John Bevilaqua

Here is the entire chapter referring to the White Rose Society in Martino's book which is on-line in full or in part here. http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/morgan/martino.htm What is the last word on Capt. William Morgan and any possible role on his part in the JFK hit? At one point I was told Morgan died before 11/22/63 by the former "self-proclaimed expert" in South Florida Soldiers of Fortune and Miami Cuban affairs, who has since been debunked, and on other ocassions I see some alternative references to the fact that he participated in the hit somehow. I get the feeling that Lamar Waldron is in almost total agreement with Grodie Whineslow regarding the lack of participation on the part of Nellie's Boys, anti-Castro Cuban exiles and the E. Howard Hunt "deathbed confession" crew including William Harvey, Antonio Veciana, Frank Sturgis, David Atlee Phillips, Cord Meyer, Jr., David Morales and even E. Howard himself in the JFK plot. I always though Waldron to be very suspect in his narrow Mafia-based choice of suspects and in his obvious Whineslow-linked deflecting biases. He even appeared on CoastToCoastAM trying to debunk and belittle the E. Howard Hunt confessions and the version of events published by Saint James Hunt and Marita Lorenz which are internally self-corroborating versions of events that day. Is Thomas Hartmann from the same school of thought and background as Waldron? Meaning that they pursue fringe Mafia theories and suspects instead of mainstream links from South Florida Soldiers of Fortune into the Sturgis, Hunt and Veciana CIA sponsored anti-Castro exile crowds? If so, their work is suspect, compromised and therefore essentially worthless in my honest opinion. Anyone who cozies up to Grodie Whineslow and to his theories which have already been debunked, denuded, belittled and exposed should be shunned and avoided in my honest opinion. Neither Waldron nor Whineslow were even in Miami at the time, so all of their stuff is third hand info or based on filtered and biased sources. One of these days, I will tell you folks about how Ace Ventura - Pet Detective (a/k/a Whineslow) screwed up the facts so badly regarding the timing of my observation of Frank Sturgis in Miami's Grapeland Heights that Sturgis flipped out and started giving me threatening phone calls and then drive by staredowns in New England thinking that I could place him at the scene of an in-progress JFK assassination plot conversation on the day it happened. In essence, Sturgis implicated himself in that plot conversation, by dint of the fact that he reacted with a paranoid and guilt-ridden reactionary response. And the only person who could have related these convoluted and erroneous paranoid details to Sturgis was Whineslow himself. Thank you Ace Ventura, you the best man. Why don't you just paint a target on Sturgis' back instead and sign his death warrant? We the jury find Frank Fiorini Sturgis, on the first count - of First Degree Murder - Guilty as charged. After Whineslow cozied up to Kram Diaz, right after Notaeg Iznof did the same at the RI conference, that entire trio became Persona Non Grata in my honest opinion. They all shared the common bond of denying the version of events proffered by Marita Lorenz since it leads directly through E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis into the CIA sponsored South Florida anti-Castro Cuban exiles and those like Robert Emmett Johnson, Harold B. Chait, and Ray S. Cline even though she probably did not know these last suspects directly. Could Notaeg Iznof just have been brainwashed by the prevailing pressures to debunk Marita Lorenz? Or was he more like Whineslow, who screwed up so many dates and facts himself that he jumped on every little actual or contrived loophole in order to debunk any otherwise solid evidence which was only partially or imperfectly recollected? I think the latter. Once Whineslow cited an inaccurate factoid about someone learning to drive in the Central Shopping Plaza parking lot in Miami, then he twisted it around in his head so badly that he stated: "How could Oswald have learned to drive in Miami? He couldn't even drive a car! So there. Story debunked." Way to go, Ace Ventura, more Guano on your face. This citation had nothing to do with Oswald. Nothing at all. And these guys call themselves investigative journalists. They are little more than Guano face painters just like Ace Ventura. And some people cite them as authoritative. What a frigging joke. Goo-ahnno to you all. Sturgis and Hunt should have had their day in court on the JFK deal. And as for people who cite items like Marita Lorenz's imperfect memory regarding the exact years when she interacted with Oswald in Miami, 15-17 years AFTER THE FACT, well I challenge your memory of events even 5-7 years in the past. Nit picking in order to debunk an entire thesis is prima facie evidence of a preconceived plan to debunk, belittle and destroy. Some of you fell for that hook, line and sinker as these Guano experts paint your face with white powder and you just sit there and eat it all up. Shame on you. And Whineslow and Iznof became expert in that technique. All about Mind Control, is it not? And for some of you it only takes a small washcloth for a thorough brain scrubbing. For others a firehose in a car wash during open brain surgery could not change your mind one iota. What is Guano, anyway for those of you who did not see the movie where it was featured? Unadulterared Bat xxxx. Any excrement from birds, seals, or bats, with value to humans as fertilizer, may be referred to as guano. The term originated in Peru, to differentiate useless bird droppings from the nutrient-rich waste of cormorants, pelicans, and other sea birds. The word's useage has since been widened to include, especially, the mixture of remains and excrement of bats that collect on the floor of caves. Hundreds of years ago, farmers in South America harvested the white piles of guano from shorelines and islands to use as crop fertilizer. After contact with Europe, the export of guano became economically beneficial for the Colonizers. Bat guano also has a long agricultural and economic history in Cuba. Even today, guano from bat caves in the United States, Asia, Cuba, and South America is marketed as the best organic fertilizer available. The reason guano is an ideal fertilizer is its chemical make up. Because the guano exists deep inside caves, it's protected from sunlight and wind, and doesn't break down as quickly as other organic matter. Rich in nitrogen and phosphorous, it provides important chemicals for crops. It also has beneficial fungi and bacteria, which act as a natural fungicide to protect plants from disease. Export of guano as a fertilizer remains a key resource for organic farming, especially in the United States. A farmer can request a certain color, species of bat, or place of origin, in addition to chemical composition. Bat guano is richer than fowl or seal guano, and more plentiful. It is also much richer than horse or cow manure. <a name="guano" href="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-guano.htm#il"></a>

Arkansas Native Douglas Blackmon Wins Pulitzer By Arkansas Business Staff 4/20/2009 4:45:01 PM Douglas Blackmon of Monticello won a Pulitzer Prize Monday for general nonfiction. Blackmon wrote "Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II." The book chronicles post Civil War practices that created a "neoslavery" in the Deep South, including parts of Arkansas. Blackmon grew up in the Delta regions of Arkansas and Mississippi and attended Hendrix College in Conway, graduating in 1986. After graduation, he worked for the Arkansas Democrat and The Daily Record, both of Little Rock. The Pulitzer Prize announcements took place Monday at Columbia University in New York. Blackmon is the Atlanta Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal and has written extensively about race, the economy and American society. In an interview with ArkansasBusiness.com on Monday, Blackmon said his time in Arkansas helped shape his understanding of race and career in journalism. "I had the greatest journalism teacher in the world in high school," Blackmon said, referring to Carolyn Ripley of Monticello High School. "She was a spectacular teacher, and for a little place out in the middle of nowhere, I had a lot of great teachers." Check Arkansas Business' Outtakes media column on Monday, April 27 for more on Blackmon.

A Breed Apart: A Long-Ago Effort To Better the Species Yields Ordinary Folks August 17, 1999 — Pioneer Fund Tried to Spread `Natural Endowments’ Of Top Air Force Fliers — `Sound and Desirable Stock’ — The Wall Street Journal By Douglas A. Blackmon WARE, Mass. — Tomorrow, Ward and Darby Warburton, twin brothers born on Aug. 18, 1940, will celebrate their 59th birthdays with cake and a crowd of grandchildren gathered at the home of their 86-year-old mother near this picturesque New England mill town. The brothers’ shared birthday marks something more than another milestone in the lives of two World War II-era babies. It also marks the start of their involvement in an odd experiment six decades ago of which the Warburton family was a mostly unwitting subject. Long before cloned sheep, egg donors and sperm banks, a group of wealthy Northeastern conservatives embarked on an experiment with the help of the U.S. Army Air Corps to find a way to improve the human race. The group, formed in 1937, called itself the Pioneer Fund. As is spelled out in hundreds of pages of documents and letters by its founders and their associates, the Pioneer Fund, alarmed by the declining U.S. birth rate and rising immigration, was at the forefront of the eugenics movement. Like many other prominent leaders of the time, the fund’s directors were particularly concerned that "superior" Americans were not reproducing enough to pass on their "natural endowments." So they set out to spur procreation among a group they regarded as superior indeed — military pilots and their crews. With the support of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s secretary of war, Harry H. Woodring, the group offered $4,000, about $46,000 in today’s dollars, for the education of additional children born during the year 1940 to any officer who already had at least three offspring. The Air Corps — precursor to the U.S. Air Force — promoted the program and provided the fund’s psychologists extensive records on its officers, including training, parentage, race and religion, according to various memos and letters written among Pioneer Fund leaders and records of the experiment. By the end of 1940, a dozen qualifying infants — seven boys and five girls, including two sets of twins — had been born. The Pioneer Fund had expected bigger numbers. Looming war clouds seemed to have trumped the fund’s financial incentives. The Pioneer Fund quietly made arrangements for the children to receive their scholarships, and never contacted the families again. The Pioneer Fund, which today remains a controversial funder of research into the roots of intelligence, says the 1940 effort was a legitimate experiment to gauge attitudes toward family size, and nothing more. The Air Force declines to comment. But how did the kids turn out? The Wall Street Journal was able to track down eight of the 12 born in 1940. One died as an infant. But the other seven grew up to be moderately successful citizens. Some didn’t know the background behind the payments received long ago and were vaguely troubled to learn the details. Among the seven children who survived into adulthood, there are no ranking generals and no war heroes. No criminals, either. "My dad told me they were trying to create more fighting men," jokes Ward Warburton. "Well, I did get into a lot of fights coming up. And I could always take care of myself pretty well." Today, the Warburton brothers are air-conditioning repairmen, each with his own successful small business here in Ware, a town of 10,000 about 25 miles from Springfield, Mass. "I doubt we’re superior," says John F. Rawlings, an affable Seattle homebuilder, whose father became one of the first four-star generals in the Air Force and later the chairman of General Mills Inc. The younger Mr. Rawlings joined the Air Force but was too nearsighted to fly. He says he inherited the bad eyes from his mother. The stories of the Pioneer Fund children and the largely routine lives they have led underscore the naivete of such a clumsy effort to sculpt the human race. But they also are reminders of sinister racial assumptions prevalent in mainstream America just a generation ago. All officers in the Air Corps were white; African-Americans were barred from the Air Corps until 1941, and even then were shunted into all-black squadrons. Many early genetic researchers believed that race-mixing would damage the white race’s "germ plasm" — a human component that early scientists believed carried a race’s hereditary traits. Leaders in Nazi Germany fervently embraced such eugenic theories. The pilot procreation plan was endorsed by an array of high-ranking military and political leaders, including Mr. Woodring, one of President Roosevelt’s top aides. Moreover, many U.S. states had laws in that era authorizing the sterilization of mentally retarded people. Conventional wisdom held that whites almost certainly were born smarter than blacks. "Hitler thought that, too," says Michael Skeldon, another of the Pioneer Fund children. Now a supervisor at a San Antonio air-conditioner factory, Mr. Skeldon was troubled to learn what was behind the mysterious payments his family received long ago. "I find real odd this Pioneer group trying to mold people." As it turns out, creating a better race was more complicated than the Pioneer Fund and its allies thought back in 1938. John C. Flanagan, a young researcher who became one of the most famous behavioral psychologists in the U.S. in the ensuing 50 years, supervised the 1940 experiment. (He died in 1996.) Nonetheless, scientists today say the test was fundamentally flawed; subsequent scholarship has shown that highly successful parents don’t necessarily give birth to highly successful children. And indeed, counter to the hopes of the Pioneer Fund’s directors in 1940, the lives led by the children born that year bear out precisely that idea. The project was launched in the spring of 1937. Frederick Osborn, secretary of the Pioneer Fund and a leading proponent of racial eugenics, met at least twice with Mr. Woodring; the secretary of war encouraged the project and hooked the fund up with top military leaders, including famed aviation commander Gen. H.H. "Hap" Arnold. "Secretary Woodring is really interested," Mr. Osborn wrote to other fund directors in May 1937. A few months later, Gen. Arnold gave the fund’s experiment the green light. At the time, the fund was new, created just months earlier with a promise of financial support from its principal founder, Wickliffe Preston Draper, heir to a Massachusetts manufacturing fortune. Mr. Draper, who died in 1972, and his support for southern segregationists were the subject of a front-page article in The Wall Street Journal on June 11. The choice of pilots and their crews was logical enough. Military aviators were the astronauts of their day. Charles Lindbergh’s heroic 1927 crossing of the Atlantic was a fresh memory. Moreover, Mr. Draper was a veteran of World War I and an admirer of military officers. He used the title "colonel" most of his adult life. Clearly, aviators were "of sound and desirable stock," a Pioneer Fund memo asserted at the time. Indeed, many of the fathers of the dozen children born in 1940 were high achievers. Several were among the pioneering military pilots who in the 1920s created what would become the modern U.S. Air Force. During World War II, they rose to distinction as pilots and generals. Later, some excelled as businessmen or teachers. The six who could be identified by the Journal are now dead. None of the parents appear to have known about Mr. Draper’s backing of the Pioneer Fund. Some did know vaguely that the fund sought to breed better humans; they or their children say the parents never shared the fund’s racial views. Instead, most appear to have considered the scholarships to be some kind of short-lived government benefit for high-achieving fliers. To foster replication of such men, the Pioneer Fund first financed a detailed study in 1938 of the attitudes of about 400 Air Corps officers and their wives toward family size. It concluded that financial worry was a major reason why the military men often limited themselves to three children or fewer. Armed with the results, the Pioneer Fund’s board met a few weeks before Christmas 1938 and approved a plan for the scholarship program. The following May, brochures outlining the project were distributed at air bases around the country. After a qualifying child was born during 1940, the father would fill out a simple application form and mail it in. Once the fund had confirmed the birth of the child and size of its family, an "educational annuity" was established. The families were to begin receiving payments of $500 a year when the child turned 12 and continue for eight years, for a total of $4,000. The whole thing looked dubious to some Air Corps families even then. "We just kind of chuckled about it," says Helen Ryan, an 87-year-old Air Force widow who remembers the program but had no children then and couldn’t participate. "We all thought it was kind of a big joke." Still, a no-strings-attached grant that was bigger than most officers’ total annual pay looked good to some. And as winter lifted in 1940, word of new arrivals began trickling into the Pioneer Fund. Mr. Skeldon was born on March 2, in a military hospital in Panama, where his father was stationed. The son would follow his father’s footsteps into the Air Force in the 1960s, but worked as a mechanic, not a pilot. Born to Maj. John J. Morrow was a son named Robert. He’s an electrician in Pennsylvania, according to his son. He couldn’t be reached. On Aug. 18, the Warburton boys were delivered at a hospital near Dayton, Ohio. Their father, stationed at a nearby airfield, was one of the Air Corps’ most dashing "scout pilots" — the term then used for the men who flew fighter planes. Two months later, on Oct. 17, came John Rawlings, the fourth child of Edwin Rawlings, a fast-rising officer who had been quietly hoping for a daughter. (He already had three sons.) Less than two weeks later came another set of twins, this time at Barksdale Air Force Base outside Shreveport, La., to John P. Ryan. Mr. Ryan, a future general, developed high-altitude bombing tactics used in the war. A 1943 Pat O’Brien movie, "Bombardier," was based partly on his life. The twins were girls; the first to arrive looked like her mother, Anna, so she was named Anne Marie. Her twin looked like her paternal grandmother, Mary. She became Maryann. Today, Maryann Russo is a former teacher who for the past 17 years has worked on the factory line in a photo-processing plant in Baltimore, cutting and inspecting thousands of glossy prints. She gave up teaching elementary school because the pupils were too unruly. "The belt doesn’t talk back," she notes. Her sister, now Anne Marie Bricker, is a nurse practitioner in Arizona. Ms. Bricker, recently divorced, moved this summer from Sedona to Phoenix, abandoning a private practice to work in a clinic. "I want to have more time for doing fun things for myself," she says. The Warburton babies were certainly good candidates for the Pioneer Fund project. Their father, Ernest K. Warburton, was a young pilot who would soon be Brig. Gen. Warburton and the most famous test pilot of the era, flying more than 400 different allied and captured enemy aircraft. In 1945, he and the airmen under his command were the first U.S. troops to land in Japan after its surrender. Later, he commanded all air operations for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Warburton family heard about the Pioneer offer after Anna Warburton realized she was carrying twins, her fourth and fifth children, Mrs. Warburton says today. "I remember him coming home all" excited about the scholarship, says Mrs. Warburton, now 86. "All we really knew was that it was . . . for the children’s education, and it was intended to propagate a superior group." Ward and Darby grew up in the classic life of military children, moving often between Air Force bases in the U.S. and Europe. Both finished high school and signed up as military reservists, though they never saw active duty. For more than 30 years, the brothers have kept refrigerators, air conditioners and washing machines running in this bucolic corner of Massachusetts, the family’s home territory. Darby works on commercial cooling units. Ward is a jack-of-all appliances repairman. Their other siblings — including two doctors — are scattered from Hawaii to North Carolina. On a grassy hilltop just outside Ware, Ward lives in a comfortable gray frame house overlooking the small tree-lined lake on which his future wife was skating the first time he saw her. His mother-in-law’s home sits across the water from theirs. A collection of used washers and other appliances scavenged for spare parts protrudes from the woods behind the house. Before venturing out a decade ago to start repairing appliances in his garage, Mr. Warburton was a fix-it man for Sears, Roebuck & Co. for 28 years. "I loved the job," he says. Just down the highway lives Ward’s fast-graying twin, Darby, in a rambling white farmhouse. Out of a barn behind the home, Darby runs a two-man commercial air-conditioning service business, which he bought in 1962. He wants to retire next year. So in June, his 26-year-old son, Ernest, started working in the family business with plans to take over. Ward is a member of Ware Lions Club. Darby is a Rotarian. Darby, who attended the University of Michigan but didn’t graduate, is financially the more successful brother. He keeps two vintage Corvettes as hobby cars, driving them to Rotary meetings every week and on other special occasions. Over a recent dinner at the Salem Cross Inn — where Darby maintains the walk-in cooler — the brothers banter about their decades of mostly friendly competition. "I try to steal as many of Darby’s customers as I can," Ward says. "Darby gets mad when I do." "I do not get mad," huffs Darby, partly serious. Darby says he doesn’t recall ever knowing anything about the Pioneer Fund program before a reporter contacted the family recently, though his brother and mother insist that he was told. For his part, Ward clearly recalls the day more than 40 years ago that his father told him about the Pioneer Fund plan. "I was the slow one in the family," says Mr. Warburton, recalling his days as an academically frustrated teenager. "Just kidding around one day . . . to cheer me up, he said, `Ward, come out of it, you’re the master race.’

