John Simkin

I have created a new section in the index on resources. http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=4311 I thought it would be a good idea to create a thread on useful websites. Here is a start (these are all websites run by members of the Forum): Assassination of President Kennedy http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKindex.htm A detailed look at the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. There are biographies of 554 people involved in the case: Major Figures (160), Important Witnesses (68), Investigators (174) and Possible Conspirators (152). Other sections include: Reports (4), Organizations and Operations (28) and Key Issues (10). The website also looks at the possibility that different organizations such as the Mafia, CIA, FBI, Secret Service, KGB and the John Birch Society might have been involved in the planning of the assassination. Other possibilities such as anti-Castro activists, Texas oil millionaires and the Warren Commission's lone-gunman theory are also looked at. The website has an activity section and a forum where students and teachers can enter into debate with the author of the material, other investigators and witnesses to the events of 1963. Photographic Archive of the Assassination of JFK http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKphotographs.htm James Richards has studied the assassination of John F. Kennedy for the last 15 years. During this time he has established a large collection of photographs on the subject. The function of this website is to present photographic images relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The images presented here cover many aspects including material captured on the day, to suspects, organizations and connected individuals who played a part in history. This ongoing project so far includes photographs of Operation Tilt, Interpen, Alpha 66, Dealey Plaza, Assassination Aftermath, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, JFK's Visit To Miami Stadium, Presidential Motorcade, Dallas Police Department, Organized Crime and Connections, CIA Personnel, Agents & Assets and Anti-Castro Personnel. Ecker’s JFK Webpage http://www.hobrad.com/jfk.htm This site by our own Ron Ecker provides links to some of the best JFK assassination sites, including the Zapruder film, an article on the film’s authenticity, D.B. Thomas’s study of the acoustical evidence, and the compelling evidence presented by staff analyst Doug Horne of the Assassination Records Review Board that two different brains were examined by the JFK pathologists. Also included are articles by Ecker on the mysterious Umbrella Man, the possible Mafia connection to the murder, the trip to Japan by JFK’s Cabinet on the day of the assassination, and a speculative look, as Lee Harvey Oswald might write it himself, at who did it and why and what it means for American democracy. JFK Assassination Image Galleries http://www.geocities.com/quaneeri2/ In Robin Unger's excellent website you can find a series of galleries: Dealey Plaza (images showing the motorcade, and the confusion which surrounded the bystanders after the assassination; Bethesda Autopsy (the autopsy performed on Kennedy at Bethesda Naval Hosptal); Parkland Hospital (crowds outside the hospital, and the presidents limousine after the assassination); Dallas Police Department (photographs inside the DPD); Air Force One (inside AF1 at love field and the arrival of JFK's coffin); Texas School Book Depository (images showing the inside of the TSBD); Lee Harvey Oswald (photographs of his assassination and autopsy photo) and Mixed Images (Babushka Lady, Umbrella Man, etc.) Coup D'Etat in America http://ajweberman.com/ Alan J. Weberman's website details the tramp theory of the Kennedy Assassination. According to Weberman: "There have been many attempts to destroy this theory, most notably by Oliver Buck Revell who floated a false news story alleging that the tramps had been identified when FBI documents clearly indicated the tramps who Revell named were picked up shortly after the Kennedy assassination and the second set of tramps, who are the subject of my study, were picked up about an hour after the killing. What I have learned is that one person cannot fight the FBI, the CIA and the rest of the establishment intent on covering up the fragility of American democracy during the Cold War. What I have witnessed boggles my mind - threats, drugging of a Congressmen, phony photo analysis's, Senators kicked upstairs to get them off the investigation, lawsuits, the Director of the FBI ordered my investigation quashed on paper, talking to the Washington Post to kill stories on and on." Martin Shackleford Archive http://www.assassinationweb.com/issue3.htm Martin Shackleford has investigated the assassination of John F. Kennedy for over 30 years. His primary focus has been on the photographic evidence. He has also written a large number of articles on the case and for many years was a major contributor to Fair Play Magazine. This website provides access to some of these articles. This includes articles on Gerald Posner, Oswald's defection to the Soviet Union, Clay Shaw's involvement in anti-Castro activities in New Orleans and the failure of the HSCA to resolve the medical issues in the assassination. Deep Politics http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/%7Epdscott/B-IV.html Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and English Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has been called the "dean" of JFK assassination research, having engaged in scholarly research and writings on the topic for three decades. Books such as Deep Politics and the Death of JFK focus on the "deep politics" of the assassination and the Kennedy era. Dr. Scott excels at putting the assassination into the larger and too-often obscured political context, tracing the hidden political connections between relevant figures in the case, and dissecting motives for cover.At his website you can access a lot of his writings on this fascinating subject. Assassination Science http://www.assassinationscience.com/ James H. Fetzer is the author of several books on the Kennedy Assassination. His website contains information on a whole range of subjects. Articles include, Zapruder Film Hoax, Pearl Harbor, Truth vs. Fiction, Enron and 9/11, Assassination as a Tool of Fascism, Decoding Propaganda, America's Matrix, Fascism in America, Freedom and Security, Conspiracy Theories, Bogus War on Terrorism, Assassination as a Tool of Fascism, Bush and Bin Laden and the Death of Paul Wellstone. Dealey Plaza http://members.aol.com/DRoberdeau/JFK/DP.jpg This professionally surveyed, scaled map of Dealey Plaza includes important witnesses locations and observations, theorized assassins locations (not all of which are necessarily valid), attack artifacts, and other valuable information. Below the Dealey Plaza map are 3 additional important charts and diagrams. At almost 700k bytes it takes a couple minutes to completely load utilizing a 56k modem. The drawing is based on 29+ years of research into the case by Don Roberdeau (including over 4200 personally documented persons). Dealey Plaza UK http://www.dealeyplazauk.co.uk/articles.htm This website is run by a group of UK researchers into the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It includes articles such as Wounds to the Left of JFK’s Head (Russell Kent),The Last Words of Lee Harvey Oswald (Mae Brussell), The Paper Bag That Never Was (Ian Griggs), Network Anomalies (Vincent Palamara), For the Sake of Historical Accuracy (Barry Keane), Meeting Warren Caster (Rick Caster) and The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy (Tony Austin).

