Sir David Frost - Objective Zionist

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According to Gary Sick in All Fall Down, he's telling the truth about the contents of his personal bank account - he really wasn't ripping off the Iranian public purse of a truly obscene level of personal enrichment - I think by this stage, his personal fortune with Chase-Manhattan was perhaps $20 Million...?

The fact that nobody believed the CIA Black Propaganda that Bush, Helms and Sullivan has been pumping non-stop into Tehran since they learnt of his terminal cancer in 1976 was hardly his fault...

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He ended his broadcasting career working for al-Jazeera - make of that what you will...

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Benazir Bhutto tells Sir David Frost that Osama Bin Laden is Dead from Spike1138 on Vimeo.

Courtesy of al-Jazeera

Three weeks later...

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“I have decided,” Nixon replied, “You give us a plan, we’ll carry it out.” Nixon then vowed that “we’re going to play it very tough with him [Allende],” and that he had “decided we’re going to give Allende the hook.” 

Connally egged the President on, admonishing him to take tough action against the “enemy” Allende: “The only thing you can ever hope is to have him overthrown, and, in the meantime, you will make your point to prove, by your actions against him, what you want, that you are looking after American interests.” 

When Nixon promised to make an example of Allende, Haldeman observed that, “It would earn a bit with the right‑wing in this country.” 

After Connally left, Nixon provided a recap for Kissinger’s benefit: “I said, ‘All right, you give us a plan. I’m goin’ to kick ‘em. And I want to make something out of it.’ That’s my view.” 

When asked for Kissinger’s opinion, Kissinger replied, “I would go to a confrontation with him; the quicker the better…Maybe not in a brutal way, but in a clear way.” He also agreed to work with Connally in order “to figure out the confrontation. 

Conversation No. 584-003

Date: October 5, 1971

Time: 9:12 a.m. – 1:11 p.m.

Location: Oval Office

Participants: Nixon, Haldeman, John Connally, and Henry Kissinger

Why Was Martha Mitchell Kidnapped? from Spike1138 on Vimeo.

Why Was Martha Mitchell Kidnapped?

part I

by Mae Brussell, from The Realist August 1972

My research on political assassinations, election manipulations and clandestine government is not political. Democrats as well as republicans contribute to murdering and concealing their crimes.

If the exposure of our CIA, its methods of operation and secret fundings comes in an election year, that is a coincidence and not planned. For nine years I have written and telephoned public officials in the hope they would examine the evidence of conspiracies that exist in Washington, D.C.

The Watergate Affair is too large for the Democratic Party to prosecute or investigate. The best objective minds, not like the hand-picked Warren Commission, must work together. We must follow the pieces of scotch tape left in the door latches of the Watergate Hotel that led to the arrests, and continue to open more and more doors.

"The Greek military government that took over in 1967 has not proven itself to be as horrendous a specter to contemplate as most people thought it would."

-- Spiro Agnew

The Watergate Hotel, located in Washington, D.C., is the home of John and Martha Mitchell. John Mitchell, former Attorney General of the U.S., resigned that impressive appointment to head the all-important Committee to Reelect Richard Nixon.

Also housed in the Watergate Hotel complex are the offices of the Democratic National Committee.

In the early morning hours of June 17, 1972, five men were arrested removing parts of the ceiling from the 6th floor panels in the Democratic National Headquarters. These men possessed expensive electronic equipment, cameras, walkie-talkies, burglary tools, various James Bond accessories, and rubber gloves to conceal their identities. Two of the men arrested also were comforted with the telephone number of Howard Hunt, White House Consultant. Hunt had worked with the CIA for 21 years.

James McCord, Jr., employed as Chief of Security for Mitchell's Committee to Re-elect Richard Nixon, was one of the five men arrested. McCord was formerly employed by the CIA for 19 years. His position with the CIA was Chief of Security over the entire grounds, the immense compound at Langley, Virginia.

Nine persons, all registered with false names taken from CIA novels written by Howard Hunt, stayed at the Watergate Hotel May 26-29 and again June 17 & 18. Five of them, the night of their arrest, had been discovered when security guard Frank Wills noticed pieces of Scotch tape over the door locks. Washington police arrived and made the arrests.

All of the five men caught in the Democratic headquarters were connected with the CIA in some way. The other relationship they had in common was having worked together for the CIA-planned Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.

The Cast of Characters

The Five Men Arrested at the Watergate:

1. James McCord, Jr., alias Edward Martin

Native of Texas, Wife attended Baylor College, Texas; on Board of Directors, McCord Associates, Inc.

Sister, Dorothy Berry, employed by an oil company in Houston; also on Board of Directors, McCord Associates, Inc.

Lieutenant colonel in Air Force Reserves.

Served in FBI 1948-51 as radio operator.

CIA from 1951-1970, former Chief of Security for "Fairfax Highway Research Station," otherwise known as the CIA.

Recently was paid $750 to address the Chief of Police Association on Security.

Served with special 16-man unit attached to the White House, having to do with "emergencies, radicals, and contingency plans" in case of war. Specialized on "censorship of news media and U.S. mail."

Salaried Security Coordinator for the Committee to Re-elect Richard Nixon.

Under contract for McCord Associates, inc., to provide all security for the Republican National Convention in Miami.

Worked with the CIA at the time of the Bay of Pigs.

2. Bernard Barker, alias Frank Carter, alias "Macho"

Prominent in republican party in Miami. Known in Miami for his "important contacts in Washington." Close friend of Frank Sturgis (also arrested) for 11 years.

Close associate with exile Cuban community in Miami.

Name of Howard Hunt, White House consultant, with him at the time of their arrest.

Partner for four years of Michael Suarez, Miami attorney; gave his name to police when arrested. Used Ameritus, the organization Suarez heads, for hotel reservations at the Watergate.

Met with Howard Hunt, on payroll to the White House, in Miami four years before the arrest. Hunt and Barker worked very closely together planning the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Conduit of funds for the CIA; payment of recruits for Bay of Pigs invasion. Hunt did the planning of the operation.

Worked with Frank Bender, CIA, who recruited the Army for the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Set up a secret seven-man team in April, paid provocateurs from Miami, to demonstrate at J. Edgar Hoover's resting place.

Transferred secret $89,000 from Mexican bank to Miami [R]epublican National Bank. $30,000 paid for Watergate expedition and equipment. $10,000 was for Washington demonstrations. $6,500 with the men when arrested.

Approached architect Leonard Glass eight months before the conventions for "floor plans and air conditioning plans of the Democratic Convention halls." Offered Glass "business in South America" in exchange for the air-conditioning plans of Convention Hall in Miami. Had "important connections" in Washington.

Part-time business partner of Howard Hunt in Central America.

Served with the Secret Police of dictator Fulgencio Batista in Cuba.

Officer in the U.S. Army, World War II.

Close to Manuel Artime, who commanded landing forces at Bay of Pigs.

In 1964, was a conduit of CIA funds to commanders being trained in Nicaragua for anti-Castro harassment raids.

Background of intelligence; well-connected to U.S. intelligence.

Had some knowledge of Miami conventions; told people that "something is going to happen" and "interesting things are afoot."

Planned demonstrations for both Miami conventions to support the Vietnam war in general and Nixon's bombing of Haiphong Harbor in particular.

Barker lost citizenship ten years ago. Researchers in Senate and House Judiciary Committees and Immigration subcommittees said they had no records of legislation introduced to restore Barker's citizenship.

Had instructions to call Howard Hunt, White House consultant, if in trouble.

3. Frank Sturgis, alias Joseph Hamilton, Frank Fiorini, and a dozen known aliases

Worked with Castro's Cuban military before leaving Cuba. Named by Castro to be overseer of gambling operations in Havana before Castro removed Syndicate.

U.S. Marines, World War II, served in South Pacific.

Key figure in Bay of Pigs invasion.

Lost U.S. citizenship in 1960; got it back with aid of Senator Smathers.

Close friend of Diaz Lanz, Cuban exile community, involved with right-wing movements such as the John Birch Society and Billy James Hargis' Christian Crusade.

Extensive CIA contacts.

Part-time employee of Pan-American Aluminum Company in Havana.

Most-travelled of the group; holds Mexican passport.

At time of arrest, had birth certificate, two driver's licenses and Social Security card with name of Joseph Hamilton.

Lieutenant, Reserve in Civil Air Patrol.

Close association, over 20 years, and source of information for columnist Jack Anderson.

Pilot of plane for International Anti-Communist Brigade that went over Havana after Bay of Pigs invasion.

Travelled recently to Honduras. Had visa from Mexican government to visit Mexico from January 7 to April 6 of this year.

Registered as a Democrat, rounding up support of Nixon's policies.

Busy getting demonstrators to Miami; organizing demonstrations.

Close friend of Bernard Barker for 11 years.

Sturgis was among those questioned by the FBI after John Kennedy's death because of his activities. His home had been an arsenal complete with a 20 millimeter cannon. Carlos Prio Socarras, former president of Cuba, was planning demonstrations for the conventions. He worked with Permindex, David Ferrie, and the entire Miami-Houston-Havana group named by independent researchers in association with Kennedy's death. Did Sturgis and Socarros work together in 1963? Are they connected in any way, by banks or weapons, with 1972?

4. Eugenio Martinez

Served with Castro's army, then became anti-Castro guerrilla fighter.

Violated immigration laws, 1958, flying private plane to Cuba.

Licensed real estate agent, notary public, Miami.

Works with Bernard Barker's real estate office. Barker got his real estate license only last year. No mention where Martinez worked before that time.

Connections with the CIA; Howard Hunt's White House name, phone number, in his address book at time of arrest.

Worked closely with Virgilio Gonzales, exile Cubans, military trained. Ex-Combatientes from Fort Jackson, South Carolina; 800 men from Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 were moved to S.C. in 1963. Close association of military trained exile Cubans in Miami and Washington, D.C.

Working with Young Republicans scheduled to arrive in Miami for 1972 conventions.

5. Virgilio Gonzales

Formerly a barber in Cuba.

Employee at Missing Link Key Shop as a locksmith, Miami.

Became known as "pro-American, anti-Castro" in U.S.

Associated with Eugenio Martinez,

Ex-Combatientes, Cuban exiles.

A friend of Angel Ferrer, who is president of Ex-Combatientes and closely associated with U.S. trained troops, veterans, trained by the U.S. Army, met in Miami with important American friends.

The Four Suspects Who Got Away:

1. Angel Ferrer

The press gave his name as one of the suspects. But Washington police and the FBI would not give out their names. Ferrer was supposed to have been registered at the Watergate Hotel.

Had important ties with anticommunist activists in Miami.

Trained with the men at Fort Jackson that were associated with Martinez and Gonzales.

Offered Washington persons "direct action to combat what they view as left-wing causes in the United States."

2. Suspect - "man from Kansas"

3. Suspect - "man from New York"

4. Suspect - "man from New York"

Other Names Mentioned, Not Arrested

1. Howard Hunt, alias "Eduardo"

Worked in CIA for 21 years.

Ivy League New Yorker, field man for CLA in Latin America, Spain, Far East.

Wrote 45 novels for the CIA -- science-fiction, detective, short stories. Pseudonyms: Robert Dietrich, John Baxter, Gordon Davis. Senior member of a Special Task Force during two periods of national emergency; participant in White House conferences on security matters.

Planning director for Bay of Pigs invasion; worked closely with Barker, conduit of funds for Bay of Pigs.

Developed and guided media operations abroad and negotiated with senior officials of foreign countries for CIA.

Defense Department counsel, 1957-1960.

Military service, Navy Reserve, U.S. Army Air Corps.

Conservative republican.

White House consultant, 1971-72 on Pentagon Papers and Narcotics Intelligence.

Shared offices with Robert Bennett of Mullen & Company. Bennett, through 75-90 "dummy" organizations, raised the secret $10-million for Nixon's Committee.

Spoke up against radicals, black protestors at Brown University alumni; deplored "the lack of patriotism in youth."

Left Washington, New York, maybe the U.S. after his friends were arrested.

White House desk, examined by FBI after he fled, contained a pistol and two walkie-talkies that could connect to the walkie-talkies confiscated at the time of the Watergate arrests.

Worked in offices of Robert Bennett of Mullen & Company, public relations firm, in 1969, while still with CIA. Close friend and attorney Douglas Caddy shared the same offices; Caddy was co-founder of Young Americans for Freedom. Robert Mullen alleged to be CIA, as well as Caddy. Close links of CIA and Spiro Agnew through this office.

Business partner of Bernard Barker in Nicaragua, Santa Domingo.

2. Robert Bennett

Son of Senator Bennett, conservative republican, Utah.

President of Mullen public relations firm.

Offices directly across from the White House.

Shared desks with Howard Hunt, White House consultant; Bennett also shared offices for four years with Douglas Caddy, lawyer for McCord and the four others arrested.

Bennett's organization, The American Dream, refused to disclose the source of $10-million for Nixon's re-election. Admitted that the 75-90 committees to collect funds for Nixon's re-election were phony groups.

Robert Mullen supposedly CIA; co-founder of Young Americans for Freedom. Members of YAF are supporting Agnew for president.

3. President Richard M. Nixon

Occupant of the White House, Washington, D.C.

Selected agent of the CIA (see "How Nixon Actually Got Into Power" further on in this issue). Briefed daily by the CIA, National Security Council, White House consultants.

Directly linked to Special 16-man unit concerned with Emergency Plans and Preparedness. U.S. Military Reserves, concerned with 'radicals in the United States"; James McCord a member of this unit.

White House directly linked through walkie-talkies, private radio frequency to James McCord via Howard Hunt, 21 years with CIA.

Secretly funded with $10 million; no list of sources offered. The same funding that kept Richard Nixon in political position through his entire career. The funds would have been cut off in 1968 if he did not take Spiro Agnew as his vice-president.

4. John Mitchell

Former attorney for Nelson Rockefeller.

Appointed by Nixon to Attorney General of U.S.

Resigned Justice Dept. appointment in 1972 to head Committee to Re-elect Richard Nixon.

Controls the Justice Dept. with Nixon; made no appointment to succeed J. Edgar Hoover. The White House and the CIA now manage the FBI from the Justice Dept.

Resides at Watergate Hotel with his wife, Martha.

5. Patrick Gray III

Resigned 20-year career in Navy -- graduate of Annapolis -- to work for Nixon's election in 1960. Helped Nixon campaign in 1968.

Sat with National Security Council and "observed Nixon" when Nixon was only vice-president.

Unknown to America, an "administrator," helped Nixon with anti-bussing, crime, drug abuse, wage and price controls.

Attacks the news media, people who criticize police brutality.

Halted the investigation in Los Angeles of the police murders of Jerrie Lee Amie and Reuben Salazar, Isla Vista riots.

Was Nixon's hatchet man to stop ITT investigation.

"Closed" Governor Wallace investigation; Arthur Bremer having "mental tests" when evidence of conspiracy exists.

Stayed at Newporter Inn, California, the same time as John Mitchell, following Watergate Hotel arrests. Martha Mitchell confined by force.

Not approved by Congress to be head of the FBI.

Too closely associated with Nixon, Mitchell, republican party to investigate political assassinations or arrests, crimes involving republican party.

President John Kennedy wanted to "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds." The Bay of Pigs invasion caused him to realize that certain persons and powers dictate to the President. The CIA was fingered for their decision to make policies that belong to Congress and the citizens.

Members of the same CIA team that was active in the Bay of Pigs operation -- the training, planning and financing of that fiasco -- were working as a very strong team 11 years later when arrested at the Watergate Hotel. The decision-making organization of the CIA was tampering with the electoral process one more time around.

President Harry Truman said, "There was something about the way the CIA was functioning that has cast a shadow over our historical positions." Those observations were made in 1963, at which time Truman regretted his "building an American Gestapo."

The CIA is not new at altering the choice of candidates or presidents. Innocent people believe the electors have a choice of candidates through the primaries or by direct voting. The same CIA that killed President Kennedy because he won the majority of votes, eliminated opposition to Richard Nixon in every election that followed Kennedy's death. Murders, accidents, attempted murders through the use of hired killers, planted patsies, and news coverage that conceals the crimes, have been effective so far.

Two governments have existed side by side, one visible and one invisible, for many years. As the power structure gets more arrogant and sure of itself, the invisible becomes more clear and overt. If the truth about the Wallace shooting and Arthur Bremer are told, and if the Watergate Affair is exposed, you will see how invisible government agents go about their daily business.

