Whatever We Do..

[Peter Lemkin]

Just want to say, I am grateful for all you guys have taught me, through 10 years as I have learned what it is all about. The last book, from Mr Prouty, JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy. After 10 years, that is all I need to know. I have searched all over this site, but have not found much about this book. Has it ever been discussed?
. Is it a fault in the search-system? I think J.F Prouty sums it up better than most.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?...F.+Kennedy

Prouty was important because he was one of the few insiders willing to talk - but only SO FAR. He knew much more than he was willing to say. I met Prouty in person and had long letter exchanges with him in the days before email. There were some questions I asked he clearly knew the answer to, but would NOT answer directly. Sometimes he would hint in what direction a researcher like myself might trend in order to discover it ourselves. On the other hand he told me some things [important ones] NO ONE ELSE every had before or really since! Despite his liaison role between Military and CIA, due to compartmentalization [partly] and non-disclosure agreements [partly] and fear of reprisal and death [partly] he went or could go only 'so far'. I think he is best in setting the stage for how those two units of government interact [mostly illegally and without oversight], and even more generally how the 'secret governmental structures' think and operate WWII to present. The details on Dallas he could offer were thin, but not without some substantial offerings I could name. He knew people - important persons - researchers had never heard of, never even heard of their positions - and sometimes expounded on them. His books are in my library, but I can not say they are in the corner where I keep what I feel are the most important books on the subject. He made a contribution and he tried to tell part of the truth he knew. He was a concerned patriot, but he also protected some guilty persons and kept many secrets. I will remember our face-to-face conversations always and his constructive hints on name and places to look into that bore fruit! His own political leanings were, to me, very strange and not in line with my own., but to be fair to him he was much more tolerant of other political viewpoints than most of his ilk and basically an honest man. I think he was, as so many in the military and intelligence blinded by the power and secrets they get to know and use - and power corrupts. He certainly gave me some important information and names on the JFK assassination no one else knew about....but he kept other friends and persons of importance hidden, though he knew they were directly involved......others, such as Lansdale he let people decide for themselves - even though he was personally close to Lansdale. One of his best tips for me was in one meeting we had in D.C. when he said' look into Dorothy Mattlack!' I passed that on to my close friend Joan Mellen and I think she is the only one to really expose who Mattlack was and who she worked for - how she 'fit' into the amazingly complex machinery of the assassination and Secret Team - to use Prouty's term. According to Prouty, she was the highest level female spook during that period and unknown to all but a handful. She worked secretly under Landsdale and was one of the last people in D.C. to talk with de Mohrenschildt before he was bumped off. At that time, just her being a female made her somewhat invisible as an active black operative - and more like Landsdale's secretary [which she was NOT at all!] - she was one of his most trusted and secret operatives handling the dirtiest of the dirty deeds, at times.