18-03-2016, 12:29 AM
Tom:
The idea that Butler was somehow connected with Core and Baldwin, is maybe one tenth of the story.
Maybe less.
On one of my trips to New Orleans, I interviewed New Orleans scholar and author and archivist Art Carpenter. Very few people know more about the local scene at that time than he did. And Art did not have an agenda. In addition to doing a two hour interview with him, I also secured one of his very valuable essays on the subject,a nd later his Ph. D. dissertation on the growth of the national security state in New Orleans.
Butler was tied into Charles Cabell through International House, and also Ed Lansdale. Lansdale helped him procure witnesses for his INCA launched Truth Tapes. Which were then circulated through Latin America by Ted Shackley and Howard Hunt. Is any of that in Carpeneter's book?
Later on, in the eighties, when the CIA was launching its war against Nicaragua, Butler and Layton Martens started a right wing talk radio show in New Orleans. Ed Haslam discovered that Butler had some of Guy Banister's files housed in the office of that radio station. Is that in Carpenter's book? These things seem much more important than who was a second cousin to Garrison's wife. I mean I don't even know who most of my second cousins are.
But I do know who Cabell and Lansdale are.
As I said, Carpeneter had an agenda. Just like Phelan, Kirkwood, and Aynesworth before him. The elements involved change. But the aims are always the same.
As I said, I understand the importance of the Lemman connection with nephew Nicolas. I don't buy the second cousin stuff to Garrison's wife at all.
The idea that Butler was somehow connected with Core and Baldwin, is maybe one tenth of the story.
Maybe less.
On one of my trips to New Orleans, I interviewed New Orleans scholar and author and archivist Art Carpenter. Very few people know more about the local scene at that time than he did. And Art did not have an agenda. In addition to doing a two hour interview with him, I also secured one of his very valuable essays on the subject,a nd later his Ph. D. dissertation on the growth of the national security state in New Orleans.
Butler was tied into Charles Cabell through International House, and also Ed Lansdale. Lansdale helped him procure witnesses for his INCA launched Truth Tapes. Which were then circulated through Latin America by Ted Shackley and Howard Hunt. Is any of that in Carpeneter's book?
Later on, in the eighties, when the CIA was launching its war against Nicaragua, Butler and Layton Martens started a right wing talk radio show in New Orleans. Ed Haslam discovered that Butler had some of Guy Banister's files housed in the office of that radio station. Is that in Carpenter's book? These things seem much more important than who was a second cousin to Garrison's wife. I mean I don't even know who most of my second cousins are.
But I do know who Cabell and Lansdale are.
As I said, Carpeneter had an agenda. Just like Phelan, Kirkwood, and Aynesworth before him. The elements involved change. But the aims are always the same.
As I said, I understand the importance of the Lemman connection with nephew Nicolas. I don't buy the second cousin stuff to Garrison's wife at all.