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Bottom of Form From the article: "The L.A. Free Press Special Report Number One, co-edited by Assassination Revisionist Mark Lane, reports that, when Rep. Thomas Downing (D., Va.) established the Committee, another leading revisionist, Washington lawyer Bernard Fensterwald, Jr., was offered the key post of chief counsel. Fensterwald allegedly told Lane that the CIA had levelled a death threat at Fensterwald if he should take the post, and that three other attorneys had been similarly warned off. After Fensterwald then turned down the post, it went to the abrasive, dynamic Richard Sprague, the successful prosecutor of the famous Yablonski murder case at the United Mine Workers." ------------------------------------ Assassination Revisionism By Murray N. Rothbard September 5, 2013 www.lewrockwell.com http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/09/murray-n-rothbard/assassination-revisionism%e2%80%a8 / This first appeared in The Libertarian Forum, Volume XI, NO.2, March-April, 1978 Someone has, indubitably, shot and almost assassinated Larry Flynt, creator and publisher of Hustler and other publications. Why did he do it? The Establishment theory is that a lone nut Christian did it, and indeed they picked up an authentic Christian at the scene of the crime, only to find that he was not the assassin. Let us examine the alternative possible theories: (1) the Lone Nut Christian. But why would the lone Christian, however nutty, try to kill Larry Flynt shortly after he had converted from pornography to Jesus? Maybe before, but after Larry saw the light? Why would a Christian kill a newly found brother? Of course, he might have his doubts, as we all may, about the sincerity of Brother Flynt’s conversion. But this way madness lies, for surely we can’t kill all suspect newcomers to a proselytizing Church. And if someone like Chuck Colson remains unscathed, why pick on poor Flynt? And so soon? (2) Flynt might have been shot by a fellow pornographer, sore at Larry’s desertion of their common cause to that of Christianity. Dubious, for after all pornographers tend to be more interested in moolah than in ideology or solidarity, and so any pornographer would probably bid good riddance to a formidable competitor. And that leaves (3), the fascinating hypothesis, somehow neglected in press speculation, that Flynt’s shooting may have nothing whatever to do with Christianity, but is rather related to the fact that only a few days previously, Larry Flynt had taken out ads all over the country, offering no less than $1,000,000 reward “for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in the planning or execution of President Kennedy’s murder, or for information which makes it possible for the truth to come out.” Oho! The Kennedy Assassination redivivus! In fact, Flynt had become such an Assassination buff that he had recently purchased the L. A. Free Press, and made the veteran revisionist Mark Lane the major editor of a new supplement, or Special Reports, on the Kennedy murder. The first supplement had just appeared on the stands. There have been so many murders, and mysterious deaths, surrounding the assassination of Kennedy and Oswald (and of Officer Tippitt), that we would have to go with this unsung hypothesis as at least a likely explanation. The press has hinted at a fourth explanation for those who cannot quite swallow the Lone Nut Christian theory: (4) that the Mafia gunned down Flynt for interfering with their magazine distribution monopoly. But the very raising of the point about the Mafia is dangerous for the Establishment, because there is much evidence that the Mafia was hip-deep in the Kennedy Assassination itself. So that is not likely to be a well-publicized theory. Larry Flynt adds one more name to a growing roster of mysterious and unsatisfactorily explained political assassinations and quasi-assassinations in recent years: John F. Kennedy; Lee Harvey Oswald; John Connally; and Officer J. D. Tippitt—all killed or wounded on or around Nov. 22, 1963 in Dallas. Robert F. Kennedy; Martin Luther King; George C. Wallace; and Malcolm X. All of these were ostensibly killed or wounded by lone nuts, with the exception of Malcolm, where the top “conspirator” claims that his fellow convicts had nothing to do with the murder. And then, on the possibly political level, there are the murders of Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli, both supposed to be purely gangland killings of undetermined and trivial origin. II. THE HOUSE COMMITTEE How goes the House Select Committee on Assassinations? The answer, unsurprisingly, is: not very well. It looks as if the well-orchestrated ouster of Richard Sprague early last year has drawn the Committee’s teeth and assures yet another governmental whitewash of the KennedyOswald and King killings. The L.A. Free Press Special Report Number One, co-edited by Assassination Revisionist Mark Lane, reports that, when Rep. Thomas Downing (D., Va.) established the Committee, another leading revisionist, Washington lawyer Bernard Fensterwald, Jr., was offered the key post of chief counsel. Fensterwald allegedly told Lane that the CIA had levelled a death threat at Fensterwald if he should take the post, and that three other attorneys had been similarly warned off. After Fensterwald then turned down the post, it went to the abrasive, dynamic Richard Sprague, the successful prosecutor of the famous Yablonski murder case at the United Mine Workers. After Sprague showed signs of taking the job seriously, he was subjected to an unprecedented, and seemingly coordinated smear-campaign in the press, after which he was fired by the new Committee chairman, Rep. Henry Gonzalez (D., Tex.) after almost hysterical personal attacks directed by the Congressman against Sprague. Was there any “old boy” Texas influence working on Gonzalez? Since then, the Committee has been quiet, which L. A. Free Press hopes is a sign that the Committee is doing effective work behind the scenes. But the signs are not good, if we can credit the report in the Feb. 20 issue of New Times. For, apparently, the new chief counsel, G. Robert Blakey, has been so low-key that he has returned almost half a million dollars to the Treasury as unneeded. Many staff members have complained that Blakey’s action has pulled punches in the investigation and has crippled its effectiveness. There are more sinister aspects to Blakey’s behavior than simple penny-pinching. For as soon as he took over the post, Blakey cracked down on his staff, required them to sign agreements that they would not acknowledge their jobs at the committee without permission. Violation will bring instant dismissal and a $5,000 fine. More troubling than the mere martinet aspects of the Blakey regime is its attitude toward the CIA, the self-same agency that allegedly threatened Fensterwald. For Blakey has refused to allow access to classified material to any staff member who cannot get CIA clearance. Not only that: any staff members who do read CIA documents must submit any notes they make to the Agency for review! Blakey’s refusal to call former CIA director and admitted perjurer Richard Helms before his committee, is of a piece with a statement he once made about U.S. intelligence agencies: “You don’t think they’d lie to me, do you? I’ve been working with those people for twenty years.” Hmmm. There is also an ambivalence in Blakey’s attitude toward organized crime—which possibly had important links to the assassination (pace Giancana, Roselli, and, especially, Jack Ruby). After building a reputation as a crusader against racketeers, including a stint as Special Prosecutor in Bobby Kennedy’s organized crime strike force, Blakey weighed in with an anti-free press affidavit supporting La Costa Ranch in its libel suit against Penthouse Magazine in the winter of 1976. Things get curiouser and curiouser. At any rate, we may now judge that another Warrengate is in the works, that the Committee may eventually peter out with yet another rubber-stamp of the Oswald-Ruby-lone nuts thesis. So what else is new?

