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@Jean Ceulemans you speak or read French? Did you mention Betti in another comment? For some reason this story sounds familiar. I’ll google.

@Greg Doudna AND YOU SIT ON IT LIKE A DOG IN THE MANGER ... I’ll leave this here for a few days, Greg, to allow you time to apologize and retract. Shame on you. @Paul Brancato I know you support civil discourse and want this forum to be respected. A bit of self policing might bring researchers back to the discussion, particularly the women ... some of whom have research skills rarely matched on this forum these days.

@Jean Ceulemans I assumed, but wanted to confirm. We speak to that history. it was during those years Filiol came in contact with Otto Skorzeny. Of possible interest, and you likely saw this previously on the thread, Pugibet spent several of his formative years active in the Vichy Youth. One source claims he co-founded a cell.

@W. Niederhut stunning.

@Jean Ceulemans “AF”? Can you clarify? Filiol with one “L” is a significant breakthrough for our investigation. Pierre Lafitte writes the surname with only one “L”. How could he know that if he wasn’t personally acquainted with JPRF?

@Jean Ceulemans apologies for the awkward format of my responses but the “quote” feature isn’t working on my iPad. I’ll respond in sequence to yours. I have one photo captioned as Alice that resembles what one associates with a “mug shot.” Hank Albarelli located another which is clearly a mug shot but it has disappeared from my photo file. I’ve searched for hours and cant find it, but there’s a possibility another of his confidants received it as well. I’ll keep you posted. If you haven’t had an opportunity, under a separate comment I’ll post the excerpt from Coup related to one particularly violent episode attributed to the couple. I am keen to get your informed perspective. (Even in death, one shouldn’t be accused of heinous behavior without credible evidence. Families suffer the stigma for generations.) Have you by chance read Kenneth McCallion’s recent book, “The Marseille Connection”?

@Jean Ceulemans my error entirely. Mea culpa. She was actually older, all the more intriguing perhaps.

@Benjamin Cole“It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.” — Thomas Jefferson I’m actually sorry for whatever circumstances or influences that may have interfered with your reasoning and discernment. adieu.

@Benjamin Cole Mutt and Jeff shops? Did you read the list? Leo just received a $1.6 billion contribution (largest political donation in US history) toward sealing the deal for full control over our the Supreme Court and judicial system. Heritage Foundation pulls in untold sums from the military industrial complex. (Heritage drafted Project 2025 with Trump in mind.) CPAC likewise. Alliance for Defense of Freedom circulates $9 billion through a spiderweb of Christian Nationalist non-profits. The NRA lobby (ILA) which handed Trump $30 million for his 2016 campaign is the largest of its kind in the country pulling in tens and multiple millions and is currently under indictment in NYC. If you’re still listening, I was talking to a lifetime member of the NRA this evening, a retired Boston PI who said he has received the NRA magazine every month since 1975 and he has never seen an article on the Mannlicher Carcano or the assassination of President Kennedy. Let’s demand release of their files ... see what Harlon B. Carter, SW Region Commissioner in 1963 covered up on Nov 22. He soon left INS for an executive role at NRA and by the mid-‘70s he had executed a house coup to restructure the association into the arms industry lobby it is today. Fast forward to 2015: NRA executive trip to Russia, $30,000,000 to Trump, Jan. 6 orchestrated attempt to overthrow the 2020 election..... It’s all there, Ben.

@Paul Brancato I’m convinced that holding the center during the most serious threat to democracy since its founding is our only option. Think of democracy on life support; is that the time to have elective surgery? We do not have the luxury Trump appeasers and apologists suggest here. An RFK Jr. candidacy is only exacerbating the crisis. A silver lining may be that traditional Democrats, including Kennedy Dems have realized our complacency and naïveté — trusting our fellow Americans on the Right loved our Constitution and norms as much as we do — helped enable the rise of Trump. We were caught off guard, assuming the rational thinkers within the GOP would manage their fringe. Turns out this proto-Facism has been smoldering beneath the surface for more than four score. Trump merely lifted the veil.

@Benjamin Cole “nothing happened” Are you serious? Trump tried to topple democracy; normalized despots including Kim Jong Un, Victor Orban, Vladimir Putin; cost tens of thousands of lives during the global panic because of his toxic narcissistic hubris; degraded women, citizens with disabilities, Muslims, Mexicans, Asians, African Americans; told over 20,000 lies over the course of his presidency; separated families; humiliated our country on the global stage; was impeached twice, indicted on 91 counts including endangering national security and inciting insurrection. He tried to overthrow our election and has said on record he would suspend the Constitution ... should I continue? I didn’t say “Biden has no institutional alliances.” You said Trump has no institutional alliances. I provided you a short list to prove otherwise.

