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CIA Plans Huge Release of Top-Secret Reports From the 1960s BY JEFF STEIN 8/26/15 Newsweek http://www.newsweek.com/cia-john-f-kennedy-lyndon-johnson-366120 Updated | The Central Intelligence Agency is set to release 2,500 previously top-secret briefings it gave to presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960s, a private pro-CIA group announced on Wednesday. “The vast majority of the documents have never been previously released,” an informed official says, although a number of CIA presidential briefings have surfaced in heavily redacted form over the years. Intelligence officials from the Kennedy and Johnson administrations have also discussed their private conversations with the presidents in memoirs and other books. The reports, customarily provided personally to the president each morning by a senior CIA officer, if not the director himself, will almost certainly show much of what the spy agency was telling Kennedy and Johnson about Vietnam, Cuba, the Soviet Union, China and conflicts in Africa and the Middle East. They may well also include the CIA’s private assessments of world leaders. Try Newsweek for only $1.25 per week But expectations should be low for the new materials, says Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Kai Bird. “I bet they are on the whole surprisingly dull [and only] occasionally insightful,” cautions Bird, author of a biography of McGeorge and William Bundy, brothers who held top national security posts in both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Such memos are "at their best when they are telling the president what he doesn’t want to hear about the Cold War, the Vietnam War or the Middle East,” adds Bird, who is working on a book about the Jimmy Carter presidency. “But that would be decidedly rare.” It could not be immediately learned whether the CIA records to be released include what the agency told Johnson about the November 1963 assassination of his predecessor, Kennedy. Many critics have leveled unproven charges over the years that CIA-linked personnel may have been involved in the assassination. “The President’s Daily Brief (PDB) contains the highest level intelligence analysis of key national security issues and concerns of the president,” the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO), a Virginia-based organization with a national membership of thousands, said in the announcement Wednesday on its website. “Only the president, the vice president, and a select group of cabinet-level officials designated by the president receive the briefing,” the AFIO said. Intelligence historian Christopher Andrews once called the PDB the world’s “smallest circulation, most highly classified, and—in some respects—best informed daily newspaper.” The papers are to be released September 16 at a public forum at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, and will be available then on the agency’s website. The agency has previously posted PDBs and other declassified materials on its historical collections page. CIA Director John O. Brennan will present the event’s keynote speech, the AFIO said. Other former high-ranking intelligence officials, including Porter Goss, a CIA director during the George W. Bush administration, and Bobby Inman, a former CIA deputy director and National Security Agency chief, are slotted to speak as well. The declassified documents, released as part of the CIA’s Historical Review Program, will also be available online, the AFIO said.

Journalist writes play outlining Chicago Outfit’s involvement in JFK’s assassination August 24, 2015 Morning Shift WBEZ 91.5 http://www.wbez.org/programs/morning-shift/2015-08-24/journalist-writes-play-outlining-chicago-outfit%E2%80%99s-involvement-jfk

Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked by Patrick Iber August 24, 2015 The awl.com http://www.theawl.com/2015/08/literary-magazines-for-socialists-funded-by-the-cia-ranked

The issue of there being or not being a group such as Majestic 12 (and its successors) is not very complicated. If you are President of the United States and are presented with credible evidence that that Planet Earth is being visited by a non-terrestrial Alien Presence, you undoubtedly would create such a small elite group comprised of some of the best minds in the country to monitor the Alien Presence. If you are President of the United States and are never presented with any credible evidence that Planet Earth is being visited by a non-terrestrial Alien Presence, then you would take no such action. What action, if any, did President Truman take?

