Ben Bradlee Dead

[Albert Doyle]

His great uncle, Frank Crowninshield, was the founding editor of Vanity Fair. … (Source: Politico)
[B]Ben Bradlee and the CIA[/B]

Well, now I know why, 1 year after the controversy over Hendrix's murder appeared in the media, Vanity Fair ran an article by veteran Rolling Stone reporter Sheila Weller based exclusively on an analysis of Jimi Hendrix's as of yet undiscussed homosexual tendencies. Yes, a year after shocking revelations that Jimi was murdered appeared, Vanity Fair got a reporter who interviewed Jimi in the 60's to do an article discussing Hendrix's alleged homosexual traits. The article did not mention the murder controversy. Part of what drew me to investigation of Hendrix's death was how examples like this kept pointing towards mainstream CIA involvement. By getting overzealous with Mockingbird CIA left a crumb trail back to their den.

In a similar vein reporter Charles Cross put out the book Room Full Of Mirrors (2005) where he exposed hard to access army medical psychological files where Jimi allegedly claimed he was gay in order to get out of the army. Cross's book was a contrived build-up of Jimi's flaws designed to show the personal weaknesses that led to Jimi's reckless drug abuse, overdose death. It was a smear job in other words designed to implant in the public's mind that Jimi had overdosed and killed himself due to his own personal flaws. I find it interesting that two authors from different American media corporations both used the homosexual angle to avoid mention of Hendrix's murder. Although Cross was able to access obscure army medical records he somehow wasn't able to access a major controversy involving Jimi's death even though it had been a well-known event in the Hendrix world for 13 years. Cross is most likely a Gerald Posner CIA writer assigned to do damage control for that controversy. I seem to be the only person who realizes it.

UPI wire service reporter Sharon Lawrence also did a book on Hendrix - 'Jimi Hendrix: The Intimate Story Of A Betrayed Musical Legend' (2005). Although Ms Lawrence showed a reporter's ability to question the actions of Hendrix girlfriend Monika Dannemann (the patsy) she did not do so with other equally culpable persons involved with Jimi's death and came to the conclusion Jimi committed suicide. So the two reporters who did books both avoided the murder issue and conspicuously offered false causes for Jimi's death. And the two reporters who totally avoided the murder issue, Cross and Weller, both went out of their way to draw attention to contrived gay issues concerning Hendrix.

As indirect as it is, the fact Bradlee would have a mockingbird tendril touching Hendrix through Vanity Fair does not surprise me.



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