-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.weberman.com/nodules/nodule0.htm <A HREF="http://www.weberman.com/nodules/nodule0.htm">NODULE 0</A> --[1]-- There are 28 nodules. Lots of info and embedded links. Om K ----- NODULE 0 COUP D'ETAT IN AMERICA THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CIA LAST MODIFIED This is the first nodule to contain hyperlinked principals. You can read the nodule from start to finish or follow the activities of a principal from nodule to nodule. Also new are connections between William Mellon Scaife, the CIA and Zippergate. Click HERE to check this stuff out. This web site was in several major newspapers. We have received numerous awards. You can see them by clicking HERE. . The Documents Review Board finished its work. I will be going down to College Park, Maryland, where the Archives are now located, soon. I have received the complete file on the Dorothy Hunt Plane Crash from Sherman Skolnick. I will put in on the web in its entirety so that people more conversant than myself with aviation can examine it. I have put some of it on so far, but I am too lazy to do the rest. Statistics indicates that most people who access this site go into the photographic evidence first, so I am going assume that you have looked at the tramp shot comparison photos by this time. The conclusion I have drawn from this evidence is that HUNT, CHRIST and STURGIS were present at the scene of the Kennedy assassination disguised as tramps. But if you understand that it is not a question of one tramp resembling one man, but three tramps resembling three men, who also had the background and capability to commit this crime, continue to access this data base. THE DATA BASE WEB SITE: GENERAL INFORMATION HTTP://WWW.WEBERMAN.COM is the home of the most comprehensive data base ever assembled on the clandestine activities of the CIA and the activities of rogue CIA agents and their associates. It is not just about the Kennedy assassination, it is about political assassinations in general, and the role of the intelligence community in these events. It is detailed, and can be rapidly searched for words, phrases and numbers. This site will always be under construction. So far there are 110 graphics that can be accessed. When you read the text, and a graphic is mentioned, you can click where it says to click and bring up that graphic. Or, as you have seen, you can click on the Home Page and go directly into all the graphics. THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF INTELLIGENCE The CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence is located in Vienna, Virginia. This group was charged with declassifying the CIA documents about the Kennedy assassination and related matters. [John Perira Telephone 703-482-1100 or 703-351-2802] They did a good job but ignored what they saw. Since the American government is now widely perceived as the enemy of its own people, by its people, the most likely scenario was a continued coverup by the CIA, which was what happened. This researcher plans to file one of the most complex lawsuits in the history of American jurisprudence. Center for the Study of Intelligence, Vienna, Virginia WHAT IS IN THE DATA BASE Thousands of pages of United States Government documents are in the data base. In most cases I entered the entire document. When a document is presented in its actual configuration, I have not used quotation marks. When a document is presented in any other form, I have used quotation marks. At this point the data base contains 8 megabytes of textual information. It should level off around 10 meg. THE DATA BASE FORMAT As you have seen on the index screen, the data base is divided into 0 to 28 nodules. COMPARTMENTS Each of these Nodules are divided into compartments. A compartment is indicated by a centered title in capitals and in bold, such as "COMPARTMENTS" as shown above.Many compartments are labeled "Theory" and "Analysis" to differentiate them from the facts that have been presented. THE SOURCES OF THIS DATA BASE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS This data base is the result of the JFK Documents Act of 1992. Under this Act, millions of pages of government documents were released to the general public. This researcher, a high speed reader, scanned millions of pages of JFK documents, and choose the hot ones. It took 500 hours. In some instances documents were highly redacted, yet when I came across duplicates of the same document during subsequent research, low and behold, there were no deletions. Fortunately, like former CIA Plans Director Richard Mervin Bissell, I can "race through a memo, holding each new page at the bottom between two fingers, scanning, flipping every few seconds, gulping the entire contents." This researcher also worked the FBI Reading Room, the CIA reading room, the Foreign Agents Registration Board, the Federal Aviation Administration, numerous Federal document depositories, Federal and State Court Houses and, of course, the Library of Congress. Many of the documents I have copied have been routinely destroyed by the United States Government. I also worked at the office of Attorney James Lesar in Washington, D.C. CD-ROM versions of the Warren Commission Report and the House Select Committee on Assassinations volumes [available from LMP Systems- telephone 214-343-8338] were also utilized. This researcher also accessed his private collection of left and right-wing political literature, underground newspapers, alternative magazines etc. The INTERNET was helpful. TELEPHONE RECORDED INTERVIEWS This researcher