Another nice article by Paul Bleau. This time its about the alleged letter from Oswald to the Soviet Embassy in November of 1963.

We have coupled it with another piece by Carol Hewett on the role of Ruth Paine in all this.

Nice way to bring in the new year.

https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kenne...hot-potato

Has anyone ever tried to figure this out?

I guess one way would be to try and find out the length or width of the journals in his hand.

And then measure that against the rifle.

For reasons not adequately explained, Paul Trejo describes John T Martin as Jack Martin, further blurring the lines between the two Jack Martins investigated in connection with the JFK Assassination and film maker and US Post Office supervisor, John Martin.
The Jack Martin of Louisiana investigated on the afternoon of the Assassination by SS NOLA SAIC John Rice moved later to Minnesota, as did Post Office safety program manager John Martin, transferred from Dallas after 1963.

It is unavoidable this new research is an early Christmas gift for Paul Trejo, but I found the politically extreme opinions of this 17 year old so surprising, unusual, and troubling, considering the coincidence of what he allegedly managed to capture on a single short film reel, I am presenting this for broader consideration, immediately. If still living, this is a person of interest who Gary Mack should have insisted on interviewing to provide context for the film Gary accepted on behalf of the museum. To his credit, Gary only had access to, if anything, Martin's self described "turn around," sourced from Gary Schoener.

John T. Martin a St. Paul Minnesota High School senior in 1963, filmed inside Edwin Walker's leased Turtle Creek home and on the same film reel on August 9, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans.

I've found background on this John T. Martin. In 2012, I brought Weisberg's younger friend Gary Schoener to Trejo's attention. Since then, Trejo is a self proclaimed expert on what he mislabels as the "Jack Martin" film. Until now, a John T. Martin born in California on November 9, 1943, was presumed to be the young film maker. This birth date validates Gary Schoener's 2012 recollection of his 1968 encounter with John T Martin of St. Paul, who Gary recalled Martin permitting him to borrow the original short film and make copies for himself and Harold Weisberg. The two researchers either did not know Walker's home interior was also in the film, or were too intent on hoping to study and identify faces near or accompanying Oswald in NOLA contained in the film.

I was uninformed until yesterday that a high school, much less an RC religious school, could be as heavily militarized as the one John T Martin graduated from in 1963. Considering Gary's 2012 recollection (as told to Paul Trejo), it is unlikely John T Martin ever served , officially under Gen. Walker, since he was not born until 1945 and his presence in 1963 in St. Paul is now accounted for. If Gary remembered accurately, what does this say about Martin claiming in 1968 to have reversed his intensely right oriented, political orientation.

Martin is last accounted for, so far, in a High School alumni bulletin as a donor, no more recently than in 2013. From the 2004 and 2018 obituaries of the father and older sister of John T Martin, d.o.b. 11/09/43, I located him in Minneapolis and a neighborhood newsletter interview of him describes his 1962 high school graduation and four following years in U.S. Navy service, including in the October, 1963 naval blockade of Cuba.

You can't make this stuff up. Were Oswald, Martin, and Walker all playing on the same team? Was Oswald working to "flush" these "types" out?
Or, considering DPD recovered "evidence" of Oswald surveillance of Gen. Edwin Walker's residence, including the image below from Jesse Curry's 1969
book, were Oswald and John T. Martin set up as patsy "book ends," two young men of opposite extremes, on paper at least, to be presented to fill the role many suspect Oswald was positioned to fill. If reasonable to consider, expediency influenced whoever managed the "tool kit," to leave Martin in reserve.




