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1977 William Jennings Bryan III, master hypnotherapist with CIA connections, is found dead in his hotel room in a Las Vegas hotel. The coroner states he died "of natural causes", even before the autopsy is performed. Bryan was "the world's leading expert" on hypnosis. Two call girls who have "serviced" him regularly for the final two years of his life say that Bryan not only boasted to them about hypnotizing Sirhan Sirhan (RFK's alleged assassin), but also about working for the CIA on "top secret projects." Bryan once helped solve the Boston Strangler case by hypnotizing the suspect, Albert DiSalvo. Sirhan's notebooks contain -- among other ostensibly senseless jottings -- the name "DiSalvo" written over and over again. Confronted with this "diary entry" Sirhan is baffled and says the name is meaningless to him.
On the Senate floor in 1977, Senator Ted Kennedy said: The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an "extensive testing and experimentation" program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens "at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign." Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to "unwitting subjects in social situations." At least one death, that of Dr. Olson, resulted from these activities. The Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers.
1977 Timothy Leary publishes "Exo-Psychology", in which he confides "there are two aspects of this social conditioning regime which are not stressed by Skinner. To make it work, the government psychologists must have total control over the citizenry, and there must be total secrecy and censorship. One dissident, freedom-oriented psychologist can totally disrupt a psychological fascism by public exposure. Psychological control techniques cannot be employed in a democracy where minority groups can campaign against and publically discuss the techniques being used. Thus, the proposals of B.F. Skinner cannot be implemented except in a state where the government has total control of communication."
1977 The US Army admits that it had carried out hundreds of biological warfare tests in the United States over a period of decades since World War II, including 25 major operations targeting the American public employing known disease-causing agents. Crop disease substances were used 31 times.
The Trilateral Commission (TLC), though last year's number one choice for the "Ten Best Censored Stories of 1976," has been renominated, as this monumentous story still has had very limited press coverage. The idea for the Commission came from David Rockefeller, of Chase Manhattan Bank, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and the late 60's, with his fears that the "excess of democracy" was curbing both the power and flexibility of the U.S. government's world interventions which would minimize chances for situations favorable to U.S. capital and the multinational corporations. The purpose of the group is to bring together multinational business executives, politicians, and a few union leaders, from Western Europe, the United States, and Japan -- the world's industrial giants -- into a policymaking alliance designed to dictate world policies and exploit citizens for economic gains. The first step in the plan was to gain control of the legislative branch of the U.S. government by selecting, in 1973, an ambitious and capable presidential candidate, an unknown peanut farmer from Georgia, with no political base, to be a founding member of the Trilateral Commission and then providing his education in international politics. Jimmy Carter was elected with the help of the 200 odd Commissioners, including the heads of CBS and Time. This was followed by the new President's appointment of TLC members to all the policy making roles in the U.S. government. A few examples of Trilateral Commission members, other than Carter himself, are, Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor to the President; Walter Mondale, Vice President; Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State; Harold Brown, Secretary of Defense; and W. Michael Blumenthal, Secretary of the Treasury. Every one of Carter's major moves so far has been in precise accord with the group's recommendations. Their general 'band aid' plan includes (1) a new economic planning agency attached to the White House; (2) some unspecified way of eliminating the pervasive suspicion of the motives and powers of political leaders; (3) reinvigoration of political parties accomplished mainly by making it legal for corporations to support them; (4) check upon the abuses of power by the press to include tougher libel laws against journalists who insult decision makers; (5) reduced spending for education as it leads to frustration, criticism, and disrespect; (6) government subsidies to major corporations to design unspecified new modes of organization that will head off irresponsible blackmailing techniques; (7) a new institute for strengthening of democratic institutions at the public's expense. The potential effects of this organization on, not only our society, but the rest of the world qualify this story to be nominated as a "best censored story." "The Making of a President," by Robert Manning, Penthouse, September, 1977, p. 118+. "Cartergate: The Death of Democracy," by Craig S. Karpel, Penthouse November, 1977, p. 69+. "Where Jimmy Went Wrong," by Taylor Branch, Esquire, May, 1977, p. 28-21.
