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EXCLUSIVE FBI probes pre-Capitol riot meeting of far-right groups By Aram Roston 02/08/2022 https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-fbi-probes-pre-capitol-riot-meeting-far-right-groups-2022-02-08/ “WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing a meeting in a downtown DC garage the day before the January 6 Capitol Hill riot between the then-leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, the now-indicted leader of the Oath Keepers militia and other far-right figures, according to two witnesses interviewed by FBI agents.” “The meeting put the heads of the nation’s two best-known violent far-right pro-Trump groups in immediate proximity to each other 24 hours before the breach of the Capitol. Three attendees or their representatives contacted by Reuters say they did not discuss matters related to January 6. Bianca Gracia, who heads a pro-Trump coalition called Latinos for Trump and an affiliated Political Action Committee named Latinos For America First, was at the garage meeting as well, according to witnesses and video taken by a documentary film crew.” Steve Thomas

Oh goody The same far-right influencers behind the effort to overturn the 2020 election are pushing for a convoy on DC by Jordan Green, Staff Reporter February 08, 2022 https://www.rawstory.com/freedom-convoy-2656591373/ “At the top of the list is Donald Trump himself, who issued a statement on Feb. 4 deriding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a “far-left lunatic… who has destroyed Canada with insane Covid mandates.” Trump added: “Now, thankfully, the Freedom Convoy could be coming to DC with American Truckers who want to protest Biden’s ridiculous Covid policies.” The People’s Convoy, with a Facebook group boasting 48,100 members and Telegram channel with 38,000 members, had previously publicized March 1 as a start date, but by the past weekend organizers were signaling that the date was up in the air again. In a video shared on the group’s telegram channel, organizer Jeremy Johnson reported that leaders would hold a Zoom meeting on Feb. 5 “with a very large group of people,” while predicting, “After that Zoom meeting on we’re going to be able to come out with a hell of a lot more information than what we’ve been able to do so far.” In the same video, Johnson said his group had joined forces with Leigh Dundas, a social media influencer anti-vax advocate from southern California who helped mobilize Trump supporters to come to Washington, DC on Jan. 5, 2021. In a Facebook Live video on Feb. 4, Dundas briefly touched on the DC convoy, saying, “US convoy coming soon. Sit tight, guys. I don’t want to rush to judgement on this one. I’m working with a lot of different trucking factions over the next 48 hours here. I think we’re going to have big announcements starting at the end of the week or next week.”” He's just not going to stop. Steve Thomas

https://twitter.com/texasdemocrats/status/1490400867509440513 The Texas Democratic Party is calling on the @TexasGOP to demand the immediate resignation of Carla Richburg. As a precinct chair in one of the most populous and diverse communities in the country, there is no place for Richburg's bigotry in our state politics. #txlege Steve Thomas

Jim, Was it Marina who said that the FBI came by their house and took Oswald outside where they sat in a car for a couple of hours? Was that in 1962? We'll never know what they talked about. Steve Thomas

RESOLUTION REGARDING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM 2020 WHEREAS, All platforms are snapshots of the historical contexts in which they are born, and parties abide by their policy priorities, rather than their political rhetoric; WHEREAS, The RNC, had the Platform Committee been able to convene in 2020, would have undoubtedly unanimously agreed to reassert the Party’s strong support for President Donald Trump and his Administration; RESOLVED, That the Republican Party has and will continue to enthusiastically support the President’s America-first agenda; RESOLVED, That the 2020 Republican National Convention will adjourn without adopting a new platform until the 2024 Republican National Convention RESOLUTION TO FORMALLY CENSURE LIZ CHENEY AND ADAM KINZINGER AND TO NO LONGER SUPPORT THEM AS MEMBERS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY 02/04/2022 WHEREAS, Winning back the majority in Congress, including the United States House of Representatives, in 2022 must be the primary goal of the House Republican Conference (“Conference”) and requires all Republicans working together to accomplish the same; WHEREAS, Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger are participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse, ,… RESOLVED, That the Republican National Committee hereby formally censures Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and shall immediately cease any and all support of them as members of the Republican Party... And, so there you have it. 1. The Republican Party has no Platform other than to support Donald Trump 2. The primary mission of the Republican Party is to regain power at all costs 3. The Republican Party endorses political violence as a legitimate means to attain that power Steve Thomas

RNC lashed out because Jan. 6 probe is ‘getting very close’ to fake Trump electors: Former GOP lawmaker by John Wright https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-2656571428/ "I think part of the reason why the RNC reacted so foolishly against Cheney and Kinzinger, is because the Jan. 6 committee issued 14 subpoenas to some of these fake electors," he said. "And I suspect they're getting very close to some members of the Republican National Committee, and they're a little nervous about that, and they ought to be, frankly. ... The RNC is really anxious. Some of those members I think have to be concerned about those subpoenas, so that's what this is about more than anything else." Now it makes sense. Steve Thomas

