Pete Mellor

O.K. It's all very interesting, and I've finished 'Tipping Point' on the MFF site. I do just wonder that higher plotters than Cuba Project alumni were required. Lots of factors involving multi agencies seemed to fall into place very quickly i.e. Secret Service, D.P.D. F.B.I. Anyway, I forgot to ask, do you have a publication date for 'Tipping Point'?

Ex Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls on Joe Biden to end financial support to Israel. Every recent US administration has performed a perverse ritual as it has come into office. All have agreed to undermine US law by signing secret letters stipulating they will not acknowledge something everyone knows: that Israel has a nuclear weapons arsenal. Part of the reason for this is to stop people focusing on Israel’s capacity to turn dozens of cities to dust. This failure to face up to the threat posed by Israel’s horrific arsenal gives its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a sense of power and impunity, allowing Israel to dictate terms to others. But one other effect of the US administration’s ostrich approach is that it avoids invoking the US’s own laws, which call for an end to taxpayer largesse for nuclear weapons proliferators. Every recent US administration has performed a perverse ritual as it has come into office. All have agreed to undermine US law by signing secret letters stipulating they will not acknowledge something everyone knows: that Israel has a nuclear weapons arsenal. Part of the reason for this is to stop people focusing on Israel’s capacity to turn dozens of cities to dust. This failure to face up to the threat posed by Israel’s horrific arsenal gives its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a sense of power and impunity, allowing Israel to dictate terms to others. But one other effect of the US administration’s ostrich approach is that it avoids invoking the US’s own laws, which call for an end to taxpayer largesse for nuclear weapons proliferators. Israel in fact is a multiple nuclear weapons proliferator. There is overwhelming evidence that it offered to sell the apartheid regime in South Africa nuclear weapons in the 1970s and even conducted a joint nuclear test. The US government tried to cover up these facts. Additionally, it has never signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Yet the US and Israeli governments pushed for the invasion of Iraq based on lies about coming mushroom clouds. As Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu said: the nuclear weapons were not in Iraq – they are in Israel. Amendments by former Senators Stuart Symington and John Glenn to the Foreign Assistance Act ban US economic and military assistance to nuclear proliferators and countries that acquire nuclear weapons. While president, Jimmy Carter invoked such provisions against India and Pakistan.But no president has done so with regard to Israel. Quite the contrary. There has been an oral agreement since President Richard Nixon to accept Israel’s “nuclear ambiguity” – effectively to allow Israel the power that comes with nuclear weapons without the responsibility. And since President Bill Clinton, according to the New Yorker magazine, there have been these secret letters. US presidents and politicians have refused to acknowledge that Israel has nuclear weapons even though the law offers an exemption that would allow the funding to continue if the president certified to Congress that aid to a proliferator would be a vital US interest. Israel’s per capita gross domestic product is comparable with that of Britain. Nevertheless, US taxpayer funds to Israel exceed that to any other country. Adjusted for inflation, the publicly known amount over the years is now approaching $300bn. This farce should end. The US government should uphold its laws and cut off funding to Israel because of its acquisition and proliferation of nuclear weapons. The incoming Biden administration should forthrightly acknowledge Israel as a leading state sponsor of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East and properly implement US law. Other governments – in particular South Africa’s – should insist on the rule of law and for meaningful disarmament, and immediately urge the US government in the strongest possible terms to act. Apartheid was horrible in South Africa and it’s horrible when Israel practises its own form of apartheid against the Palestinians, with checkpoints and a system of oppressive policies. Indeed another US statute, the Leahy law, prohibits US military aid to governments that systematically violate human rights. It’s quite possible that one of the reasons that Israel’s version of apartheid has outlived South Africa’s is that Israel has managed to maintain its oppressive system using not just the guns of soldiers, but also by keeping this nuclear gun pointed at the heads of millions. The solution for this is not for Palestinians and other Arabs to try to attain such weapons. The solution is peace, justice and disarmament. South Africa learned that it could only have real peace and justice by having truth that would lead to reconciliation. But none of those will come unless truth is faced squarely – and there are few truths more critical to face than a nuclear weapons arsenal in the hands of an apartheid government. Desmond Tutu, a Nobel peace laureate, is a former archbishop of Cape Town and, from 1996 to 2003, was chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Larry, Do you consider, even after his exit from CIA in November '61, Allen Dulles was still able to input his agenda onto his old colleagues in '63? We know Ike gave green lights to get rid of Lumumba, Castro & Trujillo. But the killing of Dag Hammarskjold in September '61 was given no presidential authority, yet Dulles and ZR/RIFLE were involved. Having read the recent brilliant publication by Greg Poulgrain 'JFK vs Allen Dulles' that documents the 30 years of Dulles fingers in the pie of Indonesia, that required the removal of Sukarno & JFK, which resulted in the regime change in '65....what odds that the ex Director could also set Dallas in motion! I realise that any solid proof is nowhere to be found, but for my money highly likely.

Could be a secretary. Could be Lilien Dinneer.

Yeah Ron, correct. October '61 Angleton introduced Harvey to British CI (MI5) agent Peter Wright. Wright went on to publish the book 'Spycatcher' in the 1980's which P.M. Margaret Thatcher attempted to ban.

