07-06-2013, 11:05 AM
But I really like this excerpt:
"Kennedy was a peacemaker in a time when war was good business. He opposed the Fed at its fiftieth anniversary. He wanted a test ban, detente with the Soviet Union and demarche with Castro.
And he was martyred as depicted so masterfully in James Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable.
Hoover's model was expensive--but it's silly isn't it? Isn't it like the bat man who over slept and instead of brushing his officer's uniform, only polished the coins.
McKnight's Breach does show that to paraphrase Frank Zappa, if Americans knew how lame its government was they would slay them in their beds.
Hey, it's how they handled Dorothy Kilgallen.
Her hairdresser knew for sure.[:pointlaugh:]
*Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation, page 69:
Thanks to the complicated technology of his silent-kill weapons, Mitch WerBell was central to the development of the talent with the capability to employ those weapons. Out of that talent came the "special teams" concept. Special teams are assassination teams.
It was the special team concept that the CIA used within its own bureaucratic structureselect individuals were stitched together into a tight, top-secret network outside their normal chain of commandto plan the Castro assassination attempts. But the first utilization of that concept had come in 1954 when, according to St. George, a deep-cover CIA team went off to Hanoi under Lt. Colonel Lucien Conein, one of WerBell's "closest lifelong friends." The Conein mission, code-named "Blackhawk," was to harass and decimate the new Communist rulers of North Vietnam. Its orders included the "elimination of Vietminh cadres." Subsequently, similar missions multiplied as CIA Clandestine Services sent out special teams with the authority to kill whenever "circumstances warranted." There were, among others, the "White Star Training Mission" in Laos (James Files), "Operation Lodestone" in Northern Thailand, and "Study Project Minimax" in certain disaffected ethnic regions of Indonesia. Then, in the early Sixties, with the CIA's employment of the hard-bitten hill tribesmen of North Burma, Laos and Southwestern China as "deep penetration" and "long-range reconnaissance" teams into Red China, came large-scale, top-secret U.S. intelligence operations involving unlimited license to kill. Mitch WerBell's business did very well in those days, and Thai King Phumiphon personally hand carved a tiny rosewood Buddha for him.
[End excerpt]
Also isn't it odd that as President John Kennedy offered to make the Space "Race" a cooperative effort, not a cold war contest.
He knew the superiority of US arms and ICBMs over the U.S.S.R.'s capability, the people didn't. The Captive Press didn't tell the people.
Where did the vaunted NASA wind up today? A cooperative effort. Required to hitch a ride on Russian rockets to man the "International" Space Station.
Wonder what Arthur Clarke or Werhner von Braun would think of a space station as reality in cooperation with former enemies?
"Kennedy was a peacemaker in a time when war was good business. He opposed the Fed at its fiftieth anniversary. He wanted a test ban, detente with the Soviet Union and demarche with Castro.
And he was martyred as depicted so masterfully in James Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable.
Hoover's model was expensive--but it's silly isn't it? Isn't it like the bat man who over slept and instead of brushing his officer's uniform, only polished the coins.
McKnight's Breach does show that to paraphrase Frank Zappa, if Americans knew how lame its government was they would slay them in their beds.
Hey, it's how they handled Dorothy Kilgallen.
Her hairdresser knew for sure.[:pointlaugh:]
*Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation, page 69:
Thanks to the complicated technology of his silent-kill weapons, Mitch WerBell was central to the development of the talent with the capability to employ those weapons. Out of that talent came the "special teams" concept. Special teams are assassination teams.
It was the special team concept that the CIA used within its own bureaucratic structureselect individuals were stitched together into a tight, top-secret network outside their normal chain of commandto plan the Castro assassination attempts. But the first utilization of that concept had come in 1954 when, according to St. George, a deep-cover CIA team went off to Hanoi under Lt. Colonel Lucien Conein, one of WerBell's "closest lifelong friends." The Conein mission, code-named "Blackhawk," was to harass and decimate the new Communist rulers of North Vietnam. Its orders included the "elimination of Vietminh cadres." Subsequently, similar missions multiplied as CIA Clandestine Services sent out special teams with the authority to kill whenever "circumstances warranted." There were, among others, the "White Star Training Mission" in Laos (James Files), "Operation Lodestone" in Northern Thailand, and "Study Project Minimax" in certain disaffected ethnic regions of Indonesia. Then, in the early Sixties, with the CIA's employment of the hard-bitten hill tribesmen of North Burma, Laos and Southwestern China as "deep penetration" and "long-range reconnaissance" teams into Red China, came large-scale, top-secret U.S. intelligence operations involving unlimited license to kill. Mitch WerBell's business did very well in those days, and Thai King Phumiphon personally hand carved a tiny rosewood Buddha for him.
[End excerpt]
Also isn't it odd that as President John Kennedy offered to make the Space "Race" a cooperative effort, not a cold war contest.
He knew the superiority of US arms and ICBMs over the U.S.S.R.'s capability, the people didn't. The Captive Press didn't tell the people.
Where did the vaunted NASA wind up today? A cooperative effort. Required to hitch a ride on Russian rockets to man the "International" Space Station.
Wonder what Arthur Clarke or Werhner von Braun would think of a space station as reality in cooperation with former enemies?
Read not to contradict and confute;
nor to believe and take for granted;
nor to find talk and discourse;
but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACON
nor to believe and take for granted;
nor to find talk and discourse;
but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACON