by J. W Lateer
In the 1950’s, while Dirk Stikker was Foreign Minister of the Netherlands, he apparently traveled to the U.S. possibly multiple times in the company of the Prince of the Netherlands. The Prince of the Netherlands was a German named Bernhard, Prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld. Bernhard was also a one-time member of the SS, a friend of the Nazi affiliated General Juan Peron of Argentina and most importantly, the permanent nominal host of the mysterious Bilderberg Group, which some people believe secretly ruled, (and still rules), the Western World.
As described in the discussion about General Lyman Lemnitzer elsewhere in our study, we know that Lemnitzer was fired by JFK in 1962 following the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion. (Lemnitzer had approved of it). Lemnitzer was also involved in planning the essentially criminal Operation Northwoods which planned phony terror attacks within the U.S. in order to blame Castro. Lemnitzer also had testified to the Senate concerning the right-wing activities of General Edwin Walker over in Germany.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff, (while Lemnitzer was the Chairman) was also planning a “first strike” preemptive nuclear attack on the USSR. This would, of course, invite the partial destruction of the U.S. (which would soon follow from a Soviet counter-attack). JFK considered these plans and ideas as fundamentally insane. After being fired by JFK, Lemnitzer was “kicked upstairs” by being named Supreme Allied Commander of NATO beginning in 1963. He was appointed by JFK after the intervention on his behalf of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan. So we had both the Supreme Allied Commander as well as the NATO Secretary General “in the pocket” of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. By far the biggest scandal revolving around the JFK-NATO question, however, was the nomination in November, 1960 of General Adolf Heusinger as chairman of the Military Committee of NATO.
But first, another General must be mentioned. Beginning in 1956, the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO (always an American) was Air Force General Lauris Norstad. Norstad had planned the details of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 despite some opposition against that decision to use the atomic bomb in that setting. Norstad was considered mostly a planner and technician, but he also dabbled in Washington DC-style social, dinner-party politics. When JFK became President in 1961, he and his Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara soon found themselves at cross-purposes with Norstad. Norstad had become the champion of transforming NATO itself into becoming the “fourth nuclear power.” Norstad had managed to get control (for NATO) of some squadrons of intermediate range missiles in Italy and Turkey which were aimed at the USSR.
In conferences with Norstad, JFK and McNamara opened criticized, indeed almost ridiculed the lack of loyalty to the U.S. over NATO which they perceived as coming from Norstad. Famously, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, in his high-tension conferences involving Khruschev, JFK bargained away these NATO missiles. Since at this time, West Germany (and Konrad Adenauer) had virtual control over NATO, JFK was effectively taking these nuclear missiles off the NATO plate and out of the control of the Germans.
So in 1960, the U.S. and the Germans acting in concert had arranged the approval of General Adolf Heusinger as chairman of the Military Committee of NATO. At some point in the 1950’s, the chairman of the Military Committee of NATO became a permanent job with a fixed term of three years. The Chairman had substantial independence. He may have even been able to act on his own in important respects, without a vote or even consultation with either the Standing Group (U.S.,U.K. France) or any other member countries of the Committee. Shockingly, this chairman had an office in the Pentagon and was on a level equal to other top Generals who worked beside him in the Pentagon. Writing over a decade after 1963, one author stated that the Military Committee employed a staff of over 400 persons. It is likely that in 1963, the Committee employed staff numbering in the several hundreds (maybe 400+) all working in the Pentagon.
Again, shockingly, it was the U.S. and the West Germans who insisted on the appointment of Heusinger to this position. Heusinger had been Adolf Hitler’s “boy” if you will. Following the infamous July 20, 1944 assassination attempt on himself, Hitler had given a special medal to Heusinger (and a few others) commemorating their mutual survival of the assassination attempt.
There were, in fact, protests around the world about the appointment of this (Hitlerite) general to this powerful position, perhaps the most powerful military position in the world. In reaction to Heusinger, the Soviet Union immediately requested the extradition of Heusinger for WWII war crimes.
In mid-1963, author Charles R. Allen published a book called Heusinger of the Fourth Reich. The book warned of the dire consequences which could follow the appointment of Heusinger. The most vocal critic of this nomination in the Senate was maverick Oregon Senator Wayne Morse. As we have mentioned in another chapter, Senator Morse was possibly the Senator who was most closely monitoring the activities of the alleged JFK assassination conspirator General Julius Klein. Morse was a high-ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We have seen the circumstantial evidence that this Committee could have had concrete suspicions about a possible assassination attempt or similar plotting prior to 11-22-63.
The location in the Pentagon of such a virulent pro-Nazi figure along with hundreds of staff persons could provide an answer as to why a certain faction there, at least, seemed to be loosely involved with the JFK assassination plot. Colonel Fletcher Prouty, the well-known JFK assassination writer, was serving at the Pentagon on 11-22-63. Yet all Prouty essentially knew was (1) he had been sent to Antarctica when JFK was shot and (2) the security protection for JFK in Dallas which should have come from Military Intelligence, was compromised. We also know that the JFK autopsy had apparently been planned well in advance by the military, (probably by figures who might have been in the autopsy room).
The harsh, unspeakable reality from all of the facts recited above is that following 1 p.m., 11-22-63, the West German Government was possibly in control of Washington DC, the U.S. Government and thus in control of the United States for an unknown period of time: this situation possibly lasted for a very short time, or possibly longer. Vladimir Lenin once wrote, “he who controls Berlin, controls Germany: and he who controls Germany, controls Europe: and Europe controls the world.” We know that very soon, Chancellor Ludwig Erhard (alone among world leaders) traveled to Texas to visit the LBJ ranch. We know that at the JFK funeral, General Charles de Gaulle insisted on walking with the JFK casket down Pennsylvania Avenue in DC along with other leaders, to show he was not afraid. By 1966, de Gaulle ordered all NATO troops and officials totally off of French territory! (That happened in 1966). To this day, both the French and Spanish armies refuse to have their militaries “merged” with NATO in Europe. They are only “partners,” not integrated. This is out of apparent fear of the kind of thing that happened to JFK.
Author Charles Allen in Heusinger of the Fourth Reich, presents a lengthy list of military allies of Heusinger (with Nazi Wehrmacht experience) within the Bundeswehr and at the same time serving NATO:
(1) General Hans Speidel
(1)General Count Johann Adolf von Kielmannsegg
(2)General Friedrich Foerstch
(3) Admiral Karl-Adolf Zenker
(4)Colonel Willi Mantey
(6)Lieutenant General Max Pemsel
(7)Admiral Gerhard Wagner
(8)General Ernst Kusserow
(9)General Joseph Kammhuber (one of Goering’s closest associates).
Others with similar backgrounds who were serving in the Bundeswehr but not NATO were:
(1) General Hans Roettiger
(2)Col. T. Fett, former deputy to Hitler
(3)Admiral Oskar Ruge
(4)General Walter Wenck (connected to Einsatzgruppen atrocities).
(5) General Ludwig Cruewell
(6)Lt. Gen. Count Gerhard Schwerin
(7)General Maximilian Freiherr (Baron) von Edelsheim
(8)Major General Rudolf Christoph Freiherr (Baron) von Gersdor
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(9) General Wend von Wieteresheim
(10)Major General Freiherr (Baron) Smilo von Luettwitz
So there are three barons just on the above list alone. (So much for the idea that German militarism was ended with the defeat of Germany in April, 1945).
There remain several questions which we have not specifically answered. First, if these German, ex-Hitlerite military figures helped plot and carry out the JFK assassination, what was their motivation? The apparent answer was that the elite of the ex-Nazis worldwide had been plotting such a strike-back against the U.S. ever since the Battle of Stalingrad had made German military defeat inevitable. This would merely be reflecting the desire of military people to win battles, any battles! In effect, the motive was revenge.
Second, there were some of their ex-Nazi compatriots who were still being hunted for their crimes. Perhaps (behind the scenes) JFK had been a little too aggressive and sympathetic to the Nazi hunters. We know that Adolf Eichmann was tried in Israel in 1961. Also, as late as 1979, one of the heroes of the U.S. Space Program, ex-Nazi scientist Arthur Rudolf was stripped of his U.S. residency and deported back to Germany, thus avoiding imprisonment. So they may have been operating out of fear, seeking a display of power and influence against their pursuers.
Third, these alleged plotters could have been unhappy with the military strategy of JFK and McNamara which emphasized conventional forces. They might have hoped for a better deal vis-a-vis nuclear weapons from LBJ or Speaker John W. McCormack as successors to JFK.