Not revealed until published in Curry's 1969 book, (note the presence of a license plate aka Tag) among photos of allegedly recovered Oswald possessions

Quote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretin-Der...ol#History

...Cretin was founded 148 years ago in 1871 as a secondary school for boys by the Christian Brothers. In the late 1800s, the school incorporated a mandatory program of instruction grounded in the tradition of a military institute, which makes it one of the oldest such programs in the United States. Instruction included lessons in leadership, close-order drill and ceremonies, and numerous other strictly non-combat-related instruction designed to instill a sense of discipline and order in all aspects of student life. The National Defense Act of 1916 created the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), a more formalized program of instruction with national oversight for training standards and a provision for active duty and retired soldiers and officers as instructors. Cretin's "military program" became one of the very first Junior ROTC (JROTC) programs in the country, and participation remained mandatory for all students until the early 1980s, when it became voluntary.[SUP][4][/SUP][SUP][5][/SUP]...

Quote:http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/...ent-244473
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From: Gary Schoener

Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 7:17 AM

To: Paul Trejo

Subject: Re: Seeking the 1968 companion of Harold Weisberg...

Yes, the person is me. I was a longtime friend and co-worker with Harold. The comment about John Martin being a "student" makes me wonder whether my memory is correct. I remember him as late 20's or early 30's, but that was a long time ago. My memory was that we encountered him when he phone a radio station, not at a talk -- he called into a radio show that Harold and I did together. (I had arranged for Harold to speak a the U. of Minnesota, but believe that the radio show which followed was where we heard from him).

Ironically, on that same show a photography professional whose last name was Patsy called in and he ended up taking the Martin film and printing it out. That's how we discovered that LHO appeared to be paying attention and possibly even gesturing to someone else walking parallel to him. One figure in the film was very fat and Harold immediately remarked it looked like Dean Andrews, although there are a ton of fat people in NO and there was no way that you could see his face.

The only things I recall were that John was formerly a right-winger who was a member of the John Birch Society and the Minutemen, but somehow serving under Gen. Edwin Walker in Germany caused him to become a pacifist and have to be dischrged from the army.

The film was taken on a family trip and the other segment on it showed the zoo in NO.

We did go to his home, but I have no idea where that was. I don't even know if it was in Mpls. or St. Paul.

He took it to the FBI who copied it, but did not realize until we examined it that the FBI had returned a copy, not the original. He believed that what they gave back to him was edited but was not 100% sure. He thought some footage was missing.

Gary Schoener

Great podcast. https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tkell...0_06-08_00

From Who.What.Why

Saudi Military Base Shooter and the Unexplained 9/11 Connection

Inside the Organized Crime Syndicate known as the CIA: an Interview with Douglas Valentine