The Democratic National Committee has placed a lawsuit against the Committee to Re-elect Richard Nixon for one million dollars. If the Democratic Party has the courage or if it is allowed to follow through with this suit, you will find the most fantastic duel in American political history.

U.S. Judge Charles R. Richey said, "I don't intend to make this into a political case." Democrats suing republicans has to be a political matter. Remarks by Judge Richey should be reason to disqualify him on the grounds of stupidity. The lawsuit placed between these two parties is not over a simple grabbing of votes at the election booths. The Democratic Party should try its best to wrangle truths of information out of that invisible government.

All the persons arrested, and each of their contacts and sources of funding, will be protected by every possible method. Several of the group have left the country. Others will refuse to talk. Every means of avoiding answers to questions will be used. But even silence will prove beyond a doubt that those arrested and the ones that got away from the Watergate Hotel were working for the CIA at the time of their arrest.

Extensive research on past political assassinations has revealed all the intricacies of the clandestine government. Although most members of the CIA deny the source of their funds or associations with the agency or with each other, their actions, finances and moving patterns can be recognized for what they are.

If the Democratic Party wishes to avoid a coup d'etat in the United States by the CIA, they should use researchers on the past political assassinations for their investigative work. District Attorney Jim Garrison in New Orleans and researchers like myself have been saying for many years that the CIA would damage the process of democratic elections.

Martha Mitchell made her Washington debut with sarcasm about war protestors who reminded her of "Russian revolutionaries." Three years later Martha wishes those same youths would come to her aid. When president Nixon held a press conference a few days after Ms. Mitchell was taken prisoner she complained that "nobody asked about me."

The youth of America had tried to tell people like Martha Mitchell that the president does not listen to any voices except a few. Why would he care to hear Martha's problems?

There was a smug complacency about the John Mitchell family in the days when he was promising this country that it was "going so far to the right we won't recognize it." Those were the carefree days when John and Martha were not caught in the bending process.

But did John Mitchell, one of the dirtiest, meanest men in political history, expose his "little sweetheart" to espionage agents doing some kinds of dirty work and distasteful acts? At what point did Martha have to be removed, silenced, and totally discredited?

The political princess, who once was cleared for classified materials when she worked with the Army Chemical Corps, was suddenly turned into a negligent, selfish mother who sat idly by while her son's teeth rotted away. From now on Martha gets the Dita Beard treatment with visits from Army doctors and psychiatrists.

Four days after the arrests at the Watergate Hotel, Martha Mitchell called a UPI reporter from Newport, California:

"I am sick and tired of politics."

"I gave (John) an ultimatum I would leave him if he didn't get out."

"I am a political prisoner."

"Politics is nothing but a cops and robbers game."

"I know dirty things."

"I saw dirty things."

"I am not going to stand for all those dirty tricks that go on."

"I am sick and tired of the whole operation."

"They threw me down on the bed, five men, and stuck a needle in my behind. A doctor stitched my fingers after the battle with five guards." (She had bruises on her arms and thighs.)

Martha's telephone conversation was bugged when she summoned the UPI for help from California. Her room was entered, the phone was pulled from the wall, and the silencing treatment began. A security agent from the Committee to Re-elect President Nixon gave Martha an injection in her behind and a doctor was called to stitch up her finger.

Martha next found herself in New York after saying, "They wanted to keep me here in California."

Patrick Gray III, acting head of the FBI from the Justice Dept., was staring at the same Newport hotel as the John Mitchell family following the arrests at the Watergate Hotel in Washington. Even Time magazine called that coincidence "suspicious."

Gray should have a reputation by now of stopping investigations that would lead to possible conspiracies. He halted the investigations of the Jerrie Lee Aime murder in L.A., the Reuben Salazar murder in L.A., the Isla Vista riots in Santa Barbara, the ITT investigation in Washington, and the George Wallace shooting in Maryland.

It is little wonder that our FBI chief would not come to the aid of the Mitchells and see who was making Martha a "prisoner" when he was staying in the same hotel.

A high summit meeting was held between John Mitchell and president Nixon. Both came out of it agreeing on two things: Wives of politicians sometimes have a difficult time entertaining themselves; and Martha only had "one guard" from the Committee to Re-elect Richard Nixon.

Nine men registered at the Watergate Hotel where the Mitchells lived. Four suspects were not yet found at the time this was written. One of the men arrested worked for the re-election committee. Did any of the other suspects work for John Mitchell's committee at the time they disappeared? Did Martha get four extra guards suddenly? Could John use his family for a cover in order to help four men leave Washington, D.C.?

Neither the long hours of work nor the absence of John Mitchell from his family ever bothered Martha before the Watergate arrests. She made it known publicly that she was angry when her husband gave up his position as Attorney General, which is more demanding than heading an election committee.

Was the discrediting of Martha Mitchell by Jack Anderson understandable when it became known that Frank Sturgis, one of the five men arrested at the Watergate, was a life-long friend and source of information for Jack Anderson's career?

John Mitchell resigned from the Committee to Re-elect Richard Nixon after Martha's remarks were printed around the world. His gesture that the family needed him -- "that little sweetheart, I love her so much" -- hardly resembled the Duke of Windsor when he abdicated for Wally Simpson.

The manner in which Martha was handled simply indicates how the fascist police agents are forced to treat any witness to their espionage acts. Parts of that invisible government were visible to Martha Mitchell and she panicked. Martha has to be a political prisoner because she was a witness to some kind of dirty work.

This year, 1972, is a very important year in American history. Provisions have been made to eliminate the outdated Constitution. The new version of democratic rights does not resemble anything but a fascist dictatorship. A new cabinet, designed by Roy Ash of Litton industries, would trim away every department except those of Defense, Treasury, State and Justice.

The same groups of people who put Hitler into power, and revived fascism in Greece and other countries, are determined to maintain their power and control over other people's lives. This decisive year will determine if that power will be maintained by manipulating candidates, assassinating politicians, or by creating a situation where martial law will become necessary so that elections can be cancelled.

Whenever a populist candidate appears to win an election which could bring about economic or social improvements for the masses, that person must be removed. The CIA that killed President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy did a test case in Greece on canceling elections.

Andreas Papandreou, often compared with John Kennedy, appeared to have a good chance of winning Greek elections in 1967. The U.S. Army, the CIA and government agencies helped replace their elections with a coup d'etat. A fascist dictatorship returned to Europe, the first since World War II.

The same CIA that helped fund the canceling of elections in Greece offered Richard Nixon the money he needed for his 1968 elections if he took political unknown Spiro Agnew as vice president.

Money to manage an election campaign is difficult to separate when you mix CIA funds with republican party dollars. Robert Mullen, chairman of Mullen & Company, shared his office space at various times with Howard Hunt, Robert Bennett and Douglas Caddy, all possibly CIA agents.

Robert Bennett, through this office, raised $10 million in secret funds for John Mitchell.

In 1968 Nixon was offered, through CIA conduit Tom Pappas and other sources, the funding he needed for elections if he took Agnew as vice president.

Robert Mullen played a large role in the campaign of Nixon-Agnew in 1968. Did the money four years ago come from the same secret funds, possibly CIA money, to Nixon for his last election?

These questions are important to ask now. Douglas Caddy, CIA attorney for the Watergate Five, was co-founder of the extremely right-wing republican group called Young Americans for Freedom. YAF was infiltrated in the fall of 1962 at the home of Robert Morris in Dallas.

A group of nazi-American military experts intended to help certain forces, by whatever means necessary, "to secure the White House by 1970 for the conservatives. A large number in this group support Agnew for president this year.

If security agents allow some members of YAF close to Richard Nixon, through important contacts in the White House, Agnew would not have to be elected. He would be the next president.

Can CIA funds, promised for the election campaigns, force Agnew on the republican ticket? Can CIA funds, channeled from Washington to Chile, to Mexico, then Miami, end up in the pockets of men at the Watergate Hotel who connected directly to a weapon and walkie-talkies in the White House?

Can persons associated with the extreme radical right-wing factions of the republican party, who think Nixon is a pinko because he went to Russia and China, or didn't invade Cuba, be financed through the CIA to create martial law and then kill Richard Nixon?

How many of the persons connected with secret funding of the Nixon team are associated with the more reactionary republicans?

Is the same CIA that offered Greek colonels assistance in their coup d'etat working with a large organization to create martial law in the U.S., having selected Agnew as their man?

The significance of the Watergate Affair is that every element essential for a political coup d'etat in the United States was assembled at the time of their arrest. The team of men represented at the hotel went all the way from the White House with its Emergency Contingency Unit, walkie-talkies and private radio frequency, to the paid street provocateurs and troops who would create the emergencies.

Was the target of their associations the cancellation of elections in 1972?

The Glass House Tapes by Lewis Tackwood (co-author: Donald Freed) -- "The Story of an Agent Provocateur and the New Police intelligence Complex" -- will be published by Avon Press.

Louis Tackwood, a man of patriotic courage among a world of too many cowards, made his public appearance in September, 1971, in a press conference that could have been broadcast over the entire world. Tackwood's information was ignored by people who know better and should have taken his words seriously.

A former paid agent of the Los Angeles Police Dept. for nine years, Tackwood surfaced and disclosed the kinds of jobs the LAPD expects an agent provocateur to do for them. The most important revelations made by Tackwood gave a good view of that invisible government John Kennedy warned about.

The "Glass House" is the Los Angeles Police Department, the same agency that took care of candidate Robert Kennedy four years ago. Tackwood resigned from the LAPD after he became familiar with their plans for the 1972 elections, known by the name "Squad 19." Agents of the police department were to create enough violence at the Republican National Convention that martial law would be declared. Tackwood states:

"Squad 19 was formed by CCS (Criminal Conspiracy Section) and the FBI to provoke violence at the republican Convention in 1972.

"It involves coordinated contingency plans under the direction of CCS and FBI.

"The plan entailed planting a number of agent provocateurs both inside and outside the 1972 republican Convention. Agents were to infiltrate the groups planning demonstrations against the war and poverty. At the time of the demonstrations, these agents were to provoke street battle with police surrounding the convention hall. Meanwhile, agents inside the convention hall were to plant explosives timed to blow up coincidental with the riots in the streets. The purpose is to kill a number of delegates.

"The result would have been to create a nationwide hysteria that would then provide president Richard Nixon with the popular support necessary to declare a state of National Emergency.

"Orders came directly from the State Department of Justice, District Attorney Evelle Younger, on these special squads.

"Richard Nixon would then arrest all militants and left-wing revolutionaries and cancel the 1972 elections. He could invoke special emergency powers leading to the detention of political activists. Martial law would be achieved."

(As The Realist goes to press, Louis Tackwood has been re-arrested on the original charges -- going back nine years -- over which the original deal had been made.)

A CIA operation, whether it involves altering elections or planning political assassinations, contains many ingredients that work together toward the final purposes. The object is to lose all traces of your past, co-workers, contacts, and employers. Some groups of people will spend millions of dollars on a particular plan. While the time involved may take years to succeed the methods are always the same.

Once the motive is agreed upon, the plan of action goes into effect. Assuming the "Squad 19" plans were for martial law, how can we relate that to the Watergate arrests?

Because all the suspects at the Watergate Hotel were caught before proceeding with further plans for their clients, they will deny any speculations about their motives. But robbery and surveillance were not the sole purpose of this group forming together.

My opinions of their motives are based upon: (1) what their training and past experience was; (2) who they worked for, the kinds of employment; (3) the contacts of persons represented among the nine who registered at the hotel on two different occasions; (4) their past jobs and investments together; (5) the sources of their funds; (6) who they were to call in case of emergency; (7) their associates who were named but will never be called as witnesses.

There are sources of CIA funds and planners that have altered the course of American history. I have studied that history very carefully and find the Watergate crowd associated with the CIA.

If their motive was to create confrontations for the republican Convention in order to arrest "radicals" and to create martial law, in what positions would agents be located for such a plan?

James McCord, Jr. held two important jobs at the time of his arrest. He was Chief of Security for the Committee to Re-elect Richard Nixon. With that appointment, McCord was issued his own radio frequency. And that employment was the smaller assignment of the two.

The biggest contract a security agent could receive went to McCord Associates, selected by Secret Service agent Al Wong, to provide all security for the republican Convention in Miami.

Considering the Tackwood allegations that were made public a year ago at a press conference, maintaining security at the conventions was equal to securing our electoral process.

If there was but a fraction of truth to the Squad 19 plans, the person hired to protect the life of the president of the United States and others, both outside and inside the convention hall, should be a citizen with a non-political, perfectly spotless record of security experience.

The CIA, FBI or Secret Service must certainly have investigated the Tackwood charges about convention provocations to create martial law. Every possible element who could be used to provoke violence in Miami should have been scrutinized.

The Secret Service that hired McCord did not follow his off-duty meetings at the Watergate Hotel May 26-29. If the data banks and surveillance systems keep records of "radicals" and "demonstrators," it seems they could follow their own hired Security Chief.

Either he was moonlighting for another client they should have known about, or else McCord works for the CIA at the present time, and associates with the CIA agents who hire provocateurs. If the CIA funds violence for Washington, New York and elsewhere, are they funding the very violence in Miami that James McCord is hired to "secure"?

Bernard Barker was telling people in Miami that "something is going to happen at the time of the conventions." He was then planning demonstrations in approval of Nixon's bombing of Haiphong Harbor.

April 24, Barker and a secret team of seven men went to Miami to hire provocateurs for a New York demonstration in May. Four of this team were arrested at the Watergate Hotel. Three men were in Miami at the time, and one left the country because, according to the New York Times, he was "headed for trouble."

Money to pay for street scenes and fights with police and radicals came from the same money man, Bernard Barker, who served as the conduit of funds for the Bay of Pigs invasion. This time Barker was handing out crisp, consecutive CIA $100 bills that came to Miami's Republican National Bank, from a secret source in Mexico, via a secret source in Chile.

James McCord, Chief of Security for the Committee to Re-elect Richard Nixon, and Chief of Security for the republican National Committee, was paid for the Watergate job with the same funds that hired street altercations.

Bernard Barker's wife said that her husband had not been active with the Cuban community for five years. She was surprised he was arrested working with that group again.

That observation fits in with the "Squad 19" plan which was arranged for San Diego. When the convention was moved to Miami, a whole new group of street people would have to set the milieu for confrontations. Some persons could be imported. Local varieties would be better. The radical, emotional, well-trained, constantly provoked Cuban exile community could be worked up sufficiently with enough of those CIA $100 bills floating around again.

One man in Miami was offered $700 "CIA money" to demonstrate on the streets in August for the republican Convention.

Bernard Barker handed out $30,000 to the Watergate boys for hotel expenses and elaborate equipment: $10,000 went to Washington provocations where a few people were supposedly shot.

Frank Sturgis was planning demonstrations for the republican Convention. Even the law enforcement people in Miami thought that was strange. According to the Washington Post:

"Law enforcement officials predicted the Cuban exiles would demonstrate at the Democratic National Convention to express opposition to any proposals for better relations with the Castro regime. But they were confused and found no solid explanation of why Sturgis and Martinez were seeking rooms for the republican convention, rooms for which the party has no need."

Two private Catholic colleges received a call from Sturgis asking for "lodging in August for Young Republicans." He left with them his phone number at Bernard Barker's real estate office. Sturgis also called Barry College, said he was an "organizer" and wanted rooms for 200 places.

Where were these Young Republicans coming from? Douglas Caddy, attorney for the men arrested, was co-founder of Young Americans for Freedom. That group is infiltrated with nazis, right-wing radicals and extremists, many who supported Agnew for president. Because we don't know the source of funds for all this, it is difficult to screen out which Young Republicans will arrive.

A group of them were ready for action in Dallas when John Kennedy was killed. Their goal was control of the White House by 1970. There was a determination that this country could be controlled, with their help. These men were never arrested or called as witnesses before the Warren Commission after Kennedy's death

Eugenio Martinez, real estate partner of Barker, was making his own reservations to bring in Young Republicans -- about 3,000 of them -- for convention time. Depending upon the background, training, beliefs of a para-military, religious, violently anti-communist element, there is no way of telling if Martinez, Barker and Sturgis were planning to import trouble.

If they hired provocateurs for the Washington demonstrations in May, who were they making these Miami reservations for in August?

Virgilio Gonzales and Martinez were closely

associated with the well-trained military veterans of the Bay of Pigs. Following their defeat in 1961, Cuban exiles moved to Fort Jackson, South Carolina in 1963.