@Ron Bulman. I know! First time I saw the film, shivers ran up my spine. I could swear that sequence was filmed in the Palo Duro. I'll have more to say when the White, Shaw, Edwards book, "Admitted Assassin" hits the stands.

@Jean Ceulemans Several questions before I dig into.your references: Am I correct Alice Lamy is not in the photos you've shared here? Do you have her mug shot or shots? Would you conclude she was a "black sheep" of a respected family? Do you concur with reports that she and Filiol engaged in psychopathic rampages involving torture and murder or are those stories apocryphal? Did you notice she married someone 23 years her senior after Filliol? I'll research Hardiviller; the name is not familiar. Did you note that Filliol did a stint with Hatchette press? He seems to have been more sophisticated than one might expect. I'm not able to pursue French records, public or private, to the extent of confirming either of their exact whereabouts the week of November 18; I respect your argument that a general analysis indicates they were likely not in Dallas. Pierre Lafitte indicates otherwise. His notes about them are not sufficient proof, and stand-alone they could be dismissed out of hand I suppose; however, considered in context of Lafitte's known history with Skorzeny and the couple and factoring in the surrounding entries in his '63 datebook (several of which align with independent records including Pugibet checking into the Stoneleigh), we're prepared to state that Lamy and Filliol aling with Gerard Litt were in Dallas on the dates in question. I'll pick up on your observations about Leon Degrelle in another comment. Thanks again for this great report.

@Bill Fite A really interesting document... I think there's a follow up that indicates Pugibet had friends in high places in Mex City and charges were mysteriously dropped.

@Benjamin Cole Trump has the Heritage Foundation (founded by shadow representatives of US largest military contractors), American Conservative Union / CPAC founded by remnants of pro- fascist America First Committee, the NRA whose former president left The YAF and American Conservative Union to head up the NRA and lobby for arms manufacturers, Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society, and the shadowy Alliance for Defense of Freedom lobbying to deny US citizens their rights. I'm leaving out his personal ties to mob-types in NYC and FL --- Alexander Bauer being the most recent of his scandals. So, tell me again, Trump has no institutional allies?

@Sandy Larsen great questions. I thought the original question was related to training, mock sets, sighting in weapons and coordinating teams. You meant reconnaissance. And I've never come across answers to what are to me the most obvious any experienced detective would ask. I've thought about most of yours: I think O. Campbell and his partner should have been asked; if not them, then definitely Truly. We have notes to indicate the rifle(s?)were inside the bldg. by Nov. 20. If the courier of that (or those) weapon, or the pending assassin himself made it inside the building on Wednesday unimpeded, he or they would be recognized on the 22nd and presumed to be back to continue or complete a job. Situation normal. Their exit would have been arranged during the recon on Wednesday. I have a theory about the Dal-Tex as well.

@Greg Doudna Naiveté or deliberate deflection? I'm not talking about "embarassment."

@John Cotter I’m pointing out the burden any administration carries. Trump, in spite of his blathering bluster promising to take down the “deep state” (a misnomer if ever there was one*) backed down. *I’m told that Prof. Peter Dale Scott says among any regrets, introducing that term into the popular lexicon in place of the Military-Industrial Complex, ranks high. Does anyone think Trump would take down the Military-Industrial Complex which employs tens of millions of voters? On the contrary, he poured trillions into it, and increased our debt in the process. He/they are after our institutions and judicial system that safeguard our democracy, full stop.

@Mart Hall I accept both Trump and Biden may have failed to follow the letter of the law, and that case should be heard by the Supreme Court.

@Paul Brancato not to derail the topic, but what worse things. Mike Johnson’s Alliance for the Defense of Freedom. Leonard Leo’s final and complete take over of the Supreme Court? Steve Miller, Bannon and Stone as the acceptable face of the Reich. Liberals aren’t the only Americans who should be very very worried. This isn’t partisanship, this is a battle for OUR Constitution and OUR democratically elected republic. Trump was the Trojan Horse.

