The Career of John C McAdams; His Politics & His JFK "research"

[Guest Tom Scully]

http://mu-warrior.blogspot.com/2011/01/does-jfk-assassination-conspiracy.html#comments

Friday, January 07, 2011

Does a JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theorist Have Anything Useful to Say About “Peace”?

....Douglass, being a “peace activist,” sees America as under the control of the evil forces of militarism, an opaque nemesis he calls “The Unspeakable.” Those folks killed JFK, he believes. Since he is including Obama in the talk, we might wonder whether he believes that Obama is, like his mythical Kennedy, an opponent of the militarists, or their lackey.

His answer: “Obama has become an obedient servant to his national security state, and as a result, a source of despair to many of his supporters.”

His book on the JFK assassination gives a lot of insight into his thought processes, which are a jumbled, self-righteous, muddled mess.

His claim that Kennedy had decided that Vietnam was lost, and that the U.S. should pull out and let the Communists take over runs contrary not only to the best historical sources (one of which is Robert Kennedy’s statements in an April 1964 interview) but JFK’s own statements. In September 1963, Kennedy flatly told Walter Cronkite in a broadcast interview “I don’t agree with those who say we should withdraw. That would be a great mistake.”

Also in September, Kennedy was asked by Chet Huntley whether the U.S. should reduce aid to South Vietnam. His reply: “I don’t think that would be helpful at this time.”...

posted by John McAdams at 8:56 PM

9 Comments:

.... John McAdams said...

It's difficult to read your pieces after you write off a student organization that promotes worldwide peace headed by a Jesuit priest.

Are you actually asserting that student organizations are always right?

Are you actually asserting that a "Jesuit priest" is alway right?

As for a "message of peace:" that's not what the organization is about. It's about left-wing politics, and hating America.

1:48 PM

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[Guest Tom Scully]

Whoops! Odds 'n ends.... : (Looks like Peloquin's "career" came full circle. His wife is Margaret Sheridan, but although the two crossed paths and had uncannily similar early resumes, I don't think Mrs. Peloquin is the sister of the late Walter J. Sheridan.....

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:F6Wx04JpGYIJ:www.allacademic.com/pages/p200707-1.php+apalachin+buffalo+robert+peloquin&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.com

(Page 1 of 1) - From Apalachin to the Buffalo Project: Evolution ...

http://www.allacademic.com/pages/p200707-1.php - Cached

discusses some of the early cases prosecuted by Buffalo Strike Force chief Robert Peloquin and his staff of attorneys and investigators.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/regional/s_739551.html

Applicants' unsavory links 'scrubbed,' investigation finds

By Brad Bumsted and Mike Wereschagin, TRIBUNE-REVIEW

Monday, May 30, 2011

HARRISBURG — Nine days after then-Gov. Ed Rendell signed the law legalizing casinos, a convicted felon with alleged mob ties formed a company to build a casino for which he had no license on land he did not own.

He bought the land six months later, in December 2004, about the time the state's Gaming Control Board met for the first time. He broke ground on the $400 million casino in July 2006, six months before the first $50 million licenses were awarded.

"You would have to be, I guess, pretty rich or pretty sure that you were going to get a license if you were going to do that," a former investigator for the gaming board told a state grand jury, according to a report it released last week.

The person who was pretty sure, pretty rich or both was Scranton millionaire Louis DeNaples, former owner of Mount Airy Casino Resort in the Poconos.

DeNaples could not be reached. A spokesman for Mount Airy said the casino and officials named in the grand jury report declined comment.

The report provides a glimpse into the inner workings of the gaming board, as officials worked at a frantic pace to award 11 casino licenses in 2006 and make good on Rendell's campaign promise of property tax relief.

The report accuses the board of putting casino applicants ahead of the public. It alleges that controversial information about applicants was "scrubbed" from reports and that supervisors thwarted investigators as they looked into casino owners' backgrounds.

Investigators checking into Presque Isle Downs in Erie found casino associates with alleged mob ties and convictions for gambling, tax evasion, theft and murder. All of it was left out of Presque Isle's final suitability report. Supervisors told investigators not to interview certain employees, blocked requests for information and, after the license was awarded, told them to back off because if they found anything else, "it would make the board look bad," according to the grand jury report.

A spokeswoman for Presque Isle could not be reached.

The grand jury recommended no criminal charges, but said DeNaples' casino bid "was treated differently almost from the start."

According to the report, Donald Shiffer, a gaming board lawyer assigned to vet one of DeNaples' competitors, took an early and persistent interest in DeNaples' application.

Though repeatedly told he wasn't assigned to look into Mount Airy, Shiffer tried to insert himself into DeNaples' licensing process, according to the grand jury. Shiffer exchanged dozens of phone calls with DeNaples' daughter, Lisa DeNaples, who now owns the resort, according to the report.