This group of guerrilla warriors, armed with modern warfare hardware, were trained and have been held together with some purpose in mind since 1963.

The war could come to American soil, the excuse being to come down on "radicals" and "left-wing" troublemakers. The CIA that trains these exiled Cubans can use them to create our own political fascism.

Angel Ferrer was not arrested, but he was named as being one of the men who stayed with the group at the Watergate Hotel. Ferrer trained at Fort Jackson with Ex-Combatientes, the veterans of the Bay of Pigs. He was active with the exile Cuban community in Miami and had Washington contacts. Ferrer was supposed to have offered direct action to combat left-wing causes in the U.S.

Arrested with James McCord were political extremists, violently anticommunist intelligence agents. They were all planning convention demonstrations. Each of these men would make McCord's job more difficult in Miami unless they were working as a team for another purpose.

James McCord, Chief of Security for the Republican Convention in Miami, was not only arrested with members of a secret team well financed to hire provocateurs. But, as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Reserve, and with 19 years of CIA employment behind him, McCord sat with a special I6-man unit concerned with plans and preparedness, which is part of the executive office of the President. This Unit's purpose was concerned with radicals and contingency plans for the radicals.

Both Captain R. Franz, Navy Reserves, and James Landis, retired Army colonel, spoke of McCord's work with this Unit, which included control of the news media and U.S. mail.

When McCord was arrested, the Special Unit disclaimed his association by saying he "left four months ago." McCord had two important positions for the next months that would take him to other places. The "contingency plans for radicals" remains ready to be used, and their connection to the White House is only one of the links of this group to Nixon.

Howard Hunt, who fled the scene when his friends were arrested, also had experience with "radicals." Known as a very conservative republican during his 21 years with the CIA, he had occasion to put down the "radicals," "blacks" and "war protestors."

When students at Brown University objected to hearing Henry Kissinger speak to them, Hunt wrote the alumni that he "deplored the lack of patriotism in youth." He called them "hirsute know-nothings," which makes me believe that CIA author Howard Hunt writes Agnew's speeches.

Hitler's youth, arms in the air, boots marching in rhythm, were called "patriotic" and then later judged as criminals at Nuremberg. What kind of blind patriotism does Hunt desire?

During his CIA days, in addition to planning the Bay of Pigs, Hunt was senior member of a Special Task Force during two periods of national emergency, and participated with the White House on security matters. What periods of crisis were these?

There is no way to know in what capacity Howard Hunt was serving the CIA when John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King were murdered, when Ted Kennedy's car was pushed into Chappaquiddick, when Diem was removed by our CIA coup d'etat, or when Greece was overthrown. In order to understand Hunt's possible involvement with the "Squad 19" plans, it would help to learn more about his usefulness in past crises.

Louis Tackwood said that the number he had to call, as part of the "Squad 19" plans, was named "White" -- which is the alias Howard Hunt used as White House consultant to Richard Nixon.

McCord's walkie-talkies at the Watergate were similar to the radio frequencies of Howard Hunt's walkie-talkies in the White House.

John Kennedy recognized there was a hidden government. Many of the same people he feared were still working together as a team in 1972 just before crucial elections. If those teams were directly connected to the White House, martial law is a possibility if it appears that Nixon could lose the election. A lot of power has been accumulated in the hands of a few people, and they have taken every precaution to keep it that way.

All the elements necessary for "Squad 19" were assembled. Five men, skilled in cloak-and-dagger intelligence operations, all with CIA experience, veterans of the Bay of Pigs together, heavily and secretly financed, connected to military troops waiting for "direct combat" against radicals and left-wing, were dining together and living at the Watergate Hotel at the time they were all arrested in one bag.

How can you recognize a CIA espionage plot as opposed to a "third-rate" burglary? The methods of operation include:

The Cover Story
Deniability
Dummy Front Corporations
Funding
Communications, Radio Control
Aliases
Migratory Birds, Job Changes
Housing
Local Police, Military, Treasury Dept., Justice Dept., FBI
Dirty Tricks
Cities and Countries
Coincidences
Witnesses Never Called, Questions Never Asked
1. The Cover Story

Every CIA operation, secret in nature, must have a cover story in the event one or more agents are discovered going about their dirty work. The immediate excuse for their presence must conceal the actual circumstances and divert attention from larger plans or co-workers.

The cover story for the Watergate arrests fell into four categories:

(1) Intelligence gathering - "Boys will be boys," we all sneak up on each other. The importance of the boys was ignored.

(2) Exile Cubans curious about Democratic attitude toward Castro -- The Bay of Pigs veterans involved at the Watergate, with high CIA officials, did not need such an elaborate plan to get this information for the exile community in Miami.

(3) Robberies at the Watergate -- The breaking in at the Democratic offices was explained as one of many robberies. If there were so many recently, why didn't they hire more guards instead of letting one go home sick that night without being replaced?

(4) Amateurs, Mickey Mouse, Mack Sennett, Keystone Kops -- The men arrested were made to look like silly fools with 1950 tools. But McCord was Chief of Security of all CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia, Chief of Security for the Committee to Re-elect Nixon, and Chief of Security for the republican Convention! Ronald Ziegler, Nixon's Press Secretary, called them "third rate burglars." The news media that print this foolishness also print facts. Read both and figure out what kind of fools were arrested.


2. Deniability

The Pentagon Papers offers a wonderful view of CIA "deniability." From August 24 until November 1, 1963, our CIA and State Dept. were arranging the coup d'etat that would remove Diem. Lieut. Col. Conein, CIA agent, was working with General Don from Vietnam. Their instructions were:

"Make security fully deniable."

"Issue instructions orally, to provide plausibility to denial."

"At last minute have cut-off with Conein and designee of Don, this officer completely unwitting of any details."

"If coup aborts, disavow, CIA agent Conein at any time it may serve national interest."

When James McCord and the other four men were arrested, friends, associates, exile Cuban community, all started their denials. Listed here are several out of more than 20 different denials given to the press during the two weeks following the arrests:

John Mitchell: Chairman of the Committee to Re-elect Richard Nixon. James McCord was receiving $1209 monthly from this Committee when arrested. Mitchell said, "McCord was working for another client."

Cuban exile group in Miami. When Bernard Barker was arrested, the group that heard him attempt to recruit demonstrators for the republican Convention said, "He came to our meeting uninvited."

McCord Associates needed three members of a Board of Directors to become incorporated. Dorothy Berry, sister of James McCord and one of three directors of the agency hired by Mitchell for Security of the Committee to Re-elect Richard Nixon, said: "I didn't know I was on the Board of Directors."

Ameritus: Reservations for the nine men at the Watergate Hotel were made on stationery from this organization in Miami. Barker's friend, Suarez, heads the group. When the men were arrested, Suarez said the letterhead was stolen." He knew nothing about reservations.

Martha Mitchell: Martha was emphatic there were five men with her in California. The White House and the Committee to Re-elect Richard Nixon said: "Mrs. Mitchell only has one guard, and you know she always has problems at night."

Howard Hunt: 21 years with CIA, White House consultant on payroll of White House at the time he skipped out on the FBI. Also worked for Robert Bennett. When Bennett learned that two men arrested at the Watergate Hotel had Hunt's name and telephone number in their address books, Hunt was "fired if he didn't show up for work the next day."

Robert Bennett, fund-raiser for Nixon's secret $10 million. When asked about Hunt a few days later, he said, "The only comment I have from him is a flat denial that he was anywhere near the Watergate. (His gun was in his White House desk along with his walkie-talkies.)

Special Unit 16: Emergency and Contingency Plans, connected to White House. James McCord met with them every month. When McCord was arrested, they announced he "left the unit four months ago."

McCord fired too. As soon as president Nixon and John Mitchell discovered their Security Chief was arrested, they gave an indignant, "Mr. McCord is off our payrolls as of Monday morning."

Robert Odle can't speak. Robert Odle was fingered as the man from Mitchell's Committee to Re-elect Richard Nixon who hired James McCord for their Security Chief. The White House would not let Odle be interviewed.

"He is not available because he is not a public figure."

Nixon and Mitchell discount responsibility for the Watergate Affair. Their employees are protected because they are important enough to hire agents but not important enough to be responsible for their decisions.

Hunt and Chappaquiddick. White House Librarian Ms. Schleicher told a Washington Post reporter that Howard Hunt was doing research while at the White House on Ted Kennedy's Chappaquiddick accident.

(The entire affair was CIA-staged for the purpose of removing Ted Kennedy as Democratic candidate. Pages 262-3 of Jack Olsen's Book, The Bridge at Chappaguiddick, indicate that the water pressure would have made it impossible to open the car door, so that Ted Kennedy could not have been driving, or even inside. The National Safety Council has not a single case in its records of any person ever escaping from a submerged automobile.)

The White House ordered Ms. Schleicher to stop giving out information. She then denied the first conversation took place. After giving the name of the book and material Hunt was reading, she changed the story and said she had never had any borrowing requests from Hunt, referred the reporters to the press office, saying she did not know who Hunt was.

3. Dummy Front Organizations

McCord Associates, Inc. -- When James McCord "left" the CIA after 19 years, he opened his own security agency that was hired through Robert Odle for security of the Committee to Re-elect Richard Nixon.

At the time of his arrest, information about this agency was revealed. The Maryland Secretary of State's office showed they were not incorporated until November 19, 1971, several weeks after a contract had been signed with the Republican National Committee.

Incorporation requires three individuals on the Board of Directors. McCord, his wife and his sister, Dorothy Berry, were listed. Ms. Berry, employed by an oil company in Houston, was not aware of being on the Board of Directors.

McCord Associates was not licensed to perform security services, as required by law.

Their charter mentions nothing about security work. The agency is listed as "Business service, studies, analysis, reports in connection with business, industry, academic institutions."

This company filed no 1972 tax returns with the Secretary of State by the April 15 deadlines.

The entire CIA is called the "Fairfax Highway Research Station" and conceals its purposes. If James McCord is not listed for security work, was this the headquarters for planning a contingency to the elections without it being part of the regular CIA opertions?

Ameritus -- Ameritus was described as a secret Cuban revolutionary group. Hotel reservations were made in their name. Federal officials never heard of this group, even though it was a corporation. Hector DeLana, Miami accountant whose name was listed as Treasurer, was not on the Board of Directors. There was no record of Ameritus in Dade County Business Transactions.

Barker Real Estate -- Bernard Barker's real estate office in Miami was a mystery. He had the license for only one year before the arrest. Source of income for Barker is money from Latin America. Where does he invest it? What taxes are paid on money like the $89,000 cash he had since April 1972!

Barker and Howard Hunt were supposed to be business partners in Nicaragua and Santa Domingo enterprises that "fell through." Were they CIA fronts or contacts because all the time they were together Hunt was in the CIA, and Barker was a conduit of funds with Hunt during the Bay of Pigs.

Mullen and Company, public relations -- This office is a nest of CIA agents: Hunt, Bennett, Mullen, Caddy. Robert Bennett admitted that his 75-90 organizations which raised money were "dummy fronts." This is what the CIA is all about. They create false organizations to fund their operations, through foundations and other names which mean nothing at all except that CIA money passed through the doors to selected agents.

Interprogress, Washington, D.C. -- Robert Bennett, president of the public relations fun at which Hunt works, said the firm also has an affiliate called Interprogress that is attempting to increase American trade with communist countries. The secret funding for the Watergate gang now comes from Chile; secret funding for Nixon comes from Bennett's office; and the question of ITT financial connections is related to Chile. What countries does Bennett's office contact, and do they include Chile!

All State Investment Fund, Inc., Panama -- Michael Suarez, head of Ameritus, described All State as a subsidiarv of Ameritus. Bernard Barker is associated with Suarez and used Ameritus stationery for reservations at the Watergate. Is All State Investment Fund one of the many Pan-American CIA fronts for operations between Florida and Central America?

Pan-American Aluminum Havana -- Frank Sturgis was owner of a salvage company, and concealed from the court his part-time employment with a corporation called Pan-American Aluminum. What kind of organization is this aluminum company?

Houston Oil Company -- Many people from the CIA were associated with Houston and various other oil companies at the time of John Kennedy's murder. John Connally is closely tied in with oil interests and CIA foundations in Houston, and is politically lined up for a very important Washington position again. Because of the conspiracy that killed Kennedy, and the close-knit group of people that worked together through those years, any possible source of funds or contacts into McCord Associates should be investigated.

4. Funding

Robert Bennett, Mullen public relations -- Robert Bennett admitted setting up "dummy" front organizations to raise $10 million for Nixon's re-election; 75-90 organizations were supposed to donate this money. John Mitchell refuses to reveal sources of the money.

All of the men in those offices at one time -- Howard Hunt, Douglas Caddy, Robert Bennett and Robert Mullen -- were part of the CIA. Bennett's office, The American Dream, collected cash before the legal date stipulated to declare the donor.

James McCord's salary from this Nixon fund could have come from the CIA.

The fund-raising committees that Bennett formed bearing names such as "Supporters of the American Dream" -- were established in 1971 as a means of legally collecting Nixon campaign contributions without reporting them under the Federal Corrupt Practices Act.

Among the contributions sent to the organization was $325,000 given to 68 different committees by the political arm of the Associated Milk Products, Inc., a cooperative with more than 30,000 member farms in 20 states.

The contributions led to a suit filed by Ralph Nader's Public Citizens, Inc., which charged that the Nixon administration raised government milk support prices as a payoff for the donation.

Everybody needs milk.

Even Richard Nixon's.

Bernard Barker-- Known money man, conduit of funds for CIA-planned Bay of Pigs; worked with Howard Hunt, planner of the operation. April 24, $89,000 from an unknown Mexican bank was put into Barker's account at the Republican National Bank in Miami.

Barker said that Mexican money came from Chile, where he "can't get people involved because of fear of retaliation from the socialist government in Chile." Is this the ITT money, CIA into Chile through ITT, that goes to Mexico, then Miami, then Washington?

May 8, Barker took $89,000 cash out of the bank in $100 bills. When arrested at Watergate Hotel, the men had $6,500 of those bills from Miami, Mexico and Chile. McCord and others at Watergate were paid from this Miami bank.

If James McCord's money, both from the Committee to Re-elect Richard Nixon and the Watergate Hotel robbery, is from secret funds, how can we find out if the CIA supplied the provocateurs in Washington as well as the security for the conventions?

Would any of the secret money raised by Bennett's office go into Chile, to Mexico, to Miami, to the Watergate? If so, the White House would be paying to institute martial law as in the "Squad 19" plan because of the provocations that could follow if enough people were paid in Miami.

Does a share of all tax money that goes into security, or the CIA, appear in the Nixon-Agnew fund while the Democrats have to raise their cash with barbecues and telethons?

Do "good Democrats" like Hubert Humphrey get CIA money if they are candidates?

5. Communications, Radio Control

James McCord, hired for Security of the republican National Committee, was assigned his own radio frequency on May 7, 1972.

Does the Democratic Party have their own radio frequency?

The Watergate arrests revealed sets of walkie-talkies. Taken from the White House desk of Howard Hunt were two walkie-talkies that could connect with the others.

After five men were arrested and four escaped, police said that "Other persons staying at the Watergate Hotel could use hotel rooms for listening posts to monitor conversations beamed by transmitters." John Mitchell lived at the Watergate Hotel. Could Martha have found men listening through the walls?

Ken Clawson, Deputy Director of Communications in the White House, was giving out interviews about Charles Colsen and Howard Hunt. Did he work with these men?

Robert Odle, the man who hired McCord for Security, was staff assistant with Communications in the White House.

Howard Hunt, CIA 21 years, worked with developing and guiding media operations.

James McCord did radio operation work for the FBI 3 years.

The importance of radio and communication control at the time of martial law and the cancellation of elections is described in Stephen Rousseau's Death of a Democracy, Greece and the American Conscience.

A coup d'etat was possible in Greece because all communication was limited to a few people. The regular sources were cut off, and taken by surprise.

The suit against the five arrested may charge them with "unlawful interception of wire communications" and "unlawful possession of wire devices." Is there any way the Democratic National Committee offices could be cut off in case of an emergency, whereas the republicans, through their own radio frequency, could continue to communicate?

Methods of control by fascists in Greece, achieved by our CIA, must be examined now.

6. Aliases

All nine men registered at the Watergate Hotel used names from CIA novels by Howard Hunt. They also used code names from Bay of Pigs days, and other identification. Some of the names were not revealed except to mention the fact they were used.