June 11, 1999 More on the Pioneer Fund New York Press Counterpoint (June 30, 1999) Silent Partner: How the South's Fight To Uphold Segregation Was Funded Up North New York Millionaire Secretly Sent Cash to Mississippi Via His Morgan Account 'Wall Street Gang' Pitches In By DOUGLAS A. BLACKMON Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL JACKSON, Miss. - On the afternoon of Sept. 12, 1963, a vice president of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. sent a telegram to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, the agency created by local politicians to fight the civil-rights movement and preserve racial segregation. A Morgan client, the telegram said, was "setting aside as an anonymous gift" stock valued at $100,000. There was one condition: "Donor would like the fact and amount of the gift to be kept confidential." The matter was referred directly to Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett, who agreed to the terms and, that same day, sent Morgan instructions on where to send the cash. Once the money arrived in Mississippi, it was funneled to an account in Washington, D.C., where segregationists were launching a fierce campaign to defeat landmark civil-rights legislation abolishing segregation in most public facilities. And in the ensuing months, the mystery contributor would follow up with additional, substantial gifts to help the cause. For nearly four decades, the role of that donor remained concealed in the files of the now-defunct Sovereignty Commission. But last year, a federal judge ordered the unsealing of more than 130,000 commission files. The documents triggered a painful examination of some of the South's most heinous racial crimes. Little explored, though, was the trove of ledgers, invoices and correspondence recording the commission's finances. Those records show large transfers of money by Morgan on behalf of a client who turns out be a wealthy and reclusive New Yorker named Wickliffe Preston Draper. Mr. Draper used his private banker to transfer nearly $215,000 in stock and cash to the Sovereignty Commission for use in its fight against the Civil Rights Act. The entire budget for the effort amounted to about $300,000. Adjusted for inflation, Mr. Draper's contributions would be worth more than $1.1 million today. The Sovereignty Commission files do more than simply document one man's role. They show that some of the most virulent resistance to civil-rights progress in the 1960s was supported and funded from the North, not just the South. The files also highlight the ethical issues that confront an institution like Morgan Guaranty, the private-banking unit of J.P.Morgan & Co., when it is drawn, even unwittingly, into a client's support for repugnant causes. Since the 1930s, Mr. Draper had been a client of Guaranty Trust, which became Morgan Guaranty when it merged with J.P. Morgan in 1959. It isn't clear whether he used Guaranty to help with funding some of his earlier race related efforts, such as a program in the 1930s to encourage white military pilots to have more children, or research in the 1950s to prove the superiority of whites and the dangers of mixed-race marriages. When Mr. Draper died in 1972, Morgan was an executor of his estate, overseeing distributions totaling about $5 million to two race-oriented foundations. The primary beneficiary was the Pioneer Fund, an organization Mr. Draper helped found and which became known in recent years for funding research cited in "The Bell Curve," a book arguing that blacks are genetically inclined to be less intelligent than whites or Asians. In his will, Mr. Draper instructed that after his death, the Pioneer Fund use Morgan for financial advice; the fund did so for two decades. Morgan today says that "racism is deplorable" and that the bank doesn't "support institutions that further racist causes." Moreover, the bank notes that it has been a consistent donor to African American causes, giving more than $3.3 million of its own money to civil-rights-related groups since the late 1960s. Morgan insists that the Sovereignty Commission transactions it processed for Mr. Draper were routine procedures carried out on behalf of a client, over which the bank had no influence or control. "A thousand times a day, somebody sends money to an organization that 30 years later looks really terrible," says Morgan spokesman Joe Evangelisti. "We can't tell our customers how to spend their money." Mr. Evangelisti says the role Morgan played was no different from the way Wall Street banks today facilitate gifts to organizations that could be equally controversial. He cites donations made to Planned Parenthood (often criticized for its pro-choice stance), or to the Boy Scouts of America (which prohibits gays from becoming troop leaders), Morgan's policy, he says, is to pass no judgment on any client's / Please Turn to Page A8, Column 1/ activities, except in the "rare situation" when "the wishes of a client ... conflict with the principles that we stand for as a firm." In those cases, the firm may close a client's account, Mr. Evangelisti says. Since the Sovereignty Commission was a legal, state-created entity, says Hildy J. Simmons, a managing director at Morgan Guaranty, the bank had no choice but to follow its client's wishes. It would be no different today. "As long as the receiving party is legal, we have no discretion," says Ms. Simmons. Morgan did close the asset-management account it maintained for the Pioneer Fund after the furor erupted over "The Bell Curve" in 1994, according to people familiar with the situation. The bank won't give details on why it did so. That option is something banks should consider, says Thomas Donaldson, a business-ethics professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. "Good bankers should have the words 'Know thy client' tattooed somewhere on their chests," Mr. Donaldson says. "When the activities of the client or customer reach the point where they offend vital, deeply held values of the institution, you have to say no." But many banks aren't comfortable with that posture, and with good reason, says George J. Benston, a banking professor at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University in Atlanta. "One would like any institution to operate with its customers neutrally. You don't want some bank officer making a judgment on whether a customer's donations are moral." Brahmin Roots Wickliffe Draper was, in many ways, a typical Yankee aristocrat. He was born in Hopedale, Mass., in 1891. His father was a top executive in the textile-machinery giant Draper Corp. His mother was from a blue-blood Kentucky family. An uncle was a Massachusetts governor. His younger sister married a nephew of President William Howard Taft. Mr. Draper reveled in adventure. At Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1913, he excelled in shooting. A volunteer in both world wars, he used the title "colonel" for most of his life. In 1924, he inherited about half of his father's estate, which was valued at the then-enormous sum of nearly $11 million. In 1938, he reported to his Harvard classmates that his diversions over the 25 years since college included "shooting jaguar in Matto Grosso and deer in Sonora, elephant in Uganda and chamois in Steiermark, ibex in Baltistan and antelope in Mongolia; pigsticking in India." By the late 1930s, for reasons that still aren't clear, Mr. Draper had also developed a fascination with racial genetics. In 1937, he helped found the Pioneer Fund. The foundation was devoted to supporting eugenics, a school of thinking which held that races can be genetically "improved" through mating practices, such as encouraging intelligent people to marry, or sterilizing handicapped individuals. Many eugenicists of the day, including some Pioneer founders, believed that whites were superior to blacks in intellect and other attributes, says Barry Mehler, a historian at Michigan's Ferris State University, who has studied the fund extensively. The charter of the Pioneer Fund said the organization would support research and programs aimed at "race betterment," Scholarship programs would give special consideration to "children who are deemed to be descended predominantly from white persons who settled in the original 13 states." (In 1985, Pioneer amended its charter, saying it supports programs aimed at "human race betterment," and also deleting the reference to "white persons.") Today, officials of the fund deny that it seeks to prove the inferiority of any race and maintain that it funds only legitimate genetic research, regardless of its findings. The organization says its past and present leaders were not biased for or against any race. One of the first major projects of the Pioneer Fund under Mr. Draper was a program to encourage officers of the all-white U.S. Army Air Corps, predecessor of the Air Force, to have more children. Mr. Draper and other directors of the foundation believed that the Pioneer Fund should encourage a higher birth rate among the best of the white race. So the fund offered to establish annuities to pay for the education of any child born in 1940 to a pilot who had already fathered at least three children. Among the original Pioneer Fund directors who endorsed the plan was John Marshall Harlan II, a prominent New York attorney who would be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1957. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of war, Harry H. Woodring, personally approved the plan, according to Justice Harlan's papers, now stored at Princeton University. Memos to Mr. Harlan make clear that the plans were fulfilled. "During the calendar year 1940 there were 12 children born to officers in the Army Air Corps ... eligible to receive scholarships," wrote a psychologist hired to oversee the program. Mr. Draper made arrangements, according to records kept by Mr. Harlan, for an annuity to be established for each of the children at Guaranty Trust, the predecessor to Morgan Guarantee. After World War II, the never-married Mr. Draper became increasingly reclusive. He stopped submitting updates to his Harvard class and lived alone in Manhattan, in a spacious East 57th Street penthouse duplex, surrounded by hunting weapons and mounted animal heads. For several years, he paid young researchers to visit his apartment and teach him genetic theory. "For $10 an hour, I tutored Draper ... every time I was in New York," says Bruce Wallace, a retired Virginia Polytechnic University professor who adds that he disagreed with Mr. Draper's views. "His contention was that the-geneticists had all the figures but they were afraid to add them all up.... He was quite set on the idea that there was superiority and inferiority. I don't think he would have placed blacks among the superior." The theories embraced by Mr. Draper fell out of favor after the war, and as the horrors of the Nazi regime became apparent, many of his old allies distanced themselves from their previous work. But through the 1950s, Mr. Draper continued to push for research to demonstrate white superiority; he also espoused sending American blacks, on a voluntary basis, to live in Africa, says the Pioneer Fund. In 1957, the state of Mississippi created the Sovereignty Commission. Operating on an appropriation of about $100,000 a year, the commission penetrated most of the major civil-rights organizations in Mississippi, even planting clerical workers in the offices of activist attorneys. It informed police about planned marches or boycotts and encouraged police harassment! of African Americans who cooperated with civil rights groups. Its agents obstructed voter registration by blacks and harassed African Americans seeking to attend white schools. On occasion, the commission also took steps to discourage violence by the Ku Klux Man and other extremist groups. Precisely how Mr. Draper became connected to the commission isn't clear. But the relationship appears to have blossomed shortly after a national address by President John F. Kennedy in June 1963. The president proposed wide-reaching legislation to outlaw segregation in public facilities. Mississippi leaders scrambled to mount a vigorous fight. They turned to John C. Satterfield, a brilliant litigator from Yazoo City, Miss., and the immediate past president of the American Bar Association. By the end of the 1960s, Time magazine would label him "the most prominent segregationist lawyer in the country." Within days of President Kennedy's speech, Mr. Satterfield headed to Washington to meet with top politicians and leaders of major trade organizations and business groups. The response was encouraging. "We in the South now have new and important allies who never before seemed seriously concerned," wrote Erle Johnston Jr., director of the Sovereignty Commission. "It was a thrill to me to see how the gentlemen at these meetings looked to Mississippi for leadership." The result was a new national lobbying organization, called the Coordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms. The Sovereignty Commission provided money to rent a Washington office and hire staff, and largely controlled the group from Mississippi. On July 22, 1963, Mr. Satterfield received the first private contribution to the cause, a $10,000 Morgan Guaranty cashier's check drawn from Mr. Draper's accounts. It was deposited into a special account in the Mississippi state treasury and logged into Sovereignty Commission records with a simple notation: "Morgan Guaranty Trust Co." Over the next year, Mississippi leaders repeatedly claimed that the campaign was being financed by broad grass-roots support in Mississippi and across the U.S. In truth, contributions from Mississippi citizens never topped $30,000. A surviving partner of Mr. Satterfield's law firm says the attorney obliquely referred to the source of the big money simply as "the Wall Street gang." On Sept. 12, Mississippi Gov. Barnett received the telegram in which Morgan Vice President Arthur W. Rossiter Jr. said $100,000 in stock had been earmarked for the Mississippi commission. After the shares were sold, the gift totaled $98,612. It was entered into Sovereignty Commission records as "Donation from Morgan Guaranty Trust Company." Four months later, another telegram arrived from Mr. Rossiter, this time signaling the impending arrival of an additional $105,000 from Mr. Draper. The money was derived from Mr. Draper's shares of Reynolds Tobacco, General Motors, Standard Oil of New Jersey and Addressograph-Multigraph. Morgan sold the stock at Mr. Draper's direction, collected commissions on the sales, and moved the proceeds into what it calls a temporary Sovereignty Commission account at Morgan Guaranty. The Sovereignty Commission eventually forwarded the funds to Washington. Throughout, Mr. Rossiter insisted that the source of the money never be disclosed. "This represents an anonymous gift to your Commission and the donor has specifically requested that the fact and the amount of the gift be kept strictly confidential," he wrote in one letter. Mr. Draper's money buoyed a sweeping attack on the civil-rights bill. The Sovereignty Commission's Washington arm coordinated opposition efforts among less-organized groups, pushed trade associations to fight the bill and lobbied Congress. It sent ghost-written editorials to newspapers around the country and bought ads in 500 daily and weekly papers. By April 1964, the group had distributed 1.4 million pamphlets and mailings, Sovereignty Commission records indicate. The opposition effort was swathed in the issues of protecting states' rights and . reining in an overreaching federal government. The advertisements said the bill would create an "omnipotent president" and a "dictatorial attorney general." But commission records make clear that the effort co-financed by Mr. Draper was grounded on bitterly racist notions. Citing several white-supremacist tracts, an internal memorandum by Mr. Satterfield said Americans had to be shown that the conditions of blacks in the U.S. were the result of "heredity ... not discrimination." At the heart of the matter, the memo said, were "the intelligence, criminality and immorality of the Negro." The Sovereignty Commission campaign triggered thousands of letters. Despite that, Congress approved the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law. Frustrated by the defeat, Mr. Satterfield pressed Mississippi's new governor, Paul Johnson, to help start a new national organization, designed to demonstrate that the plight of blacks in the South was the result not of "mistreatment and discrimination" but the "completely different nature of Negro citizens and white citizens," he wrote the governor. "Certain groups in the east who prefer anonymity" were ready to back the effort with $200,000, Mr. Satterfield wrote, if the state would match the contribution. As a gesture of seriousness, an unnamed northern benefactor had sent $50,000. The donor was, again, Mr. Draper. His gift arrived via Morgan on June 2, 1964. Gov. Johnson endorsed the plan, and the Legislature quickly appropriated $200,000. But the segregationists suffered another setback, this time at the hands of their most rabid elements. Klan members abducted civil-rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney in the town of Philadelphia, Miss. The three were beaten, shot to death and buried in an earthen dam. Six weeks later, the workers' 1963 Ford station wagon was found burned along an isolated road, still bearing Mississippi license tag H 25503, a number logged into Sovereignty Commission files by an informant a few weeks earlier. The national outcry brought an end to the new alliance between Mississippi officials and Mr. Draper. Gov. Johnson's office was flooded with telegrams, many simply repeating the words "justice, justice, justice." Increasingly isolated, Mississippi leaders took at least symbolic steps to halt violence. The state's own $200,000 appropriation was quietly returned to the Mississippi treasury. Later, the $50,000 from Mr. Draper was returned to his attorney in New York, Harry F. Weyher, who deposited it into the escrow account of his firm, records show. Mr. Weyher, who has been president of the Pioneer Fund for more than 40 years, says he doesn't recall the flow of funds, though he did remember meeting with Mr. Satterfield in the 1960s. Mr. Draper maintained his interest in the fight to preserve segregation in the South. In the late 1960s and 1970s, he sent dozens of checks to private academies that had opened up to accommodate white families fleeing newly integrated public schools, estate records show. After Mr. Draper died in 1972, Morgan continued to manage his holdings while the will was being sorted out. Five years later, his assets were distributed according to Mr. Draper's wishes. He gave about $1 million to family members, and also bequeathed $3.3 million to the Pioneer Fund and $1.7 million to the Puritan Foundation. (The Pioneer Fund isn't related to the mutual fund of the same name.) The Puritan Foundation listed as its address the law firm of Mr. Satterfield, the Mississippi lawyer. In 1978, the fund was merged into another nonprofit called the Council School Foundation, according to Rutgers University Prof. William Tucker, who is researching Mr. Draper's activities. That Mississippi group was created to support private schools that catered to white students. A State's Stigima Citing bank policy, executives at Morgan won't discuss whether the bankers who worked with Mr. Draper knew of his racial leanings or the true nature of the Sovereignty Commission. Still, Morgan was dealing with prominent Mississippi segregationists at a time when the national media were focused on the state, and when some on Wall Street and in New York's political community were concerned about maintaining business ties there. Mr. Barnett, the governor of Mississippi, had been pictured on the front page of the New York Times in 1962 during a bloody standoff with federal troops forcing the integration of the University of Mississippi. The Mississippi state treasurer at the time, William F. Winter, said that Wall Street firms charged higher interest rates on the state's bonds, due to the stigma of having ties to Mississippi. In 1965, one such issue was canceled due to a lack of bids on Wall Street. Morgan says none of that is relevant. The bank likely had clients supporting the civil-rights movement as well, executives say. And, adds Mr. Evangelisti, "doing business with a particular client doesn't mean that we endorse that client's beliefs of actions." It would be "offensive" for a bank to police how its clients conduct their affairs. "That's a privilege of being rich in America," says Ms. Simmons at Morgan. "You can spend your money the way you want to." Douglas A. Blackmon, "Silent Partner: How the South's Fight To Uphold Segregation Was Funded Up North," Wall Street Journal (Friday June 11, 1999) p. 1; A8. Blackmon, Douglas A. "Silent partner: How the South's fight to uphold segregation was funded up North." Wall Street Journal. 11 Jun. 1999.

