Richard Booth

And Michael Paine told the Houston Post on 11/23 that Oswald shot at Walker. But he's just this friendly Quaker. Nothing to see here.

The clip of Ruth Paine speaking to a reporter--it's in a lot of documentaries--she says "of course she needed someone to translate" and I thought straight away "her husband speaks Russian! She speaks English! What is Ruth Paine making that up for?" I think it's really quite obvious that Ruth Paine was an asset, witting or not. I don't know about the conspiracy, but as for the cover-up, she was absolutely witting. Making up crazy stories about needing to translate, using her garage as an evidence factory.

But Jim, Ruth Paine was just a benevolent Quaker volunteering out of the goodness of her heart. In seriousness though, has anyone actually examined Ruth Paine's excuse for why she inserted herself into Oswald's life, being that she claims that poor pregnant Marina needed someone to translate for her? Has anyone ever brought up how absurd that excuse is given that Marina Oswald was married to a man who spoke English and Russian who was perfectly capable of translating for her? Or that Marina didn't need anyone to translate because she spoke English? Ruth's excuses and lies (under oath) tell us a great deal.

He would have been shot, and A.J. Weberman would have been setup as the patsy for his murder. "Crazed fan shoots Dylan" ...

Hi Pam, This absolutely happened. There is a podcast called "Wind of Change" which is a podcast about investigating whether or not the German rock band "The Scorpions" was used by the CIA at the end of the Cold War. Their song, "Wind of Change" is basically about the fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of the USSR, and it became a #1 hit--you may be familiar with it. It swept through the USSR and the youth loved it. The podcast was a result of a discussion one of the podcasters had with a high ranking former CIA agent. The CIA officer told him that the CIA was responsible for the "Wind of Change" song. You can see more about the theory here: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/may/15/wind-of-change-did-the-cia-write-the-cold-wars-biggest-anthem During the podcast, the podcasters contacted and spoke to a number of CIA officials: Burton Gerber, Milt Bearden, Jonna Mendez, and a few more, and asked each one about the story. Most of them denied it. However, one agent told them about a dinner party that Senior Intelligence Staff members attended in the 2000s. She said that there was a "rock star" present at the party, and one of the members asked the rock star why he was there, how he knew all of the predominantly CIA employees. The rock star replied that during the cold war, the agency had used him for some of their "messaging" The CIA is sending glomar responses and non-denial denials when you send FOIA requests about the CIA possibly being involved with the Scorpions' "Wind of Change" song. One agent told the podcasters that one of the primary reasons the agency would avoid this subject is because the practice of using pop stars to saturate pop culture with ideas is still probably being carried out--it's still an active source/method. With this in mind I wonder just how many pop/rock stars might have been part of some kind of CIA operation. Regarding "Wind of Change" -- I tend to believe the CIA officer who says the agency was involved in that song. And one thing I noted that was very interesting, is that song was released in three languages. There was the English language version, there was a version recorded in Russian, and a version recorded in Spanish. Now, tell me this, how many rock bands released 3 different language versions of a song!? That struck me as unusual! Another thing, too, is when I look at the lyrics to Wind of Change and compare those lyrics to other Scorpions songs, it's quite evident to me that the lyrical and poetic sophistication in 'Wind of Change' was leaps and bounds above the level on display in other Scorpions songs. Most of their material looks like it was written by a fifth grader, with very crude lyrics and little poetic value.

Right, this guy was evidently Colonel Flagg level Military Intelligence. His idea of an influence operation is writing a strongly-worded letter to the CEO of a huge company. When I worked in the Shareholder Relations department of a large company, part of my job was opening the mail. I regularly received letters addressed to the CEO. In 10/10 cases, these were letters written by crazy people. Anyone with a bit of intellect knows you don't get through to the CEO when you send a letter to the company addressed to him/her. Most of those letters went in the trash. If I had received a letter complaining about a co-worker, I might show it to my boss. It would never have reached H.R., though.

It seems to me that he leveraged his knowledge of classified things when he wanted to get things he needed -- pension, out of prison, his kids. Once he got what he wanted, he kept his mouth shut. Being nearly shot to death and having a grenade thrown at you also tends to make a person reluctant to talk. He was smart enough to realize that others who did open their mouths often ended up dead. For some, a subpoena or interest from the HSCA was followed quickly by death.