by Heidi Boghosian and Michael Steven Smith November 21, 2019 11 Comments

[Douglas Valentine is an investigator and author with a rare and tenacious approach toward research. His writing results in uniquely incisive and revealing books on the dark side of U.S. intelligence activities and the National Security State. His latest book, The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World, draws parallels between CIA operations in Vietnamas exposed in his well-known 1990 book, The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnamand recent/current operations in Afghanistan, El Salvador, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere. In the following interview, Valentine reflects on a variety of issues including the Phoenix Program, plausible deniability, paramilitary wars, drug trafficking, sabotage, blackmail, propaganda, Operation GLADIO, class interests of the CIA establishment, Trump, the Mueller Report and the Bidens. Editors]
Heidi Boghosian: In 1947, Congress passed the National Security Act, which led to the formation of the National Security Council and, under its direction, the CIA. Its original mandate was to collect and analyze strategic information for use in war. Though shrouded in secrecy, many CIA activities such as covert military and cybersecurity operations have drawn considerable public scrutiny and criticism. In 1948, the Security Council approved a secret directive NSC 10.2, authorizing the CIA to carry out an array of covert operations. This essentially allowed the CIA to become a paramilitary organization.
George F. Kennan was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a post-war policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. Curiously, he opposed the building of the hydrogen bomb and the rearmament of Germany. He lectured widely and wrote advocating for "containment" of the USSR. He was concomitantly one of a group of foreign policy elders known as "The Wise Men." [Credit: Los Angeles Daily News]
Before he died, George F. Kennan, the diplomat and Cold War strategist who sponsored the directive, said that, "in light of latter history, it was the greatest mistake I ever made." Since NSC 10.2 authorized violation of international law, it also established an official policy of lying to cover up the law breaking.
We speak today with Douglas Valentine, author of The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World. Mr. Valentine's rare access to CIA officials has resulted in portions of his research materials being archived at the National Security Archive, Texas Tech University's Vietnam Center and John Jay College. He has written three books on CIA operations, including the Phoenix Program:America's Use of Terror in Vietnam, which documented the CIA's elaborate system of population surveillance, control, entrapment, imprisonment, torture, and assassination in Vietnam. His new book describes how many of these practices remain operational today. Doug Valentine, welcome to Law and Disorder.
Douglas Valentine: Thank you very much for having me.
Heidi Boghosian: Doug, how did you come to get such unparalleled access to top level CIA agents, including director Bill Colby?
Douglas Valentine: Well, I'm not really sure of the answer. I was a nobody. I hadn't gone to the Columbia Journalism School. In fact, I was a college dropout. I had written a book about my father and his experiences in World War II and I wanted to write a book about the Vietnam war. And so, I sent this book that I wrote about my father called the Hotel Tacloban: The Explosive True Story of One American's Journey to Hell in a Japanese POW Camp to Colby. And he read it! And based on him reading this book I wrote about my father, he agreed to do an interview with me about the CIA's Phoenix program.
Douglas Valentine
But I really just stumbled into it. And I think that the reasons that Colby talked to me and then introduced me to a lot of other CIA officers are complex, and I think a lot of it has to do with the psychology of the country at the time. That was in 1984, and what was known as the generation gap. I'm not exactly sure why, but I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I just had the audacity to approach Colby and ask him to help me write a book about the Phoenix program, which nobody else had done at that time.
Michael Steven Smith: Doug, the book that you wrote, the Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam, is considered by many the definitive study of the CIA's secretive counterinsurgency program during the war in Vietnam. One CIA officer named Lucien Conein called it "the greatest blackmail scheme ever invented." What do you think he meant by that?
Douglas Valentine: Well, it meant that the Phoenix program was targeted against civilians, the civilians who managed the insurgency in South Vietnam, not soldiers, not even guerrillas or terrorists. But these were civilians who were working undercover in political positions, generally speaking. We managed the insurgency in South Vietnam and their names could be put on blacklists. And once their name was on a listonce somebody had been informed about them, and once they were a member of a list a that was called the Vietcong infrastructure, the insurgencythe CIA and its forces could go out and kidnap them, put them in interrogation centers, kill them along with their families, and do anything they wanted to try and suppress them. And the problem was that lots of innocent civilians got their names put on these blacklists. In fact, one of the ways that the CIA and its forces, the South Vietnamese Special Police and its mercenary army, one of the ways that they got people to inform on the members of the Vietcong insurgency was by threatening to put their names on blacklists. So therefore, it became a blackmail scheme.
So, if you were just an average citizen and you did not support the government of South Vietnam, you could find your name on a blacklist and your whole family could be wiped out. So, it became a way of not just attacking the members of this Vietcong infrastructure, but a way of population control, a way of terrorizing everybody in South Vietnam and bringing them all into line following government policies. And the minute you stepped out of line, you could find your name on a blacklist.
Michael Steven Smith: A common theme is the CIA's ability to deceive and propagandize the American public through its impenetrable government-sanctioned shield of official secrecy and plausible deniability. Can you give us some examples of this please, Doug?
Douglas Valentine: Plausible deniability? Well, first of all, one of the CIA officers that William Colby referred me to directly was a man named Tom Donahue, a veteran CIA officer. He had run the CIA's covert action branch in South Vietnam from 1964 to 1966 and later went on to join what was called the Vietnam Task Force. He was a very senior officer. Colby arranged for me to have an interview with him, and in that interview, Donahue told me that the CIA never launched a covert action program unless it met two criteria. The first was that it had to have some intelligence potential; it had to have some value to the CIA. And the second thingit had to be deniable. The CIA does not launch any kind of program at all unless it's deniable. And it does this in a thousand different ways.