@Greg Doudna You have no understanding of policy continuity if you argue the 1960’s aren’t reflected in current geopolitics. 60 years are a blip on the screen of the Great Game. Why haven’t you researched the Kameradenwerke, the Grand Mufti and the Reich, the French Connection, the blowback of Algeria’s war for independence, Ethiopia/Eritrea and the Italians, Ireland’s ‘neutrality’ and the Nazis, NATO and INTERPOL in context of the assassination v. 2017 when Trump failed to deliver. Had Kennedy lived, what would our policies look like today? No doubt you argue his influence would still be apparent on the global stage after just 60 years? Or are you still staring at Cuba and Vietnam?

@Ron Bulman Revisiting Van Horn area of Texas as a possible training site. Col. Jack Canon’s original stomping grounds.

@Joe Bauer thank you. I’ve perched precariously on her shoulders for three decades and still only grasp a 10th of what she revealed to us. Those who were threatened by her intellect and inherent skills did a huge disservice to efforts to turn the country around. And here we are. enjoy and appreciate your insights, always.

@Ron BulmanWhat a journey Mike has in front of him! He’s very fortunate to have an informed tour guide waiting in the wings. Someone who knew Willoughby or a good friend of his contacted Dick R. at the Village Voice with a strange partially coded message. If you have Dick’s first edition, check pg 691/2. If you don’t, let me know and I’ll type it into a comment.

@Michael Griffith Mary H. established — presumably without realizing it — that John Newman and Hank Albarelli knew the same woman, Viola June Cobb. I repeat that it is inexplicable to me she didn’t contact Hank, and I hope to discover the reason if I have an opportunity to speak with her directly. I found this passage in the book intriguing as well, Michael. Numerous photos of Hank’s friend and godmother to his first grandson Dylan, depict her with loose flowing usually shoulder-length light to medium brown hair. I think I’ve seen one photo where her hair is in a French bun, very popular in the late ‘50s early ‘60s. Ella Rometch’s most seductive photo captures the iconic seductress hairstyle of the day as well. I’ve also watched videos of Jerrie Cobb The Pilot and her hair is often pulled back, length well below her shoulders but loose flowing and distinctly blonde — more Oklahoma school girl than international femme fatale. Hair color can be easily manipulated but it takes a lot of training/programming to disguise Jerrie’s diction, speech pattern and uniquely Oklahoman accent. Hank said June worked at perfecting her colloquial speech habits. I don’t detect the same in Jerri’s videos. She appears entirely content and confidant in her own skin. note: both June and Jerrie could have deliberately fashioned a chignon specifically for a particular audience, including Fortuna. Which leads me to the single most important identifier for our purpose: the coincidence both women from Oklahoma were pilots. A pilot’s license can be faked and brandished about, but getting into the cockpit with the intention to take off? No. I recognize Mary H. avoids stating emphatically that “Hank’s June Cobb” (for lack of a more suitable mechanism to distinguish his friend June from Geraldyn Cobb The Pilot) earned her pilot’s license and flew planes, but I refer again to pg. 377 of his book, “A Secret Order” and June’s emphatic statement that she “felt distrust for things mechanical and mathematical” ... primary requisites for piloting a plane. When I reread that quote — positioned opposite a photo of June Cobb, not Jerrie Cobb — I recognized Hank’s innate mischievousness. Scars and hair similarities are non sequiturs; analyzing their body types from a female perspective, Jerrie would have trouble fooling June’s friends; the alleged pilot coincidence should probably be struck from the list; Jerrie did not live significant years in Ponca City; June and Jerrie were on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum; as Fortuna confirms, Jerrie Cobb posing as June, never (to her knowledge) met with Castro. Etc. etc. Hank’s friend June Cobb was not Babushka Lady. If she was the head QJ/WIN, he concealed it to his death. To what end? If Jerrie posing as June was the head QJ/WIN, why would Mary H. essentially airbrush Otto and Ilse Skorzeny from her saga. Of note, if indeed Jerrie Cobb maintained an address in Dallas in 1963, the possibilities expand exponentially considering the “lay of the land” leading up to November 22. All that said, this book should be studied for the deep dives into the cloak and dagger and spy craft on the international stage — far beyond Cuba — that has remained hidden below the radar, and specifically those nickel deals that happen to also serve as further validation of the authenticity of Hank’s primary source material for his final active investigation. I hope someone from the Forum will issue Mary Haverstick an invitation to join this conversation, and please add my name. @Paul Brancato