JFK, PD Scott, and Mount Weather

[R.K. Locke]

I think the evidence shows clearly that COG was an important component of the assassination in one way or another.

Hi RK - yes, Johnson took the oath of office almost immediately.

I think the evidence shows clearly that COG was an important component of the assassination in one way or another. The next question is: what is the actual meaning/significance of COG?

COG means something specific. It means the evacuation of certain key personnel to the Mt Weather COG site. This actually happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis, at least one Congressman remembers being taken to Mt Weather.

Still looking for the source evidence that says that either the Dallas EOC or Mt Weather was engaged that day.

Right... I know what it literally means. I'm talking about what it signifies. What the larger and deeper meaning of it is. What it implies/suggests.

[Anthony Thorne]

I don't have the link handy, but some of the agitation for COG stems back to the various NeoCon personnel that were involved - tangentially - with the machinations in Italy in the late 70's, in the heat of the the Gladio activities. Some of the Gladio folk were pushing to impose either martial law or a new form of government over there - their plans were disrupted following the exposures and arrests that gradually brought their activities to light.

Michael Ledeen is a key figure. He was active in Italy through that period, had links and contacts with numerous P2 figures, and then returned to the US in the early 80's to participate in the Reagan administration as an advisor. It's at this point that various Neo-Con and Iran-Contra figures start formalising plans for COG in the US.

Regarding Ledeen, from Jeffrey Bale's "Right-wing Terrorists and the Extraparliamentary Left in Post-World War 2 Europe: Collusion or Manipulation?" in Robin Ramsay's Lobster #18:

"Ledeen began his public career as a historian of Italian fascism, but after working in Italy for several years he became involved in a number of apparent intelligence-connected ventures, including Il Giornale Nuovo, CSIS, and an international group organised to study' terrorism in Italy. Later he was recruited as agent Z-3 by SISMI (in which capacity he became involved in a number of scandals), became the international terrorism' expert attached to Secretary of State Alexander Haig's staff, and may have covertly worked with Israeli intelligence."

Ledeen - in the vicinity in Italy when Gladio false-flag attacks were being conducted - is linked in the above paragraph to Haig, and to Israeli intelligence. I'd suggest that in the early 80's elements within the deep state began workshopping how plans for COG could fit in with simultaneous goals by Israeli strategists to enable the Oded Yinon plan to target and and break-up Israel's rivals in the Middle East, and operatives keen to achieve the latter were eventually drafted in to assist in bringing about the former, hence the Israeli art-spy scandal of Mossad folk surveilling the 'hijackers', and the 'dancing Israeli' group of figures on the day who felt the events were a success. Peter Dale Scott's 1987 book IRAN CONTRA CONNECTION features a chapter on covert activities from the Reagan era that were done in conjunction with Israeli collaborators, and notes a private government think tank the U.S.-Israel Political Military Committee' was set up by Haig and Robert McFarlane to look at the big picture' the same year that Israeli government strategists began championing the Yinon plan. The Yinon plan would also influence Cheney and Wolfowitz's 1992 Defense Planning Guidance paper, and the later PNAC document Rebuilding America's Defences', all three of which I believe were championed by Ledeen.

Scott - who has (perhaps understandably) never returned to the subject of Israeli participation in US deep events, notes in IRAN CONTRA CONNECTION that he suspects the next major deep event in the US will also be undertaken with Israeli assistance, simply as collaborators and accomplices can return to the sovereign state of Israel once they finish their work, and cannot be compelled to return to the US to participate in investigations or commissions regarding a crime.

Jonathan Elinoff - as he was abandoning his CORE OF CORRUPTION series - told me he understood from sources that the CIA had blackmailed government figures ("Iran Contra figures", as he put it) to enable COG - or at least enable the events that would allow COG to occur. He never clarified, and I never asked at the time, why exactly the CIA was so keen to get COG up and running.

The list of the participants who were involved in COG planning is scattered in various articles around the web, but it's bigger than just Cheney and Rumsfeld. I've seen James Woolsey listed, as well as Cheney's legal counsel David Addington, and possibly also Wolfowitz, and maybe even Zelikow. I recall the names matched somewhat closely the list of participants that Zelikow used to meet in the 90's within the Aspen Strategy Group. Those are the years that Rumsfeld - during the Clinton administration - was also participating in wargames with Joint Chiefs of Staff where the group would castigate the Clinton admin and posit 'terrorists' as the group most likely to provoke a useful national emergency.

To elaborate a bit - Scott participated in Elinoff's abandoned documentary, as did Daniel Hopsicker and other researchers. Elinoff passed on extra details of his work to me earlier this year, and I've gone back and forth several times with the notion of posting some of it online here - not least because he warned me of mentioning a particular name on the internet. I'll simply note that eventually Elinoff received a death threat/warning from a figure who is also based in Colorado, who is mentioned in Ruppert's CROSSING THE RUBICON, and who is linked to Mike 'Delmart' Vreeland.