• The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World (2017)
  
• The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine and Mark Crispin Miller (1990, 2014)
  
• A Crow's Dream (2012)
  
• The Strength of the Pack: The Personalities, Politics and Espionage Intrigues that Shaped the DEA (2010)
  
• The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs (2004)
  
• Police State America: U.S. Military "Civil Disturbance" Planning by Douglas Valentine. Mitzi Waltz, Michael Novick, Arthur Lubow, and Ron Ridenhour (2002)
  
• TDY (2000)
  
• The Hotel Tacloban: The Explosive True Story of One American's Journey to Hell in a Japanese POW Camp (1985)
  

IMHO the National Security State is orchestrating this Trump impeachment drama. It seems like the agenda is this:

1. Plaster this stuff about Joe Biden and his son all over the media to destroy Biden

2. Start an impeachment trial in the Senate which absorbs all the time of Bernie and Elizabeth Warren during the primaries

3. The impeachment drama will overshadow the Democratic primary race and allow Bloomberg and/or Steyer to sneak in by the back door.

4. Blackmail the Republican Senators with the threat of endless investigations of themselves (and worse, their families) so as to eliminate Trump.


The possibility of Trump being in the White House after 2020, never having to be elected again is anethema to the National Security State, Wall Street, Silicone Valley etc.etc. etc.

IN FACT, ONE COULD SAY WITH SOME ASSURANCE THAT IT WILL NEVER BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN.!!!!

As I have posted elsewhere, Steyer's father was a partner in Sullivan and Cromwell which was the Dulles Brothers' law firm and Steyer himself is a Yale graduate and former member of Goldman, Sachs. You just don't get a more pure Deep State resume than that. Probably a Skull and Bones guy, too (just guessing).

Bernie is the only true and consistent progressive. Elizabeth Warren suffers from a fatal lack of self-insight and reflectiveness. Why would she list herself as an ethnic Native American on an application to join the Texas Bar? Even if she had one Native American ancestor, that wouldn't affect her ethnicity. So she doesn't even understand her own ethnicity. That's pretty basic, IMHO.

Warren blithely announces that she would abolish both ICE and the Electoral College.

With respect to the Electoral College, a Harvard Law professor should have to display a better knowledge of the purpose of the Electoral College and have at least a nuanced opinion.

The issue of abolishing the Electoral College is a complicated and nuanced question. It does not merit a "yes or no" answer.

Warren, like Hillary is almost a genius-level IQ, but if you analyze her opinions carefully, you will see that she lacks reflectiveness and self-insight (like Hillary).

The real test will be whether the Deep State (National Security State) can outweigh the total influence of all elected officials in Washington. Right now it looks like the elected officials are backed up on the one-yard line with a few seconds left in the game (so to speak).

I hope I'm wrong. I happen to like the chance to vote on our leaders. I don't want our leaders chosen by the KGB---oops, did I say KGB?---I meant the CIA.

James Lateer

Wayne Madsen writes on the rise of the radical religious fascism in Central and South America

Quote: The recent coup d'état in Bolivia that overthrew President Evo Morales was not merely a standard right-wing putsch aided and abetted by the US Central Intelligence Agency but also placed into power politicians affiliated with a rising fundamentalist Protestant movement in Latin America that can be termed "Christo-fascist." Many of the far-right and out-of-the-mainstream Protestant sects that have gained power in Guatemala, Colombia, Brazil, and, now, Bolivia have decried traditional Roman Catholicism in Latin America as heretical to their religious ideology and even pro-Communist. As for mainstream Protestant religions, the fundamentalist sects view them as hopelessly liberal, as well as heretical.

