that children who depend on this food aid will suffer permanent damage from malnutrition. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/opinion/caring-for-the-other-refugees.html

People Magazine of November 14, 2015 has a cover story on these two books: http://www.amazon.com/Rosemary-Daughter-Kate-Clifford-Larson/dp/0547250258/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1441733879&sr=1-1&keywords=rosemary+the+hidden+kennedy+daughter http://www.amazon.com/Missing-Kennedy-Rosemary-Secret-Bonds/dp/1610881745/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1441733879&sr=1-3&keywords=rosemary+the+hidden+kennedy+daughter

David Talbot will be one of six guest speakers on November 19, 2015, at the Third Annual JFK Luncheon and Symposium in Mansfield, Texas. This event is on the eve of JFK Lancer Conference. The event is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $50 in advance and $60 at the door. Seating is limited. The announcement on Facebook today states: "JFK The Continuing Inquiry is proud to be partner with JFK Lancer. For information about NID 2015, please visit www.jfklancer.com." I visited this website today but could find no additional information about the Third Annual JFK Luncheon and Symposium. It likely will be posted there soon. Other announced speakers include Clay Fannin,Sherry Fiester, Beverly Oliver Massegee, Dr. Michael Marcades, Barr McClellan. Special guests will be announced later.

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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. http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/sid/232820795