Joe, Remind me never to get into a legitimate political discourse with Ronna McDaniel. She'll kick my ass. Steve Thomas

We can have a legitimate political political discourse. Hang on a minute while I go get my brass knuckles and some bear spray and a lead pipe. Steve Thomas

John, Sure. 8. Hanging out in an auto repair shop reading Guns and Ammo or American Rifleman or whatever, and waiting on cash stuffed envelopes handed to him through the car window from his FBI handler. Steve Thomas

Breaking News: People are already getting out the popcorn waiting for DJT's response.

https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1489701809128198145 "President Trump is wrong," Pence said. "I had no right to overturn the election." "The presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone," he said. "And frankly, there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president. Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of our election." Steve Thomas

As Adopted by the Resolutions Committee REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE RESOLUTION TO FORMALLY CENSURE LIZ CHENEY AND ADAM KINZINGER AND TO NO LONGER SUPPORT THEM AS MEMBERS OF THE REPUBLICANPARTY 02/04/2022 WHEREAS , Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger are participating in a Democrat -led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse , and they are both utilizing their past professed political affiliation to mask Democrat abuse of prosecutorial power for partisan purposes, therefore, be it RESOLVED , That the Republican National Committee hereby formally censures Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and shall immediately cease any and all support of them as members of the Republican Party for their behavior which has been destructive to the institution of the U.S. House of Representatives , the Republican Party and our republic, and is inconsistent with the position of the Conference . And, there you have it. Steve Thomas

Tennessee Republicans hold a book burning to destroy Harry Potter, Twilight, and other "demonic" titles By Mark Frauenfelder 7:28 am Fri Feb 4, 2022 https://boingboing.net/2022/02/04/tennessee-republicans-hold-a-book-burning-to-destroy-harry-potter-twilight-and-other-demonic-titles.html “The simple banning of Maus from schools apparently wasn't enough for Tennessee Republicans. The time has come to burn books that displease them. Global Vision Bible Church pastor Greg Locke, who praises his god and Trump in equal measure, held a book burning this week to rid the earth of books he doesn't like. His Trump-loving congregation tossed copies of Harry Potter and Twilight books into the fire, along with other items they were frightened of, including Ouija boards and tarot cards. Here's the video of Locke's sermon and the book burning, which starts around an hour into the video.” https://www.facebook.com/PastorLocke/videos/646473060002596/ Steve Thomas

Jim, I'm sure it was part of that whole Oswald as FBI spy agent-provocateur scenario that was being floated after the assassination; ala going to Carlos Bringuer's and offering to help train some exiles and leaving behind his Marine Manual. The whole time he was posing as a Fair Play for Cuba guy, he was also showing up at Bringuer's, seen at training.camps, trying to go on raiding parties, seen at the SNFE house on Harlandale, etc. The word on the street was that he was an FBI spy (at least that's what Sylvia Odio was told). In the Spring of 1963, the FBI was directed to raid the training camps, disrupt the Cuban raiding parties, and the exiles were forbidden to leave Miami. The exiles were pissed and were looking for ways to get back at the FBI and the CIA. That's why, I personally think, that Veciana double-crossed David Atlee Phillips. Steve Thomas

This is unbelievable. https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/dec-18-2020-memo/af2cc1eb-730b-4171-bcc8-50bbe07e0ff9/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4 To From DATE:December18,2020 "A group of former DoD and IC analysts collected, analyzed, and organized into a work product substantial evidence suggesting foreign involvement in both the violent “Color Revolution” the US. is presently undergoing and specifically the 2020 Election fraud and their involvement in altering the vote counts in the 2020 Election. Expert DOD legal opinion of this work product is that it provides sufficient predicate to form search inquiries against NSA unprocessed raw signals data under the existing authorities of NSPM.-13. Those targeted inquiries will likely identify hard evidence of foreign involvement in DOD data which will support all other efforts to reverse the fraud. If evidence of foreign interference is found the team would generate a classified DOD legal finding to support next steps to defend the Constitution in a manner superior to current civiian-only judicial remedies ( which should still be pursued in parallel)." Color Revolution: Worldwide media use the term colour revolution to describe various protest movements and accompanying attempted or successful change of governments that took place in several countries of the former Soviet Union, the former Yugoslavia and People's Republic of China during the early 21st century. Wikipedia Explaining the Color Revolutions by Poh Phaik Thien Jul 31 2009 https://www.e-ir.info/2009/07/31/explaining-the-color-revolutions/ “However various political upheavals that have that happened following allegations of electoral fraud in national elections since 2000 seem to indicate democratic breakthroughs.” 1. The U.S. is currently undergoing a “Color Revolution". 2. There is that National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-13) again. 3. Intercepting raw NSA data is against the law unless under a court order. 4. Is this memo proposing military tribunals? Steve Thomas

