from: http://pages.about.com/search/chapter12.htm Click Here: <A HREF="http://pages.about.com/search/chapter12.htm">Preserving the legacy</A> ----- In the last interview before her death, Marilyn pleaded unsuccessfully with a reporter to end his article like this: What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, labourers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.4 1 Exasperated over what she called the "lies, lies, lies" which misrepresented her life, Marilyn struggled to define her philosophy of being -to emphasize her distaste for the frivolous and her longing to embrace what she viewed to be causes that mattered. In the end, she was ignored. With a reading list as disparate as Ulysses, by James Joyce, War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Caine, Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran, The Rights of Man, by Thomas Paine, L ust for Life, by Irving Stone and The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Marilyn Monroe synthesized people and ideas and expected the very best from everyone she met. But instead of becoming a conduit for hope, peace and cooperation, she ultimately became Marilyn Monroe, Goddess of gossip. In the final analysis, beyond all the smoke and mirrors, Marilyn Monroe was murdered because she was determined to warn the Kennedys about assassination rumors. Obviously, if Hoover and the Mafia tried unsuccessfully to use Marilyn Monroe as blackmail bait while she was alive, but like the Kennedys, she could not be compromised, and she was ultimately murdered. It does not take Albert Einstein to determine the fact that there came a point where the need to murder Monroe surpassed the obsession to use her as blackmail bait. Clearly, an analysis of the circumstances as they unfolded and converged to the total disarray of Marilyn Monroe's terrifying final days, the only plausible motivation which made her murder urgent was the need to bury the truth about the Kennedy assassination. After her so-called "suicide", Hoover and the Mafia exploited her death and promoted derogatory rumor which targeted the Kennedys -rumor which still generates confusion about the murder of Monroe. Ironically, Monroe died the way she lived -struggling to comprehend, to make a difference, kicking and screaming all the way against all the bigotry, all the hurt and all the rumor. In the end, she manifested the rare courage to live and to die for her beliefs -she was not a legend. She was in fact a genuine hero. It is extremely irritating to have to constantly denounce the obvious, but when slander and gossip is repeated to the point where it is believed, there exists the need to set the record straight. In particular, Mafia party girl Judith Campbell has promoted sensational, widely acknowledged allegations which are absolutely fraudulent. According to Campbell, for eighteen months between 1960 and 1961, she regularly carried envelopes back and forth between President Kennedy and Sam Giancana, giving the Mafia direct access to the White House. According to federal wire taps however, as late as December 6, 1961, Giancana was angry over the fact that Frank Sinatra had failed to use the Kennedys to get them off his back and the allegation that Campbell was his direct link to John F. Kennedy was just a pipe dream. The following surreptitiously recorded conversation between Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli speaks for itself: Roselli: ... He [Frank Sinatra] was real nice to me... He says: "Johnny, I took Sam's name, and wrote it down, and told Bobby Kennedy, 'This is my buddy, this is what I want you to know Bob'. "Between you and I, Frank saw Joe Kennedy three different times-Joe Kennedy, the father. He called him three times... He [Frank] says he's got an idea that you're mad at him. I says: "That, I wouldn't know". Giancana: He must have a guilty conscience. I never said nothing... Well, I don't know who the fuck he's [Frank's] talking to, but if I'm gonna talk to... after all, if I'm taking somebody's money, I'm gonna make sure that this money is gonna do something, like, do you want it or don't you want it. If the money is accepted, maybe one of these days the guy will do you a favour. Roselli: That's right, He [Frank] says he wrote your name down... Giancana: Well, one minute he [Frank] tells me this and then he tells me that and then the last time I talked to him was at the hotel in Florida a month before he left, and he said, "Don't worry about it. If I can't talk to the old man [Joseph Kennedy], I'm gonna talk to the man [President Kennedy." One minute he says he's talked to Robert, and the next minute he says he hasn't talked to him. So, he never did talk to him. It's a lot of shit. Why lie to me? I haven't got that coming. Roselli: I can imagine... Tsk, tsk, ...... if he can't deliver, I want him to tell me: "John, the load's too heavy. Giancana: That's all right. At least then you know how to work. You won't let your guard down