17-09-2009, 03:16 AM
"General Edward G. Lansdale was Coordinator of Operations for Operation Mongoose. He had been intimately involved in CIA operations in the Philippines and in Vietnam in the 1950s [34]. The ambassadorship to Vietnam, promised to Lansdale by President Kennedy, was withdrawn as a result of the objections of Secretary of State Dean Rusk [35]. Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, who was liaison officer between the Air Force and the CIA in their cooperative U-2 spy-plane operations, knew Lansdale well and believes that the general was captured in a photograph in Dealey Plaza (taken by George Smith of the Fort Worth Star Telegram), walking away from the camera in front of delivery gates at the Texas School Book Depository."
From Oliver Stone's movie JFK -- (General X speaking) "I think
it started like that, in the wind...
defense contractors, big oil, bankers...
just conversation, nothing more. Then
a call is made, maybe to someone like
my superior officer, General Y."
(Left profile in silhouette of a man
with a thin moustache)
"Yeah"?
"We're going... We need your help"
"When?"
"In the fall. Probably in the south.
We want you to come up with a plan"
"I can do that."
The camera provides a glimpse of the
nameplate on the desk, which is partly
obscured by an ornament:
M/GEN. E.G. ---NSD---E
General Lansdale had a drooping right shoulder, and, indeed, the man in the photograph appears to have a similar posture. On his web site, Col. Prouty quotes Lieutenant General Victor Krulak as saying, "The haircut, the stoop, the twisted left hand, the large class ring. It's Lansdale" [36]."
From Oliver Stone's movie JFK -- (General X speaking) "I think
it started like that, in the wind...
defense contractors, big oil, bankers...
just conversation, nothing more. Then
a call is made, maybe to someone like
my superior officer, General Y."
(Left profile in silhouette of a man
with a thin moustache)
"Yeah"?
"We're going... We need your help"
"When?"
"In the fall. Probably in the south.
We want you to come up with a plan"
"I can do that."
The camera provides a glimpse of the
nameplate on the desk, which is partly
obscured by an ornament:
M/GEN. E.G. ---NSD---E
General Lansdale had a drooping right shoulder, and, indeed, the man in the photograph appears to have a similar posture. On his web site, Col. Prouty quotes Lieutenant General Victor Krulak as saying, "The haircut, the stoop, the twisted left hand, the large class ring. It's Lansdale" [36]."