At last: Shickshinny Knights of Malta linked to the Draper/Vonsiatsky Condon ManCand crowds

[Peter Lemkin]

I think it is just idle dreamers and naive amateurs who still believe that there is something remaining, hiding in some deep hidden archive which will reveal the identities of the conspirators. Like some sort of "smoking document" or whatever. Dream on. The investigative methodologies employed by those like James Richards, Dick Russell, Mae Brussel and Bill Turner as well as myself seem to produce the most accurate results. You have to talk with real people, and take their evidence with a very jaundiced eye and then put it together with others who can offer REAL first person evidentiary tidbits.

I am quite certain that Peter's suggestion was meant with the best of intentions and I know for a fact that his long research in these areas is worthy of the best of us.

I am also a fan of Prouty for all sorts of reasons. This thread is not the place to air these sorts of remarks, I think.

I feel we must all be very mindful of how we word our posts so as not to cause unwitting offense.

I don't think, if that was targeted at me, that smoking gun files exist still [if they ever did - unlikely] in any archive. However, I have found in archives many documents that support bits and pieces of a puzzle and can bolster otherwise unsupportable information. I have even gotten some from Russian files [on another matter]. The choicest files would have upon creation been put in the do not file files and most would have been sold/traded/destroyed for a variety of dirty reasons and deals over time. However, I still think to supplement first-person interviews [good luck, as most are dead or soon to die] archival materials can speak - even when those in control of the archives think they say nothing they'd worry about giving away.....:banghead: