Where would she be now.... 

My female namesake

Cheers,

Michael

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Photo-posting gurus..... 

Googling  "Kent "Frenchy" Brouillette" will bring-up mug shots of Frenchy from June of '64.

Googling "James Files" will bring-up two guys; one playing guitar (Files), and one in sunglasses.

I have been wondering if Frenchy Brouillette might be the guy in sunglasses.

Cheers,

Michael

I am surprised that there is no EF page on Larry Crafard. Here is a link to his WC testimony:

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/crafard.htm

Surprisingly, I am not seeing a Simkin Bio on E. Howard Hunt

http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKhuntH.htm

Everette Howard Hunt

Everette Howard Hunt was born in Hamburg, on 9th October, 1918. During the Second World War Hunt served in the Office of Strategic Services. After the war he joined the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and for a while was stationed in China. While there he met and married Dorothy Hunt.

In 1949 Hunt establish the first postwar CIA station in Mexico City. He also worked closely with President Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua. 

In his spare time Hunt wrote spy novels. This included East of Farewell (1942) Limit of Darkness (1944), Stranger in Town (1947), Bimini Run (1949) and The Violent Ones (1950). Hunt was involved in clandestine operations in Guatemala against President Jacobo Arbenz. The plot against Arbenz became part of Executive Action (a plan to remove unfriendly foreign leaders from power).

Tracy Barnes was eventually placed in charge of what became known as Operation Success. David Atlee Phillips was appointed to run the propaganda campaign against Arbenz's government. According to Phillips he initially questioned the right of the CIA to interfere in Guatemala: In his autobiography Phillips claims he said to Barnes: "But Arbenz became President in a free election. What right do we have to help someone topple his government and throw him out of office?" However, Barnes convinced him that it was vital important that the Soviets did not establish a "beachhead in Central America".

The CIA propaganda campaign included the distribution of 100,000 copies of a pamphlet entitled Chronology of Communism in Guatemala. They also produced three films on Guatemala for showing free in cinemas. David Atlee Phillips, along with Hunt, was responsible for running the CIA's Voice of Liberation radio station. Faked photographs were distributed that claimed to show the mutilated bodies of opponents of Arbenz. William (Rip) Robertson was also involved in the campaign against Arbenz.

The CIA began providing financial and logistic support for Colonel Carlos Castillo. With the help of resident Anastasio Somoza, Castillo had formed a rebel army in Nicaragua. It has been estimated that between January and June, 1954, the CIA spent about $20 million on Castillo's army.

On 18th June 1954 aircraft dropped leaflets over Guatemala demanding that Arbenz resign immediately or else the county would be bombed. CIA's Voice of Liberation also put out similar radio broadcasts. This was followed by a week of bombing ports, ammunition dumps, military barracks and the international airport.

Carlos Castillo's collection of soldiers now crossed the Honduran-Guatemalan border. His army was outnumbered by the Guatemalan Army. However, the CIA Voice of Liberation successfully convinced Arbenz's supporters that two large and heavily armed columns of invaders were moving towards Guatemala City.

The CIA was also busy bribing Arbenz's military commanders. It was later discovered that one commander accepted $60,000 to surrender his troops. Ernesto Guevara attempted to organize some civil militias but senior army officers blocked the distribution of weapons. Jacobo Arbenz now believed he stood little chance of preventing Castillo gaining power. Accepting that further resistance would only bring more deaths he announced his resignation over the radio.

In 1959 Hunt visited Cuba and decided that Fidel Castro posed a serious threat to the security of the United States: "I wrote a top secret report, and I had five recommendations, one of which was the one that's always been thrown at me, is that during... or... slightly antecedent to an invasion, Castro would have to be neutralized - and we all know what that meant, although I didn't want to say so in a memorandum with my name on it." Hunt played an important role in planning the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.

Hunt was CIA station chief in Mexico during the early 1960s and was rumoured to have been involved in the conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy. It was falsely claimed that he was one of the men arrested in Dallas on the day of the murder.

