Paul Brancato

Thanks for setting the record straight. 
Pat - the centerpiece of the article Mr Rigby posted was Bernstein’s bombshell about Operation Mockingbird. My father, who was a very well and knew all about the CIA shenanigans and overthrows, could only guess how infiltrated the msm was. He complained that the ‘liberal’ arm of media was only marginally better than the rest. 
It is naive to think things are different now. 
Ben - start a thread in the political discussions about Hunter Biden and his laptop. When I read coverage I’m struck by how far apart the left right versions are. 

As for keeping a watch on Nazis during the WC hearings, they also had Dulles for that. The common link that explains our embrace of Nazis is business. McCloy and Dulles represented US business and banking interests who for the most part did not want to enter the War, hoping to see the USSR destroyed. The enlistment of the remains of the Nazi war machine into our military and Intelligence structures after the War did not emerge in a vacuum. 

Ken burns did a pretty good job of covering FDR’s lack of action to protect European Jewry in his pbs series America and the Holocaust 

1 hour ago, Allen Lowe said:

Thank you for reprinting about 10 pages of "evidence," none of which is anywhere near proof that the Israeli's had prior knowledge of 9/11. I need to explain something to you - there were approximately 3000 Jews killed in the WTC bombing. If you know anything about Israel and the operations of its intelligence services, they would never have approved or ignored a terrorist act that resulted in such massive loss of Jewish life. And you have absolutely nothing, some possibly intriguing actions and connections, but no evidence, NO EVIDENCE, connecting these men and women to the bombing. Much less the JFK assassination.

Allen - believe me when I say I agree with you not Matthew, and we’ve strayed far from Ben Gurion. But did you mean to say 3000 Jews killed? 

On 7/22/2023 at 10:33 AM, Allen Lowe said:

uh, no it does not; does putting pesticides (which is poisonous) on crops  constitute an attack against the citizenry of the USA? The original post more than implied that they were advocating a form of chemical warfare. Look it up - this wasn't it. Any more than the pesticides would poison farm workers. Yes, there would be some residual danger - I am not advocating for this action - but it is a far cry from chemical warfare.

Also - biological weapons are composed of very specific kinds of toxins - if you read the document they propose using agents "which would appear to be of natural origin." In which case, this is NOT a biological weapon. Unless you can tell me, please, what they had in mind. If not, then you have no basis for the accusation.

Yes actually, putting pesticides on crops does constitute an attack on US citizens. 

Lafitte?

2 hours ago, Leslie Sharp said:

I was thinking that since he goes all the way back to the first days of recruitment of Otto Skorzeny, he might get an honorable mention here.  But, I understand your reasoning.  I'm wondering now if Silver crossed paths with Col. Robert G. Storey at Nuremberg, or Leon Jaworski?

I never met Hank, but loved his books enough to send him an admiring FB message, to which he nicely responded. He entrusted me a few messages later with some focal points of his research into the diaries, namely Otto Skorzeny, who he thought was possibly QJWIN, and Jack Crichton, and swore me to confidence. I was very familiar with Colonel Crichton, but only vaguely with Skorzeny. So I started searching for anything on Skorzeny and soon stumbled upon Arnold Silver’s recollections of his official US Army Counter intelligence Corp interrogation of Otto, in which he recommended Otto’s release, saying he found him to be a patriotic German but not a Nazi. Silver even stated he thought Otto should be allowed to relocate to his stated preference, Madrid. Which is what he did. I mentioned all this to Hank, thinking I was possibly sharing something momentous. He essentially dismissed it as a bit of braggadocio on Silver’s part. Question for those more knowledgeable - is Silver mentioned in the Lafitte Datebook? 
The more I looked at Silver’s bio the more curious I became. His clear association with Harvey, and with the QJWIN operation, make him a prime suspect in my mind for bringing Skorzeny and probably others to Harvey’s attention. So, not meaning to derail this thread, I hope Robert that you open one on Arnold Silver soon.
 

Peter - this is your own creation? Interesting graphic way to view this. There are a few sections without red circles. Are these based on info in Coup in Dallas? Also noticed no Mexico City. Are there references in Lafitte’s diaries to MC operations? 
btw welcome to the forum. 

1 hour ago, James DiEugenio said:

Yes, before the bomb went off, like I said , Oppenheimer thought it was not their decision.

But like Sean mentions and I did in my review, I thought the worst decision was to keep on working on it after they knew Germany--for whatever reason--was never even close to the bomb.  BTW, Oppenheimer had met Heisenberg  man years previous, I think in his student days.

