John Bevilaqua

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Anti-Communist and Anti-Semitic Propaganda - Edward Bernays Overthrow of government of Guatemala Bernay's most extreme political propaganda activities were said to be conducted on behalf of the multinational corporation United Fruit Company (today's Chiquita Brands International) and the U.S. government to facilitate the successful overthrow (see Operation PBSUCCESS) of the democratically elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Bernays' propaganda (documented in the BBC documentary, The Century of the Self), branding Arbenz as communist, was published in major U.S. media. According to a book review by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton of Larry Tye's biography, "The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays & The Birth of PR", "the term 'banana republic' actually originated in reference to United Fruit's domination of corrupt governments in Guatemala and other Central American countries. The company brutally exploited virtual slave labor in order to produce cheap bananas for the lucrative U.S. market." Chilean poet Pablo Neruda would later denounce the dominance of foreign-owned banana producers in the politics of several Latin American countries in a poem titled "La United Fruit Co." Recognition and criticism Much of Bernays's reputation today stems from his persistent public relations campaign to build his own reputation as "America's No. 1 Publicist." During his active years, many of his peers in the industry were offended by Bernays's continuous self-promotion. According to Cutlip, "Bernays was a brilliant person who had a spectacular career, but, to use an old-fashioned word, he was a braggart." "When a person would first meet Bernays", says Cutlip, "it would not be long until Uncle Sigmund would be brought into the conversation. His relationship with Freud was always in the forefront of his thinking and his counseling." According to Irwin Ross, another writer, "Bernays liked to think of himself as a kind of psychoanalyst to troubled corporations." In the early 1920s, Bernays arranged an English-language translation of Freud's General Introduction to Psychoanalysis for the US publication. In addition to publicizing Freud's ideas, Bernays used his association with Freud to establish his own reputation as a thinker and theorist—a reputation that was further enhanced when Bernays authored several landmark texts of his own, most notably Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923, ISBN 0-87140-975-5), Propaganda (1928, ISBN 0-8046-1511-X) and "The Engineering of Consent" in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (March 1947). Bernays defined the profession of "counsel on public relations" as a "practicing social scientist" whose "competence is like that of the industrial engineer, the management engineer, or the investment counselor in their respective fields." To assist clients, PR counselors used "understanding of the behavioral sciences and applying them—sociology, social psychology, anthropology, history, etc." In Propaganda, his most important book, Bernays argued that the scientific manipulation of public opinion was necessary to overcome chaos and conflict in society. Bernays' celebration of propaganda helped define public relations, but it did not win the industry many friends. In a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter described Bernays and Ivy Lee as "professional poisoners of the public mind, exploiters of foolishness, fanaticism and self-interest." And history showed the flaw in Bernays' identification of the "manipulation of the masses" as a natural and necessary feature of a democratic society. The fascist rise to power in Germany demonstrated that propaganda could be used to subvert democracy as easily as it could be used to "resolve conflict." In his 1965 autobiography, Bernays recalls a dinner at his home in 1933 where Karl von Weigand, foreign correspondent of the Hearst newspapers, an old hand at interpreting Europe and just returned from Germany, was telling us about Goebbels and his propaganda plans to consolidate Nazi power. Goebbels had shown Weigand his propaganda library, the best Weigand had ever seen. Goebbels, said Weigand, was using my book Crystallizing Public Opinion as a basis for his destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me. ... Obviously the attack on the Jews of Germany was no emotional outburst of the Nazis, but a deliberate, planned campaign. It is impossible to fundamentally grasp the social, political, economic and cultural developments of the past 100 years without some understanding of Bernays and his professional heirs in the public relations industry. As a result his legacy remains a highly contested one, as evidenced by the 2002 BBC documentary The Century of the Self, where he is described as "undemocratic". PR is a 20th-century phenomenon, and Bernays -- widely eulogized as the "father of public relations" at the time of his death in 1995 -- played a major role in defining the industry's philosophy and methods.

All good points, Dave. But the point I have not quite completed yet is that the nexus of characters surrounding Anastase Vonsiatsky at his wedding in 1922 represented the cream of the crop of New England's main contributors to what some serious historians called "The Banana Wars" by "The Banana Men" as corny as it sounds. There are 2 books at books.google.com describing the early days of these Banana Robber Barons who created Draper styled company towns throughout Central America as strange as that may seem. Andrew Preston, a Draper cousin owned The Boston Fruit Company which merged with United Fruit later, and Norman B. Ream, the father of Vonsiatsky's wife, and his friends owned most of U.S. Steel and most of the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco) plus major interests in Railroads, like J. Watson Webb (Vanderbilts) and Samuel Vauclain and Minor C. Keith part owner of United Fruit as well. By the 1950's Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles, the family of Eisenhower's personal secretary and the friends of the Dulles brothers like the Cabots and the Forbes and the Prestons (The Boston Fruit Company) and the Drapers were in the aggregate, essentially the majority stockholders of United Fruit during both the 1954 coup in Guatamala deposing Jacobo Arbenz and at the time of the "attempted coup d'etat" in Cuba during the Bay of Pigs invasion which failed. Kennedy, Rusk and Acheson probably figured out what the Dulles brothers were up to and they fired Allen for attempting to use his personal offices at the CIA to advance his financial interests, which today would be a classic conflict of interest. That is why blind trusts should be created for any high level CIA or military officers or White House occupants. So I am wondering if you have been reading all my postings about Anastase Vonsiatsky and if you are also wondering why he was befriended by these United Fruit and Railroad and Wheat interests in the 1920's first owned by the Prestons and the Drapers then later owned by the Dulles brothers, the Cabots and the Forbes crowd? My thesis says that the Dulles brothers were only interested in regaining the banana plantations owned by United Fruit, which were taken by Jacobo Arbenz in Guatamala in 1954 and the banana and sugar plantations taken by Castro in 1959-1960 as selfish and short-sighted as that may seem. They used the standard communist tentacles arguments, as if they were only altruistically concerned with the "spread of Communism as a philosophy" when in fact they were only interested in shoring up the price of United Fruit stock which had dropped precipitously whenever Arbenz or Castro or anyone else moved to nationalize United Fruit interests in the Caribbean. Guy Bannister and Maurice Gatlin even had their offices for the Anti-Communist League of the Caribbean just around the corner from United Fruit headquarters in New Orleans but in the same building. "The United Fruit Company was a major United States corporation that traded in vegetables like carrots, potatoes, beans & tropical fruit (primarily bananas and pineapples) grown in Third World plantations and sold in the United States and Europe. The company was formed in 1899 from the merger of Minor C. Keith's banana-trading concerns with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit Company. It flourished in the early and mid-20th century and came to control vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, the Caribbean coast of Colombia, Ecuador, and the West Indies. Though it competed with the Standard Fruit Company for dominance in the international banana trade, it maintained a virtual monopoly in certain regions." One of the authors of the 2 books mentioned above flatly states that the Banana was "the fruit that changed the world" after you consider its storied history from 1890-1990 in Nicaragua, Guatamala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Cuba in causing almost a constant succession of ongoing "Banana Wars" or revolutions for most of these 100 years. Quite frankly I totally agree with that assessment and was wondering if you think that JFK was marked for death by the Dulles brothers and the anti-Castro exiles after the failed Bay of Pigs and the firing of Dulles, on one hand, and if you feel that one could conclude that these "Banana Wars" fought against "banana dictators" in the Caribbean resulted in the death of JFK, courtesy of this United Fruit and CIA alliance organized by the Dulles brothers? One week ago, I would have said, not highly probable, today I am absolutely convinced that it happened that way. The MK/ULTRA crowds including E. Howard Hunt, Frank Wisner, Philip J. Corso, Ray S. Cline and Willoughby were involved in both Guatamala and in Cuba. Why they needed Manchurian Candidates in Guatamala is beyond me but that is the crew they called in to do their dirty work. When Frank Wisner, James Forrestal, Clendenin J. Ryan and George de Mohrenschildt all eventually came to the realization that they had contributed to 20 years of constant OSS and CIA wars and battles over something as stupid as selfish U.S. business interests overseas in sweat shop "banana republics" that resulted in plots against FDR, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of peasants in the Caribbean and then finally JFK's death they all decided to call it quits and buy the farm. E. Howard Hunt had no conscience at all and he once said "Deaths, what deaths?" when asked about Guatamala. Are you buying into this United Fruit "banana dictator" and "banana wars" concept or not?

‘Slavery by Another Name’: the re-enslavement of Blacks from the Civil War to World War II June 25, 2008 Interview with author Douglas Blackmon by Bill Moyers A cynical new form of slavery was resurrected from the ashes of the Civil War and re-imposed on hundreds of thousands of African-Americans until the dawn of World War II. Armies of “free” Black men labored without compensation, were repeatedly bought and sold, and were forced through beatings and physical torture to do the bidding of white masters for decades after the official abolition of American slavery. As it poured millions of dollars into Southern government treasuries, the new slavery also became a key instrument in the terrorization of African Americans seeking full participation in the U.S. political system. This youngster is being punished in a forced labor camp in Georgia around 1932. – Photo: John Spivak In the June 20 broadcast of Bill Moyers’ Journal on PBS, Moyers interviewed Douglas Blackmon, the Atlanta bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal, about his latest book, “Slavery by Another Name,” which looks at an “age of neoslavery” that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Bill Moyers: Every time I walked downtown where I grew up in Texas, I passed the statue of Johnny Reb, facing east toward Richmond, the capitol of the Confederacy, reminding us of the bravery of gallant men who fought and died to protect a way of life . Tragically, it was a way of life built around slavery. At one time there were thousands of slaves in our county. And after Richmond fell to Union troops, my home town became, briefly, the military headquarters of the Confederacy. But in 12 years of public schools I cannot remember one of the teachers I deeply cherished describe slavery for what it was. Nor did they, or anyone I knew, talk about how our town’s dark and tortured past in restoring white supremacy after the Civil War prevented the emancipated slaves from realizing the freedom they had been promised. Across the South, from Texas and Louisiana to the Carolinas, thousands of freed Black Americans simply were arrested, often on trumped up charges, and coerced into forced labor. And that persisted right up into the 1940s, when I was still a boy. Look at these pictures. Those photographs are from one of the most stunning new books you’ll read this year, “Slavery by Another Name.” The author is Douglas Blackmon, the Atlanta bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal. His articles on race, wealth and other issues have been nominated for Pulitzer Prizes four times. His reporting on U.S. Steel and the company’s use of forced labor was included in the 2003 edition of Best Business Stories, and his contribution to the Journal’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina received a Special Headliner Award in 2006. Welcome. Under laws enacted specifically to intimidate Blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines and charged for the costs of their own arrests. With no means to pay these ostensible “debts,” prisoners were sold as forced laborers to coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries and farm plantations. – Photo: John Spivak This is truly the most remarkable piece of reporting I have read in a long time. I honestly cannot recommend it highly enough. What you report is that no sooner did the slave owners, businessmen of the South, lose the Civil War than they turned around and, in complicity with state and local governments and industry, reinvented slavery by another name. And what was the result? Douglas Blackmon: Well, the result was that by the time you got to the end of the 19th century, 25 or 30 years after the Civil War, the generation of slaves who’d been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, and then the constitutional amendments that ended slavery legally, this generation of people, who experienced authentic freedom in many respects - tough life, difficult hard lives after the Civil War - but real freedom, in which they voted, they participated in government … Bill Moyers: They farmed? Douglas Blackmon: They farmed. They carved out independent lives. But then, this terrible shadow began to fall back across Black life in America that effectively re-enslaved enormous numbers of people. And what that was all about, what that was rooted in, was that the Southern economy and, in a way, the American economy, was addicted to slavery, was addicted to forced labor. And the South could not resurrect itself. And so, there was this incredible economic imperative to bring back coerced labor. And they did, on a huge scale. Besides those who were arrested, thousands of other African Americans were simply seized by Southern landowners and compelled into years of involuntary servitude. Government officials leased falsely imprisoned Blacks to small-town entrepreneurs, provincial farmers and dozens of corporations — including U.S. Steel Corp. — looking for cheap and abundant labor. – Photo: John Spivak Bill Moyers: You said they did it by criminalizing Black life. Douglas Blackmon: Well, and that was a charade. But the way that happened was that, of course, before the Civil War, there were Slave Codes. There were laws that governed the behavior of slaves. And that was the basis of laws, for instance, that made it where a slave had to have a written pass to leave their plantation and travel on an open road. Well, immediately after the Civil War, all the Southern states adopted a new set of laws that were then called Black Codes. And they essentially attempted to recreate the Slave Codes. Well, that was such an obvious effort to recreate slavery that the Union military leadership that was still in the South overruled all of that. Still, that didn’t work. And by the time you get to the end of Reconstruction, all the Southern legislatures have gone back and passed laws that aren’t called Black Codes but essentially criminalized a whole array of activities, that it was impossible for a poor Black farmer to avoid encountering in some way. Bill Moyers: Such as? Douglas Blackmon: Vagrancy. So, vagrancy was a law that essentially, it simply, you were breaking the law if you couldn’t prove at any given moment that you were employed. Well, in a world in which there were no pay stubs, it was impossible to prove you were employed. The only way you could prove employment was if some man who owned land would vouch for you and say, he works for me. And of course, none of these laws said it only applies to Black people. But overwhelmingly, they were only enforced against Black people. And many times, thousands of times I believe, you had young Black men who attempted to do that. They ended up being arrested and returned to the original farmer where they worked in chains, not even a free worker, but as a slave. Bill Moyers: And the result, as you write, thousands of Black men were arrested, charged with whatever, jailed and then sold to plantations, railroads, mills, lumber camps and factories in the deep South. And this went on, you say, right up to World War II? Children were not exempt from the re-enslavement of Blacks, as can be seen in this photo of a prisoner stockade in the 1930s. – Photo: John Spivak Douglas Blackmon: And it was everywhere in the South. These forced labor camps were all over the place. The records that still survive, buried in courthouses all over the South, make it abundantly clear that thousands and thousands of African-Americans were arrested on completely specious claims, made-up stuff, and then, purely because of this economic need and the ability of sheriffs and constables and others to make money off arresting them and providing them to these commercial enterprises and being paid for that. Bill Moyers: You have a photograph in here - I have literally not been able to get this photograph out of my mind since I saw it the first time several weeks ago when I first got your book - it’s a photograph of an unnamed prisoner tied around a pickaxe for punishment in a Georgia labor camp. It was photographed some time around 1932, which this is hard to believe was two years before I was born. Douglas Blackmon: Well, that picture was taken by a journalist named John Spivak, who took an astonishing series of pictures in these forced labor camps in Georgia in the 1930s. He got access to the prison system of Georgia and these forced labor encampments, which were scattered all over the place. Some of them were way out in the deep woods. There were turpentine camps. Some of them were mining camps. All incredibly harsh, brutal work. He got access to these as a journalist, in part, because the officials of Georgia had no particular shame in what was happening. Bill Moyers: That’s a surprising thing. Douglas Blackmon: Well, but what the picture also demonstrates was the level of violence and brutality, the venality of things that were done. And so, this kind of physical torture went on, on a huge scale. People were whipped, starved. They went without clothing. There were work camps where people reported that they would arrive looking for a lost family member, and they would arrive at a sawmill or a lumber camp where the men were working as slaves naked, chained, you know, whipped. It’s just astonishing, the level of brutality. Bill Moyers: You have a story in here of a young man, a teenager, who spilled or poured coffee on the hog of the farmer he was working for. He was stripped, stretched across a barrel, and flogged 69 times with a leather strap. And he died a week later. But that’s not a unique story in this book. Douglas Blackmon: No, that was incredibly common. And there were thousands and thousands of people who died under these circumstances over the span of the period that I write about in the book. And over and over again, it was from disease and malnutrition and from outright homicide and physical abuse. Bill Moyers: You give voice to a young man long dead, whose voice would never had been heard, had you not discovered it, resurrected it and presented it. He’s the chief character in this book: Green Cottenham, that is. Douglas Blackmon: Yes, that’s right. Bill Moyers: Tell me about Green Cottenham. Douglas Blackmon: Green Cottenham was a man in the 1880s born to a mother and a father, both of whom had been slaves, who were emancipated at the end of the Civil War. Imagine, a young man and a young woman who’ve just been freed from slavery. And now they have the opportunity to break away from the plantations where they’d been held, begin a new life. And so they do. They marry. They have many children. Green Cottenham is the last of them. He’s born in the 1880s, just as this terrible curtain of hostility and oppression is beginning to really creep across all of Black life in the South. And by the time he becomes an adult, in the first years of the 20th century, the worst forces of the efforts to re-enslave Black Americans are in full power across the South. And in the North, the allies, the white allies of the freed slaves, have abandoned them. And so, right before the 20th century, whites all across America have essentially reached this new consensus that slavery shouldn’t be brought back. But if African-Americans are returned to a state of absolute servility, that’s okay. And Green Cottenham becomes an adult at exactly that moment. And then, in the spring of 1908, he’s arrested, standing outside a train station in a little town in Alabama. The officer who arrested him couldn’t remember what the charge was by the time he brought him in front of the judge. So he’s conveniently convicted of a different crime than the one he was originally picked up for. He ends up being sold three days later, with another group of Black men, into a coal mine outside of Birmingham. And he survives there several months and then dies under terrible circumstances. Bill Moyers: You write, 45 years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, Cottenham was one of thousands of men working like a slave in these coal mines. Slope 12, you call it. Douglas Blackmon: Slope Number 12. Bill Moyers: What was Slope Number 12? Douglas Blackmon: Slope Number 12 was a huge mine on the outskirts of Birmingham, part of a maze of mines. Birmingham is the fastest growing city in the country. Huge amounts of wealth and investment are pouring into the place. But again, there’s this need for forced labor. And the very men, the very entrepreneurs who, just before the Civil War, were experimenting with a kind of industrial slavery, using slaves in factories and foundries, had begun to realize, hey, this works just as well as slaves out on the farm. The very same men who were doing that in the 1850s come back in the 1870s and begin to reinstitute the same form of slavery. And Green Cottenham is one of the men, one of the many thousands of men who were sucked into the process and then lived under these terribly brutalizing circumstances, this place that was filled with disease and malnutrition. And he dies there under terrible, terrible circumstances. Bill Moyers: And you found the sunken graves five miles from downtown Birmingham? Douglas Blackmon: It’s just miles away. In fact there are just two places there, because all of these mines now are abandoned. Everything is overgrown. There are almost no signs of human activity, except that if you dig deep into the woods, grown over there, you begin to see, if you get the light just right, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of depressions where these bodies were buried. Bill Moyers: You say that Atlanta, where you live now, which used to proclaim itself the finest city in the South, was built on the broken backs of re-enslaved Black men. Douglas Blackmon: That’s right. When I started off writing the book, I began to realize the degree to which this form of enslavement had metastasized across the South and that Atlanta was one of many places where the economy that created the modern city, was one that relied very significantly on this form of coerced labor. And some of the most prominent families and individuals in the creation of the modern Atlanta, their fortunes originated from the use of this practice. And the most dramatic example of that was a brick factory on the outskirts of town that, at the turn of the century, was producing hundreds of thousands of bricks every day. The city of Atlanta bought millions and millions of those bricks. The factory was operated entirely with forced workers. And almost 100 percent Black forced workers. There were even times that on Sunday afternoons a kind of old-fashioned slave auction would happen, where a white man who controlled Black workers would go out to Chattahoochee Brick and horse trade with the guards at Chattahoochee Brick, trading one man for another, or two men. And … Bill Moyers: And yet, slavery was illegal? Douglas Blackmon: It had been illegal for 40 years. And this is a really important thing to me. I was stunned when I realized that because the city of Atlanta bought these millions and millions of bricks, well, those are the bricks that paved the downtown streets of Atlanta. And those bricks are still there. And so these are the bricks that we stand on. Bill Moyers: Didn’t this economic machine that was built upon forced labor, didn’t these Black Codes, the way that Black life was criminalized, didn’t this put African-Americans at a terrific economic disadvantage then and now? Douglas Blackmon: Absolutely. The results of those laws and the results of particularly enforcing them with such brutality through this forced labor system, the result of that was that African-Americans, thousands and thousands of them, worked for years and years of their lives with no compensation whatsoever, no ability to end up buying property and enjoying the mechanisms of accumulating wealth in the way that white Americans did. This was a part of denying Black Americans access to education, denying Black Americans access to basic infrastructure, like paved roads, the sorts of things that made it possible for white farmers to become successful. And so, yes, this whole regime of the Black Codes, the way that they were enforced, the physical intimidation and racial violence that went on, all of these were facets of the same coin that made it incredibly less likely that African-Americans would emerge out of poverty in the way that millions of white Americans did at the same time. Bill Moyers: How is it, you and I both Southerners, how is it we could grow up right after this era and be so unaware of what had just happened to our part of the country? Douglas Blackmon: Well, I think there are a lot of explanations for that. The biggest one is simply that this is a history that we haven’t wanted to know as a country. We’ve engaged in a in a kind of collective amnesia about this, particularly about the severity of it. And the official history of this time, the conventional history tended to minimize the severity of the things that were done again and again and again and to focus instead on the idea, on a lot of false mythologies. Like this idea that freed slaves after emancipation became lawless and sort of went wild and thievery and all sorts of crimes being committed by African-Americans right after the Civil War and during Reconstruction. But when you go back, as I did, and look at the arrest records from that period of time, there’s just no foundation for that. And the reality was there was hardly any crime at all. And huge numbers of people were being arrested on these specious charges, so they could be forced back into labor. Bill Moyers: Another reason - I just think, as you talk - another reason is that anybody who raised these allegations or charges or wrote about them when I was growing up were dismissed as Communists. If it had been from The Wall Street Journal, it might have been a different take. Douglas Blackmon: Well, I think there’s some truth to that. Anyone who tried to raise these sorts of questions was at risk of complete excoriation among other white Southerners. But that’s also what’s remarkable about the present moment. And one of the things I’ve discovered in the course of talking about the book with people is that there’s an openness to a conversation about these things that I think didn’t exist even 10 or 15 years ago. Bill Moyers: What has been the response to it? Americans don’t like to confront these pictures, these stories. Douglas Blackmon: They don’t. But over and over and over again I’ve encountered people who’ve read the book, who e-mailed me or they come up to me after I talk about it somewhere, particularly African-Americans - African-Americans know this story in their hearts. They may not know the facts. They may not know exactly what the scale of things were. But they know in their hearts that this is what happened. And so, people come up to me and say, “Gosh, the story that my grandmother used to tell before she died 20 years ago, I never believed it. Because she would describe that she was still a slave in Georgia after World War II or just before. And it never made sense to me. And now it does.” Bill Moyers: It is amazing that this was happening at a time when many of the African-Americans retiring today were children. Douglas Blackmon: Were children, exactly. Exactly. And so, again, these are events unlike Antebellum slavery. These are things that connect directly to the lives and the shape and pattern and structure of our society today. Bill Moyers: Does it explain to you why there might be so much anger in the Black community among, let’s say, African-Americans who are my age, 73, 74, who were children at the time this was still going on? Douglas Blackmon: Well, there’s no way that anybody can read this book and come away still wondering why there is a sort of fundamental cultural suspicion among African-Americans of the judicial system, for instance. I mean, that suspicion is incredibly well-founded. The judicial system, the law enforcement system of the South, became primarily an instrument of coercing people into labor and intimidating Blacks away from their civil rights. That was its primary purpose, not the punishment of lawbreakers. And so, yes, these events build an unavoidable and irrefutable case for the kind of anger that still percolates among many, many African-Americans today. Bill Moyers: If people want to know more about not only your book, but about all of this, for research and so forth, where do they go? Douglas Blackmon: Go to my website, or the book’s website, www.slaverybyanothername.com. Bill Moyers: Douglas Blackmon, thanks for being with me. Douglas Blackmon: Thank you for having me. Visit www.pbs.org:80/moyers/journal/06202008/watch2.html to watch the broadcast - or get a podcast - of this interview.

