The Curious Case of George Estabrooks

[Ron Bulman]

14 hours ago, Robert Morrow said:

Who was Jack Ruby's new attorney who requested Jolyon West to "treat" his client?

"He fired his attorney and hired Hubert Winston Smith, a psychiatrist with a law degree who'd assisted in the trial, to represent him on appeal.  . . . 

Once Dr. Smith was driving Ruby's legal team, one of his first acts was to request a new psychiatric examination of Ruby,  He had one candidate in mind: Dr. Louis Jolyon West, . . .  West emerged from Ruby's cell to announce that the previously sane inmate had undergone "an acute psychotic break" sometime in the preceding "forty-eight hours."  Whatever transpired between West and Ruby in that cell, only the two of them could say, there were no witnesses.  . . .  From that day forward, every doctor who examined Ruby made similar diagnoses: he was delusional.  West, however, was hardly the first to have evaluated him.  By then nearly half a dozen psychiatrists, many equally renowned, had taken stock of Ruby's condition, finding him essentially compos mentis."

Pages 378-379, Chaos, Tom O'Neil.

[Robert Morrow]

2 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:

"He fired his attorney and hired Hubert Winston Smith, a psychiatrist with a law degree who'd assisted in the trial, to represent him on appeal.  . . . 

Once Dr. Smith was driving Ruby's legal team, one of his first acts was to request a new psychiatric examination of Ruby,  He had one candidate in mind: Dr. Louis Jolyon West, . . .  West emerged from Ruby's cell to announce that the previously sane inmate had undergone "an acute psychotic break" sometime in the preceding "forty-eight hours."  Whatever transpired between West and Ruby in that cell, only the two of them could say, there were no witnesses.  . . .  From that day forward, every doctor who examined Ruby made similar diagnoses: he was delusional.  West, however, was hardly the first to have evaluated him.  By then nearly half a dozen psychiatrists, many equally renowned, had taken stock of Ruby's condition, finding him essentially compos mentis."

Pages 378-379, Chaos, Tom O'Neil.

Thank you.

[Ron Bulman]

6 hours ago, Robert Morrow said:

Thank you.

You're welcome. Everyone should know this, it spreads the truth.

[James DiEugenio]

First of all, the story about jets to Israel  appeared in Sirhan's notebooks BEFORE it was broadcast in the LA area.

Second, that video Ben posted about Sirhan and the Palestinians was done at the behest of his then lawyer for a parole hearing. Shortly after he was fired and Larry Teeter represented Sirhan and there went that.

Yes, the CIA and military intel did experiments in mind control and also assassinations, there is a famous case in the Philippinnes where the assassin was programmed. Also John Newman told me that the NSA used this on subjects traveling abroad to memorize certain details subconsciously under post hypnotic suggestion.  When they returned they would place them in a trance state to get the info out, and it worked.

 

These are the four best books to read, and Marks's is not one of them.

Journey into Madness by Gordon Thomas.

The Mind Manipulators by Alan Scheflin

The Control of Candy Jones by Donald Bain

Operation Mind Control by Walter Bowart

Estabrooks was a recognized pioneer in the area.

Edited June 3 by James DiEugenio

[Robert Morrow]

9 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:

You're welcome. Everyone should know this, it spreads the truth.

One of Jack Ruby's key lawyers Joe Tonahill was a FRIEND OF LYNDON JOHNSON (see Penn Jones) and that means he was working for LYNDON JOHNSON during his supposed "defense" of Jack Ruby. Furthermore, Joe Tonahill was representing by ED CLARK'S law firm in Tonahill's tax evasion case.

Ed Clark was the LBJ insider and pal who ADMITTED PARTICIPATION IN THE JFK ASSASSINATION to my good friend Barr McClellan. Don Thomas and John Coates, also of Clark's law firm, told Barr McCellen that ED CLARK orchestrated the JFK assassination.

In 1970 LBJ’s law firm of Clark, Thomas & Winters defended Jack Ruby’s lawyer Joe H. Tonahill in an income tax evasion case! The investigation of Joe Tonahill began in October of 1962!