Board member Ray Angeli brought Shiffer into closed-door meetings about Mount Airy. Witnesses told the grand jury Shiffer would hand notes to Angeli, and whisper in his ear during the hearings. "Everybody knew he was there for Louie DeNaples," according to grand jury testimony.

Angeli could not be reached.

Shiffer left the gaming board in August 2007, eight months after DeNaples got a license. He claimed his practice would be "absolutely unrelated to gaming," and went to work for a law firm representing Mount Airy — even getting an office in the casino, the grand jury said. He became the casino's vice president and general counsel.

The Mount Airy spokesman reiterated there would be no comment from anyone at the casino.

The grand jury cites nine individuals, mostly lawyers, who left the board to work for casinos or law firms representing them.

The report shows the board operating in a gray area, "a landscape between something criminal and something inappropriate," said Christopher Borick, a political science professor at Muhlenberg College in Allentown.

Although the grand jury makes 21 recommendations to improve the board, "the problem is it's after the fact — the genie is out of the bottle," Borick said.

One license remains unawarded, and it must go to a harness race track; another, for a stand-alone casino, may be available but it's tied up in litigation.

"I don't think it's ever too late to get it right," said Rep. Kerry Benninghoff, R-Centre County....

http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070927/NEWS/709270338

DeNaples picks 3 for audit panel | PoconoRecord.com

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Pocono Record - Sep 27, 2007

Robert D. Peloquin, a former federal prosecutor who lives in Fairfield, ... to 1987 and served on an audit committee at the Sands Casino in Atlantic City. ...

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PENNSYLVANIA GAMING CONTROL BOARD KEYSTONE BUILDING PUC HEARING ...

http://www.pgcb.state.pa.us/files/meetings/Meeting_Transcript_20071017.pdf

File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat

Oct 17, 2007 – to Mr. Peloquin. 13. I ask that you now consider a motion for. 14. Robert D. Peloquin as a member of the Mount Airy, No.

http://www.gettysburgtimes.com/obituaries/article_ef692cf2-58ed-11e0-b70b-001cc4c002e0.html

Posted: Sunday, March 27, 2011 11:45 pm

Robert D. Peloquin, 82, of Plantation, Fla., and Fairfield, died in his sleep of heart failure this Thursday, March 24, 2011.

He was born Jan. 9, 1929 in Fall River, Mass., the son of Charles G. and Loretta Harpin Peloquin. Bob is survived by his wife of 59 years, Margaret “Peggy” Sheridan Peloquin of Washington, D.C.

Upon graduation from Georgetown University, Bob enrolled as an officer with the U.S. Navy in the midst of the Korean conflict and actively served until 1955. He continued to serve in the U.S. Naval Reserves through 20 years when he retired at the rank of commander. The year following his discharge from active service, he graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center and began work as a deputy chief at the National Security Agency.

In 1957 Bob joined the U.S. Department of Justice where he served as an attorney for the next decade. He served as a special trial attorney with the Organized Crime and Racketeering Division, Special Assistant to the Asst. Attorney General for Organized Crime Matters, and finally as Chief of Organized Crime Special Strike Forces. Bob received the Attorney General’s Outstanding Performance Award for 1966.

In 1967 Bob joined the NFL Commissioner’s office as Associate House Counsel, and subsequently formed the Washington law firm of Hundley & Peloquin. In 1970 he founded International Intelligence (INTERTEL), a private firm of former government investigators with a global clientele list. He served as Intertel’s president and chairman until 1985 when he joined Resorts International. He retired from the company in 1990 as Chairman, Resorts International, Bahamas. He continued to practice law with an emphasis in casino regulation until this past winter.

The son of a grocer and a schoolteacher, Bob was an avid skier, horseback rider, and airplane and helicopter pilot....

http://thespypost.com/2011/04/08/sad-news-the-death-of-robert-peloquin-who-ran-howard-hughes-private-intelligence-ops/

Sad News: The Death of Robert Peloquin, Who Ran Howard Hughes’ Private Intelligence Ops

Posted on April 8, 2011 by thespypost

...Peloquin and his wife Peggy were extremely gracious to me in 2008 when I visited their farm in Fairfield, Pennsylvania to hear Peloquin’s life story. He told me he was still grateful to Howard Hughes, waiving his hands in the direction of his soybean fields and explaining that Hughes’ money was the reason he could afford the farm....

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZZtlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VosNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1052,5700871&dq=cal-hill+intertel&hl=en

American Served In City With Papers In Us Suit .

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Vancouver Sun - Nov 28, 1973

The denial was made in an interview by Cal Hill, a for mer member of the Royal Ca nadian Mounted Police and who now runs the Canadian subsidiary of Intertel ....

...Reynolds asked if Andras is aware that a special agent for has kept tabs on ... is aware that Intertel is the security arm of Hughes Tool Co. and security ....