The Pat Sullivan scandal - mentioned in the very long CORE OF CORRUPTION thread I started on the 9/11 board - was the tip of an ongoing Franklin Scandal-type blackmail campaign in Colorado using victims of human trafficking as bait to entrap politicians and other people of authority. Some of the people involved in the human trafficking were working for Viktor Kozeny and other folks tied to the Russian Bratva mafia. Kozeny's personal pilot - Wolfgang Bohringer - was Atta's buddy in Florida in the months leading up to the attacks, and Amanda Keller said Atta and Kozeny were 'inseparable'. Elinoff had also tracked down and interviewed Keller, and - with a hidden camera in tow - had located and filmed Bohringer himself. Elinoff had followed leads provided by Hopsicker and had dug up a bunch of new stuff. It was at this time that the death threats started - and the threats, to an extent, weren't anonymous ones.

Sample comment from Elinoff.

Films 2 & 3 included the hidden camera footage of me going into Clear Channel,
of me going to the FBI,
of me interviewing Mohammed Atta's girlfriend,
of me tracking down Wolfgang Boehringer - (check link at bottom of comment), Boehringer traveled to a small island to open a flight school, much like the flight school Mohammed Atta "trained at" even though he received his pilot's license already from Maxwell Air Force Base. And his weekly flights between Venezuela to Brighton Beach were to meet with Russian Brava people, the folks behind the Heroin trade and human trafficking
it included the hidden camera footage of me uncovering the actual accounts offshore that may have been used to funnel money to the hijackers,
it uncovered me being in danger and threatened by powerful officials,
it includes hidden camera footage of men and badges threatening me with framing me for killing me or making me disappear"

I've seen evidence that the death threats to Elinoff were CIA-based, and also that the human trafficking ring in Colorado was/is a massive one that involved a tremendous amount of Colorado police personnel involved in the cover-up and the actual entrapment of children. COG is at the root of a lot of this - with Saudi money also involved in financing various events - but I'd love to know exactly what the CIA wanted from COG.

David, Peter, Magda and others are welcome to PM me with questions about the above - specifically the bolded part - if they'd like me to elaborate a bit further than I have in this thread. There are a number of things I still have mentioned here, for a few reasons.

[Peter Lemkin]

I don't have the link handy, but some of the agitation for COG stems back to the various NeoCon personnel that were involved - tangentially - with the machinations in Italy in the late 70's, in the heat of the the Gladio activities. Some of the Gladio folk were pushing to impose either martial law or a new form of government over there - their plans were disrupted following the exposures and arrests that gradually brought their activities to light.

Michael Ledeen is a key figure. He was active in Italy through that period, had links and contacts with numerous P2 figures, and then returned to the US in the early 80's to participate in the Reagan administration as an advisor. It's at this point that various Neo-Con and Iran-Contra figures start formalising plans for COG in the US.

Regarding Ledeen, from Jeffrey Bale's "Right-wing Terrorists and the Extraparliamentary Left in Post-World War 2 Europe: Collusion or Manipulation?" in Robin Ramsay's Lobster #18:

"Ledeen began his public career as a historian of Italian fascism, but after working in Italy for several years he became involved in a number of apparent intelligence-connected ventures, including Il Giornale Nuovo, CSIS, and an international group organised to study' terrorism in Italy. Later he was recruited as agent Z-3 by SISMI (in which capacity he became involved in a number of scandals), became the international terrorism' expert attached to Secretary of State Alexander Haig's staff, and may have covertly worked with Israeli intelligence."

Ledeen - in the vicinity in Italy when Gladio false-flag attacks were being conducted - is linked in the above paragraph to Haig, and to Israeli intelligence. I'd suggest that in the early 80's elements within the deep state began workshopping how plans for COG could fit in with simultaneous goals by Israeli strategists to enable the Oded Yinon plan to target and and break-up Israel's rivals in the Middle East, and operatives keen to achieve the latter were eventually drafted in to assist in bringing about the former, hence the Israeli art-spy scandal of Mossad folk surveilling the 'hijackers', and the 'dancing Israeli' group of figures on the day who felt the events were a success. Peter Dale Scott's 1987 book IRAN CONTRA CONNECTION features a chapter on covert activities from the Reagan era that were done in conjunction with Israeli collaborators, and notes a private government think tank the U.S.-Israel Political Military Committee' was set up by Haig and Robert McFarlane to look at the big picture' the same year that Israeli government strategists began championing the Yinon plan. The Yinon plan would also influence Cheney and Wolfowitz's 1992 Defense Planning Guidance paper, and the later PNAC document Rebuilding America's Defences', all three of which I believe were championed by Ledeen.