Never forget that the nephew of then Mississippi Senator James O. Eastland, Byron DeLa Beckwith, murdered Medgar Evers, Jr. in the Summer of 1963. He was a member of the NSRP and the KKK just like the Birmingham Bombers and Joseph A. Milteer. See "Portrait of a Racist" by Reed Massengil. Shortly after Evers was murdered, Wickliffe Draper sent his first $225,000 check to the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission as a headhunter's payback in my opinion. See Doug Blackmon, Wall Street Journal, June, 1999 - on Draper and the funding of the MSC. Draper sent other checks to the MSC just before JFK was killed and just before the murders of Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman, The Freedom Riders in The Ghosts of Mississippi. You all know that Eastland and Senator Thomas J. Dodd were involved with Klein's Sporting Goods and the Louisiana Voter Registration Drive with Lee Harvey Oswald and SISS but you probably did not know about the other Mississippi connections. Doug Blackmon was amazed that I knew about the Draper and Eastland connections 5 years before he found the documents in the MSC files. Eastland headed the Draper Eugenics Committee as part of SISS. And did you know that Jim Marrs discovered that Eastland wanted to head up: "The Eastland Commission to Investigate the Assassination of JFK"? That is a fact, Jack. Eugenics and Eugenicists who funded Southern crackers from Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama perpetrated almost all of the Civil Rights violence of the 1960's. And Wickliffe Draper was the man who provided most of the money for them to operate. Google Doug Blackmon and Draper to see. What did Eugenics and Draper have to do with Civil Rights violence and the JFK murder? Everything. Everything.

Regarding Fiorini/Sturgis' backing off the claims he made to journalist Jim Buchanan about Oswald a few days after the assassination, the FBI recorded Sturgis admitting that "he had made some offhand comments to Buchanan" on Nov 26. He did back off saying he had any first-hand knowledge of Oswald. CD 59 has the short FBI writeup on their interview with Sturgis after the newspaper article: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=3 Whether or not Sturgis actually knew Oswald and regardless of the truth of any of his statements (Oswald "tried to infiltrate Cuban anti-Castro organizations in Miami"), it's likely that he did tell Buchanan what showed up in the papers, and that his information was based on more than just reading the papers. I recently read the HSCA testimony of Sturgis' sometimes girlfriend Marita Lorenz, where she told the Committee her story of hanging out with Sturgis and Pedro Diaz Lanz and Ozzie starting in 1961 I think, and their purported car trip to Dallas to go kill JFK. The Committee members waited patiently through to the end before saying, "But Oswald was in Russia then!" To which Marita essentially replied "Whatever." Rex I can personally attest to the fact that both E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis frequented what was in all likelihood a CIA safehouse located in the Grapeland Heights section of Miami, Florida right next door to my childhood home. I saw Frank Sturgis in the front yard of that home on several different ocassions in the early 1960's up to and including the Fall of 1963. On one ocassion, Sturgis was observed stealing hollow cinder blocks from the fence bordering the 2 properties, ostensibly for use in boom and bang operations against Castro. Even though I was only a teenager, I managed to imitate an older person and shouted at him through an overlooking window to put the blocks back where he had found them, and then threatened to call the police if a single additional block disappeared. No more cinder blocks were stolen after that incident. I can not help but laugh to think that Sturgis was cowed and intimidated by a teenager with cajones. Loading the hollowed out section with explosives and then dropping them from a plane would cause instant detonation. I discussed this topic with Sherry Sullivan, the daughter of Geoffrey Sullivan, who disappeared while flying a plane for such an operation against Castro. I surmised how he may have met his ultimate demise because Sherry thought his plane might have been sabotaged by suspicious leaders of Alpha 66. These cinder blocks would cause sparks to fly whenever 2 of these heavy construction blocks were struck together. If the load shifted in the plane, or if the bombardier was not careful enough to prevent accidental sparks from flying while dropping these missiles, it would be quite possible to detonate the entire load in the air prematurely. I also saw a person who I can conclusively state was E. Howard Hunt in the same yard taking smoking breaks on at least 2 different ocassions. When he saw me peering through the bushes at him, I attempted to wave and say hello to him but he just quickly turned his head, snuffed out the cigarette and went back into the house without a word. I never saw the 2 of them together during the same observation, but it is safe to say that if both of them frequented that house during the early 1960's which later had a For Rent sign from the Bernard Barker owned Keyes Realty shortly after the JFK assassination, one could conclude that this eventual Watergate trio cut their eye teeth together at one or more Miami based CIA safe houses. E. Howard Hunt admitted as much in his "deathbed confession" to his son, Saint James Hunt in 2006-2007. While Gordon Winslow continues in his attempts to debunk my documented personal observations, he often catches himself in internal inconsistencies and deliberate falsehoods which have caused him to be mistrusted and ignored by almost all serious JFK researchers. He was the one who asked me to describe another former neighbor in Miami whom he knows from the City of Miami employees roster. I told him that she had "Coke-bottle thick glasses in the 1960's" and that she always wore cutoffs and hot pants and very, very short skirts, he laughed and said: "Guess you really did live there. She still dresses like that today and wears the same glasses." Then a few weeks later he reported to other JFK researchers that I was unable to verify to his satisfaction that I had ever lived in the Grapeland Heights section of Miami. xxxx, xxxx, pants on fire. He also attempted to debunk the now confirmed story of Marita Lorenz which was verified, at least in part, by my personal observations and those of my father. E. Howard Hunt confimed essential portions of Marita Lorenz's version of events regarding the JFK assassination and I am able to do the same. Case Closed.

Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 05:11:55 -0500 (EST) From: ODIN <odin@shadow.net> Subject: The PIONEER FUND as PROMULGATORS of FASCISM Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950315050741.20196E-100000@anshar.shadow.net> From: pioneer@ids.net The Pioneer Fund as promulgators of fascism Editor's hyperbolic diatribe: The Pioneer Fund was the primary financial sponsor of Proposition 187 on the California ballot. They have an extended legacy of sponsoring similar legislation over the past 57 years of their existence. The agenda that they are attempting to advance is one of fascism, repression and racism. Linkage of their past goals and ideals to their present visions for the future of America can go a long way toward stopping them in their tracks. Note: The comments contained in braces [ ] are those of the editor. Some typographical errors in the original article have been corrected for ease of comprehension. THE NEW YORK TIMES - Sunday, December 11, 1977 Fund Backs Controversial Study of "Racial Betterment" by Grace Lichtenstein A private trust fund based in New York has for more than 20 years supported highly controversial research by a dozen scientists who believe that blacks are genetically less intelligent than whites. The Pioneer Fund, a tax-exempt foundation incorporated in 1937 for the express purpose of research into "racial betterment," was worth more than $2 million, according to its 1975 Internal Revenue Service return. Yet several officers of the leading geneticists profession- al organization say they never heard of it. A month-long study of the Pioneer Fund's activities by The New York Times shows it has given at least $179,000 over the last 10 years to Dr. William B. Shockley, a leading proponent of the theory that whites are inher- ently more intelligent than blacks. The money was paid through Stanford University, where professor Shockley was a Nobel Prize-winning professor of engineering science, as well as through his own personal foundation - a customary method of foundation disbursement. Another major beneficiary is Dr. Arthur R. Jensen, an educational psychologist at the University of California, whose article in 1969 theorizing that intelligence was hereditary touched off a furor over the value of compensatory education for disadvantaged black students. Some Others Who Got Grants Dr. Travis Osborn of the University of Georgia, Dr. Frank C. J. McGurk and Dr. Audrey Shuey are other well-known researchers in the same area who got Pioneer grants. Two researchers known to few specialists in the genetics field, Dr. Roger Pearson and Dr. Ralph Scott, also got substantial grants, which they declined to discuss. Neither man is a geneticist. Theories of racial inferiority pursued by Pioneer's staff of researchers have been widely discredited in recent years. Some data developed by Cyril Burt, a British scientist, which had underpinned the theory, are now alleged by leading geneticists to be without scientific value. In addition, at least one major association of professional geneticists has publicly decried the use of what it regards as questionable material on heredity and race to buttress political positions. However, Burke Judd, former secretary of the Genetics Society of America, and Hope Punnett, secretary of the American Society of Human Genetics, said that in principle they were in favor of any legitimate genetics research, even when it encompasses what some feel is an extreme point of view. "If you really believe in open research you've got to let these people do their 'research' and then let the rest of us question it," said Dr. Punnett. She said she did not take either Dr. Jensen or Dr. Shockley "too seriously" because she did not think they had developed good scientific information to support their theories. Some Are Embarrassed Other colleges that have accepted Pioneer grants for "eugenics and heredity" include the University of California at Berkeley, University of Georgia, University of Southern Mississippi, Randolph-Macon College, Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology and the University of Northern Iowa. High officials of the last two schools said hey now were embarrassed by the grants. They asked to remain anonymous, on the ground that criticism by them would suggest interference with academic freedom. It is not known whether Pioneer financed research in fields other than heredity and eugenics. Spokesmen at all the schools who knew about the grants said they did not know the Pioneer Fun had been chartered for research into "racial betterment." Nor did those scientists who The Times was able to reach who would answer questions. A spokesman for the University of California at Berkeley said its records showed no Pioneer Fund grants to Dr. Jensen, although it did accept a Pioneer grant for a political science professor. Dr. Jensen confirmed that some of his grants came through the university. In each case the university, or another foundation, was named as recipient of the grants, although the actual work was done by a specific professor in residence. This is common practice in grant-giving everywhere. However, in at least one school, Northern Iowa, the professor, Dr. Ralph Scott, used some of the money not only for research but for anti-busing, anti-school integration seminars in such off-campus places as Louisville, (KY) and Boston (MA), according to the school's grants administrator. Question of Tax Exemption "This might put the fund's tax-exempt status in jeopardy," an Internal Revenue Service spokesman said when asked about general rules applying to funds such as Pioneer. Under Federal law, such funds remain tax-exempt as long as "no substantial part of the activity" is "carrying on propaganda or otherwise attempting to influence legislation." "You're in a very sticky area," the I.R.S. spokesman replied when asked about the definition of propaganda. Pioneer Fund is currently in a tax- exempt category applying to groups exclusively charitable, religious, testing and educational. Although it has been a major "banker" in the financing of research on race and genetics, Pioneer's chief executive will not talk to reporters. Nor will some of the scientists who take its money acknowledge their connection with Pioneer. The president of Pioneer Fund is Harry F. Weyher [pronounced like "wire"], a lawyer whose office at 299 Park Avenue also is the fund's office. Questioned by telephone about Pioneer, Mr. Weyher said, "It's a client." Then he added, "I'm not going to talk to you any more," and hung up. Mr. Weyher, several directors and the fund's founder have had long-standing connections with conservative causes or political candidates, although no one has suggested that the conservatives in question shared their interest in eugenics and heredity research. The founder, Wickliffe [Preston] Draper, a 1913 graduate of Harvard who died in 1972, was the reclusive heir to a Massachusetts textile-machinery fortune, according to published accounts. Two Committees Supported In the 1950's and 1960's Mr. Draper supported two now-defunct committees that gave grants for genetics research. Mr. Weyher was his lawyer. The committee members included Representative Francis E. Walter, chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee [HUAC]; Henry E. Garrett, an educator known for his belief in the genetic inferiority of blacks, and Senator James O. Eastland of Mississippi. When it was disclosed in 1960 that Richard Arens, staff director for the Un-American Activities Committee, was also a paid consultant to the Draper- financed committees, Mr. Arens was forced to leave his Congressional job. In 1960 published reports quoted some leading American geneticists as saying they had turned down requests from Mr. Draper to do research into theories of racial inferiority among blacks. Mr. Weyher, in a newspaper interview at the time, said Mr. Draper had already sponsored a book on restricting immigration and another on the intelligence of blacks by Dr. Shuey, a retired professor at Randolph- Macon Woman's College. Mr. Draper also gave money to right wing political candidates, including the late Representative Donald Bruce [Republican] of Indiana, and the late Representative Walter, as well as to conservative lobbying organiza- tions such as the American Coalition of Patriotic Societies. When Mr. Draper died his estate turned over $1.4 million to the Pioneer Fund. Among two men listed as directors of Pioneer in 1975, the most recent year for which Internal Revenue Service records are available, is John B. Trevor, [Jr.] of New York, [whose father was] a founder of the American Coalition of Patriotic Societies, adviser to Billy James Hargis' Christian Crusade and author of an article on South Africa that appeared in The Citizen, the publication of the White Citizens' Councils. Testifying against more liberal immigration laws in 1965, Mr. Trevor warned against "a conglomeration of racial and ethnic elements" that he said led to "a serious culture decline." The other Pioneer director [in 1975] is Thomas F. Ellis of Raleigh, N.C., manager of [senator] Jesse Helm's 1972 campaign for Senator and an impor- tant backer of Ronald Reagan's 1976 Presidential campaign. Pioneer-sponsored research in eugenics, a movement devoted to improving the human species through control of hereditary factors in mating, and dysgenics the study of trends in population leading to the deterioration of hered- itary , is a subject of much dispute in the genetics field. An 'Inescapable Opinion' Dr. Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor, has for years been collecting material on eugenics and dysgenics research. He said in a telephone inter- view a few days ago from his home in Palo Alto, Calif., that he had reached "the inescapable opinion that a major cause of American Negroes' intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin." This, he continued, "is not remediable to a major degree by practical improvements in environment," such as better schools, jobs or living con- ditions. He said he was "very grateful" for Pioneer's grants. A spokesman for Stan- ford said that $179,000 over 10 years to Dr. Shockley from Pioneer sounded correct, although the school did not have an exact dollar figure. The views of Dr. Shockley and Dr. Jensen and their supporters, have come under attack recently from, among other sources, the Genetics Society of America, a leading professional organization. In July 1976 it published a statement of its committee on genetics, race and intelligence that was endorsed by nearly 1,400 members. "In our views there is no convincing evidence as to whether there is or is not an appreciable genetic difference in intelligence between races," it said. "Well designed research... may yield valid and socially useful results and should not be discouraged. We feel that geneticists can and must also speak out against the misuse of genetics for political purposes and the drawing of social conclusions from inadequate data." Genetics and Busing When informed about Dr. Scott's activities on busing at Northern Iowa, Professor Judd said it sounded contrary to normal academic practices for an educational, tax-exempt foundation to finance genetics research linked to the school-busing controversy. "But I don't have enough information," he added. According to Northern Iowa officials, Dr. Scott is studying "forced busing and its relationship to genetic aspects of educability." In this context he sent a graduate student to Mississippi and held seminars on busing, according to sources at the university. Dr. Scott, a professor of education, refused to comment on his research and to say whether its results had been published anywhere. Roger Pearson, a British-educated economist who has been the beneficiary of two Pioneer grants for work while he was dean at Montana Tech, also refused to talk about his research. Such nonresponses are unusual in the field of academic research openly sponsored by tax-exempt foundations. Standford, for example, has a policy stating that "findings and conclusions" of research supported by outside grants "should be available for scrutiny and criticism. Dr. Pearson, who served for the 1974-1975 academic year as dean at Montana Tech before leaving by mutual consent in a disagreement over educational goals, got $60,000 from Pioneer while he was there. Montana Tech officials said they had no idea that he apparently was the same man who some years ago edited Western Destiny, a journal with many pro-South Africa, anti-Communist and anti-racial mixing articles and who wrote a number of pamphlets for the conservative-oriented Noontide Press such as "Eugenics and Race" and "Early Civilizations of the Nordic Race." How many goals of Hitler's Third Reich are mentioned in this article? Anti-immigration legislation, sentiments and testimony Anti-civil rights legislation, sentiments and activities Anti-minority pseudo scientific research into racial inferiority Anti-communist and anti-liberal agendas of the radical right Attempts at genetic manipulation by pseudo science towards a Master Race Use of "internal security" at HUAC as a direct smokescreen for racism Supporting the most anti-union Senator who ever lived in Jesse Helms Using the veneer of "academic respectability" and "science" for racism Wickliffe Preston Draper, the founder of The Pioneer Fund, is the epitome of an American Hitler in the guise of a philanthropic and well educated millionaire. His family owned Draper Corporation, in Hopedale, MA and both North and South Carolina and he was a staunch anti-Union activist from the early days of Sacco and Vanzetti Trial in Dedham, MA only 30 miles from his hometown of Hopedale, MA in the heart of the Blackstone Valley which was the home of the Industrial Revolution. He was also among the most ardent and vehement racists and anti-civil rights advocates in the history of this cause from as early as the 1930's and perhaps earlier. His hatred of the United Nations, liberals, and his dislike for anyone who participated in the Nye Committees of the 1930's which attempted to punish so-called "war profiteering" by the DuPonts, led to Draper's deliberate persecution of Alger T. Hiss between 1948 and 1951 with the assistance of his cohort in racism, eugenics and white supremacy, Nathaniel Weyl, who is still alive today. Draper's vitriolic hatred for President John F. Kennedy was epitomized by his direct financial sponsorship of several publications that led the character assassination attacks on him during the 1950's when he was a Senator from Massachusetts. These included Human Events, Right magazine, Noontide Press, The American Mercury and comparable rightist publications ostensibly owned and operated by The Liberty Lobby or affiliates, the foremost racist, proto-fascist and anti-Semitic organization that has ever existed in a Democracy. Only a Democracy could be brought to its knees by the sinister forces of fascism, operating under the protection of the First Amendment to the Constitution. This is a very sad commentary on our times and on the foibles of our once magnificent system of egalitarian democracy. The Draper attacks and assaults on President Kennedy intensified even more during the 1960's when he was President and culminated in the final character assassination in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. The Draper family, in 1967 became the largest shareholder in Rockwell-Standard, which later became Rockwell International, one of the two largest defense contractors in the entire universe along with the Lockheed Corp. of Marietta, GA which is championed by Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA). Rockwell bought out the failing Draper Corporation, a manufacturer of textile loom machinery and equipment just before the acceleration of military activity in Vietnam and shortly before the Draper Corporation was liquidated by Rockwell as a bankrupt concern in the late 1970's. Rockets, missiles and warplanes are apparently a much easier place to make money than in the arena of textile loom equipment and textile machinery. Neither Kennedy's opposition to the Cost Plus Fixed Fee method of compensating defense contractors nor the CIA's opposition to the National Intelligence Estimates of March 22, 1963 called NIE 11-4-63 stood in the way of the plans for the future of this country as defined and designed by those in the Draper- Rockwell coalition which reached its culmination during their merger. Draper's fascist-inspired vitriolic hatred of Communism and anything liberal led to his support of McCarthyism and the activities of HUAC, the House Un-American Activities Committee for over a decade. In the spirit of Dr. Josef Goebbels, he and his close associate at The Pioneer Fund, Dr. Harry H. Laughlin, actually created and then championed the "involuntary sterilization movement in America" the so-called "Buck vs. Bell" Supreme Court case which was favorably reviewed by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. It led directly to the involuntary sterilization of over 75,000 human beings between 1924 and 1972 in the approximately 24 states which passed similar laws at the behest and encouragement of The Pioneer Fund. Sound familiar? But the first major achievement of his work and that of Herr Laughlin, was when Hitler and Goebbels invited Laughlin to receive an honorary degree for his work in passing "The Model Eugenics Laws in America". Hitler used the Draper-inspired American Eugenics Model to pass the law which will go down in infamy as the Nuremberg Laws: "On the Prevention of Hereditarily Ill Progeny" - the so-called Holocaust Laws. Are you beginning to get the picture here? Are you willing to put your actions and money where your realistic concerns are? The last time that Immigration laws were severely tightened was the 1924 Immigration Act which was accomplished, in my opinion, in direct anticipa- tion of the coming unrest in Europe during the 1930's and 1940's. These laws kept may legitimate refugees, all targeted for elimination by the Third Reich, from ever reaching a safe haven in the United States. The precisely identical intentions are at work today with this renewed emphasis on "Proposition 187", which is intended to become "The Model Anti-Immigration Legislation in America" and for the rest of the world. When a Rwanda or Zaire-style deliberately initiated crisis occurs in Bosnia-Herzegovina or elsewhere in the world, the intention of the sponsors of "Proposition 187" is to prevent those refugees targeted for "ethnic extinction" from ever reaching a safe haven in American or anywhere else in the free world for that matter. This is a very real and serious concern and every American who recognizes the true intentions of Proposition 187 should oppose it with their last breath and their last ounce of strength before it is too late. Critiques and comments are solicited to our email address: pioneer@ids.com

