Getting Down to the Nuts and Bolts ... and the question of Cubans in "direct capacities"

[Leslie Sharp]

21 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:

This is interesting.  No Cubans used as shooters?  Makes sense per Harvey's notes about using foreign assassins.  The Cubans that might have been used, from Operation 40 were at that time Cuban refugee's, residing in the United States.  Some of the groups of them were known for their independence, taking the CIA's money but not following orders well.  E.G. the need for Joannadies being put in place to calm them down/straighten them up.  Other stuff.

I had never read of Hank working in the Whitehouse.  I wondered what administration, in what capacity?  I found his obituary. It said he was 72 when he passed, doing the math he would have been 16 in 1963.  Reading on it mentions him working in the Carter Whitehouse, but not what he did.

Thanks, Ron.

And of equal if not far more significance is that Hank had access to at least TWO pieces of correspondence from Lafitte to CI James Angleton related to the assassination.  

Also, this particular note should dispel theories that Cuban Nationals, exiled in the US, were tapped as shooters in Dealey.  The extent of their possible employment within the support teams, a.k.a. "swamp groups" referred to in Lafitte's Oct. 9 entry, leaves the door open that certain skill sets were just too good to pass up, i.e. Umbrella Man and Radio Guy as posited by Alan Kent.

Slowly, I believe, we are whittling down the list of those who fired at John Kennedy.  This particular argument also supports to the degree possible at this juncture, the forthcoming, long awaited, review of Roscoe White as well.

 

Hank was with the Office of Personnel throughout the Carter Administration, interviewing and investigating applicants. He told the story that at a photo-op, he and Carter commiserated over the pain caused by long distance running . They shared similar groin injuries as I recall and their graphic descriptions may have been caught on camera! 🙂 

(He was born in December of 1946.)

Edited July 15, 2023 by Leslie Sharp

[Evan Marshall]

We discussed this in the past and I've read the book that some folks seem to be in love and remain unconvinced. When I have a source who produced gas and motel/ hotel receipts from Reno, Nevada to Dallas, Texas, just prior to the assassination who was a US special forces sniper a bunch of old Nazi's become too unlikely for me to find real.

[Paul Brancato]

28 minutes ago, Evan Marshall said:

We discussed this in the past and I've read the book that some folks seem to be in love and remain unconvinced. When I have a source who produced gas and motel/ hotel receipts from Reno, Nevada to Dallas, Texas, just prior to the assassination who was a US special forces sniper a bunch of old Nazi's become too unlikely for me to find real.

Couple of things Evan. Will you share your source, or at least flesh out this statement? One sniper or many? What else did he or they say to you? When? Why you, and why did they reveal this?
You must realize that if you know something no one else does, and you post this on a site where hundreds of people post, or read, those you see this will want to know what you’re talking about. It seems to me I’m the only one probing, and I’ve done so many times here. I don’t dismiss you lightly, but anyone - you are not the first - who posts here saying they know something we don’t but can’t share it, is going to be dismissed if they can’t come forward with what they know. 
One more observation - why are you so sure that US Special Forces and their military handlers had no links with Nazis? 

[Paul Brancato]

1 hour ago, Leslie Sharp said:

Thanks, Ron.

And of equal if not far more significance is that Hank had access to at least TWO pieces of correspondence from Lafitte to CI James Angleton related to the assassination.  

Also, this particular note should dispel theories that Cuban Nationals, exiled in the US, were tapped as shooters in Dealey.  The extent of their possible employment within the support teams, a.k.a. "swamp groups" referred to in Lafitte's Oct. 9 entry, leaves the door open that certain skill sets were just too good to pass up, i.e. Umbrella Man and Radio Guy as posited by Alan Kent.

Slowly, I believe, we are whittling down the list of those who fired at John Kennedy.  This particular argument also supports to the degree possible at this juncture, the forthcoming, long awaited, review of Roscoe White as well.

 

Hank was with the Office of Personnel throughout the Carter Administration, interviewing and investigating applicants. He told the story that at a photo-op, he and Carter commiserated over the pain caused by long distance running . They shared similar groin injuries as I recall and their graphic descriptions may have been caught on camera! 🙂 

(He was born in December of 1946.)

First sentence - what did Lafitte and Angleton correspond about and when? Did I miss this in Coup in Dallas? Do you have the documents? 

[David Josephs]

50 minutes ago, Evan Marshall said:

We discussed this in the past and I've read the book that some folks seem to be in love and remain unconvinced. When I have a source who produced gas and motel/ hotel receipts from Reno, Nevada to Dallas, Texas, just prior to the assassination who was a US special forces sniper a bunch of old Nazi's become too unlikely for me to find real.

