Leslie Sharp

I'm trying to confirm that he covered all US borders. Something suggests to me he didn't. Plus, under what conditions would the BP be privy to or control private flights in and out?

And does that not beg the question that the 1,000 was perhaps as much a campaign strategy as it was evidence he intended to withdraw significant numbers immediately after he was elected? No doubt there have been volumes written on the subject that I've not studied to date.

Thank you. I gather Moyar located documents?

I don't know about you, W., but I've been experiencing cognitive dissonance whiplash following this debate! Michael is invoking anti-fascist Berlet and you're in a position of either ignoring or defending Liberty Lobby and Carto? It wouldn't be entirely accurate to say I'm agnostic relating to Prouty, but in all candor, I've never relied heavily on his work. No doubt the issues under scrutiny here are partly the reason. I've read other commentary on 263 and 273 and studied Max Taylor's role in depth, so it's possible my sources relied on Prouty's initial exposé. [as an aside, Taylor had assumed control of Mexican Light and Power in MC when W. H. Draper returned to the states to head up America's first commercial nuclear company which suggests he rubbed shoulders with Win Scott just prior to being "recalled" to DC by President Kennedy. Draper, an original representative of NATO, shared financial connections with John McCone. All by way of saying, I think Max Taylor has danced between the raindrops in spite of his alleged friendship with JFK. He wouldn't be the first friend to betray him.] I know Hank refers briefly to Prouty in A Terrible Mistake and A Secret Order; at one point he asks why Prouty waited until the early '90s to identify Lansdale — giving him the benefit of the doubt that it was only then he came across the photo. But I recognize Hank is primarily intrigued that Prouty makes quite clear the international scope of his caution, a fact that was ignored far too long in this investigation, in our opinion. And . . . at the risk of opening up another 'can of worms', I spent months trying to track down records to explain just how US presence in Vietnam went from some 700-800 when Eisenhower left office to 15,000 when Kennedy determined 'this far and no further'. Who signed off on those 14,000+ deployments? As Commander in Chief wouldn't those orders have at least crossed K's desk, even if perfunctory or ceremonial? I've searched high and low for signatures, dates, military bases, etc., including several requests of the JFK Library to no avail. If you have any insight, or can refer me to source material, I would appreciate it.

W. I'm not sure what disinformation you're referring to? The question is whether Col. Prouty was ideologically aligned with Willis Carto or did he simply avail of the venue the Liberty Lobby provided? Was Spotlight the only publisher willing to advance his revelations? Did the ends justify the means? Our interest was in Carto's direct association with General Edwin Walker.

Chip Berlet's cover blurb for Coup in Dallas: The Decisive Investigation into Who Killed JFK by H. P. Albarelli Jr. with Leslie Sharp and Alan Kent reads, “When respected investigative journalists raise questions about political and social forces that gained substantial power advantages following the assassination of JFK, their work should not be dismissed lightly. Using an academic perspective, this compelling study examines the forces that likely influenced the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. If you believed that Kennedy was a traitor, then his assassination becomes an act of patriotism. Earlier forms of reactionary information systems, substantially (but not exclusively) on the political right, identified him as such, and as a threat to democracy. Decades later, the same forces motivated the insurgents that stormed the US Capitol in defense of the 45th president demanding a second term. As presented in Coup in Dallas, a similar network of conspiracist rightist mindset provided the script of liberal treason and betrayal that prompted the assassination of President Kennedy.” —Chip Berlet, editor of The Assassination Please Almanac, author of Eyes Right!, coauthor of Right-Wing Populism in America @Michael Griffin

Pentagon documents and Jack Teixeira . . "I have no doubt the documents are genuine, but I believe the leak was a function of the culture war that is tearing America apart. That a general loyal to Donald Trump and the MAGA movement leaked the documents in an attempt to undermine the Biden administration and promote the Trump policy of rapprochement with Russia. The Biden administration is attempting to spin the leak, but the political/cultural rift within the military and CIA, as well within federal law enforcement, is the real story. America is in the midst of a psychological civil war, as I say in my forthcoming book Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire." —Doug Valentine https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XhSJZOrZCuyoUWHU0jUNeMERtxy7dAui/view?ts=643ec28b

Did you cover the Canadian border in your career?

