Charles Drago

Another opportunity to utilize October Revolution Red!

Anyone who is of the opinion that warfare does not open the door to betterment of those who survive, need look no farther than the two Korea's.

We need to look far beyond your myopia, sir. Say, to Pinochet's Chile. Although you do make good points as far as Cuba and Venezuela are concerned. Then again, there's East Timor.

So! Which system is ultimately better for the MAJORITY of the people.

I'll answer for you: The system that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of your masters.

It long ago became a "world economy", and to disrupt any aspect of this system creates chaos within multiple countries and the economic well being of it's populace.

There is no "turning back".

As another example!

One can rest assured that the US, with it's capabilities, can immediately curtail or end the drug trafficking trade out of Columbia.

However! A large portion of the Columbian economy is dependent upon those funds which come into the country as a result of this drug production.

Columbia has, for a considerable length of time, had a fragile Government, and any severe economic impact to that countriy's economy would result in return to the status of one attempted revolution after another.

And, some other country would thereafter only pick up the "slack" in drug production, as, so long as there is a market, there will be those who supply the market.

So! Why disrupt one country and create economic chaos, when in fact some other country will only pick up the slack and themselves become more economically dependent on the drug trade, which only increases the problem.

Ladies and gentlemen, for invaluable future reference save the passage above to which I have added emphasis. It stands as the most revealing exemplar imaginable of the Purvis world view and moral code. Nothing more need be said.

What amazes me is that so many Americans have fallen for this trick.

This from a man in uniform.

As it's people go, so goes a nation.

No, I won't touch that one, either.

I cannot answer your question.

Ladies and gentlemen ... presenting the two latest additions to the TGUA master list.

That's the Tim Gratz Unwarranted Assumptions master list.

If Mailer received illegal tax breaks in return for his perfidy -- and I too have reason to believe that he was bought in some form or fashion -- then it most assuredly does NOT stand to reason that only "someone in the Clinton administration [sic]" could have done the dirty deed.

Then there's Timmy's question on an unrelated thread about a "conversation" between George Michael Evica and Senator Christopher Dodd -- an unreported, unreferenced, undocumented event that is solely the product of Timmy's apparently stunted reading and reasoning abilities.

Charles

"War is a racket Thomas, or hadn't you heard?"

My bemused reactions in October Revolution red.

Myra;

The odds are that in all probability, I have forgotten more about war then you will ever know.

A textbook example of the "argument from false authority."

A warrior is far less likely to die if there are no wars.

You can't put a dollar sign on this kind of logic!

Thusly, as one of my good military officer friends from Columbia once stated; "I vote for the winner", and therefore absolutely insist that the US Government keep a "war machine" which has no equivelant.

Hmmm ... School of the Americas, was it?

Hmmm ... "vote" with a ballot or a bullet? How were "votes" for, oh, Pinochet cast?

Thereafter, I will know that my children will remain free as well as always voting for the winner.

Does it violate the rules of fashion to wear a brown shirt after six?

And, so long as my children remain with the freedoms which I and others in this country have enjoyed, then it will be my hope that the US Government, if it errs, will always do so on the side of our freedom. (emphasis added)

Few modern day warriors fight wars because the want to!

Most do so as a result of understanding that they have to if their families and friends are to remain free, and do not kid yourself that the warriors are like those of the 1920's, etc;

THE warrior of the 1920s -- Smedley Darlington Buter -- is precisely the sort of role model American hero that Purvis would send to Guantanamo. And not in an on-duty capacity, either.

The great majority of them see as well as recognize the absolute necessity of their actions.

The great majority of them recognize nothing more than a blind allegiance to the mesmerists of the moment. You know, the flag-waving, anthem-chanting "boys in the back room" who could "[give] Al Capone a few hints."

This just gets better and better, sadder and sadder.

Conversation?

Conversation?

www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/George_Michael_Evica_11.18.06_Interview_Clips

The above link will bring you to a handful of brief but compelling statements by George Michael Evica relating to his last major work, the book-length A Certain Arrogance.

Charles

Claudio, et al,

Professor Evica went to great lengths to make it plain to the son of Senator Thomas Dodd -- that is, the current Senator Christopher Dodd, candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination -- that his father was not under suspicion as having been an assassination conspirator.

