Douglas Caddy

Thanks, Kathy. I had hoped by now to have finished writing the follow-up segment to my Watergate Memoir that I posted in the Forum last November. But I recently caught a "bug" that is between the flu and an ordinary cold and it delayed my writing. The follow-up segment, which is based on what Howard Hunt told me in 1975 just before he entered prison, contains information that is far outside of the mainstream thinking on both Watergate and the JFK assassination topics in the Forum. I must brace myself for the reaction to it.

This call occurred a short time after Nixon had won re-election in November 1972. Within a month afterward Dorothy Hunt was killed in a mysterious plane crash in Chicago. That changed everything. Hunt, a broken man, pleaded guilty the next month, January 1973, at the beginning of the first Watergate trial and in 1975 entered prison to serve over three years under a sentence handed down by Judge Sirica. The four Cuban-American burglars that Hunt had recruited also pleaded guilty. A few months later McCord, whom the jury found guilty at the first trial, wrote a letter to Judge Sirica that exposed the cover-up and hush money. From the beginning of the case, when Hunt visited me in my residence in the early morning hours of June 17, 1972, and told me what had just happened at Watergate, I never believed the affair would turn out well. I told a few closest friends of my fear. John Dean, the mastermind of the cover-up, misled President Nixon and those closest to him as to what was transpiring and thus gave them a false sense of security that everything would turn out fine. When it didn't, Dean was the first in line to protect himself and to implicate others at the expense of the President and the nation. Ultimately history will accurately record Dean's true role.

Phone Call Between Charles Colson and E. Howard Hunt In November 1972 Published November 14, 2014

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=6467&page=3 Scroll down to read Al Navis' fascinating account of "My encounter with the Connallys."

OpEdNews Op Eds 3/29/2006 Is deception the best way to serve one's country? By Doug Thompson http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_doug_tho_060330_is_deception_the_bes.htm From the article: "You know I was one of the ones who advised Kennedy to stay away from Texas," Connally said. "Lyndon (Johnson) was being a real a**hole about the whole thing and insisted." Connally's mood darkened as he talked about Dallas. When the bullet hit him, he said he felt like he had been kicked in the ribs and couldn't breathe. He spoke kindly of Jackie Kennedy and said he admired both her bravery and composure. I had to ask. Did he think Lee Harvey Oswald fired the gun that killed Kennedy? "Absolutely not," Connally said. "I do not, for one second, believe the conclusions of the Warren Commission."

Former George Bush Chief Economist Says 911 Was An Inside Job Published on Feb 21, 2015 Morgan O. Reynolds was a professor emeritus at Texas A&M University and former director of the Criminal Justice Centre at the National Centre for Policy Analysis headquarters in Dallas, TX. He also holds three U.W-Madison degrees. He also talks about the JFK assassination.

The Men Who Killed Kennedy: Part 6 The Truth Shall Set You Free Many of those interviewed are prescient in many ways.

After an initial folksy discourse, Baer's revelations and opinions are remarkable. Around minute 39 he characterizes the CIA essentially as being a killing machine and at the very end he states that U.S. Intelligence is out of control. At one point in the interim he declares that U.S. military and intelligence operations these days have become jaded and those in charge and those carrying out the attacks do not care who is killed by U.S. drones because there is never an investigation as to whether the targets merited being wiped out.

Dallas Wants JFK Conspiracy Theorist to Remove "Grassy Knoll" Sign From Grassy Knoll By Amy Silverstein Dallas Observer Thu., May 7 2015 http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2015/05/dallas_wants_jfk_conspiracy_theorist_to_remove_grassy_knoll_sign_from_grassy_knoll.php

Former Rep. Inglis wins JFK Profile in Courage award By Zolan Kanno-Youngs Boston Globe Correspondent May 03, 2015 https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/05/03/former-rep-inglis-wins-jfk-profile-courage-award-for-calling-attention-climate-change/cOMUGofTLKKWvpm5q8xJpJ/story.html

NSA’s JFK Document Index https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/jfk.shtml

NOVEMBER 10, 2014 Book Discussion on The Perfect Kill Former CIA agent Robert Baer talked about his book, The Perfect Kill: 21 Laws for Assassins, about the history of political assassinations and his own connection to them. He also talked about what goes into achieving the perfect kill. During this event held at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, Mr. Baer spoke with Lowell Bergman. http://www.c-span.org/video/?322743-1/book-discussion-perfect-kill

Oswald, the CIA, and Mexico City Edwin Lopez and Dan Hardway talk about their time in the late 1970s working for the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations, and a report they co-wrote entitled, “Oswald, the CIA, and Mexico City.” This was part of “The Warren Report and the JFK Assassination: A Half Century of Significant Disclosures,” a conference marking the 50th anniversary of the release of the Warren Report. September 26, 2014 http://www.c-span.org/video/?321703-2/discussion-lee-harvey-oswald-cia-mexico-city

http://www2.ygosu.com/community/?m2=real_article&bid=yeobgi&rno=860722&page=41&frombest=Y

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nomi-prins/the-clintons-and-their-banker_b_7232636.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=1 Excerpt from Nomi Prins' book, All the Presidents' Bankers.