Draft preview of Continuity of the Coup in Dallas (@copyright — softcover edition in progress) And speaking of Col. Jack Canon, clearly identified in the Lafitte datebook, 1963, who served under General Charles Willoughby, clearly identified in the Lafitte datebook, 1963: The Maltese Cross also lists the associate editors for [Gen. Willoughby's] Foreign Intelligence Digest. they included Prince Michael Sturdy (Costa Rica), Dr. Emilo Nunez-Portuondo (Cuba), Marques de Prat de Nantoulliet (Spain), M. Saint Paulien (France), Dr. Walter Becher (Germany) Hilaire du Berrier (France) [named in the Lafitte datebook, 1963, and guest in the home of Gen. Edwin Walker — named in the Lafitte datebook, 1963 — on November 22), Dr. Gerald Shelly (Italy), Dr. E. Gehlen (Germany), Freiherr von Braun (Germany), George Bard (Czechoslovakia), Leo M. Petit (Belgium), Admiral E. Heifferich (Holland), Dr. Lazarus Choumanides (Greece), Dr. Sten Forshufvud (Sweden), Vicomte Amaury d'Harcourt (France), Com. Div. Jean Népote (France), Abbe Pierre Delecambre (France) and many others . . . Various 'associated national and international publications' also appear on the Maltese Cross list. They include A.B.N. Correspondence (Munich, editor Jaroslav Stetzko), . . . The Christian Crusade (Tulsa, editor E. L. White), . . . The Weekly Crusader (Tulsa, Rev. Billy James Hargis whose 1963 cross-country crusade featured Gen. Edwin Walker, clearly identified in the Lafitte datebook, 1963), . . . Interpol Review (Paris, editor Jean Népote). . . — from, "The Spy Who Would Be Tsar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground" by Kevin Coogan. For our purposes, of special interest is Jean Népote — named here as contributor to Gen. Charles Willoughby's Foreign Intelligence Digest — who has been identified as a N-azi collaborator with the Vichy regime. Népote rose through the ranks of INTERPOL which had been infiltrated by the leading N-azis and assumed the post of Secretary General in August 1963. At the risk of referring to historian Gerald Posner with this audience, he reports accurately, “In 1939 Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Gestapo, was voted president of Interpol. In December 1941, Interpol moved its headquarters to the fashionable Berlin suburb of Wannsee, where it shared a villa with the Gestapo.” It was in this villa where the infamous Wansee Conference was held and where the Final Solution was organized. . . . Heydrich even made Interpol a division within the SD, the Security Police. When Heydrich was assassinated in Prague in June 1942, Himmler chose Heydrich’s successor at the Gestapo, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, to repace him as Interpol’s president. After Kaltenbrunner was hanged at Nuremberg in October 1946, a Belgian member of Interpol’s executive committee, Florent E. Louwage, became president. He was succeeded in 1956 by Jean Nepote, who had collaborated with the wartime Vichy government in France. With high praise for researcher extraordinaire Robert Montenegro for opening this channel of research, in the following document, item 9, we see Jean Népote as the source for a training film described as providing "excellent detail on planning and execution of safecracking". The significance of the document is that it relates to other characters identified as having been in the spotter program / the QJ/WIN operation. Considering his history, his access, and the power of his role at INTERPOL, we argue that this single record strongly suggests Jean Népote was in fact among the QJ/WIN spotters. https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10185-10010.pdf As head of INTERPOL since August of 1963, responsible for cross-border policing on a global scale (including international drug trafficking), Népote was also in a position to lift travel restrictions at any given time. It is also plausible he exercised significant control over the status of (useful and perhaps familiar)convicted criminals who fell under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Justice in France where INTERPOL was headquartered. We also know that Népote's fellow N-azi collaborator during the Vichy regime, Maurice Papon had led the police in major French prefectures for decades and had also dealt closely with Corsicans. (As secretary general for police in Bordeaux during the war, he participated in the deportation of more than 1,600 Jews, a crime against humanity he was charged with eventually). Papon's activity during the Algerian War from 1954-1962 included torture of insurgent prisoners. As prefect of the Paris police, he was responsbile for the deadly repression of the FLN, overseeing the "Paris massacres" of both 1961 and 1962 in response to anti-OAS demonstrations. . . . Although there is no evidence that either Jean Népote or Maurice Papon knew OAS Captain Jean Rene Souetre — or experienced assassins Alice Lamy, Gerard Litt or Jean Filliol [all identified in the Lafitte datebook, 1963], or Hungarians [loosely referred to in the Lafitte datebook, 1963], or Lajos Marton or Laszlo Varga who were members of Souetre's deadly 'Will Kill' — it can be reasonably argued that both Népote and Papon — not unlike counterparts in Mexico and the US including INS Harlon B. Carter [who had served with Charles "Boots" Askins, named in the Lafitte datebook, 1963] — were in prime positions to order, conceal, and/or confuse details of the movement of known assassins.