Jim, If indeed Oswald (or someone claiming to be Oswald intended to transit Mexico on his way to Cuba and/or Russia, would either of those two countries have demanded a more recent passport? One issued within the last three years or so? I don't know what their requirements at the time were. Steve Thomas

Jim, I personally believe that the "Sanchez" identified in the Buchanan documents is the wrong Sanchez. And, the Buchanan raid involved a group I had never heard of before - Los Pinos Nuevos (The New Pines). Commission Document 1020 - FBI O'Connor Report of 11 May 1964 re: Oswald - Russia/Cuba Page 19 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11416&search=Fairhope#relPageId=21&tab=page I personally believe that the "Sanchez" in question is Fernando Sanchez Garcia. Cuban Information Archives: http://cuban-exile.com/doc_326-350/doc0326.html ALPHA-66 (Alfa 66) Chronology & Background May 1962 to Nov 1964 FAIRHOPE, ALA: By Apr 63 Alpha-66 office in. [R-759-2-161] ADD: 457 OAK STREET [R-759-3-25] May 63 [R-759-3-55] SANCHEZ GARCIA, Fernando, an accountant of Los Naranjos 702, apt 3B, Santurce, PR [R-759-1-108] https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/180-10144-10153.pdf CIA Synopsis of Antonio Veciana Blanch (201-312966) RIF# 180-10144-10153 “11/16/62 Indicates rift in Alpha-66. Only Jeronimo Estevez, Salomon Bender, Fernando Sanchez, and Israel Gonzalez still allied with Veciana.” MEMO FOR THE RECORD RE THE BOAT M/V VIOLIN III AND ALEXANDER IRWIN ROR November 25, 1962 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=55784#relPageId=4&tab=page (page 4) “The following subjects served as crew members on board the M/V Violin III:” From SAC Miami, to Bureau dated 4/29/66 Principal anti-Castro organizations in the Miami area: https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32322734.pdf Page 7 Steve Thomas

Why Trump's call for protests against prosecutors is worrying By Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBC https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/why-trump-s-call-protests-against-prosecutors-worrying-n1288390?icid=msd_topgrid - Donald Trump - "If these radical, vicious, racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal, I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protest we have ever had in Washington, D.C.; in New York; in Atlanta; and elsewhere, because our country and our elections are corrupt." Our country is corrupt? If our country is corrupt, just exactly does he want to replace it with? If we are not a country of the people, and by the people, and for the people, then what kind of country will we be? Steve Thomas

