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Rep. Stacy Plaskett: “Many of my Republican colleagues across the dais will rush to cover that they have Mr. Kennedy here because they want to protect his free speech,” said Plaskett, a former attorney. “This is not the kind of free speech that I know of.” She called Kennedy out for his previous racist and antisemitic comments, saying, “Free speech is not an absolute. The Supreme Court has stated that. And others’ free speech that is allowed—hateful, abusive rhetoric—does not need to be promoted in the halls of the people’s house.” . . . “These folks have a plan,” Plaskett said of Republicans. “They want to give expression to the most vile sorts of speech here in this committee room because it prepares the ground for their own conspiracy theories and pseudoscience.” “And they apparently don’t care how many people are hurt or die as a consequence of their actions.… Because nothing, nothing is more important to them than power.” —New Republic. and this clip from the hearings:

An addendum to: RETURNING TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME J. Gary Shaw reminded me of the name of the Dallas City Manager as referenced in the above post. CM996 as revealed in Pierre Lafitte's datebook. Just read some of your posts. Don’t forget that City Mgr. went to work for Howard Corp. soon after assassination. Elgin Crull. He was over all city depts. incl. police…. and hired Curry. He left town on 23rd. but came back after R shot O. For those who might not recognize the significance that Elgin Crull — Dallas City Mgr overall responsible for the DPD police in November — joined the Howard Corp. soon after the assassination, we spell out in Coup the role this black hole of revenue flow inside the Republic National Bank of Dallas played in machinations leading to the assassination. The ties extend from Howard Corp's Algur Meadows, board member of RNB, to his original oil field strikes in West Texas after which the commodities phrase West Texas Crude is named, all the way to Otto Skorzeny and his fascist cabal in Madrid Spain and Co. Kildare Ireland. (Keep in mind that the North Sea /Hughes / Glomar op involved Texas Gulf Sulphur whose senior board member was the former gov. of Texas, Allan Shivers who despised Kennedy to the extent he left Texas as President Kennedy arrived, and represented Murchison et al in the Texas Tidelands Case.) More on Howard Corp. soon because the other critical tie is to Parkland Hospital. For now, keep Dallas City Mgr. Elgin Crull in mind as we pursue the significance of his contact information appearing in the same Lafitte db entry with Jack Crichton.

I'm confident we've gathered sufficient research to resume building a criminal case from the ground up and specific to the actual crime in Dallas. So, hopefully this thread along with the thread Getting down to the nuts and bolts . . . and the question of Cubans in direct capacities, can be reserved for deliberations over the specifics of Albarelli's investigation and the Lafitte datebook. (Caveat)Those who judge the datebook to be a fraud or a hoax — without having actually seen the physical instrument but who bought into Greg Doudna's early "professional analysis" issued on this forum just days after Coup was published — probably shouldn't waste their time on this thread. Those who continue to question the authenticity of the datebook, I hope your skepticism can be expressed elsewhere. Which leaves two camps: those who know the datebook is authentic, and those on the fence but willing to participate in a hypothetical exercise, 'what if the datebook is authentic, then where do we go from here?' *** RETURNING TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME "ah, Dallas. Lay of the Land. Lay of the Land" — Rene Lafitte "oil smoothes the way for sudden and sometimes deadly change" — Rene Lafitte Now that we've established that James Angleton and Otto Skorzeny had a basis from which to move forward, together, on Project Lancelot, it's important to repeat the following to position Pierre Lafitte in context: . . . When he first met Borghese, Angleton was a painfully thin, well-schooled, aspiring poet whose androgynous qualities seemed to anticipate David Bowie. While Borghese was shrewd and finely attuned to wartime reality, Angleton was a neophyte to war and world counterintelligence. In time however, Angleton would become well-known as the long-time head of CIA Counterintelligence, moving beneath the protective umbrella of his patron Allen Dulles, and involve himself in the early 1950s CIA-sanctioned MKULTRA experiments that brought him into contact with Federal Bureau of Narcotics ‘special employee’ Pierre Lafitte.” *** We move now to Otto Skorzeny's business history with Louisiana native Jack Alston Crichton who in 1963 was running for Republican candidate for governor against the incumbent, Gov. John Connally. Crichton had been pivotal to the success of the 1952 Algur Meadows - Otto Skorzeny oil scheme sanctioned in Madrid by Spain's dictator Francisco Franco. (For those unfamiliar, Algur H. Meadows was founder of General American Oil based in the Meadows Building located off Central Expressway, Dallas. We encounter the Meadows Bldg. later in the investigation.) A decade after the Madrid operation which some have recently speculated could not have been focused on drilling for oil in Spain, but was likely an op to establish a foothold in North Africa — Jack Crichton, whose 488th Military Intel unit was founded for the purpose of protecting the foreign interests of US petroleum companies and specifically independent oilmen in Texas, was called in to serve a role in Angleton and Skorzeny's Lancelot Project. On November 11, Lafitte makes a note in pencil, — Terry says call = 7436 Kenshire Dallas — J. Crichton Call Capt. CM996 Terry: We had only one candidate for "Terry", and he remains a longshot. The head of Arabian American Oil Co. (ARAMCO) was James Terry Duce. Not long after the assassination, Jack Crichton advanced his own oil interests in the region under the name Arabian Shield Development, perhaps with the assistance of a friend, Terry Duce? 7436 Kenshire: The 1963 Dallas phone book confirms the Kenshire address as that of Jack Crichton. (Respected researcher William Kelly contested the block number on Kenshire, insisting Crichton's address was five digits, but I've since provided him with the phone book to confirm 7436. I've driven around the Kenshire cul-de-sac on several trips to North Dallas and have photos of the former Crichton house for anyone interested.) Capt. CM996: Researcher / author J. Gary Shaw identified this coincides with contact info. for the Dallas city manager in 1963. to be continued . . .