I know for a fact that Professor Evica reached out to Senator C. Dodd on more than one occasion in the search for clarification and assistance.

I was not made aware of the identity of the "two unimpeachable sources" referenced in the essay.

I can state for the record that, when Professor Evica wrote "[W]ere Senator Thomas Dodd and his anti-communist allies made mute on any Dodd committee access to Lee Harvey Oswald in the aftermath of the JFK assassination?", he was not simply posing a question.

Charles

I'll 'see you', and 'raise you one'....it was not only a War Crime, it was Genocide.

http://www.intellnet.org/resources/america...micvictims.html

I'll see your "genocide" and raise you genocide as ongoing public policy.

Or is that a "call"?

In an interview before his death Paul Tibbets said that he never lost a night's sleep over the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima. The decision might have been the right one but I am disturbed that the man who dropped the bomb that has been estimated killed 200,000 people was not concerned about the impact of this action.

I share your discomfort, John. What does Tibbets's peace of mind tell us of the dominion of nationalism over humanism?

Historian Max Hastings posted this above:

"We may dismiss conspiracy theories that Hiroshima was a first shot in the cold war, designed to impress the Soviets. Rather, the use of a 'total' weapon reflected the inexorable logic of total war."

What do Hastings's undocumented denigration of "conspiracy theories" (not just the one referenced, but implicitly all such thinking) and his archaic, simplistic adoption of an either/or analysis tell us of his intellectual prejudices and other limitations?

Is it not more reasonable to understand that, far from being mutually exclusive, the explanations for the nuclear bombing of Japan that he presents as being in conflict with each other provide an elegant rationale for the attacks when appreciated in tandem?

Charles

From the article:

Given the cross-breeding between various U.S. intelligence agents and assets and the Senator Thomas Dodd's committee, the persuasive argument developed by the former CIA Chief of Problems Analysis, George O' Toole, discussing the possibility that Oswald sold a rifle to Buell Wesley Frazier the morning of the assassination as part of a police-intelligence plot--for $12.78

What is the "persuasive argument" (as developed by O'Toole) that Oswald sold a rifle to Frazier the morning of the assassination? Wass it a M-C? Was it used in the assassination? Did the sale occur in the TSBD and if so, why (since Frazier lived across the street from the Paine residence)?

Good questions.

Hold a seance or get to work on them.

Rahn also attacks him here:

http://karws.gso.uri.edu/JFK/scientific_to...ge_Michael.html

John,

As I have indicated on a thread devoted to Rahn, his own work on NAA has been thoroughly repudiated. In the attack on Evica you reference, Rahn attempts to make a classic argument on false authority. He fails.

The value of this Forum, I'd submit, may be perceived ultimately as a counterbalance to the Rahn's of this world.

Charles

And We Are Still All Mortal

Thomas Dodd and Lee Harvey Oswald

By George Michael Evica

(from "Agent LHO," a chapter in a work in progress, The Iron Sights)

Lee Harvey Oswald, a member of the pro-Castro Fair Play for Cuba Committee, made contact with a group of anti-Castro individuals and organizations, most of whom Carlos Bringuier (an FBI informant) was either working with or knew well. Oswald's actions and Bringuier's assessment of those actions suggest an attempt by Oswald, a self proclaimed Marxist and one-time defector to the Soviet Union, to penetrate the New Orleans anti-Castro movement on behalf of some yet to be identified U.S. government group.

Bringuier reportedly informed his conservative associates about Oswald, including Edward Butler, a political propagandist for the local anti-Castroites. Butler, with U.S. intelligence links, worked at radio station WDSU in New Orleans. While distributing leaflets for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, Oswald was arrested, with media coverage in excess of the event's importance, after a "fight" which might have been staged with Butler's friend, Carlos Bringuier, the former media secretary of the CIA supported Cuban Revolutionary Council in New Orleans. (2)

Oswald's subsequent trial was covered (again, beyond even its local significance) by WDSU-TV; and his second leaflet distribution, five days later, was also covered by WDSU-TV. This series of media events set up still another: Bringuier and Oswald "debated" on WDSU with Butler as "host." Butler "exposed" Oswald as a defector to the Soviet Union recently returned to the United States, and the radio material was transformed into a so-called "truth tape" for the intelligence associated Information Council of the Americas: INCA (whose hierarchy included New Orleans individuals with powerful Organized Crime connections). Under pressure from this publicity and other negative news coverage and harassed by government agencies and Congressional committees, the national Fair Play for Cuba Committee dissolved itself. (3)

Was this result precisely the object of one of Oswald's covert jobs? (4)

Oswald as a government provocateur and agent in both New Orleans and Dallas can be most accurately defined by examining the richly-varied activities of Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd.

