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  1. Brian Schmidt
    Scott, I completely agree that Frank Sturgis shouldn't be written off. This was just a page for CIA and I originally had him on there, but then it's a slippery slope to start including other mercenaries, so I thought I'd make a separate one with them. There's just a lot of people who did work for CIA-connected projects that could be better classified in other categories like anti-Castro Cubans.
  2. Brian Schmidt
    Thanks, David. Larry Hancock messaged me, clarifying that Seal and WerBell weren't CIA employees, but rather contacts, so they would probably better be categorized with Hargraves, Hemming, etc.
  3. Brian Schmidt
    Thanks, Richard. I agree with your analysis--I don't think John McCone, Winston Scott, or Richard Bissell had anything to do with the assassination...Desmond Fitzgerald I'm not as convinced about, but I'd err that he wasn't. Good call on adding O'Neal, Miler, Egerter, and White. I also plan on making one of these for mercenaries, contacts, ground crew types which will include the names you mentioned: Hargraves, Barker, Hall, etc.
  4. Brian Schmidt
    I put together a yearbook-style list of CIA agents who have been named as suspects in the assassination. I only indicated people who could reasonably be considered conspirators--for example, I didn't include officers like John Whitten even though they were connected to the case because I don't believe they had anything to do with the plot--although some of the people on this list have tenuous ties. I also plan to make similar pages for mercenaries/anti-Castro Cubans, mafia figures, etc., so some of these categories overlap. This is why I didn't include people like Frank Sturgis, Gerry Patrick Hemming, or Rafael Quintero, even though they are agency connected. Similarly, Robert Maheu and Gordon Novel weren't officially CIA agents but did work as such, so they are hard to classify elsewhere. Anyway, obviously not everyone on this list worked in concert as co-conspirators in the assassination. A lot of these people didn't like each other or didn't trust each other. Who would you eliminate as being a conspirator? Who ranks highest in your mind as a suspect? http://postimg.org/image/sezx79131/
  5. Brian Schmidt
    Does anyone still have these photos?
  6. Brian Schmidt
    Why would Lee Bowers be considered a screwball?
  7. Brian Schmidt
    Why the need for compartmentalization if both know Kennedy's going to be assassinated anyway?
  8. Brian Schmidt
    If I had to guess, there won't be any smoking guns in the files per se, but there will be one or two big revelations--like something about Oswald or Hunt really was station chief of Mexico City in September '63. The mainstream media always incorrectly portrays the files as somehow being something any lay person could sit down and read. They are anything but. They are, for the most part, only comprehensible to seasoned researchers with knowledge of the interplay between the full cast of characters and CIA cryptonyms of the time.
  9. Brian Schmidt
    I intentionally avoiding mentioning the DeMohrenschildts or Paines account of the gun because if someone believes in a conspiracy, their trustworthiness is suspect for multiple reasons. So, let's not let the conversation spiral into one of whether or not the DeMohrenschildts or Paines were bona fides, but rather why Marina would lie to make her husband look guilty for 50+ years if he really didn't own the gun.
  10. Brian Schmidt
    She stopped doing as much TV but hasn't changed her story...
  11. Brian Schmidt
    Come on, Chris. She was telling the same story about the rifle in TV interviews well into the 90's. I agree in some ways that this is diverging from the original topic, but in some ways it's not. Because if Oswald really did own the rifle, it should inform the reasons for dissecting the money order in the first place.
  12. Brian Schmidt
    The rifle that Oswald owned. The one that Marina repeatedly refers to in her testimony.
  13. Brian Schmidt
    How did he get the rifle then Chris?
  14. Brian Schmidt
    I'm not talking about him being in the TSBD with the rifle, but there is no question he owned a rifle. That's all I'm saying.