I have now created a web page for Richard Lee Armitage: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKarmitage.htm Namebase entry for Armitage: http://www.namebase.org/main4/Richard-L-Armitage.html Adams,J. Secret Armies. 1988 (214, 283, 285) Bainerman,J. The Crimes of a President. 1992 (200, 208-9) Bonner,R. Waltzing With a Dictator. 1987 (363, 367) Choate,P. Agents of Influence. 1991 (10) Christic Institute. Sheehan Affidavit. 1987-01-31 (36-9) Christic Institute. Sheehan Affidavit. 1988-03-25 (32) Cockburn,L. Out of Control. 1987 (103-4) Coll,S. Ghost Wars. 2004 (539, 558) Covert Action Information Bulletin 1987-#28 (8) Covert Action Information Bulletin 1988-#29 (20) Covert Action Information Bulletin 1988-#30 (56) Covert Action Information Bulletin 1990-#33 (3, 25) Dinges,J. Our Man in Panama. 1990 (160, 287) Findley,P. They Dare to Speak Out. 1989 (159) Gritz,J. Called to Serve. 1991 (187, 300-1, 354, 370-3, 379, 382, 391-5, 403, 501, 570) In These Times 1987-07-21 (6) Jensen-Stevenson,M. Stevenson,W. Kiss the Boys Goodbye. 1990 (67-8, 94, 99-101, 111, 292, 389-90) Kurtz,H. Media Circus. 1994 (270) Lobster Magazine (Britain) 2004-#47 (23) Marshall,J... The Iran-Contra Connection. 1987 (199) Mother Jones 1988-03 (46, 48) Nation 1988-05-07 (634) National Security Archive. The Chronology. 1987 (341, 354) New York Times Magazine 1987-02-22 (20, 71) New York Times 2001-01-20 (A16) New York Times 2001-02-13 (A20) New York Times 2001-12-07 (B4) New Yorker Magazine 2001-07-16 (33) Snepp,F. Decent Interval. 1978 (459-60) Spotlight Newspaper 1992-10-26 (12-3) Stich,R. Drugging America: A Trojan Horse. 1999 (2, 100-1) Tarpley,W.G. Chaitkin,A. George Bush. 1992 (378, 403) Thomas,K. Keith,J. The Octopus. 1996 (80) Time 1987-05-04 (18) Tower Commission Report. 1987-02-26 (III20, B40) Trento,J. Prelude to Terror. 2005 (266) Turner,W. Rearview Mirror. 2001 (303) Vankin,J. Whalen,J. The 60 Greatest Conspiracies. 1998 (269, 312) Vistica,G. Fall From Glory. 1997 (66-7, 284, 291, 310-2, 355, 407) Walsh,L. Final Iran-Contra Report. Volume III. 1993-12-03 (5-15) Washington Post 1987-01-30 (E5) Washington Post 1987-02-17 (A10) Washington Post 1987-02-22 (A10) Washington Post 1987-02-23 (B12) Washington Post 1987-03-18 (A14) Washington Post 1989-02-22 (D17) Washington Post 1989-02-23 (A17) Washington Post 1989-04-04 (A1, 16) Washington Post 1989-05-26 (A21) Washington Post 1992-04-18 (A8) Washington Times 1990-07-03 (A3) Washington Times 1992-07-02 (G4) Washington Times 1993-02-23 (A4)

Brendan, Who is this John McAdams? Is he like unto a previously unknown god and such? Also, when you get a chance could you add more to your bio than that you're in PR in Washington, DC? Your privacy is of course paramount, but people will not think much of anyone who works both in Washington and in Public Relations (doesn't everyone in Washington?). Dan John McAdams is the leading CIA disinformation agent on the web. His website is here: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm There is a good assessment of John McAdams by Michael T. Griffith here: http://ourworld-top.cs.com/mikegriffith1/id151.htm