Graduating from Yale Law School in 1933, Thomas Dodd was asked by Roosevelt's Attorney General to visit J. Edgar Hoover in Washington. Carrying heavy political recommendations, Dodd impressed the FBI boss, who hired him as an FBI special agent. Assigned to St. Paul, Minnesota, Dodd reportedly was an active member of the elite Bureau team that attacked Dillinger's Little Bohemia roadhouse in Wisconsin.(5)

After only a year in the FBI, however, Dodd resigned, going home to develop a powerful political base in Connecticut.(6)

Deeply involved in youth programs and social welfare activities, Dodd was evaluated for both state and national offices. But in 1938, the U.S. Attorney General appointed Dodd his special assistant, and when a new civil rights section was organized in the Justice Department, Dodd became one of its earliest agents, successfully fighting crooked cops and corrupt sheriffs in the South in support of persecuted Afro Americans.(7)

The threat of war brought significant changes to the Justice Department: Dodd entered counterespionage. Not much is known of this early Dodd entry into U.S. intelligence work, but Dodd's more public role as a key prosecutor of Nazi spies and war-effort profit mongers brought him deserved fame. His greatest triumph, however, was his work as a member of the American Nuremberg team, part of the four-power group trying Nazi war criminals. Dodd became the tribunal's executive trial counsel, its second-most powerful position. According to all historical accounts the most important member of the U.S. Nuremberg effort, Thomas Dodd became an international hero. (8)

Years in both national and state political arenas developing a reputation as a fierce anti-Communist and stalker of labor racketeers (embodied in Jimmy Hoffa), Dodd was eventually elected a U.S. Senator, joining the Senate in January, 1959. He swiftly became a major D.C. power player. (9)

Dodd was acting chair of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, where his outspoken anti-Communism brought him in close contact with :

1. conservative members of the U.S. intelligence community;

2. highly vocal members of both the China and Cuba Lobbies, and

3. Anti-Communist defectors, informers, and double agents, domestic and foreign. Dodd also chaired the Senate Juvenile Delinquency Subcommittee (called popularly the "Dodd Committee"); in that role, he battled the evil he and his staffers found on television and built a national reputation. (10)

But two other areas of political concern brought Thomas Dodd directly into the territory of the JFK assassination: "...as a crusading foe of narcotics traffickers...[and] as the leader of a national effort to control the indiscriminate interstate sale of firearms." (11)

Just four months before the JFK assassination, Senator Dodd had presided over a Senate Internal Security subcommittee investigation of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (to which, of course, Oswald belonged), calling it "...the chief public relations instrument of the Castro network in the United States." (12)

Dodd had taken testimony from several important Castro defectors, including Frank Sturgis' friend, Pedro Diaz Lanz (Sturgis himself later admitted to having intelligence connections to the Internal Security subcommittee). According to an earlier FBI report on the FPCC, the proCastro group had been "...heavily infiltrated by [both] the Communist party and the Socialist Workers party." The House UnAmerican Activities Committee made identical findings. (13)

A curious combination: Stalinist Communists and anti-Stalinist Trotskyites burrowing into a pro-Castro organization. While Lee Harvey Oswald was in the custody of the Dallas police and still alive on November 23rd, 1963, news reports on the FPCC stated that it had been "...the subject of a series of investigations by Congressional committees [including those of Senator Thomas Dodd] and the Justice Department over the last three years [1961-1963]." (14)

The apparently contradictory political acts of Lee Harvey Oswald, therefore, make logical sense measured against these Dodd/Internal Security/FBI materials. Oswald had, in fact, contacted

1. the Fair Play for Cuba Committee;

2. the (anti- Communist) Socialist Workers Party, and

3. the (anti-Socialist Workers) Communist Party.