Rude? Not at all. I fully applaud your approach. I have a similar courtroom attitude to the JFK case.

Mervyn, you should have been a member of the Warren Commission!

I have read this book & posted my review on Goodreads:- I first became aware of this lost manuscript from a thread on the Education Forum, posted by Rob Couteau, shortly after the release of Bob Dylan's seventeen minute epic entitled 'Murder Most Foul' which quickly reached number one on the U.S. Billboard charts. Jim DiEugenio followed up with his article on Marks' work on the 'Kennedy's & King' website. 'Murder Most Foul! The Conspiracy that Murdered President Kennedy' was self published originally by Stanley J. Marks way back in 1967, and revived by Couteau in November 2020. After over fifty years it remains a powerful broadside against the sham that was the Warren Commission Report. Rob Couteau includes in these three hundred and ninety pages his serendipitous encounter with MMF which he follows with a ninety page essay on the life and works of Marks. It is not until arriving at page one hundred and fifty seven that the reader encounters the 975 questions and answers contained in twelve chapters of the original first edition, which was first published from a photostat copy of the manuscript produced on a typewriter. However, its importance in its time was recognised in 1973 by the JFK Library in Boston who sent a request to the author to purchase a copy of this paperback. Plaudits must go to Rob Couteau for recognising the books importance today. I have also sent a review to DPUK's 'Dealey Plaza Echo', but that may take some time to publish.

Officialdom wonders how a new arrival in Helsinki, a foreigner from the USA, could suddenly get permission to enter the USSR when it normally took a week to do so. Mervyn, According to Alan Dale's recorded interviews on his F.B. page with Greg Parker, CIA had manipulation of Soviet Consul in Helsinki Gregory Golub under CIA Redcap ops.

According to Alan Dale, the figure in the photos has been identified as HH (Snookie) Davis, Office of the District Attorney, Henry Wade.

Well, that's rich coming from CIA officials!

Ha! Long live the Queen to keep us from King Charles III.

Jim, that presentation was so good I've watched it four times already. What struck me was that YouTube piece of Nasser's speech on his dealing with the Muslim Brotherhood. For a Middle East leader delivering that speech with such humour....very much in JFK style too. Yeah, what a mess in Middle East we have today!

Pamela, Just in case you missed this.....I thought it was a very profound eulogy from Fintan O'Toole https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-biden-is-a-kennedy-era-figure-come-back-to-heal-a-wound-that-never-closed-1.4404521?mode=amp&mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fopinion%2Ffintan-o-toole-biden-is-a-kennedy-era-figure-come-back-to-heal-a-wound-that-never-closed-1.4404521

Certainly does. Thanks for your time. I have had SWHT (2010) on order for a while, so looking forward to that, + future instalments of TP. Great work Larry!

I love this Forum! It certainly delivers Education! Many thanks Rob & Jim for this. 'Murder Most Foul' is in the post.

Fintan O'Toole is spot on with what he says of Dylan's 'Rough & Rowdy Ways' + 'Murder Most Foul'. Great article! Cheers Robert.

Larry, My copy of SWHT was obtained at Lancer in 2003 in binder form with accompanying cd. (signed by the author) 😉 I have also read Nexus. Q1. Am I missing info in my copy of SWHT from the 2010 update? Q2. Will Tipping Point contain info not appearing in SWHT & Nexus? (Part1.html has kept me quiet for a few hours & is very detailed) Q3. Will the full text of Tipping Point appear in MF.org?

A Covid-19 vaccine being developed by Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech has been found to be more than 90 per cent effective, in a major breakthrough that could make the shot available for use by the end of the year if drug authorities give it the green light. The finding was the result of the first independent analysis of any Covid-19 vaccine in phase 3 trials — the final stage before commercial licensing. The study found that 94 participants who received the two-dose vaccine were protected against the disease 28 days after their first inoculation.

Joe, I think this was a myth. JFK's visit to Miami began with his arrival at Miami airport & he was to then fly by helicopter to his next appointment at Bal Harbour, only by vehicle if weather was inclement, which it wasn't. He arrived at Miami airport around 17:00. There was a very short distance drive by car later. No motorcade was called off. Unlike Milteer's warning, the threat was a bomb.

In fact Greene did not meet Lansdale until after completing much of the novel. According to Greene, the inspiration for the character of Pyle was Leo Hochstetter,

Not quite, but close. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, responding to the question "Do you think Oswald did it?": "If I told you what I really know, it would be very dangerous to this country. Our whole political system could be disrupted."

Two official versions of "Show Them The Way": an acoustic one and a full recording featuring Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) on guitar and Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) on drums. This song was written by Stevie Nicks in St. Charles, Illinois, in 2008. She told Rolling Stone, "...One night I went to bed and I had this dream. I dream a lot, but I almost never remember the dreams. I'll wake up and I'll go, 'I remember a train with some people smiling and waving at me that went by really fast,' and that's it. This dream was so really real that there was a little bit of me, for a minute, when I sat up was like, 'Did that just really happen?'" "This song really is a prayer. This song is a prayer for people to unite. A prayer for people to get together," Stevie Nicks said in an interview with Associated Press.

Nice one guys! Added to my Spotify library.

That must be the pumpkin left over from Halloween.