Gordon Novel Has Passed Away
HERE IS THE STATEMENT FROM HIS SON:
Dear All,
My Dad passed away last night in his sleep at a rest home in Los Angeles
around 3:00am.
He was 74 years young...
I will be making funeral arrangements with my older sister Spirit.
We will likely hold the funeral and have him cremated in Los Angeles, then
take his remains to be buried next to his Mother in Florida.
I will let you all know when we have finalized his funeral plans and please
feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Attached is are couple of photos of Dad under a purple tree here in Thailand
on the beach of Koh Chang (Elephant Island) and also playing with a Dog.
This day in Thailand was the happiest day I ever seen my Dad in my life and
he told me many times later it was one of the happiest days of his life.
Dad would not have wanted to been lying in the hospital much longer than
what he was, so his time has come to pass.
Thank you all for being his close friends.
Please forward this email to anyone that I missed and let them know I
apologize for not ccing them.
Sincerely,
Sur Novel
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Novel was an 'interesting' fringe player in the Deep Black World...and played many strange roles on that stage....I'll be mentioning some of those I know shortly. Feel free to mention those you know about. He was everything from some dodge and bait aimed at Garrison; Khashoggi's Chief Security Man; the point man for a plan to degausse the Watergate tapes for Nixon, and much much more......He was even put up by unknown parties as TUM, which I believe he most likely was not....but this needs further exploration, as TUM has never been identified and all too many maybes have been.
Novel was one of the CIA "Patriots" who tried to scuttle Garrison's investigation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Novel
Quote:In an interview in 2006 Novel rejected the claims that he was a CIA agent: "I'm not a CIA agent. I'm affiliated, I work with, and we have a mutual admiration society based upon my relationship with the individuals I work with.... The CIA has multiple sides but it's been my experience over the years that they're basically the only good guys in the entire United States government. They're really patriots. Most of em are patriots and I've never known... I personally have never known them to do anything criminal, ever. And they didn't kill John Kennedy and they didn't kill a lot of people that they've been accused of causing the death of but I don't know that to be true. So I can tell you that my experience with em has been like dealing with Eagle Scouts."
...And so Novel assures himself a special place in hell.
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Albert Doyle Wrote:Novel was one of the CIA "Patriots" who tried to scuttle Garrison's investigation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Novel
Quote:In an interview in 2006 Novel rejected the claims that he was a CIA agent: "I'm not a CIA agent. I'm affiliated, I work with, and we have a mutual admiration society based upon my relationship with the individuals I work with.... The CIA has multiple sides but it's been my experience over the years that they're basically the only good guys in the entire United States government. They're really patriots. Most of em are patriots and I've never known... I personally have never known them to do anything criminal, ever. And they didn't kill John Kennedy and they didn't kill a lot of people that they've been accused of causing the death of but I don't know that to be true. So I can tell you that my experience with em has been like dealing with Eagle Scouts."
...And so Novel assures himself a special place in hell.
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Yes, definitely a special place in 'hell'....few know of his later exploits....equally damning. Adnan Kossogi, the world's richest man at the time hired Novel to be his Security Chief. Khashoggi was involved in CIA drug and arms deals, among other things. I'm sure Novel got another 'Eagle Scout' badge for that assignment.....
Whatever happened to Adnan Khashoggi?
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Dear Folks,
In April, BBC Two commissioned a series of documentaries focusing on Britain during the 1970s. Many consider this to be one of its bleakest decades. While most Brits froze; suffered black outs and general misery, sun-kissed Arab Sheikhs from the Gulf were popping up in London to purchase real estate and lavish goods. They set a trend that has lasted to this very day, and one name that became synonymous with the Arab über elite was Adnan Khashoggi. Throughout the seventies and eighties, his name epitomized decadence and crookedness. His parties were legendary, his female companions became celebrities in their own right and he kissed the hand of almost anyone in business. Once a mainstay in glossy magazines, Khashoggi has fallen from lofty heights, and these days his name is rarely mentioned. Many of the people who flocked to him, are now immersed in activities a world away from the glitz and ephemeral glow of high society. Who was this man who collected friends, as well as enemies with unfathomable ease?
