Douglas Caddy

The End of Communism in Russia Meant the End of Democracy in the West Russia Insider Oct 26, 2015 Alexander Zinoviev, along with Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov, was one of the three great intellectual giants who became dissidents during the late Soviet period. This remarkable and prophetic interview was originally published in 1999 in the French Figaro Magazine. Its original title was: ”The West and Russia - A Controlled Catastrophe” From the interview: “Today we live in a world dominated by one single force, one ideology and one pro-globalization party. All of this together began to take shape during the Cold War, when superstructures gradually appeared in various forms: commercial, banking, political and media organizations. Despite their different fields of activity, what they had in common was essentially their transnational scope. With the collapse of communism they began to rule the world. Thus, Western countries ended up in the dominant position, but at the same time they are now in a subordinate position as they gradually lose their sovereignty to what I call the supra-society. The planet-wide supra-society consists of commercial and non-commercial organizations whose influence extends far beyond individual states. Like other countries, the Western countries are subordinated to these supranational structures. This is despite the fact that the sovereignty of states was also an integral part of pluralism and hence of democracy on a global scale. Today’s ruling supra-power suppresses sovereign states. The European integration unfolding in front of our very eyes is also leading to the disappearance of pluralism within this new conglomerate in favor of supranational power.” http://russia-insider.com/en/history/russian-thinker-1999the-end-communism-russai-signalized-end-democracy-west-alexander

Joseph McBride writes on Facebook today: On this date in history, October 27, 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis came to its head. Robert McNamara, the secretary of Defense, later said he went to bed that Saturday night not knowing if he would wake in the morning. From my book INTO THE NIGHTMARE: MY SEARCH FOR THE KILLERS OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY AND OFFICER J. D. TIPPIT: "Even after Khrushchev’s conciliatory message [his moving plea for peace to Kennedy on October 26], however, the full Soviet leadership was still balking in removing the missiles from Cuba. So the final turning point of the crisis was Robert Kennedy’s meeting with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin on October 27, delivering an ultimatum from the president while offering the other terms as olive branches. As reported by Khrushchev in his 1970 autobiography, Khrushchev Remembers, what RFK told Dobrynin was: "'The President is in a grave situation, and he does not know how to get out of it. We are under very severe stress. In fact we are under pressure from our military to use force against Cuba.... Even though the President himself is very much against starting a war over Cuba, an irreversible chain of events could occur against his will. That is why the President is appealing directly to Chairman Khrushchev for his help in liquidating this conflict. If the situation continues much longer, the President is not sure that the military will not overthrow him and seize power. The American army could get out of control.''"

George Smathers: JFK talked of possibility of killing Castro The Guardian August 17, 2012 http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2012/aug/17/john-f-kennedy-fidel-castro

JFK and New Orleans 1963: T-P reporter interviews Lee Harvey Oswald's Magazine Street neighbors By NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune on November 22, 2013 at 9:31 AM, updated November 22, 2013 at 6:32 PM http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/11/jfk_and_new_orleans_1963_t-p_r_1.html

Catherine Austin Fitts highly recommends this book. https://solari.com/blog/book-review-the-globalization-of-war/

‘Bridge of Spies’ ignores the most important character of the Cold War James Donovan wasn't the lone ranger that Spielberg portrays him to be. Washington Post By David Talbot October 26, 2015 at 10:39 AM https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/10/26/bridge-of-spies-ignores-the-most-important-character-of-the-cold-war/

Joseph McBride today wrote on Facebook: This day in 1962, October 26, Soviet Chairman Nikita Khrushchev wrote this profoundly moving and eloquent plea for peace to President Kennedy. His letter came the same day as a more bellicose one from Khrushchev. Ambassador Tommy Thompson, who knew Khrushchev well, recommended they ignore that one (probably drafted by the Politburo) and respond instead to this more clearly personal appeal. That was done, and a deal was soon struck involving American removal of its missiles in Turkey and a promise not to invade Cuba. Khrushchev's powerful letter -- along with Robert Kennedy's urgent message to Ambassador Dobrynin the following day that an end to the crisis was needed immediately, or the president could not be sure his military would not take over -- saved the world. http://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct26/doc4.html

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