I thought Richard Lee Armitage deserved his own thread. I know he was too young to be involved in the assassination of JFK but he was a close associate of those who did carry out the assassination and was an important figure in corrupt activities in Laos, Vietnam, Iran and Afghanistan. Also, there is virtually nothing on the web that illustrates his corrupt past. Richard Lee Armitage was born on 26th April, 1945. Armitage graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1967. He joined the United States Navy and served on a destroyer stationed in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. This eventually resulted in him becoming an advisor to the Vietnamese naval forces. In 1973 joined the office of the U.S. Defense Attache in Saigon. Here he became involved with Ted Shackley, the CIA chief in South Vietnam. According to Joel Bainerman (The Crimes of a President) Shackley and his Secret Team (Thomas G. Clines, Carl E. Jenkins, David Morales, Raphael Quintero, Felix Rodriguez and Edwin Wilson) became involved in the drug trade while serving in Laos. They did this via General Vang Pao, the leader of the anti-communist forces in Laos. Vang Pao was a major figure in the opium trade in Laos. To help him Shackley used his CIA officials and assets to sabotage the competitors. Eventually Vang Pao had a monopoly over the heroin trade in Laos. Shackley and Clines helped Vang Pao to obtain financial backing to form his own airline, Zieng Khouang Air Transport Company, to transport opium and heroin between Long Tieng and Vientiane. Shackley also brought others into his drug operation. This included Richard L. Armitage, a US Navy official based in Saigon's US office of Naval Operations, and Major General Richard Secord. According to Daniel Sheehan: “From late 1973 until April of 1975, Theodore Shackley, Thomas Clines and Richard Armitage disbursed, from the secret, Laotian-based, Vang Pao opium fund, vastly more money than was required to finance even the highly intensified Phoenix Project in Vietnam. The money in excess of that used in Vietnam was secretly smuggled out of Vietnam in large suitcases, by Richard Secord and Thomas Clines and carried into Australia, where it was deposited in a secret, personal bank account (privately accessible to Theodore Shackley, Thomas Clines and Richard Secord). During this same period of time between 1973 and 1975, Theodore Shackley and Thomas Clines caused thousands of tons of US weapons, ammunition, and explosives to be secretly taken from Vietnam and stored at a secret "cache" hidden inside Thailand." This money, with the help of Raphael Quintero, found its way into the Nugan Hand Bank in Sydney. The bank was founded by Michael Hand, a CIA operative in Laos and Frank Nugan an Australian businessman. Saigon fell to the NLF in April, 1975. The Vietnam War was over and Armitage moved to Washington to serve as a consultant for the United States Department of Defense. He was immediately sent to Iran. In Tehran, Armitage, set up a secret "financial conduit" inside Iran, into which secret Vang Pao drug funds could be deposited from Southeast Asia. According to Daniel Sheehan: “The purpose of this conduit was to serve as the vehicle for secret funding by Shackley's "Secret Team," of a private, non-CIA authorized "Black" operations inside Iran, disposed to seek out, identify, and assassinate socialist and communist sympathizers, who were viewed by Shackley and his "Secret Team" members to be "potential terrorists" against the Shah of Iran`s government in Iran. In late 1975 and early 1976, Theodore Shackley and Thomas Clines retained Edwin Wilson to travel to Tehran, Iran to head up the "Secret Team" covert "anti-terrorist" assassination program in Iran.” As a result of State Department internal investigation, Armitage was forced to resign his post. He moved to Bangkok where he ran the Far East Trading Company. According to Leslie Cockburn (Out of Control), Armitage "carried on funneling drug money out of the Southeast Asia and into Nugan-Hand and elsewhere." In 1978 he became an aide to Bob Dole. Two years later he became foreign policy advisor to President Ronald Reagan. In 1981 he was appointed as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia and Pacific Affairs in the Pentagon. In this post Armitage played a leading role in Middle East Security Policies. On 17th March, 1983, Donald Gregg had a secret meeting with Felix Rodriguez and George H. W. Bush in the White House. As a result the National Security Council established a secret scheme to provide aid to the Contras in Nicaragua. Rodriguez agreed to run the Contra supply depot in El Salvador. In a memo written to Robert McFarlane, Gregg argued that the plan grew out of the experience of running "anti-Vietcong operations in Vietnam from 1970-1972". Gregg added that "Felix Rodriguez, who wrote the attached plan, both worked for me in Vietnam and carried out the actual operations outlined above." On 21st December, 1984, Gregg met with Felix Rodriguez and George H. W. Bush. This led to Gregg introducing Rodriguez to Oliver North. Later, Bush wrote a note to North where he thanked him for "your dedication and tireless work with the hostage thing and with Central America." In October, 1985, Congress agreed to vote 27 million dollars in non-lethal aid for the Contras in Nicaragua. However, members of the Ronald Reagan administration, including George Bush, decided to use this money to provide weapons to the Contras and the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Gene Wheaton was recruited to use National Air to transport these weapons. He agreed but began to have second thoughts when he discovered that Richard Secord was involved in the operation and in May 1986 Wheaton told William Casey, director of the CIA, about what he knew about this illegal operation. Casey refused to take any action, claiming that the agency or the government were not involved in what later became known as Irangate. Wheaton now took his story to Daniel Sheehan, a left-wing lawyer. Wheaton told him that Thomas G. Clines and Ted Shackley had been running a top-secret assassination unit since the early 1960s. According to Wheaton, it had begun with an assassination training program for Cuban exiles and the original target had been Fidel Castro. Wheaton also contacted Newt Royce and Mike Acoca, two journalists based in Washington. The first article on this scandal appeared in the San Francisco Examiner on 27th July, 1986. As a result of this story, Congressman Dante Facell wrote a letter to the Secretary of Defense, Casper Weinberger, asking him if it "true that foreign money, kickback money on programs, was being used to fund foreign covert operations." Two months later, Weinberger denied that the government knew about this illegal operation. On 5th October, 1986, a Sandinista patrol in Nicaragua shot down a C-123K cargo plane that was supplying the Contras. That night Felix Rodriguez made a telephone call to the office of George H. W. Bush. He told Bush aide, Samuel Watson, that the C-123k aircraft had gone missing. Eugene Hasenfus, an Air America veteran, survived the crash and told his captors that he thought the CIA was behind the operation. He also provided information that several Cuban-Americans running the operation in El Salvador. This resulted in journalists being able to identify Rafael Quintero, Luis Posada and Felix Rodriguez as the Cuban-Americans mentioned by Hasenfus. In an article in the Washington Post (11th October, 1986), the newspaper reported that George Bush and Gregg were linked to Felix Rodriguez. It gradually emerged that Armitage, William Casey, Thomas G. Clines, Oliver North, Edwin Wilson and Richard Secord were also involved in this conspiracy to provide arms to the Contras. On 12th December, 1986, Daniel Sheehan submitted to the court an affidavit detailing the Irangate scandal. He also claimed that Thomas G. Clines and Ted Shackley were running a private assassination program that had evolved from projects they ran while working for the CIA. Others named as being part of this assassination team included Rafael Quintero, Richard Secord, Felix Rodriguez and Albert Hakim. It later emerged that Gene Wheaton and Carl E. Jenkins were the two main sources for this affidavit. Six days after the publication of Sheehan's affidavit, William Casey underwent an operation for a "brain tumor". As a result of the operation, Casey lost the power of speech and died, literally without ever talking. On 9th February, Robert McFarlane, another person involved in the Iran-Contra Scandal, took an overdose of drugs. In November, 1986, Ronald Reagan set-up a three man commission (President's Special Review Board). The three men were John Tower, Brent Scowcroft and Edmund Muskie. Armitage was interviewed by the committee. He admitted that he had arranged a series of meetings between Menachem Meron, the director general of Israel's Ministry of Defence, with Oliver North and Richard Secord. However, he denied that he discussed the replenishment of Israeli TOW missiles with Meron. Armitage also claimed that he first learned that Israel had shipped missiles to Iran in 1985 when he heard William Casey testify on 21st November, 1986 that the United States had replenished Israel's TOW missile stocks. According to Lawrence E. Walsh, who carried out the official investigation into the scandal (Iran-Contra: The Final Report), claims that Armitage did not tell the truth to the President's Special Review Board. "Significant evidence from a variety of sources shows that Armitage's knowledge predated Casey's testimony. For instance, a North notebook entry on November 18, 1986, documents a discussion with Armitage about Israel's 1985 arms shipments to Iran - three days before Armitage supposedly learned for the first time that such shipments has occurred." Walsh also adds that "classified evidence obtained from the Government of Israel... and evidence from North and Secord show that during the period Meron met with Armitage, Meron was discussing arms shipments to Iran and Israel's need for replenishment. Secord and North, on separate occasions, directed Meron to discuss these issues with Armitage." The report implicated Oliver North, John Poindexter, Casper Weinberger and several others but did not mention the role played by George H. W. Bush. It also claimed that Ronald Reagan had no knowledge of what had been going on. The House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran was also established by Congress. The most important figure on the committee was the senior Republican member, Richard Cheney. As a result George H. W. Bush was totally exonerated when the report was published on 18th November, 1987. The report did state that Reagan's administration exhibited "secrecy, deception and disdain for the law." Oliver North and John Poindexter were indicted on multiple charges on 16th March, 1988. North, indicted on twelve counts, was found guilty by a jury of three minor counts. The convictions were vacated on appeal on the grounds that North's Fifth Amendment rights may have been violated by the indirect use of his testimony to Congress which had been given under a grant of immunity. Poindexter was also convicted of lying to Congress, obstruction of justice, conspiracy, and altering and destroying documents pertinent to the investigation. His convictions were also overturned on appeal. When George H. W. Bush became president he set about rewarding those who had helped him in the cover-up of the Iran-Contra Scandal. Bush appointed Armitage as a negotiator and mediator in the Middle East. Donald Gregg was appointed as his ambassador to South Korea. Brent Scowcroft became his chief national security adviser and John Tower became Secretary of Defence. When the Senate refused to confirm Tower, Bush gave the job to Richard Cheney. Several others, including Casper Weinberger, who was indicted for lying to the Independent Counsel, and Robert McFarlane, were pardoned by Bush. In 1991 Armitage became special emissary to King Hussein of Jordan. In 1992 Bush sent Armitage to Europe where he directed U.S. foreign aid to the states that had been formed out of the old Soviet Union. Armitage lost office when George Bush was defeated by Bill Clinton. He returned to the private sector but remained involved in politics. In 1998 Armitage was one of those who signed "The Project for the New American Century" that was sent to President Clinton in 1998. The letter urged Clinton to target the removal of Saddam Hussein from Iraq before he created weapons of mass destruction. The main intention of the letter was to protect Israel from Arab countries in the Middle East. During the 2000 U.S. Presidential election campaign Armitage served as a foreign policy advisor to George W. Bush. After his victory, Bush appointed Armitage as his Deputy Secretary of State. He left office on 22nd February, 2005 when he was replaced by Robert Zoellick.

I am very proud of our JFK Assassination Index. http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=4311 Please post details of those threads that deserve to be added to this index. Also any new categories. For example, I started a new one this morning on JFK Assassination resources.

Thanks for that John. I have now added it to the index: http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=4311 Please fell free to make suggestions for the index.