Gracias, mi amigo.

I'll wait to respond after we hear from Monté.

An addendum to: RETURNING TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME J. Gary Shaw reminded me of the name of the Dallas City Manager as referenced in the above post. CM996 as revealed in Pierre Lafitte's datebook. Just read some of your posts. Don’t forget that City Mgr. went to work for Howard Corp. soon after assassination. Elgin Crull. He was over all city depts. incl. police…. and hired Curry. He left town on 23rd. but came back after R shot O. For those who might not recognize the significance that Elgin Crull — Dallas City Mgr overall responsible for the DPD police in November — joined the Howard Corp. soon after the assassination, we spell out in Coup the role this black hole of revenue flow inside the Republic National Bank of Dallas played in machinations leading to the assassination. The ties extend from Howard Corp's Algur Meadows, board member of RNB, to his original oil field strikes in West Texas after which the commodities phrase West Texas Crude is named, all the way to Otto Skorzeny and his fascist cabal in Madrid Spain and Co. Kildare Ireland. (Keep in mind that the North Sea /Hughes / Glomar op involved Texas Gulf Sulphur whose senior board member was the former gov. of Texas, Allan Shivers who despised Kennedy to the extent he left Texas as President Kennedy arrived, and represented Murchison et al in the Texas Tidelands Case.) More on Howard Corp. soon because the other critical tie is to Parkland Hospital. For now, keep Dallas City Mgr. Elgin Crull in mind as we pursue the significance of his contact information appearing in the same Lafitte db entry with Jack Crichton.

@W. Niederhut. After I met Albarelli, I did the requisite due diligence to find he too had been interviewed (possibly on more than one occasion) on RT. I decided I could live with that, with a wait and see attitude. When we discussed it in earnest, he had a similar argument as did Prouty: any platform is better than none. I'm not sure I even fault RFK Jr. for going on Fox so frequently, other than I feel like he's being batted around like a shuttlecock and it's his apparent obliviousness to the fact he's being used that is more disturbing than his being used! if that makes sense. At some point, I'll share the significance of the Liberty Lobby to the assassination investigation as presented in Coup. I hope you'll consider the research with an open mind.

My argument is that Tucker Carlson didn't give Andrew Tate a platform in defense of "free speech." He promoted a vile sadistic misogynist. And in doing so, he / they are automatically associated with Carlson's alleged noble, patriotic courage to discuss the JFK assassination Records Act when no one else would. In the minds of million who already doubt there was a conspiracy, and I'm speaking first hand from the blowback I've received from family and friends, the charge is: "See?! These are the crazies we've been telling you about all along!" I can take the slings and arrows from the outside, but this collective self-inflicted injury is a mark of psychological dis-ease, imv.

@Paul Brancato @Robert Montenegro @Greg DoudnaPS. Please read the post related to the relevance of OIL in Hank's investigation, beginning with Rene Lafitte's own words. I would think @Greg Doudna above all would find common ground in this aspect of Hank's investigation. For the record, Hank recognized my knowledge of the socio-political-economic dynamics of Dallas via my contributions to Morley's jfkfacts.org years ago. Apparently he stored them away for the appropriate serendipitous time. Monté's research has not touched on Algur Meadows, Robert Storey, Col. Lawrence Orlov, et al with shared international petroleum concerns ... or the metaphorical glue that binds — Oil. Nor have these government documents provided any semblance of courtroom evidence. On the other hand, Lafitte's volatile notes — such as tech building — phone booth/bridge. O says turn them — most certainly do.

