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8 The most egregious criticism of Carpenter is regarding Shaw's service under General Charles O. Thrasher during World War II. Carpenter goes into depth about Thrasher's important role in occupied France, but fails to mention Thrasher's involvement in recruiting Nazi scientists such as Wernher von Braun and other rocket experts as well as biological scientists (of the type on the faculty at Berkeley in 1963).
9 This deafening silence about Thrasher is due to the fact that Carpenter is apparently a purist when it comes to historical research. He worked almost exclusively from the papers of Shaw and original sources. It may well be that there is no information about Thrasher's role with the Nazi scientists in those papers. Thrasher's own daughter was the most important source about Thrasher which Carpenter mentions. She may have omitted information about this Nazi connection.
10 As a fellow CPA, I as a writer am sure that Carpenter was following the general ethical principles observed by CPA's in writing their opinion letters. CPA's stick strictly to the facts and numbers that they uncover in their auditing. In their opinion letters, they might mention and client lacks internal financial controls or the client is not a "going concern." But they don't editorialize. Likewise, in MMF, Carpenter absolutely refuses to read between the lines IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER. This is, of course, his prerogative as an historian whereby he sticks to original sources. The details that he reports could be characterized as "a million fragments" about his subject, Clay Shaw. (In reality, he reports easily 5000 details about Shaw, at a minimum).
11 The overall takeaway from Carpenter's analysis of Shaw (and his life) is that Shaw was indeed involved with the JFK assassination. However, Carpenter seems to be of the mind that Shaw was innocent because he was found not-guilty by a jury of his peers. The guilt of Shaw still comes through (in my opinion). A person just can't happen to know that many CIA-connected people all by accident or happenstance.
12 Carpenter faithfully reports all the connections between Shaw and the sinister Italian organization known as Centro Mondo Commerciale or Permindex, led by Hungarian Ference Nagy from 1958 onwards. That groups was clearly CIA sponsored and also involved Fascist leftovers from World War II, and probably actual former Hitlerite Nazis such as Hjalmar Schacht.
13 The International Trade Mart in New Orleans was probably established almost exclusively as a front which enabled Shaw to travel to Latin American and Spain where the hotbeds of fugitive World War II Nazis were located. It was just an office building but it supported a large group of bureaucrats. It had to have CIA subsidies to be such a financial treasure-trove while in competition with other plain-vanilla office buildings of a similar sort which are normally low-budget.
14 I have to say that Carpenter did a superb job in sticking to the evidence contained in the reports of the multitude of witnesses and he drew all the right inferences and conclusions JUST STICKING TO THE WITNESS ACCOUNTS. In this respect, his treatment of the Garrison investigation is radically different than that of other authors such as Joan Mellen (and Garrison himself).
15 And it also should be mentioned that Carpenter doesn't even mention the New Orleans history and JFK plot information discovered by author Dr. Jeffrey Caufield about the anti-communist investigations by Senator James O. Eastland in New Orleans at the time of the JFK assassination which involved Garrison. Carpenter never mentions the name Leander Perez. He also fails to even mention the thorough reporting by two different authors about the CIA weaponized-cancer project involving Dr. Alton Ocshner and Dr. Mary Sherman. He does mention Dr. Sherman, who was murdered in NOLA but Carpenter fails to connect her to the CIA weaponized-cancer project with which she was most certainly involved in 1963 along with Lee Harvey Oswald, Ochsner and others.
16 Finally, the last facts which are omitted by Carpenter are the likely blind spots in the eyes of Garrison about law enforcement involvement in the JFK murder and the failure to accuse right-wing extremists. Apparently, Garrison had deep involvement with the military, law-enforcement (FBI) and right-wing extremists whom he represented in court as NOLA District Attorney. SO THAT LEFT ONLY CLAY SHAW FOR GARRISON TO ACCUSE AND PROSECUTE. (A real shame).
Over all, The Man of a Million Fragments is well worth reading if you are a JFK buff or a history buff generally.
James Lateer
9 This deafening silence about Thrasher is due to the fact that Carpenter is apparently a purist when it comes to historical research. He worked almost exclusively from the papers of Shaw and original sources. It may well be that there is no information about Thrasher's role with the Nazi scientists in those papers. Thrasher's own daughter was the most important source about Thrasher which Carpenter mentions. She may have omitted information about this Nazi connection.
10 As a fellow CPA, I as a writer am sure that Carpenter was following the general ethical principles observed by CPA's in writing their opinion letters. CPA's stick strictly to the facts and numbers that they uncover in their auditing. In their opinion letters, they might mention and client lacks internal financial controls or the client is not a "going concern." But they don't editorialize. Likewise, in MMF, Carpenter absolutely refuses to read between the lines IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER. This is, of course, his prerogative as an historian whereby he sticks to original sources. The details that he reports could be characterized as "a million fragments" about his subject, Clay Shaw. (In reality, he reports easily 5000 details about Shaw, at a minimum).
11 The overall takeaway from Carpenter's analysis of Shaw (and his life) is that Shaw was indeed involved with the JFK assassination. However, Carpenter seems to be of the mind that Shaw was innocent because he was found not-guilty by a jury of his peers. The guilt of Shaw still comes through (in my opinion). A person just can't happen to know that many CIA-connected people all by accident or happenstance.
12 Carpenter faithfully reports all the connections between Shaw and the sinister Italian organization known as Centro Mondo Commerciale or Permindex, led by Hungarian Ference Nagy from 1958 onwards. That groups was clearly CIA sponsored and also involved Fascist leftovers from World War II, and probably actual former Hitlerite Nazis such as Hjalmar Schacht.
13 The International Trade Mart in New Orleans was probably established almost exclusively as a front which enabled Shaw to travel to Latin American and Spain where the hotbeds of fugitive World War II Nazis were located. It was just an office building but it supported a large group of bureaucrats. It had to have CIA subsidies to be such a financial treasure-trove while in competition with other plain-vanilla office buildings of a similar sort which are normally low-budget.
14 I have to say that Carpenter did a superb job in sticking to the evidence contained in the reports of the multitude of witnesses and he drew all the right inferences and conclusions JUST STICKING TO THE WITNESS ACCOUNTS. In this respect, his treatment of the Garrison investigation is radically different than that of other authors such as Joan Mellen (and Garrison himself).
15 And it also should be mentioned that Carpenter doesn't even mention the New Orleans history and JFK plot information discovered by author Dr. Jeffrey Caufield about the anti-communist investigations by Senator James O. Eastland in New Orleans at the time of the JFK assassination which involved Garrison. Carpenter never mentions the name Leander Perez. He also fails to even mention the thorough reporting by two different authors about the CIA weaponized-cancer project involving Dr. Alton Ocshner and Dr. Mary Sherman. He does mention Dr. Sherman, who was murdered in NOLA but Carpenter fails to connect her to the CIA weaponized-cancer project with which she was most certainly involved in 1963 along with Lee Harvey Oswald, Ochsner and others.
16 Finally, the last facts which are omitted by Carpenter are the likely blind spots in the eyes of Garrison about law enforcement involvement in the JFK murder and the failure to accuse right-wing extremists. Apparently, Garrison had deep involvement with the military, law-enforcement (FBI) and right-wing extremists whom he represented in court as NOLA District Attorney. SO THAT LEFT ONLY CLAY SHAW FOR GARRISON TO ACCUSE AND PROSECUTE. (A real shame).
Over all, The Man of a Million Fragments is well worth reading if you are a JFK buff or a history buff generally.
James Lateer