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Jason,
The study of French politics in general, and the OAS in particular is... confusing. They seemed to change their governments so frequently it's hard to keep up. you said, “The OAS was, of course, the French Radical Right”.
That's true, to a certain extent; but I've found that the OAS consisted of many things. You had the proto-fascists, yes, but it also had French loyalists,, disaffected SDECE and SAC agents, double agents, royalists, former members of the French Foreign Legion, outright criminals...the list goes on.
I once read that the hardest job in the world was a drill instructor in the French Foreign Legion. You had a polyglot of languages mixed up with misfits, people who were on the lamb who had changed their name, men to were given the choice of joining the Foreign Legion or going to jail. Discipline consisted of taking you out behind the barracks and letting four of the biggest, baddest Legionnaires beat the tar out of you. So, it's complex. More than anything else, I would say that the OAS were anti-DeGaulle.
I think there are two ingredients that help understand Souetre's character.: One was the Integraliste movement; and the other was Article 16 of the French Constitution.
1) Integralism
There was a throwaway line in something Jean-Claude Perez told Fensterwald in 1982. He said that,
“post 1962, Souetre was part of an ultra-right, ultra-Catholic splinter group which included four men named Pichon, Lefevre, Bourget, and Grossouvre. Group called Integraliste
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/S%20Disk/Souetre%20Jean%20with%20aka%27s/Item%2011.pdfp. 4.
(Albert Lefevre, by the way, was the one man I could find that both stood trial with Souetre in December, 1961 and who escaped with him from the Camp at St. Maurice L'Ardoise in February, 1962.)
From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integralism
Integralism is an ideology according to which a nation is an organic unity. Integralism defends social differentiation and hierarchy with co-operation between social classes, transcending conflict between social and economic groups. It advocates trade unionism (or a guild system), corporatism, and organic political representation instead of ideological forms of representation. Integralism claims that the best political institutions for given nations will differ depending on the history, culture and climate of the nation's habitat. Often associated with blood and soil conservatism, it posits the nation or the state or the nation state as an end and a moral good, rather than a means.[1]
The term integralism was coined by the French journalist Charles Maurras, whose conception of nationalism was illiberal and anti-internationalist, elevating the interest of the state above that of the individual and above humanity in general.[1]
Although it is marked by its being exclusionary and particularistic, and there has been consideration of its historic role as a sort of proto-fascism (in a European context)[1] or para-fascism (in a South American context),[2] this link remains controversial, with some social scientists positing that it combines elements of both the political left and right.[3]
Catholic Integralism does not support the creation of an autonomous "Catholic" state church, or Erastianism (Gallicanism in French context). Rather it supports subordinating the state to the worldwide Catholicism under the leadership of the Pope. Thus it rejects separation of the Catholic Church from the state and favours Catholicism as the proclaimed religion of the state.[5]Catholic Integralism appeals to the teaching on the subordination of temporal to spiritual power of medieval popes such as Pope Gregory VII and Pope Boniface VIII. But Catholic Integralism in the strict sense came about as a reaction against the political and cultural changes which followed the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.[6
(Where have we heard “Blood and Soil” recently?)
For “trade unionism” See Fensterwald's “Possible French Connection”
“In the period, 1964-1966. Souetre headed the Societe Expinmaq in Madrid; it was a “soueti de traveaux publics,” furnishing works and cover for OAS veterans and exiles, such as Varga, Marton and Sari.”19 (essentially a trade union and you can see why Souetre was beloved by former OAS veterans. He got them jobs). When men deserted from the French Army as Souetre did and joined the OAS, they were destitute. They had no money for food or shelter and many turned to extra-legal means to get it. Two popular methods were extortion, and running drugs.
