‘I was Epstein’s butler for 18 years. There’s no way he killed himself’
Trusted aide tells of life in disgraced financier’s inner circle, which included Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and Woody Allen
Henry Samuel. Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Connor Stringer Deputy US Editor
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Valdson Vieira Cotrin with Jeffrey Epstein on his private jet in 2019. This photo, given exclusively to The Telegraph, may be one of the last taken of the financier and shows him wearing an Israel Defense Forces sweatshirt Credit: The Telegraph
Jeffrey Epstein “loved life too much” to kill himself and was confident of securing bail before he died, his butler for 18 years has told The Telegraph.
In an interview that will heap renewed pressure on the Trump administration to make [url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/07/23/epstein-documents-blocked-from-release/]the Epstein files public, one of his closest aides said he had spoken to the paedophile financier before he died and insisted he had been in good spirits.
Valdson Vieira Cotrin, who ran Epstein’s Paris home, told The Telegraph he could not accept the official verdict of suicide and feared that his own life was in danger.
He also said he believed that Virginia Giuffre, the Epstein victim who accused Prince Andrew of rape and died by suicide in April, was a victim of foul play.
Mr Cotrin also made the extraordinary claim to The Telegraph that Epstein told him he had been offered a job by Donald Trump in his first administration in 2016 – but had turned it down.
There is no evidence that the allegation is true, and Mr Trump has maintained that he stopped speaking to Epstein in 2004 after they fell out over a business deal.
But Mr Cotrin’s recollection of a conversation with his boss will fuel a growing demand for the full Epstein files – the trove of documents from the criminal investigations into the financier that allegedly name high-profile celebrities and politicians, possibly including Mr Trump – to be released.
In his exclusive interview with The Telegraph, Mr Cotrin, speaking on the record for the first time, also alleged that:

• Prince Andrew visited Epstein in Saint Tropez along with a British photographer famous for taking pictures of naked girls and accused of having sex with a 13-year-old
  
• Prince Andrew was a frequent guest at Epstein’s Paris town house, with Royal protection bodyguards paid for by the British taxpayer
  
• Ghislaine Maxwell was the “authoritarian boss” who gave the orders in the Epstein household
  
• Epstein gave money to Woody Allen to finance one of his movies
  

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Quote:“I’m feeling more optimistic after tonight. Tomorrow we unleash the anomaly in the matrix.”
Then, an hour later:
“This isn’t something on the chessboard, so they’ll be quite surprised. ‘Lasers’ from space.”

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[size=12]T[/size]HE JFK ASSASSINATION: ANTONIO VECIANA AND DAVID PHILLIPS
BREAKTHROUGH, PART TWO: A PERSONAL ENCOUNTER
Dick Russell
Jul 16