<H1 title="The Seduction of Sarah Palin: Eugenics, CNP, and the Pioneer Fund">The Seduction of Sarah Palin: Eugenics, CNP, and the Pioneer Fund </H1>- by Paul & Phillip D. Collins, October 13th, 2008 Left to right: Wickliffe Preston Draper (1891-1972), founder and benefactor of the Pioneer Fund; on the Board of Directors (1937-72). Harry Hamilton Laughlin (1880-1943), Pres. (1927-28) and Dir. (1923-39) of the American Eugenics Society; Superintendent of the Eugenics Record Office in (1910-21) and its Director (1921-40); first president of the Pioneer Fund (1937-41). Frederick Henry Osborn (1890-1981), second president of the Pioneer Fund (1941–1958); Pres. (1946-52) and Dir. (1969-72) of the American Eugenics Society. No one on America's political stage today has more motivation to oppose eugenics than Sarah Palin. The Alaskan Governor and Vice-Presidential running mate has learned experientially about the sanctity of life. In April, she gave birth to a baby boy with Down syndrome (Demer, no pagination). When she first learned that the child would be born with the birth defect, Palin chose life in a situation where 90 percent of women have an abortion (no pagination). Lisa Demer has correctly described Palin "as anti-abortion as a politician can be" (no pagination). It was, therefore, disturbing to learn that Palin had been vetted by a secretive group with connections to the eugenics movement. In a September 1, 2008 article for The Nation, Max Blumenthal reported that the "members of the Council for National Policy are the hidden hand behind McCain's Palin pick" (no pagination). According to Blumenthal, the Council for National Policy (CNP) met at a hotel in downtown Minneapolis the week of the Democratic National Convention to acquaint themselves with Palin (no pagination). The article also stated that the Palin selection secured McCain the support of the conservative movement and that CNP participant James Dobson "may soon emerge from his bunker in Colorado Springs to endorse McCain, providing the Republican nominee with the backing of the Christian right's single most influential figure" (no pagination). For many people on the left, it is hard to swallow the idea that the CNP has ties to the eugenics movement. After all, CNP participants such as James Dobson, Tim LaHaye, and Alan Keyes are considered to be stalwart pro-lifers. George W. Bush even put in an appearance at a secret meeting of the CNP in 2000 promising to nominate only pro-life judges (no pagination). There is a body of evidence, however, that suggests that all the pro-life rhetoric and pro-life participants may be mere window dressing to hide the sinister goal of creating a master race. Jesse Helms and the Pioneer Fund The CNP connects to the eugenics movement through deceased Senator Jesse Helms. Helms was on the CNP Board of Governors in 1982 and was a member in 1984-1985, 1988, 1996, 1998, and 1999 ("The Council for National Policy: Selected Member Biographies," no pagination). Throughout his political career, Helms collaborated closely with two other CNP participants: Thomas Ellis and R.E. Carter-Wrenn (no pagination). In the 1980s, the three CNP participants teamed with Harry Weyher and Marion Parrott to form an elaborate, multimillion dollar network of corporations, political action committees, ad hoc groups, and foundations ("Race Science and the Pioneer Fund," no pagination). According to the Institute for the Study of Academic Racism, the network's leadership "especially, Harry Weyher, Thomas F. Ellis and Marion A. Parrott are part of an interlocking set of directorates and associates linking the Pioneer Fund to Jesse Helm's high-tech political machine" (no pagination). In the 1980s, Ellis' Coalition for Freedom, a component of the Jesse Helms political machine, received grants totaling $195,000 from the Pioneer Fund (Begos, no pagination). What exactly is the Pioneer Fund? The story of this mysterious private trust fund begins with a reclusive philanthropist named Wickliffe Draper. Draper was born in Massachusetts in 1891 (no pagination). The product of a mixture of old Kentucky and Puritan blood, Draper was convinced that his family tree constituted a superior stock of humanity that should be considered the true Americans (no pagination). In the 1920s, Draper inherited a multimillion-dollar textile fortune (no pagination). After attending the Nazis' International Congress for the Scientific Investigation of Population Problems in 1935 Berlin, Draper decided to devote a large portion of his fortune to eugenics and race science (no pagination).It would be no exaggeration to say that Draper was drawing his inspiration from mass murderers. Wilhelm Frick, a war criminal convicted during the Nuremberg trials, was the Honorary Chairman at the 1935 meeting that Draper attended in Berlin (no pagination). In 1937, Draper joined with eugenicists Harry Laughlin and Frederick Osborn to form the Pioneer Fund (no pagination). The Fund helped the crusade for nationwide eugenical regimentation through the distribution of grants (no pagination). In its first year, the Pioneer Fund had in its budget two German films promoting the theme of eugenics. One of those films, entitled The Hereditary Defective, was shown at 28 high schools throughout the United States thanks to the efforts of Harry Laughlin (no pagination). Draper's money was also used to print a special edition of Earnest Sevier Cox's "White America" (no pagination). The racist tract was distributed to every member of the 1937 Congress (no pagination). For Draper, "race betterment" meant disenfranchisement for blacks. One of the white supremacist academics Draper recruited to his cause was segregationist and Chair of Psychology at Colombia University Henry Garrett. Garrett served as a witness supporting segregation in the 1952 Davis v. County School Board ("Race Science and the Pioneer Fund," no pagination). Davis v. County School Board became part of a much larger, historic case, Brown v. the Board of Education (no pagination). In 1964, the Missippi Sovereignty Commission used $215,000 given to it by Draper in an attempt to prevent the Civil Rights Act from passing (Begos, no pagination). In 1977, North Iowa professor Dr. Ralph Scott used Pioneer Fund money to finance anti-busing, anti-school integration seminars (Lichtenstein, no pagination). Draper may have even tried to use internal security organs to advance his agenda. According journalist Grace Lichtenstein, Draper supported Representative Francis E. Walter, the chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), throughout the 1950s and 1960s (no pagination). In 1960 HUAC staff director Richard Arens was forced to leave his Congressional job when it was discovered that he was a paid consultant to Draper (no pagination). Draper may have contributed to the corruption of national security politics and the discrediting and dismantling of America's internal security apparatus. So it is that Paul Wolfowitz, during his time as Deputy Defense Secretary, could have a "discreet romance" with a woman who was born in Tunisia and raised in Saudi Arabia without anyone asking any serious questions about penetration and compromising of internal security (Leiby, no pagination). Probably the most high profile case involving the Pioneer Fund was the publishing of The Bell Curve in 1994. The controversial best-seller asserted that whites were genetically superior to blacks and that blacks were inclined to have lower IQs (Begos, no pagination). Anglo-American race scientists William Shockley, Hans J. Eysenck, Arthur Jensen, Roger Pearson, Richard Lynn, J. Philippe Rushton, R. Travis Osborne, Linda Gottfredson, Robert A. Gordon, Daniel R. Vining Jr., Michael Levin, and Seymour Itzkopp were all cited in The Bell Curve and were all recipients of Pioneer Fund money ("Race Science and the Pioneer Fund," no pagination). According to a November 22, 1994 ABC World News Tonight report, the researchers cited The Bell Curve received $3.5 million from the Pioneer Fund ("The Bell Curve and the Pioneer Fund," no pagination). One would think that with the passing of Draper, Laughlin, and Weyher, the Pioneer Fund would have begun pursuing nobler endeavors. Unfortunately, old habits seem to die hard. In February 2006, current Pioneer Fund head J. Philippe Rushton spoke at an American Renaissance conference held at the Hyatt Dulles Hotel in Herndon, Virginia (Williams, no pagination). American Renaissance is a white supremacist magazine headed up by Jared Taylor that promotes the "clear conception of the United States as a nation ruled by and for whites" (no pagination). Rushton was surrounded by such notable white supremacists as former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke, racist talk show host Hal Turner, Director of the Holocaust denying Institute for Historical Review Mark Weber, former neo-Nazi National Alliance members David Pringle and National Vanguard's Kevin Strom, and former Klansman and head of white supremacist website Stormfront.org Don Black (no pagination). Rushton used the occasion to speak about IQ tests proving whites' supposed genetic superiority over blacks (no pagination). The Pioneer Fund and the Power Elite While many might consider the Pioneer Fund merely a fringe organization, it is far from being a collection of disenfranchised, racist misfits. Pioneer Fund principal Harry Laughlin was also the superintendent of the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) (Chaitkin 551). The ERO was established on 80 acres of land and in buildings donated by E.H. Harriman's widow, Mary A. Harriman (550). The Harrimans were the most powerful family in the Democratic party at one time and their dynasty belongs among the ranks of the power elite. Like most elitists, the Harrimans possessed a fascination with eugenics. Averell Harriman was on the Executive Committee of New Yorks' American Museum of Natural History. In 1921, Harriman and the rest of the Museum Executive Committee hosted the Second International Eugenics Congress (551). Averell also contributed $1,000 to the conference and his mother and sister were primary hostesses at the conference (551). The trend was repeated in 1932 when the Third International Eugenics Congress was held at New York's American Museum of Natural History (552). Once again, the Harrimans financed the conference and Averell's mother and sister acted as hostesses (552). At the conference, Dr. Ernst Rudin, the man responsible for Nazi Germany's sterilization program, was recognized with a medal and was elected President of the International Federation of Eugenics Societies (552). There is no small connection between Laughlin, the Harrimans, and the Nazis. When writing the Nazi's sterilization law entitled "For the Protection of German Blood and German Honor," Rudin relied heavily on the "Model Sterilization Law" drafted for the ERO by Laughlin (551). Laughlin was attempting to achieve the ERO's goal of producing "the perfect man" by 1980 through the sterilization of 15 million Americans (551). Among those targeted by Laughlin's law were "orphans, the homeless, ne'er-do-wells, and tramps" (552). Ironically, Laughlin would later discover that he had epilepsy, a condition his model law identified as a criterion for sterilization ("Harry Laughlin," no pagination). George H.W. Bush, the consummate oligarch, gave an audience to recipients of the Pioneer Fund. In 1969, then-chairman of the Republican Task Force on Earth Resources and Population Bush invited Professors William Shockley and Arthur Jensen to appear before the committee and share their views concerning race and eugenics (52). According to the Institute for the Study of Academic Racism, Shockley would go on to "receive an estimated $188,710 from the Pioneer Fund between 1971 and 1978" and Jensen, Shockley's recruit into race science, received more than a million dollars from the Pioneer Fund over three decades ("Race Science and the Pioneer Fund," no pagination). For Bush, the growth of the black population was obviously a threat, as is evidenced by the views held by Shockley and Jensen. In the same year that the GOP task force supplied him with a congressional platform, Shockley wrote: "Our nobly intended welfare programs may be encouraging dysgenics-retrogressive evolution through disproportionate reproduction of the genetically disadvantage… We fear that 'fatuous beliefs' in the power of welfare money, unaided by eugenic foresight, may contribute to a decline of human quality for all segments of society." (Tarpley and Chaitkin 200) To counter this tide of so-called "retrogressive evolution," Shockley proposed a "Bonus Sterilization Plan" (Tarpley and Chaitkin 200). Individuals with genetic defects, chronic diseases, or drug and alcohol addiction would be paid for volunteering to be sterilized (200). Chaitkin and Tarpley elaborate: "If [the government paid] a bonus rate of $1,000 for each point below 100 IQ, $30,000 put in trust for some 70 IQ moron of 20-child potential, it might return $250,000 to taxpayers in reduced cost of mental retardation care," Shockley said. (200). True to the Draper tradition, Shockley identified African-Americans as the main target of his mass sterilization plan. Tarpley and Chaitkin share Shockley's racist views: "If those blacks with the least amount of Caucasian genes are in fact the most prolific and the least intelligent, the genetic enslavement will be the destiny of their next generation," he wrote. Looking at the recent past, Shockley said in 1967: "The lesson to be drawn from Nazi history is the value of free speech, not that eugenics is intolerable." (200) Why would Bush give Pioneer Fund recipients with radical racist views a platform? Tarpley and Chaitkin provide an accurate explanation: Oligarchy… subsumes the self-conception of the oligarch as belonging to a special, exalted breed of mankind, one that is superior to the common rule of mankind as a matter of hereditary, genetic superiority. This mentality generally goes together with a fascination for eugenics, race science and just plain racism as a means of building a case that one's own family tree and racial stock are indeed superior. (9-10) Conclusion The majority of conservatives have been duped and Palin is no exception to that rule. If Palin does not want to become involved with the kind of dirty politics and radical agenda that have made most Americans jaded and cynical, she must recognize the CNP for what it really is. Under the CNP's mask lies an elite combine that is mobilizing unwitting conservatives and grassroots activists behind an elite agenda. Part of that agenda is eugenics. Sources Cited Begos, Kevin. "Benefactor With a Racist Bent." Winston-Salem Journal Blumenthal, Max. "Secretive Right-Wing Group Vetted Palin." The Nation 1 September 2008 Chaitkin, Anton. Treason In America. New York: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1985. "Council for National Policy: Selected Member Biographies." Seek God Demer, Lisa. "Abortion opponents give Palin high marks." Anchorage Daily News 7 September 2008 "Harry H. Laughlin." Wikipedia 10 July 2008 Leiby, Richard. "What Will the Neighbors Say? Wolfowitz Romance Stirs Gossip." Washington Post 22 March 2005 Lichtenstein, Grace "Fund Backs Controversial Study of 'Racial Betterment'." The New York Times 11 December 1977 "Race Science and the Pioneer Fund." Institute for the Study of Academic Racism July 1998 Tarpley, Webster and Anton Chaitkin. George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography. Washington, D.C.: Executive Intelligence Review, 1992. "The Bell Curve and the Pioneer Fund." ABC World News Tonight 22 November 1994 Williams, David. "BNP leader embraced by top US Nazi." 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'Tom Scully' date='May 3 2009, 12:13 PM' post='166779' This is a companion thread to the Jack Ruby and the Dallas Magicians thread. Some of the others involved with the America First Committee included Gen. Robert Wood and the textile millionaire William Regnery who later started Regnery Press to publish Holocaust denial and Nuremburg denial works for the right wing McCarthyites. Wood, Regnery, Ray Cline, Willoughby, Morris and Angleton were all later involved with the American Security Council. This Gang of Four: Ray Cline, Willoughby, Morris and Angleton probably ran interference with anyone within the US Gov who tried to get too close to the actual JFK perps. Richard Condon in The Manchurian Candidate fingered Cline, Morris and Angleton but I have yet to find a direct reference to Willoughby in ManCand. But there were 2 portraits of MacArthur, Willoughby's commanding officer, in the movie version of ManCand while the name MacArthur does not even appear in the novel itself. But Benjamin K. Arthur is the political candidate's name in Madison Square Garden in ManCand, and MacArthur's father-in-law was named Benjamin. Did Frankheimer insert the MacArthur portraits in the movie based on the Benjamin K. Arthur name alone or did he know something more? Much more? Is he still even alive?

