Massive corporations dominate the U.S. media landscape. Through a history of mergers and acquisitions, these companies have concentrated their control over what we see, hear, and read. In many cases, these companies are vertically integrated, controlling everything from initial production to final distribution.480
They won’t tell ya about that. But remember this:
That’s how they control what you see, hear, and think!
462 Mary Louise, “Operation Mockingbird: CIA Media Manipulation,” 2003: prisonplanet.com/analysis_louise_01_03_03_mockingbird.html
463 Carl Bernstein, “The CIA and the Media: How America’s Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up,” October 20, 1977, Rolling Stone: tmh.floonet.net/articles/cia_press.html
464 Ibid.
465 United States Senate, Final Report, Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, April 1976.
466 Bernstein, “The CIA and the Media.”
467 Ventura & Russell, American Conspiracies, 38.
468 Ventura & Russell, American Conspiracies, 39.
469 Ibid.
470 Ibid.
471 Ibid.
472 Jerry Policoff, “The media and the murder of John Kennedy,” The New York Times, August 8, 1975, Vol. 5 No. 3, pages 29–30: jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/P%20Disk/Policoff%20Jerry/Item%20016.pdf
473 Ventura & Russell, American Conspiracies, 43.
474 Louise, “Operation Mockingbird.”
475 Robert Hennelly & Jerry Policoff, “JFK: How the Media Assassinated the Real Story,” 2002: assassinationresearch.com/v1n2/mediaassassination.html
476 CIA Document # 1035-960, “RE: Concerning Criticism of the Warren Report,” 1 April 1967: realhistoryarchives.com/collections/assassinations/jfk/cia-inst.htm
477 Louise, “Operation Mockingbird.”
478 William Blum, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II (Common Courage Press: 2008), cited in: Steve Kangas, “A Timeline of CIA Atrocities,” 1998: huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html
479 “Who Owns the Media,” Free Press, retrieved 15 May 2013:freepress.net/ownership/chart
480 Ibid.
SECTION THREE
The Witness
It’s a frequent observation that it could not really be a conspiracy that killed JFK, “because someone would have talked.” They cite catchy sayings like: “Because three people can keep a secret—as long as two of them are dead.” That’s all very persuasive except for one very important fact: it simply isn’t true; people have talked.
Contrary to common perceptions, many important witnesses have come forward and have had a lot to say, too. It’s just usually drowned out in mainstream media, which would rather “engage our intellects” with nonsense than discuss the questions we ask of our government.
And by the way, that saying is actually: “Three can keep a secret if two are dead.” It was on the door on the way out of the office of Mafia Godfather Carlos Marcello.481 That’s the same Carlos Marcello who was reportedly involved in the JFK assassination and was one of the people who “talked” (even though supposedly no one has, according to the government).
Marcello talked to a mob lawyer, Frank Ragano, who eventually went public with it. Right after the assassination—gloating about it—he talked to that attorney, and it was about one of the guy’s own clients; he said: “When you see Jimmy [Hoffa], you tell him he owes me and he owes me big.”482 I have a hunch he wasn’t talking about lunch that day either.
You’ll find a lot of interesting things that people have said in this section. They’ve talked plenty . . . you just haven’t heard it from all the puppets in the press. So stop looking at their sleight-of-hand attention diversions (because that’s all they are) and pay attention to what some knowledgeable people have contributed to an intelligent appraisal of what really happened, often at great risk to themselves. In some cases, the “talk” came from FBI wiretaps and some other interesting sources, like that mob attorney. And almost all of it runs counter-current to what we’ve been told by our own government. But that seems to be a recurring pattern in this case, doesn’t it?
481 Thomas L. Jones, “Big Daddy in the Big Easy,” Crime Library, retrieved 14 May 2013: truTV.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/marcello/8.html
482 Frank Ragano & Selwyn Raab, Mob Lawyer (Random House Value: 1996).
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A Special Team from Military Intelligence Was Sent to Dallas
Two veteran Military intelligence operatives—Richard Case Nagell, documented in the book The Man Who Knew Too Much, and William Robert Plumlee—have come forward with information dramatically changing the landscape surrounding the JFK assassination as we now know it.
The testimony of William Robert “Tosh” Plumlee contained some important revelations. It’s authentic because he’s the “real deal”: I showed you his intelligence bona fides in the earlier entry in the evidence section, “Oswald was a U.S. intelligence operative.”
Plumlee’s background was profiled in the book, Dead Wrong. His testimony is still considered too hot to handle; most of it remains under seal and classified “Top Secret, Committee Sensitive,” and it revealed some very important information that we had not known previously.
A “rescue team” was flown into Dallas by U.S. military intelligence.483 The team members referred to it as an “abort team,” because it was to abort an assassination attempt. You might be asking yourself the question: Why didn’t they just tell the Secret Service to stop President Kennedy’s motorcade trip? But as you’ll soon see in the testimony of Secret Service Special Agent Abraham Bolden, for some reason there was a tight clampdown for national security purposes. In fact, in Chicago, the President’s trip plans were cancelled—and then the Secret Service was ordered to destroy all evidence of the cancellation, as well as the foiled conspiracy plot that was the reason for the cancellation. So there were apparently other forces at work and—for whatever reason—in Dallas it apparently wasn’t deemed feasible to simply “tell the Secret Service.” After Chicago, there were also conspiracy plots in Miami and Tampa, and those were apparently foiled by successful U.S. intelligence intervention. So in Dallas, they apparently planned to successfully intervene again.
Instead they flew in a special team—military intelligence with CIA logistical support. They were well-trained and knew what to look for. Plumlee co-piloted that flight into Dallas on the morning of November 22, 1963, and went with team members into Dealey Plaza. He testified to all this in Congress. I can’t show you his Congressional testimony, but Plumlee has also documented most of the facts in a sworn legal affidavit that was published in 2012. That testimony reads like a real spy thriller, made all-the-more real because of its historical significance in the JFK case:
Upon reaching Dealey Plaza, the Intel Team split in three directions, looking for three or more shooters or teams that could form a triangulated crossfire. I was asked to act as a spotter, reconnoitering the south knoll in this operation with my friend and operational partner, “Sergio.”
We were also looking for a diversionary act, something that would give shooters an opportunity to secretly set up. Therefore, while people were congregating around Elm Street and the Book Depository and we heard sirens coming closer, instead of looking toward the commotion, we looked away from it, scanning the perimeter and looking for a shooter or shooters attempting to set up triangulation shooting in a kill zone that we had identified.
We arrived at the plaza too late to abort the assassination; there was not enough time, our people were not in position and our communications between scattered team members were very poor.484
That affidavit also showed us that Chicago mobster Johnny Roselli (whom Plumlee knew and transported on many occasions) was so well known in the CIA/military intelligence operations against Cuba that he was even given an op
erational cover name: Colonel Ralston. Plumlee flew Rosselli to locations many times and also took Roselli’s fellow Chicago hit man, Chuck Nicoletti, to certain locations on behalf of U.S. intelligence:
I piloted many covert missions for the United States government in the years just prior to the assassination of President Kennedy. John Roselli, also known to me by his intelligence codename “Colonel Ralston” a.k.a. “Rawlston” was a passenger on many of my flights in Florida, Cuba, and Texas. I knew Roselli was part of covert intelligence operations and I have personally had irrefutable confirmation on many occasions to that fact.
Roselli was so well-known in covert Intel circles that he was usually referred to simply as “The Colonel.” I was aware of the ongoing assassination attempts toward Fidel Castro at the time.
