19-04-2009, 06:15 PM
In my opinion the Torbitt Document is a sophisticated exercise in disinformation and misdirection* that grew out of the Garrison investigation or as part of the “get Garrison” operation.
1970: The Torbitt Document surfaces in the JFK research community as an unpublished manuscript.
The “author” reportedly was a Texas Lawyer, David Copeland, who claimed that he got the information from two government agents.
Mae Brussell had it early on and circulated copies.
1996: “Torbitt” was packaged and published by Kenn Thomas as NASA, NAZIS & JFK: The Torbitt Document & the Kennedy Assassination (Adventures Unlimited Press, Kempton, Illinois).
Early 2001: There was a valuable “Torbitt” discussion on the JFK Research Forum by some very knowledgeable researchers.
Feb 5, 2008: Latest version of “The Torbitt Document, What is it, and Where Did it Come From?” posted on the JFK Research Forum by Ron Williams.
Torbitt sources that need “mining:”
“‘JFK’ AND CLAY SHAW: Credible evidence connects the CIA’s Shaw to Oswald," by Ralph Schoenman, Santa Barbara News-Press, Sunday, January 12, 1992.
The Bertrand Russell papers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
Anything written on Mortimer Louis Bloomfield by Robert Charles-Dunne. For example, posts on the Education Forum.
Anything written on “Torbitt” in Lobster mag.
Old posts from “alt” Newsgroups on "Torbitt" by JFK researcher Jim Hargrove.
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* - the following is my conclusion to the most recent Torbitt topic on the JFK Research Forum:
…So what is Torbitt? A well intended but seriously flawed document? Smart-ass CIA stuff? A Rosetta Stone to the JFK Case? My best guess is that it is a classic piece of disinformation, disinformation in the sense as that discussed in the works of Lloyd Miller and Lyndon LaRouche. And I strongly believe an important key to understanding this type of “secret document” and others like it is contained in Lloyd Miller’s Project journal and in his A-Albionic Book Catalog.
[COLOR="Blue"]From the A-Albionic Book Catalog:
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allen Poe…
This classic mystery story shows clearly a little known principle of deception: A secret is best hidden by placing it in plain sight, but by adding calculated misdirection that prevents its proper appreciation by the onlooker! …While preoccupied by the search for and analysis of secret documents, always supplied abundantly by the conspiracy itself, the conspiracy researcher overlooks the obvious…[/COLOR]
Also from a section of the catalog entitled "The Lure and Hook of Secret Documents:"
The Lure (and Hook?) of Secret Documents: For too many of its advocates and detractors, the truth or falsity of ruling class/conspiracy theories rests on the literal truth or falsity of a number of secret documents that have been reprinted and distributed by various interested parties. Partisans claim to see spreading such documents as a benevolent service to humanity (or their anointed collective) that will finally overthrow the evil power of the "conspiracy" as they conceive it. Detractors see such projects as thinly veiled revolutionary propaganda designed by a would be elite to undermine faith in existing institutions and/or pave the way to totalitarian seizure of power. Objectively speaking, however, it is impossible to over-estimate the power this genrè achieves via "exposing" the purported motives of an "enemy" and thereby intensifying the cohesion of the "victim" social organism whether for good or evil.
From “The Secrets Known Only to the Inner Elites” by Lyndon LaRouche (The Campaigner, May-June 1978):
The cleverest way, psychologically, in which to hide a secret is to divert the investigator down a tiring trail toward a false discovery. His own efforts convince him either that he has found a secret through great energy and cleverness on his own part, or, if the secret he seeks appears still to barely elude his grasp, he values all the more his continued course of misdirection. That is the lesson which can be learned from Edgar Allan Poe’s fictional case of The Purloined Letter.
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Ron Williams
1970: The Torbitt Document surfaces in the JFK research community as an unpublished manuscript.
The “author” reportedly was a Texas Lawyer, David Copeland, who claimed that he got the information from two government agents.
Mae Brussell had it early on and circulated copies.
1996: “Torbitt” was packaged and published by Kenn Thomas as NASA, NAZIS & JFK: The Torbitt Document & the Kennedy Assassination (Adventures Unlimited Press, Kempton, Illinois).
Early 2001: There was a valuable “Torbitt” discussion on the JFK Research Forum by some very knowledgeable researchers.
Feb 5, 2008: Latest version of “The Torbitt Document, What is it, and Where Did it Come From?” posted on the JFK Research Forum by Ron Williams.
Torbitt sources that need “mining:”
“‘JFK’ AND CLAY SHAW: Credible evidence connects the CIA’s Shaw to Oswald," by Ralph Schoenman, Santa Barbara News-Press, Sunday, January 12, 1992.
The Bertrand Russell papers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
Anything written on Mortimer Louis Bloomfield by Robert Charles-Dunne. For example, posts on the Education Forum.
Anything written on “Torbitt” in Lobster mag.
Old posts from “alt” Newsgroups on "Torbitt" by JFK researcher Jim Hargrove.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
* - the following is my conclusion to the most recent Torbitt topic on the JFK Research Forum:
…So what is Torbitt? A well intended but seriously flawed document? Smart-ass CIA stuff? A Rosetta Stone to the JFK Case? My best guess is that it is a classic piece of disinformation, disinformation in the sense as that discussed in the works of Lloyd Miller and Lyndon LaRouche. And I strongly believe an important key to understanding this type of “secret document” and others like it is contained in Lloyd Miller’s Project journal and in his A-Albionic Book Catalog.
[COLOR="Blue"]From the A-Albionic Book Catalog:
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allen Poe…
This classic mystery story shows clearly a little known principle of deception: A secret is best hidden by placing it in plain sight, but by adding calculated misdirection that prevents its proper appreciation by the onlooker! …While preoccupied by the search for and analysis of secret documents, always supplied abundantly by the conspiracy itself, the conspiracy researcher overlooks the obvious…[/COLOR]
Also from a section of the catalog entitled "The Lure and Hook of Secret Documents:"
The Lure (and Hook?) of Secret Documents: For too many of its advocates and detractors, the truth or falsity of ruling class/conspiracy theories rests on the literal truth or falsity of a number of secret documents that have been reprinted and distributed by various interested parties. Partisans claim to see spreading such documents as a benevolent service to humanity (or their anointed collective) that will finally overthrow the evil power of the "conspiracy" as they conceive it. Detractors see such projects as thinly veiled revolutionary propaganda designed by a would be elite to undermine faith in existing institutions and/or pave the way to totalitarian seizure of power. Objectively speaking, however, it is impossible to over-estimate the power this genrè achieves via "exposing" the purported motives of an "enemy" and thereby intensifying the cohesion of the "victim" social organism whether for good or evil.
From “The Secrets Known Only to the Inner Elites” by Lyndon LaRouche (The Campaigner, May-June 1978):
The cleverest way, psychologically, in which to hide a secret is to divert the investigator down a tiring trail toward a false discovery. His own efforts convince him either that he has found a secret through great energy and cleverness on his own part, or, if the secret he seeks appears still to barely elude his grasp, he values all the more his continued course of misdirection. That is the lesson which can be learned from Edgar Allan Poe’s fictional case of The Purloined Letter.
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Ron Williams