Liz Smith on the JFK Assasination

[Joe Bronstein]

In todays NY Post Liz Smith reports on the book by Lamar Waldron. She reports that Marcello confessed in prison to having JFK killed and the FBI knew about this confession and kept it secret. Liz Smith is one reporter who has covered the JFK case over the years.

[Magda Hassan]

Hi Joe,
Can you post a link to this story so we can follow it up?

[Mark Stapleton]

No chance Marcello masterminded the JFK hit. I thought we already got past this rubbish.

How could he have nobbled the SS? How could he have forced the media to cover it up? And how could he get LBJ to establish a Government coverup?

It's ridiculous.

[Charles Drago]

My educated guess -- and it's just that: a supposition predicated as much upon instinct as upon accumulated knowledge and hard-won experience -- is that Waldron's books stand as E. Howard Hunt's magnum opus of disinformation.

Elsewhere I've posed the question to Waldron: How did EHH figure -- directly and indirectly -- in your research?

No answer to date.

There are so many fatal and glaring flaws in Waldron's thesis. One that readily comes to mind: The brilliant and all-powerful Dons who masterminded the JFK hit are supposed to have selected as their patsy an unstable little fool who could be tracked back to LCN by a dunce-capped student in the Detective Academy's ungraded glass.

Another: The Dons are supposed to have given orders to the likes of David Atlee Philips -- princes of the ruling class's praetorian guard.

And, of course, the mother of them all: The murderers of John Fitzgerald supposedly were allowed to go free in order to protect AM/WORLD's main Cuban asset.

The prime directive for Hunt and his ilk was/is to protect the Sponsors of JFK's murder. This is accomplished most effectively by falsely depicting Facilitators as Sponsors.

[Charles Drago]

As for Liz Smith, I would suggest that, if she truly wants to emulate Dorothy Kilgallen, she should take off her blindfold and meet the truth.

(First one to get the reference wins an autographed photo of "Gary Mack.")

[Mark Stapleton]

My educated guess -- and it's just that: a supposition predicated as much upon instinct as upon accumulated knowledge and hard-won experience -- is that Waldron's books stand as E. Howard Hunt's magnum opus of disinformation.

Elsewhere I've posed the question to Waldron: How did EHH figure -- directly and indirectly -- in your research?

No answer to date.

There are so many fatal and glaring flaws in Waldron's thesis. One that readily comes to mind: The brilliant and all-powerful Dons who masterminded the JFK hit are supposed to have selected as their patsy an unstable little fool who could be tracked back to LCN by a dunce-capped student in the Detective Academy's ungraded glass.

Another: The Dons are supposed to have given orders to the likes of David Atlee Philips -- princes of the ruling class's praetorian guard.

And, of course, the mother of them all: The murderers of John Fitzgerald supposedly were allowed to go free in order to protect AM/WORLD's main Cuban asset.

The prime directive for Hunt and his ilk was/is to protect the Sponsors of JFK's murder. This is accomplished most effectively by falsely depicting Facilitators as Sponsors.

Well said, Charles.

I don't know Lamar Waldron but I don't need to read his book if he says Marcello killed JFK.

Marcello got his ass deported to Guatemala by RFK. That's all one needs to know. This is a man with very little influence within the power elite.

Wasting time on fantasies is an insult to Jack Kennedy's memory, imo.

[Joe Bronstein]

Hi Magda

Sorry I don't know how to add the link but I will copy the story here.


Liz Smith
Posted: 2:27 am
January 6, 2009

'YEAH, I HAD the son of a bitch killed. I'm glad I did. I'm sorry I couldn't have done it myself!"

These were the words of Carlos Marcello, the Mafia godfather of Louisiana and Texas. And he was talking about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Marcello's startling admission is in uncensored FBI files at the National Archives, detailed for the first time in a new encyclopedic book "Legacy of Secrecy." I have been referring to this work off and on for years while the author, Lamar Waldron, completed his investigation into the murders of John and Robert Kennedy and also into the death of Dr. Martin Luther King.

Waldron's 848-page tome was published in November. It caps 20 years of research that began in 1988 when he didn't know that Marcello had confessed to JFK's murder back in 1985. The FBI kept this fact a secret for more than two decades while "conspiracy theorists" ranged all over the place. And . . . the Warren Commission released its fairy-tale version of the death of JFK at the hands of a lone assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.

IN 1963, only weeks after JFK was killed, the FBI questioned 14 Marcello mob associates. Yet the godfather's name doesn't even appear in the Warren Report. This secrecy, it seems, was all because of Cuba. (And that info is contained in Waldron's first incredible book, "Ultimate Sacrifice.")

In their massive war against the Mafia, President Kennedy and his brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy were never able to convict any members of the Marcello crime family. And Marcello didn't make his admission of guilt until he was serving a long prison sentence as a result of an FBI sting called BRILAB. The FBI also carried on a sting against Marcello with the code name CAMTEX.

The FBI groomed an informant who became Carlos Marcello's cellmate. These tapes have never been released but they reveal the godfather standing in the prison yard, flying into a rage and cussing the Kennedys.