Draft preview of Continuity of the Coup in Dallas (@copyright — softcover edition in progress) And speaking of Col. Jack Canon, clearly identified in the Lafitte datebook, 1963, who served under General Charles Willoughby, clearly identified in the Lafitte datebook, 1963: The Maltese Cross also lists the associate editors for [Gen. Willoughby's] Foreign Intelligence Digest. they included Prince Michael Sturdy (Costa Rica), Dr. Emilo Nunez-Portuondo (Cuba), Marques de Prat de Nantoulliet (Spain), M. Saint Paulien (France), Dr. Walter Becher (Germany) Hilaire du Berrier (France) [named in the Lafitte datebook, 1963, and guest in the home of Gen. Edwin Walker — named in the Lafitte datebook, 1963 — on November 22), Dr. Gerald Shelly (Italy), Dr. E. Gehlen (Germany), Freiherr von Braun (Germany), George Bard (Czechoslovakia), Leo M. Petit (Belgium), Admiral E. Heifferich (Holland), Dr. Lazarus Choumanides (Greece), Dr. Sten Forshufvud (Sweden), Vicomte Amaury d'Harcourt (France), Com. Div. Jean Népote (France), Abbe Pierre Delecambre (France) and many others . . . Various 'associated national and international publications' also appear on the Maltese Cross list. They include A.B.N. Correspondence (Munich, editor Jaroslav Stetzko), . . . The Christian Crusade (Tulsa, editor E. L. White), . . . The Weekly Crusader (Tulsa, Rev. Billy James Hargis whose 1963 cross-country crusade featured Gen. Edwin Walker, clearly identified in the Lafitte datebook, 1963), . . . Interpol Review (Paris, editor Jean Népote). . . — from, "The Spy Who Would Be Tsar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground" by Kevin Coogan. For our purposes, of special interest is Jean Népote — named here as contributor to Gen. Charles Willoughby's Foreign Intelligence Digest — who has been identified as a N-azi collaborator with the Vichy regime. Népote rose through the ranks of INTERPOL which had been infiltrated by the leading N-azis, and assumed the post of Secretary General in August 1963. At the risk of referring to historian Gerald Posner with this audience, he reports accurately, “In 1939 Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Gestapo, was voted president of Interpol. In December 1941, Interpol moved its headquarters to the fashionable Berlin suburb of Wannsee, where it shared a villa with the Gestapo.” It was in this villa where the infamous Wansee Conference was held and where the Final Solution was organized. . . . Heydrich even made Interpol a division within the SD, the Security Police. When Heydrich was assassinated in Prague in June 1942, Himmler chose Heydrich’s successor at the Gestapo, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, to repace him as Interpol’s president. After Kaltenbrunner was hanged at Nuremberg in October 1946, a Belgian member of Interpol’s executive committee, Florent E. Louwage, became president. He was succeeded in 1956 by Jean Nepote, who had collaborated with the wartime Vichy government in France. With high praise for researcher extraordinaire Robert Montenegro for opening this channel of research, in the following document, item 9, we see Jean Népote as the source for a training film described as providing "excellent detail on planning and execution of safecracking". The significance of the document is that it relates to other characters identified as having been in the spotter program / the QJ/WIN operation. Considering his history, his access, and the power of his role at INTERPOL, we argue that this single record strongly suggests Jean Népote was in fact among the QJ/WIN spotters. https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10185-10010.pdf . As head of INTERPOL since August of 1963, responsible for cross-border policing on a global scale (including international drug trafficking), Népote was also in a position to lift travel restrictions at any given time. It is also plausible he exercised significant control over the status of (useful and perhaps familiar)convicted criminals who fell under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Justice in France where INTERPOL was headquartered. We also know that Népote's fellow N-azi collaborator during the Vichy regime, Maurice Papon had led the police in major French prefectures for decades and had also dealt closely with Corsicans. (As secretary general for police in Bordeaux during the war, he participated in the deportation of more than 1,600 Jews, a crime against humanity he was charged with eventually). Papon's activity during the Algerian War from 1954-1962 included torture of insurgent prisoners. As prefect of the Paris police, he was responsbile for the deadly repression of the FLN, overseeing the "Paris massacres" of both 1961 and 1962 in response to anti-OAS demonstrations. . . . Although there is no evidence that either Jean Népote or Maurice Papon knew OAS Captain Jean Rene Souetre — or experienced assassins Alice Lamy, Gerard Litt or Jean Filliol [all identified in the Lafitte datebook, 1963], or Hungarians [loosely referred to in the Lafitte datebook, 1963], or Lajos Marton or Laszlo Varga who were members of Souetre's deadly 'Will Kill' — it can be reasonably argued that both Népote and Papon — not unlike counterparts in Mexico and the US including INS Harlon B. Carter [who had served with Charles "Boots" Askins, named in the Lafitte datebook, 1963] — were in prime positions to order, conceal, and/or confuse details of the movement of known assassins.

Reminds me, I wish I had been aware of Carter when I emailed Ayoub's representative to quote him at length in Coup. If you're so inclined, might you ask him? I've yet to come across anyone who admired Charley, other than perhaps Mas with the obvious caveats. I think his son still lives around Las Cruces NM. Surviving a gunfight, or surviving during a gunfight? PS. Have you seen the photo of the guy on the steps just to the west of the Pergola where Zapruder is perched?