@Paul Brancato and copy @Robert Montenegro @Greg Doudna You knew Hank better than anyone, and put your lifeblood into getting his work published, and continue to delve into the clues in the diaries Paul, I began my study of the assassination twenty plus years prior to Hank contacting me to co-author this book, so I take umbrage at the suggestion I've only put my lifeblood into "getting his work published." It was a collaborative effort, and I happened to be the one he designated to bring the Albarelli, Sharp, Kent book across the finish line. So I understand how very important this is to you, how you feel attacked when someone has questions. Can you let the questions exist without viewing them as a salvo in a turf war for truth? If I appear defensive, it is not because I "feel attacked" personally. This is a question of professional pragmatism, and yes, as I've shared with Robert repeatedly, I have great difficulty understanding anyone who uses the datebook as a springboard for research and then develops a confirmation-biased hypothesis outside what the datebook actually reveals. I think that is NOT effective research assuming one is intent on solving the crime. Were this case to end up in a Dallas court, are you suggesting the DA might have indicted thousands let alone hundreds? Filling the balloon to burst is going to damage this significant contribution to the shared effort of solving the cold case murder investigation. I will continue to challenge anyone's attempt to distort Hank's investigation to suit an agenda, benign or otherwise. What I would like to see is research contributions building from the ground up, using the datebook as a solid foundation, not working from the rooftop with no scaffolding.

@W. Niederhut You're probably aware Hungarian-American Sebastian Gorka, one time Trump advisor, was advisor to Orbán. A frequent guest on the podcast Sebastian Gorka's AMERICA FIRST is Jack Posobiec, which might explain the pushback you're receiving here. Has anyone actually watched the 6 min. clip attached to Carlson's 2-hour interview with Tate? Tate is a maniacal sadistic misogynist and Carlson sits wide eyed as he lies and lies and lies. The JFK assassination research community is damaged by any association whatsoever with this milieu of pathetic yet dangerous miscreants.

