Steve Thomas

Paul, I am just going on memory here, but I seem to remember that there was a John Birch Society meeting the same night that Adlai Stevenson spoke; that was sparsely attended because so many people had been whipped up into a frenzy about going and protesting Stevenson that night. Walker (and others) had got them all worked up the night before about Stevenson coming to town. The details are buried somewhere in my notes. Steve Thomas

Paul, With respect to the line in your re-post about Walker's military people from Germany, I'm assuming the author meant Larry Schmidt. One interesting thing, Warren Commission Document #320 is a memo from SS Agent Rowley. On page 162 of that Report there is a newspaper article from October 27, 1963 issue of the Dallas Times Herald concerning the (Adlai) Stevenson incident. In the article, Bobbie Joiner, (who got arrested in front of the Trade Mart on November 22nd), said there was no preplanning for Stevenson incident, but that, “some of the signs used were stored at former Major General Edwin A. Walker’s headquarters on Turtle Creek Blvd.” http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...p;relPageId=162 This was the same incident that Larry Schmidt took credit for in one of his letters to Bernard Weissman. Schmidt was also quoted in the same October 27th issue. On page 6 of Wallace Heitman’s April 29 Report, right in the middle of a discussion about the Cubans in Garland, he says that his source said that (blank) and (blank) (Raphael Quintana and Raoul Castro?) of Alpha 66 had told him that they had attended the meeting at the Dallas Municipal Auditorium in October, 1963 where Adlai Stevenson had given a speech and that they had worn placards outside the Auditorium which were anti-Stevenson in context. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...p;relPageId=215 I'm not sure what this proves, other than these people were at the same place at the same time. Did they know each other? I don't know. From the WC testimony of Michael Paine: http://jfkassassination.net/russ/testimony/paine_m1.htm Mr. LIEBELER - Are you a member of the American Civil Liberties Union? Mr. PAINE - Yes. Mr. LIEBELER - Are you a member or have you ever attended any meetings of the John Birch Society? Mr. PAINE - I am not a member. I have been to one or, I guess chiefly one meeting of theirs. Mr. LIEBELER - Where was that? Mr. PAINE - That was in Dallas? Mr. LIEBELER - When? Mr. PAINE - That was the night Stevenson spoke in Dallas. The CHAIRMAN - When? Mr. PAINE - The night Stevenson spoke in Dallas, U.N. Day. Mr. PAINE - I had been seeking to go to a Birch meeting for some time, and then I was invited on this night so I went. It was an introductory meeting. Mr. DULLES - On the 9th of November? Mr. PAINE - It was November something, I don't know what, a Wednesday or Thursday night. Mr. LIEBELER - For the record I think the record should indicate that Mr. Stevenson was in Dallas on or about October 24, 1963. Mr. PAINE - When I went to the ACLU meeting he (Oswald) then got up, stood up and reported what had happened at the meeting of the far right which had occurred at convention hall the day before, U.N. Day, they called it U.S. Day, and I think Walker had spoken then. From this I gathered that he was doing more or less the same thing-- I thought he was, I didn't inquire how he spent his free time but I supposed he was going around to right wing groups being familiarizing himself for whatever his purposes were as I was... this was the only concrete evidence I had of how he spent, might have spent some of his time. It happened in the ACLU meeting in late October. I suppose he was familiar with the right-wing groups and activities, and movements. And certainly familiar with Walker; yes. So Oswald was at the anti-Stevenson rally at the same time as Larry Schmidt, Bobby Joiner, members of the John Birch Society and members of SNFE/Alpha 66? Steve Thomas

David, I thought that's who Paz had in mind. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.strano.net/stragi/stragi/nomi/pieche.htm&prev=search Pieche Giuseppe He directs the contradictory section of the SIM (Military Information Service) from 1932 to 1936. In 1937 he co-ordinated military aid to Francisco Franco. In 1942, Mussolini entrusted him with the task of controlling the regime's spying apparatus, as they were proliferated and that every jewish had his own private secret service. During the war, he was also sent to Yugoslavia to lead the Italian military mission to the Uustasche leader, Ante Pavelic. In a short time it constitutes a political police at the service of Pavelic and assumes command. After July 25, 1943, he was a prefect of Foggia for a short time. On 19/11/1943 he was appointed by Badoglio, Commander-in-Chief of the Carabinieri Warship, which he will hold until July '44. In the post-war period, a puncture process will be opened up to him, immediately defiled. With the first government, De Gasperi is entrusted with the post of Director of the Interior Ministry's Fire Department, but it is only a cover that actually assumes the guidance of a private office carrying out information and political provocation. He then maintains the rank of General of the Carabinieri and in this role, in 1948, coordinates the partisans' refueling of the police and the insertion of fascists. Pieche also favored the emergence of neo-fascist groups, infiltrating his informers in left-wing groups. He also rebuilt the central political caste and began gathering information on prominent personalities in political, trade union, business and intellectual fields, on Scelba's behalf. On the eve of the 1948 elections, it favored the establishment of the MACRI (Anti-Communist Movement for the Italian Reconstruction), a Catholic Assistance and Charitable Foundation that served as a cover for fascist terrorist activities. It also formed the Antibolshevik Front, an armed clandestine group, funded by the US and the Intelligence Service, whose members had false cards of the PCI and the PSI. If the leftists had won the elections, the FA members would have had to commit attacks against DC and other parties, allowing them to arrest to blame the leftists. Near the FA is the AIL (Italian Armed Forces Liberation Army) consisting of Fascist and Monarchic mercenaries who carry out arms trafficking from Bolzano to the South through Trento and Rome; only the suicide of an ex-republic officer puts an end to the traffic and stops (only for a short time) the AIL members. He has been appointed a great commander of the Masonic lodge of Piazza del Gesù. In the Freemasonry he knows and has a very good relationship with Elvio Sciubba, who acts as a union trait between the loggia of Piazza del Gesù, the P2, the American Masonic lodges in Rome, Grand Master Lino Salvini and US secret services. Steve Thomas