"There is a secret government inside the government, and I don't control it" -President Bill Clinton https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120319151926AAUjH0r

I wish to associate myself with the above comments by Mark Knight.

JFK and the Big Banks I strongly recommend listening to this fascinating interview with Nomi Prins. She makes many revelations, one of which was how JFK would only grant 20 minutes in the White House for anyone who was from Wall Street or the Big Banks. In particular JFK got into a verbal battle in LIFE magazine with David Rockefeller. "Was JFK the tool of the Eastern Establishment, or was he its bitterest enemy? Don Gibson challenges the conventional wisdom and asserts, with powerful support from Kennedy's own words and actions-and those of his enemies-that Kennedy was always on the side of economic, political and social progress. To achieve his goals of government for the people, JFK crossed swords courageously and vigorously with the real centers of power. They punished him with the ultimate sacrifice - his own life, and fifty years of crushing defeats of our American ideals. In this intriguing and penetrating analysis, Gibson looks at what JFK himself said, wrote, and did, contrasting that with the words and actions of his enemies-the Wall Street Journal, Fortune magazine, and the corporate and banking magnates themselves, who, as this book shows, truly despised the President. Conventional wisdom depicts Kennedy as a cautious president committed to the status quo and to the Establishment. This book makes a compelling case to the contrary, showing that President Kennedy was always willing to do battle for his progressive policies, even in the face of vicious attacks. With its clear and lively style, this book is a revelation to the general reader and to the specialist, opening the way to a new understanding of the meaning of Kennedy's legacy." http://www.amazon.com/Battling-Wall-Street-Kennedy-presidency/dp/1615779604/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1430876175&sr=1-1&keywords=donald+gibson+battling+wall+street Arthur M Schlesinger, Jr. in his book on the Kennedy presidency, A Thousand Days, wrote that Kennedy was not part of what he called the "New York establishment": "In particular, he was little acquainted with the New York financial and legal community-- that arsenal of talent which had so long furnished a steady supply of always orthodox and often able people to Democratic as well as Republican administrations. This community was the heart of the American Establishment. Its household deities were Henry Stimson and Elihu Root; its present leaders, Robert Lovett and John J. McCloy; its front organizations, the Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie foundations and the Council on Foreign Relations; its organs, the New York Times and Foreign Affairs.” Once LBJ became president, he was one of Rockefeller’s biggest boosters and even encouraged him to run for president in 1968.

Roger: The making of the documentary is being postposed for a couple of months. In light of the delay the poster may have to be revised before being released to the public again.

Brian in his original posting wrote: "While there is a lot of evidence to suggest Nixon was not involved, I would argue that the research community as a whole has let Nixon off easy for being such an obvious suspect and his known propensity to do whatever was necessary for his political survival." Roger Stone's response asserts the case that Nixon was not "an obvious suspect." I agree. I concluded my memoir on Watergate posted Nov. 20, 2014, in this forum as follows: “President Nixon’s cosmic downfall because of Watergate was, in my opinion, blowback or what goes around, comes around, or perhaps a morphed form of Karma. This was because the principal purposes of the burglars going into the Democratic headquarters, in addition to getting lists of the clients of both the female and male prostitution rings thought to be there and to plant a new wiretap bug, was also to copy secret Cuban government intelligence reports suspected to be there. The documents linked through a chain of events a decision by Vice President Nixon in 1960 to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy three years later. It was about that “Bay of Pigs” thing. Possible possession of the reports by the Democrats, which included additional intelligence as to persons involved in JFK’s assassination, if released publicly during the 1972 presidential campaign, posed a serious threat to Nixon’s reelection but an even far more serious one to the CIA for its role in the assassination. “But that is a story for another time.” In the next week or so, I plan to post in the forum an abbreviated rest of the story based on what Howard Hunt told me shortly before he entered prison in 1975 to serve the sentence that Judge Sirica had imposed on him for his role in Watergate. http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=21500

Bob Woodward’s Intelligence Credentials & Assassination Politics of the Nixon Era By Alex Constantine / Covert War Against Rock May 22nd, 2013 http://www.constantinereport.com/bob-woodwards-intelligence-credentials-assassination-politics-of-the-nixon-era/ [Poster's note: Lyn Colodny posted this article on Facebook today and I thought it pertinent enough to reproduce here for informational purposes.]