Thank you, @Ed Berger And, I don't want to hi-jack Monté's work on Imfeld, but considering Permindex surfaces in both studies, and the Lafitte datebook entries relating to Dalzell and to the desert, and to Eritrea and to Crichton, we may encounter a significant convergence of research here. I'll respond to a section of one of your recent posts on the in a recent thread on the 488th intelligence unit, and then if Monté requests, we can take the discussion back to your thread. The other was a dominant stake in the Yemen Development Corporation. Crichton was president of this company too, and its chairman was George E. Allen (who was also over at Floyd Odlum's Atlas Corporation, which is its own infinite can of worms, leading directly to things like the World Commerce Corporation). The Yemen Development Corporation was set up to carry out oil exploration in the Kingdom of Yemen, which at that time was shaping up to be a major geopolitical pivot point (and for the British, something that appeared as the last stand in their waning empire). But it had a covert side: the State Department and the CIA were the forces behind Yemen Development, with the mandate of the company being an effort to obtain a foothold in the region ahead of the Soviets. You're one of the few in recent years to take an interest in Allen, Odlum, and Atlas Corporation, so thanks for reigniting this research. The connection to World Commerce is 'huge.' I believe we may be in the process of establishing without doubt that Permindex was, as noted in Coup in Dallas, the god-child of WCC, or perhaps more accurately said, the next iteration of a model that likely originated with SOFINDUS in Latin America and Spain, or perhaps as far back as the British East India Co./ Hudson Bay, or even further back to the Hanseatic League? Speculation aside, and I'm going to jump ahead two decades so I hope you'll indulge and understand why in a moment: you're likely aware that Dallas independent oilman H. L. Hunt entered into a deal with North Yemen in 1981 and inching his way offshore in the Red Sea. (aside: I went to work for the Hunt family the year prior. The Dallas hotel was full of brass that required polishing; our "brass polishers" were Ethiopian immigrants.) This is relevant to your thread because the summer of 1963, Jack Crichton joined the board of H. L.'s Hunt "Foundation." Crichton was in Romania later that fall, several weeks prior to the assassination on a friendly mission along with (I believe) five other oil experts — all of whom worked for Rockefeller's Standard operations. Crichton was the only "independent" on the trip; this may advance your hypothesis, "foothold in advance of . . . " Whether it is documented, or rumor, Frank Wisner was carrying on an affair with Princess Cadja of Romania at the time. Wisner appears in the Lafitte record on two dates in 1963. Of possible relevance, FBI Bardwell Odum's brothers - one a minister and the other with the State Department - both had histories in Russia. Again, I'll expand further if it seems important to this exercise. Yemen Development ended up being a very troubled venture, to say the least. An August 1957 CIA memorandum makes reference to Yemen Development in the context of operations in the region, while a CIA document from November of the same year shows that they were hunting for buyers for the company, while few were interested in picking it up due to costs. Ultimately, it went bust, as did a follow-up effort under the auspices of the American Overseas Investment Corporation, but a successor company stepped in 1961—the John Mecom Company (details of this are in numerous petroleum journals from the period, such as volume 33 of Petroleum Engineer, 1961). As you note, Mecom's company was a CIA front, cloaked under an umbrella of Continental Oil whose board included former Sec. Army Frank Pace* who shared a small investment board (Nation-Wide Securities) intermittently with Allen Dulles, Maxwell Taylor, and Ret. Navy Admiral Robert B. Barney, the chairman of Bath Iron Works. The threads in this particular tapestry constitute the Military-Industrial Complex writ large, or, as some are figuring out, a fascist government by definition — corporations controlling government — shielded by the America flag. *Pace was CEO of General Dynamics and I think you'll recognize the overlap with Atlas board members. Pace would have been privy to the F-111 scandal involving Bobby Baker. Lafitte records Baker's visit to New Orleans along with Carol Tyler and Ellen Rometsch in May 1963; one of Marcello's front-men in the restaurant business, Nick Popich played host. Popich and Dalzell, as noted in another post, were working to secure Red Sea drilling rights. So I find it interesting: we have Crichton, starting in 1955, running an Empire Trust holding, the Yemen Development Corporation, which was actually part of a CIA-effort to route around the Soviets in Yemen by obtaining oil concessions there. Then, when have Crichton, at the very least, using the name of a military intelligence unit, the 488th, that appears to have been monitoring Soviet oil activities. Maybe there's something here? If I can interject, just three years prior, Crichton of Empire Trust — with his established credential from deGolyer-MacNaughton — was a pivotal component of the [Algur H.] Meadows—[Otto] Skorzeny oil scheme based in the capitol of Franco's fascist Spain, Madrid. At the time, Otto and Ilse Skorzeny were also immersed with Frank Ryan's World Commerce Corp. Al Meadows provided a venue for at least one meeting during 1963 related to the plot to kill the president in his beloved Dallas. Crichton, "Algur" Meadows, Otto and Ilse Skorzeny appear in the Lafitte datebook, as does "Ilya" as in Mamantov who Crichton seconded to translate for Marina the afternoon of Nov. 22. More on that incident in another thread. As one final dangling thread, we have one of Guy Bannister's associates, William Dalzell, turning up in spring of 1960 acting as an agent of Yemen—traveling to "make contacts with representatives of oil companies to market" Yemen oil concessions. There's actually a reference to Crichton and the Yemen Development Corporation within Dalzell's FBI file, but the scan is very bad and the Mary Ferrell search isn't tracking it down at the moment. I'll post it when I can find it. But the FBI also inquired with the John Mecom Company about Dalzell; the company's W. Angie Smith said that Dalzell sounded "vaguely familiar". Mecom denied any knowledge of Dalzell, however. There's a directly link from Mecom to Continental Oil to (?) McKeown related to a request to import or export coffee making machine to Cuba or some strange tale. (If it is determined this is significant, I'll track down the story - which I'm sure you're your familiar with.) It is significant here because McKeown is identified with Thomas Eli Davis AND Jack Ruby in the saga, both of whom are identified in the Pierre Lafitte datebook for 1963. Apologies for digressing, but this may well be significant because Davis was traveling in North Africa in late 1963. We'll see where this might lead.

@Ron Bulman, have you ever come across the exact address of Joannides' purported living arrangements in New Orleans?

