Leslie Sharp

Let me know when you want to have a serious discussion. Provocation has a tendency to escalate. Psychology 1.01.

If that's the case, why don't you call out Spencer and Fuentes, or have you on this forum and I've simply missed it. You rely on Posobiec, do you not? If he's a victim of guilt by association, he has a megaphone to make clear he's not aligned with self avowed N-azis. re. H. L. Hunt et al. Willoughby & d. Valle NO re Madrid Church group meet. check with Hunt & Vickers —Lafitte datebook, June 5, 1963 Prior to publication of Coup, I lobbied that serious consideration should be given to the possibility Lafitte is referring to H. L. Hunt. The fact that Rothermel appears in another Lafitte record persuaded us that it was certainly a possibility. However, the context of the June 5 entry, and the other Hunt entry weighed heavily in favor of E. Howard Hunt. For the record, Matthew, the following excerpts include reference to H. L. Hunt … hardly a public relations coup for the hardline andti-Semite, racist, anti-segregationist, State’s Rights toxic capitalist and his family and ilk, would you say? Apparently, as I suspected, you haven’t actually read Coup. A page from the financial ledger maintained by Pierre Lafitte brings the Countess’s story full circle. He writes, “Using old American Oil Mission cover with Harvey (JA),” which is clear reference to Aline’s American Oil Office. That particular ledger sheet also includes the names of Willoughby—a primary suspect in this investigation, Conrad Hilton [Hilton Hotels and board member of General Dynamics behind the F-111 scandal which Bobby Baker was embroiled in during the fall of ’63], ad man Rosser Reeves who was the brother-in-law of David Ogilvy who authored the mission statement for Bill Donovan’s WCC, and Charles Spofford, Gen. Eisenhower’s trusted confidant who along with Ogilvy ran Ike’s presidential campaign, coining the tag, “I Like Ike.” The other name, “Rothermel,” can be safely assumed to refer to Paul Rothermel, confidential assistant to Dallas oilman H. L. Hunt. Aline’s service to Frank Ryan and the World Commerce Corp. and reference to her old cover, American Oil indicate a certain continuity of intelligence operations throughout the Cold War. . . . While other events in the days and months prior to the assassination have propelled researchers to accuse Hunt of involvement, including the alleged visit to the Hunt Oil offices by Jack Ruby, the documented fact that Jack Crichton signed on as a director of the board of the H. L. Hunt Foundation in July of that year, and whether or not Marina Oswald went to the Hunt offices in the days after the death of her husband, few have paid sufficient attention to Hunt’s true ire toward Kennedy—an ire shared in particular with oilman Clint Murchison—grounded in the new president’s position on the Texas Tidelands Case and the oil depletion allowance that could have a permanent negative impact on the bottom line of their empires. Archconservatives and spectacularly wealthy oil men H. L. Hunt and Clint Murchison—one of whom deplored the government, the other manipulated it for personal gain—serve as archetypes of the independent oilman in Texas, many of whom were headquartered in Dallas. Along with Jack Crichton, Robert G. Storey, Jr., and Algur Meadows, all of whom warrant intense scrutiny and whose names appear in Lafitte’s records, Hunt and Murchison and dozens of similar ilk belong in any analysis of what Lafitte’s wife meant when she opined, “ . . . oil smoothes the way to silent, and sometimes deadly, change.” With the preceding as backdrop, we move now to five primary locations central to the assassination of President Kennedy.. . . According to esteemed assassination researcher and author Prof. Peter D. Scott, Crichton signed on as director of the newly formed H. L. Hunt Foundation as evidenced in a document dated July 22, 1963, one day after Crichton’s 488th Military Intelligence concluded annual training. In 1956, while engaged in machinations in Batista’s Cuba, Crichton had time and inclination to organize the 488th which he headquartered in Dallas, with himself ultimately responsible. The stated focus of the unit was covert petrochemical intelligence studies at home and abroad, including in the Soviet Union. In direct control of the unit was Lt. Col. George Whitmeyer, commander of all Army Reserve units in oil-rich East Texas, home of Delta Drilling. Delta had been integral to the 1952 Meadows-Skorzeny venture in Spain. It has been repeatedly estimated that at least fifty percent of the Dallas Police Department’s officers and detectives were members of the 488th Intelligence Detachment. During an interview about the 488th, Crichton claimed there were “about a hundred men in the unit and about forty or fifty of them were from the Dallas Police Department.” The 488th annual training in ’63 took place at The Pentagon, one of only two attachments from Texas to be in DC that summer. . . . Contributing to Crichton’s joining the board of the Hunt Foundation that summer was his shared political views with H. L. Hunt, the eccentric oilman who, but for his wealth might never have been taken seriously. Their rigid position on segregation was best exemplified during Crichton’s 1964 run for Texas governor when he argued against “the unjust, unconstitutional federally forced desegregation in the state of Texas.” In light of datebook entries referring to meetings with Jack Crichton through the year, it is possible that he also served as conduit for funding from H. L. Hunt. It has been reported that Crichton met with oilman and influence buyer H. L. Hunt the day after that assassination. Crichton’s failed attempt to secure nomination of the Republican Party in their effort to remove John Connolly as Governor of Texas in 1964 did not slow him down. Among his last major enterprises was Arabian Shield Development, a natural corporate name for a petroleum industry leader with decades of experience in the Middle East. His efforts were focused in Yemen, as were those of Hunt Oil. It should be noted that Arabian Shield also dealt in nickel. There can be little doubt that during his travels, Crichton had developed friendships with executives of some of the world’s leading oil behemoths, including American geologist James Terry Duce, an executive of Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO), which is provocative in light of the familiarity Lafitte assigned to the November 5 entry, “Terry says call…” followed by Crichton’s home address in North Dallas. Jack Crichton died on December 10, 2007 at the age of 91. . . . Before leaving the Tyler-Longview area, it is of interest that when it came time to sell a sizable ranch in East Texas, the family of founding partner of Delta Drilling, Ukrainian born Sam Dorfman chose the international real estate firm Previews, Inc. to handle the transaction. Sam’s close relative, Louis Dorfman, Jr.’s Dallas office was located in R. L. Thornton’s Mercantile National Bank introducing another web of interlocking interests, both business and political. Thornton served on the board of Jack Crichton’s Amarillo-based Dorchester Gas, along with D. H. Byrd, owner of the building located at 411 Elm. Mercantile National was housed in a pair of adjacent buildings: one was home of the bank, and the other, Mercantile Continental, served as headquarters of H. L. Hunt Oil in 1963, a fact that has long fueled speculation that Ruby’s visit to the twin buildings was somehow related to his gunning down the accused assassin Oswald, then in custody of Dallas law enforcement. Hunt is also alleged to have dispatched his head of security, Paul Rothermel, to secure a copy of Abraham Zapruder’s film which was alleged to have captured the disturbing images and incriminating detail of the assassination. A reminder to the reader that the name Rothermel appears in the financial ledger of Lafitte. First edition copies of the Z film are said to be still in existence. . . . Mattie Byrd shared the 7th floor with the Dallas office of global chemical conglomerate DuPont Corp. and its subsidiaries, Remington Arms and Peters Cartridge, whose corporate headquarters were located in the Connecticut National Bank building, Bridgeport CT. (See Endnote.) We encountered Remington Arms in our pursuit of Carolyn Hawley Davis, wife of Thomas Eli Davis, Jr. whose name skirts on the edges of references to Loran Eugene Hall, Logue’s choice to take a shot at the president. (Note: Hall was in California at the time Thomas Eli Davis, III was running his alleged scam to recruit mercenaries for an invasion of Haiti. Hall corroborated the story and added that he believed that Davis’s wife had worked briefly for H. L. Hunt in his Dallas accounting department. Whether or not this was Carolyn Hawley, Tom’s second wife, has not been determined; if true, it establishes a direct tie between Hawley, Davis and H. L. Hunt.) . . . In the spring of 1963, Wesley Rogers leased office space for six separate oil and gas entities in the Oak Plaza professional building at 3707 Rawlins. As noted, Rogers joined an exclusive roster of new tenants that included Barron Kidd Oil (under seven separate business names), Delhi Properties managed by J. Sowell—a former tenant of the Adolphus Tower, who stood as groomsman for Barron Kidd, Jr., in the du Pont/Kidd wedding in Delaware—All World Travel agency, Tom Stanley’s architectural firm, and John Tysen’s Previews, Inc. Within the decade, Rogers would become the father-in-law of Donald A. Byrd, former Dallas Police officer who served in the narcotics division under Pat Gannaway at the time of the assassination of Kennedy. Byrd would eventually advance to the position of Dallas Police Chief, a powerful post he held until crashing his car into a tree in the Highland Park neighborhood on his way home from a party hosted by one of H. L. Hunt’s sons. During his tenure, Byrd was in charge of approving release of department documents pertaining to events in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963. . . . After arriving in Dallas, Morris began cultivating associations with right-wing extremists including the generals and their acolytes, the Schmidt brothers, and the man with the financial means, H. L. Hunt. As a skilled counterintelligence propagandist, Morris was now in the perfect position to assist with furthering the legend of Lee Harvey Oswald. It behooves us to offer a verbatim account of Mae Brussell’s assessment of the Walker “incident.” One can clearly recognize the hand of a skilled propagandist like Morris: Larrie Schmidt was traveling in a car with Joe Grinnan, a coordinator for the Dallas chapter of the JBS when they first heard the news of the assassination. Schmidt’s brother Bob had followed him to Dallas where he was soon added to the payroll of General Walker. (Note: It has never been established that Socony-Mobile oil geologist Volkmar Schmidt, was related to the Schmidt brothers, but according to Warren Commission testimony, he too “came from Germany.” According to assassination researcher Mae Brussell, Volkmar Schmidt was from Munich.) Investigative journalist Dick Russell, in his groundbreaking book, The Man Who Knew Too Much, asserts that according to a former employee of H. L. Hunt, the Schmidt brothers were with Lee Harvey Oswald when Walker was fired on while sitting in the library of his home on Turtle Creek . . . Graduate Research Center of the Southwest: Former Texas Governor Alan Shivers must be recognized as having fought Kennedy’s stance on the Texas Tidelands case on behalf H. L. Hunt and Clint Murchison and their fellow independent oilmen while he served as governor in Austin. Although he was not a resident of Dallas, Shivers was a member of boards around the city including St. Mark’s School, where Ruth Paine taught part-time as well as the newly formed Graduate Research Center of the Southwest, through which Sam Ballen, close friend of George de Mohrenschildt, was first introduced to Everett Glover of Mobil Oil, named in the Lafitte datebook.