Howard Hunt -- "Eduardo"; Writing pseudonyms: Robert Dietrich, John Baxter, Gordon Davis

James McCord, Jr. -- James Martin

Bernard Barker -- "Macho"; Frank Carter

Frank Sturgis -- Frank Fiorini, a dozen aliases, including Joseph Hamilton; at the time of arrest, Sturgis had a birth certificate, two driver's licenses, Social Security card with the name of Joseph Hamilton.

(When James Ray, the alleged killer of Martin Luther King, left Missouri State Penitentiary April 22, 1967, he was given Social Security card 318-24-7038, alias John Larry Raynes, gift of the same CIA-FBI printing office.)

7. Migratory Birds, Job Changes

In the course of my research on political assassinations, I noticed a moving pattern of agents from the time of their assignments until delivery. Cross-filing the witnesses before the Warren Commission, I labeled them "Migratory Birds."

The large majority of people who testified had certain professions; living patterns. They moved into Dallas, changed occupation and housing. After the assassination, by the time they were asked to testify, they had new jobs that revealed a lot about the military-type conspiracy involved.

From that time on, I followed job changes and contacts until the shooting. Just from the brief news of the Watergate boys, it is obvious there was a shifting of positions. Here are a few examples:

James McCord, Jr. -- Chief of Security, Langley, Virginia, CIA, for 19 years. Left in 1970. What other clients since he left? If McCord Associates not formed until November, 1971, where did he work until that time? Special I6-Man Emergency Unit for radicals; military officials said he "left there four months ago."

Howard Hunt -- Worked with CIA 21 years, left same time as McCord, in 1970. Went to Mullen & Company, worked as White House consultant, every reason to believe those were still CIA jobs but he was severing from large CIA institution, like McCord. Was it for 1972 plans?

John Mitchell -- Resigned as Attorney General to head Committee to Re-elect Richard Nixon.

Al Wong -- Was secretive when asked how long he worked for Secret Service. This is important because he supposedly hired McCord for the all-important Miami assignment, and did not investigate Louis Tackwood charges.

The time of service is important to the life of the president. Winston Lawson, responsible for Kennedy's life in Dallas, never was in charge of a trip like this before. He was only in Secret Service school at the time Kennedy was inaugurated. For his dangerous journey to Texas, Kennedy needed the best, longest, most experienced security.

Ken Clawson -- White House aide, interviewed about Howard Hunt and others - "new in the White House" and "used to be a reporter."

Robert Odle -- The man who hired James McCord for Security Chief of Committee to Re-elect Richard Nixon. Worked in Communications with Herbert Klein from January 1969-May 1971. In 1971 he left Communications to work for Mitchell's committee.

Bernard Barker -- Real estate office in Miami. Described as being a realtor only a year, no mention of occupation before that time. Co-partner of CIA agent Howard Hunt in Nicaragua, other countries, in Latin America.

Frank Sturgis -- When he was arrested, he was hesitant to talk about Pan American Aluminum in Havana where he was a "part-time employee." Employed by Hampton Road Salvage Company, but on the move, in Mexico; travelled. Referred to as "soldier of fortune" which simply means being paid money by the CIA to do various jobs which we don't want to admit arranging.

8. Housing

There is not enough information yet on the homes or apartments these various men live in.

In all CIA work, with Oswald, Ray, Bremer, the men kept homes away from home, isolated from everyday activities. James McCord had two apartments in Miami. Was one to meet for security arrangements needed for the convention, while the other apartment arranged the provocations?

9. Local Police, Military, Treasury Dept., Justice Dept., FBI

Police -- In order for a CIA operation to be successful, it must achieve desired goals without being detected. This requires planning and assistance from many law enforcement agencies and government agents.

Louis Tackwood describes in The Glass House Tapes the Los Angeles Police Department, and how it plans conspiracies that will eventually lead to fascism and a police state.

In the Watergate Affair, like all CIA activities, local police could assist by many methods. They didn't disclose the names of other men registered at the hotel, which could help find the suspects. There was a total absence of information about the Watergate Hotel staff. The FBI ordered the hotel manager "not to speak" after it was learned that his name and telephone number were with one of the men arrested.

The accounts of the arrest, and information that came as a result of the arrests, shielded the suspects. If the police and FBI were looking for members of the Black Panthers, the police would give out detailed information and have an all-out description of the missing agents.

In Dallas, Memphis, Los Angeles and Maryland, all suspects were allowed to get out of town by the local police while the FBI narrowed in on one chosen patsy for the crimes. The Watergate Affair had the same similarity.

James McCord, arrested while wearing rubber gloves with his fine dinner suit, addressed the Police Association this year on "security." Did he give them a lesson on what to do if they get caught in the act? Police Departments are to provide security. As Tackwood illustrates, some members of police departments are allowed to create chaos.

Military -- Every one of the five arrested at the Watergate had close contacts with branches of the military service.

James McCord, Lt. Col. in the Army Reserves, worked with the Army and Navy and on the Emergency Contingency Unit.

Bernard Barker worked with Ex-Combatientes Manuel Artime, and served in the U.S. Army in World War II.

Frank Sturgis was a Lt. Reserve in Civil Air Patrol. Named in connection with the John Kennedy assassination, along with Frank Sturgis, was David Ferrie, Civil Air Patrol. Lee Harvey Oswald, before joining the Marines, worked under Ferrie in Civil Air Patrol.

Eugenio Martinez and Virgilio Gonzales were closely associated with Fort Jackson troops, the exile Cuban veterans.

Also, Howard Hunt was in the Navy Reserves and the U.S. Army Air Corps.

And Angel Ferrer was offering Washington "direct combat troops when needed."

Treasury Dept. -- The Treasury Dept. is responsible for Secret Service protection.

Al Wong, Secret Service agent who hired James McCord, was described as "secretive" about his experience or length of time with the Secret Service.

Howard Hunt, "consultant to White House on Narcotics Intelligence," works through the Treasury Dept.

Larry Shears, intelligence agent for the Treasury Dept., revealed plans to kill Cesar Chavez and Eldridge Cleaver through the Narcotics Department. Evelle Younger, now Attorney General of California, named as a planner in the "Squad 19" tapes, denied the charges. If Howard Hunt and Charles Colsen, who works in the "dirty tricks department" in the White House, are connected with Narcotics Intelligence, could they be part of those plans?

The Justice Department and the FBI -- There is a web that connects the CIA operations, the FBI that investigates them, and the Justice Dept. that prosecutes the selected agents.

Only carefully selected agents examine the evidence, represent the men arrested, or interview the men convicted if and when they are ever found.

The Nixon-Mitchell Justice Dept. consists of an agency that hires assassins; plants evidence against the innocent; pays informers or offers parole from narcotics or other arrests if they will lie about a suspect; creates conspiracies; designs special Tactical Squads for further repressions.

John Mitchell, after the Watergate arrests, decided to "retire." That is the style of the Nixon administration to avoid arrests. The My Lai officers, Abe Fortas, Will Wilson, General Leavelle, John Mitchell -- all just step down from office.

A group of black republicans, hoping to win Nixon nazi smiles upon their faces, were planning a pro-Nixon dance called Do the Nixon. The only step they needed to learn for the dance troupe is how to "step down" when the heat is on, run and get out while you are still ahead.

How can the FBI or Justice Department begin to investigate the Watergate Affair? John Mitchell and Patrick Gray III, both organizers for Nixon's presidency many long years, are not about to expose any plan to keep their power from the hands of the electorate.

10. Dirty tricks

The CIA has a "dirty tricks" department. Richard Nixon has a "dirty tricks" consultant. Martha Mitchell said she witnessed "dirty tricks" that caused her to become "a political prisoner."

Charles Colson, associate of White House consultant Howard Hunt, was described by Ken Colson as the man who does Nixon's "dirty tricks."

The president of the United States should be above these kinds of games, but that is not the way Nixon came to power.

Colson was reported to have written a smear article about Senator Tydings of Maryland just before his last election that was printed in Life magazine. After Tydings lost the election, all charges were proven false, but the vote of one more member of the Senate was assured for whatever votes were needed by Nixon.

11. Cities and Countries

CIA conspiracies are complicated. They involve a network of cities; geographic areas that are used often for espionage agents to lose their past associations.

The Watergate Affair centers around Washington, New York, Miami, Texas and California.

Countries the agents visited were Chile, Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Spain, Panama and the Dominican Republic.

12. Coincidences

Missing Link Key Shop -- Virgilio Gonzales, arrested at the Watergate Hotel, worked as a locksmith at the Missing Link Key Shop in Miami.

The same week the five men were arrested in Washington, all keys to the convention centers for the Miami halls were stolen. Fifteen keys on one ring, removed from an attache case inside a locked room, were missing. They opened all the major locks at the convention hall complex that included three buildings.

"Balderdash, no conspiracy" -- Jack Anderson, who carefully ignores any facts or evidence of conspiracies that killed President John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy or Martin Luther King, put down research author Don Ritey last summer for attempting to link a high level plot of the CIA, FBI, Dallas Police; Anti-Castro Cubans, and the Syndicate.

When Frank Sturgis was arrested at the Watergate Hotel, Jack Anderson went to court immediately to vouch for his longtime friend and source of information. Sturgis had been questioned by the FBI about his connections to the John Kennedy murder.

The widow of Drew Pearson, Jack Anderson's former boss, could have in her husband's files important information that was passed to JFK on October 28, 1963, saying, "Cancel Dallas trip. Arrest Lee Harvey Oswald." Anderson refused to help find this memo, passed it off as "too far-fetched."

Blueprints and Air-Conditioning Plans: Bernard Barker asked architect Leonard Glass for plans of the floors, exits, entry at the Democratic Convention headquarters.

Eight months later, Bernard Barker was arrested at the Watergate Hotel after illegally entering the Democratic National Committee.

13. Witnesses Never Called, Questions Never Asked

The FBI, Justice Dept., and police agencies conceal clandestine witnesses and evidence that would prove conspiracies exist. Many questions important in trials or investigations are never asked.

Included in my research on cases where I believe the CIA is involved are hundreds of questions never asked -- if and when the carefully selected attorneys go to trial. Here are a comparatively few questions about the Watergate Affair. There are dozens more that need further investigation to unravel the relationship of the arrested persons to our espionage establishment.

McCord, CIA, Houston, Dorothy Berry (sister of James McCord)-- Is Ms. Berry, on Board of Directors of McCord Associates, Inc., hired for security of the republican Convention and the Committee to Re-elect Richard Nixon, associated in any way with any CIA foundation in Houston, such as the Hobby Foundation, the M.D. Anderson Foundation, the J.M. Kaplan Fund?

What other clients did McCord Associates serve as security services? Names, countries, contracts? What taxes were paid on those services? How many employees? If James McCord is not still CIA, he should have a large organization in order to be hired by the White House and John Mitchell.

What taxes were paid by Ameritus? Who are the actual Board of Directors, since one of the supposed signators -- Hector DeLara, a Miami accountant -- did not even know his name was on the incorporation papers? How long has Ameritus been in existence? For what purposes?

Hector DeLara was surprised when informed that records in Tallahassee list him as Treasurer of Ameritus. One of the firm's officers told him the group intended to hire him as Treasurer, then apparently decided against him and forgot to tell him his name was used.

Why has the FBI delayed publication of the source of the $89,000? The money made an around-the-world trip to the Republican National Bank. If $89,000 was sent from Chile, to Mexico, to Miami for "investment purposes," why was it used for provocateurs? Who put it into the Chilean bank?

Investment business of Bernard Barker -- How many land investments and properties were transacted through the Barker real estate firm?

Which businesses of Barker and CIA Howard Hunt in Central America were legitimate "failures" - or were they all CIA fronts? Does Howard Hughes' new interests in Nicaragua have any connections to Hunt and Barker's investments?

Why does the FBI and the White House prohibit investigators from speaking with persons who could provide clues on where to find suspects?

How many more guns are in White House desks? If Howard Hunt, White House consultant, kept a weapon in his desk, how many of them are allowed?

Investigation of the break-in -- The Committee to Re-elect Richard Nixon "is conducting its own investigation of the alleged break-in and bugging of the Democratic National Committee Headquarters." Mr. DeVan Shumway said the "inquiry has been going on for some time." If John Mitchell, Mr. Justice Department, and Patrick Gray III, appointed by Mitchell and Nixon, can't do a good enough investigation on their own, what agencies will the Committee use to investigate?

What were the last security jobs Al Wong, Secret Service, had before coming to the White House? How long has he been with the White House?

Is there a conflict of interest in having U.S. Attorney Titus prosecute James McCord and his friends? Titus was the author of the controversial D.C. Crime Bill of 1970, and is a known conservative. The group arrested at the Watergate had direct involvement in ways to handle "radicals." Harsh laws were put into effect after provocateurs created the circumstances supposedly necessary for them.

Frank Sturgis said he joined Bernard Barker in order to aid Cuban exiles from Spain to enter the U.S. He wanted the importation of 30,000 to 40,000 Cubans in exchange for certain services. The Cuban population in Miami and the U.S. has a greater income, more mobility and better job opportunities than blacks in Florida.

Why do we keep bringing refugees from "communism" to the U.S. before taking care of our own? Why are the ex-communists used and trained to turn against the blacks or students of this country? What percentage of paid CIA provocateurs are from Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America?

Did any of the Young Republicans being imported by Sturgis have contact with the organization CUSA (Conservatism U.S.A.) that helped the John Birch Society in Dallas in 1963?

Where are Larry Schmidt, Bernard Weissman, Volkar Schmidt, Dale Davenport, Norman Baker, Larry Jones, Bill Burley, Ken Glazebrook, and the group from CUSA that were in Dallas Nov. 22, 1963? What have they done the past nine years?

How much contact does Claude Kirk of Florida, and his Wackenhut Organization -- a private police agency, made up of retired military and FBI -- have with Frank Sturgis, Bernard Barker or Michael Suarez, the head of Ameritus?

Why did Richard Helms, Chief of the CIA, and William Buckley, editor of National Review, recommend Howard Hunt as a White House consultant? After 21 years with the CIA in every possible position, Hunt needed no "introduction."

It is difficult for most Americans to imagine that certain persons, even members of their own families, could have any part in a conspiracy to end the democratic process. Rationalizations for political assassinations vary. The most inclusive umbrella is the excuse that violence always existed and political systems are accustomed to murders.

This fact of violence is used to conceal planned violence.

Germany, like England, Italy, France, Austria, and other conservative, authoritarian and militaristic ruling class, changed its political system after its World War I defeat. Behind the back of the public ruling class developed an illegal, secretive, sadistic, well-organized second government.

This group of clandestine agents moved upwards into political power systematically, strategically, and secretly. They manipulated the Supreme Court, lower courts, police departments, the media, and electoral processes.

Hours after their agent Adolph Hitler was "elected" into power, the team surfaced for what they really were: fascists.

The world had never known such a large number of sadistic, cruel, inhuman things since life began on this earth.

Those Germans who realized that defeat was imminent near the end of World War II were incorporated into our State Department, FBI, and the White House. They formed our CIA with their Chief of Intelligence, Gen. Reinhard Gehlen. Richard Helms, acting head of the CIA today, is part of the original team of clandestine operatives.

The Watergate Affair gives a clear view of how that secret government was operating, their chain of command, and their determined intent to do "something with the Democrats" as well as people at the republican Convention.

This article was completed for The Realist on July 11, 1972, the same day that Richard Nixon and John Mitchell wanted to put off investigation of the Watergate Affair. According to Associated Press: "The Committee for the Re-Election of the President is worried that a hearing on a suit involved in the break-in and bugging attempt could cause 'incalculable damage' to president Nixon's campaign. The Committee asked U.S. District Court to postpone suit against [them] until after the November 7 election. To hear the suit before the election, the Committee said, could deter campaign workers and contributions, force disclosure of confidential information and provide the Democrats with a reason to hold a news conference."

President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Parts of that Act were violated at the time of Martha Mitchell's abduction, and in the way she was handled.

Her telephone was pulled from the wall, five men silenced her, and an unknown substance was injected into her body against her will.

As a friend of the court and a citizen, I have a right to charge that there has been a violation of her civil rights by those in responsible positions. It is in the national interest that she be permitted to talk freely before a responsible group.

We want to know what she saw. Martha Mitchell is the wife of one of the most responsible men in this nation. When she is treated in this manner, all of us are involved in having a right to know who is doing these things.

