Real name of "Alek Hiddel" "South Knoll Gunman" Facebook pageowner

[Peter Lemkin]

Just a few comments. Tosh Plumlee is not hard to contact - he maintains a Facebook page now, but as far as I am aware will not engage on any Forum nor really answer much in private email conversations unless it is NOT about Dallas and related. He would say [from my long experience with him] of the above comment that the Team was told to keep their presence secret in the Plaza [and to somehow do their mission secretly but in plain sight]. Further, that 'something(s)' went wrong and by the time it was realized what was going down, it was too late to intervene. He might also add that he was not supposed to be operational, he was the co-pilot of the flights in and out and had tagged along because he wanted to see JFK. This is basically his [oversimplified] story. There is the logical problem mentioned above, and there is further a big problem with the telling of what happened at Redbird Airport, as Plumlee's story doesn't match that of the sworn affidavit of the Airport's manager [obtained by a reputable researcher under the condition it not be released until both the manager and his wife were dead - which has now occurred]. I have asked innumerable times for Tosh to reconcile the two versions, as they do not fit at all and can not be reconciled - either one happened or the other did, not both! He has never, to my thinking, even tried to reconcile them, and only gets angry and defensive when I have asked [for about two decades]. Without getting into all the minute details of his version and my research on it, I find perhaps the most irreconcilable matter are some of the persons who were on the flight. Some he has publicly named, and one he has only told me and a few others and not publicly named. These are not persons, from my understanding of the case, who would have been inclined to abort an assassination - but would have been inclined to help carry out or assist in the events. Tosh names Rosselli on the flight and the other who he has not publicly named, but has told me, is even a bigger name than that - by far. Add to that the persons who sent the Team on its merry way and these are persons who are questionable in their fidelity to JFK, at that point in history. Lastly, in his telling, he alone on the Team questions what went wrong and what the f*** he just witnessed went down [although he interprets their extreme silence afterwards as having failed in their mission], and is put in prison on a trumped up charge and given an indeterminate sentence; his 'parole officer' really a CIA guy, tells him he won't get out until they feel he will stop talking about Dallas and questioning the matter.

That said, Plumlee's telling of other events in his life are, as far as I can tell, the truth - and parts of his telling of the events of Dallas as he 'knows' them, are likely true - while other and very significant parts are highly questionable, to be polite. It is his unwillingness to engage with qualified researchers on the questionable parts that made a book, as contracted, on his life and work in covert operations, fall apart - along with his withdrawal at a crucial stage.

I for one do not dismiss his story in its entirety, and have struggled over more than two decades to make full sense of it. Many do not know of Tom Wilson's work on the events in the Plaza using photonics and his supercomputer he had in his garage - but Tom worked on images I gave him of men on the South Knoll along with other 'standard' photos from that day in Dallas and concluded that there were two operational men in the shade of a tree on the S. Knoll where Plumlee stated. Further he found that they had operational equipment on them that matched that of others near TUM/DSM and some behind the fence on the Knoll and elsewhere in the Plaza - universally believed to have been part of the hit and/or diversion/communications Team. How to reconcile that they all had the same equipment unless the entity that sent them had two factions at war with each other that day? Tom [very naively] gave a huge summary of his work, filling several bankers boxes, to a top FBI official who flew to a distant city to pick it up. To this day, the FBI denies they ever got anything from Tom Wilson - yet there is a lawyer who I know personally who is witness to all this, as fact. The working materials of Tom Wilson are still extant. I know where they are and who has custody of them, but the family has thus far refused to allow other researchers to access them. I have proposed to them they put the originals in an archive. I find them interesting in their own right, and perhaps some of the best work on the Plumlee story, along with the research Marrs and I did - which remain unpublished.

I could go on and on and on...but will leave it at this. In the end, Plumlee and his story and motive for telling it remain an enigma - and sadly have to be questioned unless and until he is willing to reconcile certain obvious contradictions with other known or generally agreed upon facts.