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  1. Nixon’s Gamble: How A President’s Own Secret Government Betrayed His Administration


    The new book by Ray Locker


    Description: After being sworn in as president, Richard Nixon told the assembled crowd that “government will listen. ... Those who have been left out, we will try to bring in.” But that same day, he obliterated those pledges of greater citizen control of government by signing National Security Decision Memorandum 2, a document that made sweeping changes to the national security power structure. Nixon’s signature erased the influence that the departments of State and Defense, as well as the CIA, had over Vietnam and the course of the Cold War. The new structure put Nixon at the center, surrounded by loyal aides and a new national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, who coordinated policy through the National Security Council under Nixon’s command. Using years of research and revelations from newly released documents, USA Today reporter Ray Locker upends much of the conventional wisdom about the Nixon administration and its impact and shows how the creation of this secret, unprecedented, extra-constitutional government undermined U.S. policy and values. In doing so, Nixon sowed the seeds of his own destruction by creating a climate of secrecy, paranoia, and reprisal that still affects Washington today.


    https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781493009312


  2. Joachim Joesten published The Dark Side of Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1968. Joesten argued that Lyndon B. Johnson and Bobby Baker were involved in the killing: "The Baker scandal then is truly the hidden key to the assassination, or more exact, the timing of the Baker affair crystallized the more or less vague plans to eliminate Kennedy which had already been in existence the threat of complete exposure which faced Johnson in the Baker scandal provided that final impulse he was forced to give the go-ahead signal to the plotters who had long been waiting for the right opportunity."

    http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKjoesten.htm

    Jon: Yes, LBJ had a hand in both the murder of JFK and the cover-up that began immediately thereafter.

  3. Another Look at Gerald Posner

    By Mike Golden

    September 30, 2010

    The Exiled

    From the article: Outside of the non-existence of Holloman and Raul in the “lone gun” narrative Campbell created, probably the biggest faux pas Posner made in Killing The Dream was to out Jack Valenti. By getting the then President and CEO of The Motion Picture Association of America to deny in print the charges witness Glenda Grabow had made that she had appeared in kiddie porn films for Valenti and his partner Jack Ruby when she was a 14-year-old elementary school dropout in the Houston area in 1961-62, Posner got “the Little Valet” (as LBJ used to call his former top aide) to publicly deny it ever happened. Thus, putting something on the record that probably never would have appeared as anything but backroom innuendo.

    Who let the MPAA gnome onto Air Force One at a moment like this?

    Even three years after his death, the former head of the Motion Picture Rating Bureau, for all practical intents and purposes, remains the 5,000-pound gorilla in this investigation — a name so big, a charge so outrageous – those factors, probably more than any other, ran Oliver Stone off the film he was in the process of making about the MLK assassination. Up until the time Posner got Valenti to deny the non-public accusations, his name had only been whispered (along with Ruby’s) in the inner circles of both sides of the investigation. Posner’s explanation in Killing The Dream could serve as the punchline of why “it was impossible for (Glenda) Grabow to have seen (Jack) Valenti in Houston during most of the time she claimed (she was doing kiddie porn for him and Jack Ruby), since he was living and working in Washington, D.C. in a high profile job in the Johnson administration (p. 305).”

    Of course, what makes Posner’s fact finding so good is that Grabow always claimed what happened with Ruby & Valenti happened long before the JFK assassination, and Valenti, as anyone who knows anything about history knows, didn’t move to Washington to work for LBJ until the fateful moment he boarded Air Force One at Love Field in Dallas to watch the new President sworn in and bring the body of the dead one back to the Capital, on November 22, 1963. The only explanation for why Posner’s Editor didn’t catch his gross bungling of facts is that this is the kind of xxxx that always seems to happen when attempting to pound square pegs of evidence into round holes of a pre-orchestrated conclusion.

    http://exiledonline.com/assassination-by-omission-another-look-at-serial-plagiarist-gerald-posner/

  4. http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2015/02/18


    Much of last night’s coasttocoastam radio program was devoted to the death of Marilyn Monroe. The program’s two guests have written a new book, “The Murder of Marilyn Monroe: Case closed.” They link Robert Kennedy directly to Monroe’s death (see the program summary above.) In the last two minutes of the three hour interview, one of the guests opined that he was confident that James Files was the assassin of JFK because nothing had been shown to disprove this. By uttering this opinion he likely cast doubt on the credibility of his new book on Marilyn Monroe’s death.




    http://www.amazon.com/Murder-Marilyn-Monroe-Case-Closed/dp/1628737573/ctoc





    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2630449/EXCLUSIVE-Bobby-Kennedy-ordered-Marilyn-Monroes-murder-lethal-injection-prevent-revealing-torrid-affairs-RFK-JFK-dirty-Kennedy-family-secrets-new-book-claims.html

  5. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=43820420

    John Kinser was one of the murder victims of LBJ, along with President Kennedy, as listed by Billie Sol Estes in my letter sent in his behalf to the U.S. Justice Department in 1984 when Estes was seeking immunity to testify as to what he knew.

    http://home.earthlink.net/~sixthfloor/estes.htm

  6. The title of this forum is "JFK Assassination Debate."

    The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines "debate" as follows: "(1)To discuss a question by considering opposed arguments.(2) To take part in a debate."

    Therefore, David, as a member of the forum you have a right to put forth an argument on any aspect of the JFK assassination just as do all other members.

    We are not like a servile Congress such as when the President declared the U.S. must attack Saddam's Iraq because he had weapons of mass destruction and there was no debate and it turned out later there were no weapons of mass destruction.

    Healthy debate is good.