What happened to her could happen to any of us.

Those guilty of making her a prisoner are subject to $10,000 fine and 10 years in prison. If a conspiracy is proven, each and every person involved is subject to the same penalties. Free Martha Mitchell!!

(Part II)

Why Was Martha Mitchell Kidnapped?

part II

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American Assassins Are Mutations

There is something undeniably different about the American variety. The individualism of American assassins is what Europeans, and some Americans too, find hard to grasp. In other parts of the world, political assassination is usually the result of an elaborate plot. The object is to bring about a shift of power; it is a rational exercise, even if a murderous one. No such plan appears to guide the American assassin.(1)
-- Time Magazine May 29, 1972

The American assassin is a different variety than history ever produced before. This mongrel is not a pure breed nazi but the deformed and hideous baby produced from the marriage of nazi General Reinhard Gehlen and his mistress, Allen Dulles' CIA. It has taken a long time to recognize just what is different about this creation whose birth followed a quickie ceremony immediately after World War II.
The parents, who had helped finance Adolph Hitler's ascendancy, and the agencies still longing for revenge and war against most of mankind, changed their domicile but not their habits. The nursery moved from Germany into the United States and Jamaica. When the TV cameras turn their lens away from the crowd or the hired man who is photographed holding a weapon, the wide view screen will show the chambers of Washington, New York and Montreal where the real American assassins shall be properly identified.
Europeans and some Americans who find the explanation of our assassinations hard to grasp have not yet recognized the species. Every time we are ready to change domestic and foreign policies through the electoral process, the candidate who would effect some better changes gets smashed. Once again that "withdrawn and unemployed failure" with "no ideological basis" manages to keep us back in the 19th century. Senator George McGovern called the alleged assassins "lone sociopaths." (2) Any person who wishes to become President should be more familiar with the conspiratorial process.
If other parts of the world have their elaborate plots, none of them equaled our murders, attempted murders, or accidents. Master minds, experts for many years in illegal rearmament and political assassinations in Germany, combined agents and agencies with the U.S. The "Gehlen Organization" was financed by the CIA to the extent of $200,000,000 through Allen Dulles. (3)
Families from Eastern Europe, Russia, and Germany, screened by Gehlen, were imported into cities over the United States, particularly in the Southwest.(4) Many of these people still dream of a war against Russia, or Asia, and a study of their background would quickly reveal why wars against Asians, blacks, Chicanos, natives -- all non-whites -- are taking place today. The use of this emigre group of Russians and Germans was essential to conceal the plot of assassinations that started in America on Nov. 22, 1963.
The object of assassinations in other countries is for a shift in power. The object of American assassination has been to keep the power in the same hands of those who controlled President Eisenhower and his vice-president Richard Nixon, their selected agent.(5)
The murders of John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, the accident at Chappaquiddick and the shooting of Governor George Wallace were plots to maintain control over the electoral system. Only one candidate gained from all this violence, and that was Richard Nixon and Company.(6)
Our American assassins, hired as decoys, are either killed or isolated in their cages. The "lone assassin" becomes an animal to be dissected by the Pentagon social scientists and psychiatrists.
Selected attorneys and privileged biographers write their histories. Soon the puppet media and other "experts" pick up the lingo and pass along misinformation as facts. While this human being is turned into a patsy who is monitored every second and isolated until his death, a group of cover agents manufacture what are supposed to have been his motives for becoming an assassin.
That fictitious personality will be studied and is supposed to become the model of assassins America produced in the 1960's and 1970's. By legalizing murder under the title "Death Penalty," Attorney General Evelle Younger can kill his patsies on Death Row: Sirhan Sirhan, Charles Manson, and John Frazier. If these men were free to talk, they would shake American "justice" and conspiratorial processes down to their very roots.
Creating the false motives for Lee Harvey Oswald's supposed killing of President John Kennedy was a project between brilliant and ruthless individuals. Once his traits and personality could be firmly established in our minds, it would then appear possible that Oswald actually killed somebody in Dallas.
There was another purpose for creating a set pattern of personality traits to describe the assassin. This biographical profile would be used for future murders if other candidates threatened the occupant of the White House, or if it was time to kill the President again. Madame Nhu sent a message after President Kennedy was killed which stated "anything that happens in Vietnam will find its counterpart in the U.S."(7)
We had our own kind of Domino Theory working in our own back yard. If you believed the first time around that President Kennedy was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, who was supposed to have been a "loner," "misfit," "rejected," "unknown," who "wanted a place in history," and that he actually fired those amazing bullets in Dealey Plaza,(8) you would buy the same story next time told in Los Angeles, Memphis, Maryland, or at Chappaquiddick.
Oswald supposedly inspired James Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King. Both men had lived in rooming houses and liked to travel across many continents. Ray and Oswald would impress Sirhan Sirhan, alleged assassin of Robert Kennedy. Arthur Bremer, ten days before shooting Governor George Wallace, checked out two books on Sirhan and found time to leave messages for hero Oswald. Before long every candidate who opposed or challenged Richard Nixon's presidency was falling from the same bullshit instead of the bullets.
All the physical evidence used to solve crimes such as the weapons, bullets, autopsies, examination of clothing, wounds, photographs proves that a conspiracy existed in every assassination. Attention was carefully camouflaged from where it should have been focused. Locked up for 75 years, or destroyed, altered, missing, planted and forged, evidence could be examined today to prove the plots to murder political leaders.
Instead of using all methods of criminology to solve killings or accidents, a profile of assassins was created as a diversion from actual facts. The most important ingredient towards the success of concealing American conspiracies was to make the cover story sound good and repeat it so often that nobody followed up the source of the information.
The Gehlen Operation, master spy outfit for Hitler's hot war against Eastern Europe and the USSR, moved many of their agents via Alien Dulles's CIA into the Dallas-Fort Worth-Houston area. Most of the emigres had large oil and land holdings taken from their families and hoped to return and claim what the Bolsheviks took away from them. Members of the Solidarists, members of Vlassov's Army of Liberation against the USSR, and nazi war criminals were moved into Texas and the Southwest long before John Kennedy was assassinated.(9)
George DeMohrenschildt, Lee Oswald's closest friend in Dallas, came from a family where his "father was Director of the Nobel Oil Interests in Minsk Province. He was the elected representative of the landowners to the government of Czarist Russia."(10)
John J. McCloy, member of the Warren Commission, was the attorney for Rockefeller's Standard Oil and represented the refineries of the "Nobel family's giant Caucasian oil fields" that had been taken by the Bolsheviks.(11) (At the time of the assassination of President Kennedy, DeMohrenschildt was employed by Lyndon Johnson's friends Brown & Root, largest constructors for Vietnam contracts.)
Conduits of funds for the transfer of emigre groups into the United States from Eastern Europe or the Middle East were through organizations such as the Tolstoy Foundation, the Greek Orthodox Church, and other DIA and ClA front organizations. (12)
Members of a close-knit emigre group in Texas that quickly adopted Marina Oswald as their own were named by the Warren Report as the "Russian Speaking Community." These people were the ones who were to provide the Warren Commission with the thinking habits and personality profile of Lee Harvey Oswald. Many of those persons in the Dallas-Fort-Worth area were part of a large espionage activity. Most of them were closely identified with defense and warfare factories, oil exploration, or worked directly with government agencies.
When the guns of November 22, 1963 went off, thirty emigre canaries, plus a few Americans directly connected with nazi General Walter Dornberger at Bell Aerospace, and Marina Oswald, wife of Lee Harvey Oswald, were singing for the news media and the Warren Commission. These were the people whose testimony the Warren Report quoted, which was false information. Nothing these people said about Oswald had any basis in fact. Nobody questioned the source of their fabrications and outright lies. No members of the Warren Commission attended hearings from the Russian community except for the testimony given by Marina Oswald and Kathryn Ford.
The Warren Commission staff and lawyers who took testimony which should have been important in solving the Dallas conspiracy were mysteries themselves. How they were selected for their job with the Warren Commission is such a secret process that even this information is locked into the National Archives for 75 years and marked "national security."(13)
There was no cross examination of witnesses with conflicting testimony. A set of agreements was arranged on which questions would be asked, and each witness speaking against Lee Harvey Oswald carefully filled his requirements. Perjury, falsehoods, outright lies were accepted without proof and left unexamined. The Warren Report then used this kind of testimony as the basis for concluding that Oswald was mentally capable of shooting John Kennedy, even though the rifle found behind some boxes wasn't. Oswald never owned a rifle or saw the so-called assassination weapon in his life.
My interest in Lee Harvey Oswald started November 24, 1363. Oswald said he was a "patsy" and that he "did not kill President Kennedy." Was Jack Ruby hired to kill Oswald in order to silence the truth and to prevent Oswald from revealing information about the murders in Dallas?
The Warren Report was supposed to summarize evidence and testimony pertaining to the murders of President John Kennedy, Officer J.D. Tippit, and Lee Harvey Oswald; 26 volumes titled Hearings Before the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy were published and contained the exhibits and testimony upon which the Warren Report was based. Allen Dulles, another member of the infamous Warren Commission, thought it would be safe to print all the evidence and documents because "I don't think anybody would pay attention to it to begin with." (14)
That old spy master was wrong because many of us did pay attention to the wide discrepancies that existed between the Warren Report and the evidence contained in the Commission Hearings. For eight years I examined those differences and came to the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was an agent of Navy Intelligence and then the FBI. Other researchers, working independently and thousands of miles apart from each other, came to these same conclusions based upon the actual evidence in the case.
There were two profiles of Lee Harvey Oswald. One was created by the select group in Texas of emigres and government employees that the Warren Report quoted and passed off as the truth. The other Oswald, pieced together from all kinds of sources in the 26 volumes, and gathered from witnesses other than a chosen few in contact with Oswald for different reasons, gave the impression of a talented, skilled, disciplined, educated, and capable person.
What I considered factual were service records, testimony of his officer in the Marines, State Department papers, contacts with top CIA officials in the USSR, job applications, a letter of resignation (which is different than being "fired"), certificate of special training in radar, electronics, photographic skills, Russian language tests and proof of learning abilities, college applications and acceptances, intelligent correspondence with the Navy and important public officials, FBI contacts in Texas and New Orleans, access to passports and special favors, funding by the State Department, arrangements provided by the Treasury Department cancelled pay checks and continuous funding associated with Government employment, proof of being coached in legal rights, and Oswald's connections with U-2 flights over the USSR.
Oswald was not rejected by the society in which he lived. He received special favors in the Marines, being relieved of duty while meeting with secret persons. His discharge was honorable from the service. His entry from Helsinki into the USSR was speeded up in an "unusual" hurry. Housing and finances in the USSR were superior to that of anyone around him. All waivers were passed, breaking particular stipulations in the State Department, to allow his Russian wife speedy entry into the U.S.
Lee and Marina stayed at the best hotels, were met by VIPs at the New York harbor, were taken to their hotel, airport in limousines. Oswald had special privileges, traveled in the USSR without passes, received an immediate passport renewal in the U.S. in June 1963, and proved that with every gesture he made somebody was catering to his wishes, rather than rejecting his plans.
Research indicated that Lee Oswald was not without friends in the U.S. or in the USSR. All of his contacts and associations were with persons hired by war criminal Walter Dornberger, with two other men who had been suspected of being nazis during World War II,(15) medical students, lawyers, doctors, oil engineers, accountants, professional people, professors, employees of space and defense industries. There was a chain of command from the time of his arrival in Fort Worth in June 1962 that took care of introductions, jobs, housing, placements, assignments. All of this had the earmarks of a very complicated and successful intelligence operation.
Code names used in the USSR between Lee and Marina Oswald were duplicated between agents in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Important proofs of conspiracies in Dallas existed and were bound into the 26 volumes of Hearings which the FBI and investigating teams never bothered to examine.
The unhappy marriage between Lee and Marina that the Warren Report keeps using as a possible motive for Oswald's behavior was actually no wedding at all. This union had all the appearances of a convenience between two espionage agents. Their engagement followed three public meetings and only after Oswald's papers were being prepared for his return to the United States. No member of Marina's family attended the ceremony even though they were walking distance away.
Three weeks before John Kennedy and Lee Oswald were murdered, Agent J. Hosty of the FBI was offering Marina Oswald "protection" and told her she could remain in the United States and "defect from the USSR."(16)Marina was here on a temporary visa. It would be interesting to find out how the FBI takes over State Department decisions and makes such offers. Oswald objected to the FBI visits with his wife and Ruth Paine, and suspected the "notorious FBI."(17) Within a very short time, Marina was receiving protection and citizenship in the United States and Lee Oswald was buried at Arlington cemetery.
There is a clear distinction between assassins or alleged assassins being "alone" and being "loners." Clandestine operations require secrecy and the kind of persons attracted to these jobs have spent many years of their childhood or life alone. When Col. Edward Lansdale went to North Vietnam to contaminate oil supplies he didn't take his wife or family.
Men on assignments remove themselves for one year or more before their actual work proceeds. Relatives, parents, wives, girl friends, brothers, all sources of contacts are locked out of this private world for obvious reasons. Being alone is a necessity for certain heads of state, espionage agents, masters of war and deceit as well as their selected and paid employees.
Nobody gets close to Henry Kissinger for the same reasons that Lee Oswald, James Ray, Sirhan Sirhan, and Arthur Bremer remained semi-isolated. Important to the success of plots and conspiracies is the ability to lose the chain of command and all contacts related to the plans.
My research project consisted in separating the origin of negative statements made about Lee Harvey Oswald by that select group of 30 people in Dallas-Fort Worth and comparing them to all evidence that indicated these persons were obviously coached and not telling the truth. A small homogeneous set of persons, identical in backgrounds, interests, political philosophy, similar in goals and memories, related to oil industries and warfare employments were the associates of Marina and Lee Oswald. When Lee was killed, they provided the motive for the Warren Report which would be used over and over again for any other conspiracies and assassinations.
Allen Dulles, former chief of the CIA, was removed from that agency by President Kennedy following the Bay of Pigs "invasion" of Cuba. John Foster Dulles and brother Allen had controlled the State Department and cold war policies of the White House for eight long years.
Insane and genocidal decisions were backed up and put into effect by our international police, armies, and the CLA. Many heads of other governments were blown off to keep their economies and institutions under control of the United States.

When newly elected President John Kennedy indicated that he was not taking orders from some other invisible government then it was time for him to be assassinated.

Following the murder of President Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson immediately appointed Allen Dulles as a member of the commission to investigate the killing of Kennedy. With Dulles' CIA agents placed over the United States, and Gehlen's Eastern European and German agents nestled in Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston and New Orleans, these persons could be useful to provide the smokescreen for the Warren Commission.

The first witness called to testify before the Warren Commission was Marina Oswald, widow of Lee Harvey Oswald. Without the testimony of Marina, there would be no possible way of associating Lee Oswald with the Dallas murder evidence. Marina supplied false information and lied to the Commission.

Before her testimony started on Feb. 3,1964, she had contradicted herself continuously in 40 previous FBI interviews. Her testimony could have been proven incorrect in ten minutes if members of the Commission had examined exhibits and documents that were in their possession at that time.

Chief Justice Earl Warren helped Marina along when her memory failed. Using the old card trick of selection by elimination, Earl forced Marina to identify a picture of General Walker's home supposedly among Lee's possessions when earlier she insisted she never saw that picture before in her life.(18)

David Belin, attorney for the Warren Commission, wrote Chief Counsel J. Lee Rankin that Marina Oswald should have a polygraph test because "a substantial portion of key testimony by Marina is not subject to ordinary tests of credibility." Belin also suggested that if a polygraph test was not given, and if Marina "had not been truthful in her testimony, it could throw an entirely new light on aspects of the investigation."(19)

It was my research into the fabrications from Marina Oswald and the Russian Community that led me to know the entire investigation must be explained and understood for what it was, a cover-up for an elaborate conspiracy to kill President Kennedy and for future assassinations.
Allen Dulles came to the first meeting of the Warren Commission with a paperback book for the members. He explained this book would set the tone for their investigation and that if read, they would see a compilation of traits ascribed to previous assassins.
"It is a fascinating book, but you'll find a pattern running through here that I think we'll find in this present case."(20)

The espionage expert also suggested that he be the one who would collect all the witness testimony about why Oswald would want to kill the president. None of the Warren Commission meetings went into actual evidence or matters of criminology. Their sole concern was to kill rumors, create motives, and find reasons that could be explained. All this was to be completed before elections in 1964.

