Leslie Sharp

Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett: Francis Kernan, White Weld, United Fruit, JA Ranch. An atty. with STB was counsel to Youth House. https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/22/obituaries/whitney-north-seymour-sr-led-bar-group.html Does Western Tube interlock with Lionel?

Kennedy, the Catholic Papist held similar overtones in 1963 as Efron The Jew, and to pretend otherwise shows a lack of intellectual honesty.

to quote Albarelli, YUP! (Eastland) Sweetwater, Clint Murchison along with the Wynne dynasty and Trammell Crow ... father of Harlan Crow who is the big daddy of the NO LABELS movement that is playing a role in the likelihood Trump will seize the WH in 2024. Continuity of the Coup. PS other potential significance: North Sea / Hughes' Glomar / and Texas Gulph Sulphur. Former Gov. Allan Shivers was a long-term director of TGS; McInerney and Sons in the Republic of Ireland served as local/political/business conduit for their operations. McInerney held the contract to build the first runway at Shannon Airport; Hank and Ganis suspected that Otto Skorzeny later played a role in Shannon construction. (McInerney's were godparents to several of my in-laws. "you can't make this stuff up" regardless of how Santos-ish it must sound to some. 🙂 )

Great material, @Robert Montenegro I had forgotten Dalzell's Radio Swan connection. A fella on FB years ago published an extensive body of research into Radio Caroline. We might should dig that out as well and see if there is crossover; it linked to Gordon McLendon, and to a small town in Texas (where my mother was born!) 🙂

@Ed Berger

Take your issue up with the US Copyright office. Prove your allegation the Lafitte datebook is a fake, please; otherwise, you might be cautious with public allegations.

I think I featured Dr. von Arx in an EF Thread. I'll find the title. Cord Meyer Development Co. as far as I recall. I'll track down my file. Agree, "development" suggests "cover" although I think he made a serious fortune in construction. Tks for link to NYT.

What does one have to do with the other?

In 1962, when President Kennedy was struggling to bring the CIA hawks in Thailand under control, his brother, the attorney-general, belatedly returned an indictment against Willis Bird, who has never returned to this country to stand trial. Did not know this. (We were discussing Sea Supply last night, and whether it was the airline that Dulles et al were entirely comfortable traveling under.) This is significant confirmation that WCC was in the drugs and arms business from the outset! Have you come across Dr. Werner von Arx earlier than the Permindex document in the late 1960s? (as a purely side note, another developer construction company of that era was Cord Meyer Sr. who cofounded CAP)

Presumably the full text is with the owner /estate of Lafitte.

Not on a fake Lafitte datebook thread, Michael.

I think I shared the TIME Magazine article on another thread recently or perhaps earlier on this one. It's one of the more flagrant puff pieces on the enigmatic Lafitte, published just eight months after Shaw was acquitted with no mention of their history; Lafitte was the lead Chef at the Plimsoll Club housed in Shaw's new ITM building at the time he was picked up by the Feds for a seven year old indictment. You really can't make this up. Notice Anthony Frewin's appearance here? I encourage you to read the essay, Clay Shaw, Pierre Lafitte, and Two Degrees of Separation . . . posted on an independent thread under that title. That essay was in prelim draft when I first met Hank; I had no idea he knew Frewin.

Hi Michael, I hope you will follow the updates and most recent deliberations on the original thread: Pierre Lafitte Datebook, 1963. It's my understanding from Alan, as recently as last evening in fact, that he has no plans to spend time and energy on this forum on this issue. Perhaps he will change his mind at some point, but the authentication process has been my responsibility since Hank left us.

Trust me, don't mess with Tridentine traditionalists, especially those who dabble in the occult. 😞

@Matthew Koch I bet that's why RFK Jr turned your stupid datebook down because his father worked for the guy that your CID book claims radicalized Donald Trump!! Matthew, Robert Montenegro has nothing to do with the Lafitte datebook, nor our M/s of Coup in Dallas or its subsequent publication November 19, 2021. Please, do elaborate on RFK Jr. turning down the datebook. What is your basis for that declarative statement? For the record, which you seem utterly oblivious of, RFK Jr. left McCarthy's staff BECAUSE of Roy Cohn, Trump's future business and political mentor. Years later, on November 22, Robert Kennedy was in a luncheon meeting with Morgenthau to discuss the pending indictment of Roy Cohn when he received Hoover's call. Why don't you get your facts straight.

Agree.

That makes absolutely no sense, Jonathan. Evan is describing individuals who have admitted their role in the crime but he is protecting their identities.

I'll be surprised if it's Epshteyn. I think he's still on payroll.

Hear! Hear! Did you note that Overstock CEO Byrne (the guy in the infamous December Oval Office meet) has contributed significantly to his campaign, as has Timothy Mellon, Paul Mellon's son?

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We aren't saying that Lafitte referenced Askins as "Boots." He did not. Once we identified Lafitte was referencing skilled marksman Charles Askins who had been posted at the American Embassy in Madrid (at the same time as CIA officer Al Ulmer) when Skorzeny and Ilse "set up shop" in the Spanish capitol with the blessing of Franco himself, the nickname "Boots" surfaced repeatedly in credible source material. There is at least one document from the early '50s that indicates Askins' superiors were inquiring about the Skorzenys' activities. Holding names close that were given you in confidence is admirable; in a murder investigation is that sufficient justification for protecting the identify of suspects?

Is that "Al S m I t h"?

I believe both O'Neill and Morley have notes from White's diaries as well although they weren't focused on Lafitte. It might be worthwhile to ask about the affidavit. O'Neill did uncover that Ilse Skorzeny had been in California.

Right. Hank had access to a portion of the memoir that Rene had hoped would one day be published. Hank made at least two, possibly three trips to CA to study the White diaries. I believe both Tom O'Neill and Jeff Morley have reviewed the diaries as well. White probably provided the deepest insight into Lafitte of any of Hank's sources.