Execution, starvation, cannibalism, torturing, disease, malnutrition are only a few violations of human rights being made by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and parts of Vietnam. A few journalists who have conducted interviews with refugees believe that out of a population of seven million, 1.2 million have died in the last two years alone. In addition, a Catholic missionary, Andre Gelinas, told of "15,000 to 20,000 suicides." Reports also indicate that the Khmer Rouge are treating the people like slaves and imposing exacting rules. Failure to observe these rules leads to immediate execution. Anyone who dares to complain is punished. Rule breaking and complaining apply to such "crimes" as asking for more food, falling in exhaustion, and not meeting Khmer Rouge's inhuman values. These so-called "transgressors" are usually clubbed to death with objects such as pick handles. And when a starving worker is caught cannibalizing, he is tortured to death. Such tortures included being buried in the ground up to the shoulders and being beaten to death -- or impaling their heads onto pointed stakes. In January, conferences on the subject were held, to which all three major networks were invited by the American Security Council; not one sent a correspondent. Coverage that does exist is sparse and difficult to find. This may be the most important human rights story of the decade. It is a stark cruel story of mass slaughter which has been ignored by the mass media, and therefore qualifies for a nomination as one of the "ten best censored stories of 1977." SOURCES: National Review, "The Nation as a Concentration Camp," September 2, 1977, p: 988. Newsweek, "A New Indochina War," January 16, 1978, p. 47, by Kenneth Labich, with Holger Jansen in Bangkok, Lars-Erik Nelson in Washington, and bureau reports. The Progressive, "Vietnam: A New Numbers Game," by Robert K. Musih, September, 1977, p. 32. National Review, "The New Vietnam," April 29, 1977, p. 487. T.V. Guide, "Why Do Networks Play Down News From Cambodia?," by Patrick Buchanan, March 18-24, 1978.
Acid rain, caused predominantly by oil and coal burning, smelting, and car exhaust, has been falling throughout most parts of the east coast of the U.S. The acidity of the rain contaminates the soils, damages crops, stunts the growth of trees by possibly more than 10 percent, lowers the pH of even the most remote high altitude lakes, thus wiping out entire native fish species and causes other potentially disastrous occurrences. Today in over 50 percent of all the Adirondack lakes, about 2,000 feet in elevation -- the ones most remote from civilization -- all the fish have died. Lakes that have been famous for trout for the last century now cannot even support minnows. Biologists at Cornell University have found that rain and snow throughout the eastern U.S. presently falls with 100 times more acidity than it did a generation ago. Further studies indicate that in most areas the soil quickly neutralizes the acid. But in thin, sandy soils, such as those found in high mountainous areas, the acid precipitation runs off, unchanged, into the lakes. The "unbuffered" rain of the 1970's is acidic enough to kill off most freshwater fish east of the Mississippi. In the Adirondacks, most of the water is too acidic to allow fish to reproduce. The problem is wide-ranging because of the nature of rain. The pollution that causes the acidity (sulfuric and nitric acid) can originate thousands of miles from where the rain finally falls. The closest thing to point source-crackdown would have to occur at the electrical generating plants and industrial sites of Detroit, Chicago, and southern Ontario. Yet the opposition to air cleanup by these plants has been fierce. Norway and Sweden are already experiencing a full-blown ecological crisis due to acid rain, polluted by industrialized Europe. Salmon fisheries in thousands of lakes and streams have been wiped out and millions of salmon have been killed. The world-wide and intensive damaging effects of acid rain, and this issue's scanty coverage, nominate this story for one of the "Best Censored Stories of 1977." SOURCES: "Look What They've Done to the Rain," by Alan MacRobert, Mother Jones magazine, December, 1977, pp. 65-67. "News Briefs," Not Man Apart, Mid-September, 1977, p. 9.
"Studies have linked sustained microwave exposure to headaches, dizziness, fatigue, irritability, loss of judgment, leukemia, cataracts, changes in the blood-brain barrier, heart trouble, and central nervous disorders." Yet a cover-up exists. The food industry uses microwaves to roast peanuts and coffee beans; freeway call-boxes use microwaves; burglar alarms and automatic garage door openers use microwaves; TV transmitters, CB radios, police radios, cab radios, telephone relay systems, and at our airports, radar, all consume microwave in some form. And these are only civilian related uses of microwaves and not military. People who are exposed to potentially harmful effects of microwave radiation have no way of knowing it. Microwave radiation, studies show, has a cumulative effect upon humans, much like x-rays. So what may appear to be safe today may result in some harmful effect 20 years later. The biggest user of microwaves is the U.S. military. It is the focal point on our nuclear weapons guidance systems. Radar tracking devices are dependent upon microwaves. Communication and spy satellites are also linked with microwave usage. The same people who make microwave ovens, G.E. and Litton, also are in the radar device making business. If low-level exposure to microwave radiation were ever to be proven dangerous, the cost to modify its usage would be staggering. Publicity regarding military usage of microwave has been stifled in the past. Research projects conducted by the military and showing adverse effects of low-level exposure to microwave radiation has been covered up. The U.S. government allows microwave oven leakage to be five milliwatts and considers ten milliwatts a safe level for human exposure. The Soviet Union, which did the most complete study on microwave dangers to humans, believes that the safety factor for microwave exposure should be 1000 times less than what the U.S. allows. There has been no U.S. research to date on the long-range effects of microwave radiation on humans. The military wants no part in any conclusive research on this matter. As a result, this story, due to its lack of public airing, is nominated as one of the "best censored stories of 1977." Zapping of America, by Paul Brodeur, W. W. Norton Publishing, 1977. "Microwaves," by Paul Brodeur, The New Yorker, December 13, 1976, pp. 50-75, 88-106, December 13 "The Air Pollution you Can't See," by Scott Kaufer, New Times, March 6, 1978, pp. 30-36, 60-64.