In July of 1976, when I was a young free-lance writer living in New York, New Times magazine sent me to Miami to research an article about a series of mysterious murders plaguing the ”Little Havana” Cuban exile community. My interest in the Kennedy assassination had already led me down some intriguing avenues when I came across the name of Antonio Veciana, co-founder of a violence-prone anti-Castro group called Alpha 66. He was identified as having participated in plots to assassinate the Cuban leader.
To my surprise, I found Veciana listed in the Miami phone book. I was apparently the first journalist to contact him in recent years. Speaking in halting English, he agreed to meet me downtown outside the Trailways bus station. He showed up with a bodyguard and emerged from the passenger side of a blue Maverick, a stocky handsome man about six feet tall and wearing sunglasses.
Inside a little coffee shop, Veciana said he’d recently been paroled from the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, after serving seventeen months of what he assured me was a trumped-up narcotics conspiracy charge. He was bitter at certain American authorities about this, and had decided to break a many-years silence about his previous activities. He informed me that he was meeting regularly with an investigator for the House Assassinations Committee which I knew was looking anew at who might be behind the killing of JFK. Then Veciana asked if he could see my “government card.” After I convinced him that I was a legitimate journalist, we drove out to a beachside hotel.
I was not prepared for the remarkable story Veciana unfolded. “I know a lot of secrets,” he began. He’d been president of a Havana accounting firm when Castro took over Cuba. Angered by Fidel’s turn toward the Communists, Veciana began raising funds for an anti-Castro uprising. Shortly thereafter, in 1960, he received a visit from a man using the name ”Maurice Bishop.” This was to be the first of over a hundred meetings, in a relationship that would last thirteen years.
Veciana described Bishop as standing about six feet, two inches, with dark hair, blue eyes, a high forehead, and sunspots below his eyes. He appeared to be in his early forties at the time. He told Veciana he was part of an American intelligence service, but instructed him not to ask which one.
“Bishop inculcated into us the principles of psychological warfare,” Veciana recalled. “We spread false rumors or disinformation. We put out counterfeit bills that were similar to bank notes printed by the government, and we distributed them throughout the country. W wanted to disrupt the Cuban economy to create a spirit of resistance within the people.”
When this failed to achieve the desired result, Bishop used Veciana to coordinate assassination attempts. The first was scheduled as Castro prepared to introduce the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, but was canceled when Bishop anticipated a violent Soviet reaction. The next was planned in October 1961 during a Castro speech, using a bazooka fired from a nearby rooftop. But Castro got wind of fhts plot, and Veciana was forced to flee Cuba by boat. A month later in Miami, where Veciana had moved with his family, Bishop contacted him again. Together they laid plans to form Alpha 66. Veciana traveled to New York, where he participated in another plan to eliminate Castro should he come to speak at the United Nations.
Veciana went on to tell me that Maurice Bishop organized a series of commando attacks against Soviet merchant ships in Cuban harbors early in 1963. “As a result of the [Cuban] Missile Crisis, he believed that Kennedy and Khrushchev had made a secret pact to do nothing about Cuba. Bishop kept saying Kennedy would have to be forced to make a decision. The only way was to put him up against the wall. Three ships were attacked in different ports of Cuba. The first one was a mistake in identity; it was a British ship. The other two were Russian. To further make Kennedy reach a point, we held a press conference in Washington let him know about the commando groups. That was when Kennedy ordered that I be confined to Dade County, Florida.” Later, I would find Veciana’s statements were backed up in the New York Times’ coverage of the period.
A few days later, at a second meeting Veciana brought his beautiful daughter to assist in translating his Spanish. “Bishop had previously contacted me for other meetings in Dallas, other times,” he said. “Sometime late in August of 1963, when I arrived at the Dallas airport, Bishop had given me the address to a building, either a bank or insurance company. There I met Bishop in the company of this young guy. The three of us walked to a cafeteria. The young guy did not say one word. He was very quiet, very strange. He was with us only ten or fifteen minutes. Then when I take a cup of coffee, Bishop says to the young fellow: ‘I’ll meet you in two or three hours.’ The guy left and Bishop and I talked about the movement and plans.
I never knew why Oswald was with Bishop,” Veciana continued. “I didn’t even know Oswald was Oswald, until the assassination happened and I saw his picture on the TV. After the assassination, the FBI contacted me to ask several questions. At first I was worried, but the agent who interviewed me said it was a matter of routine, nothing important. I didn’t tell the agent anything, because I thought it would harm the movement.
“I never asked Bishop about Oswald, because Bishop always told me that in this type of work, you just do things, you don’t ask. I had a cousin, Guillermo Ruiz, who worked with the Cuban [G-2] intelligence service in Mexico City. After the assassination, sometime early in 1964, Bishop said to me: Did I think by getting my cousin a considerable amount of money, would he say he’d talked to Oswald, to make it appear Oswald was working for Castro? Because of this, I asked Bishop if it was true Oswald had been talking with Castro agents. Bishop said it did not matter if it was true, what was important was to get my cousin to make that statement. Bishop didn’t bring up the topic again. Several months later, I brought it up. Bishop said there was no need to talk about that plan any longer.”