Mathias, You wrote. "It says that Walker got to know Souètre through Permindex, however it doesn't go into detail how exactly." Footnote# 10 cited in that article comes from, Coup d’État à Brazzaville, by Jacques Depret, 1976, but the author doesn't cite the exact page where Depret says, or implies this. I'd have to read what Depret wrote. I know that I have read rumors of Souetre being in New Orleans, and in Miami in April of 1963, and receiving $200,000 for the OAS, but all I have ever read are second and third hand accounts that make that claim. I believe that CMC and Permindex were involved in Aginter Presse, and in that context, Garrison was right to finger them. The Italian Gladio network, and Aginter Presse in Portugal, and their financial backers are a tangled web. As for Suite 8F, John Simkin wrote a lot about them in the past. I think he even put up a page on it on the Spartacus page. I'm afraid that I don't know too much about Schlumberger, but, I think you are right about its origin and DeMohrenschildt's connection. I believe that Kennedy supported the idea that smaller countries should be allowed to control their own natural resources, and that was one of the reasons that he was killed. The oil conglomerates (and don't forget gold too) couldn't allow that to happen. Steve Thomas

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/2017-release?page=3 104-10182-10002 CIA FILE ON WIROGUE-1 144 blank pages 104-10182-10003 CIA FILE ON WIROGUE 186 blank pages 104-10182-10004 CIA FILE ON WIROGUE 177 blank pages Wow, that's something. Steve Thomas

Paul, Just for giggles sake, and to put things into perspective... You know how people have made a big thing about a Houston dentist named Alderson knowing Souetre? Well, when Alderson met Souetre in 1953, Souetre was a 23 year old, shave-tail second lieutenant. Here he is at 26 (he had been promoted to a full Lieutenant in 1954). Steve Thomas