Army Military Intelligence, Wheat Growers, Railroaders, Shipbuilders and the United Fruit Robber Barons joined hands at the turn of the last Century to bring you year-round enjoyment of Nabisco Shredded Wheat and United Fruit's new delicacy, fresh Bananas from Guatamala using ocean going steamship vessels called, ironically enough, The Great White Hope fleets because they were painted pure white to identify them. Funny how these little cutesy ironies show up as you are doing earth-shattering historical research into internecine relationships between turn-of-the-century Robber Barons and the ground-breaking use of the U.S. Military and nascent Intelligence Agencies like Army Intelligence [an Oxymoron]. Army Intelligence really was the FIRST Intelligence Agency in the History of the USA and it got its start during The Civil War. Its role was to be the strongarm enforcers to protect the burgeoning international business interests of entrepreneurs who first ventured out into the unknown and the uncharted waters of fruit growing, ocean going shipping and railroad infrastructures. The railroad lines (800+ miles through jungles) had to be built across Guatamala where over 5,000 people died during its construction, and another line had to be built from United Fruit's New Orleans headquarters to points North in order to deliver both Norman Ream's Nabisco Shredded Wheat and what became Andrew Preston's Chaquita Bananas to your breakfast table using Norman Ream's newly formed U. S. Steel for the Locomotives, the Rails and the Steamships. Now I know why Norman Ream commisioned a 7,500 ton steamship from American Shipbuilding shortly after the turn of the last century as well. I did not know that there was so much money in Chiquita Bananas and Nabisco Shredded Wheat, plus the many other uses for both the Guatamalan and Cuban fruits and vegetables and the American and Russian Wheat products which were Norman B. Ream's stock in trade. Marion B. Ream was encouraged by her millionaire friends to find some way to regain the vast amount of wheat, railroad locomotive, railroad track and ocean vessel construction business lost by U. S. Steel and Baldwin Locomotive after the Russian Revolution. Their answer was none other than Anastase Andreivitch Vonsiastky, The Manchurian Candidate himself, who had replaced another Great White Hope, Czar Nicholas I who failed to defeat the insurgent Communists. Free downloadable PDF book about the turn-of-the-century Robber Barons from 1917 including Frank W. Woolworth, John Ryan, Clendenin J. Ryan's grandfather and all the usual suspects: John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, J. P. Morgan, Minor Keith, Charles Edison, etc. The photographs alone are worth the visit. Basically a classic puff piece but still worth it. http://books.google.com/books?id=x0EEAAAAY...num=2#PPA213,M1 And how was I able to even discern that these people worked together on this massive infrastructure project? From a little wedding announcement involving the wedding of Norman B. Ream's daughter, Marion Ream and one Anastase Andreivitch Vonsiatsky in 1922 which involved a mention of Vonsiatsky's and Marion Ream's friends and the business associates of her deceased father including: Samuel Vauclain (Baldwin Locomotive), Elliott Bacon (J. P. Morgan) and J. Watson Webb (the grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt of the Railroad empire.) Vonsiatsky worked for Vauclain at Baldwin Locomotive in Philadelphia, as a strike busting goon and then after moving to Thompson, Connecticut he did the same thing for Andrew Preston's cousin Wickliffe Preston Draper who developed the first Company Town in America in Hopedale, Massachusetts. When neither Vonsiatsky nor Draper could combat Sacco and Vanzetti's efforts to disrupt his client's business, he framed them for an armored car robbery and had them both electrocuted. But it took a reminder from Thomas Purvis that United Fruit Headquarters were originally in New Orleans, Louisiana sharing the same building with the founders of an organization called The Anti-Communist League of the Caribbean, Maurice Gatlin and Guy Bannister, which was deeply involved with the machinations surrounding not only the Guatamala based Jacobo Arbenz coup d'etat in 1954 sponsored by the CIA and involving E. Howard Hunt, Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles and Philip J. Corso, among others, but also with the Assassination of JFK which essentially involved the same set of characters but only 9 years later. And it also took an informative and challenging meeting with Joel Gruhn who was not buying into my contention that turn of the century Robber Barons like the Reams, the Vauclains, the Vanderbilts, the Prestons and the Drapers could have possibly set the stage for the eventual assassination of JFK, about 60 years later almost as predicted by General Smedley Butler in "War is a Racket" in the 1930's. Smedley exposed a plot to assassinate FDR in the 1930's by a group of businessmen who wanted to install him as the Military Dictator to replace FDR but he declined and warned that it could happen again if we were not careful. J. P. Morgan, Wickliffe Draper, the Conservative Liberty Lobby and Gerald L K Smith were involved in both the FDR and the JFK coups. And it took an incisive question by Tom Scully regarding the rationale for this marriage between a penniless White Russian Fascist and former Czarist and the daughter of the 25th richest man in America at that time. Norman B. Ream was a director of 22 major U.S. corporations when he died with an estate of $40,000,000 in 1915 and approximately $6-$7 million of that went to his favorite daughter, an ideological Red Cross nurse. The nexus of millionaires who welcomed Anastase Vonsiatsky into their trusted circle of friends after Marion Ream befriended him, apparently had a long history of using thugs, goons, strike busters and enforcers like Vonsiatsky to keep their employees obedient, compliant and non-Unionized. It was almost like they could not abandon the lifestyles and methodologies which served their fathers so well up to the Civil War through the use of Cotton Plantation tactics that included torture and intimidation including lynchings, whippings, stocks, chains and beatings. Vonsiatsky helped to enforce the Company Town mentality installed by the Drapers in Hopedale, Massachusetts and duplicated up and down the Eastern Seaboard. And apparently, their Banana Republican millionaire friends, created an impossible working environment during the construction of the United Fruit railroads and plantations in Guatamala. Over 5,000 died while hacking through the jungles suffering from malaria, yellow fever, jaundice and sheer exhaustion. It reminded me of Pulitzer Prize winning author Doug Blackmon's work ‘Slavery by Another Name’: the re-enslavement of Blacks from the Civil War to World War II. These Banana Republic Republicans even brought in convicts from Alabama to work in these Guatamalan Death Camps against their will and only about 25 of them survived to tell the story. And Richard Condon in The Manchurian Candidate tried to warn us all about these people in his 1959 novel, The Manchurian Candidate, to no avail. And then the pieces really started fitting and clicking together. It all started with a simple sentence in this story below about how someone came up with the idea in 1910 of heavily promoting the sale of Shredded Wheat with the year-round availability of fresh bananas from the Banana Republics in Central America especially Guatamala and Cuba. All of this happened as a result of the merger of the Boston Fruit Company of Andrew Preston, as in the Preston-Draper family with the United Fruit Company and the Railroad (J. Watson Webb) and Shipbuilding interests in the Philadelphia area combined with the Chicago Wheat and Steel interests of Norman B. Ream and his National Biscuit Company (later Nabisco) plus his United States Steel company for the steel necessary to build the Steamships, Railroad Locomotives and Rail Lines required to support the infrastructure which utilized ocean vessels called The Great White Hope at United Fruit and Railroad infrastructures in both Guatamala and then another railroad infrastructure from New Orleans to points North and East. The locomotives were built by Samuel Vauclain's Baldwin Locomotive Works, and the financing was provided by Elliott Bacon of the J. P. Morgan banking empire. Here was the innocent little note which opened up the floodgate of information tying together Vonsiatsky's robber barron millionaire friends who were all united together in their common hatred for Communists and Communism, pro-Bolshevik Jews, labor unions, non-believers in Eugenics and especially union organizers and meddling, incompetent Democratic presidents like FDR, Truman and JFK who were unwilling to drop everything and call out the troops to defend their foreign investments. "The Shredded Wheat Company featured a 1910 magazine ad promoting their cereal with bananas and cream." Here is an example of just an amazing number of books on this exact subject especially the one about The Banana Men: American Mercenaries and Entrepreneurs in Central America, 1880-1930, RELATED READING - UNITED FRUIT COMPANY There is a great deal of material written about The United Fruit Company and it's political and economical impact on Central America and the banana market in general. Below is a list of a few of the titles. Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Columbia, 1899-2000, by Marcelo Bucheli (2005) Conquest of the Tropics: The Story of the Creative Enterprises Conducted by the United Fruit Company, by Frederik Upham Adams (2004) Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americans (American Encounters/Global Interactions), by Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg (2003) In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995, by Steve Striffler (2002) Conquest of the Tropics: The Story of the Creative Enterprises Conducted by the United Fruit Company, by Frederik Upham Adams (2001) West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica 1870-1940, by Aviva Chomsky (1996) The Banana Men: American Mercenaries and Entrepreneurs in Central America, 1880-1930, by Lester D. Langley and Thomas David Schoonover (1996) The United Fruit Company in Latin America (American Business Abroad), by Stacy May (1976) Impact of the United Fruit Company on the Economic Development of Guatemala, 1946-1954, by Richard Allen LaBarge (1960) Empire in Green and Gold: The Story of the American Banana Trade, by Charles Morrow Wilson (1947) Conquest of the Tropics: The Story of the Creative Enterprises Conducted by the United Fruit Company, by Frederik Upham Adams (1914) THE UNITED FRUIT COMPANY (UFCO) Bananas were first brought to the U.S. by sailors on ships returning from the Caribbean. Their commercial importation into this country began around 1870. The 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition played a major role in introducing bananas to the American public. Bananas and other tropical fruits were still considered luxury goods during this period; however, by the turn of the century the demand by American consumers for this tropical yellow-skinned fruit was growing. By 1910 bananas were available and affordable to even those with meager economic means. Bananas were one of the first fresh fruits that were available for consumption the year round. The United Fruit Company came about as the result of an 1899 merger between a railroad entrepreneur-turned-banana- grower/exporter and The Boston Fruit Company. Photo: United Fruit Co. Office in Cristobal Canal Zone circa 1920's Both Minor C. Keith and The Boston Fruit Company were in the business of growing tropical fruit in the Caribbean and Central and Latin America and exporting them to the United States for sale. Their newly created company eventually came to be the largest banana growing company in history. In 1900 they acquired the Fruit Dispatch Company, a fruit marketing company, which assured them of control over the distribution of bananas across the U.S. United Fruit worked vigorously to increase the demand for bananas. Targeting housewives, they distributed booklets and pamphlets highlighting the nutritional benefits of the fruit, its economical price, the year-round availability and its value as a baby food. The Shredded Wheat Company featured a 1910 magazine ad promoting their cereal with bananas and cream. Recipes were created utilizing bananas as an ingredient in entrees, breads, cakes, cookies, pies, desserts, ice creams, sherbets, milk shakes, sauces, toppings, salads and sandwiches. They began promoting dried banana chips in 1922. Recipe booklets and advertisements gave instructions for baking, broiling and frying the tender fruit. The company kept creating new ways to eat bananas as a method of increasing demand for their product. The Fruit Dispatch Company created a special advertising department devoted to promoting banana consumption in 1929. This same year, they also created an Education Department that printed educational material for school classrooms promoting banana consumption. In the years to come, schools and teachers were inundated with literature and materials from United Fruit for use in the classroom. These materials promoted the healthy benefits of eating bananas. In 1944 the advertising character Miss Chiquita Banana was created for an ad campaign. The cartoon character, created by Dik Browne, was based on the singer/actress Carmen Miranda. The Chiquita brand trademark was officially registered in the U.S. in 1947. Housewives and schoolteachers weren't the only ones targeted by the advertising. United Fruit Company reached out to the foodservice industry as well with the 1954 publication of a 52 page recipe booklet called Bananas: Recipes for Institutional Service and Menus. United Fruit began putting the individual stickers with the brand name Chiquita on the fruit in 1962. They were the first company to brand a banana. The stickers were, and still are, applied to each banana by hand. The increased availability and consumption of more processed food led to a lesser demand for fresh fruit. To cope with this change in consumer habits the company began to diversify. In 1970, United Fruit merged with AMK-John Morrell, the meat packing company. The new company began doing business under the name United Brands. Sources: United Fruit Historical Society Bucheli, Marcelo, The Role of Demand in the Historical Development of the Banana Market, Stanford University, 2001. RELATED READING - UNITED FRUIT COMPANY There is a great deal of material written about The United Fruit Company and it's political and economical impact on Central America and the banana market in general. Below is a list of a few of the titles. Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Columbia, 1899-2000, by Marcelo Bucheli (2005) Conquest of the Tropics: The Story of the Creative Enterprises Conducted by the United Fruit Company, by Frederik Upham Adams (2004) Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americans (American Encounters/Global Interactions), by Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg (2003) In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995, by Steve Striffler (2002) Conquest of the Tropics: The Story of the Creative Enterprises Conducted by the United Fruit Company, by Frederik Upham Adams (2001) West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica 1870-1940, by Aviva Chomsky (1996) The Banana Men: American Mercenaries and Entrepreneurs in Central America, 1880-1930, by Lester D. Langley and Thomas David Schoonover (1996) The United Fruit Company in Latin America (American Business Abroad), by Stacy May (1976) Impact of the United Fruit Company on the Economic Development of Guatemala, 1946-1954, by Richard Allen LaBarge (1960) Empire in Green and Gold: The Story of the American Banana Trade, by Charles Morrow Wilson (1947) Conquest of the Tropics: The Story of the Creative Enterprises Conducted by the United Fruit Company, by Frederik Upham Adams (1914)

The Dulles Brothers were Stockholders in United Fruit in Guatamala and Cuba See: "War is a Racket!" by General Smedley Butler... followed by "The Plot to Seize the White House!" by Jules Archer United Fruit and the Dulles Brothers repeated exactly the same process against Arbenz and Guatamala only 30 years later... The CIA considered themselves to be the international beat cops and tactical storm troopers for the rich WASPs in America... whenever their overseas holdings were threatened. From the Buckley's with Pantapec Oil in Mexico when they used General John J. Pershing to go after Pancho Villa... to the Bushes and Chaney going into Iraq after Sadaam Hussein when the U.S. oil interests or the oil drilling platform interests of Schlumberger were threatened. All the malarkey fabricated by Allen Dulles for Eisenhower about communist tentacles in Guatamala and then later what he claimed about Castro to JFK before and during the Bay of Pigs was for one purpose and for one purpose only: To defend and protect and then recapture the lost banana and sugar plantation holdings of the Dulles Brothers and their friends in both Guatamala and Cuba. The Dulles brothers had a very serious conflict of interest involved in both cases because they were major stock holders in United Fruit. I thought it was only a legal representation issue involved with Sullivan and Cromwell where the Dulles brothers worked. So Dulles spent hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money to overthrow an elected leftist leader, Jacobo Arbenz, in Guatamala and even more in an attempt to overthrow Castro in Cuba, not because he was justifiably concerned about creeping inroads of Communism in the Caribbean, but because he simply wanted to keep the price of United Fruit from dropping precipitously. Just like President Herbert Hoover supported the fascists and ex-Czarists so he could get his family oil properties back from the Commies. That is just like The Mob asking the beat cops to help enforce their regional gambling, prostitution and drug pushing monopolies against inroads from another competing bunch of Mobsters. Hey look we bought your land fair and square and exploited these minorities for decades, paying them peanuts to build the infrastructure, and now you want to take back your plantations with improvements like railroads, irrigation canals, employee dorms, roads and bridges for just about nothing and pay them higher wages and give them stock in the businesses for their 50 years of sweat equity? Not on your life. We don't even do that in America, fool! Like Gahan Wilson the cartoonist once said: "Those indians circling our wagons are using flaming arrows! Can they really DO that?" That is like protesting the Viet Nam war because you are afraid of getting buckshot in your britches and not for any other valid reason. The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état was a covert operation organized by the United States Central Intelligence Agency to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, the democratically-elected President of Guatemala. Arbenz's government put forth a number of new policies, such as seizing and expropriating unused, unfarmed land that private corporations set aside long ago and giving the land to peasants, that the U.S. intelligence community deemed Communist in nature and, suspecting Soviet influence, fueled a fear of Guatemala becoming what Allen Dulles described as a "Soviet beachhead in the western hemisphere".[1] Dulles' concern reverberated within the CIA and the Eisenhower administration, in the context of the anti-Communist fears of the McCarthyist era. Arbenz instigated sweeping land reform acts that antagonized the U.S.-based multinational company United Fruit Company, which had large stakes in the old order of Guatemala and lobbied various levels of U.S. to take action against Arbenz.[2] Both Dulles and his brother were shareholders of United Fruit Company.[3]

In 1954, the democratically elected Guatemalan government of Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán was toppled by U.S.- backed forces lead by Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas[4] who invaded from Honduras. Assigned by the Eisenhower administration, this military opposition was armed, trained and organized by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency[5] (see Operation PBSUCCESS). The directors of United Fruit Company (UFCO) had lobbied to convince the Truman and Eisenhower administrations that Colonel Arbenz intended to align Guatemala with the Soviet Bloc. Besides the disputed issue of Arbenz's allegiance to Communism, UFCO was being threatened by the Arbenz government’s agrarian reform legislation and new Labor Code.[6] UFCO was the largest Guatemalan landowner and employer, and the Arbenz government’s land reform included the expropriation of 40% of UFCO land.[7] U.S. officials had little proof to back their claims of a growing communist threat in Guatemala[8], however the relationship between the Eisenhower administration and UFCO demonstrated the influence of corporate interest on U.S. foreign policy.[9] The American Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was an avowed opponent of Communism whose law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell[10] had represented United Fruit. His brother Allen Dulles was the director of the CIA, and was a board member of United Fruit. The brother of the Assistant Secretary of State for InterAmerican Affairs John Moors Cabot had once been president of United Fruit. Ed Whitman who was United Fruit’s principal lobbyist was married to President Eisenhower's personal secretary, Ann C. Whitman.[11] Many individuals who directly influenced U.S. policy towards Guatemala in the 1950s also had direct ties to UFCO.[12] The overthrow of Arbenz, however, failed to benefit the Company. Its stock market value declined along with its profit margin. The Eisenhower administration proceeded with antitrust action against the company, which forced it to divest in 1958. In 1972, the company sold off the last of their Guatemalan holdings after over a decade of decline. Company holdings in Cuba, which included sugar mills in the Oriente region of the island, were expropriated by the 1959 revolutionary government led by Fidel Castro. By April 1960 Castro was accusing the company of aiding Cuban exiles and supporters of former leader Fulgencio Batista in initiating a seaborn invasion of Cuba directed from the United States.[13] Castro warned the U.S. that "Cuba is not another Guatemala" in one of many combative diplomatic exchanges before the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961. Despite significant economic pressure on Cuba, the company was unable to recoup cost and compensation from the Cuban government.[13]

Andrew Preston formed The Boston Fruit Company around 1898 which later became United Fruit then United Brands. He started out in the railroad business, making purchases from both Samuel Vauclain of The Baldwin Locomotive Works and Cornelius Vanderbilts' heir J. Watson Webb both from Philadelphia who were in turn very friendly with Wickliffe Preston Draper, who was Andrew Preston's 1st cousin. Draper was later introduced to Anastase Vonsiatsky by Vauclain, who became his personal strike-breaking goon and man Friday. Draper and Vonsiatsky arranged to have Sacco and Vanzetti framed for murder then later electrocuted after they led violent strikes against the clientele of he Draper textile loom company. Vonsiatsky had started working for Samuel Vauclain in Philadelphia then moved to New England after his marriage to Marion Ream, who was the daughter of Norman B. Ream on the Board of 22 corporations including the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, U. S. Steel and National Biscuit Company. Vonsiatsky neeed a job in New England after he moved to Thompson, CT with his bride to live at the Ream mansion. Thompson, CT was only 20 miles from the Draper estate in Hopedale, Massachusetts. And the only way I even discovered that was when I heard a radio commercial for the old Thompson Speedway almost by accident, which was only about 30 miles from my New England home. From that meager start, the links between Vonsiatsky and Draper just became much more obvious and solidified. I had been pursuing them as independent suspects, but it became obvious that they had worked together since about 1923-1924 on their mutual campaigns against America and its many minorities. Andrew Preston, who did not make it in the railroad business quickly moved into the Caribbean fruit and vegetable businesses. The U.S. State Department and United Fruit embarked on a major public relations campaign to convince the American people and the rest of the U.S. government that Guatemala was a Soviet "satellite". (Moscow hates bananas) "It [united Fruit] began with enviable connections to the Eisenhower administration. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his former New York law firm, Sullivan and Cromwell, had long represented the company. Allen Dulles, head of the CIA, had served on UFCO's board of trustees. Ed Whitman, the company's top public relations officer, was the husband of Ann Whitman, President Eisenhower's private secretary. (Ed Whitman produced a film, "Why the Kremlin Hates Bananas," that pictured UFCO fighting in the front trenches of the cold war.) The fruit firm's success in linking the taking of its lands to the evil of international communism was later described by one UFCO official as "the Disney version of the episode." But the company's efforts paid off. It picked up the expenses of journalists who traveled to Guatemala to learn United Fruit's side of the crisis, and some of the most respected North American publications - including the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, and New Leader - ran stories that pleased the company. A UFCO public relations official later observed that his firm helped condition North American readers to accept the State Department's version of the Arbenz regime as Communist-controlled and the U.S.-planned invasion as wholly Guatemalan." (Quoted from Inevitable Revolutions - The United States in Central America by Walter La Feber, 2nd ed. 1993, pp. 120-121. The campaign succeeded and in 1954 the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency orchestrated a coup, code-named "Operation PBSUCCESS". The invading force numbered only 150 men under the command of Castillo Armas but the CIA convinced the Guatemalan public and President Arbenz that a major invasion was underway. The CIA set up a clandestine radio station to carry propaganda, jammed all Guatemalan stations, and hired skilled American pilots to bomb strategic points in Guatemala City. The U.S. replaced the freely elected government of Guatemala with another right-wing dictatorship that would again bend to UFCO's will. The history of Guatemala since the Spanish conquest is one of continuous domination and repression. For a brief ten years from 1944 to 1954, Guatemala experienced the fresh air of democracy. However, with a right-wing dictatorship back in power, Guatemala was thrown back into the dark ages and the stage was set for the next 30 years of repression and killing. As part of their efforts in the coup, the CIA made a list of 70,000 "questionable individuals". During Guatemala's 36 year civil war that just came to an end this year (1996), the government often referred to this list originally put together by the CIA. As is always the case, opinions can be found on both sides of the question of whether United Fruit was a benefit or a scourge to Central America. The company certainly brought a great deal of economic development and organization to a region that had very little of either. The United Fruit Company paid its full-time employees better than any other, built housing and schools for the children of its employees, built hospitals and research laboratories. From early on the company embarked on vigorous research projects to conquer tropical diseases such as malaria and dengue fever. Their laboratories also worked very hard to conquer the specialized diseases of the banana plant. In Costa Rica, whole areas of bananas were wiped out by disease and the laboratories of United Fruit developed specialized insecticides and fungicides to halt the problem. Some of these laboratories are still at work today. United Fruit brought tangible benefits to the countries where it operated, but also brought problems or perpetuated existing ones. For the legions of seasonal workers in the fields, life was very hard. Conditions were physically dangerous and the toxic chemicals used on the banana plants were a constant hazard. Malaria and dengue fever were a constant danger as well. The field workers for UFCO were paid more than on other farms but the work was seasonal and annually amounted to very little. United Fruit staunchly opposed any attempts at the formation of unions. It would abandon entire areas if unionism started to gain a foothold. When it abandoned an area it would tear down the housing and schools it had built leaving the area destitute. The company also practiced institutionalized racism. In company towns like Morales/Bananera and Puerto Barrios non-whites were forced to yield right-of-way to whites. The whole concept of a "banana republic" was exemplified by the conditions in Guatemala from 1920 through 1944. The government worked very closely with United Fruit to maintain the highly stratified, fiefdom-like social structure of Guatemala so as to provide a plentiful supply of cheap labor. UFCO didn't create this social structure but worked to amplify it and perpetuate it.