Search for Gerry Hemming, or Jerry Hemming, Frank Sturgis, Roy Hargraves and NoName Key or No Name Key on both alt.conspiracy.jfk as part of Google Groups and on this site. There should be a bunch of information there. http://www.groups.google.com or http://www.groups.google.com The recent confession of E. Howard Hunt indicates that both Frank Sturgis and E. Howard Hunt were involved in the JFK hit and I know for a fact that both Roy Hargraves and Gerry Hemming knew a whole lot about the plot and the plotters and they were either approached to be part of the plot or they actually were part of either the Miami Plot or the Dallas Plot or both. See http://www.rollingstone.com from 2007 for the article about Saint James Hunt, E. Howard's son. Miami and South Florida were very important in the last 2 JFK plots.

Absolutely right on, Robert. Now that even E. Howard Hunt, in his deathbed confession, admitted that there was a Miami plot to assassinate JFK, launched from a Miami based CIA safehouse, the Milteer tapes gain even more significance. Somersett was a confidential informant for the Miami PD Intel Unit who made the tapes for Lt. Lockhart Gracey of the Miami PD who was also the person who taped Hoover and Clyde in the Fountainbleau celebrity suite during a pole riding session. That tape was the talk of Miami for years. And the Milteer tape made just before or after a Congress of Freedom convention session should have blown the lid off the JFK plot but it did not. Most people forget that the first (and only) suspects from most respected journalists came from the Far Reich Wing, and only the Far Reich Wing pointed their scapegoating fingers at the other johnny-come-lately false suspects. The scapegoating was led by the plotters like Rev Gerald L K Smith and Revilo P. Oliver and Philip J. Corso. They did such a fine job that no conclusive suspects were ever isolated and identified. ...more later

Well, the whole point of posting the New World Order info was just as an example of the mentality and mindset of JFK's killers. Many on this forum have totally missed the boat regarding the themes originated by Mae Brussell and Bill Turner regarding the absolutely provable fact regarding the participation in the JFK Plot from the Far Right Wing (or the Fahr Reich Wing) if you prefer. Your friend, John Judge, is also a believer in this theory or thesis and supports Mae Brussell's threads in this direction to a great extent as I understand it. And if you think you, or anyone else for that matter, can even begin to claim expertise in Project Valkyrie (NOT spelled: Valkarie by the way as in the title of this thread, and not even PRONOUNCED to be spelled that way to boot) Val-kye-ree is the correct pronunciation is the correct pronunciation as I understand it. It was led by my great uncle Klaus Schenck von Stauffenberg by the way. In some of his photographs, I bear such a strong familial resemblance that some have said that I am, in fact, his spitting image. And for you to attempt to explain Project Valkyrie without a single mention of Major Carleton S. Coon from the OSS, or Allen J. Dulles or "Wild Bill" Donovan is an oversight of major proportions. Do you even know how this concept of the justifiable murder of a Head of State of a foreign government even orginated and who proposed it in the first place? Do you know how it was bastardized via Murder, Inc. when used against the "Banana Dictators" in Central and South America, by Ulius Amoss, Ray S. Cline and several others through the use of Manchurian Candidate trained and programmed assassins? And then can you explain how this all led up to the identification of JFK as representing interests inimical to those of the "U.S. Government" by certain Right Wingers, most of whom had been ignominiously drummed out of service to these United States like Charles Willoughby, Douglas MacArthur, and later Allen Dulles, Robert J. Morris and James Angleton plus a whole slew of ex-McCarhtyites who plotted against JFK to continue the battles of Joe McCarthy? When you and others understand all this, then... and only then can you state that you understand where Project Valkyrie fits into this whole cascading sequence of events over at least 2 decades from 1943-1963. And oh, yes don't forget Gen. Smedley Butler and The Plot to Seize the White House. Do you know how that played into both the FDR Plots AND the JFK Plots? Lemmie know.

Actually, it was exposed as a total anti-Semitic deliberate forgery in order to incite revenge against the alleged "Jewish-Bolshevik" threats. It was brought to the US by Boris Brasol and translated it into English. Brasol was a notorious Canadian anti-Semite. Who wrote it? Former Czarists a/k/a "White Russians" who had just lost everything to the Communist Revolution. Then Robert J. Morris on the 1940 Rapp-Coudert Committee used it while he was working for a law firm in New York (Coudert Brothers). The Rapp-Coudert Committee sought to identify Communists in the NY City School Dept. and launched Morris on a lifelong campaign that culminated in McCarthyism, and the post-McCarthy Cold War hysteria. One of these days, the role of Robert J. Morris with McCarhtyism will be documented. Even Whittaker Chambers, in Morris' obituary was cited as saying something to the effect of: "Mr. Morris was the real driving force behind McCarthyism." And Paul Weyrich once said: "When the role of The Pioneer Fund (and Wickliffe Draper) and it's effect on World Events during the 20th Century is finally understood, the entire History of the Twentieth Century will have to be re-written." Is this all beginning to sink in with you folks?

Nice starting point for this posting... Charles Willoughby In retirement Willoughby was a member of the International Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture. During the 1950s he worked closely with Billy ... www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKwilloughbyC.htm - 39k - Cached - Similar pages - NPR: James L. Taylor: The Assassination of Barack Obama</H3> Oct 14, 2008 ... The Hunts also ran a propaganda machine called the International Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture and like the venomous Fox ... www.npr.org/blogs/newsandviews/2008/10/james_l_taylor_the_assassinati.html - Similar pages Guide to the Microfilm Edition</H3> File Format: Microsoft Word - View as HTML (See International Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture). 911, 5, 1, "I" Correspondence, 1954-1970. 2, Indonesia ... www.gale.cengage.com/pdf/scguides/macarthur/RG-23.doc - Similar pages The Man who Knew Too Much: Hired to Kill Oswald and Prevent the ... - Google Books Result</H3>by Dick Russell - 2003 - History - 588 pages ... and Latin America to start his own International Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture.26 At the same time, Willoughby was politically astute. ... books.google.com/books?isbn=0786712422...[/colorBush administration encouraged oil deal in Kurdistan, undermining ...</H3> Later, with two of his sons, he set up a right-wing "intelligence network," the International Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture. ... www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jul2008/hunt-j04.shtml - 37k - Cached - Similar pages -<LI class="g w0"><H3 class=r>Lumpen 6.7: Saucers, Secrets, and Shickshinny Knights</H3> ... international ultra-rightist organizations like the World Anticommunist League and the International Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture. ... www2.prestel.co.uk/church/lumpen/saucers.htm - 34k - Cached - Similar pages Big Daddy Malcontent: 9/11 Is a Joke, Pt 3: The Hydra</H3> ... and the International Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture, which essentially functioned as a rightwing intelligence network operated through ... bigdaddymalcontent.blogspot.com/2006/09/911-is-joke-pt-3-hydra.html - 120k - Cached - Similar pages - H. L. Hunt</H3> 1950 with Ray). Hunt Oil Founder (1936) Cuban Revolutionary Council International Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture John Birch Society ... www.nndb.com/people/554/000055389/ - 10k - Cached - Similar pages - The JFK Conspiracy - Google Books Result</H3>by David Miller - 2002 - History - 284 pages Adenauer in 1961 lent his support to the International Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture ...books.google.com/books?isbn=0595252672...The Left Coaster: Comment on Welcome to Karl Rove's Funhouse Halls ...</H3> ... Southwest Pacific Area for the decade beginning 1941 and later joined the International Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture (ICDCC), ...

Just discovered this posting series on The American Security Council...started by John Dolva and there are some very interesting items to consider posted there 2-3 years ago which led me to summarize some additional related factoids: http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/lofivers...php/t10696.html (1) Major Carleton S. Coon worked with Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker in Italy during World War II (2) Carleton Coon's pistol was found at the scene of the Assassination of Admiral Darlan I believe according to Peter Tompkins (in his book) who was also from the OSS (3) Theodore Oberlander, part of the ICDCC of Nelson Bunker Hunt, and a friend of Walker's led the Ukrainian Nightengale Division (Vonsiatsky was the number one Ukrainian Nazi of course) (4) George Lincoln Rockwell, E. Howard Hunt and Anastase Vonsiatsky all attended Brown University together in the 1940's where they were all introudced to William F. Buckley, Jr. (5) Larrie (Larry) Schmidt was also part of Dallas John Birch Society, ICDCC and was somehow involved with the "Wanted for Treason" poster in Dallas on 11/22/63 (6) Carleton Coon and Ulius S. Amoss originated the idea of political assassinations of foreign (or domestic) leaders using programmed assassins for the OSS and then the CIA (7) The American Security Council leaders were Willoughby, Morris, Angleton and Ray S. Cline during the 1960's ICDCC is the International Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture... a project of the Dallas Hunt family This only confirms what I have come to believe about the ASC, the John Birch Society, the Pioneer Fund, WACL and those involved with MKULTRA and ManCand training These people and groups were behind the Assassination of JFK.... No doubt about it anymore. Stick a fork in it. It's done.

Roy Emory Hargraves and his connections is covered extensively in Larry's book. There is also an interview conducted by Noel Twyman with Hargraves which has been transcribed and is available in Larry's book. James James, I have to change this posting to read "Emmett Johnson" instead of "Medric Johnson". When I spoke with Mary Ferrell in the 1990's, I gave her 2 choices of how one of the names of definitive JFK conspirators offered up by Roy Hargraves was pronounced and who he could have meant. (I only had 4-5 names in my database with a last name of "Johnson". She chose "Medric Johnson" instead of (Robert) "Emmett Johnson" from The Fish is Red by William Turner. This meandering conversation between Mary and Roy Ferrell occurred over a long distance phone line when Roy was "under the weather" as Mary put it, or just a tad inebriated and therefore not exactly pronouncing words very clearly to say the least. Therefore she was unsure at the time of her conversation with me, about the exact pronunciation of what she thought was the "first name". Your additional information recently posted has convinced me to change the name of this definitive suspect provided by Hargraves as a shooter in Dealey Plaza to read: Robert "Emmett" Johnson. I guess he went by the name "Emmett" or Mary did not hear him speak the name "Robert". So Bill Turner goes down in history as being the first person to postulate the plotmasters names: Charles Willoughby and Robert Morris (along with Mae Brussell in a shared article) and now Bill gets credit for the name: "Emmett" Johnson published in The Fish is Red (later called "Deadly Secrets" as I recall). Congrats, Bill.

Quoting Tom Scully... "Even the era that came before was about the same thing....using the military to separate a mass of people from their land and resource wealth, so as to concentrate it in just a few hands....hands deeply committed to fooling the mass of voters to vote for the few hands' policies of wealth through government sponsored violence and the military contracts that enable and maintain it..... " You have IMPLIED a significance but not elaborated on your cause and effect conclusions. Are you agreeing with me that the original JFK and MIC alliances, recently threatened by his departure with them on expanding the Vietnam war, led to his ultimate demise? We both agree with Gen. Smedley Butler, that "War is a Racket" and anyone who blocks the use of the Military to defend U.S. financial, religious or military domination interests abroad is not long for this earth. Carl Oglesby, by the way, is one of my major supporters regarding the Fascist and neo-Nazi domination of the JFK hit along with Bill Turner and Mary Ferrell.

John, in this thread, The Yankee-Cowboy Conflict and 2006 http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.ph...st&p=162644 I've posted a detailed description related to the significance of Edward Gordon Hooker's choice of Cord Meyer's first cousin, S. Willets Meyer, as the best man in Hooker's 1946 wedding: http://news.google.com/archivesearch?hl=en...avid+f+bartlett SANDRA H. PAYSON LISTS ATTENDANTS; Sisters to Be Members of Her... - New York Times - Dec 9, 1948 The ush ers will be Cord 1V[eyer Jr., another brother; Willetts Meyer of New York, cousin of the prospective ; David F. Bartlett of I-lobe Sound, Fla., ... Frank Wisner and Cord Meyer were very close CIA brethren, and JFK's "best friend", Charles L. Bartlett, (brother of usher David F. Bartlett, displayed in the above wedding description....) seems to have also have been close friends with Cord Meyer, GHW Bush, and to an only slightly lesser extent, Prescott Bush, as well..... I will read that as time permits but just suffice it to say that James Forrestal and Frank Wisner's relationship to the ManCand pre-MKULTRA training programs they were either heading up or invoved with led to their ultimate demise via self-destruction. Ulius Amoss (and Carleton Coon?) worked for Frank Wisner and Clendenin J. Ryan, w;the Baltimore millionaire who financed Amoss' anti-Communist ventures, reported to James Forrestal during World War II. Condon references Carriers of the Forrestal class in Manchurian Candidate with a link to F. W. Woolworth's vanishing cream to shrink ships down to the size of some of the toy battleships which Vonsiatsky had in his home in Connecticut. This makes no sense at all unless Condon knew all about the photos of "Vonsiatsky's Navy" in the NY World-Telegram (from John Roy Carlson?), and Vonsiatsky's apparent joint work (directly or indirectly) with Wisner and Forrestal on early Man Cand programs. Vonsiatsky in all likelihood got his neighbor and close fiend, Wickliffe Draper, involved with ManCand and MKULTRA where Draper learned all about these programs by paying off Dr. Hans J. Eysenck, through Pioneer Fund grants. The question still remains whether Draper and Vonsiatsky with the help of Ray S. Cline's Man Cand programmed proteges like Robert Emmett Johnson and Lee Oswald could have done the entire hit themselves or not. Did they use only the ASC foursome of Angleton, Morris, Willoughby and Cline as go-betweens or as masterminds to concoct a situation where a cover-up HAD TO BE INSTITUTED by dint of the presence of LHO as the selected patsy and/or as a token shooter under Man Cand hypnosis from the TBD. To me this is a nitpicker's point at best. Both Ray S. Cline and Robert Emmett Johnson, made a lucrative finanacial career from that point forward out of their "Murder, Inc." tag team match ups which later included Archbishop Romero, Benito Acquino and most likely RFK AND MLK. I realize the debate about "CIA-sanctioned" and "offical CIA" hits versus hits by "CIA Mercenaries or Cowboys" with "CIA training" will never be solved to anyone's satisfaction in my lifetime. But the fact that suspected CIA agent, Harold Chait from Baltimore, MD has been conclusively linked as a financial conduit to both "Nellie's Boys" in South Florida and later to Iran-Contra covert funding via The Bank of Maryland by Iran-Contra whistle blower Robert Maxwell leads me to believe that the use of CIA proprietaries implies official knowledge and official participation in the JFK hits and in the Iran-Contra proceedings far beyond whatever was distinctly provable before this. Also the confession of E. Howard Hunt which is independently verifiable regarding his links to a "CIA safehouse" in Miami puts the true icing on the cake. Stick a fork in it, the evidence in the JFK plot is well done. Vonsiatsky bought his toy battleships at F. W. Woolworth's to solidify Condon's point. I will find the N.Y. World-Telegram reference on the web or just look in The Russian Fascists. His toy battleships are right there for all to see on the window sills of his Putnam "fake fortress". More later. Details in my manuscript are to follow.

