Gene Wheaton:CIA and the Military Industrial Complex

[Robert Howard]

Daniel Sheehan became another Jim Garrison. During his investigation the CIA launched a massive smear campaign against him. Leading this campaign was a woman called Susan Huck. She put around stories that Sheehan and the Christic Institute were "instruments of Soviet disinformation". That Sheehan's lawsuit advanced "Soviet interests" and was an attempt to weaken the United States. Huck argued that the Soviets were out to get people like Ted Shackley, Tom Clines, Raphael Quintero, Felix Rodriguez, Richard Secord, etc. because of their "record of thwarting... Moscow and Havana for three decades". Huck went onto publish a book, Legal Terrorism, about Sheehan's attack on the CIA.

There were two parts to Sheehan's lawsuit. One involved the CIA assassination team that had been run by Shackley and company since the early 1960s and the other involved Reagan's use of Congress' decision to grant 27 million dollars in non-lethal aid for the Contras in Nicaragua. According to Sheehan the Reagan administration were using this money to provide weapons to the Contras and the Mujahideen in Afghanistan.

On 5th October, 1986, a Sandinista patrol in Nicaragua shot down a C-123K cargo plane that was supplying the Contras. Eugene Hasenfus, an Air America veteran, survived the crash and told his captors that he thought the CIA was behind the operation. He also provided information on two Cuban-Americans running the operation in El Savador. This resulted in journalists being able to identify Raphael Quintero and Felix Rodriguez as the two Cuban-Americans. It gradually emerged that Clines, Oliver North, Edwin Wilson and Richard Secord were also involved in this conspiracy to provide arms to the Contras.

Shirley Brill, a former CIA official, published a 24 page affidavit in 1988. Brill had lived with Tom Clines in 1977 and claimed that he was involved in illegal activities with Raphael Quintero and a drug dealer living in Miami. After retering from the CIA in 1978, Brill claims Clines joined forces with Ted Shackley, Richard Secord and Edwin Wilson in order to gain Pentagon contracts. Brill also argued that she heard Clines, Secord, Quintero and Shakley plotting to frame Wilson.

Brill's information added support to the stories provided to Sheehan by Gene Wheaton (Source 48) and Carl Jenkins (Source 49). However, on 23rd June, 1988, Judge James L. King ruled that Sheehan's allegations were "based on unsubstantiated rumor and speculation from unidentified sources with no firsthand knowledge". In February, 1989, Judge King ruled that Sheehan had brought a frivolous lawsuit and ordered his Christic Institute to pay the defendants $955,000. This was one of the highest sanction orders in history and represented four times the total assets of the Christic Institute.

Despite Sheehan's information being correct about what eventually became known as the Iran-Contra scandal, none of these men were ever convicted in a court of law for these offences. The only one to go to prison was Tom Clines as a result of under-reporting his income from his various business enterprises by at least $260,000 and with failing to disclose on his tax returns that he had an overseas bank account. Clines was found guilty and sentenced to sixteen months and a $40,000 fine.

Shackley was never charged with any offence although Oliver North's notebook that was declassified in 1990 showed that he had been involved in selling arms to the Contras since December 1984. Instead of being sent to prison, Shackley received a libel payout of $148,296 from Sheehan.

Oliver North's notebook also shows that Tom Clines, Raphael Quintero, Felix Rodriguez, Albert Hakim and Richard Secord were also involved in this conspiracy. They only one to suffer from this was Daniel Sheehan who was forced into bankrupcy.

It is of course possible that Sheehan was right both about the Iran-Contra story and the CIA assassination team that originally was set up to kill Fidel Castro but was later used against other figures who posed a threat to the agency. If Wheaton is to be believed, it was this team that killed JFK.

According to Sheehan, his two main sources were Wheaton and Jenkins (although he later denied this). Why did they do this? One theory is that Wheaton and Jenkins had both been part of the original deal (both men had established a cargo airline called National Air in 1985). It is believed that this airline was to be used to transport arms to the Contras in Nicaragua and the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. For some reason Clines decided to cut Wheaton and Jenkins out of the deal. As a result, both men decided to get even by informing against those involved in these two CIA conspiracies.

How would one go about locating a copy of the Sheehan affadavit?

[John Simkin]

How would one go about locating a copy of the Sheehan affadavit?

ATTORNEY DANIEL SHEEHAN'S AFFIDAVIT

Now comes Attorney Daniel P. Sheehan, and having been duly sworn hereby swears

and affirms that the following facts are true:

1. I am a duly licensed attorney at law, admitted to practice before the

State and Federal Courts of the State of New York in both the Northern and

Southern Districts of New York.

2. I am duly licensed and have been admitted to practice before the

Courts of the District of Columbia, both local and Federal and I am in good

standing before both the Bar of New York and the Bar of the District of

Columbia.

3. I have practiced law before the courts of New York and numerous other

states in our nation since 1970, having served as counsel in some 60 separate

pieces of litigation in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina,

Virginia, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Florida, Oklahoma, Ohio,

Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming and Mississippi.

4. I graduated from Harvard college in 1967 as an Honors Graduate in

American Government, writing my Honors Thesis in the field of Constitutional

Law, and was the Harvard University nominee for the Rhodes Scholarship from

New York in 1967. I graduated from Harvard School of Law in 1970, having

served as an Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights)Civil Liberties Law Review and

as the Research Associate of Professor Jerome Cohen, the Chair of the

International Law Department of Harvard.

5. While at Harvard School of Law, I served as a summer associate at the

State Street law firm of Goodwin, Proctor and Hoar under the supervision of

Senior Partner, Donald J. Hurley, the President of the Boston Chamber of

Commerce and Massachusetts Senatorial Campaign Chairman for John F. Kennedy.

At this firm I participated in the case of BAIRD v EISENSTAT, under Roger

Stockey, General Counsel for the Massachusetts Planned Parenthood League

(establishing the unconstitutionality of the Massachusetts anti)birth control

law) and in the Nevada case, under Charles Goodhue, III (establishing the

constitutional right to bail in criminal extradition cases, including capital

cases). While at Harvard School of Law, I authored "The Pedestrian Sources of

Civil Liberties" in the Harvard Civil Rights)Civil Liberties Law Review and I

served under Professor Milton Katz, the President of the International Law

Association, as the Chairman of the Nigerian Biafran Relief Commission

responsible for successfully negotiating the admission of mercy flights of

food into Biafra in 1968.

