The sparrow-faced man in the battle
uniform of an American general clambered down the steps of the
U.S. Army transport plane upon its arrival at Washington National
Airport. It was August 24, 1945, two weeks after the surrender
of Japan, three months after the German capitulation. The general
was hustled into a van with no windows and whisked to Fort Hunt
outside the capital. There he was attended by white-jacketed
orderlies and, the next morning, fitted with a dark-grey business
suit from one of Washington's swankiest men's stores.
General Reinhard Gehlen was ready to
cut a deal.
Reinhard Gehlen had been, up until the
recent capitulation, Adolph Hitler's chief intelligence officer
against the Soviet Union. His American captors had decked him
out in one of their uniforms to deceive the Russians, who were
hunting him as a war criminal. Now U.S. intelligence was going
to deploy Gehlen and his network of spies against the Russians.
The Cold War was on.
This is a story of how key nazis, even
as the Wehrmacht was still on the offensive, anticipated military
disaster and laid plans to transplant nazism, intact but disguised,
in havens in the West. It is the story of how honorable men,
and some not so honorable, were so blinded by the Red menace
that they fell into lockstep with nazi designs. It is the story
of the Odd Couple Plus One: the mob, the CIA and fanatical exiles,
each with its own reason for gunning for Kennedy. It is a story
that climaxes in Dallas on November 22, 1963 when John Kennedy
was struck down. And it is a story with an aftermath -- America's
slide to the brink of fascism. As William L. Shirer, author of
The
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, put it in speaking
of the excesses of the Nixon administration, "We could become
the first country to go fascist through free elections."
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| General Reinhard Gehlen,
shown (center) in a rare photograph taken during WWII. |
Even Robert Ludlum would have been
hard put to invent a more improbable espionage yam. In the eyes
of the CIA Reinhard Gehlen was an "asset" of staggering
potential. He was a professional spymaster, violently anti-Communist
and, best of all, the controller of a vast underground network
still in place inside Russian frontiers. His checkered past mattered
not. "He's on our side and that's all that matters,"
chuckled Allen Dulles, a U.S. intelligence officer during the
war who later headed the CIA. "Besides, one need not ask
a Gehlen to one's club."
Gehlen negotiated with his American "hosts"
with the cool hand of a Las Vegas gambler. When the German collapse
was at hand, he had looked to the future. He lugged all his files
into the Bavarian Alps and cached them at a site called, appropriately,
Misery Meadows. Then he buried his Wehrmacht uniform with the
embroidered eagle and swastika, donned an Alpine coat, and turned
himself in to the nearest U.S. Army detachment. When the advancing
Russians searched his headquarters at Zossen, all they found
were empty file cabinets and litter.
The deal Gehlen struck with the Americans
was not, for obvious reasons, released to the Washington Post.
As Heinz Hohne and Hermann Zolling phrased it in The General
Was A Spy, the German general took his entire apparatus,
"unpurged and without interruption, into the service of
the American superpower." There is no evidence that he ever
renounced the Third Reich's postwar plan, advanced by his own
family's publishing house, to colonize vast regions of Eastern
Russia, create a huge famine for 40,000,000, and treat the remaining
50,000,000 "racially inferior Slavs as slaves."
Allen Dulles may not have invited such
a man to his club, but he did the next best thing: he funneled
an aggregate of $200 million in CIA funds to the Gehlen Organization
as it became known. Directing operations from a fortress-like
nerve center in Bavaria, Gehlen reactivated his network inside
Russia. Soon, news of the first Russian jet fighter, the MiG-15,
was channeled back to the West. In 1949 the general scored an
espionage coup when he turned up Soviet plans for the remilitarization
of East Germany.
When Dulles spoke, Gehlen listened. The
CIA chief was convinced, along with his brother, Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles, that the "captive nations"
of the Soviet bloc would rise up if given sufficient encouragement.
At his behest, Gehlen recruited and trained an exile mercenary
force ready to rush in without involving American units. Also
at Dulles' direction, Gehlen tapped the ranks of his wartime
Russian collaborators for a cadre of spies to be parachuted into
the Soviet Union. Some of these spies were schooled at the CIA's
clandestine base at Atsugi, Japan, where, in 1957, a young Marine
named Lee Harvey Oswald was posted to the U-2 spy plane operation
there.
Atsugi was only one station on Oswald's
Far East intelligence route; he was also at the U-2 base at Subic
Bay in the Philippines and, for a short while, at Ping-Tung.
Taiwan In 1959 he was transferred to a Marine base at Santa Ana,
California for instructions in radar surveillance. His training
officer had graduated from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service,
which had close Agency ties. In May, 1960, when President Eisenhower
was planning a summit meeting with Soviet Premier Khrushchev,
a U-2 was shot down over Russia and its pilot captured. The pilot,
Francis Gary Powers, later blamed his demise on Lee Harvey Oswald.
The U-2 affair effectively sabotaged Ike's summit meeting.
In 1955, by pre-arrangement, the Gehlen
Organization was transferred to the West German Government, becoming
its first intelligence arm, the BND. The BND became a Siamese
twin of the CIA a global operation. They had already worked well
together, in Iran in 1953, where the country's first democratic
government was in power. Two years earlier Premier Mossadegh
had rashly nationalized the oil industry. Dulles, with Gehlen's
help, engineered a coup that toppled Mossadegh and reestablished
the Pahlevi family regime. The family patriarch, General Reza
Pahlevi, had been banished from the country for his pro-nati
activities during the war. Now his son, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi,
ascended the Peacock Throne. The Shah of Iran became one of the
CIA's most faithful assets.
Gehlen pioneered the setting up of dummy
fronts and cover companies to support his farflung covert operations.
A major project was to form Eastern European emigre groups in
the U.S. that could be used against the Soviets. Both the Tolstoy
Foundation and the Union of Bishops of the Orthodox Church Outside
Russia were funded by the CIA. When Lee and Marina Oswald arrived
from the Soviet Union in June, 1962 they were befriended by some
three dozen White Russians in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. Many
had identifiable nazi links; others were in the oil and defense
industries. It was an improbable social set for a defector to
the U.S.S.R. and his wife from Minsk.
By the time the Gehlen Organization became
part of the West German state, Gehlen already had his agent-in-place
in the United States. He was Otto Albrecht von Bolschwing, who
had been a captain in Heinrich Himmler’s dreaded SS and
Adolph Eichmann's superior in Europe and Palestine. Von Bolschwing
worked simultaneously for Dulles' OSS. When he entered the U.S.
in February, 1954, he cleverly concealed his nazi past. He was
to take over Gehlen's network not only in this country but in
many corners of the globe. He became closely associated with
the late Elmer Bobst of Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical, a godfather
of Richard Nixon's political career, which brought him inside
Nixon's 1960 campaign for the presidency. In 1969 he showed up
in California with a high-tech firm called TCI that held classified
Defense Department contracts. His translator for German projects
was Helene van Damme, Governor Ronald Reagan's appointments secretary.
Von Damme is currently U.S. Ambassador to Austria, next door
to the nazi's homeland.
In 1968 Reinhard Gehlen withdrew to his
chalet in Bavaria. The chalet had been a gift from Allen Dulles.
Wild Bill Donovan of the OSS, Allen Dulles and
the Vatican
Allen Dulles
dubbed it Operation Sunrise. He mounted it from his walk-up office
in Bern, Switzerland, where, since 1942, he had maintained contact
with key nazis. Operation Sunrise was conceived when these nazis
decided, in the face of defeat, that they preferred to surrender
to the Americans and British. The agreement, which double-crossed
the Russians, was signed April 29, 1945.
The principle negotiator on the German
side was SS Commander Karl Wolff, head of the Gestapo in Italy.
Wolff acted with full authority, for he was formerly chief of
Heinrich Himmler's personal staff. Wolff’s relationship
with Dulles spared him from the dock at Nuremberg, but when it
was later discovered that he had dispatched "at least"
300,000 Jews to the Treblinka death camp he was handed a token
sentence. In 1983 Wolff made the social pages when he and some
of his old SS buddies sojourned on the late Hermann Goering's
yacht Carin II of Hamburg. The skipper was Gert Heidemann,
an avowed Hamburg nazi. The yacht belonged to the widow, Emmy
Goering, whose estate attorney was the celebrated Melvin Belli.