Paul, Here's something I posted on Paul Mondolini on the alt.conspiracy.jfk usenet newsgroup back in 2007. The images referred to came from Maurice Phillips' "I have Some Secrets For You" website. http://alt.conspiracy.jfk.narkive.com/hxsXwE6u/corsican-mafia On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:50:06 GMT I wrote: Here are some raw notes I have taken over the years: It seems to me that there are two trains of thought for the origin of a plot to kill John F. Kennedy. One line runs through the Mafia/CIA/Cuban exile connections of Santos Trafficante. The other runs through the Corsican Mafia connections of Antoine Guerini/Christian David as outlined be Steve Rivele and/or William Reymond. Lately, I have been wondering if there was some connection or intersecting point between these two. I got to wondering if it couldn't be found in Paul Mondolini who I believe I read was Antoine Guerini's adopted son. A biography of Steve Rivele http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKrivele.htm Recently Rivele commented that: "I believe that Sarti was involved, but apparently I was wrong on the other two. If I were working on the case today, I'd look at Paul Mondoloni of Montreal... Two points I would add: I saw a documentary TV show last year about the KGB's investigation of the assassination, and was amazed to learn that they came to the same conclusion as me. Second, I was contacted two years ago by a former CIA agent (who worked in the mind control program among others), who told me that I was right about the assassination. Small comfort but better than nothing." From: Lets Roll (***@meet-me-in-hell.com)Subject: The Strength of the Wolf This is the only article in this thread View: Original Format Newsgroups: alt.politics.immigrationDate: 2004-06-20 01:02:13 PST http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/thereview.cfm?id=698842004 THE STRENGTH OF THE WOLF Douglas Valentine A warning to potential readers. If Valentine's account is compelling in its detail, the price is that the book is often close to unreadable. Try this paragraph about the Kennedy assassination for size: "It's almost as if [James Jesus] Angleton was a double agent, and if he was the 'mole' he was searching for, it's possible that SDECE agents working for the KGB may have sent an assassin into Dallas through Angleton's Brown-Castellani drug network, or through Paul Mondolini. If Angleton was a KGB mole, perhaps he used QJ/WIN (who could have been Mertz) to assassinate JFK, and programmed Lee Harvey Oswald as the unwitting patsy through the MKULTRA Program". This next is from a news article I read on the Internet concerning some Montreal mobster getting married. Remember that Michele Nicoli? told Steve Rivele that the assassins were flown to Montral after they killed JFK. QUEBEC AFFAIRS PETER BLACK "Singing for Their Supper" http://www.tomifobia.com/hubbub.html "Lucien Rivard was a Montreal hood who worked his way up the ranks to become a drug-ring operator for Paul Mondolini, one of the major capos in the city. At one point in his career Rivard ran a casino in Cuba for Mondolini before Castro came to power, and there are stories he ran a few guns to the island for the Cotronis. Rivard and Mondolini, according to one account, were associated with Santos Trafficante, the powerful mobster alleged to be involved with the CIA in plotting to get rid of Castro. This also brings up the possible connection between Rivard's friends and one Lee Harvey Oswald. Anyway, let's just say Rivard knew a lot of things that certain people would have preferred to keep secret. So, when a Montreal couple was busted in October, 1963, at the Texas border trying to smuggle heroin out of Mexico, alarm bells went off in mob circles when they fingered Rivard as their handler. Rivard was arrested in June, 1964, in Montreal by Canadian police and parked in Bordeaux jail awaiting extradition to the U.S." The author of this article does not say why or how Rivard's friends were connected to Lee Harvey Oswald. From Ron Ecker in the Education Forum 12/06/04: Could there have been a Canadian connection to the French/OAS plots? Gerry Patrick Hemming was at the 1996 Dallas in November conference. In his summary of what Hemming had to say while in Dallas, Charles Drago wrote, "In Montreal, Arturo Espaillat gathered funds from Canada and Europe and sent them to Dallas in order to fund a French team" ("Hemming Does Dallas," Kennedy Assn Chronicles, Winter 1996-97, p. 47). In his HSCA deposition, Hemming said, "I had been in touch in Ottawa with Arturo Espaillat, who at one time had been part of the triumvirate that took over when Trujillo was assassinated. One of my people, (Ed) Kolby, had been in Canada with Espaillat . . . Kolby had disappeared, let us say, from the Miami scene and busied himself up in New York and Canada . . . And, now, I had gotten the information that Espaillat and this American had traveled to Dallas and were in Dallas that week (of the assassination). Now, this perturbed me considerably that behind my back everybody I knew was going to meet the Texans" (p. 171-172). (What Hemming was supposedly perturbed about was that all these people - he named Cuesta, Hall, Sturgis, Vidal, Espaillat, and Aguilar - were going to Dallas to "burn" his financial contacts, "the Texans" such as Lester Logue; but he also said he tried to find Vidal in Miami on 11/21 to warn him "to stay the hell out of Dallas while the president was there") (p. 167). Hemming identified "the American" who traveled with Espaillat from Canada to Dallas as Robert Johnson, who Hemming believed (according to Noel Twyman) was "Raoul" in the MLK assassination (Hancock, Someone Would Have Talked, p. 277). Hemming told Dick Russell in a 1975 Argosy interview, "There was an American, an ex-Marine, who worked for Arturo Espaillat, Trujillo's chief of intelligence . . . Espaillat tried to take over after the (Trujillo) hit went down. He died in an accident in Lisbon a few years ago. His American friend (Johnson) went to work for a private CIA operation in Baltimore called International Services of Information." It is also worth noting that U.S. Army Pfc. Eugene Dinkin, who claimed to have advance knowledge of the JFK assassination (he was diagnosed by the Army as having a mental condition called "schizo-assassination prognostication") presumably learned of the JFK plot through his work as a military code breaker in France. http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/08th_Issue/misc.html What follows are some notes on Rivele's published account of the alleged Corsican connection to the Kennedy assassination. Rivele's book was published in French; what we now publish are a university professor's notes on what he had read. p. 75 "...Trafficante maintained close ties with Antoine Guerini via a Corsican criminal based in Havana named Paul Mondoloni....Educated, multilingual, courteous and dignified in appearance, he seemed to belong more to the diplomatic corps than to the bloody Marseilles hampa.(Mafia)" [He then moved to Montreal after leaving Cuba]. Steve Rivele: 163: I asked him some of Jim Lesar's questions. I asked if David knew whether Antoine Guerini had participated in the CIA conspiracies to assassinate Fidel Castro. To my surprise, he told me that Guerini was involved. "I believe that the intermediary was Paul Mondoloni," he said. Mondoloni used to spend a lot of time in the US." Connected montréalaises in the assassination of JFK http://www.republiquelibre.org/cousture/JFK.HTM Shortly after the assassination, Jean-Paul Tremblay, an agent of the American customs working in Montreal, warned the American Secret service that he had seen Oswald in Montreal in August 1963 . Tremblay known as to have seen Oswald in company of three other people distributing its famous leaflets of "Fair Play for Cuba" during a demonstration. The report was sent to the Warren commission which completely overlooked it . Indeed, it does not appear in 26 volumes of testimonies and evidence published by the commission. It was learned thereafter that photographs of Oswald had been taken in Montreal but the FBI (Federal Office of Investigation) refused to make them public. However, it is additional proof that depicts Oswald like a Communist. Why did the Warren commission and the Secret service want to hide this? Perhaps what they tried to do was protect the identity from the three people who were in company of Oswald at this time? Unfortunately, no physical description of these suspects exists. In an article about William Morgan by H.P. Albarelli Jr. in the WorldNetDaily April 21, 2002 http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27312 Paul D. Bethel, who was the press officer at the U.S. Embassy in Havana during Castro's rise to power, revealed in his 1969 book entitled "The Losers" that William Morgan produced great consternation among U.S. officials in 1959 when he began "keeping company with a very unwholesome American who lived at the Capri Hotel," whom others described as a "gangster." Federal Narcotics Bureau documents strongly suggest that this was an associate of Spiritto's who frequently stayed at the Capri Hotel using a false U.S. passport bearing the name Samuel Rowland. This was actually Paul Damien Mondoloni, a former French intelligence agent turned international narcotics trafficker. Mondoloni, who is also believed to have been an occasional CIA contractor, was a silent partner in the El Morocco Club in Camaguey, Cuba, which was also partly owned by Meyer Lansky and Isadore Shadletsky. Mondoloni had been deported from Cuba to France in February 1957 to face criminal charges but quickly returned to Havana where he often brokered heroin shipments using convicted New York City traffickers Adela Castillo and Milton Abramson. Tinea Warrenist in jfk-fr.com Sunday October 31, 2004 with 14h46 #11891 The book of Maurice Phillips relates, mainly, to the bonds that there would have been between the Montreal underworld and the assassination of Kennedy, particularly the case of Lucien Rivard, sought in Texas for heroin traffic, and who was the middleman between the underworld Italian of Montreal (pledged with that of New York) and famous "French Connection" Marseillaise... From Robert Charles Dunne in the Education Forum 11/22/05 Lee: Here are some pix of Mondolini [note the spelling], circa late 50s/early 60s. As for Norman LeBlanc, he was a "reputable" Montreal businessman who was indicted alongside Robert Vecso for several multi-million dollar frauds. He also appeared to have facilitated heroin importation from Europe to Montreal by brokering financing from Vesco to subsidize the projects. [A US Senate investigative committee declared otherwise.] Moreover, LeBlanc was tight with the Montreal Cotroni crime family, which specialized in heroin trafficking. [I have no photos of him.] If LeBlanc is the same man ID'ed here by Gerry Hemming, one sees an interesting convergence of interests. [The surname in French is much like "White" in English, so there may have been several Norman LeBlancs.] Attached image(s) From: "lday0000" <***@p...> Date: Sun Nov 30, 2003 11:52 am Subject: corsicans, zionists and jfk As quoted by Lee Forman in the Education Forum 11/23/05: Back in the 1960's investigative journalist Terence Robertson attempted to write a biography of Sam Bronfman but it was never published. He got death threats. On New Year's Eve 1970 he died of a barbituate overdose in a New York hotel room. Sam Bronfman made a giant pile of money shipping Montreal liquor to thirsty Yanks during prohibition. He made even more money in Texas oil in the early 1960's, gambling that JF Kennedy's oil depletion tax loophole would not be closed. Kennedy conveniently died and oil- supporting, Israel-arming Texan LBJ came to power. Bronfman was a Zionist as was his lawyer Louis Bloomfield. Major Bloomfield was on the shady board of Permindex along with Colonel Clay Shaw/Bertrand. Bloomfield, like Frank Fiorini/Sturgis fought with the Haganah in Israel's creation war. Tibor Rosenbaum, another 'founder of Israel' controlled the Swiss bank that financed for Permindex and shady 'arms procurement' deals like getting nukes for Israel despite JFK's vehement objections. These strands of coincidence are all woven togethor in research by Michael Piper Collins in his book which, like Robertson's Bronfman biography, is unavailable in your local bookstore. Another book that is missing is Steven Rivele's "Les Assassins de JF Kennedy". He spent about four years researching it circa 1985-1988. While Collins deals with the 'why' of the assassination, Rivele dealt with the 'how': the mechanics. There seems to be a great deal of evidence suggesting the grassy knoll shooter with the dumdum bullet was Brussel's based Corsican Lucien Sarti working on contract from the Marseilles based Guerini heroin gang. Guerini got the contract, supposedly, from Sam Giancana but there is no way to know for sure as they all naturally died in the famous 'hail of bullets' variation. Also missing from the bookstore is Henrik Kruger's "The Great Heroin Coup" originally written in Danish. Fortunately Kris has archived it, in English, chapter by chapter for CTRL. Chapter 15 gives excellent data on the motivational relationship of Meyer Lansky (Giancana's boss and Zionist), heroin, Cuban-American relations at the time of the JFK hit, and the CIA. Rivele's main source casually gives the name of the liason between mob and CIA as one Paul Mondoloni [sic], a Corsican of course. This is probably the right guy but in the age of Google, misspelling Mondolini makes research awkward. Curiously, googling "Paul Mondolini" brings up 7 entries. Three of them are the CTRL relay of Kruger's Danish book. The other 4 have to do with the boss of early-60's Montreal-based heroin smuggler Rivard and are all Canadian. Apparently no American has ever mentioned Paul Mondolini on the web! A related Corsican named Rene Mondolini from the Marseilles gang was another of those 'died in a hail of bullets' characters. Mistype it acorn style as Mondoloni and the only google entry is the supposed notes on the translation of Rivele's book. The very same article mentions Paul Mondoloni [sic] several times, yet google can't find those. Most curious about this man who never was and if he was misspelled and if he was the club owner in Cuba that Jack Ruby/Jacob Rubinstein visited since the mysterious Mondolini was also a club owner in Cuba and these spooks always have a whole lot of names. I HAVE SOME SECRETS FOR YOU By Maurice Philipps http://somesecretsforyou.blogspot.com/ PHOTO GALLERY 2 FROM DE DALLAS A MONTREAL (Click on pictures to see bigger photos) On October 10 1963, US Customs Agents at Laredo, Texas arrested Lucien Rivard's courrier and make the second most important seizure of narcotics of the time. The heroin was coming from Mexico and was furnished by Paul Mondolini, a Santos Trafficante associate and a relation of French agent Michel-Victor Mertz that was expelled from Dallas the day after John F. Kennedy assassination. Eight months later, in June 1964, after Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy gave order to start extradition process against them, Lucien Rivard and his accomplices Julien Gagnon, Raymond Jones and Charles-Emile Groleau were arrested in Canada. With Carmine Galante (above right) and his right hand man Salvatore Giglio (down left) Lucien Rivard ( down right) was in fact one of the top lieutenant of Jos Bonanno, the