David Andrews

Interested readers should google the 35-page (2015) PDF "Ghosts Of Spy Wars" by Tennent H. Bagley, or better yet, google his free-to-read 2007 book "Spy Wars - Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games" I have the article download. Can you steer us to the link for the free book?

Once again, from Richard Case Nagell's prison letter to Arthur Greenstein, a reference to the silver issue. Who was Abe Greenbaum? "Here's a more up-to-date lead on Abe Greenbaum: 'Informant F-HC reports subject handed suspected courier forty pieces of silver on 10/21/62 at Laredo, Mexico, for delivery to nuclear physicist residing in house on 92nd Street, New York City. S/A B. O. Schernnn, Washington, D.C. Field Office, reports subject seen 11/28/62 walking east on Beacon Street, constantly checking for tail, suddenly dashing into parked limousine sporting U.S.S.R. Embassy license plates, which speeds away, runs red light, terminating surveillance as Agent Schernnn forced to brake bicycle to avoid breaking the law. Informant F-111-B reports subject and suspected courier observed at King's Tavern, Wilmington, Del. on 12/6/62, paying for drinks with strange-looking silver dollars taken from bulging briefcase carried by subject. Subject now suspected of being Mr. Big in Communist plot to disrupt U.S. economy by flooding country with hard cash.' "Abe Greenbaum, long suspected leftist is actually confirmed rightist, in deep cover, working plausible denial bit with one of nation's leading and best-financed foreign policy-making firms."

No cast of middle-aged mob leaders fired on JFK from buildings with their deer rifles, Jamey. Those were trained shooters. Why would mob leaders expose themselves like that? The video might as well say that Jimmy Hoffa was up there. And Rolando Masferrer is not going to be a spotter - he was a businessman and financial backer of exile forces. The "filthy, smelly sewer," while unpleasant, was only a conduit for rainwater from Dealey Plaza and areas upstream. As the video shows, that similarly middle-aged researcher in boonie hat and camo jacket emerged relatively unbefouled - you can also find his sewer tour on YouTube.

What could it possibly show other than the 26 sec shooting sequence? The turn of the limo onto Elm Street. We can surmise that this is cut from the extant Z-film because there is no light flash recorded on the film between the motorcycles entrance sequence and the limo entrance sequence. Because of a design flaw in that model camera, every restart was signaled by this flash frame.

Tommy: I don't think CIA dood it alone. I think they were the executive arm of higher, monied interests. I think the CIA had low-level collaborators from several anti-Kennedy concerns. Hoo doo yoo think dood it? Honestly - all this over literary theory, and an article that doesn't even mention the Kennedy thing. Oversensitive? Tommy, I'm starting to think you've leased your identity to Len Colby, and that he's posting under your name. Your new picture even looks like Len's old picture. And you're using phonetic comedy just like Len did: "dood da deed." It's reminiscent of Len's satirical "blame da Jooz" tag line. These little tip-offs make us literary theory lovers' ears perk up.

Gene, It's the season for Eliot: http://eliotswasteland.tripod.com/ Thanks for turning me on to that article, and the journal it's in.

This is a swell article. How I want to look for, and find, more interdisciplinary studies of the cold war and the assassination. I may write some further critique in the near future, when I can scratch up more time. For now, the passage below stands as a great précis of the Golitsyn-Nosenko business, but accidentally, through giving Angleton too much credit. Angleton forced a premature conclusion on the two defectors precisely because of his discomfort with the unresolved (underscoring added by me): [Angleton] also had the professional’s necessary interest in ambiguity: an intense commitment to the elimination of ambiguity where sources conflicted (rather than the amateur’s tendency to attempt to reconcile conflicting statements, as though both might be true, rather than both being false) combined with the ability to live with the unresolved so that one did not force a premature conclusion out of sheer discomfort. (Winks 326)

Not only that, but the "shadow" doesn't follow the circumference of JFK's head. Unless the back of his head has been....

I just haven't cared for Hamsher as a political journalist, period - having piggybacked a career as a pundit atop a career as a film producer. Too easy to get visibility, too easy to rise above one's talents, too easy to co-opted into the conglomerate homogeny of the "left." Jane Hamsher speaks for Jane Hamsher's career. I don't wear blinders where Caroline Kennedy is concerned. She should have started in city politics some time ago, where she could have toughened up, made connections, and learned. Her Senate bid came too late in a life without political foundations.

Jane Hamsher doesn't deserve a journalism gig. Then again, so few do...

Here's who the conglomerates tell us is on the left: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-lefts-top-25-journalists

-- And then he ratted Oswald out on the paper bag thing. Hank Williams Lyrics \ "Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw" [SPOKEN] A neighbor was passing my garden one time She stopped and I knew right away That it was gossip, not flowers, she had on her mind And this is what I heard my neighbor say: "That girl down the street should be run from our midst She drinks and she talks quite a lot She knows not to speak to my child or to me." My neighbor then smiled and I thought: [CHORUS] A tongue can accuse and carry bad news The seeds of distrust, it will sow But unless you've made no mistakes in your life Be careful of stones that you throw. [SPOKEN] A car speeded by and the screamin' of brakes A sound that made my blood chill For my neighbor's one child had been pulled from the path And saved by a girl lying still. The child was unhurt and my neighbor cried out: "Oh! who was that brave girl so sweet?" I covered the crushed, broken body and said: "The bad girl who lived down the street." [CHORUS] A tongue can accuse and carry bad news The seeds of distrust, it will sow But unless you've made no mistakes in your life Be careful of stones that you throw.