Robert, Yep, add the Shickshinny Knights of Malta, to the WACL, John Birch and American Security Council crowd as primary plotmasters, because they were all involved with Ray S. Cline, Robert Emmett Johnson and the Mac Cand programmed assassins. I have been posting this for years now. Nice Work. The Big Four from American Security Council Angleton (CIA/MKULTRA), Cline (WACL/CIA), Morris (McCarthyism and John Birch) and Willoughby (John Birch and MacArthurism) were part of these other groups and when you add in Wickliffe Draper and Anastase Vonsiatsky you have got it just about covered. Congratulations on having the foresight and the courage to take a stand on these controversial plotters and these sometimes controversial books and authors. What do you think of Richard Condon's work in ManCand and my work linking it to these guys above here? John B

Don't know very much, if anything, about Ezra Pound and his ties to Jim Angleton, but what I do know about both James Jesus and Hugh B. Angleton, though based mostly on Richard Condon's writings and some hints dropped by Tom Mangold is quite earth-shattering, I would think: (1) Hugh Angleton, Wm Buckley, Sr., George Draper and a young Charles Willoughby essentially launched the concept of Yankee Imperialism and a joint MIC sponsored revenge and retribution campaign when they all rode with General John J. Pershing as cavalry officers, chasing down Pancho Villa in New Mexico after Hugh Angleton lost Pantapec Oil to a Mexican appropriation in the recent past. Gen. Smedley Butler documented his unwitting participation in subsequent financial interests protection campaigns when he stated: "War is a Racket!" United Fruit, Phelps, Dodge, Kennecott Copper, DuPont, Dole Fruit and dozens of other corporations used this approach over the next 100 years or so. (2) Hugh Angleton was described by Tom Mangold as "...very friendly with Mussolini and his interests and several other Italian Fascists." Angleton ran the NCR franchise in Italy for years including before and after the war. (3) Richard Condon used the name "Ole Banstoffsen - Washington" as a PERFECT anagram (letter for letter) for: "H. B. Angleton Waffen SS NOTSI" (Just suspend disbelief for a while) ...joining Major Racey Jordan (author of the John Birch book: "Major Jordan's Diaries"), as the 2nd or 3rd person in ManCand who was linked to the Waffen SS using anagrams. Since Dr. Revilo P. Oliver was an Army cryptologist this was the method chosen by Condon to hide more than a few subtle tips in the novel. (4) Condon also named "Hugh Bone" which stands for "Hugh B One" (of them). When I first read this, I had no idea who "Hugh" really was in fact until years later. When it turned out to be Hugh Angleton, I found the previous anagram. I plan on scanning ManCand and doing more computer assisted searches like this. (5) Brig Gen Bonner Fellers, it is now generally accepted (thanks to yours truly) while stationed in Cairo, Egypt used to forward Monty's tank movements to the Angletons in Rome while Jim and Hugh were stationed there with the OSS. They were passed on to Rommel in Northern Africa making him look like some sort of prescient genius when in fact Fellers was a spy with a German background. Fellers is "Fighting Frank Bollinger" who headed "Ten Million Americans Mobilizing for Tommorow" and Bonner Fellers in real life headed: "Ten Million Americans Mobilizing for Justice" (for Senator McCarthy). Anyone who thinks that Condon was not fingering "Bonner Fellers" here is hopelessly conflicted and borderline incompetent. ...More lateron this As for the DIA, apparently Gordon Novel ran to Columbus, Ohio just before he was indicted by Jim Garrison and went to work for someone at DISC which was a DIA operation. Rockwell was headquartered there. The date he warned about in his letter to Mr. Weiss was 3/ /1967 and 3/22/1967 was the exact date that Rockwell announced the takeover of Draper Company and North American Aviation in the NY Times as paybacks for funding the JFK hit. Novel was threatening to bust out the takeover deals, worth about $250,000,000 in total unless someone rescued him from Garrison. To me, these conclusions should be readily obvious to all, but for some reason using Condon to underpin the entire thesis is seen as somehow fabricated or less reliable. But Condon knew what Condon knew, I just do not know who his contacts were. But if you understood McCarthyism and MacArthurism and had a few friends trailing Revilo Oliver or Robert Morris or Gerald L K Smith around to their meetings, or even Joseph Milteer, anyone could have figured this out. I am just flabbergasted that more researchers have not been able to recreate this evidentiary trail. Oh well. I tend to agree with John on this aspect of the assassination, insofar as individuals like Willoughby were very much in the picture of 1963, even to a degree in the print media. It took me a reading of Charles Higham's Trading With The Enemy to even begin to realize the importance of this aspect of research. Why? Because, it was not till then that I realized that the umbrella organizations under the WACL, were very much ideological counterparts to the White Russian/Solidarist, whatever you want to call them "community" in Dallas, for me it was like seeing the events of Dallas previously with blinders. If anyone thinks I do not know what I am talking about take a copy of Scott Anderson's Inside The League and Charles Higham's Trading With The Enemy and read them back to back, and you will know exactly what I am talking about. Consider that there are a myriad of "groups" in that time period that American's didn't even know existed let alone were able to integrate them into the equation. Which in total, led to my perception, that either there were possibly different assassination plots that were part of the equation in Dallas, that have caused such a morass of confusion about sifting through the details of what happened that day. I know that George Michael Evica, at one time was a strong believer in the "fake assassination" plot gone awry theory. For the life of me, I cannot see how he believed that, for in my mind if such a thing were in effect, that would have the potential to unravel the whole conspiracy, because then there would have had to have been individuals in the Kennedy circle that would have known, and if that were the case, presumably that would have immediately emerged publicly, the idea being that insiders talking about specific people appears to have been "the great fear," [of being killed], whereas saying that "I had heard there might be some attempt to stage a simulated attack" does not seem, in retrospect to have been cause to worry about being killed. Is it illogical to see it in the manner I am describing? But, at the same time if Evica thought that, I have to defer to him. Maybe Charles Drago can enlighten me. On a unrelated note, recently I saw some reference to the 1967 IG Report as missing, or, portions of that Report missing. In light of that, even if I was mistaken according to MFF the entire unsanitized report is on mary ferrell's site. Link Below... Reel 48, Folder ZZ - 1967 IG REPORT (UNSANITIZED). http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=55405 Robert, Years ago, I posted the relevance of the WACL crowd to the JFK hit starting with the WACCFL confab in Mexico City run by E. Howard Hunt. When you follow the complete chain from Valkykie, via Allen Dulles and Dr. Carleton S. Coon from the OSS you realize that Coon and Dulles conceived and pioneered the idea (within the OSS) of using local assassins to remove world leaders inimical to the interests of the USA. They both were part of the group supporting the Valkyrie plotters including my great uncle Claus Schenck von Stauffenberg who bears a strong familial likeness to me. (They had to settle for Tom Cruise for the current movie due to my previous commitments. <grin>) Coon and Amoss passed these trained killers along to the CIA and when Amoss died, Ray S. Cline of the CIA took over all the assassins and put them into both his private control and that of the CIA as well. Now here is the part a lot of people forget, Ray S. Cline was head of WACL during its's most pro-fascist, anti-Communist period in Nicaragua, Argentina, Chile, etc. His prize pupil Robert Emmett Johnson ran the plot to murder people like Benito Acquinc in the Phillipines, and Archbishop Oscar Romero (Nicaragua?) while he was saying Mass. There are 20 references to Ray S. Cline, Roberto d'Aubisson in Inside the League and even Senator Jesse Helms and my primary suspect like Wycliffe Draper, spelled incorrectly, in "Inside the League". So in a direct lineage, Coon and Amoss created this "Murder, Inc." chain of events referred to by Lyndon B. Johnson, starting with "Operation Valkyrie", and it was inherited or taken over by Ray S. Cline who used the ManCand training Cline learned in Mukden where he headed up the OSS station during WW-II on people like Marines Robert Emmett Johnson (Tsingtao) and Lee Oswald (in Taiwan where Cline lived in the "pink palace" while Ozzie was there) in all likelihood which caused the US to unwillingly be forced to invoke the cover-up of the JFK hit for fear of exposing the sordid history of the US Gov in "Valkyrie", ManCand training and "Banana Dictator" snuff outs. And Richard Condon had this whole direct lineage already plotted out when he wrote ManCand in 1958-59 including Hugh B. Angleton, Draper (The Tuaregs), to Ray Cline (John Yerkes Iselin becomes "John E is Rey S. Kline" as an anagam), Vonsiatsky, Robert Morris, Major Geroge Racey Jordan, Strom Thurmond, Bonner Fellers, etc. Of course Rey S. Kline is really Ray S. Cline as you can readily see. I will link you to all the Condon anagrams or you can go to Books.Google.com and do them yourself in the digital version of The Manchurian Candidate. So whether you just trust Jon and Scott Anderson's approach in Inside the League, and Charles Higham (Trading With the Enemy and American Swastika) and/or John Roy Carlson (The Plotters and Undercover) or "Old Nazis, the New Right, Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party" (forgot author's name), you also would want to include Richard Condon, and then the lineage should be panifully obvious. All of these guys point to roughly the same set of characters spanning from Allen Dulles via Carleton S. Coon (7/20/1944) through Wickliffe Draper and Boydon Grey (1950's - 1960's), Jim Angleton, Charles Willoughby (Adolph Tscheppe-Weidenbach in TMWKTM), Robert Morris and then Ray S. Cline of the OSS/CIA and their "Manchurian" candidate programs started by "THE Manchurian Candidate" himself Anastase Vonsiatsky via The Pioneer Fund's MKULTRA co-operation through their protege Dr. Hans J. Eysenck, a Nazi collaborator. Cline, Angleton, Morris and Willoughby headed up "The American Security Council" together where they were able to plot at will against JFK. Did you know that outfit at all? Sorry for rambling, but Robert, you are truly "On the Trail of the Assassins" since you also see the Higham and Anderson themes merging together with the Condon and Carlson themes. Nice piece of work there, dude. Higham, the Andersons, and Carlson just helped me find the JFK suspects names which were embedded inside "The Manchurian Candidate" anagrams, both the novel and the movies. When you consider that people like Gerry Hemming, Joseph Milteer and Dick Russell's informant all pointed the finger at "The Patriots" you know now what they meant. As for me, I think this path leads to "JFK:The Final Solution" which I am completing right now. More later. Would you buy a copy if it was an eBook priced at about $20.00 including about 300 pages of details and information and photos and cross-validating proof?

Edward U. Condon was DEFINITELY NOT Richard Condon's father...but as one of the 1st victims of McCarthyism remains an important figure. Edward could have been related to Richard Condon just the same with another relationship. Richard (Thomas) Condon (1915-1996) American satirical novelist, playwright, and crime writer, best known for his thrillers THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1959) and PRIZZI'S HONOR (1982). Condon ridiculed among other things American politics, President Ronald Reagan, the U.S. Mafia, Hollywood agents, and fast-food business, all representing interconnected aspects of the same mad reality. Several of Condon's books have been made into films. "I thought that Condon's The Manchurian Candidate was one of the best books I had ever read. I just couldn't put it down and after I had read it, I thought, 'I've just got to make a film of it.' It had great social and political significance for me at the time, and it has certainly been - unfortunately - a horribly prophetic film. It's frightening what has happened in our country since that film was made." (Frankenheimer in The Cinema of John Frankenheimer by Gerald Pratley, 1969) Richard Condon was born in New York City as the son of Richard and Martha (Pickering) Condon. He was educated in public schools and served in the United States Merchant Navy. In 1938 he married Evelyn Hunt; they had two daughters. Condon worked briefly in advertising and then from 1936 as a publicist in the American film industry for 21 years, among others for Walt Disney Productions, Hal Horne Organization, Twentieth-Century Fox, Richard Condon Inc., and other firms. In 1951-52 he was a theatrical producer in New York and wrote a play, MEN OF DISTINCTION (1953). At the time it produced, he resigned as a vice president of RKO-Radio Pictures. As a novelist Condon made his debut with THE OLDEST CONFESSION (1958). "I am considered a compulsive writer because I spend a seven-hour day and a seven-day week at the typewriter," Condon once confessed. After moving to Paris in the 1950s, Condon lived with his family in Spain, Ireland, and Switzerland. Richard Condon died in Dallas on April 9, 1996. Condon's most famous thriller, The Manchurian Candidate, has inspired two film productions. In John Frankenheimer's Cold War version from 1962 a soldier, Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) comes back with his platoon from the Korean War with a Congressional Medal of Honour. However, he has been brainwashed with the rest of his unit by Chinese during his captivity in North Korea, and primed to kill at the release of a certain code. Shaw's primary target is a U.S. presidential nominee. His own mother (Angela Lansbury) turns out the be the Russian agent, who plans to elevate her husband to the White House. In the case of Major Marco (Frank Sinatra) the brainwashing has been only partially successful, and Marco unlocks Shaw's mind. Shaw kills his mother, stepfather, and then himself. "MARCO: Poor Raymond... poor friendless... friendless Raymond. He was wearing his Medal when he died. I tried to tell you what that means... to be a Medal of Honor winner... to a soldier, anyway..." (from George Axelrod's screenplay) The film was forbidden in Finland during a period of self-censorship, when center-left coalition governments wanted to maintain a good and trusting relationship with the Soviet Union. In spite of political conjunctures, the book was translated into Finnish in 1960. In thas been said, that the film was taken out of circulation in the United States after President John F. Kennedy was shot to death in Dallas. Condon's controversial story inspired also Jonathan Demme's film version from 2004, starring Denzel Washington as the plagued soldier and Meryl Streep as the intriguing mother. In this remake the Operation Desert Storm provided the background for the paradoid story. In the next ten years Condon published prolifically. His novel, A TALENT FOR LOVING (1964), a love story set in the world of bold and beautiful, was made into a film in 1969, starring Richard Widmark and Cesar Romero. AN INFINITY OF MIRRORS (1964) is a story about Paule, a daughter of a great Jewish actor, and Veelee, a descendant of a German military family, who fall in love in Paris. They marry, but on the eve of World War II their paths separate. When the persecution of the Jews starts, Paule leaves her husband, part of the monstrous machine. Veelee continues his career in the army and Paule finds a new lover. The death of their son, Paul-Alain, finally awakes Paule and Veele to see themselves as puppets of evil. "What I wanted to say," explained the author, "was that when evil confronts us in any form, it is not enough to flee it or to pretend that it is happening to somebody else..." "Paule concentrated on her house, on becoming a good German wife, and on learning to think and feel like a German... She had already read Nietzsche and it had madeher giggle, but she reread him with the memory of the storm troopers at earnest work all around the army staff car. She felt at home with Stefan George and von Hofmannstahl, though George's work had been used recently to make the Nazis more palatable in German intellectual circles. She would not read Kafka, the Czech whom the Germans adored; she could not afford hopelessness." (from An Infinity of Mirrors, 1964) Condon gained critical success again in 1974 with the WINTER KILLS. It paralled the lives of the members of the Kennedy family with a theme that murdering presidents is a good idea for world leaders who wish to better themselves. The story was also filmed, but despite its cast included Anthony Perkins, Dorothy Malone, Sterling Hayden, Elisabeth Taylor (uncredited) and John Huston, it was never satisfactorily released. One of its producers was murdered and the other sent down for forty years on a drugs charge. Jeff Bridges played a likeable dope and the half-brother of President Keegan, who was assassinated in 1960, tries to track down the man who ordered the murder. John Huston is his father (a Joseph P.Kennedy figure) who walks around in red bikini shorts. William Richert wrote and directed the film which has enjoyed a cult status. "The tongue-in-cheek approach makes what could have been a provocative vision of the corrupt American power elite into something quite trivial. Picture was shut down before completion, and in an effort to raise additional money, Richert made The American Success Company with Bridges and Bauer. Revised for a 1982 re-lease." (from Guide for the Film Fanatic by Danny Peary, 1986) The political scene and its scoundrels gave much material for Condon's novels. "Politics is a from of high entertainment and low comedy," Condon once wrote. "It has everything: it's melodramatic, it's sinister and it has wonderful villains." American presidents are portrayed in THE STAR-SPANGLED CRUNCH (1974) and THE FINAL ADDICTION (1991), in which a simpleton from Connecticut, Goodie Noon, succeeds President Reagan, and a frankfurter salesman, Owney Tompkins Hazman, tries to find his long-lost mother, Oona Noon, and becomes involved with political maneuvers. In EMPEROR OF AMERICA (1990) a private-sector nuclear device explodes in Washington, wipes out the White House. The Royalist Party and the National Rifle Association take the responsibility but Condon's target is Reaganism and its legacy, embodied in the character of an Army colonel, Caesare Appleton, who becomes Emperior Caesare I. Condon wrote: "The Reagan Administration - that shining definition of reigning glamour and romance associated with queens, big money, great dressmakers, great poverty, colorful (moderate) mullahs, glamorous (if shocking) scandals and entertaining South American drug lords - had overtaken the national imagination of a society which had been compartmentalized by money." In 1982 appeared Prizzi's Honor, the first part of Condo's 'Prizzi' saga. The satiric tale of the Mafia killers, and their romance was filmed in 1985, starring Kathleen Turner and Jack Nicholson. Condon wrote the script with Janet Roach. The film follows the novel fairly closely. Charley Partanna, a friend of pasta and a slow-witted hit man from a close-knit Mafia family, falls in love with a woman, Irene Walker, whose husband he had killed as a traitor. The woman turns out to be a freelance assassin. They start to plan a marriage, but finally the both assassins are hired to kill each other. Condon's stories often deal with the theme of loyalty and betrayal. Charley is loyal to his employees, although he do not want to marry one of the Prizzi daughters, Maerose (Anjelica Huston, the director's daughter in the film.) Irene wants to keep the money her late husband stole from the Prizzis. "Rest assured, however, Mr. Condon never allows reality to be too great a burden for the reader. Charley and Irene, in different ways, are eventually undone by the author's delightfully preposterous and perverse plot complications, but throughout the novel, Mr. Condon's wicked sense of humor keeps the dealings and double-dealings in proper perspective." (Robert Asahina in The Nwe York Times, April 18, 1982) Charley learns his lesson-there is no future outside the Family. PRIZZI'S FAMILY (1986) was a prequel to Prizzi's Honor. Charley Partanna appeared again in PRIZZI'S GLORY (1988), in which Charley marries Maerose Prizzi, and becomes Charles Macy Barton. This time he leaves the street operations for politics and other kind business. PRIZZI'S MONEY (1994) told a story of a woman, Julia Asbury, the daughter of a Prizzi hit man. After a few double-crosses, she is chased by the Prizzis who want their money back. Charley is sent after Julia but he falls madly in love with her: " They made cosmic music together. Why else, Charley asked himself, did he always wear a jacket and a necktie when he saw her?" For further information: Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers, ed. John M. Reilly (1985); The Reader's Companion to the Twentieth-Century Writers, ed. by Peter Parker (1995) Selected works: MEN OF DISTINCTION, 1953 (play, prod. in New York) THE OLDEST CONFESSION, 1958 - Väärät madonnat (suom. Antti Vahtera, 1960) - film: The Happy Thieves, dir. George Marshall, starring Rita Hayworth, Rex Harrison, Joseph Wiseman, Alida Valli THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, 1959 - Mantšurian sankari (suom. Juhana Perkki, 1960) - films: 1962, prod. M.C. Productions, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury; 2004, prod. Paramount Pictures, dir. by Johathan Demme, starring Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep, Jon Voight SOME ANGRY ANGEL: A MID-CENTURY FAERIE TALE, 1960 A TALENT FOR LOVING; OR, THE GREAT COWBOY RACE, 1961 - film: A Talent for Loving, 1969, dir. Richard Quine, starring Richard Widmark, Cesar Romero, Caroline Munro, Topol ANY GOD WILL DO, 1964 AN INFINITY OF MIRRORS, 1964 - Mustien kotkien vuodet (suom. Seppo Heikinheimo, 1965) screenplay: A TALENT FOR LOVING, 1965 - film 1969, dir. by Richard Quine, starring Richard Widmark, Cesar Romero, Topol, Genevieve Page THE ECSTASY BUSINESS, 1967 MILE HIGH, 1969 screenplay: THE SUMMER MUSIC, 1969 screenplay: THE LONG LOUD SILENCE, 1969 THE VERTICAL SMILE, 1971 ARIGATO, 1972 AND THE WE MOVED TO ROSSENARRA; OR, THE ART OF EMIGRATING, 1973 THE MEXICAN STOVE: A HISTORY OF MEXICAN FOOD, 1973 (with Wendy Bennett) WINTER KILLS, 1974 - film 1979, dir. by William Richert, starring Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Elisabeth Taylor, Sterling Hayden, Eli Wallach, Dorothy Malone, Richard Boone, Toshiro Mifune and Anthony Perkins THE STAR-SPANGLED CRUNCH. 1974 MONEYS IS LOVE, 1975 THE WHISPER OF THE AXE, 1976 THE ABANDONED WOMAN, 1977 BANDICOOT, 1978 DEATH OF A POLITICIAN, 1978 THE ENTWINING, 1980 PRIZZI'S HONOR, 1982 A TREMBLING UPON ROME, 1983 screenplay: PRIZZI'S HONOR, 1984 - film 1985, prod. ABC Motion Pictures, directed by John Huston, starring Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Loggia PRIZZI'S FAMILY, 1986 PRIZZI'S GLORY, 1988 EMPEROR OF AMERICA, 1990 THE FINAL ADDICTION, 1991 THE VENERABLE BEAD, 1992 PRIZZI'S MONEY, 1994

