Quote:During the length of the book, Farrell gradually adds the names of the organizations involved, slowly building up to a crescendo on page 203. The list has their involvement coming in at 3 differing levels 1.) executing the murder 2.) framing Oswald and 3.) being in charge of the overall cover up. Borrowing heavily from the long discredited Torbitt Document (discussed in Part II of this review) he names the following suspects in these categories:

Anti Castro Cubans, Mafia, FBI, CIA, Big Oil, Military, Bankers (Federal Reserve), Nazis, Masons.

Now, recall, this book is supposed to be about Johnson's role as a kingpin' in the plot. Hence its title. The problem is that by the end of the book it seems that Johnson is in fact superseded in importance by the three main groups who organized the crime the Mafia, Big Oil and Nazis at least that's what I can make out. It's actually really hard to discern what the hell is going on. And it's even more confusing because Zirbel didn't say jack about any of these guys being involved. Indeed he went out of his way to deny and make excuses (some concerning the Mob were surprisingly feasible), as to why they were not. This is a very telling paradox about this book.

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This summary overview of The Texas Connection renders Farrell's claims of Zirbel being a guiding light to his thesis pretty much fatuous. As one can see above, at least 90% of what Zirbel said is clearly disagreed with by Farrell, not agreed with by him. Furthermore, it's clear that Zirbel isn't the book's main source of content. If you check the footnotes, Farrell's book owes a huge debt of gratitude to Jim Marrs' book Crossfire. Farrell, for want of a better word, simply condensed large tracts of Marrs and spiced that up with authors like David Lifton and Harrison Livingstone to make it appear that he didn't just rip of the book itself.

Quote:Their real identities are (drum roll please): Jubelo, Jubela and Jubelum. (I guess it's more exciting than Moe, Curly and Larry). Why? Because Dealey Plaza was selected, not because of it being an excellent place to stage a killing of a head of state (there's too much common sense in that equation). It's because the convergence of the three roads in Dealey Plaza construct a trident, an important Masonic symbol.

Quote:As has been discussed, DiEugenio also gave an in-depth address at JFK Lancer concerning the use of bad revisionist histories in November 2010
(http://justiceforkennedy.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-05-08T07%3A22%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=5)
and touched on a number of issues, such as Torbitt's denial of Shaw's ties to the Central Intelligence Agency:

"I came to the same conclusion I did with Farewell America, that it was pure bunk. That it was pure disinformation, except it was a different form of disinformation. If you closely examine the Torbitt essay you will notice something quite odd: it accuses everybody and their mother of being involved in the Kennedy assassination, the Pentagon, the Mafia, the FBI, the DIA, something called DISC, which is not a CD, LBJ, Texas millionaires\billionaires everybody, except the CIA. Everybody except the CIA is in this document! So, in fact, when it does discuss somebody who is a CIA agent, like Clay Shaw, it doesn't call him a CIA agent. It calls him a military intelligence agent. Which was true, but only for four years. After Shaw got out of the military he became a CIA agent for a long, long time."

Quote:There does appear to be some evidence that Shaw (despite his liberal façade) was himself sympathetic to fascist politics. And Permindex was clearly one of many groups throughout Europe that was a probable cover for the sinister antics surrounding Operation Gladio, which came above board in 1990 via independent European investigations. Permindex certainly did have ties to various right wing groups including former Nazi intelligence operatives. If the BBC ever had a finest moment, it's screening of this amazing Gladio documentary which broke the story worldwide, would take the cake. (http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=16921).

Paris Flammonde, author of fine 1969 book The Kennedy Conspiracy, was the individual responsible for the first in-depth look into Permindex from an American perspective. Flammonde methodically associated the company and its offsider', the CMC, and their many mysteries under the shadow of the Central Intelligence Agency. (http://www.maebrussell.com/Articles%20and%20Notes/Kennedy%20Conspiracy.html).

Flammonde's measured research was in stark contrast to a batch of papers that began circulating in 1970 entitled The Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal, more commonly know as The Torbitt Document.

Quote:And though Martin Cannon was a divisive figure in his time, I'd take his breakdown of the documents over any endorsement from Farrell's editor and Gemstone' devotee Childress's. (http://www.newsmakingnews.com/mcgemstoneexposedatlast.htm)

Quote:Let's see what no originals and multiple versions of a document can mean for credibility. Farrell has been digging himself a hole since the first sentence of his epic literary failure. He hits paydirt at the bottom of page 158. There he states that Kenn Thomas had meticulously assembled the only complete version of the Torbitt Document available. Ten pages later, in the footnotes on page 168, Farrell then brags that the Torbitt Document was correct; there was indeed a pro-German stay behind group being run by NATO. Farrell and Childress are either extremely gullible or in on the con themselves. Thomas's book, predictably called NASA, Nazis and JFK: The Torbitt Document and the JFK Assassination, came out in 1996. The aforementioned Operation Gladio, in which the CIA and NATO were revealed as being heavily involved in Cold War European stay behind fascist groups since the end of WWII, first became public in 1992. In fact, Gladio is mentioned in Jim DiEugenio's book of that year, Destiny Betrayed. (See page 372)

Seamus Coogan Wrote:Well that reply was essentially what one does this kinda thing for Jan. That Adam Parfrey stuff is true gold. Thanks.

Seamus Coogan Wrote:As for Martin. I had a look around for his writings on the net after I found his skeleton key demolition and there wasn't to much which was a shame. He has a writing style similar to mine (he's pretty aggressive in his subject matter lol-however I have use of some fantastic editors that curb some of my indulgences). I came across people with differing opinions on him. He drew a bit of heat for his look into Alien abductions as an MK Ultra type operation. It's actually something I have found to be highly plausible myself.

Seamus Coogan Wrote:Essentially what I am saying is that Farrell brags the Torbitt Document predicted the German stay behinds vis a vis Gladio. The problem was of course that Thomas's rendering of the Torbitt document occurred well after Gladio came above board. Farrell was also saying on one hand that Thomas had accumulated all the known evidence and put it together but Thomas is saying someone gave it to him too publish. It seems aas if Farrell cocked up and divulged how Thomas put it all together. There was no 'miraclulous document from thin air'.

I hope that clears it up for you. But in clearing it up of course there's more questions. Namely, what is Childress' motivations in all of this if he's prepared to utilise compromised material and then force some poor buggar to endorse Zirbel.

Seamus Coogan Wrote:PDS seems to cut his cloth to suit his fit. His earlier stuff was quite okay. But no generally speaking Im not a great adherent and I am unsure of his motives truth be told.

Jan Klimkowski Wrote:

Seamus Coogan Wrote:PDS seems to cut his cloth to suit his fit. His earlier stuff was quite okay. But no generally speaking Im not a great adherent and I am unsure of his motives truth be told.

Seamus - I don't agree with your view of Peter Dale Scott.

He continues to produce much fine work - eg his ongoing analysis of Continuity of Government mechanisms.

Peter Dale Scott is a gifted and insightful researcher.

Phil Dragoo Wrote:Thank you for your endurance, Seamus.

Seamus Coogan Wrote:Sure he (PDS) may have some insight into mechanisms of government. But so has Bill Blum, Naomi Klein, Michael Moore and Joel Bakan without the Bullshit!