@Robert Montenegro @Greg Doudna . . . and we know so little about people like, Dalzell, Wilson-Hudson, & Lafitte. Respectfully, I have to take exception with this statement. If you mean "we" document hounds have yet to identify government records to implicate them in the plot to kill Kennedy, I would agree. But to assert wholesale that "we know so little about them," is rather insulting and fails to take into account the information we have accumulated by simply following the datebook entries to the letter. For example, we have letters from Dalzell (an oil field worker by trade) to a woman he conned out of her life savings, one of which is written from his mother's home "out west" just after the assassination waxing lyrical about what a tragic loss for the nation. It's reasonable to suspect Dalzell was laying tracks of some kind, not dissimilar to Tom Davis's arrest in Tangier. We have documents to confirm that Dalzell (who worked briefly in Odessa Texas for a young oil entrepreneur, GHW Bush) and New Orleans raconteur Nick Popich had been in business together for years, including gun running, as well as the scheme to land oil drilling rights near the Red Sea. This effort aligns with Lafitte's reference to activity "in the desert" in Eritrea with Tom Proctor and Mitch WerBell. SDECE Philippe de Vosjoli is seen in the shadows. None of this is tied to a US Military Operation by definition. We know that John Wilson-Hudson founded the equivalent of "America First Committee" in Chile; we know he married into the Bronfman-Weinstein family and that the family's christian names align with those of the Edgar Bronfman dynasty. Jack Crichton, engaged in the Skorzeny-Meadows oil scheme based in Madrid, was in charge of Bronfman's oil interests under the umbrella of Empire Trust,* Further genealogical research is underway as we speak to determine if Wilson-Hudson's "wife — British Embassy" mentioned in the Lafitte datebook was an Edgar Bronfman relative. We know that JW-H appears in the Lafitte datebook on the same day, with a near image phrase as found in Jack Ruby's notes. This is NOT indication of a military operation. *on the board of Empire Trust at the time was Lewis Douglas (brother in law of John Jay McCloy) who was also a longtime board member of Phelps Dodge which purchased the shares of the d'Autremont mining interests in Arizona. Cicely d'Autremont Angleton enjoyed a personal friendship with Rene (Mrs. Pierre) Lafitte. We know that Nick Popich was on the periphery of the Ellen Rometsch operation run by James Angleton, Otto Skorzeny, Ilse Skorzeny, and Pierre Lafitte as point man; and we are on the verge of confirming that Pierre Lafitte was a sous chef in one of Popich/Marcello's French Quarter restaurants in early 1960s. Again, it was Popich who entertained Baker/Tyler/Rometsch/Aguirre in New Orleans in May 1963, and it was Lafitte who arranged acting classes for Ella R. and passports for her sudden departure following interviews by the FBI. None of the aforementioned leads us to conclude that an official military / intel structure held these entities together in the lead up to the assassination in Dallas. We can say, however, that OIL smoothes the way for sudden and sometimes deadly change. And, for the record, Hank knew enough about Pierre Lafitte to fill another book.

@Greg Doudna Perhaps if you had read Coup in Dallas you would know more about Pierre Lafitte than you've tossed out in this vacuous "just a friendly curiousity" comment. As I recall, instead of reading the record of Albarelli's investigation, beginning with his introduction in the Front Matter of Coup which spells out in detail the circumstances of his coming into possession of certain of Lafitte's private records, you set about to ridicule the co-author's statement on provenance and authenticity of Hank's primary source material — a physical instrument you never laid eyes on. Now, here you are, weighing in on a thread related to a Nazi intel agent who sat on the board of Permindex — a deliberate attempt to distract from the essence of Monté's research? — and instead of pursuing discussion about Imfeld, you ask someone who is not authorized to speak on behalf of Albarelli's Coup in Dallas about a datebook you disparaged under the cloak of academic professionalism within ten days of publication of Coup. At the risk of being accused of paranoia, I'm going to ask, what's up, Mr. Doudna? Are you hovering over the datebook and Coup in Dallas for a reason? For more on Lafitte, read Albarelli's breakthrough investigation: A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments and come back with more than idle "friendly" curiosity. btw, the TIME magazine was a puff piece, and arguably a cover story to get Lafitte out of New Orleans post the Garrison investigation into Clay Shaw. Any TIME reporter worth their salt would have dug a little deeper to find Lafitte's history with James Phelan who together with Pierre published a popular series of accounts of the latter's escapades in Las Vegas. From there, said reporter would /or should have known that Phelan had written a "puff piece" on the new NOLA DA Garrison back in 1963, only to join Garrison's team investigating Shaw several years later . . . only to break into the DA's office with the help of his sidekick Pierre Lafitte. @Robert Montenegro and apologies to our host for the diversion. Back to Imfeld!

I do wonder why anyone continues to pursue the research unless the endgame is to identify who killed JFK. Can you elaborate on the "questionable veracity" of the datebook? On what do you base that accusation?

You're saying the crime would be solved if we prove Oswald didn't kill Kennedy? This skirts on the absurd, @Jonathan Cohen. Unless I'm mistaken, you and I had this same exchange months ago?

