David Andrews

Larry, check if I have this convoluted story in order, and give me an opinion on my question, please. Harry Hecksher was "Bob," and "Bob" presented himself to Nagell as a double agent for Russia "Bob" coerced Nagell into surveilling Oswald for the Soviets If Nagell refused, he would face exposure for a previous action "Bob" had gotten Nagell to unwittingly perform for the Soviets If that's all correct as we know it...is there any way "Bob"/Hecksher could have lied about being doubled by the Soviets, and was actually stage managing Nagell's pursuit of Oswald for CIA or some part of the intelligence apparatus?

1981 letter on Nagell from Bud Fensterwald to author Jack Swike, with Nagell's notations on photocopy. Check the reason he wouldn't talk. Nagell also angrily wrote to Swike that the time for interested researchers (such as Swike and Dick Russell) to have questioned him was when he'd been "taken for that ride on the Texas merry-go-round and put through the wringer at Leavenworth, not now." He apparently thought his Mexican standoff had gotten him what he wanted, and didn't want the balance disturbed. Though researchers had persuaded him to go back on that before.

Thank you, Larry. Did you say earlier that there was another Nagell blog post coming? Can you remind us: what was the approximate date that Nagell tried to defect at the US Embassy in Mex City, as your blog post notes?

Also, Nagell's profile may have lowered as the Garrison investigation faded from currency, leading to the decision to snuff him as the ARRB threatened to pluck him from obscurity.

Remember that Nagell's post-incarceration motives were to reestablish his government pension and to obtain access to his children from his divorced wife. Both were achieved in spite of heavy odds - due to his evidence gambit, he claimed. Prior to that he was offered a kind of redemption in a mission to East Germany, only to be arrested there and exchanged in a spy swap - Nagell felt that he had been set up and burned, putting him in danger. He managed to keep any aggressors at bay with his tales - accurate or not - of possessing a cache of secrets, including an alleged tape of Oswald talking to Cubans about a Washington, DC, plot. What may have happened by the time of ARRB is that management at CIA and any other concerned agency had changed over time, and the present officials were no longer interested in playing Mexican standoff and opted for the kill and the seizure of his materials. Did he have a purple trunk? That was the sort of item women owned in the kicky 1960s. One may have been left behind by his Japanese wife, and Nagell may have stuffed it sardonically with his goods.

Her friend, and former JFK intimate, Florence Pritchett Smith dying the next day at 45, also... Though there is controversy about the relationship and the death recorded here: https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKsmithF.htm https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/5421-dorothy-kilgallen/page/8/

It's like they're emulating Adele cancelling her Vegas residency...

It's possible Stevenson had him pegged for the bughouse before November 1963.

If indeed a #4 OC type was mentioned, how would Christensen know this at the time? One possibility is that this ranking was stated by a (foreign?) intelligence source that originated the message Christensen picked up. Assuming Christensen filed that name away for decades due to trauma, #4 would have had to be notorious by 1977 for the civilian Christensen to recognize his name. How would he then have known to upgrade his rank to #2? JFKA-related Mob press coverage? Could this be two incidents conflated? Christiansen picking up a message about international OC and a planned JFKA, plus Christensen later pulling a name out of the cast of Mob characters linked to the JKA by the press c. 1975, and bandying it about to get better VA benefits? Who would contradict him? In his letter he seems to hope Stevenson recognizes enough context to assume that a notorious name was involved. A bluff like that would be at par for a dischargee writing a serving, career non-com to ask for benefits support using as leverage a current hot-button issue such as the assassination, and not expecting the letter to be turned over to military intel. Christenson suggests that Stevenson knew, at the time, that Christenson cracked up after the assassination, and because of the intercept. Yet Stevenson denies knowledge of the intercept, and so do three sources Mark Bridger interviewed (including the otherwise voluble "John Wayne").

TheGuardian on Neil Young vs. Joe Rogan: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/27/neil-young-spotify-joe-rogan-covid-misinformation

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Daily Mail calls it: Game to Rogan. Spotify WILL remove Neil Young's music after his Joe Rogan ultimatum https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10445441/Spotify-remove-Neil-Youngs-music-singer-protested-Joe-Rogans-vaccine-misinformation.html

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Is this article being forwarded to Newsom's office?

It should be an interesting play-out: losing Rogan's audience vs. losing Neil's catalog in perpetuity, if the estate is forbidden to return to Spotify. Like Dylan's catalog, Neil's will skyrocket in value with his demise. Will Rogan still have an audience then? I'm tempted to call it for Rogan; but in most similar affairs, the party issuing the challenge is brought to compromise his extremist stand. There will be song publishers and heirs to palliate. Underrated, moody live album, great with liquor and cigarettes - Road Rock, Vol. 1. It's all on YouTube, if the Spotify thing goes south:

And guess which one's going to go... Neil Young demands Spotify remove his music over Joe Rogan vaccine misinformation ‘They can have Rogan or Young. Not both,’ writes musician in an open letter to his management that has since been taken down from his website https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/25/neil-young-demands-spotify-remove-his-music-over-joe-rogan-vaccine-misinformation

I'm aware of Frazier's Enfield. Use "Enfield" as a search term to see posts on early news reports of a Lee Enfield found in the TSBD. I make no endorsement of the accuracy of the reports.

...Then there was the rumor that an Enfield rifle (British) was found in the TSBD, or in another building in the Plaza...

At this point, there may be a 2022 GOP midterm sweep. But does Trump really have control? Is the 2024 nom lying in the street for anyone to snatch up, as Napoleon said of the French crown? For Ron Bulman:

A bird who flew into the Mailer tent when he wrote the JFK-defaming text for the Marilyn photo book, and stayed through The Executioner's Song and, importantly, Oswald's Tale. You may imagine the species of bird I mean.

Interesting video on photos of the action in the LBJ limo. Members are not obliged to accept every statement or conclusion: A separate issue, apart from the LBJ action: notice at c. 2:00 - 2:09, Chaney's head turn earlier in the motorcade compared with his turn in Altgens. Who is Chaney looking at in Altgens? The MC cops on the other side? At c. 0:55 in the following video, Chaney declares that Kennedy was "shot in the face by the second bullet":

Is there a good enlarged detail of Altgens 6 that identifies the persons visible in the LBJ convertible? In the podcast, McBride mentions that a CBS cameraman took a lost film of the assassination. Could it be this that Dan Rather saw and reported on, and not Zapruder?

Hell On the Border: or, Turning Texas into El Salvador: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/covid-outbreak-suicides-shoddy-living-conditions-texas-national-guard-troops-voice-border-mission-mistreatment/ar-AAT0oV1

Agreed and upvoted on all accounts. But even Frank can't do Lewis like Lewis. Mostly he does him as Frank, which is telling. Sinatra said at fifty that he'd have the body of a 22-year-old man, "if I hadn't spent all those years drinking with Joe E. Lewis." There's a whole world of sad-clown debauchery here that could be mined for the movies, but the last guys who cared were Billy Crystal, and Scorsese at the end of Raging Bull.