Calvin Ye
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Oswald is not an lone nut.
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We must be cautious on what to come
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Happy Thanksgiving
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2 hours ago, Joe Bauer said:
Another conundrum mystery to me is the complete dismissal of the E. Howard Hunt's near end-of-life taped confessional story of an LBJ/Cord Meyer orchestrated JFK assassination plan, partially involving Hunt and his fellow covert action team members Frank Sturgis, Marita Lorenz, et al. Code named ... "The Big Event."
Madeline Brown and many other fringe characters who make fantastic claims of guilty parties and nefarious meetings are easy to dismiss simply because of their lowest level societal and government standings.
E. Howard Hunt however was involved in so many major American foreign and domestic secret agency doings at "the highest levels" for decades! This guy knew enough and was highly connected enough to bring down Presidents!
Yet, his fantastic tale of JFK assassination guilty party genesis is never even talked about or debated. One of the most ignored stories of that milieu ever.
Madeline Brown's and Judyth Vary Baker's who-done-it claims get 100 X the coverage and debate engagement?
Even if Hunt made up his LBJ/Cord Meyer Big Event tale and was willing to put it on tape...his decades of highest level positions in so many of our most historically important covert events such as the Bay Of Pigs, Watergate and many others begs one to give any of his comments about these events 100X more serious study and debate interest than fringe characters like Brown, Baker, Posner, etc. IMO anyways.
Joe, according to this article, Hunt may have been using modified limited hangout in his confessional story
http://www.crimemagazine.com/blowing-smoke-grave-e-howard-hunt-and-jfk-assassination
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There was so much more than just his poor leadership in the cuban missile crisis. There is also the fact that Nikita ordered people to plant corn in the Soviet Union because he thought corn was a solution to the livestock problem. He was proven wrong when corns died during rainy and hot seasons, hurting agriculture. This damaged Nikita's reputation as a leader.
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5 hours ago, Jonathan Cohen said:
And it was illegal and diminished the value of the authors' intellectual property. Whose side are you on?
Not all people can afford the expensive books.
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28 minutes ago, Matthew Koch said:
Interesting. The Z-library was handy tool and it saved lots of money
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3 hours ago, Matthew Koch said:
Hi Calvin, What I believe is currently going on with Twitter is a F.U.D. Campaign; Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubtThat is one of the down sides and side effect to having advertisers fund your project. Similar campaigns happen with crypto and conspiracy theories like the JFK assassination.
Operation Mocking Bird used these tacts against the research community by labeling their research "Conspiracy theories" and uses the campaign against the credibility of the person or the conspiracy.
Hi Matthew, thanks for informing me about the existence of F.U.D campaign
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Apparently Twitter is still active today.
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15 minutes ago, Cory Santos said:
That’s odd. I did not hear anything about that. Did a little bird tell you?
I go on Twitter frequently
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Apparently Twitter is shutting down so fast.
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11 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:
Tom:
The last thing that Brandt did was solve the JFK case. Not even close.
https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/brand-review
Jim, I read your assessment and I agree with it. Let me add one more thing: Brandt's book have no citations, appendix and bibliography page. Brandt failing to add citations, appendix and bibliography page seriously damaged the credibility of the book. I noticed that when I read the book multiple times.
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8 hours ago, Cory Santos said:
Do you think Oswald had anything to do with Powers being shot down?
Some researchers like Mae Brussell and Alan Weberman believe that Oswald gave secret information to Soviet Union on behalf of CIA so the Soviets could shot down Powers' plane
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Apparently, the e-book website Z-library is recently taken down by the US government. This useful website Z-library is gone forever
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On 11/2/2022 at 5:45 AM, Michael Griffith said:
First, let me quote what a former Viet Cong colonel, Pham Xuan An, had to say about the North Vietnamese Communists and Communist Vietnam decades after the war, and then I’ll discuss more problems with McNamara’s “secret debrief.” Colonel Pham Xuan An:
All that talk about “liberation” twenty, thirty, forty years ago, all the plotting, and all the bodies, produced this, this impoverished, broken-down country led by a gang of cruel and paternalistic half-educated theorists. (Lewis Sorley, Review of A. J. Langguth, Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975, Simon & Schuster, 2000, in Parameters: U.S. Army War College Quarterly, Autumn 2001, p. 169)
In addition to the strong evidence that JFK had no intention of abandoning South Vietnam regardless of the consequences, I see other problems with the claim in McNamara’s “secret debrief.” For example, why didn’t McNamara repeat the claim in his memoir? If JFK had truly told him he was going to withdraw even if it caused South Vietnam to fall to the Communists, you’d think that McNamara would have mentioned this monumental revelation in his memoir. But he says nothing about it therein, not even in the segment (in the appendix) where he argues that JFK planned on withdrawing all of our troops by the end of 1965 (In Retrospect, p. 399). You'd think that he would have mentioned JFK's alleged statement to bolster his argument.
Not only is there no mention of McNamara’s doubtful claim in his own memoir, but his ideological soul mate and primary deputy, John McNaughton, said nothing about the claim in his diary. In fact, not a single one of McNamara’s devoted “whiz kids” ever mentioned hearing McNamara claim that JFK had told him he was going to withdraw regardless of the consequences.
There is also the fact that there is no trace of any evidence that McNamara ever raised this issue with LBJ or with LBJ’s advisers. You would think that if JFK had truly said to McNamara what McNamara claimed he said, McNamara would have at least once argued, “Hey, JFK told me he intended to pull out even if South Vietnam was ‘going to be defeated.’ So how can we abandon that policy? Shouldn’t his former vice president honor that policy?”