William Oltmans: One of the reasons was, I found it in my notes, that he doesn't want his children to look upon, to their father for the rest of their life as having been involved, directly involved in the killing of President Kennedy. He would say - and I have notes - "I would rather kill myself than let my children" - and he called not only his daughter Alexandra, but also his brother, Professor de Mohrenschildt, who is in California. He said, "My brother and daughter, I don't want to have to live the rest of their lives by this thing." You know, that he was involved. "I would rather shoot myself." He told me that various times."
Robert Tanenbaum: All right, sir. So, up until the time that you left New York City from John F. Kennedy Airport, did you have any other conversations with him with regard to the assassination of the President?
William Oltmans: Yes, repeatedly.
Robert Tanenbaum: Now, again in substance, tell us what, if anything George de Mohrenschildt told you - this is up until the time you were in New York City - about the assassination.
William Oltmans: Sir, pages and pages. I will...
Robert Tanenbaum: In substance, will you tell us what he said, please.
William Oltmans: Each time he would reveal something else....
Robert Tanenbaum: Did you have any conversations of substance with him in New York?
William Oltmans: Not at all. New York, talked a bit, but not in London.
Robert Tanenbaum: Up until this time, had he ever mentioned Jack Ruby or H. L. Hunt?
William Oltmans: Yes.
Robert Tanenbaum: Up until this time?
William Oltmans: Yes, I forgot all about that.
Robert Tanenbaum: Would you please tell us that, then.
William Oltmans: O.K. You see, in Dallas, in the many talks I had with him about going, I asked him point blank, "Did you know Ruby?"
"Yes."
"Have you been in Ruby's Bar?"
"Yes."
"Then what happened to Oswald. If Oswald set up the Kennedy Assassination, he must have had a lot of money."
De Mohrenschildt, with a devilish laugh said "He wasn't long enough around to get the money."
Then I said, "But who would pay?"
You see, he talked in circles. He was still talking in circles. He was coming around to talking, but when I asked him, who would put up that kind of money, he said, well, he would reply, "Well, did you see the letter of Oswald, was released by the FBI, to Hunt? Now, why do you think Oswald would write to Mr. H. L. Hunt?"
Then I said "Do you know Hunt, have you known him?"
He said, "I knew him for 20 years. I was very close with him. I went to all his parties."
You see, de Mohrenschildt clearly indicated that the money had come from, that his contacts were "upwards to Hunt, and downwards to Oswald."
On the Senate floor in 1977, Senator Ted Kennedy said: The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an "extensive testing and experimentation" program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens "at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign." Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to "unwitting subjects in social situations." At least one death, that of Dr. Olson, resulted from these activities. The Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers.
1977 Timothy Leary publishes "Exo-Psychology", in which he confides "there are two aspects of this social conditioning regime which are not stressed by Skinner. To make it work, the government psychologists must have total control over the citizenry, and there must be total secrecy and censorship. One dissident, freedom-oriented psychologist can totally disrupt a psychological fascism by public exposure. Psychological control techniques cannot be employed in a democracy where minority groups can campaign against and publically discuss the techniques being used. Thus, the proposals of B.F. Skinner cannot be implemented except in a state where the government has total control of communication."
1977 The US Army admits that it had carried out hundreds of biological warfare tests in the United States over a period of decades since World War II, including 25 major operations targeting the American public employing known disease-causing agents. Crop disease substances were used 31 times.