@Paul Brancato

I have to second Paul's concerns over important evidence which seems to reside with those who for some reason guard it.

Lifton was famous for not sharing any of his source materials, even with those who opened their collections to him.

Yes, I'm annoyed at reading this Evan.  I guess the community members do not owe anything to anyone else yet one would hope that something like the potential sniper who shot JFK, with authenticated evidence placing that person in DP that day, is something worth open sourcing to this community for examination.

Are you convinced this was the shooter?

[Leslie Sharp]

1 hour ago, Evan Marshall said:

We discussed this in the past and I've read the book that some folks seem to be in love and remain unconvinced. When I have a source who produced gas and motel/ hotel receipts from Reno, Nevada to Dallas, Texas, just prior to the assassination who was a US special forces sniper a bunch of old Nazi's become too unlikely for me to find real.

But @Evan Marshall How is that evidence that those who produced gas and motel/hotel receipts, just prior to the assassination and happened also to be a US special forces sniper, prove that those identified by Lafitte weren't the shooters in Dealey? I don't understand the logic, let alone the detective work. But you're a trained detective so I defer to your thought process to a degree.

[Leslie Sharp]

On 7/15/2023 at 4:23 PM, Paul Brancato said:

First sentence - what did Lafitte and Angleton correspond about and when? Did I miss this in Coup in Dallas? Do you have the documents? 

 

Edited July 17, 2023 by Leslie Sharp

[Leslie Sharp]

Now, back to nuts and bolts off the crime.

@Evan Marshall did your sniper friend identify his preferred weapon for the Dealey hit?  And in your experience, isn't it possible to match fragments with specific fire arms and why hasn't that stone been turned beyond the rifle found in TSBD?  Don't snipers have favorite rifles? My PI in Boston calls his "gladys". Has anyone studied the preferred weapons of known European snipers? And, in your experience, do snipers choose their weapon relevant to a specific assignment, or do they accept any rifle shoved in their hands the morning of the assassination?

Edited July 16, 2023 by Leslie Sharp

[Leslie Sharp]

[Leslie Sharp]

On 7/15/2023 at 4:23 PM, Paul Brancato said:

First sentence - what did Lafitte and Angleton correspond about and when? Did I miss this in Coup in Dallas? Do you have the documents? 

 

Edited July 17, 2023 by Leslie Sharp

[Leslie Sharp]

@Mark Knight @Sandy Larsen I'm trying to share an organizational chart on this thread.  Our graphics expert has shrunk it to 42kb (490X317) but it's bouncing.  I think you said that I've likely exceeded my quota, but I don't know how to delete previous images to make room.  Any chance this org chart could be "charged to my account" for now and posted here while I look for my other images to delete?

[Leslie Sharp]

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[Leslie Sharp]

I'm confident we've gathered sufficient research to resume building a criminal case from the ground up and specific to the actual crime in Dallas.

 

So, hopefully this thread along with the thread Getting down to the nuts and bolts . . . and the question of Cubans in direct capacities, can be reserved for deliberations over the specifics of Albarelli's investigation and the Lafitte datebook.

(Caveat)
Those who judge the datebook to be a fraud or a hoax — without having actually seen the physical instrument but who bought into Greg Doudna's early "professional analysis" issued on this forum just days after Coup was published — probably shouldn't waste their time on this thread.

 

Those who continue to question the authenticity of the datebook, I hope your skepticism can be expressed elsewhere.  

Which leaves two camps: those who know the datebook is authentic, and those on the fence but willing to participate in a hypothetical exercise, 'what if the datebook is authentic, then where do we go from here?' 

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RETURNING TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME

"ah, Dallas. Lay of the Land. Lay of the Land" — Rene Lafitte
 

"oil smoothes the way for sudden and sometimes deadly change" — Rene Lafitte

 

Now that we've established that James Angleton and Otto Skorzeny had a basis from which to move forward, together, on Project Lancelot, it's important to repeat the following to position Pierre Lafitte in context:  . . . When he first met Borghese, Angleton was a painfully thin, well-schooled, aspiring poet whose androgynous qualities seemed to anticipate David Bowie. While Borghese was shrewd and finely attuned to wartime reality, Angleton was a neophyte to war and world counterintelligence. In time however, Angleton would become well-known as the long-time head of CIA Counterintelligence, moving beneath the protective umbrella of his patron Allen Dulles, and involve himself in the early 1950s CIA-sanctioned MKULTRA experiments that brought him into contact with Federal Bureau of Narcotics ‘special employee’ Pierre Lafitte.”  

