Research trivia and anecdotes (feel free to contribute)

[Ed Jewett]

It's time for a group exercise in deep cyclical breathing. The recovery process has been nothing short of miraculous. Kudos as appropriate. Much will have to be done to put us all on a correct and true bearing for the future, whatever that might bring. One can't help but notice that the informational world of deep politics is undergoing a veritable explosion with new events, stories and disclosures every day.

[Charles Drago]

I will share my most strange one: In 1974 I was doing a research paper for a government class on the assassination. Harvard's vast liabrary had a card catalogue listing several critical books but none were to be found in the stacks. Dawn

George Michael Evica reported to me that, during his extensive Harvard libraries research of Albert Schweitzer and Albert Schweitzer College -- including the AS documents collections -- he discovered, to his dismay but not surprise, that many important items were missing. Not only that, numerous original pieces of AS-signed correspondence were unprotected and easy prey to thieves.

I have no doubt that sanitizing has taken place, and that targeted documents include those having no significant relationship to actual relevant events. Which is to say, misdirection remains a key element in coverup design.

[Dawn Meredith]

I will share my most strange one: In 1974 I was doing a research paper for a government class on the assassination. Harvard's vast liabrary had a card catalogue listing several critical books but none were to be found in the stacks. Dawn

George Michael Evica reported to me that, during his extensive Harvard libraries research of Albert Schweitzer and Albert Schweitzer College -- including the AS documents collections -- he discovered, to his dismay but not surprise, that many important items were missing. Not only that, numerous original pieces of AS-signed correspondence were unprotected and easy prey to thieves.

I have no doubt that sanitizing has taken place, and that targeted documents include those having no significant relationship to actual relevant events. Which is to say, misdirection remains a key element in coverup design.

Absolutely, that is what I thought at the time as well. Then yesrs later reading Richard Bartholomew's Rambler manuscript I was reminded of this by his similar experience.

Likewise critical books are not sold in most bookstores. Thank goodness for Andy's
place and of course Amazon.

Dawn

[John Kowalski]

I will share my most strange one: In 1974 I was doing a research paper for a government class on the assassination. Harvard's vast liabrary had a card catalogue listing several critical books but none were to be found in the stacks. Dawn

George Michael Evica reported to me that, during his extensive Harvard libraries research of Albert Schweitzer and Albert Schweitzer College -- including the AS documents collections -- he discovered, to his dismay but not surprise, that many important items were missing. Not only that, numerous original pieces of AS-signed correspondence were unprotected and easy prey to thieves.

I have no doubt that sanitizing has taken place, and that targeted documents include those having no significant relationship to actual relevant events. Which is to say, misdirection remains a key element in coverup design.

I have reviewed the Bloomfield papers and I can't help but think that all incriminating documents, if such did exist, were removed prior to delivery to the archives.

John

[Jack White]

I will share my most strange one: In 1974 I was doing a research paper for a government class on the assassination. Harvard's vast liabrary had a card catalogue listing several critical books but none were to be found in the stacks. Dawn

George Michael Evica reported to me that, during his extensive Harvard libraries research of Albert Schweitzer and Albert Schweitzer College -- including the AS documents collections -- he discovered, to his dismay but not surprise, that many important items were missing. Not only that, numerous original pieces of AS-signed correspondence were unprotected and easy prey to thieves.

I have no doubt that sanitizing has taken place, and that targeted documents include those having no significant relationship to actual relevant events. Which is to say, misdirection remains a key element in coverup design.

Absolutely, that is what I thought at the time as well. Then yesrs later reading Richard Bartholomew's Rambler manuscript I was reminded of this by his similar experience.

Likewise critical books are not sold in most bookstores. Thank goodness for Andy's
place and of course Amazon.

Dawn

Half Price Books (stores and online) always has a good supply
of assassination related books.

Jack

[Magda Hassan]

I've mentioned elsewhere on this forum an interesting incident that I am sure was repeated elsewhere in the world.
We were entertaining a member of government of what the US would consider an axis-of evil nation state while he was visiting Sydney. He had studied in the former USSR for many years and has been to that country many times since his student days and many of those times he would go to the Kremlin archives for research purposes. When he returned there in the late 1990's he was shocked to see the archives crawling with people who obviously did not work there. They were everywhere. He asked the archivist who they were and was told they were Americans. No one there seemed to know exactly where they were from but there much open speculation that they were not there to help with digitizing the filing system and many documents were not found where they always were and should have been found.

[David Guyatt]

In the immediate aftermath of the take-down of Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, an agreement was made between the US and Yeltsin - probably a combination of cash and vodka having changed hands in a Swiss vault - the US were authorized to enter the secret archives of the KGB and winnow out any material they wished - the idea being, I believe, to make sure that ay material embarrassing to the US would be retrieved, so that it couldn't be sold, or released, to their embarrassment.