Fourth, they may have been mere accomplices who were working with their natural right-wing allies, the Southern Segregationists, right-wing Republicans and alleged fascist sympathizers such as banker Clarence Dillon, former President Herbert Hoover and retired General Douglas MacArthur.
Author Charles Allen believed that the US government supported the rabid ex-Hitlerites from Germany over other, more moderate Germans, because these ex-Nazi types were the toughest available people on the issue of opposing Communism. They were experienced killers, they had murdered Communists by the thousands on the Eastern Front and they would gladly do the same in Eastern Europe in 1963 should they have to. If fact, the U.S. intelligence services had allied themselves in Germany with people who thought that those who tried to kill Hitler on July 20, 1944 were actually traitors to Germany and should be shunned. This shows the cynicism of the U.S. National Security State (which is still with us at this writing).
But the most relevant quote regarding Heusinger, taken from Heusinger of the Fourth Reich by author Allen is this quote from Mr. I. R. Starr, a leader in B’nai Brith (a Jewish group):
“The placing of Adolf Heusinger in the position of trust and honor as the guest of our government, with headquarters in Washington, DC, would be a great aid to those forces which seek to resurrect Nazism. The presence of a Heusinger in Washington would be a great comfort and stimulant to George Lincoln Rockwell, head of the American Nazi Party, all anti-Semites, all reactionaries.”
Notes:
This chapter is largely, though not entirely, based on information available on Heusinger in an excellent biography titled: Heusinger of the Fourth Reich (1963) by Charles R Allen. Further information can be found in the book HRH Bernhard, Prince of the Netherlands: An Authorized Biography by Alden Hatch and Men of Responsibility, by Dirk Stikker.
Index
A
Above The Law 39-40, 420, 425, 455, 458, 467
Acheson, Dean 85, 87, 114-115, 121, 124, 204, 228, 286-287, 409
Action Francaise: Die-Hard Reactionaries in Twentieth Century France, The 34
Adams, W. L. Jr. 7
Adenauer, Konrad 21, 28, 33, 72, 76, 167, 170, 223, 228, 407-411, 413-414, 443-444, 454-455, 460-461, 464, 468, 470-473, 475-478, 481-486, 489-490, 522, 527, 529-531
Afar, Dr. 10
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) 178
Alexander, Earl 170
Alexander, Feed B. 338
Alexander, Lucia 288
Alexander, Harold 165, 167
Allen, Alan 62
Almond, Edward M. 74
American Mercury 76
American Security Council (ASC) 73, 135
Anastasia, Albert 35
Anderson, Clinton 284
Anderson, Dever 318, 325
Anderson, Jack 41, 107, 425, 469, 478
Anderson, Marion 382
Anderson, Robert B. 147, 283, 285, 287, 412, 463
Arcacha-Smith, Sergio 12-13, 15-16, 182, 237
Army magazine 163
As I Saw It 154, 172
Assassination of JFK: By Coincidence or Conspiracy, The 92, 99
Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond, The 17, 23
B
Badeaux, Hubert 134, 331-332
Baker, Bobby 182
Baker, Judyth Vary ii, 36, 39, 216-217, 232, 235, 237, 260, 266-267, 333-335, 376-377, 499, 505-506, 510, 512, 524
Baker, Marrion L. 48-49
Ballen, Sam 61
Bandera, Stepan 5, 26, 36, 88, 427-428, 433-434, 437-441, 443, 445, 473
Banister, Guy 13, 28, 134, 215, 231-232, 235-236, 238, 318-319, 325, 331, 333-334, 340, 478
Barnes, Carmen 60
Barrett, David M. 87-88, 91
Baruch, Bernard 198, 203, 205
Bastien-Thiery, Jean 12
Batchelor, Charles 43
Batista, Fulgencio 22, 136, 235, 365
Batvinis, Raymond J. 57, 66
Baumler, Tommy 28
Beatty, John 74
Becher, Walter 75-80, 521
Belzer, Richard 15, 23, 41, 186, 238-239, 241
Bendersky, Joseph W. 73-75, 78-79, 190, 224, 240
Bentano, Heinrich von 21, 72
Benton, William Burnett 124
Berle, Adolf Jr. 59
Bernstein, David 180
Bevilaqua, John 57, 325
Binder, James 163, 166, 168
Bingham, Hiram 121
Bishop, William “Bill” 3
Bissell, Richard 168, 491
Black, Edwin 93-94, 96, 99
Black, Hugo 327, 329-330, 340
Boggs, Caleb 83
Boggs, Lindy 40, 240
Bohlen, Chip 126, 127
Bolden, Abraham 4, 93-96, 99-00
Bond, Ward 129
Bormann, Martin 70, 198
Bosch, Albert H. 76
Bouck, Robert 20
Bouhe, George Alexandrovich 62, 211
Boyd, James 39-40, 333, 396, 420-425, 450, 455-456, 458-459, 465, 467-470, 472, 474
Brada, George 75-76, 78, 80
Bradley, Omar 148, 185, 237
Bridges, Styles 125, 127, 461-462, 471, 473
Bringuier, Carlos 13, 16, 264, 266, 269, 270, 335
Broglie, Warren 2
Brothers in Arms: The Kennedys, the Castros and the Politics of Murder 22, 24, 39, 171, 332, 343, 506, 512
Brown, Joseph 127
Brown, Madeleine 129
Brown, Walt 15, 23
Buchanan Dineen, Grace 60, 415
Buckley, Daniel G. 126
Buckley, James 346, 348, 522
Buckley, William F. 61, 76, 79, 178, 195, 246, 346-348, 522
Bugliosi, Vincent 38
Bullock, Hugh 197
Bundy, Harvey 145
Bundy, McGeorge 142, 144-146, 149-152, 159, 163, 169, 171, 280, 286, 372, 388, 408, 523
Bundy, William 144-145
Burdick, Usher L. 77, 399
Burnes, Richard V. 95
Burros, Dan 64, 173-177, 188-189, 447, 519, 523-524
Buse, Robert 84
Bush, George Herbert Walker 57, 61, 138, 403
Bush, George W. 158
Bush, Prescott 78, 419
Bush, Vannevar 145
C
Cabell, Charles P. 168
Canon, Jack 70
Capehart, Homer 168
Carlson, Frank 130
Case Against Congress, The 41, 425,
Case, Francis 130
; Castro, Fidel 12, 22, 36, 94, 97, 136, 168-169, 185, 216, 235, 245, 259-263-264, 270, 287, 358, 364-366, 375-377, 462, 489, 498, 505, 510, 530
Caulfield, Jeffrey 16, 21, 27, 29-30, 37, 39, 67, 73, 75-76, 78, 90, 134-136, 138, 175, 179, 224, 236, 263-264, 315, 324, 326, 332-338, 340-343, 415, 495, 506, 512, 516
Chaing Kai-shek 73, 133, 166
Chambers, Whittaker 83, 113, 261
Charles, Clemard 64
Cheramie, Rose 12-16, 23
Chernow, Ron 203, 208, 223, 240, 471, 479
Chicago Daily News 94, 99
Chicago Independent 96
Chicago Sun-Times 95
Chicago Tribune 73, 79, 135
Christoffel, Harold 84
Chubb, O. Edmund 121, 370
Churchill 77, 106, 127, 181, 191, 202, 245, 460, 507
Clarence Dillon: Wall Street Enigma 172,
Clark, Mark 165
Clay, Lucius 201
Clifford, Clark 147
Cline, Ray S. 135
Cohn, Roy 107, 124-126, 128-129, 184, 195, 414
Conant, James B. 126
Connally, John 42, 44-45, 114, 182, 217, 237-238, 284
Cooke, Alistair 150
Countdown for Decision 161, 194
Courtney, Kent 134
Cowen, Howard C. 7
Cox, Beth 7, 320
Coyle, Ed 44-45, 267
Cramer, Fritz 73
Cronin, John Francis 62, 83, 90, 478
Cunningham, Mr. 9
Cuomo, Andrew 179
Curry, Jesse E. 43-44
D
Daily Cardinal, The 88
Daley, Richard J.21, 111, 275, 279, 281, 524
Dallas Morning News 42
Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years 149
Dan Smoot Report 17
Darlan, Francois 165, 170
Davies, John Paton 121, 125, 357-359, 368, 370-371, 385, 398-399
Davis, A. Powell 127
Davis, Charles 122-124
Davis, Howard 262
Deep Politics and the Death of JFK 44, 50, 512
de Gaulle, Charles 12, 28-29, 31-33, 35-36, 77, 140, 170-171, 184-185, 281, 285-287, 318, 410, 412, 431, 441, 443, 473, 475, 483, 522, 527, 532
del Valle, Pedro 77
Demaret, Pierre 12, 31-34, 36