David, I agree with you. I've had long conversations with Larry Hancock on this, and if I can put words in his mouth, with this "identification" coming five days after the assassination, it was probably part of that whole effort by the DRE and others to tie Oswald to the assassination. In the process of researching this incident, I ran across a whole slew of references tying Jerry Buchanan to Fairhope, AL of all places. Alpha 66 and Carlos Bringuer also tied in. Marina Oswald, and LHO's talk to the Jesuit College are on the fringes. I took some notes, and if you don't mind, I'll post them here: Stovall Exhibit A (21H596) https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1138#relPageId=620&tab=page is a list of items taken by the police from 2515 W. 5th St. in Irving, TX. The last entry on that list is: a letter to Marina Oswald from Fairhope, AL.. Fairhope's significance seems to revolve around the claims by a Jerry Buchanan that he was in a fight with Lee Harvey Oswald in October, 1962 in Miami and that Oswald was distributing FPCC literature in Miami in March, 1963. At the time, Buchanan was living with a Craig Sheldon, who Frank Sturgis said was the Southeastern Director of the International Anti-Communist Brigade. (Just my own thoughts, It's possible that Oswald was trying to infiltrate this group the same way he tried in New Orleans with the DRE and Carlos Bringuer.) FBI Report of SA Joseph T. Boston dated March 30, 1964 Interview of Jerry Buchanan of Fairhope, AL. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1142&relPageId=460&search=Fairhope Buchanan's group, the International Anti-Communist Brigade (of Frank Sturgis fame), had a fight with members of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in the Bay Front Park section of Miami, FL. in October, 1962. Police broke up the fight. Buchanan said Oswald was there. Also recalled that Oswald was in Miami, FL in March, 1963 distributing literature. Buchanan was living with Craig Sheldon in Fairhope. CD 1020 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11416#relPageId=3&tab=page CD 1020 page 19 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11416&search=Fairhope#relPageId=21&tab=page See FBI Report of SA Allison A. Catlin dated June 25, 1964. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=75614&search=Fairhope#relPageId=3&tab=page Interview of Craig Sheldon. In December, 1962, Sheldon traveled to Puerto Rico, where he met with Bay of Pigs veterans and was raising money for Alpha 66. Sheldon says he is in “regular correspondence” with Antonio Veciana. Copy of Fairhope Courier article January 2, 1963: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=75614&relPageId=4&search=Fairhope From Mary Ferrells' Database: https://www.maryferrell.org/php/marysdb.php?id=1499 BRINGUIER, CARLOS JOSE (DR.) New Orleans head of Anti-Castro Cuban Student Directorate. 201-289248. Got into a scuffle with Oswald in Aug. 1963 when Oswald was passing out FPCC literature. CIA Memo (502, P. 3) admits past contacts with Bringuier and Clay Shaw. SSCIA Dwyer & Greissing interviewed Bringuier 1/12/76 (MMF 1761-1763) (Address in 2003: 16865 J B Ln, Fairhope, AL 36532-6243 334 928-4741 Wife? Michele NO, this is his son's address and phone. Carlos, Sr., lives across street from son and his phone number is 251 990-5976. Posted by David Joseph in the Education Forum 1/8/2018 http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/24633-oswald-in-alabama/ “ http://www.mobilebaymag.com/Mobile-Bay/January-2014/Sixties-Flashback-Lee-Harvey-Oswald-Visits-Spring-Hill/ Flashback: Lee Harvey Oswald Visits Spring Hill Originally run in Mobile Bay Monthly's September 1993 issue, this article explores Lee Harvey Oswald's speech at Spring Hill College in July 1963, just months before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Lee, Marina and June were three of eight who made the trip to Mobile, piled into a station wagon driven by uncle Charles "Dutz" Murret, accompanied by Dutz's wife Lillian, their daughter Joyce and her two children, all of whom put up at the Palms Motel at Highway 90 and Azalea Road, Uncle Dutz footing the bill. The court record might also help discount the coincidence that Laurel. Md., where Hawkins reportedly made his threat in earshot of a plainclothes F.B.I. agent, is about a 10 minute drive from the Washington, D.C. suburb of Silver Spring, Md. one of the 13 cities, along with Fairhope, that the F.B.I. report of May 8. 1963 (six weeks before Hawkins' arrest on the causeway) listed as a headquarters for Alpha-66.” Is this the FBI report the Mobile Bay Magazine refers to? http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/belligerence/Alpha-66-12-FBI.pdf http://cuban-exile.com/doc_326-350/doc0326.html#CHRONOLOGY Alpha-66: FAIRHOPE, ALA: By Apr 63 Alpha-66 office in. [R-759-2- 161] “SHELDON, Craig of Fairhope, Alabama was recruiting for A-66 on Jan 2, 1963. He says he is a member, an ex-marine. [R-759-1-841851” http://www.mobilebaymag.com/Mobile-Bay/January-2014/Sixties-Flashback-Lee-Harvey-Oswald-Visits-Spring-Hill/ “Addendum on Mobile Anti-Castro Activists There has never even been alleged, nor does Mobile Bay Magazine in any way now suggest, a connection between Oswald and Mobilians engaged in anti-Castro activities. Yet we think it appropriate to note, as a matter of historical background, that Mobile, as well as New Orleans, was at least up until the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion a center of active support for anti Castro militants. A memo filed in the F.B.I. office in Los Angeles dated May 8, 1963 quotes an informant who copied a list of headquarter cities for Alpha 66, the Cuban exile led group that staged regular raids on Castro's Cuba. One of the 13 cities in the U.S., Canada, and South America is Fairhope, Ala. Fairhope sculptor Craig Sheldon, now in his late 70s, was an adventurous, patriotic WWII veteran and devout anti-Communist in the early 1960s. He has never made a secret of the fact that he was a member of Alpha 66 According to Sheldon, his close friend Kenneth Giddens was a leading fundraiser for the group, helping finance semi truck loads of surplus U.S. military munitions shipped to Cuban dissidents in south Florida. Giddens, who died last year, was founder of WKRG Inc. Sheldon, who helped purchase and transport arms and engaged in military raids on Cuba, says he stopped such active participation after the Bay of Pigs, frustrated with the incompetence of the CIA and the expatriate Cubans. "I hate the CIA more than I ever did," says Sheldon. "With those fellows, there's never anyone in charge." The principal leader of the Alpha 66 activities he engaged in, says Sheldon, was Frank Sturgis, who in 1972 was one of four men (two Cuban exiles) arrested in the Watergate burglary of National Democratic Party Headquarters. Sturgis, whom Sheldon still admires for his leadership in the anti Castro cause, says Sheldon, "came through Mobile" as part of Alpha 66 organizing efforts. A March 30, 1964 report by Mobile F.B.I. agents summarizes an interview, conducted at Sheldon's Fairhope home, with Jerry Buchanan, "a member of the International Anti Communist Brigade," a group founded by Sturgis. Buchanan, living in Fairhope at the time, told agents that members of his group in Miami in 1962 scuffled with a group of Fair Play for Cuba demonstrators that included Oswald. Sheldon, whom the F.B.I. agents said "advised