 

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We move now to Otto Skorzeny's business history with Louisiana native Jack Alston Crichton who in 1963 was running for Republican candidate for governor against the incumbent, Gov. John Connally.  Crichton had been pivotal to the success of the 1952 Algur Meadows - Otto Skorzeny oil scheme sanctioned in Madrid by Spain's dictator Francisco Franco. (For those unfamiliar, Algur H. Meadows was founder of General American Oil based in the Meadows Building located off Central Expressway, Dallas. We encounter the Meadows Bldg. later in the investigation.)

 

A decade after the Madrid operation which some have recently speculated could not have been focused on drilling for oil in Spain, but was likely an op to establish a foothold in North Africa —  Jack Crichton, whose 488th Military Intel unit was founded for the purpose of protecting the foreign interests of US petroleum companies and specifically independent oilmen in Texas, was called in to serve a role in Angleton and Skorzeny's Lancelot Project.

 

On November 11, Lafitte makes a note in pencil,

 

— Terry says call =

7436 Kenshire

Dallas

— J. Crichton

 

Call Capt. CM996

 

 

Terry: We had only one candidate for "Terry", and he remains a longshot.  The head of Arabian American Oil Co. (ARAMCO) was James Terry Duce. Not long after the assassination, Jack Crichton advanced his own oil interests in the region under the name Arabian Shield Development, perhaps with the assistance of a friend, Terry Duce?

 

7436 Kenshire: The 1963 Dallas phone book confirms the Kenshire address as that of Jack Crichton. (Respected researcher William Kelly contested the block number on Kenshire, insisting Crichton's address was five digits, but I've since provided him with the phone book to confirm 7436.  I've driven around the Kenshire cul-de-sac  on several trips to North Dallas and have photos of the former Crichton house for anyone interested.)

 

Capt. CM996: Researcher / author J. Gary Shaw identified this coincides with contact info.  for the Dallas city manager in 1963.

 

to be continued . . . 

Edited July 24, 2023 by Leslie Sharp

[Leslie Sharp]

An addendum to: 

RETURNING TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME
 

J. Gary Shaw reminded me of the name of the Dallas City Manager as referenced in the above post.

 

CM996 as revealed in Pierre Lafitte's datebook.

Just read some of your posts. Don’t forget that City Mgr. went to work for Howard Corp. soon after assassination. 

Elgin Crull. He was over all city depts. incl. police…. and hired Curry. He left town on 23rd. but came back after R shot O. 

For those who might not recognize the significance that Elgin Crull — Dallas City Mgr overall responsible for the DPD police in November — joined the Howard Corp. soon after the assassination, we spell out in Coup the role this black hole of revenue flow inside the Republic National Bank of Dallas played in machinations leading to the assassination. The ties extend from Howard Corp's Algur Meadows, board member of RNB, to his original oil field strikes in West Texas after which the commodities phrase West Texas Crude is named, all the way to Otto Skorzeny and his fascist cabal in Madrid Spain and Co. Kildare Ireland. (Keep in mind that the North Sea /Hughes / Glomar op involved Texas Gulf Sulphur whose senior board member was the former gov. of Texas, Allan Shivers who despised Kennedy to the extent he left Texas as President Kennedy arrived, and represented Murchison et al in the Texas Tidelands Case.)

More on Howard Corp. soon because the other critical tie is to Parkland Hospital.

For now, keep Dallas City Mgr. Elgin Crull in mind as we pursue the significance of his contact information appearing in the same Lafitte db entry with Jack Crichton. 

[Benjamin Cole]

Those who continue to question the authenticity of the datebook, I hope your skepticism can be expressed elsewhere.  --LS

How can people put aside skepticism aside about a datebook that may not be authentic?

Shouldn't Job One be determining the authenticity of the datebook, and only then on to Job Two, making carefully supported claims based upon the datebook and corroborating evidence---especially evidence that was not in the public sphere at the time the datebook may have been authored?

John Newman did a careful study of Antonio Veciana's claims, and found the claims evolved as new information became public. And this is of Veciana, a  guy obviously and truly involved with violent anti-Castro people and organizations (Alpha 66, for one), well documented. 

Veciana made the claim that he had met "Bishop," aka David Atlee Phillips, in Dallas shortly before the JFKA, in the company of LHO. 

Has a serious effort been made to see if the datebook has flaws revealed by later-released materials, and thus is fraudulent?