Nice Work... United Fruit -> Bonner Fellers -> For America From: White Protestant Nation: (Fellers and Buckley, and a cast of hundreds) by Allan Lichtman http://books.google.com/books?id=ygM0kvQsv...num=4#PPA209,M1 You can buy this 2008 book at abebooks.com for $10 including shipping: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResu...p;x=17&y=10 Several of my major JFK suspects were involved with the Guatamala-United Fruit interventions NOT to my surprise. And I agree with your K.I.S.S. assessment. Just patched that other posting together at the midnight hour while dozing off. Will fix later. I prefer: Keep It Simple, Smarty-pants. (1) Col. Philip J. Corso whom I believe actually tricked Giovanni Battista Montini, the Papal Nuncio who later became Pope Paul VI (as I recall) into helping Corso with the Nazi Ratlines during World War II. He semi-implicated himself in the Jupiter or Naples local rag in the 1990's. (2) E. Howard Hunt who ran the Brown Shirts at Brown University in 1940 along with William F. Buckley, Jr. including George Lincoln Rockwell and Anastase Vonsiatsky. Buckley's wife married Gerard O'Reilly president of the H. Smith Richardson Foundation who funded the entire MK/ULTRA operation. (3) Perhaps Bonner Fellers who I missed as being on the A/C Liaison C of C with Willoughby, Hargis, Hunter and company. Any evidence of Fellers or Willoughby in Guatamala? (4) Allen J. Dulles of course, in his glory days. (5) See Below: Colonel Claire Chennault "Flying Tigers" Air Transport Company which had a "World Airways" DC-3 waiting in Winnipeg, Manitoba right after the Giesbrecht Incident at the Winnipeg airport (6) Guy Bannister's (and also Maurice Gatlin's perhaps?) Caribbean Anti-Communist Brigade later part of the infamous World Anti-Communist League, too, including the ABN of Raikin, Willoughby and Fellers (7) Lake Pontchartrain and Houma arms caches used in both Guatamala and Bay of Pigs recently referenced by Bill Kelly in a posting. (8) John Cabot of Boston's Cabot, Cabot and Forbes was a vested owner in United Fruit, correct? (9) Dictator Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic and his family who actually provided funding for the JFK hit which was after the death of Trujillo, right? George de Mohrenschildt in both Haiti and the D.R. and Robert Emmett Johnson, the MK/ULTRA killer who later wrote a True Magazine puff piece about his escapades in the D.R. which I have somewhere. Also Hal Hendrix somewhat later wrote about the coup against Juan Bosch of the D.R., the day before it actually happened at The Miami News where I worked. (10) "On June 25, 1953, the FBI was contacted by a retired Army officer, whose name has been withheld for privacy reasons" (More than likely one of the MacArthur cast-offs who were forced to "retire" along with Willoughby and MacArthur. Maybe Fellers? The "colonel" below could have been Corso, too, who was one of MacArthur's dispatched and destroyed boys who went to work for Strom Thurmond when no one else would hire him. Was Chennault only a Colonel at that time too? Think so. (11) Just love the reference to Huey Long's brother, a dentist as congressman. And Senator Russell Long Huey's son ended up on the Warren Commission, right? Shortly after GLK Smith, who had Long's father killed in my honest opinion, helped to kill JFK then came into about $1 million bucks in Spring of 1964 after he attended the Giesbrecht Meeting in Winnipeg then flew home in a Chennault Flying Tiger plane from World Airways. (12) Marine General Pedro A. del Valle, and a confirmed Draper correspondent, according to William Tucker in The Funding of Scientific Racism, was also on For America with Fellers. (see below) So all of these people, most of whom were members of Condon's Dirty Dozen (1958-59) were also only one degree removed from or directly involved with the Jacobo Arbenz CIA coup in Guatamala in 1954: From the looks of this list the Guatamala coup to get rid of the communist Arbenz was run, sponsored or approved by by America's own private Gestapo and Nazi Storm Troopers including these miscellaneous Schweinhundt below who had at one time been with either MacArthur and Army Intel, the CIA or ONI (via del Valle and Marine Corps) or in the case of Vonsiatsky with the expatriate Captive Nations orgs. Our own pro-Nazis and rabid Fascists invaded Guatamala... to save United Fruit for the Protestant landed gentry like the Cabots and the Forbes... and to rid the world of Communists who would ever be so bold as to nationalize either Buckley's Mexican Pantepec Oil interests, Chilean Copper or... or... Chiquita Bananas from United Fruit? Chiquita frigging bananas? Are you kidding me? Chiquita bananas I'm Chiquita Banana, and I've come to say Bananas have to ripen in a certain way. And when they are flecked with brown and have a golden hue, Bananas taste the best, and are the best for you. You can put them in a salad. You can put them in a pie - aye. Anyway you want to eat them it's impossible to beat them. But bananas like the climate of the very, very tropical equator. So you should never put bananas in the refrigerator. (and they apparently prefer fascism to communism - aye) Great advice... and what a catchy tune, too. Shades of Gen. Smedley Butler: "War is a Racket" and "The Plot to Seize the White House." by Jules Archer William F. Buckley, Jr. Rev. G.L.K. Smith Allen Dulles Bonner Fellers E. Howard Hunt Wickliffe P. Draper Philip J. Corso Pedro A. del Valle J. Strom Thurmond Anastase Vonsiatsky WACL - umbrella org NARWACL - Giesbrecht ACL of Caribbean - Bannister/Gatlin APACL - Colonel Claire Chennault (China Lobby with Robert Morris) Was there any need for MK/ULTRA in Guatamala? Can't say for sure but these guys were all deeply involved. Any others? "For America!" by Alex Constantine. (a spin-off from the old America First Committee - WW II Isolationists) "Democracy is an attack upon God!" - Werner Naumann Among their contacts in the United States, the Nazi "elite" could rely on the generous assistance of a well-connected patron, Pedro Del Valle, who went on to become a vice president of ITT. In 1954, Del Valle, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant general, was soundly defeated in his run for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. His campaign was spiced with public endorsements of a foaming aniti-Semitic tract, Know Your Enemy. Twenty years later, Del Valle and ITT consultant John McCone, formerly a CIA director, threw in to overthrow Allende in Chile's 1970 elections. ITT funnelled $350,000 into event, and when the brutal dictatorship of Pinochet was installed, the conglomerate conspired with other "conservative" companies to pirate the country's natural resources. As a hedge against the fall of the Third Reich, German industrialists had made provisions in 1944 for protecting their loot from confiscation by the U.S and England. On the instruction of Martin Bormann, the surviving SS, soon to be known as ODESSA, established hundreds of corporations abroad, donated handsomely to extreme right-wing political candidates in the U.S. and cleared the path for the reconstruction of the Reich on foreign soil. (Looks like they chose American soil) All of this was accomplished by chanelling the loot through a labyrinth of secret bank accounts to non-belligerent countries, and under Bormann's direction financed 750 news companies worldwide to direct the Nazi Party reconsruction. Over 100 of those companies were based in the United States. Funds materialized in the bank accounts of Germany's agents around the world. They were instructed to invest in selected businesses, propaganda mills in the U.S. and elsewhere, give legal aid to indicted Nazis, purchase out-of-the-way estates for Nazi leaders in foreign lands, and so on. These funds also supported the "rat lines," escape routes from the Allied advance set up every 40 miles along the German border. Fascist opinion in the United States was fomented by American contacts. For America, a spin-off of the America First Committee, was formed in 1954, ran by some of the leading WW II "isolationists." One of the organization's leading lights was Colonel Robert McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. The chairman of For America was Clarence Manion, formerly dean of law at Notre Dame University. Manion once sat on Eisenhower's Commission on Inter-Governmental Affairs. Robert Wood, then head of Sears, Roebuck, was a blustering propagandist for the German American Bund (run by Vonsiatsky cohorts). The stated aim of For America was the support of political candidates sympathetic to the Nazi cause. Three congressmen made up the recruiting arm of the organization: Burton K. Wheeler, Hamilton Fish and Howard Buffett. (All Vonsiatsky's comrades) Fish, a Republican Party leader, had as his greatest ambition the start of a third party based on principles of National Socialism. The others were already in disrepute for involvement in "non-interventionist" America First chapters and other enclabes of domestic Nazism during the war. "What will it take to disband this group?" asked the Atlanta Journal, "World War III?" Confiscated Jewish assets were poured into the Nazi rebirth and turned up in the oddest places. On September 20, 1996, a half century after the fact, the Associated Press at long last noticed: "Tons of gold looted by Nazis during World War II - some of it possibly taken from the fillings in Holocaust victims' teeth - are stored in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Bank of England in London. Recently declassified federal documents show that 6 tons of gold looted by Nazis are stored in the two banks, the World Jewish Congress said. The group's president has written to the two countries asking that the gold be returned to Holocaust survivors." Subject: Maurice Gatlin and Guatemala '53 - '54 From: jpshinley@my-deja.com Date: Mon, 14 June 1999 08:07 AM EDT Message-id: <7k2r9a$n7v$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Note: NO refers to the FBI New Orleans Field Office. References to FBI documents are from the FBI files on Maurice Brooks Gatlin, Sr., #64-29230 - Gatlin entered the stage of the Guatemalan drama in May, 1953, when he arranged to meet a Guatemalan exile, Colonel Roberto Barrios y Pena at the FBI NO Field Office. The Colonel revealed the following about his personal background to the FBI: - ... he participated in the October 20, 1944, revolution in Guatemala, at that time serving on the staff of the Guatemalan Army. On February 12, 1947, he resigned from the Guatemalan Army to join an anti-Communist political group which was in opposition to the existing government. He stated that in 1950 this group, known as the "Anti-Communist Force," staged small uprisings in Guatemala, all of which failed. He stated that he was presently in exile from Guatemala and that there was a price of $20,000 on his head if he returned to that country. - Colonel Barrios was the grandson of General Justo Barrios, who was president of Guatemala from 1880 to 1885. The city of Puerto Barrios, on Guatemala's Atlantic coast, was named for the General. The Colonel's anti-Communist activities were funded by dictator Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic. (p. 124. Schlesinger, Stephen and Kinzer Stephen. _Bitter Fruit_. New York: Anchor Books, 1990) - Everyone else involved was a bit perplexed as to why Gatlin had chosen to involve the FBI in his introduction to the Colonel, and Barrios left angry. The Colonel had been interested in meeting with Guatemalans represented by Gatlin. After Barrios' departure, Gatlin revealed that the Colonel "planned to overthrow the government of Guatemala by force of arms, in the 'next few weeks.'" Gatlin waitied until he was certain that Barrios and his companion were gone before leaving himself. - That is how the FBI version of the meeting ends. According to a CIA document dated June 26, 1953, the following also occurred: - After leaving the FBI offices, BARRIOS and GATLIN met with a Mr. DUNBAR, who occasionally represents the United Fruit Co. in New Orleans. They asked for one million dollars from the United Fruit Co., in support of BARRIOS' intended revolutionary movement in Guatemala, but they were unsuccessful in obtaining any commitment. - BARRIOS and GATLIN visited the air base near Pontchartrain, (type of base not further identified, although it is known that there is a large naval air base on this lake), Captain DAVIS showed them two large transport planes, each of which had two 75mm. recoil-less rifles and two projectiles. DAVIS told BARRIOS that the planes were those which had been promised him and that he would make arrangements for BARRIOS to get the planes out of the United States. - Two paragraphs of this memo, addressed to the FBI, have been withheld. The source of the above version of events has not been revealed. The CIA asked the FBI for any additional information on the revolutionary activities of Barrios and the identity of Captain Davis. A notation on the FBI copy of this document states that the CIA was providing a copy to Customs, suggesting that Barrios's activities did not have the approval of the CIA. - On June 25, 1953, the FBI was contacted by a retired Army officer, whose name has been withheld for privacy reasons (referred to here as P-1). P-1 said that Gatlin had approached him with a shopping list of armaments which included three P-38 fighters and three P-51 fighters, along with ammunition. Gatlin said he was acting on behalf of an unnamed Colonel (undoubtedly, Barrios y Pena) who was planning an anti-Communist revolution in Guatemala. Gatlin asked P-1 if he knew General Claire Chennault. P-1 replied that he did, and concluded that Gatlin assumed that P-1 could obtain the weapons through Chennault. P-1 was inclined to throw Gatlin out of his office, but decided to play along to learn what Gatlin was up to. Gatlin offered P-1 oil and mineral concessions in Guatemala after the revolution. Gatlin proposed to introduce P-1 to the Colonel, and P-1 asked the FBI whether he should go ahead with the meeting. Unfortunately, the Bureau of Customs had jurisdiction over Neutrality Act cases. NO had to contact the Bureau in Washington to get permission to hand P-1 over to Customs. The permission was obtained, but nothing substantial came of the Customs investigation, possibly because of the clumsiness of the hand over of P-1 to Customs. One person, name withheld, mentioned in connection with the scheme, was described by Customs as a known gun-runner who had taken weapons to Cuba. - Gatlin attempted to draft the FBI directly into Colonel Barrios' anti-Communist crusade. On January 13, 1954, "GATLIN stated he was requesting the FBI to offer the services of its Laboratory to make 100 twelve inch long playing records of Col. PENA's speeches for distribution throughout Guatemala to 'aid the fight.'" Gatlin estimated the cost to the Bureau to be about six hundred dollars. "The jurisdiction of the FBI was carefully pointed out to GATLIN and he was informed that such a request appeared to be entirely divorced from the purposes and aims of this organization. GATLIN replied that 'being faced with an enemy in its own backyard' the FBI should not consider matters like jurisdiction. At his continued insistence, he was advised that his request would be made known to this Bureau but that he should expect no favorable action to be taken. No further action re this matter is contemplated by this office." - On March 3, 1954, Gatlin requested a short-wave transmitter from the FBI to permit Barrios to communicate with his contacts in Central America. He did not want to deal with the FCC, because it was "infiltrated with a bunch of Communists." Gatlin also provided the FBI with a mass of information and supposition about Latin American affairs. "At this point, it was pointed out to Gatlin that all the information furnished by him concerning Latin American countries was under the jurisdiction of the Central Intelligence Agency and/or the State Department. He stated that he did not care to deal with the Central Intelligence Agency because as far as he was concerned, they were on probation, and that their predecessor, OSS, was thoroughly infiltrated by Communists." The NO office made the following evaluation: - In summary, it may be stated that Gatlin is prone to distort information and report as fact his own conclusions. His modus operandi is to telephone this office and state as a fact such conclusions and then decline to furnish specifics on the telephone or come to the office for interview. When agents thereafter contact him in his office it is invariably found that the information upon which his conclusions were based either does not support the conclusion or is not susceptible to independent verification. He is an egotistical individual who fancies himself to be an expert on Latin American affairs and he characterizes himself as the "unofficial ambassador" to Guatemala. Discreet inquiries concerning his reliability merely reflect he is untrustworthy, sly, shrewd and unscrupulous, but the fact remains that he is member in good standing of the Louisiana Bar and is a practicing attorney. The New Orleans Office in the future intends to refer GATLIN to the Central Intelligence Agency representative, with whom he is acquainted and to whom he has furnished some information. Every effort will be made to avoid contacts with him, but it is expected he will continue to call this office as in the past. - Besides, agents had noticed "loose wires" in Gatlin's office and home, raising the alarming possibility that Gatlin was recording his conversations with Hoover's boys. - The Bureau in Washington agreed with NO's decision to avoid contact with Maurice. "Under no circumstances should Gatlin be interviewed at his home, office, via telephone, or any other situation where he might possibly make recordings..." (Does the Bureau's horror of being recorded suggest the FBI records may not accurately reflect everything said during an interview?) - The Bureau's refusal to provide material assistance, and other slights, prompted Gatlin to prepare and distribute a petulantly toned "final report," dated March 11. "We have been able to accurately forecast well in advance every event of major importance in the Caribbean area," Gatlin modestly claimed. Gatlin seemed to single out the FBI for particular scorn: - Example: Agency "X" refused to consider certain vital information because they have no "jurisdiction" over it. (Our belief is that every American has "jurisdiction" concerning the welfare of our country.) - Example: At least three agents had no knowledge that a Conference was to be held at Caracas, and had only a hazy idea of where Caracas is. One agent thought that Costa Rica was the Capital of Puerto Rico; another had never heard of Ciudad Truxillo. - Another copy of Gatlin's "final report" was provided to the FBI by Victor A. Johnston, director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Johnston had obtained the report from an "old friend" in Houston. - Gatlin was well informed about the corporate sponsors (withheld) of Castillo Armas, and claimed to have met him in New Orleans in 1954 before the uprising. Gatlin provided John Moors Cabot, Assistant Secretary of State, with the following sage observations in a letter dated November 27, 1953: - You are further advised that I know, from the same source, the hour of the day, but not the exact dates (but between stated dates) that an invasion attempt will be made, and the location of the two points where the invasion will be made. This particular invasion, incidentally will be of great detriment to our country, regardless of whether it is sucessful or not. If not sucessful, the people will lose all hope of deliverance; if successful, the people will know that is was backed by certain financial interests in this country, and they will be further alienated from us. - Now Mr. Secretary, you have served in the nation involved, and you know the character of the people as I do. They have been conditioned to hate us, but if we understand them and concede their equality, and if we let the change that is an absolute necessity be made strictly by them, they can become a valuable ally, rather than a transcontinental barrier controlled by our enemy as they now are. - History records that Gatlin's advice was ignored. - Colonel Barrios y Pena's role in the June 1954 uprising included firing off a letter from New Orleans to President Arbenz. The letter, dated May 18, warned Arbenz that he did not have the "right to take the country to civil war. If you survive, the spilled blood will fall on you and your family." The Colonel made the letter public in New Orleans on June 19, 1954, while the uprising was still in progress. Barrios y Pena had no comment to questions about whether he favored the sucess of Castillo Armas or whether he felt that Castillo Armas had "the welfare of the people of Guatemala at heart." (New Orleans Times Picayune; June 20, 1954; p. 2) - The Colonel left New Orleans to return to Guatemala on November 15, 1954. Gatlin announced that the Colonel's new role would be "good-will ambassador ... to promote solidarity of the Western Hemisphere against Communism." Barrios y Pena left a cache of documents behind with Gatlin. "These documents will prove the activities in favor of international communism of many of the well-known figures of our hemisphere." (New Orleans Times Picayune; Nov 16, 1954; p. 11) - In September of 1954, the FBI received word from an INS investigator that Gatlin was claiming authorship of a speech placed in the Congressional Record on August 18 by Louisiana Congressman George S. Long. Long was the dentist brother of the more famous Huey and Earl Long. Gatlin purportedly passed the speech to Long through a third party. The speech touched on the recent events in Guatemala and offered fulsome praise for Colonel Barrios Pena, "a man of such background, vision and patriotism as to be an asset to all upon whom he bestows his talent and understanding." - Jerry Shinley Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

Cigdem, A very interesting citation. Do you have anything on either the Nazi Ratlines, the Ukrainian Ratlines or some of the persons linked into the Assassination of JFK to share with us? People like Mae Brussell and John Judge have written much on this topic as well as Dick Russell. My list of interest would include the following names in no particular order: Charles Willoughby Bonner F. Fellers Theodor Oberlander Albert C. Wedemeyer George Stratemeyer Yaroslaw Stetsko Charles Thurout Pichel Laurence Dennis Anastase Vonsiatsky William Dudley Pelley Maximillian St. George Mitchell Werbell III George de Mohrenschildt George Bouhe Warren de Breuys James Wheeler-Hill Baron Charles Wrangel Adrian Arcand Boris Brasol Frederic Rene Coudert Philip J. Corso George Sokolosky Westbrook Pegler Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith Rev. Gerald B. Winrod George de Mohrenschildt Reinhard von Gehlen Robert J. Morris Edwin A. Walker E. Howard Hunt George Lincoln Rockwell Wickliffe P. Draper None of them were little ants and they all had some role in the JFK hit or the very early planning of this incident. What is your interest in Albert Speer and Adolph Hitler? You are a teacher in Turkey, correct? Just curious.