Perhaps you might dial down the enhancement meds?

If that's the case, why don't you call out Spencer and Fuentes, or have you on this forum and I've simply missed it. You rely on Posobiec, do you not? If he's a victim of guilt by association, he has a megaphone to make clear he's not aligned with self avowed N-azis. re. H. L. Hunt et al. Willoughby & d. Valle NO re Madrid Church group meet. check with Hunt & Vickers —Lafitte datebook, June 5, 1963 Prior to publication of Coup, I lobbied that serious consideration should be given to the possibility Lafitte is referring to H. L. Hunt. The fact that Rothermel appears in another Lafitte record persuaded us that it was certainly a possibility. However, the context of the June 5 entry, and the other Hunt entry weighed heavily in favor of E. Howard Hunt. For the record, Matthew, the following excerpts include reference to H. L. Hunt … hardly a public relations coup for the hardline andti-Semite, racist, anti-segregationist, State’s Rights toxic capitalist and his family and ilk, would you say? Apparently, as I suspected, you haven’t actually read Coup. A page from the financial ledger maintained by Pierre Lafitte brings the Countess’s story full circle. He writes, “Using old American Oil Mission cover with Harvey (JA),” which is clear reference to Aline’s American Oil Office. That particular ledger sheet also includes the names of Willoughby—a primary suspect in this investigation, Conrad Hilton [Hilton Hotels and board member of General Dynamics behind the F-111 scandal which Bobby Baker was embroiled in during the fall of ’63], ad man Rosser Reeves who was the brother-in-law of David Ogilvy who authored the mission statement for Bill Donovan’s WCC, and Charles Spofford, Gen. Eisenhower’s trusted confidant who along with Ogilvy ran Ike’s presidential campaign, coining the tag, “I Like Ike.” The other name, “Rothermel,” can be safely assumed to refer to Paul Rothermel, confidential assistant to Dallas oilman H. L. Hunt. Aline’s service to Frank Ryan and the World Commerce Corp. and reference to her old cover, American Oil indicate a certain continuity of intelligence operations throughout the Cold War. . . . While other events in the days and months prior to the assassination have propelled researchers to accuse Hunt of involvement, including the alleged visit to the Hunt Oil offices by Jack Ruby, the documented fact that Jack Crichton signed on as a director of the board of the H. L. Hunt Foundation in July of that year, and whether or not Marina Oswald went to the Hunt offices in the days after the death of her husband, few have paid sufficient attention to Hunt’s true ire toward Kennedy—an ire shared in particular with oilman Clint Murchison—grounded in the new president’s position on the Texas Tidelands Case and the oil depletion allowance that could have a permanent negative impact on the bottom line of their empires. Archconservatives and spectacularly wealthy oil men H. L. Hunt and Clint Murchison—one of whom deplored the government, the other manipulated it for personal gain—serve as archetypes of the independent oilman in Texas, many of whom were headquartered in Dallas. Along with Jack Crichton, Robert G. Storey, Jr., and Algur Meadows, all of whom warrant intense scrutiny and whose names appear in Lafitte’s records, Hunt and Murchison and dozens of similar ilk belong in any analysis of what Lafitte’s wife meant when she opined, “ . . . oil smoothes the way to silent, and sometimes deadly, change.” With the preceding as backdrop, we move now to five primary locations central to the assassination of President Kennedy.. . . According to esteemed assassination researcher and author Prof. Peter D. Scott, Crichton signed on as director of the newly formed H. L. Hunt Foundation as evidenced in a document dated July 22, 1963, one day after Crichton’s 488th Military Intelligence concluded annual training. In 1956, while engaged in machinations in Batista’s Cuba, Crichton had time and inclination to organize the 488th which he headquartered in Dallas, with himself ultimately responsible. The stated focus of the unit was covert petrochemical intelligence studies at home and abroad, including in the Soviet Union. In direct control of the unit was Lt. Col. George Whitmeyer, commander of all Army Reserve units in oil-rich East Texas, home of Delta Drilling. Delta had been integral to the 1952 Meadows-Skorzeny venture in Spain. It has been repeatedly estimated that at least fifty percent of the Dallas Police Department’s officers and detectives were members of the 488th Intelligence Detachment. During an interview about the 488th, Crichton claimed there were “about a hundred men in the unit and about forty or fifty of them were from the Dallas Police Department.” The 488th annual training in ’63 took place at The Pentagon, one of only two attachments from Texas to be in DC that summer. . . . Contributing to Crichton’s joining the board of the Hunt Foundation that summer was his shared political views with H. L. Hunt, the eccentric oilman who, but for his wealth might never have been taken seriously. Their rigid position on segregation was best exemplified during Crichton’s 1964 run for Texas governor when he argued against “the unjust, unconstitutional federally forced desegregation in the state of Texas.” In light of datebook entries referring to meetings with Jack Crichton through the year, it is possible that he also served as conduit for funding from H. L. Hunt. It has been reported that Crichton met with oilman and influence buyer H. L. Hunt the day after that assassination. Crichton’s failed attempt to secure nomination of the Republican Party in their effort to remove John Connolly as Governor of Texas in 1964 did not slow him down. Among his last major enterprises was Arabian Shield Development, a natural corporate name for a petroleum industry leader with decades of experience in the Middle East. His efforts were focused in Yemen, as were those of Hunt Oil. It should be noted that Arabian Shield also dealt in nickel. There can be little doubt that during his travels, Crichton had developed friendships with executives of some of the world’s leading oil behemoths, including American geologist James Terry Duce, an executive of Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO), which is provocative in light of the familiarity Lafitte assigned to the November 5 entry, “Terry says call…” followed by Crichton’s home address in North Dallas. Jack Crichton died on December 10, 2007 at the age of 91. . . . Before leaving the Tyler-Longview area, it is of interest that when it came time to sell a sizable ranch in East Texas, the family of founding partner of Delta Drilling, Ukrainian born Sam Dorfman chose the international real estate firm Previews, Inc. to handle the transaction. Sam’s close relative, Louis Dorfman, Jr.’s Dallas office was located in R. L. Thornton’s Mercantile National Bank introducing another web of interlocking interests, both business and political. Thornton served on the board of Jack Crichton’s Amarillo-based Dorchester Gas, along with D. H. Byrd, owner of the building located at 411 Elm. Mercantile National was housed in a pair of adjacent buildings: one was home of the bank, and the other, Mercantile Continental, served as headquarters of H. L. Hunt Oil in 1963, a fact that has long fueled speculation that Ruby’s visit to the twin buildings was somehow related to his gunning down the accused assassin Oswald, then in custody of Dallas law enforcement. Hunt is also alleged to have dispatched his head of security, Paul Rothermel, to secure a copy of Abraham Zapruder’s film which was alleged to have captured the disturbing images and incriminating detail of the assassination. A reminder to the reader that the name Rothermel appears in the financial ledger of Lafitte. First edition copies of the Z film are said to be still in existence. . . . Mattie Byrd shared the 7th floor with the Dallas office of global chemical conglomerate DuPont Corp. and its subsidiaries, Remington Arms and Peters Cartridge, whose corporate headquarters were located in the Connecticut National Bank building, Bridgeport CT. (See Endnote.) We encountered Remington Arms in our pursuit of Carolyn Hawley Davis, wife of Thomas Eli Davis, Jr. whose name skirts on the edges of references to Loran Eugene Hall, Logue’s choice to take a shot at the president. (Note: Hall was in California at the time Thomas Eli Davis, III was running his alleged scam to recruit mercenaries for an invasion of Haiti. Hall corroborated the story and added that he believed that Davis’s wife had worked briefly for H. L. Hunt in his Dallas accounting department. Whether or not this was Carolyn Hawley, Tom’s second wife, has not been determined; if true, it establishes a direct tie between Hawley, Davis and H. L. Hunt.) . . . In the spring of 1963, Wesley Rogers leased office space for six separate oil and gas entities in the Oak Plaza professional building at 3707 Rawlins. As noted, Rogers joined an exclusive roster of new tenants that included Barron Kidd Oil (under seven separate business names), Delhi Properties managed by J. Sowell—a former tenant of the Adolphus Tower, who stood as groomsman for Barron Kidd, Jr., in the du Pont/Kidd wedding in Delaware—All World Travel agency, Tom Stanley’s architectural firm, and John Tysen’s Previews, Inc. Within the decade, Rogers would become the father-in-law of Donald A. Byrd, former Dallas Police officer who served in the narcotics division under Pat Gannaway at the time of the assassination of Kennedy. Byrd would eventually advance to the position of Dallas Police Chief, a powerful post he held until crashing his car into a tree in the Highland Park neighborhood on his way home from a party hosted by one of H. L. Hunt’s sons. During his tenure, Byrd was in charge of approving release of department documents pertaining to events in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963. . . . After arriving in Dallas, Morris began cultivating associations with right-wing extremists including the generals and their acolytes, the Schmidt brothers, and the man with the financial means, H. L. Hunt. As a skilled counterintelligence propagandist, Morris was now in the perfect position to assist with furthering the legend of Lee Harvey Oswald. It behooves us to offer a verbatim account of Mae Brussell’s assessment of the Walker “incident.” One can clearly recognize the hand of a skilled propagandist like Morris: Larrie Schmidt was traveling in a car with Joe Grinnan, a coordinator for the Dallas chapter of the JBS when they first heard the news of the assassination. Schmidt’s brother Bob had followed him to Dallas where he was soon added to the payroll of General Walker. (Note: It has never been established that Socony-Mobile oil geologist Volkmar Schmidt, was related to the Schmidt brothers, but according to Warren Commission testimony, he too “came from Germany.” According to assassination researcher Mae Brussell, Volkmar Schmidt was from Munich.) Investigative journalist Dick Russell, in his groundbreaking book, The Man Who Knew Too Much, asserts that according to a former employee of H. L. Hunt, the Schmidt brothers were with Lee Harvey Oswald when Walker was fired on while sitting in the library of his home on Turtle Creek . . . Graduate Research Center of the Southwest: Former Texas Governor Alan Shivers must be recognized as having fought Kennedy’s stance on the Texas Tidelands case on behalf H. L. Hunt and Clint Murchison and their fellow independent oilmen while he served as governor in Austin. Although he was not a resident of Dallas, Shivers was a member of boards around the city including St. Mark’s School, where Ruth Paine taught part-time as well as the newly formed Graduate Research Center of the Southwest, through which Sam Ballen, close friend of George de Mohrenschildt, was first introduced to Everett Glover of Mobil Oil, named in the Lafitte datebook.