You've provided an opening for me to shared the history of Albarelli's communication with Morley related to the datebook; and Morley's subsequent 'viewing' of the physical instrument at my invitation. But I think you're driving at something else entirely? I stand by my argument that Prayer Man captured the imagination of many who might have been inclined to determine who, precisely, killed JFK, but any shiny object . . . Don't you agree there was sufficient evidence Oswald was NOT the killer of the president WITHOUT evidence he was standing outside?

On the preference for the simplest answer, I think the simplest answer to the murder is right under our nose. Kennedy was not only threatening the CIA/war machine's long term plans for the world, he was threatening their very existence. If he got a second term it's likely they were finished. JFK's plans for the CIA were probably similar to what Truman advocated in the Wash Post oped one month after the murder--back to being an intelligence gathering agency only, as originally intended. The CIA/warmachine had the means and the motive. How does that explain Kennedy's shifting foreign intel from the agency to the military? And, hadn't he proposed that his brother Robert F. Kennedy might have been a better DCI than AG, or did others make the observation years later? Either way, it seems that JFK knew he needed some form of foreign intel for no other reason than to advance his initiatives, or do I have that history wrong?

As you have said, the question of who didn't do it and who did are separate, if linked, issues. I have argued that the logical sequence of inquiry, the one most likely to achieve results, is to first show Oswald didn't do it to build support for finding out who did. I don't know if either Greg or Bart agrees with that. LS I believe, after sixty years, there are millions of citizens who will never be convinced Oswald wasn't the lone shooter regardless of photo images to the contrary. I appreciate that is not a popular stance among the Prayer Man movement, and I accept that similarly and at this juncture, if we capture photos of Jean Souetre and the teams who did kill JFK, we will then be confronted with cries of PHOTOSHOP! (which no doubt you know will be hurled at improved images purportedly originating in the Wiegman and or Darnell films). RO: Don't judge the film evidence in isolation. We can all see that *somebody* is standing in that spot on the steps. We now know that's where Oswald said he was during his first interrogation. We know, e.g., from Vicki Adams and particularly Dorothy Garner that Oswald did not come down the back steps after the murder. There are other witnesses who said they saw Oswald on the first floor shortly after the murder, verifying the WR story as fiction. Sean Murphy's meticulous work, set out in Stan Dane's book, asking the question who else could it be, has never been satisfactorily answered. Still, all of this hasn't made much of a dent except to a small group who follows it. Identifying Oswald as Prayerman is the piece that definitively blows up the WR, and, as I said, paves the way for your work about who actually did it to get more traction. Sure, some in desperation would cry photoshop, but an explanation of the enhancement done should take care of that, if the charge is even taken seriously. LS1 Are you asking to prove a negative? And surely you agree there were numerous, far less controversial pieces to blow up the Warren Report long before the Prayer Man theory surfaced. It's not that they feel threatened by your research about what you see as Skorzeny's role in the murder. It's a distraction, certainly irrelevant to the pursuit of Prayerman. LS The suggestion that identifying who did kill JFK is a distraction is patently absurd, imo. It is possible that our pursuits might converge if only we were dealing with a collective of reasonable minds modeled on your own. RO: If each is successful, the two pursuits--Oswald didn't do it and who did--will converge into a complete story to replace the WR. I didn't say IDing who killed JFK is a distraction, but something much more specific: the research in Coup isn't relevant to the Prayerman determination and is thought by some to be a distraction unless the legitimacy of the datebook can first be established . LS1 If you're suggesting that we should just move along and not question whether the designated patsy identified in the Lafitte datebook would be effective if caught on film outside the building at the time shots were fired, we're at an impasse. Questioning the legitimacy of the datebook might be construed as a self-preservation tactic. More than that, they recoil at your voluminous use of the datebook in your posts without first establishing its legitimacy. IOW, it's not only a distraction but, worse, one without a legit basis for discussion in the first place. LS Voluminous, premature use (to the point of tragic comedy) of blurry images employed in defense of a sensational hypothesis served only to distract "the community" that already knew Oswald did not kill JFK. I continue to argue it was irresponsible from the outset. RO: You're going overboard by claiming it is the Prayerman folks who are the distraction. How can establishing the importance of the unclear image by reference to other evidence, and wanting it clarified by irresponsible? LS1 I'm not "overboard." I'm pointing out that Prayer Man — by sheer bullying in many instances — seized the attention of amateur researchers who might have contributed to tracking down the killers instead. I remember early on, one of the primary promoters of Shane's theory said that he didn't give a fxxk who killed Kennedy.