Oswald could not have set up a more consistent pattern had he been working (whether directly or indirectly) for Dodd's Senate Internal Security subcommittee.(15)

Why was Lee Harvey Oswald, dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines as a known defector to the Soviet Union, reading rifle magazines at Alba's Garage in New Orleans? And why was he collecting coupons for mail-order weapons?(16)

The Dodd connection was the answer.

Senator Thomas Dodd commanded the Senate's Juvenile Delinquency subcommittee and its interest in "gun control," specifically mail-order weapons control. Beginning in January, 1963, Dodd held committee hearings on the unrestricted delivery of weapons through the U.S. mails. One of the companies Dodd was interested in was Klein's of Chicago, and one of the weapons about whose unregulated traffic the Senate in 1963 was agitated was the Italian Mannlicher Carcano. "Hidell," of course, allegedly ordered a Mannlicher Carcano from Klein's of Chicago, reportedly found in the Texas School Book Depository on November 22nd, 1963, becoming a major part of the FBI/Warren Commission lone-assassin theory in the JFK killing. (17)

Seaport Traders of California was still another mail-order weapons' distributor the Dodd Committee was examining, the very company from which "Hidell" ordered the revolver reported to have been used in the Tippet murder on November 22nd, 1963.(18)

A "Communist," pro-Castro, Fair Play for Cuba Committee member with ties to both the Communist and Social Workers parties had been able to order at least two lethal weapons (both of great concern to the U.S. Congress) apparently under a fake name ("Hidell") through the United States mail. Was someone associated with the Dodd Committee trying to connect a mortal threat to the president with the committee's anti-weapons work?

A series of incidents involving the son of a Dodd friend who was hired as a Dodd staff investigator strongly suggests precisely that conclusion. Reportedly investigating juvenile delinquency on the U.S. Mexican border, the young sleuth created a major disturbance at the living quarters of a local stripper. Mexican police had to break into a locked bathroom to apprehend the Dodd investigator, found packing a hidden revolver. Dodd had been informed that the FBI reported this same Dodd staffer had been taken into custody wearing a weapon and impersonating a law officer. (19)

But the most serious incident featuring the young man occurred exactly at the time Dodd was writing his mail-order weapons legislation. The troublesome investigator had been apprehended attempting to transport three weapons and an enormous amount of ammunition to Hyannisport, Massachusetts, a deadly combination.(20)

What made the incident so ominous? President John F. Kennedy was at Hyannisport for the weekend.(21)

A young man associated with a committee inquiring into youthful criminal offenders and the transportation of weapons had been involved in a strange incident in Mexico, had impersonated a law officer, and had attempted to send lethal weapons to the same town where the president was visiting: weapons, the Dodd Committee, and a possible threat to President John F. Kennedy.

Did some of Thomas Dodd's allies, people in the State Department's Office of Security (Otto Otepka, for example), or in the Justice Department (Hoover's FBI, for example), or in the Treasury Department (in its Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division or in its Bureau of Narcotics), direct Lee Harvey Oswald (with a "delinquency record") to contact two splinters of the American Left; "join" a pro-Castro committee allegedly infiltrated by both splinters; then order a rifle and a pistol through the mails under an assumed name, proving just how dangerous the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and its outlaw members were?

If Lee Harvey Oswald was indeed being used by someone associated with the Dodd Committee as a double agent to infiltrate various "subversive" groups and, at the same time, order weapons to illustrate Dodd's mail-order thesis, and if those manipulators of Oswald/"Hidell" were U.S. intelligence agents or assets, how did they have access to the Dodd Committee?

As a member of the Judiciary Committee, Dodd had a passkey to Justice Department materials and agents. Senator Dodd himself was a staunch defender of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and "...the FBI...made itself so much at home in Dodd's [senate] office that staff members joked about assigning the Bureau a desk." (22)

The Senator was so well known as an anti-narcotics crusader he was one of the few Congressional participants in Kennedy's national anti-narcotics conference. In his role as a scourge of drug traffickers, Dodd was in direct contact with the conservative Federal Bureau of Narcotics and its anti-Communist agents. As acting chairperson of the Internal Security Subcommittee, Dodd was able to call on his connections to such characters as Frank Sturgis, Pedro Diaz Lanz, J.G. Sourwine, and Paul Bethal, just a few of the many intelligence associated people linking Dodd to a small army of spies and counterspies. And, of course, his acting Internal Security chairmanship "...gave him access to the security and loyalty files maintained by both his own subcommittee and the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, as well as the raw [report] files...provided [to Dodd and his staff] by the FBI on request."(23)

But access, of course, was a two way street: members of U.S. intelligence were also able to utilize Dodd's Senate staff and his committee files, files containing material on both the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and mail order weapons.

