20-07-2013, 04:26 PM
This is from my book, Destiny Betrayed, Second Edition. It exposes the lying FBI asset James Phelan for the pimp he was. ANd who Carroll still buys into:
James Phelan Declassified
Journalist James Phelan also appeared on Sheridan's program. In the May 6, 1967, issue of the Saturday Evening Post, Phelan wrote an article entitled "Rush to Judgment in New Orleans." From the title (borrowed from Mark Lane's book on the Warren Commission) on to the last sentence, the article was a one-sided attack on almost every aspect of Garrison's probewritten in a belittling, amused style that revealed the author's supercilious attitude toward the subject. Garrison, about whom Phelan had written a favorable piece in 1963, was pictured as an egocentric megalomaniac whom Phelan called a "one-man Warren Commission."[i]
Phelan's five-page article was filled with snide characterizations, half-truths, and innuendo. But he saved his harshest blast for the end. He wrote that when assistant DA Sciambra first interviewed Perry Russo, his notes made no mention of the party at Ferrie's. Phelan then suggested that all of Russo's testimony at the preliminary hearing had been pumped into him under drugs and hypnosis by Dr. Chetta and Dr. Fatter. It did not matter to Phelan that both Russo and Sciambra denied this to his face before he went to press. Nor that Russo had talked about the fateful party at Ferrie's to the Baton Rouge press and television before Sciambra had ever met with him.[ii] When Phelan appeared on camera for Sheridan, he said essentially the same thing. He went on to say the same to James Kirkwood in his 1970 book on the Shaw trial, American Grotesque. And he repeated the same story in his 1982 book, Scandals, Scamps and Scoundrels: The Casebook of an Investigative Reporter. What is astonishing about this is that not only did the Maisntram media accept Phelan's story readily, but that even those in the Kenendy research community did so. Further, James Phelan never revealed his background as a compromised journalist who had ties to government agencies. The public had to wait for the declassification process of the ARRB to ascertain the facts about Phelan's checkered past.
Now that we know much more about him, there are many paths one can follow in order to understand what Phelan did in the Garrison investigation. A good place to start is his long associaton with Robert Loomis. Loomis was a former top editor at Random House who was known for sanctioning books that specialized in concealing the true facts about the assassinations of the sixties e.g. in 1993 he sponsored Gerald Posner's infamous Case Closed; in 1970 it was Robert Houghton's book on the RFK case, Special Unit Senator; and then again, he helped publish Posner's 1998 book on the King case, Killing the Dream. The reader should note, not only did Loomis help get these spurious books published, he got them out at timely moments in history. The Houghton book was published right after the trial of Sirhan Sirhan. The John F. Kennedy book was out at the 30[SUP]th[/SUP] anniversary, and right after Oliver Stone's influential film JFK. The King book was, again, as the 30th anniversary, and in the midst of a swirling controversy about that case due to legal proceedings instituted by attorney William Pepper in Memphis. Well, Loomis was the editor for Phelan's 1982 book which featured a long and derogatory chapter on the Garrison case.
[i] Phelan, Rush to Judgment, p. 22.
[ii] Baton Rouge Morning Advocate, February 25, 1967.
James Phelan Declassified
Journalist James Phelan also appeared on Sheridan's program. In the May 6, 1967, issue of the Saturday Evening Post, Phelan wrote an article entitled "Rush to Judgment in New Orleans." From the title (borrowed from Mark Lane's book on the Warren Commission) on to the last sentence, the article was a one-sided attack on almost every aspect of Garrison's probewritten in a belittling, amused style that revealed the author's supercilious attitude toward the subject. Garrison, about whom Phelan had written a favorable piece in 1963, was pictured as an egocentric megalomaniac whom Phelan called a "one-man Warren Commission."[i]
Phelan's five-page article was filled with snide characterizations, half-truths, and innuendo. But he saved his harshest blast for the end. He wrote that when assistant DA Sciambra first interviewed Perry Russo, his notes made no mention of the party at Ferrie's. Phelan then suggested that all of Russo's testimony at the preliminary hearing had been pumped into him under drugs and hypnosis by Dr. Chetta and Dr. Fatter. It did not matter to Phelan that both Russo and Sciambra denied this to his face before he went to press. Nor that Russo had talked about the fateful party at Ferrie's to the Baton Rouge press and television before Sciambra had ever met with him.[ii] When Phelan appeared on camera for Sheridan, he said essentially the same thing. He went on to say the same to James Kirkwood in his 1970 book on the Shaw trial, American Grotesque. And he repeated the same story in his 1982 book, Scandals, Scamps and Scoundrels: The Casebook of an Investigative Reporter. What is astonishing about this is that not only did the Maisntram media accept Phelan's story readily, but that even those in the Kenendy research community did so. Further, James Phelan never revealed his background as a compromised journalist who had ties to government agencies. The public had to wait for the declassification process of the ARRB to ascertain the facts about Phelan's checkered past.
Now that we know much more about him, there are many paths one can follow in order to understand what Phelan did in the Garrison investigation. A good place to start is his long associaton with Robert Loomis. Loomis was a former top editor at Random House who was known for sanctioning books that specialized in concealing the true facts about the assassinations of the sixties e.g. in 1993 he sponsored Gerald Posner's infamous Case Closed; in 1970 it was Robert Houghton's book on the RFK case, Special Unit Senator; and then again, he helped publish Posner's 1998 book on the King case, Killing the Dream. The reader should note, not only did Loomis help get these spurious books published, he got them out at timely moments in history. The Houghton book was published right after the trial of Sirhan Sirhan. The John F. Kennedy book was out at the 30[SUP]th[/SUP] anniversary, and right after Oliver Stone's influential film JFK. The King book was, again, as the 30th anniversary, and in the midst of a swirling controversy about that case due to legal proceedings instituted by attorney William Pepper in Memphis. Well, Loomis was the editor for Phelan's 1982 book which featured a long and derogatory chapter on the Garrison case.
[i] Phelan, Rush to Judgment, p. 22.
[ii] Baton Rouge Morning Advocate, February 25, 1967.