that he is the Southeastern Chairman of the International Anti Communist Brigade," now discounts Buchanan as an "unreliable" individual who "was probably just trying to drum up publicity for himself." Sturgis, it must also be noted, was accused in 1978 by a House Committee witness, of direct involvement in the JFK assassination. Maria Lorenz, Castro's ex mistress, later Sturgis' lover and operative (she claimed involvement in one assassination attempt on Castro, one of many staged by Operation 40, a Castro assassination cadre to which Sturgis has admitted being a member) told the Committee that around Nov. 15, 1963 she was part of a two car caravan (with rifles and scopes loaded in the trunks) that included Sturgis and Oswald and that drove from Miami to Dallas. The Committee, however, found no substantiation for Lorenz' story. The Strange Coincidence of James A. Hawkins The night before Oswald arrived in Mobile for his speech at Spring Hill College, a 22-year-old white male, James A. Hawkins, was arrested on the Mobile Bay Causeway, later convicted, on charges that he'd threatened the life of the president. The threat was made in Laurel, Md., the Secret Service issued a national bulletin, and a Mobile Secret Service agent picked up Hawkins at a gas station Friday night, July 26 (coincidentally, the fifth anniversary of Castros July 26th Revolution). Like many of the slew of puzzling coincidences related to Oswald and the JFK investigation, this incident cannot be finally put down to coincidence because government records have unaccountably disappeared. According to the front-page Mobile Press-Register report on Hawkins' arraignment, Mobile Secret Service agent Forrest Guthrie said Hawkins "was unemployed and moving around the country" but "did not reveal how he located the man at the service station." Almost 30 years later, Guthrie still cannot shed any light on how he came to pick up Hawkins. "Now that you read it [press clipping] to me, I sort of remember the case, but I really can't say how it [the arrest] came about." As to the coincidence of Oswald being in town that weekend, Guthrie said it was the first he'd heard about it. "We didn't know anything about Oswald at that time," Guthrie said, "although the F.B.I. had information on him, as it has come out since then." Attorney H. Albert Korn, who represented Hawkins in Maryland federal court, does not recall anything about an arrest being made in Mobile or anywhere else outside the jurisdiction of Maryland. He does recall that the threat his client was alleged to have made occurred "at a gas station" and "happened to have been made to an F.B.I. agent in plain clothes." "It's been a long time," said Korn, but as I recall, what he was alleged to have said was something along the lines of, 'I'm going to get that n loving president." Korn waived a jury trial, pleaded his client not guilty by reason of insanity and called as his expert witness "one of the top forensic psychiatrists in the county," says Korn. But Dr. Manfred Guttmacher proved disappointing on cross examination. "He backed off' his direct testimony, says Korn, and "on cross said he could not really give an opinion" that Hawkins was not culpable. Hawkins was sentenced to three years. Reports by Guttmacher and the prosecution's psychiatrist might tell a lot about just who Hawkins was and the nature of his threat against the president. And court records could show whether Hawkins ever posted the $5,000 bail set in Mobile prior to his indictment in Maryland one month after the Kennedy assassination. But those reports and all other records of the trial testimony, are missing from the Federal Court Records Center and the National Archives, where they should be stored. All that could be found was the docket sheet entries. According to U.S. District Court of Maryland Chief Deputy Clerk Gary Sapperstein, the disappearance of Hawkins' records from both the archives and court records "is very unusual." The court record might also help discount the coincidence that Laurel. Md., where Hawkins reportedly made his threat in earshot of a plainclothes F.B.I. agent, is about a 10 minute drive from the Washington, D.C. suburb of Silver Spring, Md. one of the 13 cities, along with Fairhope, that the F.B.I. report of May 8. 1963 (six weeks before Hawkins' arrest on the causeway) listed as a headquarters for Alpha-66.” Cuban Information Archives: http://cuban-exile.com/doc_326-350/doc0326.html ALPHA-66 (Alfa 66) Chronology & Background May 1962 to Nov 1964 FAIRHOPE, ALA: By Apr 63 Alpha-66 office in. [R-759-2-161] ADD: 457 OAK STREET [R-759-3-25] May 63 [R-759-3-55] 1963 MAR 17/18 A raid at Isabel de Sagua firing at a Russian Technical Camp located on shore and a Russian ship which was at sea. Two 20-foot boats with two movable 20 mm cannons were used along with BAR's and M-1's. Each boat held 12-15 men. [R-759-1-115/125] One boat was a wooden 25-foot speedboat, fiberglass covered, with a 95 horsepower Mercury inboard engine, and the other was a 21 foot boat with two inboard engines capable of doing bet. 30 and 40 mph. [R-759-2-24C] Six Russians were wounded. Damage on the island was slight. [R-759-1-125] An informant confirms the Miami Herald account printed on Mar 19. [R-759-2-20] The Herald reports some Russians killed. [R-759-2-24C] The New York Standard reports that the raiding party entered the harbor, stopped a Russian freighter and exchanged gunfire. Two raiders were wounded. [R-759-2-65] http://cuban-exile.com/doc_326-350/doc0326.html FAIRHOPE, ALA: By Apr 63 Alpha-66 office in. [R-759-2-161] ADD: 457 OAK STREET [R-759-3-25] May 63 [R-759-3-55] CD 1020 p. 14. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11416#relPageId=16&tab=page "He (Jim Buchanan, brother of Jerry Buchanan) advised that Jerry Buchanan would be available for a few days following the day of interview (April 30, 1964) at 457 Oak St. Fairhope, Alabama, the residence of Craig Sheldon, whom he described as Chairman of the International Anti-Communist Brigade in Alabama." CD 1020 p. 13 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11416#relPageId=15&tab=page A Cuban exile named Sanchez told Jim Buchanan that Jerry Buchanan had been in a fight with Oswald near the Miami River in March, 1963 in March, 1963. p. 14 Sanchez had told Jim Buchanan that, “...Oswald had apparently introduced himself to Jerry Buchanan and the Cuban exiles near the Miami River dock by his true name, Oswald.” Allegedly, Jerry Buchanan and Oswald get into a fight on a dock when Oswald insists on boarding a boat headed out on anti-Castro (bombing?) mission to Cuba. And pp. Following http://cuban-exile.com/doc_326-350/doc0326.html “It is the custom of the SNFE to anchor their boats in the vicinity of the 17th street bridge in Miami, according to U.S. Customs in April 1963. [R-759-2-17]” Is this the boat Oswald tried to board, and did he inform on Buchanan? The News-Herald from Mansfield, Ohio · April 3, 1963 Page 24 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/45297639/ Friday 24--NEWS-HERALD W.J.. April 3. 