Witness testimony would be accumulated by Allen Dulles for the Warren Report. All the Report would quote or publish was from that select few persons and not the wide range of testimony that contradicted Dulles' agents.

"I have seen together 20 or 30 items in various reports, these can be pulled together. I found a dozen or more statements of the various people as to why they thought he did it, or what his character was, or what his aim and so forth that goes into motives. Regarding previous assassinations, there is a pattern that runs through. It is rather interesting. I have been studying that a good bit myself."(21)

It was quite a surprise to read witness testimony and learn that many people Dulles quoted for the Warren Report on why they "thought Oswald did it" never met Lee Harvey Oswald in their lives. Other persons saw him once and never spoke to him. Many of these people, working in warfare industries, were meeting alone with Marina Oswald who was feeding them this information against her own husband.

There are similarities between Oswald, Sirhan, Ray and Bremer -- over 35 that I could list -- but none has anything to do with personality traits or habits. Rather, in each assassination there were more bullets fired than were located in the victims and at the scene of the crime than the alleged weapons could discharge. Bullets recovered from the victims did not match the alleged weapons. All other suspects were released immediately. "No conspiracy" was announced within hours of the shootings, even when there was no suspect after the killing of Martin Luther King.
The creation of the motive for assassinations in America was so important that Allen Dulles took control of this matter at the first meeting of the Warren Commission. When testimony was taken from 552 witnesses, Marina Oswald was given first honors. She proceeded to discredit her husband, even when she had to lie to do it. Nobody ever wrote about her motives for offering the Commission the testimony they wanted you to believe. Considering what she had before, and received in exchange, it is obvious that her testimony should have been challenged.
The most important ingredient in the entirely phony Warren Report was going to be the study of an assassin's personality. Therefore it was little wonder that New York attorney Louis Nizer's introduction to the Warren Report would be nothing but a continuous blast against Lee Oswald's mental derangement. If you believed what Mr. Nizer said was factual about Oswald, then information that followed in the Warren Report would not have to be challenged or examined.
Conspiracies and plots to control elections in the United States were aided and protected by the Supreme Court, judges, lawyers, and the carefully selected legal staff. Hitler's lies, cover murders, and political assassinations were also concealed by his Supreme Court and justices.(22)
Chief Justice Earl Warren accepted his responsibility to head the Warren Commission because of Lyndon Johnson's argument that "millions of people would be killed in an atomic war if he didn't dispel these rumors." On the basis of this being "more important" than a war, Warren accepted his job and covered truth for Lyndon Johnson. (23)
The war that actually started from the time that John Kennedy was killed was against blacks, Chicanos, youth and the electoral system among other things. It was also against Vietnam Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Greece and other countries we helped overthrow to establish military dictatorships. Protecting the real assassins so long has made the way for air war escalations, slaughters of natives, famines, legalized fascism in Greece, recognition of military dictatorships whenever possible.
These conspiracies brought us Warren Burger with his desire to do away with trial by jury if and when that New Constitution goes Into effect,(24) Patrick Gray III who closes conspiracy cases when the Federal Government is involved,(25) Richard Helms' new powers in the White House even though he is the protege of Dulles and Gehlen, and his agents are used for political assassinations, Henry Kissinger, Richard Kleindienst, William Rehnquist, John Connally, Evelle Younger, Ronald Reagan, and more to come after elections in 1972.
There is a plan that guides the American assassins and every person connected to that plan in some way moves higher into positions of power which should be questioned on the basis of facts connected to the murders.
By using Louis Nizer's name and asking him to write the introduction to the Warren Report, more prestige and authority would pad the document. The flimsy evidence would be ignored, hopefully, with that opening persuasion and emotional pitch about poor Lee Harvey Oswald. The anger and embellishments Nizer threw into this section went way beyond the hatred mounted by the Russian exiles and defense department agents. Nizer pointed out Lee's weaknesses, impotence, hatred of the rich, resentment of authority, poor marital relations, desire to be famous, aggressions and hostilities, neurosis and loner's pattern.

How ironic that every adjective used by Nizer was provided by that select group of emigres, Lee's wife, and the defense department employees. Albert Jenner, attorney for the Warren Commission, referred to this group as a "cast of characters who touched the lives of Lee Oswald and Marina Oswald." (26) A few of them had definitely touched Marina Oswald, but never Lee.

To write this strong "introduction" Nizer was quoting from a handful of people and never verified the source of his information. This was one huge psychodrama where the stakes were high and the cover story had to hold all the loose pieces together. The total effect would be to sell for all time the profile of the assassin to explain the Dallas murders and any others that would follow. The script for the conspiracies, which was not supposed to get title credits, was written by Alien Dulles and Richard Helms of the CIA, and J. Edgar Hoover's Division V of the FBI. Song and dance men like Nizer and Warren, with legal costumes, distracted from what was really taking place.

There was a strange twist of fate in asking Louis Nizer to help write the account of our American assassins. In 1944 Nizer belonged to a group called "The Society for the Prevention of World War III." This organization of several thousand members was dedicated to the prevention of all future wars by "whittling down Germany's war potential in all fields of activity." Remembering how the nazi "experts" developed meticulous gas chambers, there was an interest to limit future war-making machinery and immigration into the United States.(27)

Twenty years later, in 1964, Louis Nizer was being used by the Warren Commission and actually quoted the very persons he had feared would start World War III some day. The importation of certain persons allowed former nazi war criminals to conduct World War III on Asian soil.

The 30 years' war being waged in the name of peace has been a continuation of experimentation with weapons and oppressions transferred from Germany into the United States. The power to escalate this global conflict became possible by the continual murder of political candidates who stood in the way of the war machine mentality.
The time has come to stop feeling safe when the Justice Department tells you there was "no conspiracy" while you watched your candidate being slain. Everybody in the nation knows that Ted Kennedy would be killed by the same persons who murdered his brothers if he wanted to be President or if you wanted him to be your president. Lee Harvey Oswald is dead and Sirhan Sirhan is in San Quentin, and neither of these men killed John Kennedy or Robert Kennedy.
The "climate of violence" does not encourage or breed assassins. This excuse conceals the real assassins and allows plots and conspiracies to increase. When attention is focused away from all the falsehoods that conceal conspiracies and plots by calling attention to personality motives, our American mutant will then be studied for what he is.
Hopefully, the alleged assassins who are still alive will be taken to a safe place, offered amnesty and safety so they can tell us the truth about the persons who hired them to shoot a weapon at the scenes of the crimes, even if they did not kill.

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References
1. Some day an entire book will be written about the part played by Time and Life in protecting conspirators. Their diversion away from evidence in the plots to the alleged assassins' families and personalities served only one purpose, to divert from the truth about the assassinations.
2. Los Angeles Free Press, June 1972. Interview with Ivan Dryer.
3. E.H. Cookridge, Gehlen, Spy of the Century, Random House, New York, 1972.
4. Ibid., p. 51.
5. National Security Council on Foreign Relations. The Council on Foreign Relations must make all major decisions on American investments, enemies, sources of oil, resources, power. The National Security Council sends its agents, via CIA and other agencies, to put these decisions and "necessities" into effect.
6. How Nixon gained from the assassinations, attempted assassination, and accident at Chappaquiddick:
(a) Nixon lost election to President Kennedy in 1960. See Penn Jones, Jr., Forgive My Grief, Vol. III, p. 85; Description of Hoover, Nixon, home of Murchison, Nov. 21, 1963; Nixon close with Texas group associated with the assassination; having Lyndon Johnson as president was not losing control of the White House decisions. Nov. 24, 1963, the war was ready to escalate in Vietnam. Nixon, Connally, Johnson, Hoover, Dulles, Helms could work very well together.
(b) Martin Luther King assassination -- James Ray said "King had to be killed in an election year." Look Magazine, 11/22/68. The riots that followed King's death made unknown Agnew prominent and ripe for "law and order" candidate. Pappas Foundation, CIA, Greek oil money told Nixon if he wanted to be president and have their financing, he would select Agnew as vice-president. King's death responsible for Agnew's selection and for Nixon's financial backing he needed to run.
(C) Robert Kennedy -- Nixon had close competition for White House control. Kennedy chances good of winning. By killing him on primary victory eve, the electoral process was under control again. Humpty Dumpty (Humphrey), if he'd won, would have been easier to manage than JFK or LBJ.
(d) Ted Kennedy -- In 1969 political poll watchers realized Ted Kennedy was the only person likely to give Richard Nixon a difficult contest in 1972. By giving him an espionage treatment identical to Otto John's in Germany, where he was discredited without being killed, Nixon's opposition was eliminated early and would not be associated with the electoral process.
(e)George Wallace -- The Southern Strategy of John Mitchell and Nixon did not anticipate populist vote appeal of Wallace, or that Nixon would lose votes in Maryland, Michigan, other states to Wallace. Even though it was close to election time, he was supposed to be killed.
7. NBC Television Network, NBC News. Seventy Hours and Thirty Minutes. Random House, New York, 1966, p. 100.
8. E.B. Cutler, Two Flightpaths, Mirror Press, Danvers, Mass., 1971; Josiah Thompson, Six Seconds in Dallas. Bernard Geis & Assoc., 1967. Both these books are on the bullets and cross fire, the proof that Oswald's weapon did not kill President Kennedy.
9. Clarence Lasby, Project Paperclip, Atheneum, New York, 1971, pp. 33, 78, 113.
10. Testimony of George DeMohrenschildt, 168 H IX.
11. American Opinion, Gary Allen, "The World Government that Already Is," June 1972.
12. 4-15, H, IX, testimony of Paul Raigorodsky. Peter Kihss, "Suspect Called Calm and Lucid," New York Times, June 6, 1968. The story of the Sirhan family, funds from the Greek Orthodox Church that transported them from Palestine to Pasadena, California in 1948. Newsweek, "The Pass-Through: How the CIA Bankrolled Private Projects," March 6, 1967. Conduits of funds through Greek Orthodox Church, etc. Testimony of George DeMohrenschildt pp. 219-222, H, IX.
13. David Lifton, "Document Addendum to the Warren Report," Sightext Publications, 6958. Pages 43-68 withheld from research relating to the employment of personnel by the Commission
14. Ibid., p. 250.
15. George DeMohrenschildt, apprehended by the FBI, followed from NY to Corpus Christi, suspected of being a nazi spy, 185-186, H, IX. Albert Osborne, alias John Howard Bowen, companion on bus to Mexico with Oswald, pro-German during World War II, 29, H, XXV, apprehended by FBI for tearing down an American flag and stomping on it, disrespectful of U.S. in 1942. Lansby, op cit., pp. 33, 78, 113.
16. 33, H, XVI. Commission Hearings, letter of Oswald's dated Nov. 9, 1963.
17. Ibid., p. 33.
18. p. 17 H, Vol. 1, Commission Hearings; 37-39, H, XVI.
19. Letter from David W. Belin, attorney for Warren Commission, to General Counsel Mr. J. Lee Rankin, dated 1/29/64, located in National Archives, Washington, D.C.
20. David Lifton, Document Addendum to the Warren Report, p. 53.
21. David Lifton, ibid, p. 109.
22. Edmund Berkeley, "Patterns of Political Assassination: How Many Coincidences Make a Plot?" Computers and Automation, Sept 1970, pp. 39-47. Seymour Melman, Disarmament and Clandestine Rearmament under the Weimar Republic, pp. 203-219, by E.J. Gumbel in Inspection for Disarmament (Columbia University Press, N.Y., 1958).
23. Michail Sagatelyan, Computers and Automation, April 1972, p. 42.
24. Fred Graham, "Study Center Offers New U.S. Constitution," New York Times, Sept 8, 1970.
25. Ronald J. Ostrow, "Justice Dept.'s No. 2 Man Heads FBI Temporarily," Los Angeles Times, Jan 19, 1972, "Gray calls off Salazar Investigation." William J. Drummend, "The Death of a Man in the Middle," Esquire, April 1972, p. 74. R.E. Maxson, "Secret Salazar Report, Los Angeles Free Press, Oct. 2, 1970 (What Salazar was doing, tying in FBI, CIA, LAPD with conspiracies.) May 17, one day after Wallace shooting, "No indication more that one person involved." The case closed before it was allowed to be opened. Gray closed U.S. Attorney Robert Meyer in LA of investigating murders of Reuben Salazar and Jeri Lee Aime. He also closed the Bremer case immediately. The Justice Dept. is not here to find conspiracies but to fire the people who are finding evidence of plots.
26. 1, H, IX, Commission Hearings.
27. Clarence Lansby, op. Cit., pp. 195-197

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It's the Left Liberals Who are The Problem...

I can't get over how all the Left Liberal critics of Obama masterfully co-opted by Karl Rove in 2009 cannot distinguish between bombing someone and the media all collaborating with the military to say that your going to bomb someone you have absolutely no intention of bombing under any circumstances.

Astonishing. Truly astonishing.

And then they wonder why they ALWAYS lose...

You people are also solely and completely responsible for utterly poisoning the well of 9/11 Truth with the official CIA default fault-back excuse of BLOWBACK.....

"It's our fault, but we didn't mean for it to happen.... It's just unintended consequence..!"

Chomsky on 9/11: "Who Cares...?" from Spike1138 on Vimeo.

Chomsky Jumps the Shark (Again) - This is what he actually believes (deep breath...)

On the morning :of September 11, 2001, 19 men armed with boxcutters directed by a man on dialysis in a cave fortress halfway around the world using a satellite phone and a laptop directed the most sophisticated penetration of the most heavily-defended airspace in the world, overpowering the passengers and the military combat-trained pilots on 4 commercial aircraft before flying those planes wildly off course for over an hour without being molested by a single fighter interceptor.

These 19 hijackers, devout religious fundamentalists who liked to drink alcohol, snort cocaine, and live with pink-haired strippers, managed to knock down 3 buildings with 2 planes in New York, while in Washington a pilot who couldn’t handle a single engine Cessna was able to fly a 757 in an 8,000 foot descending 270 degree corskscrew turn to come exactly level with the ground, hitting the Pentagon in the budget analyst office where DoD staffers were working on the mystery of the 2.3 trillion dollars that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had announced “missing” from the Pentagon’s coffers in a press conference the day before, on September 10, 2001.

Luckily, the news anchors knew who did it within minutes, the pundits knew within hours, the Administration knew within the day, and the evidence literally fell into the FBI’s lap. But for some reason a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists demanded an investigation into the greatest attack on American soil in history.

The investigation was delayed, underfunded, set up to fail, a conflict of interest and a cover up from start to finish.

It was based on testimony extracted through torture, the records of which were destroyed. It failed to mention the existence of WTC7, Able Danger, Ptech, Sibel Edmonds, OBL and the CIA, and the drills of hijacked aircraft being flown into buildings that were being simulated at the precise same time that those events were actually happening.

It was lied to by the Pentagon, the CIA, the Bush Administration and as for Bush and Cheney…well, no one knows what they told it because they testified in secret, off the record, not under oath and behind closed doors.

It didn’t bother to look at who funded the attacks because that question is of “little practical significance“.

Still, the 9/11 Commission did brilliantly, answering all of the questions the public had (except most of the victims’ family members’ questions) and pinned blame on all the people responsible (although no one so much as lost their job), determining the attacks were “a failure of imagination” because “I don’t think anyone could envision flying airplanes into buildings ” except the Pentagon and FEMA and NORAD and the NRO.

The DIA destroyed 2.5 TB of data on Able Danger, but that’s OK because it probably wasn’t important.

The SEC destroyed their records on the investigation into the insider trading before the attacks, but that’s OK because destroying the records of the largest investigation in SEC history is just part of routine record keeping.

NIST has classified the data that they used for their model of WTC7′s collapse, but that’s OK because knowing how they made their model of that collapse would “jeopardize public safety“.

The FBI has argued that all material related to their investigation of 9/11 should be kept secret from the public, but that’s OK because the FBI probably has nothing to hide.

This man never existed, nor is anything he had to say worthy of your attention, and if you say otherwise you are a paranoid conspiracy theorist and deserve to be shunned by all of humanity. Likewise him, him, him, and her. (and her and her and him).

Osama Bin Laden lived in a cave fortress in the hills of Afghanistan, but somehow got away.

Then he was hiding out in Tora Bora but somehow got away.

