The Vehicle on the Grassy Knoll

[Peter Lemkin]

When one sees the interconnections by marriage, friendships and families that go on, geneological work could be very helpful, indeed. While I hear Jay did lots of that, he also tracked the connections and activities of many of those we are all interested in, but made VERY little of this available to others in his lifetime! So, a huge body of knowledge done by someone who could have a drink with an old DPD or MI guy and not arouse their suspicions that he was a 'researcher' per se - just shooting the breeze on old things.....

If Walt finds this stuff so useless one would think he'd be glad to get rid of it. I find that comment of his misleading.

I'm told by Walt that the Plumlee materials are at least 4.000 pages - perhaps more. There would be another similar amount on the Rambler and yet another on Seiwell, etc. It can't all be geneology!...

Tosh was set-up twice on bad check charges and I worked with him on the second occassion and proved to my satisfaction that it was manufactured out of 'whole cloth' and had no basis in fact. I assumed the same was done the first time, as well; and that this was SOP - and done to distance and discredit covert operatives [making them look like common criminals], as well as make sure they kept their mouths shut and knew they could be manipulated at will and do nothing about it.

As I indicated, much of the information on computer is not convertible to html or email format. Neither is the hard material digitized. I suspect Walt is overwhelmed with the task. It's a lot of work and expense just to move it about, let alone sort through and analyze it. What he needs is someone to go to his location and help him go through it or come up with alternatives of how to get it in usable format during our lifetime.

We are awaiting to see what Walt does or doesn't do. He gave the distinct inpression to two of us I know of that he was going to digitize the entire thing. That turned-out, it seems to have been untrue. I have not had a comfirmed report that anyone has had access to it yet, other than the one time Walt referred to someone looking at the Plumlee materials at the same time he was refusing to send out of the country [the once all but promised] files to me. I'm not sure that is true, and would be an amazing coincidence out of all the files there. There are even rumors that Walt doesn't even have the materials any more - but I can not say. If anyone has heard of someone having been granted access to the Harrison materials lately, I'm sure we'd all like to know, and would breathe a sigh of relief. I'm sure that any kind of computer file can be converted into another if you have a programer to help out. Scanning is a lot of work, but there are scanners with feeders or one could hire someone to just endlessly scan away. I know some of Jay's files were large and not of standard size paper, which would also entail extra work, but I believe these are the geneologies. We all hope the materials see the light of day to researchers sooner, rather than later or not at all. I'm sure many researchers would be willing to help find the funds and/or people to digitize them somehow - if we ever have the chance to use them........