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Book of Nixon White House tapes coming next summer, the 40th anniversary of his resignation By Associated Press, October 15, 2013 http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-of-nixon-white-house-tapes-coming-next-summer-the-40th-anniversary-of-his-resignation/2013/10/15/da3ffb26-359a-11e3-89db-8002ba99b894_story.html NEW YORK — Selected transcripts and audio of Richard Nixon’s Oval Office conversations will be published in book form next August, the 40th anniversary of Nixon’s resignation from the presidency. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced Tuesday that “The Nixon Tapes” will feature the first transcriptions of Nixon and his aides discussing subjects ranging from Vietnam to Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign. The country first learned that the tapes existed during Senate hearings in 1973 that looked into the growing Watergate scandal, which eventually led to Nixon’s departure. The last of some 4,000 hours of conversations was finally made public this year. “The Nixon Tapes” will be edited and annotated by historian Douglas Brinkley, who helped compile a book of Ronald Reagan’s diaries, and Luke Nichter, whose website www.nixontapes.org features digital recordings of Nixon’s conversations. ------------------------------------ Luke Nichter writes on his Facebook page today about the above article: “A nice note about my current book project. I couldn't ask for a better co-author (Douglas Brinkley) or editor (Bruce Nichols), who was also Stanley Kutler's editor way back when. To be published next year around 8/9/14, to coincide with the 40th anniversary of RN's resignation.”

Extremists in Dallas created volatile atmosphere before JFK’s 1963 visit http://www.dallasnews.com/news/jfk50/reflect/20131012-extremists-in-dallas-created-volatile-atmosphere-before-jfks-1963-visit.ece

JFK 50th Online Ticketing Process Completed; Alternate Viewing Locations Announced The 50th: Honoring the Memory of President John F. Kennedy October 10, 2013 12:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time DALLAS--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--The online ticketing process for The 50th: Honoring the Memory of President John F. Kennedy has been completed for the public commemoration in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas on Nov. 22, 2013. "The alternate viewing locations ensure that everyone feels welcome to be a part of the commemorative proceedings." The President John F. Kennedy Commemorative Foundation, in conjunction with the city of Dallas, established a highly secure computerized allocation system to handle the large volume of expected requests from the public wishing to attend the event in Dealey Plaza. Those chosen by random allocation will be notified this week as to the planning and logistics for their attendance that day. The public will still have the opportunity to view live, close captioned feeds of the event from three locations in and around downtown Dallas. AT&T Plaza at Victory Park/American Airlines Center, Annette Strauss Square and the JFK Memorial Plaza/Founders Square area, located one block east of Dealey Plaza, have all been chosen as alternate viewing areas for the public. "The online ticket allocation process was inclusive and the fairest way to accommodate the public with the limited space and security and safety concerns we have to work with in Dealey Plaza," Mayor Mike Rawlings said. "The alternate viewing locations ensure that everyone feels welcome to be a part of the commemorative proceedings." "The 50th: Honoring the Memory of President John F. Kennedy" will be a serious, understated and respectful commemoration in tribute to our nation's 35th president. Paid for by private donations, corporations and foundations, the private/public partnership is led by Dallas Mayor Michael S. Rawlings and a broad cross section of 25 local civic leaders in cooperation with the city of Dallas. The President John F. Kennedy Commemorative Foundation is chaired by Ruth Sharp Altshuler. "It's important that the city of Dallas has a strong voice in remembering this very solemn day," said Altshuler. "The donors have done a wonderful job in creating an event which will live up to the sense of history and dignity it deserves," she added. For additional information, please visit: http://www.50thHonoringJohnFKennedy.com . Contacts Laurey Peat + Associates Laurey Peat, 214-871-8787 lpeat@lpapr.com

