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In the mid-1960s New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison began to look into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK). The reason this came into his purview was because of the fact that the accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO), had spent months in the city of New Orleans during 1963.
In fact, he would spend about five months in his native city and that is a good bit of time; thus, Garrison became interested in what he did while there during that time. Garrison would also do what the official "investigations" of the crime by the Warren Commission (WC) and the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) did not do -- he would spend time on actually trying to find out who might have been involved and arranged for the murder outside of a few Mafia Dons. He believed that this murder was planned at a very high world level instead of it simply being a domestic conspiracy. I agree with him as the murder of the President of the United States was a major undertaking that had massive ripple effects throughout the world.
This doesn't mean that the Mafia Dons weren't involved as they probably did serve a purpose. It doesn't mean that others domestically weren't involved, because they were. What it means, is this thing was a big event that had to have the input and okay of other parts of the world as it would affect them one way or another.
The appearance of diversity is important in making the average Joe and Jane think that things are not easily controlled by a small number of power entities. One way to make things appear like they are random and diverse is to use front companies and front organizations. This way the average person sees "We Would Never Do That, Inc." when the forces behind it most certainly would do that and much more. This is a very broad topic, and a book can be written about it, and many have, but for the purpose of this article I will focus on just one such front company. Permanent Industrial Expositions (Permindex).
What a good cover this is for groups that want a world presence, but not as themselves (i.e., intelligence). Much like the profession of journalism has been used for decades to hide those that are undercover, the advantages of acting like you are a businessperson coming to an area for an exposition are boundless. It lets you interact with many types of people without raising any red flags.
Again, Permindex came to Garrison's attention because his main suspect, Clay Shaw, had ties to it and because he was not close minded to the idea that the conspiracy could go beyond the shores of America. Shaw was in charge of the International Trade Mart in New Orleans and this organization was a subsidiary to Permindex.
A former associate of Shaw's, Gordon Novel, said that Permindex was a front for Mafia drug-running and organized crime activity centered in the Caribbean. (Dope, Inc., Part III, Chapter III) Shaw was the financial backer and controller of LHO during his lengthy stays in New Orleans, Garrison had established. Garrison also had evidence that Shaw had been the safe house channel out of the country (into Italy) for several unidentified persons believed to have been the real "triggers" in the JFK assassination. (Ibid., Articles appearing in Paesa Sera on March 4, 12, 14, 1967.)
I have covered Novel before in this series, so if you are interested then please see this article.
jfkconspiracyforum.freeforums.net/thread/1126/garrison-chronicles-gordon-novel
Permindex was also tied to the numerous attempts made against French President Charles de Gaulle as it was shown that they financed the group making the attempts -- OAS (Secret Army Organization). (Ibid.; The Permindex Papers, 1970, pp. 141-49.) The book Dope, Inc. covered this topic extensively and here are some of their comments about this issue.
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SDECE [French intelligence/similar to the CIA] gathered reams of evidence showing that Permindex had been the recipient of funds laundered into Geneva and Basel through Zionist "charitable organizations" and Israeli intelligence fronts such as the Bank Hapoalim of Histadrut, the Israeli trade union movement and Socialist International affiliate. These funds had been channeled into the OAS as well as into the neo-Nazi terrorist groups in West Germany and Italy.
De Gaulle issued vociferous personal protests to the Swiss and Italian governments. As a result, Permindex was forced to shut down its offices in those countries and move to a more friendly location, Johannesburg, South Africa. (5) The Paris-based Western European branch headquarters of Israel's foreign intelligence service, the Mossad, was kicked out of France and reestablished its operations in Belgium and the Netherlands. (Dope Inc., Britain's Opium War Against The US, by Konstandinos Kalimtgis, David Goldman & Jeffrey Steinberg, 1981, Chapter III, Part III)
(5) Hank Messick, Lansky (New York: Berkley Medallion Books, 1971), pp. 230-31.