You write under a pen name? I guess you know Ayoub? Carter shot a young unarmed Hispanic guy when he was 16. Served two years of a three-year sentence, joined the border patrol where I guess he first met Charley. and the rest is history. Did you say you never ran into him?

Souetre—Mexico City- —Lafitte datebook, November 12, 1963 On November 12, 1963, former French army commando and paratrooper Jean Rene Marie Souetre—and two associates, both Hungarians, Laslo Vango [Laszlo Varga] and Lajos LNU [Marton], who had fled their homeland’s failed revolution and come to Spain where they were trained in specialized sabotage and assassination techniques by Souetre at two of Otto Skorzeny’s three training compounds outside of Madrid—landed on a commercial flight from Spain in Mexico City, Mexico. Each man carried several passports issued under various aliases, as well as their actual identities. Along with their passports each man also carried about $1,000 in US currency. . . . As this investigation draws to a close, the implications of the arrival in Mexico City on the 12th of November of two Hungarians and the former OAS paratrooper and marksman Jean Rene Souetre, when considered in context of the datebook entry of the same date, cement that Pierre Lafitte was kept apprised of the progress of Otto Skorzeny’s logistics for the assassination, down to the cast of characters destined for Dealey Plaza. By October 9th, Lafitte already knew that Souetre and the Hungarians were on that list as evidenced: OSARN-OSARN-OSARN-OSARN-get Willoughby-Litt- plus Souetre, others (Hungarians). . . — Coup in Dallas And Major Ralph Ganis writes in The Skorzeny Papers: Evidence for the Plot to Kill JFK, During this period, Souetre was said to have used the alias, "Commander Constant," and, in addition to his business dealings in Palma de Mallorca, he also controlled a Madrid "extermination and fumigation company," with the on-the-nose name "Will Kill." The company "hired veteran survivors of Delta commando," and included a man named Lajos Marton . . . Although Bastien-Thiry did not name the members of the Study Group, the French Police identified the following OAS personnel: Captains Pierre Sargent, Jean Curutchet, and Jean Rene Souetre. the police believed Souetre "played a leading part in planning the attack at Petit-Clamart." Evident that this is true is revealed by the arrest afterward of [Lajos] Marton, Sari, and [Lazlo] Varga — all of Souetre's "Will Kill" exterminators, out of Madrid.

Souetre—Mexico City- —Lafitte datebook, November 12, 1963 On November 12, 1963, former French army commando and paratrooper Jean Rene Marie Souetre—and two associates, both Hungarians, Laslo Vango [Laszlo Varga] and Lajos LNU [Marton], who had fled their homeland’s failed revolution and come to Spain where they were trained in specialized sabotage and assassination techniques by Souetre at two of Otto Skorzeny’s three training compounds outside of Madrid—landed on a commercial flight from Spain in Mexico City, Mexico. Each man carried several passports issued under various aliases, as well as their actual identities. Along with their passports each man also carried about $1,000 in US currency. . . . As this investigation draws to a close, the implications of the arrival in Mexico City on the 12th of November of two Hungarians and the former OAS paratrooper and marksman Jean Rene Souetre, when considered in context of the datebook entry of the same date, cement that Pierre Lafitte was kept apprised of the progress of Otto Skorzeny’s logistics for the assassination, down to the cast of characters destined for Dealey Plaza. By October 9th, Lafitte already knew that Souetre and the Hungarians were on that list as evidenced: OSARN-OSARN-OSARN-OSARN-get Willoughby-Litt- plus Souetre, others (Hungarians). . . — Coup in Dallas And Major Ralph Ganis writes in The Skorzeny Papers: Evidence for the Plot to Kill JFK, During this period, Souetre was said to have used the alias, "Commander Constant," and, in addition to his business dealings in Palma de Mallorca, he also controlled a Madrid "extermination and fumigation company," with the on-the-nose name "Will Kill." The company "hired veteran survivors of Delta commando," and included a man named Lajos Marton . . . Although Bastien-Thiry did not name the members of the Study Group, the French Police identified the following OAS personnel: Captains Pierre Sargent, Jean Curutchet, and Jean Rene Souetre. the police believed Souetre "played a leading part in planning the attack at Petit-Clamart." Evident that this is true is revealed by the arrest afterward of [Lajos] Marton, Sari, and [Lazlo] Varga — all of Souetre's "Will Kill" exterminators, out of Madrid.

Intriguing is an understatement, Evan. Are you a sharpshooter? Did you ever run into Carter?

Welcome. I for one look forward to new voices on EF, and am anxious to learn which particular part of the case has grabbed your attention.