@Robert Montenegro I responded to Paul's inquiry of you on this thread about Pierre Lafitte's role as chef at the Plimsoll. I was actually unclear why he asked you and not me directly, so I copied you in. I know you've not studied Lafitte in depth. I have, as had Hank. Lafitte was pivotal to the Lancelot Project. He was not "military" and was only considered a "special employee" when contracted by various three letter acronym agencies. He had other income sources as we know. It is for that reason I will continue to push back at any interpretation of the Lafitte datebook entries that might serve a hypothesis that Dallas was a "military" coup. It was not, by definition. Distorting Hank's investigation would be unconscionable. To be clear, Hank never characterized Pierre Lafitte as the devil incarnate because it's a simplistic phrase that fails to capture Lafitte accurately.

@Paul Brancato @Robert Montenegro Albarelli notes only briefly that he had been informed Pierre Lafitte knew Clay Shaw earlier than 1967 when Lafitte, using the alias Jean Martin, returned to New Orleans to assume the role of lead chef at the soon to be opened Plimsoll Club located in the new building that would house Shaw's International Trade Mart. Hank could never nail down precisely how Shaw and Lafitte might have been (at best) acquainted in the early 1960s, but Reily Coffee provides a clue as does Lafitte's job as sous-chef somewhere in the Crescent City. Whether they had met in person, we know from the 1963 datebook that Lafitte was at minimum familiar with Shaw to the extent he associated him with OAS Capt. Jean Rene Souetre as well as Gen. Edwin Walker. We've narrowed down the possibilities of where Lafitte, as Jean Martin, was employed as a sous-chef; the proprietor of the French Quarter restaurant was Nick Popich, but the owner was of course, Carlos Marcello. Popich's bouncer at the restaurant was a young Moo Moo Sciambria who would join Jim Garrison's team during the Shaw investigation. Nick Popich had been pursuing permission to drill off the coast of Ethiopia spearheaded by none other than William "Bill" Dalzell for years. Dalzell is named in Lafitte's datebook. In May of 1963, Nick Popich had played host to Bobby Baker, Carole Tyler, and Ellen Rometsch along with Puerto Rican developer Paul Aguirre; as all are aware, Baker was involved with FL. Sen. George Smathers and Grant Stockdale (Kennedy's ambassador to Ireland before he was forced to recall his good friend) in Serv-U Corporation. Smathers arranged for Judyth Vary Baker to move to New Orleans, arriving within two/three weeks of the Baker/Tyler/Rometsch visit. Grant Stockdale appears in Lafitte's records in an entry along with Otto Skorzeny who Amb. and Mrs. Stockdale had wined and dined at the American residence in Phoenix Park and for some unknown reason, the ambassador had permitted both Otto and Ilse, known Nazis who had finally secured permanent Irish visas, direct access to the American Embassy in Dublin. (I lived a short distance from that embassy in 1993-94 and walked past it dozens of times. Little did I know.) Returning to Lafitte in New Orleans, we have records to indicate that he gave a New Orleans address in the early 1950s when he testified during a Chicago mob trial which at the time was the largest criminal indictment of its kind in the city to date. I tracked the NOLA address and today it is a dead end at an underpass. Guy Banister was the Chicago Bureau SA when the mob trial began; then Banister moves to New Orleans. Pierre and Rene eventually lease a modest home in the Tarreytown neighborhood of Gretna. There is some discrepancy in the timeline of their moving into the home so it is uncertain if the Lancelot Project was advanced from Gretna, or elsewhere in New Orleans. Jean Martin / Pierre Lafitte was picked up in New Orleans by the Feds in December 1969 to be returned to Boston to face charges that had been filed years earlier. The case which involved diamonds and exotic flowers dissolved when it was discovered that a plaintiff, Ralph Loomis, had since died. A woman familiar with that case because her own father had been a victim of Lafitte's fraud, contacted Hank and subsequently talked with me to confirm elements of the story. Lafitte virtually fades into oblivion from there, although we have identified a record that he and Rene returned briefly to a small Kentucky town not far from where a major art theft involving Pierre had occurred years earlier, before settling permanently in New Hampshire.

