Dallas . . . Lay of the Land

[Leslie Sharp]

 

DALLAS . . . LAY OF THE LAND

Dallas… Dallas, ah goodness, I’m not sure what to say…

I wasn’t there anywhere near as often as Pierre… not at

all. But Pierre would say it was… Dallas was like the arms 

and legs of the American secret service, your CIA….

                                       —Rene Lafitte

 

Rene says oil smooths the way to silent, 

and sometimes deadly, change. — Lafitte notes

 

 

The lay of the land… lay of the land, Dallas

                   —Lafitte datebook, November 19, 1963

 

. . . Jack Crichton

In 1963, the president of Republic National Bank—parent company of Bob Storey’s Lakewood Bank & Trust—and reporting directly to chairman Karl Hoblitzelle was James W. Aston who was also engaged in a number of private pursuits including oil ventures with one John Alston “Jack” Crichton, the ultraconservative oilman who has long been suspected of involvement in the assassination. This book lays to rest any doubt of Crichton’s role in the COUP of November 22, 1963. 

            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 488^th 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 488^th Intelligence Detachment. During an interview about the 488^th, 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. — "Coup in Dallas: The Decisive Investigation into Who Killed JFK" by H. P. Albarelli Jr. with Leslie Sharp and Alan Kent. Skyhorse Publishing, November 2019.

Edited February 13, 2023 by Leslie Sharp

[Leslie Sharp]

 

The late William F. Buckley's "National Review" seems over the moon with Robert Kennedy Jr.'s run as an independent candidate against Biden and Trump.

Further to a previous post on EF Mainstream related to Buckley, it is important to note that the Buckley oil dynasty enjoyed business association with Jack Crichton prior to Castro's nationalization of US oil interests in Cuba. Crichton is identified in the 1963 datebook maintained by Pierre Lafitte that reveals significant clues to the plot to assassinate Kennedy in Dallas in November 1963.

 

Meet with Crichton at Tech building.

O says Lancelot go

phone booth

—Lafitte datebook. November 5, 1963

Terry says call+ [illegible] 

7436 Kenshire, Dallas

J. Crichton

—Lafitte datebook, November 11, 1963

 

Crichton w T. (Caretaker)

—Lafitte datebook, November 14, 1963

from Conservapedia:

"Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust Company"

Crichton was also involved with several other oilmen who negotiated drilling rights in Cuba under President Fulgencio Batista. Standard Oil of Indiana signed an agreement with the Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust Company (CVOVTC), a unit originally established by William F. Buckley, Sr., for access to fifteen acres. During the mid-1950s, CVOVTC was one of the four or five most traded entities on the American Stock Exchange. Batista's communist successor, Fidel Castro, reduced the size of claims for oil exploration to a maximum of two thousand acres and ended large-scale explorations by private companies.[3]

The rise to power of Fidel Castro ruined CVOVTC, which had invested $30 million looking for oil in Cuba. The company was de-listed in December 1960 from the American Stock Exchange.[3]

 

Relevant to the rolling political shift in Texas from blue to red beginning in the mid-1950s, Crichton's 13 political points in his run for Texas governor 1964 reveal an ideology alive and well in Texas today:

 

"Crichton's 13 political points:

In the campaign, Crichton focused on these points: note his opposition to state civil rights and increase in Texas oil production.

(1) his opposition to the policies of President Johnson

(2) lowering state taxes

(3) cutting oil and beef imports

(4) stronger criminal justice measures to protect citizens

(5) increasing Texas' oil production

(6) opposition to a state civil rights law; the national Civil Rights Act of 1964 was at the time signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson

(7) full voting rights for U.S. military personnel

(8) state water resource development

(9) reduction of traffic problems

(10) decentralization in college and university administration

(11) higher public school teacher pay

(12) development of a two-party system

(13) ethics in state government.[9]

 

And for those who dispute Crichton organized the 488th Military Intelligence unit that has been credibly identified as playing a role on November 22, 1963, this entry from Conservapedia citing the Dallas Morning News lays the controversy to rest:
 

"Crichton retired in December 1967 from the Army Reserve after thirty years of service. He received the Legion of Merit for having organized the 488th Military Intelligence Detachment."[2]
 

[2] Joe Simnache (December 15, 2007). "John Alston "Jack" Crichton: Oilman, military officer in WWII". Dallas Morning News.

 

 

[Leslie Sharp]

Dallas… Dallas, ah goodness, I’m not sure what to say…
I wasn’t there anywhere near as often as Pierre… not at
all. But Pierre would say it was… Dallas was like the arms
and legs of the American secret service, your CIA….
—Rene Lafitte

Rene says oil smooths the way to silent,
and sometimes deadly, change.
—Lafitte notes

The lay of the land… lay of the land, Dallas

—Lafitte datebook, November 19, 1963
 

A thorough exposé of world class American Fascist and renowned modernist architect Philip Johnson — designer of the Kennedy Memorial in Dallas, the Hunt oil dynasty's Thanksgiving Tower and Carolyn Rose Hunt's Crescent Court — juxtaposed with Carlson's interview of Putin who insists without challenge that Poland started WWII.  Philip Johnson had been a bit more coarse when writing about Hitler's invasion, arguing that Poland was asking for it. 
begin min. 6:45

 

Edited February 13 by Leslie Sharp