Douglas Caddy

I wonder why Hemming and the detractors of Howard Hunt never mention that during World War II he carried out an assignment that landed him and a few other OSS agents behind the Japanese lines in Burma. Hunt told me that one of the agents was captured by the Japanese and he and the others were helplessly forced to listen to his screams as the Japanese flayed him alive in a village one night. For Hemming and others of his persuasion, this would just be “Hollywood” theater it would appear. Nothing here, move along. “But Purefoy was very, very helpful. I won't say that we couldn't have done it without him, but it would just have been a little harder, a little more difficult. And then in Honduras we had Whitey Willard as ambassador, and he'd been a Flying Tiger in China at a time when I was in China, and although I didn't know him over there, everybody thought well of him, and he was the one who had to oversee all the black flights in and out of Honduras, the building of the radio station, all the transmission to keep...” E. Howard Hunt, interview for the television programme, Backyard (21st February, 1999) ---------------------------------------------------------- HH: Well, that's true. Of course, I'd known Allen in OSS; I was an OSS officer in World War II - that was the Office of Strategic Services - and I really had the feeling that he could do no wrong, and I was a fervent admirer of John Foster Dulles and of Eisenhower, and so I had no real doubts about their participation in any aspect of furthering or enhancing United States security. http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-18/hunt1.html -------------------------------------------------------- “Some writers depict Hunt as a minor figure, bumbling his way from one small White House operation to the next. However, a review of all the evidence shows that Hunt was consistently working on important tasks for the White House, on matters that interested the President. Hunt also kept expanding (or wanting to expand) his operations, which often overlapped with other projects that he sought out or pushed. The more Nixon operations Hunt became involved in, the highest his status in the White House and the better for his future. It was also good for his mentor, Richard Helms, since it gave him access to the White House (and FBI) information and operations. The President’s White House staff was expanding its illegal operations on his behalf so rapidly that Hunt had no problem finding Nixon aides who wanted Hunt’s services, to help them achieve the illicit goals the President wanted. That symbiotic relationship would soon grow so rapidly that it would start to spiral out of control, with disastrous results for all concerned.” From Watergate: The Hidden History by Lamar Waldron (2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEJhdFOeHbs Barr McClellan's press conference on the publication of his first book, Blood, Money and Power, in 2003.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/03/russia-tests-long-range-missile-amid-tension-201434201326810535.html New Russian missile against which it is claimed there is no defense.

Nixon, Rockefeller, IG Farben, and global control By John Rappoport Blacklistednews.com March 10, 2014 http://www.blacklistednews.com/Nixon%2C_Rockefeller%2C_IG_Farben%2C_and_global_control/33549/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Donald Segretti scene from All the President's Men http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/clips/donald-segretti-scene-from-all-the-presidents-men/view

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px87SP01eKw The airliner disappeared on March 8. The U.S. Navy announced its new laser on March 6. View the video above. There is speculation that the laser was used by the U.S. on the airliner to send a message to Putin because Russia had only a few days earlier successfully tested a new nuclear-armed missile against which there is no defense. The problem is that the Russian missile can travel 3000 miles at only 20 feet off the surface of the earth. The U.S. laser is only effective up to 10 miles and has to be positioned exactly right to hit its target.

Anthony Summers: Did the Mob target JFK? http://anthonysummersandrobbynswan.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/did-the-mob-target-jfk/

Anthony Summers on Lee Harvey Oswald http://anthonysummersandrobbynswan.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/lee-harvey-oswald-a-simple-defector/

Anthony Summers on the roles of Trafficante and Marcello http://anthonysummersandrobbynswan.wordpress.com/2013/11/23/the-claims-that-mafia-bosses-trafficante-and-marcello-admitted-involvement-in-assassinating-president-kennedy/

Dallas talk for COPA….November 22, ’13…..from Anthony Summers (did not go ahead, because of technical problems) http://anthonysummersandrobbynswan.wordpress.com/2013/11/24/intended-talk-to-copa-by-anthony-summers-where-the-jfk-case-sits-11222013/