An ex-stripper’s tale: ‘Tammi True,’ now 75, recalls the real Jack Ruby Posted Friday, Oct. 11, 2013 By Bud Kennedy Fort Worth Star Telegram http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/10/10/v-print/5237483/an-ex-strippers-tale-tammi-true.html?rh=1 DALLAS — At 75, former striptease dancer Tammi True has finally revealed all. On the brink of what is now being mocked as “JFK Month” in Dallas, Jack Ruby’s star stripper has reminded us that Ruby was just not the conspiracy type. On Nov. 24, 1963, two mornings after the Kennedy assassination, Ruby overslept. Then, the nightclub owner grabbed his favorite pet dachshund and scrambled downtown to wire money to a stripper in Fort Worth. He only happened to wander into the city jail sally port exactly when he could get a close-range shot at accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. “Jack did it because he had the opportunity,” Nancy “Tammi” Myers says in True Tales, the new movie about her life as a cabaret star in 1960s showrooms like Ruby’s clubs and the Skyliner Ballroom in Fort Worth. “There were a lot of people who wanted to do what Jack did.” For the 50th observance, publishers and studios are recycling every conspiracy fairytale, mostly because mysteries sell better than reality. In True Tales, director Katie Dunn of Dallas-based AMS Pictures resists sensationalism in favor of Myers’ simple message: that Ruby was inherently impulsive and temper-prone, and curiosity alone led him to the exact place where he could act out any Dallasite’s anger at Oswald. “Nancy really knew Jack, and this movie is about letting her tell her story,” Dunn said Thursday, after the movie premiered complete with Myers demonstrating some of her bump-and-grind moves on stage at the Dallas VideoFest. “It makes the movie more legitimate. She never says Jack was an angel. It’s so much more real to say ‘this was a human being who did something stupid, and he took away a lot of answers for all time’.” Then, Myers was 25-year-old Nancy Powell of Fort Worth, divorced and living by day as a self-described “PTA mom” with her grandmother on Clarence Street in the Riverside neighborhood. Now, she lives in Grand Prairie and seems to relish every moment of her return to the spotlight. She was recently inducted into the Las Vegas-based Burlesque Hall of Fame as one of the “Titans of Tease.” The movie follows her career through her start at the Skyliner to Ruby’s clubs in an era when striptease was part of a variety show that also might include a band, comedy, magic or singers such as Fort Worth’s Ray Sharpe at the Skyliner. Myers describes the crowd as the “who’s who — high-ranking officials, gangsters, a lot of conventions and guests from the hotels.” Dunn, a young filmmaker, has Myers tell the story as young actors portray the dancers, Ruby and other figures from Dallas’ free-wheeling nightclub scene. The movie will make the festival circuit and be available soon as a pay-per-view rental, she said. “Just seeing Dallas in the 1960s is an eye-opener,” Dunn said. “The movie has this whole Mad Men-meets- Boardwalk Empire thing going. People don’t know what Dallas was like.” It wasn’t such

[Plumlee wrote this after the FOX TV program aired but before the FOX News article had been published. He was pleased with the News article but felt betrayed by the FOX TV program] Robert Tosh Plumlee 11 hours ago - [October 9, 2013] I just got screwed by FOX NEWS and set up. The complete story behind the abduction of Ki Ki was cut from that FOX Megan Kelly new cast. I was ordered to fly Carro Quentero to Guatemala by my CIA handler ( Robert Bennettee pronounced Ben'net' tee) CIA Contact Division referenced Paul Lee) and the Department of Justice to cover the United States involvement in a weapon shipments to Mexico from the secret safe houses within the United States to protect from exposing a gun running operation originating from the United States into Mexico. I was told to pick this man Caro up and transport him to Guatemala before the Mexican and US authorities closed in on him. I had been working a deep undercover operation for the United States Federal Government. Our operation was to penetrate Caro's operation in behalf of the CIA and report on various training bases located inside Mexico. This release by FOX News has put me in Grave danger and exposed my undercover CIA activities to the current Drug Lords operating inside Mexico today.. Thank you FOX NEWS for the double cross., I am to upset at this moment to continue this rant. But I wanted it on record. My government just f------ me, signed my death warrant and they did it through FOX News and their award winning news casters. I was filmed by FOX News last week for forty five minutes and explain the details of this undercover operation known as "THE CIA THING" and referenced as "Operation Penetrate" by DEA a CIA documentation. I will have more to say after I cool down... I'm to old to be betrayed by people I trusted and thought I could depend on to get the truth of those early Mexican drug and gunrunning operations into public view.. The FOX crew who interviewed me at Peterson Air Force Base Colorado Springs, Colorado put the interview into the CAN -- took it back to their ivory towers-- chopped it up -- cut all the CIA information from the finish product, and made me appear to be protecting Caro Quintero and his drug running operations into the United States. I was ordered to fly him to another country, by my CIA handlers. This was done in order to protect a gun running operation from the United States into Mexico known in DEA (documentation) as 'The CIA THING". The CIA training of Guatemalan's at Caro's ranch in Vera Cruz had to be protect from public scrutiny in Mexico, and The United States.