used CD-ROM telephone directories to track down witnesses. (If I couldn't locate a particular individual I would call all their kinfolk until I did.) This researcher did hundreds of hours of telephone interviews. The lists of births and deaths put on CD-ROM by the Mormons was helpful in alerting me to who was alive and who had died, as far as JFK witnesses and others were concerned. I have included numerous telephone numbers and addresses in this database. Go the World Wide Weberman page for online versions of the resources I used to compile this data base. The site is still in its infancy. Marina Oswald told this researcher: "You wrote your first book in 1975. It is quite courageous, I have to say. Where do you go from here?" SEARCHING FOR DATES Dates in the text have been modified to facilitate searches. They appear as this one: May 26, 1945, rather than 26 May 45 etc. In brackets [] they appear as 5.26.45 with no zero before the month or date. When searching for a date conduct the search in both formats. Major dates appear in BOLD to facilitate the adding of new information in chronological order. SEARCHING FOR DOCUMENTS Documents cited appear in brackets [ ] throughout the text so that the reader can instantly evaluate the sources of this data base. In a quotation brackets indicate this authors comments or rephrasing of quotation. When searching for an FBI Serial run the entire serial through, e.g. 62-109060-4606. If this fails, run the digits that follow the dash e.g. 4606. Try different variations. NODULE 26 Nodule 26 of this data base contains references that pertain to a specific compartment, miscellaneous information, lists of withheld documents, and more. Be sure to check it if it comes up in a search, you may be surprised. THE DATABASE AS A RESEARCH AID The names of the principals involved appear in CAPITAL letters to facilitate making associations between them. As this database grew, and due to the indexing and search capabilities of Corel's Word Perfect for Windows, it exhibited certain minor aspects of artificial intelligence, and helped me make certain connections I would have normally been unable to make. (Corel's Indexer in Word Perfect for Windows is much slower). CIA official DAVID A. PHILLIPS wrote: "Laboring to put together the whole picture in intelligence is usually like assembling a jigsaw puzzle from an almost infinite number of tiny pieces with the hope that enough of the final mosaic will emerge to mean something." Having had instant access to where the same puzzle piece appeared in the puzzle through digitization made the pieces easier to assemble. Digitization proved to be a big breakthrough. Some of the puzzle pieces were copywritten. No copywritten material that is more than 10% of its entire text appears in this data base. This 10% appears without permission, and was used by means of review. INTRODUCTION BY: CONGRESSMAN HENRY B. GONZALEZ The following is the introduction Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez of San Antonio, Texas, wrote for the second edition of Coup D'Etat in America. Click HERE to see Congressman Gonzalez's letter about this site. "On November 21, 1963, I accompanied my good friend President John Kennedy to my home city of San Antonio where he was very warmly and enthusiastically received. I had wanted, and the people of my Congressional District had wanted him to stay longer in San Antonio and to dedicate the new John F. Kennedy High School there. The high school is in the poorest of the ten San Antonio school districts, and overwhelming Hispanic. The President promised me he would come back to San Antonio to dedicate the school. "I had tried to dissuade the White House schedulers from including Dallas on the itinerary because of the climate of hate which prevailed there at the time against the President. But then Democratic Governor John Connally told us in the Democratic Congressional delegation the purpose of the trip was to raise funds for the 1964 Presidential election. So, after San Antonio, I continued with the Presidential party to Houston, and then to Dallas where the President died. "I would up at Parkland Hospital and spent what seemed interminable hours in the confusion there, and one point, finding Jacqueline Kennedy in a hall, sitting alone as in a trance. I happened to be in front of the room where the President's body lay. "I suppose I really had questions from the start as to why he died, who killed him, and what directions had the bullets come? I was in car number four of the motorcade, and distinctly heard three shots. "However, I wanted very much, as did most Americans, to accept the official findings, especially those of the Warren Commission, despite the fact that there were many questions being raised, among them rumors and speculations which I thought were too fantastic to believe. "It was not until the matter involving Vice President Spiro Agnew in September 1973, and then the 1974 impeachment hearings that my suspicions became sufficiently aroused regarding the death of President Kennedy. Some of the Watergate witnesses testified to the effect that there was great animosity against the President among those involved in the Bay of Pigs fiasco - to the point that some were interested in taking the greatest retaliation possible against him. "Also, I couldn't understand how an "expert gunman" like OSWALD could miss his target when he had a clear shot at General Edwin Walker shortly before November 22, 1963. "At the time of the publication of the first edition of Coup D'Etat in America (1975) I was urging the enactment of my