then, know what I mean... Ask him [Frank] if I'm going to be invited to his New Year's party.42 In light of the fact that Sam Giancana was extremely frustrated by his lack of access to the Kennedy White House, Campbell's claim that she was a conduit between Giancana and Kennedy is absolutely absurd. Clearly, Sam Giancana was so desperate about exacting favour from the White House that he was obsessed by the determination to plot schemes to get the Kennedys off his back. On the one hand, Giancana could rely on Hoover's FBI because his agents were too preoccupied by the Hoover-directed anti-Communist witch hunts to bother with the Mafia and on the other hand he had to contend with the federal agents that the Kennedy Justice Department directed. The split made Giancana somewhat "schizo" and when FBI agents tailed him, he would blurt out commentary like: "Hey, we' re supposed to be on the same side aren't we?" and "Why don't you fucks go out and investigate Communists?" In the end, he was so frustrated that he pulled the old Lansky trick of staring an FBI microphone in the face and recording derogatory information about the Kennedys. One way or the other, Giancana and Roselli were going to get the Kennedys off their backs and the following FBI memorandum which summarizes one of their failed attempts to blackmail the Kennedys, reflects their absolute determination: During our investigation of Roselli we picked up information connecting John Roselli with Judith Campbell who we have determined has been in telephonic contact with Sam Giancana, Chicago gangster and with other underworld figures. In addition, she is the individual who has been in telephonic contact with Evelyn Lincoln, the President's secretary at the White House. The nature of the relationship between Campbell and Mrs Lincoln is not known. However, one [name deleted], a private investigator df questionable reputation in Los Angeles, has alleged that Judith Campbell at one time had an affair with President Kennedy. The information concerning Campbell's contacts with the President's secretary has been furnished previously to the White House and the Attorney General.43 On the surface, this "evidence" appears to be very convincing. In context however, it has never been verified by anyone who hasn't clearly demonstrated the capacity to be an accomplished liar. According to Campbell, Dave Powers and Evelyn Lincoln facilitated her relationship with Kennedy, but according to Lincoln, Campbell was just a campaign worker and Powers indicates that the only Campbell he knows is "chunky soup". These denials by so-called "Kennedy people" are routinely dismissed because they are allegedly biased, but that certainly does not affect the fact that Campbell's allegations are obviously fraudulent. Indeed, an objective accounting verifies the fact that Judith Campbell was simply a Kennedy campaign worker that Frank Sinatra introduced to Kennedy on a campaign stopover in Las Vegas. If she was not Mafia-appointed, her loyalty to the mob is certainly extraordinary. Frank Sinatra actively campaigned to bring Kennedy to the White House and he was so enthusiastic about the prospect of a Kennedy presidency that he convinced Mafia Boss Sam Giancana to support the Kennedy ticket as well. In the end, while Kennedy did not ask for his support, the considerable political clout of the Chicago Mafia helped put Kennedy in the White House. In return, Mafia boss Sam Giancana and Mafia mistress Judith Campbell expected to exact favor from the White House. And so, the context of the frivolous, absurd allegations that Judith Campbell was simultaneously sleeping with John F. Kennedy, Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana is the excessive, frustrated zeal to develop derogatory information to blackmail the Kennedys. If provable liars and perjurers like Judith Campbell, who were willing to do absolutely anything to compensate for the fact that the Kennedys refused to "go to bed" with the Mafia, can fabricate outrageous lies and make the public believe them -we are an extremely gullible society. In 1975, Campbell testified before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee where she made it clear that she was never an intermediary between the Mafia and the White House. Prior to her death, seeking to develop more dirt to satisfy her everlasting wrath, she changed her mind and claimed that she was in fact an intermediary between Kennedy and the Mafia. And the press sold the story to a public that is evidently willing to accept anything, when the truth is denied. In the final analysis, if Campbell and Kennedy were in fact actually having an affair Hoover would have produced real evidence, not "telephonic contacts" which ultimately prove nothing at all. Clearly, Hoover was perfectly capable of documenting affairs without having to resort to the charade of recording his friends in the process of spreading rumor. Indeed, as early as 1942, Hoover had gathered entire