US intelligence assets in Mexico reportedly tied to murdered DEA agent By William La Jeunesse, Lee Ross Published October 10, 2013 FoxNews.com http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/10/us-intelligence-assets-reportedly-played-role-in-capture-dea-agent-in-mexico/?intcmp=latestnews Few remember Enrique 'Kiki' Camarena, the DEA agent killed in the line of duty almost 30 years ago, when the War on Drugs was the talk of Washington. "On February 7, 1985, Special Agent Camarena was kidnapped by the traffickers," then First Lady Nancy Reagan somberly told a room full of anti-drug advocates. "He was tortured and beaten to death." Camarena's killer was sentenced to 40 years in jail. Now, he's free after serving only 28 years. And those who knew the agent and became close to his family are fighting to see that his story is not forgotten. "I think the American people, at least, owe him for the sacrifice that he made to ensure that the people that took his life, that subjected him to torture over a three day period of time are held accountable and brought to justice, says Jimmy Gurule’, the former Assistant U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles. Gurule’ indicted Rafael Caro Quintero for Camerena’s murder. But it would be in a federal Mexican courtroom that the powerful drug cartel leader was convicted of murder. Today, however, Quintero is gone, released from jail by Mexican judges nine weeks ago on a legal technicality. In doing so, Mexico ignored a U.S. extradition request and also never informed Washington of his release. Two days later, the White House released a statement saying it was "deeply concerned" Quintero was free. "I'm deeply disappointed about a lot of things," Gurule’ told Fox News. "But we're talking about the release of the murderer of a DEA agent. I think that's a very shameful statement. The government should be outraged. I'm outraged. The DEA is outraged. The Camarena family is outraged." Outraged because of how Camarena died and the role Quintero played. "Quintero is such a psychopath that he makes Charles Manson appear to be a cub scout," former DEA agent Hector Berrellez said. According to an internal government report obtained by Fox News, Quintero's drug operation stretched 2,000 miles, establishing "a cocaine pipeline from Colombia, shipping multi-ton quantities of cocaine into the United States via Mexico." Using a series of wiretaps, the DEA and Camarena were making sizeable drug busts inside Mexico, including one that cost Quintero $2.5 billion. "Camarena was kidnapped and murdered because he came up with the idea that we needed to chase the money not the drugs," said Berrellez, who led the investigation into Camarena's murder. "We were seizing a huge amount of drugs. However, we were not really disrupting the cartels. So he came up with the idea that we should set up a task force and target their monies." In February 1985, as Camarena left to meet his wife for lunch outside the U.S. consulate in Guadalajara, he was surrounded by Mexican intelligence officers from the DFS, a Mexican intelligence agency that no longer exists. "Back in the middle 1980's, the DFS, their main role was to protect the drug lords," Berrellez claims. U.S. intelligence documents obtained by Fox News support that assessment: "Drug smugglers/transporters employed by Rafael Caro Quintero were always provided protection prior to moving a drug load....two DFS agents (would) accompany the smugglers at all times to avoid any problems." Blindfolded and held at gunpoint, the DFS agents took Camarena to one of Quintero's haciendas five miles away. Over 30 hours, Quintero and others crushed Camarena's skull, jaw, nose and cheekbones with a tire iron. They broke his ribs, drilled a hole in his head and tortured him with a cattle prod. As Camarena lay dying, Quintero ordered a cartel doctor to keep the U.S. agent alive. "At that point he administered lidocaine into his heart to keep him alert and awake during the torture," said Berrellez. After the cartel dumped Camarena's body on a nearby ranch, the DEA closed in on Quintero at the Guadalajara airport. "Upon arrival we were confronted by over 50 DFS agents pointing machine guns and shotguns at us--the DEA. They told us we were not going to take Caro Quintero," says Berrellez, recalling the stand-off. "Well, Caro Quintero came up to the plane door waved a bottle of champagne at the DEA agents and said, 'My children, next time, bring more guns.' And laughed at us." The kidnapping and death of a U.S. drug agent was, until then, unprecedented. Mexico initially did little, until President Reagan