Investigating the JFK leads created by Charles William (Bill) Weaver

[Mervyn Hagger]

Years ago (1956), I took an interest in Allan Freed who broadcast from WINS in New York and was heard in England via transcription over Radio Luxembourg. My interest centered around freedom of the USA airwaves versus censorship on the UK airwaves. In 1960 I became interested in a USA-driven phenomenon known as offshore 'pirate' radio. In 1970 I set out to meet the Texas founder of the UK offshore stations Radios London, England and Britain, which the UK put out of business and the BBC tried to mimic. They were primarily funded by an American monologue polemical broadcast ('The World Tomorrow'). In 1985 I inherited the legal and foundational documents of Don Pierson who created those ship-based stations. In 2000 I began writing a series of academic monographs based upon my interests in offshore broadcasting. A friend in Norway took a legacy interest in a former Pierson radio ship called Olga Patricia and this eventually led in 2015 to this forum - after I inherited the original manuscripts of Charles William (Bill) Weaver.

Who was Mr. Weaver?

He was the man who brought the Beatles to KILT in Houston, and he was also manager of sales for the Gordon McLendon group of radio stations which included the 'pirate' radio ship 'Bon Jour' ('Mi Amigo') called 'Radio Nord', anchored in the Baltic and pretending, for about a year, to broadcast pop music to Sweden. Its signal also radiated over the countries dominated by the USSR and into Minsk where Lee Harvey Oswald was working. Weaver claimed that it was really a CIA station. Meanwhile, my friend's interest in the 'Olga Patricia' led me to the writings of Larry Hancock, and from Larry to the Special Group (Augmented) managed by Robert F. Kennedy, and the CIA offshoot in South Miami which had control of the 'Olga Patricia' and its association with Dr. Manuel Artime Buesa who had a company called 'BAM'.

My Pierson documents included paperwork for the 'Olga Patricia' that led directly to the Miami bank used by 'BAM', and declassified CIA documents also told me more about the 'Olga Patricia'. Then I discovered that the infamous JFK quotation about "smashing the CIA into a thousands pieces" dates from 1966 hearsay. It is bogus, and that explains why in 1962, JFK was in a Miami stadium to welcome home the ransomed (from Castro's Cuba), Manuel Artime. JFK then told the enormous crowd that the 'Bay of Pigs' Brigade flag which he held in his hand, would one day fly over a "free Havana".

Meanwhile, his brother Robert was using the Cuban ex-pats and Manuel Artime to raid Cuba using ships such as the 'Olga Patricia'.

Bill Weaver wrote a series of manuscripts (which I have) then named Gordon McLendon and his buddy Clint Murchison as part of the core conspiracy to murder JFK in Dallas in 1963, and McLendon's KLIF station is a big part of the story of how Jack Ruby came to kill Lee Harvey Oswald.

Bill Weaver died and someone published an absurd version of his book (under his name) that made a mockery of Weaver's claim that all JFK roads of assassination lead to the grave of Gordon McLendon.

So instead of tackling this story from the School Book Depository in Dallas and outwards to Mrs Paine and Mr de Mohrenschildt, I have been following a trail created by Don Pierson of Eastland, Texas to the door of Gordon McLendon in Dallas, Texas via Wichita Falls, Texas and several other locations in the Lone Star State including Houston and Galveston.

The thing about ships is that they cannot speak for themselves because they are man-made creations, but they do have birth certificates and 'graduation' documentation to show what they have been up to. In the end (in the 1970s), the 'Olga Patricia' was seized by the US Justice Department after being arrested In Rem in US waters with a flip-board of ship names on its bow. That was after Fidel Castro had denounced it over Radio Havana Cuba as a CIA spy ship and raider that was still shooting and killing Cubans.

After years of research a trio of which I am a member is ready to start publishing our findings in book form. First in the UK later this year, and next year in the USA.

Misdirection has been continuous ever since we began this investigation, and it seems that Bill Weaver stumbled on to the real storyline that connects many of the dots that even turns Don Pierson into another 'patsy' when his movements and that of the 'Olga Patricia' took him to Haiti where both de Mohrenschildt and Clint Murchison as one of another 'trio' of friends with Gordon McLendon, had already been operating.

There are so many loose ends out there that have surfaced, but apart from our tiny 'trio', no one else has been looking into them.