 

 

So Oppenheimer was following the dictates of the Pentagon

39 minutes ago, Benjamin Cole said:

Man, oh man, oh man, oh man. 

I am not well-read enough in these particular docs, and the context, to offer much critical observation. 

But everything RM says is documented, and can be checked and verified. 

Everything I do check, pans out.

RM has shown beyond quibble there is an indefensible repugnant post-war history of the CIA using Nazis and ex-Nazis, who were war criminals and worse.  

Such characters certainly were of the moral fiber to have a president assassinated. We might legitimately fear as the CIA used Nazis, the Nazis were using the CIA. 

That is long way from proof, but...something to ponder and investigate. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I agree - certainly proven that CIA incorporated Nazis, and not just a few. And it’s also true that this has largely been hidden. I think there is a good possibility that the East, USSR, East Germany and the Warsaw Pact had a similar arrangement with Nazis. The Spy Who Would Be Tsar, by Kevin Coogan, examines this idea, based around Michal Goleniewski, a Polish defector. Bottom line - The Cold War was a creation of International fascists, including Nazis both east and west, to bring about an eventual Fascist global power structure that transcended nationalism and borders. If Robert sees this post, maybe he will comment, correct, refine my postulate. 

48 minutes ago, David McLean said:

Okay Paul, pique got the better me, and to advance this project begun by Hank and his team and engaged by us here, let’s move on from personal motives. Apologies offered in the spirit of collective endeavour.

David - I appreciate that and completely agree. If you felt targeted please forgive me. It’s my general feeling, and I’ve expressed it now on many threads in various ways, that collective endeavor as you call it is far more likely to break new ground. 

Greg Mitchell, author and documentarian, reviewed the movie for Democracy Now yesterday, and though he said it was worth watching, he mentioned some of what you have, and also that a petition by scientists to not use the A bomb against Japan was squelched by Oppenheimer. 

Does the movie address the controversy about dropping the A bombs on Japan?

I don’t think that Greg’s question about authenticity is out of bounds. Hank, Leslie and others have done much useful research on the names listed therein, and I follow them. What Greg is asking is for more information on where the diaries are located, when they appeared, whether some are still being withheld by Lafitte’s family, what is the current state of authentication, etc - all good questions - and think that impugning his motives is out of bounds. 

Reading this Robert - what a nest of vipers. Glad to see Mr. Simpich weighing in. 

8 minutes ago, David Cooper said:

I’d like independent proof but my source described meetings with OS after his funeral. 

It is a shame that at this late date we are still withholding names. I’m not meaning that to pressure you. Clearly this would be explosive info. When I did a quick Google search it didn’t come up, but previously I have been more successful. I’ll have to dig deeper I suppose. 
Robert - do you think this is a rabbit hole? 

Robert - it’s very strange to me that AMWORLD - I followed the link - was kept secret for so long. Is it safe to say first of all that as an operation it was singularly unsuccessful if its mission was to foment revolution in Cuba. So might there have been a more secret mission? I noticed that Henry Hecksher ran an AMWORLD safehouse in Mexico City. Doing what I might ask? 
So Colonel Prouty worked directly with the Dulles brothers as focal point officer for the CIA within the Defense department from 1955-63, doing some kind of very special special ops. His definition of that is so broad and mysterious. Do we have any notion what special ops he was involved in during that tenure? 
I’ve got about a million questions….

Once again incredible work Robert. 
David - I’ve seen that rumor. Posters here like Leslie don’t believe it. How do you assess the credibility of your Intel source? 

Even the Military Order of World Wars states that Colonel Crichton ran a MID. And Colonel Brandstetter’s book states that his ‘big brother’ at ACSI sent him to join the 488th in Dallas in about 1959. There is only the question of what size the unit was, and whether Crichton was blowing smoke when he made that oral statement which btw is in the 6th Floor Museum archives but was mis-filed because they had the spelling of Crichton wrong. I did find it though, and pointed it out to the director. Presumably he corrected the ‘mistake’. The MO of the real 488th fits perfectly with Crichton’s MO.

Kirk - there are a few Williams here so next time say which. Second, Jim D did what I would have done but find no need to, which you apparently ignored when you wrote this untruthful post. 
You are in fact living in the bubble of fake news that has overwhelmed nearly everyone I know. If you read what he said on this issue and any other, you would see it is very clearly NOT how it is reported. There is an agenda to destroy him, unlike anything I have witnessed in my lifetime. Why? Because he’s dangerous to the American public? Dangerous yes, but not to our citizens, to corporate fascism. 
Why do Kennedy family members opinions matter? Maybe they just don’t want to lose another member of the family. Or maybe they can’t tell the difference either between what he says and believes and how it is reported. They’ve joined the Mockingbird chorus. Imagine having to sit through a Congressional hearing and listen to some doofus Democrat invoke his father’s legacy and chastise the son. We shouldn’t forget that they have no credibility when it comes to the legacy of JFK and RFK, demonstrably. 

2 hours ago, Ed Berger said:

@Leslie Sharp Apologies if this is already familiar information, but your comment here is very interesting to me (especially in light of the expanded role that Wilson-Hudson seems to have had in these critical events):

The Bronfman connection to Empire Trust lands not very far from Permindex at all. Bloomfield, the proxy agent for various shareholders into Permindex, came from the big Canadian law firm of Phillips & Vineberg, which happened to also be the primary firm utilized by the Bronfman family. The senior partner of Phillips & Vineberg, Philip Vineberg, was the chief legal advisor for the dynasty for well over forty years. 

While I've never seen evidence that Bloomfield himself worked on Bronfman affairs, Philip Vineberg himself did straddle the joint worlds of the Bronfmans and Permindex. Case in point is this blogpost by Maurice Philipps:

 

Another MAJOR interlock between these various worlds is Mark Millard, who was an energy specialist at Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co (which itself links out to Empire Trust via the Loeb family's intermarriages with the Bronfmans and their own stake in Empire Trust). Of Millard, Edgar Bronfman wrote "I had enjoyed many successful business dealings with Mark over the years, and I trusted him deeply.” Besides working with the Bronfmans and the Loeb empire, Millard appears in the following:

• In 1952 he was a found director of D.H. Byrd's Byrd Oil Company.
• In 1956 he was named as a director of the Great Southwest Corporation, the Wynne family-William Zeckendorf-Rockefeller development project between Dallas and Fort Worth that was of such interest to Peter Dale Scott.
• In 1959 he became a director of Stanton Oil Company alongside David Baird, whose fraudulent, securities-dealing foundations were outed as CIA funding conduits. Baird, who has been terribly overlooked by researchers, appears in a letter from Louis Bloomfield to Carlo D'Amelio as a prospective addition to the CMC board. 
• In 1961 he was added to the board of Canadian Javelin (following Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co) buying into the company. Canadian Javelin was, of course, the bizarro Newfoundland 'development' company (read: mob outpost) that links backwards to the World Commerce Corporation and also appears in Coup in Dallas in conjunction with Pierre Lafitte's own fraudulent securities dealings. 

As a final side note, I put some info in a recent thread on the 488th intelligence unit on potential connections between Empire Trust, Jack Crichton, William Dalzell and Yemen. Would be curious your thoughts on this and potential connections to the Proctor/desert references that you're referencing. 

Ed - before I dig into your Permindex etc info I want to say I’m glad you are posting here. 

1 hour ago, Allen Lowe said:

uh, no it does not; does putting pesticides (which is poisonous) on crops  constitute an attack against the citizenry of the USA? The original post more than implied that they were advocating a form of chemical warfare. Look it up - this wasn't it. Any more than the pesticides would poison farm workers. Yes, there would be some residual danger - I am not advocating for this action - but it is a far cry from chemical warfare.

Also - biological weapons are composed of very specific kinds of toxins - if you read the document they propose using agents "which would appear to be of natural origin." In which case, this is NOT a biological weapon. Unless you can tell me, please, what they had in mind. If not, then you have no basis for the accusation.

You have no basis for concluding that whatever they were thinking of using wasn’t dangerous to humans. 

Kirk - what post are you responding to? William? Don’t see it.

Have you listened to RFK Jr say the Covid virus was engineered to spare Jews and Chinese? Please point me to it.

3 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:

Here's the 2004 NYT mea culpa, Paul.

FROM THE EDITORS; The Times and Iraq - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

 

But, as Glenn Greenwald and the Intercept pointed out 11 years later, the NYT continued to crank out military industrial propaganda about our Middle East war ops for years after the 2003 Iraq invasion.

The Spirit of Judy Miller Is Alive and Well at the NYT, and It Does Great Damage - The Intercept

Thanks for pointing that out William

1 hour ago, Allen Lowe said:

does anyone actually read these documents? It advocated use of chemical agents to promote "crop failures." NOT against Cuban citizenry; this was part of a general plan of sabotage against Cuban economic targets. Big difference.

Allen - how does using chemical agents to promote crop failures not constitute a chemical attack against the Cuban citizenry? You’re grasping at straws. Put yourself in the field, or at the dinner table. Imagine how many people worked on those farms? This wasn’t agribusiness as we know it now. And if it was implemented, how many Cubans went hungry as a result? What about the farm animals?