Joan Mellen Speech at AARC Conference

[Peter Lemkin]

From a message some months back from JM......"his certification had lapsed 14 years earlier, and he wrote a letter himself saying that he did not plan to apply for re-certification" I can't vouch for this, just reporting. Even if this was so, a match is or isn't a match - and certification shouldn't weigh in. JM claims it was not a match, and that computer matching now proves that. Again, I can't comment if this is so. She doesn't believe that Darby did anything other than his best attempt on a match. I'm wondering if a parallel intelligence operation wasn't run on this matter. It was closely followed by intelligence, from what I can gather and they may have created much of this 'mess'.

I'd LOVE to see such a letter.

I agree re a "parallel op", That does make sense.

I'm just telling what I was told. I have no further information and haven't seen the letter - nor had it further explained. It does seem strange, however, for someone to write that they don't plan to apply for re-certification. There are many aspects of this whole 'matter' that really make me think the hidden hand of intelligence was following this and making some strange things happen, seem to happen, and to make divisions in the JFK community that otherwise likely wouldn't have been......I think we'll all know much more when her book comes out with references on all this. I know the book will also, according to JM, have some new 'house of horror stories' about Johnson.