Before Joseph McCarthy, There Was Robert Stripling We never won the Cold War as decisively as we should have. -- blogger "Fjordman," posted at Gates of Vienna . Before there was Joseph McCarthy there was Robert Stripling. The chapter whose excerpts appear at the end of this post is found in Robert Stripling's The Red Plot Against America. The Red Plot was published in 1949, but has long been forgotten due to the liberal memory hole that dictates our popular recollections of that era. Having served ten years as Chief Investigator of the bipartisan House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Stripling provided a substantive primer on the precise nature of the Communist threat against the United States of America -- specifically, the threat from within the United States of America. The Red Plot narrates HUAC's meticulous work -- names and dates, details and wranglings -- which had been underway since 1938 and in which Stripling had been a prime mover. With America touched by the same totalitarian trends that had been blowing through Europe since the 1920s, HUAC was the premier governmental body to wage what I suggest we regard as the "culture war" of what (perhaps too hastily) has since been lauded as "the Greatest Generation." More to the point, HUAC was the scene of that generation's most charged political theater. Congress had created the Committee in the 1930s to publicly gather information on, primarily, American Nazis, Klansmen, and other homegrown fascists. Only later, as Communism's wide scope and insidious nature became apparent, did HUAC set out to expose the vast leftwing conspiracy of its American operations, a conspiracy propagated by both card-carrying members and fellow-traveling sympathizers. (Above: Robert Stripling and HUAC member Richard Nixon examine subpoenaed documents) Then -- as now -- moments of battlefield sacrifice and triumph could not, by themselves, efface grave civilizational uncertainties. On one hand, in 1946 Winston Churchill had delivered his Iron Curtain speech demarcating the line between the free and Communist worlds. Beginning in the summer of 1948 Whittaker Chambers had delivered ("more or less by chance," as Stripling relates) damning testimony about the Communist cell that had operated within successive Roosevelt Administrations and even in the newly-formed United Nations. On the other hand, that same fall breakaway Democrat Henry Wallace's presidential campaign with the "Progressive Party," which fronted for the American Communist Party, had received over 1.1 million votes (more than half, not surprisingly, coming from New York and California). Similar to today's neoconservative priorities -- of overhauling post-Cold War American attitudes to one-time geopolitical partners such as Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, the Palestinian Authority, and the Saudi royal family -- Stripling sensed, during his own era of unsettling realignments, a gap in our discourse vis-a-vis Communism. And he raced to fill it. Note well that when The Red Plot was being written, the junior senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, was still just a blip on the national radar. Goaded, perhaps, by the force of Stripling's argument -- which voiced frustration at the many obstacles placed in HUAC's way, including those from the Roosevelt White House -- McCarthy went on the offensive in the year following the book's publication, delivering his famous "Enemies Within" speech in February 1950. Yet The Red Plot Against America contains nothing that is "McCarthyite" and everything that is "Striplingite." It is a substantive rendering in plain, everyday English of the hard, often thankless, often vilified investigation into the American social fabric when European civilization was collapsing for the second time in 30 years. This work was undertaken -- transparently and vigorously -- by a small group of freedom-loving Americans in Washington, DC in order to preserve the integrity, viability, and endurance of the land Lincoln described as "the last best hope of Earth." Similarities to today's fight against Islamist infiltration and subversion of the West, a fight waged in large part on the Internet -- and just a portion of the Internet at that -- will, or should, be self-evident. (If not, then click through the links in the "Top Shelf Reads" category in the right column, including the brave, trail-blazing online work of Cinnamon Stillwell, Debbie Schlussel, Pamela Atlas and more.) A revival of HUAC in our time, in spirit and perhaps also in form, should be on the table. It's a matter of hard-nosed common sense and good governance. My principal concern, frankly, would be not for the mission of such a federal committee, but for the mettle of the members selected (or who would offer) to serve on it. Lifetime conservatives (of which I'm not) typically trumpet America's Cold War victory against the Soviet Union, a victory won despite decades of liberal opposition. Such conservatives have bragging rights, I guess. Thus Ann Coulter can pose for a photo at Senator McCarthy's grave and suggest, as she did at CPAC 2007, that student Republicans form "Joe McCarthy clubs" on college campuses. But bragging rights bring with them even bigger responsibilities. During our post-Cold War era there are many parallels to be observed and lessons to be learned from the "culture war" that was underway before the Cold War had even begun. . From "Conclusions," Chapter 13 of The Red Plot Against America [emphases and links added to suggest comparisons with contemporary issues]: In this concluding article of my series I'd like to get a few things off my chest, things I could not say while working for the House Un-American Activities Committee. I don't regret any of the years I spent with the Committee, though the work was neither easy nor rewarding. It was work that somebody had to do, and from its seed has sprung two tremendous Government programs, the $17,000,000 [1949 dollars] inquiry into the loyalty of Government employees and, directly or indirectly, the multi-billion dollar Marshall Plan.... But the House Committee, pioneers and forerunners in this work, at a meager fraction of the cost of subsequent development, has never known a period when it was not under attack. Vilification from Communists is understandable, for the Committee wields a tremendous weapon against them: exposure. Criticism from honest liberals has hurt the Committee much more. I know the morale of my own staff reached an all-time low when, after we unearthed the "pumpkin papers" which conclusively corroborated the spy-ring testimony of Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley, President Truman repeated his charge that it was all a red herring. Yet Mr. Truman emphasized in his vigorous Inaugural Address the very differences between Communism and Democracy which the Committee had been revealing -- through the lips of willing or reluctant witnesses -- for more than ten years. Labor leaders who condemned us a decade ago for suggesting that their unions were being contaminated by Communism have since reluctantly conceded that we were correct. President Roosevelt made at least two determined efforts to wipe out the Committee. Failing, for the simple reason the people want the Committee, he demanded of Martin Dies that the Committee thereafter confine its inquiries to Fascist activities. Committee members who tended to regard Communism with the same cold eye as they regarded Nazism were signaled out for especial scorn by pet columnists and commentators. The Committee was forbidden to reveal, six months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the scope of Japanese subversion in Hawaii and on the Pacific Coast. It is unimportant but relevant that I, after being instrumental in exposing the fact that Joe Lash and other pro-Communist youth leaders were enjoying White House hospitality, was "railroaded" into the Army. I quote the word "railroaded" because it is not mine. It was said by two Army colonels in discussing with me the curious phases of my induction. The legend has grown and has been carefully nurtured by clandestine and well-meaning interests, that the Committee has ignored Fascism to concentrate on Communism. That is a lie, as our records will prove. As the one more familiar with those records than anyone else, I know there are still many Fascists and fellow scum in the country, ready to pollute the American bloodstream. All they lack is a Fuehrer. Martin Dies fought the Ku Klux Klan in the face of six-shooters. My father campaigned against the Klan when it meant that he must face political ruin in his district and danger to himself and his family. The Nazis lack a Fuehrer and a purpose. The Communists have both, and combine the fanaticism of Hitler's followers with remarkable guile. They are irrevocably charged with fighting almost every ideal which made this country great. In event of a war with Russia they will be infinitely more destructive saboteurs than were the comparatively clumsy Nazi subersives. It is not easy to fight Communism. Communism, contrary to a popular phrase, IS something new under the sun. Its members and champions, many of them misguided liberals, can infiltrate, contaminate and dominate almost any field -- including the pulpit, though Communism is by rule a Godless calling. Graduates of Russian training schools are the world's leading authorities in the practices of disorder. It is incontrovertible that every key point, strategically, in the United States has been studied faithfully against the day when peaceful-looking American Reds will be called upon to come into the open and fight for Mother Russia. We have shown through testimony that they are past masters at working within the warp and woof of the United States Constitution. We have seen Henry Wallace, their befuddled sympathizer, come within a heartbeat of the Presidency [the Soviet dupe and "spiritual window-shopper" had served as vice president up until three months before FDR's death]. We know from the testimony of ex-Communists Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley that many Communists and distinguished followers have risen high in Government circles. We further know that between January 1, 1947 and December 16, 1948, 151 State Department people were removed from the Federal payroll, 91 of whose cases were classified as "of acute significance." And that is only one department. Coincidentally or not, it was State Department policy which abandoned China's 400,000,000 humans to the advances of Russian-controlled Chinese Red armies, and it is the considered opinion of men like Gens. Claire Lee Chennault [commander of the Flying Tigers, which included the author of God Is My Co-Pilot] and Patrick J. Hurley that we may one day be confronted by many of these millions, armed and thoroughly indoctrinated [one word: Korea]. Coincidentally or not, it was the State Department -- admittedly contaminated at that time -- which sold Poland, another ally, down the river. One of the chief criticisms directed at the House Committee is that we have smeared the reputations of good citizens. As I said earlier, I am not the official apologist of the Committee. It has made its mistakes. But whenever I hear anyone use the word "smear" in connection with the Committee's efforts I must ask him to name those persons we have smeared (of the hundreds of witnesses we have heard and the thousands of names introduced). The name of Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of the National Bureau of Standards, usually is brought up. Beyond his name there is usually silence. As I have pointed out, I made an effort to have Condon called as a witness in answer to his request. That he wasn't called, however, is comprehensible. This friend of many pro-Communists, who was not cleared by the Atomic Energy Commission to share A-bomb secrets at the time he was in charge of the Bureau's atomic scientists, was not heard because the Committee could not obtain from the White House the letter which J. Edgar Hoover had written suggesting that Condon was a poor security risk. I hope the Committee eventually gets that letter. I hope it hears Condon. If Americans believed all they have read in anti-Committee papers they must believe we used rubber hoses to extract testimony. The Committee is not a judicial body and never will be by law. It cannot operate under the rules of evidence, cannot issue indictments, cannot hand down verdicts. It was established solely to hear witnesses and, from their testimony, to recommend legislation. The Committee absorbed considerable punishment during its investigation of Communism in Hollywood, where the ideology has taken such a foothold that there are figures to prove that Party collections from members and their followers amount to $32,000 a week [1949 dollars]. It was held in many quarters that we had no right to ask witnesses whether they were Communists. It was said that a man's politics are his own business, as indeed they are. But we were not asking for information on a political affiliation. We simply asked these people, by asking them if they were Communists, whether they were members of a conspiracy determined to overthrow this form of Government. The fact that ten of them refused to answer on constitutional grounds, knowing, perhaps, that the Committee was in possession of 33 Communist Party cards of Hollywood celebrities, is, I will continue to believe, most significant. It is equally significant that ten of the 40-odd witnesses we questioned in the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers case stood on their constitutional tights, and that in his own testimony Hiss made 198 uses of the phrase "to the best of my recollection" or its qualifying counterparts. The Committee hears, by and large, a type of witness completely foreign to other Congressional committees in search of information. More often than not it is faced with subversives and fellow travelers who are superbly well trained and well advised in the incitement of public sentiment. The reactions of some members to their type of testimony have been provoked very artfully. What the Committee has revealed over the last ten years is hard for many Americans to believe. The average citizen cannot comprehend that one of the top officials of the super-important Board of Economic Warfare was a gamboling nudist whose literary output had to be confined to the pornographic division of the Library of Congress; that his successor was a kind of male strip-teaser dancer; that pressure enough was put on respectable authorities to cause the shipment out of this country of more than 1,300 pounds of uranium products at the time we were attempting to develop the A-bomb; that the chief Russian spy in the A-bomb espionage ring was impervious to arrest.... Ten years ago Joe Curran, of the Maritime Union, denounced the Committee vitriolically when we tried to bring out that his union was saturated by Communism. In 1946 he had to fight for his life against he Communists he had nurtured. We have seen the same things happen in many unions. But when one of our first witnesses warned against that peril, [HUAC member Martin] Dies was called to the White House and castigated by President Roosevelt for picking on the CIO on the eve of an election. Leon Josephson, one of the few witnesses we've had who was prosecuted by the Justice Department and imprisoned for the contempt he displayed for Congress, once said to an American consular officer, "I consider the orders of the Central Committee of the Communist Party above the laws of the United States, and I would do anything short of murder to carry them out." Many others the Committee has heard might have been as frank. The Committee, as constituted, is not equipped to deal with Communism. Communism has brought into being new techniques and tactics never envisioned by the founders of our Government. It may well be necessary to streamline even our judicial processes if we are going to cope with the menace. Gerhart Eisler's case is pertinent. He functioned for 20 years in this country, carrying out some of the most treasonable acts imaginable. The most closely organized group ever to appear on the American scene was at his command. He traveled back and forth to the U.S.S.R. on false passports; defied Congress. Yet he is still out of jail, and travels extensively over this country making speeches under the auspices of various front organizations whose leaders are dedicated to the destruction of this Government. [He would flee the U.S. clandestinely in 1950.] Committee investigators were long encouraged by the White House to exterminate Nazis by exposing them, which we did to a great extent. But when two of our men raided Communist headquarters in Philadelphia and seized records of great concern to the interests of the people, they were arrested on the orders of a Federal judge and the Committee was ordered to return the files. The F.B.I., if left alone, could clear up Communism in this country. I'd trust my life and the lives of my family in the hands of the F.B.I., if no political considerations were involved. It should be an independent bureau. Instead, it is hitched to the Department of Justice whose top men, politically appointed, are sometimes guided by political considerations. As extensive as are the files of the House Committee (files consulted by 20,000 accredited Government agents in the last decade) the F.B.I. files are of much greater magnitude. J. Edgar Hoover's men could round up at least 25,000 potential Communist saboteurs in short order, if war broke out with Russia. Some F.B.I. men, however, have discovered that their most comprehensive investigations of Communist subversives have been ignored when recommendations were urged for their prosecution. We know, for these men have come to us for support, and so have Civil Service Commission investigators, State Department men and others -- their morales cracked by frustration.... Personally, I seem to have committed the crime of attempting to expose people who seek to destroy our way of life. It is a job for which I was hired by chosen representatives of the people of the United States; a job to which I attended to the best of my ability. It is not a very good job, really, for the simple reason that it is now unfashionable, if that is the word, to be primarily interested in America and the preservation of its liberties. Apparently it is bad taste to expose the fact that Government documents of great importance are being stolen; that a President demanded the admission to this country of Mrs. Earl Browder [Earl Browder: socialist anti-draft agitator during World War I; Communist Party candidate for president of the United States, 1936 and 1940; imprisoned for passport violations, 1939; sentence commuted by FDR, 1942; died, 1973], over the protests of the State Department, because he did not want to be embarrassed by Joe Stalin's questions; that a number of Government officials, by their admission or refusal to answer, have been mixed up with a gang of cold-blooded subversives; that choice military secrets, including A-bomb data, have been passed on to the leaders of a country which since V-E day has overrun Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Albania and most of China. * * * . FTR, like almost every single book that has been decisive in my political maturation, no one and nothing in our contemporary American experience pointed me to The Red Plot Against America -- not one friend (many of whom are former friends), not one relative, not one teacher or college professor, nothing in popular or intellectual culture nor in the MSM -- nothing except my own disillusionment with leftwing politics, and my consequential efforts to come to terms with their legacy. July 11, 2007 in American History, Anti-Dhimmitude, Conservatism, GWOI - The 21st Century's Good Fight, Leftism, Leftwing Liberalism, Post-IWP, Russia, Second Thoughts, The Blogosphere | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/...0e00990c9b38833 Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Before Joseph McCarthy, There Was Robert Stripling:

Dr. Condon's initials were E. U. Condon according to this doctoral dissertation.... http://oregonstate.edu/cla/history/grad/go...0phd%202007.pdf Edward U. Condon, 1902-1974 The extraordinary career of Edward Uhler Condon, president of the American Physical Society (1946) and of the American Association of Physics Teachers (1964) ended with his death in Boulder, Colorado, on 26 March 1974. Born in Alamogordo, New Mexico, on 2 March 1902, Edward Condon was one of the young American scientists who made the pilgrimage in 1926 to Gottingen and Munich and grasped immediately the significance and power of the new quantum theory. As an undergraduate, Condon had worked as a reporter for the Oakland Inquirer, thinking he might pursue a career in journalism. But the intellectual challenge of physics, after a brief flirtation with chemistry, caught his fancy. When he returned from Gottingen, he worked briefly as a public-relations man for Bell Labs, lectured at Columbia, then embarked on an academic career that took him to Princeton, Minnesota, and back to Princeton, where he taught until 1937. Like most great scientists, Condon made important contributions w hile still a student. The basis for his papers on the separability of electronic and vibrational motions in molecules (the Franck-Condon Principle) was in his Berkeley thesis. With R.W. Gurney, he was an early explorer of quantum-mechanical tunneling, applied to the phenomenon of alpha-particle radioactivity. In 193, with Gregory Breit and Richard Present, he interpreted proton-proton scattering data and established the importance of charge independence in the strong nuclear interaction. His early solid-state theory work was the explanation of optical rotatory power, and later he studied semiconductor contact potentials. With Philip M. Morse, he wrote the first English-language text on quantum mechanics (1929). With G.H. Shortley, he wrote the Theory of Atomic Spectra (1936), still the primary treatise in the field. In later years, the Handbook of Physics which he edited with Hugh Odishaw, and his editorship of Reviews of Modern Physics demonstrated once again his facility for dealing with the full range of topics in physics. Younger physicists who may wish to emulate Condon's courageous public record as an outspoken defender of truth, civil liberties, and peace may lose sight of the momumental research contributions that won him the admiration of his fellow scientists and the respect of the public, which permitted him to make a major impact on public affairs. The second phase of Condon's career began with his move to Westinghouse as associate director of research, just two years before the beginning of World War II in Europe. He brought Westinghouse into the nuclear age and earned an accolade from Time as "king of the atomic world". He served on the National Defense Research Committee during World War II, but was not present at his birthplace in Alamogordo when the Trinity explosion gave that small New Mexico town its second claim to fame. With the war over, Condon became director of the National Bureau of Standards, and, concurrently, science advisor to Senator Brian McMahon, chairman of the special Senate committee on atomic energy. McMahon was leading the forces for civilian control of the nuclear-weapons program and with Condon's active help saw success in the McMahon-Douglas bill, passed in August 1946. Condon believed deeply that civilian control over nuclear weapons development and production was essential to avoidance of nuclear war. At NBS, as he had at Westinghouse, Condon concentrated his attention on good science, stripping away administrative encrustations of the past, hiring the next generation of scientific leadership, pulling together programs (like building technology) of great potential benefit to the public. He built the NBS Boulder Laboratories. But soon these accomplishments were dwarfed in the public eye by the relentless attacks of Congressman J. Parnell Thomas and the House Un-American Activities Committee, which Thomas headed. The press picked up the phrase in a HUAC report that stated "It appears that Dr. Condon is one of the weakest links in our atomic security." Time and time again, his security clearance status was reviewed and re-established, only to be challenged again. Finally, in 1951, wiht his record cleared and with Parnell Thomas in Danbury Prison, convicted of taking kickbacks from his office staff, Condon left government to become head of research and development for the Corning Glass Works. In October 1954, Condon's Navy clearance was again re-established in connection with government contract research at Corning. When the clearance was dramatically suspended by intervention of the Secretary oft he Navy, the press reported that Vice President Nixon, a former member of HUAC, implied in campaign speeches that he had requested the suspension. Ten years later, after Condon had taught at Oberlin two years and at Washington University for seven, he moved to Boulder, Colorado, as professor of physics and fellow of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics. His security clearance was quietly restored, clearing his record once again. What kind of man was he? Grace Marmor Spruch's profile in Saturday Review (1 February 1969) says it well: "The composite Condon is a moral, impassioned man, with a depth of concern for mankind not common in scientists; a man fiercely principled and anti diplomatic; a man who believes and feels in sharp contrasts, and who will let the world know his position without ambiguity. Fuzzimindedness is an anathema to him and he insists on saying so at every opportunity. But this rasping trait is wedded to an extreme generosity and kindness. Throughout his life he has given freely of his time, his counsel, his finances, and his home." Watergate came as no surprise to Edward Condon, nor did its aftermath. I imagine he would like to have lived to see the outcome of the impeachment inquiry. But Condon understood and paid his share of the price of liberty. Somehow his idealism, his sense of humor and his inexhaustible energy made his relentless quest for a better world look like optimism. He was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science during the height of his troubles with HUAC. He was president of the society for Social Responsibility in Science (1968-69) and was co-chairman of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (1970). He was appropriately honored on his retirement from JILA and the University of Colorado in the summer of 1970 by the volume edited by Brittin and Odabasi. Brittin relates a comment about Condon by E. Bright Wilson: "Sometimes I think he looks for trouble", Wilson said. Condon's reply: "It's not hard to find." Sadly, brilliant scientists - who serve their country and principles, their love of truth and their fellow citizens with relentless determination and delightful good humour - are hard to find indeed. Lewis M. Branscomb Vice President and Chief Scientist International Business Machines Corporation [Crow Professorship Home] [Exhibits]

I have just ordered this book (10 day delivery) but am just champing at the bit at the thought that this Dr. Condon who was one of the earliest victims of McCarthyism (The Case of Dr. Condon) might have been Richard Condon's father or another close relative. Bert Andrews actually won The Pulitzer Prize in Jounalism for this expose and you can get it for less than $5.00 from abebooks.com or alibris.com or a few other locations. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If our geneaology experts can find out the name of Richard Condon's father that would also be very helpful to compare it to the name of the Dr. Condon in this book. He was targeted by Edgar J. Hoover in 1947-48 right about the time my father was also targeted and hounded for stating that Robert Paine harbored some early communal living sentiments, leanings and poltical views. Full name is Dr. Edward Uhler Condon... http://www.project1947.com/shg/shglinks.html

The Voice of Elmer Davis Gerald Weales In the winter and spring of 1953," Elmer Davis says in the Author's Note that introduces But We Were Born Free (1954), "I was going around the country, preaching sermons on the need of defending the freedom of the mind." The substance of those speeches, reworked and pieced out with new material, became the long opening essay, "Through the Perilous Night," that is the heart of But We Were Born Free. Packaged with several essays from the same period, which began as articles or as lectures that in turn became articles, the contents formed Davis's first book since Not to Mention the War (1940). Except for his history of The New York Times (1921), where he worked from 1914 to 1924, and his novels, about which the less said the better, his books were collections of his magazine work. He begins the introductory essay in Show Window (1927)—"To You, Whoever You Are"—with a joke about the book's lack of unity and then goes on to discuss the contents in a way that indicates, as if by accident, that Davis himself is the unifying force in a gathering that ranges from an appreciation of Catullus (he took Greats at Oxford) to a caustic consideration of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, where he was born in 1890. There is no pretense of disunity in But We Were Born Free. Of "Grandeurs and Miseries of Old Age," he says, "This may seem to have no connection with the theme of the book; but you will find that it has." Even when Davis seems to go roundabout, his collection is clearly designed to insist that we are not yet through the perilous night and that we had better, as Americans with freedoms to defend, face up to the fake patriots— self-serving congressmen and professional anti-Communists, "who play the circuit of Congressional committees, as horse players go from one track to another." But We Were Born Free may seem to have been a little late getting into the field. Congressional investigations of presumed subversion had been underway since the late 1940's, when the House Un-American Activities Committee uncovered—if that is the word—the Hollywood Ten; and Senator Joseph McCarthy—"a master of the obscene innuendo," as Davis calls him—had made his debut as a self-advertised rat-catcher in his infamous Wheeling speech in 1950. Washington Witch Hunt by New York Herald Tribune reporter Bert Andrews had appeared way back in 1948. Not that Davis offers himself as a lonely fighter for freedom. The book is sprinkled with appreciative quotations from those who obeyed what Davis calls "the first and great commandment": "Don't let them scare you." This group includes not only fellow journalists but men like Judge Learned Hand, James B. Conant, and Harry S. Truman. Davis himself had been speaking out for years, as Roger Burlingame indicates in his biography of Davis (1961), which he calls—not surprisingly— Don't Let Them Scare You. As Davis says in a throwaway line in the essay on aging, "My fan mail includes a good many gleeful predictions that I am going to be lynched." Why then this new impetus in 1953, this urgency to preach from lecture platforms and through bookstores? It was the year in which Senator McCarthy was riding highest and was riding roughshod over opposition in and out of government. Davis gives their due to the HUAC and the Senate Internal Security Committee, but it is McCarthy who fuels But We Were Born Free. Who was Elmer Davis that he might be presumed capable of reaching and persuading an audience? That is a question I never expected to have to answer when I first considered a new look at But We Were Born Free, but younger colleagues and librarians to whom I mentioned the project simply did not know who Elmer Davis was. Celebrity passes quickly. Legendary figures aside, best-selling authors, politicians, movie stars, and certainly radio commentators fade quickly from public memory. My head is full of voices that once had a tremendous impact on the American public. I can still do a passable imitation of H. V. Kaltenborn, but where is the audience for it? The Elmer Davis who took to the podium in 1953 was not The New York Times writer, for he would have been largely forgotten by then; nor was he the author of light fiction even though Heywood Broun (I know: who's Heywood Broun?) once plugged Davis's amiable yawn, Times Have Changed (1923), as "The most amusing book we have read recently." He was not even the Davis who headed the Office of War Information during World War II. He was the radio voice, the one that, as E. B. White said in his enthusiastic review of But We Were Born Free (The New Yorker, Feb. 20, 1954), "in 1940 used to steady us at five minutes to nine, quieting our goose pimples." Davis got into radio almost by accident, substituting for Kaltenborn at the end of 1939 and then filling his own five-minute spot on CRS until he went to Washington in 1942; after the war he moved to ARC, where, according to Burlingame, he was given greater freedom to speak his own mind in his fifteen-minute "Elmer Davis Presents the News." That was the man who went after McCarthy in 1953, a crusade that is generally believed to have led to the first of the strokes that finally killed him in 1958. How effective was Davis's book as a weapon against McCarthy and his followers? Its critical reception was largely favorable, and the public response was strong. It sold almost a hundred thousand copies. Yet Davis had his doubts about the efficacy of his mission. At the end of the Author's Note, he writes, "I am afraid, however, that I was preaching mostly to just men and women who need no repentance." Ironically, it was another radio man, turned television personality (Davis's own brief foray into television came later), who greased the skids for Senator McCarthy's noisy slide from power. Shortly after the publication of But We Were Born Free in February, 1954, Edward R. Murrow in "See It Now" (March 9) presented the famous McCarthy segment in which carefully selected film clips were used to let the Senator damn himself. On April 22 the Army-McCarthy hearings began, and in December of that year the U.S. Senate censured McCarthy. Congressional investigations did not stop, and the set of mind that they represent has certainly not disappeared. Yet 1954 did represent a turnaround of sorts, and But We Were Born Free played an important part in that changing ideational climate. The book may have preached to the converted, but Davis did much to strengthen the convictions of those who had already found their way to the mourners' bench. Now, more than 40 years after its publication, what kind of life does But We Were Born Free have? That other anti-witch hunt document from 1953, Arthur Miller's The Crucible, has grown in popularity, now rivaling Death of a Salesman as the playwright's most frequently performed play, but it has done so by becoming divorced from the context that elicited it. Its historical setting allows it to speak of false accusation at any time and place. That is less easy for a book like But We Were Born Free. Partly as a result of his work in radio, where the day's news dictated the shape of his commentary, and partly out of his perception of the immediate danger to democracy, Davis works with specific cases—horror stories—of Congressional overreaching. To many readers the text may be allusive, full of names and events that once evoked predictable responses, but which are now lost in the shadows of the past, best recoverable in detailed histories for which books like Davis's are representative artifacts. To someone my age, for whom this period is not ancient history, the villains and victims are familiar; and I found myself frighteningly at home as I reread the book. Old angers, old exasperations were reawakened, but McCarthy has been dead for 38 years. That train has long since passed, and it is far too late to untie the innocent heroine from the railroad track. Yet there is nothing retrograde about the basic impulse of Davis's book. There may be something quaint about the idea of a domestic Communist conspiracy, and the impropriety hunters may now be after different quarry, but, behind whatever mask, the rectitude boys remain convinced that they speak for God, the country, and universal values. "This is a hard-hitting and exhilarating book . . ." wrote Charles J. Rolo in The Atlantic (April 1954), "full of quietly murderous thrusts at the heresy-sniffers, the doublethinkers, the would-be thought-controllers, the cowardly conformists, and at absolutists of various stripes." That is a cast of characters that no one should have difficulty recognizing today. Davis brought to his attack the strength of his refusal to be part of group-think from the left or the right. He saw the Communists in Russia and China as dangerous insofar as they stuck to their declared doctrine and pointed out that domestic anti-Communists were benignly uninterested in any threat from abroad. Even within the administration, he says, there were those who "if asked to name the two most important and dangerous Communists of recent years, would give you not Stalin and Malenkov, but Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White." He recognized that some of those investigated were indeed Communists without accepting that it needed indiscriminate accusations from congressmen and old Comrades (born-again patriots) to finger a few men and women who were in any case no danger to the country. In a parenthetic aside, he says, "Congressional committees seem to be the only people in the country who believe what they read in the Daily Worker." Two prevailing ideas, evident all through Davis's work, are central to But We Were Born Free—his distrust of true believers who insist that everyone else must be made to stand in their particular light and his conviction, perhaps an inheritance of 19th-century optimism, that people have the power to rectify wrongs, correct errors, rout intruders. These can be seen as early as his first novel, The Princess Cecilia (1915), at once an imitation and a parody of the kind of romantic fiction that Richard Harding Davis wrote—a book that the author later tried to forget. There is a peripheral character in the novel who has come to the fictional Ambok to study the conservative Moslem party for his History of Militant Puritanism from Chrysostom to Comstock (see Davis's "The Comstock Load: Reflections on Censorship," reprinted in Show Window), and there is a more important one, the president of the "Society in Favor of the Prevention of Things." The hero, an amiable Indiana boy fresh from Harvard, prefers to stand outside events, to look on with amusement, but the love of the titular princess brings him into the action on the presumed right side. Attitudes that are jokes or plot necessities in this happily forgotten novel become increasingly real for Davis. "Fear of intelligence, fear of thinking, fear to trust your own opinions" are the chief targets in But We Were Born Free. "But we can all do something to resist this general drive against the freedom of the mind," to stand up to "the kind of people who want to make other people think their way, or else to stop thinking at all." In the final piece in the book, "Are We Worth Saving? And If So, Why?," the mindless supporters of McCarthyism are generalized into a perennial presence, "a sediment, a sludge, at the bottom of American society" ("some of them white-collar and even top-hat primitives") who are "actuated only by hatred and fear and envy" of "their own neighbors who try to think." The point of the essay—of the book as a whole—is that although this sediment may be always with us, courage and a willingness to act, to speak out can prevent it from dominating our society. Today's newspapers are full of sedimental proclamations. Despite the minutiae of its period, But We Were Born Free speaks strongly to the present. "He was always more interested in content than in form and manner," wrote Robert Lloyd Davis, the author's son, in his introduction to By Elmer Davis (1964). That is probably true, but there is more than content to lure readers to But We Were Born Free. There is the voice of Elmer Davis, the one that E. B. White described and that August Heckscher celebrated in his New York Herald Tribune review (Feb. 14, 1954). In the Museum of Television and Radio in New York there are a few samples of Davis's radio voice. In three of his five-minute broadcasts from 1940 (May 30, May 31, June 1) he reports the evacuation of British forces from Dunkirk. He speaks without the hysterical note that too many television reporters bring even to minor events. There is something calming about his voice, quieting the "goose pimples," as White said; but the disastrous events are never covered over with soothing syrup. So it is with But We Were Born Free. Davis is not a stump speaker; despite his conversion metaphor, his sermons would be out of place in an evangelist's tent. There is never any doubt about the urgency of his message, but he gives it in a deliberate, intelligent, unhurried, and unharried voice, one marked—as his work always is—with wit and irony. At one point Davis cites a Ford Foundation grant "whose function was frankly stated as the restoring of respectability to the individual freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution" and the response of Congressmen R. Carroll Reece—a call for still another investigation of tax-free foundations. On the day that Reece introduced his resolution, a Congressional committee approved a bill to erect a monument to those freedoms. "The monument was to be erected right outside Arlington Cemetery," Davis says in a quiet finish to the passage. "If Mr. Reece and those like him have their way, it had better be put up inside the cemetery, along with the monuments to all the other distinguished dead." Sometimes Davis leans too heavily on a good line. At the end of a paragraph on the presumed advantages of getting old, including tax breaks, he says, "and if I have the additional felicity to become blind, I can deduct some more." He does not really need to begin the next paragraph with "I have no ambition to go blind at any age, despite the allurement." Most of the time, however, the acid asides and the summary final lines that complete ugly examples stand on their own. This is a familiar comic device, one that Davis used often in his magazine writing. For instance, in "Remarks on the Perfect State," a deceptive appreciation of Sparta, reprinted in Show Window, he ends a paragraph with a joke ("a helot had no more rights in Sparta than a conservative in Russia or a pedestrian in the United States") which should—but somehow does not—soften the point he is making. Certainly the wit that sprinkles the pages of But We Were Born Free never masks Davis's anger at injustice and his contempt for willful ignorance. "And convictions are absolutely incompatible with a sense of humor," says the hero of The Princess Cecilia, but that is before he finds those of his own. Convictions go hand-in-hand with a sense of humor, as But We Were Born Free shows, particularly when one is ranged against the humorless overconvinced thought-police. Elmer Davis's was a comforting voice in 1954, even as it argued that the perilous night would not end until we insisted on the return of the dawn's early light. It offers the same comfort and the same warning today. 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