01-11-2016, 10:34 PM
Look, prior to Gibson appearing on the scene, I can recall absolutely no one taking apart the power structure of America into pieces as he did. He made Peter Scott look like an amateur, with his Texas millionaires and Mafia guys.
Evica, in 1991, was a big fan of Scott's. In his book And We Are All Mortal, take a look at who he chalks up the JFK hit to. Its the CIA Mafia plots. And he drags in Hoffa and Lansky also. I mean the last part of that book could have been written by Scott, it owes so much to him. What with its "Caribbean Complex" terminology and the whole Nicaraguan secret police etc etc and onward and downward into utter confusion and obfuscation. This was the vogue thing to do at the time, because of the HSCA and Church Committee, and Scott promoted this in his anthologies. Later, so did Summers. And recall Evica's book was written in 1978.
Having seen just about all of Evica's presentations, and read just about everything he wrote up until the early nineties, its pretty obvious that he was under the influence of Scott for his power structure schematic. Up until that time. Even to the point of the whole Marseille, heroin connection aspect which he talked about at ASK in the early nineties. And he stuck with this paradigm into the early nineties at the early Dallas ASK conferences. For example, in 1991 and 1992 he was talking about the assassination being an intelligence operation with Mafia input, a la Jack Anderson. In fact, Harry Livingstone challenged him in public at ASK about this, specifically querying him if he was cribbing from Anderson. Evica denied it and said this was something he put together himself. Which is an important comment.
What is important here, is that at this time, he was making no references to the higher circles of power when Harry challenged him. No mention of Rockefeller or Morgan or the super rich at all. And, in fact, at this time he was still pledging allegiance to Scott as his doyen on this. He said so specifically in a break out room where he named Scott as his man on the power structure, except he would give way to John Davis on Mob aspects. This was in either 1992 or 1993.
It was not until the mid nineties when Evica came out with his new model at the COPA conference. And this was after the publication of Gibson's book in 1994. Battling Wall Street was a very important milestone in Kenendy research. Up until that time, no one in the critical community had ever excavated the power structure of the USA like Gibson did. And neither had anyone shown how JFK was in opposition to these men as specifically as Gibson did. Donald was a real trail blazer in that respect. And he turned out to be correct as far as I was concerned. It was clear to me when I heard Evica first speak about this model issue that he owed a lot of it to Gibson. And since I knew Don, talked to him for hours on the phone and read an advance galley proof of his book, I was pretty clear on the issue and where Evica had got the stuff. How does one go from Hoffa, Roselli and Scottland, to the higher circles of the CFR so fast? And with Gibson's book right there.
Don't get me wrong. I am glad that GME did what he did. Maybe he thought that since Gibson never elucidated a model like he did that he did not need to credit him. But in my talks with Gibson I specifically mentioned that, with his work, the research community had been shown to be barking up the wrong trees--what with Scott's Dallas Conspiracy of Texas people, and then his mafia stuff. Gibson agreed with me. And he said words to the effect that those power centers were not central, they were peripheral. He said all you had to do was look at the background of McCloy and Dulles, and even Donovan for that matter.
But even with that, Evica still seemed to me a bit under the influence of Scott even when he dropped all this stuff and wrote A Certain Arrogance. I mean what with those bombastic Scottish subheads like "The Sun Oil Company Context" and The Magnolia's Party Connections".
So anyway, there are my conclusions, all from direct dealings with GME, and listening to him talk. I hope that people will now go ahead and read Gibson's stuff, since he is really an unappreciated gem who has never gotten the credit he deserved. While people like Scott and Evica did.
Evica, in 1991, was a big fan of Scott's. In his book And We Are All Mortal, take a look at who he chalks up the JFK hit to. Its the CIA Mafia plots. And he drags in Hoffa and Lansky also. I mean the last part of that book could have been written by Scott, it owes so much to him. What with its "Caribbean Complex" terminology and the whole Nicaraguan secret police etc etc and onward and downward into utter confusion and obfuscation. This was the vogue thing to do at the time, because of the HSCA and Church Committee, and Scott promoted this in his anthologies. Later, so did Summers. And recall Evica's book was written in 1978.
Having seen just about all of Evica's presentations, and read just about everything he wrote up until the early nineties, its pretty obvious that he was under the influence of Scott for his power structure schematic. Up until that time. Even to the point of the whole Marseille, heroin connection aspect which he talked about at ASK in the early nineties. And he stuck with this paradigm into the early nineties at the early Dallas ASK conferences. For example, in 1991 and 1992 he was talking about the assassination being an intelligence operation with Mafia input, a la Jack Anderson. In fact, Harry Livingstone challenged him in public at ASK about this, specifically querying him if he was cribbing from Anderson. Evica denied it and said this was something he put together himself. Which is an important comment.
What is important here, is that at this time, he was making no references to the higher circles of power when Harry challenged him. No mention of Rockefeller or Morgan or the super rich at all. And, in fact, at this time he was still pledging allegiance to Scott as his doyen on this. He said so specifically in a break out room where he named Scott as his man on the power structure, except he would give way to John Davis on Mob aspects. This was in either 1992 or 1993.
It was not until the mid nineties when Evica came out with his new model at the COPA conference. And this was after the publication of Gibson's book in 1994. Battling Wall Street was a very important milestone in Kenendy research. Up until that time, no one in the critical community had ever excavated the power structure of the USA like Gibson did. And neither had anyone shown how JFK was in opposition to these men as specifically as Gibson did. Donald was a real trail blazer in that respect. And he turned out to be correct as far as I was concerned. It was clear to me when I heard Evica first speak about this model issue that he owed a lot of it to Gibson. And since I knew Don, talked to him for hours on the phone and read an advance galley proof of his book, I was pretty clear on the issue and where Evica had got the stuff. How does one go from Hoffa, Roselli and Scottland, to the higher circles of the CFR so fast? And with Gibson's book right there.
Don't get me wrong. I am glad that GME did what he did. Maybe he thought that since Gibson never elucidated a model like he did that he did not need to credit him. But in my talks with Gibson I specifically mentioned that, with his work, the research community had been shown to be barking up the wrong trees--what with Scott's Dallas Conspiracy of Texas people, and then his mafia stuff. Gibson agreed with me. And he said words to the effect that those power centers were not central, they were peripheral. He said all you had to do was look at the background of McCloy and Dulles, and even Donovan for that matter.
But even with that, Evica still seemed to me a bit under the influence of Scott even when he dropped all this stuff and wrote A Certain Arrogance. I mean what with those bombastic Scottish subheads like "The Sun Oil Company Context" and The Magnolia's Party Connections".
So anyway, there are my conclusions, all from direct dealings with GME, and listening to him talk. I hope that people will now go ahead and read Gibson's stuff, since he is really an unappreciated gem who has never gotten the credit he deserved. While people like Scott and Evica did.