6. While serving as a legal Associate at the Wall Street law firm of

Cahill, Gordon, Sonnett, Rheindle and Ohio under partner Theodore Shackley and

Thomas Clines directed the Phoenix Project in Vietnam, in 1974 and 1975, which

carried out the secret mission of assassinating members of the economic and

political bureaucracy inside Vietnam to cripple the ability of that nation to

function after the total US withdrawal from Vietnam. This Phoenix Project,

during its history, carried out the political assassination, in Vietnam, of

some 60,000 village mayors, treasurers, school teachers and other non)Viet

Cong administrators. Theodore Shackley and Thomas Clines financed a highly

intensified phase of the Phoenix project, in 1974 and 1975, by causing an

intense flow of Vang Pao opium money to be secretly brought into Vietnam for

this purpose. This Vang Pao opium money was administered for Theodore

Shackley and Thomas Clines by a US Navy official based in Saigon's US office

of Naval Operations by the name of Richard Armitage. However, because

Theodore Shackley, Thomas Clines and Richard Armitage knew that their secret

anti)communist extermination program was going to be shut down in Vietnam,

Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand in the very near future, they, in 1973, began a

highly secret non)CIA authorized program Thus, from late 1973 until April of

1975, Theodore Shackley, Thomas Clines and Richard Armitage disbursed, from

the secret, Laotian)based, Vang Pao opium fund, vastly more money than was

required to finance even the highly intensified Phoenix Project in Vietnam.

The money in excess of that used in Vietnam was secretly smuggled out of

Vietnam in large suitcases, by Richard Secord and Thomas Clines )) and carried

into Australia, where it was deposited in a secret, personal bank account

(privately accessible to Theodore Shackley, Thomas Clines and Richard Secord).

During this same period of time between 1973 and 1975, Theodore Shackley and

Thomas Clines caused thousands of tons of US weapons, ammunition, and

explosives to be secretly taken from Vietnam and stored at a secret "cache"

hidden inside Thailand.

The "liaison officer" to Shackley and Clines and the Phoenix Project in

Vietnam, during this 1973 to 1975 period, from the "40 Committee" in the Nixom

White House was one Eric Von Arbod )) an Assistant Secretary of State for Far

Eastern Affairs. Von Arbod shared his information about the Phoenix Project

directly with his supervisor Henry Kissinger.

Saigon fell to the Vietnamese in April of 1975. The Vietnam War was over.

Immediately upon the conclusion of the evacuation of U.S. personnel from

Vietnam, Richard Armitage was dispatched, by Theodore Shackley and Thomas

Clines, from Vietnam to Tehran, Iran. In Iran, Armitage (the "bursar" for the

Vang Pao opium money for Shackley and Clines' planned "Secret Team" covert

operations program), between May and August of 1975, set up a secret

"financial conduit" inside Iran, into which secret Vang Pao drug funds could

be deposited from Southeast Asia. The purpose of this conduit was to serve as

the vehicle for secret funding by Shackley's "Secret Team," of a private,

non)CIA authorized "Black" operations inside Iran )) disposed to seek out,

identify, and assassinate socialist and communist sympathizers )) who were

viewed by Shackley and his "Secret Team" members to be "potential terrorists"

against the Shah of Iran`s government in Iran. In late 1975 and early 1976,

Theodore Shackley and Thomas Clines retained Edwin Wilson to travel to Tehran,

Iran to head up the "Secret Team" covert "anti)terrorist" assassination

program in Iran. This was not a U.S. government)authorized operation. This

was a private operations supervised, directed and participated in by Shackley,

Clines, Secord and Armitage in their purely private capacities.

At the end of 1975, Richard Armitage took the post of a "Special Consultant"

to the U.S. Department of Defense regarding American military personnel

Missing In Action (MIAs) in Southeast Asia. In this capacity, Armitage was

posted in the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. There Armitage had top

responsibility for locating and retrieving American MIA's in Southeast Asia.

He worked at the Embassy with an associate, one Jerry O. Daniels. From 1975

to 1977, Armitage held this post in Thailand. However, he did not perform the

duties of this office. Instead, Armitage continued to function as the

"bursar" for Theodore Shackley's "Secret Team," seeing to it that secret Vang

Pao opium funds were conducted from Laos, through Armitage in Thailand to both

Tehran and the secret Shackley bank account in Australia at the Nugen)Hand

Bank. The monies conducted by Armitage to Tehran were to fund Edwin Wilson's

secret anti)terrorist "seek and destroy" operation on behalf of Theodore

Shackely. Armitage also devoted a portion of his time between 1975 and 1977,

in Bangkok, facilitating the escape from Laos, Cambodia and Thailand and the

re)location elsewhere in the world, of numbers of the secret Meo tribesmen

group which had carried out the covert political assassination program for

Theodore Shackley in Southeast Asia between 1966 and 1975. Assisting Richard

Armitage in this operation was Jerry O. Daniels. Indeed, Jerry O. Daniels was

a "bag)man" for Richard Armitage, assisting Armitage by physically

transporting out of Thailand millions of dollars of Vang Pao's secret opium

money )) to finance the re)location of Theodore Shackley's Meo tribesmen and

to supply funds to Theodore Shackley's "Secret Team" operations. At the U.S.

Embassy in Bangkok, Richard Armitage also supervised the removal of arms,

ammunition and explosives from the secret Shackley)Clines cache of munitions

hidden inside Thailand between 1973 and 1975 )) for use by Shackley's "Secret

Team". Assisting Armitage in this latter operations was one Daniel Arnold,

the CIA Chief of Station in Thailand )) who joined Shackley's "Secret Team" ))

in his purely private capacity.

One of the officers in the U.S. Embassy in Thailand, one Abranowitz came to

know of Armitage's involvement in the secret handling of Vang Pao opium funds

and caused to be initiated an internal State Department heroin smuggling

investigations directed against Richard Armitage. Armitage was the target of

Embassy personnel complaints to the effect that he was utterly failing to

perform his duties on behalf of American MIAs, and he reluctantly resigned as

the D.O.D. Special Consultant on MIA's at the end of 1977.

From 1977 until 1979, Armitage remained in Bangkok opening and operating a

business named The Far East Trading Company. This company had offices only in

Bangkok and in Washington, D.C. This company was, in fact, from 1977 to 1979,

merely a "front" for Armitage's secret operations conducting Vang Pao opium

money out of Southeast Asia to Tehran and the Nugen)Hand Bank in Australia to

fund the ultra right)wing, private anti)communist "anti)terrorist"

assassination program and "unconventional warfare" operation of Theodore

Shackley's and Thomas Cline's "Secret Team". During this period, between 1975

and 1979, in Bangkok, Richard Armitage lived in the home of Hynnie Aderholdt

)) the former Air Wing Commander of Shackley`s "Special Operations Group" in

Laos )) who, between 1966 and 1968, had served as the immediate superior to

Richard Secord, the Deputy Air Wing Commander of MAG)SOG. Secord, in 1975,

was transferred from Vietnam to Tehran, Iran.