House Resolution (H. Res. 204) calling for the establishment of a select committee for the purpose of studying the assassination of President Kennedy, U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King, and the attempted assassination of Governor George Wallace. The purpose of such a study was, of course, to determine if we could prevent further national decisions by bullets, rather than by ballots, and the detrimental impact on our democratic and governmental processes. "Subsequently, in the late 1976 a select committee was forming in the U.S. House for the purpose of studying President Kennedy's and Dr. King's deaths with the House Speaker naming a colleague of ours as chairman. The new chairman, as well as the Speaker himself, planned to leave Congress at the end of 1976 - just three months away! This is the only time in the House's history a "lame duck" was appointed the chairman of a committee. "In January 1977 I was faced with the challenge of having to defend the need to reestablish the select committee in the new Congress. (Select committees die at the end of each Congress and have to be legislated back into existence if they continue their work.) Unfortunately, the former chairman and former colleague had placed a staff director in charge who had taken some actions which left the chances for reconstitution of the committee shaky. After getting the committee reestablished, but with a limited initial budget, the new Speaker named me as Assassination Committee Chairman. I resigned shortly thereafter when the House leadership failed to support me in the firing of the staff director. "Later, under another chairman, within a few days of assuming the chair, the staff director was finally fired. The committee spent $6 million and issued reports which were inconclusive about what happened in respect to the assassination of President Kennedy and Dr. King. "Since the mid-1970's, people from throughout the country - pathologists, writers, social scientists - have shared with me their own private investigations. "Among the writers I have gotten to know and who have shared with me their investigation of the John F. Kennedy assassination are Michael Canfield and A.J. Weberman. "In this new edition of Coup D'Etat in America, Canfield and Weberman continue to offer important research in our important quest, as a people, to learn the truth regarding the death of President Kennedy. "Our quest has been a long one, and hopefully we are coming to the end of it soon. Murder will out. Henry B. Gonzalez U.S. Representative, Washington, D.C. SUPRESSION OF THE TRUTH BY THE CIA AND FBI During the past 25 years the CIA and the FBI have held back the truth about the Kennedy assassination from the American people, just as the Pentagon has held back the truth about Gulf War syndrome. This has been a conscious effort on the part of these agencies, since if this researcher arrived at the truth by this time based on photographic evidence and FBI and CIA documents, these far more sophisticated agencies must also be aware of what transpired. At the crux of this coverup is the FBI's story that it has identified the three tramps who were picked up at the scene of the Kennedy assassination, and they were just run-of-the-mill tramps. This is a lie, and the former FBI official who disseminated it, Oliver Buck Revell, the former Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas FBI office, is a lowdown, dirty liar. The documents about the tramps clearly indicated that the tramps who were photographed being marched through Dealey Plaza were picked up several hundred yards from the railroad yard, about an hour after the assassination. The men that the FBI claimed were the tramps, by their own admission, were picked up in the railroad yards immediately after the assassination. I challenge Buck Revell to sue me for libel for calling him a liar, but I know he won't. HOW THE FBI "LAID THE TRAMP SHOT THEORY TO REST" In 1991, a tabloid called The Globe (Fun...Fascinating...Factual) identified one of the tramps as Charles Harrelson, the father of actor Woody Harrelson. [Globe 2.27.90] The CIA's disinformation machine had been cranked up. In 1992, Oliver Stone's film, JFK, was going to ask serious questions about the tramps. JFK was what caused Oliver "Buck" Revell to float the false news story which stated the FBI had finally identified the tramps, and they were not HUNT or STURGIS. Thanks to Special Agent in Charge Oliver Revell and the prestige of the FBI, most people with an interest in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy believe the tramp shot theory has been laid to rest. Don't let Oliver Revell pull the wool over your eyes. Revell and the other members of the FBI's hierarchy covered up the truth about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1964. Revell was involved in Contragate. Revell was involved with another coverup of the Kennedy assassination in 1992. Read and search this database, examine the photographic evidence it contains, then decide, if the tramps are HUNT, STURGIS and CHRIST or Abrams, Gedney and Doyle, as the FBI claimed they are. THE ROCKEFELLER COMMISSION AND THE TRAMPS As a result of our work to discredit the CIA we were targeted with threats, intimidation and a deliberate effort by the FBI and CIA to keep our work from surfacing in the Washington Post and Stern Magazine. FBI and CIA documents, released under the JFK Documents Act of 1992, substantiating this, are a part of this database. In 1975 Michael Canfield enlisted comedian Dick Gregory, who gave the tramp theory national exposure. The