Galbraith was of course right when he suggested that in some respects the Soviet economy was superior to that of capitalism. You quote him as saying as: "In contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower." It did, this led to over-employment and low production. This could be seen whenever you visited Soviet shops. They used so many staff it slowed down the process of getting the goods. I remember one incident when I was China of a group of women cutting the grass outside the hotel with scissors. When I asked what was going on, the manager told me it was part of the system that guaranteed everybody a job. Galbraith and his mentor, John Maynard Keynes, were never communists. They believed in the superiority of capitalism as an economic system. Where they differed from conservatives was the belief that the capitalist system needs help to be efficient and morally acceptable. To his credit, Franklin D. Roosevelt was one of the first politicians to realise the truth of this judgement. Hence the New Deal. Roosevelt was accused by those on the right in America as being a “communist”. In fact, he did more than anyone else to help save America from communism. Galbraith did not have the same success as Keynes and post-war American presidents have preferred the use of the war economy to save capitalism. However, as I said earlier, the rest of the advanced industrial world did listen to Galbraith and Keynes. It is true that Thatcher abandoned these theories in the 1980s. However, now the British people are aware of the damage she did to our infrastructure, the current Conservative Party is now an advocate of Keynesian economics. It is only a matter of time before the people of America start demanding that their own political parties take note of how to run a modern economy. If not, they will experience a continuing decline in their overall standard of living, although the rich will continue to get richer.

That's consistent with my recollection that Moldea pretty well proved in his book that Sirhan couldn't have done it, then on the last page he concluded that Sirhan did it. What an intellectual feat! Dan E. Moldea’s, The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy (1995), is indeed an amazing book. The first 29 chapters provide a comprehensive, logical account of the assassination. However, in the last chapter he completely changes his mind and accepts the official version of events. He even admits that this might surprise his readers as he first entered the case in 1987 with an article arguing that RFK had been the victim of a conspiracy. Moldea claims that the reason for this change of mind was Gene Cesar’s polygraph test. According to the test, Cesar was telling the truth and therefore Sirhan was the lone gunman. Moldea explains the ballistic evidence by suggesting that the witnesses were mistaken and that Sirhan must have been pushed into RFK allowing his to fire at point-blank range. If one reads between the lines of the last chapter you can work out why Moldea appears to change his mind about the case. He admits that for many years he believed passionately that there had been a conspiracy. However, he argues he could not afford to spend as much time as he liked researching and writing the book because of financial constraints. He was unable to persuade a publisher to fund this book. It was not until he “received the backing of a major publisher, W. W. Norton & Company” that he could complete the book. In other words, write the last chapter. Now we know from the testimony of people like Cord Meyer, Tom Braden and William Sullivan that both the CIA and the FBI could arrange with certain companies to get certain books published. They could also make sure other books were not published by major publishers. E. Howard Hunt has also testified that the CIA was able to arrange the “right” reviews for books about certain subjects. (See also Mark Lane’s Plausible Denial for how this system worked). Another example of this process at work concerns the author Michael Eddowes. He gained a reputation for investigative research in the UK with the publication in 1955 of The Man on Your Conscience, an investigation into the murder trial and execution of Timothy Evans. The book caused renewed interest in the case and eventually Evans received a posthumous pardon by the Queen. This case played an important role in the subsequent abolition of capital punishment in Britain. In his book, Khrushchev Killed Kennedy (1975), Eddowes argued that President John F. Kennedy was killed by a Soviet agent impersonating Lee Harvey Oswald. It was later revealed that the book had been financed by the Texas oil billionaire, Haroldson L. Hunt. I wonder why Hunt wanted to blame the Soviets for the assassination? Put yourself in the position of the agency under attack for covering up a conspiracy. What is your ideal scenario? My one would be for a leading conspiracy theorist, with a reputation for integrity, to publish a book where he admits that after studying all the evidence he comes to the conclusion that the official version of the case was right. That is not difficult to achieve as long as you have the means to pay them a lot of money (a generous publisher's advance) and can guarantee them good reviews from the subservient press. I think this explains the work of both Gus Russo and Dan Moldea.

That's consistent with my recollection that Moldea pretty well proved in his book that Sirhan couldn't have done it, then on the last page he concluded that Sirhan did it. What an intellectual feat! Dan E. Moldea’s, The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy (1995), is indeed an amazing book. The first 29 chapters provide a comprehensive, logical account of the assassination. However, in the last chapter he completely changes his mind and accepts the official version of events. He even admits that this might surprise his readers as he first entered the case in 1987 with an article arguing that RFK had been the victim of a conspiracy. Moldea claims that the reason for this change of mind was Gene Cesar’s polygraph test. According to the test, Cesar was telling the truth and therefore Sirhan was the lone gunman. Moldea explains the ballistic evidence by suggesting that the witnesses were mistaken and that Sirhan must have been pushed into RFK allowing his to fire at point-blank range. If one reads between the lines of the last chapter you can work out why Moldea appears to change his mind about the case. He admits that for many years he believed passionately that there had been a conspiracy. However, he argues he could not afford to spend as much time as he liked researching and writing the book because of financial constraints. He was unable to persuade a publisher to fund this book. It was not until he “received the backing of a major publisher, W. W. Norton & Company” that he could complete the book. In other words, write the last chapter. Now we know from the testimony of people like Cord Meyer, Tom Braden and William Sullivan that both the CIA and the FBI could arrange with certain companies to get certain books published. They could also make sure other books were not published by major publishers. E. Howard Hunt has also testified that the CIA was able to arrange the “right” reviews for books about certain subjects. (See also Mark Lane’s Plausible Denial for how this system worked). Another example of this process at work concerns the author Michael Eddowes. He gained a reputation for investigative research in the UK with the publication in 1955 of The Man on Your Conscience, an investigation into the murder trial and execution of Timothy Evans. The book caused renewed interest in the case and eventually Evans received a posthumous pardon by the Queen. This case played an important role in the subsequent abolition of capital punishment in Britain. In his book, Khrushchev Killed Kennedy (1975), Eddowes argued that President John F. Kennedy was killed by a Soviet agent impersonating Lee Harvey Oswald. It was later revealed that the book had been financed by the Texas oil billionaire, Haroldson L. Hunt. I wonder why Hunt wanted to blame the Soviets for the assassination? Put yourself in the position of the agency under attack for covering up a conspiracy. What is your ideal scenario? My one would be for a leading conspiracy theorist, with a reputation for integrity, to publish a book where he admits that after studying all the evidence he comes to the conclusion that the official version of the case was right. That is not difficult to achieve as long as you have the means to pay them a lot of money (a generous publisher's advance) and can guarantee them good reviews from the subservient press. I think this explains the work of both Gus Russo and Dan Moldea.

