Alecia Long lays an egg

[James DiEugenio]

That is true Chuck and I always felt it was overlooked.

 

[James DiEugenio]

BTW, you know how bad the Long and Litwin books are?

its pretty clear that the FPCC and DRE confrontation was a staged event in New Orleans. I mean, Oswald was the only member of the former and he operated out of Banister's office. And both the CIA and FBI had anti FPCC programs ongoing. Joannides ran the DRE to the tune of 51 K per month. Oswald wrote about this event  a week in advance.

What happened there caused the complete destruction of the FPCC, a goal of the CIA.  And the DRE, used it to announce to the world the first cover story: Oswald killed JFK for Castro. Later, CIA officer form JM/WAVE, William Kent, said that Oswald served as a useful idiot.

David Phillips started both groups, the DRE and the anti FPCC crusade. There is evidence that Phillips was in Banister's office in late 1960 with Banister and Butler to arrange a Cuban exile telethon for New Orleans.

See if you find any of this information, or Phillips' name, in either book.

They are cover up books. Plain and simple. 

 

Edited November 7, 2021 by James DiEugenio

[Benjamin Cole]

14 hours ago, Chuck Schwartz said:

David Atlee Phillips was a close friend of Mclendon. In 1975 McLendon and David Atlee Phillips formed the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO). 

Chuck--

Yes, I had temporarily forgotten that. Well, at my age maybe I had permanently forgotten it, so thanks for the reminder.  So, whatever is in the McLendon file would cause immediate harm to national security if released. 

But, you see, LHO was nobody and McLendon just owned media. Ruby was a nightclub operator who took care of his girls. 

 

 

[Ron Bulman]

16 hours ago, Chuck Schwartz said:

David Atlee Phillips was a close friend of Mclendon. In 1975 McLendon and David Atlee Phillips formed the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO). 

I'd bet the knew each other in 1963.

[Chuck Schwartz]

Ron, you would win that bet.  This is from Who/What /Where web site..David Phillips even had one friend, Gordon McLendon, in common with Jack Ruby. McLendon, a sometime intelligence officer and Dallas owner of radio stations, had known Phillips since both men were in their teens.

[Chuck Schwartz]

And, this came from the Kennedys and King website...https://www.kennedysandking.com/images/2018/bleau-mechanism/bleau-phillips.pdf

[W. Tracy Parnell]

On 11/6/2021 at 9:00 AM, Chuck Schwartz said:

David Atlee Phillips was a close friend of Mclendon. In 1975 McLendon and David Atlee Phillips formed the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO). 

Wrong. Phillips formed the group on his own.

From the AFIO website:

"CIA officer David Atlee Phillips took early retirement in 1975 to respond to the growing sentiment that the CIA was a “rogue elephant.” As part of this effort, Phillips founded this organization, known then as the Association of Retired Intelligence Officers (ARIO)."

"From its inception in Dave Phillips’ living room and a few hundred members in 1975, AFIO has grown to over 5000 members, with 24 active chapters across the United States."

AFIO - About Us

Also see The Night Watch, p. 271 and The Last Assignment: David Atlee Phillips and the Birth of CIA Public Relations.

Edited November 8, 2021 by W. Tracy Parnell

[James DiEugenio]

That piece of information was first surfaced I think by Peter Scott, and then John Armstrong used it adroitly in his book.

Further, don't quote me on this, but I think Ruby was in contact with his station that weekend.

[Ron Bulman]

5 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

That piece of information was first surfaced I think by Peter Scott, and then John Armstrong used it adroitly in his book.

Further, don't quote me on this, but I think Ruby was in contact with his station that weekend.

That last part is quotable.  Ruby contacted KLIF the night of or early morning after the assassination, if I remember right. 

[Chuck Schwartz]

Ron, this is from the Kennedys and King website...

Born in Paris, Texas, McLendon covered sports events in school, graduated from Kemper Military Academy, was a Skull and Boner at Yale and served as an intelligence officer in the Office of Naval Intelligence during World War II. In 1943 he married Gay Noe, daughter of the former governor of Louisiana. McLendon left Harvard Law School to take over interest in a Texas radio station he purchased with his father.[36]

Nicknamed “The Old Scotsman,” McClendon founded the Liberty Radio Network and broadcast major league baseball games over 400 affiliated stations. With Clint Murchison, he broadcast Radio Nord, a pirate radio station off Sweden. In 1947 McLendon founded KLIF (The Mighty 1190) in Oak Cliff, and introduced the Top 40 format that became standard AM radio programming in the 1950s. He is also credited with establishing the first mobile news units in American radio, the first jingles, traffic reports, all news and the “easy listening’ format.

McClendon also aired a politically oriented radio show financed by H. L. Hunt called “Life-Line,” which aired conservative anti-communist programs that affected the opinions of many people, including Jack Ruby.[37]

Jack Ruby knew McLendon, called his unlisted home phone number on the day of the assassination, visited the KLIF studios, and arranged interviews with Dallas officials for KLIF reporters from the Dallas Police Department. Ruby appeared to pose as a reporter at the Dallas jail, even though most of the Dallas cops knew him as a nightclub owner.[38]

The day after the assassination Ruby bought dozens of sandwiches from a deli and delivered some of them to KLIF studios and the rest to the Dallas police, using the sandwiches as an excuse to get into the building and stalk Oswald. After a number of tries, Ruby finally did get close enough to kill Oswald, leaving his dog and a pile of “Life-Line” radio show scripts in his car. The scripts found in his car were on the subject of heroism, and written by Warren H. Carroll, a former CIA propaganda analyst.[39]

McClendon was also the first person Ruby asked to see in prison. Ruby told McClendon that he thought his jailers were trying to poison him, and later told the Warren Commission that McLendon was his “kind of intellectual.”[40]

[Joe Bauer]

1 hour ago, Chuck Schwartz said:

Ron, this is from the Kennedys and King website...