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Roger Hilsman, Adviser to Kennedy on Vietnam, Dies at 94 By DOUGLAS MARTIN MARCH 10, 2014 The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/11/us/politics/roger-hilsman-adviser-to-kennedy-on-vietnam-dies-at-94.html?_r=0 Roger Hilsman, a foreign policy adviser in the Kennedy administration who helped draft a cable giving tacit American support to a coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam, died on Feb. 23 at his home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 94. His death, which was not widely reported at the time, was caused by complications of several strokes, his son Ashby said. As a Kennedy adviser, Mr. Hilsman — a combat veteran of World War II who later taught at Columbia University — helped develop crucial informal communications with Soviet officials during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. But his largest contribution was to Vietnam policy during the early stages of American involvement there. As assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern affairs, he joined with Michael Forrestal of the National Security Council and W. Averell Harriman, undersecretary of state for political affairs, to draft Cable 243 — often referred to as the Hilsman cable. Dated Aug. 24, 1963, it was sent to the United States ambassador to Saigon, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. The cable castigated President Diem’s brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, the head of South Vietnam’s security forces, for attacking pagodas of the country’s Buddhist majority under martial law. Reflecting White House fears that Mr. Nhu’s brutality could turn popular sentiment toward the Communists, the cable told Mr. Lodge to tell the Mr. Diem to get rid of Mr. Nhu. At the time, the United States had 16,000 military advisers in Vietnam. “If in spite of all your efforts, Diem remains obdurate and refuses, we must face the possibility that Diem himself cannot be preserved,” the cable said. Mr. Lodge, it said, “should urgently examine all possible alternative leadership and make detailed plans as to how we might bring about Diem’s replacement if this becomes necessary.” The cable, which was made public in later years by the National Security Archive, was approved by President John F. Kennedy but written with some urgency on a Saturday, when he, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and other senior officials were all out of town. Military officials were angry that they had been bypassed, according to Mr. Hilsman’s own records, now housed at the John F. Kennedy Library. Mr. Diem and his brother were killed in a coup by South Vietnamese generals in early November 1963, and it ushered in a period of political instability in Saigon that many historians believe led to an increase in American involvement in South Vietnam’s war with Communist North Vietnam and its South Vietnamese allies, the Viet Cong. In a 2010 interview with CNN, Mr. Hilsman insisted that Kennedy would not have escalated the war had be not been assassinated later that November. “From the beginning he was determined that it not be an American war,” he said. Mr. Hilsman’s view, as outlined in his book “To Move a Nation: The Politics of Foreign Policy in the Administration of John F. Kennedy” (1967), was that the war could not be won by conventional military means. He favored withdrawing rural civilians into what he called “strategic hamlets” and spraying defoliants to cut off the enemy’s food supply. “Our ultimate objective,” he wrote, “is to turn the Vietcong into hungry bands of outlaws devoting all their energies to staying alive.” David Halberstam, in his book “The Best and the Brightest” (1972), said Mr. Hilsman’s brashness had offended more hawkish senior officials. Johnson, he wrote, resented Mr. Hilsman’s role in pressuring Diem, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk resented his using his friendship with the president to bypass State Department channels. Four months after Johnson became president, Mr. Hilsman resigned. “Johnson did not like him,” Mr. Halberstam wrote. Roger Hilsman Jr. was born on Nov. 23, 1919, in Waco, Tex., the son of Roger and Emma Prendergast Hilsman. His father was an Army officer, and Roger Jr. grew up on military bases. He graduated from the United States Military Academy and in World War II was assigned to Merrill’s Marauders, a special forces jungle warfare unit in Burma led by Frank Merrill. Mr. Hilsman suffered multiple stomach wounds from machine gun fire. After recovering he joined the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime spy organization, and volunteered to lead a parachute mission into Manchuria to save prisoners held by the Japanese. In 1947, the Army sent him to Yale, where he earned a Ph.D. in international relations. He was assigned to Europe and then joined the Library of Congress, becoming deputy director of its foreign affairs division. He did research for John Kennedy when Kennedy was a United States senator and drafted memos for his 1960 presidential campaign. Kennedy named him director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research in the State Department in February 1961. He was promoted to assistant secretary in April 1963. He joined Columbia in 1964, teaching international relations, and retired in 1990. In addition to his son, Mr. Hilsman is survived by his wife of 67 years, the former Eleanor Hoyt; another son, Hoyt; his daughters Amy Kastely and Sarah Hilsman; and six grandchildren. One of the prisoners Mr. Hilsman saved in Manchuria was his father. The son liked to recall his father’s words as he hugged him: “What took you so long?”

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2014/3/7_Paul_Craig_Roberts__Greatest_Threat_The_World_Has_Ever_Known.html

Phone hacking trial: Rebekah Brooks questioned over affair with deputy Former News of the World editor tells court she and Andy Coulson had been close enough to share secrets By Nick Davies The Guardian, Thursday 6 March 2014 14.32 EST Rebekah Brooks on Thursday acknowledged that she and Andy Coulson had been close enough to share secrets with each other during two periods when they are accused of conspiring to produce stories based on intercepted voicemails. In tense cross-examination, Andrew Edis QC challenged Brooks over the meaning of a letter she wrote to Coulson in February 2004. Edis suggested the letter showed that they had been having an affair and sharing secrets for the preceding six years, during which time they published stories about Milly Dowler and David Blunkett which, the crown claims, were generated by hacking phone messages. Brooks repeatedly insisted that although she and Coulson had begun an affair in 1998, it had not continued for six years. The affair had stopped and both of them had got on with their lives before it had resumed briefly in 2003. "I hadn't been sitting there like Miss Havisham for six years," she said. At one point, Edis quoted part of the letter to Coulson in which she wrote: "I confide in you. I seek your advice." He asked her: "That included work matters, didn't it?" "It could have done." "Confide means trust – trust people with your confidences. No?" "Yes." "And that would include secrets relating to work?" "And emotional issues as well." Edis then referred to another passage in the letter in which Brooks wrote: "For six years I have waited." "It suggests doesn't it that the relationship had lasted six years?" Brooks said that was not correct. "You would be telling the truth when you were writing?" "I was in a very emotional state when I wrote this letter." "That's all the more reason why you would be telling the truth. It's your heart-felt anguish." "Yes." "Which is absolutely genuine." "Yes." He went on to repeat that the letter suggested they had had an affair for six years. Brooks replied: "That's not true … Andy had got on with his life. I'm clearly saying that it has been six years since we had got together… I had gone out, got married, tried to have a baby, got on with my life. "The emotional feeling that I had towards Andy obviously came out in the letter. But we didn't have an affair for six years. We were close friends, good friends." Edis turned to the state of their relationship in April 2002, when the crown claims that Brooks and Coulson plotted to use voicemail intercepted from the phone of the missing Surrey schoolgirl Milly Dowler. Brooks was then editor of the News of the World but Coulson, her deputy, was editing the paper while she was on holiday in Dubai. "At that time were you talking with him in that confidential way?" "We were close friends." "So you would trust each other?" "I trusted him as a friend and as a deputy editor." "If the deputy editor was committing a crime, he might not want the editor in normal circumstances to find out about it. But he might be able to tell the editor if he really trusted her." Edis paused. "Was the relationship in April 2002 such that Mr Coulson could trust you with any confidence at all?" "Yes," she whispered. Edis then asked her about August 2004 when, the court has heard, Coulson, as editor of the News of the World, revealed an affair between David Blunkett and a woman whose name he withheld; and Brooks, as editor of the Sun, followed up the next day by naming the woman as Kimberly Quinn, publisher of the Spectator magazine. The crown claims that Coulson obtained the story from messages which Blunkett had left on Quinn's phone and that he then passed her identity to Brooks. Brooks has told the jury that she wrote her letter to Coulson in February 2004 after he had told her he wanted to end their second period of physical intimacy. In the letter, she wrote that this meant that: "I can't discuss my worries, concerns, problems at work with you any more." Edis put it to her that by August 2004, they were "back talking confidentially to each other by then?" "We were certainly talking." "But in that confidential way?" "I think we were back to confiding, particularly on an emotional level by that stage." Edis then showed her the billing record for a mobile phone which Coulson was using in August 2004 which showed that he had phoned Brooks immediately before he met Blunkett in Sheffield to tell him he planned to publish a story about his affair. "Do you remember what he was saying to you?" Brooks said she could not remember, that Coulson had often called or texted her at the beginning of the day. Edis said: "He is in Sheffield, going to see a cabinet minister. Surely he told you that." "No. He didn't," she replied. She went to say that she thought she had come up with Quinn's name after checking stories which had previously been published which mentioned that Quinn knew Blunkett and that, based on that suspicion, she had "taken a punt" and called Blunkett's special adviser, Huw Evans, to persuade him to confirm that she was right. Edis said: "You would have to take a punt if you knew it was a phone-hacking story." "I didn't know it was a phone-hacking story," she said. "Didn't you?" Brooks and Coulson deny conspiring to intercept communications. The trial continues.