Apologies if I've confused you with others who defend Souetre. I do recall you suggesting that perhaps a bit of $$ across the table might convince a Souetre family member to cooperate. Are you on someone's payroll? Drawing from Matthew Koch's playbook, eh? Very indicative of a women humiliated or scorned. Initially, I thought you were enlightened at least to the etent you would never play the "female" card with a fellow researcher. I see now that you apply your professional skills at manipulation 'off the clock' as it were. fwiw, I thought about canceling my membership on this forum, but you and Koch have waved a red flag at a mother bear. I once asked Hank why he contacted me to co-author the book and he explained that he had been following my research for a number of years, and added, "because I know you'll lower the boom when needed." The book, by the way, was a collaboration, a joint work as indicated on our US copyright.

Your inability to process my remarks is not my failure. And, attempts to manipulate me into defending those whose ideology fueled the conspiracy to kill Kennedy in Dallas are futile. Read Chapter 9 of Coup in Dallas, "Dallas . . . Lay of the Land" and get back to me.

I deliberately didn't quote SPLC, knowing your likely response. You're fairly transparent, and I respect that quality. Spencer landed a headline for doing so. Have you no grasp of Stone's dirty tricks?

Pseudo-psychology seems to be your forté, Chris. If you're so enlightened, why not dig a little deeper into the parallels of the collective psyche over the past 7 years, and the collective mindset in the years leading to the assassination of Kennedy in Dallas? And why are you convinced that Jean Souetre wasn't in Dallas? Because he said so? Perhaps an analyst might find fertile ground.

I'm sure you agree that Jack Posobiec comes across as a wannabe sidekick of Richard Spencer. It was Bill Regnery who philosophically and financially mentored what became known in the mid-2000s as the “alt-right.” Avowed Neo-National Socialist Richard Spencer served as his spokesman. While at Duke University, Spencer had brushed against a future advisor to the 45th president, Stephen Miller, who would later serve as aid to Senator and future Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Together, the two archconservatives formulated the idea of “nation-state populism”, an economic nationalist movement modeled on the populism of Andrew Jackson, the senator from Tennessee before becoming the seventh president of the United States whose harsh policies toward enslaved people and Native Americans are a blight on America’s past. Nation-state populism would greatly influence the Trump anti-immigration campaign. Most Europeans recognize a Fascist when he arrives on the scene . . . in fact didn't a powerful block of rational, educated Italians run Bannon out of town? Richard B. Spencer: The founder of alt-right presents racism in a chic new outfit — European Center for Populism Studies, June 28, 2021 . . . In 2010, he [Richard Spencer] founded AlternativeRight.com, a white supremacy-themed webzine aimed at the “intellectual right-wing,” (SPLC, n.d.). The site caught the attention of the conservative publisher William Regnery II, who had tried to start a whites-only online dating service and funded the white nationalist National Policy Institute (NPI). With Regnery’s backing (Harkinson, 2016), Spencer became president of NPI in 2011, following the death of its chairman. Concurrently, he also oversaw NPI’s publishing division, Washington Summit Publishers, home of such scientifically bogus works as a 2015 reissue of Richard Lynn’s Race Differences in Intelligence and screeds by other white nationalists, including Jared Taylor, editor of the racist American Renaissance journal, and Sam Francis, the late editor of the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens’ newsletter (SPLC, n.d.). https://www.populismstudies.org/richard-b-spencer-the-founder-of-alt-right-presents-racism-in-a-chic-new-outfit/