Belli has always had an eclectic clientele. He represented Jack
Ruby after he shot Oswald. And he represented actor Errol Flynn's
family interests. Flynn (once a close friend of Ronald Reagan)
has been identified as having collaborated with the Gestapo.
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| John J. McCloy had a lengthy
career riddled with Nazi sympathies |
When Wolff hammered out the secret
surrender terms with Dulles, he had in the back of his mind a
safe diaspora for his nazi compatriots. This is where the OSS,
William Donovan and the sovereign state of the Vatican came in.
"Wild Bill" Donovan was top dog in the OSS. Shortly
before the Germans overran Europe, Father Felix Morlion, a papal
functionary, had set up a Vatican intelligence organization called
Pro Deo in Lisbon. When the U.S. entered the war Donovan moved
Morlion lock, stock and barrel to New York and opened a sizeable
bank account for him to draw on. The priest founded the American
Council for International Promotion of Democracy Under God, on
60th Street. In the same building is the office of William Taub,
whose name popped up during the Watergate affair. Taub is well-known
as a wide-ranging middleman for such powerful figures as Nixon,
Howard Hughes, Aristotle Onassis and Jimmy Hoffa, and his behind-the-scenes
maneuvers were invaluable to Nixon in his 1960 run at the presidency.
Taub was especially close to Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviania of the
Holy See, who arranged Mussolini's 1929 "donation"
of $89 million to the Vatican to ensure its neutrality with Mussolini
and Hitler. The money went into a special fund in the Vatican
Bank, and after the war part of it was entrusted to "God's
Banker" Michele Sindona for investment. Sindona channeled
a good chunk of it to the Nixon campaign.
When Rome was liberated in 1944 Morlion
and Pro Deo relocated there. In recognition of Donovan's good
works on behalf of Pro Deo, Pope Plus XII knighted him with the
Grand Cross of the Order of St. Sylvester. And before he flew
off to Washington to cut his deal with the CIA, Reinhard Gehlen
received the Sovereign Military Order of Malta award from the
Pontiff. So did James Jesus Angleton, a Donovan operative in
Rome who became the CIA's chief of counterintelligence.
For Dulles, Operation Sunset was a personal
triumph, one that set in motion his rise to the top of the intelligence
heap. In 1963, by virtue of that position, he became the CIA's
representative on the Warren Commission.
John J. McCloy and the Chase Manhattan
President Lyndon Johnson asked John
J. McCloy to serve on the Warren Commission. No less than nine
presidents had called on the Wall Street lawyer for special assignments,
yet he was little known to the public. McCloy said he entered
the investigation "thinking there was a conspiracy,"
but left it convinced that Oswald acted alone. "I never
saw a case that was more completely proven," he asserted.
McCloy had long been involved in the
murky world of espionage, intrigue and nazis. He spent the decade
of the 1930s working out of Paris. Much of his time was spent
on a law case stemming from German sabotage in World War I. His
investigation took him to Berlin, where he shared a box with
Hitler at the 1936 Olympics. He was in contact with Rudolph Hess
before the Nazi leader made a mysterious flight to England in
1941.
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| Major General Charles
A. Willoughby, "Our own Junker general." |
When the nazis occupied Europe, the
banking exchanges between Britain and the U.S. on the one hand
and Germany on the other carried on as usual. In Trading With
the Enemy, Charles Higham documents the role of Standard
Oil of New Jersey, owned by the Chase Manhattan Bank, and I.G.
Farben's Sterling Products with the Bank for International Settlements.
Standard Oil tankers plied the sea lanes with fuel for the nazi
war machine. Prior to the war McCloy was legal counsel to Farben,
the German chemical monopoly.
As an assistant secretary in the War
Department during the war:
In 1952 Otto Skorzeny, who had been
released from American custody in 1947, moved to Madrid. He created
what is known as the International Fascista. The CIA and the
Gehlen BND dispatched him to "trouble spots." On his
payroll were former SS agents, French OAS terrorists and secret
police from Portugal's PDID. PDID are the same initials as the
Los Angeles police intelligence unit, Public Disorder Intelligence
Division. The California PDID was exposed on May 24, 1983 as
spying on law abiding citizens at an expense of $100,000, utilizing
a computerized dossier system bought by the late Representative
Larry McDonald's "Western Goals." (McDonald was a national
leader of the John Birch Society, which was exceedingly active
in Dallas preceding the Kennedy assassination. Western Goals
has offices in Germany run by Eugene Wigner that feed data to
the Gehlen BND.)
On the board of Western Goals are such
Cold Warriors as Edward Teller, Admiral Thomas Moorer and Dr.
Hans Senholt, once a Luftwaffe pilot.
SS Colonel Skorzeny's CIA agents participated
in terror campaigns waged by Operation 40 in Guatemala, Brazil
and Argentina. Skorzeny was also in charge of the Paladin mercenaries,
whose cover, M.C. Inc., was a Madrid export-import firm.
Dr. Gerhard Hartmut von Schubert, [formerly]
of Joseph Goebbels' propaganda ministry, was M.C. operating manager.
The nerve center for Skorzeny's operations was in Albufera, Spain.
It was lodged in the same building as the Spanish intelligence
agency SCOE under Colonel Eduardo Blanco and was also an office
of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
The Albufera building was the kind of
intelligence nest that was duplicated in New Orleans in 1963.
That summer Lee Harvey Oswald handed out pro-Castro literature
stamped with the address 544 Camp Street, a commercial building.
This was a blunder, because Oswald actually was under the control
of an anti-Castro operation headquartered there. His controller,
W. Guy Banister, was connected with military intelligence, the
CIA and a section of the World Anti-Communist League that had
been set up by Willoughby and his Far Pacific intelligence unit
in Taiwan.
In The Great Heroin Coup, Henrik
Kruger disclosed that the International Fascist was "not
only the first step toward fulfilling the dream of Skorzeny,
but also of his close friends in Madrid, exile Jose Lopez Rega,
Juan Peron's grey eminence, and prince Justo Valerio Borghese,
the Italian fascist money man who had been rescued from execution
at the hands of the World War II Italian resistance by future
CIA counterintelligence whiz James J. Angleton."
A subcommittee on international operations
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee prepared a report "Latin
America: Murder, Inc." that is still classified. The title
repeated Lyndon Johnson's remark, three months before he died,
"We were running a Murder, Inc. in the Caribbean."
The report concluded: "The United States had joint operations
between Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.
The joint operations were known as Operation Condor. These are
special teams used to carry out 'sanctions,' the killing of enemies."
Jack Anderson gave a few details in his
column "Operation Condor, An Unholy Alliance" August
3, 1979:
"Assassination teams are centered in Chile. This international
consortium is located in Colonia Dignidad, Chile. Founded by
nazis from Hitler's SS, headed by Franz Pfeiffer Richter, Adolf
Hitler's 1000-year Reich may not have perished. Children are
cut up in front of their parents, suspects are asphyxiated in
piles of excrement or rotated to death over barbecue pits."
Otto Skorzeny code-named his assault
on American soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge Operation Greif,
the "Condor." He continued Condor with his post-war
special teams that imposed "sanctions," meaning the
assassination of enemies. Skorzeny's father-in-law was Hjalmar
Schacht, president of Hitler's Reichsbank. Schacht guided Onassis'
shipyards in rebuilding the German and Japanese war fleets. In
1950 Onassis signed on Lars Anderson for his whaling ships on
the hunt off Antarctica and Argentina. Anderson had belonged
to Vidkum Quisling's nazi collaborationist group in Norway during
the war. Clay Shaw, who was charged by New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison
with complicity in the JFK assassination, was a close friend
of Hjalmar Schacht.
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| Colonia Dignidad. Nobody
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In 1952 Nicolae Malaxa moved from
Whittier California to Argentina. Malaxa had belonged to Otto
von Bolschwing's Gestapo network, as did his associate, Viorel
Trifia, who was living in Detroit. They were members of the Nazi
Iron Guard in Romania, and had felt prosecution. They had one
thing in common; they were friends of Richard Nixon.
Trifia had been brought to the U.S. by
von Bolschwing. Malaxa had escaped from Europe with over $200
million in U.S. dollars. Upon arrival in New York he picked up
another $200 million from Chase Manhattan Bank. The legal path
for his entry was smoothed by the Sullivan & Cromwell law
offices, the Dulles brothers firm. Undersecretary of State Adolph
Berle, who had helped Nixon and star witness Whittaker Chambers
convict Alger Hiss, personally testified on Malaxa's behalf before
a congressional subcommittee on immigration. In 1951 Senator
Nixon introduced a private bill to allow Malaxa permanent residence.
Arrangements for his relocation in Whittier were made by Nixon's
law office. The dummy front cover for Malaxa in Whittier was
Western Tube. In 1946 Nixon had gotten a call from Herman L.
Perry asking if he wanted to run for Congress against Rep. Jerry
Voorhis. Perry later became president of Western Tube.
When Malaxa went to Argentina in 1952,
he linked up with Juan Peron and Otto Skorzeny. Questions were
raised at the time about J. Edgar Hoover, the Iron Guard, Malaxa
and Vice President Nixon.
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| Richard M. Nixon: strange
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1960 Elections: Richard Nixon vs. John F. Kennedy
Before the election of 1960, a group
within the Christian Right plotted to kill John Kennedy in Van
Nuys, California while he was still a candidate. The group was
a meld of anti-Castro Cubans, Minutemen and home-grown nazis.
Some were sought by Jim Garrison, following his arrest of Clay
Shaw, for testimony before the New Orleans grand jury. When Garrison
forwarded extradition papers for Edgar Eugene Bradley, a member
of the group, Governor Ronald Reagan refused to sign them.
The leader of one of these groups, the
Christian Defense League (CDL), was the Reverend William P. Gale.
During the war Gale had been an Army colonel in the Philippines
training guerilla bands. His superior officer was Willoughby.
By the late 1950s Gale was recruiting veterans for his "Identity"
group, which was financed by a wealthy Los Angeles man.
One of the CDL's contacts was Captain
Robert K. Brown, a special forces professional from Fort Benning,
Georgia. Brown was working with anti-Castro Cubans, mercenaries
similar to Skorzeny's teams. Brown is now publisher of Soldier
of Fortune magazine and paramilitary texts such as Silencers,
Snipers, and Assassins. The book explains how Mitchell WerBell
made special weapons for the CIA, Bay of Pigs assault squads
and other customers. WerBell, son of a wealthy Czarist cavalry
officer, perfected a silencer so effective a gun can be shot
in one room and not heard in the next. It is ideal for assassinations.
There had been prolonged controversy
about how many shots were fired the day Kennedy was killed. The
President's wounds, nicks on the limousine and curb, and other
bullet evidence indicated quite a few. But the Warren Commission
concluded there were only three. It took the testimony of spectators
in Dealy Plaza who said they only heard three. It never considered
the possibility that silencer-fitted guns were fired.
When Clay Shaw was arrested by Jim Garrison
the news was of particular interest to the Italian newspaper
Paesa Sera. It followed up with a story that Shaw belonged
to a cover organization in Rome named Centro Mondiale Commerciale
(CMC). Its location was frequently moved, its presidents rotated;
its modus operandi altered. CMC included Italian fascists, elements
of the European paramilitary right, the CIA, and the U.S. Defense
Department. There were major shareholders with banks located
in Switzerland, Miami, Basel and other major cities.
CMC had been formed in 1961, one year
after Kennedy was elected. Its principals had worked with fascist
networks established after World War II. The board of directors
numbered Ferenc Nagy, a former Hungarian premier who led that
country's Anti-Communist Countrymen's Party in exile. J. Edgar
Hoover brought Nagy to the United States, where there were numerous
Gehlen-supported emigre organizations. On August 18, 1951, the
Saturday Evening Post pictured Nagy with Czech, Pole,
Hungarian and Russian exiles under the heading: "They Want
Us To Go to War Right Now." On November 22, 1963 Nagy was
living in Dallas.
CMC was actually a subsidiary of Swiss-based
Permindex, whose president was Prince Gutierez de Spadafora,
Italian industrialist and large landowner. Spadafora's daughter-in-law
was related to Hjalmar Schacht. Clay Shaw, who managed the New
Orleans Intemational Trade Mart, was a director. Another was
Giorgio Mantello, aka George Mandel, who would later move to
New Orleans. Once convicted of "criminal activities"
in Switzerland, Mantello worked closely with his fellow Hungarian
Nagy. One of the goals of the CMC was that "Rome will recover
once again her position as center of the civilized world."
Major L. M. Bloomfield, a veteran of
the OSS who resided in Montreal, was a suspect Garrison wanted
to question. In Canada he reportedly controlled Credit Suisse,
Heineken's Breweries, Israel Continental Company, Grimaldo Siosa
Lines and other international firms. Shaw's name was found among
eleven directors of a company in Montreal that actually was based
in Rome. Who was giving the virtually unlimited money to CMC,
and who was getting it? The answer might have been found in the
huge amounts that flowed out of Evita Peron's accounts.
Paesa Sera reported on March 4,
1967 that CMC was a creature of the CIA serving as a money conduit,
and that Shaw and Bloomfield conducted illegal political espionage
under its cover. In New Orleans, Shaw was the respected citizen
who had helped restore the French Quarter. In Rome he was a vital
member of the boards of twin companies dealing with fascists
accused of European assassinations. Shaw's address book contained
the private number of Principessa Marcelle Borghese, now Duchessa
de Bomartao, who is related to Prince Valerio Borghese. Called
the "Black Prince" and "The New Duce," Borghese
was leader of the Movimento Sociale Italiano, a neo-fascist syndicate.
The Black Prince, who was a decorated submarine captain in the
First World War, was convicted of cooperating with the nazis
in WW II and given 12 years in prison.
The Black Prince is the same Borghese
rescued by the CIA's James J. Angleton. No wonder Angleton was
awarded the Sovereign Military Order of Malta by the Pope after
the war. It might explain what Angleton was hinting at when questioned
about the murder of JFK: "A mansion has many rooms; there
were many things during the period; I'm not privy to who struck
John."
Clay Shaw's affiliation with Permindex
would plug in later to Argentina, Spain, Rome, New Orleans and
Dallas. The international range of hit teams, using CIA money
diverted overseas to cover companies set up by the Gehlen Organization,
started coming together after Shaw's arrest.
In November, 1960 it would be Nixon versus
Kennedy. Frank Sinatra introduced Judith Exner to John Kennedy
on the eve of the New Hampshire primary. A few weeks later Sinatra
introduced Judith Exner to Chicago Mafia boss Sam Giancana. So
Exner became involved, as William Safire put it, in a "dual
affair with the nation's most powerful mobster and the nation's
most powerful political leader."
Giancana was busy with more than his
love life; he was hired to form assassination teams to go after
Fidel Castro. The man who retained him was Robert Maheu, a former
FBI and CIA operative. It was a classic cutoff. Maheu never mentioned
that the CIA was behind it. He intimated to Giancana that wealthy
Cuban exiles were providing the funds. This sounded plausible,
since Maheu was Howard Hughes' right-hand man.
Giancana put his Los Angeles lieutenant,
Johnny Roselli, in charge of the hit squads. In 1978 when the
House Select Committee questioned him, Roselli hinted that his
assignment was aimed at Kennedy as well as Castro. Shortly afterward,
his body was found floating in an oil drum off the Florida coast.
Giancana never got a chance to testify. He was shot to death
in his Chicago home.
The Howard Hughes organization, used
as a cover for the kill-Castro conspiracy, (Hughes thought it
was a patriotic idea) has long retained Carl Byoir Associates
as its public relations arm. Throughout the war Byoir represented
nazi bankers and industrialists and the I.G. Farben interests.
One of his clients was Ernest Schmitz, member of the I.G. Farben-Ilgner
and the German American Board of Trade. His Information Services
was subsidized by the nazi government. George Sylvester Viereck,
editor of the German Library of Information, was also in business
with Byoir. A lucrative Byoir client was the Frederick Flick
Group. Flick, a Nuremberg defendant released by McCloy, was the
single greatest power behind the nazi military muscle.
Frederick Flick's son was close to the
W.R. Grace Company, and invested over $400,000 in partnership
with J. Peter Grace in the United States. During the war, WR.
Grace was accused in a military report of protecting a certain
nazi Colonel Brite in Bolivia. In 1951, when the CIA smuggled
Barbie out of Germany, he was sent to join the same Colonel Brite.