shut down the U.S. border, paralyzing the Mexican economy. Within weeks, Quintero was behind bars. The details of the case are not new. However, those involved in investigating the case, have until now remained silent about the role U.S. intelligence assets played in Camarena’s capture and Quintero's escape. "Our intelligence agencies were working under the cover of DFS. And as I said it before, unfortunately, DFS agents at that time were also in charge of protecting the drug lords and their monies," said Berrellez. "After the murder of Camarena, (Mexico's) investigation pointed that the DFS had been complicit along with American intelligence in the kidnap and torture of Kiki. That's when they decided to disband the DFS." Complicit is a strong term that Berrellez doesn't shy away from. However, when he raised the issue internally, his supervisors told him to drop it. Eventually he was transferred to Washington D.C., and was ordered to stop pursuing any angle that suggested U.S. assets knew of Camarena's capture. "I know and from what I have been told by a former head of the Mexican federal police, Comandante (Guillermo Gonzales) Calderoni, the CIA was involved in the movement of drugs from South America to Mexico and to the U.S.," says Phil Jordan, former director of DEA's powerful El Paso Intelligence Center. "In (Camarena’s) interrogation room, I was told by Mexican authorities, that CIA operatives were in there. Actually conducting the interrogation. Actually taping Kiki." Eventually, the prosecution did obtain tapes of Camarena's torture and murder. "The CIA was the source. They gave them to us," said Berrellez. "Obviously, they were there. Or at least some of their contract workers were there." On Thursday night, a CIA Spokesman told Fox News that “it’s ridiculous to suggest that the CIA had anything to do with the murder of a U.S. federal agent or the escape of his killer.” Berrellez says two informants from the Mexican state police, who witnessed Camarena's torture, independently and positively identified a photo of one man, a Cuban, who worked as a CIA operative who helped run guns and drugs for the Contras. Tosh Plumlee claims he was hired to fly covert missions on behalf of U.S. intelligence. He says he flew C-130s in and out of Quintero's ranch and airports throughout Central America in the 1980s. "The United States government played both ends against the middle. We were running guns. We were running drugs. We were using the drug money to finance the gun running operation," says Plumlee, who now works in Colorado. Plumlee flew for SETCO, which according to a CIA Inspector General's report delivered "military supplies to Contra forces inside Nicaragua." In 1998, CIA Inspector General Fred Hitz told Congress he "found no evidence...of any conspiracy by CIA or its employees to bring drugs into the United States. However, it worked with a variety of ...assets (and) pilots who ferried supplies to the Contras, who were alleged to have engaged in drug trafficking activity." Hitz said the "CIA had an operational interest" in the Contras. And while aware the rebels were trading "arms-for-drugs" the CIA "did nothing to stop it." Plumlee puts it more directly. "You want me to say this on camera? Alright. Those entities were cut outs financed and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency," he said. "Our operations were sanctioned by the federal government, controlled out of the Pentagon. The CIA acted in some cases as our logistical support team." In the past the CIA has insisted, it was not involved supplying or helping the Contras. However, all three men, say it was an American pilot - who worked for the CIA as well as the Contras and drug cartels - who flew Quintero to freedom from Guadalajara. “You have the CIA employees,which are your badge, carrying CIA personnel and then you have all of these subcontract employees that work with these intelligence agencies,” Berrellez explains. “Some of them are pilots, some of them run boats, but they are contract employees. Now, the pilot that flew Caro Quintero to Costa Rica was a contract employee.” "Absolutely," agreed Jordan. "That's a fact." "That's absolutely right," added Plumlee. Plumlee says the pilot now lives in New Mexico and regrets that flight. Quintero’s escape was short-lived. After significant pressure from the Reagan administration, including shutting down the border, in April 1985 the Mexicans nabbed Quintero in Costa Rica and brought him back to stand trial. He was convicted and sent to prison. Two months ago a Mexican court ordered his release on a legal technicality - that his