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/291738/united-states-v-joe-h-tonahill/

 [Ed Clark, who was Lyndon Johnson's inner circle blood brother and lawyer for decades, represented Jack Ruby's lawyer Joe Tonahill in the years just before the JFK assassination. Joe Tonahill was put in to control Ruby so no one would know who sent him to kill Oswald. LBJ pal Abe Fortas represented Bobby Baker in the fall of 1963. LBJ lawyer John Cofer represented Mac Wallace in 1952. LBJ lawyer John Cofer represented Billie Sol Estes who was Lyndon Johnson's #1 cash cow for illegal money. In all cases those lawyers were protecting LYNDON JOHNSON and not the interests of their criminal clients.]

 See this Amazon review on Jack Ruby Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Kennedy's Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby

United States v. Joe H. Tonahill, 430 F.2d 1042 (5th Cir. 1970)

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Filed: August 13th, 1970

Precedential Status: Precedential

Citations: 430 F.2d 1042

Docket Number: 29426

 

430 F.2d 1042

70-2 USTC P 9511

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Joe H. TONAHILL, Defendant-Appellee.

No. 29426 Summary Calendar.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 13, 1970, Rehearing Denied and Rehearing En Banc Denied
Aug. 13, 1970.

Richard B. Hardee, U.S. Atty., Beaumont, Tex., Johnnie M. Walters, Asst. Atty. Gen., Joseph Howard, Lee A. Jackson, Robert H. Purl, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Sander Shapiro, Donald S. Thomas, Clark, Thomas, Harris, Denius & Winters, Austin, Tex., Gilbert T. Adams, John G. Tucker, Beaumont, Tex., for defendant-appellee.

Before GOLDBERG, DYER and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.

DYER, Circuit Judge:

1

The defendant was charged with three counts of willfully attempting to evade and defeat his individual income tax for the year 1960 through 1962 in violation of Section 7201 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. He moved to suppress from evidence oral statements he had made to treasury agents and documentary evidence seized by them, claiming that the evidence was illegally obtaining because Miranda warnings were never given to him and because the agents induced him to furnish the evidence by fraud and deceit by misleading him into thinking that there would be no criminal charges against him. The District Court granted this motion and the Government has appealed. Finding this case controlled by our recent decision in United States v. Prudden, 5 Cir. 1970, 424 F.2d 1021, we reverse and remand.1

2

The defendant is a criminal attorney in Texas of wide experience and reputation. The investigation began as a civil audit of defendant's business in October, 1962. The Revenue Agent lingered on the case for over a year and during that period formed a suspicion that defendant had violated Section 7201. In March, 1964, he referred the case to the Intelligence Division of Internal Revenue, and the case was assigned to a Special Agent. There was no contact between the Revenue Service and defendant from January, 1964, until September, 1964, when the original investigating Revenue Agent and the Special Agent met with the defendant and his accountant.

3

The District Judge found that neither defendant nor his accountant knew the significance of the term 'Special Agent.' However, defendant and his accountant were apprehensive enough (because of the length of time involved in the investigation) to ask the agents on the several occasions when they met, what they were doing, why the audit was taking so long, and whether fraud was involved. The District Judge found that the Agents must have known that the defendant and his accountant did not understand that the audit or investigation was criminal and that, 'Not once did the Agents reply in the affirmative (to the questions of defendant and his accountant) that 'fraud' or a 'crime' was involved. Instead, they stated their function was to reconcile the large discrepancies, to see if they were the result of innocent errors.' Relying on United States v. Prudden, M.D.Fla.1969, 305 F. Supp. 110, and Goodman v. United States. C.D.Cal.1968, 285 F. Supp. 245, the District Judge found that the Revenue Agents had concealed the nature of the investigation from taxpayer and his account and that this amounted to fraud, trickery and deceit on their part. Accordingly, he granted the motion to suppress.2

4

Prudden was subsequently reversed by this Court and Goodman was distinguished in that opinion on the ground that the taxpayer there 'had only a grammar school education and was affirmatively led to believe that the information which he was giving the revenue agents was part of the investigation of another taxpayer,' elements not present either in Prudden or in the instant case. 424 F.2d 1021, at p. 1035.

5

With the legal underpinnings swept away from the District Court's order granting his motion to suppress, the defendant attempts to turn the Fifth Circuit decision in Prudden to his advantage by arguing that, although Prudden approved silence on the part of investigating Revenue Agents, it expressly disapproved affirmative misrepresentations and said there was a duty not to leave unanswered an inquiry where doing so would be intentionally misleading. He argues that the inquiries of himself and his accountant to the Revenue Agents imposed a duty on them to inform him that a criminal investigation was under way and that their anwer affirmatively misled them.