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September 3, 2013 A Scandal-Scalded Murdoch as a Song-and-Dance Man By WILLIAM GRIMES The New York Times September 3, 2013-09-04 http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/theater/a-scandal-scalded-murdoch-as-a-song-and-dance-man.html?from=arts It has been an eventful couple of years for Rupert Murdoch. In Britain, evidence that reporters at several of his newspapers routinely hacked into private cellphones as they pursued hot stories led to the demise of News of the World, one of his mightiest tabloids, and incited an official government inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press. Last June, Mr. Murdoch announced that he was divorcing his third wife, Wendi Deng, whom he married in 1999. And now, with Australia in the midst of a federal election campaign, Mr. Murdoch, a harsh critic of the incumbent Labor Party and the owner of 70 percent of the country’s newspapers, is once again the topic of the day in his native land. The dramatists have taken note. Richard Bean, the author of “One Man, Two Guvnors,” is writing a play on the phone-hacking scandal for the National Theater in London at the invitation of its artistic director, Nicholas Hytner. Closer to home, the Melbourne Theater Company has just staged the premiere of “Rupert,” a cabaret-style dramatization of Mr. Murdoch’s life by one of Australia’s best-known playwrights, David Williamson. The play, which opened on Thursday at the Arts Center in Melbourne, uses two actors to play Murdoch. Guy Edmonds is the young Rupert. Sean O’Shea, appearing as Mr. Murdoch’s 82-year-old self, also offers commentary and direction as the action unfolds — very quickly to accommodate a career spanning more than six decades. Mr. Williamson, whose fiddling with the text and constant updating took him through 50 revisions, starts with Mr. Murdoch as the young heir to a failing Australian newspaper and follows him as he parlays success in Australia to tabloid triumphs in Britain, the purchase of The Times of London, and inroads into the United States. Little is left out, not even the shaving-cream pie that a comedian heaved at Mr. Murdoch when he appeared to testify before a parliamentary committee looking into the hacking scandal. The six other members of the ensemble cast take on multiple roles to populate an often crowded canvas. The reviews have been good, although critics hoping to see Mr. Murdoch’s head served on a platter came away disappointed. The Age, Melbourne’s non-Murdoch daily, praised Mr. O’Shea’s portrayal of Mr. Murdoch as “a roguish larrikin” (Australian slang for a hooligan or rowdy) with a “hint of menace beneath the charisma,” while complaining that Mr. Williamson pulled too many punches. It was an open question how the Murdoch-owned papers would handle the subject. The Australian, a national daily owned by Mr. Murdoch, gave a more than respectful account of the play. Its reviewer complained that Mr. Williamson had tried to cram too many events into one evening’s entertainment, but called the first act “light and delightfully funny.” Lee Lewis, the director, he wrote, “sets a cracking pace, and her cast doesn’t miss a beat.” The hands-off approach to Mr. Murdoch was deliberate, Mr. Williamson said, part and parcel of his decision to depart from his more familiar naturalistic style and use the cabaret format. The Murdoch character “invites the audience to see his real story,” not the story from what a Murdoch paper might call “effete caffe-latte-sipping inner-city left-liberal elites,” Mr. Williamson said. “He casts his own show so that the younger version of himself is considerably more handsome and dynamic than he was, but, as he tells his audience, this is his show, so he can do what he likes.” Mr. Williamson is probably better known to American audiences as a screenwriter. He wrote the film version of his play “Don’s Party,” directed by Bruce Beresford, and the screenplays for “Gallipoli” and “The Year of Living Dangerously,” both directed by Peter Weir. In Australia, where he first rose to prominence in the early 1970s, he is best known for satirical plays like “The Removalists,” “The Perfectionist” and Brilliant Lies,” which he has turned out at the rate of nearly one a year. Brett Sheehy, the artistic director of the Melbourne Theater Company, approached Mr. Williamson a year and a half ago to write a play. “I told him I’d love him to consider something which was a bit different from his usual work — something which was thematically very global,” Mr. Sheehy said. “I asked him where was the heat and passion in discussions with his friends, at dinner parties, barbecues, get-togethers? He said: ‘Oh God, that’s easy. The power relationship between the media and politics. The News of the World troubles. The Leveson Inquiry.’ ” Mr. Sheehy suggested that he take that as his subject, and splash it on a big canvas. “Rupert immediately sprang to mind as a subject,” Mr. Williamson said. “He is the most powerful Australian or ex- Australian ever to have lived.” A dramatic precursor immediately presented itself: Richard III. “Both men, through a combination of boldness, ruthlessness, charm and steely ambition rose to rule their realms,” Mr. Williamson said. “Richard gets his comeuppance on Bosworth Field, but what’s remarkable about Rupert is that he never does. The other difference, I guess, is that Richard killed many to get to the top. Rupert just fires anyone who doesn’t toe the ideological line.” As a dramatic figure, Mr. Murdoch has already made his debut on the stage, as the thinly disguised press baron Lambert Le Roux in “Pravda,” David Hare and Howard Brenton’s 1985 satire about the British newspaper industry. Anthony Hopkins took the role. In “Selling Hitler,” a 1991 British television mini-series about the Hitler diaries hoax, Barry Humphries acted the part of Mr. Murdoch, whose newspaper The Sunday Times (in London) ran excerpts from the fake diaries. In an interview with The Age, Mr. Bean described his play in progress as “funny but grotesque,” and, in an adjectival pileup, a “state of the nation, press, politics and police in bed with each other” play. Mr. Murdoch was invited to “Rupert,” but has not responded. A theater spokeswoman said that members of his extended family were expected. The play is to come to Washington in March for five performances at the International Theater Festival.