David: First an apology for being so tardy in replying to your query. From my reading of the Oval Office tapes it is obvious that John Dean was masterminding the cover-up and that Nixon, Haldeman and Ehrlichman were not aware that Dean had his own conflicting personal agenda. It was not until almost a year later before they woke up to Dean's scheming. Dean, working through Henry Petersen, the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division in the U.S. Department of Justice, took steps to assure that on July 19, 1972, any testimony by me before the grand jury about being approached with the hush money would cut off, which is what happened. My guess is that the Silbert, Campbell and Glanzer were directed by Petersen acting upon Dean's orders to make certain my testimony that day would deal only with the 38 questions that I had refused to answer based on the attorney-client privilege, none of which dealt with the hush money. However, I did manage to start testimony about the mysterious phone calls I had received before Glanzer cut me off. I got that much into the record. I do not think that these three prosecutors or Sirica were aware of my being approached with the hush money that I turned down on July 6th. That said, I do believe that my home and office phone was wiretapped soon after I appeared at the arraignment of the five arrest defendants on June 17, 1972. Thus, the phone calls to me from Anthony Ulasewicz from July 2-6 that dealt with the hush money were known immediately by certain parties unfriendly to Nixon. Foremost among these was Washington, D.C. Police Detective Carl Shoffler who was actually a military intelligence agent trained on eavesdropping and wiretapping by the NSA. Schoffler and his military intelligence principals wanted to bring Nixon down. Thus, it was only a question of time as to when the hush money scandal would be leaked by them that would disclose I turned down the hush money but that Hunt's new attorney, William Bittman, a former Justice Department prosecutor, accepted the money. James McCord's letter to Sirica not long after he was convicted exposed the hush money, thus saving Shoffler and his military intelligence principals from doing so at a later date chosen by them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXA2T23yoFU&feature=youtu.be

Daily Mail August 24, 2015 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3209187/Unseen-photos-teenage-JFK-offer-rare-glimpse-future-president-s-time-prestigious-prep-school-known-troublemaker.html

Steven: It is my understanding that there were three hit teams in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The first team was successful in assassinating JFK near the School Book Depository. A second team was in wait at the Mercantile Trade Mart where JFK was to give the luncheon address. Its services were not required. A third team, whose services were also not required, was to assassinate him at the airport as he prepared to depart Dallas. This team was headed by "Big Al" Carone (see links below). There was no way JFK was going to depart Dallas alive on that fateful day. http://www.amazon.com/BAGMAN-Secret-Life-Albert-Carone/dp/1411683315 http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=6972

I listened to Donald being interviewed on coasttocoastam last night and he did a superb job. His commanding performance easily puts him among the best interviewees who have appeared over the years on the prestigious program. He cited our forum in discussing the JFK assassination, which was one of the topics he covered. Here is a summary of the program: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2015/08/21

The Rockefeller Initiative 1993-1996 http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Rockefeller_Initiative_Documents.htm

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2015/08/21 Preview of tonight's show featuring Donald.