Rockefeller Commission agreed to look into our allegations, but having Nelson Rockefeller investigate the intelligence community was like having Meyer Lansky investigate the mob. The Rockefeller Commission determined that the tramps were not HUNT and STURGIS. COUP D'ETAT IN AMERICA In 1975, the book Coup D'Etat in America, The CIA and the Assassination of John Kennedy, by A.J. Weberman and Michael Canfield, was published by the Third Press in New York City. In 1992, the film JFK brought about a renewal of interest in the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy and three new editions of Coup D'Etat in America were published. In 1976 HOWARD HUNT sued me for having written Coup D'Etat in America. He lost, and agreed to pay me $300, which I never received. NOVEMBER 22, 1973 On November 22, 1973, this researcher sponsored a demonstration in front of the National Archives in Washington. The demonstrators demanded that all the documents that concerned the Kennedy assassination be released. Folksinger Phil Ochs attended this rally. After this action, I discovered the "tramp shots" - photographs taken at the scene of the Kennedy assassination of "tramps" who were really the spooks DAVID L. CHRIST, E. HOWARD HUNT and FRANK STURGIS in disguise. I published an article about the "tramps" in the underground press and moved to Washington, D.C. where I worked in the National Archives, and studied all of the JFK documents that were housed there. I worked closely with certain members of the United States Congress. GAETON FONZI AND SENATOR RICHARD SCHWEIKER In 1976 I met the legendary Gaeton Fonzi who was investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for Senator Richard Schweiker (Rep.-PA). I worked closely with the office of Senator Richard Schweiker. CONGRESSMAN HENRY GONZALEZ My associate Michael Canfield, who had been part of the George McGovern (Dem.- SD) presidential campaign, displayed the tramp photographs to Congressman Henry Gonzalez (Dem.-TX). This helped convince Congressman Gonzalez to sponsor a bill to re-investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA) Congressman Henry Gonzalez' bill passed and Henry Gonzalez became head of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Michael Canfield was to have an office on Capitol Hill. Then Congressman Gonzalez and Chief Counsel Richard Sprague had an argument and both men resigned. Robert Blakey became Chief Counsel. Robert Blakey had Clyde Snow, a noted anthropologist with possible CIA-connections, do a photo study of the tramp shots. Clyde Snow, after reading the photo reports of the CIA and FBI determined, with some qualifications, that the tramps were not HUNT, STURGIS or CHRIST. CASE CLOSED In 1993, Random House publishers released Gerald Posner's book Case Closed. Aside from a number of inaccuracies, Case Closed never mentioned the documents released under the 1992 JFK Documents Act. Soldier-of-Fortune GERRY PATRICK HEMMING [CIA 201-309,125; SS # 544-44-8667; CIA Security File #EE-29229] commented: "Posner is a limped-dick fuck. There are people in this country interested in history. They are tired of being lied to. If someone shows me they've done their homework and they can come up with the right kind of shit, I give them some more details. If they don't know what they're doing, I piss on the back of their neck and walk away." ANALYSIS After Oliver Stone's film, JFK, reached a mass audience, Gerald Posner, and other intellectuals like him, knew the CIA would be shopping around for something to counter the allegations of conspiracy set forth in this movie. Case Closed had a large advertising budget and received an inordinate amount of publicity, in my estimation, unwarranted by it contents. I doubt if Gerald Posner had a contract with the CIA, but I suspect that the CIA might have at least one asset, or have some contact with, Random House, although at this time I possess no documents that confirm this. Random House, Inc. founded in 1925, is the world's largest English- language general trade book publisher. In 1960 Random House acquired Alfred A. Knopf and in 1961 Pantheon Books, which was established by European publishers. In 1965 Random House was acquired by RCA Inc. and is now owned by Advance Publications, Inc. a privately held company located at 350 Madison Avenue, New York City. Spy Magazine reported: "In 1955 Si Newhouse (CEO of Random House) set up Roy Cohn, his best friend since their high school days together at Horace Mann in the Bronx, with the Union News Company in which his father was an investor. (The principal owner of Union News, Henry Garfinkle, was tied to organized crime, particularly the Bonnano crime family). Cohn returned the favor in 1958 when he gave Newhouse a piece of the Sunrise deal, a Las Vegas hospital built by mobster Moe Dalitz courtesy of a sweetheart loan from Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters." [Spy March/April 1995] This database is the antidote to Gerald Posner and the CIA. In Case Closed Gerald Posner took a cross-section of average Americans whose lives intersected with the Kennedy assassination, and, if their testimony indicated that a conspiracy was involved in the assassination of President Kennedy, he attempted to discredit them. In Case Closed he accused many impartial witnesses of being liars, hoaxers, confused, mentally ill or unbalanced. Posner claimed to be an expert on Nazism yet in Case Closed he characterized a cross-section of Americans as untermenchen. Gerald Posner graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975 and Hastings Law School in 