20-02-2013, 04:47 AM
Let me add something here to further show just how controlled the media was on Garrison. Its something I forgot to put in the book and I should have.
See, it wasn't enough to put certain assets down there to smear JG and to control the daily spin on the trial.
To exercise total and maximum effect on the story you also had to stop Garrison from getting his news out. As i note in my book, this happened in New Orleans when two reporters were moved out of the States Item coverage of JG.
But something I should have added was this: the FBI went to the AP dispatch office in New York in late 1967, early 1968. They told the dispatcher there, a guy named Jim West, not to carry any of Garrison's press releases from New Orleans over the wire. I know this to be true since I interviewed the guy back in 1995, but also because I saw many of Garrison's press releases in his files. I don't recall any of them being carried by AP and UPI.
And if the FBI did this at AP, then you know it happened at UPI also.
This is how determined Washington was to completely mold the story about Garrison and marginalize him off the map.
Well, I keep on giving away more stuff I wanted to keep for the moderated discussion.
Which is going to be when Magda?
See, it wasn't enough to put certain assets down there to smear JG and to control the daily spin on the trial.
To exercise total and maximum effect on the story you also had to stop Garrison from getting his news out. As i note in my book, this happened in New Orleans when two reporters were moved out of the States Item coverage of JG.
But something I should have added was this: the FBI went to the AP dispatch office in New York in late 1967, early 1968. They told the dispatcher there, a guy named Jim West, not to carry any of Garrison's press releases from New Orleans over the wire. I know this to be true since I interviewed the guy back in 1995, but also because I saw many of Garrison's press releases in his files. I don't recall any of them being carried by AP and UPI.
And if the FBI did this at AP, then you know it happened at UPI also.
This is how determined Washington was to completely mold the story about Garrison and marginalize him off the map.
Well, I keep on giving away more stuff I wanted to keep for the moderated discussion.
Which is going to be when Magda?