CIA Targets Education Forum, Conspiracy Section.

[Peter Lemkin]

I would really like to help... But at this late date its useless... I did go into detail with you and Jim Marrs long ago... And I have posted the total facts as to what I know or knew about OPS 40 and how it came into being..., I have been called a liar and a fabicator and now you want me to go into the details again..., I have done all I can in reference to OPS Forty.. In short... It started with forty people from the White House Situations Room meetings; with a meeting with some vets from the BoP. It was an Intel Operation and had nothing to do with assassinations or sabotage.... It was never a JM/WAVE Operation... It was a CUBAN OPERATION and pinned to WAVE STATION (Miami Station) It reported to two places The Pentagon and the White House (or I should say three) Langley. The 5412th group was the lead contact. And the CIA only acted as logistical support.

If you care to talk to JIM perhaps he can confirm (if he remembers) what we talked about when we numbered the FOIA documents we received from Bud Finisterwald Jr. One thing was the OPs forty and how it came into being.... but you guy's did not believe what I had told you... You Pete, if I remember right, wanted it to be a JFK hit team and that I had flown them into Dallas... remember we had a falling out over that as well as other points of which you could not or would not buy at the time. You said I was, "holding out on you"... and being "less than truthful...". I remember.


Well, today I do not care to get into debates over any of that. Its like a dog chasing its tail.... perhaps it will be in the book Deep Cover Shallow Graves... and then again maybe not... it all depends. I wish I coulkd help more... but I have no desire to get sucked into the JFK matter again... I am off to Mexico City. In my view A man has no future until he can escape or put the past behind him... the JFK matter has been covered by the "Experts" just read their books...

Have a whiskey and calm down, Tosh. Just to set the record straight, All my notes [even tapes of you talking about all this - and transcripts] are not anywhere near me now, but are preserved; and my memory hast runneth over on some things.

N.B. I never 'wanted' anything regarding the flight or your involvement in events of Dallas but the Truth - and that goes for all other aspects of your life and the lives and operations of others, as well. Of course I looked at it from all angles and asked questions and played devil's advocate from all angles. I always then, and still do, go with the facts [best I can adjudge them and support them] - only the facts. Additionally, in our contract was the unusual condition that if you didn't agree with something Jim and/or I wrote you would be able to have you own 'take' on it in the book. I'd call that fair. I was working toward a minimum, and hopefully zero such, but assumed there might be one or two. Where I differed from your take, I also was going to so state(giving my/our take and your take, presented side by side - with the supporting evidence for each). Fair?

All that said, yes, I generally recall your take on Op 40 being much as you have briefly rendered it in the last days and some two years ago on the EF.

So, relax.