Guest Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 21 minutes ago, David Butler said: It's Josette Suzanne MARCAILLOU D'AYMERIC although I have also seen it with one L so Josette Marcailou They had one son Yannick born in 1964 although I'm sure @Steve Thomas knows a lot more than me on the subject 🙂 He seems to be born after the split. He and his siblings and extended family are reachable in terms of the fact you can send them messages and there is an email address for Yannick. If anyone wants this, drop me a direct message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Sharp Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 1 hour ago, David Butler said: It's Josette Suzanne MARCAILLOU D'AYMERIC although I have also seen it with one L so Josette Marcailou They had one son Yannick born in 1964 although I'm sure @Steve Thomas knows a lot more than me on the subject 🙂 Thanks very much, David. Does this place her in Spain in 1963? Has anyone interviewed Yannick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Sharp Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 1 hour ago, Chris Barnard said: He seems to be born after the split. He and his siblings and extended family are reachable in terms of the fact you can send them messages and there is an email address for Yannick. If anyone wants this, drop me a direct message. David, any chance you have a precise birth date for Yannick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 31 minutes ago, Leslie Sharp said: David, any chance you have a precise birth date for Yannick? 7th October 1964. Josette is deceased. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Sharp Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 26 minutes ago, Chris Barnard said: 7th October 1964. Josette is deceased. That suggests Yannick was conceived in early 1964, right? Isn't there something off about this timing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 5 minutes ago, Leslie Sharp said: That suggests Yannick was conceived in early 1964, right? Isn't there something off about this timing? He takes the name Souetre to this day. The information is from a genealogy site populated by a relative who bears the same surname. I would think this date is likely correct but, I am open to mistakes being made. Or the possibility of them rekindling their romance after a separation. Was the divorce a ‘show’ thing. Couldn’t have been easy for her if she wishes to live in France as the partner of an OAS wanted man. They are all things to consider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Sharp Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 6 minutes ago, Chris Barnard said: He takes the name Souetre to this day. The information is from a genealogy site populated by a relative who bears the same surname. I would think this date is likely correct but, I am open to mistakes being made. Or the possibility of them rekindling their romance after a separation. Was the divorce a ‘show’ thing. Couldn’t have been easy for her if she wishes to live in France as the partner of an OAS wanted man. They are all things to consider. Definitely things to consider, Chris. The public version seems intended to distance Josette from Jean's OAS activity which suggests, at least to me, she was from a small town or a somewhat reputable family that didn't want the stigma. Jean Rene was released from prison in spring 1963, otherwise how was he in Lisbon and in New Orleans. So, she divorced him sometime prior? Did she then welcome him home with open arms in Jan/Feb 1964 and Yannick was conceived? I assume her obituary hasn't been located, or Yannick's birth cert? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 1 hour ago, Leslie Sharp said: Definitely things to consider, Chris. The public version seems intended to distance Josette from Jean's OAS activity which suggests, at least to me, she was from a small town or a somewhat reputable family that didn't want the stigma. Jean Rene was released from prison in spring 1963, otherwise how was he in Lisbon and in New Orleans. So, she divorced him sometime prior? Did she then welcome him home with open arms in Jan/Feb 1964 and Yannick was conceived? I assume her obituary hasn't been located, or Yannick's birth cert? I would bet my bottom dollar that this is all retrievable from websites in France which record births deaths and marriages. Some even catalog gravestones now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Sharp Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 16 minutes ago, Chris Barnard said: I would bet my bottom dollar that this is all retrievable from websites in France which record births deaths and marriages. Some even catalog gravestones now. One would think so, and I thought from the tenor of this thread someone is delving into these records. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 (edited) It's been a long time since I looked into this, but I remember that Josette had gone on to become an accomplished bridge player and had been in several tournaments. Steve ThomasI Edited February 12, 2023 by Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 Newspaper articles at the time reported that Josette Souetre was arrested at the Spanish/French frontier border town of Perthus on March 9, 1963 and charged with having a fake passport. An article on the previous day (March 12th) said that she was arrested on Friday (which would have been March 8th). She said that she was trying to get back into France to file for a divorce. The article said that she was accompanied by her parents, but make no mention of children. Arrestations dans la région pyrénéenne LE MONDE | 12.03.1963 à 00h00 • Mis à jour le 12.03.1963 à 00h00 http://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1963/03/12/arrestations-dans-la-region-pyreneenne_2216230_1819218.html?xtmc=souetre&xtcr=15 Abonnez vous à partir de 1 € Réagir Ajouter Partager Tweeter • LE PERTHUS : Mme Souètre appréhendée avec un faux passeport. Mme Josette Souètre, femme du capitaine qui, après s'être évadé l'an dernier du camp de l'Ardoise, a rejoint les rangs de l'O.A.S., a été arrêtée vendredi après-midi au poste frontière du Perthus (Pyrénées-Orientales), alors qu'elle tentait de passer d'Espagne en France avec un faux passeport. Venant probablement de Barcelone, elle était accompagnée de ses parents, M. et Mme Marcailhou d'Aymerie. Autorisée à déjeuner sous surveillance au Perthus, elle fut ensuite conduite à Perpignan où elle est gardée au commissariat central pour usage de faux passeport. Aucune autre charge n'a été retenue contre elle pour l'instant. Jacques VILLARD is a genealogist and a chronicler of the OAS. He put together a genealogy of Jean-Rene Marie Souetre and his son, Yannick Souetre. Jean-Rene https://gw.geneanet.org/jvillard1?lang=fr&n=souetre&oc=0&p=jean+rene+marie Yannick https://gw.geneanet.org/jvillard1?lang=fr&pz=jacques+roger+joseph+arsene&nz=villard&p=yannick&n=souetre According to Villard, Yannick was born on October 7, 1964 in Palma de Mallorca. Josette was his mother. Né le 7 octobre 1964 (mercredi) - Palma de Mallorca, , Islas Baleares, Islas Baleares, Espagne I cannot vouch for the accuracy of Villard. He has Jean-Rene being born in 1931 instead of 1930, and lists his date of death as June 18th, instead of June 15th. (Jean-Rene died on June 15, 2001, but, for some reason, his death certificate wasn’t signed until June 18th) However, several other sources said that Jean-Rene moved to Palma de Majorqu from Madrid, so it is conceivable that that is where Yannick was born. Josette and Jean-Rene would ultimately divorce and Jean-Rene married a third time in 1972 to a woman named, Françoise Marie Agnès HOURTIC http://jeanjviala.free.fr/1963 a 1965.htm Le colonel Broizat vivait à Madrid, Joseph Ortiz, le docteur Kovacs, Jacques Achard et Jean-René Souètre à Palma de Majorque, Author: Vincent Quivy “In the autumn of 1963, however, he received 1 million old francs which enabled him to buy a business on the beach in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.” http://paras.forumsactifs.net/t13070-grand-combattant-jean-souetre by Commandoair40 June Le colonel Broizat vivait à Madrid, Joseph Ortiz, le docteur Kovacs, Jacques Achard et Jean René Souetre à Palma de Majorque, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palma,_Majorca “Palma de Mallorca is the major city and capital city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is situated on the south coast of the island on the Bay of Palma. As of the 2009 census, the population of the city of Palma proper was 401,270, and the population of the entire urban area was 517,285, ranking as the twelfth largest urban area of Spain.” Souetre would return to Palma de Majorque in 1971 after his sojourn in Africa with the Tschombe affair. OAS-Madrid OAS-Madrid http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_armée_secrète Dissident group claiming the central leadership of the OAS.Some members of the Madrid group quickly arrested by Spanish police (Guardia Civil).Pierre Lagaillarde, MPJoseph OrtizColonel Antoine Argoud, who became deputy Georges Bidault, Minister Colonel Charles Lacheroy There is this information, but I have never seen this information about the WILL-KILL company anywhere else, so I can’t corroborate it, other than what Vincent Quivy said about Soetre receiving 1 million francs in the autumn of 1963 to buy a business in Palma de Mallorca. Souetre was given the rank of Major by Moiishe Tshombe in the Congolese struggles, and went by the name of Major Constant. http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/S%20Disk/Souetre%20Jean%20with%20aka's/Item%2010.pdf This was in the Weisberg Collection – Item10 – author unknown. Letter to Fensterwald? Was this letter from Louis Assemat-Tessandier? “As I already have written you, SOUETRE officially resided in Spain from 1962 to 1971. He had two firms and shares in a third, that of Commander CONSTANT, whose identity he used. The first was domiciled Palma Nova de Majorque and was a business, the, domiciled at Madrid, was an extermination and fumigation company, "Will-Kill". This company hired most of the survivors of the Delta group. More particularly the Hungarian group, whose principal members were LASLO VARGA, MARTON and GUYLA SARI. “ I thought the idea of Joseph Ortiz following Souetre from Madrid to Palma de Mallorque was interesting and would like to research him a little. For a little while, I was researching a person named Yannick Souetre, who was a graphic artist in the fantasy computer games world. His artwork was very good, but I was not able to determine if this Yannick was the son of Jean-Rene. Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Sharp Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, Steve Thomas said: Newspaper articles at the time reported that Josette Souetre was arrested at the Spanish/French frontier border town of Perthus on March 9, 1963 and charged with having a fake passport. An article on the previous day (March 12th) said that she was arrested on Friday (which would have been March 8th). She said that she was trying to get back into France to file for a divorce. The article said that she was accompanied by her parents, but make no mention of children. Arrestations dans la région pyrénéenne LE MONDE | 12.03.1963 à 00h00 • Mis à jour le 12.03.1963 à 00h00 http://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1963/03/12/arrestations-dans-la-region-pyreneenne_2216230_1819218.html?xtmc=souetre&xtcr=15 Abonnez vous à partir de 1 € Réagir Ajouter Partager Tweeter • LE PERTHUS : Mme Souètre appréhendée avec un faux passeport. Mme Josette Souètre, femme du capitaine qui, après s'être évadé l'an dernier du camp de l'Ardoise, a rejoint les rangs de l'O.A.S., a été arrêtée vendredi après-midi au poste frontière du Perthus (Pyrénées-Orientales), alors qu'elle tentait de passer d'Espagne en France avec un faux passeport. Venant probablement de Barcelone, elle était accompagnée de ses parents, M. et Mme Marcailhou d'Aymerie. Autorisée à déjeuner sous surveillance au Perthus, elle fut ensuite conduite à Perpignan où elle est gardée au commissariat central pour usage de faux passeport. Aucune autre charge n'a été retenue contre elle pour l'instant. Jacques VILLARD is a genealogist and a chronicler of the OAS. He put together a genealogy of Jean-Rene Marie Souetre and his son, Yannick Souetre. Jean-Rene https://gw.geneanet.org/jvillard1?lang=fr&n=souetre&oc=0&p=jean+rene+marie Yannick https://gw.geneanet.org/jvillard1?lang=fr&pz=jacques+roger+joseph+arsene&nz=villard&p=yannick&n=souetre According to Villard, Yannick was born on October 7, 1964 in Palma de Mallorca. Josette was his mother. Né le 7 octobre 1964 (mercredi) - Palma de Mallorca, , Islas Baleares, Islas Baleares, Espagne I cannot vouch for the accuracy of Villard. He has Jean-Rene being born in 1931 instead of 1930, and lists his date of death as June 18th, instead of June 15th. (Jean-Rene died on June 15, 2001, but, for some reason, his death certificate wasn’t signed until June 18th) However, several other sources said that Jean-Rene moved to Palma de Majorqu from Madrid, so it is conceivable that that is where Yannick was born. Josette and Jean-Rene would ultimately divorce and Jean-Rene married a third time in 1972 to a woman named, Françoise Marie Agnès HOURTIC http://jeanjviala.free.fr/1963 a 1965.htm Le colonel Broizat vivait à Madrid, Joseph Ortiz, le docteur Kovacs, Jacques Achard et Jean-René Souètre à Palma de Majorque, Author: Vincent Quivy “In the autumn of 1963, however, he received 1 million old francs which enabled him to buy a business on the beach in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.” http://paras.forumsactifs.net/t13070-grand-combattant-jean-souetre by Commandoair40 June Le colonel Broizat vivait à Madrid, Joseph Ortiz, le docteur Kovacs, Jacques Achard et Jean René Souetre à Palma de Majorque, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palma,_Majorca “Palma de Mallorca is the major city and capital city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is situated on the south coast of the island on the Bay of Palma. As of the 2009 census, the population of the city of Palma proper was 401,270, and the population of the entire urban area was 517,285, ranking as the twelfth largest urban area of Spain.” Souetre would return to Palma de Majorque in 1971 after his sojourn in Africa with the Tschombe affair. OAS-Madrid OAS-Madrid http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_armée_secrète Dissident group claiming the central leadership of the OAS.Some members of the Madrid group quickly arrested by Spanish police (Guardia Civil).Pierre Lagaillarde, MPJoseph OrtizColonel Antoine Argoud, who became deputy Georges Bidault, Minister Colonel Charles Lacheroy There is this information, but I have never seen this information about the WILL-KILL company anywhere else, so I can’t corroborate it, other than what Vincent Quivy said about Soetre