David Andrews

1st Director of the Central Intelligence Agency In office April 21, 2005 – May 5, 2006 President George W. Bush Deputy Albert Calland Preceded by Position established Succeeded by Michael Hayden Director of Central Intelligence In office September 24, 2004 – April 21, 2005 President George W. Bush Deputy John E. McLaughlin Preceded by George Tenet Succeeded by Position abolished Chair of the House Intelligence Committee In office January 3, 1997 – September 23, 2004 Preceded by Larry Combest Succeeded by Pete Hoekstra Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida In office January 3, 1989 – September 23, 2004 Preceded by Connie Mack III Succeeded by Connie Mack IV Constituency 13th district (1989–1993) 14th district (1993–2004)

Porter Goss: Goss attended Yale University, where he was a member of the secret society Book and Snake. He was also a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity with William H.T. Bush, the brother of George H.W. Bush.[921] At Yale, Goss joined the Army Reserve Officers Training (ROTC) program and, during his junior year in 1961, was recruited by the CIA. Over the next few years he was based at JM/WAVE, the CIA station in Miami where he worked with famous deep state operatives such as Ted Shackley. In a 2002 interview with The Washington Post, Goss stated that he performed “small-boat handling,” leading to “some very interesting moments in the Florida Straits.”[922] It has been reported that Goss was one of the hundreds of CIA officers employed in Operation Mongoose, the covert U.S. project to displace Cuban leader Fidel Castro.[923] Vince Cannistraro, who was a CIA agent at JM/WAVE, claimed that Goss “was involved in the Bay of Pigs operation, he worked out of Miami with Cuban exiles... and took part in... attempts to overthrow Castro.”[924] Goss later acknowledged that he had recruited and run foreign agents and he said that he would be uncomfortable traveling to Cuba.[925] Reuters called him a “mystery man,” and said that he had been “close-mouthed about his past.”[926] In an interview Goss claimed that during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis he worked for the CIA as a photo interpreter.[927] Wirt Walker’s father did the same kind of work for the CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation Center at the same time.[928] Over the next decade, Goss worked for the CIA’s Directorate of Operations as a covert operative in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Western Europe. His primary role was to infiltrate trade unions in the fight against the perceived threat of communism.[929] In his book, Barry and the Boys, journalist Daniel Hopsicker published a photograph that he had received from the wife of CIA operative and drug-trafficker Barry Seal. Hopsicker claimed that the picture “was taken at a night-club in Mexico City on January 22, 1963” and included members of a team called Operation 40. One of these men, according to Hopsicker, was Porter Goss.[930] Operation 40 was a CIA-sponsored team of operatives accused of conducting assassinations. According to a senior member of the Cuban security apparatus, it was funded by an “important group of businessmen headed by George Bush (Snr.) and Jack Crichton, both Texas oilmen.”[931] Operation 40 would assassinate military or political members of a target foreign country, as well as those suspected of being agents of those foreign countries.[932] There have even been suspicions that the group was involved in the assassination of President Kennedy.[933] -- Kevin Ryan, Another Nineteen: Investigating Legitimate 9/11 Suspects, Microbloom, 2013 Brief sample reprinted for review purposes. Plus see: https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKgoss.htm

Well, yeah, but we're talking about people who knew each other (Lafitte and Souetre), and stereotypically would have had the hauteur of francophones who would get upset about the different spelling of names pronounced homonymically with sweat (Souetre) and suit (Soutre), at least by English-speaking philistines that couldn't throw a quick, half-sounded r noise at the end of each. You know - huffy Frogs looking for a fight, and not nice, equitable people like you'd find in Dallas or New Orleans. That's who'd be fussy about spelling. Or, are you saying that Sweat might have given his name to Lafitte as Suit?

Well, but living people, today. If Helms knew, then Colby knew, etc. But, since we're doing this, if one finds Colby's 1996 death suspicious, consider the timing: in the ARRB period, and in the aftermath of Stone's JFK. And not because he gave away the so-called "Family Jewels," but because of what, and who else, he might be tempted to give away. Activities during that transitional node between Dulles and Helms, when McCone was kept out of the loop.