George de Mohrenschildt was a close associate of the company's
founder, William Grace.
De Mohrenschildt was a man of many faces.
He befriended Lee and Marina Oswald, introducing them to the
White Russian community. He made phone calls to obtain Lee jobs
and housing. As he told it to the Warren Commission, he was fascinated
with this strange couple just out of Russia. But at the Petroleum
Club in Dallas, De Mohrenschildt sang the praises of Heinrich
Himmler. His travels took him all over the world on missions
identified with intelligence. In 1956 he was employed by Pantepec
Oil Company owned by the family of William Buckley.
De Mohrenschildt often discussed Oswald
with J. Walton Moore, the CIA's Domestic Contacts Division resident
in Dallas. In the spring of 1963, just after visiting the Oswalds,
he went to Washington. There is a record of a phone call de Mohrenschildt
made on May 7, 1963, to the Army Chief of Staff for intelligence.
The same month he had a meeting in person with a member of that
staff. His military connections seem to have been wide. One of
the first persons de Mohrenschildt took the Oswalds to see in
Dallas was retired Admiral Chester Burton.
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| Lee Harvey Oswald's benefactor
was Texas oil millionaire George de Mohrenschildt |
Although De Mohrenschildt and his
wife Jeanne testified at length before the Warren Commission,
only attorney Albert Jenner and Pentagon historian Alfred Goldberg
attended. One of Jenner's clients was General Dynamics, maker
of the F-lll fighter that would achieve fame in Vietnam. The
chief of security for General Dynamics in Dallas, Max Clark,
was another De Mohrenschildt associate donating money to help
Marina while George got Lee his next job in Dallas. He found
one at the graphics house of Jagger-Chiles-Stovall, which held
classified military contracts.
Jeanne de Mohrenschildt was originally
brought to the U.S. by a family member employed by the Howard
Hughes organization. In 1977 George was found fatally shot, allegedly
a suicide, on the day a House Select Committee investigator came
by looking for him. Jeanne consented to a press interview. She
said George had been a nazi spy.
The placement de Mohrenschildt got for
Oswald allowed him to visit the Sol Bloom agency at least 40
times. It was this agency that later decided the motorcade route
for Kennedy's fatal visit.
Ruth Paine, whom Oswald met via George,
had called Roy Truly and procured work for Oswald at the Texas
School Book Depository.
If Maydell and the Gehlen agents
were active in the U.S. they knew all the right moves to secure
their patsy.
1960: Young Americans for Freedom
President Harry Truman warned about
the CIA "Gestapo" he had created.
President Eisenhower left the White House
fearing the new "military-industrial complex" he handed
to us.
In 1960 candidate Richard Nixon was qualified
for the job of President. A lot of influential people were sure
he was the only choice.
Nixon was familiar with every red scare
tactic. From his first campaign against Jerry Voorhis in 1946
for the House seat, or vs. Helen Douglas in the Senate, and working
with Sen. Joe McCarthy, he knew it well. The prosecution of Alger
Hiss, with such flimsy evidence, proved his value alone.
But Nixon had also accumulated strong
connections with members of the crime syndicate, the Vatican
hierarchy, defense industries and known nazis. He knew them all.
What if he lost after those seventeen
years of preparation? Would there be a back-up team for the future?
Could the Pentagon or Reinhard Gehlen visualize leaving the entire
United States presidency to chance elections?
Remember what
happened to Senator Robert Kennedy on the eve of his primary
election in June, 1968? They can't get that close to losing it
again, you know. With both Kennedy's gone, Nixon finally made
it.
September, 1960, two months before the
elections, William F. Buckley Jr. launched his YAF, Young Americans
for Freedom, from the grounds on his Connecticut estate.
Prior to that date, Buckley's career
was one of the most conservative in the U.S. Following his graduation
at Yale, mentor Frank Chodorov grabbed him for purposes related
to his job with McCormick's Chicago Tribune.
Buckley served the CIA in Japan from
1950 to 1954.
He also did a stint with CIA in Mexico
with E. Howard Hunt.
Co-founder of YAF was Douglas Caddy,
whose offices were used by the CIA and Howard Hughes organization,
at the time of Watergate illegal entries and other dirty tricks.
After the CIA in Japan, Buckley was ready
to publish his own magazine, The National Review. This
was an unusual opportunity to bring together the world's most
conservative writers for publication and much propaganda accompanied
by Buckley's glib innuendos.
Once the publication was going, Buckley
decided to bring Young Americans for Freedom to the campus; old
ideas, old money, and young minds to mold. Behind the project
were always the well-funded military masters, such as the YAF's
Tom Charles Huston and the Cointel-Program Nixon cooked up.
The selected advisory board for YAF was
a Who's Who of oldies even then: Senator Strom Thurmond, Senator
John Tower, Mr. Ronald Reagan, Professor Lev Dobriansky, General
Charles Willoughby, and Mr. Robert Morris are a sample.
Robert Morris may not be a household
name. But William Buckley knew him well, and Morris, Nixon, and
Senator Joe McCarthy were team players. Senator Joe McCarthy's
two strongest supporters for him to represent Wisconsin were
Frank Seusenbrenner and Walter Harnisfeger. Both admired Adolf
Hitler and made continuous trips to Germany.
Senator McCarthy obliged fast enough.
Before he went after the Commies in the State Department, he
had to release a few of Hitler's elite nazis lingering in the
Dachau prison camp. McCarthy beat John McCloy by about three
years.
In 1949, during congressional hearings
on the Malmedy Massacre, the bloody Battle of the Bulge, McCarthy
invited himself to take over the entire testimony. He wasn't
satisfied until the prison doors flew open. The most detestable
and ugly battle of World War II, an assault upon Americans and
civilians in Belgium, was ignored. Hitler's precious Generals
Fritz Kraemer and Sepp Dietrick, along with Hermann Priess and
many others, were free.
With that business finished, McCarthy
took on Robert Morris as Chief Counsel for the Senate Internal
Security Subcommittee. Morris' earlier training in Navy Intelligence
in charge of USSR counter-intelligence and psychological warfare
could be utilized well by Senator Joe. Particularly the psychological
warfare part.
After McCarthy died, Morris moved to
Dallas, Texas. He was a judge, and became president of Dallas
University.
In 1961, a year after Buckley founded
YAF, another conservative organization was formed in Munich,
Germany, calling itself CUSA, Conservatism USA. These were not
students, but members of the U.S. army, soon to be mustered out,
then to appear in Dallas, Texas, by November 1963. The host would
be Robert Morris.
A correspondence between Larry Schmidt
in Dallas, to Bernie Weissman in Munich, Germany, in preparation
for their arrival, was published in the Warren Commission
Hearings, Vol. XVIII.
Segments of the letters are as follows:
November 2, 1962: Dallas to Munich, Larry Schmidt:
"Gentlemen we got everything we wanted."
"It saved the trouble of infiltration."
"Met with Frank McGee ... (president of the Dallas Council
of World Affairs.)"
"Suggest Bernie convert to Christianity and I mean it."
(Bernard Weissman, the only Jew, was brought all the way to
Dallas on November 22, 1963, to lend his name to the "Wanted
for Treason" fliers handed out to welcome JFK. He testified
that the John Birch Society paid for the ads and "wanted
a Jewish name at the bottom.")
"We must all return to the church."
"These people are religious bugs."
"I think in terms of 300,000 members, $3,000,000."
"The John Birch Society has a million members. Look for
us to merge with them in 1964."
"Arrangements are being made for me to meet the heads
of the Dallas John Birch, General Walker, and H.L. Hunt, Texas
oil millionaire."
(General Walker had been retired from the military by John
Kennedy for his compulsory Pro-Blud indoctrination.)
"I have already met the top editors of the Dallas Morning
News, the country's most conservative newspaper."
"These people are radicals but there is a method in their
madness. You see, they're all after exactly what we're after."
"No liberal talk whatsoever, none."
"Down here a Negro is a nigger."
"I mean, no one is ever to say one kind word about niggers."
"Liberals are our enemies."
"The conservative isn't against the Niggers, he just
wants to keep him in his place for his own good."