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BREAKING NEWS [posted on Facebook by Jim Marrs] NEW STUDY OF JFK AUTOPSY REVEALS FALISIFICATION OF X-RAY Recent find adds weight to conspiracy theories of government cover-up in the Kennedy assassination By Jim Marrs author of Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy August 19, 2015 A bullet fragment depicted in an autopsy X-ray used to implicate Lee Harvey Oswald in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy recently has been found to be a faked artifact superimposed on the X-ray sometime after JFK’s autopsy. Such tampering with official evidence could not have been accomplished without the knowledge of high-level federal officials and adds considerable weight to the claims of government cover-up in that tragic event The X-ray fabrication was the topic of a 2015 paper by Dr. David Dr. Mantik published in issue three of Medical Research Archives, an international scientific peer-reviewed journal publishing articles in all disciplines of medicine, with a focus on new research. Oswald, an ex-Marine who had attempted to defect to Russia in 1959, was identified in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson’s handpicked commission headed by Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren as the lone assassin of President Kennedy. The Warren Commission concluded that Oswald had used a 6.5 mm Italian WWII carbine to shoot Kennedy from the sixth-floor of a book depository building in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963. In 1968, amid controversy over the commission’s conclusion, the Justice Department selected four prominent medical experts to review the JFK autopsy evidence. This became known as the Clark Panel, named after then-Atty. General Ramsey Clark. Although, the panels’ report was delayed until after the New Orleans JFK conspiracy trial led by Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison, in 1969 it concluded that the Warren Commission had been correct in its major findings though some issues remained in question, such as the location of the president’s head wound. Interestingly, it was this Clark Panel report that first mentioned a fragment said to be from a 6.5 mm bullet found in the anterior-posterior (AP) X-ray of Kennedy’s skull. The image of this fragment became a critical piece of evidence, although it was not mentioned anywhere in the 26-volumes of the Warren Commission nor in the original autopsy report. The fragment in question has been described as “the most curious—and unsolved—mystery in the history of diagnostic radiology.” Larry Sturdivan, a ballistics consultant to the House Select Commission on Assassinations (HSCA), created by Congress in 1976 in the midst of continuing controversy over Kennedy’s death, studied this fragment and concluded the object could not be metal and that he had never seen the cross-section of a bullet deposited in such an odd fashion on a skull X-ray. “I’m not sure just what that 6.5 mm fragment is,” reported Sturdivan. “One thing I’m sure it is NOT is a cross-section from the interior of a bullet. I have seen literally thousands of bullets, deformed and un-deformed, after penetrating tissue and tissue simulants. Some were bent, some torn in two or more pieces, but to have a cross-section sheared out is physically impossible. That fragment has a lot of mystery associated with it.” Mystery indeed, as the HSCA had relied on the authenticity of this fragment as key evidence in connecting the 6.5 mm bullet piece to Lee Harvey Oswald. Furthermore, the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), formed by Congress in 1994 to study all government documents relating to the assassination, the three JFK autopsy doctors testified under oath that they had never seen such a fragment during the autopsy. The mystery deepened in 2015 with the work of Dr. David Mantik, a California physician, who along with Dr. Cyril Wecht, a former president of the American Academy of Forensic Science, had studied the JFK X-rays and other material for nine days at the National Archives. “Hundreds of optical density measurements were made from the (supposed) original skull X-rays, with a specific focus on the 6.5 mm object that lies within JFK’s right orbit on the AP skull X-ray,” said Dr. Mantik. After careful study, Dr. Mantik saw the fragment was strangely transparent. He realized this artifact had been added to the JFK X-ray in the darkroom. He explained it was accomplished by means of a double exposure of a 6.5 mm aperture, such as a 6.5 mm hole in a piece of cardboard. “[T]he first step was to imprint the image from the original X-ray onto a duplicate film (via a light box in the dark room). The second step was another exposure that imprinted the 6.5 mm image onto the duplicate film (i.e., superimposing it over the image of the original X-ray). This duplicate film was then developed to yield the image [as it appears in the X-ray]. This process inevitably produces a phantom effect, whereby objects (e.g., bullet fragments in this case) on the original film are seen separately [emphasis in the original] from the superimposed 6.5 mm image. On JFK’s AP skull X-ray, the original metal fragment (that lay at the back of the skull) can be seen separately through the 6.5 mm image.” Dr. Mantik added that the double exposure was so unprofessional it produced a significant overexposure of the 6.5 mm image. He even found one tiny particle of bullet metal inside the 6.5 mm object, indicating the use of a well-known Hollywood technique using photographic double exposure. Using