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Maj. Gen. Bonner Fellers and A/C Liaison Committee of Correspondence The full list of the heads of Anti-Communist Liaison Committee of Correspondence: (1) Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby (2) Brig. Gen. Bonner Fellers (3) Edward "Brainwashing" Hunter who used both MK/ULTRA and BK/ULTRA techniques (4) Sarah McClendon uses only BK/ULTRA (5) Rev. Billy James Hargis who can go either way (6) Anna Chen Chennault prefers MK/ULTRA Famous quotes about Brig. Gen. Bonner "Fighting Frank" Fellers Dwight D. Eisenhower "Any friend of Bonner Fellers is no friend of mine." Adolph Hiter: "Bonner Fellers is one of our best sources of information." Richard Condon: Francis "Fighting Frank" Bollinger is Bonner "Fighting Frank" Fillars, CIG (Counter-Intelligence Group) How is Brig. Gen. Bonner Fellers linked back to The Pioneer Fund of Wickliffe Draper and John B. Trevor, Sr. by Richard Condon in The Manchurian Candidate? Now Condon may only have been linking back to Trevor, but I think he knew about Draper, too, because of his Tuaregs reference which only involved Draper. Here is Russ Bellant in "Old Nazis the New Right and the Republican Party" John Trevor [sr.] was a leader of a group, Ten Million Americans Mobilizing for Justice, attempting to prevent the censure of Joe McCarthy. Its leadership represented a Who's Who of American anti-Semitism. [f-94] At their 1954 rally for McCarthy, a female photographer taking pictures of the special guest section for <Time> magazine was physically assaulted amid shouts of "Dirty Jew" and "Hang the communist bitch!" [f-95] In the Manchurian Candidate, Condon describes a group which has an almost identical name: "Ten Million Americans Mobilizing for Tomorrow" run by Francis Bollinger which is an anagram for: Bonner Fillars, CIG. The real person who started the real group was Gen. Bonner Fellers, who worked in the Counter Intelligence Group (CIG) and was another close Willoughby (and MacArthur) confidante. John B. Trevor, Sr. of ACPS and Draper's Pioneer Fund was also instrumental in that organization. Anyone who thinks that this is just a coincidence should be ashamed or embarrassed or belittled or all three, perhaps. Richard Condon knew whereof he spoke. You are a good man, Richard Condon, and I hope you do not get in any trouble for what I am writing now but it had to be done. John B. Trevor, Jr. became acting secretary of the American Coalition of Patriotic Societies (Draper's boys) after his father's death in 1956, but the political character of the group showed no noticeable change, [f-96] The ACPS in 1962 condemned the Nuremberg war crimes trials as a "dreadful retrogression into barbarism," and called for the release of those "who may still be suffering imprisonment." [f-97] John B. Trevor, Jr. was one of eight members of the American Security Council Board of Directors until several years ago. The current president of the American Coalition of Patriotic Societies is John Fisher, and their address is the same as the ASC. [f-98] Anyone have a list of the eight members of the ASC B of D? Yet another link in the Mystery of Richard Giesbrecht has been solved using BK/ULTRA a very specialized and unique form of Brain Kontrol/ULTRA similar to MK/ULTRA or Mind Kontrol/ULTRA. It is a variation of MK/ULTRA developed entirely by me and it is utilized as a sort of de-programming technique for anyone I come across who is suffering latent effects from Revilo Oliver's, Charles Willoughby's and Edward Hunter's application of MK/ULTRA techniques across thousands of miles and even across generations of individuals. It is so effective that even 50 years AFTER it was discussed by Richard Condon, there are actually still thousands of extant individuals suffering from that malady. Many of them frequent alt.assassination.jfk and alt.conspiracy.jfk and continue to parrot the trite pablum and conditioned phrases emphatically, permanently and irretrievably embedded into their brains by the likes of Revilo P. Oliver, Charles Willoughby, Philip J. Corso, Rev. Gerald L K Smith, Sarah McClendon, Robert J. Morris, and Edward Hunter. For a negotiated fee, consisting or dollars or doughnuts, I can assist anyone suffering from that usually terminal and perpetual malady to become at least partially deprogrammed. Write to: BK/ULTRA - Psychological Warfare Dept. Attention: 新字体 or 新字體 (Chinese for Brain Kontrol) 3223 Manchurian Candidate Way (3223 is a palindrome from ManCand - Anyone recall where it was seen in the movie?) Harbin, Manchuria, China 漢字不滅，中國必亡 I think think the Zhizp 漢字不滅，中國必亡 above is correct. Zhizp is Chinese for Zip Code in case you did not figure it all out. The reference to "World Airways" in The Richard Giesbrecht Incident came from Colonel Claire "Flying Tigers" Chennault, a perennial fixture on the Reich Wing scene along with his wife after he died. The C-47 benefitted from its excellent reputation during the war, but also from the DC-3 pre-war days with the airlines. The surplus C-46s were picked up by entrepeneurs who sought to make money flying cargo on a non-scheduled basis. Capitol, Flying Tigers and World Airways were among them. In many South American countries, surface transport is hindered by the nature of the terrain: Amazone jungle, the Andes, extensive swamplands. The C-46 became a common sight in countries like Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. A workhorse like the C-46 could be put to good use there, mostly carrying cargo of all sorts. The CIA was an avid user of the C-46. It played a role in many operations. Cuba and the "Bay of Pigs" fiasco was one. The CIA's "Liberation Air Force" for Cuba was stationed (clandestine) at "Happy Valley" in Nicaragua, consisting of five C-46s, as well as other types (C-54, B-26). In the process, Southern Air Transport was bought (consisting of only 1 C-46 at that time) in the early 1960s. The CIA had much use for aircraft in various roles and ended up owning its own airline: Civil Air Transport (CAT). A respectable airline opened many doors and provided a good cover. It was renamed Air America in 1959. And it even made money ! The holding company named Pacific Corporation, owned by the CIA, was stationed in Delaware. Many people involved did not know they worked, in a way, for the CIA, as it also operated as a normal commercial airline. By comparision, during the 1960s when Flying Tigers (at that time the largest US transport company) operated 28 planes and had 2.000 employees, and Air America had more than 150 planes and 8.000 employees ! Southern Air Transport played a similar role for the CIA and there were more. War surplus aircraft provided a good start, required little funding and the specifications fitted the covert operations like a glove. Quite a few pilots operating missions for the CIA, had their hands on the controls of a C-46 over the Himalayas. Air America used the C-46 in Vietnam, on routes between Saigon and Da Nang, but also during the last months of the Vietnam War with markings of the ICCS ("I Can't Control xxxx") for the International Control Commission, to control the peace agreement. Quite a few C-46s disappeared without a trace while in use with the CIA. More on Gen. Claire Chennault who came from the "cotton fields" of Waterproof, Louisiana # Claire Lee Chennault - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia General Claire Lee Chennault: A Guide to His Papers in the Hoover Institution Archives. Palo Alto, California: Hoover Institution Press, 1983. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Chennault - 49k - Cached - Similar pages - # Claire Lee Chennault, Lieutenant General, United States Army Air Corps From the cotton fields of Waterproof, Louisiana, came Claire Lee Chennault, a prophetic, controversial military genius who was de-activated twice because of ... www.arlingtoncemetery.net/clchenna.htm - 22k - Cached - Similar pages - # Flying Tigers / Claire Lee Chennault Provides a biography of Chennault, and a history of the Flying Tigers. www.warbirdforum.com/clc.htm - 15k - Cached - Similar pages - # Clare Chennault & The Flying Tigers - 2Bangkok.com Forum 4 posts - 2 authors Clare Chennault & The Flying Tigers World War II & Siam. www.angkor.com/2bangkok/2bangkok/forum/showthread.php?t=757 - 51k - Cached - Similar pages - # Amazon.com: Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and the American ... Amazon.com: Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and the American Volunteer Group: Daniel Ford: Books. www.amazon.com/Flying-Tigers-Chennault-American-Volunteer/dp/1560985410 - 234k - Cached - Similar pages - # Chennault, Claire L. Mar 13, 2003 ... Kelley, John M. Claire Lee Chennault: Theorist and Campaign Planner. Fort Leavenworth, KS, Army Command and General Staff College, May 1993. ... www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/great/chenlt.htm - 14k - Cached - Similar pages - # Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and his American Volunteers, 1941 ... Only a small band of American mercenary fliers based in Burma and known as the Flying Tigers, led by a leather-faced fighter named Claire Chennault, ... www.flyingtigersbook.com/ - 8k - Cached - Similar pages - # Air Power:Claire Chennault and the Flying Tigers of WorldWar II The Chinese government looked to the United States for assistance, hiring U.S. Army Air Corps veteran Claire Chennault to train its pilots. ... www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Air_Power/tigers/AP24.htm - 22k - Cached - Similar pages - # American Volunteer Group: Claire L. Chennault and the Flying ... Secretly recruited, a group of American pilots led by a former stunt pilot gained hero status in two nations during World War II and won a permanent place ... www.historynet.com/american-volunteer-group-claire-l-chennault-and-the-flying-tigers.htm - 54k - Cached - Similar pages - # Claire L. Chennault (United States general) -- Britannica Online ... Britannica online encyclopedia article on Claire L. Chennault (United States general), US major general who commanded the US Army Air Forces in China ... www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/109312/Claire-L-Chennault - 47k - 81 Turner, Power on the Right, pp. 200-201. 82Donald S. Strong, <Organized Anti-Semitism in America> (Washington, D.C.: American Council on Public Affairs, 1940), pp. 83-108. 83Strong, pp. 83-93; Robert Wohlforth, "Spy-Hunters: 1930," <The New Republic>, Jan. 29, 1930, pp. 271-73 (note also reply in Harry Jung, "Correspondence," <The New Republic>, March 12, 1930, pp. 101-102); Norman Hapgood, <Professional Patriots> (New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927), pp. 139, 162-65. 84John Roy Carlson, <Under Cover> (Philadelphia: Blakiston Company and New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943), p. 392. Jung had White Russian emigres translate the "Protocols" from Czarist forgeries in Russian to English forgeries. See also Strong, pp. 105-6. 85<New York Times>, July 24, 1942, p. 8; Strong, p. 95. 86<The Coalitionist >, published by the ACPS, from 1929-32. See, for example, <The Coalitionist>, Nov. 1929, p. 1. 87John Higham, <Strangers in the Land> (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1955; New York: Atheneum, 1981), pp. 314, 88<Ibid>., p. 319. 89 Barry Mehler, "The New Eugenics: Academic Racism in the U.S. Today," <Israel Horizons>, Jan. Feb. 1984, p. 25. 90 <In Fact>, August 11, 1947, p. 2; <ln Fact>, Feb. 24, 1947, p. 4. <In Fact>, begun as a biweekly in 1940, soon became a weekly that was published until 1950. It was edited by George Seldes. 91<ln Fact>, Feb. 14, 1949, pp. 1, 2. For details on <National Republic>, see <In Fact>, Feb. 24, 1947, p. 3. 92<New York Times >, July 24, 1942, p. 8. 93Felix Morley, "Travesty of Justice," < Human Events >, Nov. 21, 1945, pp. 192-95. 94Arnold Forster and Benjamin R. Epstein, <Cross-Currents> (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., 1956), pp. 156-60. 95 <Ibid>., p. 158; Thomas Reeves, <The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy: A Biography> (New York: Stein and Day, 1982), p. 662. 96 Margaret Fisk, ed., < Encyclopedia of Associations >, 8th ed. (Detroit: Gale Research, 1973), Vol. 1, p. 1057. For background on the political character of ACPS, see < Group Research Report> throughout the 1960's and < Report to America > (an ACPS organ) 1960-1962. 97 "American Coalition of Patriotic Societies," < Group Research Organizations Directory >, Washington, D.C., Feb. 12, 1963, p. 2. 98 < Encyclopedia of Associations >, 22nd ed. (Detroit: Gale Research, 1987), Vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 1669.

To: Lee Forman Re: Anastase Vonsiatsky Lee would you be willing to join in on the discussion of Anastase Vonsiatsky later this week? I know you were going to order The Russian Fascists last week and wondered if you read it yet or obtained a copy? At one time you either made a comment or made a posting something to the effect of: "There HAD to be a person like Vonsiatsky (involved in the JFK Assassination). He could be the "missing link" between George de Mohrenschildt and the leadership of The White Russian Orthodox Church." (Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia) - ROCOR. Did you see the posting about his wedding which occurred at St. Nicholas Cathedral at E. 97th Street in NYC which was posted by Greg Parker? Vonsiatsky and his new bride spent their first married night on E. 95th Street only 2 blocks from the Church. It was supposedly the former NYC Apt of her father, Louis B. Ream, who died in 1915. Ream dealt extensively in Pork and Wheat Futures and later started U.S. Steel and National Biscuit Company, too. Living that close to ROCOR headquarters might have been just coincidental or it may have been rented or purchased by Annie in anticipation of his activity with ROCOR going forward. If someone can find any relationship that Louis B. Ream had with either ROCOR or the former Czarists relating to trading in Wheat or Pork with Russia or vis-a-vis his dealings with U.S. Steel that would be very helpful and just an amazing find. He also had something to do with Marshall Fields in Chicago as well. Did Marshall Fields have anything to do with the Czarists? Vonsiatsky's friends in Philadelphia included multi-millionaires like J. Watson Webb, an heir to the Cornelius Vanderbilt railroad fortune, Elliott Bacon a partner of Draper's favorite banker, J. P. Morgan and Samuel Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive who had 25,000 - 30,000 non-Union employees and once hired Vonsiatsky a strike busting goon by trade, to make sure it stayed that way. Bacon was hit by flying glass during the infamous Wall Street explosion in about 1924 while sitting in the offices of J. P. Morgan.

The Dallas Fascists: Robert J. Morris and Charles A. Willoughby Until I entered his name on Mary Ferrell's site recently, I did not know how many hits could be found there for Robert J. Morris who one day will be credited along with Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby with being the 2 main string pullers, the Plotmasters and the Lynchpins of the entire JFK Assassination Plot, the Execution thereof and the brilliantly constructed self-fulfilling Virally Spreading Cover-Up. Which authors or principals were the very first to finger Morris and Willoughby as principals and to jump on the bandwagon of people hot on their trail? Some of these people researched them but did not associate them with the JFK murder however... (1) (1959) Richard Condon in The Manchurian Candidate (2) (1964) Jack Ruby in his Warren Commission Testimony (3) Epstein and Forster in Report on the John Birch Society (mid 1960's) and The Radical Right (4) (1970's) Mae Brussell - The Nazi Connection to the JFK Assasination written with William Turner who also wrote Power on the Right (1970) (5) Group Research, Inc. Washington D.C. part of the Walter Reuther organization (6) (1993-94) John Bevilaqua - Red Scares, White Power, Blue Death "Patriotism Wrapped in the American Flag" and (1995-1998) "Big Daddy" Warbucks and Little Orphan "Annie" - Reich Wing Extremism in America Search Results: "Robert Morris" 137 hits | Search Again Tip: Ctrl-click on a link to open that page in a new window/tab (command-click for Mac users). Essays and Journals (8 page hits) The Nazi Connection to the John F. Kennedy Assassination selected advisory board for YAF was a Who's Who of oldies even then: Senator Strom Thurmond, Senator John Tower, Mr. Ronald Reagan, Professor Lev Dobriansky, General Charles Willoughby, and Mr. Robert Morris Possible Discovery of an Automobile Used in the JFK Conspiracy Kennedy Assassination Chronicles, Volume 2, Issue 4 pg 12 Found in: Kennedy Assassination Chronicles ming Panel GI.EN VASBINDER has aBachelor of Science degree in business administra tion from Robert Morris College in Pitts burgh currently the Records Adminis trator for The Hillman Company a pri vate The Fourth Decade, Volume 4, Issue 5 pg 12 Found in: The Fourth Decade multiple hits in this document More Essays and Journals Results >> Government Reports (9 page hits) Warren Commission Hearings, Volume XXIII pg 685 Found in: Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits multiple hits in this document HSCA Report, Volume I pg 151 Found in: HSCA Appendix Volumes multiple hits in this document Warren Commission Hearings, Volume V pg 526 Found in: Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits relates to a meeting held in the home of Dr Morris Is that Dr Robert Morris Mr WEISSMAN That is right of Dallas Tex Mr JENNER Which recounts the plans for infiltration of conservative groups Warren Commission Hearings, Volume XX pg 716 Found in: Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits multiple hits in this document Government Documents (90 page hits) Reel 5, Folder L - GEORGE DE MOHRENSCHILDT pg 54 Found in: HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 5: Conte - De Mohrenschildt) Commission Report and I had nothing further to add Watson then advised that Dallas was overrun with out of town reporters looking for a story on De Mohrenschildt and asked me if the name Robert Morris RIF#: 1994.04.25.14:01:26:660005 (2/0/1957) CIA#: 80T01357A ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET: CALL FROM DAN WATSON OF DALLAS MORNING NEWS RE GEORGE DE MOHRENSCHILDT/CLIPPINGS FROM DALLAS TIMES HERALD AND DALLAS MORNING NEWS pg 4 Found in: Russ Holmes Work File had nothing further to add Watson then advised that Dallas was overrun with out of town reporters looking for a story on De Mohrenschildt and asked me if the name Robert Morris meant anything to me He RIF#: 104-10414-10015 (04/08/77) CIA#: RUSS HOLMES WORK FILE NO TITLE, SUBJECTS: HALL, LORAN EUGENE; ANTI-CASTRO ACTIVITIES; ORGANIZED CRIME; ASSASSINATIONS, OTHER; CUBA pg 127 Found in: HSCA Immunized Testimony refused talk to him He showed me his I.D card however Mr Dodd Your attorney was Robert Morris your attorney that you were using in Dallas Mr Hall I knew Robert Morris Congressman but he was not my RIF#: 180-10118-10125 (10/06/77) NO TITLE pg 1 Found in: FBI - HSCA Subject File: Edward P. Morgan 62-92201-294 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR FBI FROM CALLAN TO ROSEN TITLE DATE 01/30/56 PAGES 1 SUBJECTS EDWARD PIERPONT MORGAN ROBERT MORRIS RIF#: 124-90134-10053 (01/30/56) FBI#: CR 62-92201-294 FBI 105-82555 Oswald HQ File, Section 147 pg 13 Found in: FBI Oswald Headquarters File (105-82555) LEE HARVEY OSWALD All of the aforementioned persons reside in Dallas Texas and Mr GRINNAN advised that Doctor ROBERT MORRIS his attorney was at that time present while Mr GRINNAN was furnishing the (UNDATED) Commission Document 879 - FBI Letterhead Memorandum of 24 Apr 1964 re: Funds Dallas Advertisment pg 4 Found in: Warren Commission Documents Doctor ROBERT MORRIS his attorney was at that time present while Mr. GRINNAN was :furnishing the above information Mr GRINNAN stated he did not know the amounts each of the contributors gave to the (UNDATED) NO TITLE, SUBJECTS: HALL, LORAN EUGENE, TESTIMONY BEFORE THE COMMITTEE; CUBA; CIA; ASSASSINATIONS, OTHER pg 60 Found in: HSCA Immunized Testimony multiple hits in this document RIF#: 180-10118-10115 (10/05/77) NEWS ARTICLE: (NYT) BAR ASKED TO ACT ON BELLI CONDUCT pg 1 Found in: HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 51 ACT ON BELLI CONDUCT N 3/17/1964 NEW YORK TIMES NEWSPAPER N 1 OPEN U RIF PAPER 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ROBERT MORRIS ASKED BY BAR TO REVIEW BELLI'S CONDUCT MORRIS ROBERT BELLI MELVIN RUBY JACK ETHICS RIF#: 1993.07.27.13:36:03:090630 (3/17/1964) CIA#: 80T01357A FULL PAGE ADVERTISEMENT IN "DALLAS MORNING NEWS" ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963 pg 7 Found in: Oswald 201 File, Vol 41 operator advised by telephone that he did not desire to be interviewed on April 23 1964 because he wanted to consult with his lawyer Doctor ROBERT MORRIS who is currently in the race for the Republican RIF#: 1993.06.10.16:55:11:280000 (5/28/1964) CIA#: 201-289248 NO TITLE pg 6 Found in: FBI - HSCA Subject File: Loran Eugene Hall ,.:.Kansas 5 11 185 pounds Brown Black White. 1 scar above right eye tattoo dagger on left arm \ wore...Castro-like beard Robert "Morris Cessna Aircraft Corporation .... (West Coast tool an die RIF#: 124-10216-10157 (09/04/64) FBI#: 105-78016-24 More Government Documents Results >> Books (27 page hits) The Enemy Within pg 142, by Kennedy, Robert F. (1960) her to Washington to testify Robert Morris was the Presser-Hoffa spokesman in Cincinnati during this era In the midst of his dispute with Luken's people Morris's car was bombed Promptly Luken and his Deep Politics and the Death of JFK pg 34, by Scott, Peter Dale (1993) Amazon Rating: the Soviet Union In its ranks were veteran anti-Communist activists like William Paw ley General Charles Willoughby and Robert Morris from the old China Lobby (and names we shall deal with below Alias, Oswald pg 70, by Morris, W.R. and Cutler, R.B. (1985) conclusion that Lee was the "assassin" It is a readable homey account of the tragedy that overwhelmed Robert MORRIS The Men Behind the Guns by W R Morris (Angel Lea Books Lexington TN 1975) We Jack Ruby pg 238, by Wills, Gary and Demaris, Ovid (1967) home of Dr Robert Morris finding there a "Clyde Moore former PR man for T L Hunt [he is getting colder] multi-millionaire oilman, and lectures those assembled on their duties The decision is More Books Results >> Documents from Private Collections (2 page hits) Mary Ferrell Chronologies, Volume 2 ( - 1960 to June 1963 pg 153 Found in: Mary Ferrell Chronologies (22:227,283 photo February 1 1963 There is a meeting at the home of Dr Robert Morris former president of the University of Dallas and now ( 1966) president of the University of Piano Attending Dr Morris Larrie Mary Ferrell Chronologies, Volume 5 - November 23, 1963 - Forward pg 148 Found in: Mary Ferrell Chronologies indicted (Herald 10/26/64) 42-7 September 11 1964 (Friday) Robert Morris Howard 3 son of Irving City Manager Morris Howard disappears He was an engineer at LTV and the father of a 9-month-old child He Mary's Database (1 page hits) CLYDE J. MOORE CD 780-A, p. 5 In 1963 and 1964, he was Public Relations man for Dr. Robert Morris. Prior to this job, he was with H. L. Hunt. Had worked for UPI. KRLD employee. Attended 2/1/63 meeting with

...and the care provided afterwards... Somewhere, someone credits Sorrels with being amazed by this [Palamara has a reference using this expression], but I cannot discover an original reference... Providing artificial respiration to a gut shot victim, according to Manchester someplace, is like applying a bellows to a fire. Sounds logical. If you consider this event in 2009, someone receiving a similar gut shot wound, with a response by a trained paramedic of artificial respiration, and death ensuing, I can't see losing the lawsuit - unless it was with the ghost of Henry Wade presiding. Like Ron Ecker I have also seen lots of movies (grin), but the most convincing discussion of how and why gunshot wound victims first lose consciousness and then later die occurred on a discussion by an ER MD on The Most Dangerous Warrior. The consciousness issue is dependent on the severity of the sudden drop in blood pressure in the first few seconds and the onset of shock accompanying the rupture of multiple internal organs, as in the case of Oswald, or the severing of any major veins, arteries or capillaries. If 3 or 4 sealed organs ruptured at once it would as Lee described it be roughly equivalent to puncturing your brake lines in 3 or 4 places at once. The resulting sudden drop in pressure within your brake fluid system would cause your brakes to perform miserably the next time you touched them. And likewise a person standing vertically would have about 1/2 of the blood in his head leaving for parts South within a few seconds causing almost an instantaneous fainting spell leading to loss of consciousness. And I said that "Guns and Gore can yield no more" in 1993. And I still believe that. What did I know?

