17-02-2016, 11:06 PM
I was looking at something else and came across an interview with "Halvar Ekern." He was in the Army then State Department/Foreign service at the end of WW2. He went to Sierra Leone in 1961 as part of a program to "liberate Africa from colonialism" and "see what we could do to make them democracies," which sounds like what Jim DiEugenio says JFK was up to down there.
Here's what he says about Mexico City (circa 1964):
"I was supposed to be assisting in the management of clandestine affairs. The State Department was supposed to know what the CIA was doing around the world. I also served as the FBI liaison for the State Department. We offered advice to the high echelons as to what covert operations should be approved and not approved. "
"(about the FBI) Theoretically whenever they had a foreign contact operation within the US they were supposed to come over and tell us about it. Their officers were almost spitting images of Mr. Hoover. They dressed like him, talked like him, gave the correct replies, etc. I liked the fellow I dealt with. I never saw Hoover. Not very many people did. But they were ruthless too at times. They had a big office in Mexico City and the Ambassador there insisted on knowing something of what they were doing... more than they wanted to tell him. So this image of Mr. Hoover came in and said, "Mr. Hoover says that if we don't drop that business down there he will open a file on the Ambassador." So I took it up to higher authority. The Ambassador finally decided to drop it."
Here's a link to the interview: http://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Ekern,%20Halvor.toc.pdf
Here's what he says about Mexico City (circa 1964):
"I was supposed to be assisting in the management of clandestine affairs. The State Department was supposed to know what the CIA was doing around the world. I also served as the FBI liaison for the State Department. We offered advice to the high echelons as to what covert operations should be approved and not approved. "
"(about the FBI) Theoretically whenever they had a foreign contact operation within the US they were supposed to come over and tell us about it. Their officers were almost spitting images of Mr. Hoover. They dressed like him, talked like him, gave the correct replies, etc. I liked the fellow I dealt with. I never saw Hoover. Not very many people did. But they were ruthless too at times. They had a big office in Mexico City and the Ambassador there insisted on knowing something of what they were doing... more than they wanted to tell him. So this image of Mr. Hoover came in and said, "Mr. Hoover says that if we don't drop that business down there he will open a file on the Ambassador." So I took it up to higher authority. The Ambassador finally decided to drop it."
Here's a link to the interview: http://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Ekern,%20Halvor.toc.pdf
"All that is necessary for tyranny to succeed is for good men to do nothing." (unknown)
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."