Expunging Oswald: JFK and liberalism’s descent By George F. Will October 9, 2013 | 9:53pm New York Post http://nypost.com/2013/10/09/expunging-oswald/ “He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. It’s — it had to be some silly little Communist.” — Jacqueline Kennedy, Nov. 22, 1963 She thought it robbed his death of any meaning. But a meaning would be quickly manufactured to serve a new politics. First, however, an inconvenient fact — Oswald — had to be expunged from the story. So, just 24 months after the assassination, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the Kennedys’ kept historian, published a 1,000-page history of the 1,000-day presidency without mentioning the assassin. The transformation of a murder by a marginal man into a killing by a sick culture began instantly — before Kennedy was buried. The afternoon of the assassination, Chief Justice Earl Warren ascribed Kennedy’s “martyrdom” to “the hatred and bitterness that has been injected into the life of our nation by bigots.” The next day, James Reston, the New York Times luminary, wrote in a front-page story that JFK was a victim of a “streak of violence in the American character,” especially of “the violence of the extremists on the right.” Never mind that adjacent to Reston’s article was a Times report on Oswald’s communist convictions and associations. Three days after the assassination, a Times editorial, “Spiral of Hate,” identified JFK’s killer as a “spirit”: The Times deplored “the shame all America must bear for the spirit of madness and hate that struck down” Kennedy. The editorialists were, presumably, immune to this spirit. The new liberalism-as-paternalism would be about correcting other people’s defects. Hitherto a doctrine of American celebration and optimism, liberalism would become a scowling indictment: Kennedy was killed by America’s social climate whose sickness required “punitive liberalism.” That phrase is from James Piereson of the Manhattan Institute, whose 2007 book “Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism” is a profound meditation on the reverberations of the rifle shots in Dealey Plaza. The bullets of Nov. 22, 1963, altered the nation’s trajectory less by killing a president than by giving birth to a destructive narrative about America. Fittingly, the narrative was most injurious to the narrators. Their recasting of the tragedy to validate their curdled conception of the nation marked a ruinous turn for liberalism. Punitive liberalism preached the necessity of national repentance for a history of crimes and misdeeds that had produced a present so poisonous that it murdered a president. To be a liberal would mean being a scold. Liberalism would become the doctrine of grievance groups owed redress for cumulative inherited injuries inflicted by the nation’s tawdry history, toxic present and ominous future. To reread Robert Frost’s banal poem written for JFK’s inauguration (“A golden age of poetry and power of which this noonday’s the beginning hour”) is to wince at its clunky attempt to conjure an Augustan age from the melding of politics and celebrity that the Kennedys used to pioneer the presidency-as-entertainment. Under Kennedy, liberalism began to become more stylistic than programmatic. After him — especially after his successor, Lyndon Johnson, drove to enactment the Civil Rights Acts, Medicare and Medicaid — liberalism became less concerned with material well-being than with lifestyle, and cultural issues such as feminism, abortion and sexual freedom. The bullets fired on Nov. 22, 1963, could shatter the social consensus that characterized the 1950s only because powerful new forces of an adversarial culture were about to erupt through society’s crust. Foremost among these forces was the college-bound population bulge — baby boomers with their sense of entitlement and moral superiority, vanities encouraged by an intelligentsia bored by peace and prosperity and hungry for heroic politics. Liberalism’s disarray during the late 1960s, combined with Americans’ recoil from liberal hectoring, catalyzed the revival of conservatism in the 1970s. As Piereson writes, the retreat of liberalism from a doctrine of American affirmation left a void that would be filled by Ronald Reagan 17 years after the assassination. The moral of liberalism’s explanation of Kennedy’s murder is that there is a human instinct to reject the fact that large events can have small, squalid causes; there is an intellectual itch to discern large hidden meanings in events. And political opportunism is perennial.