This landmark work by Mae Brussel shows the relationships among the domestic and international Nazi networks with either active duty, retired or summarily fired representatives from both the regular Army, Army Intelligence, the OSS, the FBI and the CIA. Naturally these Nazis sought out relationships with like-minded, sympathetic individuals, either active or retired, from all 5 of these military or intelligence agencies. To focus on only one or two of these agencies to the exclusion of the others, would be a tragic mistake. The internecine battles between and among these agencies sometimes led to bitter rivalries, constant bickering, turf battles, deliberate exclusionary policies, back-stabbing and the associated retaliatory scapegoating which was first blatantly obvious when General Douglas MacArthur and his G-2, Maj. Gen. Charles Willoughby refused to co-operate with the OSS during WW II or the CIA during The Korean War. The majority leadership of the CIA, and Dean Rusk and Dean Acheson, later 2 key advisors to JFK, joined together to oppose MacArthur's attempts to cross the Yalu River into Communist China. There advice to Truman was to sack both MacArthur and Willoughby for their insubordination and dereliction of duty. Neither MacArthur nor his staff, some of whom were also sacked, ever forgave Truman, Rusk, Acheson or the CIA for this action which they considered "treasonous" and indicative of being "soft on Communism". According to published reports both Willoughby and MacArthur "chewed the rug" for 10-12 years looking for their chance to reverse the decision of President Truman in Korea. When it became obvious to them that JFK, Rusk and Acheson were not going to expand the Viet Nam conflict to a degree sufficient for their purposes, they rallied dozens of sympathetic current and ex-military men and both current and former intelligence operatives around them from all 5 Alphabet Agencies listed above, to expedite the eradication of JFK and the subsequent cover-up. They also orchestrated selected "scapegoating" and "finger-pointing" campaigns, run mostly by operatives within the John Birch Society with military or intelligence experience gained in the U.S. Army. The scapegoats attacked by those in the John Birch Society included, but was not limited to, both the Cuban and the Russian leadership and Communism itself, the Jewish-Bolshevik conspiracy which was also deemed to be 100% communist inspired, the "leftists in the CIA itself", as well as "the Mafia", "Trade Union leadership", "the Pope in Rome", "French intelligence", the Anti-Defamation League, the entire CIA hierarchy, the Secret Service, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.S. Senate, the FBI and a few other minor scapegoats. After Cuba and Russia and the "Jewish-Bolshevik conspiracy" were eliminated from their hit list, they focused most of their time on exonerating themselves and heaping an inordinate amount of excess culpability on their most despised opponents formerly in the OSS or "the communists" in the CIA. At the same time they utilized their "right wing" associates within the CIA to help them execute and then cover-up the entire plot and to implement the ensuing conspiracy to cover-up. Those who would not have co-operated of their own volition were blackmailed with McCarthy like threats of exposure of a whole litany of state secrets and personal peccadillos which had been stored in the files of the American Security Council run by Robert J. Morris, Jim Angleton, Charles Willoughby and Ray S. Cline. The biggest state secret they were privy to involved the usage of the equivalent of MK/ULTRA programmed assassins for almost 20 years to eliminate the leadership in any country whose interests were somehow deemed inimical to the interests of the USA. This program was created and nurtured by the likes of Ulius Amoss, Carleton Coon, Allen Dulles, James Forrestal, Frank Wisner, Clendenin J. Ryan, George de Mohrenschildt and "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE" himself, Anastase Vonsiatsky, who was the leader of some of the largest and most violent "White Russian Nazi" contingents in Gehlen's organization like the ABN of Yaroslaw Stetsko, the OUN of Lev Rebet, Andrij Melnyk and Stefan Bandera, and the Russian Nationalist Fascist Party. Rebet and Bandera were snuffed by The Stashinsky Gun and Andrij Melnyk a friend of Vonsiatsky's (pronounced: "Ahhhnd-Row-Men-Yek" by his neice) was discussed at The Richard Giesbrecht Incident in Winnipeg, Canada. The four persons in boldface eventually died from alleged "suicides" but each death had very suspicious and sinister overtones leading me to believe that they were not all suicides with the possible exception of Clendenin J. Ryan whose father before him also committed suicide and de Mohrenschildt who would have been very despondent because of any pain and suffering that he would have inadvertently caused Jackie Kennedy due to his association with Oswald and the mind controllers who used Oswald's, Ray Cline's and Robert Johnson's affiliations with MK/ULTRA to blackmail any remaining dissidents into compliance with the cover-up. Recently discovered information about the role of William F. Buckley, Jr. with MK/ULTRA, Frank Wisner, and the "Brown Shirt Boys from Brown University in 1940: George Lincoln Rockwell, Anastase Vonsiatsky, E. Howard Hunt) and The H. Smith Richardson Foundation somewhat later (Buckley's sister married Gerard O'Reilly the President of The H. Smith Richardson Foundation which was the CIA front most active with MK/ULTRA), The Coudert Brothers from NYC and Richard Condon's Manchurian Candidate novel only firms up Buckley's influence on MK/ULTRA and its usage in the JFK assassination. While Buckley carried out a public smoke-screen battle with the John Birch Society he maintained lifetime friendly relationships with Robert Morris, Charles Willoughby and others like del Valle and Fellers. The Nazi Connection to the John F. Kennedy Assassination Evidence of link between Nazis still in operation after World War II to the still unsolved murder of John F. Kennedy by Mae Brussell (from the short-lived Larry Flynt publication The Rebel, January 1984) 1940-1945: The Nazi Connection to Dallas: General Reinhard Gehlen The sparrow-faced man in the battle uniform of an American general clambered down the steps of the U.S. Army transport plane upon its arrival at Washington National Airport. It was August 24, 1945, two weeks after the surrender of Japan, three months after the German capitulation. The general was hustled into a van with no windows and whisked to Fort Hunt outside the capital. There he was attended by white-jacketed orderlies and, the next morning, fitted with a dark-grey business suit from one of Washington's swankiest men's stores. General Reinhard Gehlen was ready to cut a deal. Reinhard Gehlen had been, up until the recent capitulation, Adolph Hitler's chief intelligence officer against the Soviet Union. His American captors had decked him out in one of their uniforms to deceive the Russians, who were hunting him as a war criminal. Now U.S. intelligence was going to deploy Gehlen and his network of spies against the Russians. The Cold War was on. This is a story of how key nazis, even as the Wehrmacht was still on the offensive, anticipated military disaster and laid plans to transplant nazism, intact but disguised, in havens in the West. It is the story of how honorable men, and some not so honorable, were so blinded by the Red menace that they fell into lockstep with nazi designs. It is the story of the Odd Couple Plus One: the mob, the CIA and fanatical exiles, each with its own reason for gunning for Kennedy. It is a story that climaxes in Dallas on November 22, 1963 when John Kennedy was struck down. And it is a story with an aftermath -- America's slide to the brink of fascism. As William L. Shirer, author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, put it in speaking of the excesses of the Nixon administration, "We could become the first country to go fascist through free elections." Photo by Wide World General Reinhard Gehlen, shown (center) in a rare photograph taken during WWII. Even Robert Ludlum would have been hard put to invent a more improbable espionage yam. In the eyes of the CIA Reinhard Gehlen was an "asset" of staggering potential. He was a professional spymaster, violently anti-Communist and, best of all, the controller of a vast underground network still in place inside Russian frontiers. His checkered past mattered not. "He's on our side and that's all that matters," chuckled Allen Dulles, a U.S. intelligence officer during the war who later headed the CIA. "Besides, one need not ask a Gehlen to one's club." Gehlen negotiated with his American "hosts" with the cool hand of a Las Vegas gambler. When the German collapse was at hand, he had looked to the future. He lugged all his files into the Bavarian Alps and cached them at a site called, appropriately, Misery Meadows. Then he buried his Wehrmacht uniform with the embroidered eagle and swastika, donned an Alpine coat, and turned himself in to the nearest U.S. Army detachment. When the advancing Russians searched his headquarters at Zossen, all they found were empty file cabinets and litter. The deal Gehlen struck with the Americans was not, for obvious reasons, released to the Washington Post. As Heinz Hohne and Hermann Zolling phrased it in The General Was A Spy, the German general took his entire apparatus, "unpurged and without interruption, into the service of the American superpower." There is no evidence that he ever renounced the Third Reich's postwar plan, advanced by his own family's publishing house, to colonize vast regions of Eastern Russia, create a huge famine for 40,000,000, and treat the remaining 50,000,000 "racially inferior Slavs as slaves." Allen Dulles may not have invited such a man to his club, but he did the next best thing: he funneled an aggregate of $200 million in CIA funds to the Gehlen Organization as it became known. Directing operations from a fortress-like nerve center in Bavaria, Gehlen reactivated his network inside Russia. Soon, news of the first Russian jet fighter, the MiG-15, was channeled back to the West. In 1949 the general scored an espionage coup when he turned up Soviet plans for the remilitarization of East Germany. When Dulles spoke, Gehlen listened. The CIA chief was convinced, along with his brother, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, that the "captive nations" of the Soviet bloc would rise up if given sufficient encouragement. At his behest, Gehlen recruited and trained an exile mercenary force ready to rush in without involving American units. Also at Dulles' direction, Gehlen tapped the ranks of his wartime Russian collaborators for a cadre of spies to be parachuted into the Soviet Union. Some of these spies were schooled at the CIA's clandestine base at Atsugi, Japan, where, in 1957, a young Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald was posted to the U-2 spy plane operation there. Atsugi was only one station on Oswald's Far East intelligence route; he was also at the U-2 base at Subic Bay in the Philippines and, for a short while, at Ping-Tung. Taiwan In 1959 he was transferred to a Marine base at Santa Ana, California for instructions in radar surveillance. His training officer had graduated from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, which had close Agency ties. In May, 1960, when President Eisenhower was planning a summit meeting with Soviet Premier Khrushchev, a U-2 was shot down over Russia and its pilot captured. The pilot, Francis Gary Powers, later blamed his demise on Lee Harvey Oswald. The U-2 affair effectively sabotaged Ike's summit meeting. In 1955, by pre-arrangement, the Gehlen Organization was transferred to the West German Government, becoming its first intelligence arm, the BND. The BND became a Siamese twin of the CIA a global operation. They had already worked well together, in Iran in 1953, where the country's first democratic government was in power. Two years earlier Premier Mossadegh had rashly nationalized the oil industry. Dulles, with Gehlen's help, engineered a coup that toppled Mossadegh and reestablished the Pahlevi family regime. The family patriarch, General Reza Pahlevi, had been banished from the country for his pro-nati activities during the war. Now his son, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, ascended the Peacock Throne. The Shah of Iran became one of the CIA's most faithful assets. Gehlen pioneered the setting up of dummy fronts and cover companies to support his farflung covert operations. A major project was to form Eastern European emigre groups in the U.S. that could be used against the Soviets. Both the Tolstoy Foundation and the Union of Bishops of the Orthodox Church Outside Russia were funded by the CIA. When Lee and Marina Oswald arrived from the Soviet Union in June, 1962 they were befriended by some three dozen White Russians in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. Many had identifiable nazi links; others were in the oil and defense industries. It was an improbable social set for a defector to the U.S.S.R. and his wife from Minsk. By the time the Gehlen Organization became part of the West German state, Gehlen already had his agent-in-place in the United States. He was Otto Albrecht von Bolschwing, who had been a captain in Heinrich Himmler’s dreaded SS and Adolph Eichmann's superior in Europe and Palestine. Von Bolschwing worked simultaneously for Dulles' OSS. When he entered the U.S. in February, 1954, he cleverly concealed his nazi past. He was to take over Gehlen's network not only in this country but in many corners of the globe. He became closely associated with the late Elmer Bobst of Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical, a godfather of Richard Nixon's political career, which brought him inside Nixon's 1960 campaign for the presidency. In 1969 he showed up in California with a high-tech firm called TCI that held classified Defense Department contracts. His translator for German projects was Helene van Damme, Governor Ronald Reagan's appointments secretary. Von Damme is currently U.S. Ambassador to Austria, next door to the nazi's homeland. In 1968 Reinhard Gehlen withdrew to his chalet in Bavaria. The chalet had been a gift from Allen Dulles. Wild Bill Donovan of the OSS, Allen Dulles and the Vatican Allen Dulles dubbed it Operation Sunrise. He mounted it from his walk-up office in Bern, Switzerland, where, since 1942, he had maintained contact with key nazis. Operation Sunrise was conceived when these nazis decided, in the face of defeat, that they preferred to surrender to the Americans and British. The agreement, which double-crossed the Russians, was signed April 29, 1945. The principle negotiator on the German side was SS Commander Karl Wolff, head of the Gestapo in Italy. Wolff acted with full authority, for he was formerly chief of Heinrich Himmler's personal staff. Wolff’s relationship with Dulles spared him from the dock at Nuremberg, but when it was later discovered that he had dispatched "at least" 300,000 Jews to the Treblinka death camp he was handed a token sentence. In 1983 Wolff made the social pages when he and some of his old SS buddies sojourned on the late Hermann Goering's yacht Carin II of Hamburg. The skipper was Gert Heidemann, an avowed Hamburg nazi. The yacht belonged to the widow, Emmy Goering, whose estate attorney was the celebrated Melvin Belli. Belli has always had an eclectic clientele. He represented Jack Ruby after he shot Oswald. And he represented actor Errol Flynn's family interests. Flynn (once a close friend of Ronald Reagan) has been identified as having collaborated with the Gestapo. Photo by Wide World John J. McCloy had a lengthy career riddled with Nazi sympathies When Wolff hammered out the secret surrender terms with Dulles, he had in the back of his mind a safe diaspora for his nazi compatriots. This is where the OSS, William Donovan and the sovereign state of the Vatican came in. "Wild Bill" Donovan was top dog in the OSS. Shortly before the Germans overran Europe, Father Felix Morlion, a papal functionary, had set up a Vatican intelligence organization called Pro Deo in Lisbon. When the U.S. entered the war Donovan moved Morlion lock, stock and barrel to New York and opened a sizeable bank account for him to draw on. The priest founded the American Council for International Promotion of Democracy Under God, on 60th Street. In the same building is the office of William Taub, whose name popped up during the Watergate affair. Taub is well-known as a wide-ranging middleman for such powerful figures as Nixon, Howard Hughes, Aristotle Onassis and Jimmy Hoffa, and his behind-the-scenes maneuvers were invaluable to Nixon in his 1960 run at the presidency. Taub was especially close to Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviania of the Holy See, who arranged Mussolini's 1929 "donation" of $89 million to the Vatican to ensure its neutrality with Mussolini and Hitler. The money went into a special fund in the Vatican Bank, and after the war part of it was entrusted to "God's Banker" Michele Sindona for investment. Sindona channeled a good chunk of it to the Nixon campaign. When Rome was liberated in 1944 Morlion and Pro Deo relocated there. In recognition of Donovan's good works on behalf of Pro Deo, Pope Plus XII knighted him with the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Sylvester. And before he flew off to Washington to cut his deal with the CIA, Reinhard Gehlen received the Sovereign Military Order of Malta award from the Pontiff. So did James Jesus Angleton, a Donovan operative in Rome who became the CIA's chief of counterintelligence. For Dulles, Operation Sunset was a personal triumph, one that set in motion his rise to the top of the intelligence heap. In 1963, by virtue of that position, he became the CIA's representative on the Warren Commission. John J. McCloy and the Chase Manhattan President Lyndon Johnson asked John J. McCloy to serve on the Warren Commission. No less than nine presidents had called on the Wall Street lawyer for special assignments, yet he was little known to the public. McCloy said he entered the investigation "thinking there was a conspiracy," but left it convinced that Oswald acted alone. "I never saw a case that was more completely proven," he asserted. McCloy had long been involved in the murky world of espionage, intrigue and nazis. He spent the decade of the 1930s working out of Paris. Much of his time was spent on a law case stemming from German sabotage in World War I. His investigation took him to Berlin, where he shared a box with Hitler at the 1936 Olympics. He was in contact with Rudolph Hess before the Nazi leader made a mysterious flight to England in 1941. Photo by Wide World Major General Charles A. Willoughby, "Our own Junker general." When the nazis occupied Europe, the banking exchanges between Britain and the U.S. on the one hand and Germany on the other carried on as usual. In Trading With the Enemy, Charles Higham documents the role of Standard Oil of New Jersey, owned by the Chase Manhattan Bank, and I.G. Farben's Sterling Products with the Bank for International Settlements. Standard Oil tankers plied the sea lanes with fuel for the nazi war machine. Prior to the war McCloy was legal counsel to Farben, the German chemical monopoly. As an assistant secretary in the War Department during the war: o McCloy blocked the executions of nazi war criminals o Forged a pact with the Vichy Regime of pro-nazi Admiral Darlan. o Displaced Japanese-Americans in California to internment camps. o Refused to recommend the bombing of nazi concentration camps to spare the inmates on grounds "the cost would be out of proportion to any possible benefits." o Refused Jewish refugees entry to the U.S. When the curtain fell on the war, McCloy helped shield Klaus Barbie, the "butcher of Lyons," from the French. Barbie and other vicious dogs from Hitler's kennel were hidden out with the 370th Counter Intelligence Corps at Obergamergau. One of their keepers was Private Henry Kissinger, soon to enter Harvard as a McCloy protege. In 1949 McCloy returned to Germany as American High Commissioner. He commuted the death sentences of a number of nazi war criminals, and gave early releases to others. One was Alfred Krupp, convicted of using slave labor in his armaments factories. Another was Hitler's financial genius, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, who subsequently went on the payroll of Aristotle Onassis. In 1952 McCloy left a Germany that was prepared to re-arm to return to his law practice. He became president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, director of a dozen blue chip corporations, and legal counsel to the "Seven Sisters" of American oil. During this period he acquired a client, the Nobel oil firm, whose interests in Czarist Russia had been managed by the father of George de Mohrenschildt, Lee and Marina Oswald's "best friend" in Dallas. Busy as he was McCloy found time to supervise construction of the new Pentagon building. It was nicknamed "McCloy's Folly." J. Edgar Hoover and Interpol FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover "mistrusted and disliked all three Kennedy brothers. President Johnson and Hoover had mutual fear and hatred for the Kennedys," wrote the late William Sullivan, for many years an assistant FBI director. Hoover hated Robert Kennedy, who as Attorney General was his boss, and feared John. In turn the President distrusted Allen Dulles, easing him out as CIA director after the 1961 Bay of Pigs debacle. When JFK moved to lower the oil depletion allowance, he incurred the displeasure of John McCloy, whose clients' profits would be trimmed. Hoover, Dulles and McCloy did not belong to the Kennedy fan club. When the president was shot, Hoover controlled the field investigation, and Dulles and McCloy helped mold the final verdict of the Warren Commission. As America stood on the threshold of World War II Hoover continued a friendly relationship with the nazis who dominated Interpol, the Berlin-based international secret police. He had been obsessed with the "Red menace" since 1919 when he became head of the Bureau's General Intelligence Division. Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich, Arthur Nebe and other fanatical nazis were active in Interpol. Even after Hitler occupied Czechoslovakia, Hoover ignored all evidence of nazi death squads and atrocities and cooperated with the boys in Berlin. As France fell, Hoover exchanged lists of wanted criminals, enclosing autographed photographs of himself. It was not until three days before Pearl Harbor that he called a halt -- and then only because he feared his image might be tarnished. When the war had been imminent Roosevelt charged Hoover with ferreting out nazi spies in the Western Hemisphere. Two escaped his notice. As early as 1933 Gestapo agent Dr. Hermann Friedrick Erben recruited Errol Flynn as an intelligence source. Erben went on to become a naturalized American citizen, but never abandoned his loyalty to Hitler. Flynn went on to make "Santa Fe Trail" in 1940, co-starring with Ronald Reagan, and the two paired up for "Desperate Journey" in 1942. George de Mohrenschildt, the Oswalds' genial host in Dallas, was tagged by Hoover's FBI as a nazi spy during World War II. G-men noted that his cousin, Baron Maydell, had nazi ties, and that his uncle distributed pro-nazi films. Their suspicions were confirmed when they trailed de Mohrenschildt from New York to Corpus Christi. On October 8, 1942 a "lookout" was placed in his file in case he applied for another passport. Photo by Wide World J. Edgar Hoover: he kept alive the Nazi intelligence network INTERPOL The parts left out of J. Edgar Hoover's investigation before and after Kennedy was killed were the nazi associations de Mohrenschildt had while working for U.S. intelligence. George's cousin, the movie producer Baron Constantine Maydell, was one of the top German Abwehr agents in North America. Reinhard von Gehlen recruited Maydell in the post-war era to be in charge of the CIA's Russian emigre programs. Gehlen recruited veterans of Maydell's Abwehr Group to work with East European emigre organizations inside the U.S. Part of Lee and Marina's red carpet treatment in the U.S. started with their arrival from the USSR. Spas T. Raigkin was the ex-Secretary General of a group such as Maydell's. The AFABN, the American Friends of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, with CIA funding, assisted Lee and Marina to get settled. J. Edgar Hoover was trained only to see if there were Communists around ...the red menace. The Abwehr, Reinhard Gehlen and Maydell were overlooked by the FBI. After the war Interpol ostensibly cleaned up its act, moved to Paris and installed the prestigious Hoover as vice president. Yet Interpol steadfastly refused to hunt for nazi war criminals, contending it was independent of politics. The excuse appeared a bit lame when, in the 1970s, former SS officer Paul Dickopf became president. "Sir" Charles Willoughby -- a Franco-German-American He was a bull of a man who spoke with a German accent, wore a custom-tailored general's uniform and affected a monocle. A fellow officer in the U.S. army under his true name of Adolph Charles Weidenbach, born in Heidelberg, March 8, 1892. But by the time he became Douglas MacArthur's chief of intelligence for the war in the Pacific, he was Major General Charles A. Willoughby. Behind his back he was derisively tagged "Sir Charles." For a man of such Teutonic traits it was odd that Willoughby preferred his fascism with a Spanish accent. But this was an accident of geography. While serving as a military attache in Ecuador, he had received a decoration from Mussolini's government -- the Order of Saints Maurizio and Lazzaro. After delivering an impassioned paean to Spanish dictator Generalissimo Francisco Franco at a lunch in Madrid, he was toasted by the secretary general of the Falangist Party, "I am happy to know a fellow Falangist and reactionary. MacArthur's pre-war headquarters were in the Philippines, whose commerce was dominated by resident Spaniards. The Daddy Warbucks of this crowd was Andres Soriano, who owned an early-day conglomerate of airlines, mines, breweries ("Of course!") and American distributorships. During the Spanish Civil War Soriano was one of Franco's principal money-bags. When the Rising Sun flag was raised over the Philippines Soriano fled to Washington to become finance minister of the government-in-exile. But there was such a fuss over his fascist reputation that he flew off to Australia to become a colonel on MacArthur’s staff. Willoughby accompanied the Supreme Commander to Tokyo for the occupation of Japan. His preferences remained the same; when military police shook down his hotel looking for a fugitive, they found Willoughby at dinner with the stranded Italian fascist ambassador to Japan and members of his staff. He became a heavy-handed censor, suppressing unfavorable news to the States. He delighted in falsely labeling correspondents who defied him as "Communists," a tactic Senator McCarthy would adopt with enthusiasm. But the general's priority project was a dressed-up history of the Pacific War in which MacArthur would be the towering hero. Willoughby brought in Japanese military brass for a view from the enemy side, a move that may have had an ulterior motive. The possibility existed that Willoughby was down-playing Japanese war crimes so that the perpetrators could be protected for use against the Soviets later. This was happening in Germany where the top nazis were writing the history of Malmedy. The tight security in which Willoughby wrapped the project only adds to this impression. One woman had a passkey, the wife of Dr. Mitsutaro Araki, a former exchange lecturer in Germany, who was closely tied in with high nazis in Tokyo and the Tojo clique. Willoughby harbored another secret that only came to light last year. During the war, the Japanese conducted germ warfare experiments with human beings as guinea pigs (at least 3,000 died, including an undetermined number of captured U.S. military). The Pentagon decided that the biological research might prove handy against the Russians, and the Japanese responsible for the experiments were granted immunity from prosecution in return for their laboratory records. On December 12, 1947 the Pentagon acknowledged the "wholehearted cooperation" of Willoughby in arranging the examination of the "human pathological material which had been transferred to Japan from the biological warfare installations." As his final public gesture to Franco, Willoughby lobbied the U.S. Congress in August, 1952 to authorize $100 million for the anti-Communist dictator's needs. Then he settled down in the U.S. to do battle with the domestic enemy. As Sir Charles and his right-wing allies saw it, Marxism wasn't the real enemy, the Liberals were. 1952: The Travels of Klaus Barbie, Evita Peron, Otto Skorzeny, and Nicolae Malaxa By 1952 Klaus Barbie had arrived in Bolivia via a stop in Argentina. He had been spirited out of Germany by the CIA, with a hand from the Vatican. Soon he teamed up with SS Major Otto Skorzeny, who now was affiliated with the CIA. Dr. Fritz Thyssen and Dr. Gustav Krupp, both beneficiaries of McCloy's amnesty, bankrolled Skorzeny from the start. Barbie and Skorzeny were soon forming death squads such as the Angels of Death in Bolivia, the Anti-Communist Alliance in Argentina, and in Spain, with Stephen Della Chiaie, the Guerrillas of Christ the King. In 1952 the nazi, Martin Bormann's money was released. In Argentina, Evita Peron died of cancer at age 33. In her name was deposited, in 40 Swiss banks, the nazi money. There was $100 million cash, another $40 million in diamonds. Several hundred million more were set aside with Evita's brother, Juan Duarte, as the courier. This led to three murders the following year: o Juan Duarte was shot to death. o Heinrich Dorge, an aide to Hjalmar Schacht, killed. o Rudolf Feude, nazi banker who knew the locations of the money, was poisoned. In 1952 Otto Skorzeny, who had been released from American custody in 1947, moved to Madrid. He created what is known as the International Fascista. The CIA and the Gehlen BND dispatched him to "trouble spots." On his payroll were former SS agents, French OAS terrorists and secret police from Portugal's PDID. PDID are the same initials as the Los Angeles police intelligence unit, Public Disorder Intelligence Division. The California PDID was exposed on May 24, 1983 as spying on law abiding citizens at an expense of $100,000, utilizing a computerized dossier system bought by the late Representative Larry McDonald's "Western Goals." (McDonald was a national leader of the John Birch Society, which was exceedingly active in Dallas preceding the Kennedy assassination. Western Goals has offices in Germany run by Eugene Wigner that feed data to the Gehlen BND.) On the board of Western Goals are such Cold Warriors as Edward Teller, Admiral Thomas Moorer and Dr. Hans Senholt, once a Luftwaffe pilot. SS Colonel Skorzeny's CIA agents participated in terror campaigns waged by Operation 40 in Guatemala, Brazil and Argentina. Skorzeny was also in charge of the Paladin mercenaries, whose cover, M.C. Inc., was a Madrid export-import firm. Dr. Gerhard Hartmut von Schubert, [formerly] of Joseph Goebbels' propaganda ministry, was M.C. operating manager. The nerve center for Skorzeny's operations was in Albufera, Spain. It was lodged in the same building as the Spanish intelligence agency SCOE under Colonel Eduardo Blanco and was also an office of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The Albufera building was the kind of intelligence nest that was duplicated in New Orleans in 1963. That summer Lee Harvey Oswald handed out pro-Castro literature stamped with the address 544 Camp Street, a commercial building. This was a blunder, because Oswald actually was under the control of an anti-Castro operation headquartered there. His controller, W. Guy Banister, was connected with military intelligence, the CIA and a section of the World Anti-Communist League that had been set up by Willoughby and his Far Pacific intelligence unit in Taiwan. In The Great Heroin Coup, Henrik Kruger disclosed that the International Fascist was "not only the first step toward fulfilling the dream of Skorzeny, but also of his close friends in Madrid, exile Jose Lopez Rega, Juan Peron's grey eminence, and prince Justo Valerio Borghese, the Italian fascist money man who had been rescued from execution at the hands of the World War II Italian resistance by future CIA counterintelligence whiz James J. Angleton." A subcommittee on international operations of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee prepared a report "Latin America: Murder, Inc." that is still classified. The title repeated Lyndon Johnson's remark, three months before he died, "We were running a Murder, Inc. in the Caribbean." The report concluded: "The United States had joint operations between Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. The joint operations were known as Operation Condor. These are special teams used to carry out 'sanctions,' the killing of enemies." Jack Anderson gave a few details in his column "Operation Condor, An Unholy Alliance" August 3, 1979: "Assassination teams are centered in Chile. This international consortium is located in Colonia Dignidad, Chile. Founded by nazis from Hitler's SS, headed by Franz Pfeiffer Richter, Adolf Hitler's 1000-year Reich may not have perished. Children are cut up in front of their parents, suspects are asphyxiated in piles of excrement or rotated to death over barbecue pits." Otto Skorzeny code-named his assault on American soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge Operation Greif, the "Condor." He continued Condor with his post-war special teams that imposed "sanctions," meaning the assassination of enemies. Skorzeny's father-in-law was Hjalmar Schacht, president of Hitler's Reichsbank. Schacht guided Onassis' shipyards in rebuilding the German and Japanese war fleets. In 1950 Onassis signed on Lars Anderson for his whaling ships on the hunt off Antarctica and Argentina. Anderson had belonged to Vidkum Quisling's nazi collaborationist group in Norway during the war. Clay Shaw, who was charged by New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison with complicity in the JFK assassination, was a close friend of Hjalmar Schacht. Photo by Wide World Colonia Dignidad. Nobody comes, nobody goes In 1952 Nicolae Malaxa moved from Whittier California to Argentina. Malaxa had belonged to Otto von Bolschwing's Gestapo network, as did his associate, Viorel Trifia, who was living in Detroit. They were members of the Nazi Iron Guard in Romania, and had felt prosecution. They had one thing in common; they were friends of Richard Nixon. Trifia had been brought to the U.S. by von Bolschwing. Malaxa had escaped from Europe with over $200 million in U.S. dollars. Upon arrival in New York he picked up another $200 million from Chase Manhattan Bank. The legal path for his entry was smoothed by the Sullivan & Cromwell law offices, the Dulles brothers firm. Undersecretary of State Adolph Berle, who had helped Nixon and star witness Whittaker Chambers convict Alger Hiss, personally testified on Malaxa's behalf before a congressional subcommittee on immigration. In 1951 Senator Nixon introduced a private bill to allow Malaxa permanent residence. Arrangements for his relocation in Whittier were made by Nixon's law office. The dummy front cover for Malaxa in Whittier was Western Tube. In 1946 Nixon had gotten a call from Herman L. Perry asking if he wanted to run for Congress against Rep. Jerry Voorhis. Perry later became president of Western Tube. When Malaxa went to Argentina in 1952, he linked up with Juan Peron and Otto Skorzeny. Questions were raised at the time about J. Edgar Hoover, the Iron Guard, Malaxa and Vice President Nixon. Photo by Wide World Richard M. Nixon: strange friends in strange places and occupations 1960 Elections: Richard Nixon vs. John F. Kennedy Before the election of 1960, a group within the Christian Right plotted to kill John Kennedy in Van Nuys, California while he was still a candidate. The group was a meld of anti-Castro Cubans, Minutemen and home-grown nazis. Some were sought by Jim Garrison, following his arrest of Clay Shaw, for testimony before the New Orleans grand jury. When Garrison forwarded extradition papers for Edgar Eugene Bradley, a member of the group, Governor Ronald Reagan refused to sign them. The leader of one of these groups, the Christian Defense League (CDL), was the Reverend William P. Gale. During the war Gale had been an Army colonel in the Philippines training guerilla bands. His superior officer was Willoughby. By the late 1950s Gale was recruiting veterans for his "Identity" group, which was financed by a wealthy Los Angeles man. One of the CDL's contacts was Captain Robert K. Brown, a special forces professional from Fort Benning, Georgia. Brown was working with anti-Castro Cubans, mercenaries similar to Skorzeny's teams. Brown is now publisher of Soldier of Fortune magazine and paramilitary texts such as Silencers, Snipers, and Assassins. The book explains how Mitchell WerBell made special weapons for the CIA, Bay of Pigs assault squads and other customers. WerBell, son of a wealthy Czarist cavalry officer, perfected a silencer so effective a gun can be shot in one room and not heard in the next. It is ideal for assassinations. There had been prolonged controversy about how many shots were fired the day Kennedy was killed. The President's wounds, nicks on the limousine and curb, and other bullet evidence indicated quite a few. But the Warren Commission concluded there were only three. It took the testimony of spectators in Dealy Plaza who said they only heard three. It never considered the possibility that silencer-fitted guns were fired. When Clay Shaw was arrested by Jim Garrison the news was of particular interest to the Italian newspaper Paesa Sera. It followed up with a story that Shaw belonged to a cover organization in Rome named Centro Mondiale Commerciale (CMC). Its location was frequently moved, its presidents rotated; its modus operandi altered. CMC included Italian fascists, elements of the European paramilitary right, the CIA, and the U.S. Defense Department. There were major shareholders with banks located in Switzerland, Miami, Basel and other major cities. CMC had been formed in 1961, one year after Kennedy was elected. Its principals had worked with fascist networks established after World War II. The board of directors numbered Ferenc Nagy, a former Hungarian premier who led that country's Anti-Communist Countrymen's Party in exile. J. Edgar Hoover brought Nagy to the United States, where there were numerous Gehlen-supported emigre organizations. On August 18, 1951, the Saturday Evening Post pictured Nagy with Czech, Pole, Hungarian and Russian exiles under the heading: "They Want Us To Go to War Right Now." On November 22, 1963 Nagy was living in Dallas. CMC was actually a subsidiary of Swiss-based Permindex, whose president was Prince Gutierez de Spadafora, Italian industrialist and large landowner. Spadafora's daughter-in-law was related to Hjalmar Schacht. Clay Shaw, who managed the New Orleans Intemational Trade Mart, was a director. Another was Giorgio Mantello, aka George Mandel, who would later move to New Orleans. Once convicted of "criminal activities" in Switzerland, Mantello worked closely with his fellow Hungarian Nagy. One of the goals of the CMC was that "Rome will recover once again her position as center of the civilized world." Major L. M. Bloomfield, a veteran of the OSS who resided in Montreal, was a suspect Garrison wanted to question. In Canada he reportedly controlled Credit Suisse, Heineken's Breweries, Israel Continental Company, Grimaldo Siosa Lines and other international firms. Shaw's name was found among eleven directors of a company in Montreal that actually was based in Rome. Who was giving the virtually unlimited money to CMC, and who was getting it? The answer might have been found in the huge amounts that flowed out of Evita Peron's accounts. Paesa Sera reported on March 4, 1967 that CMC was a creature of the CIA serving as a money conduit, and that Shaw and Bloomfield conducted illegal political espionage under its cover. In New Orleans, Shaw was the respected citizen who had helped restore the French Quarter. In Rome he was a vital member of the boards of twin companies dealing with fascists accused of European assassinations. Shaw's address book contained the private number of Principessa Marcelle Borghese, now Duchessa de Bomartao, who is related to Prince Valerio Borghese. Called the "Black Prince" and "The New Duce," Borghese was leader of the Movimento Sociale Italiano, a neo-fascist syndicate. The Black Prince, who was a decorated submarine captain in the First World War, was convicted of cooperating with the nazis in WW II and given 12 years in prison. The Black Prince is the same Borghese rescued by the CIA's James J. Angleton. No wonder Angleton was awarded the Sovereign Military Order of Malta by the Pope after the war. It might explain what Angleton was hinting at when questioned about the murder of JFK: "A mansion has many rooms; there were many things during the period; I'm not privy to who struck John." Clay Shaw's affiliation with Permindex would plug in later to Argentina, Spain, Rome, New Orleans and Dallas. The international range of hit teams, using CIA money diverted overseas to cover companies set up by the Gehlen Organization, started coming together after Shaw's arrest. In November, 1960 it would be Nixon versus Kennedy. Frank Sinatra introduced Judith Exner to John Kennedy on the eve of the New Hampshire primary. A few weeks later Sinatra introduced Judith Exner to Chicago Mafia boss Sam Giancana. So Exner became involved, as William Safire put it, in a "dual affair with the nation's most powerful mobster and the nation's most powerful political leader." Giancana was busy with more than his love life; he was hired to form assassination teams to go after Fidel Castro. The man who retained him was Robert Maheu, a former FBI and CIA operative. It was a classic cutoff. Maheu never mentioned that the CIA was behind it. He intimated to Giancana that wealthy Cuban exiles were providing the funds. This sounded plausible, since Maheu was Howard Hughes' right-hand man. Giancana put his Los Angeles lieutenant, Johnny Roselli, in charge of the hit squads. In 1978 when the House Select Committee questioned him, Roselli hinted that his assignment was aimed at Kennedy as well as Castro. Shortly afterward, his body was found floating in an oil drum off the Florida coast. Giancana never got a chance to testify. He was shot to death in his Chicago home. The Howard Hughes organization, used as a cover for the kill-Castro conspiracy, (Hughes thought it was a patriotic idea) has long retained Carl Byoir Associates as its public relations arm. Throughout the war Byoir represented nazi bankers and industrialists and the I.G. Farben interests. One of his clients was Ernest Schmitz, member of the I.G. Farben-Ilgner and the German American Board of Trade. His Information Services was subsidized by the nazi government. George Sylvester Viereck, editor of the German Library of Information, was also in business with Byoir. A lucrative Byoir client was the Frederick Flick Group. Flick, a Nuremberg defendant released by McCloy, was the single greatest power behind the nazi military muscle. Frederick Flick's son was close to the W.R. Grace Company, and invested over $400,000 in partnership with J. Peter Grace in the United States. During the war, WR. Grace was accused in a military report of protecting a certain nazi Colonel Brite in Bolivia. In 1951, when the CIA smuggled Barbie out of Germany, he was sent to join the same Colonel Brite. George de Mohrenschildt was a close associate of the company's founder, William Grace. De Mohrenschildt was a man of many faces. He befriended Lee and Marina Oswald, introducing them to the White Russian community. He made phone calls to obtain Lee jobs and housing. As he told it to the Warren Commission, he was fascinated with this strange couple just out of Russia. But at the Petroleum Club in Dallas, De Mohrenschildt sang the praises of Heinrich Himmler. His travels took him all over the world on missions identified with intelligence. In 1956 he was employed by Pantepec Oil Company owned by the family of William Buckley. De Mohrenschildt often discussed Oswald with J. Walton Moore, the CIA's Domestic Contacts Division resident in Dallas. In the spring of 1963, just after visiting the Oswalds, he went to Washington. There is a record of a phone call de Mohrenschildt made on May 7, 1963, to the Army Chief of Staff for intelligence. The same month he had a meeting in person with a member of that staff. His military connections seem to have been wide. One of the first persons de Mohrenschildt took the Oswalds to see in Dallas was retired Admiral Chester Burton. Photo by Wide World Lee Harvey Oswald's benefactor was Texas oil millionaire George de Mohrenschildt Although De Mohrenschildt and his wife Jeanne testified at length before the Warren Commission, only attorney Albert Jenner and Pentagon historian Alfred Goldberg attended. One of Jenner's clients was General Dynamics, maker of the F-lll fighter that would achieve fame in Vietnam. The chief of security for General Dynamics in Dallas, Max Clark, was another De Mohrenschildt associate donating money to help Marina while George got Lee his next job in Dallas. He found one at the graphics house of Jagger-Chiles-Stovall, which held classified military contracts. Jeanne de Mohrenschildt was originally brought to the U.S. by a family member employed by the Howard Hughes organization. In 1977 George was found fatally shot, allegedly a suicide, on the day a House Select Committee investigator came by looking for him. Jeanne consented to a press interview. She said George had been a nazi spy. The placement de Mohrenschildt got for Oswald allowed him to visit the Sol Bloom agency at least 40 times. It was this agency that later decided the motorcade route for Kennedy's fatal visit. Ruth Paine, whom Oswald met via George, had called Roy Truly and procured work for Oswald at the Texas School Book Depository. If Maydell and the Gehlen agents were active in the U.S. they knew all the right moves to secure their patsy. 