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In pursuit of who might have been in a position to order, conceal, and/or confuse details surrounding the detainment of two (alleged) French citizens in Dallas within hours of the assassination of Kennedy, I have identified the Southwest Region head of Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS), Texas native Harlon B. Carter, as the primary candidate. From Carter's November 22, 1991, New York Times obituary, Young Mr. Carter went on to graduate from the University of Texas and Emory Law School. Following in the footsteps of his father, he joined the United States Border Patrol. He rose rapidly, and was chief of the entire patrol from 1950 to 1957. He was commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service's Southwestern region from 1961 to 1970, when he retired after 34 years with the Government. Upon reading of Mr. Carter's history with US Border Patrol, it was logical to consider the possibility he knew, personally, fellow Texan and renowned marksman Charles "Boots" Askins, the psychopathic gunman named in the 1963 datebook maintained by Pierre Lafitte. Indeed, Boots Askins and Harlon Carter had known each other for more than a decade if not longer: The 1952 model was a heavy barrel OP frame, .38 Special, rollmarked on the barrel "Border Patrol". Just issued one year, about 500 made. However, the United States Immigration and Border Patrol (USIBP) also were issued New Services before WWII. Col. Askins was the head of the service for a time and he and Harlon Carter (later president of the NRA) were said to have personally sighted in the New Services before they were issued to agents. Also, from a long running credible gun afficionado chatroom, Word was that until Harlon Carter white-washed him, [Askins] was also persona non grata with the NRA. Harlon B. Carter is best known for having almost single-handedly increased membership in the National Rife Association three-fold during his tenure as president and board member. He led the infamous "Revolt at Cincinnati" also called the "Cincinnati Coup" which irreparably altered the course of the NRA from that of a noble association of hunters, sportsmen, gun enthusiasts and skilled marksmen to one of the most powerful, and some argue dangerous, lobbies in our country today. The best primer to Harlon B. Carter is found here: How the Modern NRA Was Born at the Border Watch our release of documentary short The Rifleman, which examines how NRA head Harlon Carter fused gun rights, immigration enforcement, and white supremacy. Then read an interview with filmmaker Sierra Pettengill and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. In making The Rifleman, I was interested in using Carter’s life to tell the story of the NRA beyond the limited context of the current debate over gun control, and instead place it in the broader context of how gun ownership has, since early in the nation’s founding, been central to enforcing a white nationalist vision of the United States. This continues the work of the films I have been making for the last eight or so years, which all explore how white supremacy operates within the mainstream, whether it’s through the proliferation of Confederate monuments (Graven Image, 2017) or the rise of the Tea Party (Town Hall, 2013, codirected with Jamila Wignot). https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-the-modern-nra-was-born-at-the-border/ For our interests, it is Carter's history with expert marksman Charles Askins — named along with Texas native Canon (Col. Jack) known for having headed General Charles Willoughby's Z. Org during the Korean War — in the Lafitte datebook laying out the unfolding of Project Lancelot. Hired Guns Askins —Lafitte datebook, September 12, 1963 Canon-- S + V? —Lafitte datebook, September 14 1963 Askins - Willoughby OK —Lafitte datebook, October 2, 1963 Willoughby team – Canon (Z org) D. —Lafitte datebook, November 21, 1963 Col. Charles “Boots” Askins, Jr. Boots Askins was a storied gunman in Texas since the early 1930s, and had moved within far-right circles all his life. Author Jeffrey Caufield, in his study of the assassination of JFK, features a letter from Joseph Milteer (himself a racist and far right associate of Willoughby and Walker) to Charles Askins pertaining to a forthcoming meeting of one of the myriad clandestine organizations that the radical right was running during the ’60s, indicating very “hush-hush” stuff. Born in October 1907, the son of a prominent hunter and writer, Askins Jr. followed in his father’s footprints and, according to legend, "left some marks deeper than his dad." Prior to enlisting in the US Army, Askins had served in the US Forest Service and Border Patrol in the American Southwest. During WWII, he served as a battlefield recovery officer, making landings in North Africa, Italy, and D-day. Following the war, he was posted in Spain as an attaché to the American embassy, assisting Franco’s administration in rebuilding the arms and ammunition factories after the war. This is but one clue that Askins was well known to General Willoughby and through that connection, he knew fellow Texan “Cactus Jack” Canon. In his role at the embassy in Madrid, Askins undoubtedly encountered Johannes Bernhardt of SOFINDUS, Otto Skorzeny, and Victor Oswald, all of whom need no further introduction to our reader. As attaché, Askins would also have been familiar with US Embassy officials including CIA agent Al Ulmer, and fellow attaché Jere Wittington, Otto and Ilse’s close friend and minder. After several years in Madrid, enjoying the company of his family and bird hunting in the Spanish countryside, Askins was sent to Vietnam to join the select number of Eisenhower “advisors” training South Vietnamese soldiers in shooting and paratrooping. During those years, the colonel managed to earn his airborne qualification with both countries, amassing 132 jumps before calling it quits. While posted on the Vietnamese front, Askins would have encountered Jack Canon and Lucien Conein, among a number of other legends in that ill-fated endeavor. Throughout his military career, Askins also indulged in big game hunting at every chance, and continued to do so the remainder of his life. He retired to San Antonio, Texas having been stationed at Fort Sam Houston when he returned stateside. He died there in March 1999. In a carefully worded statement, repeated by all who write about the legendary “Boots” Askins, “He retired from government service in 1963.”

