06-12-2013, 05:15 AM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Subject: Preservation of Mae Brussell research collection
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 14:50:42 -0500
From: John Judge <copa@starpower.net>
Mae Brussell was my mentor and my friend for over 15 years before her death in 1988. She was a California housewife who was deeply affected by the assassination of President Kennedy and she began to clip papers and study it from the start. Eventually, she would compile over 1,800 pages of cross-reference indexing of the Warren Commission Report and 26 volumes of evidence. She clipped 15 daily newspapers, read over 150 periodicals a month, and over 500 books a year breaking down the ongoing illegal, covert and deadly activities of an invisible government that took charge of America in the aftermath of the successful coup d'etat of November 22, 1963.
I first contacted Mae after the Watergate break-in. I had been studying the JFK assassination since 1967. I recognized all five of the names in the newspaper of the men arrested that night, since they had been part of the Bay of Pigs and some of them testified to the Warren Commission. All of them had ties to the CIA. Two weeks after the break-in, Mae got out the first issue of her "Conspiracy Newsletter" in Paul Krassner's The Realist magazine, with her groundbreaking article, "Why Was Martha Mitchell Kidnapped?", outlining the command structure of the Watergate crimes all the way to the White House. She included a second piece about President Nixon's connection to the Nazis. I called her immediately since we were on the same track. That led to years of phone calls and sharing new items in the news.
Mae did a radio show called "Dialogue Conspiracy" and later "World Watchers International" every week for over 17 years. She had over 6,000 books on real history, 42 four-drawer filing cabinets filled with her clippings by category, hundreds of video and audio tapes, and thousands of pages of her own notes and source sheets. She exposed the movement of thousands of Nazi war criminals, scientific and weapons experts and spies into the United States and around the world after WWII and their role in the Cold War and the Military Industrial Intelligence Complex that grew here along with permanent war. I subscribed to her show on weekly cassettes and started a group to listen to them called "Brussell Sprouts". Mae once said she should not say she was a researcher but a psychic, then everyone would love her. She was good at predicting things from the trails she followed. She passed Rose Kennedy a note in Los Angeles on June 1 telling her that the forces that killed John were moving on Bobby Kennedy. Three days before the Chappaquiddick incident, Mae warned Mary Joe Kopechne's parents that she would be killed. Astounding unless you understand the connections Mae's indefatigueable research unearthed.
Mae's work was ahead of its time and some of her tapes still resonate in current events and operations. Her files are the best assassination research collection and anti-fascist collection in the world. I inherited them briefly after her death on her request that I found the Mae Brussell Research Center in Santa Cruz, CA and continue her work. Due to financial obstacles and lots of personal obstruction by others who knew her, I eventually was forced to abandon the project. The files went into storage for decades. The most recent owner put out feelers for a new home for them, and then suffered a stroke. Mae's family has agreed to have the files archived at the W. R. Poage Legislative Library at Baylor University in Waco, TX which houses the research files of Penn Jones, Jr., Dick Russell, Robert Cutler and many other JFK assassination experts.
Ben Rogers, the archivist at the Poage Library, has the equipment, the students and the expertise to clean, organize and restore Mae's collection of materials and to digitize them for widespread use. The library has a limited budget, and needs to raise $6,000 to secure the materials, move and store them. I am working to help this happen. I feel personally responsible for the preservation of these files and have regretted my decision to let them out of my control for years. So far, I have raised $2,000 of the total. The balance is a very cheap price to restore the invaluable information that Mae's genius and hard work organized to understand modern history. Nothing like this archive exists.
I am writing to ask you to help make sure these files are not destroyed or disposed of in some other way. Time is of the essence. You can send a donation of any amount to support this effort and designate that it will be used solely for this purpose.
Make checks payable to: Baylor University and note "Mae Brussell Project" on the lower left and send it to Ben Rogers, Poage Legislative Library | One Bear Place #97153 | Waco, TX 76798-7153
To donate online go to: https://www.baylor.edu/give/index.php?id...&f=0284709
Peter, Mae is one of my few heroes (heroines, I guess) - I will gladly donate to this worthy cause. I can't believe you had Mae's files - what a privilege.