30-09-2008, 06:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 30-09-2008, 06:13 PM by Charles Drago.)
The doppelganger subplot permeates 20th century intel ops. And a certain fictive construct named "Lee Harvey Oswald" is cast in too many of these roles.
ITEM -- While in California in 1977 to address a Hispanic audience at a Cinco de Mayo celebration in the Los Angeles Civic Center Mall, President Jimmy Carter allegedly was the target of assassins.
Newspapers reported the arrest of a "transient" -- an Anglo in his mid-thirties -- who was charged with conspiring to kill the president.
Shortly thereafter, a Hispanic was taken into custody and similarly charged.
Both suspects claimed that they had been hired by Mexican hit men who paid them to fire blanks from a pistol to divert the attention of Carter's security details while they (the two hitters) shot the president with high-powered rifles.
The details of this event are, for the most part, not relevant to this thread (although its timing is rather intriguing).
But the names of the arrested suspects are quite relevant.
The Hispanic was Osvaldo Ortiz.
The Anglo was Raymond Lee Harvey.
There are no traces of these men or the dispostions of their cases on the public record today.
ITEM -- On August 30, 2000 CNN aired a statement by Mohammed al Fayed, father of Dodi al Fayed, Princess Diana's lover who perished with her and Henri Paul in the "auto accident" in Paris.
In that statement, al Fayed referenced, " ... individuals who attempted to take advantage of Princess Diana's death and my grief by extorting $20 million from me by offering for sale alleged CIA documents describing MI6 involvement in the assassination of my son and Princess Diana.
"One of the men," al Fayed explained, "was prosecuted immediately by the Austrian government and is now serving a sentence of imprisonment in Vienna for his part in the scheme."
The name of this mysterious agent?
Oswald LeWinter.
Which is a double hit, of course. We've got LHO again. And we're tantalized by reference to Lady de Winter - the Cardinalist double agent who, in Dumas' The Three Musketeers, woos D'Artagnan to the point of obsession (mind control, anyone?) only to betray him.
Which brings to mind another ... curiosity. Since John Wilkes Booth, most of America's political assassins (successful or otherwise) have come to be known by their tripartite names: Charles Julius Guiteau, John Flammang Schrank, Giuseppe "Joseph" Zangara, Thomas Arthur Vallee, Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, Sara Jane Moore, Mark David Chapman, and, if you'll permit the stretch, John Hinckley, Jr. (middle name -- Warnock -- not commonly referenced).
Leon Czolgosz -- well, that's already a mouthful.
Going a bit far afield, we meet Mehmet Ali Agca in Vatican City.
I mention this in passing.
Charles Robert Drago
ITEM -- While in California in 1977 to address a Hispanic audience at a Cinco de Mayo celebration in the Los Angeles Civic Center Mall, President Jimmy Carter allegedly was the target of assassins.
Newspapers reported the arrest of a "transient" -- an Anglo in his mid-thirties -- who was charged with conspiring to kill the president.
Shortly thereafter, a Hispanic was taken into custody and similarly charged.
Both suspects claimed that they had been hired by Mexican hit men who paid them to fire blanks from a pistol to divert the attention of Carter's security details while they (the two hitters) shot the president with high-powered rifles.
The details of this event are, for the most part, not relevant to this thread (although its timing is rather intriguing).
But the names of the arrested suspects are quite relevant.
The Hispanic was Osvaldo Ortiz.
The Anglo was Raymond Lee Harvey.
There are no traces of these men or the dispostions of their cases on the public record today.
ITEM -- On August 30, 2000 CNN aired a statement by Mohammed al Fayed, father of Dodi al Fayed, Princess Diana's lover who perished with her and Henri Paul in the "auto accident" in Paris.
In that statement, al Fayed referenced, " ... individuals who attempted to take advantage of Princess Diana's death and my grief by extorting $20 million from me by offering for sale alleged CIA documents describing MI6 involvement in the assassination of my son and Princess Diana.
"One of the men," al Fayed explained, "was prosecuted immediately by the Austrian government and is now serving a sentence of imprisonment in Vienna for his part in the scheme."
The name of this mysterious agent?
Oswald LeWinter.
Which is a double hit, of course. We've got LHO again. And we're tantalized by reference to Lady de Winter - the Cardinalist double agent who, in Dumas' The Three Musketeers, woos D'Artagnan to the point of obsession (mind control, anyone?) only to betray him.
Which brings to mind another ... curiosity. Since John Wilkes Booth, most of America's political assassins (successful or otherwise) have come to be known by their tripartite names: Charles Julius Guiteau, John Flammang Schrank, Giuseppe "Joseph" Zangara, Thomas Arthur Vallee, Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, Sara Jane Moore, Mark David Chapman, and, if you'll permit the stretch, John Hinckley, Jr. (middle name -- Warnock -- not commonly referenced).
Leon Czolgosz -- well, that's already a mouthful.
Going a bit far afield, we meet Mehmet Ali Agca in Vatican City.
I mention this in passing.
Charles Robert Drago