I also transported Charles Nicoletti on two separate occasions; to Santa Barbara, California and Las Vegas, Nevada. I knew Nicoletti as “Raven”; a codename given to me by my case officer as the person I was to transport.485
Plumlee has a new book this year that details his actions even more; it’s appropriately entitled, Deep Cover, Shallow Graves.486
Now get this: Mobster Johnny Roselli was on that flight into Dallas with the Special Team:
I co-piloted a flight that infiltrated a Military intelligence team into Dallas on the morning of November 22, 1963, in an attempt to abort the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This mission was at the direction of the Pentagon with CIA logistical support. John Roselli was a passenger on that flight. Intelligence for our mission, after some confusion, had identified Dealey Plaza as the sight for the operation of an assassination attempt.487
Plumlee’s description of the events of that day also confirms that there were multiple shooters from multiple directions. It was a highly compartmentalized mission—this was big stuff.
I do not know the names of most of the men who were on that mission because those type of operations are intentionally structured in a manner that minimizes individual knowledge.
In “Black Operations,” one does not ask questions of others— that is an unwritten rule. The official post-mission debriefing took place at West Palm Beach, Florida on November 25, my birthday. That debriefing was conducted by Rex Beardsley, Bob Bennette and Tracy Barnes.488
So—we now know that U.S. intelligence was not only aware of the earlier conspiracy plots against President Kennedy’s life in Chicago, Miami, and Tampa—it was also aware of the conspiracy plot in Dallas and even got a Spec Op Team into Dealey Plaza that almost prevented the assassination.
And we also know that, just like with the earlier plots, for some reason even for the Secret Service, it was all very hush-hush; paper trails disappeared on all of those plots and on intelligence efforts to abort them. And agents were told not to write anything down or say anything to anybody, but to just forget it ever happened.489
483 Belzer & Wayne, Dead Wrong, 111–115.
484 Ibid.
485 Ibid.
486 Robert Plumlee, Deep Cover, Shallow Graves (TrineDay: 2013).
487 Belzer & Wayne, Dead Wrong, 111–115.
488 Ibid.
489 Bolden, The Echo From Dealey Plaza; Waldron & Hartmann, Ultimate Sacrifice; Belzer & Wayne, Dead Wrong.
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Conclusions of U.S. Intelligence Agents
Although it may not technically qualify them as a “witness” to an event, when an intelligence officer forms a conclusion about a specific event to which they may have direct knowledge, their testimony is valid, as in the case of courtroom expert witnesses. So I’ll acknowledge right up front that not every one of the conclusions that follow is from someone who witnessed the crime. But I’ll also point out that every one of them is an opinion that I’m damn interested in knowing.
Military intelligence operative Richard Case Nagell
Nagell, the main topic of The Man Who Knew Too Much, was the veteran military intelligence operative who was tracking Oswald’s movements. Nagell was monitoring a JFK assassination plot which included Oswald, exiled anti-Castro Cubans, and probably conservative Texas millionaires. Nagell even went so far as confronting Oswald to convince him he was out of his depth and being set up by some very clever conspirators. Oswald didn’t believe him.
Nagell realized that he himself had been set up in the process and that if he didn’t take extreme action, he was destined to “take the fall” with Oswald.
So he sent a registered letter to J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, warning them very specifically of a plot involving Oswald and two Cuban exiles.
Then he walked into a bank, fired two shots from his pistol up at the top of the wall, calmly walked out to his car, and waited to be arrested, so that he could talk to the FBI. Officially, nobody believed him and they threw him in prison. But at least he had his alibi.
And the FBI supposedly never got that letter; even though Nagell had kept proof it was sent.490
Why should we believe Nagell? When he got himself arrested, the FBI seized a notebook that he wanted them to find. When the Bureau finally let the contents become public in 1975, that notebook had listings remarkably similar to Oswald’s—for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City, not to mention six names of CIA agents! And Nagell also turned over to his lawyer a military ID card for none other than Oswald himself—a card that had never surfaced publicly before! It even had a Department of Defense overstamp. You can see the card in the photo insert section of The Man Who Knew Too Much.491
Secret Service Special Agent Abraham Bolden
Bolden documented three previous attempts on the President’s life in the weeks just prior to his death in Dallas. His book gives an excellent account of the details of that Chicago plot and how very closely it resembled the set-up of Oswald in Dallas.492 You can also watch his story, told by himself, in this video clip: echofromdealeyplaza.net/id5.html
As his reward for coming forward to try to help the Warren Commission, Bolden was framed on false charges and thrown in prison.493 His story is also detailed in the book, Ultimate Sacrifice.