Certainly one would expect that during McNamara’s famous/infamous recorded phone call with LBJ when LBJ criticized JFK and McNamara for having announced the 1,000-man withdrawal, McNamara would have replied, “Hey, look here. JFK told me that he was going to withdraw from South Vietnam no matter what. He didn’t just want to withdraw 1,000 troops. He wanted to withdraw all the troops, no matter what happened to South Vietnam after that.”
Of course, JFK was much closer to Bobby than he was to McNamara, and Bobby clearly knew nothing about any intention to abandon South Vietnam regardless of the consequences. In fact, Bobby denied there was any such plan in his April 1964 oral interview. The idea that JFK made such a crucially important statement to McNamara but never told Bobby is simply not credible.
The problem is that so many of my fellow conspiracy theorists have created this huge myth that JFK was killed because he was going to abandon South Vietnam no matter what. This was one of the key claims in Stone's 1991 movie, and, sadly, it is repeated in Stone's recent documentaries. It is hard to retract a major claim that you've made for decades, but if you care about the facts and about accurately portraying JFK's views and legacy, it must be done.
I disagree with you. You need to understand that some people will always left out crucial information in memoirs to avoid potential consequences to retaliation in order to save face and reputation.
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On 11/2/2022 at 2:42 PM, Michael Griffith said:
Really? What sources do you have to support that claim? Which plotters are you talking about?
My sources are the book The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, The Strength of the Wolf, Kennedy's anti-drug speech, Defrauding America, Dr. Feelgood: The Shocking Story of the Doctor Who May Have Changed History by Treating and Drugging JFK, Marilyn, Elvis, and Other Prominent Figures, Gary Underhill's comments, Why The CIA Killed JFK and Malcolm X: The Secret Drug Trade in Laos and Drug War: Covert Money, Power and Policy. I am talking about CIA and Military Plotters
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Someone need to read Ruth Paine's body language
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On 10/29/2022 at 7:29 AM, Tom Gram said:
Brandt was claiming he “solved” the JFK case this past Spring at a book signing event for a different author and said that new evidence would be revealed in this book. I think I’m going to read it. Brandt has been a family friend of my girlfriend for years so I can ask him questions, and I’m sure I’ll have plenty after reading how he supposedly solved the case singlehandedly…
I think that Brandt’s book might get some new people interested in the case, which is a good thing especially if just one of those people starts digging into the primary sources, but I’m pretty damn skeptical about this “new evidence”. If anyone has any JFK related questions for Brandt let me know and I’ll try to pass them along.
Hello Tom, I read Brandt's new book already
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12 hours ago, Michael Griffith said:
These facts must be included when we consider the theory that JFK's Vietnam policy was a major reason he was killed. What if someone proposed that another major reason that JFK was killed was that he was in the process of expanding the welfare state? Most people would say, "Well, wait a minute. Johnson expanded the welfare state far more than JFK had ever proposed. If LBJ knew of the assassination plot and approved of it, wouldn't the conspirators have demanded that he reduce or stop his welfare-state expansion? The only two alternatives are that (1) the conspirators were not powerful enough to persuade LBJ to do as they wished, or (2) most of the conspirators did not view the size of the welfare state as a reason to kill JFK."
LBJ's horrible mishandling of the Vietnam War and the Joint Chiefs' feckless conduct under LBJ suggest that few if any top-level military officials were involved in the assassination plot. It is hard to fathom that any of the Joint Chiefs or the Vice Chiefs were involved in the plot, given the sheepish way they behaved while LBJ was sabotaging the war effort. Their feckless conduct is one of the main subjects of H. R. McMaster's award-winning book Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam.
The welfare state have nothing to do with the death of JFK. It was the changes to the foreign policy along with certain executive actions that play an role in the president's death
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1 hour ago, Gene Kelly said:
And William Colby is later murdered in 1996 (15 years later) ... hard to believe that it was an accidental drowning. He was fired by Ford in 1976 and replaced by George Bush 9for one year). Colby's courage and revelations actually saved the Agency:
His son said the following:
He took on the toughest, dirtiest assignments that the White House could throw at him, and then they used him up and hung him out to dry. He was the reformer who saved the C.I.A. from itself. The price he paid was becoming the sacrificial lamb. Somebody had to take the fall. I think he took on the whole mess and was in turn consumed by the flames. It was like he purged himself of all the guilt and then walked away and re-invented himself just like phoenix rising from the ashes.
He was killed because he knew too much about the Nebraska sex scandal and inspired his friend to write an book covering the scandal
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26 minutes ago, Paul Brancato said:
What a weird story. It went no where, and there was no attempted assassination. But the two names together - well, it’s a message of some sort, probably to Carter and other Democrats, a death threat.
CIA was obviously behind it. The reason why they would go that far because Carter's CIA director fired mass number of employees during his time as director in the CIA
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On 9/28/2022 at 6:21 PM, Ron Bulman said:
American University Peace speech.
Limited Test Ban Treaty.
Using what he thought were back channel/secret methods to seek peace-rapprochement-dente with Khrushchev and Castro.
Pissing off the corporate owners and boards of the steel industry.
Pissing off the Federal Reserve by printing US backed money (which stopped with his death).
Refusing to commit troops to Laos.
Letting it be known beyond NSAM 263 through his demands of Mc Namara for an accelerated withdrawal plan for Vietnam as well as other actions in this vein (sending Galbraith to Vietnam, telling "confidants" of his intention to get out after the 1964 election).
You forgot two things. Let add me them for you:
Proposed the idea of Soviet-American space cooperation
Anti-drug trade speech in 1962
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JFK's Vietnam Policy is a major motive of the plotters for one reason: drug trade. Drug Trade was profitable business in Vietnam at the time
Can Oswald's denials be reconciled with the Lone Nut position?
in JFK Assassination Debate
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Pete, declassified documents revealed that Jolly West was only there to continued the MKULTRA experiments.
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/dec/19/mkruby/