The Trilateral Commission (TLC), though last year's number one choice for the "Ten Best Censored Stories of 1976," has been renominated, as this monumentous story still has had very limited press coverage. The idea for the Commission came from David Rockefeller, of Chase Manhattan Bank, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and the late 60's, with his fears that the "excess of democracy" was curbing both the power and flexibility of the U.S. government's world interventions which would minimize chances for situations favorable to U.S. capital and the multinational corporations. The purpose of the group is to bring together multinational business executives, politicians, and a few union leaders, from Western Europe, the United States, and Japan -- the world's industrial giants -- into a policymaking alliance designed to dictate world policies and exploit citizens for economic gains. The first step in the plan was to gain control of the legislative branch of the U.S. government by selecting, in 1973, an ambitious and capable presidential candidate, an unknown peanut farmer from Georgia, with no political base, to be a founding member of the Trilateral Commission and then providing his education in international politics. Jimmy Carter was elected with the help of the 200 odd Commissioners, including the heads of CBS and Time. This was followed by the new President's appointment of TLC members to all the policy making roles in the U.S. government. A few examples of Trilateral Commission members, other than Carter himself, are, Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor to the President; Walter Mondale, Vice President; Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State; Harold Brown, Secretary of Defense; and W. Michael Blumenthal, Secretary of the Treasury. Every one of Carter's major moves so far has been in precise accord with the group's recommendations. Their general 'band aid' plan includes (1) a new economic planning agency attached to the White House; (2) some unspecified way of eliminating the pervasive suspicion of the motives and powers of political leaders; (3) reinvigoration of political parties accomplished mainly by making it legal for corporations to support them; (4) check upon the abuses of power by the press to include tougher libel laws against journalists who insult decision makers; (5) reduced spending for education as it leads to frustration, criticism, and disrespect; (6) government subsidies to major corporations to design unspecified new modes of organization that will head off irresponsible blackmailing techniques; (7) a new institute for strengthening of democratic institutions at the public's expense. The potential effects of this organization on, not only our society, but the rest of the world qualify this story to be nominated as a "best censored story." "The Making of a President," by Robert Manning, Penthouse, September, 1977, p. 118+. "Cartergate: The Death of Democracy," by Craig S. Karpel, Penthouse November, 1977, p. 69+. "Where Jimmy Went Wrong," by Taylor Branch, Esquire, May, 1977, p. 28-21.
Execution, starvation, cannibalism, torturing, disease, malnutrition are only a few violations of human rights being made by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and parts of Vietnam. A few journalists who have conducted interviews with refugees believe that out of a population of seven million, 1.2 million have died in the last two years alone. In addition, a Catholic missionary, Andre Gelinas, told of "15,000 to 20,000 suicides." Reports also indicate that the Khmer Rouge are treating the people like slaves and imposing exacting rules. Failure to observe these rules leads to immediate execution. Anyone who dares to complain is punished. Rule breaking and complaining apply to such "crimes" as asking for more food, falling in exhaustion, and not meeting Khmer Rouge's inhuman values. These so-called "transgressors" are usually clubbed to death with objects such as pick handles. And when a starving worker is caught cannibalizing, he is tortured to death. Such tortures included being buried in the ground up to the shoulders and being beaten to death -- or impaling their heads onto pointed stakes. In January, conferences on the subject were held, to which all three major networks were invited by the American Security Council; not one sent a correspondent. Coverage that does exist is sparse and difficult to find. This may be the most important human rights story of the decade. It is a stark cruel story of mass slaughter which has been ignored by the mass media, and therefore qualifies for a nomination as one of the "ten best censored stories of 1977." SOURCES: National Review, "The Nation as a Concentration Camp," September 2, 1977, p: 988. Newsweek, "A New Indochina War," January 16, 1978, p. 47, by Kenneth Labich, with Holger Jansen in Bangkok, Lars-Erik Nelson in Washington, and bureau reports. The Progressive, "Vietnam: A New Numbers Game," by Robert K. Musih, September, 1977, p. 32. National Review, "The New Vietnam," April 29, 1977, p. 487. T.V. Guide, "Why Do Networks Play Down News From Cambodia?," by Patrick Buchanan, March 18-24, 1978.