It was Bill Regnery who philosophically and financially mentored what became known in the mid-2000s as the “alt-right.” Avowed Neo-National Socialist Richard Spencer served as his spokesman. While at Duke University, Spencer had brushed against a future advisor to the 45th president, Stephen Miller, who would later serve as aid to Senator and future Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Together, the two archconservatives formulated the idea of “nation-state populism”, an economic nationalist movement modeled on the populism of Andrew Jackson, the senator from Tennessee before becoming the seventh president of the United States whose harsh policies toward enslaved people and Native Americans are a blight on America’s past. Nation-state populism would greatly influence the Trump anti-immigration campaign. I'm sure you agree that Jack Posobiec comes across as a wannabe sidekick of Richard Spencer. Most Europeans recognize a Fascist when he arrives on the scene . . . in fact didn't a powerful block of rational, educated Italians run Bannon out of town? Richard B. Spencer: The founder of alt-right presents racism in a chic new outfit — European Center for Populism Studies, June 28, 2021 . . . In 2010, he [Richard Spencer] founded AlternativeRight.com, a white supremacy-themed webzine aimed at the “intellectual right-wing,” (SPLC, n.d.). The site caught the attention of the conservative publisher William Regnery II, who had tried to start a whites-only online dating service and funded the white nationalist National Policy Institute (NPI). With Regnery’s backing (Harkinson, 2016), Spencer became president of NPI in 2011, following the death of its chairman. Concurrently, he also oversaw NPI’s publishing division, Washington Summit Publishers, home of such scientifically bogus works as a 2015 reissue of Richard Lynn’s Race Differences in Intelligence and screeds by other white nationalists, including Jared Taylor, editor of the racist American Renaissance journal, and Sam Francis, the late editor of the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens’ newsletter (SPLC, n.d.). https://www.populismstudies.org/richard-b-spencer-the-founder-of-alt-right-presents-racism-in-a-chic-new-outfit/

Why do you think I'm here, Chris? And why do you think I picked up the gauntlet in 1994 having read Dick Russell's The Man Who Knew Too Much? I'm certainly not the one who spends time defending Jean Rene Souetre.

I'm compelled to respond to you when you make flagrantly false assertions. You write, Because you said the mods and admins were censoring the word (N)azi because they were sympathizers who were taken to that side through reading Rodger Stones Book on the JFKA.. I asserted that there was a time when researchers shared Kennedy's politics and ideology, and it is unfortunate that forums have been infiltrated by those whose ideals are anathema to what he stood for. Roger Stone is in that category. No doubt you're aware that Stone's political career was launched with the Goldwater presidential campaign, and that the latter was the favored candidate of the John Birch Society whose members included General Edwin Walker, a key figure in the plot to assassination Kennedy? It should be noted that in 1964, as presidential candidate Barry Goldwater marched toward the nomination to challenge Johnson who was destined to fill Kennedy’s shoes. . . Regnery Press published three pro-Goldwater campaign-focused books, including Schreiber’s which they believed would make the biggest splash. Regnery was the creation of descendants of William H. Regnery, a founder of the “America First Committee” which was formed in the 1930s in opposition to US involvement in matters it believed were strictly between Europeans and Hitler’s N-azis. More will be said about Regnery as this book comes to a close . . . In response to questions about the 2016 campaign and election, William “Bill” Regnery, grandson of one of the founders of the America First Committee and nephew of publisher Henry Regnery, seemingly appreciated the archetypal role filled by Donald Trump when he reached for a word to describe the effect: “I think Trump was a legitimizer,” he argued. White nationalism “went from being a conversation you could hold in a bathroom, to the front parlor,” said Regnery. His family publishing house, Regnery Publishing’s first two titles had been critical of the Nuremberg Trials, and the third was a pro-National Socialist book attacking the Allied air campaign of WWII. By 1954, Regnery was doing its part in advancing the Cold War with publication of books for the John Birch Society. According to CIA agent E. Howard Hunt, who is cited in the Lafitte records, the agency had subsidized Regnery because of “its pro-National Socialist stance.” Hunt had been central to many CIA operations run by CIA officer Tracy Barnes. . . . 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 . . . Isn't it ironic that your mentor Jack Posobiec ended up at humanevents.com? And, please provide a quote from our book that includes the term Jewish Fascist? Similar to your ideological mentors — Posobiec, Carlson, Bannon and their ilk — you "summarize" to suit your extremist agenda, the same agenda behind the plot to assassinate Kennedy in Dallas.

