PERMINDEX

[Jan Klimkowski]

Dr. Evica in his Perfect Cover essay list Permindex as part of the kitchen sink false sponsors that originated with KGB. It would be valuable to hear the opinion of Charles Drago and Jim DiEugenio on Permindex.

Charles and Jim - I echo the comments of Vasilios, and welcome any thoughts on where Permindex may stand in this case: facilitators? sponsors? false sponsors?

As for what the ghost of Permindex suggests, once again, for me Permindex is linked, most crucially, to Gladio structures.

Permindex has been implicated in the funding of the Organisation de l'armée secrète (OAS) which attempted to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle several times (most prominently in 1962).

Daniele Ganser has linked the OAS and Gladio.

Jim Marrs has claimed that Guy Banister arranged for $200,000 to be transferred to the OAS in 1962. (I believe this is in Crossfire, but don't have my copy accessible.)

Gladio is still massively under-researched. However, some researchers name Frank G Wisner as a pivotal player in the recruitment and establishment of extreme right-wing, anti-communist, players into the "stay behind" networks in the immediate post-WW2 period. These researchers also claim that Wisner's Office of Policy Coordination is involved in solidifying Gladio structures.

Wisner was of course a psyops master, directly involved in the creation of Mockingbird.

The link from Ferenc Nagy and Permindex to CIA is Frank G Wisner.

So, I consider it legitimate to ask whether Permindex was first and foremost a Gladio front, able to commission deep covert stay behind cells to commit military/terrorist actions (atrocities) under the Strategy of Tension philosophy.

Whether Permindex was involved in the assassination of JFK, or was instead a false sponsor, is a crucial question. However, any analysis attempting to answer this question should surely consider the broad context of Wisner, psyops and Mockingbird.

If Permindex was a facilitator/sponsor, then the plotters must discredit this information.

If Permindex was a legitimate business organisation, uninvolved in the assassination, then the plotters may have attempted to establish Permindex as a false sponsor after the Garrison investigation.

Here is what is believed to be Permindex's founding board, on incorporation in Switzerland in 1958:

* Louis Bloomfield, Lawyer, President
* Ferenc Nagy, former anti-Communist Prime Minister Hungarian
* Georgio Mantello aka George Mantello aka George Mandel, alleged "rescuer" of Jewish refugees and official founder of PERMINDEX
* Roy Marcus Cohn, US lawyer for Senator Joseph McCarthy, Lionel Corporation
* Joseph Bonanno, Mafia figure, Lionel Corporation
* Jean Menu de Ménil, owner of Schlumberger Limited (the world's largest oilfield services company)
* Paul Raigorodsky
* Count Guitierez di Spadafora, Undersecretary of Agriculture for Benito Mussolini
* Hans Seligman, Basel, Switzerland banker
* Carlo d'Amelio, Italian Lawyer, Head Consul for Centro Mondiale Commerciale (CMC)
* Max Hageman, newspaper editor National Zeitung Munich
* Munir Chourbagi, uncle to King Farouk of Egypt
* Giuseppe Zigotti, Italian Fascist
* Ferenc H. Simonfay, Major-General in Hungary and Nazi collaborator
* Clay Shaw, New Orleans International Trade Mart

Strangely enough, I do not believe that Permindex was simply a trade organisation.

Obvioiusly, that does not prove Permindex involvement in the assassination of JFK.