2) DeGauule's invocation of Article 16 of the French Constitution.When DeGaulle swept into power in 1958 and overthrew the Fourth Republic, France also got a new constitution. Under certain conditions, Article 16 allowed the President to invoke a national emergency and allocating all powers including judicial to the President. Due process was suspended. After the General's Putsch in April of 1961, DeGaulle invoked Article 16. When Souetre was tried in December of 1961, he was given a three-year suspended sentence, but was immediately placed in Administrative detention for an indefinite period, and confined to a prison camp in southern France. I've seen pictures of the camp. It was bleak to say the least. He led an 18-man prison break out of the camp in February, 1962. 10 men were immdediately re-captured, but 8 managed to escape. Souetre fled to Spain. I believe that this extra-judicial move left him embittered. You can see it reflected in pictures of him pre-1962 and post-1962. In earlier pictures, he is smiling and happy. After his imprisonment, he is dour and morose.
David Andrews said, “Yet De Gaulle speculated that Allen Dulles and CIA supported the OAS assassination plotting.To David I would say, “more than Helms, take a look at a man Irving Brown.
“This is from the Fensterwald memo:See p. 30 of this Gary Shaw FOIA litigation
for a man named “Brown” who was the CIA Station Chief in Paris.
Russ Holmes Work File
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=6060&search=Torjmann#relPageId=30&tab=page
http://www.xiconhoca.org/PDF/DDeRoux/Apossiblefrenchconnection.pdf
Just Chillin on History
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
PART 1 OF 3: THE GREAT HEROIN COUP-DRUGS,INTELLIGENCE @INTERNATIONAL FASCISM
“There is the example of George White, an FBN official and former OSS agent who testified to the Kefauver Committee that he had been approached on behalf of Luciano in 1943 by an old China trafficker, August del Grazio.[59] White worked closely with the CIA in the postwar years and (under FBN cover) ran one of their LSD experiments in Project MK/ULTRA.
By the time of White's visit to Marseilles, the CIA and AFL organizer Irving Brown were already subsidizing the use of Corsican and Italian gangsters to oust Communist unions from the Marseilles port. Brown's CIA case officer, Paul Sakwa, has confirmed that by the time CIA subsidies were terminated in 1953, Brown's chief contact with the Marseilles underworld, Pierre Ferri Pisani, no longer needed U.S. support, because of the profits his newly gained control of the port supplied from the heroin traffic.”
http://alchetron.com/Irving-Brown-775007-W
“Established in France, he (Irving Brown) headed the international relations of the AFL-CIO from his offices at 10, rue de la Paix in Paris. From 1951 to 1954, the CIA division headed by Thomas Braden provided $1 million a year to Brown and Lovestone ($1,600,000 in 1954).
In 1952 he was in Helsinki, supporting the unionists who had decided to vote to quit the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), then mainly composed of Communist unions.
During the Algerian War, he subsidized the Algerian National Movement (MNA), founded by Messali Hadj to oppose the National Liberation Front (FLN).”
I don't know if this is the same “Brown who was the Station Chief in Paris” I don't know who the Station Chief in Paris was., but you've got this mix of trade unionists, the stay behind network, and heroin smuggling going on.
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7 hours ago, Michael Clark said:
Dr. Nick Begich (son of the congressman who disappeared on an airplane trip along with Warren Comission member and Congressman, Hale Boggs) with some fascinating observations which are relevant to this topic.
Michael,
Thank you. That was very inspiring.
Long Live the Zone!
Steve Thomas
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10 hours ago, Larry Hancock said:
Hi Steve, I know this is old ground but could you just give the confirmation for that assertion of his code breaking job not to mention the OAS traffic...I'm still open to it, I just need to see something solid and all I see in the papers you linked to is the same old story..or have I missed it.
Larry,
No, I can't.
Like you, I would like to see his military service record, or a copy of his discharge papers, or something.
Not to mention the OAS angle. I'd like to see a copy of something that he supposedly intercepted.
Dinkin gave the names of several people to whom he told his story before he went AWOL. I would like to see first person accounts from those people of what he allegedly told them.
Steve Thomas
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On 10/22/2017 at 11:17 AM, Tom Hume said:
Hi Steve,
Dinkin’s name first came up in the Garrison investigation, wherein interviews with some of Dinkin’s former Army associates led to the conclusion that he had been hospitalized until he memorized a cover story. And as Garrison’s people pieced the story together, they discovered that one of Dinkin’s duties as a code breaker had been to decipher telegraphic traffic that originated with the French OAS. 34
34: Dinkin as code breaker: transcript, New Orleans researchers' conference (September 21, 1968), pp.73-75.