(Pres. John Kennedy and Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy had waged
a bitter battle from Sept. 30 to Oct. 3, 1962, at the University
of Mississippi. The integration of one black student brought
in the U.S. Army and caused Gen. Edwin Walker to be confined.)
January 4, 1963, Larry Schmidt to B. Weissman, Munich:
"I want big men ... believe me if I had a dozen such
men I can conquer the world."
"I will go down in the history books as a great and noble
man, or a tyrant."
"I expect to see you here in Dallas, especially Norman
and Larry."
"If Jim Mosely is not here by Feb. 15, he is finished."
"One thing had best be understood, I am not playing games
here in Dallas and expect you not to play games in Munich."
"I am not here in Dallas for my health or because I think
Dallas is a wonderful place."
"Continue to have regular meetings and try to get things
back in order in preparation for the big meetings."
February 2, 1963, Larry Schmidt:
"We have succeeded, the mission with which I was charged
in Dallas has been achieved."
"Friday night I attended a gathering of the top conservatives
in Dallas."
"The meeting was at the home of Dr. Robert Morris, President
of the Defenders of American Liberty."
"Present were Mr. George Ward, Detective for Dallas City
Police, Mr. Ken Thompson, editorial writer for the Dallas Morning
News, Mr. Clyde Moore, former PR man for H.L. Hunt, former UPI
writer. (Eight others)."
"I told them exactly what I wanted."
"Others suggested using an already existing movement,
named the Young Americans for Freedom, with already 50,000 members."
"CUSA, as set up in Munich, is now an established fact
in Dallas, only we are calling it YAF. I think you catch on."
"We are starting Munich chapters of YAF. To spread to
Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Berlin, Kaiserslautern."
"We are getting every top name in business, education,
politics, and religion to endorse YAF."
"The advisory board includes 37 congressmen . . . including
Sen. Strom Thurmond, Sen. John Tower, and Sen. Barry Goldwater.
There is Ronald Reagan, Gen. Mark Clark, Gen. Charles Willoughby,
John Wayne, etc."
"Change all your records to read YAF."
"All those months in Munich were not wasted. I accomplished
my task in Dallas. I need you here soon. I sold these people
on each of you and they are expecting you to come to Dallas and
play an important role."
"The days of leisure are over."
"We want to see you, Norman, Jim and Bill Burley back
here in Dallas."
"Sheila and my brother will be here in August; Ken Glazebrook
in Sept."
June 13, 1963, Larry Schmidt to B. Weissman in Munich,
Germany:
"Warren Carroll, our only other recruit to CUSA, is already
a PhD and two MS's. Warren is a scriptwriter for Lifeline, the
H.L. Hunt television and radio series. Hunt is the millionaire
oilman."
"Warren is 32, former CIA man. Don't worry, he has been
checked out."
"Hunt checked him out."
(This appears to be a military action, DIA. They have to check
out the CIA man, using Hunt's security).
After Jack Ruby was arrested for killing Oswald inside the
Dallas jail, there were copies of Warren Carroll's Lifeline on
the seat of his car. The section was on "Heroism,"
on how to become a "hero." This is interesting because
one of the first reasons Ruby gave for killing Oswald was, "I
wanted to show them a Jew had guts."
"We want to get Norman into the Republic National Bank
... where we are building our credit like crazy for the day we
need ready cash."
(The Dallas Republic National Bank was identified by the Washington
Post, February 26, 1967, as a conduit of CIA funds since
1958.)
(Connie Trammel, who worked at the Republic National Bank,
accompanied Jack Ruby to the office of Lamar Hunt, Wednesday,
Nov. 20, 1963, two days before Kennedy was assassinated.)
October 1, 1963, Larry Schmidt to Munich, Germany:
"I have a lot of contacts, bankers, insurance men, realtors."
"My brother began working as an aide to General Walker.
Paid full time."
"National Indignation Committee will merge in the Fall
of 1963, as soon as Bernie and Norman are in Dallas."
"This is a top secret merger and is not to be discussed
outside the movement."
October 29, 1963, Larry Schmidt to Munich Germany:
"This town is a battleground and that is no joke. I am
a hero to the right, a stormtrooper to the left."
"I have worked out a deal with the chairman of YAF. The
arrangements are always delicate, very delicate. If I don't produce
the bodies it is likely Dale (Davenport) will think me a phoney."
"He needs our help now. Adlai Stevenson is scheduled
here on the 24th."
"Kennedy is scheduled in Dallas on November 24."
"All big things are happening now."
1963: A few connections in Dallas -- Gen. Walter
Dorberger, Michael and Ruth Paine
When George de Mohrenschildt was busy
introducing Lee and Marina to the Dallas-Ft. Worth White Russian
displaced Czarists, he managed to keep the social level equal
with his American contacts.
One casual dinner in the company of Michael
and Ruth Paine, and that was enough meeting to set the Oswalds’
course. George and Jeane didn't have to meet with them again.
Ruth Paine would provide housing for
Marina while Lee went to New Orleans. A few weeks later, she
drove Marina to join Lee. After summer vacation at Wood's Hole,
Mass., Ruth returned and brought Marina to her home in Irving,
Texas, while Lee was on the bus to Mexico with Albert Osborne/John
Bowen, and four other Solidarists from the Russian network.
After Kennedy was murdered, the Dallas
police rushed to the Paine's home. From that garage and elsewhere,
via the Paines, came most of the incriminating evidence against
Oswald.
The alleged murder weapon never could
be proven by the Warren Commission as ever having come from their
garage.
The cropped photo that Life printed
with Oswald holding a rifle came from a box removed from the
garage, taken to the police department, then returned the next
day, with nobody present to indicate where it came from.
Accessory after the fact, the letter
was delivered to Marina in December undated and unsigned, to
cover up General Walker's anxiety to blame a "Communist,"
Lee, for shooting at him in April and came from Ruth to Marina.
It wasn't in the home before then. The Warren Commission required
planted evidence sometimes in order to divert from Lee Oswald's
links to the Defense Department, assisted by Ruth and Michael
Paine.
Michael Paine's occupation at Bell Aircraft
is the Defense Department. This job requires security clearances,
so what would the unlikely Oswalds be doing in his home? Oswald,
the "defector?"
Paine's boss at Bell Aircraft as Director
of Research and Development, was none other than the noterious
war criminal General Walter Dornberger.
Dornberger was supposed to be hanged
at Nuremburg for his war crimes, slave labor and mass murders.
The British warned the U.S. not to let
him live because even after the war he was conniving for another
one. As stated, "Dornberger is a menace of the first order
who is untrustworthy. His attitude will turn ally against ally
and he would become a source of irritation and future unrest."
(Project Paperclip. Clarence Lasby.)
The very first call to authorities after
the gun went off on November 22, 1963, was from an employee at
Bell Helicopter who suggested "Oswald did it." Police
never located the source of both Oswald addresses that day.
Michael Paine took Lee to a meeting with
General Edwin Walker shortly before the assassination. Soon Oswald
would be charged with having shot Walker in April, and Walker
would be calling his nazi cronies in Germany 24 hours after JFK
was killed telling them he finally solved "who shot through
his window" seven months earlier: the same Oswald.
Who were the Paines? To believe the Warren
Commission and the CIA staff of lawyers, they were Mr. and Mrs.
Good Neighbor, all heart, altruistic. Ruth simply wanted to learn
more Russian from a native. For that price, she housed Marina,
a two-year-old daughter, a new infant, with all the fuss and
mess of three extras in a tiny house.
Michael Paine was a descendant of the
Cabots on both sides. His cousin Thomas Dudley Cabot, former
president of United Fruit, had offered their Gibraltar Steamship
as a cover for the CIA during the Bay of Pigs. Another cousin
was Alexander Cochrane Forbes, a director of United Fruit and
trustee of Cabot, Cabot, and Forbes.
Both Allen Dulles and John J. McCloy
were part of the United Fruit team. The Paine family had links
with circles of the OSS and the CIA.
Ruth Hyde Paine maintained close ties
with the Forbes families. Peter Dale Scott investigated the Paines,
"the patrician Paine and Forbes families." A far cry
from anybody's neighbor.
Michael's education came as a tradition,
third generation physicist at Harvard before working for Bell
Helicopter.
The British were correct on the Dornberger
evaluation.