studies of optical density, which differentiates the lightness or darkness of specific points on X-ray film, Dr. Mantik was able to determine that some time before the 1968 Clark Panel, someone in a darkroom had superimposed the fake bullet fragment onto Kennedy’s X-ray. Following his extensive study of this issue, Dr. Mantik concluded, “This mysterious 6.5 mm image was (secretly) added to the original X- ray via a second exposure. The alteration of the AP X-ray was likely completed shortly after the autopsy. Its proximate purpose was to implicate Lee Harvey Oswald and his supposed 6.5 mm Mannlicher-Carcano carbine, to the exclusion of any other suspect, and thereby to rule out a possible conspiracy.” Dr.Mantik said while the purpose of the X-ray alteration could only have been to “implicate the 6.5 mm Mannlicher-Carcano carbine (supposedly owned by Oswald) in the assassination. Its ultimate purpose, however, awaits resolution by professional historians, who have been remarkably reticent about accepting responsibility for their task.” In his paper, Dr. Mantik identified Dr. John H. Ebersole, the assistant chief radiologist at Bethesda Naval Hospital, as the one person who had the means and opportunity to devise the X-ray forgery. Dr. Ebersole, aided by X-ray technicians Jerrol Custer and Edward Reed, took the X-rays of Kennedy’s head the night of the Autopsy. At that time no one saw any evidence of a bullet in the X-rays. Custer said the next day, contrary to protocol, he burned the page in the duty log concerning the taking of Kennedy’s X-rays on the order of Dr. Ebersole. Custer also recalled that after the autopsy he was instructed by Dr. Ebersole to make X-rays of bullet fragments taped onto skull X-rays. However, no such X-rays were ever made public. Mantik opined that probably it was decided “alteration was easier to perform in the darkroom via a double exposure.” Dr. Mantik also found that several weeks after the assassination, Dr. Ebersole was called to the Johnson White House ostensibly to assist in preparing a bust of Kennedy. “More likely, in my opinion, the reason for his summons to the White House was to see how he would react to the now-altered X-rays,” said Dr. Mantik. “Based on this episode then, the alteration must have occurred within several weeks (quite possibly immediately) after the assassination.” He added that such actions might “explain why the radiologist, Dr. Ebersole, refused to discuss this artifact with me. After all, he was the single individual most likely to possess the required expertise and creativity to perform X–ray alteration.” Dr. Ebersole died in 1993, shortly after his conversation with Dr. Mantik. JFK’S X-RAY VS. AUTOPSY PHOTOGRAPH --- The vertical arrow on the X-ray, left, of the anterior-posterior (AP) right side of Kennedy’s skull previously has been identified as a fragment of a 6.5 mm carbine bullet and used to link the wound to the rifle of Lee Harvey Oswald. Dr. David W. Mantik, after arduous study, found this evidence was a fabrication superimposed on the X-ray sometime after Kennedy’s autopsy. Also shown, at right, is an altered X-ray that Mantik prepared to demonstrate how objects could be superimposed on X-rays using techniques available in 1963. In recent years, Custer has even questioned the validity of the X-rays themselves. In 1992, after studying the JFK X-rays in the National Archives, Custer decclared, “These are fake X-rays.” Dr. Mantik’s conclusions have been supported by others, including Dr, Michael Chesser, an Arkansas neurologist, who noted, “I viewed the original autopsy skull X-rays at the archives this year [2015] and I confirmed his optical density readings of the lateral skull film, which support his conclusion that there was manipulation. Hopefully there will come a time when better copies of the autopsy x-rays and photographs will be made available for review by a wider audience and the evidence will speak for itself. I applaud Dr. David Mantik for his courage in reporting the truth.” Douglas P. Horne, the ARRB’s chief analyst for military records including the Bethesda autopsy, commented. “The fact that Dr. Mantik's scientific paper on the forgery indicators present in the A-P skull x-ray has survived the rigorous gauntlet of scientific peer review is further indication that his arguments about the three surviving JFK skull x-rays are sound, and worthy of the most serious consideration. … t is no longer possible for others who are not radiologists, or MDs (like he is), or who do not hold PhDs in physics (like he does), to dismiss his work as that of a mere 'enthusiast.'” “n the mid-1990s, I recognized the scientific validity of his pioneering work on the JFK skull x-rays, and at my recommendation he was requested by Jeremy Gunn, the General Counsel for the ARRB, to prepare questions for the three JFK autopsy pathologists… The answers the three JFK pathologists provided to his questions, under oath, corroborated Mantik's assertions that the three skull x-rays in the official collection are indeed copy films (not originals), and are altered images,” said Horne. He added, “The problem with the medical evidence has always been missing and tainted evidence---the destruction of some evidence, and the alteration of much of the evidence that remains in the record today --- [and] is representative of the fact that the U.S. government engaged in a massive cover-up of the way in which JFK died, and therefore intentionally engaged in selling the American people a false bill of goods in regard to how our government changed hands in November of 1963." # # # #