Draft preview of Continuity of the Coup in Dallas (@copyright — softcover edition in progress) In pursuit of who might have been in a position to order, conceal, and/or confuse details surrounding the detainment of two (alleged) French citizens in Dallas within hours of the assassination of Kennedy, I have identified the Southwest Region head of Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS), Texas native Harlon B. Carter, as the primary candidate. From Carter's November 22, 1991, New York Times obituary, Young Mr. Carter went on to graduate from the University of Texas and Emory Law School. Following in the footsteps of his father, he joined the United States Border Patrol. He rose rapidly, and was chief of the entire patrol from 1950 to 1957. He was commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service's Southwestern region from 1961 to 1970, when he retired after 34 years with the Government. Upon reading of Mr. Carter's history with US Border Patrol, it was logical to consider the possibility he knew, personally, fellow Texan and renowned marksman Charles "Boots" Askins, the psychopathic gunman named in the 1963 datebook maintained by Pierre Lafitte. Indeed, Boots Askins and Harlon Carter had known each other for more than a decade if not longer: The 1952 model was a heavy barrel OP frame, .38 Special, rollmarked on the barrel "Border Patrol". Just issued one year, about 500 made. However, the United States Immigration and Border Patrol (USIBP) also were issued New Services before WWII. Col. Askins was the head of the service for a time and he and Harlon Carter (later president of the NRA) were said to have personally sighted in the New Services before they were issued to agents. Also, from a long running credible gun afficionado chatroom, Word was that until Harlon Carter white-washed him, [Askins] was also persona non grata with the NRA. Harlon B. Carter is best known for having almost single-handedly increased membership in the National Rife Association three-fold during his tenure as president and board member. He led the infamous "Revolt at Cincinnati" also called the "Cincinnati Coup" which irreparably altered the course of the NRA from that of a noble association of hunters, sportsmen, gun enthusiasts and skilled marksmen to one of the most powerful, and some argue dangerous, lobbies in our country today. The best primer to Harlon B. Carter is found here: How the Modern NRA Was Born at the Border Watch our release of documentary short The Rifleman, which examines how NRA head Harlon Carter fused gun rights, immigration enforcement, and white supremacy. Then read an interview with filmmaker Sierra Pettengill and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. In making The Rifleman, I was interested in using Carter’s life to tell the story of the NRA beyond the limited context of the current debate over gun control, and instead place it in the broader context of how gun ownership has, since early in the nation’s founding, been central to enforcing a white nationalist vision of the United States. This continues the work of the films I have been making for the last eight or so years, which all explore how white supremacy operates within the mainstream, whether it’s through the proliferation of Confederate monuments (Graven Image, 2017) or the rise of the Tea Party (Town Hall, 2013, codirected with Jamila Wignot). https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-the-modern-nra-was-born-at-the-border/ For our interests, it is Carter's history with expert marksman Charles Askins — named along with Texas native Canon (Col. Jack) known for having headed General Charles Willoughby's Z. Org during the Korean War — in the Lafitte datebook laying out the unfolding of Project Lancelot. Hired Guns Askins —Lafitte datebook, September 12, 1963 Canon-- S + V? —Lafitte datebook, September 14 1963 Askins - Willoughby OK —Lafitte datebook, October 2, 1963 Willoughby team – Canon (Z org) D. —Lafitte datebook, November 21, 1963 Col. Charles “Boots” Askins, Jr. Boots Askins was a storied gunman in Texas since the early 1930s, and had moved within far-right circles all his life. Author Jeffrey Caufield, in his study of the assassination of JFK, features a letter from Joseph Milteer (himself a racist and far right associate of Willoughby and Walker) to Charles Askins pertaining to a forthcoming meeting of one of the myriad clandestine organizations that the radical right was running during the ’60s, indicating very “hush-hush” stuff. Born in October 1907, the son of a prominent hunter and writer, Askins Jr. followed in his father’s footprints and, according to legend, "left some marks deeper than his dad." Prior to enlisting in the US Army, Askins had served in the US Forest Service and Border Patrol in the American Southwest. During WWII, he served as a battlefield recovery officer, making landings in North Africa, Italy, and D-day. Following the war, he was posted in Spain as an attaché to the American embassy, assisting Franco’s administration in rebuilding the arms and ammunition factories after the war. This is but one clue that Askins was well known to General Willoughby and through that connection, he knew fellow Texan “Cactus Jack” Canon. In his role at the embassy in Madrid, Askins undoubtedly encountered Johannes Bernhardt of SOFINDUS, Otto Skorzeny, and Victor Oswald, all of whom need no further introduction to our reader. As attaché, Askins would also have been familiar with US Embassy officials including CIA agent Al Ulmer, and fellow attaché Jere Wittington, Otto and Ilse’s close friend and minder. After several years in Madrid, enjoying the company of his family and bird hunting in the Spanish countryside, Askins was sent to Vietnam to join the select number of Eisenhower “advisors” training South Vietnamese soldiers in shooting and paratrooping. During those years, the colonel managed to earn his airborne qualification with both countries, amassing 132 jumps before calling it quits. While posted on the Vietnamese front, Askins would have encountered Jack Canon and Lucien Conein, among a number of other legends in that ill-fated endeavor. Throughout his military career, Askins also indulged in big game hunting at every chance, and continued to do so the remainder of his life. He retired to San Antonio, Texas having been stationed at Fort Sam Houston when he returned stateside. He died there in March 1999. In a carefully worded statement, repeated by all who write about the legendary “Boots” Askins, “He retired from government service in 1963.”