That's consistent with my recollection that Moldea pretty well proved in his book that Sirhan couldn't have done it, then on the last page he concluded that Sirhan did it. What an intellectual feat! Dan E. Moldea’s, The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy (1995), is indeed an amazing book. The first 29 chapters provide a comprehensive, logical account of the assassination. However, in the last chapter he completely changes his mind and accepts the official version of events. He even admits that this might surprise his readers as he first entered the case in 1987 with an article arguing that RFK had been the victim of a conspiracy. Moldea claims that the reason for this change of mind was Gene Cesar’s polygraph test. According to the test, Cesar was telling the truth and therefore Sirhan was the lone gunman. Moldea explains the ballistic evidence by suggesting that the witnesses were mistaken and that Sirhan must have been pushed into RFK allowing his to fire at point-blank range. If one reads between the lines of the last chapter you can work out why Moldea appears to change his mind about the case. He admits that for many years he believed passionately that there had been a conspiracy. However, he argues he could not afford to spend as much time as he liked researching and writing the book because of financial constraints. He was unable to persuade a publisher to fund this book. It was not until he “received the backing of a major publisher, W. W. Norton & Company” that he could complete the book. In other words, write the last chapter. Now we know from the testimony of people like Cord Meyer, Tom Braden and William Sullivan that both the CIA and the FBI could arrange with certain companies to get certain books published. They could also make sure other books were not published by major publishers. E. Howard Hunt has also testified that the CIA was able to arrange the “right” reviews for books about certain subjects. (See also Mark Lane’s Plausible Denial for how this system worked). Another example of this process at work concerns the author Michael Eddowes. He gained a reputation for investigative research in the UK with the publication in 1955 of The Man on Your Conscience, an investigation into the murder trial and execution of Timothy Evans. The book caused renewed interest in the case and eventually Evans received a posthumous pardon by the Queen. This case played an important role in the subsequent abolition of capital punishment in Britain. In his book, Khrushchev Killed Kennedy (1975), Eddowes argued that President John F. Kennedy was killed by a Soviet agent impersonating Lee Harvey Oswald. It was later revealed that the book had been financed by the Texas oil billionaire, Haroldson L. Hunt. I wonder why Hunt wanted to blame the Soviets for the assassination? Put yourself in the position of the agency under attack for covering up a conspiracy. What is your ideal scenario? My one would be for a leading conspiracy theorist, with a reputation for integrity, to publish a book where he admits that after studying all the evidence he comes to the conclusion that the official version of the case was right. That is not difficult to achieve as long as you have the means to pay them a lot of money (a generous publisher's advance) and can guarantee them good reviews from the subservient press. I think this explains the work of both Gus Russo and Dan Moldea.

That's consistent with my recollection that Moldea pretty well proved in his book that Sirhan couldn't have done it, then on the last page he concluded that Sirhan did it. What an intellectual feat! Dan E. Moldea’s, The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy (1995), is indeed an amazing book. The first 29 chapters provide a comprehensive, logical account of the assassination. However, in the last chapter he completely changes his mind and accepts the official version of events. He even admits that this might surprise his readers as he first entered the case in 1987 with an article arguing that RFK had been the victim of a conspiracy. Moldea claims that the reason for this change of mind was Gene Cesar’s polygraph test. According to the test, Cesar was telling the truth and therefore Sirhan was the lone gunman. Moldea explains the ballistic evidence by suggesting that the witnesses were mistaken and that Sirhan must have been pushed into RFK allowing his to fire at point-blank range. If one reads between the lines of the last chapter you can work out why Moldea appears to change his mind about the case. He admits that for many years he believed passionately that there had been a conspiracy. However, he argues he could not afford to spend as much time as he liked researching and writing the book because of financial constraints. He was unable to persuade a publisher to fund this book. It was not until he “received the backing of a major publisher, W. W. Norton & Company” that he could complete the book. In other words, write the last chapter. Now we know from the testimony of people like Cord Meyer, Tom Braden and William Sullivan that both the CIA and the FBI could arrange with certain companies to get certain books published. They could also make sure other books were not published by major publishers. E. Howard Hunt has also testified that the CIA was able to arrange the “right” reviews for books about certain subjects. (See also Mark Lane’s Plausible Denial for how this system worked). Another example of this process at work concerns the author Michael Eddowes. He gained a reputation for investigative research in the UK with the publication in 1955 of The Man on Your Conscience, an investigation into the murder trial and execution of Timothy Evans. The book caused renewed interest in the case and eventually Evans received a posthumous pardon by the Queen. This case played an important role in the subsequent abolition of capital punishment in Britain. In his book, Khrushchev Killed Kennedy (1975), Eddowes argued that President John F. Kennedy was killed by a Soviet agent impersonating Lee Harvey Oswald. It was later revealed that the book had been financed by the Texas oil billionaire, Haroldson L. Hunt. I wonder why Hunt wanted to blame the Soviets for the assassination? Put yourself in the position of the agency under attack for covering up a conspiracy. What is your ideal scenario? My one would be for a leading conspiracy theorist, with a reputation for integrity, to publish a book where he admits that after studying all the evidence he comes to the conclusion that the official version of the case was right. That is not difficult to achieve as long as you have the means to pay them a lot of money (a generous publisher's advance) and can guarantee them good reviews from the subservient press. I think this explains the work of both Gus Russo and Dan Moldea.

One interesting thing I found out about Donald Gregg is that his daughter is married to Christopher Buckley, the son of William Buckley. I also have his email address. I will ask him about his early CIA activities. I doubt if he will answer me. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKgreggD.htm

I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread on the meeting that associates can read. The following associates have been invited to Toulouse: Andy Schofield Simon Ross Roy Huggins Franck Le Cars Nick Dennis Johannes Ahrenfelt Neal Watkin It has been suggested that associates and members travel together. That is a good idea but members will be travelling on the Wednesday and the associates on Thursday. We can all come back together. The cheapest flights to Toulouse are from EasyJet. Flight 5331 departs 07.15, arrives 10.05 (price £30.99) Flight 5337 departs 17.30, arrives 20.15 (price £40.99) Sunday return flights also have two options: Flight 5332 departs 10.25, arrives 11.15 (price £44.25) Flight 5331 departs 20.40, arrives 21.30 (price £114.25) Don't book yet as we have yet to decide the best flights to get.

You may have noticed that there has been little press coverage in the media about the Blair corruption scandal. This is because the police have agreed not to arrest and question witnesses until after the local elections take place on Thursday. However, an aspect of this story will appear before next Thursday. I have it on good authority that an MP will name one government minister as someone who offered Peter Law a peerage in return for him not standing in Blaenau Gwent at the last election. Law refused the bribe and won the seat as an independent (he was a long standing member of the Labour Party). Law died last week and his wife told the story about the government bribe but most newspapers did not publish the story because of the forthcoming local elections. Nor did the media publish the accounts of others close to Peter Law (including his parish priest) who knew about the attempt to bribe him. I suspect the MP will name Peter Hain, the Welsh secretary, as being the government minister who offered Law the peerage.

Of course, Thane Eugene Cesar knew that he was taking a short cut through the kitchen. It is true that Sirhan apparently did not know about this “new” route. However, that is a problem for the lone gunman as well as the conspiracy theorists. Schulman gave several interviews on what he saw in the kitchen. The first interview he gave to Jeff Bent of Continental News Service straight after the shooting he clearly said that he saw “a security guard standing in back of the senator daw his gun and fire it.” (1) He did not say that Cesar shot Robert Kennedy. Only that he fired back at Shiran. This was accepted as being correct at the time. After all, why should he lie about this event? The problem was that Los Angeles County coroner Thomas Noguchi, who performed the autopsy, claimed that all three bullets striking Kennedy entered from the rear, in a flight path from down to up, right to left. “Moreover, powder burns around the entry wound indicated that the fatal bullet was fired at less than one inch from the head and no more than two or three inches behind the right ear.” (2) This was a problem for the LAPD. They now had two gunman involved in the killing (everybody agrees that Shiran had fired his gun). You now had a conspiracy as Shiran could not be portrayed like Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray as a lone nut. It was therefore necessary to get Schulman and Noguchi to change their testimony. Noguchi refused and so was not called to testify at Shiran’s trial. (Don’t you think that is a bit suspicious?) Schulman was taking into custody and had to endure lengthy questioning. It was suggested that he was part of the conspiracy to kill Robert Kennedy. Finally, on 9th August, 1968, he told Paul E. O’Steen of the LAPD that he was outside the kitchen when the firing took place and when he rushed to the scene of the crime he might have been mistaken about which security guard had drawn his weapon. As a result of this he was released as the LAPD went with the lone gunman theory. Schulman was no longer a suspect. In 1971 the LAPD interviewed Schulman again. No longer under threat of arrest, he returned to his original story of Cesar firing his weapon. The transcript of this interview has been published (it goes on for 87 pages) and however much they try, the LAPD are unable to intimidate Schulman into withdrawing this statement. The other problem you have your lone-gunman theory is that Thomas Noguchi’s views about the position of the gunman was backed up by other experts such as William W. Harper. He showed that not only was RFK shot from behind but that bullets removed from RFK and newsman William Weisel, were fired from two different guns. (3) Schulman’s views were supported by Karl Uecker, who struggled with Sirhan when he was firing his gun, provided a written statement in 1975 about what he saw: “There was a distance of at least one and one-half feet between the muzzle of Sirhan’s gun and Senator Kennedy’s head. The revolver was directly in front of my nose. After Sirhan’s second shot, I pushed the hand that held the revolver down, and pushed him onto the steam table. There is no way that the shots described in the autopsy could have come from Sirhan’s gun. When I told this to the authorities, they told me that I was wrong. But I repeat now what I told them then: Sirhan never got close enough for a point-blank shot.” (4) Another witness, Booker Griffin, also claimed that he saw two men firing guns at RFK. (5) He also saw Sirhan with a woman three times during that evening. (6) There were other witnesses who provided information that suggested that Cesar lied about the time he drew his gun. Television producer Richard Lubic, saw Cesar with his “weapon in his hand and was pointing it down in Kennedy’s general direction”. Lubic gave this information to the police after the shooting, but he was never asked about it during his testimony in court. Kennedy’s official bodyguard, former FBI agent Bill Barry, also saw Cesar with his gun in his hand and told him to put it back in his holster. (7) 1. Dan E. Moldea, The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy, 1995 (page 146) 2. William Turner and Jonn Christian, The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: The Conspiracy and Coverup, 1993 (page 162) 3. William Turner, Rearview Mirror, 2001 (page 244) 4. Karl Uecker, written statement given to Allard K. Lowenstein in Dusseldorf, Germany (20th February, 1975) 5. Dan E. Moldea, The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy, 1995 (page 147) 6. William Klaber and Philip H. Melanson, Shadow Play: The Untold Story of the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination, 1997 (page 147) 7. Dan E. Moldea, The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy, 1995 (page 146) I have listened to the interview and I am convinced that Scott Enyart is telling the truth. Your claim that he is obviously lying because his interview appeared on Black Op radio is daft. It is like saying that everything that appears in the New York Times is always true or always untrue. You have to apply a bit more intellectual discipline to dealing with the evidence that that? By the way, what is your academic background? Mel you are very much like a poor man’s Gerald Posner. I don’t know why you have spent your time trying to convince the public that John Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were killed by lone gunmen. Unlike Posner who has some sort of reputation to lose, I think it is highly unlikely that you have persuaded the FBI/CIA to pay you for this work. Nor would Sunderland Polytechnic Press (sorry University of Sunderland Press) have made much profit from your books. However, I suppose it helps to have someone arguing for the lone gunman theory. Even if it is you. By the way, if John Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were killed by lone gunman, why is it so important to keep classified so many documents relating to the case? http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=6187

Of course, Thane Eugene Cesar knew that he was taking a short cut through the kitchen. It is true that Sirhan apparently did not know about this “new” route. However, that is a problem for the lone gunman as well as the conspiracy theorists. Schulman gave several interviews on what he saw in the kitchen. The first interview he gave to Jeff Bent of Continental News Service straight after the shooting he clearly said that he saw “a security guard standing in back of the senator daw his gun and fire it.” (1) He did not say that Cesar shot Robert Kennedy. Only that he fired back at Shiran. This was accepted as being correct at the time. After all, why should he lie about this event? The problem was that Los Angeles County coroner Thomas Noguchi, who performed the autopsy, claimed that all three bullets striking Kennedy entered from the rear, in a flight path from down to up, right to left. “Moreover, powder burns around the entry wound indicated that the fatal bullet was fired at less than one inch from the head and no more than two or three inches behind the right ear.” (2) This was a problem for the LAPD. They now had two gunman involved in the killing (everybody agrees that Shiran had fired his gun). You now had a conspiracy as Shiran could not be portrayed like Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray as a lone nut. It was therefore necessary to get Schulman and Noguchi to change their testimony. Noguchi refused and so was not called to testify at Shiran’s trial. (Don’t you think that is a bit suspicious?) Schulman was taking into custody and had to endure lengthy questioning. It was suggested that he was part of the conspiracy to kill Robert Kennedy. Finally, on 9th August, 1968, he told Paul E. O’Steen of the LAPD that he was outside the kitchen when the firing took place and when he rushed to the scene of the crime he might have been mistaken about which security guard had drawn his weapon. As a result of this he was released as the LAPD went with the lone gunman theory. Schulman was no longer a suspect. In 1971 the LAPD interviewed Schulman again. No longer under threat of arrest, he returned to his original story of Cesar firing his weapon. The transcript of this interview has been published (it goes on for 87 pages) and however much they try, the LAPD are unable to intimidate Schulman into withdrawing this statement. The other problem you have your lone-gunman theory is that Thomas Noguchi’s views about the position of the gunman was backed up by other experts such as William W. Harper. He showed that not only was RFK shot from behind but that bullets removed from RFK and newsman William Weisel, were fired from two different guns. (3) Schulman’s views were supported by Karl Uecker, who struggled with Sirhan when he was firing his gun, provided a written statement in 1975 about what he saw: “There was a distance of at least one and one-half feet between the muzzle of Sirhan’s gun and Senator Kennedy’s head. The revolver was directly in front of my nose. After Sirhan’s second shot, I pushed the hand that held the revolver down, and pushed him onto the steam table. There is no way that the shots described in the autopsy could have come from Sirhan’s gun. When I told this to the authorities, they told me that I was wrong. But I repeat now what I told them then: Sirhan never got close enough for a point-blank shot.” (4) Another witness, Booker Griffin, also claimed that he saw two men firing guns at RFK. (5) He also saw Sirhan with a woman three times during that evening. (6) There were other witnesses who provided information that suggested that Cesar lied about the time he drew his gun. Television producer Richard Lubic, saw Cesar with his “weapon in his hand and was pointing it down in Kennedy’s general direction”. Lubic gave this information to the police after the shooting, but he was never asked about it during his testimony in court. Kennedy’s official bodyguard, former FBI agent Bill Barry, also saw Cesar with his gun in his hand and told him to put it back in his holster. (7) 1. Dan E. Moldea, The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy, 1995 (page 146) 2. William Turner and Jonn Christian, The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: The Conspiracy and Coverup, 1993 (page 162) 3. William Turner, Rearview Mirror, 2001 (page 244) 4. Karl Uecker, written statement given to Allard K. Lowenstein in Dusseldorf, Germany (20th February, 1975) 5. Dan E. Moldea, The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy, 1995 (page 147) 6. William Klaber and Philip H. Melanson, Shadow Play: The Untold Story of the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination, 1997 (page 147) 7. Dan E. Moldea, The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy, 1995 (page 146) I have listened to the interview and I am convinced that Scott Enyart is telling the truth. Your claim that he is obviously lying because his interview appeared on Black Op radio is daft. It is like saying that everything that appears in the New York Times is always true or always untrue. You have to apply a bit more intellectual discipline to dealing with the evidence that that? By the way, what is your academic background? Mel you are very much like a poor man’s Gerald Posner. I don’t know why you have spent your time trying to convince the public that John Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were killed by lone gunmen. Unlike Posner who has some sort of reputation to lose, I think it is highly unlikely that you have persuaded the FBI/CIA to pay you for this work. Nor would Sunderland Polytechnic Press (sorry University of Sunderland Press) have made much profit from your books. However, I suppose it helps to have someone arguing for the lone gunman theory. Even if it is you. By the way, if John Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were killed by lone gunman, why is it so important to keep classified so many documents relating to the case? http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=6187