After a pause, Veciana added: “I always thought Bishop was working with Oswald during the assassination. I believe that the CIA wanted to pin the blame for the assassination on Cuba. This is why I believe that Cuba was not involved. I do not think that the agency as a whole was involved, but that certain renegade members were involved. I think that Lee Harvey Oswald, if he didn’t work directly for the agency, worked with people connected with it.”
He went on to recall another plot to eliminate Castro when he traveled to Chile in 1971. Then he reached across a little table and handed me a sketch of “Maurice Bishop” that he’d been requested to draw by congressional investigator Gaeton Fonzi. When Fonzi’s then-boss, Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker, saw the sketch, he was convinced he knew who it was, a CIA official who had “retired” in 1975 to establish the Association for Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO), whose purpose was to defend the CIA against what he termed the “snowballing innuendo” of its media critics.
This man was David Atlee Phillips, who operating out of Mexico City became the chief of all the CIA’s covert actions against Cuba in the summer of 1963. There were many reasons besides a close physical resemblance to why congressional investigators came to focus on Phillips as Veciana’s contact. “Bishop” and Phillips both had Texas accents, and both spoke French as well as Spanish. Phillips had been stationed in Havana when Veciana first met “Bishop” in 1960. In Phillips’ 1977 autobiography, The Night Watch, he had cited a particular Cuban restaurant as his favorite eating spot. It was the same restaurant that Veciana had mentioned to Gaeton Fonzi - more than a year before Phillips’ book came out - as being a casual meeting ground between himself and “Bishop.’
But the House assassinations Committee was never able to get a positive identification from Veciana, even after Fonzi brought the two together face-to-face at a meeting of the AFIO Ed Lopez, another HAC investigator who was aware of the encounter told me; “There was definitely a real look of recognition in Veciana. I had no doubt that Phillips was Bishop, from the way Veciana responded to questions. When Gaeton asked, ‘Is it him?,’ I remember Veciana saying, ‘Does he have a brother?’”
Sometime later, Fonzi confronted Veciana on the matter. “I would like you to tell me this one time very truthfully,” Fonzi said. “Would you have told me if I had found Maurice Bishop?” Veciana smiled, scratched his forehead, and gave the question careful thought. “Well, you know,” he said, “I would like to talk with him first.”
John McCone, who had been director of the CIA when JFK was killed, at first testified that he did recall a “Maurice Bishop” and believed he was a CIA employee. But when the Agency reviewed its files at Congress’s request and denied any such connection, McCone withdrew his statement. Ross Crozier, a CIA agent who had worked with Phillips, did recall his having used the Bishop alias.
I myself was in a delicate position. Fonzi and I had become friends; in fact, I was staying at his home in Miami the week I met Veciana. But Veciana asked that I please not tell Gaeton that he was talking to me. And he added that if I wrote anything using his name, he would be killed. So I did neither. Then, in January 1977, someone with knowledge of the House investigation leaked Veciana’s information to syndicated columnist Jack Anderson. “A Mr. X enters the JFK mystery,” Anderson’s story was headlined - but it would not have been difficult for insiders to identify “Mr. X.” With the cat out of the bag, I then went ahead and published an article in New Times, calling my source “Carlos.”
Veciana went on to testify in executive session before the House Assassinations Committee. Several weeks before the House report was to be released, in July 1979
Veciana was driving home from work when someone ambushed him in Little Havana. Four shots were fired, and one ricocheting bullet hit him in the side of the head. Miraculously, Veciana survived the attempt on his life. But he went mum for years thereafter about the events of 1963.
I chronicled the Veciana-Phillips story in my book The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Fonzi published his account in The Last Investigation prior to his death in 2012. In 2014, Veciana came out and revealed that yes, Bishop was really Phillips, who had died of lung cancer in 1988. Three years later, Veciana published a book with writer Carlos Harrison, “Trained to Kill: The Inside Story of CIA Plots against Castro, Kennedy, and Che. He died in a Miami assisted living facility in 2020, at the age of 91.
As for David Phillips, he left behind an unpublished novel, whose main character is a CIA operative living in Mexico City who writes in a letter: "I was one of those officers who handled Lee Harvey Oswald.…We gave him the mission of killing Fidel Castro in Cuba.…I don't know why he killed Kennedy. But I do know he used precisely the plan we had devised against Castro. Thus the CIA did not anticipate the president's assassination, but it was responsible for it. I share that guilt."
That is what the CIA might call a “limited hangout.” It would assuredly have been a reason for even an “innocent” CIA to cover things up. But not long before he died, Phillips briefly expanded on this in a conversation with a former HAC investigator, Kevin Walsh, who quoted Phillips telling him: “My final take on the assassination is there was a conspiracy likely including American intelligence officers.”