In 1976, Richard Secord moved to Tehran, Iran and became the Deputy Assistant

Secretary of defense in Iran, in charge of the Middle Eastern Division of the

Defense Security Assistance Administration. In this capacity, Secord

functioned as the chief operations officer for the U.S. Defense Department in

the Middle East in charge of foreign military sales of U.S. aircraft, weapons

and military equipment to Middle Eastern nations allied to the U.S.. Secord's

immediate superior was Eric Van Marbad )) the former 40 Committee liaison

officer to Theodore Shackley's Phoenix program in Vietnam from 1973 to 1975.

From 1976 to 1979, in Iran, Richard Secord supervised the sale of U.S.

military aircraft and weapons to Middle Eastern nations. However, Richard

Secord did not authorize direct nation)to)nation sales of such equipment

directly from the U.S. government to said Middle Eastern governments.

Instead, Richard Secord conducted such sales through a "middle)man", one

Albert Hakim. By the use of middle)man Albert Hakim, Deputy Assistant

Secretary of Defense Richard Secord purchased U.S. military aircraft and

weapons from the U.S. governament at the low "manufacturer's cost" )) but sold

these U.S. aircraft and weapons to the client Middle Eastern nations at the

much higher "replacement cost". Secord then caused to be paid to the U.S.

government, out of the actual sale price obtained, only the lower amount equal

to the lower manufacturer's cost. The difference, was secreted from the U.S.

government and Secord and Albert Hakim secretly transferred these millions of

dollars into Shackley's "Secret Team" operations inside Iran )) and into

Shackley's secret Nugen)Hand bank account in Australia. Thus, by 1976,

Defendant Albert Hakim had become a partner with Thomas Clines, Richard Secord

and Richard Armitage in Theodore Shackley's "Secret Team".

Between 1976 and 1979, Shackley, Clines, Secord, Hakim, Wilson, and Armitage

set up several corporations and subsidiaries around the world through which to

conceal the operations of the "Secret Team". Many of these corporations were

set up in Switzerland. Some of these were: (1) Lake Resources, Inc.; (2) The

Stanford Technology Trading Group, Inc.; and (3) Companie de Services

Fiduciaria. Other companies were set up in Central America, such as: (4) CSF,

Investments, Ltd. and (5) Udall research Corporation. Some were set up inside

the United States by Edwin Wilson. Some of these were: (6) Orca Supply

Company in Florida and (7) Consultants International in Washington, D.C..

Through these corporations, members of Theodore Shackley's "Secret Team"

laundered hundreds of millions of dollars of secret Vang Pao opium money

pilfered Foreign Military Sales proceeds between 1976 and 1979. named in this

federal civil suit to be placed under oath and asked about their participation

in the criminal "enterprise" alleged in this Complaint is probative of the

criminal guilt of the Defendants of some of the crimes charged in this

Complaint.

Plaintiffs and Plaintiffs' Counsel, The Christic Institute, possess evidence

constituting "probable cause" that each of the Defendants named in this

Complaint are guilty of the conduct charged.

If further detailed evidence is required by the Court to allow the Plaintiffs

to begin the standard process of discovery in this case, the failure to place

it in this Affidavit is the function of the short time allowed by the Court

for the preparation of this filing )) it is not because the Plaintiffs lack

such evidence.

Daniel P. Sheehan

Subscribed and Sworn to before me this day of December, 1986

[Robert Howard]

How would one go about locating a copy of the Sheehan affadavit?

ATTORNEY DANIEL SHEEHAN'S AFFIDAVIT

Now comes Attorney Daniel P. Sheehan, and having been duly sworn hereby swears

and affirms that the following facts are true:

1. I am a duly licensed attorney at law, admitted to practice before the

State and Federal Courts of the State of New York in both the Northern and

Southern Districts of New York.

2. I am duly licensed and have been admitted to practice before the

Courts of the District of Columbia, both local and Federal and I am in good

standing before both the Bar of New York and the Bar of the District of

Columbia.

3. I have practiced law before the courts of New York and numerous other

states in our nation since 1970, having served as counsel in some 60 separate

pieces of litigation in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina,

Virginia, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Florida, Oklahoma, Ohio,

Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming and Mississippi.

4. I graduated from Harvard college in 1967 as an Honors Graduate in

American Government, writing my Honors Thesis in the field of Constitutional

Law, and was the Harvard University nominee for the Rhodes Scholarship from

New York in 1967. I graduated from Harvard School of Law in 1970, having

served as an Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights)Civil Liberties Law Review and

as the Research Associate of Professor Jerome Cohen, the Chair of the

International Law Department of Harvard.

5. While at Harvard School of Law, I served as a summer associate at the

State Street law firm of Goodwin, Proctor and Hoar under the supervision of

Senior Partner, Donald J. Hurley, the President of the Boston Chamber of

Commerce and Massachusetts Senatorial Campaign Chairman for John F. Kennedy.

At this firm I participated in the case of BAIRD v EISENSTAT, under Roger

Stockey, General Counsel for the Massachusetts Planned Parenthood League

(establishing the unconstitutionality of the Massachusetts anti)birth control

law) and in the Nevada case, under Charles Goodhue, III (establishing the

constitutional right to bail in criminal extradition cases, including capital

cases). While at Harvard School of Law, I authored "The Pedestrian Sources of

Civil Liberties" in the Harvard Civil Rights)Civil Liberties Law Review and I

served under Professor Milton Katz, the President of the International Law

Association, as the Chairman of the Nigerian Biafran Relief Commission

responsible for successfully negotiating the admission of mercy flights of

food into Biafra in 1968.

6. While serving as a legal Associate at the Wall Street law firm of

Cahill, Gordon, Sonnett, Rheindle and Ohio under partner Theodore Shackley and

Thomas Clines directed the Phoenix Project in Vietnam, in 1974 and 1975, which

carried out the secret mission of assassinating members of the economic and

political bureaucracy inside Vietnam to cripple the ability of that nation to

function after the total US withdrawal from Vietnam. This Phoenix Project,

during its history, carried out the political assassination, in Vietnam, of

some 60,000 village mayors, treasurers, school teachers and other non)Viet

Cong administrators. Theodore Shackley and Thomas Clines financed a highly

intensified phase of the Phoenix project, in 1974 and 1975, by causing an

intense flow of Vang Pao opium money to be secretly brought into Vietnam for

this purpose. This Vang Pao opium money was administered for Theodore

Shackley and Thomas Clines by a US Navy official based in Saigon's US office

of Naval Operations by the name of Richard Armitage. However, because

Theodore Shackley, Thomas Clines and Richard Armitage knew that their secret

anti)communist extermination program was going to be shut down in Vietnam,

Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand in the very near future, they, in 1973, began a

highly secret non)CIA authorized program Thus, from late 1973 until April of

1975, Theodore Shackley, Thomas Clines and Richard Armitage disbursed, from

the secret, Laotian)based, Vang Pao opium fund, vastly more money than was

required to finance even the highly intensified Phoenix Project in Vietnam.