Obama's efforts to control leaks 'most aggressive since Nixon', report finds Administration's tactics, which include using Espionage Act to pursue leakers, have had chilling effect on accountability – study By Karen McVeigh in New York theguardian.com, Thursday 10 October 2013 10.00 EDT http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/10/obama-leaks-aggressive-nixon-report-prosecution Under Obama, the Espionage Act has been used to mount felony prosecutions against six government employees and two contractors. Barack Obama has pursued the most aggressive "war on leaks" since the Nixon administration, according to a report published on Thursday that says the administration's attempts to control the flow of information is hampering the ability of journalists to do their jobs. The author of the study, the former Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie, says the administration's actions have severely hindered the release of information that could be used to hold it to account. Downie, an editor during the Post's investigations of Watergate, acknowledged that Obama had inherited a culture of secrecy that had built up since 9/11. But despite promising to be more open, Obama had become "more aggressive", stepping up the Espionage Act to pursue those accused of leaking classified information. "The war on leaks and other efforts to control information are the most aggressive I've seen since the Nixon administration," Downie said in the report, which was commissioned by the Committee to Protect Journalists. "Those suspected of discussing with reporters anything that the government has classified as secret are subject to investigation, including lie detector tests and scrutiny of their telephone and email records," the report says. This had a chilling effect on government accountability, even on matters that were less sensitive, it said. David Sanger, the chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times and one of 30 journalists interviewed by Downie, says in the report: "This is the most closed, control-freak administration I've ever covered." The report said that White House officials "strongly objected" to accusations that they did not favour disclosure, and cited statistics showing that Obama gave more interviews in news, entertainment and digital media in the first four plus years iin office than President George W Bush and Bill Clinton did in their respective first terms, combined. They cited directives to put more government data online, speed up processing of FoI requests and limit the amount of information classified as secret. "The idea that people are shutting up and not leaking to reporters is belied by the facts," said Jay Carney, Obama's press secretary says, in the report. In his report, Downie chronicled the Obama administration's use of the 1917 Espionage Act to prosecute leakers, and its development of a programme that requires government employees in every department to help prevent leaks to the press by monitoring the behaviour of their colleagues. The initiative, called the Insider Threat Program, was first revealed by McClatchy newspapers in June. Under Obama, the Espionage Act has been used to mount felony prosecutions against six government employees and two contractors accused of leaking classified information to the press, including Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning and Edward Snowden. In all previous administrations, there had been just three such prosecutions. Still more criminal investigations into leaks are under way, the report points out. In one of them, a Fox news reporter was accused of "being an 'aider, abettor and/or conspirator' of an indicted leak defendant, exposing him to possible prosecution for doing his job as a journalist." The report cites the outcry in May this year, when the Justice Department informed the Associated Press that it had secretly subpoenaed and seized all records for 20 AP telephone lines and switchboards for two months of 2012, after an AP investigation about the CIA's covert operation in Yemen. Although only five AP reporters and an editor had been involved in the story, the report said, "thousands upon thousands" of newsgathering calls by more than 100 AP journalists were included in the seized records. Following a series of meetings with journalists, after the subpoenas, the Justice Department announced revised guidelines under which investigators could subpoena and seize records. Journalists' concerns have been compounded by the revelations by Snowden, the report said. Jeffrey Smith, a national security reporter at the Center for Public Integrity, and one of several journalists to express such concerns, said in the report: "I now worry about calling somebody, because the contact can be found through a check of phone records or emails. It leaves a digital trail that makes it easier for the government to monitor those contacts." Scott Shane, the national security reporter at the New York Times, said: "Most people are deterred by those leaks prosecutions. They're scared to death. There's a grey zone between classified and unclassified information and most sources were in that grey zone." It was having a damaging effect on democracy, Shane said. "If we consider aggressive press coverage of government activities [as] being at the core of American democracy, this tips the balance heavily in favor of the government." Downie said that while the administration provides information through social media, it is "mostly self-serving information, as opposed to information that would hold the government to account. Journalists are being told to speak to public affairs office, but the public affairs office doesn't call them back or is hostile." The report said the Obama administration has created a climate where, even on matters not pertaining to national security, but in the public interest, government officials are reluctant to provide information, including on Freedom of Information requests. Ann Compton, the ABC News White House correspondent who has been covering presidents since General Ford, complained that there was "no access to the daily business in the Oval Office … who the president meets with, who he gets advice from". "He's the least transparent of the seven presidents I've covered," Compton said in the report. The CPJ, which commissioned the study, entitled 'The Obama Administration and the Press', said: "The CPJ is disturbed that the Obama administration has chilled the flow of information on issues of great public interest, including on matters of national security. "The administration's war on leaks to the press though the use of secret subpoenas against news organisations, its assertion through prosecution that leaking classified documents to the press is espionage or aiding the enemy; and its increased limitations on access to information that is inthe public interest – all thwart a free and open discussion necessary to a democracy." Joel Simon, the executive director of the CPJ, said the organisation had sent the report to the president this week, requesting a meeting with the administration to address its concerns. Simon said: "Here you have a portion of the Washington press corp affirming that this is an extraordinarily difficult administration to cover. You combine the different elements, for instance, the leak investigations, the failure to address the declassification issue, the fact that the administration has been extremely controlling in terms of access. "Put all these together and it paints a pretty damning picture of an administration that talks about openness and transparency but isn't willing to engage with the media around these issues." The CPJ has made several recommendations to the administration, including a call for an end to prosecutions of leakers under the Espionage Act, developing policies to limit surveillance of jounalists' communications, making good on promises to increase transparency, less restrictive responses to Freedom of Information requests, and to guarantee that journalists will not be at risk from prosecution for receiving confidential and/or classified information.