transcripts of evidence to in fact prove that John F. Kennedy and Inga Arvad were lovers. The following transcript developed through the FBI's wire tapping and bugging of Inga Arvad's apartment, reflects the nature of genuine proof: Kennedy: It's probably me but I don't know. Evidently you got something. Your not holding out on me, are you? Arvad: You know that I'm not, don't you? Kennedy: I'm quite sure of it. I don't know. It might have been something you said... Arvad: But what could the conversation be about except you and me? There's nothing illegal that they can put their hands on. What's illegal about being in love? Kennedy: But maybe there is some background on you? You can see that? Arvad: Yes I can. Then it would be much better for me to get a divorce because the only thing they have on me is that my husband works for Wenner-Gren. Kennedy: I think that would be about the best subject-they can always say, well that da da da. I wouldn't get it for that reason.... It's up to you whether you get. I don't want to influence on you in any way in getting it.> Arvad: That's childish. I'm still going to get it [a divorce] and we decided not to see each other anymore, didn't we. So what do you have to do with it.... I'll do it because I want to do it. Have you any doubts? Kennedy: My point is that you hadn't hesitated on account of me. Arvad: That's not the point, what are you afraid of?... Kennedy: You just go ahead and keep me posted. You'll probably be seeing me as soon as you get back. Arvad: I think so. I hope so.... I don't think things are at all like you think. I am going to see [FBI Director] Hoover. I made an appointment for Monday. Kennedy: What did they say to you? Arvad: I talked to Miss Gandi [sic, Helen Gandy], his private Secretary, and she said "howdy do Miss Arvad, it is very nice to talk to you again. How are you? Kennedy: Did she ask what you wished to see Mr. Hoover about? Arvad: No. I said I would like to see Mr. Hoover for a few minutes and she was delighted. Kennedy: What are you going to say to him? Arvad: I'm going to say "Now look here Edgar J., I don't like everybody listening in on my phone." You know that somebody is always listening in on this phone. Kennedy: How do you know? Arvad: Why on earth does it always cut. Don't you notice when we talk there is some cut in it. We were cut off for a fraction of a second... and the same thing happened when I just talked to New York. Kennedy: They must have little to do if they are listening to us. They must have had a pretty dull week. That is what you call genuine evidence about an affair. Indeed, Hoover did not rely upon vague, "telephonic contact" evidence to prove a genuine allegation. Clearly, the "telephonic contact" that Campbell had established was merely a rash of deliberately placed calls which sought to embarrass Kennedy through fraudulent implications. Some of the calls that Campbell placed to Evelyn Lincoln at the White House were actually made from the residence of Sam Giancana, and if Hoover was ever genuinely interested in proving the nature of the relationship between Lincoln and Campbell, he could have easily produced an entire transcript of the call to make his point. Wire-tap conversations of Hoover's Mafia friends in the process of spreading false rumors is clearly not a substitute for real evidence to prove that Kennedy was having an affair -staged conversations merely reflect the split personality the Justice Department. In the end, allegations like the bizarre assertion that Campbell was sleeping with Kennedy, Giancana and Roselli, were just a sideshow. Indeed, the frivolous effort to blackmail the Kennedys backfired and the Justice Department responded with twenty-four hour, lockstep surveillance which placed as many as five agents at a time, tailing both Giancana and Campbell, and she described the experience in her memoirs, in the following terms: "I was followed, hounded, harassed, accosted, spied upon, intimidated, burglarized, embarrassed, humiliated, denigrated, and... finally driven to the brink of death".44 Seething with anger, Campbell never did get over her hatred for the Kennedys. In a televised interview aired just prior to her death, she simply could not contain her contempt for John F. Kennedy, and in her typical grasp to build something out of nothing, she said: You can see it in a lot of the films. There's this slight little smile on his face. And it's as if he's pulling one over on people. And very often he was. True to her wrath, she never backed away from the obsessive determination to assassinate President Kennedy's character. The Kennedys had made a "sucker" out of her lover, the Mafia murderer who prided himself for "having stolen the election" and who was perpetually frustrated over his failure to reap the benefits he expected, and Campbell was going to do everything she possibly could, to discredit his enemies.In the end, people of the Giancana/Campbell ilk belong to a sorry category