In 1970 Hunt officially retired from the the Central Intelligence Agency. On the advice of Richard Helms, Hunt went to work for Robert F. Bennett, the head of the Robert Mullen & Co, a small public relations company in Washington.

On 7th July, 1971, Charles Colson and John Ehrlichman appointed Hunt to the White House staff. Working under Egil Krogh and Gordon Liddy Hunt became a member of the Special Investigations Group (SIG). The group was (informally known as "the Plumbers" because their job was to stop leaks from Nixon's administration).

On 15th May, 1972, Arthur Bremer tried to assassinate George Wallace at a presidential campaign rally in Laurel, Maryland. Wallace was hit four times. Three other people, Alabama State Trooper Captain E. C. Dothard, Dora Thompson, a Wallace campaign volunteer, and Nick Zarvos, a Secret Service agent, were also wounded in the attack.

Richard Nixon was deeply shocked by this event. He told Charles Colson, a member of his White House staff, that he was concerned that Bremer “might have ties to the Republican Party or, even worse, the President’s re-election committee”. Colson now phoned Hunt and asked him to break-in to Bremer's apartment to discover if he had any documents that linked him to Nixon or his main political opponent in the presidential election, George McGovern. According to Hunt's autobiography, Undercover, he refused to carry out this order.

Bob Woodward reported in the Washington Post: "Within hours of the Wallace assassination attempt, a White House official was asked by the Washington Post about the identity of the governor's attacker. During a subsequent conversation that evening, the official raised the possibility of Bremer's connection to leftist causes and the campaign of Sen. George McGovern, through literature found in his apartment.... One White House source said that when President Nixon was informed of the shooting, he became deeply upset and voiced concern that the attempt on Gov. Wallace's life might have been made by someone with ties to the Republican Party or the Nixon campaign."

It later emerged that Federal Bureau of Investigation officers found both left-wing and right-wing propaganda in Bremer's apartment. They also found a diary where Bremer wrote about his plans to kill George Wallace or Richard Nixon. The opening sentence was: "Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace." The diary was eventually published as a book, An Assassin's Diary (1973).

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Local reporters later claimed that the FBI left Bremer’s home for around 90 minutes before coming back and sealing it. During this time reporters and other unidentified figures took away papers from Bremer’s apartment

Later that year the SIG became concerned about the activities of Daniel Ellsberg. He was a former member of the McNamara Study Group which had produced the classified History of Decision Making in Vietnam, 1945-1968. Ellsberg, disillusioned with the progress of the war, believed this document should be made available to the public. Ellsberg gave a copy of what later became known as the Pentagon Papers to Phil Geyelin of the Washington Post. Katharine Graham and Ben Bradlee decided against publishing the contents on the document.

Daniel Ellsberg now went to the New York Times and they began publishing extracts from the document on 13th June, 1971. This included information that Dwight Eisenhower had made a secret commitment to help the French defeat the rebellion in Vietnam. The document also showed that John F. Kennedy had turned this commitment into a war by using a secret "provocation strategy" that led to the Gulf of Tonkin incidents and that Lyndon B. Johnson had planned from the beginning of his presidency to expand the war.

On 3rd September, 1971, Hunt and Gordon Liddy supervised the burglary of a psychiatrist who had been treating Ellsberg. The main objective was to discover incriminating or embarrassing information to discredit Ellsberg.

Another project involved the stealing of certain documents from the safe of Hank Greenspun, the editor of the Las Vegas Sun. Later, James W. McCord claimed that Greenspun was being targeted because of his relationship with Robert Maheu and Howard Hughes.

In 1972 Gordon Liddy joined the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP). Later that year Liddy presented Nixon's attorney general, John N. Mitchell, with an action plan called Operation Gemstone. Liddy wanted a $1 million budget to carry out a series of black ops activities against Nixon's political enemies. Mitchell decided that the budget for Operation Gemstone was too large. Instead he gave him $250,000 to launch a scaled-down version of the plan.

