29-12-2012, 09:21 AM
Congratulations Bill
Have you been able to locate any SS records regarding the "Studies of November" as Palamara describes in his "Survivor Guilt"?
Palamara wrote:
In re-sponse to J. Lee Rankin's question, "In view of such changes that the Secret Service has made or intends to make in its procedures in effect on Novem-ber 22, 1963,
does it require additional funds, equipment, or personnel? If so, how much?" Rowley responded: "… since the 1965 budget figures had to be submitted in November, 1963, it was not possible to make specific and properly justified requests at that time … the 19641965 budget request was submitted in November 1963 and requests for additional personnel were not made because of the studies then being conducted [emphasis added]."[size=12]5 [/SIZE]What studies? And in November of 1963, of all times? [size=12]The fiscal year for 1963 was July 1, 1962 through June 30, 1963![/SIZE]It wasn't until a month after the assassinationlate December, 1963that C. Douglas Dillon formally requested Chief Rowley to start a study of the procedures used by the Secret Service in protecting the President, with reports and recommendations for changes to be submitted to him.7 So, again: what study was Rowley referring to for November 1963? Per-haps a test of the President's security?
Palamara Continues:
[size=12] [size=12]Former agent Darwin Horn wrote: "There was some talk about remov-ing protection of the president from the Secret Service, and giving that respon-sibility to the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
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[size=12]The original idea of the security tests may have been to cement the Secret Ser-vice's role as the protector of the President, having successfully stopped an as-sassination attempt. Conversely, the agency (and the tests) may have been compromised by those in the know who were partial to Hoover (and, by exten-sion, perhaps even the V.P., LBJ). The test, and the accompanying sinister be-havior of some of the agents, was covered up after the fact, reducing the agents' poor performances down to mere negligence, at worst. Another reason for the cover-up: survival.
Any idea what these November studies were?
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Have you been able to locate any SS records regarding the "Studies of November" as Palamara describes in his "Survivor Guilt"?
Palamara wrote:
In re-sponse to J. Lee Rankin's question, "In view of such changes that the Secret Service has made or intends to make in its procedures in effect on Novem-ber 22, 1963,
does it require additional funds, equipment, or personnel? If so, how much?" Rowley responded: "… since the 1965 budget figures had to be submitted in November, 1963, it was not possible to make specific and properly justified requests at that time … the 19641965 budget request was submitted in November 1963 and requests for additional personnel were not made because of the studies then being conducted [emphasis added]."[size=12]5 [/SIZE]What studies? And in November of 1963, of all times? [size=12]The fiscal year for 1963 was July 1, 1962 through June 30, 1963![/SIZE]It wasn't until a month after the assassinationlate December, 1963that C. Douglas Dillon formally requested Chief Rowley to start a study of the procedures used by the Secret Service in protecting the President, with reports and recommendations for changes to be submitted to him.7 So, again: what study was Rowley referring to for November 1963? Per-haps a test of the President's security?
Palamara Continues:
[size=12] [size=12]Former agent Darwin Horn wrote: "There was some talk about remov-ing protection of the president from the Secret Service, and giving that respon-sibility to the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
...
[size=12]The original idea of the security tests may have been to cement the Secret Ser-vice's role as the protector of the President, having successfully stopped an as-sassination attempt. Conversely, the agency (and the tests) may have been compromised by those in the know who were partial to Hoover (and, by exten-sion, perhaps even the V.P., LBJ). The test, and the accompanying sinister be-havior of some of the agents, was covered up after the fact, reducing the agents' poor performances down to mere negligence, at worst. Another reason for the cover-up: survival.
Any idea what these November studies were?
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