of predators who fraudulently ascribe malignant characters and purposes to their adversaries. One of the people who is evidently responsible for "legitimizing" Campbell's claims is Robert Blakey, the law professor who was a prosecutor with the Department of Justice in 1963. Blakey curiously promotes Campbell's allegations as fact and is evidently willing to take whatever she has to say at face value. Co-author of the book The Plot to Kill the President, Blakey writes: >From the mob's point of view, Kennedy had been compromised. He had crossed the line. In the Greek sense, the liaison with Judith Campbell was, we came to believe, Kennedy's fatal flaw, the error in judgment for which the gods demand their due.45 And after describing the mob's point of view, Blakey evidently adopts and promotes it as his own. According to Blakey: As in Greek tragedy, there was in the President's character a fatal flaw, a ha martia, one that could have made him vulnerable to assassination by organized crime.46 In the absence of proof, Blakey's often repeated fatal flaw alliteration is a frivolous rumor and in the face of manipulation, it is a disturbing and outrageous fraud. Blakey's portrayal of the evidence clearly reflects the tendency to mislead rather than to record the facts. In his own words: Not known for being a lavish gift-giver, Kennedy made at least one contribution to Campbell's livelihood in the form of a check for $2,000.47 The claim that Campbell received a $2,000 check from Kennedy is often repeated by other writers who are misled by Blakey, but the simple fact of the matter is, it isn't even true. Kitty Kelly betrayed the frivolity of the claim that Kennedy handed Campbell a $2,000 cheque, when she exposed the following, equally frivolous allegations: Kennedy met with Giancana [the murderer] at the Fontainbleau on April 12. "I was not present," says Exner [Judith Campbell], "but Jack came to my suite afterward, and I asked him how the meeting had gone. He seemed very happy about it and thanked me for making the arrangements. He then stayed with me for an hour or so, and we talked about the campaign. Jack told me that if he didn't get the nomination in July, he and his wife would get a divorce. He didn't say he was leaving her for me or for any other woman, or that Jackie was leaving him for any other man. He simply said their marriage was unhappy and the divorce was a mutual decision between them." As Kennedy was leaving, he handed Exner an envelope, telling her not to open it until he was gone. Inside, she found two $1,000 bills. "Jack said he wanted to pay for the new mink coat that I had worn to his house in Georgetown," says Exner, "or if I wouldn't let him do that, then he wanted me to buy something special." She kept the cash and later deposited it in her checking account. 48 Whether people actually believe that sort of garbage or not, the attempt to legitimize it by claiming that Kennedy actually gave Campbell a $2,000 signed cheque, is bizarre to say the least. Blakey in fact sounds like a disappointed prosecutor who seeks to make up for the fact that Campbell has absolutely nothing, not a single shred of evidence which conclusively links her to Kennedy, despite an alleged two-and-a-half year relationship. In the final analysis, by accepting such a fraudulent account of events, Blakey is implicitly protecting the reputation of J. Edgar Hoover and the Mafia. Clearly, Robert Blakey, who was Chief Counsel of the House Select Committee on Assassinations when it determined that Hoover's FBI was "morally reprehensible, illegal, felonious, and unconstitutional," should know better than to give credence to Mafia-generated rumor. [In retrospect, the "relationship" between Blakey and Campbell reminds one of that between Ken Starr and Linda Tripp. Is it reasonable to accept what they have to say without scrutiny?] Were it not for the untimely death of his adversaries, Hoover's political career may have very well ended in 1933, when Senator Thomas Walsh was evidently preparing for the ouster of the corrupt demagogue. Walsh condemned the abuse of power and the illegal actions that Hoover condoned through his failure to respect due process, and Hoover's only retort was to wage secret battle to compensate for the fact that the rule of law was against him. The war between Hoover and Walsh became critical in 1933 when Roosevelt announced his decision to make Walsh his Attorney General. On February 28, Attorney General-designate Thomas Walsh announced his decision to reorganize the Justice Department and that his plans included "an almost completely new Personnel".49 On March 3, 1933, a day before Roosevelt's Inauguration, Thomas Walsh, who had recently married and was on a brief wedding trip to North Carolina, died of a massive myocardial infarction. And in his typical cover-your-tracks fashion, J. Edgar Hoover made sure that "a thoroughly documented medical examination was made."50 Was Senator Thomas Walsh Hoover's