Then he lived in Abottabad for years, taunting the most comprehensive intelligence dragnet employing the most sophisticated technology in the history of the world for 10 years, releasing video after video with complete impunity (and getting younger and younger as he did so), before finally being found in a daring SEAL team raid which wasn’t recorded on video, in which he didn’t resist or use his wife as a human shield, and in which these crack special forces operatives panicked and killed this unarmed man, supposedly the best source of intelligence about those dastardly terrorists on the planet.

Then they dumped his body in the ocean before telling anyone about it. Then a couple dozen of that team’s members died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

This is the very essence of Ron Paul's Snake Oil act - that anything we do beyond our own borders (economic aid, the Marshall Plan, Peacekeeping, Camp David Accords....) .... ALL bad, de facto, and WILL lead to awful, horrible things happening in the future that ensure total disaster unless we do absolutely nothing. Ever. 

Except buy things. And station the entire US Army along the Mexico border to keep out the human price of our ECONOMIC Blowback.... 

Which is actually EXACTLY what he wants to do - it was in his Presidential platform. 

But the problem isn't the foreign wars per se, it's the size and all-consuming greed of the military.

You know, they were ACTUALLY putting out the story on 9/11 that a plane had crashed at or near Camp David - with the immediate, instant explanation on EVERY newsreaders lips that this spoke to the reason for this ferocious assault - because, as every newsreader automatically knows (without having to be told), 9/11 was the anniversary of the Camp David Accords.

Because, if there's one aspect of US interventionism that will REALLY stoke up murderous hatred, it's brokering a historic peace deal between two intractable sworn enemies....

Of course, if you are thinking in terms of anniversary-based revenge attacks, it's shocking to suppose that the first suspects for such a blowback-motivated strike wouldn't be Leftist Chilean Guerillas.

Webster Tarpley awarded Ward Churchill his Arlen Spector Award for Most Imaginative Defence of the Official Story of 9/11.

It runs like this : "If you are skeptical of the Official Story, you're an anti-arab racist because you are saying that Arabs are not capable of achieving great things."

This is meat and drink to the American Fascists and its based on bad information that isn't true.

"1991 US "surgical" bombing of [ Iraq's ] water purification and sewage facilities, as well as other "infrastructural" targets upon which Iraq's civilian population depends for its very survival.

... this sort of "aerial warfare" constitutes a Class I Crime Against humanity, entailing myriad gross violations of international law, as well as every conceivable standard of "civilized" behavior -- the death toll has been steadily ratcheted up by US-imposed sanctions for a full decade now. Enforced all the while by a massive military presence and periodic bombing raids, the embargo has greatly impaired the victims' ability to import the nutrients, medicines and other materials necessary to saving the lives of even their toddlers.

All told, Iraq has a population of about 18 million. The 500,000 kids lost to date thus represent something on the order of 25 percent of their age group. ... In effect, an entire generation has been obliterated."

But again - Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11, and if Susan Lindhauer is correct, worked with the Good Guys in the CIA in the CIA, State Dept. and US Mission to the United Nations to prevent it from happening.

Here, Ward Churchill vindicates the Big Lie built over the Bigger Lie - that Iraq had something to do with 9/11 and that by invading Iraq that somehow, in some way, is an act of pre-emotive counterterrorism.

None of that is true.

"As for those in the World Trade Center... Well, really, let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? 

Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire - the "mighty engine of profit" to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved - and they did so both willingly and knowingly. 

Recourse to "ignorance" - a derivative, after all, of the word "ignore" - counts as less than an excuse among this relatively well-educated elite. To the extent that any of them were unaware of the costs and consequences to others of what they were involved in - and in many cases excelling at - it was because of their absolute refusal to see. 

More likely, it was because they were too busy braying, incessantly and self-importantly, into their cell phones, arranging power lunches and stock transactions, each of which translated, conveniently out of sight, mind and smelling distance, into the starved and rotting flesh of infants. 

If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it."

Except that none of those guys came to work that day.

To the extent that anyone DID verifiably work in, and die in the WTC that day (which is severely open to serious question), it wasn't the employees of AIG, Kroll International or Kissinger and Associates - it was the minimum wage Janitors, the Maintanence Staff and the guys who worked in the kitchen of the International House of Pancakes on the 102nd Floor.

So here we see Churchill constructing a Neo-Marxist Straw Man Arguement that the Iraq War is immoral and unjustifiable because those people were callously evil and deserved to die anyway - sidestepping the core issue of the Big Lie we all sidestepped for years - 

"Are we sure those people actually died?"

The answer you eventually arrive at, only years later after years of careful study of the event and re-examination of the record is - categorically, no. 

It's highly unlikely that anything more than a handful of (largely troublesome) people actually died that day in the events we all thought we were witnessing on live television.

Ward Churchill vindicates the Big Lie that there were Jumpers, that "We were Attacked" and that Muslims did it for understandable Islamist reasons that are perfectly rational and understandable from their point of view. 

None of this is true.

Again, to be clear : anyone reading the text of Usama Bin Laden's 1996 and 1998 fatwas will be hard pressed to agree with them or admit that his grievances are justifiable and his demands reasonable; namely -

The pressence of US Military Forces stationed on the Arabian Peninsular, occupying the lands originally conquered by The Prophet during his lifetime as the original Caliphate and protectorate, the birthplace and homeland of Islam is a humiliating insult and religiously offensive.

The House of Saud must bear the responsibility for surrendering control of Muslim Holy Lands to foreign occupies; the foreign crusaders must be made to leave peacefully

US moral and material support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine is a daily war crime, a genocidal crime against humanity and a crime against peace. US Support for the Apartheid State of Israel in its genocidal internal and foreign policy must cease.

Those are understandable grievances, simple and modest demands and I agree with all of them.

If those are the values of the Mythical Al-Qaeda Beast, then I am al-Qaeda, and proudly so.

But that has nothing to do with Iraq.

In my statement earlier, "You people" is presumed Democrats and the American Left.

If that even exists any more.

The US is not going to War with Syria and it didn't go to war with Libya.

NATO took military action over Libya under UN auspices; the entire international community (including Russia and China) signed on for it.

Obama has ENDED two wars and started none.

What you claim simply is not true.

Also, Johnson also invaded the Dominican Republic.

And Reagan invaded A LOT more countries than that....

The Iraq War and the Afghan War are, or have both ended on his watch.

The second of those being the longest war in American history. Longer than Vietnam.

The ONLY reason he hasn't pulled out completely is because he's far less wreck less than Nixon and Kissinger, pulling the rug out from under the dependant parties and brokering a negotiated settlement between the Karzai Government (of drug traffickers and criminals) and the Taliban (who are not, and also happen to live there.

It's quite a mess. But then, the Khemer Rouge and the Killing Fields of Cambodia were ENTIRELY your fault, so it's worth making sure you get it right.

It's only under his watch, once the genocidal mass killers like McCrystal and Petreaus have been got out of the field that the US has begun direct negotiations with the Taliban.

You should have done that in 1998.

They were actually prepared to hand over Bin Laden, detained him and held him for a court hearing relating to the African Embassy bombings and were prepared to hand him over as soon as the US handed over proof that he was criminally responsible - they did no such thing. Apparently, they DID send a dossier of "evidence", but the legal scholars amongst them took one look at what they had, said "this is complete crap" and threw the case out.

As you see, my point about the American Fascists just lapping this up is well-made.

Thankfully, there will never be anywhere close to enough votes for any kind of action; and even if there were, it's Commander in Chief who tells the Pentagon what to hit and when.

And he's never going to agree to that.

And thankfully, neither would Biden, so that drastically reduces the risk to him personally in continuing to say "No.", and meaning it.

Whatever else you might think about this President, this is undeniably true;

He's not going to to cluster bomb the suburbs of Damascus , take out a couple of presumed chemical weapons dumps and kill hundreds of civilian living nearby just to save face.

As Michael Hastings told us, the Generals and Pentagon Brass undertook a full-scale foreign policy bum-rush on Obama right at the start of his first term, with the sole intention of getting a further decade-long commitment to counterinsurgency guerrilla war in Afghanistan and they boxed him in on all sides, offering Jo the poisoned chalice if the Afghan troop surge to "deal with the problem as quickly as possible" to ensure the Kabul Government inherits the best possible situation with regards to security.

He knows damn well that was the worst mistake of his first term, they ganged up on him and sucker-punched him before he had an opportunity to find his feet in the office, and he will NEVER let himself be intimidated into towing the Pentagon's policy, rather than ORDERING them to do what he tells them to do, when he tells them to do it.

Wasn't it Netanyahu who fully pressed into the narrative if this whole "Red Line" nonsense...? Others, I know, had raided it before, but made no headway in terms of pinning Obama down on where this ridiculous and arbitrary line in the sand actually was, from what I can recall.

Bibi's popped up a couple of times asking "Red Line..? Red Line, yet...?" Only to be told firmly "No" on each occasion...

Oh, yeah.... Because now there's a Red Line for violating the UN Charter and disregarding all international law, after which its just unavoidable, necessary and just.

Only an Israeli could be so crass.

Which does raise an interesting question - if the use of chemical weapons us bad, and of Syria's neighbours, the Israelis probably DO have valid concerns about their use and the likelihood that they could  be stolen or sold to other non-stare actors across the whole region....

...then why don't the Israelis attack the supposed chemical weapons dumps themselves, and unilaterally...? 

For once on this occasion, they actually have a somewhat valid claim to feeling threatened by these things staying around for the foreseeable  future.

It's not like them to be shy with the Air Strikes... What gives?

Have the entire IDF turned suddenly gay....?

Those White Phosphorus incendiay rounds are Made in USA, by the way.

And unlike Syria, the US and Israel HAVE signed the Geneva Convention accords banning the use of Chemical weapons, WHITE PHOSPHORUS SPECIFICALLY....

Even if Assad were guilty, there is no moral or legal basis for holding Syria to account against an international law they took a measured policy decision not to confine themselves to.

Dropping white phosphorus on children though is unambiguously illegal and a War Crime.

Except, it's Israel, so it isn't. That's how these things work, it seems....

That's not the case. He's in total agreement with you because he THINKS Obama wants to do this, and he THINKS this is the way to do damage to him. 

The Diaries of Alistair Campbell, Tony Blair's Press Secretary, detail exactly the same dialogue and thinking on Kosovo (which, again, Obama and Clinton WILL have discussed in detail - unlike Clinton himself at the time, Obama (like Kennedy) speaks frequently and at length with his predecessors to get advice and poll their opinion before acting on major issues of war and peace and avoid their mistakes, which is why he hasn't been impeached (yet) and October Surprise 2012 was successfully thwarted by James Clapper, making him now subject to a vendetta from the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainmenr Complex, who have since tried to destroy him.

Kosovo and Syria today are practically identical scenarios, only without the Mossad Cell inside the Cabinet this time (Madeline Albright and William Cohen, with an honourable mention going out to Ambassador Barbara Bodine, over in Yemen at that point).

As Secretary of State, Albright was an absolute blood-drenched War Hawk, architect of the criminal Rambouillet Talks, which made the Munich Agreement look like a love-in; the fact that she PERSONALLY took the side of, advised and actively intervened on the side of the KLA (who don't even qualify as terrorists, since they have no ideology, they were just bandits and muggers, armed by the Germans, supplied by the CIA and trained by the SAS), a nominally Muslim group of armed separatists to illegally annex the spiritual homeland of the Serbian nation ("Kosovo is our Jerusalem") was bad enough - when she (according to multiple accounts) advised them that it would require reports of a major Serb atrocity or obvious War Crime in the province (there weren't any) before international opinion could be swung in favour of intervention on the side of the KLA, they just went right out and faked one.

The "Massacre" at Račak was an almost carbon copy template for this Syrian gas attack; what had actually happened was that the guerrillas had scared away the local population of the village of Raçak with their constant violence and intimidation and so got themselves an empty village; at the time, armed Serb Security Police had been deployed to restore order and deal with the heavily armed Special Forces-trained Albanian bandits running around kidnapping and ransoming people and burning villages, raping and pillaging. 

The exact ordering of events is unclear, but the overall picture is absolutely indisputable - the KLA had an empty village, Serb Security forces in the area to provoke and an international audience - a team of UN Observers had just arrived on the ground the day before, and set up base around 5 miles away from Račak; the team was led by a former State Dept diplomat assigned to Central America and Nicaragua during the mid-80s - a gentlemen, therefore, well acquainted with massacres and US-sponsored Death Squads.

All they needed now were the bodies.

The exact details for this are EXTREMELY sketchy for obvious reasons - suffice it to say, by the time the UN team heard "there's been a massacre by the Serbs over the the hill in Račak", the dead people they found lying all over the place were not lying where they originally fell, but more crucially, they were not wearing the same clothes they had on when they were shot dead.

What APPEARS to have happened is that the KLA bandits arranged a massive ambush by luring the Serb Police into the village before launching an all-out frontal assault. The guerrillas were armed and equipped with (Brand new, German) tactical gear, the Serb Police had in many cases World War II vintage equipment and gear - either they killed everyone or forced the Serbs to withdraw - the KLA then hauled all of their own dead (and probably many of the Serb dead, too) back into the centre of town from where they had died, taking cover..... And redressed the corpses to remove their military fatigues and dress them in civilian clothes.

They then just left them strewn all over the street in plain site. 

When the UN Observation team, with journalists in tow arrived in the village square, they found thirty or forty dead bodies in civilian clothes lying all over the street (and possibly the odd wailing old woman for added verisimilitude).

A few of the reporters at the time (not many) noted with puzzlement that: 

A) All the dead appeared to be males of fighting age, which was rather odd,

B) It seemed in many cases that even when the people had bullet holes in them, their clothes didn't,

C) By no means all of them appeared to be ethnically Albanian

D) The one thing almost instantly associated in most people's minds with massacres and War Crimes in general tends inevitably to be mass graves; to carry out the massacre of an entire (all male) community whist there were UN Observers just 5 miles away is, to say the least, ballsy.... 

To imagine that the Serb Police might be so caviller as to not even bother to BURY them is, to say the least, a bit of a stretch....

After the 77 day long war (NATO's First), 3 international commissions re-examined the "Massacre" at Račak  - two of them concluded that the KLA had staged this tableau, and the EU report has never been made public.

The reason NATO went to war with Serbia was because as a non-state actor, it's not bound by the UN or by Security Council resolutions; military action against a sovereign nation and member state in response to internal violence and unrest is a violation of the UN Charter and of the Nuremberg Protocols; it is, according to the Chief Prosecutor at Nuremberg, 

"not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."

And thus Russia and China veto these things in the Security Council. Knowing that they could be next. But also, because its absolutely and totally illegal. And they're right.

But you saw this same talk coming from the Europeans, specifically the Anglo-French axis, the old Suez, Sykes-Picot Lobby - the primary, dispicable war hawk from my country is Mr William Hague, who had openly been calling someone ELSE, other that Bashar Assad "President" (someone who NO ONE in Syria has EVER elected to ANYTHING....) and if he was any tighter with NATO Command, he'd be internal.

He's the one, now, who's been talking again about NATO action against Syria to circumvents the UN, as was the case in Kosovo; NATO intervention over Libya was authorised on a strictly limited basis by the Security Council, in Kosovo it wasn't and the current attempt to pass a clone of Resolution 1973 to authorise actions over Syria "to protect civilians" will not work - after all, the Free Syrian Army are civilians, al-Nusra are civilians, Hezzbolah are civilians.... And the Syrian Army are all conscripts, not professional soldiers.

But the votes will never be there on the NATO North Atlantic Council for this (they need 15 counties to sign on, they don't have them) and Russia and China will block everything in the UN that breaches the UN Charter. Fortunately.

But the point is, don't fall for the US Media's double lie that 

A) America is the main player, here, or

B) Obama wants to do this.

Because neither of those things are true, they are not anywhere close to being true and are prima face nonsense.

Clinton eventually caved into pressure to act over Kosovo in the immediate aftermath of Račak, not realising what Albright had done; but it was the constant shuttle diplomacy and lobbying from Tony Blair that made the difference, playing Clinton like a harp from Hell - one line he kept hammering Clinton on (2 months after his impeachment trial) was "This is a moral crisis, and a moral issue", and working on convincing Sandy Berger (who, like Clinton, was far more sensible and more of an honest broker, and therefore more of a dove)

Clinton remarked that the Republicans in Congress would probably support military action, even ground troops in Kosovo "because it might destroy me".

He was right then, and it's right now, applied to Obama and the Syrian situation - he will NOT allow them to box him in...