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From the article: “In addition, my inquiries unearthed the existence of a shadowy SAS unit that answers to MI6, as well as the names of two MI6 officers who were linked by a number of sources to Diana’s death.” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2407571/Princess-Diana-SAS-murder-claim--mad-think-says-SUE-REID.html#ixzz2dZEhY37j

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/28/iran-lawsuit-us-1953-coup

Yahoo Uncovered Syria Chemical Weapon False Flag in January http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/anthony-gucciardi/chemical-weapons-false-flag%e2%80%a8/

From an email sent to me by Len Colodny yesterday, August 24, 2013: http://www.watergate.com/ Today www.watergate.com becomes the host of the "Colodny Collection" research site. Last year, I created a trust, "Colodny Collection, LLC," to hold all my work and work-related materials. It now includes all my research materials from both "Silent Coup" and "Forty Years War." This will make all of my research available to anyone who wants to use it. Along with these materials I am disclosing in full my relationship with Bob Woodward, which started almost 33 years ago, in an article entitled "Bob Woodward Lied to Me, Lied to His Readers and Lied to Our History". Accompanying the article are the entire and unedited tape recording of my Nov. 19, 1980, telephone conversation with Woodward, and a transcript of that call. This tape, which was undisclosed until now, is the first known record of the "real" Bob Woodward at work, and shows how he abused the reputation generated by his Watergate reporting. To the few people who have heard of this call, Woodward has claimed the tape and transcript do not match. Now you can judge for yourself. This page also contains the three fraudulent stories from the Post, which are at the heart of this story. "The Colodny Collection" offers evidence that calls into question what was really behind Woodward's role in the "Watergate" story. The first posting from the "Collection" is "The Woodward/Haig Connection," in which Woodward conceals his true relationship with Gen. Alexander Haig, the former National Security Council aide and White House chief of staff. Regards, Len Len Colodny Colodny Collection LLC

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Police docs from JFK assassination packed away in rarely-seen Dallas rooms by REBECCA LOPEZ |Follow: @rlopezwfaa WFAA Posted on August 22, 2013 at 6:54 PM Updated yesterday at 7:12 PM [To view video, click on link] http://www.wfaa.com/jfk/Evidence-in-JFK-assassination-packed-away-in-rarely-seen-Dallas-rooms-220728341.html# DALLAS -- Sr. Cpl. Roderick Janich holds the keys that unlocks the door to the history of the Dallas Police Department. In this small room, marked "press room," are some of the original artifacts from November 22, 1963. Cpl. Janich brought out a door saved from the old police headquarters. “A lot of history has gone through this door," he said. The door that Lee Harvey Oswald stepped through when he was interrogated about the murders of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit. "The world changed that day," Janich said. It changed, too, for the police officers investigating the murders. Angry people phoned in death threats, blaming the department for the assassination of the president. “The president was very popular, and it happened in Dallas, unfortunately," Janich said. The most important Dallas police documents are held in a vault at City Hall. The city archivist, John Slate, is the only one who can bring them out and display them. White gloves are required. "That is the original homicide report for the president," Slate said, holding a piece of onion-skin paper. One of the most interesting things when reading the documents is that the homicide and police reports never refer to the victim as President John F. Kennedy. He’s referred to as the deceased -- "The deceased was riding in the motorcade." There are 11,000 items in the archives from the Kennedy assassination. "This was sent to the Oswald while sitting in the city jail," Slate said, holding up another page. It's one of the rarely seen telegrams sent to Oswald. “It says, 'You are dead,'" Slate read. And there is an Oswald interrogation report with corrections made with a red pen, part of the mountains of evidence that would have been presented if there had ever been a trial for the man who killed the president. E-mail rlopez@wfaa.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/us/politics/last-of-the-nixon-tapes-are-going-online.html?pagewanted=all

Angry Nixon: New tapes reveal an overwrought president in grips of Watergate http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/21/20122903-angry-nixon-new-tapes-reveal-an-overwrought-president-in-grips-of-watergate?lite