The money in excess of that used in Vietnam was secretly smuggled out of

Vietnam in large suitcases, by Richard Secord and Thomas Clines )) and carried

into Australia, where it was deposited in a secret, personal bank account

(privately accessible to Theodore Shackley, Thomas Clines and Richard Secord).

During this same period of time between 1973 and 1975, Theodore Shackley and

Thomas Clines caused thousands of tons of US weapons, ammunition, and

explosives to be secretly taken from Vietnam and stored at a secret "cache"

hidden inside Thailand.

The "liaison officer" to Shackley and Clines and the Phoenix Project in

Vietnam, during this 1973 to 1975 period, from the "40 Committee" in the Nixom

White House was one Eric Von Arbod )) an Assistant Secretary of State for Far

Eastern Affairs. Von Arbod shared his information about the Phoenix Project

directly with his supervisor Henry Kissinger.

Saigon fell to the Vietnamese in April of 1975. The Vietnam War was over.

Immediately upon the conclusion of the evacuation of U.S. personnel from

Vietnam, Richard Armitage was dispatched, by Theodore Shackley and Thomas

Clines, from Vietnam to Tehran, Iran. In Iran, Armitage (the "bursar" for the

Vang Pao opium money for Shackley and Clines' planned "Secret Team" covert

operations program), between May and August of 1975, set up a secret

"financial conduit" inside Iran, into which secret Vang Pao drug funds could

be deposited from Southeast Asia. The purpose of this conduit was to serve as

the vehicle for secret funding by Shackley's "Secret Team," of a private,

non)CIA authorized "Black" operations inside Iran )) disposed to seek out,

identify, and assassinate socialist and communist sympathizers )) who were

viewed by Shackley and his "Secret Team" members to be "potential terrorists"

against the Shah of Iran`s government in Iran. In late 1975 and early 1976,

Theodore Shackley and Thomas Clines retained Edwin Wilson to travel to Tehran,

Iran to head up the "Secret Team" covert "anti)terrorist" assassination

program in Iran. This was not a U.S. government)authorized operation. This

was a private operations supervised, directed and participated in by Shackley,

Clines, Secord and Armitage in their purely private capacities.

At the end of 1975, Richard Armitage took the post of a "Special Consultant"

to the U.S. Department of Defense regarding American military personnel

Missing In Action (MIAs) in Southeast Asia. In this capacity, Armitage was

posted in the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. There Armitage had top

responsibility for locating and retrieving American MIA's in Southeast Asia.

He worked at the Embassy with an associate, one Jerry O. Daniels. From 1975

to 1977, Armitage held this post in Thailand. However, he did not perform the

duties of this office. Instead, Armitage continued to function as the

"bursar" for Theodore Shackley's "Secret Team," seeing to it that secret Vang

Pao opium funds were conducted from Laos, through Armitage in Thailand to both

Tehran and the secret Shackley bank account in Australia at the Nugen)Hand

Bank. The monies conducted by Armitage to Tehran were to fund Edwin Wilson's

secret anti)terrorist "seek and destroy" operation on behalf of Theodore

Shackely. Armitage also devoted a portion of his time between 1975 and 1977,

in Bangkok, facilitating the escape from Laos, Cambodia and Thailand and the

re)location elsewhere in the world, of numbers of the secret Meo tribesmen

group which had carried out the covert political assassination program for

Theodore Shackley in Southeast Asia between 1966 and 1975. Assisting Richard

Armitage in this operation was Jerry O. Daniels. Indeed, Jerry O. Daniels was

a "bag)man" for Richard Armitage, assisting Armitage by physically

transporting out of Thailand millions of dollars of Vang Pao's secret opium

money )) to finance the re)location of Theodore Shackley's Meo tribesmen and

to supply funds to Theodore Shackley's "Secret Team" operations. At the U.S.

Embassy in Bangkok, Richard Armitage also supervised the removal of arms,

ammunition and explosives from the secret Shackley)Clines cache of munitions

hidden inside Thailand between 1973 and 1975 )) for use by Shackley's "Secret

Team". Assisting Armitage in this latter operations was one Daniel Arnold,

the CIA Chief of Station in Thailand )) who joined Shackley's "Secret Team" ))

in his purely private capacity.

One of the officers in the U.S. Embassy in Thailand, one Abranowitz came to

know of Armitage's involvement in the secret handling of Vang Pao opium funds

and caused to be initiated an internal State Department heroin smuggling

investigations directed against Richard Armitage. Armitage was the target of

Embassy personnel complaints to the effect that he was utterly failing to

perform his duties on behalf of American MIAs, and he reluctantly resigned as

the D.O.D. Special Consultant on MIA's at the end of 1977.

From 1977 until 1979, Armitage remained in Bangkok opening and operating a

business named The Far East Trading Company. This company had offices only in

Bangkok and in Washington, D.C. This company was, in fact, from 1977 to 1979,

merely a "front" for Armitage's secret operations conducting Vang Pao opium

money out of Southeast Asia to Tehran and the Nugen)Hand Bank in Australia to

fund the ultra right)wing, private anti)communist "anti)terrorist"

assassination program and "unconventional warfare" operation of Theodore

Shackley's and Thomas Cline's "Secret Team". During this period, between 1975

and 1979, in Bangkok, Richard Armitage lived in the home of Hynnie Aderholdt

)) the former Air Wing Commander of Shackley`s "Special Operations Group" in

Laos )) who, between 1966 and 1968, had served as the immediate superior to

Richard Secord, the Deputy Air Wing Commander of MAG)SOG. Secord, in 1975,

was transferred from Vietnam to Tehran, Iran.

In 1976, Richard Secord moved to Tehran, Iran and became the Deputy Assistant

Secretary of defense in Iran, in charge of the Middle Eastern Division of the

Defense Security Assistance Administration. In this capacity, Secord

functioned as the chief operations officer for the U.S. Defense Department in

the Middle East in charge of foreign military sales of U.S. aircraft, weapons

and military equipment to Middle Eastern nations allied to the U.S.. Secord's

immediate superior was Eric Van Marbad )) the former 40 Committee liaison

officer to Theodore Shackley's Phoenix program in Vietnam from 1973 to 1975.