receiving 1 million francs in the autumn of 1963 to buy a business in Palma de Mallorca. Souetre was given the rank of Major by Moiishe Tshombe in the Congolese struggles, and went by the name of Major Constant. http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/S%20Disk/Souetre%20Jean%20with%20aka's/Item%2010.pdf This was in the Weisberg Collection – Item10 – author unknown. Letter to Fensterwald? Was this letter from Louis Assemat-Tessandier? “As I already have written you, SOUETRE officially resided in Spain from 1962 to 1971. He had two firms and shares in a third, that of Commander CONSTANT, whose identity he used. The first was domiciled Palma Nova de Majorque and was a business, the, domiciled at Madrid, was an extermination and fumigation company, "Will-Kill". This company hired most of the survivors of the Delta group. More particularly the Hungarian group, whose principal members were LASLO VARGA, MARTON and GUYLA SARI. “ I thought the idea of Joseph Ortiz following Souetre from Madrid to Palma de Mallorque was interesting and would like to research him a little. For a little while, I was researching a person named Yannick Souetre, who was a graphic artist in the fantasy computer games world. His artwork was very good, but I was not able to determine if this Yannick was the son of Jean-Rene. Steve Thomas Tks for this, Steve, and you may already have the Waverly Root article, Neo- N a t z i s sic] Linked to French Algeria. (as a side note, I find it bizarre that a forum purporting to uphold freedom of speech prohibits use of a term that is historically accurate, particularly when one is citing a credible source.) No doubt you’re aware that Otto and Ilse Skorzeny had a residence in Palma de Mallorca. Of possible interest, the following is a replication of the first page of Albarelli's April 2019 submission to the publisher of Coup in Dallas . . . Note that in the upper left-hand corner he typed a ‘note to self and the editor' that we were in the process of incorporating Kovacs, Ortiz, Joly in the final draft M/s. Rene Kovacs Joseph Oritz Pierre Joly Coup in Dallas: Who Killed JFK and Why By H.P. Albarelli Jr. With Leslie Sharp and Alan Kent Organizational and Character Maps by Pete Sattler Introduction by Dick Russell ***** The result of that research appears in this excerpt from Coup . . . Kovacs, Ortiz and Joly There is no clear evidence that any of these three men, or a combination of, were present in Dallas on November 22, 1963, so perhaps the reader might question why they end up in these pages. Simply put, they appear among the outstanding items for research left on the desk of author Albarelli. A February 26, 1962 exposé “Neo-N a t z I s [sic]Linked to Algeria French” by correspondent Waverley Root, then living in Paris, published in The Washington Post, reveals that European extremists—known as Ultras—in Algeria were “now tied in with the worldwide clandestine neo - N a t z i organization which has existed ever since the end of the war, built around a core of Hitlerites who escaped post war justice. The head of this international National Socialist underground has always been believed to be Madrid’s man of mystery, Otto Skorzeny, the SS trooper who rescued Mussolini from his captors.” More chilling, Root continues, “Skorzeny is reported to maintain contacts with former National Socialists scattered throughout the world, especially in Latin America and the Middle East. They have not given up hope that ????? may yet triumph throughout the world, and they seem prepared to lend their aid in any desperate venture of like political ideology which might achieve a Rightest authoritarian government anywhere.” (emphasis added.) Root’s informed sources said that “two of four defendants in the trial escaped and made their way to Spain.” The trial he refers to was the result of the arrest of those involved in the 1957 bazooka attack on General Raoul Salan. The far-right extremists were convinced that the general wasn’t fully on their side to halt the movement toward independence from France in Algeria. All charged with the attack had been found guilty. Among them was Doctor René Kovacs, who was sentenced to death in absentia following his escape. A physician by training, Kovacs was born in Algeria of [notably for our purposes] Hungarian parents. Along with his aide, Joseph Ortiz, a restaurateur and fellow far-right extremist, the two fled to Spain. Root contends that Algerian Europeans devoted to far-right politics had long been alleged to have international connections. “Thus gave birth to any imperfectly known organization called the Red Hand,” writes Root, referring to a mysterious terror group organized to counter the National Liberation Front (FLN) in Algeria. According to freelance journalist Joachim Joesten, among the earliest sleuths to arrive in Dallas in pursuit of the facts of the assassination of Kennedy, the creator of the Red Hand was none other than the head of France’s DST—a man readers are now familiar with—Roger Wybot. Author Ralph Ganis, who pursued Joesten’s findings in depth, tells us that the Red Hand operated in the manner of paramilitary groups that sprang up after WWI of which Otto Skorzeny participated. Writes Ganis, “It was also very similar to the old Cagoule, the ‘hooded ones.’ Waverley Root also concluded that Kovacs and Ortiz, both of whom fled to Spain, were involved in the Skorzeny ring. Rounding out the triad with Kovacs and Ortiz, Root tells us that Belgian citizen Pierre Joly, “turns up regularly in French extreme-right activities of a conspiratorial nature. Joly [whose duties appear to have included propagation of extremist ideology on the printed page] was among those who appeared in Madrid when the refugees from the revolt trial arrived there.” Root then summarizes the significance of these figures ending up in Spain: The existence in Madrid, on territory where extreme Rightists of all countries can reasonably expect to find political refuge of the headquarters of an international neo-National Socialist organization, helps to encourage a funneling of all revolutionary Rightists groups into the same conspiracy. But political kinship tends in any case to throw the like-minded of all countries together, so that even without formal organization there has been built up an intricate maze of cross-relationships among Right extremists of all countries. From there, the correspondent highlights the current crisis in Katanga, a break-away province from the Republic of Congo, which had contributed to the January 17, 1961 assassination of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. The success of the operation has been attributed to, among others, Otto Skorzeny. Root draws attention to the likely role played by Algerian Ultras operating outside Toulouse—long a hotbed of French Algerian activity—in delivering three French jet planes from a factory outside Toulouse to Katanga. Of note, on September 25, 1963, Pierre Lafitte writes “LeCatet”; research strongly suggests this could be a location within the commune of Montbeton, north of Toulouse where a number of airfields were located, perhaps related to training camps. As we learned, the American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters included Jack Crichton, the Dallas oilman who had been in business with Otto Skorzeny since 1952 and served as his point man on the 22nd of November. 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Leslie Sharp Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 10 minutes ago, Leslie Sharp said: Tks for this, Steve, and you may already have the Waverly Root article, Neo- N a t z i s sic] Linked to French Algeria. (as a side note, I find it bizarre that a forum purporting to uphold freedom of speech prohibits use of a term that is historically accurate, particularly when one is citing a credible source.) No doubt you’re aware that Otto and Ilse Skorzeny had a residence in Palma de Mallorca. Of possible interest, the following is a replication of the first page of Albarelli's April 2019 submission to the publisher of Coup in Dallas . . . Note that in the upper left-hand corner he typed a ‘note to self and the editor' that we were in the process of incorporating Kovacs, Ortiz, Joly in the final draft M/s. Rene Kovacs Joseph Oritz Pierre Joly Coup in Dallas: Who Killed JFK and Why By H.P. Albarelli Jr. With Leslie Sharp and Alan Kent Organizational and Character Maps by Pete Sattler Introduction by Dick Russell ***** The result of that research appears in this excerpt from Coup . . . Kovacs, Ortiz and Joly There is no clear evidence that any of these three men, or a combination of, were present in Dallas on November 22, 1963, so perhaps the reader might question why they end up in these pages. Simply put, they appear among the outstanding items for research left on the desk of author Albarelli. A February 26, 1962 exposé “Neo-N a t z I s [sic]Linked to Algeria French” by correspondent Waverley Root, then living in Paris, published in The Washington Post, reveals that European extremists—known as Ultras—in Algeria were “now tied in with the worldwide clandestine neo - N a t z i organization which has existed ever since the end of the war, built around a core of Hitlerites who escaped post war justice. The head of this international National Socialist underground has always been believed to be Madrid’s man of mystery, Otto Skorzeny, the SS trooper who rescued Mussolini from his captors.” More chilling, Root continues, “Skorzeny is reported to maintain contacts with former National Socialists scattered throughout the world, especially in Latin America and the Middle East. They have not given up hope that ????? may yet triumph throughout the world, and they seem prepared to lend their aid in any desperate venture of like political ideology which might achieve a Rightest authoritarian government anywhere.” (emphasis added.) Root’s informed sources said that “two of four defendants in the trial escaped and made their way to Spain.” The trial he refers to was the result of the arrest of those involved in the 1957 bazooka attack on General Raoul Salan. The far-right extremists were convinced that the general wasn’t fully on their side to halt the movement toward independence from France in Algeria. All charged with the attack had been found guilty. Among them was Doctor René Kovacs, who was sentenced to death in absentia following his escape. A physician by training, Kovacs was born in Algeria of [notably for our purposes] Hungarian parents. Along with his aide, Joseph Ortiz, a restaurateur and fellow far-right extremist, the two fled to Spain. Root contends that Algerian Europeans devoted to far-right politics had long been alleged to have international connections. “Thus gave birth to any imperfectly known organization called the Red Hand,” writes Root, referring to a mysterious terror group organized to counter the National Liberation Front (FLN) in Algeria. According to freelance journalist Joachim Joesten, among the earliest sleuths to arrive in Dallas in pursuit of the facts of the assassination of Kennedy, the creator of the Red Hand was none other than the head of France’s DST—a man readers are now familiar with—Roger Wybot. Author Ralph Ganis, who pursued Joesten’s findings in depth, tells us that the Red Hand operated in the manner of paramilitary groups that sprang up after WWI of which Otto Skorzeny participated. Writes Ganis, “It was also very similar to the old Cagoule, the ‘hooded ones.’ Waverley Root also concluded that Kovacs and Ortiz, both of whom fled to Spain, were involved in the Skorzeny ring. Rounding out the triad with Kovacs and Ortiz, Root tells us that Belgian citizen Pierre Joly, “turns up regularly in French extreme-right activities of a conspiratorial nature. Joly [whose duties appear to have included propagation of extremist ideology on the printed page] was among those who appeared in Madrid when the refugees from the revolt trial arrived there.” Root then summarizes the significance of these figures ending up in Spain: The existence in Madrid, on territory where extreme Rightists of all countries can reasonably expect to find political refuge of the headquarters of an international neo-National Socialist organization, helps to encourage a funneling of all revolutionary Rightists groups into the same conspiracy. But political kinship tends in any case to throw the like-minded of all countries together, so that even without formal organization there has been built up an intricate maze of cross-relationships among Right extremists of all countries. From there, the correspondent highlights the current crisis in Katanga, a break-away province from the Republic of Congo, which had contributed to the January 17, 1961 assassination of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. The success of the operation has been attributed to, among others, Otto Skorzeny. Root draws attention to the likely role played by Algerian Ultras operating outside Toulouse—long a hotbed of French Algerian activity—in delivering three French jet planes from a factory outside Toulouse to Katanga. Of note, on September 25, 1963, Pierre Lafitte writes “LeCatet”; research strongly suggests this could be a location within the commune of Montbeton, north of Toulouse where a number of airfields were located, perhaps related to training camps. As we learned, the American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters included Jack Crichton, the Dallas oilman who had been in business with Otto Skorzeny since 1952 and served as his point man on the 22nd of November. The absurd prohibition of referring to National Socialistsm [N A T Z I S M?] by name because it might "offend" should be obnoxious to any researcher attempting to record the complete historical context of the successful plot to assassinate President Kennedy in Dallas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Brancato Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 1 hour ago, Leslie Sharp said: The absurd prohibition of referring to National Socialistsm [N A T Z I S M?] by name because it might "offend" should be obnoxious to any researcher attempting to record the complete historical context of the successful plot to assassinate President Kennedy in Dallas. Agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Koch Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 2 hours ago, Leslie Sharp said: The absurd prohibition of referring to National Socialistsm [N A T Z I S M?] by name because it might "offend" should be obnoxious to any researcher attempting to record the complete historical context of the successful plot to assassinate President Kennedy in Dallas. 43 minutes ago, Paul Brancato said: Agree Well it was censored because people on the forum can't understand the difference between a Trump supporter and a (N)azi, the end of your book Leslie added to that misnomer.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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