01-07-2013, 11:56 PM
Allen Lowe Wrote:also, looking at the membership requirements in the AFIO:
"Associate Members - U.S. citizens in private, civil, academic or corporate pursuits, as well as, Americans currently in non-intelligence government employment (at any level) or other military service, may become Associate Members."
is there any documentation of her being asked how and why she joined? If she was involved in doing the kind of research that we know she did, it would not be a stretch to say that it was a reasonable thing for her to do. Does the AFIO offer its members certain resources? Introductions to particular people? Look, David Von Pein might join the Mary Ferrell Foundation to do research.
not every member of the CIA was involved in the assassination - and not every member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers was involved, either, I would suggest.
Allen,
Yes, I appreciate your disagreeing in a constructive way. I like constructive arguments.
As with intelligence operatives in general, official documentation that they are members is usually
not forthcoming. That's why they are clandestine. Mary Ferrell claimed she joined AFIO to get
their newsletters and go to events and so forth. Her activities in the assassination coverup and in keeping
tabs on researchers and her rightwing political beliefs show her true colors.
I detail those sides of her. She doled out documents and other information
(and disinformation) to make herself seem a genuine researcher, while
in fact she was, as Greg Lowrey called her, "The Gatekeeper." Penn Jones
advised me, "Stay away from her." She was quite different in reality from what some of her admirers think she was.