From 1976 to 1979, in Iran, Richard Secord supervised the sale of U.S.

military aircraft and weapons to Middle Eastern nations. However, Richard

Secord did not authorize direct nation)to)nation sales of such equipment

directly from the U.S. government to said Middle Eastern governments.

Instead, Richard Secord conducted such sales through a "middle)man", one

Albert Hakim. By the use of middle)man Albert Hakim, Deputy Assistant

Secretary of Defense Richard Secord purchased U.S. military aircraft and

weapons from the U.S. governament at the low "manufacturer's cost" )) but sold

these U.S. aircraft and weapons to the client Middle Eastern nations at the

much higher "replacement cost". Secord then caused to be paid to the U.S.

government, out of the actual sale price obtained, only the lower amount equal

to the lower manufacturer's cost. The difference, was secreted from the U.S.

government and Secord and Albert Hakim secretly transferred these millions of

dollars into Shackley's "Secret Team" operations inside Iran )) and into

Shackley's secret Nugen)Hand bank account in Australia. Thus, by 1976,

Defendant Albert Hakim had become a partner with Thomas Clines, Richard Secord

and Richard Armitage in Theodore Shackley's "Secret Team".

Between 1976 and 1979, Shackley, Clines, Secord, Hakim, Wilson, and Armitage

set up several corporations and subsidiaries around the world through which to

conceal the operations of the "Secret Team". Many of these corporations were

set up in Switzerland. Some of these were: (1) Lake Resources, Inc.; (2) The

Stanford Technology Trading Group, Inc.; and (3) Companie de Services

Fiduciaria. Other companies were set up in Central America, such as: (4) CSF,

Investments, Ltd. and (5) Udall research Corporation. Some were set up inside

the United States by Edwin Wilson. Some of these were: (6) Orca Supply

Company in Florida and (7) Consultants International in Washington, D.C..

Through these corporations, members of Theodore Shackley's "Secret Team"

laundered hundreds of millions of dollars of secret Vang Pao opium money

pilfered Foreign Military Sales proceeds between 1976 and 1979. named in this

federal civil suit to be placed under oath and asked about their participation

in the criminal "enterprise" alleged in this Complaint is probative of the

criminal guilt of the Defendants of some of the crimes charged in this

Complaint.

Plaintiffs and Plaintiffs' Counsel, The Christic Institute, possess evidence

constituting "probable cause" that each of the Defendants named in this

Complaint are guilty of the conduct charged.

If further detailed evidence is required by the Court to allow the Plaintiffs

to begin the standard process of discovery in this case, the failure to place

it in this Affidavit is the function of the short time allowed by the Court

for the preparation of this filing )) it is not because the Plaintiffs lack

such evidence.

Daniel P. Sheehan

Subscribed and Sworn to before me this day of December, 1986

Fascinating! It is easy to see why the "Sheehan Affadvit" resulted in the hammer coming down, none too lightly on the Christic Institute, my first reaction on seeing this with my own eyes, is that this country is in urgent need of a "mechanism" for lack of a better word to deal with a largely 'compartmentalized' independent media that is only appreciated by those who are not mesmerized or duped by Murdoch's "Fox News," etc., that seems so benign and trustful towards our government and the myriad N.G.O.'s, (Non-Governmental Organizations) that are carrying out their agenda's right before the eyes of a largely (unsuspecting 'still'?)American public.

Said mechanism, which is only necessary, due to the conspicuous absenceof any semblance of accountability by the body politic not just Republican's but Democrat's as well, is a result of the same type of 'moral relativism,' or process of rationalizing acts which are inherently against the 'common good' as far as the American people are concerned.

Example: America ostensibly, is a democracy in which the Constitution is the 'guiding light' for the principles of how the government 'acts' to reflect the will of the governed.

According to the Constitution, "We the People" are not 'the servants' of this country, our elected officials are, yet, I stipulate, that this realization in Washington has become an anachronism, and just as much in the case of many of the American people.

Having said that, to return to the original point. Such a mechanism ideally would be a grass roots campaign to 'restore authentic Constitutional Law as a working principle in American government.'

Gerry Hemming articulated some of the examples of how 'the law' can be circumvented to allow individuals within the government to go scot-free for 'crimes committed in the past' including the assassination of a President if one is well versed in the current legal system, I believe they would find his contention is absolutely correct. Not that it would be 'well recieved.'

I will go a step further, and before I do I ask the members of the Forum to approach the question with an open mind;

Many Forum members may be familiar with the use of the "Executive Order" by the Executive branch over the last 60 or 70 years.

Although I am not a lawyer, the concept (while hopefully in the beginning was brought into being for a 'good reason') of a Presidential Order was rarely used initially, but if one were to view the number of times it has been used by successive Presidential administrations in terms of a graph it would look very much like a graph of the price of oil, comparatively speaking over the last 35 years. In other words, by the Bush-Clinton Era it was being used on a very elongated scale compared to the past, for purposes that do not square with 'how our government should operate, within the context of the constitution, itself.

In its current context, the ability of a sitting President to issue an Executive Order, is an abomination to the entire idea of constitutional government, yet nary a word is spoken about it. Does that make me 'paranoid' to raise the point, I will say no, it makes me one of those who does not blindly trust individual persons 'who happen to be in the highest echelons of power' as to their personal integrity when it comes to 'the governance of this country according to the constitution, both now and in the future.

What would stop, not just President Bush but any President in the future, Democrat or Republican from issuing an Executive Order declaring 'martial law' in the United States?

Under the current system of government, nothing would. (Never mind that it would result in, chaos, but ultimately whose 'chaos' would it be?

Does this seem like a good thing to members of the rest of the Forum? I would like to know.

Leadership in this country, I submit is an anachronism, across the board. When a politician has the balls to stand up and start doing something to rectify some of the injustices that are being perpetrated against the American people, then I will respond accordingly.

Final Thought concerning the "mechanism" referrred to above, if one is not found soon the same pattern of the American people operating in what is "an information vacuum" (see Iraq, and every other scandal of the last 30 years) will result in a status quo' finalizing what is rapidly becoming "Orwellian in nature."

Edited December 9, 2005 by Robert Howard

[Tim Gratz]

I am not sure what happened to Sheehan's affidavit but let me just make this clear:

Under the law, an affidavit submitted in court should only contain factual assertions of which the affiant has personal knowledge. If an affidavit contains hearsay, the hearsay portions are of no legal effect whatsoever.