The Parkland Doctors - John F. Kennedy https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-parkland-doctors-john-f-kennedy#/story

From the article: We decided it was a foregone conclusion that we would recommend against travel to Washington so soon after this major illness,” Dr. Ross recalled in an article for the American Clinical and Climatological Association. “However, we saw no course open to us but to go ahead with the plan to examine the records and to visit Mr. Nixon at San Clemente.” “He seemed more ill and weak than one might have expected a month after an operation,” Dr. Ross wrote. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/15/health/richard-s-ross-johns-hopkins-dean-and-watergate-walk-on-dies-at-91.html

Library Journal Review: Locker, Ray. Nixons Gamble: How a Presidents Own Secret Government Destroyed His Administration. Lyons: Globe Pequot. Oct. 2015. 352p. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781493009312. $29.95; ebk. ISBN 9781493019458. BIOG Richard Nixon (191394) remains a fascinating subject for historians of all stripes. Locker, an investigative reporter for USA Today, applies his ample research skills to exploring Nixons penchant for secrecy and deception during his six years as president. The focus centers on Nixons three primary foreign policy goals: ending the Vietnam War, restoring diplomatic relations with China, and reducing Cold War tensions with the Soviet Union. In order to accomplish these disparate objectives, Locker maintains, Nixon created a complex secretive network so extensive that even his closest advisors, such as Henry Kissinger, didnt know the whole truth behind his actions. The author utilizes a wide range of primary and secondary resources to spin his tale, and at times the facts are indeed stranger than fiction as he lists the consequences of the National Security Decision Memoranda 2 and concludes that Nixons climate of secrecy continues to impact politics today. VERDICT A well-told, detailed account that will satisfy even the most dedicated Nixon scholar. ­Recommended for most collections.­ Ed Goedeken, Iowa State Univ. Lib., Ames

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government Hardcover – October 13, 2015 by David Talbot (Author) http://www.amazon.com/Devils-Chessboard-Dulles-Americas-Government/dp/0062276166/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1439864715&sr=1-1&keywords=david+talbot+the+devil%27s+chessboard

JFK in Trauma Room One: Last moments before his death

Ben Bradlee’s Not Such ‘A Good Life’ Consortiumnews.com March 10, 2015 By James DiEugenio https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/10/ben-bradlees-not-such-a-good-life/

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/ Donald is scheduled to be interviewed on Friday, August 21 The radio show is on 614 radio stations in the U.S. and Canada. http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/jeffries-donald/71725

Kennedy shares stories about famous family Cape Cod Times August 13, 2015 http://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20150813/NEWS/150819746

Geoff Shepard, Author of "The Real Watergate Scandal" Published August 11, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXA2T23yoFU&feature=youtu.be

Which of the President’s Men, Exactly? By James Ledbetter August 11, 2015 From: Jstor Daily http://daily.jstor.org/watergate-nixon-administration/

Exposing Nixon’s Vietnam Lies By James DiEugenio Consortiumnews.com August 11, 2015 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/08/no_author/nixons-vietnam-lies/

Poster's note: Immediately after JFK's assassination LBJ reversed JFK's Vietnam policy. Nixon inherited the Vietnam debacle that LBJ had engineered on behalf of the military-industrial complex, foremost being Brown & Root that profited immensely as U.S. war expenditures dramatically increased. Don't Blame Nixon for Scuttled Peace Overture By Jack Torry - August 9, 2015 Real Clear Politics http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/08/09/dont_blame_nixon_for_scuttled_peace_overture_127667.html