Another clue to Albert Speer, the Reichmaster
for Munitions and War Production, and General Dornberger, is
their meeting as early as April, 1943.
When it was obvious to Hitler they would
be losing the war against the USSR, all top Nazis made detailed
plans for two years on how to proceed next.
Speer met with Dornberger, at Peenemunde,
the missile and rocket factory run with Werner Von Braun, and
instructed him in "the dispersion of functions throughout
the Reich."
Translated, that meant get ready to come
to the U.S.
Lee Harvey Oswald, Albert Osborne
When Lee Harvey Oswald entered Mexico
at Laredo, Texas, on Sept. 26, 1963, his companion on the Red
Arrow bus was Albert Osborne, alias John Howard Bowen.
Bowen-Osborne had been running a school
for highly professional marksmen in Oaxaca, Mexico, since 1934.
The cover for the place was his particular mission, and he was
the missionary.
The FBI records on Bowen go back to June
4, 1942, in Henderson Springs, Tennessee. He operated a camp
for boys known as "Campfire Council." Neighbors complained
it was for pro-nazi activities with young fascists. Bowen vehemently
opposed the U.S. going to war with nazi Germany. They stomped
on the American flag.
Before that, Bowen worked for the Tennessee
Valley Authority since 1933.
His dual citizenship between Great Britain
and the U.S. took him over the entire globe. So did his use of
multiple aliases.
After the Warren Commission published
their report in September 1964, several attorneys in the Southwest
recognized the name of Osborne.
September 8, 1952, Jake Floyd was murdered.
The target was meant to be his father, District Judge Floyd.
Two suspects were caught, one got away. Their testimony was about
being hired by Osborne and how he ran the school for assassins.
Later investigation revealed Osborne's
connections to Division V of the FBI, and to Clay Shaw's Centro
Mondiale Commerciale, with funding coming from New Orleans for
the CIA, Anti-Castro Cubans, and others.
Lee Harvey Oswald applied for a tourist
card to enter Mexico while still in New Orleans on September
17, 1963.
Four other persons, having consecutive
tourist numbers, departed nine days later, like Oswald, all to
arrive at the same time, entering from several different cities.
They were part of the White Russian Solidarists, the Gehlen emigre
community that Lee and Marina mingled with.
This assassination team funded Maurice
Brooks Gatlin, Guy Bannister, and the Miami office of Double
Check Corporation.
J. Edgar Hoover's Division V, Domestic
Intelligence, working with the American Council of Christian
Churches, had used this group from the Bowen-Osborne academy
of assassins.
Volume XXV of the Hearings has many pages
of interviews with people who had sent money to Jack Bowen. They
never met him, and some like Mrs. Bessie White, Pikesville, Tenn.,
mailed "$35 a month to John Howard Bowen who she believed
had been doing missionary work for 18 years in Mexico."
Osborne-Bowen had a mission.
Lee Harvey Oswald, agent from U.S. Defense
Dept., had a team of doubles impersonating his behavior, leaving
trails of anti-American frustration and meetings with various
people.
While Oswald was in Mexico just prior
to Kennedy's murder, the purposes were concealed. Meanwhile,
the CIA and various authorities led Oswald to the Cuban Embassy,
the Soviet Embassy. When the face or voices didn't match the
authentic Oswald, it didn't matter, given a difference of 40
to 50 pounds and shape. What came from all this was the conclusion
that Oswald had really wanted to go to Cuba next. Which Oswald,
and why?
This was to finalize with the illusion
of an Oswald-Castro admiration just days before Kennedy would
be killed.
Senator John Tower and Marina Oswald
One of the most consistent conservatives
among Buckley's YAF Advisory Board was Senator John Tower, Texas.
If there is anything he wouldn't want
in his back yard it was a defector and his allegedly Communist
wife from Minsk.
Yet, two years after joining the YAF
team in 1960, Tower was passing all waivers in order for Marina
Oswald to get to the United States as soon as possible. Without
his permission, this trip might never have taken place. Many
wives from the USSR are not that lucky.
March 22, 1962, Senator Tower cooperated.
"The sanctions imposed on immigration and nationality are
hereby waived in behalf of Mrs. Oswald. The file check on Marina
by the FBI, CIA, Dept. of Security Office, Division of biographical
intelligence and passport office," (Volume XXIV, 298).
George de Mohrenschildt testified in
Volume IX, pages 228-229, "Marina Oswald's father had been
a Czarist officer of some kind. I don't remember whether it was
army or navy."
Her real father was never identified
by name in all of the testimony.
Between 1948 and 1950 over 200 Byelorussian
nazis and their families were brought to New Jersey. Both George
de Mohrenschildt and Marina had come from Minsk, part of the
Byelorussian area.
The Gehlen nazi emigres were useful to
every part of the Kennedy assassination cover-up.
John Tower knew Marina was a safe bet.
Otherwise, why the hurry? Our CIA and the Defense Department
knew all there was to know about both Oswalds. Therefore, Tower
signed the immigration papers fast.
The Argentine Connections: Isaac Dan Levine and
the Ziger Family
The Warren Report wasn't published
until September, 1964. Testimony of witnesses and exhibits were
being collected up to the day of printing.
Yet as early as June 2, 1964, Isaac Don
Levine, another arch-enemy of Communists and a so-called expert
on the Soviet mind, was arranging with the Warren Commission
staff to bring the daughters of Oswald's boss, Alexander Ziger,
from the Minsk Radio factory to Argentina. He suggested using
CIA assistance.
What was that about?
"When the Oswalds left Russia they
smuggled out a message to one of the relatives of the Zigers
living in the U.S. They wanted help to get the Zigers’ daughters
out of Russia. The daughters, having been born in Argentina,
could claim Argentine citizenship. Levine suggested some confidential
source in the American Government such as the CIA should contact
the Argentine Government to set machinery in motion. (Memorandum
from W. David Slauson: Conference with Mr. Isaac Don Levine,
May 23, 1964).
January 21, 1964, John J. McCloy told
Commission members, before any witness was yet called, "this
fellow Levine is a contact with Marina to break the story up
in a little more graphic manner and tie it into a Russian business,
and it is with the thought and background of Russian connections,
conspiracy concept."
If there was a Russian conspiracy to
kill President John Kennedy, John McCloy, Isaac Don Levine, Allen
Dulles, and J. Edgar Hoover, not to speak of Nixon and others,
would squeeze that out.
Remember Gary Powers strongly hinted
at Oswald's role in downing the U-2, breaking up the Eisenhower-Khrushchev
meeting while Lee was employed at the Minsk Radio factory?
Nicolae Malaxa, Otto Skorzeny, and international
CIA-DIA agents were thick in both Minsk and Argentina. It was
Alexander Ziger and his family who introduced Lee to Marina Oswald.
That same evening they were at the home of an unidentified woman
just returned from the U.S.
The President of the U.S. had been murdered
in 1963.
Six months later the CIA is supposed
to assist the Ziger daughters?
One more connection to Richard Nixon.
When poor Whittaker Chambers almost collapsed
from the strain of having to testify against Alger Hiss, it was
Isaac Don Levine who took "Chambers by the arm, a reluctant
Chambers, and arranged the meetings where he would begin to smear
Hiss." (Friendship and Fratricide, Meyer Zelig).
When Levine was searching for a Soviet
connection to Kennedy's death, he was also doing business with
Marina's new manager, James Martin. It was Martin who was selling
the photo of Oswald posing with Communist literature and a rifle,
the same evidence pulled from the Paine's garage. Notice the
similarity to the Whittaker Chambers pumpkin papers years earlier
that launched Nixon's political career and convicted Alger Hiss.
If the evidence didn't fit the conclusions
of the investigators, the one picture would sell the Oswald assassin
story.
"Treason for My Daily Bread" -- Argentina
and Martin Bormann
In August 1971, a French paper headlined
a news story, "Martin Bormann behind the Kennedy murders."
It listed an international band of killers that was located in
Texas. They carried out the two assassinations at the German
command.
Six years later, June 8, 1977, the London
Guardian reported, "Bormann Linked with Kennedy Murder."
This story was based on a new book titled, Treason for My
Daily Bread by Mikhail Lebedev.
Lebedev detailed how Martin Bonnann left
Europe, established his current life in Paraguay, and how the
fatal head shot to Kennedy was delivered by an agent paid by
Bormann, alias of Zed.
