Deep Political Science and Altgens 6: A Hypothesis

[Greg Burnham]

There appear to be further examples of this modus operandi in Dealey Plaza. For instance, we know there was at least one "known" person in Dealey Plaza who should NOT have been there from a trade-craft point of view. In other words, trade-craft dictates that known operatives (almost an oxymoron in and of itself) are not employed in high profile domestic operations. Anonymous professional mechanics who have provided reliable work in the past are more desirable as they are without allegiance one way or another, dispassionate, but focused. If anything goes wrong or if they are captured photographically or on movie film they are not recognized because they do not exist. Thus, their sponsors are not connected to the deed by association. That is standard operating procedure.

So what of Jim Braden's (aka Eugene Hale Brading) presence in Dealey Plaza and his having been photographed minutes after the shooting? If we accept the positive I.D. made by both Major General Victor "Brute" Krulak, USMC, and Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, USAF, what do we make of General Ed Lansdale's presence there? If we accept the photo analysis made by Cutler and Sprague, among others, who believe that the Umbrella Man is Gordon Novel, then what of his presence in Dealey Plaza that day? What if even a small percentage (or even a single one) of those who are the focus of attention in Allan Eaglesham's "Familiar Faces in Dealey Plaza" study are actually identifiable in the photographic record?

What if you deliberately allow and/or order operatives into the kill zone to be photographed there even though they had absolutely NOTHING to do with the deed beyond their having been there to create red-herrings?

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From Tree Frog:

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193 Pinewood Road
Hartsdale, NY 10530

August 3, 1978


Mr. Robert Blakey
Select Committee on Assassinations
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Bob:

Following our telephone conversation on Tuesday August 1,
I checked with Bob Cutler, my co-author on the Umbrella
Weapon System article in Gallery June 1978. Bob told me
he left with Mr. Preyer and with you, photographic material
showing that The Umbrella Man (TUM) was quite probably
J. Gordon Novel.

Your news photo of him reinforces that belief for both of
us. I did not have that portion of the Couch film from
WFAA and so had never seen TUM's face as clearly as it
appears there. The Bothun photo of him has a light
reflection around his nose, as I'm sure you know.

We have a 1962-3 photo of Novel taken from the same angle
as the Couch film of TUM and a photo comparison convinces
us more than ever that Novel is TUM. Mr. Preyer no doubt
told you back in April that Novel is in a jail in Georgia,
framed for a crime he and Jim Garrison, his former lawyer,
both claim he didn't commit.


Best regards,



Dick Sprague

DS/mc

P.S. I am still waiting for a response to my letters to
Louis Stokes about attending the hearings beginning
August 14.

cc: L. Stokes
R. Cutler