1963 Raider denies violation of neutrality law. EDITOR'S NOTE~The following exclusive interview with Jerry 'Buchanan was obtained by his brother, James Buchanan, reporter for the Pompano Beach Sun Sentinel, and made available to the Associated Press. By JAMES BUCHANAN POMPANO BEACH. Fla. (AP) --The American who acted as spokesman for a band of anli-Castro sea raiders in securing their release from British custody told me he did not feel he had broken any neutrality law. Jerry Buchanan, 24. said in an exclusive interview by telephone; from Nassau Monday night, the raiders' boats, Violin III, had not been armed or manned in the country. The 35-foot Violin III was captured at Norman's Cay, a tiny is land in the Bahamas. Buchanan said Magistrate John Baily freed the band of 17 men and releases their boat with a decree that they lad not violated any law in British :territory," Buchanan sad. "_____ went So the boat, where it been there since Saturday morning waiting for us to come in. They knew all about us. "The police came out of the building and said, 'Is your name Buchanan?' They placed both of us under detention." He reported, a platoon of Bahamian police led by a British officer ordered the others to come ashore Buchanan said The Violin II was not captured at sea as reported and that the British frigate credited with the capture steamed into the area Sunday afternoon "The police searched the boa and captured a few of the boys who were well hidden from view. The boat put into the island to refuel, Buchanan said, and he and one of the Cubans aboard under command of Maj. Eveho Duquc went ashore unarmed. "We approached a barracks type building where we encountered a detachment of Bahamian police. "They also found the arms which we had stored on the boat. "Police told us they had us under surveillance all Sunday evening while we were trying to dock. After finding the arms they immediately announced we were being detained. The police refused to use the term 'arrest.' They said we were merely 'detained. " Buchanan said a high official of the Bahamas government, whom he declined to identify, arrived and said he was acting as a delgate from London, representing the Admiralty. "Prior to the official's arrival, however, the frigate was spotted off the east coast of the key," Buchanan said. The navy came ashore in three landing launches. One of these carried a platoon of men completely equipped with machine guns and ready to fight. The police then turned us over to the navy." "I was flown to Nassau at 7 .m. Sunday. I went to court Monday afternoon and we're now out n bond. We're supposed to be put back aboard the boat and escorted out of British waters with out equipment, guns and any of our 'personal effects." Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee · April 2, 1963 Page 1 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/78783432/ U.S. CONFISCATES EXILE BOAT British Halt Cuba-Bound Raiders MIAMI, Ffa. (AP)-U.S. customs agents confiscated a Cuban exile boat, British police captured a band of 17 sea raiders and a companion group of commandos continued toward Cuba in a series of lightning-like developments. The exile boat, captured in Miami, was "outfitted for aggression," supervising customs agent Joseph Fortier announced Monday night. He said the 40-foot yacht Alisan was seized Sunday night at North Miami Beach with two homemade bombs and a 20-millimeter cannon on board. The boat's owner, Dr. Santiago Alvarez, said he did not know who had been using the boat or where it was used. No charges were filed. Fortier said the boat was empty when agents boarded it. A group of commandos was refitted (refitting?) nearing Cuba by boat on a mission to fight any Communist boats encountered and to contact rebels inside Cuba. A companion boat with 17 men aboard was halted at Norman's Key, a tiny island in the Exurna chain 200 miles north of the Cuban coast and 350 miles south of Miami. British police took the men into custody, including an American Ex-Kingsport Resident Leader Of Sea Raiders. EDITOR'S NOTE-The leader of the Cuba-bound "sea raiders" halted by the British yesterday was Jerry Buchanan, who was reared in Kingsport. His family lived at 1853 Buckles Drive until 1956, and he attended Long Island Elementary. (That damned Tennessee connection again smile) Lots of documents here on Alexander Rorke: ALEXANDER RORKE: FRANK FIORINI STURGIS PUT A BOMB ON ... https://www.scribd.com/.../ALEXANDER-RORKE-FRANK-FIORINI-STURGIS-PUT-... Sheldon's Castle Origins -- About Craig Sheldon http://fairhopecastle.com/Craig_Sheldon.html Before you can really begin the story of Fairhope's Story Book Castles, you need to first meet the Man behind the story. In 1940, Craig Sheldon married Annie "Butch Sheldon, and they moved to Fairhope to raise their family at the close of World War II. 'Three children, Craig Sheldon Jr, Susan Megrez, and Pagan were born to the couple in Fairhope. Daughter Suzan Megrez Rudolf inhabits the Sheldon Castle with her husband John to this day. While Daughter, Pagan Mosher inhabits the adjacent Mosher Castle.” “The tower was built in the 1950s with the help of his young son, Craig, Jr. (then called Mac).” http://www.archives.state.al.us/findaids/v23056.pdf CRAIG T. SHELDON ANTI-CASTRO COLLECTION, 1955-2012 Finding aid Call number: LPR208 Extent: 2.2 cubic ft. (3 archives boxes and 1 oversize box.) One folder contains a1993 article about a visit Lee Harvey Oswald made to Spring Hill College in July 1963 to make a speech. to return to the ADACAT catalog record, click here: http://adahcat.archives.alabama.gov:81/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=23056 I think I may have answered the last entry in Stovall's Exhibit A – list of property taken from 2515 W. 5th St. in Irving. The last entry reads: letter addressed to Marina Oswald from Fairhope, AL. In the DPD Archives, Box 6, Folder# 6, Item# 7, page 12 there is this entry: http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/box6.htm Letter (3 pages and envelope) Marina Oswald at New Orleans from Loyda Ville in Russian (Bottlees Wharf, Ala,) Irving According to Google Maps, there is no Bottlees Wharf, but there is a Battles Wharf, AL. Battles Wharf is an unincorporated area in Baldwin Co., AL. Just south of Fairhope. Fairhope is also located in Baldwin County. I can envision a letter from Battles Wharf being postmarked Fairhope. CD 206 is a Report of Robert Gemberling dated January 7, 1964. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10673#relPageId=1&tab=page Beginning on page 373, there is a description of Russian language documents and papers seized from the residence of Ruth Paine at 2515 W. 5th St. in Irving on November 22, 1963. These papers were translated by SA Anatole Boguslav. On page 382, there is a description of Item# 8. . It says that Item# 8 is “A three page letter from Boris Ivanovich Fitzpatrick (apparently) dated August 7, 1963. The letter is written on the stationary of Loyola Villa, Battles Wharf, Alabama. The writer thanks Marina for the interesting conversation they had the week before.... Also expressed appreciation to Lee Oswald for his lecture delivered at the seminary.” Although the writer did not agree with Lee Oswald's conclusions, the seminarians respected him for his idealism and the truth of his research. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10673&relPageId=387&search=%22Battles_Wharf%22 I'm not sure where the name “Boris Ivanovich Fitzpatrick” came from, and why his name would say (apparently) after it, but Robert Fitzpatrick was interviewed by the FBI on November 30, 1963. You can read his recollections of Marina's visit here: Recollections of Robert Fitzpatrick (25H924) CE 2549 CD 24 pp. 1-17 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1141#relPageId=954 Steve Thomas

Jim, In the last days of March, 1963... CD 1020 p. 13 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11416#relPageId=15&tab=page Allegedly, Jerry Buchanan and Oswald get into a fight on a dock when Oswald insists on boarding a boat headed out on anti-Castro (bombing?) mission to Cuba. Page 14: He (being Jerry's brother, James Buchanan)… Steve Thomas

Matt, I've been thinking. It's one thing to get a lot of people worked up to go down to the Capitol and "fight like hell", if they think that their votes got stolen. But how successful will he be in convincing people to fight for him because he got caught cheating on his taxes? What I think will happen is a wave of smaller incidents like the bomb threats we saw against the black universities this last weekend, or against the courthouse in Atlanta the DA was warning about, or the occupation of the state capitol in Lansing, MI in June, 2020. [ex-wife of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes] Tasha Adams warned that when his far-right militia supporters listen to Trump, they hear a call for civil war, “They hear civil war. This is the civil war they’ve been waiting for. A lot of these guys live for this. They have been waiting for this. They spend their lives preparing for it. They look forward to it. There’s an air of disappointment when it doesn’t turn violent with these guys, I think, a lot of them.” https://rockingtimes.com/awards/ex-wife-of-oath-keepers-leader-warns-trump-is-trying-to-weaponize-his-supporters/ How many people will go along with this? Steve Thomas