Highlights from the Newly Declassified JFK/RFK/MLK Assassination Files
By
Editors of Covert Action
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May 26, 2025

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Much excitement has accompanied the Trump administration’s release of declassified documents in the John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., files. While these documents have not yielded any smoking guns, they do provide important documentation of CIA and other secretive government activities during the 1960s. CovertAction Magazine (CAM) is busy rummaging through these documents and will publish one or two revealing documents each month. The first document below sheds light on some of the wide-ranging CIA covert operations in Vietnam, South America and Cuba during the early 1960s. CAM has included insertion of some relevant photos to accompany the document; however, the words are as contained in the original document. Here it is below:
THE WHITE HOUSE TOP SECRET WASHINGTON September 10, 1963 MEMORANDUM FOR THE FILE SUBJECT: Board Panel on Covert Action Operations
The Board Panel met in the Board’s offices on September 6, 1963. Panel members present were Mr. Robert Murphy, Chairman; Mr. Gordon Gray; and Dr. William Langer. Messrs. Coyne and Ash also attended the meeting.
During the course of its meeting the Panel was briefed by Mr. Richard Helms (Deputy DCI/Plans, CIA) and his assistants, Mr. Cord Meyer and Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald (head of CIA’s headquarters staff dealing with Cuba).
Cord Meyer [Source: alchetron.com]
Highlights of the briefings were as follows: British Guiana MESSRS. HELMS and MEYER For a 79-day period ending in July, the anti-Jagan Trades Union Congress maintained a general strike which was directed against the Jagan regime, and had wide support among agrarian and industrial workers in protest against an oppressive Labor Bill proposed by Communist-oriented Jagan. CIA worked out with George Meany a program of CIA financial support ($435,000) to the strike under the cover of “AFL-CIO contributions.” A CIA cover representative ran the strike program. The activity was tricky because the United States and the British desired to avoid violence; and the situation was complicated by the fact that the British Governor-General opposed the strike.
CIA assesses the operation as a succéss because even though Jagan was not unseated, the oppressive Labor Bill was withdrawn and the TUC survived. The strike activity took place against a background of agreement between President Kennedy and MacMillan [sic] that the British will not pull out of Guiana for an indefinite future period, in the hope that a Communist government will not fill the vacuum when the British do withdraw. Cuban influence in the strike was in the form of a $1 million advance from Cuba to the Guiana Import-Export Corporation (an arm of Jagan’s East Indian Peoples Progressive Party) which in turn was borrowed by the Jagan regime. Soviet help was indicated by a rumored transfer of over $100,000 to Jagan’s Party through banks.
Cheddi Jagan [Source: ncnguyana.com]
George Meany [Source: wikiwand.com]
Page 3 TOP SECRET TOP SECRET CIA at present is providing $5,000 to the PNC Party made up of anti-Jagan Africans in Guiana, and CIA is sending a Negro cover representative from New York to aid the African Party. (CIA considers that Mrs. Jagan, a known Communist from Chicago, is the brains and guts of the Jagan operation.) Haiti CIA has surveyed the intentions and capabilities of various Haitian exile groups and has supplied them with token amounts of money to test them out. Efforts of the groups to form a united front have failed, and in the Dominican Republic Juan Bosch has reversed his intention to help unseat Devalier [sic] for the present.
Ten days ago CIA dropped 100 rifles and ammunition to one Haitian exile group which has been given sanctuary by a Dominican Republic commander stationed on the border. Dominican Republic In this country there is a lack of democratic institutions political party structure, labor unions, or cooperatives of an effective nature. Juan Bosch spends more time debating charges by political opponents than in performing the administrative job of running the country. Bosch is an extreme conservative, economically, and refuses to spend moneys in excess of assured revenues.
Juan Bosch [Source: historysome.blogspot.com]
A twenty per cent unemployment figure is a major problem. Bosch has strengthened his Cabinet at the urging of the U. S. Ambassador, and has made peace with church elements (with CIA’s help). Opposition to Bosch is from the right and from parts of the Army. He has met individual Communist moves as they arise (e.g., an attempted infiltration of the Planning Commission), but he is not pursuing an over-all anti-Communist program or crusade. Although Bosch is considered by CIA to be anti-Castro and anti-Soviet, he has not clamped down on returning trainees from Cuba. The twenty per cent unemployment situation provides the basis for a coup in the months ahead. Meanwhile the Army strong-man Embert (one of Trujillo’s assassins) waits in the wings.