1978. Posner was formerly with the prestigious law firm of Cravath, Swaine and Moore. In 1924 John J. McCloy, a member of the Warren Commission, joined the Cravath law firm. One of the founders of Cravath, Swaine and Moore, Paul D. Cravath, was a founder of the Council on Foreign Relations, with former CIA Chief Allen Dulles. Cravath, Swaine and Moore defended the Columbia Broadcasting System when General William Westmoreland filed a libel suit against CBS in 1985. Posner's books include Hitler's Children (Random House), The Bio-Assassins, (Random House), Warlords of Crime (McGraw-Hill) and Mengele, The Complete Story (McGraw-Hill). Posner is currently a New York City attorney who is active in Republican politics and he is Chairman of the Co-op Board in his luxury Upper East Side building. Gerald Posner Website Contact Gerald Posner CONSPIRACY When the Warren Report was released in September 1964, the CIA's Propaganda Notes Bulletin stated: "Covert assets should explain the tragedy wherever it is genuinely misunderstood and counter all efforts to misconstrue it intentionally." [CIA 871-388A] Despite years of media brainwashing, (at taxpayers expense) as of November 1993, a CBS News Poll indicated that 89% of the American people believed the death of President John F. Kennedy death was part of a broader conspiracy. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover stated: "I personally believe OSWALD was the assassin; that the second aspect as to whether he was the only man gives me great concern...I urged strongly that we did not reach the conclusion OSWALD was the only man." [Memo for Tolson 12.12.63] COUP D'ETAT IN AMERICA - RENEGADE CIA OPERATION Many individuals and researchers believe the CIA, as an institution, was responsible for the Kennedy assassination. Extensive research indicated, however, that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was a coup d'etat carried out by renegade politicians, CIA officials, agents, contract employees and men who existed on the periphery of the intelligence community. It was not an official CIA operation, although it involved CIA personnel. The CIA, however, intentionally covered-up the connection of its employees to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, just as the CIA covered-up the crimes of CIA Agent Aldrich Ames for several years, despite repeated indications that he was a mole. THE THEORY RINGLEADER: GERRY PATRICK HEMMING Evidence strongly suggests HEMMING (former prisoner of Castro), met OSWALD in the Marines, and brought him into his plan. Click HERE to see a photo of HEMMING and this researcher taken in 1995. HEMMING told this researcher: "How can you set up people to take a fall unless you're dealing with them personally? Get the clue, asshole?" In 1978 I met HEMMING at his "private detective" office in the Little Havana section of Miami. Click HERE to see a photo of HEMMING in 1978. I was impressed by this 6' 7" man. HEMMING exuded self confidence and was fully conversant with all facets of trade craft. He was a criminal genius. HEMMING provided me with the identity of the third tramp. He said: "FRAN K STURGIS was firing from the Records Building." He visited me at Bleecker Street. This researcher recontacted HEMMING in 1994 and found that he was experiencing a low point in his life. Broke, he separated from his wife of 30 years and moved in with his daughter, brother-in-law, and grandchildren in North Carolina. I sent him money. HEMMING realized that his real friends were people like myself, who came to his aid when no one else did. Call it checkbook journalism, but it worked. In 1978 HEMMING had supplied me with important information, combined with disinformation, for nothing. This time, despite outlandish claims by HEMMING such as "there was a nigger jacking his dick on the fifth floor of the depository that day" he came closer to telling the truth than ever before. THE THEORY: OSWALD AND ANGLETON Evidence suggested that in 1959 HEMMING secretly put OSWALD in touch with rogue CIA Counter-Intelligence (CI) Chief JAMES JESUS ANGLETON. In 1962 he introduced OSWALD to CIA agents and contract employees who deceived OSWALD into believing he was working for the Agency. HEMMING told this researcher: "A.J., you think the universe revolves around my asshole." Marina Oswald told this researcher in 1994: "Do you think HEMMING is making these statements right now only to add some importance to himself? We're all here to make ourselves look a little better than we really are. The answer to the Kennedy assassination is with the Federal Reserve Bank. Don't underestimate that. It's wrong to blame it on ANGLETON and CIA per se only. This is only one finger of the same han d. The people who supply the money are above the CIA. I never heard the name GERRY PATRICK HEMMING until Garrison [the New Orleans District Attorney who investigated the assassination of former President John Kennedy] told me. I never heard LEE mention that name. He never mentioned anything. He lived double life, know what I mean? Do you think I would be giving this interview right now if I knew? I inherited the mess, but the tragedy is not only mine, but the whole nation's." THE OTHER CONSPIRATORS ROY M. HARGRAVES, LAWRENCE JOHN HOWARD, JAMES ANGLETON [deceased], CIA staffer members DAVID A. PHILLIPS [201-88764, deceased] and DAVID LEMAR CHRIST (former prisoner of Castro),[aka DANIEL LESTER CARSWELL, deceased, CIA Office of Security SF #43 872]; Watergate burglars E. HOWARD HUNT [OS# 25 500], BERNARD L. BARKER, JAMES W. MCCORD, FRANK A. STURGIS [deceased: CIA Office of Security SF #353 459, 201-242,256, SS# 095-18-9240] and RICHARD M. NIXON [deceased]; FBI S.A. (Special Agent) WARREN C. DeBRUEYS; Cuban exiles BERNARDO De TORRES (CIA 201-294214) and CARLOS BRINGUIER. OSWALD was the unwitting patsy. FBI S.A. JAMES P. HOSTY FBI S.A. James P. Hosty was told OSWALD was some sort of counter-intelligence operation or detected it. HEMMING told this researcher: "A lot of them Bureau people are just stooging around and they're told to stay away from certain areas that involve national security and they swallow that shit. He knew the guy was more than what he was supposed to be." S.A. Hosty suppressed the truth about OSWALD because he was, and still is, a right-wing kook who prefers to blame the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on the Left. After the assassination, S.A. Hosty destroyed evidence that indicated he knew OSWALD was not a bona fide Leftist. J. Edgar Hoover and the Dallas FBI Field Office were determined to characterize OSWALD as a "loner" so the Bureau would not be accused of having overlooked a broader conspiracy. HEMMING'S CONFESSION HEMMING told this researcher: "You got me A.J. I'm gonna have to stand up here and raise my right hand - and take it off my dick - and confess to this heinous crime. It's time for me to get this burden off my back. It keeps me awake at night. It's terrible. Shit, I ain't figured out half of the fuckin' stuff. How could an outsider like you figure it out? You think people keep fuckin' records that burn a trail to their back door? I don't keep anything that goes against my own interest. What would I have it for? It would only endanger me - then I got to go out and kill some Cubans. I don't need the extra work. "I ain't worried about these assholes. I just have to take measures to counter what the fuck they plan to do. And it's work, costs me time and money. Shit, the Cubans are afraid of me. I came out of Cuba after running an execution squad. "Trying to seek out the truth to this matter somebody's gonna pay a fucking price. It will be difficult. The whole picture won't come out, but there will be enough clues to show that people in this country have been played like a fucking violin. I've been giving a deep throat clue here, a clue there. In the first few years I would never have put my ass on the line. Treason is a capital offense, there ain't no statute of limitations on it. There's a guy by the name of Beckwith that was convicted 31 years later. He just got life, didn't he? I'm not going to insert myself into the scenario. "My family feels they have been made to pay the fucking price because I didn't keep my mouth shut. That I just didn't sit on it. My family has already agreed. Fuck it! Let it all hang-out!. I don't give a shit what the risks are! I watch my step right now. "In your last book you gave STURGIS all the goddamned credit. FRANK was thirsting to do it. Given the opportunity this guy would have done it in a heartbeat. But this fucker couldn't wipe his ass with both hands. He's a fucking dunce. The slipdick don't know shit from Shinola. You should have been looking at me. I'm affronted, A.J. Ha, ha. "FRANK didn't buy your first book. I had to bring it over to the house. He had a library of about nine books on some kind of shit, none of the right books. I said 'Do you want to look in the index where your name appears?' And he looks at mine. He says, 'I see you got your name in here, too. I'll have to read this.' He wanted me to leave the fucking book. He would have stolen it. He looked at the pictures. He looked and he looked. No comment. No comment. Same thing if it was me. I wouldn't have commented on what I was looking at. "There are people in the contract business running around today who believe A.J. Weberman is right. Would that surprise you? And when they're wandering around they whip out A.J. Weberman's book and say, 'See how we did it?' There are people out in the field that believe that shit. The death squad people." THE MOB The mafia's part in the Kennedy assassination scenario was to take out OSWALD. SANTOS TRAFFICANTE Jr. (former prisoner of Castro), CARLOS MARCELLO, JOHN MARTINO (former prisoner of Castro), JACK RUBY and Dallas Police Officer J.D. TIPPIT were involved in a plot to murder LEE HARVEY OSWALD. THE BACKGROUND OF THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION The following material does not bear directly on the Kennedy assassination and if you are familiar with the intelligence community and are anxious to get to the OSWALD go to Nodule One. It deals with the formation and staff of the CIA, biographical sketches of notable figures associated or targeted by the CIA, and CIA Operations. It is an orientation to the convoluted world of the intelligence community and was provided to give the reader some idea as what President Kennedy was up against when he tried to reign in the CIA. THE CIA The conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy came out of a long history of Cold War intrigue that began with the formation of the CIA. In July 1947, the United States Congress passed the National Security Act. As a result, the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), a spy agency that was an intelligence-gathering operation, became the CIA. On December 19, 1947, Defense Secretary James Forrestal sponsored an unpublished annex to policy directive NSC/4. As a result, the CIA established the Office of Special Operations, a covert action instrumentality. ANGLETON and former FBI S.A. William King Harvey [CIA Office of Security #32 814], directed the Office of Special Operations. Their