Roger Stone again responds: I appreciate the constructive dialog on the issues at hand. Due to my having known Martha Mitchell personally, seeing her instability first hand and understanding her deep hatred for Charles Colson, who was both an internal political rival of her husband and the man she blamed for embroiling John Mitchell in Watergate, I take her claims with a huge grain of salt. Martha Mitchell would certainly have read about or heard the Watergate tapes in which Colson suggests scapegoating Mitchell for the entire Watergate affair. I don't ignore her claims but I do discount them. In this case they are self-serving. As for the murder of RFK I find it interesting that both MLK and RFK were killed after a FBI wiretap picked up King telling an associate of his intention to endorse Robert Kennedy in the 1968 contest. RFK startled his own staff days before the California primary when he told a college audience that as president he would reopen the file on his brother's assassination. I interviewed the late Frank Mankiewicz, RFK's Press Secretary, on this point. Those who killed John Kennedy would without a doubt have been alarmed. The man with access to the content of the FBI taps on King was LBJ, not Richard Nixon. In fact Nixon wanted to run against Robert Kennedy because by 1968 RFK, who was far more polarizing than his brother, would have been unable to carry any southern state. Recall that in 1960 the deep southern states went for JFK largely because of LBJ's presence on the ticket and Johnson's quiet assurances to southern Democrats that JFK would not really move any civil rights legislation. Only by winning the states in the Deep South did JFK narrowly beat Nixon in 1960. Pat Buchanan, a Nixon aide at the time, writes in his most recent book that Nixon savored a faceoff with Bobby because of this changed dynamic. Nixon himself told me he preferred RFK as his opponent in 1968 although he did not tell me this until 1985. Nixon believed RFK's open opposition to the Vietnam War would have locked him out of the Deep South. I totally agree with Brian Schmidt that the forces that killed JFK also killed RFK (and MLK) and I intend to write a future book on both. Henry Cabot Lodge was posted in Saigon where the CIA was running counter-insurgency operations. The Lodge brothers were also close to Allen Dulles. Cabot Lodge was clearly complicit in the murder of Diem in which he worked hand-in-glove with the Agency. It is conjecture on my part but I think Lodge learned of the plot to kill JFK from his CIA contacts. I am grateful to my friend Doug Caddy for posting this dialog on the Education Forum.

Roger Stone has requested that I post his response to statements made in this thread and it is my privilege to do so: ----------------------------------- I fully recognize that history has branded Richard Nixon as a villain and the man people love to hate but the posting by Brian Schmidt claiming Nixon was somehow complicit in John Kennedy's murder is rich with conjecture and inference and devoid of any actual evidence. While there is substantial evidence of Lyndon Johnson's involvement including fingerprint evidence tying LBJ close associate and convicted murderer Malcolm 'Mac" Wallace to the assassination, there is no such evidence tying Nixon to the crime. As many as six eyewitnesses report to either the FBI or the Dallas Police seeing a man closely meeting the description of Wallace in the sixth floor window of the Texas School book depository as detailed in my late friend James Tague’s excellent book, LBJ and the Kennedy Killing. Many critics have claimed Nixon's attended a post midnight meeting at the ranch of LBJ crony and Nixon campaign donor Curt Murchison Sr. I believe they are conflating a reception honoring J. Edgar Hoover earlier in the evening at the Murchison spread with a the late night meeting behind closed doors which included Hoover, Ed Clark, D.H. Byrd, H.L. Hunt lawyer John Carrington and the late arriving LBJ. To those who say this is not possible because LBJ was "seen” in Fort Worth that night I would refer them to Phil Nelson's excellent book, LBJ- the Colossus, which details Johnson's frequent use of a body double, a Johnson cousin who would later die mysteriously. In Nigel Turner's excellent television presentation, The Men Who Killed Kennedy Part 9, both the Murchison housekeeper and chauffeur confirm the late night final planning session at Murchison's residence. Nixon, however, was seen in the roof top restaurant at his Dallas hotel as late as 11:30 that night as reported by the Dallas Morning News. On November 21st Nixon held at press conference in his suite at the Baker Hotel in Dallas predicting JFK would drop LBJ from the 1964 ticket because of the latter's growing vulnerability in both the Bobby Baker and Billie Sol Estes scandals. I confirmed that Johnson and Nixon spoke that morning and LBJ told Nixon he was concerned by the "atmosphere of hate" in Dallas and that he asked Nixon to "tamp down" Congressman Bruce Alger, the only Republican in the Texas Congressional delegation and a vociferous critic of Kennedy. Perhaps that's why, upon learning of Kennedy's murder, Nixon called FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and asked him "was it one of those right-wing nuts?" That Hoover responded "No, Dick, it was a communist" shows Hoover giving Nixon the party line. Nixon, for his part, called on the people of Dallas to give the President a courteous and polite reception in his hotel press conference. In 1963 Nixon was powerless. Sure he still nursed political ambitions and knew all the players but he had no governmental power. He was also one year past from his disastrous 1962 run for Governor of California for which he had substantial problems raising money. Nixon was considered washed up and politically dead in 1963. Who did Nixon control in 1963? The CIA ? The FBI? The Dallas Police? The Dallas District Attorney? The answer is none of these. Somehow Schmidt believes that Nixon was in on the Kennedy murder because he traveled to Vietnam to secure the release of a POW. When Jesse Jackson negotiates privately for release of US hostages he's a hero but when Nixon does it (while out of office) it is somehow proof of his involvement in Kennedy's murder. Absurd. There is substantial evidence that it didn't take long for Nixon to figure out who did kill Kennedy. His body man, Nick Ruwe, was adamant that Nixon recognized Ruby on television. In 1972 Nixon would tell former LBJ aide George Christiansen,”Well, Lyndon never liked being No. 2 to anyone." Nixon himself would tell me. “the difference between Lyndon and me was-- we both wanted to be President but I wasn't willing to kill for it." It's true that Nixon told two different stories about when he learned of Kennedy's murder. At the time Nixon landed at Idlewild airport after flying from Dallas to New York it was known that Kennedy had been shot but that he had not yet been declared dead. Nixon would first claim that he heard on the taxi-cab radio that JFK was dead, then claim he heard it from a woman on a street corner while stopped at a red-light. I chalk this up to Nixon's desire to be seen in the best possible light: he understood his public imagery was inextricably linked to JFK, even in death. Nixon's doorman at his Fifth Avenue apartment house confirmed Kennedy's death. Minutes later Nixon would call Hoover to ask who was responsible. Why would he do so if he already knew? Schmidt claims, without foundation, that Johnson and Nixon had a "deal." Really? What was in it for Nixon? For Nixon to see his immediate benefit in Kennedy's murder he would have foreseen the rise and defeat of Goldwater (he didn't), LBJ's escalation of the Vietnam War and his subsequent unpopularity and withdrawal from the 1968 race, as well as the murders of both MLK and RFK, all of which created a "perfect storm" for his comeback. While Nixon was a consummate politician, no one could have foreseen this turn of events in the immediate aftermath of Kennedy's murder. Nixon's efforts to obtain the CIA's files on Kennedy's assassination, which he called 'the whole Bay of Pigs thing,” proves he understood the CIA's role in the murder and wanted the proof to obstruct the agency’s opposition to his Vietnam withdrawal, China opening and SALT agreement with the Russians. Later he would want the goods as a hedge against impeachment. According the deputy FBI director William Sullivan, Nixon was fully aware of Warren Commission member Gerald Ford's alteration of the Kennedy autopsy records to accommodate the so called "single bullet theory". This best explains Ford's subsequent pardon of Nixon that most likely cost Ford re-election Schmidt goes on to accuse Nixon of complicity in the assassination attempt on George Wallace .Wallace was shot while running for President as a Democrat and after the legal deadlines had passed to get on the ballot as an Independent in most states. Wallace ran as a Democrat after John Mitchell leveraged Wallace's brother Gerald's IRS problems by threatening Wallace away from a problematic Independent candidacy. Murray Chotiner told me this directly and it is confirmed in a book by Clark Mollenhoff. Wallace was creating chaos in the Democratic primaries with no prospect of nomination. What would have been Nixon's motive to have him murdered? By 1972 he was no political threat to Nixon. Nixon certainly understood that those who voted for Wallace in the 1972 primaries would support him over liberal George McGovern in the general election. It's easy to hate Nixon. He was a man of immense contradictions and flaws as well as great vision. But the idea that Kennedy's death alone opened a pathway to Nixon's return to viability or that he was a participant in Kennedy’s murder in any way is unsupportable with any solid evidence.

http://quixoticjoust.blogspot.com/2015_03_01_archive.html Part II of A Tale about a Tail Number

LEE H. OSWALD AND RUTH HYDE PAINE: The Big Picture by Linda Minor February 4, 2015 Edited Remarks from JFK Conference http://quixoticjoust.blogspot.com/2015/02/edited-remarks-from-jfk-conference.html