Military intelligence operative William Robert “Tosh” Plumlee
In case you’re wondering what happened to that military Intel veteran who was on that failed rescue mission, Tosh Plumlee was thrown in jail during that period as well, on a forged check charge that was totally trumped up. He figured it was to keep him “on ice”—prevent him from presenting any information that conflicted with the official government version—just like Nagell and Bolden. Starting to notice a pattern here?
CIA contract agent John Martino
Martino was an electronics expert who had worked with the mob, was imprisoned by Castro, and then wrote a book about the experience. You might say he was an anti-Castro writer for the CIA. He had Agency connections with their anti-Castro operations out of South Florida, was involved in some of those operations, and had close mob friends, such as Johnny Roselli, who were also directly involved in those black ops.494
At first, after the assassination, Martino was very public in trying to even further set up Oswald as a Castro pawn, spreading false stories about Oswald’s ties to Castro’s Cuba in the process.495
But later in life, when he knew death was near, Martino confessed his involvement several times.496
Martino’s confession does two very important things:
1. It confirms Richard Case Nagell’s appraisal of how Oswald was being set up as the patsy and hadn’t figured that out;
2. It summarizes for us, in short form, the thinking behind some of the most important aspects of the assassination plot.
Here’s what Martino said:
The anti-Castro people put Oswald together. Oswald didn’t know who he was working for—he was just ignorant of who was really putting him together. Oswald was to meet his contact at the Texas Theatre. They were to meet Oswald in the theatre, and get him out of the country, and then eliminate him. Oswald made a mistake . . . . There was no way we could get to him. They had Ru
by kill him.497
Martino also told his wife, Flo—before it happened— that a plot was on to kill Kennedy in Dallas:
Martino’s wife also mentioned that she could tell, from overhearing a flood of phone calls he received on the afternoon of the assassination, that her husband had been involved. Martino confessed his involvement—delivering money, serving as a courier, other support activities—to a friend when Martino knew that he was dying.498
Martino’s son said that on November 22, 1963, his father told him to stay home from school and listen to the news on the radio instead— they listened to the assassination reports together and his son said it wasn’t shock for his father: “It was more like confirmation.”499
CIA Officer David Phillips
Phillips is often mentioned as a possible conspirator but it has never been proven. It was believed by Gaeton Fonzi—investigator for the House Select Committee on Assassinations—that Phillips was also known as “Maurice Bishop,” Oswald’s intelligence handler for the CIA.500
In any event, Phillips was deeply involved in the CIA’s anti-Castro efforts out of Mexico City and its huge JM/WAVE station in South Florida and rose to become Director of Western Hemisphere Operations at CIA. So he obviously knew what the hell he was talking about. Here’s what Phillips concluded:
My final take on the assassination is there was a conspiracy, likely including American intelligence officers.501
CIA Officer E. Howard Hunt
Officer Hunt was dying of cancer and made tape recordings for his son’s book, which effectively equate to his deathbed statement.
Hunt also said that the assassination was planned from the nexus of the CIA’s anti-Castro operations and was referred to by those in the know as “The Big Event.” Hunt confessed to his knowledge of the planning but maintained that his own role was basically just “on the sidelines” unless he was needed.
Hunt even diagrammed out a document in his own handwriting called “Chain of Command” which detailed who was behind the assassination, to the extent of his direct knowledge. Lyndon Johnson was at the top (as far as Hunt knew, at least) and was followed by veteran CIA official Cord Meyer. It’s interesting to note that Meyer’s ex-wife, Mary Pinchot Meyer, was having a serious affair with President Kennedy, which was common knowledge amid Meyer’s Washington circles. That Chain of Command document reads as follows:
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