Tom,
Here's a copy of the relevant pages from that New Orleans research conference. If they don't show up here as attached file, I'll try to copy and paste them.
Dinkin Garrrison Papers New Orleans Conference 9 21 1968 Pages 73 to 75.pdf
Steve Thomas
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Jason,
In your first paragraph - I'm pretty sure that comes from Fensterwald's, "Possible French Connection"...
The _________ Buscia mentioned would probably be Gilles Buscia, author of Au nom de l'OAS: Requiem pour une cause perdue by Gilles Buscia) Alain Lefeuvre, 1981.
(In the name of the OAS: Requiem for a Lost Cause)
This is supposedly his "memoirs". I sure would like to read that someday.
He was the head of the OAS in Corsica. He was implicated in the attack on Charles DeGaulle at Petit-Clamart along with Laslo Varga and Lajos Marton. He was also implicated in an attack on George Pompidou.
General Claude Clement, who "assisted" at Souetre's wedding was a hoot.
He was a 70 year old hippie who authored a book entitled, Make Love and Not War Anymore. "I too want to put flowers in the barrels of guns, to drop petals on those who drop bombs". He organized a music festival in Aix-en-Provence in July of 1970 that was headlined by Pink Floyd. The festival was canceled by the city authorities as a fire hazard and a threat to public safety. He was drummed out of the army for his participation in Souetre's wedding at the prison camp.
Steve Thomas
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43 minutes ago, David Boylan said:
David,
Thanks for this. One thing I would question in Whitten's summary is his analysis of why Oswald didn't know his address. (That's about 4/5ths of the way down in the pdf).
Assuming it was Oswald down there in Mexico, when LHO came back, he checked into the YMCA on October 3rd. He didn't have an address. Supposedly, he was at Bledsoe's house from the 7th to the 14th.
Steve Thomas
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On 4/30/2017 at 10:33 AM, Joe Bauer said:
Just a few quirky thoughts of my own about Oswald from reading this.
Joe,
I wondered if Marina was shown a copy of this "diary" and asked if that's the way he usually talked.
Steve Thomas
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3 hours ago, Paul Brancato said:
did I understand this correctly? It seems that Paine is saying he was at the right wing anti Stevenson meeting, the same one Oswald spoke about when at the ACLU meeting.
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
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11 hours ago, Paul Brancato said:
I posted the screen shot on the Albert Osborne thread and now reposted it here because it seems relevant.
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
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13 minutes ago, David Butler said:
Giuseppe Pièche
David,
I thought that's who Paz had in mind.
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
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1 hour ago, Mathias Baumann said:
Paul,
the websited I posted alleges that Walker received funding from millionaire H. L. Hunt and that he passed on some of that money to the OAS. It says that Walker got to know Souètre through Permindex, however it doesn't go into detail how exactly. It also says that in 1963 Walker founded a group called "committee 8F" to pressure Presdient Kennedy to intensify the Vietnam war. Allegedly Lydondon Johnson was also a member of that group.
Concerning Schlumberger: I read in Jim Garrison's book that Schlumberger supportd the OAS. It was one of their depots where David Ferrie and his companions stole explosives from. Schlumbergers headquarters was in Houston, but originally it had been established by two Frenchmen. George de Mohrenschild was also close to one of Schlumberger's bosses.
The Algerian oil obviously played an important role here. We know that President Kennedy was a proponent of the anti-imperial struggle in Africa. That may have been one of the reasons why he was killed.
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
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1 hour ago, Douglas Caddy said:
Secret C.I.A. Documents May Shed New Light on J.F.K. Killing
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/us/politics/cia-documents-jfk-assassination.html
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
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56 minutes ago, Paul Brancato said:
Wow - can't wait to dig into your post. I browsed older threads and saw that you had posted a lot on this theme. I think Valentine has a lot to say on this, even if it's confusing. I can't help but go back to your post about the colonels. It comes up in my mind all the time, especially Brandstetter (and that curious link with de Vosjoli), and Crichton and their 488th. And it was Valentine that got me questioning who Angleton really was - that question of whether he was a mole, and if he was, given his very real fascist connections, what that might indicate about the Cold War, i.e. the old Mad magazine cartoon Spy vs. Spy. Made me wonder if it wasn't Nazis on both sides in collusion, etc, the wilderness of mirrors.
