18-10-2015, 11:12 PM
Hi all, thank you for your replies.
Maybe I can be a little more specific about the question.
Here's the sitch - let's assume that PD Scott is right, and that Mt Weather was in use for emergency communications.
If that is the case, then there had to be a link to the ground in Dallas, whether direct or indirect.
There are only two obvious ways that link could have landed in Dallas - one is, through the White House Communications Agency, and the other is, through the Dallas Emergency Operations Center, which means the Civil Defense channels. The former, is related to "Continuity of Government", while the latter, is more related to "disaster management".
If we're to take Mr. PD Scott's statement literally, it would seem to indicate he has some evidence regarding the specific nature of the link, and that's what I'm asking about.
First of all, I've been able to find no evidence whatsoever as to whether the Dallas Emergency Operations Center was actually in use that day. Its Director was allegedly at a luncheon at the Adolphus Hotel just after the assassination, seen by dozens of people and etc. The other person who might have had the keys to that building is Boise B Smith. And a mysterious figure named Col John W Mayo, who appears to be one of these ultra-right-wing anti-communist types.
From what little I've been able to establish so far, the WHCA radios that Winston Lawson installed in the cars were all low power, they were for local use only. Allegedly, the SS had some kind of communication center set up at the Sheraton, and from what I can glean this was essentially the "mobile White House", involving at the time two PBX's and one radio transceiver. Since it would have been impossible to set up a kilowatt transmitter on the spot, the communications would then necessarily have had to flow through a regional relay point where they could in fact have a kilowatt transmitter and a very large antenna. Such a point might have been the Emergency Operations Center, but it also could have been one of the regional Defense facilities like the 112th MIG at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio.
I'm not aware that Mr. Scott understands how these relays took place, which is why I'm asking what he means by "almost directly". He says that like he knows something, but if he does he's not telling us. The PBX's were down for over an hour while they were trying to install an additional switch, and therefore any communication that might have taken place during that interval had to happen by radio. Which means, there had to be a kilowatt transmitter in play someplace. It might have been at Collins HQ in Cedar Rapids Iowa, but it still would have get to get from Dallas to there, over a secure channel or in a secure manner.
Maybe I can be a little more specific about the question.
Here's the sitch - let's assume that PD Scott is right, and that Mt Weather was in use for emergency communications.
If that is the case, then there had to be a link to the ground in Dallas, whether direct or indirect.
There are only two obvious ways that link could have landed in Dallas - one is, through the White House Communications Agency, and the other is, through the Dallas Emergency Operations Center, which means the Civil Defense channels. The former, is related to "Continuity of Government", while the latter, is more related to "disaster management".
If we're to take Mr. PD Scott's statement literally, it would seem to indicate he has some evidence regarding the specific nature of the link, and that's what I'm asking about.
First of all, I've been able to find no evidence whatsoever as to whether the Dallas Emergency Operations Center was actually in use that day. Its Director was allegedly at a luncheon at the Adolphus Hotel just after the assassination, seen by dozens of people and etc. The other person who might have had the keys to that building is Boise B Smith. And a mysterious figure named Col John W Mayo, who appears to be one of these ultra-right-wing anti-communist types.
From what little I've been able to establish so far, the WHCA radios that Winston Lawson installed in the cars were all low power, they were for local use only. Allegedly, the SS had some kind of communication center set up at the Sheraton, and from what I can glean this was essentially the "mobile White House", involving at the time two PBX's and one radio transceiver. Since it would have been impossible to set up a kilowatt transmitter on the spot, the communications would then necessarily have had to flow through a regional relay point where they could in fact have a kilowatt transmitter and a very large antenna. Such a point might have been the Emergency Operations Center, but it also could have been one of the regional Defense facilities like the 112th MIG at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio.
I'm not aware that Mr. Scott understands how these relays took place, which is why I'm asking what he means by "almost directly". He says that like he knows something, but if he does he's not telling us. The PBX's were down for over an hour while they were trying to install an additional switch, and therefore any communication that might have taken place during that interval had to happen by radio. Which means, there had to be a kilowatt transmitter in play someplace. It might have been at Collins HQ in Cedar Rapids Iowa, but it still would have get to get from Dallas to there, over a secure channel or in a secure manner.