  7. News Corp won't be prosecuted in US in relation to phone hacking

    News Corp has been notified it will not face charges in the US in relation to phone hacking and payments to public officials by US authorities

    The Guardian

    Feb. 2, 2015

    Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation will not face any charges in the US in relation to phone hacking and payments to public officials by News of the World journalists in the UK, the company said.

    “News Corporation was notified by the United States Department of Justice that it has completed its investigation of voicemail interception and payments to public officials in London and is declining to prosecute the company or 21st Century Fox,” the company said in a regulatory filing.

    The company had faced the threat of an investigation under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which bans US companies from attempting to bribe foreign officials.

    Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox, Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.”

    It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.

    The Department of Justice (DoJ) said: “Based upon the information known to the Justice Department at this time, it has closed its investigation into News Corp regarding possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act concerning bribes allegedly paid for news leads. If additional information or evidence should be made available in the future, the Department reserves the right to reopen the inquiry.”

    The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the US regulator, declined to comment.

    Experts had said it was unlikely that News Corp would face a US investigation in direct relation to phone hacking, unless it could be proved that News Corp employees hacked people’s phones while they were in the US. The actor Jude Law has claimed that his phone, and that of his assistant, were hacked shortly after arriving at New York’s JFK airport. Their mobile telephones were operating on US networks, meaning that regardless of where the alleged hacker was based, US law could apply.

    However, legal experts said it was possible that US authorities could investigate News Corp over News of the World journalists’ alleged payments to police and other officials as this would breach the strict FCPA rules design to stamp out bad behaviour by US companies abroad.

    Norman Siegel, the US attorney for a group of relatives of September 11 victims who suspected they may have been hacked, said they had been blindsided by Monday’s announcement.

    “The attorney general promised my clients that before the department published any statement, they would meet with us, and explain what their inquiry had found and what their conclusions were,” Siegel said. “So this is very disappointing that they did not fulfil their promise. I will be calling the attorney general to request that meeting.”

    Murdoch closed the News of the World in 2011 after it was revealed that reporters from the paper had hacked into the voicemails of Milly Dowler, a missing schoolgirl who had been murdered. Both Murdoch and his son James were called to testify before parliament.

    The decision not to prosecute News Corp comes seven months after the marathon hacking trial which saw Rebekah Brooks, the company’s former chief executive of its British publishing operation News International, cleared of both hacking and charges that she approved payments to public officials.

    Andy Coulson, Brooks’ former deputy editor at the News of the World, along with four newsdesk executives, Greg Miskiw, Neville Thurlbeck, James Weatherup and Ian Edmondson, were either found guilty or pleaded guilty to voicemail interception.

    A sixth former News of the World employee, reporter Dan Evans, also pleaded guilty to hacking including the interception of voicemails left by actor Sienna Miller on the phone of James Bond star Daniel Craig.

    Since September, 11 journalists employed or formerly employed by News of the World and the Sun have been tried in relation to allegations of payments to public officials and to handling stolen mobile phones handed into the paper.

    Four former or current Sun journalists have been found not guilty on charges relating to payments. Five Sun journalists face retrial in relation to similar charges after juries could not reach a verdict.

    One Sun journalist has been found guilty in relation to a mobile phone while one former Sun journalist has been found not guilty to a similar charge.

    A further four Sun journalists are currently on trial at the Old Bailey in London charged with conspiring to cause misconduct in public office in relation to alleged unlawful payments to public officials for stories.

    At the height of the investigation into alleged malpractice at the News of the World, influential Democratic senator Jay Rockefeller, said the hacking scandal “raises questions about whether the company has broken US law”.

    Last year, the DOJ and SEChanded out several large fines in relation to FCPA investigations including $772m to French industrial giant Alstom, $135m to Avon and $108m to Hewlett-Packard.

    Murdoch split his newspaper operations from his Fox entertainment empire last year.

  8. E. Howard Hunt ghost-wrote Allen Dulles’ book, The Craft of Intelligence, which was published in 1963, the same year as JFK’s Assassination. Hunt was a great admirer of the Dulles brothers.


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Dulles


    http://www.amazon.com/Craft-Intelligence-Legendary-Fundamentals-Gathering-ebook/dp/B00MJDA27C/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422718286&sr=1-1&keywords=the+craft+of+intelligence


    The readers’ comments on Amazon regarding Allen Dulles’ book, which was later reissued, are illuminating. The first one cites David Atlee Phillips’s book on intelligence, The Night Watch.


    http://www.amazon.com/Night-Watch-Years-Peculiar-Service/dp/0689107544/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422719177&sr=1-1&keywords=the+night+watch+by+david+atlee+phillips


  9. http://www.reopenkennedycase.org/apps/forums/topics/show/13114623-why-judyth-baker-must-be-shut-down?page=last

    The above lengthy statement by Greg Parker (whom I do not know) was posted on Facebook. It appears that not only Judyth must be "shut down", but also TrineDay books and Kris Millegan and others. Cannibalism is running amok.

    It all reminds me of why John Simkin at one time shut down this forum after even he was attacked on his own forum by one of the moderators no less.

    The JFK assassination community is comprised of an infinitely small number of persons in contrast to the U.S. and foreign country populations. This Operation Genocide against Judyth and others is self-defeating and will turn off thoughtful persons who might be interested in learning more about JFK when they conclude their time can be spent better elsewhere.

    I support the First Amendment's right to freedom of speech and the concept of the free marketplace of ideas. I can say this without reservation even though I have never met Judyth or read her books. I have a long list of books I want to read, including Judyth's and those of forum members, if I ever get the opportunity to do so.

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