Scott - who has (perhaps understandably) never returned to the subject of Israeli participation in US deep events, notes in IRAN CONTRA CONNECTION that he suspects the next major deep event in the US will also be undertaken with Israeli assistance, simply as collaborators and accomplices can return to the sovereign state of Israel once they finish their work, and cannot be compelled to return to the US to participate in investigations or commissions regarding a crime.

Jonathan Elinoff - as he was abandoning his CORE OF CORRUPTION series - told me he understood from sources that the CIA had blackmailed government figures ("Iran Contra figures", as he put it) to enable COG - or at least enable the events that would allow COG to occur. He never clarified, and I never asked at the time, why exactly the CIA was so keen to get COG up and running.

The list of the participants who were involved in COG planning is scattered in various articles around the web, but it's bigger than just Cheney and Rumsfeld. I've seen James Woolsey listed, as well as Cheney's legal counsel David Addington, and possibly also Wolfowitz, and maybe even Zelikow. I recall the names matched somewhat closely the list of participants that Zelikow used to meet in the 90's within the Aspen Strategy Group. Those are the years that Rumsfeld - during the Clinton administration - was also participating in wargames with Joint Chiefs of Staff where the group would castigate the Clinton admin and posit 'terrorists' as the group most likely to provoke a useful national emergency.

To elaborate a bit - Scott participated in Elinoff's abandoned documentary, as did Daniel Hopsicker and other researchers. Elinoff passed on extra details of his work to me earlier this year, and I've gone back and forth several times with the notion of posting some of it online here - not least because he warned me of mentioning a particular name on the internet. I'll simply note that eventually Elinoff received a death threat/warning from a figure who is also based in Colorado, who is mentioned in Ruppert's CROSSING THE RUBICON, and who is linked to Mike 'Delmart' Vreeland.

The Pat Sullivan scandal - mentioned in the very long CORE OF CORRUPTION thread I started on the 9/11 board - was the tip of an ongoing Franklin Scandal-type blackmail campaign in Colorado using victims of human trafficking as bait to entrap politicians and other people of authority. Some of the people involved in the human trafficking were working for Viktor Kozeny and other folks tied to the Russian Bratva mafia. Kozeny's personal pilot - Wolfgang Bohringer - was Atta's buddy in Florida in the months leading up to the attacks, and Amanda Keller said Atta and Kozeny were 'inseparable'. Elinoff had also tracked down and interviewed Keller, and - with a hidden camera in tow - had located and filmed Bohringer himself. Elinoff had followed leads provided by Hopsicker and had dug up a bunch of new stuff. It was at this time that the death threats started - and the threats, to an extent, weren't anonymous ones.

Sample comment from Elinoff.

Films 2 & 3 included the hidden camera footage of me going into Clear Channel,
of me going to the FBI,
of me interviewing Mohammed Atta's girlfriend,
of me tracking down Wolfgang Boehringer - (check link at bottom of comment), Boehringer traveled to a small island to open a flight school, much like the flight school Mohammed Atta "trained at" even though he received his pilot's license already from Maxwell Air Force Base. And his weekly flights between Venezuela to Brighton Beach were to meet with Russian Brava people, the folks behind the Heroin trade and human trafficking
it included the hidden camera footage of me uncovering the actual accounts offshore that may have been used to funnel money to the hijackers,
it uncovered me being in danger and threatened by powerful officials,
it includes hidden camera footage of men and badges threatening me with framing me for killing me or making me disappear"

I've seen evidence that the death threats to Elinoff were CIA-based, and also that the human trafficking ring in Colorado was/is a massive one that involved a tremendous amount of Colorado police personnel involved in the cover-up and the actual entrapment of children. COG is at the root of a lot of this - with Saudi money also involved in financing various events - but I'd love to know exactly what the CIA wanted from COG.

David, Peter, Magda and others are welcome to PM me with questions about the above - specifically the bolded part - if they'd like me to elaborate a bit further than I have in this thread. There are a number of things I still have mentioned here, for a few reasons.

Thanks, VERY interesting post full of goodies. Keller, as I posted somewhere else on the Forum is now working on a military base under watchful eyes. As PDS has repeatedly pointed out and documented, Iran-Contra persons were involved in a lot bigger 'dirt' before, during, after - and there has been a continuity of people and power behind the deep events from WW2 to last night. It is interesting to note that these persons are 'active' in planning and plotting these events even when they are not officially in any governmental positions - though at times they were. Cheney and Rumsfeld are the classics on this, but not alone.