I'm confident we've gathered sufficient research to resume building a criminal case from the ground up and specific to the actual crime in Dallas. So, hopefully this thread along with the thread Getting down to the nuts and bolts . . . and the question of Cubans in direct capacities, can be reserved for deliberations over the specifics of Albarelli's investigation and the Lafitte datebook. (Caveat)Those who judge the datebook to be a fraud or a hoax — without having actually seen the physical instrument but who bought into Greg Doudna's early "professional analysis" issued on this forum just days after Coup was published — probably shouldn't waste their time on this thread. Those who continue to question the authenticity of the datebook, I hope your skepticism can be expressed elsewhere. Which leaves two camps: those who know the datebook is authentic, and those on the fence but willing to participate in a hypothetical exercise, 'what if the datebook is authentic, then where do we go from here?' *** RETURNING TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME "ah, Dallas. Lay of the Land. Lay of the Land" — Rene Lafitte "oil smoothes the way for sudden and sometimes deadly change" — Rene Lafitte Now that we've established that James Angleton and Otto Skorzeny had a basis from which to move forward, together, on Project Lancelot, it's important to repeat the following to position Pierre Lafitte in context: . . . When he first met Borghese, Angleton was a painfully thin, well-schooled, aspiring poet whose androgynous qualities seemed to anticipate David Bowie. While Borghese was shrewd and finely attuned to wartime reality, Angleton was a neophyte to war and world counterintelligence. In time however, Angleton would become well-known as the long-time head of CIA Counterintelligence, moving beneath the protective umbrella of his patron Allen Dulles, and involve himself in the early 1950s CIA-sanctioned MKULTRA experiments that brought him into contact with Federal Bureau of Narcotics ‘special employee’ Pierre Lafitte.” *** We move now to Otto Skorzeny's business history with Louisiana native Jack Alston Crichton who in 1963 was running for Republican candidate for governor against the incumbent, Gov. John Connally. Crichton had been pivotal to the success of the 1952 Algur Meadows - Otto Skorzeny oil scheme sanctioned in Madrid by Spain's dictator Francisco Franco. (For those unfamiliar, Algur H. Meadows was founder of General American Oil based in the Meadows Building located off Central Expressway, Dallas. We encounter the Meadows Bldg. later in the investigation.) A decade after the Madrid operation which some have recently speculated could not have been focused on drilling for oil in Spain, but was likely an op to establish a foothold in North Africa — Jack Crichton, whose 488th Military Intel unit was founded for the purpose of protecting the foreign interests of US petroleum companies and specifically independent oilmen in Texas, was called in to serve a role in Angleton and Skorzeny's Lancelot Project. On November 11, Lafitte makes a note in pencil, — Terry says call = 7436 Kenshire Dallas — J. Crichton Call Capt. CM996 Terry: We had only one candidate for "Terry", and he remains a longshot. The head of Arabian American Oil Co. (ARAMCO) was James Terry Duce. Not long after the assassination, Jack Crichton advanced his own oil interests in the region under the name Arabian Shield Development, perhaps with the assistance of a friend, Terry Duce? 7436 Kenshire: The 1963 Dallas phone book confirms the Kenshire address as that of Jack Crichton. (Respected researcher William Kelly contested the block number on Kenshire, insisting Crichton's address was five digits, but I've since provided him with the phone book to confirm 7436. I've driven around the Kenshire cul-de-sac on several trips to North Dallas and have photos of the former Crichton house for anyone interested.) Capt. CM996: Researcher / author J. Gary Shaw identified that Capt. CM996 matches the number for the Dallas city manager in 1963. to be continued . . .

@David Andrews and @Robert Montenegro I think I owe you an apology. I was reacting to the diversion from what I hope might be a well-considered study of the specific historical context of Skorzeny, the Black Prince, and James Angleton which launched this thread. Based primarily on the clues left by Pierre Lafitte, we're convinced that this particular triune (with the obvious requisite arteries) sheds light on why Angleton was so comfortable "outsourcing" to Nazi Otto Skorzeny the strategic plan to kill Kennedy in Dallas, and why both men would be entirely comfortable with Lafitte — who according to family members served in the Charlemagne Unit — acting as project manager. This tight network, relying on shared history and driven by a common goal — democracy would remain an illusion until it was time (2016?) to unveil The Reich — succeeded in taking down President Kennedy in spectacular fashion and they got away scot free, until now. The Lancelot Project plot involved a select number of men and women with shared histories and personal motives, e.g. specific individuals — not three letter acronyms or vast numbers of military and intel acting within official structure — who donned their particularly unique caps of persuasion to play an active albeit discreet role in a highly compartmentalized operation. When we veer into THE C.I.A. a.k.a. THE / OUR U.S. Government, or THE Military, or "rogue elements within" we risk, once again, derailing the cold case murder investigation. I'm doing my part to try to prevent that from happening. Why does this murder investigation matter? Our democratically elected US government as it should and can still be is under full-blown assault by the very authoritarian ideology that drove the decisions to remove Kennedy. Trump was and remains the Trojan Horse. I hope you might take time to read about Trump advisor and miscreant Steve Bannon's admiration of Julius Evola — an inspiration to the Black Prince — or follow Sebastian Gorka's history in Hungary — to further grasp the continuity of the coup in Dallas.