From the article: The only reason Freddie and Fannie are not prosecuted for filing fraudulent accounting statements, therefore, is the beltway fiction that they are “off-budget”. This convenient scam was first invented by Lyndon Johnson to magically shrink his “guns and butter” fiscal deficits, but it has since metastasized into a giant business fairy tale—namely, that behind the imposing brick façade of Fannie Mae there is a real company generating value-added services that are the source of its reported profits and current multi-billion pink sheet valuation. In fact, there is nothing behind those walls except a stamping machine that embosses the signature of the American taxpayer on every billion dollar package of securitized mortgages it guarantees and on all the bonds it issues to fund a giant portfolio of mortgages and securities from which it strips the interest. http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/03/david-stockman/a-wall-street-prince-of-plunder/

http://stevenhager420.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/the-truth-about-marilyn-monroe/

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/03/03/washingtons-arrogance-hubris-evil-set-stage-war/

Paul Craig Roberts on the Ukraine Crisis and the Cuban Missile Crisis JFK's mature leadership contrasted to America's inept leaders today http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2014/3/5_Paul_Craig_Roberts_-_The_Entire_World_Is_Now_In_Great_Danger.html

The Shrinking of Lyndon Johnson He wasn’t the arm-twisting, indomitable genius of Robert Caro’s imagination The New Republic By Clay Risen http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116404/lbjs-civil-rights-act-arm-twisting-was-myth