As to why the CIA [and other intelligence {sic} agencies] might be interested in the bringing about of 'COG', I think just reflects their authoritarian / fascist thinking and wishes, generally. COG is an 'easy' way to remove legal checks and balances; annoying laws and legal challenges; eliminating Congress and to a large extent even the President if needed; it puts in place a secret 'legal' dictatorship in the USA and seems to be set up to be done in ratcheting steps - but like most ratchets it can only go one way. I would think that for the most part it would be the operational types in CIA and other such agencies that would love to have more control and less restraints of any kind - all granted under COG [a misnomer, as it doesn't continue the government we know, it mothballs it forever and replaces it with something which in no way resembles what we have been led to believe the USA is or ever was to be]. It is all tied up with 'Gladio' type thinking and a strategy of tension on the Grand Scale. We are talking real fascism and dictatorship here and since 911 we are all but there. Very cleverly, they designed it to be a crypto-fascism, hidden under the cloak of a phony 'war on terror' et al.

Kozeny is Czech, not Russian, and got his money in a big scam just after the fall of Communism here. He is wanted for arrest here, but has been untouchable and never extradited back. It is complex, but basically every adult was given a number of shares they could use to buy property or companies after the fall of communism and Kozeny found a way to get them from a large % of the people for nothing or almost nothing - promising them money for them in the future - then left the country for good. It seems he's been in 'interesting' company since.

Another 'Iran-Contra' notable Adm. John Poindexter surfaced as head of TIA [Total information Analysis], which got such bad reaction it was reported to be cancelled and then resurrected within NSA and other agencies in all the things revealed by Snowden. The FEMA camps of Rex-84 are now under DHS. These things just never die, they grow under the cover of 'darkness'. Hey, they killed the President in 63 and got away with it...and then ran all kinds of ops and mayhem, murders, government overthrows, coups, drugs and arms deals, what-have-you, and no one really stopped them or even noticed (for the vast majority buying the MSM and propaganda lines)...so here we are - over the line and no longer a functioning democracy, but a police state and the ratchet is tightening day by day, war by war, false-flag by false-flag and most of the sheeple don't even bleat. It is a very sad picture only a few even have any intelligent and accurate view of - but we are mostly marginalized as 'conspiracy theorists' for being the only not yet enslaved people who can see what has been and is actually going on......not a pretty picture. The [un]Patriot Act which was printed and bound before 911 [but that 'incident' was used along with the Anthrax scare to push it through Congress] is the modern equivalent of the Nazi's 'Enabling Act' [look it up!], and will result in the same horrible end - except this time there are no outside forces strong enough to liberate such a powerful fascist enclave. ONLY WE THE PEOPLE CAN STOP THIS MADNESS!

[Magda Hassan]

Michael Leeden features heavily in some of Sibel Edmond's experiences.

[R.K. Locke]

I don't have the link handy, but some of the agitation for COG stems back to the various NeoCon personnel that were involved - tangentially - with the machinations in Italy in the late 70's, in the heat of the the Gladio activities. Some of the Gladio folk were pushing to impose either martial law or a new form of government over there - their plans were disrupted following the exposures and arrests that gradually brought their activities to light.

Michael Ledeen is a key figure. He was active in Italy through that period, had links and contacts with numerous P2 figures, and then returned to the US in the early 80's to participate in the Reagan administration as an advisor. It's at this point that various Neo-Con and Iran-Contra figures start formalising plans for COG in the US.

Regarding Ledeen, from Jeffrey Bale's "Right-wing Terrorists and the Extraparliamentary Left in Post-World War 2 Europe: Collusion or Manipulation?" in Robin Ramsay's Lobster #18:

"Ledeen began his public career as a historian of Italian fascism, but after working in Italy for several years he became involved in a number of apparent intelligence-connected ventures, including Il Giornale Nuovo, CSIS, and an international group organised to study' terrorism in Italy. Later he was recruited as agent Z-3 by SISMI (in which capacity he became involved in a number of scandals), became the international terrorism' expert attached to Secretary of State Alexander Haig's staff, and may have covertly worked with Israeli intelligence."

Ledeen - in the vicinity in Italy when Gladio false-flag attacks were being conducted - is linked in the above paragraph to Haig, and to Israeli intelligence. I'd suggest that in the early 80's elements within the deep state began workshopping how plans for COG could fit in with simultaneous goals by Israeli strategists to enable the Oded Yinon plan to target and and break-up Israel's rivals in the Middle East, and operatives keen to achieve the latter were eventually drafted in to assist in bringing about the former, hence the Israeli art-spy scandal of Mossad folk surveilling the 'hijackers', and the 'dancing Israeli' group of figures on the day who felt the events were a success. Peter Dale Scott's 1987 book IRAN CONTRA CONNECTION features a chapter on covert activities from the Reagan era that were done in conjunction with Israeli collaborators, and notes a private government think tank the U.S.-Israel Political Military Committee' was set up by Haig and Robert McFarlane to look at the big picture' the same year that Israeli government strategists began championing the Yinon plan. The Yinon plan would also influence Cheney and Wolfowitz's 1992 Defense Planning Guidance paper, and the later PNAC document Rebuilding America's Defences', all three of which I believe were championed by Ledeen.