6

We find no distinction between the instant case and Prudden which justifies different results in the two cases. Of course, there is no question, as Prudden pointed out, that Revenue Agents cannot obtain information from taxpayers by fraud, trickery or deceit which misrepresents the nature of the search. But there must be 'acts by the agent(s) which materially misrepresent the nature of the inquiry' before there is fraud, trickery or deceit and 'the record * * * must disclose some affirmative misrepresentation to establish the existence of fraud, and this showing must be clear and convincing.' Prudden at p. 1033.

7

We cannot say on this record that there was a material misrepresentation which clearly and convincingly shows fraud and the defendant has therefore failed to meet his burden.3 The agents did not say or indicate in any way that their investigation was not criminal or that there was no possibility of a criminal prosecution. They said their function was to reconcile large discrepancies to see if they were the result of innocent errors. If anything, such a statement to an attorney and his accountant, especially when accompanied by prolonged investigation, should have put the taxpayer on guard that if the agents determined that the large discrepancies were not the result of innocent errors he would be subject to criminal prosecution.

8

The order granting defendant's motion to suppress is reversed and the case is remanded to the District Court for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.

9

Reversed and remanded.

10

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING AND PETITION FOR REHEARING EN BANC

PER CURIAM:

11

The Petition for Rehearing is denied and no member of this panel nor Judge in regular active service on the Court having requested that the Court be polled on rehearing en banc, (Rule 35 Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure; Local Fifth Circuit Rule 12) the Petition for Rehearing En Banc is denied.

1

Pursuant to our Rule 18 this case is decided without oral argument

2

Because he found the agents had obtained the evidence from the defendant-taxpayer by fraud, trickery and deceit, the District Judge did not reach the question whether the agents were required to give Miranda warnings when the nature of the investigation changed from civil to criminal. If there was any doubt about this question before, it was resolved by United States v. Prudden, 5 Cir. 1970, 424 F.2d 1021, which held that Miranda warnings are not required

3

The emphasis of the District Court's order granting the motion to suppress was on the taxpayer's ignorance of the nature of the investigation and not, as required by Prudden, on what the agents said and did

Lyndon Johnson was good friends with Joe Tonahill, who was Jack Ruby’s lawyer who Jack Ruby did not trust tried repeatedly to remove Joe Tonahill as his counsel!!

 QUOTE

           Callahan has a curious sentence on page 101 in the Argosy article referring to Jack Ruby’s principal lawyer: “At other times, he would proudly relate that his principal lawyer was a friend of Lyndon Johnson.” We knew Joe Tonahill, the principal attorney, was a friend of Lyndon Johnson. In fact, Johnson, is reported to have spent the weekend in Jasper, Texas, Tohahill’s home town, just two weeks before the assassination. We did not know that Ruby knew Tonahill and President Johnson were good friends. Aocording to the testimony the fact of the Johnson-Tonahilll friendship seemed not to impress Ruby at all. Ruby plainly stated he did not trust Tonahill and tried repeatedly to have him removed from the case.

 UNQUOTE

 [Penn Jones, Forgive My Grief, Volume II, p. 169]

[W. Niederhut]

9 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

First of all, the story about jets to Israel  appeared in Sirhan's notebooks BEFORE it was broadcast in the LA area.

Second, that video Ben posted about Sirhan and the Palestinians was done at the behest of his then lawyer for a parole hearing. Shortly after he was fired and Larry Teeter represented Sirhan and there went that.

Yes, the CIA and military intel did experiments in mind control and also assassinations, there is a famous case in the Philippinnes where the assassin was programmed. Also John Newman told me that the NSA used this on subjects traveling abroad to memorize certain details subconsciously under post hypnotic suggestion.  When they returned they would place them in a trance state to get the info out, and it worked.

 

These are the four best books to read, and Marks's is not one of them.

Journey into Madness by Gordon Thomas.

The Mind Manipulators by Alan Scheflin

The Control of Candy Jones by Donald Bain

Operation Mind Control by Walter Bowart

Estabrooks was a recognized pioneer in the area.

Indeed, Jim.  And, IMO Dr. George Estabrooks invented some of these espionage hypnosis protocols.

In the 1940s, Estabrooks also hypnotically induced a patient to pick up a gun and shoot someone.

(The patient did not know that the gun was not loaded.)

[James DiEugenio]

I must have forgotten that it was Estabrooks who did that one.

But that is a milestone in the field.