Thanks, Michael. I consider Trump a symptom, not the cause of what I believe is a crisis, a crossroads for our democracy. In some strange way, perhaps we should be grateful that he lanced what many consider a festering wound inflicted in 1963. For that reason, I disagree with you. The elected president of the US in 1963 was violently removed in Dallas for political reasons. Suggesting we, the community, shouldn't address the prevailing politics of 1963 and how they manifest in 2023 is naive at best. We debate the coup in context of the Cold War. Why wouldn't we also debate the coup in context of current events? Had we done so in 1970 — during Watergate — just think how further along we would be in the Kennedy investigation? Or 1980, the Reagan/Bush years, Iran-Contra and the Walker/Bush dynasties? What might we have learned about Kennedy's assassination had we considered it in context then? 1990, 2000, 2010? etc. etc. Are you not, unconsciously, attempting to interfere with solving this cold case murder investigation by insisting we leave politics aside? It was a political hit. With that, would you speak to the issues raised in my response, i.e., how Carto's American Free Press infiltrated the "JFK research community"? Did those who contributed to the early issues meet L. Fletcher Prouty? Why has General Edwin Walker's history with Willis Carto been buried for decades? How does resurrection of the "America First" movement fit in? And specifically, Sebastian Gorka, Hungarian, who picked up the "America First" gauntlet, seems entirely comfortable with neo-fascists ruling his homeland? Do we know whether Gorka came in contact with Lajos Marton over the years? Or, we can debate Col. Fletcher Prouty out of context of these additional questions?