Strong circumstantial evidence supports the conclusion that Senator Thomas Dodd (or someone close to Dodd with access to his Committee files) ordered weapons in the name of either Oswald or "Hidell."

On Monday, November 25, 1963, Senator Dodd made an interesting error, if, indeed, it was an error. The Connecticut senator stated that Oswald acquired the alleged assassination rifle for $12.78. (24) But $12.78 was the price of a 40-inch Carcano, minus the scope, in November, 1963. "Hidell" (Oswald using an alias, according to the Warren Commission) purchased a Carcano (40.2 inches, again, according to the Commission) for $19.95, with scope, months earlier. But, of course, the rifle that was actually ordered, at least according to the mail-order coupon allegedly used, was a 36-inch "carbine" with scope.

Given the cross-breeding between various U.S. intelligence agents and assets and the Senator Thomas Dodd's committee, the persuasive argument developed by the former CIA Chief of Problems Analysis, George O' Toole, discussing the possibility that Oswald sold a rifle to Buell Wesley Frazier the morning of the assassination as part of a police-intelligence plot--for $12.78. (25)

Beyond speculation, however, I have learned that according to two unimpeachable sources, Senator Thomas Dodd indeed caused at least one Mannlicher Carcano to be ordered in the name of Lee Harvey Oswald (or in the name of "Alek Hidell") sometime in 1963.

Whether that rifle was ordered before November 22nd, 1963, as part of the scenario discussed above: a left-wing former Marine defector buying mail -order weapons to support concretely Senator Dodd's gun control position, or ordered immediately after the JFK assassination to make the same point ((but even more chillingly), the same post-assassination effect was apparently achieved.

Did the facilitators of the JFK murder plot, with convenient entry to Senator Thomas Dodd, use the Dodd connection--the Oswald/"Hidell"/FPCC/Communist/Weapons links--to frame Lee Harvey Oswald?

And through those links, and with the certain knowledge that at least one weapon had been ordered in either Oswald's or Hidell's name by either Dodd himself or someone with access to Dodd, were Senator Thomas Dodd and his anti-communist allies made mute on any Dodd committee access to Lee Harvey Oswald in the aftermath of the JFK assassination?

Notes

1. Sometime between 1964 and 1967, Sylvia Meagher, author of Accessories After the Fact (New York: Vintage Books, 1976 [reprint of the 1967 edition], hereafter cited as Meagher) was apparently in contact with several (unnamed) fellow researchers (Meagher - 194) who "pointed to two related factors" suggesting reasons for "Oswald's otherwise inexplicable mail-order purchases of firearms" (Meagher 194):

· Oswald was working for some "federal investigative agency" (Meagher 194);

· Oswald was involved with a "Senate committee" attempting "to introduce legislation curbing the mail-order sale of firearms" (Meagher 194). Developing this hypothesis in 1977, I made a note ("Oswald and gun-control") intending to credit Meagher--and promptly forgot it. I therefore did not give Sylvia Meagher credit for her "Senate committee" and "gun control" insights. The pages in my book, And We Are All Mortal, are 252-254. I now set the record straight: Sylvia Meagher was my original source.

· The Dodd connection, developed on those same pages and extended in this article, however, was my own.

Henry Hurt, Reasonable Doubt (New York: Henry Holt, 1985, hereafter cited as Hurt), in his version of this Oswald story (300-302)

· gives credit to Fred Newcomb and Perry Adams (most probably two of the several researchers Meagher does not name) in their unpublished manuscript, Murder From Within (Hurt 300), but does date the latter work;

· cites one page of Meagher in a buried credit;

· echoes And We Are All Mortal throughout his discussion of Oswald and mail-order weapons (Hurt 300-302) but does not cite the latter work specifically; and

· lists the book in his bibliography as And We Are Still All Mortal, a funny error. I have adopted Hurt's error as the title of this article.

