"A Terrible Mistake" by H. P. Albarelli, Jr. - JFK Assassination

[John Bevilaqua]

Gerry Hemming's career path and training were very much intertwined with the paths of both Lee Harvey Oswald, Robert Emmett Johnson and Roy Hargraves among others. James Richards has already confirmed that Robert Emmett Johnson was a shooter in Dealey Plaza, confirming what Hargraves told Mary Ferrell and Richards confirmed that Hargraves was also there playing various roles. Marita Lorenz said that Hemming was in Dallas that day along with Frank Strurgis and E. H. Hunt and her statements have recently been proven to be accurate given what E. H. Hunt said on his deathbed and given the fact that Sturgis tried to silence both her and myself regarding our knowledge of his role in the JFK Assassination. The South Florida "researchers" who tried unsuccessfully to debunk Lorenz's version and my version of South Florida and Dealey Plaza events did a great disservice and a gross injustice to the cause of seeking the truth in the JFK conundrum.

Hemming was a song and dance man, for sure, who had to walk the tightrope between fact and fiction to protect his own quite obvious roles in both the Miami and the Dallas plots against JFK. But to try to trivialize him and to call him a bit player is not accurate in my honest opinion. South Florida "researchers" tried to do the same thing to him because he could place several Miami based Cuban exiles in the thick of the Miami plot at the drop of a hat and perhaps even the Dallas plot as well.

Let history record that Gerry Hemming knew exactly who tried to kill JFK in Miami and that he was in Dallas on the day JFK died playing some unknown role or roles as described by Marita Lorenz who has always told the truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God. I am researching an AP photograph of Hemming which if still available will prove that he was in Dallas on D-Day.
Hemming was probably also trained just like Oswald, Johnson and others as a programmed assassin using MKULTRA techniques by Cline and Singlaub and Company.

I should also add the information that Noel Twyman gleaned from his incessant quizzing of Hemming at my suggestion on the subject of Robert J. Morris from the Dallas John Birch Society. I told Twyman to take the "pretense" or "supposition" approach with Hemming that you had some corroborated inside information about Robert Morris' role as one of the major plotters in the entire JFK conundrum. (Don't tell him that it was, in reality, from Richard Condon and myself.) And then, I continued, no matter how much he tries to deny it, no matter how much he tries to trivialize the Morris role, just keep pursuing that topic as if it was going to be a major cornerstone of your book until he finally cracks and leaks some insights or enhancements to your theory about Morris and The John Birch Society. And sure enough, Hemming broke ranks and told Twyman that he was ready to tell everything about Morris and The John Birch Society types like Willoughby, Walker and Hunt. Twyman then asked Morris to reconsider everything overnight and then if he still wanted to talk they would resume in the morning. Either Hemming was staying in California with Twyman or Twyman was staying near Hemming's house, I can not recall which was the case.
In any event, Hemming got cold feet as recounted in Twyman's book and decided against spilling the beans on Morris. But in fact, this exchange cemented in my mind the incontrovertible evidence against the JBS, Rober Morris, Willoughby and Walker as well as the Hunt family contributins to JFK's demise. And it further established the veracity of the work done by William Turner who investigated Patrick J. Frawley, OSJ, INCA and by inference Frawley's employee at Technicolor and Schick Safety Razor, Robert Morris of the JBS. You can also add Mae Brussell into that equation as well who spent decades on this case and wrote the Morris and Willoughby indictment in The Realist with Bill Turner who asked to have his name removed as a contributor at the last moment due to some minor issues he had with citations, sources and corroboration of some details. He told me that he wished he had not removed his name from the article as its importance loomed larger after Dick Russell revealed the info about his informant's details about Willoughby in the 1994 classic TMWKTM.

The other point to be made about these South Florida SOFs and their roles is that everyone just seems to assume that once you do a contract for the CIA or for Army Intel that every other clandestine or nefarious project you work on in the future can automatically be assumed to be sponsored by your original contractor for the sake of your pet theory or theories or whatever. In fact, people like Hemming, Hargraves, Sturgis and Sullivan and all the rest probably did projects for the CIA, Castro, Battista, Army Intel, the JBS, the Trujillos, the Mob, the Buckley clan, the Ryans, Ulius Amoss, the White Supremacists at The Citizens Councils, CREEP, John Dean, the Miss Sov Comm, HUAC, SISS and the anti-Castro exiles. They were guns for hire, they were mercenaries and they had no other way to put food on the table except through their highest paid specialty. So to assume that Hemming, Hargraves and Sturgis were ALWAYS working for just the CIA whenever they are involved in something covert or extralegal is either a case of convenient distortion and exaggeration to support some preconceived agenda or extreme naivete of the worst kind or even both. These SOFs changed sides as quickly as a chameleon changed colors. And they often worked both sides of the fence as well.

The group known as Nellie's Boys were the forerunners of outfits like Blackwater and Xe, except in much smaller numbers. The need for retired military operatives to rely on only their military specialties and their military training after severing ties with the military is a very dangerous proposition to say the least. It is quite comparable to the problem of releasing former violent felons after their jail time is done back into society with no visible means of support or hopes for re-entering the civilian mercantile work force. It is just asking for trouble. The same thing happened when The Shickshinny Knights of Malta was created to serve as an outlet for all the former Generals and Admirals who were still champing at the bit for another Great War. This type of organization should be on a prohibited list agreed to contractually by retired military and the same should hold true for Blackwater/Xe. Probably way too late now anyway.