Michael, we had reason to pursue Spotlight because it eventually morphed into America Free Press, Willis Carto's final act as it were, which is alive on the internet today. General Willoughby closes one particularly lengthy diatribe he shared with his good friend, DCI Allen Dulles with a quote of fascist philosopher, Oswald Spengler, with, “Untergand de Abendlandes” in reference to Spengler’s “Decline of the West.” Without notes, (Francis Parker] Yockey wrote his first book, Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics, in Brittas Bay, Ireland over the winter and early spring of 1948. Clearly, he shared Willoughby’s admiration of Spengler in Imperium, a Spenglerian critique of 19th century materialism and rationalism dedicated to “the hero of the twentieth century.” It is believed that he meant Adolf Hitler. Holocaust Denier Carto of the Liberty Lobby, and later owner of the American Mercury, as well as the American Free Press, took on the task of publishing Yockey’s Imperium when Britain’s infamous fascist, Sir Oswald Mosley failed to do so because of personality clashes with Yockey. The reader is reminded that ad man, propagandist H. Keith Thompson, long-time protégé of Yockey, handled public relations for Lee Oswald’s mother, Marguerite Claverie Oswald in 1964. It has been reported that Willis Carto was Yockey’s last visitor in jail before he bit down on the cyanide pill he had tucked away rather than be interrogated by American authorities. . . . Maguire’s magazine was eventually sold off to a shadow company of Willis Carto with General Edwin Walker remaining on as military advisor and partial owner. It was Carto who single handedly brought Holocaust Denial to the US around the same time that McCarthy and his team, including Roy Cohn, launched their red-baiting. It cannot be ignored that Carto’s final propaganda sheet, American Free Press provided a venue for a number of reporters and journalists who in the mid 2000s would infiltrate the Kennedy assassination research efforts under the guise of truth seeking that they sold as being in alignment with John F. Kennedy’s philosophy and policies had he lived to serve out his term. In fact, history insists that contributors to AFP are closely aligned with Carto’s legacy, not that of John F. Kennedy. . . . When Donald Trump was elected president, a number of leaders from the alt-right movement assumed important advisory positions, including those responsible for creating a platform for the “alt-right,” the online publication Breitbart News. In a piece titled, “An Establishment Conservatives’ Guide to the Alt-Right” published in 2016, the Italian philosopher and occultist Julius Evola is touted as “one of the thinkers in whose writings the origins of the alternative right can be found.” Evola, identified earlier in this book, was the intellectual and spiritual inspiration of leading Italian fascists, including “The Black Prince” Julius Borghese [admired greatly by James Angleton]and Stefano delle Chiaie who were inclined toward murder and blackmail as political solutions. As noted, Evola was also an early admirer of American fascist Francis Parker Yockey whose fervent adherent, H. Keith Thompson, would serve a similar role as that of Isaac Don Levine when he became a publicist for Marguerite Oswald. Yockey’s writings were advanced almost exclusively by American propagandist Willis Carto, philosophically aligned in 1963 with Rev. Gerald L K. Smith, a cofounder of the America First Committee. Carto would leave as his final legacy, the American Free Press where Patrick Buchanan found a well-primed audience. . . . Journalist and historian of extreme right-wing movements in the United States, Chip Berlet noted that Trump’s vision of America has been narrowed to focus on and to reflect the ideas of [Steve] Bannon and [Bill] Regnery. Bill Regnery’s uncle Henry had also published Human Events, a journal alleged by historian James Ziegler in Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism to have been used by the CIA for smear campaigns. Human Events rapidly evolved as one of the standard-bearers for American conservatism, and continues to provide space to far-right provocateurs including Buchanan, and Ann Coulter who once dismissed child immigrants filmed crying under the stress of desperate conditions imposed during the Trump administration as whining actors, admonishing the president to “not fall for it.” Steve Bannon, referred to by Berlet, who for eight months served as Chief Strategist and Senior Counsel to President Trump, was executive chairman of the alt-right platform, Breitbart News until 2018. After the campaign, and the 2016 presidential election, it became clear that the vision of the original America First and “the destruction of the administrative state," a phrase Washington Post opinion columnist Greg Sargent suggests was shorthand for “national regulations and international commitments created by allegedly unaccountable bureaucrats who are supposedly disenfranchising U. S. workers and weakening American sovereignty,” had once again seeped into the political psyche.' @Coup in Dallas Further evidence of the continuity, the rolling coup of 1963: Podcast "America First with Sebastian Gorka", former Hungarian policy adviser and politician, alleged member of the neo-fascist Vitenzi Rend of Hungary, and President Trump's Deputy Assistant and senior counter-terrorism advisor. He was once described as [Victor} Orban's Man in the Trump White House.* A well-sourced analysis by Human Rights First — whose board includes Kerry Kennedy, daughter of RFK and president of his Center for Human Rights — provides further understanding of the close ties Mr. Gorka maintains with his motherland, Hungary. This also provides insight into the mindset that might possibly influence those defenders of convicted Hungarian assassin Lajos Marton — the centerpiece of recent debate and threat. @Michael Griffith Public supporter of the neo-fascist paramilitary “Hungarian Guard” When asked in 2007 whether he supported Jobbik’s plan to create a paramilitary militia during a televised interview, Gorka responded affirmatively “that is so.”19 During the show, a headline banner ran underneath Gorka which read “UDK [Gorka’s new political party] Supports the Hungarian Guard.” The UDK later reiterated Gorka’s support for the militia on its website. . . . In his television appearance, while distancing the UDK itself from Jobbik’s plan to create the Hungarian Guard, Gorka defended his organization’s support by noting that the Guard would serve “a big societal need.” . . . Multiple leaders1 of the modern-day “Historical Vitézi Rend” and other Hungarian politicians unaffiliated with the group have stated that Gorka is an official member of the organization.2 The “Historical Vitézi Rend” is a reconstitution of the World War II era “Vitézi Rend” (“Order of Heroes”), which Hungarian historians describe as a virulently nationalist, antisemitic group originally established by Admiral Miklos Horthy, a self-avowed antisemite and collaborator with Hitler.3 The State Department designated the Vitézi Rend as having been “under the direction of the National Socialist Government of Germany during World War II,” . . . When he [Gorka] appeared on U.S. television ... with the medal of the Vitez Order ... it made me really proud.”8 Several people interviewed by NBC in the Hungarian town where Gorka ran for mayor in 2006 said it was well- known that Gorka was a member of the Vitezi Rend, and that he made no effort to hide his membership while campaigning. https://humanrightsfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/hrf-factsheet-gorka.pdf *Human Rights Watch describes Victor Orban as having hijacked public institutions, attacked the independence of courts, and left almost no independent media standing. He has criminalized basic democratic activities by civil society organizations, attacked the rights of LGBT and transgender people, and banned same-sex unions. .

A logical part of any conspiracy using foreign components must include a plan to get rid of them before they are detected. Wouldn't it be equally logical that if the foreign assassins were selected by their superiors — also foreign. a.k.a. Otto Skorzeny — they would willingly participate knowing he would see to it they were extracted safely? Souetre's group was highly trained, carefully selected, and long considered valuable assets, as was the Willoughby team including Jack Canon and "Boots" Askins.