Acid rain, caused predominantly by oil and coal burning, smelting, and car exhaust, has been falling throughout most parts of the east coast of the U.S. The acidity of the rain contaminates the soils, damages crops, stunts the growth of trees by possibly more than 10 percent, lowers the pH of even the most remote high altitude lakes, thus wiping out entire native fish species and causes other potentially disastrous occurrences. Today in over 50 percent of all the Adirondack lakes, about 2,000 feet in elevation -- the ones most remote from civilization -- all the fish have died. Lakes that have been famous for trout for the last century now cannot even support minnows. Biologists at Cornell University have found that rain and snow throughout the eastern U.S. presently falls with 100 times more acidity than it did a generation ago. Further studies indicate that in most areas the soil quickly neutralizes the acid. But in thin, sandy soils, such as those found in high mountainous areas, the acid precipitation runs off, unchanged, into the lakes. The "unbuffered" rain of the 1970's is acidic enough to kill off most freshwater fish east of the Mississippi. In the Adirondacks, most of the water is too acidic to allow fish to reproduce. The problem is wide-ranging because of the nature of rain. The pollution that causes the acidity (sulfuric and nitric acid) can originate thousands of miles from where the rain finally falls. The closest thing to point source-crackdown would have to occur at the electrical generating plants and industrial sites of Detroit, Chicago, and southern Ontario. Yet the opposition to air cleanup by these plants has been fierce. Norway and Sweden are already experiencing a full-blown ecological crisis due to acid rain, polluted by industrialized Europe. Salmon fisheries in thousands of lakes and streams have been wiped out and millions of salmon have been killed. The world-wide and intensive damaging effects of acid rain, and this issue's scanty coverage, nominate this story for one of the "Best Censored Stories of 1977." SOURCES: "Look What They've Done to the Rain," by Alan MacRobert, Mother Jones magazine, December, 1977, pp. 65-67. "News Briefs," Not Man Apart, Mid-September, 1977, p. 9.
"Studies have linked sustained microwave exposure to headaches, dizziness, fatigue, irritability, loss of judgment, leukemia, cataracts, changes in the blood-brain barrier, heart trouble, and central nervous disorders." Yet a cover-up exists. The food industry uses microwaves to roast peanuts and coffee beans; freeway call-boxes use microwaves; burglar alarms and automatic garage door openers use microwaves; TV transmitters, CB radios, police radios, cab radios, telephone relay systems, and at our airports, radar, all consume microwave in some form. And these are only civilian related uses of microwaves and not military. People who are exposed to potentially harmful effects of microwave radiation have no way of knowing it. Microwave radiation, studies show, has a cumulative effect upon humans, much like x-rays. So what may appear to be safe today may result in some harmful effect 20 years later. The biggest user of microwaves is the U.S. military. It is the focal point on our nuclear weapons guidance systems. Radar tracking devices are dependent upon microwaves. Communication and spy satellites are also linked with microwave usage. The same people who make microwave ovens, G.E. and Litton, also are in the radar device making business. If low-level exposure to microwave radiation were ever to be proven dangerous, the cost to modify its usage would be staggering. Publicity regarding military usage of microwave has been stifled in the past. Research projects conducted by the military and showing adverse effects of low-level exposure to microwave radiation has been covered up. The U.S. government allows microwave oven leakage to be five milliwatts and considers ten milliwatts a safe level for human exposure. The Soviet Union, which did the most complete study on microwave dangers to humans, believes that the safety factor for microwave exposure should be 1000 times less than what the U.S. allows. There has been no U.S. research to date on the long-range effects of microwave radiation on humans. The military wants no part in any conclusive research on this matter. As a result, this story, due to its lack of public airing, is nominated as one of the "best censored stories of 1977." Zapping of America, by Paul Brodeur, W. W. Norton Publishing, 1977. "Microwaves," by Paul Brodeur, The New Yorker, December 13, 1976, pp. 50-75, 88-106, December 13 "The Air Pollution you Can't See," by Scott Kaufer, New Times, March 6, 1978, pp. 30-36, 60-64.
- 1/2/1977 New York Times expose by David Burnham dug up some controversial items about Richard Sprague's tenure as assistant district attorney. Gaeton Fonzi later called it "an incredibly crude journalistic hatchet job, reviewing Sprague's seventeen-year career as a Philadelphia prosecutor strictly in terms of the controversies he had provoked." The hit piece almost blew up the HSCA.
- 1/3/1977 HSCA officially expired as the 94th Congress ended its term.
- 1/4/1977 A resolution reconstituting the Assassinations Committee by a unanimous-consent voice vote fails. It will take weeks of maneuvering before the Committee will officially be reconstituted. A unanimous consent request was introduced to consider House Resolution 9, a resolution to reconstitute the HSCA. An objection was heard, however, and House Resolution 9 was not brought to an immediate vote on the floor of the House. It was instead referred to the Rules Committee, which began hearings on it on January 25, 1977. House Resolution 9, as amended, was favorably reported by the Rules Committee as House Resolution 222 on February 1, 1977.