Thanks for this, Kirk. Oh the irony that Mr. Koch takes offense at any insult fired at his version of Roman Catholicism yet he has no compunction inserting misogynistic remarks when his back's against the war. (Apparently I'm a scorned woman who should take her meds. Come to think of it, Traditionalism and misogyny go hand in glove.) "Darling of the Dark Enlightenment: The Aristocratic & Radical Traditionalist Julius Evola" — Benjamin Welton . . . Here’s where [Julius] Evola’s second life becomes important. Since the advent of the Internet as a forum for open and unlimited conversation, all kinds of political wonks and esoteric thinkers have taken up Evola’s standard of Radical Traditionalism. His views and work are regularly discussed on the websites Amerika and Alternative Right, while three of his books are proudly listed on the Dark Enlightenment’s reading list under the heading of “Reactionary Thought.” The Dark Enlightenment, which is like plenty of other “movements” strung all across the Internet, has been in the press’s eye lately. Over at Taki’s Mag, author Nicholas James Pell describes the Dark Enlightenment as “a plucky collection of backward-looking upstarts” who are unified by “hysteria and a complete inability to get the point,” while the Daily Telegraph’s Dr. Tim Stanley calls the whole mess “more tragic than it is scary.” On the Left, the Dark Enlightenment is mostly known for being racist, which, like “Right-wing,” has become a smothering blanket for “Things Leftists Would Rather Not Talk About.” The Dark Enlightenment is as hard-to-define as Evola himself, but the one thing for sure is that it does not necessarily view Fascism as a dirty word. Writing for Standpoint in 2013, Hugo Schmidt pronounces that: “the crucial argument of the 21st century will not between Right and Left, but between the democratic Right and the fascist Right.” https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2014/05/darling-dark-enlightenment-aristocratic-radical-traditionalist-julius-evola.html I'm drawing from Welton and his site because the mission statement reads, "The Imaginative Conservative offers to our families, our communities, and the Republic, a conservatism of hope, grace, charity, gratitude and prayer." — common ground shared with thinking liberals.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-anarchists-hbo-docuseries-finale-anarchapulco/

. . . irreversible adieu.

Yes, Lafitte was a close friend of Hunter White since the early '50s. Hank introduced that research in A Terrible Mistake ... the Frank Olson story. Hunter White introduced Lafitte to Angleton.

I happen to be reviewing last year's thread related to the Robert Adams' phone calls to the Paine household and her subsequent WC testimony. It seems to me that in some instances it wasn't necessary to alter the record of the testimony but rather, as Jenner did, simply botch the entire line of questioning.