Is any of this true?
Many of these allegations and names come
together with both Paris Flammonde's The Kennedy Conspiracy
and the Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal, known
as the Torbitt Document.
"Zed" allegedly used a .45
for the final shot.
Buddy Walters, murdered January 10, 1969,
picked up a .45 slug in Dealey Plaza and gave it to the Dallas
Police.
There were two possible assassination
teams in Dallas.
The military from Munich, Germany, that
was to take over the YAF, with Robert Morris' help, have yet
to be identified or interviewed (Morris from U.S. intelligence,
having to do with USSR covert work.) Gen. Edwin Walker's arrangement
with U.S. Military in Germany or, the arrival of such people
for Nov. 22, 1963, is open to question.
Albert Osborne's "mission"
in Mexico, with direct links to Clay Shaw's Centro Mondiale Commerciale,
has never been touched. This was the international band of killers
with the Borghese-James Angleton operations working throughout
the world.
Otto Skorzeny's CIA and Reinhard Gehlen
death squads, with headquarters in Madrid, were funded by Martin
Bormann when the Evita Peron funds were shared after 1952.
Lebedev mentions "Ruth," David
Ferrie, Clay Shaw, Guy Bannister, and Colonel Orlov.
The very first day George de Mohrenschildt
visited Marina Oswald she was alone and Lee was working. He brought
with him a "Colonel Orlov."
The House Select Committee on Assassinations
"investigated" the murder of President John F. Kennedy
from 1976-1978. The information about Bormann was available from
1971. Treason for My Daily Bread was published while they
were supposed to be finding the smoking gun.
G. Robert Blakey, Chief Consul for the
Committee, refused to admit any research or documents on these
subjects. He would hang up the telephone and even refused to
say if he had ever seen the Torbitt Document.
Six million dollars was allotted by Congress
to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy. Martin
Bormann may have had his motives for his actions through the
years. What were G. Robert Blakey's? What form of prosecution
should be suggested for committees paid to uncover the truth
who continuously sweep under the rug?
In A Study of a Master Spy, published
in London in 1961, Bob Edwards, a member of Parliament and Kenneth
Dunne, presented documentary evidence that Allen Dulles of the
CIA carried on secret conferences with representatives of Hitler's
SS Security Office in February and March 1943. They learned that
"Official Washington knew Martin Bormann, Deputy Fuhrer
of Hitler’s Germany, master-minded the international 'Die
Spinne' (Spider) underground organization which is planning to
revive nazism as soon as West Germany is adequately rearmed by
the United States. Official Washington seems disinterested."
With John J. McCloy, Allen Dulles and
J. Edgar Hoover in control of the Kennedy assassination investigation,
these nazi connections were buried.
The CIA's Man: The Chronology of Helmet Streikher
1937: Trained
for the Gustapo's S.S Officers. A graduate of The University
of Bonn Germany. Went to Military School at Blutordensberg, located
at Vogelsang Castle.
1938: Assigned
to Spain to join General Francisco Franco.
1939-1940: In
the U.S. he learned English and American customs. His cover was
as a German journalist working for Adolph Hitler.
1940-1941: Was
with Reinhard Gehlen in Eastern Europe. He will join Gehlen when
they are both working for Army intelligence.
1943-1945: Streikher
worked with Skorzeny.
1945: May 7,
1945, Streikher surrenders to Allies and is cleared for intelligence,
accepted for U.S. Army by October 1945.
1946-1947: He
works for the OSS (Officers of Strategic Services) in Europe,
Central Intelligence Group. CIG.
1948-1950: Streikher
was stationed in Israel, Greece, Europe, Africa and Middle East.
OSS becomes CIA.
1951-1957: CIA
assigned back to General Gehlen, now in his German offices of
the BND.
1958: In the
U.S. Training Army Intelligence offices and CIA.
1958-1961: Helps
plan Cuban Invasion. Active in the Bay of Pigs.
1961-1965: He
was in Africa, Middle East, and United States on CIA assignment.
On November 22, 1963, he said, "One of the worst kept secrets
in the C, is the truth about the President's murder. It wasn't
Castro or the Russians. The men who killed Mr. Kennedy were CIA
contract agents."
"John Kennedy's murder was a two-part
conspiracy murder. One was the action end with the killers; the
other was the deeper part, the acceptance and protection of that
murder by the Intelligence aparatus that controls the way the
world operates."
"It had to happen. The man was too independent
for his own good."
1968-1970: Senior
Field Agent for CIA. Disguised as a writer.
1971-1973: Back
in the United States. Langley, Virginia, training and making
plans under assignment.
1974-1977: Under
George Bush, director of CIA, Streikher sent to Africa and Middle
East.
1978-1980: Contract
agent on special assignment for CIA. June 15, 1980 he retired.
Other Known Aliases:
U.S. Army officer Captain William Raine, also known as Ross Meyers,
Hans Mollof, Karl Rolff, and Mark Schmidt. He had nine (9) other
pieces of identification in other names and nationalities, some
in the form of passports.
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The Bunge Corporation, Argentina & Germany
The stock market dropped 24 points
in 27 minutes when news of President Kennedy's assassination
was announced. 2.6 million shares were sold off. It was the greatest
panic since 1929.
Somebody made a huge profit selling short
in many markets.
Somebody made half a billion dollars
in one day. Coincidentally, the Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining
Corporation, headed by New Jersey commodities dealer Anthony
De Angeles, crashed the same day, driving the market down.
Allied Crude was controlled by U.S. American
Bunge Corporation and financially controlled by a group of share-holders
headquartered in Argentina, known as "Bunge and Born, LDA."
Business Week of October 19, 1963, one
month before the Kennedy assassination, described the Born family
in Argentina, the biggest shareholders for Bunge, as being from
Europe, specifically Germany.
Everything about Bunge has German influence.
They have a $2 billion annual business in 80 countries. There
are over 110 offices, all linked by Telex and under-the-ocean
telegraph channels. The Bunge Corporation is referred to as "the
Octopus."
The book Were We Controlled? detailed
the relationship of the Bunge Corporation, the foreknowledge
of Kennedy's murder, and the Argentine-German connections.
General Edwin Walker and the Hitler Nazis
The Eagle's Nest, now a mountain restaurant,
was given to Adolf Hitler by nazi aide Martin Bormann for the
fuhrer's 50th birthday. It is not far from Hitler's former summer
home in Berchtesgaden.
Nearby is the Platterhof Hotel, built
for guests when they came to pay their respects. The Platterhof
has changed its name to the General Walker Hotel.
November 23, 1963, one day after Kennedy's
death, Gen. Edwin Walker called Munich, Germany, from Shreveport,
La.
Walker's important story, via transatlantic
telephone, was to the nazi newspaper Deutsche National Zeitung
un Soldaten-Zeitung. Walker couldn't wait to tell them in Munich
that Lee Harvey Oswald, the lone suspect in the Dallas murders,
was the same person who shot through his window in April, 1963.
There was never one shred of evidence,
or a reliable witness, that could make this connection Dallas
police and FBI were taken by surprise.
In order to cover this over-exuberance
of trying to link a Marxist assassin to this altercation, it
became necessary to have Ruth Paine deliver that ridiculous letter
to Marina Oswald on December 3, 1964. The delayed letter was
to have been written the night Lee was out shooting in Walker's
home.
The only piece of bullet that remained
in custody was never positively identified as coming from the
6.5 Mannlicher Carcano, and there is no proof Oswald even handled
this rifle.
Why was General Walker in such a hurry
to get his information printed in Germany before anybody in Dallas
ever heard about it?
Kurt-George Kiesinger had just been installed
as Chancellor of West Germany and Franz-Josef Straus as finance
minister.
Kissinger entered the radio propaganda
division of nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop at age 36. He
was then directing a world-wide radio propaganda apparatus with
195 specialists under his supervision during the war. He was
the liaison officer, coordinating his department's work with
that of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.
Richard Nixon and Kurt-George Kiesinger
were soon, or maybe before, to become pals. Nixon tried to hide
his nazi past.
But General Walker, now home from military
service in Munich, knew the importance of such propaganda. He
was calling the same people who, under Hitler, published and
controlled the newspapers.
There were two motives for this call.