If not the end, the beginning of the end.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/world/middleeast/cia-orchestrated-1953-coup-in-iran-document-confirms.html

44 Years Later, a Washington, D.C. Death Unresolved Mary Pinchot Meyer's death remains a mystery. But it's her life that holds more interest now By Lance Morrow Smithsonian magazine, December 2008 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Presence-of-Mind-Mary-Pinchot-Meyer-200812.html?c=y&story=fullstory

August 17, 2013 The New York Times No Stranger to Conspiracy By DAN BARRY http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/opinion/sunday/no-stranger-to-conspiracy.html?hp&_r=0 AS a veteran newspaper reporter, I’ve heard some things. I once sat in a Friendly’s restaurant in Connecticut with an earnest nun who, between sips of her Fribble, confided that an evil man who looked like Pope Paul VI — but who was not Pope Paul VI — had seized control of the Vatican in the 1960s. A papal double, she explained. And she had photographs to prove it. I knocked back a double Fribble and asked for the check. Journalists will entertain conspiracy theories because conspiracies, in fact, do take place, and at our best we seek out the stories behind the stories. But we also pay a price if we don’t buy into every one. If you write that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in the summer of 1969, some reader somewhere is guaranteed to call you a government dupe. Hey, Jimmy Olsen! Everyone knows that Armstrong took one giant leap on a secured movie lot. Sap. Though I am not unfamiliar with being called a patsy, I still respect and admire those who challenge the conventional wisdom; this is how I was raised, as you will see. Even so, I was still cold-cocked by the response to a recent This Land column of mine that touched on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Holy Zapruder. The column focused on Patric Abedin, who owns a Fort Worth burial plot right beside Lee Harvey Oswald’s. The granite marker he placed above the empty grave says NICK BEEF, a curious name that has prompted years of Internet speculation. Let’s just say that Mr. Abedin, or Mr. Beef, has his reasons, going back to when he was a boy and saw President Kennedy at an Air Force base the night before the assassination. In the column, I referred in passing to Oswald as the man who killed Kennedy. I did not use the phrase “alleged assassin.” I did not attribute the reference to the Warren Commission. I simply wrote that Oswald assassinated Kennedy, thinking that nearly 50 years have passed — a half-century! — and no one else has been convincingly tied to the murder. So began my refresher course. While some readers wrote to say nice job and have a nice day, others got right to the point: I was a government patsy, employed by a newspaper that has worked in concert with various insidious powers to suppress what really happened in Dallas. One reader charged me with a “virtually treasonous act.” The rough consensus among these unhappy readers was that at least two gunmen were involved, and that the Warren Commission was inept at best, corrupt at worst. In addition, I was a thought-free tool — a sap, really — who, among other failures, had made no reference to the House Select Committee on Assassinations report of 1979, which concluded that while Oswald fired the fatal shot, there also existed the probability of a conspiracy among unknown participants. It might spawn another conspiracy belief for my critics to learn that I am of proud conspiracy-theorist stock. While other fathers pursued hobbies like golf, mine spent his free time trying to expose a government cover-up of the existence of U.F.O.’s. His preferred family outing was to pull over the station wagon and search the night skies for extraterrestrial activity. That’s how we Barrys rolled. My father was also obsessed with the murder of Kennedy, one of his few heroes. Our family bible was not the Bible but Mark Lane’s “Rush to Judgment,” a sort of conspiracy primer on the assassination. Other children discussed the films of Walt Disney; my siblings and I discussed the film of Abraham Zapruder. As time moved on, though, my questions about the Kennedy assassination gave in to a general acceptance that Oswald had acted alone. Probably. But a half-century after the tragedy, I remain in the minority. According to an Associated Press-GfK poll conducted earlier this year, 59 percent of Americans believe in an assassination conspiracy. Presumably, that includes my three siblings. At least I am in fast company. Among the nonbelievers is the prominent presidential historian Robert Dallek, whose most recent book, “Camelot’s Court: Inside the Kennedy White House,” is one of many Kennedy books coming out in time for the assassination’s 50th anniversary in November. “If there was some grand conspiracy, it would have been outed by now,” he said. Mr. Dallek is more intrigued by the apparent need to believe in a conspiracy. “They can’t accept that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy,” he said. “To believe that only Oswald killed Kennedy — that there wasn’t some larger plot — shows people how random the world is, how uncertain. And I think it pains them; they don’t want to accept that fact.” Jesse Walker, the books editor at Reason magazine and the author of “The United States of Paranoia,” also to be released in the coming days, said that conspiracy theories have a long and potent history in this country and are hardly embraced by only the fringe. “Conspiracy theories emerge at this place where our natural tendency to find patterns and tell stories meets our natural tendency to have suspicions and fears,” he said. Now and then I think of that nun at Friendly’s all those years ago. More often, I think of my father, who taught me about Watergate and other true conspiracies, dying without seeing a U.F.O. or trusting the official story of how his hero had died. The murder of a president has not been easy for any of us who remember it. “I love my country and find it hard to shrug and ‘move on,’ ” one of the more thoughtful conspiracy theorists wrote to me. “Good luck to us all.” Dan Barry is a national correspondent who writes the This Land column for The New York Times.