To use an example, let us assume a person executed an affidavit stating that Howard Hunt told him that Richard Helms told him to order the assasination of JFK. That is just hearsay. It would be different if Hunt himself executed an affidavit stating that Helms had ordered him to kill JFK.

The fact that Sheehan truly believed something happened does not mean that he can just put his thoughts in an affidavit and thus create "evidence". Any more than I could create evidence that Castro did it by putting my thoughts in affidavit form.

Clearly, after closely examining it, the federal courts found Sheehan's affidavit legally insufficient.

[John Simkin]

I am not sure what happened to Sheehan's affidavit but let me just make this clear:

I have now posted Sheehan's affidavit. Maybe you could explain what Sheehan got wrong about Shackley and his gang? I will then deal with the points that you make.

[Tim Gratz]

John, I am not even saying that Sheehan was wrong--at least yet. Read carefully what I said.

What I am saying is that he did not have sufficient evidence admissible in court to bring a lawsuit and impose great financial and personal costs on the defendants.

A prosecutor may be quite confident someone is guilty but it would be irresponsible of him to bring charges if he knew he did not have evidence he could introduce in court to prove it.

So what I am saying is that Sheehan did not have enough evidence against these people even based on the civil standard of the "preponderance of the evidence". Four federal judges unanimously so held and felt so strongly about this lack of evidence that they imposed Rule 11 sanctions which are quite unusual (as I noted before).

[John Simkin]

Well I had read those names but if he named them to Buttimer why did she not put them in her report.

How do we know Wheaton was talking about Jenkins and Quintero here? I don't say this for sure but Wheaton may be a xxxx. And liars change their stories as circumstances change. I noted that the Buttimer report says "the Cubans" plural. Quintero is only one guy. So who were the others?

You really need to look at all the documents, including those provided about AMWORLD in Lamar Waldron’s book, and the filmed interview that Wheaton gave to William Law to fully understand how the evidence is building to show that Carl Jenkins and Chi Chi Quintero were involved in the assassination of JFK.

The reason that Buttimer did not name Jenkins was because Wheaton asked her not to do this. Jenkins was identified by Wheaton because he sent the ARRB his CV (I have a copy of this CV). This CV clearly identified Jenkins. The other document that is important is the following:

Gene Wheaton, note to the Assassination Records Review Board on National Air notepaper (undated):

Carl (Jenkins) was my (National Air) Washington, D.C. rep. who connected me to Nestor Pino, Bill Bode, Rob Owen, Vaughn Forrest, Chi Chi Quintero, Nestor Sanchez, et al.”

In the filmed interview Wheaton pointed out that it was Carl Jenkins he was talking about. He also added the name of Chi Chi Quintero as being one of the “assassination team”. The other gunmen came from the Operation 40 team.

I can see why you are getting very emotional about this issue. People like Rob Owen are linked very closely to George H. W. Bush. I have also discovered other information that links Bush to this CIA team of assassins that killed JFK (I will be posting this later today under the heading "Ted Shackley and the Secret Team").

Carl Jenkins and Chi Chi Quintero are both alive. They are both aware of my web pages on them (the pages are both ranked number one on most of the search-engines). On these pages I have provided the evidence that I have accumulated against them. Through an intermediary I have sent them a list of questions concerning Gene Wheaton’s allegations. They have responded with “no comment”. I think that says a great deal. Compare it to the way you reacted when it was suggested that you might have been linked to the attempted assassination of George Wallace.

[Robert Howard]

Well I had read those names but if he named them to Buttimer why did she not put them in her report.

How do we know Wheaton was talking about Jenkins and Quintero here? I don't say this for sure but Wheaton may be a xxxx. And liars change their stories as circumstances change. I noted that the Buttimer report says "the Cubans" plural. Quintero is only one guy. So who were the others?

You really need to look at all the documents, including those provided about AMWORLD in Lamar Waldron’s book, and the filmed interview that Wheaton gave to William Law to fully understand how the evidence is building to show that Carl Jenkins and Chi Chi Quintero were involved in the assassination of JFK.

The reason that Buttimer did not name Jenkins was because Wheaton asked her not to do this. Jenkins was identified by Wheaton because he sent the ARRB his CV (I have a copy of this CV). This CV clearly identified Jenkins. The other document that is important is the following:

Gene Wheaton, note to the Assassination Records Review Board on National Air notepaper (undated):

Carl (Jenkins) was my (National Air) Washington, D.C. rep. who connected me to Nestor Pino, Bill Bode, Rob Owen, Vaughn Forrest, Chi Chi Quintero, Nestor Sanchez, et al.”

In the filmed interview Wheaton pointed out that it was Carl Jenkins he was talking about. He also added the name of Chi Chi Quintero as being one of the “assassination team”. The other gunmen came from the Operation 40 team.

I can see why you are getting very emotional about this issue. People like Rob Owen are linked very closely to George H. W. Bush. I have also discovered other information that links Bush to this CIA team of assassins that killed JFK (I will be posting this later today under the heading "Ted Shackley and the Secret Team").

Carl Jenkins and Chi Chi Quintero are both alive. They are both aware of my web pages on them (the pages are both ranked number one on most of the search-engines). On these pages I have provided the evidence that I have accumulated against them. Through an intermediary I have sent them a list of questions concerning Gene Wheaton’s allegations. They have responded with “no comment”. I think that says a great deal. Compare it to the way you reacted when it was suggested that you might have been linked to the attempted assassination of George Wallace.

There is an extensive amount of material concerning the Christic Institute, Daniel Sheehan, Kerry Sub-committee etc., (as well as how Oliver North asked the FBI to 'investigate' Sheehan

in Peter D. Scott's book "Cocaine Politics."

If you "search" the Mary Ferrel database (maryferrell.org under 'Christic Institute' then ONLY if you have an account with Amazon.com, you can search Scott's book, and it will pull up the pertinent pages, see 137,138 and 157, it is enlightening, to say the least.)

A Record from Mary Ferrell's Database

WHEATON, GENE "MILTON GENE WHEATON"

Sources: Inside the Shadow Government, Christic Institute; Radio tapes from Oct and Nov 1992.

Edited December 10, 2005 by Robert Howard

[Duke Lane]

Oliver North is a patriot.

What is your definition of a patriot? I know your mate Gerry Hemming once stated that JFK was assassinated by patriots. Is that your view as well?

The John Birch Society, the Minutemen, the States Rights Parties and a long list of arch-conservative organizations (including those found most lately in the Pacific Northwest) bill themselves as "patriots." Any connections?