From the article: “But while I recognize that “All the Way” is a work of fiction, not history, I worry that many of the thousands of people who attend the play won’t see it that way — that they will leave the theater believing that Johnson did indeed weaken the Civil Rights Act’s voting provisions, or that Stokely Carmichael, and not John Lewis, was the voice of his generation circa 1964.” http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/a-play-about-l-b-j-veers-wildly-from-history/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Rebekah Brooks denies covering up hacking as News International chief Court hears Brooks was told by police in 2006 that News of the World hacking extended beyond the activities of its royal editor B y Lisa O'Carroll theguardian.com, Wednesday 5 March 2014 08.36 EST Rebekah Brooks has denied "covering up" the extent of phone hacking at the News of the World when she became chief executive of News International in 2009. Prosecutor Andrew Edis QC said she must have known that hacking at the now-defunct tabloid had extended beyond the activities of the royal editor who had been sentenced for the crime in 2007 because she had received a private briefing from the police in September 2006 in which she learned that there were between 100 and 110 victims. Brooks said it was true that she had been told by DCI Keith Surtees that there had been 100 to 110 victims and that she had passed that back to the company. She was repeatedly asked if the company had made this information public in any statements but did not answer directly. "They did not mention these other hacking victims?" said Edis. Brooks replied "No, what they said was they needed between five and 10 [victims]", before being interrupted by Edis who said: "I'm talking about what News International said. The fact of the matter is you knew that from the time of speaking to DCI Surtees, that the whole truth had not emerged during the trial." Brooks repeated what she had been told by DCI Surtees about there being 100 to 110 victims. She added: "I do not think I saw it like that." Brooks was told by Surtees that among the victims were former culture secretary Tessa Jowell and Tracy Temple, a woman who was said to have an affair with Lord Prescott in 2006, the jury heard. Earlier the trial heard that Brooks briefed the News of the World lawyer Tom Crone about the briefing when she returned from it. She said she had been told she was also a victim. Brooks said she believed that the police told her they had no evidence that anyone else at the NoW was involved in hacking of her phone. "My view was, rightly or wrongly, because I imagine Mr Mulcaire was accessing my phone for personal [information]. I could not see how the News of the World would have a story about my personal life." Edis put it to Brooks that the meeting with Surtees was as much an intelligence-gathering operation for the company as a briefing about the hacking of her personal phone. "It's extremely important that you should find out, in the interests of News International, what the police were doing?" he said. Brooks responded: "Yes." Jurors have heard Brooks was also asked to consider becoming a prosecution witness but after discussion with the then News International chief executive Les Hinton it was decided that would not be the right course of action and no formal complaint was made. Brooks told jurors that she decided not to become a prosecution witness because it would "odd for the editor of the Sun to be a prosecution witness against a sister newspaper". Edis put it to her: "In fact you knew that the first police inquiry proved to be rather superficial." He added it was an "artificial process" because it left the public with the impression the activity was limited to hacking of the royal household and five other "lead victims" and did not extend to the 110 potential victims. The court heard that News International described Goodman as a "rogue exception" at the paper and held that stance between 2007 and 2009, when Brooks was promoted to chief executive. Brooks said that the "rogue reporter" position was not hers. "It was not my line, but it was News International's line which I inherited," she added. She said she was aware that Goodman had threatened to name names and was involved in an appeal against his dismissal in 2007. "Did you believe that News International's behaviour between 2007 and 2009 was acceptable?" Edis asked. "At the time, yes, I did," Brooks said. "I had no reason to believe otherwise." Edis then put it to her: "You carried on with the cover-up when you became chief executive." Brooks responded: "No." Earlier the jury heard that Brooks offered the News of the World's former royal editor a job after he was released from prison for phone hacking. Brooks told jurors she made the offer to Goodman over lunch at the RAC Club in London's Pall Mall following several conversations with Hinton. David Spens QC, for Goodman, put it to Brooks "You were asked to buy him off on behalf of the company." Brooks responded: "I was asked to offer him a job." When he asked whether it was a bid to get to "shut up", she said the company wanted to avoid an "embarrassing" employment tribunal. Brooks offered Goodman two jobs: a six-month contract to work on a royal supplement to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana; and an eight-month training contract. He rejected both offers after settling with the company, the court heard. Brooks says she learned about this later from Hinton who did not disclose details because the deal was "confidential". The trial continues.

In 1984 Billie Sol Estes sought a grant of immunity from the U.S. Department of Justice in order that he could disclose the circumstances surrounding a number of crimes of which he had knowledge, including a series of murders. Among other crimes he was willing to disclose were the circumstances surrounding the payment of a $500,000 bribe that he alleged he arranged to be made to Supreme Court Justice Thomas Clark. While the Justice Department over a period of months showed good faith in its consideration of giving a grant of immunity to Billie Sol Estes, the effort collapsed when Billie Sol suddenly had a change of heart and refused to cooperate or take any further action in the matter for reasons known only to himself. U.S. Marshal Clint Peoples later privately expressed an opinion as to why he thought this had happened. Earlier in 1984, Billie Sol had testified before the grand jury in Robertson County, Texas, as to the 1961 murder of U.S. Department of Agriculture employee Henry Marshall. This occurred after John C. Paschall, District/County Attorney for Robertson County, wrote a letter to Estes’ attorneys on March 20, 1984, in which he stated, “This letter is to confirm our previous oral agreement regarding transactional immunity for your client, Billie Sol Estes. As the elected County Attorney, with felony jurisdiction, for Robertson County, Texas, I agree that Mr. Estes will not be criminally prosecuted regarding any of the transactions, occurrences, events, or alleged criminal offenses about which he might testify directly or indirectly before the Robertson County grand jury or any other statements given orally or in writing to any person concerning the above matters.” Those interested in reading further about this case are directed to a detailed article “The Killing of Henry Marshall” by Bill Adler published in The Texas Observer of November 7, 1986.