- 1/4/1977 Journalist Willem Oltmans interviewed by Robert Tanenbaum (4th January 1977) about George De Mohrenschildt:
William Oltmans: One of the reasons was, I found it in my notes, that he doesn't want his children to look upon, to their father for the rest of their life as having been involved, directly involved in the killing of President Kennedy. He would say - and I have notes - "I would rather kill myself than let my children" - and he called not only his daughter Alexandra, but also his brother, Professor de Mohrenschildt, who is in California. He said, "My brother and daughter, I don't want to have to live the rest of their lives by this thing." You know, that he was involved. "I would rather shoot myself." He told me that various times."
Robert Tanenbaum: All right, sir. So, up until the time that you left New York City from John F. Kennedy Airport, did you have any other conversations with him with regard to the assassination of the President?
William Oltmans: Yes, repeatedly.
Robert Tanenbaum: Now, again in substance, tell us what, if anything George de Mohrenschildt told you - this is up until the time you were in New York City - about the assassination.
William Oltmans: Sir, pages and pages. I will...
Robert Tanenbaum: In substance, will you tell us what he said, please.
William Oltmans: Each time he would reveal something else....
Robert Tanenbaum: Did you have any conversations of substance with him in New York?
William Oltmans: Not at all. New York, talked a bit, but not in London.
Robert Tanenbaum: Up until this time, had he ever mentioned Jack Ruby or H. L. Hunt?
William Oltmans: Yes.
Robert Tanenbaum: Up until this time?
William Oltmans: Yes, I forgot all about that.
Robert Tanenbaum: Would you please tell us that, then.
William Oltmans: O.K. You see, in Dallas, in the many talks I had with him about going, I asked him point blank, "Did you know Ruby?"
"Yes."
"Have you been in Ruby's Bar?"
"Yes."
"Then what happened to Oswald. If Oswald set up the Kennedy Assassination, he must have had a lot of money."
De Mohrenschildt, with a devilish laugh said "He wasn't long enough around to get the money."
Then I said, "But who would pay?"
You see, he talked in circles. He was still talking in circles. He was coming around to talking, but when I asked him, who would put up that kind of money, he said, well, he would reply, "Well, did you see the letter of Oswald, was released by the FBI, to Hunt? Now, why do you think Oswald would write to Mr. H. L. Hunt?"
Then I said "Do you know Hunt, have you known him?"
He said, "I knew him for 20 years. I was very close with him. I went to all his parties."
You see, de Mohrenschildt clearly indicated that the money had come from, that his contacts were "upwards to Hunt, and downwards to Oswald."
- 1/6/1977 David Burnham - "Assassination Panel is Warned on Its Techniques" - New York Times
- 1/7/1977 William Douglas Pawley, millionaire ex-ambassador, is also found dead today in his Miami Beach home of a gunshot wound to the chest. His death is ruled a suicide. When Allen Dulles began nudging Eisenhower to begin conducting anti-Castro activities inside of Cuba, he was assisted by Pawley -- who had links to the exile-Cuban community, Time-Life, the CIA, and the Mafia.
- 1/7/1977 Juan Peruyero, the outspoken past president of Brigade 2506, is walking out of his house to go to work when two gunmen riding in a gold Cadillac shoot him to death. Although the crime is not solved, it appears that Peruyero is the victim of a rift in Brigade 2506 over continued membership in CORU after the Cubana airline bombing. The shooting ends a three-year bombing and murder binge that includes more than 100 attacks, with 80 percent of the cases unsolved.
- 1/10/1977 Al Haig was quoted in the NY Times making dire warnings of the Soviet threat.
- 1/12/1977 Ford gives his last State of the Union address.
- 1/12/1977 David Burnham - "New Assassination Panel is Blocked." New York Times
- 1/12/1977 Tom Robinson was the mortician who prepared John Kennedy's remains for burial. Robinson prepared for an open casket funeral, so the preparation of the skull was especially meticulous. Robertson described the skull wound in a suppressed 1/12/77 HSCA interview with Andy Purdy and Jim Conzelman, not made public until the 1990s: Purdy asked Robinson: "Approximately where was (the skull) wound located?" Robinson: "Directly behind the back of his head." Purdy: "Approximately between the ears or higher up?" Robinson, "No, I would say pretty much between them."
- 1/15/1977 a US Senator demands that CIA director Bush provide information about bacteriological sabotage against Cuba.