Jim, Calling for mass protests in the same speech saying that he will pardon the January 6th rioters if he is elected President in 2024 kind of says it all, don't you think? Talk about giving someone license... Steve Thomas

At his rally in Texas, Donald Trump called for "massive protests" in Washington, New York, and Atlanta if the vicious and racist prosecutors do anything illegal against him. Buckle your seat belts. Here it comes. Steve Thomas

https://january6th.house.gov/news/press-releases/select-committee-subpoenas-alternate-electors-seven-states 01/28/2022 “The Select Committee has obtained information that groups of individuals met on December 14th, 2020 in seven states carried by President Biden, then submitted bogus slates of Electoral-College votes for former President Trump. The so-called alternate electors from those states then transmitted the purported Electoral-College certificates to Congress, which multiple people advising former President Trump or his campaign used to justify delaying or blocking the certification of the election during the Joint Session of Congress on January 6th, 2021. The Select Committee subpoenaed individuals listed as chairperson and secretary of each group of alternate electors: Nancy Cottle, Chairperson, Arizona Loraine B. Pellegrino, Secretary, Arizona David Shafer, Chairperson, Georgia Shawn Still, Secretary, Georgia Kathy Berden, Chairperson, Michigan Mayra Rodriguez, Secretary, Michigan Jewll Powdrell, Chairperson, New Mexico Deborah W. Maestas, Secretary, New Mexico Michael J. McDonald, Chairperson, Nevada James DeGraffenreid, Secretary, Nevada Bill Bachenberg, Chairperson, Pennsylvania Lisa Patton, Secretary, Pennsylvania Andrew Hitt, Chairperson, Wisconsin Kelly Ruh, Secretary, Wisconsin” Steve Thomas

https://www.mychildsmuseum.org/museum-closure a message from the children's museum The Museum is closed January 26 - February 4. All reservations for this time period have been cancelled. For nearly 50 years, the Children’s Museum of Denver at Marsico Campus has been a community gathering place where families can share moments of wonder and joy. Our staff takes this mission seriously, and strives to help your family create memories in a safe and welcoming environment. Lately, this has been increasingly challenging. The Museum carefully follows public health guidelines, including mask wearing. We know the stress of the last two years has taken a toll on everyone in our community, but regrettably, some guests who object to the Museum’s mask policy have been inappropriately directing their anger toward our staff. Therefore, we have made the decision to close our doors to the public January 26 through February 4 so that we can support our staff and bolster our policies with the hope of preventing this type of behavior in the future.