John Barbour's Last Word On 'The Garrison Tapes'

[Peter Lemkin]

Garrison had it nailed down long before many others that the CIA had played a major role in both the assassination AND the cover-up [which he knew first hand from their handiwork destroying his investigation and him]. He was really one of the great heroes of solving this drama and I just love listening to his sarcastic, laconic and informed style of telling about it. Even at the end of his life, when I wrote him letters [remember sending letters, before the day of email?] he had through a circuitous means instructed me to put a letter and smaller envelope to him in a larger envelope to someone else in NO who would deliver it to him by hand, as he said his mail was all opened and some never made it to him. His replies were also handled in a somewhat similar fashion. This continued even as he lay dying. At the end he realized from my letters that his investigation had been looking for Plumlee and to question him, but under one of his nom de guerre - Zapata. He kept up on the latest research and I'm sure his own until the day he died. What a great man and one of my personal heroes.