supreme chief of Montreal organized crime, that was seen by some as one of the planners of the JFK assassination. NB: Bonanno's implication in the JFK assassination is not commonly accepted. In fact, excepted for a mention from David Copeland (alias William Torbitt) in his Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal, Bonanno's name is rarely seen in the JFK assassination literature. Interestingly enough, in this manuscript, Bonanno is named as an associate of Major Louis Mortimer Bloomfield, a Montreal lawyer that was Clay Shaw's associate in Permindex and the Centro Mondiale Commerciale. And lot more about Bloomfield will be said in this blog Picture 1: Top Left In 1958, in Cuba Giuseppe Cotroni was associate to Santos Trafficante, to Lewis McWillie (Jack Ruby's idol) and to Norman Rothman, an important CIA contact, with whom he participated in smuggling stolen arms.. from Ohio National Guard. Picture 2: Top Right At the same time, Lucien Rivard was little known in Canada but, in addition to being Trafficante's associate, was seen as one of Cuba top arms smugglers. Picture 3: Bottom Left One of most active members of the French Connection, Corsican Paul Mondolini was in Cuba associate to both trafficante and Rivard. He also was accomplice of French smuggler and secret agent Michel-Victor Mertz. Picture 4: Bottom Right Cotroni's associate Luigi Greco was in Montreal one of Bonanno family top lieutenant. According to Jules Kimble, a CIA contract agent, Greco's men did fly from Québec to Memphis to take part in Martin Luther King assassination. THE LINKS BETWEEN THE JFK ASSASSINATION AND THE LUCIEN RIVARD AFFAIR Mexico City, October 1963 In Summer 1963, Michel Caron is only a small criminal having to his credit only some minor burglaries. Father of four children, Caron needs money. Being in touch with Lucien Rivard, he quickly accepts to run errands without asking questions. On September 26, 1963, Rivard, who needed an anonymous courier for an important operation, decided to send Caron and his wife to Mexico City, to bring back a packet... Caron leaves immediately and enters Mexico on September 31. On October 2, like a simple tourist, he arrives in Mexico City, just as another visitor, Lee Harvey Oswald, is also in the city on a blindfold mission. Oswald leaves Mexico City on October 3. Caron, who has confided his car to some unknown peoples who have the task to hide something in it, innocently visited the city until October 9. On October 10 1963, at the Mexico-United States border, the U.S. Customs officers search Caron's car and, by luck, discover 35 kilograms of heroine. At a market price of one million dollars a kilogram, this 35 millions seizure is the second most important of U.S. history. Submitted to a persuasive interrogatory, and confident that he, his wife and his four children will be protected, Caron starts to confess. First, Caron denounces his Quebec's accomplices and, finally, their chief, the recipient of the merchandise, Lucien Rivard himself. Though he doesn't know their complete names, he finally identifies on photographs the Mexico City's suppliers. Thus he incriminates the Corsican Paul Mondolini, partner of Santos Trafficante and Michel-Victor Mertz, and considered as Mexico City heroin's king; Jorge Edouardo Moreno Chauvet, Mexico most important narcotics trafficker; Fulgentio Cruz Bonet, a Cuban exile; and Mafiosis Tony Farina and Frank Giovani Scalici, members of Carlo Gambino's New York's family, the most powerful chief of the U.S. Cosa Nostra. Even if they didn't understand all the implications of this huge transaction involving such important international Mafia's characters, observers of the Rivard Case noticed that, on view of this file's importance, U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy did show personal interest to the case. Maybe his interest was motivated by his knowledge of the network to which participated Rivard. So, the Rivard Case reveals the existence of an important heroin transaction, taking source in Mexico just at the moment when, according to Christian David, three Corsican killers where in Mexico City, in transit toward Dallas. Christian David was the French heroin trafficker that revealed to reporter Steve Rivele that a contract to kill John F. Kennedy was offered to him in Marseille. According to David's story, he declined any participation in the contract but three Corsican shooters took a part in the assassination and where paid with heroin. In the BBC television series The Men Who Killed Kennedy, Rivele stated that he believe Paul Mondolini was the coordinator of the Corsican shooters. Interestingly enough, the same Paul Mondolini was the source of the heroin that Lucien Rivard tried to import to the United States. The ties linking Rivard to the Trafficante-Ruby network and the Mertz-Mondolini French connection, as well as the synchronism between Oswald's trip, the presence of Corsican assassins in Mexico City and the Rivard Case, had never been exposed anywhere, neither even suggested otherwise that by an obscure allusion to Lucien Rivard in The Plot to Kill the President, a book written by Robert G. Blakey, Chief Counsel of the House Select Committee on Assassination. posted by youshouldknow @ 10:35 PM Ten years have past since the publication of my essay, DE DALLAS À MONTRÉAL, La filière montréalaise dans l'assassinat de JFK*. Even if it got good reviews and a fair distribution in Quebec, Canada, this book didn't reach the American public neither the JFK assassination researchers community. I've never care too much about international publishing success, since I wrote the book in order to humbly share information that were overlook by American writers. But I still think that a few important pieces of the JFK assassination puzzle may be found in Montreal. So, De Dallas à Montréal main originality was to show how Dallas' crime of the century was related to Canada biggest political scandal: the Rivard Case. A complex affair, the Rivard Case started in October 1963 with a massive heroin importation from Mexico to the United States. Its principal actor, Lucien Rivard, a prominent Mafia captain was both a drug and arms smuggler and a financial backer of the Liberal Party of Canada. During the late fifties, in Montreal, Rivard was one of the top officer of Jos Bonanno, the head of an important New York Mafia family. But what is more significant relatively to the JFK assassination is the fact that Rivard was an associate of Santos Trafficante, Jr. in Havana casinos and that he was smuggling arms in Cuba. According to the House Selected Committee on Assassinations, Rivard was one of Castro prisoners for whom Jack Ruby did negotiate in 1959. This fact wasn't published in HSCA's report since Rivard's name was only reproduced in HSCA's volumes of testimonies. But in 1981, in his book The Plot to Kill the President, G. Robert Blakey, chief counsel of the HSCA, flatly stated that Rivard was one of the prisoners that Jack Ruby tried to get released in 1959. Years after the publication of my book, and after Rivard's death, his widows confirmed to a Montreal film producer that Rivard indeed was in contact with Ruby. In 1964, after the JFK assassination, Rivard and Bonanno were jailed in Montreal, awaiting extradition to the U.S. Their attorney and high officers of both the Canadian Department of Justice and the Immigration Department offered bribe to the lawyer representing the United State in the two extradition cases. The scandal that followed finally forced the resignation of Canada Minister of Justice, Guy Favreau. Maurice Philipps * French title translates as: FROM DALLAS TO MONTREAL, The Montreal Connection in the JFK Assassination. posted by youshouldknow @ 11:18 PM Steve Thomas