One of Liddy's first tasks was to place electronic devices in the Democratic Party campaign offices in an apartment block called Watergate. Liddy wanted to wiretap the conversations of Larry O'Brien, chairman of the Democratic National Committee and R. Spencer Oliver, executive director of the Association of State Democratic Chairmen. This was not successful and on 3rd July, 1972, Frank Sturgis, Virgilio Gonzalez, Eugenio Martinez, Bernard L. Barker and James W. McCord returned to the Watergate offices. However, this time they were caught by the police.

The phone number of Howard Hunt was found in address books of two of the burglars. Reporters were able to link the break-in to the White House. Bob Woodward, a reporter working for the Washington Post was told by a friend who was employed by the government, that senior aides of President Richard Nixon, had paid the burglars to obtain information about its political opponents. 

Hunt threatened to reveal details of who paid him to organize the Watergatebreak-in. Dorothy Hunt took part in the negotiations with Charles Colson. According to investigator Sherman Skolnick, Hunt also had information on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He argued that if "Nixon didn't pay heavy to suppress the documents they had showing he was implicated in the planning and carrying out, by the FBI and the CIA, of the political murder of President Kennedy"

James W. McCord claimed that Dorothy Hunt told him that at a meeting with her husband's attorney, William O. Buttmann, she revealed that Hunt had information that would "blow the White House out of the water".

In October, 1972, Dorothy attempted to speak to Charles Colson. He refused to talk to her but later admitted to the New York Times that she was "upset at the interruption of payments from Nixon's associates to Watergate defendants."

On 15th November, Colson met with Richard Nixon, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman at Camp David to discuss Howard Hunt's blackmail threat. John N. Mitchell was also getting worried by Dorothy Hunt's threats and he asked John Dean to use a secret White House fund to "get the Hunt situation settled down". Eventually it was arranged for Frederick LaRue to give Hunt about $250,000 to buy his silence.

However, on 8th December, 1972, Dorothy Hunt had a meeting with Michelle Clark, a journalist working for CBS. According to Sherman Skolnick, Clark was working on a story on the Watergate case: "Ms Clark had lots of insight into the bugging and cover-up through her boyfriend, a CIA operative." Also with Hunt and Clark was Chicago Congressman George Collins.

Dorothy Hunt, Michelle Clark and George Collins took the Flight 533 from Washington to Chicago. The aircraft hit the branches of trees close to Midway Airport: "It then hit the roofs of a number of neighborhood bungalows before plowing into the home of Mrs. Veronica Kuculich at 3722 70th Place, demolishing the home and killing her and a daughter, Theresa. The plane burst into flames killing a total of 45 persons, 43 of them on the plane, including the pilot and first and second officers. Eighteen passengers survived." Hunt, Clark and Collins were all killed in the accident.

The following month Howard Hunt pleaded guilty to burglary and wiretapping and eventually served 33 months in prison. He later told People Magazine (20th May, 1974): ''I had always assumed, working for the CIA for so many years, that anything the White House wanted done was the law of the land. `I viewed this like any other mission. It just happened to take place inside this country.''

In a comprehensive analysis of Hunt’s work published in The New York Review of Books in 1973, Gore Vidal argued that Hunt might have written the diary that was found in the car of Arthur H. Bremer, the man who attempted to assassinate George Wallace of Alabama

Hunt continued to write spy novels and titles included Give Us This Day (1973) and The Berlin Ending (1973). Hunt also published the novel The Hargrave Deception. The book was based on the James Angleton investigation of Kim Philby.

In August, 1978, Victor Marchetti published an article about the assassination of John F. Kennedy in the liberty Lobby newspaper, Spotlight. In the article Marchetti argued that the House Special Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) had obtained a 1966 CIA memo that revealed Hunt, Frank Sturgis and Gerry Patrick Hemming had been involved in the plot to kill Kennedy. Marchetti's article also included a story that Marita Lorenz had provided information on this plot. Later that month Joseph Trento and Jacquie Powers wrote a similar story for the Sunday News Journal.

The HSCA did not publish this CIA memo linking its agents to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Hunt now decided to take legal action against the Liberty Lobby and in December, 1981, he was awarded $650,000 in damages. Liberty Lobby appealed to the United States Court of Appeals. It was claimed that Hunt's attorney, Ellis Rubin, had offered a clearly erroneous instruction as to the law of defamation. The three-judge panel agreed and the case was retried. This time Mark Lane defended the Liberty Lobby against Hunt's action.

Lane eventually discovered Marchetti’s sources. The main source was William Corson. It also emerged that Marchetti had also consulted James Angleton and Alan J. Weberman before publishing the article. As a result of obtaining of getting depositions from David Atlee Phillips, Richard Helms, G. Gordon Liddy, Stansfield Turner and Marita Lorenz, plus a skillful cross-examination by Lane of Hunt, the jury decided in January, 1995, that Marchetti had not been guilty of libel when he suggested that John F. Kennedy had been assassinated by people working for the CIA.

As a result of the failed legal action, in June, 1995, Hunt filed for bankruptcy protection from his creditors. Hunt spent his final years quietly in his home in Miami's Biscayne Park neighborhood with his second wife, Laura Martin Hunt.

In 2006 it was announced that Hunt had written his memoirs. This included a claim that Lyndon Baines Johnson might have been involved in ordering the assassination of John F. Kennedy. "Having Kennedy liquidated, thus elevating himself to the presidency without having to work for it himself, could have been a very tempting and logical move on Johnson's part. LBJ had the money and the connections to manipulate the scenario in Dallas and is on record as having convinced JFK to make the appearance in the first place. He further tried unsuccessfully to engineer the passengers of each vehicle, trying to get his good buddy, Gov. (John) Connolly, to ride with him instead of in JFK's car - where... he would have been out of danger."

Hunt suggests that senior CIA official, William K. Harvey could have been involved in the plot to kill Kennedy: "Harvey was a ruthless man who was not satisfied with his position in the CIA and its government salary... He definitely had dreams of becoming (CIA director) and LBJ could do that for him if he were president.... (LBJ) would have used Harvey because he was available and corrupt."

Edward Howard Hunt died of pneumonia on 23rd January, 2007. His memoir American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate, and Beyond was published in May 2007.

After his father's death, Saint John Hunt, released a tape where his father claimed that Lyndon Baines Johnson was the instigator of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and that it was organised by Cord Meyer, David Atlee Phillips, Frank Sturgis and David Sanchez Morales.

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Edit***** the links, provided by J. William King, above, have been redirected. The links are to an article titled "The Secret History of Airplane Sabotage"

restored links are below.

http://www.apfn.org/skolnicksreport/shistory.html

http://www.apfn.org/skolnicksreport/shistory2.html

http://www.apfn.org/skolnicksreport/shistory3.html

http://www.apfn.org/skolnicksreport/shistory4.html

On 7/14/2005 at 11:01 AM, John Simkin said:

Is anyone convinced that Bernard (Macho) Barker was involved in the assassination of JFK? 

**IF**'he was involved in the assassination of JFK, THEN, I am convinced that he was used to blackmail Nixon; a' la, Watergate.

AKA "Mr. New Orleans". Nearly the same age as Oswald. He was Murdered not long ago. There is very little information on him. Has anyone seen Frenchy cross their path while looking into this case?

Cheers,

Michael

24 minutes ago, Kirk Gallaway said:

am I correct that your comment about 9-11 being a "can of worms" means that you think that there is something nefarious there? I did interpret that way.

 

911?----Nefarious???------no, no not at all

To be sure, you've got my goat. I want you to answer whether you saw and listened to the audio essay, "It's My Fault", and what you think of it. 

Cheers,

Michael

21 minutes ago, Kirk Gallaway said:

am I correct that your comment about 9-11 being a "can of worms" means that you think that there is something nefarious there? I did interpret that way.

 

911?----Nefarious???------no, no not at all

Roger that. I could have been more specific. I'll leave you to your sorting-of-suspects function.