Of course, Thane Eugene Cesar knew that he was taking a short cut through the kitchen. It is true that Sirhan apparently did not know about this “new” route. However, that is a problem for the lone gunman as well as the conspiracy theorists. Schulman gave several interviews on what he saw in the kitchen. The first interview he gave to Jeff Bent of Continental News Service straight after the shooting he clearly said that he saw “a security guard standing in back of the senator daw his gun and fire it.” (1) He did not say that Cesar shot Robert Kennedy. Only that he fired back at Shiran. This was accepted as being correct at the time. After all, why should he lie about this event? The problem was that Los Angeles County coroner Thomas Noguchi, who performed the autopsy, claimed that all three bullets striking Kennedy entered from the rear, in a flight path from down to up, right to left. “Moreover, powder burns around the entry wound indicated that the fatal bullet was fired at less than one inch from the head and no more than two or three inches behind the right ear.” (2) This was a problem for the LAPD. They now had two gunman involved in the killing (everybody agrees that Shiran had fired his gun). You now had a conspiracy as Shiran could not be portrayed like Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray as a lone nut. It was therefore necessary to get Schulman and Noguchi to change their testimony. Noguchi refused and so was not called to testify at Shiran’s trial. (Don’t you think that is a bit suspicious?) Schulman was taking into custody and had to endure lengthy questioning. It was suggested that he was part of the conspiracy to kill Robert Kennedy. Finally, on 9th August, 1968, he told Paul E. O’Steen of the LAPD that he was outside the kitchen when the firing took place and when he rushed to the scene of the crime he might have been mistaken about which security guard had drawn his weapon. As a result of this he was released as the LAPD went with the lone gunman theory. Schulman was no longer a suspect. In 1971 the LAPD interviewed Schulman again. No longer under threat of arrest, he returned to his original story of Cesar firing his weapon. The transcript of this interview has been published (it goes on for 87 pages) and however much they try, the LAPD are unable to intimidate Schulman into withdrawing this statement. The other problem you have your lone-gunman theory is that Thomas Noguchi’s views about the position of the gunman was backed up by other experts such as William W. Harper. He showed that not only was RFK shot from behind but that bullets removed from RFK and newsman William Weisel, were fired from two different guns. (3) Schulman’s views were supported by Karl Uecker, who struggled with Sirhan when he was firing his gun, provided a written statement in 1975 about what he saw: “There was a distance of at least one and one-half feet between the muzzle of Sirhan’s gun and Senator Kennedy’s head. The revolver was directly in front of my nose. After Sirhan’s second shot, I pushed the hand that held the revolver down, and pushed him onto the steam table. There is no way that the shots described in the autopsy could have come from Sirhan’s gun. When I told this to the authorities, they told me that I was wrong. But I repeat now what I told them then: Sirhan never got close enough for a point-blank shot.” (4) Another witness, Booker Griffin, also claimed that he saw two men firing guns at RFK. (5) He also saw Sirhan with a woman three times during that evening. (6) There were other witnesses who provided information that suggested that Cesar lied about the time he drew his gun. Television producer Richard Lubic, saw Cesar with his “weapon in his hand and was pointing it down in Kennedy’s general direction”. Lubic gave this information to the police after the shooting, but he was never asked about it during his testimony in court. Kennedy’s official bodyguard, former FBI agent Bill Barry, also saw Cesar with his gun in his hand and told him to put it back in his holster. (7) 1. Dan E. Moldea, The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy, 1995 (page 146) 2. William Turner and Jonn Christian, The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: The Conspiracy and Coverup, 1993 (page 162) 3. William Turner, Rearview Mirror, 2001 (page 244) 4. Karl Uecker, written statement given to Allard K. Lowenstein in Dusseldorf, Germany (20th February, 1975) 5. Dan E. Moldea, The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy, 1995 (page 147) 6. William Klaber and Philip H. Melanson, Shadow Play: The Untold Story of the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination, 1997 (page 147) 7. Dan E. Moldea, The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy, 1995 (page 146) I have listened to the interview and I am convinced that Scott Enyart is telling the truth. Your claim that he is obviously lying because his interview appeared on Black Op radio is daft. It is like saying that everything that appears in the New York Times is always true or always untrue. You have to apply a bit more intellectual discipline to dealing with the evidence that that? By the way, what is your academic background? Mel you are very much like a poor man’s Gerald Posner. I don’t know why you have spent your time trying to convince the public that John Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were killed by lone gunmen. Unlike Posner who has some sort of reputation to lose, I think it is highly unlikely that you have persuaded the FBI/CIA to pay you for this work. Nor would Sunderland Polytechnic Press (sorry University of Sunderland Press) have made much profit from your books. However, I suppose it helps to have someone arguing for the lone gunman theory. Even if it is you. By the way, if John Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were killed by lone gunman, why is it so important to keep classified so many documents relating to the case? http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=6187

They are only important writers because of their political views. What is it that you don't like about Galbraith's views? It seems to me that he was right about virtually everything he wrote. Luckily for the people of Europe, since 1945 our politicians agreed with him (Thatcher is now completely discredited because of her attempts to ignore the economic arguments of people like Galbraith). It is only a shame that his views (and those of John Maynard Keynes - a man who had a tremendous influence on Galbraith) have not had as much influence in post-war America. Other good quotations from Galbraith include: “Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.” “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” “It is a well known fact that America’s founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a lesser known and equally important fact that they did not much like taxation with representation.”