Mark Lane audio interview: Did the Secret Service help kill JFK? http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/mark-lane-did-the-secret-service-help-kill-jfk/

News International could face corporate charges over phone hacking Metropolitan police investigation has interviewed 'very senior figures' from organisation now known as News UK By Jamie Doward theguardian.com, Saturday 17 August 2013 09.53 EDT 2013-08-17 16:17:51 'Senior figures' from Rupert Murdoch's News International corporation (now named UK News) have been formally interviewed by the Metropolitan police. Photograph: Noah Berger/AP Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper division could face corporate charges in relation to the Metropolitan police's phone-hacking investigation, it has been claimed in a report by The Independent. Two "very senior figures" in News International, now renamed as News UK, have been interviewed in relation to the corporate aspect of the investigation, which is also examining allegations of bribery of public officials, it has emerged. The allegations indicate a new line of inquiry is opening into the Murdoch empire which has potentially serious consequences for News UK, the company that owns the Sun and the Times newspapers. In an attempt at damage limitation following the scandal, News Corp was separated from News UK. Such an inquiry would mirror events in the US where the Department of Justice and the FBI are investigating Murdoch's US parent company, News Corp, under the Foreign and Corrupt Practices Act which can impose severe penalties on companies that bribe foreign officials. Labour MP Chris Bryant, who was one of the most vocal critics of News International when phone hacking was uncovered, said the Met had told him they were "actively investigating corporate charges and that they were in correspondence with the American authorities, the FBI." Bryant said the law in the UK is now as tough as in the US due to the enactment of the Bribery Act 2010. "Under the Bribery Act, the body corporate can have charges laid against it if its corporate governance was so reckless as to be negligent," Bryant said. Sue Akers, who was head of the Met investigation, confirmed to the Leveson Inquiry last year that she had sought legal advice with regard to bringing "both individual and corporate offences". Her comments sparked claims that News Corp directors could be prosecuted for neglect of their duties. Now evidence is emerging that the Met is taking an active role in pursuing the corporate aspect of the investigation. John Turnbull, a senior News Corp lawyer, has been interviewed formally by the Met, a source told Reuters. More than 125 people have so far been arrested and more than 40 charged in relation to the criminal aspect of the investigation which led to Murdoch closing the News of the World. Sources say the Met is waiting until the criminal trials of individuals have concluded before deciding if it can press corporate charges. Rebekah Brooks, the former News International chief executive, is due to stand trial along with eight others on September 9, while eight Sun journalists are scheduled to stand trial in January over alleged unlawful payments to public officials for stories. The Met's detectives have benefited from an information-sharing agreement with News Corp's Management and Standards Committee (MSC), which was set up to conduct an internal investigation into the phone hacking and bribery allegations. It has emerged that Akers sent a letter last year to Lord Grabiner, the MSC's chairman, advising him that there was a possibility corporate charges could be brought against Murdoch's companies. "We have cooperated with all relevant authorities throughout the process and our history of assistance is a matter of record," a News UK spokesman said.

‘JFK’s Last Hundred Days,’ by Thurston Clarke http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/books/jfks-last-hundred-days-by-thurston-clarke.html?hp