That North, after bragging about lying to congress, ran for the senate, is reflective of the contempt this man has for American institutions. In some ways I wish he'd been elected, if only so that a few of the more upright senators could have had the chance to kick the crap out of him.

That he was in serious contention for that office is reflective of the contempt that the large number of his supporters likewise held. But it's hard to call it contempt when you're always "right."

[John Simkin]

First, Wheaton's story has Jenkins and several Cubans confessing to him their involvement in the JFK asssassination. Must of been like a big confessional. According to Wheaton, Jenkins was fairly high-up the food chain. Why on God's green earth would this guy confess to Wheaton? Let us assume you and I are friends. Do you think I'm going to confess to you that ten years earlier I murdered a man and got away with it? Even if you were my very best friend and I was sure you would not "rat on me", don't you think it reasonable that I would be concerned that the revelation that I was a murderer might strain our friendship?

You have constantly misrepresented the way Wheaton has provided information on the assassination of JFK. This is either because you have not read my postings on the subject or that you have read them but not understood them (from past history both of these theories are possible). Another possibility is that you have read and understood the postings but because they do not fit into your theory that “Castro” ordered the assassination of JFK you are pretending you are “intellectually challenged”.

I will briefly state the order of events so that you cannot claim ignorance.

(1) In 1986 Gene Wheaton gave information about CIA illegal activities to Daniel Sheehan. At this stage Wheaton gave no information on Carl Jenkins. In fact, at this time, Jenkins was also providing information to Sheehan. The main concern of Wheaton and Jenkins was to provide information about the illegal activities of Ted Shackley, Tom Clines, Richard Secord and Edwin Wilson.

(2) In 1986 Wheaton also provided information on Shackley and company to investigative journalists like Joel Bainerman. These journalists have made it clear that Wheaton did not seek money for this information. However, at this time he was unwilling to be named as a source.

(3) In 1988 Daniel Sheehan was in serious trouble. The courts were demanding that he named his sources. Eventually, Wheaton agreed to give evidence in court against the CIA. This took place in Florida in March, 1988. However, he did not make any accusations against Jenkins. Wheaton had not been employed directly by the CIA and so his evidence was dismissed as “hearsay”. Sheehan, or one of his friends, then leaked the name of Jenkins as being one of his major sources. This information appeared in the press. Jenkins then gave interviews claiming that he had met with Sheehan but he must have misunderstood his comments and had not accused CIA officials as being involved with illegal activities. As a result, Sheehan’s case was chucked out and he had to pay considerable damages to Shackley and his friends.

(4) In 1995 Wheaton contacted the Assassination Records Review Board claiming he had information about the involvement of the CIA in the assassination of JFK. The ARRB eventually arranged for its chief investigator, Anne Buttimer, to meet Wheaton. During their meeting Wheaton named Carl Jenkins and Chi Chi Quintero as being involved in the assassination. However, he was very reluctant to go on record as the man who named these CIA operatives. This is why Buttimer does not name Jenkins and Quintero in the report dated on 12th July, 1995. Jenkins can only be identified by his CV that Wheaton sent to the ARRB.

(5) Despite follow up letters by Wheaton, the ARRB failed to investigate if Jenkins was involved in the assassination of JFK. It seems that Wheaton now decided to drop the matter.

(6) In 2005 a researcher discovered Wheaton’s documents at the ARRB. These documents were brought to the attention of Larry Hancock. He arranged for William Law and Mark Sobel to interview Wheaton. It was during this filmed interview that Wheaton named Jenkins and Quintero. Further research of recently released documents indicated that Jenkins and Quintero might well have been involved in the assassination.

(7) Although Wheaton mentioned these names in this interview it is far from clear that he wanted to be seen as the man who named CIA operatives as being involved in the assassination of JFK. This has only become public knowledge because of the postings that have taken place on this Forum and on my website pages on Wheaton, Jenkins and Quintero. Jenkins and Quintero are now both aware of these accusations. So also are the CIA aware of this development. At the moment Jenkins or Quintero have not denied Wheaton’s claims. It will indeed be interesting to see what action these two men decide to take.

[Tim Gratz]

John wrote:

Further research of recently released documents indicated that Jenkins and Quintero might well have been involved in the assassination.

You claim I misrepresented the chronology. Kindly specify exactly what you claim I misrepresented!

John, if you are reading what I am writing you should know I am not blithely dismissing Wheaton's claims even though I am skeptical of them. I have even pledged to help re-open a proceeding to investigate these claims (which should have been done, of course, when they first surfaced). THerefore, I would be most interested in any documents that support Wheaton's claim. I would think any prosecutor would look for some additional support for it.

Your chronology, however, only adds to my skepticism.

In 1986 Wheaton reports on alleged CIA "illegal activities" to Sheehan but he does not tell Sheehan that a highy mucky-muck in the CIA killed Kennedy. So it is like someone who is aware of the CIA illegally opening citizens' mail (I'll call this a "derringer") as well as its involvement in the assassination of JFK (I'll call this a "bazooka") but when the person comes forward to blast the CIA he only fires his derringer!

If the CIA wanted to retaliate against him, it would do so for the derringer attack. But by using the bazooka in his possession, Wheaton might have been able to permanently criple the CIA.

Believe me, if I get in a "deadly" legal fight with someone, I ain't going to be pulling any punches!

And as I said in another thread, if Wheaton's charges should prove to be correct, I'll send my buddy Fidel a big apology (before he croaks); glady accept 1,000 "I told you so" e-mails; AND pay money to assist in Jenkins' execution (provided he is convicted, of course).

Edited December 12, 2005 by Tim Gratz

[Tim Gratz]

John wrote:

In 1995 Wheaton contacted the Assassination Records Review Board claiming he had information about the involvement of the CIA in the assassination of JFK. The ARRB eventually arranged for its chief investigator, Anne Buttimer, to meet Wheaton. During their meeting Wheaton named Carl Jenkins and Chi Chi Quintero as being involved in the assassination. However, he was very reluctant to go on record as the man who named these CIA operatives. This is why Buttimer does not name Jenkins and Quintero in the report dated on 12th July, 1995. Jenkins can only be identified by his CV that Wheaton sent to the ARRB.

John, apparently no one has interviewed Buttimer.

I am quite sure you have not interviewed Wheaton.

Now we have Larry Hancock, Debra Conway and Stu Wexler all stating that in the filmed interview of Wheaton conducted by Law and Sobel, it is not clear at all that Wheaton was claiming that Jenkins and Quintero were necessarily part of the conspiracy.