1960: Young Americans for Freedom President Harry Truman warned about the CIA "Gestapo" he had created. President Eisenhower left the White House fearing the new "military-industrial complex" he handed to us. In 1960 candidate Richard Nixon was qualified for the job of President. A lot of influential people were sure he was the only choice. Nixon was familiar with every red scare tactic. From his first campaign against Jerry Voorhis in 1946 for the House seat, or vs. Helen Douglas in the Senate, and working with Sen. Joe McCarthy, he knew it well. The prosecution of Alger Hiss, with such flimsy evidence, proved his value alone. But Nixon had also accumulated strong connections with members of the crime syndicate, the Vatican hierarchy, defense industries and known nazis. He knew them all. What if he lost after those seventeen years of preparation? Would there be a back-up team for the future? Could the Pentagon or Reinhard Gehlen visualize leaving the entire United States presidency to chance elections? Remember what happened to Senator Robert Kennedy on the eve of his primary election in June, 1968? They can't get that close to losing it again, you know. With both Kennedy's gone, Nixon finally made it. September, 1960, two months before the elections, William F. Buckley Jr. launched his YAF, Young Americans for Freedom, from the grounds on his Connecticut estate. Prior to that date, Buckley's career was one of the most conservative in the U.S. Following his graduation at Yale, mentor Frank Chodorov grabbed him for purposes related to his job with McCormick's Chicago Tribune. Buckley served the CIA in Japan from 1950 to 1954. He also did a stint with CIA in Mexico with E. Howard Hunt. Co-founder of YAF was Douglas Caddy, whose offices were used by the CIA and Howard Hughes organization, at the time of Watergate illegal entries and other dirty tricks. After the CIA in Japan, Buckley was ready to publish his own magazine, The National Review. This was an unusual opportunity to bring together the world's most conservative writers for publication and much propaganda accompanied by Buckley's glib innuendos. Once the publication was going, Buckley decided to bring Young Americans for Freedom to the campus; old ideas, old money, and young minds to mold. Behind the project were always the well-funded military masters, such as the YAF's Tom Charles Huston and the Cointel-Program Nixon cooked up. The selected advisory board for YAF was a Who's Who of oldies even then: Senator Strom Thurmond, Senator John Tower, Mr. Ronald Reagan, Professor Lev Dobriansky, General Charles Willoughby, and Mr. Robert Morris are a sample. Robert Morris may not be a household name. But William Buckley knew him well, and Morris, Nixon, and Senator Joe McCarthy were team players. Senator Joe McCarthy's two strongest supporters for him to represent Wisconsin were Frank Seusenbrenner and Walter Harnisfeger. Both admired Adolf Hitler and made continuous trips to Germany. Senator McCarthy obliged fast enough. Before he went after the Commies in the State Department, he had to release a few of Hitler's elite nazis lingering in the Dachau prison camp. McCarthy beat John McCloy by about three years. In 1949, during congressional hearings on the Malmedy Massacre, the bloody Battle of the Bulge, McCarthy invited himself to take over the entire testimony. He wasn't satisfied until the prison doors flew open. The most detestable and ugly battle of World War II, an assault upon Americans and civilians in Belgium, was ignored. Hitler's precious Generals Fritz Kraemer and Sepp Dietrick, along with Hermann Priess and many others, were free. With that business finished, McCarthy took on Robert Morris as Chief Counsel for the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. Morris' earlier training in Navy Intelligence in charge of USSR counter-intelligence and psychological warfare could be utilized well by Senator Joe. Particularly the psychological warfare part. After McCarthy died, Morris moved to Dallas, Texas. He was a judge, and became president of Dallas University. In 1961, a year after Buckley founded YAF, another conservative organization was formed in Munich, Germany, calling itself CUSA, Conservatism USA. These were not students, but members of the U.S. army, soon to be mustered out, then to appear in Dallas, Texas, by November 1963. The host would be Robert Morris. A correspondence between Larry Schmidt in Dallas, to Bernie Weissman in Munich, Germany, in preparation for their arrival, was published in the Warren Commission Hearings, Vol. XVIII. Segments of the letters are as follows: November 2, 1962: Dallas to Munich, Larry Schmidt: "Gentlemen we got everything we wanted." "It saved the trouble of infiltration." "Met with Frank McGee ... (president of the Dallas Council of World Affairs.)" "Suggest Bernie convert to Christianity and I mean it." (Bernard Weissman, the only Jew, was brought all the way to Dallas on November 22, 1963, to lend his name to the "Wanted for Treason" fliers handed out to welcome JFK. He testified that the John Birch Society paid for the ads and "wanted a Jewish name at the bottom.") "We must all return to the church." "These people are religious bugs." "I think in terms of 300,000 members, $3,000,000." "The John Birch Society has a million members. Look for us to merge with them in 1964." "Arrangements are being made for me to meet the heads of the Dallas John Birch, General Walker, and H.L. Hunt, Texas oil millionaire." (General Walker had been retired from the military by John Kennedy for his compulsory Pro-Blud indoctrination.) "I have already met the top editors of the Dallas Morning News, the country's most conservative newspaper." "These people are radicals but there is a method in their madness. You see, they're all after exactly what we're after." "No liberal talk whatsoever, none." "Down here a Negro is a n." "I mean, no one is ever to say one kind word about niggers." "Liberals are our enemies." "The conservative isn't against the Niggers, he just wants to keep him in his place for his own good." (Pres. John Kennedy and Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy had waged a bitter battle from Sept. 30 to Oct. 3, 1962, at the University of Mississippi. The integration of one black student brought in the U.S. Army and caused Gen. Edwin Walker to be confined.) January 4, 1963, Larry Schmidt to B. Weissman, Munich: "I want big men ... believe me if I had a dozen such men I can conquer the world." "I will go down in the history books as a great and noble man, or a tyrant." "I expect to see you here in Dallas, especially Norman and Larry." "If Jim Mosely is not here by Feb. 15, he is finished." "One thing had best be understood, I am not playing games here in Dallas and expect you not to play games in Munich." "I am not here in Dallas for my health or because I think Dallas is a wonderful place." "Continue to have regular meetings and try to get things back in order in preparation for the big meetings." February 2, 1963, Larry Schmidt: "We have succeeded, the mission with which I was charged in Dallas has been achieved." "Friday night I attended a gathering of the top conservatives in Dallas." "The meeting was at the home of Dr. Robert Morris, President of the Defenders of American Liberty." "Present were Mr. George Ward, Detective for Dallas City Police, Mr. Ken Thompson, editorial writer for the Dallas Morning News, Mr. Clyde Moore, former PR man for H.L. Hunt, former UPI writer. (Eight others)." "I told them exactly what I wanted." "Others suggested using an already existing movement, named the Young Americans for Freedom, with already 50,000 members." "CUSA, as set up in Munich, is now an established fact in Dallas, only we are calling it YAF. I think you catch on." "We are starting Munich chapters of YAF. To spread to Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Berlin, Kaiserslautern." "We are getting every top name in business, education, politics, and religion to endorse YAF." "The advisory board includes 37 congressmen . . . including Sen. Strom Thurmond, Sen. John Tower, and Sen. Barry Goldwater. There is Ronald Reagan, Gen. Mark Clark, Gen. Charles Willoughby, John Wayne, etc." "Change all your records to read YAF." "All those months in Munich were not wasted. I accomplished my task in Dallas. I need you here soon. I sold these people on each of you and they are expecting you to come to Dallas and play an important role." "The days of leisure are over." "We want to see you, Norman, Jim and Bill Burley back here in Dallas." "Sheila and my brother will be here in August; Ken Glazebrook in Sept." June 13, 1963, Larry Schmidt to B. Weissman in Munich, Germany: "Warren Carroll, our only other recruit to CUSA, is already a PhD and two MS's. Warren is a scriptwriter for Lifeline, the H.L. Hunt television and radio series. Hunt is the millionaire oilman." "Warren is 32, former CIA man. Don't worry, he has been checked out." "Hunt checked him out." (This appears to be a military action, DIA. They have to check out the CIA man, using Hunt's security). After Jack Ruby was arrested for killing Oswald inside the Dallas jail, there were copies of Warren Carroll's Lifeline on the seat of his car. The section was on "Heroism," on how to become a "hero." This is interesting because one of the first reasons Ruby gave for killing Oswald was, "I wanted to show them a Jew had guts." "We want to get Norman into the Republic National Bank ... where we are building our credit like crazy for the day we need ready cash." (The Dallas Republic National Bank was identified by the Washington Post, February 26, 1967, as a conduit of CIA funds since 1958.) (Connie Trammel, who worked at the Republic National Bank, accompanied Jack Ruby to the office of Lamar Hunt, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1963, two days before Kennedy was assassinated.) October 1, 1963, Larry Schmidt to Munich, Germany: "I have a lot of contacts, bankers, insurance men, realtors." "My brother began working as an aide to General Walker. Paid full time." "National Indignation Committee will merge in the Fall of 1963, as soon as Bernie and Norman are in Dallas." "This is a top secret merger and is not to be discussed outside the movement." October 29, 1963, Larry Schmidt to Munich Germany: "This town is a battleground and that is no joke. I am a hero to the right, a stormtrooper to the left." "I have worked out a deal with the chairman of YAF. The arrangements are always delicate, very delicate. If I don't produce the bodies it is likely Dale (Davenport) will think me a phoney." "He needs our help now. Adlai Stevenson is scheduled here on the 24th." "Kennedy is scheduled in Dallas on November 24." "All big things are happening now." 1963: A few connections in Dallas -- Gen. Walter Dorberger, Michael and Ruth Paine When George de Mohrenschildt was busy introducing Lee and Marina to the Dallas-Ft. Worth White Russian displaced Czarists, he managed to keep the social level equal with his American contacts. One casual dinner in the company of Michael and Ruth Paine, and that was enough meeting to set the Oswalds’ course. George and Jeane didn't have to meet with them again. Ruth Paine would provide housing for Marina while Lee went to New Orleans. A few weeks later, she drove Marina to join Lee. After summer vacation at Wood's Hole, Mass., Ruth returned and brought Marina to her home in Irving, Texas, while Lee was on the bus to Mexico with Albert Osborne/John Bowen, and four other Solidarists from the Russian network. After Kennedy was murdered, the Dallas police rushed to the Paine's home. From that garage and elsewhere, via the Paines, came most of the incriminating evidence against Oswald. The alleged murder weapon never could be proven by the Warren Commission as ever having come from their garage. The cropped photo that Life printed with Oswald holding a rifle came from a box removed from the garage, taken to the police department, then returned the next day, with nobody present to indicate where it came from. Accessory after the fact, the letter was delivered to Marina in December undated and unsigned, to cover up General Walker's anxiety to blame a "Communist," Lee, for shooting at him in April and came from Ruth to Marina. It wasn't in the home before then. The Warren Commission required planted evidence sometimes in order to divert from Lee Oswald's links to the Defense Department, assisted by Ruth and Michael Paine. Michael Paine's occupation at Bell Aircraft is the Defense Department. This job requires security clearances, so what would the unlikely Oswalds be doing in his home? Oswald, the "defector?" Paine's boss at Bell Aircraft as Director of Research and Development, was none other than the noterious war criminal General Walter Dornberger. Dornberger was supposed to be hanged at Nuremburg for his war crimes, slave labor and mass murders. The British warned the U.S. not to let him live because even after the war he was conniving for another one. As stated, "Dornberger is a menace of the first order who is untrustworthy. His attitude will turn ally against ally and he would become a source of irritation and future unrest." (Project Paperclip. Clarence Lasby.) The very first call to authorities after the gun went off on November 22, 1963, was from an employee at Bell Helicopter who suggested "Oswald did it." Police never located the source of both Oswald addresses that day. Michael Paine took Lee to a meeting with General Edwin Walker shortly before the assassination. Soon Oswald would be charged with having shot Walker in April, and Walker would be calling his nazi cronies in Germany 24 hours after JFK was killed telling them he finally solved "who shot through his window" seven months earlier: the same Oswald. Who were the Paines? To believe the Warren Commission and the CIA staff of lawyers, they were Mr. and Mrs. Good Neighbor, all heart, altruistic. Ruth simply wanted to learn more Russian from a native. For that price, she housed Marina, a two-year-old daughter, a new infant, with all the fuss and mess of three extras in a tiny house. Michael Paine was a descendant of the Cabots on both sides. His cousin Thomas Dudley Cabot, former president of United Fruit, had offered their Gibraltar Steamship as a cover for the CIA during the Bay of Pigs. Another cousin was Alexander Cochrane Forbes, a director of United Fruit and trustee of Cabot, Cabot, and Forbes. Both Allen Dulles and John J. McCloy were part of the United Fruit team. The Paine family had links with circles of the OSS and the CIA. Ruth Hyde Paine maintained close ties with the Forbes families. Peter Dale Scott investigated the Paines, "the patrician Paine and Forbes families." A far cry from anybody's neighbor. Michael's education came as a tradition, third generation physicist at Harvard before working for Bell Helicopter. The British were correct on the Dornberger evaluation. Another clue to Albert Speer, the Reichmaster for Munitions and War Production, and General Dornberger, is their meeting as early as April, 1943. When it was obvious to Hitler they would be losing the war against the USSR, all top Nazis made detailed plans for two years on how to proceed next. Speer met with Dornberger, at Peenemunde, the missile and rocket factory run with Werner Von Braun, and instructed him in "the dispersion of functions throughout the Reich." Translated, that meant get ready to come to the U.S. Lee Harvey Oswald, Albert Osborne When Lee Harvey Oswald entered Mexico at Laredo, Texas, on Sept. 26, 1963, his companion on the Red Arrow bus was Albert Osborne, alias John Howard Bowen. Bowen-Osborne had been running a school for highly professional marksmen in Oaxaca, Mexico, since 1934. The cover for the place was his particular mission, and he was the missionary. The FBI records on Bowen go back to June 4, 1942, in Henderson Springs, Tennessee. He operated a camp for boys known as "Campfire Council." Neighbors complained it was for pro-nazi activities with young fascists. Bowen vehemently opposed the U.S. going to war with nazi Germany. They stomped on the American flag. Before that, Bowen worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority since 1933. His dual citizenship between Great Britain and the U.S. took him over the entire globe. So did his use of multiple aliases. After the Warren Commission published their report in September 1964, several attorneys in the Southwest recognized the name of Osborne. September 8, 1952, Jake Floyd was murdered. The target was meant to be his father, District Judge Floyd. Two suspects were caught, one got away. Their testimony was about being hired by Osborne and how he ran the school for assassins. Later investigation revealed Osborne's connections to Division V of the FBI, and to Clay Shaw's Centro Mondiale Commerciale, with funding coming from New Orleans for the CIA, Anti-Castro Cubans, and others. Lee Harvey Oswald applied for a tourist card to enter Mexico while still in New Orleans on September 17, 1963. Four other persons, having consecutive tourist numbers, departed nine days later, like Oswald, all to arrive at the same time, entering from several different cities. They were part of the White Russian Solidarists, the Gehlen emigre community that Lee and Marina mingled with. This assassination team funded Maurice Brooks Gatlin, Guy Bannister, and the Miami office of Double Check Corporation. J. Edgar Hoover's Division V, Domestic Intelligence, working with the American Council of Christian Churches, had used this group from the Bowen-Osborne academy of assassins. Volume XXV of the Hearings has many pages of interviews with people who had sent money to Jack Bowen. They never met him, and some like Mrs. Bessie White, Pikesville, Tenn., mailed "$35 a month to John Howard Bowen who she believed had been doing missionary work for 18 years in Mexico." Osborne-Bowen had a mission. Lee Harvey Oswald, agent from U.S. Defense Dept., had a team of doubles impersonating his behavior, leaving trails of anti-American frustration and meetings with various people. While Oswald was in Mexico just prior to Kennedy's murder, the purposes were concealed. Meanwhile, the CIA and various authorities led Oswald to the Cuban Embassy, the Soviet Embassy. When the face or voices didn't match the authentic Oswald, it didn't matter, given a difference of 40 to 50 pounds and shape. What came from all this was the conclusion that Oswald had really wanted to go to Cuba next. Which Oswald, and why? This was to finalize with the illusion of an Oswald-Castro admiration just days before Kennedy would be killed. Senator John Tower and Marina Oswald One of the most consistent conservatives among Buckley's YAF Advisory Board was Senator John Tower, Texas. If there is anything he wouldn't want in his back yard it was a defector and his allegedly Communist wife from Minsk. Yet, two years after joining the YAF team in 1960, Tower was passing all waivers in order for Marina Oswald to get to the United States as soon as possible. Without his permission, this trip might never have taken place. Many wives from the USSR are not that lucky. March 22, 1962, Senator Tower cooperated. "The sanctions imposed on immigration and nationality are hereby waived in behalf of Mrs. Oswald. The file check on Marina by the FBI, CIA, Dept. of Security Office, Division of biographical intelligence and passport office," (Volume XXIV, 298). George de Mohrenschildt testified in Volume IX, pages 228-229, "Marina Oswald's father had been a Czarist officer of some kind. I don't remember whether it was army or navy." Her real father was never identified by name in all of the testimony. Between 1948 and 1950 over 200 Byelorussian nazis and their families were brought to New Jersey. Both George de Mohrenschildt and Marina had come from Minsk, part of the Byelorussian area. The Gehlen nazi emigres were useful to every part of the Kennedy assassination cover-up. John Tower knew Marina was a safe bet. Otherwise, why the hurry? Our CIA and the Defense Department knew all there was to know about both Oswalds. Therefore, Tower signed the immigration papers fast. The Argentine Connections: Isaac Dan Levine and the Ziger Family The Warren Report wasn't published until September, 1964. Testimony of witnesses and exhibits were being collected up to the day of printing. Yet as early as June 2, 1964, Isaac Don Levine, another arch-enemy of Communists and a so-called expert on the Soviet mind, was arranging with the Warren Commission staff to bring the daughters of Oswald's boss, Alexander Ziger, from the Minsk Radio factory to Argentina. He suggested using CIA assistance. What was that about? "When the Oswalds left Russia they smuggled out a message to one of the relatives of the Zigers living in the U.S. They wanted help to get the Zigers’ daughters out of Russia. The daughters, having been born in Argentina, could claim Argentine citizenship. Levine suggested some confidential source in the American Government such as the CIA should contact the Argentine Government to set machinery in motion. (Memorandum from W. David Slauson: Conference with Mr. Isaac Don Levine, May 23, 1964). January 21, 1964, John J. McCloy told Commission members, before any witness was yet called, "this fellow Levine is a contact with Marina to break the story up in a little more graphic manner and tie it into a Russian business, and it is with the thought and background of Russian connections, conspiracy concept." If there was a Russian conspiracy to kill President John Kennedy, John McCloy, Isaac Don Levine, Allen Dulles, and J. Edgar Hoover, not to speak of Nixon and others, would squeeze that out. Remember Gary Powers strongly hinted at Oswald's role in downing the U-2, breaking up the Eisenhower-Khrushchev meeting while Lee was employed at the Minsk Radio factory? Nicolae Malaxa, Otto Skorzeny, and international CIA-DIA agents were thick in both Minsk and Argentina. It was Alexander Ziger and his family who introduced Lee to Marina Oswald. That same evening they were at the home of an unidentified woman just returned from the U.S. The President of the U.S. had been murdered in 1963. Six months later the CIA is supposed to assist the Ziger daughters? One more connection to Richard Nixon. When poor Whittaker Chambers almost collapsed from the strain of having to testify against Alger Hiss, it was Isaac Don Levine who took "Chambers by the arm, a reluctant Chambers, and arranged the meetings where he would begin to smear Hiss." (Friendship and Fratricide, Meyer Zelig). When Levine was searching for a Soviet connection to Kennedy's death, he was also doing business with Marina's new manager, James Martin. It was Martin who was selling the photo of Oswald posing with Communist literature and a rifle, the same evidence pulled from the Paine's garage. Notice the similarity to the Whittaker Chambers pumpkin papers years earlier that launched Nixon's political career and convicted Alger Hiss. If the evidence didn't fit the conclusions of the investigators, the one picture would sell the Oswald assassin story. "Treason for My Daily Bread" -- Argentina and Martin Bormann In August 1971, a French paper headlined a news story, "Martin Bormann behind the Kennedy murders." It listed an international band of killers that was located in Texas. They carried out the two assassinations at the German command. Six years later, June 8, 1977, the London Guardian reported, "Bormann Linked with Kennedy Murder." This story was based on a new book titled, Treason for My Daily Bread by Mikhail Lebedev. Lebedev detailed how Martin Bonnann left Europe, established his current life in Paraguay, and how the fatal head shot to Kennedy was delivered by an agent paid by Bormann, alias of Zed. Is any of this true? Many of these allegations and names come together with both Paris Flammonde's The Kennedy Conspiracy and the Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal, known as the Torbitt Document. "Zed" allegedly used a .45 for the final shot. Buddy Walters, murdered January 10, 1969, picked up a .45 slug in Dealey Plaza and gave it to the Dallas Police. There were two possible assassination teams in Dallas. The military from Munich, Germany, that was to take over the YAF, with Robert Morris' help, have yet to be identified or interviewed (Morris from U.S. intelligence, having to do with USSR covert work.) Gen. Edwin Walker's arrangement with U.S. Military in Germany or, the arrival of such people for Nov. 22, 1963, is open to question. Albert Osborne's "mission" in Mexico, with direct links to Clay Shaw's Centro Mondiale Commerciale, has never been touched. This was the international band of killers with the Borghese-James Angleton operations working throughout the world. Otto Skorzeny's CIA and Reinhard Gehlen death squads, with headquarters in Madrid, were funded by Martin Bormann when the Evita Peron funds were shared after 1952. Lebedev mentions "Ruth," David Ferrie, Clay Shaw, Guy Bannister, and Colonel Orlov. The very first day George de Mohrenschildt visited Marina Oswald she was alone and Lee was working. He brought with him a "Colonel Orlov." The House Select Committee on Assassinations "investigated" the murder of President John F. Kennedy from 1976-1978. The information about Bormann was available from 1971. Treason for My Daily Bread was published while they were supposed to be finding the smoking gun. G. Robert Blakey, Chief Consul for the Committee, refused to admit any research or documents on these subjects. He would hang up the telephone and even refused to say if he had ever seen the Torbitt Document. Six million dollars was allotted by Congress to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy. Martin Bormann may have had his motives for his actions through the years. What were G. Robert Blakey's? What form of prosecution should be suggested for committees paid to uncover the truth who continuously sweep under the rug? In A Study of a Master Spy, published in London in 1961, Bob Edwards, a member of Parliament and Kenneth Dunne, presented documentary evidence that Allen Dulles of the CIA carried on secret conferences with representatives of Hitler's SS Security Office in February and March 1943. They learned that "Official Washington knew Martin Bormann, Deputy Fuhrer of Hitler’s Germany, master-minded the international 'Die Spinne' (Spider) underground organization which is planning to revive nazism as soon as West Germany is adequately rearmed by the United States. Official Washington seems disinterested." With John J. McCloy, Allen Dulles and J. Edgar Hoover in control of the Kennedy assassination investigation, these nazi connections were buried. The CIA's Man: The Chronology of Helmet Streikher 1937: Trained for the Gustapo's S.S Officers. A graduate of The University of Bonn Germany. Went to Military School at Blutordensberg, located at Vogelsang Castle. 1938: Assigned to Spain to join General Francisco Franco. 1939-1940: In the U.S. he learned English and American customs. His cover was as a German journalist working for Adolph Hitler. 1940-1941: Was with Reinhard Gehlen in Eastern Europe. He will join Gehlen when they are both working for Army intelligence. 1943-1945: Streikher worked with Skorzeny. 1945: May 7, 1945, Streikher surrenders to Allies and is cleared for intelligence, accepted for U.S. Army by October 1945. 1946-1947: He works for the OSS (Officers of Strategic Services) in Europe, Central Intelligence Group. CIG. 1948-1950: Streikher was stationed in Israel, Greece, Europe, Africa and Middle East. OSS becomes CIA. 1951-1957: CIA assigned back to General Gehlen, now in his German offices of the BND. 1958: In the U.S. Training Army Intelligence offices and CIA. 1958-1961: Helps plan Cuban Invasion. Active in the Bay of Pigs. 1961-1965: He was in Africa, Middle East, and United States on CIA assignment. On November 22, 1963, he said, "One of the worst kept secrets in the C, is the truth about the President's murder. It wasn't Castro or the Russians. The men who killed Mr. Kennedy were CIA contract agents." "John Kennedy's murder was a two-part conspiracy murder. One was the action end with the killers; the other was the deeper part, the acceptance and protection of that murder by the Intelligence aparatus that controls the way the world operates." "It had to happen. The man was too independent for his own good." 1968-1970: Senior Field Agent for CIA. Disguised as a writer. 1971-1973: Back in the United States. Langley, Virginia, training and making plans under assignment. 1974-1977: Under George Bush, director of CIA, Streikher sent to Africa and Middle East. 1978-1980: Contract agent on special assignment for CIA. June 15, 1980 he retired. Other Known Aliases: U.S. Army officer Captain William Raine, also known as Ross Meyers, Hans Mollof, Karl Rolff, and Mark Schmidt. He had nine (9) other pieces of identification in other names and nationalities, some in the form of passports. The Bunge Corporation, Argentina & Germany The stock market dropped 24 points in 27 minutes when news of President Kennedy's assassination was announced. 2.6 million shares were sold off. It was the greatest panic since 1929. Somebody made a huge profit selling short in many markets. Somebody made half a billion dollars in one day. Coincidentally, the Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining Corporation, headed by New Jersey commodities dealer Anthony De Angeles, crashed the same day, driving the market down. Allied Crude was controlled by U.S. American Bunge Corporation and financially controlled by a group of share-holders headquartered in Argentina, known as "Bunge and Born, LDA." Business Week of October 19, 1963, one month before the Kennedy assassination, described the Born family in Argentina, the biggest shareholders for Bunge, as being from Europe, specifically Germany. Everything about Bunge has German influence. They have a $2 billion annual business in 80 countries. There are over 110 offices, all linked by Telex and under-the-ocean telegraph channels. The Bunge Corporation is referred to as "the Octopus." The book Were We Controlled? detailed the relationship of the Bunge Corporation, the foreknowledge of Kennedy's murder, and the Argentine-German connections. General Edwin Walker and the Hitler Nazis The Eagle's Nest, now a mountain restaurant, was given to Adolf Hitler by nazi aide Martin Bormann for the fuhrer's 50th birthday. It is not far from Hitler's former summer home in Berchtesgaden. Nearby is the Platterhof Hotel, built for guests when they came to pay their respects. The Platterhof has changed its name to the General Walker Hotel. November 23, 1963, one day after Kennedy's death, Gen. Edwin Walker called Munich, Germany, from Shreveport, La. Walker's important story, via transatlantic telephone, was to the nazi newspaper Deutsche National Zeitung un Soldaten-Zeitung. Walker couldn't wait to tell them in Munich that Lee Harvey Oswald, the lone suspect in the Dallas murders, was the same person who shot through his window in April, 1963. There was never one shred of evidence, or a reliable witness, that could make this connection Dallas police and FBI were taken by surprise. In order to cover this over-exuberance of trying to link a Marxist assassin to this altercation, it became necessary to have Ruth Paine deliver that ridiculous letter to Marina Oswald on December 3, 1964. The delayed letter was to have been written the night Lee was out shooting in Walker's home. The only piece of bullet that remained in custody was never positively identified as coming from the 6.5 Mannlicher Carcano, and there is no proof Oswald even handled this rifle. Why was General Walker in such a hurry to get his information printed in Germany before anybody in Dallas ever heard about it? Kurt-George Kiesinger had just been installed as Chancellor of West Germany and Franz-Josef Straus as finance minister. Kissinger entered the radio propaganda division of nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop at age 36. He was then directing a world-wide radio propaganda apparatus with 195 specialists under his supervision during the war. He was the liaison officer, coordinating his department's work with that of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Richard Nixon and Kurt-George Kiesinger were soon, or maybe before, to become pals. Nixon tried to hide his nazi past. But General Walker, now home from military service in Munich, knew the importance of such propaganda. He was calling the same people who, under Hitler, published and controlled the newspapers. There were two motives for this call. First, it gave international attention to the fact that Oswald, the Marxist gunman, was shooting at Walker as well as the President. General Walker knew too many people in the Defense Department and in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that could be part of this assassination. He made himself appear as a victim instead of a suspect. The other reason, along with the expertise of Robert Morris's counter-intelligence and psychological warfare training, was to create a profile for Lee Harvey Oswald. No possible motive could explain why Oswald would really want to kill President Kennedy. By having Oswald appear to shoot the right-wing General Walker with his John Birch connections, his militant anti-communist stance, then shoot John Kennedy, the same Commie-symp Walker was accusing of treason, it would appear that Oswald was just nuts. He didn't know right from left. The Munich newspaper Walker called was linked to the World Movement for a Second Anti-Komintern, part of the Gehlen and U.S. right. Some of Hitler's ex-nazis and SS-men were on the Staff. The editor, Gerhard Frey, was a close friend with various nazi members of the Witiko League. The Witiko League and the Sudetendeutch Landsmannscraft were organizations for displaced refugees. By the summer of 1948 they formed large organizations and by 1955 Dr. Walter Becher was elected to the executive board of the Witiko League. Becher was one of the kingpins of nazi front organizations. Sen. Joe McCarthy, Charles Willoughby, Gen. Edwin Walker, and Robert Morris' links to the German nazis converged when Dr. Walter Becher set up offices in Washington, D.C. in 1950. By July 16, 1957, Becher, praised by American Opinion and other extreme right publications, started his policy of liberation. General Douglas MacArthur, Senator Joe McCarthy, General Willoughby, members of the U.S. Congress or public officials then started openly to meet with and cooperate with the nazi resurgence. Dan Smooth, former Dallas FBI agent is the type of person who kept strong nazi ties with Dr. Becher in Munich, to Western Goals today. His printed sheets were identical to the Goebbels propaganda years ago, or to Walker's disinformation one day after Kennedy was killed. Volkmar Schmidt came from Munich, Germany, to work full time for General Walker. How long did he work, and where was he on November 23, 1963, when Walker made the call to the same city the CUSA imports came from? The YAF crowd in Dallas was an interesting gang: Col. Charles Willoughby, intelligence Chief for S. Pacific, Robert Morris, U.S. counter-intelligence and psychological warfare, Gen Edwin Walker, brought home from Munich by JFK, William Buckley, CIA in Japan, Mexico, and elsewhere, Sen. John Tower, who gave the okay for Marina Oswald. 1964: The Warren Commission President Lyndon Johnson was forced to select a commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy and the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby. Texas authorities were supposed to do the original investigation. There were too many suspicious people around the world who believed a conspiracy existed. Those rumors had to be squelched. J. Edgar Hoover's FBI never budged from its conclusion that Lee Harvey acted alone. Whatever evidence didn't fit this decision was ignored. Twenty-six volumes of witness testimony and exhibits were published. 8000 copies were sold. No more reprints. The contradiction between the conclusions of the Warren Report, and the abundance of discrepancies in the other volumes, makes fascinating reading. Chief Justice Earl Warren, John J. McCloy, and Allen Dulles were the logical choices for LBJ. President Kennedy didn't trust Allen Dulles as CIA Director. Now JFK was dead and Dulles would be in charge of all possible "conspiracy" segments. Richard Nixon, temporarily retired from politics for the first time since 1946, selected Rep. Gerald Ford to be on this Commission. Nixon selected Ford a second time when he ran home to escape impeachment during Watergate. One of the first subjects for commission members to share in January, one month before witnesses were selected, was the matter of Lee Harvey Oswald being a government agent. Gerald Ford was the only member of the group to write a book on the assassination. His book opened with the hushed and secret meeting where allegations had been received that Oswald worked for the FBI. What Ford left out of his book, and the commissioners ignored in their Report, was that Oswald was also identified as working for the CIA. Commission Chairman Earl Warren and Commission Attorney Leon Jaworski knew about this. They stated that "Mr. Belli, attorney for Jack L. Ruby, was familiar with these allegations." Oswald's informant number was Number 110669. How was that for a starter? The next move was to start building the myth about the deceased and ignore fact one, stated above. This grand commission would call in a doctor who never met Lee Oswald or Jack Ruby to assist them with their project, covering up. Justice Warren suggested bringing in Dr. Overholser, who "of course is not a lawyer. He is a doctor from St. Elizabeth's Hospital." As the Chairman went on to explain, "we felt we ought to have someone who, in that field, could advise us on matters concerning the life of Oswald and possibly the life of Ruby also." The next order of business was who should write the Report for them? By January 21, 1964, that had to be decided. Chairman Earl Warren said, "we consulted with the Defense Department, and they have offered to lend us one of their historians to do this job, and we think that it is quite essential to the work of the Commission." Mr. Goldberg would assist from the Air Force. Mr. Cokery was from the Army. "Mr. Winnaker recommended them," Chief Counsel J. Lee Rankin offered. "We would work with them to try to anticipate all of the various historical aspects." "Who's Who in the CIA" described "Mr. Winnaker" as having been born in Germany in 1904. His full name is Dr. Rudolph August Winnacker. He was an analyst for the OSS, historian in the War Department from 1945-1949, and then Chief of Historical Division of the Pentagon." Was Winnaker the ilk of Willoughby? Or Reinhard Gehlen? When did he come here from Germany? Where is he now? Photo by Manuel Gonzales Bustos Gehlen after the 1972 funeral of Wehrmacht Col. Gen. Franz Halder Marina Oswald was the first witness to testify on February 3, 1964. Warren wanted nothing more than to make her comfortable. The first question dealt with the General Walker story because Walker had blown it by calling Munich so soon. That scandal had to be put to rest right away. Warren asked Marina "if Exhibit 2 was familiar to her because it was a picture of General Walker's house?" Marina said, "no," but that wasn't good enough. She was asked again, and once more said, "I didn't see it, at least, taken from this view I can't recognize it. I never saw the house itself at any time in my life." That wasn't sufficient. She just couldn't remember "this particular one." Chairman Warren was ready to go "off the record." They had only just begun. Chief Counsel Rankin suggested he show her "more pictures," then maybe she would recognize the Walker home. This time she was given a selection of a location in New Orleans, two snapshots from Leningrad, and the same shot of the Walker home. Because Walker wasn't living in a castle in Leningrad, Marina assumed that house in Dallas must belong to "General Walker." Therefore this was admitted for identification. The Defense Department history could then proceed. "Marina Oswald positively identified the photograph of General Walker’s home among Lee's possessions." There are a lot of things that remain to be said about this commission and their phoney report. Admission of an old card trick at the beginning set the tone for what was to follow. What was never supposed to come out was the use of Reinhard Gehlen agents surrounding Lee and Marina Oswald for the purposes of covering up the assassination conspiracy. Two Lee Harvey Oswalds existed. One memorized the Marine manual by age 17, went directly into radar and electronic work. He trained at U-2 bases, learned the Russian language, got himself into and out of the Soviet Union, wrote clear and literate letters. He was met, upon arriving home, by Government agents, provided with occupations, fathered two children, owed no debts, traveled around a great deal, met with interesting oil geologists, defense department and intelligence agents. Their social circle included the "Cabots and Lodges" from Czarist Russia, Admirals and some fancy folks. The other Oswald was one developed by the Warren Commission to divert attention from the facts. Nobody ever saw the original "diary" that he couldn't have possibly written. Every Gehlen witness and emigre associated with the CIA, Tolstoy Foundation, or Greek Orthodox Church was directed towards the most ridiculous questions. From all that garbage the Defense Department wrote the history. The last thing that should happen is for the warriors to interpret and define for us. The facts speak for themselves.