Marcello confessed that he'd also met Lee Harvey Oswald and brought him into the plot via that Louisiana character David Ferrie, a person notably played by actor Joe Pesci in Oliver Stone's conspiracy movie "JFK." Marcello also admitted that it was he who had set up Jack Ruby "in the bar business in Dallas." (As we know, Ruby did his bit for the Marcello plot when he killed Lee Harvey Oswald before he could implicate anyone else.)

There is now massive evidence, compiled by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which concluded in 1979 that Marcello "had the motive, means and opportunity to have the president assassinated."

YOU MAY WONDER why the FBI and CIA withheld information from the committee. By the time of JFK's murder, dozens of Marcello associates had infiltrated a CIA operation code-named AMWORLD, a project started by JFK himself. Writer Waldron revealed this back in 2005. This was the CIA's top-secret plan to cooperate with Cuba's army commander, Juan Almeida, to stage a coup against Fidel Castro on Dec. 1, 1963. That was 10 days after JFK's trip to Dallas. (The CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff even referred to the World War II plot to kill Hitler as their role model for getting rid of Castro. You can see that story told by Tom Cruise in the new movie "Valkyrie.")

AMWORLD files show that these conspirators wanted to shoot Castro while he was riding in an open jeep. Marcello's men used that idea to kill JFK in an open car in Dallas. They then planted phony evidence implicating Castro.

After Dallas, powers that be, confused and disoriented, felt that exposing all they really knew about JFK's assassination might well trigger a third world war, as it was only a year after we had escaped nuclear devastation in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Commander Almeida is still high in command in Cuba although he was under house arrest in the early '90s. Today, he is the No. 3 official in Cuba. Yet shortly after JFK's death, Castro had Che Guevara put under house arrest on suspicion of being the coup leader against him. This triggered a series of events that would eventually lead to the iconic revolutionary leader's death in Bolivia. (You can see that story in the Steven Soderbergh movie "Che." The title role is notably played by actor Benicio Del Toro.)

NOBODY SEEMS ever to have completely solved the Mafia-type hit murders leveled at Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana and the popular mob lieutenant Johnny Rosselli. But this indicates to me that these mobsters, who were involved in JFK's plot to get rid of Castro, were rubbed out by Marcello associates simply because they seemed to be helping the Kennedys.

The 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution was Jan. 1. Commander Almeida again seems to escape Castro's revenge and he is believed able even yet to play a role in resolving the impasse between the US and Cuba.

[Myra Bronstein]

My educated guess -- and it's just that: a supposition predicated as much upon instinct as upon accumulated knowledge and hard-won experience -- is that Waldron's books stand as E. Howard Hunt's magnum opus of disinformation.
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The only book I read by Waldron and his partner Thom Hartmann was "Ultimate Sacrifice" and it was, in my strong opinion, propaganda of the "mob dunnit" flavor.

The HSCA made it officially sanctioned propaganda in the late 70's after the Lone Nut propaganda failed to convince people. Their finding that the JFK assassination was the result of a "probable conspiracy" led to the era of the "mob dunnit" lie. Disinformation agents and the guillible uninformed eagerly spread the lie to this day.

The mafia was joined at the hip with the CIA in the JFK era, so in that sense--since the CIA did the wet work for the assassination sponsors--they were of course involved. That's very different from saying the mob alone dunnit, meaning the military and rich industrialists and rabid right wingers didn't do it.

In fact, military and rich industrialists and rabid right wingers and CIA and Dallas mayor and Dallas PD and secret service--an others--dunnit.

[Adele Edisen]

Can't pass this opportunity up. Madeleine Brown claimed in one of her videos (80 minutes long) on the party in Dallas where she met LBJ and he supposedly said to her that "After tomorrow, those ..., etc.," that Carlos Marcello was present at that party, along with Nixon, J. Edgar, and an entire "army" of other notables and anti-JFK conspirators.

And where was LBJ at the time the party was supposedly taking place? He was on Air Force 2, flying in from Houston to the Carswell Air Force Base west of Fort Worth. Air Force 1 and 2 landed there some minutes after 11:00 pm, according to Secret Service records. According to Madeleine Brown, she met LBJ around 10:30 pm that evening at the Murchison party in Dallas, many miles away.

Ho-Hum... and the beat goes on...

Adele

[Dawn Meredith]

Can't pass this opportunity up. Madeleine Brown claimed in one of her videos (80 minutes long) on the party in Dallas where she met LBJ and he supposedly said to her that "After tomorrow, those ..., etc.," that Carlos Marcello was present at that party, along with Nixon, J. Edgar, and an entire "army" of other notables and anti-JFK conspirators.

And where was LBJ at the time the party was supposedly taking place? He was on Air Force 2, flying in from Houston to the Carswell Air Force Base west of Fort Worth. Air Force 1 and 2 landed there some minutes after 11:00 pm, according to Secret Service records. According to Madeleine Brown, she met LBJ around 10:30 pm that evening at the Murchison party in Dallas, many miles away.

Ho-Hum... and the beat goes on...

Adele

Yes that was the problem with the always charming Ms. Brown. I had an opportunity to meet her in Dallas and while her stories had an air of credibility this party is clearly a fabrication. She claimed the Murchison party was written about in a Dallas paper, however no such article was ever found. And of course there are photos of LBJ in Houston at that same time.
Dawn