Adnan Khashoggi was born in 1935 in the Saudi city of Mecca. His father became close with the royal family, as he was the personal physician of King Abdel Aziz al Saud. Adnan was sent to Alexandria in Egypt to be educated at Victoria College. It was a conservative institution in which one could be punished for not speaking English. His classmates included a young King Hussein of Jordan. Khashoggi then attended California State University and Stanford University, but he never completed his studies. He enjoyed living well, and dabbled in business in order to supplement his monthly student stipend of $ 200 dollars. In the end, his taste for commerce proved too great. In his early twenties, he went back to Saudi Arabia and got involved with an industry that would set him on a path to richness. In 1956, he earned a commission of $150,000 for supplying his country with three million dollars worth of trucks that were sent to Egypt, to help them in their campaign against the Israelis. In the years to come, he was responsible for brokering military hardware sales that were valued in the billions, and Khashoggi would secure sometimes 5-15% of the cost for himself. In 1970, he earned a commission of $184 million by helping the U.S.aircraft manufacture Northrop, now Northrop Grumman, sell $4.2 billion dollars worth of F-5 warplanes to Saudi Arabia. Front companies based in Switzerland and Liechtenstein handled many of his deals. Within ten years, his total worth was valued at $ 4 billion, and many were calling him the richest man in the world. He was also close to a number of political heavyweights. He supported Richard Nixon's re-election campaign and even bought his daughter a $60,000 dollar bracelet. Khashoggi knew how to charm. In the eighties, investigative journalist Ronald Kessler wrote that Khashoggi: "has tremendous grasp of how people tick".
There are also few tycoons who shared the same appetite for conspicuous consumption as Khashoggi. There are stories galore about his purchases. He bought twelve homes in cities such as: Paris, Cannes, Madrid, New York, and a Marbella estate situated on 5000 acres. He bought 100 limousines, a DC-8 jet, a $ 75 million dollar yacht, named after his daughter Nabila (which Donald Trump later bought), and a South Korean martial arts body-guard. At his 50th birthday party, he invited 400 guests to Marbella. Hollywood's hottest stars of the era were there including Brooke Shields and Sean Connery, with Moët flowing by the gallon.
In regards to his personal life, in 1961, he married the attractive British woman, Sandra Daly, who converted to Islam, and later changed her name to Soraya. Still a teenager, she married Khashoggi before he earned his millions. She had five children with him. However the pair parted in 1974, and five years later, Soraya sued him for divorce for a figure of $2.54 billion. During the proceedings, Khashoggi was represented by Joseph A. Ball, who was a senior counsel to the Warren Commission. In the end, Soraya walked away with an estimated $874 million in an out-of-court settlement. In 2007, The Daily Mail discovered her working as a florist, and has since shed her glamorous appearance. She is estranged from most of her children. After Soraya, Khashoggi remarried the Italian Laura Biancolini, who also changed her name to Lamia. However his addiction to women meant that she struggled to compete.
Khashoggi, along the same lines as former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, had an insatiable desire to procure beautiful young women; both for himself and for those he wanted to impress. It is reported that he used the services of a French madam called Mireille Griffon, who was ordered to provide girls between the ages of 18 to 24. She was also known on the Côte d'Azuras Madame Mimi. She groomed ladies for the elite, and Khashoggi offered ordered two or three girls at a time. This tactic often helped to seal the deal with whose business he sought. One of the most famous or perhaps infamous ladies to come into his midst was the former Indian beauty queen Pamella Bordes. She worked as a researcher in the House of Commons, and was introduced to Khashoggi through a mutual friend. She joined the band of lady lovelies at his home in Marbella, and Khashoggi once sent Bordes to Riyadh to sleep with a Saudi royal prince. Bordes would later give a tell-all interview about her experience to the UK's Daily Mail. She now lives in Goa, working as a photographer, but prefers to be called Pamela Singh.
Controversy and tales of corruption dogged Khashoggi as his wealth grew. In the United States, officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission subpoenaed him twice, before he eventually agreed to speak about foreign payoffs. Khashoggi was also implicated in the Iran-Contra affair, which involved the sale of arms to Iran to secure the release of U.S. hostages in Lebanon. This was in violation of an existing arms embargo. Khashoggi, or "Mr. Fix-it", along with Manucher Ghorbanifar acted as financial intermediaries for the shipment of missiles. In 1988, his holding company in the United States, Triad America Corporation, located in Salt Lake City went bankrupt, with liabilities of reportedly $ 197.5 million and assets of only $9.5 million. Khashoggi blamed it on cash flow problems. At the same time, he was indicted on a charge of helping the ousted Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Emelda divert assets and hiding their ownership of real estate and artwork through his front companies. At the start of the nineties, Khashoggi's name was poison in the financial world, as little by little, it soon became clear that "Mr. Fix it", could no longer pay his bills and his creditors wanted to pounce. Due to the allegations of racketeering, the US government sought his extradition from Switzerland. He managed to avoid prosecution for serious offenses such as racketeering, and was eventually acquitted.
Today, nearing eighty, Adnan, spends his time, using his connections, working as a consultant. It is reported that he lives in both Monte Carlo and Riyadh, and is by no means a poor man. Today however a new generation of western-educated Saudis has taken over who are comfortable navigating their way in the western commercial world.