This has got to be a first and hopefully a last, but I find myself actually agreeing with David Healy. Bill, dont let this raving fanatic intimidate you. Just enjoy the irony, Belivaqua emulates and uses the same tactics as the man he claims to despise the most...Joe McCarthy!! Actually Whittaker Chambers stated that it was in fact Robert J. Morris who was the originator and perpetrator of most of the attitudes and actions mistakenly attributed to Joseph McCarthy during McCarthyism, including stifling or trampling on First Amendment rights, book burning, and if it existed in the 1950's "Grafitti Tagging". Why don't we all just call off the dogs and go back to posting and reading? Just block out what you don't want to see or read, put on your blinders and go on your merry way where the light is the brightest and where the grass has already been trampled flat. That is surely a great approach. As for me, I prefer to take the path not taken before. I called off the dogs a long time ago but the barking still continues from multiple sources. If you do not like my postings, either do not read them or block them out using your My Controls panel. Simple enough, right? I for one am tired of these attempts at coercion, threats and intimidation. It is just like skating on thin ice.

Well I for one complained to the moderators just a week ago, the complaint being that many of Bevilaqua's posts have very little, if indeed any, real relevance to the assassination or case. It was made crystal clear that whilst the moderator was sympathetic and even hinted at agreement no action was going to be taken, frankly I was confused as the complaint was a legitimate one, until I was informed by a mod (who under no circumstances will be named) that the moderators had been instructed, by yourself (John Simkin) to "allow Bevilaqua a great deal of latitude". Any comment Mr Simkin? Is it true that because of personal friendship, political affiliation or whatever reason Bevilaqua's posts are not bound by the rules of this forum? Perhaps you feel Bevilaqua is a more importaint member than the rest of us plebs? Or perhaps he pulls more "hits"? This is your forum Mr Simkin, you own it, so if this is the case no one, least of all me, can deny you have the right. But I feel it would be a great shame if the ED forum went the same way as the Rich Dellarosa site where favoritism and protection is the norm. I sincerly hope I've not breached any forum rules with these rather awkward questions, I'm more than aware that I dont carry any special privileges here...the question is can the same be said for Bevilaqua ? \Is it true that John Bevilaqua had been a member of this forum before and had been banned or otherwise left? Is it true that John Simkin has given moderators instructions to give him a "great deal of latitude"? Thanks, BK Is it true that these questions are provocative, irrelevant, immature, vindictive, devisive, delusional, paranoic, condescending and cast aspersions on the very character and motivations of both John Simkin and others? The answers to the 2 questions above are No and No.