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I find Detective Rothstein to be extremely credible. However since a few Forum members have questioned his credibility, I am posting the article by him below. Some of his material has appeared before in this topic but he has added new details that may help in clearing up some aspects. ---------------------------------------------------------------- JFK In early March of 1961, the Essex was at its homeport in Quonset, Rhode Island, when strange things started happening. Sailors were dispatched for rifle squad practice with a Marine leading the team. Old timers (salts) stated that this had not happened since WWII; something was up. The Essex sailed to the Norfolk Virginia Navy Shipyards. On Sunday morning, all liberty and leaves were cancelled. Train cars loaded with supplies pulled up next to the ship and the supplies were loaded onto the Essex. The word was that the Essex was going to Nova Scotia for special operations. On Monday morning, as the Essex set sail, Rothstein was ordered to Winch #2 to prepare to take on cargo. Rothstein was the winch operator with his assistant, J.C. Adams. Armed Marines and sailors were posted everywhere; only authorized personnel were allowed on deck. The Essex pulled alongside a heavily guarded barge with two long cylinders on the deck. Rothstein loaded both cylinders on board and watched as they were sent below deck in the bomb elevator. They were “special” bombs. The Essex then headed for the open sea in due haste. When the Essex reached the Atlantic Ocean, it made a sharp turn to starboard (right). We were going south. If the Essex was going to Nova Scotia, it would have made a turn to port (left). Something big was up. As the Essex began to near the coast of Florida, a squadron of US Navy jets was seen approaching the Essex; they did a fly-by and prepared to land. The Essex was not designed for jets; now it had been modified to have jets land and take-off. We knew for sure something out of the ordinary was going on. When it got dark, the Captain of the Essex, Captain Searcy, advised the crew that they were on a special mission. The Capt. ordered “Darken Ship and No Communication” was in effect until further notice. We were advised we were going to Cuba. General Quarters was sounded. We were going to war. Every day after that, till three days before the Bay of Pigs invasion, we practiced for the invasion. The jets were painted white; the only markings were numbers on the planes. The numbers on the ships were painted over. The flags were taken down. When refueling and replenishing occurred, the flags would be raised as the ships started their approach and lowered again immediately. Three days before the invasion of the Bay of Pigs, the bombing, to soften up the beach at the Bay of Pigs, started. At night we headed to the beach. The Destroyers would go closer and bombard the beach. During the day, we would head out to sea and re-supply. On the day of the invasion, at approximately 0315 hours, Rothstein was manning the helm of the Essex when Capt. Searcy came out of his quarters. The Captain’s Quarters are on the Bridge during operations. Captain Searcy informed the crew on the Quarter Deck that the President of the United States, John F Kennedy, had just ordered him to stop bombing the beach. Capt. Searcy knew that the revolutionaries would be killed. He was pissed but, “Orders were Orders.” The next three days were spent bringing survivors and bodies on board. Rothstein again manned Winch #2 and the bodies were brought aboard in cargo nets and put in boxes and then taken to reefers. There were many cargo nets of bodies; it was a gruesome sight to behold. The Bay of Pigs was lost and it would seal the fate of John Kennedy. You do not double-cross the OP40 operatives. One of the leaders of the revolution was CIA Operative Frank Sturgis of OP40. He was one of the operatives left behind in Cuba and was imprisoned. Sturgis and Rothstein would meet again years later. Detective Rothstein, of the New York City Police Department, would arrest Frank Sturgis when he came to New York to kill Marita Lorenz. In the morning of October 31, 1977, Halloween day, Det. Rothstein received a call from Paul Meskil, a reporter for the New York Daily News. Meskil was beside himself. Monica Lorenz, the daughter of Marita Lorenz, had just been arrested in front of her apartment on York Avenue in possession of a loaded gun. She was to be the last line of defense for Marita. Monica was hiding in the bushes in front of the apartment building on Eighty Eighth Street and York Avenue; she was going to ambush and kill Sturgis when he showed up to kill Marita. Meskil knew that the only two Detectives he could trust were Rosenthal and Rothstein; he knew they would not back down or be stopped. The Detectives notified members of the New York State Select Committee, their present assignment, of the call. They jumped into action. They first called the arresting officer of Monica and verified that the arrest had been made for possession of a gun. The Detectives learned that Monica had gotten a gun “off the street” and could field strip a 45 like a top pro. They then set up a meeting with Marita Lorenz and Paul Meskil at a small restaurant on the East Side. They all met at the restaurant at approximately 1100AM. Marita verified what Meskil had told the Detectives. She was very up-set, anxious, and scared. She feared for her and her children’s lives. Marita told the Detectives that she was scheduled to testify at the House Assassination Hearings in Washington, DC, concerning the assassination of John F Kennedy. Marita had taken part in the planning for the assassination of President John F Kennedy. Meskil told the Detectives that he was in possession of a tape recording made of a conversation between Marita Lorenz and Frank Sturgis; the tape was hidden at his residence in Nassau County, New York. In the tape, Sturgis told Marita, “You know what the rules are and what happens if you talk.” This was clearly a threat coming from Sturgis, a known assassin. Meskil told the Detectives to pick up the tape at his house. His son would give the Detectives the tapes. Meskil told the Detectives that he would be leaving for the Far East as soon as our meeting was over. At approximately 100 pm, the Detectives left the restaurant with Marita and went to her apartment on Eighty Eighth Street and York Avenue. When Detectives Rosenthal, Rothstein, and Marita entered the apartment, the detectives did a quick canvass of the apartment. They saw 10 to 15 boxes sitting against the wall in the dining room. The rest of the day and early evening were spent interviewing Marita and reviewing the contents of the boxes, in preparation for the arrival of Sturgis. Marita told the detectives that the boxes contained documentation concerning OP40, the Cuban invasion, Castro, planning for the Kennedy assassination, and other covert operations that she had knowledge of. These documents were going to be delivered to the House Assassination Hearings. The Detectives believed they had more than sufficient evidence to arrest Sturgis. Marita told Detectives Rosenthal and Rothstein that the Kennedy assassination was planned at a meeting in Miami, Florida. She stated that as the meeting broke-up, there was a shootout. Later a Police Officer who responded to the call verified this event. Five people left in two vehicles for the drive to Dallas, Texas. They were