Cheers,

Michael

5 minutes ago, Sandy Larsen said:

There is what seems to be an official statement in Oswald's medical records that says (as best as I can recall, and paraphrased here rather poorly, I'm sure) that Oswald's VD wasn't caused by misbehavior on his part.

According to the article, some CTers use that statement as evidence that Oswald was a CIA agent. The argument goes something like this: Had Oswald gotten VD because of illicit sex he engaged in purely for his own satisfaction, then that would have been considered misbehavior on his part. But since it wasn't officially regarded as misbehavior, Oswald must have been engaged in sex as part of a sting operation. To get information from the woman. For the CIA.

I am not one of the CTers who believes that. And this is what I was saying when I said "[the article] is purported to be debunking something that I don't believe in."

 

Tommy?

1 minute ago, Ernie Lazar said:

Michael:  NARA has published the entire list of documents which will be released in October 2017.  I posted a link to that NARA list here on EF many months ago.  There are relatively few FBI documents to be released and NONE of the file numbers listed pertain to Harry Dean or to Edwin Walker or to the Birch Society or to John Rousselot or to Robert Welch or to Loran Hall or to Larry Howard.

You can draw the appropriate conclusion.

BTW-- NARA told me that all those remaining documents will be available online.

Ernie, Thanks so much. That answers my questions.

Cheers,

Michael

1 minute ago, Ernie Lazar said:

Michael:  My comments are based upon the fact that Paul...

(1)  has claimed to have reviewed all of Walker's personal papers archived at the University of Texas (Austin)  Briscoe Center for American History BUT Paul has never identified EVEN ONE reference to ANYTHING in those Walker papers concerning Harry Dean, Guy Galbadon, or any JBS plot.  In addition, the "Finding Aid" to Walker's papers contains no relevant references. I posted the Finding Aid on Internet Archive website:  https://archive.org/details/FindingAidWalkerPapers

(2)  after all the many years during which Paul has posted hundreds of messages pertaining to Harry's story -- neither Paul or Harry have ever been able to produce one single verifiable piece of factual evidence to even establish that Walker was in southern California at the time which they claim he was meeting with the alleged principals in the "JBS plot".

IMPORTANTLY:

(3) The burden of proof ALWAYS is the responsibility of the person(s) who are making an argument or making an assertion.

(4)  If they cannot provide compelling primary source documentation or corroboration -- then it is manifestly nothing more than (at best) gossip or rumor or speculation or anecdotal, i.e. "an account regarded as unreliable or hearsay."

 

Ernie, Thank you very much for your response.

Paul is investing increasing energies and personal credibility to his assertion of an "October Surprise". I suspect he may be holding some information, close, to someday in the future bolster his credibility; He seems to care not a whit for his credibility right now. My suspicion grows daily. 

I think that as a real researcher this does not concern you, since, I imagine, in the research community, he will have earned himself nothing but coal in his stocking if he turns-out to have been hiding his findings, come October.

I don't know that I have left you with anything further on which you can comment, but I do hope so.

Cheers,

Michael

1 hour ago, Thomas Graves said:

Dennis Bartholomew said, "As an aside, I’m always astounded by the new information that John Armstrong keeps finding."

James Hargrove replied, "Me too, and I’m his biggest fan. Amazing how many people (and groups) are gunning for him. I mean, if his conclusions about two Oswalds are wrong, which I doubt, so what?"

 

RIGHT.

So what if Armstrong, Hargrove, Josephs, et al., confused newbies, obfuscated the real facts of the case, and contributed to flaky "Deep State" thinking in the research community?

Ain't no big deal.

--  Tommy

 

Tommy, is it not a matter of degrees? You have said that you accept a second Oswald, but do not accept a plan for grooming two Oswalds as long as a decade before; correct me if I am wrong. It seems to me that you are attacking the whole theory because you cannot accept its depth and breadth. Can you say where you draw the line, with some specifity, and without prejudice to the larger theory?

