Jimmy Hughes arrested for the Alvarez triple murders in 1981

[Magda Hassan]

Poor woman. I hope she does publish everything now that there is no trial to prejudice. It is safer for her to do so as well.

[Linda Minor]

I was reading the coverage of the John Philip Nichols connection to the murders when I came across this page:
http://www.newsmakingnews.com/vmoperationexodus.htm
OPERATION EXODUS - THE GOLD TELEXES
By Virginia McCullough © March 2000
THE CHOKEHOLD ON SILICON VALLEY
Is this the telex (5 pages) for the October Surprise $MULTIBILLION GOLD Payoff?
The telexes are linked to the page numbers 1-5.
Here's page 5: http://www.newsmakingnews.com/telexe.htm

The last line, penciled in by hand, reads "or to Mr. John Macomber...." This matches up with the William B. Macomber, Jr. mentioned in the book written by Russ Banker, Family of Secrets, who was also born in Rochester, NY.

Oswald was principle JFK shooting suspect. His closest friend in Dallas had been George DeMohrenschildt. In 1960, Oswald was known to William B. Macomber Jr., former CIA man at the State Dept., best man in the wedding of Nancy Bush and of CIA's Thomas J. Devine, a Bush business partner....There is at least one author who wrote that William Macomber did not leave the CIA after two years,
and you may be aware that the State Dept. ceased public release of it's staff directory in the 70's, because it was an easy reference to spot the CIA members working under official cover.

Isn't it reasonable to say that this indicates that Macomber continued as Devine's and possibly Bush's CIA controller, or is it another in a long line of coincidences, in your opinion? Five years after the date of this document, Macomber, US Ambassador to Turkey, fresh from his emergency assignment in Haiti to work with Baby Doc to free the kidnapped US Ambassador there, Macomber was Devine's best man...

http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/jphuck/Book4Ch.3.html

Three years later, Bush again followed in his father's footsteps by investing in the oil industry. His father had made millions of dollars, while the son lost millions. For investors, he tapped relatives and his father's friends.

Bush spent $17,000 from his education trust fund to start Arbusto Energy Incorporated, a small oil company in Midland. He named it "Arbusto," a Spanish word for "bush," although Cassell's Spanish dictionary gives "shrub" as the only translation. Although he lost more than $2 million in investors' money, he left Midland with $840,000 in his pocket.

The young Bush worked to expand his industry by soliciting speculators who contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars. Many of these people were recruited by Bush's uncle, Jonathan Bush, a New York City stockbroker and the brother of former President Bush. Bush went to family friends to invest in the new company. More than 50 investors eventually raised nearly $5 million for Arbusto's oil and gas drilling endeavors. Prudential-Bache Securities CEO George Ball invested $100,000. Celanese Corporation CEO John Macomber, CEO of Celanese Corporation. Macomber, a friend of Uncle Jonathan Bush, tossed in $79,500. William Draper III invested $172,550. Subsequently, both were given political appointments to the Export-Import Bank during the Reagan and Bush administrations. Lewis Lehrman, a multimillionaire from New York and founder of Rite-Aide Parmacies, gave $47,500. Lehrman narrowly lost the 1982 governor's race to New York's Russell Reynolds Jr., a leading corporate headhunter from Greenwich, Connecticut, invested $23,250. FitzGerald Bemiss, a childhood friend of President George H. Bush and godfather to George W.'s brother Marvin, invested $80,000. Other Bush family members kicked in $180,000. Bush's grandmother gave him $25,000.

http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maclaf...l#MACOMBER
Macomber, William Butts, Jr. (b. 1921) — of Rochester, Monroe County, N.Y. Born in Rochester, Monroe County, N.Y., March 28, 1921. Son of William Butts Macomber and Elizabeth Currie (Ranlet) Macomber; married, December 28, 1963, to Phyllis D. Bernau. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; administrative assistant to U.S. Sen. John Sherman Cooper, 1954; U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, 1961-64; Turkey, 1973-77. Episcopalian. Still living as of 1997.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn...Found=true

Diplomat William Macomber Jr., 82, Dies

By Patricia Sullivan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 21, 2003; Page B07

William B. Macomber Jr., 82, former ambassador to Jordan and Turkey and president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, died of complications from Parkinson's disease Nov. 19 at his Nantucket, Mass., home.

Mr. Macomber worked in the State Department in the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford administrations. He served as undersecretary for management at the State Department from 1969 to 1973.
He was a founding member of the Washington-based American Academy of Diplomacy, a nonprofit agency. He was known in the Foreign Service community as a reformer: He was part of a small group of top officials who refused President Richard M. Nixon's demand to punish Foreign Service officers who participated in demonstrations against the Vietnam War.

As undersecretary for management, he involved hundreds of State Department employees in a wide-ranging examination of how the department conducted its business. According to a June article in Foreign Service Journal, that project resulted in proposals to require open bidding for jobs; halted the practice of rating the hostessing abilities of wives of Foreign Service officers and freed those wives from unpaid work; mandated gender equity; and allowed officers to see their "secret" performance appraisals.

In a 1984 newspaper column, Mr. Macomber decried the exchange of campaign contributions for ambassadorships. "When it comes to an important portion of American ambassadorial appointments, we are still in the era of the Charge of the Light Brigade," he wrote.

Mr. Macomber was born in Rochester, N.Y., and graduated from Yale University. He received a master's degree in government from Yale in 1947, a law degree from Harvard University in 1949 and a master's degree in social science from the University of Chicago in 1951.

He was a Marine lieutenant assigned to the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, parachuting into France to work with the French underground twice. He later worked in Burma. His Marine Corps tour ended in 1946. Mr. Macomber taught government for two years at Boston University while in graduate school. He worked for the CIA from 1951 to 1953 in Washington before starting his career with the State Department.

He was appointed ambassador to Jordan by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 and served until 1964, when he became assistant administer at the U.S. Agency for International Development. He was assistant secretary for congressional relations and then became the deputy undersecretary of state for administration and management from 1969 to 1973. He was appointed ambassador to Turkey in 1973. He also wrote the book "The Angels' Game: A Handbook of Modern Diplomacy" (1975).

He retired from government service in 1977 and became president of the Met, focusing on financial management and administration. He retired in 1986 to Nantucket, where he taught social science and coached football at the local high school. He was also a trustee emeritus at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and on the board of overseers at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace.

Survivors include his wife of 39 years, Phyllis Macomber of Nantucket; and a brother, John Macomber of Washington.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn...Found=true

[Jan Klimkowski]

Linda - a typically excellent and productive excursion into the shadows from your good self.

I note the acknowledgement of OSS and CIA employment in the obituary of "diplomat" William Macomber Jr:

He was a Marine lieutenant assigned to the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, parachuting into France to work with the French underground twice. He later worked in Burma. His Marine Corps tour ended in 1946. Mr. Macomber taught government for two years at Boston University while in graduate school. He worked for the CIA from 1951 to 1953 in Washington before starting his career with the State Department.

[Ed Jewett]

Victim's Daughter Decries Dismissal of Murder Charges

Tags:

• ASSASSINATION
  
• COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA
  

Daughter's tenacious pursuit had led to the arrest and charging of a suspect nearly three decades after a triple murder that the suspect had linked to "covert" government action. NBC-LA's Patrick Healy reports the daughter was in court when the prosecutor moved for dismissal.