Frank Sturgis, E. Howard Hunt, Orlando Bosch, Marita Lorenz, and one other. Near Natchitoches, Louisiana, after crossing a bridge on Highway (1) running parallel to the Interstate (20), they had “car trouble” and stopped to fix the car. Detectives Rosenthal and Rothstein would verify this information to be true. On October 31, 1977, at approximately 2130 hours, Det. Mathew Rosenthal and Det. Jim Rothstein arrested Frank Sturgis when he came to assassinate Marita Lorenz, a witness to the planning of the Kennedy assassination. When Sturgis rang the doorbell for Marita, to gain entry to the building, Rosenthal and Rothstein assumed their position. They crouched low next to the door with their guns drawn and their shields pinned to their suit jackets. When Sturgis entered the premises, Rothstein placed his gun in Sturgis’ mouth and shouted, “Police! You’re under arrest mother xxxxer; don’t move.” Sturgis mumbled, “I hope you’re Detectives.” Rosenthal had put his gun to Sturgis’ chest and identified himself as a Police Officer. The Detectives searched Sturgis. Once the Detectives knew that the scene was under control, Rothstein, in a calculated move, congratulated Sturgis for assassinating President John F Kennedy. Rothstein told Sturgis that he was present when Kennedy ordered the bombing and support of the invasion to stop. The order came at a critical moment, just as the invasion of the Bay of Pigs began. Sturgis says, “The only way you can know that is if you were on the Essex.” Rothstein replied, “Yes, I was.” Rothstein and Sturgis shook hands; they were both professionals and were doing their job. Detectives Rothstein and Rosenthal questioned Sturgis for approximately two hours at Marita’s apartment before taking him for booking at the local precinct. During this time, Sturgis was very frank and open with the Detectives. He admitted that he was on the Grassy Knoll at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, when Kennedy was assassinated and that he was one of the shooters from the Grassy Knoll. The Detectives received valuable information from Sturgis. Sturgis told the Detectives that OP40’s mandate was “to protect our country at all costs.” When Sturgis was asked why Kennedy was assassinated, he told the Detectives that there were three reasons. Number one was that Kennedy had double-crossed OP40 in the Bay of Pigs Invasion by pulling back the support. Number two was that he (Kennedy) had been told to stay away from the women, especially the Russian woman, Ellen Rometsch, because he would be compromised and jeopardized national security. Number three was that Kennedy was destroying the black community through his liberal social programs. When Sturgis was taken to the local precinct, the Detectives identified themselves and told the desk lieutenant that they were booking Frank Fiorini (Sturgis’ real name). They took Sturgis to the Detectives room and began processing the arrest. That’s when things got strange. Rosenthal advised Sturgis of his rights. Sturgis asked to make a call, which Rothstein does. He told Rothstein to call Gaeton Fonzi, the investigator in the House Assassination Hearings. Rothstein was surprised that a suspect would call the investigator, and he was the suspect. When Fonzi answered the phone, Rothstein identified himself and told Fonzi that Sturgis was under arrest and wants to talk to him. Fonzi was dumbfounded. (See The Last Investigation, by Gaeton Fonzi, page 103). Shortly after the call was made, the desk officer called the Detectives to inform them that a Frank Nelson (CIA and Organized Crime in Cuba) was at the desk and was looking for Frank Sturgis, if in fact, Fiorini was Sturgis. The answer was yes. Within minutes all hell broke loose. Every big boss in the Police Department was calling to find out what happened. The Detectives finished booking Sturgis and were requested to report to the offices of John Guido and Harold Hess, two of the top bosses involved in this type of case. When the Detectives arrived at Guido and Hess’s office, they are asked if they had anything to eat. The Detectives said no. Hess sent out one of his staff to get a six pack of beer and sandwiches. He asked the Detectives, “Was it a good and clean arrest?” The Detectives say, “Yes, it was and it was solid.” Hess replied, “Good. That is all I wanted to know.” The Detectives advised Guido and Hess of what happened. Rosenthal and Rothstein were asked to arraign Sturgis and go home and get some rest. At the arraignment of Frank Sturgis in Manhattan, Criminal ADA Broomer was assigned to the case. The Detectives informed Broomer of the tape corroborating the allegations made by Marita and Meskil. Broomer asked the Detectives where the tape was. They informed Broomer that they would pick up the tape at Meskil’s residence in Nassau County on their way back to the city from their residences. Early the next morning, all hell broke loose again. Unknown members of the New York City Police Department went to Meskil’s residence to get the tape. When Meskil’s son answered the door, he saw that it was not Detectives Rosenthal and Rothstein. The son called the Nassau County Police Department and told them that somebody was at his door trying to take evidence of the Kennedy assassination. Nassau County Police responded in full force. The New York City Cops were sent packing. Detectives Rosenthal and Rothstein were notified by Guido and Hess of what happened; somebody had sand-bagged them and they should immediately proceed to the Meskil residence and retrieve the tape. Rosenthal and Rothstein met with the son at Meskil’s residence and the son was so proud that he had protected the tape for Rosenthal and Rothstein, as his father had told him to do. The son gave the tape to the Detectives. The detectives knew what was coming; the cover-up was started. Detectives Rosenthal and Rothstein took the tape to ADA Broomer’s office and the tape was played. Marita and Meskil were right. Sturgis was heard telling Marita, “You know what the rules are and what happens if you talk.” Broomer and the powers to-be decided that was not a threat. The Detectives argued vehemently that it was clearly a threat coming from Sturgis and you had to be totally stupid if you didn’t understand that. The Detectives knew the fix was in. The charges against Sturgis were dropped. The boxes of files in Marita’s apartment were hand delivered to the House Assassination Hearings in Washington DC by Marita Lorenz and retired Det. Bobby Polachek, who had been a partner of Det. Rothstein at the 26 Precinct. Subsequently, Rosenthal, Rothstein, and the City of New York were sued by Sturgis for $16 million for making a false arrest. The case was tried by Judge Leonard Sand in the Federal Court in the Southern District of New York. Sturgis was represented by Henry Rothblatt. Rothstein was called as the last witness late in the day. He was sworn in by the judge and the case was adjourned till the next day. As Det. Rothstein was getting ready to leave the court house, he was warned by unnamed sources that his life was in danger and that he should not go home. Det. Rothstein called one of his informants, who lived in the neighborhood near the court house, and asked for her assistance. She was connected to organized crime figures in the same area. Det. Rothstein left through the back door and was safely taken to an apartment by his informant and her friends. The next morning, Det. Rothstein took the stand to