The 'Strange' Death of Hale Boggs

[Peter Lemkin]

Please, one doesn't need directed energy weapons to bring down a plane - less so in 1972. Planes, by nature, want to fall out of the sky. Tens to hundreds of tons of metal don't naturally float in the air, and anything that disables the pilot[s], the engine[s], the navigation, the control systems or the integrity of the plane's structure can easily bring it down. One can easily list a host of low tech ways to do any of these. The point is not so much the how, but that plane crashes and car crashes and murders made to look like suicides along with some assassinations that were grand conspiracies made to look like the work of a deranged 'lone-nut' are endlessly common. Further, they are rarely if ever investigated as those who pull off the deed also have some levers of control over the investigation. Nothing could be further from democracy and justice than such actions by a few to control the polity of the many.

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"Over the postwar years, we have granted to the elite and secret police within our system vast new powers over the lives and liberties of the people. At the request of the trusted and respected heads of those forces, and their appeal to the necessities of national security, we have exempted those grants of power from due accounting and strict surveillance."
--House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, in a speech before Congress, 22 April 1971

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"[FBI Director J. Edgar] Hoover lied his eyes out to the [Warren] Commission on Oswald, on Ruby, on their friends, the bullets, the gun, you name it."
--Hale Boggs, speaking to an aide, cited by Bernard Fensterwald, Coincidence or Conspiracy?

[FONT=&amp]Congressman Boggs plane disappeared on a flight in Alaska from Anchorage to Juneau on Oct 16, 1972, less than 30 days before Nixon was re-elected President in 1972. U.S. Military Intelligence, jointly with other U.S. espionage agencies reportedly located the Congressmans airplane but have concealed that and the story has always stood that the aircraft was never found.[/FONT][FONT=&amp]Twenty years later, in 1992, a Freedom of Information Act Request by Roll Call Magazine unearthed an FBI telex indicating that the plane was located and never retrieved. Information obtained by a government verified source described the location of the plane and stated that there were two survivors shortly after the plane disappeared. The information indicated an undisclosed "firm" involved in testing advanced surveillance equipment had located the crash. The informant had a military background, according to the FBI document obtained by Roll Call.[/FONT][FONT=&amp]The FBI telex was sent to the Washington, D.C. FBI headquarters where it was presumably passed to the Acting Director, L. Patrick Gray. The previous director, J. Edgar Hoover, had been in a significant conflict with Boggs, who called for his resignation on the floor of the Congress. Boggs was one of the most powerful people in the country at a time and privately talking to Garrison and considering how to reopen the JFK assassination investigation. He was being bugged 24/7 by at least the FBI, if not other agencies.

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"Mr Speaker, 1984 is closer than we think.'" - Hale Boggs, Congressional Record -- House, April 22, 1971, p. 11564 - 11565

There is also a Nixon 'tape' in which he discusses 'something having to be done' with Hale Boggs.

The FBI telex was only released after a FOIA battle, redacted, in the order of page 1,3,2, below

His youngest daughter radio journalist Kokie Roberts has now gone on record stating the untruth that her father did not dissent with the Warren Report - anything to keep one's career and out of trouble.....::prison::