boss, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was intent on preventing the Communists from winning the elections which were scheduled for April 18, 1948, in Italy. Hillenkoetter assigned ANGLETON this task. ANGLETON formed the Office of Special Operations Special Procedures Group. In June 1948, the National Security Council adopted NSC 10/2, a directive that authorized paramilitary activities against the Soviet Union. On September 1, 1948, the Office of Special Operations of the CIA created a subsidiary organization known as the Office of Policy Coordination. In October 1950, General Walter Bedell Smith replaced Admiral Hillenkoetter as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. CIA FOUNDER: FRANK WISNER In January 1951, General Walter Bedell Smith appointed Frank Wisner as CIA Deputy Director (Plans) for the Office of Policy Coordination. The Korean War necessitated an absorption of the Office of Policy Coordination by the Plans Division of the CIA. In January 1951, Frank Wisner was appointed CIA Assistant DD/Plans. Frank Wisner, born into a prominent Southern family, studied law at the University of Virginia and was a member of the law firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn. After a brief Navy commission, he was assigned to OSS, where he was an illegal who worked inside Germany during the war. From 1946 to 1947 Frank Wisner was a partner in Carter, Ledyard & Milburn. On November 12, 1947, Frank Wisner was appointed Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of State. Frank Wisner was CIA DD/P from 1952 to 1958. In 1959 he became Chief of Station in London. In 1962 he resigned from the Agency after suffering a series of nervous breakdowns. He drank heavily and contracted hepatitis. On October 29, 1965, Frank Wisner committed suicide by shooting himself with a 20-gauge shotgun on his Maryland farm. He was 56. THE DOOLITTLE REPORT In 1952, General Eisenhower was elected President. In 1954 President Eisenhower commissioned General James Doolittle to do a study of CIA covert operations. General Doolittle concluded the CIA was often ineffective against the KGB and that the CIA "must learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy its enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against it." JFK disagreed: "We cannot, as a free nation, compete with our adversaries in tactics of terror, assassination, false promises, counterfeit mobs and crises." [JFK address at University of Washington] CIA PROJECTS: MKNAOMI In 1952, the CIA embarked on Project MKNAOMI, the purpose of which was to stockpile lethal materials for the Technical Services Division of the CIA and to provide for testing, upgrading, and evaluation of these materials to insure complete predictability of results under operational conditions. The technical Services Division developed darts coated with biological agents that were so tiny the victim could feel nothing as one penetrated clothing and skin. Furthermore, no trace of the dart or the poison would be found in later medical examination of the cadaver. The Technical Services Division also developed pills that contained several different biological agents which could remain potent for weeks or months, as well as other biological and chemical toxic agents which were undetectable during normal autopsy procedures. CIA FOUNDER: ALLEN DULLES MKNAOMI was authorized by the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Allen Dulles in 1953. Allen Dulles (born April 7, 1893) had worked at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City where he practiced international law. This firm represented The Chase National Bank, Standard Oil of New Jersey and other Rockefeller family financial interests. In 1933 Allen Dulles was retained by the United Fruit Company, after which he purchased a large block of United Fruit stock. [Hersh Old Boys p52] In October 1941, William Donovan appointed Allen Dulles Director of the New York City office of the Coordinator of Information. The office of Allen Dulles, when he was Coordinator of Information, was located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. From 1942 to 1946 Allen Dulles ran the OSS station in Bern, Switzerland. After World War II he returned to his law practice. In June 1948, Allen Dulles was appointed Deputy Director of the Office of Policy Coordination. In January 1951, Allen Dulles was appointed CIA Deputy Director for Plans (DD/P). In February 1953, President Eisenhower appointed Allen Dulles, then Deputy Director/Counter-Intelligence, as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The brother of Allen Dulles, John Foster Dulles, had also been an attorney at Sullivan and Cromwell. In 1938 he represented the Bank of Spain which was controlled by Francisco Franco. Solicited for a Nazi front known as the America First Committee, John Foster Dulles wrote he was "in a mental quandary. I am very much opposed to our getting into wars; on the other hand, I am not an isolationist." His wife sent funds to the America First Committee. In 1949 John Foster Dulles left Sullivan and Cromwell to become Ambassador to Japan; President Eisenhower appointed him Secretary of State in 1953. John Foster Dulles was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation. John Foster Dulles died on May 24, 1959. The successor of John Foster Dulles, Christian Herter, had been his Under-Secretary of State. Christian Herter had worked with Allen Dulles in Paris after World War I, and was a leading member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Center for International Studies at