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3mw_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=L1QMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1412,5100738&dq=cal-hill+intertel&hl=en

They Blow The Whistle Before It's A Whodunit .These Sleuths...

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Financial Post - Dec 30, 1972

Cal Hill was on loan from the RCMP because Buffalo's organized crime acvilies ... organized crime Three years after Peloquin formed Intertel Hill left the ...

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-01-18/news/9501180177_1_robert-kennedy-edward-m-kennedy-kennedy-family

Walter J. Sheridan, 69

Investigated James Hoffa

January 18, 1995|By New York Times News Service.

....Mr. Sheridan was an agent for the FBI for four years but resigned, he said later, because J. Edgar Hoover's fierce brand of anti-communism made him uneasy. He was also an investigator for the National Security Agency for three years.

More Background and Connections :

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=13975&view=findpost&p=196906

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=9242&view=findpost&p=182824

[Guest Tom Scully]

http://www.gettysburgtimes.com/obituaries/article_ef692cf2-58ed-11e0-b70b-001cc4c002e0.html

Posted: Sunday, March 27, 2011 11:45 pm

Robert D. Peloquin, 82, of Plantation, Fla., and Fairfield, died in his sleep of heart failure this Thursday, March 24, 2011.

He was born Jan. 9, 1929 in Fall River, Mass., the son of Charles G. and Loretta Harpin Peloquin. Bob is survived by his wife of 59 years, Margaret “Peggy” Sheridan Peloquin of Washington, D.C.

Upon graduation from Georgetown University, Bob enrolled as an officer with the U.S. Navy in the midst of the Korean conflict and actively served until 1955. He continued to serve in the U.S. Naval Reserves through 20 years when he retired at the rank of commander. The year following his discharge from active service, he graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center and began work as a deputy chief at the National Security Agency.

In 1957 Bob joined the U.S. Department of Justice where he served as an attorney for the next decade. He served as a special trial attorney with the Organized Crime and Racketeering Division, Special Assistant to the Asst. Attorney General for Organized Crime Matters, and finally as Chief of Organized Crime Special Strike Forces. Bob received the Attorney General’s Outstanding Performance Award for 1966.

In 1967 Bob joined the NFL Commissioner’s office as Associate House Counsel, and subsequently formed the Washington law firm of Hundley & Peloquin. In 1970 he founded International Intelligence (INTERTEL), a private firm of former government investigators with a global clientele list. He served as Intertel’s president and chairman until 1985 when he joined Resorts International. He retired from the company in 1990 as Chairman, Resorts International, Bahamas. He continued to practice law with an emphasis in casino regulation until this past winter.

The son of a grocer and a schoolteacher, Bob was an avid skier, horseback rider, and airplane and helicopter pilot....

http://thespypost.com/2011/04/08/sad-news-the-death-of-robert-peloquin-who-ran-howard-hughes-private-intelligence-ops/

Sad News: The Death of Robert Peloquin, Who Ran Howard Hughes’ Private Intelligence Ops

Posted on April 8, 2011 by thespypost

...Peloquin and his wife Peggy were extremely gracious to me in 2008 when I visited their farm in Fairfield, Pennsylvania to hear Peloquin’s life story. He told me he was still grateful to Howard Hughes, waiving his hands in the direction of his soybean fields and explaining that Hughes’ money was the reason he could afford the farm....

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZZtlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VosNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1052,5700871&dq=cal-hill+intertel&hl=en

American Served In City With Papers In Us Suit .

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Vancouver Sun - Nov 28, 1973

The denial was made in an interview by Cal Hill, a for mer member of the Royal Ca nadian Mounted Police and who now runs the Canadian subsidiary of Intertel ....

...Reynolds asked if Andras is aware that a special agent for has kept tabs on ... is aware that Intertel is the security arm of Hughes Tool Co. and security ....

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3mw_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=L1QMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1412,5100738&dq=cal-hill+intertel&hl=en

They Blow The Whistle Before It's A Whodunit .These Sleuths...

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Financial Post - Dec 30, 1972

Cal Hill was on loan from the RCMP because Buffalo's organized crime acvilies ... organized crime Three years after Peloquin formed Intertel Hill left the ...

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Wean's account, coupled with Jim Phelps 'DoeWatch,' Piper's 'Final Judgement,' The Torbitt Document, The GemStone files, The Northwoods stuff, Opium Lords, along with this piece below, leaves my head spinning. Too bad that much of the piece on Hughes is post-assassination - but a lot of interesting players involved. Also mutliple parallels - sugar, drugs, nuclear weapons, nuclear fallout and toxic effects of testing, Vietnam, Cuba, mining, gambling, Maffia, CIA, etc.

Age of Secrets - The Conspiracy that Toppled Richard Nixon and the Hidden Death of Howard Hughes by Gerald Bellett

(notes from the book)

http://www.maebrussell.com/Articles%20and%...s%20Pt%201.html