@Vince Palamara -- reading here about the harassment you faced in 2013 -- appalling. The fact that this guy wrote to the CEO of your company to get you fired is one of the dirtiest, shittiest things imaginable. His accusations of "un-American activity" are laughable and ironically are the only un-American thing here, this notion that your constitutionally-protected speech is somehow in and of itself not American. HIS actions were the un-American actions here. In addition, it shows that your work evidently was hitting some kind of nerve if you've got people trying to interfere with your life.

Mic drop

I've never read a word about the HSCA that relates to Nagell, causes me to wonder if ANY of their investigators even knew who he was.

What strikes me the most about Nagell's letters is his sense of humor. It's 2 parts espionage, 1 part Mad Magazine.

If I recall, the candidate suggested most often is Tracy Barnes. I don't know anything about Barnes' political affinities. Meyer on the other hand had a well known history as a leftist in his youth, to the extent that the FBI refused to give him a security clearance and Allen Dulles had to jump to his defense. If anyone at CIA is to be identified as a "long suspected leftist" it's Meyer. What's more, the stuff he was involved in at the time could lead one to conclude he was a "confirmed rightist" It fits Nagell's descriptions, but that could just be coincidence.

"Actually, Abe is Leftist-turned Middlist." Based solely on that description, Cord Meyer fits the role. I am less-than-convinced that Cord Meyer was involved in the JFKA ... having said that, Cord Meyer fits. There probably aren't too many figures at CIA in this time period who were leftists or former leftists, so the roster should be relatively small. My attention would go towards Meyer and perhaps others who were in Wisner's OPC who were accused of being Communists or having Communist sympathies in the late 50s.

Not only can a human being be so programmed, but we saw it operationally used with Sirhan Sirhan. I suspect there may be more examples of people subject to "behavior modification" than we will ever know.

Browse is still non-functional for me, insofar as all folders are empty and no files are displayed. You can navigate through the folders -- and have been able to do that for some time, navigating has worked. The problem is that no files are presented inside of any of the folders. You click a folder and there just isn't anything there.

Hey Steve, Yeah, seems like all the files are still there. You can access them, at least partially, through this link http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg Subject Index Files/ It appears that hack that has happened here is simply disabling the primary user interface that is used to browse the collection. That is what is not working, so if you just want to browse you're out of luck... I was looking for Weisberg's testimony to the Garrison grand jury where he talks about Orestes Pena and Warren DeBrueys. I could not find that, I looked in the Weisberg 'G' folder for Garrison and also looked in the 'P' folder under Pena but no dice.

I believe the wallet was planted there by someone following orders, and this person need not know the full scope of the plot which can be said for most of the plot's participants. That's just how a compartmentalized operation works. Having said that, I think that the most likely explanation for the wallet is it was planted there. I believe that W.R. Westbrook was involved in doing this. Westbrook had absolutely no business being at the Texas Theater, the Tippit scene, or at the TSBD. He's essentially a human resources clerk, what's he doing examining murder crime scenes? What's he doing discovering wallets at crime scenes? What's he doing working for the CIA in Saigon a few years later? If CIA was involved in this they would need assets in-place in the police department, and I believe they had those assets in Dallas and they had those assets in the LAPD when Bobby was shot.

Thanks, Chris!

Not a double agent in the conventional sense of that word. What I think Nagell was doing here in referencing a "single" "double" or "triple" was the relationship of a person to the conspiracy. Single-man Snerd describes a conspirator, loyal to the operation. Double-Man Abe refers to a man who is peripherally involved in the conspiracy, or is aware of it, but is not loyal to the conspirators. In this reference, we have Tracey Barnes figuring out some kind of conspiracy is underway and he uses his own assets to investigate to find out more. He's a "double" insofar as he is not loyal to the conspirators, he is in a position to know something, but is not just silently going along. He's actively trying to find out more, presumably because he doesn't agree with the conspirators. That is how I view these designations. Nagell is talking about a person being a "double agent" of the conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy, rather than a literal double agent working for U.S. and Soviet intelligence.

Hughes was still most certainly an asset -- project Azorian was '74 and the Hughes Glomar Explorer built in '72 and that was an Agency sponsored project.

The power being shut off seems to me very significant. I don't think it was a prank or LHO, my immediate suspicion is the power was shut off in order to allow someone to clandestinely and safely get to the first floor and exit by using the inside of the elevator shaft. In doing this it would allow safe passage unobserved.