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
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8 hours ago, Paul Brancato said:
Thanks Michael.
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 PMSteve Thomas
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3 hours ago, Mathias Baumann said:
Steve,
on the thread about Osborne you said:
QuoteI'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".
It may be just another coincidence but in the French article I posted a former OAS agent is quoted as saying:
Quote«L’idée, affirmait l’ex-capitaine Jean Curutchet, était d’employer les techniques de guerre révolutionnaire […]. Par exemple, au lieu d’envoyer deux paras français facilement repérables pour tuer de Gaulle à Paris, on envoyait deux Italiens. Personne n’allait faire attention à deux touristes italiens de passage à Paris. On les aurait amenés sur place la veille, et le lendemain, hop, dans le premier avion pour Rome, ni vu ni connu.»
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:
QuoteCheramie further supplied detailed accounts of the arrangement for the drug transaction in Houston. [...] The trio was to meet a seaman who was bringing in 8 kilos of heroin.
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1212#relPageId=206&tab=page
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
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1 hour ago, Bruce Johnson said:
George,
I can't help reading your comment and thinking of the Galbraith article re late 1963.
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
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4 hours ago, Mathias Baumann said:
Thank you Steve, the somesecretsforyou article is highly interesting
However I'm skeptical about Souètre's involvement in the assassination. According to a French article the origin of that story was a canard.
So it appears the investigators found no trace of Souètre nor Mertz but just a harmless tourist, who had been nowhere near Dallas at the time of the assassination. At least that seems to be the official story.
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
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On 10/27/2017 at 12:15 PM, James DiEugenio said:
Watch it Paul, Steve might start a Julius Caesar assassination thread
Hey!
I resemble that remark!
Steve Thomas
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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
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4 hours ago, Mathias Baumann said:
Fascinating read! Especially the following line caught my attention:
Is there a Special connection between New Orleans and Montreal? David Ferrie also traveled there before the assassination:
What was so appealing about this place?
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
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3 hours ago, Gene Kelly said:
Thanks Steve .... Item #3 in Dinkin's filing seems missing or redacted (and it has to do with his "reported activates in Europe...". At least we know he was living in Brooklyn NY in 1975. This set of questions (reads like a FOIA request) lends credibility to his story and motives.
Gene
Gene,
Do you know anybody who has a subscription to the Lexis database that could run this civil suit case number?
Steve Thomas
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3 hours ago, Gene Kelly said:
A few things (not necessarily profound) that strike me as off or odd about the Dinkin story;
- Civil action filed at some time in Brooklyn NY ... what was that about, and where did it end?
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
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3 hours ago, David Andrews said:
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
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2 hours ago, David Andrews said:
104-10067-10403: LIST OF DOCUMENTS
Between November 7-12, 1963, several documents are included in a CIA-created list of Oswald-related documents. Uncertain why these documents are included, other than story that Eugene Dinkin gave some kind of warning about the assassination during his assignment in Western Europe. To summarize the statements on the list: CIA cable from Bern, Switzerland forwards info on Eugene Dinkin; CIA cable from Berlin, West Germany, forwards info on Michael K. Bowers; LCHARVEST - CIA cable from Berlin, West Germany; CIA cable from Bern, Switzerland, forwarding info on possibility someone using name of Michael K. Bowers; cable from Bern, Switzerland, forwarding info that Eugene Dinkin returned to military custody.
Oswald 201 File, Vol 1, Folder 2
11/8/63 CIA cable from Bern, FOIA 20-532: Unredacted portion states "Chief of Station comment: Requested check whether Bowers actually assigned USASA Berlin and whether present Suiise on leave." The response was: "Bowers is assigned USASA Berlin. Is on duty at present. No leave presently at all."
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
Helms' Lies and Obstruction of Justice
in JFK Assassination Debate
Posted
Mike,
I see Oswald as an agent provocateur working on behalf of someone else:
I think I see a pattern here.
Steve Thomas