Scott - who has (perhaps understandably) never returned to the subject of Israeli participation in US deep events, notes in IRAN CONTRA CONNECTION that he suspects the next major deep event in the US will also be undertaken with Israeli assistance, simply as collaborators and accomplices can return to the sovereign state of Israel once they finish their work, and cannot be compelled to return to the US to participate in investigations or commissions regarding a crime.

Jonathan Elinoff - as he was abandoning his CORE OF CORRUPTION series - told me he understood from sources that the CIA had blackmailed government figures ("Iran Contra figures", as he put it) to enable COG - or at least enable the events that would allow COG to occur. He never clarified, and I never asked at the time, why exactly the CIA was so keen to get COG up and running.

The list of the participants who were involved in COG planning is scattered in various articles around the web, but it's bigger than just Cheney and Rumsfeld. I've seen James Woolsey listed, as well as Cheney's legal counsel David Addington, and possibly also Wolfowitz, and maybe even Zelikow. I recall the names matched somewhat closely the list of participants that Zelikow used to meet in the 90's within the Aspen Strategy Group. Those are the years that Rumsfeld - during the Clinton administration - was also participating in wargames with Joint Chiefs of Staff where the group would castigate the Clinton admin and posit 'terrorists' as the group most likely to provoke a useful national emergency.

To elaborate a bit - Scott participated in Elinoff's abandoned documentary, as did Daniel Hopsicker and other researchers. Elinoff passed on extra details of his work to me earlier this year, and I've gone back and forth several times with the notion of posting some of it online here - not least because he warned me of mentioning a particular name on the internet. I'll simply note that eventually Elinoff received a death threat/warning from a figure who is also based in Colorado, who is mentioned in Ruppert's CROSSING THE RUBICON, and who is linked to Mike 'Delmart' Vreeland.

The Pat Sullivan scandal - mentioned in the very long CORE OF CORRUPTION thread I started on the 9/11 board - was the tip of an ongoing Franklin Scandal-type blackmail campaign in Colorado using victims of human trafficking as bait to entrap politicians and other people of authority. Some of the people involved in the human trafficking were working for Viktor Kozeny and other folks tied to the Russian Bratva mafia. Kozeny's personal pilot - Wolfgang Bohringer - was Atta's buddy in Florida in the months leading up to the attacks, and Amanda Keller said Atta and Kozeny were 'inseparable'. Elinoff had also tracked down and interviewed Keller, and - with a hidden camera in tow - had located and filmed Bohringer himself. Elinoff had followed leads provided by Hopsicker and had dug up a bunch of new stuff. It was at this time that the death threats started - and the threats, to an extent, weren't anonymous ones.

Sample comment from Elinoff.

Films 2 & 3 included the hidden camera footage of me going into Clear Channel,
of me going to the FBI,
of me interviewing Mohammed Atta's girlfriend,
of me tracking down Wolfgang Boehringer - (check link at bottom of comment), Boehringer traveled to a small island to open a flight school, much like the flight school Mohammed Atta "trained at" even though he received his pilot's license already from Maxwell Air Force Base. And his weekly flights between Venezuela to Brighton Beach were to meet with Russian Brava people, the folks behind the Heroin trade and human trafficking
it included the hidden camera footage of me uncovering the actual accounts offshore that may have been used to funnel money to the hijackers,
it uncovered me being in danger and threatened by powerful officials,
it includes hidden camera footage of men and badges threatening me with framing me for killing me or making me disappear"

I've seen evidence that the death threats to Elinoff were CIA-based, and also that the human trafficking ring in Colorado was/is a massive one that involved a tremendous amount of Colorado police personnel involved in the cover-up and the actual entrapment of children. COG is at the root of a lot of this - with Saudi money also involved in financing various events - but I'd love to know exactly what the CIA wanted from COG.

David, Peter, Magda and others are welcome to PM me with questions about the above - specifically the bolded part - if they'd like me to elaborate a bit further than I have in this thread. There are a number of things I still have mentioned here, for a few reasons.

Thank you for this post.

[Brian Castle]

The Jack Crichton oral history has disappeared from the Sixth Floor Museum. It's not there anymore, and it's not on the index list either.

Gee, ain't that interesting.

[Peter Lemkin]

CRICHTON JACK ALSTON

• Escalante, F. The Secret War. 1995 (42)
  
• Fensterwald, B. Coincidence or Conspiracy? 1977 (240-1)
  
• Furiati, C. ZR Rifle. 1994 (143)
  
• Piper, M.C. Final Judgment. 1993 (183)
  
• Russell, D. The Man Who Knew Too Much. 1992 (614-5)
  
• Scott, P.D. Deep Politics. 1993 (275-6)
  
• Thomas, K. Popular Alienation: A Steamshovel Press Reader. 1995 (21)
  

[Peter Lemkin]

Posted elsewhere by Linda Minor:

Crichton is mentioned numerous times in Russ Baker's book. Besides being an Army Intelligence Reserve officer until 1982, he was also connected to the Empire Trust, which has long been a major interest of mine. Not only that, but his corporate directorships overlapped with other men who also served on the board of Dresser Industries, the corporation wholly owned by Brown Brothers Harriman, the investment bank Bush's father spent his entire career with.

