23-10-2018, 11:36 PM
Not a lot of footnotes or references for source materials in Michael Liebig's two part article on the Odessa network. In fact, there's none.
One of the problems JFK research occasionally suffers from is when authors make claims and build a premise without offering any supportive proof. So Liebig's long piece reads like a summary from a guy who has spent time reading and researching the issue - and I gather he has - but he doesn't want to tell you what he read, where he researched it, and what evidence brought him to some of his conclusions. So, it's a bit hard to take a long unsourced essay as a preferable guide over a longer book that is sourced, and is referenced, and is footnoted. Did Liebig get his info from another writer, dig it up from unspecified sources, copy it from a foreign language source in a library archive or hear it from some guy in a bar? No idea and we're simply left to guess. Not all the Larouch/EIR articles suffer from this problem either - not even all their articles on P2 and Italian politics and Gladio and so on - but this one does, so it's not a great source to cite as proof of anything. If I cited it in a book or article as proving anything at all, I'd expect a slap on the wrist.
On top of which, your more dramatic claims were ones which excluded Italian involvement from Permindex and viewed their presence as being a 'false front', and scanning Liebig's essay I don't see anything which offers evidence for that accusation either. One of Liebig's Larouche pieces is an interview with Daniele Ganser, who wrote NATO'S SECRET ARMIES, which covers a lot of the same material, and Ganser's book is heavily footnoted. Yet at no point in his long volume does Ganser ever suggest that various Italians were acting as a false front for ex-Nazis. So, feel free to provide sources and references that may prove that point, but I haven't seen any yet and frankly don't expect to.
One of the problems JFK research occasionally suffers from is when authors make claims and build a premise without offering any supportive proof. So Liebig's long piece reads like a summary from a guy who has spent time reading and researching the issue - and I gather he has - but he doesn't want to tell you what he read, where he researched it, and what evidence brought him to some of his conclusions. So, it's a bit hard to take a long unsourced essay as a preferable guide over a longer book that is sourced, and is referenced, and is footnoted. Did Liebig get his info from another writer, dig it up from unspecified sources, copy it from a foreign language source in a library archive or hear it from some guy in a bar? No idea and we're simply left to guess. Not all the Larouch/EIR articles suffer from this problem either - not even all their articles on P2 and Italian politics and Gladio and so on - but this one does, so it's not a great source to cite as proof of anything. If I cited it in a book or article as proving anything at all, I'd expect a slap on the wrist.
On top of which, your more dramatic claims were ones which excluded Italian involvement from Permindex and viewed their presence as being a 'false front', and scanning Liebig's essay I don't see anything which offers evidence for that accusation either. One of Liebig's Larouche pieces is an interview with Daniele Ganser, who wrote NATO'S SECRET ARMIES, which covers a lot of the same material, and Ganser's book is heavily footnoted. Yet at no point in his long volume does Ganser ever suggest that various Italians were acting as a false front for ex-Nazis. So, feel free to provide sources and references that may prove that point, but I haven't seen any yet and frankly don't expect to.