Vince Palamara

G. Gordon Liddy, a cloak-and-dagger lawyer who masterminded dirty tricks for the White House and concocted the bungled burglary that led to the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in 1974, died on Tuesday in Mount Vernon, Va. He was 90. His death, at the home of his daughter Alexandra Liddy Bourne, was confirmed by his son Thomas P. Liddy, who said that his father had Parkinson’s disease and had been in declining health. Decades after Watergate entered the lexicon, Mr. Liddy was still an enigma in the cast of characters who fell from grace with the 37th president — to some a patriot who went silently to prison refusing to betray his comrades, to others a zealot who cashed in on bogus celebrity to become an author and syndicated talk show host. As a leader of a White House “plumbers” unit set up to plug information leaks, and then as a strategist for the president’s re-election campaign, Mr. Liddy helped devise plots to discredit Nixon “enemies” and to disrupt the 1972 Democratic National Convention. Most were far-fetched — bizarre kidnappings, acts of sabotage, traps using prostitutes, even an assassination — and were never carried out.

Thanks, Joe! It was truly bizarre and a little scary, at least at first. The HR lady (twice) was very nice and reassuring about it. She was baffled how this person thought my First Amendment writings could be taken as something to be fired over! Still, it showed me that I had them worried (Lisa McCubbin gave my book a one-star rating on GoodReads on its first day of release, while Gerald Blaine marked it as to-read a few months earlier (and both himself and Hill talked about me on C-SPAN). Former agent Charles Zboril likewise gave my first book a one-star rating. I knew I struck a nerve.

Secret Service Agent Clint Hill & Friends- I am always on their minds - YouTube

Blaine's one friend was livid at me for both my as-yet-unreleased-but-forthcoming book ("How dare you criticize this fine patriot" etc.) and my negative review of Blaine's book. Soon after Blaine and Hill's appearance on C-SPAN (where they showed a You Tube video of me and talked about my work), I was called by the HR department not once but (a few weeks later) twice about this gentleman who wrote a lengthy letter to the company CEO (!) requesting that I be terminated due to my "unamerican and unpatriotic" views. Luckily, the HR lady laughed on both occasions, told me the CEO never saw either letter because they screen all his mail, AND the writer was told the company would file harassment charges on my/their behalf if he wrote another letter [I have since moved on to another company]...he then disappeared, his review left Amazon, and his Facebook was gone, too (he went by the fictitious name "Carlo Rossi", bragged in his info about being in military intelligence for decades and also being a recently retired postman). Not long after all that, my hundreds of Amazon reviews were wiped and any attempt at further reviews gets either that "bias" note or "we have noticed strange activity on your reviews" message.

It all began soon after I was harassed at work a couple times by a friend of Gerald Blaine's in 2013 (as I note briefly in my last two books). The friend of his had a military intelligence background and was, ostensibly, also a retired postman. Some of my blogs disappeared, my You Tube and Google-connected blogs would temporarily be frozen and then, out of nowhere, all my Amazon reviews were wiped out. Ironically, as an author, I am able to update my own book page and so forth, but I am barred from reviewing other author's books. A couple other authors told me the same thing happened to them.

I agree with you.

I feel your pain! I know a couple other authors who are banned from reviews (like myself) due to "bias."

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Thanks a lot, Denny! The reaction has been great so far! No doubt---there is so much that is endlessly fascinating and, in some respects, create more conundrums and seeming contradictions.

You and Malcolm Blunt belong in the research Hall of Fame, Jim.

Don't get me wrong-he was critical. That said, he gave it 3 stars (not one or two) and was begrudgingly nice in a few respects. I find it weird that he was even a little gracious LOL! Thanks, Jim!

THAT is the one! I was even forewarned about him [name not known at the time] "he is going to tear you a new one-be prepared; it is what he does." Then he drops a mild 3 star review-I was surprised in a good way...kind of.

OMG yes!!!

Whoever LBP is, he is renowned for soul-wrenching JFK assassination book reviews. Witness the one he gave for Alan Dale's new book-yikes! I was forewarned by a couple researchers that he will have his eyes on your work and it won't be pretty. Like Patrick Collins, another lone-nut reviewer, one gets the distinct impression that he is out to scuttle sales or opinion about new pro-conspiracy books. That said, he gave my new one three stars and was actually not too scathing overall. Hope springs eternal!

Thanks so much, Joe---much appreciated! What I am stunned about is what that "LBP" lone-nutter said about the book. He usually leaves scathing 1-star reviews. He was actually kind in his 3-star review...still critical, mind you, but nowhere near as bad as he usually is!

Thanks a lot, Denny! The early response has been very, very good!!!!

Thanks! Yes- the kindle edition is coming.

Thanks, Ron! Yes- very heavily documented.

Thanks a lot- you are mentioned in it favorable a few times!

Super excited!!!!! I received a few advance copies of my new book scheduled for release 3/19/2021 (it clocks in at 480 pages and has many photos/docs/articles)! The other ones are already gone- delegated to a few people already. It seems the pre-ordering has been brisk, so I will not receive the rest of my copies until sometime in early (to mid) April...so your best bet to get it quicker would be to just (pre) order it off Amazon rather than wait for me. Also- the kindle is coming. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/163424334X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4?fbclid=IwAR0PrNZauIBttGUldCEtBjdZ-7fNTK9jd313kpB2Qf_kUDH9mfm-qDlQ244

This one is even better because it has audio/visuals and an in-person audience (from 2019): Vince Palamara JFK assassination Secret Service presentation 2019 (BEST OF series/ 6 of 7) - YouTube

My pleasure! Check out my channel--I have over 600 videos and well over 300 I have uploaded just this year (these past few days and weeks)!

Thanks a lot! Keep in mind: a lot of the videos have only been very recently posted (the oldies are a few weeks; the newest ones are minutes ago!). Here you go (now up to 63- only a few hours old): Duquesne University 2003 JFK Assassination Conference - YouTube