I have been asked to post this: NBA OR NFL? 36 - have been accused of spousal abuse 7 - have been arrested for fraud 19 - have been accused of writing bad checks 117 - have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses 3 - have done time for assault 71 - cannot get a credit card due to bad credit 14 - have been arrested on drug-related charges 8 - have been arrested for shoplifting 21 - currently are defendants in lawsuits 84 - have been arrested for drunk driving within the last year Can you guess which organization this is? NBA? NFL? Neither. It's the 535 members of the United States Congress.

Of quote from Galbraith that could be applied to the assassination. “People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.”

John Kenneth Galbraith died a couple of days ago. You will find a good obituary here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story...1764857,00.html Galbraith was one of JFK's liberal advisers. For example, he was totally opposed to sending troops to Vietnam. He also was against the oil depletion allowance and in favour of a new civil rights act. Does anyone know if Galbraith ever commented on the JFK assassination? You might find this article by Galbraith's son interesting: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/vietnam/exit.htm

The link of course is Operation 40.

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I am looking for information on Donald P. Gregg. He is on the lecture circuit and in his biography he admits that he joined the CIA in 1951. However, he does not say where he served until after the assassination: Burma (1964-1966), Japan (1966-1969), Vietnam (1970-1972), Korea (1973-1975). According to Gregg, he first met Bush when he was director of the CIA. Gregg became Bush’s national security advisor in 1982. What Gregg does not say is that he was implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal. During the Iran-Contra hearings, Gregg admitted that he had been Felix Rodriguez’s case officer in Vietnam (part of Operation Phoenix). However, in “George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography”, Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin claim that Gregg recruited both Felix Rodriguez and Posada Carilles in 1963. The authors point out that this is missing from Rodriguez’s autobiography, Shadow Warrior: “Rodriguez neglects to explain that agent Posada Carilles was originally recruited and trained by the same CIA murder operation, JM/WAVE in Miami, as was Rodriguez himself”. (page 404) Tarpley and Chaitkin do not give a reference for this information. However, later in the book, the authors show how Bush rewarded those who took part in the cover-up of his involvement in the Iran-Contra affair with posts in his administration: John Tower (Secretary of Defence), Brent Scowcroft (Chief National Security Adviser) and Dick Cheney (Secretary of Defence after the Senate refused to confirm John Tower). This is itself interesting as a bitter Tower was killed in a plane crash on 5th April, 1991 and Cheney went on to become the power behind the throne in Bush junior’s administration. Gregg was appointed Ambassador to Korea. This was challenged by the Senate as Gregg had covered up for Bush during the Iran-Contra hearings. Tarpley and Chaitkin publish an extract from Gregg’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This testimony has never been published before. In the extract it is clear that the committee had been asking about Gregg’s early career in the CIA, especially his relationship with Rodriguez and Posada. Alan Cranston and John Kerry appear to be the two most hostile questioners. At one stage Cranston refers to the relationship between Gregg and Rodriguez existing “for more than three decades”. It therefore seems possible that Gregg had earlier admitted that he recruited Rodriguez and Posada for Operation 40 in 1963. We know this is what Gene Wheaton claimed in his deposition made on (1-3, 7-8 March, 1988). According to Fabian Escalante, a senior officer of the Cuban Department of State Security (G-2), in 1960 Richard Nixon recruited an "important group of businessmen headed by George Bush (Snr.) and Jack Crichton, both Texas oilmen, to gather the necessary funds for the operation". This suggests that Operation 40 agents were involved in freelance work. Did Bush meet Gregg during this period? If so, was Bush introduced to Rodriguez and Posada in 1963 when they became part of Operation 40. Was Bush involved in giving Rodriguez and Posada freelance work in 1963? Was this the first of many assignments? The assassination of Che Guevara in October, 1967. The assassination of Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean Foreign Minister, on 21st September, 1976. The bombing of the Cubana Aircraft in October, 1976 that killed all 73 people aboard. Iran-Contra Attempted assassination of Fidel Castro in November, 2000.

I am looking for information on Donald P. Gregg. He is on the lecture circuit and in his biography he admits that he joined the CIA in 1951. However, he does not say where he served until after the assassination: Burma (1964-1966), Japan (1966-1969), Vietnam (1970-1972), Korea (1973-1975). According to Gregg, he first met Bush when he was director of the CIA. Gregg became Bush’s national security advisor in 1982. What Gregg does not say is that he was implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal. During the Iran-Contra hearings, Gregg admitted that he had been Felix Rodriguez’s case officer in Vietnam (part of Operation Phoenix). However, in “George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography”, Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin claim that Gregg recruited both Felix Rodriguez and Posada Carilles in 1963. The authors point out that this is missing from Rodriguez’s autobiography, Shadow Warrior: “Rodriguez neglects to explain that agent Posada Carilles was originally recruited and trained by the same CIA murder operation, JM/WAVE in Miami, as was Rodriguez himself”. (page 404) Tarpley and Chaitkin do not give a reference for this information. However, later in the book, the authors show how Bush rewarded those who took part in the cover-up of his involvement in the Iran-Contra affair with posts in his administration: John Tower (Secretary of Defence), Brent Scowcroft (Chief National Security Adviser) and Dick Cheney (Secretary of Defence after the Senate refused to confirm John Tower). This is itself interesting as a bitter Tower was killed in a plane crash on 5th April, 1991 and Cheney went on to become the power behind the throne in Bush junior’s administration. Gregg was appointed Ambassador to Korea. This was challenged by the Senate as Gregg had covered up for Bush during the Iran-Contra hearings. Tarpley and Chaitkin publish an extract from Gregg’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This testimony has never been published before. In the extract it is clear that the committee had been asking about Gregg’s early career in the CIA, especially his relationship with Rodriguez and Posada. Alan Cranston and John Kerry appear to be the two most hostile questioners. At one stage Cranston refers to the relationship between Gregg and Rodriguez existing “for more than three decades”. It therefore seems possible that Gregg had earlier admitted that he recruited Rodriguez and Posada for Operation 40 in 1963. We know this is what Gene Wheaton claimed in his deposition made on (1-3, 7-8 March, 1988). According to Fabian Escalante, a senior officer of the Cuban Department of State Security (G-2), in 1960 Richard Nixon recruited an "important group of businessmen headed by George Bush (Snr.) and Jack Crichton, both Texas oilmen, to gather the necessary funds for the operation". This suggests that Operation 40 agents were involved in freelance work. Did Bush meet Gregg during this period? If so, was Bush introduced to Rodriguez and Posada in 1963 when they became part of Operation 40. Was Bush involved in giving Rodriguez and Posada freelance work in 1963? Was this the first of many assignments? The assassination of Che Guevara in October, 1967. The assassination of Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean Foreign Minister, on 21st September, 1976. The bombing of the Cubana Aircraft in October, 1976 that killed all 73 people aboard. Iran-Contra Attempted assassination of Fidel Castro in November, 2000.