The added difference is that War Guilt over previous miscalculations concerning the Peacekeeping intervention in Bosnia, ultimately leading to Srebriniza, had put Cinton's Left Liberal base FIRMLY on the side of hard and decisive "humanitarian" intervention.

It was indeed Alistair Campbell who coined the phrase "Humanitarian Bombing", and indeed Number 10 loaned him out to Solana and Wesley Clark to sort out their absolutely dire PR presentation of a disaterously incompetent and immoral war for unclear objectives.

As recently as 2008, Hilary Clinton was still touting the awful, stinking mess of the Kosovo War as an example of positive and decisive US intervention - those who now still remember it, post-9/11 know that absolutely NONE of that is true - it was a war fought for the cause of German NeoLiberalism to destroy progressive Socialist and intimidate the Russian Federation, justified by a Genocide that wasn't happening in support of criminal bandits who like trafficking in heroin and Russian women.

The end product was a Mafia microstate that acts as a clearing house and money laundering centre as well as an unguarded and unregulated  port of entry for hard drugs, Mafia money and human flesh (stolen organs AND people) - policed at the expense of EU Taxpayers (under the undoubtably corrupt EULEX Police force), even though neither Kosovo or Serbia (Kosovo IS Serbia) are members if the EU and Kosovo, by its nature, doesn't stand a snowball's chance in Hell of ever getting in.

But again, the dynamic is completely different here - in 1999, Clinton's base were clamouring for "Humanitarian" Intervention - that isn't the case here.

The exact opposite is true.

NO-ONE, apart from the Conservative War Hawks and the ENTIRITY of the US Media wants this to happen or is demanding in any sense that it SHOULD happen.

Rather unsurprisingly, McCain took exactly the same stance in 1999 and used it to leverage his "Maverick" status in the 2000 Primaries... 

Current UN Ambassador Samantha Power, by the way, considers Kosovo to have been an extremely successful "humanitarian" intervention....

Yeah. Except for bringing the world to the brink of World War III....

She obviously has never heard of the Incident at Prestina Airport...

While it may be gross oversimplification, the Fool Chomsky is indeed correct to point out 

"Vietnam was a war entirely created by Liberals"

Although, he was still locked into thinking of Lyndon Johnson as being a Liberal. 

But it is true - the Eastern Establishment and the Ivy League Georgetown set saw US involvement as an altruistic humanitarian intervention is support of a small nation's struggle for self-determination against Communist expansion, subversion and infiltration - never mind that the Thai Communist Party was FAR more popular and endemic that the NLF in South Vietnam, even in the early stages of the Counterinsurgency effort - the just ignored them, pretended that they weren't there and they just went away.

John Kennedy, who had brains, saw the futility of fighting an invisible enemy who could be anyone, so they took his head.

This guy claims to have been a close friend to Bobby Kennedy, believe It or not (I no longer do).

And people who say this simple truth (there aren't many of us), have been KILLED for saying it.

If you want to talk Red Lines, here's one:

You do not get to make favourable comparisons between the current President and Jack Kennedy.

Even when such comparisons are absolutely accurate and valid - that is a capital offence in the eyes of the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Complex - a term Hastings coined, before being killed by it. In plain site. Even Fox News struggled half heartedly to make the case that this WASN'T a political assassination.

https://vimeo.com/73586984

I would go even further - Obama isn't merely AS good overall when it comes to taming the raging beast of the military-industrial national security state, as compared to Jack Kennedy...

He's actually done way, WAY *better* in as much as he has successfully managed, for almost 5 whole years now, to successfully reign in all the foreign wars and effectively end US imperialist adventurism oversea while bringing almost all the troops home and avoid both his own death and any MAJOR provoking false flag incidents (although the Abumutalleb came close) - he hasn't been assassinated (despite several close shaves and warning shots, he chose his Vice President WELL in that regard, he learnt from his initial mistake of being boxed in by the Generals on the Afghan surge in 2009 and he successfully rolled back at least one serious and organised attempt at an October Surprise military Coup.

And I know that's not the most popular thing to say, and even you left Liberals and ex-radicals are going to think I've gone absolutely nuts;

But then I don't watch American television, and I have spent the last 5 years paying VERY close attention to where Karl Rove is, who he is speaking and what he is doing.

Karl Rove's philosophy of politics is not to attack an enemy's weaknesses, but ALWAYS attack them on their perceived strengths - which is why Obama takes the worst hits from Left Liberals who apparently can't do the arithmetic to figure out that 2-300 deaths via targeted drone strike is a preferable human rights and moral calculation than 6,717 US servicemen killed outright since 2001, 125,303 (approx) CONFIRMED Iraqi deaths due to violence and God alone knows how many in Afghanistan....

Drones save lives - that needs saying.

It's well known that Jack Kennedy had enormous respect and admiration for Special Forces; the Green Berets were the Predator UAV's of their day.

Both Kennedy and Obama recognise that the National Interest and National Security, as well as America's reputation and good name around the world is best served by killing the fewest innocent civilians in poor nations as possible.

This informed the whole philosophy of the Vietnam war, during the "Advisors" stage in the Kennedy Era; teach to ARVN Forces how to fight a counterinsurgency campaign, make then self-sufficient in that function and then get out; drones fulfil the same function - if local conditions do not allow you to arrest the high-value individual, don't risk a special forces incursion, get a human agent to meet with him, place a radio transceiver or radioisotope marker on him for the Hellfire targeting system to lock onto and whack him.

The only other options to achieve the same outcome are FAR worse; Do Nothing, Special Forces Raid, Air Strike, Cruise Missile Strike or Full Scale Invasion and Occupation.

If we take the position that Do Nothing is certainly not a viable option by the time it reaches the President's desk, it's not a difficult decision to make - and a large portion of the President's role, since day one has been and will always be, deciding to have men killed on behalf of the Federal Government; it's a pre-requisite of running for office, and ONLY Jimmy Carter has assumed office and taken the moral choice NOT to exercise that power....

Although.... He could have commuted Gary Gilmore's death sentence....

Oh: and this was ENTIRELY their fault, as well.

The real global crisis of Women's Rights and rape culture during the 1990s and 2000s was not in the Arab world or Afghanistan (where rape is practically unheard of);

It was (and is) in the US Military, in all services, at all levels - the Taliban actually had a numerically BETTER record at detecting, catching and punishing rapists than the Pentagon during the exact same period.

But then the Left don't understand the military, so they don't know about it.

http://spikethenews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/myths-of-war-on-terror-look-at-way-they.html

Why Jimmy Carter is Awesome

Jimmy Carter describing why he builds houses with Habitat for Humanity:

"From my rural boyhood, when I often spent the night with black neighbors who lived in unheated and dilapidated shacks, to my years in the White House when I saw the plight of the homeless and those trapped in poverty housing worldwide, I have known that shelter matters. And I know, as a Christian, that I have a responsibility to serve where I can, that as I treat "the least of these", I treat my Creator."

Is this "confused hysteria"? No, it's common human decency. It's sad when people have to twist themselves into knots to malign the human desire (and the Biblical command) to help one's neighbour.

Morrissey Speaks to the Kids

“	How can you stay with a fat girl who'll say "Oh, would you like to marry me, and if you like you can buy the ring?"/ She doesn't care about anything...	”
	— Morrissey in "William, It Was Really Nothing"

What 'William It Was Really Nothing' is about is... it occurred to me that within popular music if ever there were any records that discussed marriage they were always from the female's standpoint - female singers singing to women: whenever there were any songs saying 'do not marry, stay single, self-preservation, etc'. I thought it was about time there was a male voice speaking directly to another male saying that marriage was a waste of time... that, in fact, it was 'absolutely nothing'.

Who Says Israelis are a Dour, Miserable People with No Sense of Humour..?

Israelis - Such Charming People.

The Guns of August

President Kennedy seeks counsel from General Douglas A. MacArthur

First hand witness to the folly of the Guns of August, 1914

August, 1962

"MacArthur believes it would be a mistake to fight in Laos. It would suit the Chinese Communists whom he feels we should have destroyed at the time of the Korean War. He thinks we should fight a rear-guard action in the southeast of Asia. He does not feel we should interviene at this time in Cuba because it does not represent a military danger to us although the time may come when we may have to do so. He thinks our line should be Japan, Formosa, and the Phillipines. He feels it important that we take the initiative with regard to peace with the Russians as they always make us appear to be the aggressor. He said that the "chickens are coming home to roost" from Eisenhower's years and I live in the chicken coup....that Eisenhower should have done something about Cuba sooner."

President Kennedy Seeks Advice from Gen. MacArthur on China & The Guns of August 1914 from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
Recorded August 16, 1962, White House Oval Office.

Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, the Secretary of State, told MacArthur to limit the war to Korea. MacArthur disagreed, favoring an attack on Chinese forces. Unwilling to accept the views of Truman and Acheson, MacArthur began to make inflammatory statements indicating his disagreements with the United States government.

MacArthur gained support from right-wing members of the Senate such as Joe McCarthy who led the attack on Truman's administration: "With half a million Communists in Korea killing American men, Acheson says, 'Now let's be calm, let's do nothing'. It is like advising a man whose family is being killed not to take hasty action for fear he might alienate the affection of the murders."

In April 1951, Harry S. Truman removed MacArthur from his command of the United Nations forces in Korea. McCarthy now called for Truman to be impeached and suggested that the president was drunk when he made the decision to fire MacArthur: "Truman is surrounded by the Jessups, the Achesons, the old Hiss crowd. Most of the tragic things are done at 1.30 and 2 o'clock in the morning when they've had time to get the President cheerful."

On his arrival back in the United States MacArthur led a campaign against Harry S. Truman and his Democratic Party administration. Soon after Dwight Eisenhower was elected president in 1952 he consulted with MacArthur about the Korean War. MacArthur's advice was the "atomic bombing of enemy military concentrations and installations in North Korea" and an attack on China. He rejected the advice and MacArthur played no role in Eisenhower's new Republican administration.

After leaving the United States Army, MacArthur accepted a job as chairman of the board of the Remington Rand Corporation. Douglas MacArthur died in the Water Reed Hospital, Washington, on 5th April, 1964.

Edward Murrow, CBS radio broadcast from London (11th April 1951)

"No words of any broadcaster will add to, or detract from, General MacArthur's military stature. When the President relieved him of his commands at one o'clock this morning, a sort of emotional chain reaction began. It might be useful to examine some of the issues raised by this decision, for they are rather more important than the fate of a general, or a president, or a group of politicians.

Did the President have the constitutional power to fire General MacArthur? He did, without question; even the severest critics of his action admit this. One of the basic principles of our society is that the military shall be subject to civilian control. At the present time when, as a result of our rearmament programme, the military is exercising increasing influence and power in both domestic and international affairs, it is of some importance that that principle be maintained. It is a principle to which the over-whelming majority of professional soldiers subscribe.

There developed, over a period of months, a basic disagreement between General MacArthur on the one hand and the President, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the State Department and our European allies on the other as to how the war in Korea should be conducted; and, more importantly, a disagreement as to how, and where, the forces of the free world should be deployed to meet the threat of world Communism. General MacArthur was sent certain instructions, and he ignored or failed to obey them. Those orders, wise or foolish, came from his superiors. We as private citizens are entitled to agree or disagree with the policy and the orders, but so far as military men are concerned, the Constitution is quite specific. It doesn't say that a President must be a Republican or a Democrat, or even that he must be wise. It says that he is the commander-in-chief. There occurred an open and public clash between civilian and military authority. It was dramatic, and it was prolonged over a period of almost four months. What hung in the balance was not MacArthur's reputation as a soldier, or Truman's as a statesman, but rather the principle of civilian control of the military men and forces of this country. The issue has now been resolved. It is, as many have remarked, a personal tragedy for General MacArthur at the climax of a brilliant military career. But these matters must be viewed in perspective. Tragedy has also overtaken about fifty-eight thousand young Americans in Korea, and for about ten thousand of them it was permanent - before their careers began.

That war is still going on. Is there any reason to believe that General MacArthur's removal will increase the prospects of ending it? Some diplomats are inclined to hope it will. They point to the fact that the Communists have labelled MacArthur the number one aggressor and warmonger. But there is nothing in Communist doctrine to indicate that their policies are determined by the personalities of opposing generals, nothing to hint their objectives do not remain what they were."

According to the cover notes of an audio version of The Guns of August, "[President John F. Kennedy] was so impressed by the book, he gave copies to his cabinet and principal military advisers, and commanded them to read it."

In One Minute to Midnight on the Cuban Missile Crisis, Michael Dobbs notes the deep impression Guns had on Kennedy. He often quoted from it and wanted "every officer in the Army" to read it as well. Subsequently, "[t]he secretary of the Army sent copies to every U.S. military base in the world."

Kennedy drew from The Guns of August to help in dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis, including the profound and unpredictable implications a rapid escalation of the situation could have.

The British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who had served on the Western Front during the First World War, was also profoundly affected by the book.  In his diary for Monday, 22 October 1962, he wrote:

Washington, in a rather panicky way, have been urging a NATO 'alert' with all that this implies (in our case, a Royal Proclamation and the call up of Reservists). I told him that we do not repeat not agree at this stage. N. General Norstad agreed with this and said he thought NATO powers would take the same view. I said that 'mobilization' had sometimes caused war. Here it was absurd since the additional forces made available by 'Alert' had no military significance.

Graham Allison, a political scientist who covered the Cuban Missile Crisis in Essence of Decision, noted the effect of the Tuchman's book on Kennedy, but also its implications for the proper study of decision-making and warfare. Allison created an entire model of decision-making, which he called the "Organizational Process Model," based on such issues as those covered by Tuchman, a model which directly countered game theory and other rationalistic means of explaining events.

Throughout the aforementioned narrative, Tuchman constantly brings up the numerous misconceptions, miscalculations, and mistakes that she believed resulted in the tragedy of trench warfare. Among these were:

• Economic miscalculation. In Tuchman's view, both European intellectuals and leaders overestimated the power of free trade. These individuals believed that the interconnection of European nations due to this trade would stop a continent-wide war from breaking out, as the economic consequences would be too great. However, this assumption was incorrect. For example, Tuchman noted that Moltke, when warned of such consequences, refused to even consider them in his plans, arguing he was a "soldier," not an "economist."

• Unfounded belief in quick warfare. Except for a very few politicians (who were at the time ridiculed and excluded because of their views with only Lord Kitchener having the authority to act on his anticipation of a long war), all the leaders of the major combatants believed the war would be concluded in a matter of weeks, by the end of 1914 at the absolute latest. Tuchman recounted the story of a British statesman who, after he warned others that the war might last two or three years, was branded a "pessimist." This false assumption had disastrous effects, especially on logistics (see below).

• Over-reliance on morale and the offensive. Tuchman details, in depth, how the leaders of the major powers, before the war, developed a philosophy of warfare based almost entirely on morale, a constant offensive, and retaining the initiative. Joffre, in particular, refused to consider going on the defensive — or even to slow the offensive — even when the realities of the battlefield demonstrated that this approach was not working.

• Failure to consider political backlash. Many war planners did not take into consideration the political and treaty-based consequences of their offensive actions. As Tuchman argues, the German leaders in particular refused to consider the consequences of moving their armies into Belgium, despite that country's neutrality. Despite Moltke's concerns, German generals insisted on moving through Belgium because they needed to maneuver. They failed (or refused) to realize that by invading Belgium they effectively forced Britain to declare war because of existing treaties and national honor.

• Outdated forms of wartime etiquette. Although the technology, aims, methods, and plans of World War I were drastically different from earlier wars, military leaders continued to insist upon a form of martial etiquette from civilians which increased resentment between the countries. To illustrate, Tuchman regularly quotes from the diaries of German generals who commandeered the homes and supplies of civilians. One recurrent theme within their diary entries was that they simply couldn't understand why the property owners refused to fully cooperate, in line with past wartime courtesy. In a somewhat comical passage, Tuchman even quotes from a general who criticized the master of a Belgian house for failing to sit with him at dinner and observe proper mealtime etiquette, despite the fact that the Germans had violated his country's neutrality, taken over his house, and stolen or destroyed much of his property.

Overall, Tuchman argued that none of the war's major combatants wanted a prolonged war, but the above factors caused it nonetheless. Likewise, she argued that even successes, such as the First Battle of the Marne (a French victory), were to some extent accidental victories that were won despite, not because of, military leadership or strategy.

http://spikethenews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-plot-to-kill-mitt-romney.html