I only became aware of it rather recently. I've been watching Emma Best on Twitter, given her recent hacking endeavors, and it was on her Twitter feed that I found the relationship between her and Mark Zaid and it was also from her Twitter feed that I found she had copied the entire Weisberg archive. I recently discovered Best's reporting on MuckRock. She wrote a very good article about James Angleton's so-called retirement. I spent an afternoon reading all of her reporting there and that is where I came across her anti-Garrison stuff. It seems that she feels free to admit to her hacking endeavors -- admissions of crimes -- on Twitter because her targets are frequently far-right organizations: Parler, Gab, GiveSendGo. Based on this, it seems like she feels that her hacking endeavors are fully justified and you find her doing things like offering stolen databases to journalists on Twitter. What she doesn't realize is that even if your hacking targets are reprehensible people, that doesn't somehow make it not a crime to steal their databases and then offer it up on a public forum. It's almost as if she doesn't care about the legality of it because her targets are ideological opponents so it's justified. I believe she will probably find herself going to prison if she continues to be so brazenly public about these hacks.

Your article is very correct about the F-111 being an exceptional aircraft. I've seen pilots talk about it, it was actually used in Desert Storm and one of it's pilots can be seen talking about that on the History channel program Dogfights. In one episode, there is a pilot talking about flying an F-111 variant (EF-111A Raven) that featured no offensive weapons--it was flying in an ELINT / signals / electronic warfare role. Anyhow, this pilot was engaged by Iraqi pilots flying Mirages outfitted with plenty of weapons and he managed to win in a dogfight by nature of the plane's maneuverability. He actually was able to cause pilots giving chase to crash their aircraft. You've got a very good pilot -- and a very good aircraft -- to win a dogfight without any weapons, using only maneuverability to your advantage. I guess this was the only confirmed kill by an F-111 pilot, you can see more about that here: The same can't be said for the F-35. It is outclassed and outperformed by Sukhoi and MiG airframes from previous generations.

I suspect it was hacked by Emma Best. She is an anarchist hacker and has uploaded millions of documents to archive.org, including uploading every document that resided in the Weisberg archive. Not long after she wrote a script to download everything from the Hood site and upload it to archive.org, to her own site there, it appears the Hood site stopped working. I find it uncanny that the site was defaced and stops working around the same time a known anarchist hacker was in the process of copying all of it's contents to her own site. She has also been involved with hacking Parler, Gab, GiveSendGo, and a number of other sites. She is involved in doxing people and releasing personal information, and also has slowed down FBI FOIA requests for legitimate researchers because she has filed thousands of FOIA requests, with her requests representing 5% of the FBI's backlog of FOIA requests. Her big thing is requesting the FBI files for all dead agents, she takes the FBI's list of deceased agents and then requests all the deceased agents' personal information and intends to post it online. As a result of her thousands of FOIA requests that she submitted in 2016, the FBI actually stopped taking FOIA requests via email! They used to do that. I had some outstanding requests back then, and what she was doing in 2016 was she wrote a computer script that would basically send an email to the FBI automatically--it would email the FBI a FOIA request and she integrated her script with a database of deceased FBI agents, and she ran the script. What happened next was the FBI received about 5,000 FOIA requests in a single day, all of them sent via email through this automated script she wrote. Well, within a couple weeks of her script-FOIA project the FBI stopped accepting FOIA via email and required that requests be sent via snail mail. Best is a particularly disruptive figure. Allthough she did write a very good piece on Angleton, her real-life behavior is very troublesome and I expect she may end up in prison for the hacking she has participated in. She also wrote a Garrison hit-job (see below). I think her position is that Clay Shaw was a poor gay man being persecuted for being gay... shades of Litwin. She's also friends with Mark Zaid who has helped her with FOIA lawsuits... Anyway, in her Garrison hit piece she pulls out the tired typical bullshit that suggest Garrison was indebted to the mafia and that the CMC stuff was KGB disinformation: https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/aug/02/jim-garrison-fbi-jfk/ I can't help but notice the Weisberg archive stopped working immediately after Best copied the contents of the archive ... and given her disruptive hacking endeavors I don't think it's a stretch to see a correlation between the site no longer working and the site having got her attention...

It seems it's just the interface on the website which is broken. You can still get to files here: http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg Subject Index Files/