Anthony Marsh Wrote:As you know, I am also interested in the death of John Paisley and hope that other researchers can give me more information about case. My father was the section chief of Research and Development at the National Security Agency and was also one of the victims of the CIA's drug experimentation program. He was also the NSA liaison to the CIA and his counterpart and close friend was John Paisley. My father left that Paisley was killed. I think the reason why he was killed (probably by the KGB) was because he was going to report that he had found the mole planted by the KGB. His supposed suicide is just as suspicious as Frank Olson's supposed suicide.
Anthony - in my judgement, John Paisley's life and death is a prime riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. He was involved in many crucial deep political events, any of which could have led to his murder.
Here are some examples:
i) Paisley's early UN and university career suggests he may have been an agency asset posing as a "peace-loving, broadly left-wing, idealist" from the CIA's inception;
ii) Dick Russell argues the case that the CIA & NSA electronics whizz Paisley, as deputy director of the Office of Strategic Research in the late 1950s, may have been directly involved with the false defection programme that despatched Oswald to the USSR;
iii) Paisley was involved in the interrogation of high profile Soviet defectors Golitsyn, Nosenko and Penkovsky, which is Angleton triple-agent, mole-hunting-mole paranoia territory;
iv) around 1970, Paisley became CIA liaison to the White House Special Investigations Unit, and was part of Operation Odessa, ostensibly an attempt to discredit the Pentagon Papers. Again wheels within wheels;
v) in the early 70s, Paisley allegedly helped organize Washington sex parties for politicians and the powerful. Joseph Trento, fwiw, claimed that reporter Carl Bernstein attended these parties, and that the sex dimension is why the Bernstein/Woodward source was known as Deep Throat. Indeed, it's even been claimed that Paisley was Deep Throat. Fwiw Bernstein has denied attending such parties, and denied that Paisley was Deep Throat.
As an addendum, my own judgement is that Deep Throat is a retrospective fictional construction created as a plot device for All The President's Men, and that Hollywood's finest movie about investigative journalism is unfortunately based on a series of lies. See here:
http://www.deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/...ostcount=5
vi) Paisley was involved in the A Team and B Team intelligence shenanigans under George H W Bush's Directorship of the CIA in 1976. That historical chapter's detritus leads straight to the neocons - particularly Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and Cheney;
vii) the Trentos, fwiw, accused Paisley of being a Soviet mole.
Paisley's 1978 death, whilst boating in the Chesapeake Bay, with gunshot wounds to his head and diving weights attached to his body, was ruled a suicide. It's an eerie precursor of the 1996 boating accident of one-time CIA Director William Colby, which was ruled a heart attack induced by hypothermia.
Hollywood has picked up on this, and often has influential politicians or spooks being assassinated by the CIA (or other US intelligence agencies) near water or whilst boating.
Perhaps "suicide by water" is a CIA signature, like MI6-induced road accidents and Mossad point-blank executions in public streets.
My own judgement on Frank Olson is that he was murdered because American intelligence elements feared that his increasing disgust regarding unethical and unscientific terminal experiments would lead to his "blowing the whistle".
If I remember correctly, and I'd welcome more accurate contributions here, Dick Russell tentatively believes that Paisley may have had some information about the assassins of JFK that he was about to make public.
I have a great deal of respect for Dick Russell, and his research. I hope other DPF members will be able to expand.
However, my tentative view is that I'd need to see more evidence before concluding that Paisley was about to commit an act of conscience similar to that for which Frank Olson paid with his life.