First, it gave international attention
to the fact that Oswald, the Marxist gunman, was shooting at
Walker as well as the President.
General Walker knew too many people in
the Defense Department and in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that
could be part of this assassination. He made himself appear as
a victim instead of a suspect.
The other reason, along with the expertise
of Robert Morris's counter-intelligence and psychological warfare
training, was to create a profile for Lee Harvey Oswald.
No possible motive could explain why
Oswald would really want to kill President Kennedy. By having
Oswald appear to shoot the right-wing General Walker with his
John Birch connections, his militant anti-communist stance, then
shoot John Kennedy, the same Commie-symp Walker was accusing
of treason, it would appear that Oswald was just nuts. He didn't
know right from left.
The Munich newspaper Walker called was
linked to the World Movement for a Second Anti-Komintern, part
of the Gehlen and U.S. right.
Some of Hitler's ex-nazis and SS-men
were on the Staff.
The editor, Gerhard Frey, was a close
friend with various nazi members of the Witiko League. The Witiko
League and the Sudetendeutch Landsmannscraft were organizations
for displaced refugees. By the summer of 1948 they formed large
organizations and by 1955 Dr. Walter Becher was elected to the
executive board of the Witiko League. Becher was one of the kingpins
of nazi front organizations.
Sen. Joe McCarthy, Charles Willoughby,
Gen. Edwin Walker, and Robert Morris' links to the German nazis
converged when Dr. Walter Becher set up offices in Washington,
D.C. in 1950.
By July 16, 1957, Becher, praised by
American Opinion and other extreme right publications, started
his policy of liberation. General Douglas MacArthur, Senator
Joe McCarthy, General Willoughby, members of the U.S. Congress
or public officials then started openly to meet with and cooperate
with the nazi resurgence.
Dan Smooth, former Dallas FBI agent is
the type of person who kept strong nazi ties with Dr. Becher
in Munich, to Western Goals today. His printed sheets were identical
to the Goebbels propaganda years ago, or to Walker's disinformation
one day after Kennedy was killed.
Volkmar Schmidt came from Munich, Germany,
to work full time for General Walker. How long did he work, and
where was he on November 23, 1963, when Walker made the call
to the same city the CUSA imports came from?
The YAF crowd in Dallas was an interesting
gang: Col. Charles Willoughby, intelligence Chief for S. Pacific,
Robert Morris, U.S. counter-intelligence and psychological warfare,
Gen Edwin Walker, brought home from Munich by JFK, William Buckley,
CIA in Japan, Mexico, and elsewhere, Sen. John Tower, who gave
the okay for Marina Oswald.
1964: The Warren Commission
President Lyndon Johnson was forced
to select a commission to investigate the assassination of President
Kennedy and the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby.
Texas authorities were supposed to do
the original investigation.
There were too many suspicious people
around the world who believed a conspiracy existed. Those rumors
had to be squelched.
J. Edgar Hoover's FBI never budged from
its conclusion that Lee Harvey acted alone. Whatever evidence
didn't fit this decision was ignored.
Twenty-six volumes of witness testimony
and exhibits were published. 8000 copies were sold. No more reprints.
The contradiction between the conclusions of the Warren Report,
and the abundance of discrepancies in the other volumes, makes
fascinating reading.
Chief Justice Earl Warren, John J. McCloy,
and Allen Dulles were the logical choices for LBJ.
President Kennedy didn't trust Allen
Dulles as CIA Director. Now JFK was dead and Dulles would be
in charge of all possible "conspiracy" segments.
Richard Nixon, temporarily retired from
politics for the first time since 1946, selected Rep. Gerald
Ford to be on this Commission. Nixon selected Ford a second time
when he ran home to escape impeachment during Watergate.
One of the first subjects for commission
members to share in January, one month before witnesses were
selected, was the matter of Lee Harvey Oswald being a government
agent.
Gerald Ford was the only member of the
group to write a book on the assassination. His book opened with
the hushed and secret meeting where allegations had been received
that Oswald worked for the FBI.
What Ford left out of his book, and the
commissioners ignored in their Report, was that Oswald was also
identified as working for the CIA. Commission Chairman Earl Warren
and Commission Attorney Leon Jaworski knew about this. They stated
that "Mr. Belli, attorney for Jack L. Ruby, was familiar
with these allegations."
Oswald's informant number was Number
110669.
How was that for a starter?
The next move was to start building the
myth about the deceased and ignore fact one, stated above. This
grand commission would call in a doctor who never met Lee Oswald
or Jack Ruby to assist them with their project, covering up.
Justice Warren suggested bringing in
Dr. Overholser, who "of course is not a lawyer. He is a
doctor from St. Elizabeth's Hospital." As the Chairman went
on to explain, "we felt we ought to have someone who, in
that field, could advise us on matters concerning the life of
Oswald and possibly the life of Ruby also."
The next order of business was who should
write the Report for them? By January 21, 1964, that had to be
decided.
Chairman Earl Warren said, "we consulted
with the Defense Department, and they have offered to lend us
one of their historians to do this job, and we think that it
is quite essential to the work of the Commission." Mr. Goldberg
would assist from the Air Force. Mr. Cokery was from the Army.
"Mr. Winnaker recommended them,"
Chief Counsel J. Lee Rankin offered. "We would work with
them to try to anticipate all of the various historical aspects."
"Who's Who in the CIA"
described "Mr. Winnaker" as having been born in Germany
in 1904. His full name is Dr. Rudolph August Winnacker. He was
an analyst for the OSS, historian in the War Department from
1945-1949, and then Chief of Historical Division of the Pentagon."
Was Winnaker the ilk of Willoughby? Or
Reinhard Gehlen? When did he come here from Germany? Where is
he now?
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Photo by Manuel Gonzales
Bustos |
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| Gehlen after the 1972
funeral of Wehrmacht Col. Gen. Franz Halder |
Marina Oswald was the first witness
to testify on February 3, 1964.
Warren wanted nothing more than to make
her comfortable.
The first question dealt with the General
Walker story because Walker had blown it by calling Munich so
soon. That scandal had to be put to rest right away.
Warren asked Marina "if Exhibit
2 was familiar to her because it was a picture of General Walker's
house?"
Marina said, "no," but that
wasn't good enough.
She was asked again, and once more said,
"I didn't see it, at least, taken from this view I can't
recognize it. I never saw the house itself at any time in my
life."
That wasn't sufficient. She just couldn't
remember "this particular one."
Chairman Warren was ready to go "off
the record." They had only just begun.
Chief Counsel Rankin suggested he show
her "more pictures," then maybe she would recognize
the Walker home.
This time she was given a selection of
a location in New Orleans, two snapshots from Leningrad, and
the same shot of the Walker home. Because Walker wasn't living
in a castle in Leningrad, Marina assumed that house in Dallas
must belong to "General Walker."
Therefore this was admitted for identification.
The Defense Department history could then proceed. "Marina
Oswald positively identified the photograph of General Walker’s
home among Lee's possessions."
There are a lot of things that remain
to be said about this commission and their phoney report.
Admission of an old card trick at the
beginning set the tone for what was to follow. What was never
supposed to come out was the use of Reinhard Gehlen agents surrounding
Lee and Marina Oswald for the purposes of covering up the assassination
conspiracy.
Two Lee Harvey Oswalds existed.
One memorized the Marine manual by age
17, went directly into radar and electronic work. He trained
at U-2 bases, learned the Russian language, got himself into
and out of the Soviet Union, wrote clear and literate letters.
He was met, upon arriving home, by Government agents, provided
with occupations, fathered two children, owed no debts, traveled
around a great deal, met with interesting oil geologists, defense
department and intelligence agents. Their social circle included
the "Cabots and Lodges" from Czarist Russia, Admirals
and some fancy folks.
The other Oswald was one developed by
the Warren Commission to divert attention from the facts. Nobody
ever saw the original "diary" that he couldn't have
possibly written.
Every Gehlen witness and emigre associated
with the CIA, Tolstoy Foundation, or Greek Orthodox Church was
directed towards the most ridiculous questions. From all that
garbage the Defense Department wrote the history.
The last thing that should happen is
for the warriors to interpret and define for us. The facts speak
for themselves.
Mae Brussell is a
researcher based in Carmel, California. Her weekly radio program,
World Watchers, has been broadcast for the last thirteen years.
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