However, there is a possibility that someone who reads these words has some seemingly isolated bit of information relating the BAM, Miami or the Special Group (Augmented), that may be of help. It is plain as day to me that JFK never gave up on the idea of invading Cuba (Mongoose), that Bobby Kennedy who thought he was being clever in running a faction of CIA from Miami, was himself just another 'patsy', and that the seemingly complicated riddle is not so complicated after all because this story begins and ends in Texas and its twin cities of Houston (oil) and Dallas (communications).

I might add that Larry Hancock's own published works have been of great help in steering our own investigation in the direction it has taken.

Listening on YouTube to the rather 'sick' humor of the KLIF aircheck made at the time of the JFK shooting, is interesting itself. I am not suggesting that the dj understood the relevance of the first two records overlapping the initial shooting, but if indeed McLendon and his buddies knew in advance that JFK was about to die, then the lyrics of those two songs back-to-back with continuing commercials in between the records and assassination bulletins, might have had McLendon and his buddies roaring their heads off with laughter, just as Jack was having his head blown off amidst gasps of horror from Jackie.

 

Edited August 8, 2023 by Mervyn Hagger

[Mervyn Hagger]

So here's JFK at Parkland with a big chunk of his brain missing, and here's Gene McDaniels singing over 50,000 watts of power KLIF " Once I could have said goodbye but that was at the start - Now I think I'd rather die than be the one to say, we'll part" while laughable news unit "4" (the others in sequence did not exist), and following a pimple commercial, was able to give listeners a description of the murder suspect and murder weapon, and murder location, but not yet being able to say for certain who is alive and who is dead. McLendon, Murchison and Thompson had a rather weird and sick sense of humor. You should watch his movie in which both McLendon and his buddy Thompson act (very badly), which makes me wonder if the words sung by McDaniels = "I'd rather die than be the one to say, we'll part" - are the vicarious words that JFK was supposed to have sung if he was capable of doing so with a destroyed chunk of brain mass. That's what was broadcast and the man in charge of that broadcast was Gordon McLendon who called himself "The Old Scotchman" - as in booze, and not as in ethnic origin.

But then JFK never said anything about "smashing the CIA", but he did promise to put the 'Bay of Pigs' Brigade banner on a pole flying over Havana while his brother was running the military arm of the anti-Castro CIA operation in Miami. What XXXXX these Kennedys were, just like 'Uncle Joe' and his son today.

[Mervyn Hagger]

Well, all of the above has so far met with silence, so let me make it perfectly clear what I am saying:

There is a 1966 hearsay statement published by The New York Times which is attributable to ears that belong to an unnamed source on an unnamed date about President Kennedy saying that he would smash the CIA for its part in the Bay of Pigs.

I am saying that this so-called quotation is a lie.

There is 1962 news film footage of President Kennedy speaking in front of a stadium of ex-pat Cuban supporters of the Bay of Pigs invasion, and the same President Kennedy flanked by the ransomed (from Cuba by Kennedy's friends of) Dr Manuel Artime Buesa, and Kennedy is holding in his hands the flag of the Brigade of the ex-pat Cubans who invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.

So who do you believe?

The New York Times of 1966 with a made-up story, or the 1962 film of JFK telling thousands in person that he supported the invading ex-pat Cubans?

Then there is JFK's brother Bobby in DC running the Special Group (Augmented) and their big spin-off CIA base in South Miami who are still raiding Cuba.

Bobby, like Hillary worked for Senator Joe McCarthy, who spoke like Billy Graham ("Communism is Satanism") and was funded by Clint Murchison the pal of Gordon McLendon who ran KLIF, the station wrapped around the antics of Jack Ruby.

If the simplest explanation is usually the correct explanation, that title does not belong to the convoluted 'Warren Report', nor The New York Times, it belongs to facts you can read, see and hear for yourself.

The people who believe in the 'magic bullet' are the people who drag in the Vietnam War to misdirect with the antics of LBJ.

Face facts:

JFK and his brother Bobby were in the same boat as Joe McCarthy.

Where things went wrong was in allowing in the Mafia to carry out the assassination of Fidel Castro, and Bobby has already made the Mafia his enemy.

So the Mafia took out Bobby after getting rid of JFK.

Since the people running the show in Dallas and Houston were oil men, and they also had a beef with JFK, the intervention of the Mafia killed two birds with one stone, as "they" say. What is not true is that unfounded statement from 1966 that is attributed to The New York Times.

[Gerry Down]

On 8/8/2023 at 8:57 AM, Mervyn Hagger said:

After years of research a trio of which I am a member is ready to start publishing our findings in book form. First in the UK later this year, and next year in the USA.

Best of luck with your book. Sounds like it will be well researched. 

