Saint Fletcher the Obscure

[Peter Lemkin]

This signature gnomic dispatch of Phil Dragoo's seems especially interesting, what I wouldn't wish to have it decoded for me.

Is it me or is John Judge always agent baiting Mark Lane? (Although I consider Judge's "Black Hole of Guyana" a masterwork.) And what's this with Oliver Stone (paving over the smoking-gun)? If he wasn't on the level with JFK, he surely paid like he was.

Personally, I don't find Phil's Finnegans-Wake-esque Blues-Beat word weaving difficult to decode. It's great.

There are many questions about Lane - who seems a 'white hat' on things Dallas and a 'black hat' on Jonestown, as lawyer for Jones. This has not been disentangled nor explained. Perhaps he was set-up; perhaps his agenda is not white as snow.....we don't know. John Judge poses the questions that need to be asked.

IMO, Stone tried, but the Project was a bit over his head, and it is quite a miracle the film turned out as well as did, almost in spite of Stone - who was way behind on the learning curve when it was being done. I don't suspect Stone as venial, only somewhat naive as to the total depth of the Deep [in Deep Politics].