testify. Before anything was said, Judge Sand was summoned to his chambers. After an hour or so, Det. Rothstein was called to the Judge’s Chambers. Det. Rothstein was asked what it would take for him not to testify. Everybody in the courtroom, especially the media, knew Det. Rothstein was going to let it all hang out. An agreement was reached that the City Of New York was going to pay $2,500.00 to Sturgis and Det. Rosenthal and Det. Rothstein were to be commended for acting above and beyond the call of duty. Judge Sand advised Det. Rothstein that he would be called in front of the bench and, if Det. Rothstein wanted to make a statement, he could say anything he wanted to say. Det. Rothstein realized it was in his best interest to keep his big mouth shut. As Rothstein turned to leave the courtroom, Sturgis and Rothblatt shook Rothstein’s hand and asked if he would be part of their organization. Rothstein replied, “It was an honor for you to ask, but I cannot do that.” He left the courthouse. THE AFTERMATH: Sometime during the summer of 1983, Retired Detective Rothstein was sitting at the bar in Georgia’s Bar and Restaurant at 722 South Wellwood Avenue, Lindenhurst, New York, talking to customers. A well-dressed man, wearing typical “spook” attire, came in and sat next to Rothstein. He introduced himself as a former New York City police officer who had moved to Florida. During an hour conversation he told Rothstein that when Detectives Rosenthal and Rothstein arrested Frank Sturgis he was sent with a “bag of money” from Florida to get Sturgis out of jail. He did not say where the money came from. He knew all the facts about Sturgis. Rothstein has never seen or heard from him again and never knew why he came in the first place. In the early nineties, Rothstein received a call from Arthur Nazeth, a reliable source in the underground of organized crime, inquiring about Frank Sturgis. Nazeth was in possession of an envelope with Frank Sturgis’ name on it and the seal of Cardinal Cooke from New York. Nazeth had received the envelope when a relative of his died, who had been a professor at one of the major colleges in New York. Nazeth asked what to do, and Rothstein told him to open it up and find out what it was. When the envelope was opened, it was the 22 page written confession of Frank Sturgis to Cardinal Cooke made in 1971. Nazeth read the 22 page confession to Rothstein over the phone. In the confession, Sturgis admitted to the assassination of John F Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, and gave a full description of what happened that day in Dallas. He also stated in that confession that the police officer, Tippet, had been killed by - - - - -?. Nazeth asked Rothstein to come to New York and pick up the confession. Rothstein was living in Maine at the time. Arrangements were made that Rothstein would meet Nazeth at the Saston Lumber Yard on Sunrise Highway in Lindenhurst, New York. When Nazeth neared the lumber yard to make the drop, he was intercepted by authorities. Authorities did not find the confession; Nazeth was not new to this kind of game. A second meeting was scheduled at the Lindenhurst Diner on Sunrise Highway in Lindenhurst the next night. On what was supposed to be a quiet night, it was standing room only with feds when Rothstein got there. When Nazeth saw the crowded diner, he aborted the drop. Rothstein returned to Maine and waited for another day when the heat was off. Rothstein would not hear from Nazeth again till about 2007. Nazeth called Rothstein on another matter and told him that the confession was safe and by the water, and someday they would meet to finish the drop. Rothstein is still waiting. The confession verified the information Rothstein received from Marita Lorenz and what Sturgis told Rothstein when he was arrested by Rothstein at Marita’s apartment. In the mid to late nineties, Rothstein was at a meeting with John Tunheim, who reviewed the files of the House Assassination to determine what information could be released to the public. Rothstein asked Tunheim if he saw Marita’s boxes of files that had been delivered to the hearings and the files of Frank Sturgis. Tunheim responded that Marita was such a beautiful, sweet grandma but there were no files from Marita or Sturgis. He said it was not the files that were missing, but the whole blocs of files that they could not find that surprised him. Rothstein told Tunheim about his dealings with Marita and who she really was. Yes, she was a beautiful, sweet grandma but she was also a stone killer and assassin. She was known as “My Little Assassin” in various writings. In the late 1970’s, arrangements were made by Sydell Albert for Detective Rothstein to interview Manny Berson in Brooklyn, New York, at his residence. Berson was told Rothstein was a reporter from Minnesota researching the situation in Cuba from the Batista era forward. Berson had been the straight man for the “mob” in Havana during the Batista era. Tommy Ryan Eboli, an organized crime leader from the lower west side of New York, ran the day to day criminal operations in Havana. Havana was the center of money laundering operations for the mob, CIA, and the shadow government. Gambling was also very lucrative for the Mob in Havana and a good “front” for the money laundering. The only other information on Manny Berson was that he had been a New York City Police Officer. The conversation with Berson lasted approximately 3 hours and had been taped. The tape was given to Maurice Nadjari of the Special Prosecutors Office in NYC. When Castro ousted Batista, the Mafia assumed that the Patriarca crime family of Providence, Rhode Island, and the Giancana crime family from Chicago, Illinois, would take over Havana and all its lucrative operations. The mob’s involvement in getting JFK elected as president of the USA entitled them this perk. Surprise! Surprise! Castro said he would rather go Communist than allow the criminal element to use his children and women for prostitution and drugs. He had thrown out the mob. The Frank Sturgis connection in Havana and his involvement with Castro became very crucial at this point. Sturgis was out. When JFK refused to oust Castro, the mob was pissed. JFK and his brother, Bobby, felt that they did not have to honor this debt and that they were the “almighty.” How naïve and pompous could they be? It would cost them their lives. Any investigation into the assassination of JFK and/or motives for the assassination cannot be complete or accurate if the actions of certain other people are not investigated. They are: George Joannides, Frank Nelson, Alexander Rourke, Geoffrey Sullivan, Pete Ray, and others. Of particular interest is “Big Al’ Carone, a New York City Police Officer, (bagman in Brooklyn), CIA, Colonel in the Army, and a “Made Man” in the Mafia. Carone was part of a back-up team at the airport in Dallas on the day of the assassination. Carone was a close associate and friend of Bill Casey. Casey attended Carone’s daughter, Dee’s, wedding at the Narragansett Inn on Montauk Highway in Lindenhurst, New York, on Long Island. In the real world there are certain rules (Rules of Eighth Avenue). If violated, they will cause certain death of the violator. It is not a big conspiracy; it is a fact of life. The Kennedys violated those basic rules numerous times. Ted Kennedy was spared and compromised, but discredited at Chappaquiddick.

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