It sounds like Buell just wanted to nail down his Friday night schedule, since he was doing Oswald a favor and trying to make a friend. Plus he's trying to convince the WC of his good motives and character. Would anybody elaborate this much about their view of life if they weren't on the witness stand? Buell's spoken kindly of Oswald on other occasions. Maybe Buell wanted a friend who wasn't heedless and rude like his co-workers. Maybe Buell imagined that he'd meet the literati while working at a textbook depository - I've been about that dumb before. Other oddities in the Randle household seem more pertinent. I'd be more impressed if we discovered unusual connections between the Frazier-Randles and other conspirators.

Smokin' in the boys' room - yes, indeed.

I'd like to see that post. Where exactly is the suppositional background for this claim that master spy LHO was exuding seductive vibes toward a 19-year-old hayseed that he had known for just over a month, and that they were returned? There's enough weirdness in the Paine-Randle neighborhood.

Did Posner "meticulously investigate the Mengele case," as Brokaw maintains in the interview?

Marina aside, some useful stuff in this video, and some valuable period media memorabilia. Interesting how ex-cop Joe Shimon repeats the third-hand rumor that Sam Giancana was stitched around the mouth with bullets, when the morgue gurney photo in the documentary shows no such thing, and neither do the crime scene photos of the body. One wonders where that canard originated and why it spread.

Well, OK - but what did the Soviets get out of an LBJ presidency. Unless they wanted a war on China's doorstep.

LOL Regardless, what if the JFK assassination was a Soviet job, and all of the conspiracy theories and books and movies and scholarly panels and websites it spawned led to more and more distrust of our own government and institutions, and then along came Rush, and Breitbart, and Roger Ailes, and Alex Jones, and the next thing you know .... "Boom goes the dynamite!" What a long and uncertain game that would have been. We should have a thread showing how events in the cover-up, plus the general "tone" of the assassination and cover-up, point right back to the perps in the US. We've done this from post to post, but not really on a grander scale. Stuff like Len Osanic's "50 Reasons" videos was a step toward it.

BBC documentary on the Z-film, featuring Richard Stolley of Time-Life: One of the commenters on the YouTube page raises a good point: Why was Zapruder allowed by police to leave Dealey Plaza with the film, and given time to (allegedly) get it processed himself?

At about Z225, where Kennedy and Connally both react to the bullet through the windshield (Kennedy wounded), Kellerman is looking off to the crowd on the right side of the limo, not at the windshield.. Altgens 6 shows kellerman looking slightly to center left, as he's in mid-turn to look over his left shoulder at Kennedy. I would like to think Kellerman saw the windshield hole at the moment Altgens 6 captured him, but that may be wishful thinking. We can't really see Greer until the limo is nearer to Zapruder.

I'm of the belief and judgment that Zapruder shows that the throat wound bullet came through the front of the windshield, tearing past Connally's left side (so close that you can see him swat at the bullet as if it were a bee) before striking JFK. If you look at Altgens 6, where JFK is already suffering the throat wound and beginning his slump - Jackie is at that point touching his left hand - you can see that his head is rapidly slipping out of view through the windshield, and may be further obscured by the limo top's crossbar as the limo descends the slope of Elm Street. So I'm thinking that the frontal head shot at Z313 is fired from over the top of the windshield and crossbar, or at any rate not through the windshield. Could the south knoll shooter have been crouching for the first shot, and standing for the second? Are the two shots from different shooters?

Tippit, from witness accounts, was agitated at the Tip-Top Record Store, and when pulling over the Andrews car. Under the tensions and dangers of the day he might reasonably have lost his shyness. Why not draw his gun? If he wanted someone to get in and put on the uniform, or to give him info on Oswald's whereabouts - well, it was period custom for cops to pull iron on their own authority. No supervisor would call him on it, that day of all days. Why get out of the car at all? What if he was drawn on first, and made to get out of the car? Not drawing his gun leaves a lot of possibilities open. Another possibility is that he knew the persons(s) he was dealing with, and was convinced that he could get what he wanted out of them without going so far as to draw on them. And then there's the Westbrook-Croy scenario.

A useful question, I hope. Why didn't Tippit draw his gun when exiting the car? We have no accounts saying that he did. If his revolver had been found out of its holster...we might not have more certainty but we'd certainly have more to discuss. Less cynically - drawing his gun in caution might have saved Tippit's life. So, if he's not accosting someone, or some pair, with gun drawn, why is he getting out of his car? Did he think his badge and height/size alone would be intimidating, on the day of an assassination?

I've seen it apart from the Gratz article, in GPH's own words, FWIW. I believe GPH claimed that this shooter hit Connally. GPH also attached a joke about this guy being paid poorly because he was a bad shot (!) Who knows with GPH. I'll try to find the quotation.