Vietnam CIA’s role in Vietnam during the past two years has been two-fold:
Page 4 -2- TOP SECRET TOP SECRET (1) Total support of the war against the Viet Cong, including the training of some 43,000 irregulars (now turned over to U. S. Special Forces); support to the mountain people in operations against the Viet Cong; and CIA training of U. S. Special Forces in South Vietnam. (2) CIA support of infiltration operations in North Vietnam. (Not a great success. High losses of teams.) a In response to/question based on recent U. S. press allegations that CIA is attempting to overthrow the Diem government: “CIA has never engaged in any such operations whatsoever — no instigation of the Buddhists — nothing.” CIA considers that anti-CIA expressions of this kind originate with Madame Nhu.
The Viet Cong has been working on the Buddhists, but the Buddhist leader who took sanctuary in the U. S. Embassy has indicated that the Buddhist activity is motivated by a desire to unify what is a loosely-joined, individual-Pagoda-type religious movement. August 20 saw the temple raids, martial law, and then the arrests of students. One U. S. reaction was an August 24 cablegram from the State Department (presumably hastily prepared) which, in nice diplomatic language to State Department representatives in Saigon, gave the word to “unload the Nhus”—i.e., indicate to the anti-Diem plotters among the Generals that they should get moving. However, the Generals proved to be lacking in any intentim [sic] to pursue their previously-professed anti-Diem sentiments.
CIA considers that the August 24 State Department cablegram was the result of a miscalculation of the General’s true capabilities and intentions. CIA understands that subsequently the Executive Committee of the NSC has met frequently on the subject, and more recent State Department cables have reflected a revision of the earlier “unload the Nhus” message. As yet the political situation in South Vietnam has not had an adverse effect on the military effort, nor any increased Viet Cong moves to capitalize on the situation. (Mr. Helms departed at this point.) Italy With approval by the Special NSC 5412/2 Group, the Christian Democratic Party was supported by CIA to the tune of $1 million in the campaign leading to the June elections (plus $600,000 to other political elements in Italy). CIA’s rationale for the loss of CDP strength in the elections is that (1) there was a loss of votes among the workers from the south who were given the Communist treatment when they moved to the northern cities.
The Nhus: Ngo Dinh Diem and Madame Nhu [Source: nsarchive.gwu.edu]
Page 5 -3- TOP SECRET TOP SECRET (2) Fanfani, and (3) the Papal audience given to Khrushchev’s son-in-law had an effect on anti-Communist religious Italians, including wives of the workers who had previously been able to persuade their husbands to vote against the Communist candidates. Meanwhile the Special Group has authorized CIA to spend $125,000 to support the CDP in current developments looking toward the establishment of a center-left government coalition. Bolivia The Special Group has authorized a unique effort by CIA in support of Paz Estancero’s program to “rationalize” the tin mines—1.e., a project calling for the firing of surplus tin miners and resettling them in new jobs.
This will take some time, but may result in breaking the leftist influence among the Bolivian miners. Brazil Goulart is engaged in coordinated efforts to (1) discredit the legislature, (2) obtain backing of the Army, and (3) make a demagogic appeal to the Brazilizn [sic] people as the only leader who can serve their interests. CIA is carrying out covert action in the labor movement and CIA believes that Communist control can be weakened. In student groups, a number of CIA operations are going and assets are in place (e.g., in the top executive committee of the Students’ Federation).
Victor Paz Estensorro [Source: museovirtualbo.com]
Joao Goulart [Source: fdp.aau.edu]
Desmond Fitzgerald [Source: alchetron.com]
However, there is no large-scale CIA political operation in Brazil now. MR. FITZGERALD On the subject of Cuba) In June the NSC Special Group approved a CIA proposal for a package of covert actions against Cuba. The covert program assumes that means short of military action are to be attempted on the premise that at the present rate of progress, the Castro regime will be even more firmly entrenched because the passage of time runs in Castro’s favor. Mr. Fitzgerald turned to a listing of the approved CIA covert actions, remarking that if they seemed familiar proposals which were previously under consideration, it should be kept in mind that they have now been approved as “interdependent” actions.