- 1/17/1977 first execution in the US since reinstatement of the death penalty; Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad in Utah.
- 1/20/1977 Carter sworn in, calling for "a new national spirit of unity and trust." He also promised "a world order that is more responsive to human aspirations."
- 1/21/1977 Carter signed executive order giving complete and unconditional amnest for all draft evaders. He also urged Americans to set their home thermostats to 65 degrees as the maximum winter heat to ease the energy crisis.
- 1/25/1977 Burnham, David - "Assassination Panel Facing Budget Trim" - New York Times
- 1/27/1977 Carter sends Congress a $31 billion proposal to stimulate the economy.
- 2/1977 Jeanne left George de Mohrenschildt and went to California.
- 2/2/1977 Henry Gonzalez becomes HSCA chairman. House Resolution 222 was passed by the House to reconstitute the committee. On 2nd February, 1978, Henry Gonzalez replaced Thomas N. Downing as chairman of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Gonzalez immediately sacked Sprague as chief counsel. Sprague claimed that only the fill committee had the power to dismiss him. Walter E. Fauntroy agreed with Sprague and launched a campaign to keep him as chief counsel.
- 2/2/1977 Washington Post reported that a probe by the Justice Dept that reviewed the FBI's handling of the MLK assassination agreed with the Bureau in stating that Ray had acted alone.
- 2/3/1977 David Burnham - "House Gives Assassination Panel Authority to Continue Temporarily" - New York Times
- 2/3/1977 Brigadier General Teferi Bante, Ethiopian head of state, and six others on the military council in power, were murdered during a coup led by Lieutenant Colonel Mengistu Haile-Mariam.
- 2/6/1977 Dallas Morning News Earl Golz story: "Six minutes of the file tape recording of a Dallas police motorcycle radio, marred by electronic interference but transmitting when the shots were fired at President John F. Kennedy, apparently hold the key to a new challenge of Warren Commission findings, sources said Thursday. The tape, which never was tested acoustically by the Warren Commission, reportedly indicates in recent tests that four shots - not three - were fired... Among the many questions stemming from the tape and its most recent analysis is the identity of the motorcycle policeman who apparently held open his radio microphone from 12:28 to 12:34 p. m. on Nov. 22, 1963...on Thursday, The News learned a House Assassinations Committee investigator made an appointment in Dallas to obtain a fourth and even more complete transcript from private citizens who have made a study of the assassination. Their version, painstakingly written word for word, states that at 12:34 p. m., as the electronic interference is about to end, a dispatcher's voice is heard to say, "There is a motorcycle officer up on Stemmons with his mikestuck open on Channel 1. Could you send someone up there and tell him to shut it off?" Just prior to this request on Channel 2, the then-police chief, Jesse Curry, is quoted as shouting instructions on the same channel. The interference on Channel 1 stopped almost immediately, according to those who have studied the tape recordings, but the identity of the motorcycle officer was never learned. Also, the citizens with the most complete version of the tapes claim they can hear "electronic beeps" during the six minutes, which they say sound like the Morse code signal for "victory." To the ear, the six minutes on the police radio tape sound like a constant electronic roar. The sound of shots are not discernible... In connection with the House Assassinations Committee investigation, Dallas Police Chief Donald Byrd has agreed to seal off Dealey Plaza for three hours beginning at 5:30 a. m. Aug. 20 - not Aug. 22 as incorrectly reported Thursday - so representatives of the committee can fire weapons to simulate the possible velocity and vibrations of shots as determined by the Cambridge firm."
- 2/6/1977 Dallas Morning News article by Earl Golz: "A letter purportedly written by Lee Harvey Oswald asking a "Mr. Hunt" for "information concerning my position" two weeks before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is being checked for its authenticity by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. FBI agents said they had no knowledge of the letter until several days ago when they acquired a copy that had been delivered to a former aide of the late H.L. Hunt, Dallas billionaire oilman...An unidentified source of the letter asserted he "gave" FBI Director Clarence Kelley a copy in late 1974, but FBI agents told The News this week they have no record of such a delivery. Two of the federal agents questioned this reporter extensively after learning that a copy of the letter had passed through his hands before reaching the former Hunt aide. The contention that Kelley was given a copy was made in an unsigned cover letter typewritten in Spanish and mailed in August, 1975, from Mexico City to Penn Jones Jr. of Midlothian, Texas....Jones said he replied in writing to the return address on the envelope, which was "P.S., Insurgentes Sur No. 309, Mexico, DF, Mexico." "All I did was answer the letter and got no reply," Jones said. "I never did hear from him again. Of course, it did not come back to me so apparently it was delivered to somebody.".... Later FBI official Tom Harrington in Washington, D.C., called to say "no comment" when asked whether his agency had reactivated an ongoing investigation of the Kennedy slaying."