It may be just another coincidence but in the French article I posted a former OAS agent is quoted as saying: So it seems traveling with faked Italian passports was a common tactic the OAS used. This passage from the HSCA Report you posted is also very interesting in my opinion: The heroin to pay the Corsican assassins? Mathias, Someday, I'm going to read up on Curutchet. So far, I've only glossed over his history. Where does your quote come from? Les Soldats Perdus? I've read it, but, like I said, I only glossed over Curutchet; but at one time, he was described as one of two most wanted men in France. I once ran across the name of the primary forger of OAS documents, but it's buried somewhere deep in my files and I wasn't focused on that. The heroin coming into Galveston to pay for Corsican hitmen? Quite possibly, although the bar owner told Fruge that he recognized the two men as pimps in the prostitution trade. see p. 202 of that HSCA Report. So, I don't know. It's just always made me wonder. Drug deal, trans Mexico/Texas border, kill Kennedy... It would have been nice to know who the seaman was and where he was coming from. 8 k's. That's a lot of heroin. Steve Thomas

Bruce, Read the 1963 Report of the Net Evaluation Subcommittee here: http://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb480/docs/doc 10A 1963.pdf Madness. Just madness. Steve Thomas

Mathias, I must admit that I find the French Secret Services very confusing - with all the different parties involved, and the constant changing alliances, and when you throw in the KGB infiltration, it leaves me baffled. The only thing I can say is that Souetre denied his involvement all through the 1960's, 70's and 80's. He was very consistent. If I were to put my money on anybody, it would be Mertz - a known heroin trafficker under the protection of the SDECE. I've always wondered if there was a connection to the Rose Cheramie story. She said that she was traveling from Florida to Dallas with two"Italians", or people who "resembled Italians". Could they have been Corsican? That's just pure speculation on my part.. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1212#relPageId=205&tab=page Perhaps though, maybe we ought to move this discussion to a different thread and not hijack it from those people who want to talk about Osborne. Steve Thomas

Hey! I resemble that remark! Steve Thomas

A lot of people are familiar with the CIA cable 632-796 which talks about Jean-Rene Souetre aka Victor Michael Mertz being expelled from the United States shortly after JFK's assassination. At the end of that cable, it says that Mr. Papich was given a copy of a few other CIA cables that had previously been furnished to the Bureau, along with a photograph of Souetre. This, I believe, is the photo they provided. If anyone recognizes this person in any photos they have that were taken on the 22nd, I'd be interested. PS: That the CIA had a photo of Souetre is no big thing. The French asked both the West German and Italian authorities if they had any info on Souetre's whereabouts back in 1962 and provided them with photos as well. Steve Thomas