Gordon Novel was born in New Orleans in 1938. According to Alan J. Weberman: "In his youth, Gordon Novel belonged to a neo-Nazi group and was arrested and charged with bombing a Metairie, Louisiana, theater that admitted blacks". In the early 1960s Novel ran an electronics firm which specialized in selling equipment used for bugging.
It was claimed by Jim Garrison that Novel was formerly a member of the Central Intelligence Agency and was an associate of Sergio Arcacha Smith, David Ferrie and Guy Banister. It was also reported that Novel worked with the Cuban Revolutionary Front during the Bay of Pigs operation via the CIA proprietary, the Evergreen Advertising Agency.
According to William Torbitt Novel had been seen by a Dallas attorney having meetings with Jack Ruby and William Seymour in the Carousel Club during October and November, 1963. Another author, Paris Flammonde (The Kennedy Conspiracy), claims that Novel was questioned on five separate occasions following the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Jim Garrison discovered that Sergio Arcacha Smith, David Ferrie and Guy Banister had been involved in a CIA operation to pick up "war material" for the Bay of Pigs attack at from the Schlumberger Well Company. Garrison subpoenaed Novel but he fled to Ohio. However, the James Rhodes, the Governor of Ohio, refused to extradite him unless Garrison agreed not to question him on the assassination.
A few weeks after Novel fled from New Orleans a woman cleaning his old apartment found a penciled draft of a letter wedged under a plastic cover alongside the kitchen. The letter was addressed to a Mr. Weiss. This letter was passed to Jim Garrison who concluded that it was a letter to Novel's CIA contact. "I took the liberty of writing you direct and apprising you of current situation, expecting you to forward this through appropriate channels. Our connection and activity of that period involves individuals presently about to be indicted as conspirators in Garrison's investigation."
Novel also said in the letter: "We have temporarily avoided one subpoena not to reveal Double Chek activities or associate them with this mess. We want out of this thing before Thursday 3/67. Our attorneys have been told to expect another subpoena to appear and testify on this matter. The fifth amendment and/or immunity (and) legal tactics will not suffice." Alan J. Weberman has pointed out that E. Howard Hunt worked for Double Chek in Miami.
In an article in Ramparts Magazine, William Turner claims that Novel admitted that the pick up at the Schlumberger Well Company was one of "the most patriotic burglaries in history." Novel is also said to have confessed that on the day the munitions were picked up, he "was called by his CIA contact and told to join a group which was ordered to transport munitions from the bunker to New Orleans."
In 1974 Jack Anderson reported that as a result of Watergate break-in, Charles Colson asked Novel to build a "degaussing gun" to erase tapes stored at the CIA and the White House that would incriminate Richard Nixon.
In an interview in 2006 Novel rejected the claims that he was a CIA agent: "I'm not a CIA agent. I'm affiliated, I work with, and we have a mutual admiration society based upon my relationship with the individuals I work with.... The CIA has multiple sides but it's been my experience over the years that they're basically the only good guys in the entire United States government. They're really patriots. Most of em are patriots and I've never known... I personally have never known them to do anything criminal, ever. And they didn't kill John Kennedy and they didn't kill a lot of people that they've been accused of causing the death of but I don't know that to be true. So I can tell you that my experience with em has been like dealing with Eagle Scouts."
Gordon Novel died on 4th October, 2012.
Jack White analyzed the photographic evidence of The Umbrella Man and noted that there appeared to him to be a very strong resemblance to Gordon Novel.
Shortly after stating this publicly, Jack called me and said: "Gordon Novel just told me that if I ever suggest that he was The Umbrella Man again he will kill
me." I encouraged Jack to make the threat known by posting it on our forum, which he did. Jack never heard from Novel again.
Greg
A friend advised he was present when a well-known researcher called Novel and asked him if he were the Umbrella Man.
Whereupon Novel made precisely the same offer.
And subsequently the researcher's daughter returned from school to report the nice man who wanted Daddy to know he knew her route to school.
Apparently the patriot Eagle Scout was working on his enforcer-child-molester merit badge.
Perhaps that's him having it branded on his ass now--or is it just another train whistle.
So are they all, all honorable men.
Greg Burnham Wrote:Jack White analyzed the photographic evidence of The Umbrella Man and noted that there appeared to him to be a very strong resemblance to Gordon Novel.
Shortly after stating this publicly, Jack called me and said: "Gordon Novel just told me that if I ever suggest that he was The Umbrella Man again he will kill
me." I encouraged Jack to make the threat known by posting it on our forum, which he did. Jack never heard from Novel again.
Sunlight is the most effective disinfectant.
And, in our world, armor.