Paul Hoch anticipated some of the analysis in the present study: "...Oswald [might have] thought he was placing the gun orders as part of [the Dodd]...effort, on the instructions of whoever he was working for." Echoes of Conspiracy, 11/30/77, page 3. Hoch's speculation was not available to me when I was drafting And We Are All Mortal.

2. For Oswald and Bringuier, see Meagher 384.

3. For Oswald's activities as planned media events, and for Oswald and Bringuier, see Scott, Crime and Coverup (Berkeley, Cal: Westworks, 1977) 13-14, hereafter cited as Scott; see especially Scott's citations.

4. Anthony V. Bouza, Police Intelligence (New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1976), pointed out the Fair Play for Cuba Committee's "association" with Oswald's name resulted in the group expiring "as its members scattered" (149).

5. Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson, The Case Against Congress (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968) 34-35; hereafter, cited as Pearson.

6. Pearson 35.

7. Pearson 35.

8. Pearson 35-36.

9. Pearson 36-37.

10. Pearson 38-53.

11. Pearson 54, 63, 66.

12. Pearson 54.

13. Dodd, in I.F. Stone, The Haunted Fifties (New York: Random House, 1963) 348. See also Scott 8, and I.F. Stone's Weekly, February 8th, 1960, June 27th, 1960, and April 24th, 1961.

14. Dodd, the Internal Security Subcommittee and the FPCC, in Hartford Times, November 23rd, 1963. FBI report and UnAmerican Activities Committee cited in Hartford Times, November 23rd, 1963.

15. FPCC subject of inquiries, in Hartford Times, November 23rd, 1963. See also 26 H (CE 3081-3085) 689-693.

16. See Martha Moyer, "The Rifle," The Assassination Chronicles, Volume II, Issue 1, March 1996; cited hereafter as Moyer.

17. See, for example, Washington Post January 27th, 1963; see also Washington Post, November 26th, 1963, in 24 H (CE 2180) 852. See also Congressional Record-Senate, August 2nd, 1963, p.13945, and November 27th, 1963, pp. 22868-22869. For Congressional interest in the Mannlicher Carcano, see Henry S. Bloomgarden, The Gun (New York: Bantam, 1976 [reprint of 1975 edition]) 66-67.

18. Seaport Traders, in R 174.

19. Hurt 301.

20. Hurt 301.

21. Hurt 301.

22. Pearson 94.

23. Pearson 63.

24. 24H (CE 2180) 852.

25. The Assassination Tapes (New York: Penthouse Press, 1975) 204. For still another police-associated "$12.78" rifle, see 24 H (CE 2145)761.

(From Assassination Chronicles, Spring 1996)

CORRECTIONS TO RAHN'S DISINFORMATION, REFERENCED TO RAHN'S 14-POINT FESTIVAL OF LIES, HALF-TRUTHS, AND, PERISH FORBID ... TRUTH (RAHN'S ORIGINAL NONSENSE IN QUOTES)

"George Michael Evica’s beliefs on the JFK assassination can be summarized as follows (references are to articles listed below):"

CORRECTION: No, they cannot.

"2. JFK was killed by a simulated attack in Dealey Plaza, planned as a test of security but turned into a real attack by J. Edgar Hoover and a few other agents within the FBI (Perfect Cover)."

CORRECTION: There likely was a simulated attack planned in Dealey Plaza, one that was incorporated into the final, real attack plan. Under no circumstances can it be stated factually that Professor Evica believed JEH and "a few other agents" were prime sponsors or movers of the plot.

"3. Kennedy was killed because he was tying to put his 81 campaign promises into action (81 Promises)."

CORRECTION: Professor Evica's 81 Promises stands as one of his most important contributions to the investigation. Per his request made to me during my last visit to him, it will be the focus of my initial work on his archives. The goal is to publish a revised essay incorporating his most recent research. Rahn's assertion tells but a small part of the story and places false emphasis -- which, of course, are two of the tactics of disinformationalists.

"6. The shooters were Dallas Police, agents of the Treasury from the Dallas area, or hired guns from the Southwest (Perfect Cover)."

Professor Evica had refined his thinking on this issue. Details forthcoming.