So please tell all Forum members: what is the basis for your stating that when he met with Buttimer, Wheaton "named Carl Jenkins and Chi Chi Quintero as being involved in the assassination"?

Edited December 13, 2005 by Tim Gratz

[John Simkin]

Now we have Larry Hancock, Debra Conway and Stu Wexler all stating that in the filmed interview of Wheaton conducted by Law and Sobel, it is not clear at all that Wheaton was claiming that Jenkins and Quintero were necessarily part of the conspiracy.

So please tell all Forum members: what is the basis for your stating that when he met with Buttimer, Wheaton "named Carl Jenkins and Chi Chi Quintero as being involved in the assassination"?

I take offence at your suggestion that I dishonestly reported what Wheaton said in the filmed interview. If I did, it would be a very silly thing to do as around 100 people watched the interview. Several of these people are members of this Forum. They have not accused me of lying. Yet you, because Wheaton’s story does not fit your “Castro did it” theory, has the audacity to suggest I am presenting the information in a dishonest way.

It would take about fifteen minutes to transcribe the relevant piece of the interview concerning the involvement of Jenkins and Quintero in the assassination. In fact, Wheaton only spends a couple of minutes on this issue. Most of the tape is about the Iran-Contra scandal. The reason that Larry, Debra and Stuart have not done that and published it on the Forum, has nothing to do with the fact that they do not want to expose me as a xxxx. There are a couple of reasons why this part of the tape has not appeared on this Forum. I know why this is. However, it is up to them to explain why they have made this decision. Anyway, this transcript will appear in Larry’s book in March/April. Then you can see if I am lying or not.

Although the transcript is not currently available, Anne Buttimer’s ARRB report of the 12th April, 1995, has been published on this Forum. In it she states:

Wheaton told me that from 1984 to 1987 he spent a lot of time in the Washington DC area and that starting in 1985 he was "recruited into Ollie North's network" by the CIA officer he has information about. He got to know this man (Carl Jenkins) and his wife, a "'super grade high level CIA officer" and kept a bedroom in their Virginia home. His friend was a Marine Corps liaison in New Orleans and was the CIA contact with Carlos Marcello. He had been responsible for "running people into Cuba before the Bay of Pigs." His friend is now 68 or 69 years of age.

Over the course of a year or a year and one-half his friend told him about his activities with training Cuban insurgency groups. Wheaton said he also got to know many of the Cubans who had been his friend's soldiers/operatives when the Cubans visited in Virginia from their homes in Miami. His friend and the Cubans confirmed to Wheaton they assassinated JFK. Wheaton's friend said he trained the Cubans who pulled the triggers. Wheaton said the street level Cubans felt JFK was a traitor after the Bay of Pigs and wanted to kill him. People "above the Cubans" wanted JFK killed for other reasons.

Wheaton said we must look at his friend and his associates in order to know what really happened to JFK. One of those associates was I. Irving Davidson who was/is "the bag man for the intelligence community." Davidson runs a group called the Timber Center which handles payoffs and payments for the CIA, the NSA and the Pentagon. He is a friend of Jack Anderson's and was indicted with Carlos Marcello in the 1980's on a Teamster's kick-back charge.

I think that is pretty clear. It also supports my interpretation of what Wheaton said in the filmed interview. The main difference with the 2005 version is that Wheaton explains that in 1963, Jenkins was training these Cubans (including Quintero) to kill Fidel Castro. We know this to be true because of the Edward C. Cates document (posted on the Forum) and the AMWORLD documents. However, according to Wheaton, it was Jenkins who decided in the last few months of 1963 to redirect this group against JFK (this is of course what happens in David Phillips’s unpublished novel).

To quote the ARRB report: “Wheaton said the street level Cubans felt JFK was a traitor after the Bay of Pigs and wanted to kill him. People above the Cubans wanted JFK killed for other reasons.” According to Buttigoes on to point out that Damer, Wheaton goes on to name Irving Davidson as one of those “above the Cubans”. Buttimer points out that Davidson is connected to Carlos Marcello. What she does not say is that he is also closely associated with Clint Murchison, Bobby Baker and Lyndon Johnson. I believe that this is crucially important as it helps explain the timing of the assassination and the reasons why LBJ covered up the assassination rather than ordering the invasion of Cuba. Davidson is the missing link that we have been looking for. In many ways, Davidson’s name is more important than that of Jenkins as he represents the people who ordered and paid for the assassination. Jenkins and Quintero are only the men who carried out these orders.

[Tim Gratz]

John, yes I agree it certainly does look like Wheaton identified Jenkins and Quintero to Buttimer. I do note that the name Jenkins is in parentheses and wonder whether the actual name was added by Buttimer or by you.

I did not, however, accuse you of "lying" about the film interview. In fact, in another thread, I posted (before you posted here) that I was loathe to call you a xxxx and I suggested that the difference of opinion re what Wheaton said in the film interview was probably a good example of how errors creep in through hearsay. I am sure you had not had the opportunity to read THAT post.

I do note that you conntinue to impugn my motives. I think I have posted at least five times that Wheaton's statements deserve the most careful investigation.

And I previously stated that I think Davidson needs additional research. If you are not aware of it, there is interesting discussion of Davidson in Scott's "Deep Politics".

Can you respond to the reasons I gave for being skeptical of Wheaton?

Also, I am still waiting for you to provide details about this statement:

Further research of recently released documents indicated that Jenkins and Quintero might well have been involved in the assassination

[John Simkin]

Can you respond to the reasons I gave for being skeptical of Wheaton?

Also, I am still waiting for you to provide details about this statement:

Further research of recently released documents indicated that Jenkins and Quintero might well have been involved in the assassination

When Wheaton first gave information on Carl Jenkins in 1995, the research community knew nothing about him being involved in the assassination of JFK. They still did not know because even after the ARRB documents had been released, it was still not clear that he was talking about Jenkins.

Therefore, when Wheaton gave his interview a few months ago, it was the first time that Carl Jenkins was named as the CIA official who was training the team of Cubans to kill Castro in 1963. Wheaton then added that Jenkins turned this team on JFK.

It was now possible to go back and read the released ARRB documents in a new light. It was also discovered that Jenkins was named as being in charge of the covert plan to kill Castro in 1963 (memorandum signed by Edward S. Cates, dated 21 March 1975). Jenkins name has also been found on AMWORLD documents. In fact, this story fits in with what Lamar Waldron found out about AMWORLD when writing Ultimate Sacrifice. These are all things that Wheaton could not have known about unless he had been told this by Jenkins. Therefore, from the documents now available, it is clear that Jenkins told the truth about his activities in 1963.