The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It By John Dean http://www.amazon.com/The-Nixon-Defense-What-Knew/dp/0670025364/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/02/28/obamas-dumbest-plan-yet/

Rebekah Brooks: NI's 'rogue reporter' defence shaky after 2009 revelations Former News International chief tells phone-hacking trial that company's corporate line came from NoW editor Colin Myler By Lisa O'Carroll theguardian.com, Monday 3 March 2014 08.04 EST Rebekah Brooks knew that News International's position in 2009 that phone hacking at the News of World was down to a "rogue reporter" was "shaky" after she was shown documents that eavesdropping on voicemails went beyond the royal household, the Old Bailey has heard. She told the phone-hacking trial that the corporate position that the unlawful interception was down to a "rogue" reporter on the paper had "come from the News of the World editor Colin Myler". The court heard that the Guardian article in July 2009 claimed News International had agreed a £1m out-of-court settlement with Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, whose phone had been hacked. Within two weeks documents had emerged publicly that showed the News of the World had transcripts of 35 of Taylor's messages attached to an internal email from a reporter Ross Hindley marked "For Neville". Brooks said she was shown this email before it emerged in public sometime in July 2009. She said she showed that this showed "the sort of emphaticness of the company's statement that nobody else knew that Glenn Mulcaire was going was looking shaky after that because this was an email from someone at the News of the World". Her defence counsel, Jonathan Laidlaw QC, put it to her that the article reported that private investigator Mulcaire had hacked thousands of phones and that the company had agreed the deal with Taylor "to prevent details being made public". Asked by Laidlaw if she now, in 2014, believed that Guardian article "to be true", Brooks responded: "Yes." Asked if at the time she believed the article to be true, Brooks responded: "No I didn't." Brooks said she did not think that the article supported her belief, now and then, that hacking did not took place during her editorship of the News of the World in 2000 and 2003. She told the court she had received a briefing from police in 2006 following the arrest of Mulcaire that he had hacked between 100 and 110 people. She said that nothing between the sentencing of Mulcaire and the paper's royal editor Clive Goodman in 2006 and the Guardian article in 2009 suggested anything different. Goodman and Mulcaire were sentenced in January 2007; News International made a financial settlement with the paper's royal editor later that year and the matter of hacking was considered closed, the court heard. Brooks said: "I was told they had settled with Clive but from May or June 2007 the entire subject almost went without any conversation." Brooks was editor of the Sun in July 2009 when the Guardian article was published but was told she was to be promoted to chief executive in September that year. She said she seemed to remember the article had suggested 4,000 people had been hacked, but she did not believe this to be true when she read it in 2009. This was because she had received a briefing from police following Goodman's arrest suggesting the number of victims was a fraction of that when she met DCI Keith Surtees in 2006. "He had said between 100 and 110 victims. Nothing since that moment in 2006 and the public statement [of rogue reporter], the Press Complaints Commission [investigation], the sentencing; nothing had shown to me that this was not the case," said Brooks. The court heard of a second settlement with PR Max Clifford. He had been banned from dealing with the Sun and the News of the World by News International's chief executive Les Hinton in 2005, Brooks said, and the company was keen to bring him back into the fold. "News of the World, at the time, had paid Max Clifford millions and millions with the history of 20-years plus," she said. At the time she was being asked by the News of the World lawyer Tom Crone to meet Clifford to strike a deal. She said this was separate to any attempt by Clifford, who was also hacked by News of the World, to reach a settlement in respect of hacking. The trial continues.