Harvard. [ Congressional Yearbook 1959 p407] CIA FOUNDERS: HELMS AND KARAMESSINES Richard M. Helms supervised MKNAOMI. Richard Helms was born in St. David's, Pennsylvania, on March 30, 1913. After college he joined the United Press in Germany, where he interviewed Hitler. In 1945 Richard Helms and Allen Dulles ran the Berlin OSS Station. Richard Helms joined the Central Intelligence Group in 1946 and became a CIA Deputy Director for Special Intelligence and Operations in 1947. [Mader Who's Who in the CIA p230] Frank Wisner chose Richard Helms as his assistant. Richard Helms became CIA DD/P in February 1962; on June 18, 1966, he was appointed the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Richard Helms worked closely with Thomas Hercules Karamessines. THOMAS KARMESSINES Thomas Karamessines was born in New York on July 25, 1917. He attended Columbia University Law School and served as a District Attorney from 1941 to 1942. Thomas Karamessines was in the OSS from 1942 to 1947. In 1951 he assumed diplomatic cover and took a post in the U.S. Embassy, Athens. He was listed as a Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense in 1954. He assumed diplomatic cover again in 1959, when he became CIA Chief of Station in Vienna. Thomas Karamessines was appointed CIA Assistant DD/P in the Spring of 1962. In 1973 CIA Director Richard Helms destroyed numerous records concerning these MKULTRA and MKNAOMI. In 1975 the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities (SSCIA) questioned Richard Helms and Thomas Karamessines. Richard Helms testified he knew of an 18-year-old $3 million joint program with the Army's Biological Warfare Laboratory which developed delivery systems like dart guns, although he had never ordered such weapons used against human beings. Thomas Karamessines said he had "no recollection of the actual use of any of the materials" but acknowledged they may have been used to kill a watchdog in a foreign operation: "As Mr. Helms and others who know me are aware I would not have continued [at the CIA] if there was a requirement for the killing of a human being." ANGLETON was questioned about these programs during an Executive Session of the SSCIA. Senator Richard Schweiker examined ANGLETON about the CIA's failure to destroy its toxic agents, despite an Executive Order to do so. ANGLETON declared: "It is inconceivable that a secret intelligence arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government." [FBI NO-44-2064 12.10.63, 62-109060-1294, NO-89-69 p341 11.26.63, 62-1090604-891; HSCA V5 p94] THE DEATH OF HUGH GAITSKELL In 1963, ANGLETON was certain that the KGB had induced a fatal illness in Hugh Gaitskell, an anti-Communist British Labor Party leader, who died prematurely on January 18, 1963. ANGLETON reasoned that Gaitskell, chief cheer-leader for the U.S., had been assassinated by the KGB so that Harold Wilson, whom ANGLETON thought to be a KGB asset, could take power. The evidence against Harold Wilson consisted of his having had participated in post-war business deals with the Soviets, which sometimes involved jet aircraft; his association with Jews and left-wing Laborites such as Michael Foot; and his trips to Moscow. Hugh Gaitskell suffered from lupus erythematosus, a then little-known auto-immune disorder which he allegedly contracted after having tea at the Soviet Embassy, London. [David Leigh - onset of symptoms much earlier - David Leigh, The Wilson Plot p83] In Spycatcher, Peter Wright (died April 27, 1995), a former U.K. intelligence official, stated: "After he died, Gaitskell's doctor got in touch with MI5...and explained that he was disturbed by the manner of Gaitskell's death. Gaitskell had died of a disease called lupus disseminata, which attacks the body's organs. He said that it was rare in temperate climates and that there was no evidence that Gaitskell had been anywhere recently where he could have contracted the disease. I consulted JIM ANGLETON about the problem...A month or two later he sent us a paper about lupus which he had translated from a Russian scientific journal. The paper was [7] years old and ANGLETON reported that there were no other papers in Russian that they could find. This paper described the use of a special chemical [hydralazine] which the Russians had found would induce lupus in experimental rats...the quantities required to produce lupus were considerable and had to be given repeatedly...if the Russians had continued to work on it they might have found a much better form of the chemical which would require much smaller doses and perhaps work as a one-shot drug. The next development was that [KGB defector] Anatoliy Mikhailovich Golitsyn told us quite independently that during the last few years of his service he had some contacts with Department 13, which was known as the Department of Wet Affairs in the KGB. This department was responsible for organizing assassinations. He said that just before he left he knew the KGB was planning a high-level political assassination in Europe...He did not know which country it was planned in, but he pointed out that the chief of Department 13...had been in Britain for many years and had just returned on a promotion to take up the job, so he would have had good knowledge of the political scene in England..." ANATOLIY GOLITSYN Anatoliy Golitsyn, who defected in Helsinki on December 22, 1961, was ANGLETON'S prize defector. FBI Counter-intelligence Chief William Branigan recounted: "ANGLETON did have confidence in Golitsyn - more than anyone else I know of. 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