If the intention is to intimidate, coerce, harass or otherwise threaten a person, then of course, it is. Just be careful. You are treading on some potentially very serious issues, with both criminal and civil repurcussions, by making a threatening or intimidating statement like that and even worse repurcussions, if you actually carry it out.

Well I for one complained to the moderators just a week ago, the complaint being that many of Bevilaqua\'s posts have very little, if indeed any, real relevance to the assassination or case. It was made crystal clear that whilst the moderator was sympathetic and even hinted at agreement no action was going to be taken, frankly I was confused as the complaint was a legitimate one, until I was informed by a mod (who under no circumstances will be named) that the moderators had been instructed, by yourself (John Simkin) to "allow Bevilaqua a great deal of latitude". Any comment Mr Simkin? Is it true that because of personal friendship, political affiliation or whatever reason Bevilaqua's posts are not bound by the rules of this forum? Perhaps you feel Bevilaqua is a more importaint (sic) member than the rest of us plebs (sic)? Or perhaps he pulls more "hits"? This is your forum Mr Simkin, you own it, so if this is the case no one, least of all me, can deny you have the right. (Bet you would if you could, though) But I feel it would be a great shame if the ED forum went the same way as the Rich Dellarosa site where favoritism and protection is the norm. I sincerly hope I've not breached any forum rules with these rather awkward questions, I'm more than aware that I dont carry any special privileges here...the question is can the same be said for Bevilaqua ? Breached forum rules? You have GOT to be kidding. You have breached the very rules of humanity, of common decency and of the very principles of The First Amendment itself. And you are concerned with forum rules? What a joke! How about the rules of fair play, of leveling the playing field, or the rules of the drive-by gang bangers who just resort to playing "Grafitti Tagger" when they happen to disagree with a certain posting or a certain poster? Amazing! Dennis, what makes YOU, of all people, the official arbitrator of relevance to the JFK hit? LOL. And what makes you think that relevance or cogency has anything to do with my First Amendment rights, and yours I would expect as well, to speak my mind at any time and on any subject on or off topic regarding the JFK Assassination or on anything else for that matter? If relevance or cogency was truly a deciding criterion and if I really had the pull with John Simkin as you claimed, then I would exercise my McCarthyite and Morrisite "rights" to purge, delete or mark-up about 60% of the minutiae and anti-Democracy hyper-babble posted on all the JFK sites. Thankfully, that will never happen. Do you like to burn books, too? And stifle free speech as well. Welcome to what George Orwell predicted in his book: "1984". If you knew how preposterous those statement makes you look, you would never have made them and posted them to perpetuity. You would make Hitler and Stalin proud, and Robert J. Morris and McCarthy and even The Coudert Brothers. You are an object lesson for all the world to view and to learn from as of now. And it does not paint a very pretty picture, does it? Anyone espousing such antiquated and repressive dogma should be ashamed of themselves in my honest opinion. Do you even know what the First Amendment stands for and how many people died protecting it from McCarthy, Morris, Hitler, Stalin and others? Apparently not. Your statements and sentiments are apparently shared by dozens on this forum and that is truly despicable, outrageous and quite nauseating, too. Go read \"1984\", dude, and learn what McCarthyism is all about, too and McCarranism and Coudertism and read about Samuel Vauclain who might actually be one of your heroes when he said: \"The hell with the U.S. Constitution. Around here we go by my Constitution. They are in jail now, right? Now go and get them out of jail if you can.\" \"Have you no shame? At long last, have you no sense of shame?\" \"Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator (McCarthy). You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?\" 1941-1963 June 9, 1954 \"Have You No Sense of Decency?\" Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy rocketed to public attention in 1950 with his allegations that hundreds of Communists had infiltrated the State Department and other federal agencies. These charges struck a particularly responsive note at a time of deepening national anxiety about the spread of world communism. McCarthy relentlessly continued his anticommunist campaign into 1953, when he gained a new platform as chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He quickly put his imprint on that subcommittee, shifting its focus from investigating fraud and waste in the executive branch to hunting for Communists. He conducted scores of hearings, calling hundreds of witnesses in both public and closed sessions. A dispute over his hiring of staff without consulting other committee members prompted the panel\'s three Democrats to resign in mid 1953. Republican senators also stopped attending, in part because so many of the hearings were called on short notice or held away from the nation\'s capital. As a result, McCarthy and his chief counsel Roy Cohn largely ran the show by themselves, relentlessly grilling and insulting witnesses. Harvard law dean Ervin Griswold described McCarthy\'s role as \"judge, jury, prosecutor, castigator, and press agent, all in one.\" In the spring of 1954, McCarthy picked a fight with the U.S. Army, charging lax security at a top-secret army facility. The army responded that the senator had sought preferential treatment for a recently drafted subcommittee aide. Amidst this controversy, McCarthy temporarily stepped down as chairman for the duration of the three-month nationally televised spectacle known to history as the Army-McCarthy hearings. The army hired Boston lawyer Joseph Welch to make its case. At a session on June 9, 1954, McCarthy charged that one of Welch\'s attorneys had ties to a Communist organization. As an amazed television audience looked on, Welch responded with the immortal lines that ultimately ended McCarthy\'s career: \"Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.\" When McCarthy tried to continue his attack, Welch angrily interrupted, \"Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?\" Overnight, McCarthy\'s immense national popularity evaporated. Censured by his Senate colleagues, ostracized by his party, and ignored by the press, McCarthy died three years later, 48 years old and a broken man. Related Links: U.S. Congress. Senate. Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations (McCarthy Hearings 1953-54), edited by Donald A. Rtichie and Elizabeth Bolling. Washington: GPO, 2003. S. Prt. 107-84. Available online. Reference Items: Oshinsky, David M. A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joseph McCarthy. New York: Macmillan, 1983. Griffith, Robert. The Politics of Fear: Joseph McCarthy and the Senate. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1970.

Did you actually go to the MSC archives or is there an on-line resource available somewhere? Have you looked at the dates of the Draper cash flows to the MSC and the subsequent or concomitant Civil Rights Acts of Violence yet? Tom is Tom Scully or who? People just continue to marginalize folks like GLK Smith, Vonsiatsky and Draper because they just can not comprehend the level of vitriole, hatred and violence which can be summoned by these demons from Hell. Their associates talk about putting bullets in the heads of communist schoolteachers, and Vonsiatsky sticks ice picks into victims thighs to make them talk, uses brass knuckles on unfriendly reporters who wrote things that he disagrees with or makes him look bad, and machine guns unarmed Bolsheviks for their political views. Draper sends innocent people to the electric chair, orchestrates character assassination campaigns against Alger Hiss and others, and pays to have Evers, Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner the Birmingham choir girls, then MLK and JFK murdered. Sound like a lot of people here not only use those Morris and McCarthy tactics, but would like to try and use Vonsiatsky and Draper tactics as well. Point well taken and well made. And then some here try to call them "marginal or peripheral figures with ever-shrinking influence and power?" Dream on. Dream on my friends. It was for these very reasons that Draper and GLK Smith jumped on board the JFK lottery bandwagon. They were both almost dead broke, aging rapidly and feeling impotent and powerless because their lifelong major goals and projects were considered a dismal failure in their minds. Some other people could probably empathize with that feeling as well, right?

Thank you John for your supportive comments. The concept of using coercion, strength of numbers, the equivalent of book burning, idea crushing and even illegal threats of violence and retribution: "You have more to fear from James Hosty and Me than you do from Frank Sturgis" went out with McCarthyism and the Nazi Storm Troopers and the book burners from The John Birch Society. You can even go to Controls and "Ignore Poster" if you wish. This use of McCarthyite methodologies and Storm Trooper tactics harkens back to primitive days gone by generations ago. If you "know who killed Kennedy and why" then why don't you just prove it, then tell us all and end all the suspense? And maybe, just maybe you should consider the possibility that you fell for the subtle tactics of the "real perps" the McCarthyites, the MacArthurites, the Christian Defense League, The Pioneer Fund and the John Birchers and have been hoodwinked for 45 years. It is a difficult thing for you to face the fact that Richard Condon solved it 50 years ago and you are still floundering. Get over it! Get on with it! These groups had representation from the far right wing of ALL the alphabet agencies, so the chances that you got one right is pretty darn good. Congratulations.

Wherein Buell Partakes of Brainwashing... Bad assumption on your part. My disappointment continues. Less than half were started by me. I hereby declare that this is the MAIN Brigadier Bonner "Fighting Frank" Fellers thread from this day forward until kingdom comes or until you finally get onto the Manchurian Candidate and MK/ULTRA themes full bore. Let the "brainwashing" continue... Or maybe it is more like Chinese Water Torture... drip, drip, drip... You must come clean... you have to talk... vee haff our vays... Gary, why don't you play a little solitaire? By my rough estimate, there are now 25 threads where Bonner Fellers returns a hit and I only started 10 of them or 40% by my count. Not bad, huh? And only one of them has his name in the title, I believe. So this is it. Ever hear of the H. Smith Richardson Foundation, the CIA sponsored agency which funded MK/ULTRA. Did you know that William F. Buckley's sister married the President of the H. Smith Richardson Foundation and that the guy who started the foundation also manufactured "Vicks Vapo Rub" when it was Richardson-Vicks and that he was involved with Draper and Involuntary Sterilization in North Carolina? The guy was Gerald O'Reilly I think it was. And Buckley's sister died at age 31 in 1964, too. Google it. H. Smith Richardson alone then with Foundation... Brig. Gen. Bonner "Fighting Frank" Fellers and the "For America" group Has the Bonner F. Fellers - For America research been exhausted? 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