http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/jfk-november-22-1963 http://www.icp.org/sites/default/files/exhibition_pdfs/icp_jfk1963_press.pdf

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/08/jfk-vs-the-military/309496/?single_page=true http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/news/dallek-denial-and-jfk-assassination-story/

Alan Dale interviews Bill Simpich http://myemail.constantcontact.com/The-Alan-Dale-Interviews-are-here--Featuring-Bill-Simpich.html?soid=1100889772973&aid=3Nr6RnbLh4I

Larry Hancock on “Where We Stand” From his blog of October 8, 2013 http://larryhancock.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/where-we-stand/

More on High Times and Steven Hager: http://observer.com/2013/10/own-a-piece-of-high-times/

From the Vanity Fair article: “A familiar piece of Kennedy lore, but after a half-century it’s difficult to dig up nuggets that aren’t familiar, though Larry Sabato promises to release bombshell evidence related to J.F.K.’s assassination that was redacted from reviewer’s galleys of The Kennedy Half Century and will be announced at a press conference coinciding with the official pub date. An “October surprise” or a big tease?—we’ll know soon enough.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iem9zK2cbZI _______________________________________ One wonders what will be Larry Sabato’s bombshell evidence? His book is scheduled for release on October 15. http://www.amazon.com/The-Kennedy-Half-Century-Presidency-Assassination/dp/1620402807 Months ago I was informed that there was a second video, long suppressed, of the actual assassination that would be released by the Intelligence Community before November 22, 2013. I was told the video showed Frank Sturgis as a shooter and Howard Hunt as his spotter on Dealey Plaza. Such a video being “found” and released 50 years after the event would could uproar and raise the obvious question why the Intelligence Community kept it secret for such a long time. So I concluded that if such a video does exist and if it is released publicly, the Intelligence Community would have to find an acceptable conduit to handle its sudden emergence.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/07/is-homeland-security-preparing-for-the-next-wall-street-collapse/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/07/an-interview-with-oliver-stone-and-peter-kuznick/

http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Steinitz-Iranian-economy-18-months-away-from-collapse-328108

State Secret Wiretapping in Mexico City, Double Agents, and the Framing of Lee Oswald by Bill Simpich Chapter 1: The Double Dangle http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/State_Secret_Chapter1

Vanity Fair: Chronicle of a Death Retold “The avalanche of books marking the 50th anniversary of J.F.K.’s assassination is both too much and not enough. The inexplicable loss, the unanswerable questions, the sense of history suspended—they’re all still being fed by the powerful charisma of the man who was America’s first Pop president.” http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2013/11/jfk-assassination-anniversary-books

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/helen-thomas-jfk-went-on-date-97883.html?hp=l7 Also: Professor Geoffrey Wawro in his review of the new book, “JFK’s Last Hundred Days,” by Thurston Clarke writes in the current History Book Club bulletin: “We get a sense of the peculiar pace of Kennedy’s life and presidency. For all his charm, wit and brilliance, he comes across as a fundamentally shrunken and unhappy man in the weeks before his death. Clarke describes a ‘cool-cat façade’ erected to hide the president’s ‘deeply forested interior”. Kennedy guarded many secrets, chief among them his raging libido, which was amped by the steroids he took for Addison’s disease. Sex preoccupied him and his marriage seems to have weighed as heavily on him in the last 100 days as the many foreign and domestic crises sketched by Clarke.”

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/06/us/plane-crash-in-georgia-kills-23-including-former-senator-tower.html When I was still active in the leadership of Young Americans for Freedom in the early 1960s, I met with Senator Tower in his office in Washington at his request as a means of getting to know one another. He was most courteous to me. His Administrative Assistant was Peter O'Donnell of Dallas who over the years has been linked to the CIA. O'Donnell was close to William F. Buckley of National Review and either he or his foundation donated money to a tax-exempt entity that was part of National Review to pay the salary of the acting Executive Director of YAF after I went into the Army in June 1961. Buckley, of course, was a CIA agent who reported to E. Howard Hunt in the CIA office in Mexico City that they shared after Buckley was graduated from Yale. The New York Times article above recounts Tower's death in an airplane crash, an event that was shocking to the political world at the time.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303722604579111222338096030.html?mod=ITP_review_0

New Orleans Magazine October 2013 http://www.myneworleans.com/New-Orleans-Magazine/October-2013/The-Kennedy-Assassination-Fifty-Years-Later/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2445323/Photojournalist-Bill-Eppridge-dies-captured-famous-images-dying-Robert-F-Kennedy.html