The recent military coup in Bolivia that ousted democratically-elected President Evo Morales from office involved senior active duty and retired high-ranking officers of the Bolivian armed forces, some of whom were trained and indoctrinated at the infamous US "School of the Americas," known since 2001 as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), located in Fort Benning, Georgia. One of the School of the Americas trainees is General Williams Kaliman, the now-former commander of the Bolivian armed forces who ordered Morales to step down as president. Kaliman's service to the coup was not very appreciated by its ringmasters, the fundamentalist Christians, among whom is the current acting president of Bolivia, Jeanine Áñez Chávez. One of Áñez's first moves after she seized power was to dismiss Kaliman as the head of the armed forces and replace him with General Carlos Orellana. Áñez was the second vice president of the Senate and assumed the Bolivian presidency after Morales and the senior members in the line of succession in the governing Movement for Socialism (MAS) party were forced to resign by the military.

In keeping with the tenets of Christo-fascism in Latin America, Áñez not only rejects Roman Catholicism but also the traditional beliefs of the indigenous Aymara people of Bolivia as "satanic." Morales was the first native Aymara to be elected president. During his tenure, Morales improved the living conditions of the Aymara and other poor people in Bolivia who had historically been treated as second-class citizens by the country's wealthy white European population. Under the direction of the Christo-fascist coup leaders, the homes of Morales and other MAS officials were ransacked by rioters and pro-Morales government and media officials were physically attacked. Bolivia TV, Nueva Patria Radio, and newspapers supporting Morales were shut down by the putschists. Bolivia's Wiphala flag, which served as Bolivia's second official flag and represents the 36 indigenous tribes of the country, was burned by the coup-supporting rioters.

The planning for the coup in Bolivia was reportedly backed by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, President Donald Trump's first director of the Central Intelligence Agency and a Christo-fascist member of the right-wing breakaway from the Presbyterian Church, the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.

Other School of the Americas alumni were identified among the key Bolivian coup plotters. These include Manfred Reyes Villa, a former military officer, presidential candidate, mayor of Cochabamba, and governor of the Cochabamba Department, as well as General Remberto Siles Vasquez, Colonel Julio César Maldonado Leoni, Colonel Oscar Pacello Aguirre, and Colonel Teobaldo Cardozo Guevara.

One of the major Christo-fascist politicians who supported the coup against Morales is Luis Fernando Camacho, the head of a dubious "civic association" in Santa Cruz. The Bolivian media has described Camacho as "extremely right-wing" and a "Christian fascist." Camacho has also been linked to Croatian-Bolivian Branko Marinko, who fled to the United States in 2009 after he and other plotters attempted to overthrow the MAS government and assassinate Morales. Camacho's questionable business activities was exposed in the release of the "Panama Papers," which showed that he owned an offshore Panamanian company called Navi International Holding S.A.

Bolivian government officials who remain loyal to Evo Morales, who was forced to seek political asylum in Mexico, claim the coup was also supported by several foreign far-right and right-wing politicians, including Colombian President Ivan Duque; his political puppet master, former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe; Brazilian neo-fascist President Jair Bolsonaro, and US Senators Marco Rubio (Republican-Florida), Rick Scott (Republican-Florida), Ted Cruz (Republican-Texas), and Robert Menendez (Democrat-New Jersey). All the senators are closely linked to right-wing Cuban expatriate oligarchs who, for the most part, live in south Florida.

The putsch against Morales began within the Policía Nacional de Bolivia (PNB) ranks. The commander of the police who ordered the police revolt is Colonel Vladimir Calderón, who has strong ties to a CIA-influenced group based in Washington, Police Attachés of Latin America in the United States of America (APALA). Just prior to the launch of the coup, Trump spoke to the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Annual Conference and Exposition in Chicago, another CIA liaison and recruiting ground for police assets, including those in Latin America. In 2018, the IACP welcomed Colonel Calderon, the initial coup leader, to its membership. It is also noteworthy that one of the financiers of the IACP is 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg's Bloomberg Foundation.

The coup in Bolivia followed the template of the initial presidential actions of Bolsonaro in Brazil. Bolsonaro is another fundamentalist Christo-fascist, who, since his inauguration, has worked to oust Morales from power. The first steps of the new Bolivian foreign minister, Karen Longaric, was to sever diplomatic relations with Venezuela, expel the Venezuelan embassy staff, recognize the CIA-backed opposition Venezuelan government of Juan Guaido, and expel several Cuban diplomats and arrest Cuban doctors. The actions taken against Cuban doctors mirrors that of Bolsonaro in Brazil and President Lenin Moreno in Ecuador, the latter having turned his country away from progressive policies to become a lapdog for the CIA and Pentagon.

The coup in Bolivia had an uncanny resemblance to the 2010 attempted putsch by the Ecuadorian National Police against President Rafael Correa, an ally of Bolivia's Morales. Correa was held as a virtual hostage at the Police Hospital in Quito for the greater part of a day prior to his being freed by loyal Ecuadorian military personnel.

There is little doubt that the Bolivian coup involved disciples of the Virginia-based Brazilian Christo-fascist "guru" Olavo de Carvalho. Among Carvalho's disciples are Bolsonaro, Brazilian foreign minister Ernesto Araújo, and Brazilian Education Minister Abraham Weintraub. Carvalho has identified himself as a fundamentalist Christian and an astrologer and not only doubts the Earth revolves around the sun but harbors a belief that the Earth is actually flat. Carvalho's teachings about climate change being a "Marxist conspiracy" have directly influenced Bolsonaro's policies on further destruction of the Amazon rainforest through unbridled industrial exploitation. Carvalho demonized Brazil's two Workers' Party presidents, Dilma Rousseff, who was impeached and removed from office on phony charges, and Rouseff's popular predecessor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was recently released from prison after he was convicted on trumped up charges by right-wing prosecutor Sergio Moro, who now served as Bolsonaro's Justice Minister.

One of the first and most notorious Christo-fascist leaders in Latin America was Guatemala's dictator, Efraín Ríos Montt, also known as "Brother Efraín," who was a member of the Guatemalan chapter of the Gospel Outreach Church of Eureka, California. Montt and the church had close ties to US Christo-fascist leaders, including Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. Montt, who was militarily backed by the Ronald Reagan administration and Israel, carried out a genocidal scorched-earth war against Guatemala's indigenous Mayan population. A favorite extermination target of Christo-fascists is the native indigenous population of the Western Hemisphere, who, as charged by Bolivia's interim president Áñez, are "Satanists" because they continue to practice their traditional religious rituals.

As was the case in Bolivia, Christo-fascist fundamentalists have been mobilized against the progressive governments of Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba.

There is something else that binds the Christo-fascists that has little to do with religion and everything to do with making quick profits: narcotics smuggling. Rios Montt's paramilitary death squads financed their operations by smuggling drugs, particularly cocaine. During Montt's rule, Guatemala was a link in the chain of CIA drug smuggling operations that involved the Nicaraguan contras, Colombian narco-terrorist cartels, and Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega.

The narco-traffickers have been buoyed by the Christo-fascist takeover of Bolivia. Interim President Áñez is married to Héctor Hernando Hincapié Carvajal of the Colombian Conservative Party, an ally of the narco-terrorist-backed Duque administration and its political puppet masters, former President Uribe and his financiers in the Medellin-based Ochoa clan drug cartel. Ever since Morales legalized in Bolivia the production of coca leaves, used in traditional Aymara medicines and as a tea refreshment, Latin American drug cartels have seen their profits go into a tailspin. Bolivia was competing with the Colombian cartels as a source for legally grown coca leaves. The Christo-fascists may believe in the Bible, but they also understand that their religious movements can be supported by cash from the narco-trade.

A proper symbol for Latin America's Christo-fascists would be the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro wearing a pair of ammunition bandoliers while standing on a couple of bricks of cocaine.

Below are links to pictures of Clay Shaw and General Thrasher together. Pictures were taken by Therese Bonney and are archived at the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley.


http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/k6qn...le-details


http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/k63t...le-details

As the limo moves away from Towner down Elm a very strange thing happens within the film...

The column in the background grows LARGER, as the rear tire of the limo gets smaller....

Here are a couple still image comparisons and gif....

I don't think that's possible - right?
DJ

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