- 2/6/1977 Pittsburgh Press article about former DPD chief Jesse Curry. He suspects that people were involved with Oswald in the assassination, thinks Castro might have been behind it all in retaliation for plots against him. Says that Dallas FBI's Shanklin was going to be fired by Hoover if Curry didn't retract his statements to the press about the FBI knowing Oswald.
- 2/9/1977 The political thriller, Twilight's Last Gleaming, is released. Directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark. Loosely based on a 1971 novel, Viper Three by Walter Wager, it tells the story of Lawrence Dell, a renegade USAF general, who escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana, threatening to launch the missiles and start World War III unless the President reveals the real reason why America fought in the Vietnam War.
- 2/10/1977 Henry Gonzalez moves to fire Richard Sprague on grounds the former prosecutor has "engaged in a course of conduct that is wholly intolerable for any employee of the House." Specifically, Gonzalez complained that Sprague is "making a consistent attempt to undermine my chairmanship and malign me personally with the members of the committee staff."
- 2/10/1977 David Burnham - "Sprague Ouster Is Upset by Panel on Assassination" - New York Times
- 2/12/1977 David Burnham - "Assassination Panel's Fate In Doubt as Sprague Faces New Allegations" - New York Times
- 2/13/1977 Willem Oltmans told the HSCA: "He begged me to take him out of the country because they are after me." On 13th February 1977, Oltmans took de Mohrenschildt to his home in Amsterdam where they worked on his memoirs. Over the next few weeks de Mohrenschildt claimed he knew Jack Ruby and argued that Texas oilmen joined with intelligence operatives to arrange the assassination of John F. Kennedy. According to Willem Oltmans, he confessed to being involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. "I am responsible. I feel responsible for the behaviour of Lee Harvey Oswald... because I guided him. I instructed him to set it up." Oltmans claimed that de Mohrenschildt had admitted serving as a middleman between Lee Harvey Oswald and H. L. Hunt in an assassination plot involving other Texas oilmen, anti-Castro Cubans, and elements of the FBI and CIA. Willem Oltmans arranged for George de Mohrenschildt to meet a Dutch publisher and the head of Dutch national television. The two men then travelled to Brussels. When they arrived, Oltmans mentioned that an old friend of his, a Soviet diplomat, would be joining them a bit later for lunch. De Mohrenschildt said he wanted to take a short walk before lunch. Instead, he fled to a friend's house and after a few days he flew back to the United States. He later accused Oltmans of betraying him. Russ Baker suggests in his book Family of Secrets: "Perhaps, and this would be strictly conjecture, de Mohrenschildt saw what it meant that he, like Oswald, was being placed in the company of Soviets. He was being made out to be a Soviet agent himself. And once that happened, his ultimate fate was clear."
- 2/16/1977 Janani Luwum, the Anglican archbishop of Uganda, and two other men were killed in what Ugandan authorities said was an automobile accident.
- 2/19/1977 Allard K. Lowenstein wrote in Saturday Review: "James R. Hoffa did not vanish after a rendezvous with a James Earl Ray acting alone,' loose nuts did not do in the Yablonskis, new editions of Lee Harvey Oswald or Sirhan Sirhan did not murder Sam Giancana in the basement of his home while he was under twenty-four hour guard by the FBI. It is time to accept the fact tha the question is not whether groups with such power exist, but how these groups use their power, who their allies are in and out of government and what if anything can be done to protect the democratic process against forces and alliances that operate out of sight and often beyond the limits set by the law." (Saturday Review)
- 2/22/1977 In a front-page article in The New York Times, Nicholas Gage writes: " ... two men known to have personal knowledge of the circumstances of the murder provided solid information that Mr. [Johnny] Roselli was killed by members of the underworld as a direct result of his testimony before the Senate Committee."
- 2/24/1977 Carter announces that countries' foreign aid will depend on their human rights records.
- 2/25/1977 Jack Anderson reported in the New York Times that the first anti-Castro plot was begun when the CIA "spoke secretly to Howard Hughes' chief honcho in Las Vegas, Robert Maheu, about the project. Maheu recruited [Johnny] Roselli...Roselli looked upon the assassination mission as an opportunity to gain favor with the US government."