The actions call for (1) covert collection of intelligence, (2) propaganda action to stimulate “low-key sabotage”, (3) stimulate disaffection among the Cuban military, (4) an economic denial program aimed at precluding acquisition of spare parts for industrial machinery, and other products needed by Cuba, (5) a sabotage program of a general nature, and (6) support of anti-Castro autonomous groups, by giving them money and the means to act, but under an arrangement which insures against attribution to the United States, and which precludes operations from U. S. or British soil. (The CIA philosophy is to back only the potentially powerful and effective anti-Castro groups, and the military is felt to be the best bet.)
Fidel Castro [Source: britannica.com]
The CIA effort represents a shift from external raids t [sic] internal sabotage actions. CIA mounts about 10 “black” operations a month, and Castro security forces have taken their toll among the CIA teams. Three operations were conducted on August 17 and 18, and among other things the objective is to give encouragement to dissident Cuban elements such as military officers who see no professional future under Castro who is who is [sic] unloading military elements which aided him in his initial seizure of the government. (The Special Group, Mr. Bundy and other White House staff note the successful mounting of CIA’s sabotage operations and have asked for more to be conducted. CIA has found it necessary to resist any such pressures for these operations to be increased beyond the present effective capacity which CIA has at this time.)
McGeorge Bundy [Source: karsh.org]
Again, referring to the Cuban economy, it is hurting badly. The United States has a monopoly on the spare parts for industrial machinery needed by Cuba, and the USSR cannot supply them. The Cuban electrical industry is particularly hard hit in this respect. Castro’s re-emphasis on an agricultural step-up means increased efforts to produce sugar, a crop which presents a goop [sic] sabotage target. Finally, the Soviet aid at a rate of $1 million a day (military and economic) is not enough to keep the Cuban economy going. Cubans are not starving but they do not eat “comfortably” even in the larger cities. CIA finds that a major problem for their “black” teams is food re-supply in areas where the Cubans are hard put to feed themselves. CIA assets being used against Cuba: Staff: 384 (Washington and Miami) U. S. contractor personnel: 83 Foreign nationals: 525 (mostly Cubans) Personnel at overseas posts: 45 DD/I staff: 12 NPIC: a big effort on U-2 photography of Cuba.
CIA considers that of all nationalities, the Cubans are the most unreliable (prone to exaggerate). The best information comes from non-Cuban agents. There are 108 agents in Cuba, including friendly diplomatic personnel. There are two illegal teams working, one of which has 200 sub-agents. There are 44 legal travelers working; 60 agents in Cuban shipping; and there are 31 penetrations of Cuban installations abroad. As to Soviet shipping into Cuba, CIA has an agent in every port, but observers cannot say what is in the crates they see being off-loaded. Since January CIA has disseminated 150 photographs taken by agents on-the-ground in Cuba. Also CIA has furnished its agents in Cuba more and better radio equipment.
CIA!s [sic] estimate of bloc personnel in Cuba: 12,000 Soviet troops; 150 Chinese (mostly diplomatic personnel); an unknown number of Soviet civilian technicians; and “a lot” of Czech and other bloc technicians working with the Cuban military forces. CIA considers that in the past 9 months progress has been made in (1) intelligence collection with respect to Cuba, and (2) effectiveness of the economic denial program. CIA feels that the “✗” factor is the volatility of the Cuban people whose resignation to their lot under Castro would change overnight if they see evidence of successful sabotage operations against the Cuban government.
CIA penetration of the Cuban military got under way in April. An agent brought out a Cuban Army major and he is being sent back into Cuba next week. The major says that there is a medium level acceptance among the military of the idea of overthrowing Castro, but although this view is held by individual members of the military they are fearful of communicating it to others within Cuba. The wife of the chief of training of the Cuban Army is a CIA source.
Defectors are naming military personnel to be contacted. There is, however, a fear of the Castro security system. The subject of specific kinds and amounts of Soviet military equipment in Cuba is an area of the worst exaggeration and reporting by nonprofessional observers. However, there is no evidence of offensive missiles. There are 47 MIG-21’s operated by Cuban pilots. Cubans are at the SA-2 sites and are being trained to operate them. We don’t know what is in the caves, exactly. Neither CIA agents nor Cubans (nor even Castro) has access to the Soviet armored camps.
A.R. Ash

John Simkin has returned to The Education Forum with the inception of the Luna Task Force...The really ill-advised suggestion by Cliff Varnell that ROKC ridicule troll Alex Wilson be granted Education Forum membership was responded to by Simkin with a pronouncement that no criticism of The Education Forum moderators would be tolerated from now on...Simkin has dictated that the forum and its moderators can not be held accountable and any such occurrence will be instantly deleted and its source moderated...Simkin will determine who is a good researcher and who isn't and there will be no questioning of his judgment...That right there was the reason for the formation of the Deep Politics Forum...The British have an entirely different sensibility about free speech and censorship and I think they enjoy imposing it...

It might have taken a few decades but Simkin has given the Deep Politics Forum a golden opportunity to prove itself...However, as things turned out, the forum has taken defeat from the jaws of victory and handed The Education Forum an unearned victory by default and lack of opposition...Jim DiEugenio now uses The Education Forum as a home base and serves its overseers...Jim gives no protest to Simkin's anti-democratic edict...With Simkin the victims are now the offenders and the violators the unquestioned victims by rule...Because of the Deep Politics Forum's relinquishing of its original purpose DiEugenio now spends his time setting up Oliver Stone for destruction of his credibility through Prayer Man...

Because of The Education Forum moderation David Josephs is currently ignoring the evidence that Prayer Man is Sarah Stanton and is posting stupid pro-Prayer Man evidence to the detriment of The Education Forum and its members...Mr Simkin is not only oblivious to this but he has now made Trump-like rules forbidding any criticism of his wayward handling of it...15 years ago Josephs would have faced consequences on DPF for that violation of the DPF ethos and founding purpose...Now he would be welcomed back and assisted with his open contempt...Josephs chooses The Education Forum over the Deep Politics Forum...Mr Simkin has now made it a rule that you can't criticize The Education Forum's moderators for their assisting Josephs in his violation of good research standards...Under Simkin the correct Prayer Man evidence is being intentionally ignored...Asking Simkin to account for it is now a ban-able offense...And he has the nerve to call the forum a "debate" board...This is all met with no opposition from DPF...

Mr Simkin correctly denied Alex Wilson because Wilson is a notorious disruption troll and twisted puppy..However he has used the occasion to set up an anti-democratic, anti-intellectual authoritarian Reich where no questioning of the oversight is tolerated...This has directly led to a misguiding of the forum and subsequent damage to JFK research that is so bad that some judge it as intentional and for government purposes, even if it isn't...

Mr Simkin looks foolish denying Wilson while allowing the rather demented troll Alan Ford...Apparently if you don't criticize the moderators you are allowed to troll the forum like Ford who is allowed to post that Oswald was out front waving a burning gasoline-soaked flag under Simkin's oversight...

The entire purpose of the Deep Politics Forum could be validated if the forum did what it was designed for and backed me on this...There are people pretending the evidence hasn't exonerated me here or that ignoring is some kind of better judgment...This is what "JFK Debate" was designed for if ever it was...Simkin needs to be made to account for his handling of the Prayer Man evidence on his forum...This resolution will not only solve the problem but it will lead to a solving of the assassination...

May the community either be saved or damned by this...

Because of James Gordon's mismoderation of The Education Forum Aaron Sharpe is not getting any credible answer to his question of why Oswald was never seen exiting the Depository?...The disinformation troll Alan Ford comes in and tells Sharpe that Oswald left through the front entrance after being stopped by a cop, but that is a lie that ignores Frazier's witnessing of Oswald exiting out the rear Loading Dock after being escorted there by CIA Shelley...The troll Ford also ignores the fact that the cop told Harvey to step aside and wait...Ford's lies are not contested by any of the Forum members or moderators...Lying and trolling are welcomed by Gordon, accountability for evidence is met with false accusations of rules violations and banning...The bum DiEugenio stays quiet...

Ford furthers his offense by citing Lovelady's lie to Jarman that he saw Oswald exit the front entrance...The only reason Lovelady told that lie to Jarman was because he was trying to cover for his CIA partner Shelley and his leading Harvey out the back after being stopped by a cop...In other words the disinformation troll Ford is backing a CIA lie and its purpose...And Gordon's moderation, once again, is working directly against a solving of the case and the best interpretations are being kept from the board...This is the answer Aaron Sharpe needs to see and Gordon is keeping him from seeing it...The Forum should realize that Lovelady never telling that story of seeing Oswald leave through the front anywhere else and the lack of any curiosity over it by the authorities is proof of its falseness...

The answer to Sharpe's question is Harvey was waiting for Shelley in the Lobby in order to get permission to leave...In the mean time Lee stumbled in to the other end of the Lobby on the SE stairs...Harvey saw this and panicked by trying to exit through the front door...The un-named cop saw Harvey's panic and detained him...Shelley saw the whole thing and intervened, telling the cop Harvey was an employee and was OK...The cop then told Harvey to step aside and wait...From there Shelley led Harvey around the police cordon and out the Loading Dock...The cop was never identified in order to cover all this up...

Lee also realized what he had done and swung a hook-turn off the bottom of the stairs and in to the Utility Closet under the front stairs...After Harvey left through the Loading Dock and eastward down Houston Lee left out the rear of the Depository and westward towards the Grassy Knoll and the Station Wagon...All this is ignored by the troll Ford and The Education Forum with Gordon vigilantly keeping it off the Forum even though it solves the case...The question has to be asked if The Education Forum is an MI-6 Forum...