  15. Brian Schmidt
    That he "could" have bought it through the mail doesn't explain why he did it. It simply makes no sense to create a paper trail leading back to oneself, if the goal is to kill JFK or Edwin Walker. If he was a fanatic that didn't care if he were caught then that is at odds with his actions and words. Your last sentence doesn't make sense. If I ordered a gun online, paid for it with a postal money order in the name of "Brian Schmidt" and subsequently used it to commit a crime then by your logic that would still be your gun? If someone else ordered it through the mail in order to create a paper trail for him, as some are suggesting, it still ended up in Oswald's hands as "his" gun, so they must have given it to him.
  16. Brian Schmidt
    Chris, just because it would have been more convenient for Oswald to buy a gun at a gun shop in Dallas doesn't preclude him from ordering it through the mail. Obviously some people did order rifles through the mail as there was a market for it. Anyway, the Carcano definitely belonged to Oswald whether or not he ordered it himself, was persuaded to order it, or didn't order it himself.
  17. Brian Schmidt
    Plus, even if the money order was legitimate, why is that necessarily a tally on the side of LN'ers? I get why trying to prove the money order was somehow faked would be a great shortcut to proving fallacious evidence in the official record, but this seems to represent another pushing of the envelope on the part of CT'ers.
  18. Brian Schmidt
    Has anybody here even used a money order? It seems there is some confusion as to what a money order is as a financial tool. It is not similar to a check in that it is already a 'secured' form of payment, therefore the 'endorsement' doesn't meant the same thing as it does with a check.
  19. Brian Schmidt
    Or possible "rogue" CIA officers like David Sanchez Morales? Was Morales well-enough connected to have access to those weapons? You know, to give to the hit men to use? --Tommy In a word, yes.
  20. Brian Schmidt
    Gene, Do you think there was more to it than just attempting to erode Kennedy's legacy with the public?
  21. Brian Schmidt
    Anybody who has thoroughly studied the case should recognize Files as a sham within five minutes of hearing him speak. I suspect, though, that he spent his time in the prison library studying up on the Kennedy case to concoct his story. In this regard, his story weaves in a lot of elements of popular conspiracy theories together in a way that does have some nuance and a novice may be fooled by him. We should invite him to the forum when he gets out.
  22. Brian Schmidt
    I've always thought the man in the Oswald leaflet photos looked a lot like Bill Shelley too. I keep going back and looking, like Tommy, to see if the guy in the photo looks younger than late 30's...sometimes I think he does, sometimes he could pass for late 30's--kinda looks like Sean Penn. To Stephen's point, it is always highly speculative to make conclusions based on blurry old photos, and often times the observer is bias in that he wants to find a CIA agent on Daley Plaza, for instance. Such a find would have the ability to 'leap-frog' through decades of research and prove that there was almost undoubtedly a conspiracy. I still remain somewhat hopeful that facial recognition software might someday give us definitive answers. The problem might still be that the photos are too poor quality, though. For example, a while back I tried to use Facebook's facial recognition software (which is quite good) to see if it found a match between the man on the corner of Elm & Houston and known pictures of Rip Robertson. The problem was--presumably because part of his face was blocked and it was so low resolution--is that it didn't recognize the man at the corner of Elm & Houston's face as a face at all.
  23. Brian Schmidt
    Part 1: http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/10/20/jfk-assassination-plot-mirrored-in-1961-france-part-1/ Part 2: http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/10/21/jfk-assassination-plot-mirrored-in-france-part-2/ Part 3: http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/10/22/jfk-assassination-plot-mirrored-in-1961-france-part-3/
  24. Brian Schmidt
    I got it for my dad for Christmas when it first came out and read it while visiting him last summer. It's very New York Times--mainstream, safe, not explosive or revelatory. Having said that, there were a few hidden modest gems that anyone who isn't fully versed with the context & cast of characters (perhaps even Kinzer himself didn't know the value of) wouldn't appreciate.
  25. Brian Schmidt
    Byrd removed the East window frame--the one all the shots supposedly came from--and put it on display at his house. I wasn't aware that the museum has a conspiracy exhibit, but I haven't been there in 15+ years.
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