W. Niederhut

Yes, I realized last night that Michael was using "in my book" as a figure of speech. There are a number of authors on this forum, and I initially thought he was referring to a book that he had written about Hunter's murder. (The only thing I could find at Amazon, before reading his post above, was a crime novel written by a gentleman named Michael Clark.)

Thank you, sir. Two questions. What is the name of your book? Any clues about who Bill Hunter's killer was working for? As I recall reading (possibly in Richard Belzer's pop history book, Hit List) the LA shooting of Hunter was ruled "accidental." I understand your point about various contractors/hit men being deployed for these witness assassinations, but it seems obvious that someone (or many) must have been "riding herd" on such a massive, decades-long, cover-up operation-- someone who knew precisely what was going on, (as in Hunter's case) and who was going to spill the beans.

I'm a newcomer here at the Education Forum, but I have studied a lot of books about JFK's assassination in recent years, including the writings of Col. Fletcher Prouty, John Newman, James DiEugenio, James Douglass, Phillip Nelson, and others. Here's my question. It seems quite obvious that the perpetrators of the JFK assassination conducted systematic surveillance and skillful assassinations of key witnesses for many years, even decades. In a few of these cases-- e.g., Mary Pinchot Meyer, Dorothy Kilgallen, and Sam Giancana-- suspected assassins have been named. (One was the alleged U.S. Navy-affiliated witness on the tow path in the Mary Meyer murder case.) But, has there been much written (and uncovered) about the nature of such a gruesome, multi-decade, domestic assassinations op in the U.S.? It is difficult to imagine anything less than a carefully managed, highly skilled organization like the CIA overseeing these systematic assassinations of American citizens who knew too much. And the targets were carefully selected for "termination," usually at times when they were, apparently, on the verge of talking-- e.g., David Ferie, Mary Meyer, Kilgallen, William Sullivan, Pritzker, Giancana, De Mohrenschildt, etc.-- as if their phones and mail were under surveillance.

This brings to mind what I have read about Nancy MacLean's recently published book, Democracy in Chains, about the Koch brothers' long-term plan to implement the strategies of the "misanthropic libertarian" George Mason University economist James McGill Buchanan.

I'm surprised that Mr. Bugliosi spoke to you, after the well-deserved beating he received in your scathing critique of Reclaiming History. As for McAdams, how does he manage to have his disinformazia website surface at the top of Google searches about CIA-related topics?

I read somewhere (possibly in Russ Baker's book, Family of Secrets) that Poppy Bush's Skull and Bones nickname at Yale had been, "Lucifer." In his 11/29/63 debriefing memo, J.Edgar Hoover simply referred to him as "Mr. George Bush of the CIA." In the context of this thread, I was mainly wondering, 1) what role, if any, he has played in blocking the release of the JFK assassination records, and, 2) whether any references to him have been found in the declassified files.

Not to change the subject of the thread, but Michael Wolff (Fire and Fury) seems to believe that Trump has now become a Neocon mule of sorts, partly through the financial inducements of Sheldon Adelson. As for the JFK records, who am I to disagree with Oliver Stone's assessment that Trump got "rolled by the Deep State?" And, is it conceivable that Rudy Giuliani's tete-a-tete with Robert Mueller played a role in Trump's April 2018 decision to block the release of the JFK records? The reason I ask is that both Giuliani and Mueller were involved directly in the FBI's suppression (and destruction) of 9/11 evidence-- e.g., the debris at Ground Zero, and the security cams at the Pentagon. Giuliani met with Mueller to discuss the Russia investigation shortly before the announcement was made about withholding the JFK records.

And George H.W. Bush is still alive. Does anyone know if a code name for Poppy Bush has ever been identified in any declassified CIA files?

According to the recent Errol Morris documentary, Wormwood, (about the CIA's execution of Frank Olson) the original edition of the CIA Assassination Manual described a 13 story fall as a highly effective assassination technique. So, as in Frank Olson's case a few years later, one has to wonder why James Forrestal was admitted to the 16th floor of the Bethesda Naval Hospital, for treatment of "depression" (oddly, with Sodium Amytal-- a barbiturate-- and insulin shock therapy.) The Israelis, certainly, disliked Forrestal, for his ardent opposition to the partitioning of Palestine, and, of course, he was also a diehard Cold Warrior. Alison Weir talks about Forrestal's case at some length in her history of U.S. involvement in the establishment of Israel-- Against Our Better Judgment.

Yes, the Kindle version of Guyenot's new book (published in January of this year) is available at Amazon. It is a wide ranging history of the past 3,500 years of Jewish history, predicated on Guyenot's improbable hope that the Likudniks will abandon the militant tribalism of Yahwism in favor of a more Osirian redemption of our doomed species. Mythology aside, though, Guyenot presents a fairly detailed history of the Zionist movement in Europe, Israel, and the U.S. during the past century. His view of the JFK assassination seems to be drawn partly from Michael Collins Piper--with a CIA false flag/attempted assassination (blamed on Castro, etc.) hijacked by Menachem Begin (Micky Cohen, etc.) and the Mossad at the behest of David Ben Gurion. Guyenot also tries to explain LBJ's escalation of the Vietnam War after 11/22/63 in terms of Zionist military aspirations in the Middle East -- probably his weakest argument in the book. He uses the same "high-jacked false flag" paradigm to explain the CIA and Mossad's alleged role in 9/11-- which parallels the thesis of his previous book, 50 Years of Deep State-- from JFK to 9/11. Regardless of the merits of Guyenot's ultimate theories about 11/22/63 and 9/11, he presents a lot of fascinating data in his latest book about the Zionist political movement in Europe and the U.S. since the late 19th century.

There is a highly detailed review of the radical shift in U.S. policies toward Israel's nuclear program at Dimona after 11/22/63 in French historian Laurent Guyenot's recently published book, From Yahweh to Zion. Guyenot also describes the broad history of Leo Strauss and the Neocons in considerable detail. As Guyenot describes it, the Neocon's active involvement in the U.S. Executive branch began in earnest with Richard Perle and the Ford administration. Many of the Neocons who later became advocates for increased U.S. military spending (and Star Wars/Team B propaganda in the 1980s) had been "liberals" opposed to the Vietnam War prior to the Six Day War in 1967. As for JFK and LBJ, their views on support for Israel's nuclear program were radically opposed. Dimona became an unmentionable subject in LBJ's White House after 11/22/63, and John McCone became a persona non grata. McCone complained that LBJ refused to even read his intelligence reports about Israel. Most of Guyenot's version of this history is probably old hat to the scholars on this forum, and he will become a persona non grata, himself, but his new book is a fascinating read, and generally well referenced.

I have been reading posts on the Education Forum for the past two or three years, and have, at times, wanted to post questions and comments. I am a private practice psychiatrist in Denver, Colorado-- a graduate of Brown University, magna cum laude (1979) and Harvard Medical School (1983.) I have been affiliated with the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center since 1983. In recent years, my main interest has been in European and American history, WWII, U.S. Deep State history, JFK's assassination, and the 9/11 Truth movement. I am a published author of a psychiatric monograph, called The Cobad Syndrome.