Bannon in defense of Tucker . . . https://www.mediamatters.org/murdoch-family/steve-bannon-claims-tucker-carlson-had-one-night-push-january-6-revisionism-murdochs “MAGA. it’s out there right now, I want everybody to embrace this because this is on you, we’ve got work to do.” — Steve Bannon, March 8, 2023. In context of the assassination of 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 [cofounded by Steve Bannon]. 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 was the intellectual and spiritual inspiration of leading Italian fascists, including “The Black Prince” Julius Borghese 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. . . . [Windsor]Mann also called attention to a quote which Donald Trump had borrowed from an online account, @ildulce2016: “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.” We know that it was Il Dulce, the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, who was rescued by Hitler’s favorite commando, SS Otto Skorzeny. In 2017 there was a resurgence of interest in Italian philosopher Julius Evola's work, and President Donald Trump's advisor Steve Bannon and also "Putin's Rasputin,” Aleksandr Dugin should be cited among the thinkers of the Right who have been influenced by Evola. . . . *Julius Evola: Evola (1898–1974) was an Italian Philosopher, an advocate of an elitist, idealist variety of Fascism, or some might say N-azism. Influenced by Plato, Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler, Evola espoused an anti-democratic and anti-Semitic return to semi-mystical forms of Medieval Chivalry. During the war Evola met Mussolini immediately after the latter was rescued by Skorzeny. He may also have met Skorzeny there, but this is unconfirmed. His vision inspired Count Valerio Borghese, who wrote an introduction to Evola's book Men Among the Ruins, and also international terrorist Stefano Delle Chiaie. The aforementioned is best considered in historical context, in particular the shared ideology of those behind the plot to assassinate President Kennedy in Dallas . . . . . . Impulsively, Mussolini decided to arrest [Prince Junio Valerio] Borghese [adherent of the philosophy of Julius Evola], but quickly released him, and by late 1944, the Italian fascist dictator and his mistress had been killed and viciously mutilated by frenzied Italian crowds. Allen Dulles quickly requested that US Vice Admiral Ellery Stone act to protect the Black Prince from any harm. Records, indicate that a few months later, on May 9, 1945, OSS officer James Jesus Angleton spirited Borghese, dressed in an American soldier’s uniform, away to safety in Rome. About a week later, Borghese was arrested, tried, and convicted of minor wartime crimes by the Allies. He served only about two years in prison and was then released to become an active force advancing international terrorist activities designed to promote the cause of fascism. Eventually, Borghese was joined in his activities by the notorious terrorist and assassin Stefano Delle Chiaie. Says author Martin Lee in his ground-breaking work, The Beast Reawakens, “Borghese often spoke highly of the five-foot fascist phenom, referring to Delle Chiaie as ‘one of the few men capable of putting things in order in Italy.’” The reader encounters Delle Chiaie in depth later in the chapter, but for now it’s important to note that it was Delle Chiaie who accompanied the Black Prince when they fled Italy for Spain following the botched putsch known as Golph Borghese in December 1970, where they rendezvoused with Otto Skorzeny. According to Lee, “Delle Chiaie glorified violence as a hygienic outburst capable of cutting through the postwar bourgeois morass. During the 1960s, his organization, Avanguardia National Socialistonale (National Vanguard) came to be regarded as the cudgel of Italian right-wing extremism. For guidance and inspiration, Delle Chiaie looked to Julius Evola, the reactionary intellectual who emerged as the gray eminence of postwar Italian fascism.” The Black Prince also held an ideology he believed strongly in, unlike James Jesus Angleton who was wrapped up in the beauty of words and professionally obscuring their use. 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.” Esteemed writer Kevin Coogan notes in his brilliant biography of political philosopher and white nationalist Francis Parker Yockey that “planning for Operation Gladio’s stay-behind network couldn’t succeed without Borghese’s tacit approval.” Writes Coogan, “The CIA then created an underground army of ex-fascist combat veterans in an operation codenamed “Operation Gladio” (Gladio being the name for a Roman double-edged sword). According to Coogan, Julius Evola (who we now recognize was the inspiration of both Valerio Borghese and Stefano Delle Chiaie), was an admirer of Yockey, the top American fascist of the day who we explore later in this chapter, and Evola himself had become involved in the N-azi underground SD (Sicherheidsdienst). In his book, Coogan claims, “Evola’s SD work at the end of the war is shrouded in mystery. Historian Richard Drake says that while he was in Vienna, ‘Evola performed vital liaisons for the SS as National Socialist Germany sought to recruit a European army for the defense of the Continent against the Soviet Union and the United States.” This organization was linked to the Otto Skorzeny underground National Socialist headquarters in Madrid and Buenos Aires.

A reasoned conservative's take on Carlson's latest stunt. MORNING SHOTS Tucker's Firehose of Lies (and Hypocrisy) (And why it’s not going well.) Charlie Sykes https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/tuckers-firehose-of-lies-and-hypocrisy

pinko people like you in this speech. And with that, Matthew, I bid you an irreversible adieu.

Measured deduction is not "guessing", Matthew. Lafitte was oftentimes cryptic, writing on the go as it were, so under the unique circumstances Hank and his coauthors found themselves in, allowing for alternatives was and remains objective reporting. Perhaps you can bring something to the party. Assuming you've actually studied Coup and factoring in your depth of knowledge of the investigation, tell us who you think might be the optimum candidates for "caretaker" and "T"?

Might he have been thinking about his Civil Rights Act? Kennedy was pro-government. He was anti-toxic individuals using the cloak of government intelligence agencies and military to advance their extreme right, neo-fascist ideology. In addition to Dulles, Hoover, consider LeMay, Walker, Lemnitzer, Decker et al.

I agree, Tom. Bentley is another example. Odum is of particular concern as he is the primary candidate for "caretaker" identified in the 1963 datebook maintained by Pierre Lafitte.

90% of the info in the book was already published by William Torbett in the Torbett document back in the 70's. If you mean Torbitt, that's laughable. Choosing to ignore the detail found in the 1963 datebook maintained by Pierre Lafitte as presented in Coup in Dallas suggests that, similar to Greg Doudna, you haven't actually read the book or perhaps you're attempting to divert attention from the revelations therein? You buy into Carlson's recent cherry picked analysis of January 6 knowing that he acknowledged behind the scenes that the Stop the Steal claims were absurd — Stop the Steal launched by Roger Stone and promoted heavily by your mentor Posobiec? Why am I surprised when it was Stone who first infiltrated the Kennedy assassination camp with the distorted ideology that dominates so many forums today. Censoring the use of the term N a z i speaks volumes. There was a time when a majority of those who pursued the facts of the conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy in Dallas did so because they were aligned with Kennedy's political ideology. I wonder if you have a full grasp on what he stood for.

Matthew, Let me know if you find anything in the Postscript that is factually incorrect. I could rebut your assertions point by point, but if you rely on Jack Posobiec as an intellectual, ideological authority figure, I suspect any detailed discussion between us would be an exercise in futility. Perhaps if you haven’t, you might read Frances Stonor Saunders.