first known victim or was his death a convenient coincidence? Regardless, the fact that Hoover used murderers to "terminate the employment" of his adversaries, is quite obvious at this point in time. Indeed, Hoover's ruthless desire and committment to destroy every adversary was graphically illustrated in The Squad. In the words of the hired hitman who used the name Michael Milan because there is no statute of limitations for murder: Mr. Hoover had decided that the courts of the United States did not properly administer justice the way he thought they should... Maybe the cases were too sensitive or Mr. Hoover felt that the courts would never dispense the justice he wanted. Many times, these were cases that involved national security or that couldn't be prosecuted because there was no evidence. In these cases the guilty people walked away. Mr. Hoover had a way to deal with that. He devised what could only be described as an execution squad made up of no more than ten men at any one time, none of whom went to any FBI academy or took a civil-service exam. None of the men were supposed to be seen by regular FBI agents. He called us the Unknowns. We always worked in the background, finding the people the Bureau couldn't and turning them into hundreds of John Does on hundreds of Medical Examiners' reports for over forty years. Some people we turned into informants -although I hate that word -who were used to pursue cases through regular channels. Sometimes we were there and gone before the regular Bureau agents ever got to the scene. We would do our work and plant the necessary evidence for the FBI to follow. How we got the evidence wasn't important, just so that it held up in court. If it didn't, we'd have to go back to work. Sometimes the regular agents never even got to the scene because there was nothing left for them to do. No blood, no bodies, no questions. People just disappeared. Loans were foreclosed. The packages -as ordered -were delivered.51 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2E ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1Jeffrey Meyers, Hemingway: A Biography, p. 367. 2Ibid., p.379. 3Herbert Mitigang, Dangerous Dossiers: Exposing the Secret war against America's Greatest Writers, p.48. 4Richard Nixon, The memoirs of Richard Nixon, p.543. [In his memoirs, Richard Nixon exposes an interest in Chappaquiddick which was so intense that he ordered his own investigation in the matter. According to Richard Nixon, "It was clear that the full story of what happened that night on Chappaquiddick had not come out, and I suspected that the press would not try very hard to uncover it. Did Nixon actually know what he called "the real story"? Clearly, if people like Jack Anderson were the target of bizarre assassination plots, isn't it logical to assume that Ted Kennedy was also such a target and that Chappaquiddick was essentially a failed assassination plot? Is that what Nixon called "the real story"? 5Gordon G. Liddy, Will, p.287. 6Robert J. Groden and Harrison Livingstone, High Treason, p. 418. 7Ibid., p.420. 8lslands in the Stream. 9Jeffrey Meyers, Hemingway: A Biography, p.541. 10Ibid., p.543. 11Ibid. 12Toronto Star, November 24, 1984. 13Jeffrey Meyers, Hemingway: A Biography, p.547. 14Denis Brian, The True Gen: An Intimate Portrait of Hemingway, p.253. 15Ibid., p.257. 16Ibid., p.253. 17Ibid., p.249-50. 18Ibid., p.255. 19Ibid., p.256. 20Kenneth S. Lynn, Hemingway, p.415. 21Ibid., p.391. 22Ibid., p.10. 23Randell Riese and Neil Hitchens, The Unabridged Marilyn; Her Life from A to Z, p.411. 24Life, December 8, 1967, p.115. 25Newsweek, November 28, 1983, p.66. 26Athan Theoharis, From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover, p.49. 27Ibid. 28Anthony Summers, Goddess, P.323. 29Entertainment Tonight, February 14, 1992. 30Hard Copy, Wednesday February 19, 1992. 31Athan Theoharis and John Stuart Cox, The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition, p.376. 32Athan Theoharis, From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover, p.50. 33Anthony Summers, Goddess, P.272. 34Donald Spoto, Marilyn Monroe: The Biography, p.469. 35Ibid., p.481. 36Ibid., p.495. 37In Search of... A&E. January 1, 1993. 38Anthony Summers, Goddess, p.509. 39Ibid., p.444. 40Ibid., p.400. 41Gloria Steinem, Marilyn: Norma Jean, p.32. 42Kitty Kelly, His Way, The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra, p.294-5. 43Athan Theoharis and John Stuart, The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition, p.381. 44John Davis, The Kennedys; Dynasty and Disaster, 1848-1984, p.406. 45Robert Blakey and Richard Billings, The Plot to Kill the President, p.382. 46Ibid., p.391. 47Ibid., p.379. 48People Weekly, February 29, 1988. 49Theoharis and Cox, The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition, p.129. 50Ibid., p.130. 51Michael Milan, The Squad, p. 2-3. ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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