Russ Baker revealed some very significant (I think) information about who probably replaced Fletcher Prouty as head of security matters for the Kennedy trip to Texas. He says that Crichton ran for governor on the same Republican ticket with George H.W. Bush, who ran for the Senate, in 1964; and that Crichton "was connected to the military intelligence figures who led Kennedy's motorcade." Deputy Police Chief Lumpkin, who called Mamantov to be a Russian interpreter, was "driving the pilot car of Kennedy's motorcade, a quarter mile ahead of JFK's vehicle. Lumpkin was a friend of Jack Crichton, Poppy Bush's GOP colleague. Like Crichton, moreover, he was a member of an Army Intelligence Reserve unit," and admitted to HSCA that he "had been consulted by the Secret Service on motorcade security, and his input had eliminated an alternative route." Jack Crichton's boss in his Reserve unit was also riding in that car.

[Peter Lemkin]

Posted elsewhere by J. Simkin:

During the Second World War Jack Crichton served with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). It would be interesting to know who he served with in the OSS. It is amazing how many suspects in the assassination of JFK served in the OSS (especially in China).

In 1946 Everette DeGolyer recruited Crichton into the oil industry. According to Russ Baker: "He (Crichton) started and ran a baffling array of companies, which tended to change names frequently. These operated largely below the radar, and fronted for some of North America's biggest names, including the Bronfmans (Seagram's liquor), the Du Ponts, and the Kuhn-Loeb family of financiers."

In 1952 Jack Crichton joined a syndicate that included Everette DeGolyer and Clint Murchison to use connections in the government of General Francisco Franco to acquire rare drilling rights in Spain. The operation was handled by Delta Drilling, which was owned by Joe Zeppa.

In August 1953 Crichton joined the Empire Trust Company. He eventually became a vice-president of the organization. According to Stephen Birmingham, the author of Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York (1962) the company had a network of associates that amounted to "something very like a private CIA". The Empire Trust was also a major investor in the defence contractor General Dynamics. This could be significant as the Bobby Baker investigation involved LBJ's relationship to this company. Albert E. Jenner, who played a major role in the cover-up, also did a lot of legal work for General Dynamics at the time and later was made a director of the company.

In 1956 Crichton started up his own spy unit, the 488th Military Intelligence Detachment. Crichton served as the unit's commander under Lieutenant Colonel George Whitmeyer, who was in overall command of all Army Reserve units in East Texas. In an interview Crichton claimed that there were "about a hundred men in that unit and about forty or fifty of them were from the Dallas Police Department."

In the 1950s Jack Crichton became involved with several oil men who began negotiating with Fulgencio Batista, the military dictator of Cuba. A key figure in this was George de Mohrenschildt, who at that time worked for a company called Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust Company (CVOVT) that had been established by William Buckley Sr. Crichton later remarked that "I liked George. He was a nice guy." It is argued by Russ Baker that Crichton's Empire Trust Company played a major role in the financing of the Cuban venture.

On 30th November, 1956, The New York Times reported that: "The Cuban Stanolind Oil Company, an affiliate of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana), has signed an agreement with the Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust and Trans-Cuba Oil Company for the development of an an additional 3,000,000 acres in Cuba. This is in addition to the original agreement covering 12,000,000 acres." George de Mohrenschildt later told Albert E. Jenner that CVOVT had managed to obtain leases covering nearly half of Cuba in the 1950s. As Russ Baker pointed out in Family of Secrets (2008): "Though now almost completely forgotten, on many days in the mid-1950s, it was one of the four or five most actively traded issues on the American Stock Exchange."

On 1st January, 1959, Fulgencio Batista fled Cuba. The following day Fidel Castro and his revolutionary army marched into Havana. The New York Times reported on 22nd November 1959, that Castro's government had approved a law that would reduce the size of claims for oil exploration and halt large-scale explorations by private companies. These claims were now limited to 20,000 acres. This was a major problem for the Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust Company that had signed an agreement with Fulgencio Batista for 15,000,000 acres.

Jack Crichton also had a close association with George H. W. Bush. According to Fabian Escalante (The Secret War: CIA Covert Operations Against Cuba, 1959-62), in 1959, Crichton and Bush raised funds for the CIA's Operation 40. Originally it was set up to organize sabotage operations against Fidel Castro and his Cuban government. However, it evolved into a team of assassins. One member, Frank Sturgis, claimed: "this assassination group (Operation 40) would upon orders, naturally, assassinate either members of the military or the political parties of the foreign country that you were going to infiltrate, and if necessary some of your own members who were suspected of being foreign agents... We were concentrating strictly in Cuba at that particular time."