Mathias, The Corsican mob. Read up on Lucien Rivard, Victor Michael Mertz and a guy named Paul Modolini. (Remember the CIA cable 632-796 about Jean-Rene Souetre and how he (or Mertz) was expelled to either Mexico or Canada?) https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=105715&search=Vrla#relPageId=7&tab=page SDECE double agent and heroin trafficker, Mertz was sent to Montreal after he helped foil the attack on DeGaulle at Pont-Sur-Seine in 1961. See also Steve Rivele's research on Antoine Guerini and Mondolini. A guy named Maurice Phillips did an awful lot of research in his blog "I have some secrets for you". I don't know how much of this is still available online anymore. http://somesecretsforyou.blogspot.com/2006/01/links-between-jfk-assassination-and.html He also wrote a book called, De dallas a montreal The upshot is that three Corsican hitmen took part in the JFK assassination and were paid off in heroin. Steve Thomas Steve Thomas

Gene, Do you know anybody who has a subscription to the Lexis database that could run this civil suit case number? Steve Thomas

Gene, Apparently in 1975 Dinkin filed a civil suit against the Department of Defense and the CIA disputing the facts as presented to the Warren Commission in CD 943. You can see a reference to this civil suit in a letter he wrote to William Colby here: REQUEST RE CIVIL SUIT, DINKIN V. U.S https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=8940#relPageId=1&tab=page I don't know the outcome of this civil suit. More than anything else, the Dinkin story reminds me of the Robert Redford movie, "Three Days of the Condor". Steve Thomas

David, CIA cable 22-531 is an interesting one. You can see a copy here: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=50238&search="Michael_K.+Bowers"#relPageId=2&tab=page Someone using Michael Bowers name was traveling in Switzerland. The person using Bowers' name did not match the physical description of Eugene Dinkin as provided by newsmen and ODIBEX. In other sources, ODIBEX appears to be the U.S. Army. It seems Dinkin had a heavy black mustache and horn-rimmed glasses. CIA station in Bern wonders who this person could be. Steve Thomas

David, Among the list of documents in 104-10067-10403 are: CIA 19-530 and CIA 20-532. See: CIA DOCUMENT DIPOSITIONINDEX 16 OCT 58 - 20 OCT 75 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=77401&relPageId=8&search=CIA_"20-532" documents concern the "identity of an American serviceman temporarily mistaken for Eugene Dinkin". I hadn't heard of Michael Bowers before. I'll have to research him. The cables seem to indicate he was assigned to the Army Security Agency. Steve Thomas

From Harlan Brown to SAC, Dallas: https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32113185.pdf "Informant determined that Joe Landin and Augustin Estrada had lunch together on 11/26/63". Yawn. I think I''ll go watch Stranger Things 2. Steve Thomas

"No one will remember in years to come where they were when they heard about the JFK assassination classified document dump of 2017. " http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/27/politics/trump-jfk-documents-analysis/index.html Steve Thomas

Larry, Lousy scholarship. My bad. If I see one picture of Bill Harvey dressed like this after his transfer to Rome, I'm going to run screaming into the night. Steve

Damnit. ITALY 1947 Origins of Gladio "As early as 1947, the United States was constructing a clandestine network in Northern Italy to act in the event of a communist insurrection or electoral victory." (Wolfgang Achtner, Sunday Independent, 11/11/90) "The network, run by secret-services of Nato members, was apparently set-up in the 1950's at US instigation to create a guerrilla resistance organisation in the event of a Soviet invasion or communist takeover in NATO countries." (John Palmer, Guardian, 10/11/90) "The Venetian judges [Casson & Mastelloni] came across Gladio when working on a document of 1959 that referred to the militia's "internal subversion"... The duty of Gladio is a double one, says the document. The first is objective" and concerns the "defense of the Italian territory and population". The second is defined cryptically as "subjective" and is "concerned with the legitimate authority of the state, and with the eventuality of any serious offenses against its integrity." Gladio should be ready "to adopt, with timely readiness, preemptive action to assure the state's prestige, capacity for action and for government". (Ed Vulliamy, Guardian, 10/12/90)” “Preemptive action”... Ah – now enters the “strategy of tension”; and then the allusion to the “gladius” sword made sense. Centurions: The second thread in this scenario is the use of the term “Centurions”. I've seen several references to “Centurions” in my various readings.

Hmmmmm A part of my posting seems to have been cut off. Here's what got left out. It should be in that big gap after Operation Gladio by John Fleming. (I think I was supposed to have posted it as plain text). Steve Thomas