The balance of Rahn's items are essentially correct. Please read his page as a classic example of disinformation: a heady admixture of truth and fiction designed to discredit the truth.

Charles Drago

At the moment Ken Rahn's page on George Michael Evica is number one at Google.

http://www.kenrahn.com/jfk/the_critics/evica/Evicabio.html

He definitely deserves something better than that. Is it possible for members to send me details about when he was born, his education, his academic career, and anything else that you think relevant.

John,

I'll be with the Evica family mid-week; at that time I'll place your request for detailed bio material at the top of my to-do list.

Until then:

Born December, 1927

Presented 22 conference papers, published twelve articles, hosted nine national conferences related to JFK's assassination. Received the Marry Ferrell Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. Delivered two major lectures at Christ Church University College, Canterbury, for DPUK in 2004.

Referred to himself as a "radical historian."

University of Hartford emeritus professor of literature.

Taught college courses on investigative reporting, linguistics, myth and ritual, the genres of comedy and tragedy.

The obituary I previously posted adds more detail.

Please feel free to be in touch via PM if you perceive the need.

Charles

Just posting the cross-link http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.ph...c=11538&hl=

but suggest the two threads be combined. A nice photo, Charles, and a lovely tribute.

Agreed. I have done this. For the good of our JFK index it would be good if members could keep information to one thread. The same thing happened with the recent thread on Bremer. This information will become lost as the original thread is linked to my page on Bremer that is second at Google (behind the Wikipedia entry). I woill eventially create a page on George Michael Evica and link it to these posts.

Well done, John.

Please be in touch if I may be of assistance in the creation of the Evica page. For what it's worth, I know that my friend would have enjoyed your company and respected, in the main, your endeavors here.

Charles

However, as with Adolph Hitler, the KKK, and all of the other such groups of history, the "need" to associate and belong has lead to far more "sheeples" than to independent thinkers.

This from a man in uniform.

This from someone who claims to be a man, yet apparantly has not served his country in the armed forces???

Exactly where was it that you "hid" at Charles?

I couldn't improve on this if I tried.

Peace,

Charles

The first time I met George Michael, I said NICE TO MEET YOU, GEORGE. I LOVED

YOUR BOOK. He replied:

"MY FRIENDS ALL CALL ME GEORGE MICHAEL."

Godspeed, George Michael.

Your friend,

Jack

Jack,

I vividly recall George Michael repeatedly addressing Professor Scott as "Peter Dale" -- to their mutual enjoyment -- at one of Mary Ferrell's late-night salons.

Your friend,

Charles

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.ph...381&hl=ansa

That's the first topic on the Terni tests I reported for Ansa (and some others just "paste and copy" for their agencies).

Well, here mr. Drago said to know me - the author of the report - then asked for my "younger sister".

Actually, he did not asked for her number when I entered the forum --- and it is not because I have no sister, but a brother with kung fu/karate skills

In the same post, mr. Ecker said the report of Terni was a "ridicolous attempt" by the Italian Army not to link the Carcano to the killing (exactly the opposite done in Terni ).

One can write papers on "Ars Eloquentia", and also demonstrate these approachs are "xxxxx intended". But this is false!

It seems to me just a "way to approach things"... do not think mr. Drago or Mr. Ecker wanted to false the report making personal divagations and attacks...

Put here my experience, hope to peace these annoying posts one has to write sometime (I posted a similar thread few weeks ago).

And yes.... in the last weeks is more difficult to navigate the forum than before.

Dear Sr. Accogli,

Thank you for understanding that I meant no offense. In fact, Mr. Carroll, on that other thread, had made a humorous posting regarding an Italian actress named Monica Bellucci. I was responding, also with humor, to Mr. Carroll, one of the Forum's valued members (and a gentleman with whom I have had scalding disagreements in the past, but whom I respect).

Charles

I join Herr Colby in that request.

Charles,

When you made that crack to Purvis in another thread ... that was funny. Tom and your exchange is seen below ....

(Thomas H. Purvis @ Nov 11 2007, 05:50 PM) *

However, as with Adolph Hitler, the KKK, and all of the other such groups of history, the "need" to associate and belong has lead to far more "sheeples" than to independent thinkers.

This from a man in uniform.