The failure to assassinate or overthrow Fidel Castro caused tremendous problems for the Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust Company and other foreign oil companies that had already invested more than $30 million looking for oil in Cuba. In December 1960, CVOVT was de-listed from the American Stock Exchange.

Critchton was appointed head of the intelligence component of the Dallas Civil Defence. The conservative radio commentator Paul Harvey wrote in his syndicated column in September 1960: "The Communists, since 1917, have sold Communism to more people than have been told about Christ after 2,000 years." He urged his readers to support the "counter-attack that had been mounted in Dallas."

In 1961 Crichton joined forces with other right-wing figures in Dallas to establish a program called "Know Your Enemy". This was to combat communist influence that "was undermining the American way of life". The following year Crichton opened an underground command post under the patio of the Dallas Health and Science Museum that was intended for "continuity-of-government" operations during a communist attack.

In 1963 Crichton was nominated by the Republican Party for the post of Governor of Texas. He joined forces with George H. W. Bush, who was the nominee for the U.S. Senate. As Crichton later recalled, he and Bush "spoke from the same podiums" that year. However, Crichton was defeated by John Connally and he later wrote a book about his failed attempt to become governor, "The Republican-Democrat Political Campaigns: In Texas in 1964".

In November 1963 Crichton was involved in the arrangements of the visit that JFK made to Dallas. His close friend, Deputy Police Chief George L. Lumpkin, and a fellow member of the the 488th Military Intelligence Detachment, drove the pilot car of Kennedy's motorcade. Also in the car was Lieutenant Colonel George Whitmeyer, commander of all Army Reserve units in East Texas. The pilot car stopped briefly in front of the Texas School Book Depository, where Lumpkin spoke to a policeman controlling traffic at the corner of Houston and Elm.

In the Warren Commission Report it stated that Crichton arranged for a member of the local Russian community, Ilya Mamantov, to work for the Dallas Police Department as a translator for Russian-born Marina Oswald shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Crichton's volunteer translated for Oswald during her initial questioning by the Dallas authorities in the hours immediately after her husband Lee Harvey Oswald had been arrested. According to Russ Baker, the author of Family of Secrets (2009), there "were far from literal translations of her Russian words and had the effect of implicating her husband in Kennedy's death."

Crichton was president of Nafco Oil and Gas. He also owned a company called Dorchester Gas Producing. A fellow director was David Harold Byrd who along with Clint Murchison, Haroldson L. Hunt and Sid Richardson, was part of the Big Oil group in Dallas. Barr McClellan (Blood, Money & Power) argues that "Big Oil would be during the fifties and into the sixties what the OPEC oil cartel was to the United States in the seventies and beyond". One of the main concerns of this group was the preservation of the oil depletion allowance.

Jack Crichton who was President of the Dallas Petroleum Engineers Club, also served as a Director to Florida Gas Company, Clark Oil and Refining, Whitehall Corporation, Transco Energy and the Consolidated Development Corporation.

[Peter Lemkin]

During the Second World War Jack Crichton served with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). It would be interesting to know who he served with in the OSS. It is amazing how many suspects in the assassination of JFK served in the OSS (especially in China).

In 1946 Everette DeGolyer recruited Crichton into the oil industry. According to Russ Baker: "He (Crichton) started and ran a baffling array of companies, which tended to change names frequently. These operated largely below the radar, and fronted for some of North America's biggest names, including the Bronfmans (Seagram's liquor), the Du Ponts, and the Kuhn-Loeb family of financiers."

In 1952 Jack Crichton joined a syndicate that included Everette DeGolyer and Clint Murchison to use connections in the government of General Francisco Franco to acquire rare drilling rights in Spain. The operation was handled by Delta Drilling, which was owned by Joe Zeppa.

In August 1953 Crichton joined the Empire Trust Company. He eventually became a vice-president of the organization. According to Stephen Birmingham, the author of Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York (1962) the company had a network of associates that amounted to "something very like a private CIA". The Empire Trust was also a major investor in the defence contractor General Dynamics. This could be significant as the Bobby Baker investigation involved LBJ's relationship to this company. Albert E. Jenner, who played a major role in the cover-up, also did a lot of legal work for General Dynamics at the time and later was made a director of the company.

In 1956 Crichton started up his own spy unit, the 488th Military Intelligence Detachment. Crichton served as the unit's commander under Lieutenant Colonel George Whitmeyer, who was in overall command of all Army Reserve units in East Texas. In an interview Crichton claimed that there were "about a hundred men in that unit and about forty or fifty of them were from the Dallas Police Department."