I steered clear of this whole thing for a while. But then I independently came upon situations such as the one at The Furniture Mart. I have tried but I get no satisfactory explanations for such stories.

Cheers,

Michael

6 minutes ago, Ernie Lazar said:

 

4.  EDWIN WALKER:  

4..3  Lastly; it should be explicitly recognized that we do not even have confirming factual evidence that Walker knew Harry Dean existed.  There is nothing in Walker's personal papers.  There is also nothing about any JBS plot to murder JFK.  

 

Ernie, Thanks for keeping on top of all of this. I have been following this with interest.

I am sure that you are aware tha Paul has claimed that he has gone through a large portion of General Walkers papers. I believe he has also claimed that his access was exclusive, and that much of it remains to be sorted-through.

Can you say anything about the collection of papers to which Paul refers? Does he know things that researchers do not know?

Thanks in advance,

Cheers,

Michael

48 minutes ago, Kirk Gallaway said:

I'll suggest that the poison IS events like the JFKA, Iran-Contra and Watergate. The symptoms are the fear of opening a can of worms, and the result of that fear is slavery and death, to democracy, freedom, ideas and, indeed, to people

Cheers,

Michael

 

 

Umm,......yeah cheers!

I am disappointed with how I feel that you have categorized me.

one question... am I correct that your comment about 9-11 being a "can of worms" means that you think that there is something nefarious there? I did interpret that way.

Cheers,

Michael

5 minutes ago, Jim Hargrove said:

Isn’t it amazing how Parnell and Walton will engage in endless name-calling and personal attacks against me and anyone else saying anything they don’t like, but they refuse to discuss the EVIDENCE?  Instead of whining and crying about how bad I am, why don’t they answer a few questions about “Lee Harvey Oswald” in the U.S. Navy?

 

I have to agree Jim. The personal ridicule is unfortunate. Disputing theories is the purpose of the forum. Attacking the bringer of the theory is unnecessary. 

What would really be great is if those who disagree would explain-away instances that make-up the whole of the Harvey and Lee theory. I posted a thread not long ago, asking for that kind of debate. No one seems to want to take up the debate on that basis.

Cheers, 

Michael

Kirk wrote:

But it's a free country.

.........and then......

You've already outed yourself as 911 truther. And that's cool as long as you don't insist on poisoning the forum by opening up that can of worms.

-----------------------------------------------------

Kirk, which is it? A free country? Or "don't bring that up here"?

There happens to be a 9-11 subforum here. I'll suggest that the poison IS events like the JFKA, Iran-Contra and Watergate. The symptoms are the fear of opening a can of worms, and the result of that fear is slavery and death, to democracy, freedom, ideas and, indeed, to people.

Cheers,

Michael

Bump for study

6 minutes ago, W. Tracy Parnell said:

I think you and George are missing the point. he is saying they should have tried Oswald even though he was dead and I am saying that is not possible. This has nothing to do with your opinion of the WC and their findings. Suppose for the sake of argument that they had found evidence that someone other than LHO did it. They still could not have "prosecuted" those individuals. They would have referred evidence to the Justice Department or whoever had jurisdiction because they themselves were not a judicial body but simply a fact finding commission.

I may be missing the point of the thread as well as this tangent, it is true. I agree that The WC had no jurisdiction. I was referring to the DPD. I wonder if the US DOJ had jurisdiction given certain facts, such as mob involvement in the form of Jack Ruby?

I don't mean to derail the thread. I just chimed in based on recent posts.

Cheers,

Michael

They knew that Lee didn't do it. They had, and still have, an obligation to investigate, gather facts, and prosecute perps.

Wynne Johnson has joined the forum.

Welcome, Wynne!

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?/topic/23690-wynne-johnson/#comment-348848

Welcome Wynne!

49 minutes ago, Paul Brancato said:

Yes that is an incredible story. Kirk and Douglas, and Michael, if you are reading this, watch day one of the Senate Intel hearings. The Russian expert from the FBI has quite a story to tell. 

Roger that Paul.