My money would be on types who could disappear into a Dallas crowd, and not attract attention through exceptional appearance or vocal accents. Especially since the patsy picked had an outsider look. Could even be someone who might blend with the African-Americans employed at the TSBD and other Plaza buildings, such as Nestor Izquierdo.

The only cancel culture-worthy topic they could find in the whole affair. At this rate, Tommy Lee Jones' performance as Shaw in JFK will be next to go to the block. Or maybe JFK deserved to get hit because #timesup.

Dick Cheney, through past associations with several presidents, including GWB's father. For a start.

It's like Lenny Bruce said about the blood libel business: "Whew! They found a note: 'We did it.' signed, Morty."

Ahmaud Arbery killers guilty in Georgia: https://www.salon.com/2021/11/24/jury-finds-three-men-guilty-in-of-ahmaud-arbery/

In French, are the surnames Souetre and Soutre pronounced the same, so that a francophone such as Lafitte would confuse them? Y a-t'il des indigenes presents pour commenter?

Well, after all this time and all that concealment, there probably aren't people in government that know precisely who killed JFK. There were probably very few in 1963, and there was only marginally more documentation to conceal then. There may be proportionally more people in Dallas, or from Dallas (or New Orleans, or Miami) who know some part of the facts. Perhaps the best one could hope for in government is some secreted operational history based on anecdote and sparse documents, largely meaningless individually. Did one ever exist? John Newman has put together as much. The best we could hope for is a preserved cache of photos or film to confirm some suspicions or raise new ones.

I'd say he walked for the same reason OJ walked: It was what the city wanted at the time.

Et tu, Guardian? In which all exploration of the extremities of government and policy are now lumped in with QAnon, anti-vaxx and 5-G. Just like they do at Salon.com: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/nov/24/jfk-revisited-through-the-looking-glass-review-oliver-stone-returns-to-the-grassy-knoll

As James Stewart admonishes Kim Novak in Vertigo, "You don't keep souvenirs of a murder." Yet her character did, and people do.

Alecia Long's dipsh*t Twitter feed, for voyeurs: https://twitter.com/aleciaplong?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

I guarantee the Hogan book is, as they used to say, "a page turner." And Jane Wenner was a hot, stoned mess. The current best classic rock/new music magazine is Mojo, from England. Puts all of post-1979 Rolling Stone to shame, plus a free CD with every issue: https://www.mojo4music.com/

Read Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner by Joe Hogan to get a line on the intentions and the endgame of the magazine. Highly recommended to all.

From obscurity to a university press book to...the WAPO. Classic chessboard jump among the Mockingbirds. Look for her in a counter-historical documentary by the end of 2022.

Would SHO sell the film any better if they ran the expanded film in December, as a special event?

I'm not sure a county prosecutor would request a change of venue within a state - seems like bad form, and a slur on local judges.

That's OK: most people would stickle for "really should" in place of my "should really."

OK, Bob, sorry. It's too bad the prosecution couldn't defer to a change of venue: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/civil-rights-attorney-says-kyle-rittenhouse-trial-with-a-different-jury-you-would-have-a-very-different-outcome/ar-AAQY6X1?ocid=Peregrine

For my fellow pedants: "bated" is short for "abated," meaning one held one's breath in anticipation. It should really be rendered as, 'bated breath, but we lost the apostrophe in our headlong rush to modernity.

Would love to see or hear the Irv Kupcinet "At Random" TV show episode (March 1964) in which Marguerite Oswald is interviewed on a panel featuring Hjalmar Schacht.* https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/marguerite-oswald-interview-44578/ The Museum of Broadcast Communications doesn't make this available in its Online Collections. _____ *You know you've read too many WW II books when you can spell that name on the first go.

Oh, come now, William. I have conceded my error, and fully give my assent to the Rittenhouse verdict. I further wish to thank young Master Rittenhouse for his selfless actions in keeping our property insurance rates down.