The only reason this isn't being recognized as a solving the case and definition of the evidence is because DPF failed to defend it...DPF now demands no discussion of evidence, which is a violation of its purpose...Everything but the obviously correct information is allowed on The Education Forum...

Oswald's never leaving through the front and its cover-up is part of the main evidence for conspiracy...It is a crime that the main effort on the JFK internet is its prevention from being known...All so the moderators can enforce a pecking order of favorites that doesn't necessarily exclude trolls...Armstrong is also being betrayed...

The Victoria Adams story is very good evidence of a conspiracy however when the chance finally came to tell it on a public stage with Congressional attention, both Stone and DiEugenio failed to explain it in a way that related its damning meaning the best...Every time DiEugenio & Stone explained Adams' encounter they confused the details in an incomprehensive manner that doesn't convey it clearly enough...Stone takes the lead and sounds like he's struggling to remember the details and DiEugenio provides facts but fails to convey the full meaning of the event...They are like Jack Lemmon in 'China Syndrome' where he froze up and failed to get the story across...

DiEugenio & Stone should have done their homework better and had the best version ready to be explained to a public hearing it for the first time...They should have explained that seeing JFK's head blown open gave the girls an adrenaline boost that caused them to bolt from the window...Mrs Garner said Adams & Styles were gone before the limousine went under the Triple Overpass...This means the girls started down the stairs 20 to 25 seconds after the shots...If Mrs Garner got to the 4th Floor staircase landing 30 to 35 seconds after the shots that means she is the witness to Oswald not being there 65 seconds after the shots when the official story needed him there...Mrs Garner stayed at the 4th Floor staircase landing because she was a supervisor who wanted to wait for her returning employees...DiEugenio & Stone should have had a model of the NW staircase and pointer to make it more understandable...Their failing to give a clear explanation of Adams & Garners' witnessing fell short of both the evidence and opportunity...They should have said outright that Mrs Garner's not seeing Oswald at the time the Warren Commission needed him running past the 4th Floor landing at 65 seconds after the shots is proof Oswald was in the 2nd Floor Lunch Room during the assassination...The failing member here is "agnostic" Jim D and the pathetic internet sycophants who put him there...He's the one who needed to say that and blew the opportunity...

Robert Kennedy assassination documents released

Please post any interesting finds and/or analysis here.

What To Look For by Dick Russell

www.Archives.gov/RFK
Apr 18, 2025

The announcement came this morning: 10,000 pages of government documents pertaining to the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy on June 5, 1968 are being released and will be searchable online, with 50,000 more pages to come. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHypOY5gxGM
The video interview link above with CIA Director Tulsi Gabbard indicates that there are no “smoking guns,” but major questions do arise as to the official story that Sirhan Sirhan alone fired shots in the Ambassador Hotel pantry that night.
Here are some key points to look for:
(1) What more is there from Los Angeles Corner Thomas Noguchi, whose autopsy report described four shots being fired at RFK from at most three inches away. Three of the shots appeared to be in contact with the senator’s back and shoulder, with one passing through the back of his head. Sirhan had fired all eight of his bullets from the front, striking other people. Five additional bullets, thirteen in all, were found in a wall and apparently removed by police. The point being, there had to have been a second gunman.
(2) What do we learn about the security guard, Thane Eugene Cesar, who was standing behind RFK and admittedly fired, supposedly to protect him.
(3) To this day, Sirhan has no memory of firing his gun, and three doctors testified at his trial that he had likely been hypnotized. Do we learn anything further about the CIA’s MKULTRA program to control human behavior, most of whose files were destroyed in 1973.
(4) A girl in a polka-dot dress was the last person to be seen in Sirhan’s presence before he entered the pantry. She was heard shouting “We killed him!” as; she ran out of the ballroom. Was she ever identified?
My biography, The Real RFK Jr. contains a chapter about his visit with Sirhan in prison and more details pointing to a coverup in the assassination. It will be of particular interest to see what the LAPD files reveal of their investigation. More to come in the weeks ahead.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1510776095/?bestFormat=true&k=the%20real%20rfk%20jr%20book&ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-pd-bk-d_de_k1_1_16&crid=XU5H3257H7SF&sprefix=%22the%20real%20rfk%20jr%22

There are many other excellent books on the RFK Assassination and I will try to make a list and post shortly.