Here's a conspiracy theory you've probably never heard of. This is not a solution, but more of an observation. And; I'm writing this partly tongue-in-cheek, but then again, partly not. In reading through the literature concerning JFK's assassination, I have, at times, been struck by images that seem to evoke a time and place of an ancient glory. Two threads that seem to weave through this narrative are Gladio and Centurions. Gladio: Terrorism in Western Europe: An Approach to NATO’s Secret Stay-Behind Armies. by Daniele Ganser http://www.php.isn.ethz.ch/kms2.isn.ethz.ch/serviceengine/Files/PHP/18583/ipublicationdocument_singledocument/f4e652a3-cad7-4284-9aae-243b630f3440/en/Terrorism_Western_Europe.pdf “The existence of these clandestine NATO armies remained a closely guarded secret throughout the Cold War until 1990, when the first branch of the international network was discovered in Italy. It was code-named “Gladio, ” the Latin word for a short double-edged sword. Italy insisted identical clandestine armies had also existed in all other countries of Western Europe. This allegation proved correct and subsequent research found that in Belgium, the secret NATO army was code-named SDRA8, in Denmark Absalon , in Germany TD BDJ, in Greece LOK, in Luxemburg Stay-Behind, in the Netherlands I&O, in Norway ROC, in Portugal Aginter, in Switzerland P26, in Turkey Counter-Guerrilla, and in Austria OWSGV. However, the code names of the secret armies in France, Finland, Spain, and Sweden remain unknown.” For an introduction in the American formation of the Gladio network in Scandanavia, see: William Colby,"ChapterThree: A Scandinavian Spy," in Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978), pp. 78-107. https://www.vipr-bg.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Parallel-History-Project-on-NATO-and-the-Warsaw-Pact-Collection.pdf I wondered why this informal network of “stay-behinds”would have adopted the generic name of Gladio, and then I ran across a reference in in a work by a researcher/writer named, John Fleming. (date unknown, but I believe it was in the early 1990's) OPERATION GLADIO http://www.thejohnfleming.com/gladio.html http://linformationnationaliste.hautetfort.com/archive/2013/03/20/22-avril-1961-derniere-revolte-des-centurions-avant-qu-ils-n.html “22 avril 1961 : dernière révolte des centurions avant qu'ils ne deviennent gendarmes.” 20/03/2013 René BLANC. RIVAROL 22 AVRIL 2011 April 22,1961: The last revolt of the centurions before they become gendarmes. (This article is about the Putsch of the Generals in April, 1961). “Or si la vocation du gendarme n'a jamais été de sacrifier sa vie, c'est souvent cela le destin du centurion.” If the gendarme's vocation has never been to sacrifice his life, it is often the fate of the centurion.” They were often referred to as “hommes léopards”. “Leapard men” - because of their camouflage uniforms. Le Capitaine Souètre refusant sa mutation en métropole, déserta, le 8 février 1961, avec un groupe d'une vingtaine d'officiers, de sous-officiers et de simples soldats ainsi que des civils pour fonder un maquis dans l'arrière-pays de Mostaganem. Baptisé France Résurrection, celui-ci espérait soulever les populations contre le pouvoir. Souètre — un personnage charismatique, avec un mélange assez prononcé de panache et d'immaturité — faisait distribuer à grande échelle des tracts où il affirmait : « Voici venue l'heure des centurions. Il est temps de franchir le Rubicon. » Following his desertion in December of 1960, or January of 1961, while he was hiding out in the Martel farm in Mostaganem in February, Souetre issued a missive or tract which read, “Now is the hour of the Centurions. It is time to cross the Rubicon.” In the late 1960's, African mercenary, Bob Denard referred to them as the “praetorian guard of a failed republic”. http://www.buergerwelle.de/assets/files/secret_warfare_and_natos_stay_behind_armies.htm?cultureKey=&q=pdf/secret_warfare_and_natos_stay_behind_armies.htm Italian General Gerardo Serravalle, who commanded the Italian Gladio stay-behind from 1971 to 1974, said that the document "’Directive of SHAPE’ was the official reference, if not even the proper Allied Stay-Behind doctrine". This document is not yet available to researchers. According to the testimony of General Serravalle, the members of the CPC were the officers responsible for the secret stay-behind structures of the various European countries. "At the stay-behind meetings representatives of the CIA were always present”, Serravalle explained, as well as “members of the US Forces Europe Command”.[7] Serravalle said the recordings of the CPC, which he had seen but which are not yet publicly available, above all "relate to the training of Gladiators in Europe, how to activate them from the secret headquarters in case of complete occupation of the national territory and other technical questions such as, to quote the most important one, the unification of the different communication systems between the stay-behind bases.”[8] [7] Gerardo Serravalle, Gladio (Roma: Edizioni Associate, 1991), p. 79. [8] Serravalle, Gladio, p. 78. “Centurions” see p. 4 of this April 26, 1963 CIA report on the current status of activist groups. See p. 4. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=64993#relPageId=4&tab=page A periodical of the C.N.R. Circulated among the military. Les Centurions. Here's a copy: Like I said, these are just observations that I've picked up along the way. But some of the people who seem to have been involved in one way or another cloaked themselves in imagery that was designed to evoke a long-ago past. Steve Thomas

I think I owe Jim DiEugenio an apology. I pooh-pood his statement that the OAS were around as late as 1964 or 5, but I ran across (again) an article from LeMonde that's dated July 8, 1963 about a communique issued in the name of the C.N.R. and the OAS. The thrust of the article is that the communique was posted using the National Assembly's own fracking machine! That's like saying that someone snuck into our own House of Representatives and posted a nationwide press release using the House's postal machine. Le Monde, Paris July 8, 1963 http://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1963/07/08/un-tract-de-l-o-a-s-c-n-r-est-poste-au-palais-bourbon_2208937_1819218.html?xtmc=souetre&xtcr=10 UN TRACT DE L'O.A.S.-C.N.R. est posté au Palais-Bourbon Steve Thomas

I think we are all missing the point. The JFK files and Stranger Things 2 are being released only a day apart. So there. Steve Thomas