20-04-2009, 03:05 AM
(This post was last modified: 20-04-2009, 03:14 AM by Ron Williams.)
Myra Bronstein Wrote:I guess it's the central premise of the Torbitt Document. And since Jim Garrison focused so heavily on Permindex it's of interest. But is it muddying the Permindex waters or clearing them up?
"I. Permindex and Its Five Subsidiaries
When Jim Garrison, the New Orleans District Attorney, began to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy, he took the position that regardless of who was behind the assassination, the American people could take the truth, should have the facts, and that the right of the American people to know superseded an damage that might be done to the image of the United States by the revelation of respected government leaders' involvement in the crime.
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I would agree that this is at least an important part of the central premise, but I don’t believe that Torbitt clears up anything.
One problem we have is that info on Louis Mortimer Bloomfield is hard to come by.
Close associate of J. Edgar Hoover? OSS? Sex deviate? “…the direct supervisor of all contractual agents in the FBI’s Division 5?”
Says who?
Where are the sources?
What was Bloomfield really doing during World War II? Was he working for Sir William “Intrepid” Stephenson out of the British Security Coordination office in Rockefeller Center in New York? I was hoping that some of the UK or Canadian researchers would have cleared this up by now.
One UK author, Matthew Smith in Say Goodbye to America: The Sensational and Untold Story behind the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, writes:
“…The founder and chairman of Permindex was Canadian-born Major Louis Bloomfield, who had a strong background in intelligence. First with British intelligence, he moved, during the Second World War, to the OSS and became friends with J. Edgar Hoover. His intelligence work continued while he was with Permindex.” (p. 173)
There are no sources listed for this. Does anyone know Matthew Smith? If so, could they ask him about it?
Ron Williams