Do you know what the Olga Patricia was doing in late 1963? Where was it located and what operations was it involved in? Was it actively doing CIA raids into Cuba in that timeframe?

[Mervyn Hagger]

2 hours ago, Gerry Down said:

Best of luck with your book. Sounds like it will be well researched. 

Do you know what the Olga Patricia was doing in late 1963? Where was it located and what operations was it involved in? Was it actively doing CIA raids into Cuba in that timeframe?

Hi Gerry. Yes, it was disguised as a ship conducting atmospheric nuclear test contamination by launching high altitude balloons from its deck. In reality it was launching balloons to drop propaganda on Cuba! There seems to be a period between 1964 and 1965 when it was doing something else off Central America, and then it returned to a United States Air Force pen in Miami before being leased to Don Pierson's company as the home of 'Swinging Radio England' and 'Britain Radio' anchored off South-east England in the North Sea. Then, in the second half of 1967 it was offered by Don Pierson to just about everyone - including the Voice of America. The only interest came from Haiti, and so Don Pierson took the same road that de Mohrenschildt took to do business with Papa Doc - who suddenly died. So the ship docked in Miami and became the subject of U.S. federal lawsuits. The transmitters were reclaimed and sold to two operations in South Africa, and the ship ended up with another Cuban ex-pat who resumed raids on Cuba and so the US Government grabbed it and sold it to a New England fishing company!

[Gerry Down]

36 minutes ago, Mervyn Hagger said:

Hi Gerry. Yes, it was disguised as a ship conducting atmospheric nuclear test contamination by launching high altitude balloons from its deck. In reality it was launching balloons to drop propaganda on Cuba! There seems to be a period between 1964 and 1965 when it was doing something else off Central America, and then it returned to a United States Air Force pen in Miami before being leased to Don Pierson's company as the home of 'Swinging Radio England' and 'Britain Radio' anchored off South-east England in the North Sea. Then, in the second half of 1967 it was offered by Don Pierson to just about everyone - including the Voice of America. The only interest came from Haiti, and so Don Pierson took the same road that de Mohrenschildt took to do business with Papa Doc - who suddenly died. So the ship docked in Miami and became the subject of U.S. federal lawsuits. The transmitters were reclaimed and sold to two operations in South Africa, and the ship ended up with another Cuban ex-pat who resumed raids on Cuba and so the US Government grabbed it and sold it to a New England fishing company!

Thanks. I wonder if the 1964/1965 activity in Central America was related to the AMWORLD operation going on there at the time with Artime. 

What was the ship doing exactly with the balloons? Was the ship anchored a few miles off the cuban coast and the balloons just being blown by the wind into Cuba? Do you know if the ship ever used for infiltrations/exfiltrations to Cuba?

[Mervyn Hagger]

13 minutes ago, Gerry Down said:

Thanks. I wonder if the 1964/1965 activity in Central America was related to the AMWORLD operation going on there at the time with Artime. 

What was the ship doing exactly with the balloons? Was the ship anchored a few miles off the cuban coast and the balloons just being blown by the wind into Cuba? Do you know if the ship ever used for infiltrations/exfiltrations to Cuba?

It was based in the Gulf of Mexico and called in at Brownsville. The ship got close to the Cuban coast and released the balloons filled with helium tanks from its desk. Once over Cuba they were triggered to shower down propaganda. As for the Central American venture that was before Artime and AMWORLD, and if anything it is more likely that it was use by David Atlee Phillips and company. The Courier used by the Voice of America was also down there before it sailed off for the island of Rhodes.

[Gerry Down]

3 hours ago, Mervyn Hagger said:

It was based in the Gulf of Mexico and called in at Brownsville. The ship got close to the Cuban coast and released the balloons filled with helium tanks from its desk. Once over Cuba they were triggered to shower down propaganda.

Do you know what CIA motherships were being used for infiltrations/exfiltrations around Nov 1963?

The Rex and the Leda had been outed by Nov 1963. And from what you are saying the Olga Patricia was involved in balloon operations. 

[Mervyn Hagger]

On Mary Ferrell - On June 28 1963, 'Olga Patricia' was being looked at a mother ship for JMWAVE - Maritime Assets - it would be sold by AMRUN Corporation (indicating past CIA life) to AMBIDDY-1 and made available to AMWORLD within 30-45 days with 26 man crew.

That will give you an idea of the way things were moving towards the proposed AMWORLD D-Day .

There were several other companies involved, including one managed by Dr Manuel Artime Buesa who reversed his initials to name his company BAM.

I don't have the timeline to hand at this moment, but the life of this ship has been documented.