In the 1950s Jack Crichton became involved with several oil men who began negotiating with Fulgencio Batista, the military dictator of Cuba. A key figure in this was George de Mohrenschildt, who at that time worked for a company called Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust Company (CVOVT) that had been established by William Buckley Sr. Crichton later remarked that "I liked George. He was a nice guy." It is argued by Russ Baker that Crichton's Empire Trust Company played a major role in the financing of the Cuban venture.

On 30th November, 1956, The New York Times reported that: "The Cuban Stanolind Oil Company, an affiliate of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana), has signed an agreement with the Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust and Trans-Cuba Oil Company for the development of an an additional 3,000,000 acres in Cuba. This is in addition to the original agreement covering 12,000,000 acres." George de Mohrenschildt later told Albert E. Jenner that CVOVT had managed to obtain leases covering nearly half of Cuba in the 1950s. As Russ Baker pointed out in Family of Secrets (2008): "Though now almost completely forgotten, on many days in the mid-1950s, it was one of the four or five most actively traded issues on the American Stock Exchange."

On 1st January, 1959, Fulgencio Batista fled Cuba. The following day Fidel Castro and his revolutionary army marched into Havana. The New York Times reported on 22nd November 1959, that Castro's government had approved a law that would reduce the size of claims for oil exploration and halt large-scale explorations by private companies. These claims were now limited to 20,000 acres. This was a major problem for the Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust Company that had signed an agreement with Fulgencio Batista for 15,000,000 acres.

Jack Crichton also had a close association with George H. W. Bush. According to Fabian Escalante (The Secret War: CIA Covert Operations Against Cuba, 1959-62), in 1959, Crichton and Bush raised funds for the CIA's Operation 40. Originally it was set up to organize sabotage operations against Fidel Castro and his Cuban government. However, it evolved into a team of assassins. One member, Frank Sturgis, claimed: "this assassination group (Operation 40) would upon orders, naturally, assassinate either members of the military or the political parties of the foreign country that you were going to infiltrate, and if necessary some of your own members who were suspected of being foreign agents... We were concentrating strictly in Cuba at that particular time."

The failure to assassinate or overthrow Fidel Castro caused tremendous problems for the Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust Company and other foreign oil companies that had already invested more than $30 million looking for oil in Cuba. In December 1960, CVOVT was de-listed from the American Stock Exchange.

Critchton was appointed head of the intelligence component of the Dallas Civil Defence. The conservative radio commentator Paul Harvey wrote in his syndicated column in September 1960: "The Communists, since 1917, have sold Communism to more people than have been told about Christ after 2,000 years." He urged his readers to support the "counter-attack that had been mounted in Dallas."

In 1961 Crichton joined forces with other right-wing figures in Dallas to establish a program called "Know Your Enemy". This was to combat communist influence that "was undermining the American way of life". The following year Crichton opened an underground command post under the patio of the Dallas Health and Science Museum that was intended for "continuity-of-government" operations during a communist attack.

In 1963 Crichton was nominated by the Republican Party for the post of Governor of Texas. He joined forces with George H. W. Bush, who was the nominee for the U.S. Senate. As Crichton later recalled, he and Bush "spoke from the same podiums" that year. However, Crichton was defeated by John Connally and he later wrote a book about his failed attempt to become governor, "The Republican-Democrat Political Campaigns: In Texas in 1964".

In November 1963 Crichton was involved in the arrangements of the visit that JFK made to Dallas. His close friend, Deputy Police Chief George L. Lumpkin, and a fellow member of the the 488th Military Intelligence Detachment, drove the pilot car of Kennedy's motorcade. Also in the car was Lieutenant Colonel George Whitmeyer, commander of all Army Reserve units in East Texas. The pilot car stopped briefly in front of the Texas School Book Depository, where Lumpkin spoke to a policeman controlling traffic at the corner of Houston and Elm.

In the Warren Commission Report it stated that Crichton arranged for a member of the local Russian community, Ilya Mamantov, to work for the Dallas Police Department as a translator for Russian-born Marina Oswald shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Crichton's volunteer translated for Oswald during her initial questioning by the Dallas authorities in the hours immediately after her husband Lee Harvey Oswald had been arrested. According to Russ Baker, the author of Family of Secrets (2009), there "were far from literal translations of her Russian words and had the effect of implicating her husband in Kennedy's death."

Crichton was president of Nafco Oil and Gas. He also owned a company called Dorchester Gas Producing. A fellow director was David Harold Byrd who along with Clint Murchison, Haroldson L. Hunt and Sid Richardson, was part of the Big Oil group in Dallas. Barr McClellan (Blood, Money & Power) argues that "Big Oil would be during the fifties and into the sixties what the OPEC oil cartel was to the United States in the seventies and beyond". One of the main concerns of this group was the preservation of the oil depletion allowance.

Jack Crichton who was President of the Dallas Petroleum Engineers Club, also served as a Director to Florida Gas Company, Clark Oil and Refining, Whitehall Corporation, Transco Energy and the Consolidated Development Corporation.