FWIW - There is an old saying in comedy that says one should always close by leaving them laughing, thus you should have stopped with the remark to Tom. When you start talking Holocaust and making remarks that could be seen as people being relatives to Nazi's, then you have crossed the line and it really makes you look bad. In fact, it cuts to the heart of being a "xxxxx".

Bill

"Sometimes, Internet xxxxx is trying to spin conflicting information, is questioning in an insincere manner, flaming discussion, insulting people, turning people against each other, harassing forum members, ignoring warnings from forum moderators."

Bill,

Thanks for the positive half of the review.

As for the pan, ask yourself why I goaded Colby as I did. I can give you a few hints if you need them.

What was Goebbels' role in the Third Reich? How might it be related to Colby's role on this Forum? How might their political masters' agendas overlap?

One more: How laughable is it when you get a dishonorable, untruthful mudslinger to accuse someone else of dishonorable, untruthful mudslinging?

I'm bunching up phlegm here!

If anyone truly believes that I am writing what I believe to be literally true in these exposures of Colby ... well, I simply do not know how to communicate with such a person.

An unrelated observation: Given the height of the guard towers at many of the camps, a fall from the top likely would have been fatal.

Charles

"Senator Thomas Dodd had at least one Mannlicher-Carcano rifle ordered in the name of Lee Harvey Oswald or Alek Hidell in September 1963." One of the "facts" that Peter posted that were made by George Michael Evica. This is the first that I have heard of this. Was this just Mr. Evica's opinion or is there documentation of such an act on the part of Senator Dodd?

There is in fact documentation. It may be found in the Evica archives, which in due course will be ordered and made accessible via a host to be determined.

I join Herr Colby in that request.

Obviously complying with the request of a moderator chosen by one of the forum’s owners isn’t “treat[ing] the Forum and its owners, readers, and contributors with utter contempt” No where did I “retreat, run, hide, prevaricate” or “change the subject”

It is when doing so hides your cowardly tracks.

That relative Colby allegedly lost in the Holocaust ... his name wouldn't be Goebbels, would it?

After fighting with brave determination against lung and brain cancer, George Michael Evica has left this life to begin the journey into the next. He died on Saturday, November 10, 2007. His loving wife Alycia held his hand.

George Michael devoted his professional life to maintaining a harmonious balance between learning and teaching. He earned his B.A. at Case Western Reserve and his M.A. at Columbia University. Before serving as an Associate Professor of English at the University of Hartford from 1964 to 1992, he taught at Brooklyn College, Wagner College, Columbia University, and San Francisco State University.

History will remember George Michael as one of the most honored and important of the so-called second generation of scholars devoted to discovering the truth about the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and effecting justice in the wake of the president’s passing. He authored two books: And We Are All Mortal (1975) stands as an invaluable reference for Kennedy researchers; A Certain Arrogance (2006) expands upon that groundbreaking work by exploring the manipulation by United States intelligence agencies and other entities of religious groups for political ends.

George Michael published scores of scholarly analyses of assassination-related events and individuals. He hosted and contributed to numerous conferences and symposia on the subject, most notably for JFK Lancer.

George Michael’s voice – confident, eloquent, and resonant with warmth and humor – was familiar to thousands of devoted listeners thanks to “Assassination Journal,” the longest running weekly program of political commentary in the history of radio, which he wrote and edited for WWUH. Broadcasting from 1975 to midsummer of 2007, George Michael excerpted news and information from varieties of media, emphasizing lesser known sources over mainstream news.

George Michael is survived by his devoted wife of 42 years, Alycia; his daughter, Mariana Evica; and his grandchildren, Lonny Evica and Emma Evica.

The family wants to express gratitude to the doctors, nurses, and volunteers at St. Francis Hospital. The loving care George Michael received at Hughes Convalescent Home will not be forgotten. Thanks also are extended to parishioners of St. John’s Church and other friends who have given unstinting love and support during George Michael’s illness.

An active member of the Episcopal Church, George Michael was especially pleased to have been a member of the Global Missions Committee. Funeral services will be held at St. John’s Church, 679 Farmington Avenue in West Hartford, with details to be announced soon. Donations can be made to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 10 Brookline Place West, 6th Floor; Brookline, MA 02445-7226.