Born in Paris, Texas, McLendon covered sports events in school, graduated from Kemper Military Academy, was a Skull and Boner at Yale and served as an intelligence officer in the Office of Naval Intelligence during World War II. In 1943 he married Gay Noe, daughter of the former governor of Louisiana. McLendon left Harvard Law School to take over interest in a Texas radio station he purchased with his father.[36]

Nicknamed “The Old Scotsman,” McClendon founded the Liberty Radio Network and broadcast major league baseball games over 400 affiliated stations. With Clint Murchison, he broadcast Radio Nord, a pirate radio station off Sweden. In 1947 McLendon founded KLIF (The Mighty 1190) in Oak Cliff, and introduced the Top 40 format that became standard AM radio programming in the 1950s. He is also credited with establishing the first mobile news units in American radio, the first jingles, traffic reports, all news and the “easy listening’ format.

McClendon also aired a politically oriented radio show financed by H. L. Hunt called “Life-Line,” which aired conservative anti-communist programs that affected the opinions of many people, including Jack Ruby.[37]

Jack Ruby knew McLendon, called his unlisted home phone number on the day of the assassination, visited the KLIF studios, and arranged interviews with Dallas officials for KLIF reporters from the Dallas Police Department. Ruby appeared to pose as a reporter at the Dallas jail, even though most of the Dallas cops knew him as a nightclub owner.[38]

The day after the assassination Ruby bought dozens of sandwiches from a deli and delivered some of them to KLIF studios and the rest to the Dallas police, using the sandwiches as an excuse to get into the building and stalk Oswald. After a number of tries, Ruby finally did get close enough to kill Oswald, leaving his dog and a pile of “Life-Line” radio show scripts in his car. The scripts found in his car were on the subject of heroism, and written by Warren H. Carroll, a former CIA propaganda analyst.[39]

McClendon was also the first person Ruby asked to see in prison. Ruby told McClendon that he thought his jailers were trying to poison him, and later told the Warren Commission that McLendon was his “kind of intellectual.”[40]

Really interesting and informative re-post entry here Chuck.

As always, great stuff from Jim Di.

Clicking on the last footnote link ( 40 ) you find a treasure trove of other illuminating and informative links.

Edited November 8, 2021 by Joe Bauer

[Chuck Schwartz]

Joe, I agree.  Relevant to this thread, is this paragraph in the footnotes..In a telephone interview shortly before he died Phillips denied being the mysterious “Maurice Bishop” or knowing Oswald. But he said he knew Gordon McLendon in Washington D.C. during World War II, and then lost track of him and didn’t hook up with him again until he left the CIA.[42] When they reunited, they decided to try to promote the CIA with the suggested TV program, and in 1977 formed the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO).

[W. Tracy Parnell]

43 minutes ago, Chuck Schwartz said:

Joe, I agree.  Relevant to this thread, is this paragraph in the footnotes..In a telephone interview shortly before he died Phillips denied being the mysterious “Maurice Bishop” or knowing Oswald. But he said he knew Gordon McLendon in Washington D.C. during World War II, and then lost track of him and didn’t hook up with him again until he left the CIA.[42] When they reunited, they decided to try to promote the CIA with the suggested TV program, and in 1977 formed the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO).

I hate to be rude but you again say "they" formed the AFIO after I gave you three sources that say otherwise including the organization itself. The footnote above (which cites Bill Kelly's notes of his interview) is in error. EDIT-now that I look at it again, Kelly's statement that "they formed the AFIO is actually unsourced. In other words, he made it up.

I have Kelly's notes (which were originally posted here at EF-do a search) and they say nothing about McLendon being a co-founder of AFIO. I wouldn't make an issue out of it, but I have two problems. One, this is an attempt to create the impression that the relationship between the two men was closer than it was to support conspiracy memes. Two, there is more than enough misinformation about Phillips out there-we don't need any more. Here is what Phillips said about McLendon:

DAP: "I met Gordon McLendon in Washington D.C. about 1940. He was a college student, and I met him at a college prom here in Washington in 1940. We both then went back to Texas, and I didn't see him again, although he was quite well known in Texas. He became what someone called the Old Dutchman. He was really only about 25 years old when he came up with the concept of recreating baseball games, pretending they were live, but they weren't. And he made so much money doing that he bought 100 radio stations, and so forth, became very wealthy." "I saw him, I really didn't see him during all that period until about 1977 or something like that, when he joined the AFIO."

So McLendon was a member of the group but not a "co-founder."

Kelly also noted:

I asked Phillips about his attempt to produce a CIA TV series on CBS with
Gordon McLendon that was suppose to be like the FBI show. "I never completed the TV series on the CIA," he said. It just got bogged down in
the network beauracracy.

So, unless Kelly has been holding out on us, that should be the end of that myth.

EDIT: here is the link to Kelly's notes of his interview (scroll down about halfway):

 

Edited November 9, 2021 by W. Tracy Parnell