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This is why you can see this company went far beyond the shores of the United States. It doesn't matter if only one person overseas was involved as it still would constitute an international conspiracy in the eyes of the law. Only Garrison approached this case in that way, however. The man that was the founder of Permindex was Major Louis Mortimor Bloomfield. He was also the president and majority owner (50 percent) of the company. Bloomfield has a lot of interesting connections as he was a founding partner in the Phillips, Vineberg, Bloomfield and Goodman Law Firm which had the Bronfman family as a client. It has been posited by numerous researchers that the Bronfmans run Canada similar to the way the Rockefeller family runs the United States. He was also a Knight of Jerusalem which is the Protestant branch of the Catholic Knight of Malta.
Interestingly enough this law firm removed his name from the letterhead when the Permindex assassination bureau's involvement in the attempts on de Gaulle began to become known. Major Bloomfield controlled the Israeli Continental Corporation, the Canadian subsidiary of the Dutch Heinekens Breweries, and Credit Suisse of Canada, a correspondent bank to the Credit Suisse of Geneva that was among the holding agencies exposed by SDECE for laundering "hit money" to the OAS. (Ibid., David E. Koskoff, Joseph P. Kennedy, p. 53.) All these corporations were listed among the investors in Permindex.
I have covered Bloomfield in this series before and here that article is.
jfkconspiracyforum.freeforums.net/thread/1641/garrison-chronicles-louis-mortimer-bloomfield
Bloomfield was also part of a number of intelligence organizations as he was part of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), the CIA and the FBI Division Five which handled assassinations. He was also a Zionist who trained the Jewish Army in the late 1930s. He met with David Ben Gurion many times and Ben Gurion would have issues with JFK in the summer of 1963. (The 1001 Club, by Joël van der Reijden, 2005) Here is more on Bloomfield from Dope Inc.
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The only other foreign-stationed Consul-General for Liberia is Bloomfield-Permindex associate and Israeli Mossad official (ret.) Tibor Rosenbaum, whom we shall meet shortly. Beneath his various hats as banker, philanthropist, prominent attorney, and Permindex director, Bloomfield is first and foremost an agent of the most secretive branch of Her Majesty's Intelligence service, the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Bloomfield was recruited to the SOE by its director, Sir William Stephenson, in 1938. (13)
Stephenson, a Canadian-born protégé of Round Table founder Lord Beaverbrook, appointed Bloomfield as the recruitment officer and "agent handler" for the newly created counterespionage and espionage branch of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), known as Division Five. (14) Agents of Division Five, in turn, have been among the points of the New Orleans grand jury investigation into the Kennedy assassination. Guy Banister, the head of the southeast regional office of Division Five (located in New Orleans) at the time of the Kennedy murder, died under mysterious circumstances shortly after the events in Dallas. (15)
Banister was the owner of a New Orleans office building that housed a number of Division Five fronts and groups under close D-5 surveillance. These included the left-radical Fair Play for Cuba Committee and the violently anti-Castro Free Cuba Committee. Lee Harvey Oswald was alternatively a member of both these groups during various stages of his "laundering." (16) According to one source, in 1962 Bannister was also the personal conduit of at least one $100,000 payoff to the OAS for an assassination attempt against de Gaulle. One of his agents flew directly from New Orleans to Paris to deliver the funds. In 1966, that courier, who operated a Permindex front, the Caribbean Anti-Communist League, died when he was thrown out of a sixth-floor window in a San Juan Puerto Rico, hotel. (17)
How did Louis M. Bloomfield, a Canadian citizen, manage to assume a highly secretive top post within the Hoover FBI? And what's more, how did he manage to retain that post for over 30 years — even after his name had been raised in conjunction with assassinations against officials of three governments? Stephenson, using the "special relationship" that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had cultivated with Franklin Roosevelt, arranged Bloomfield's commission as an officer in the U.S. Army (hence the rank of major) assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency. Bloomfield was only one of many Canadians brought into the U.S. military under Stephenson's auspices. (18)
Stephenson was creating an SOE in-depth penetration into the American services that could run clandestine operations under an American cover. This became a particularly important feature of SOE postwar activities in locations like Italy where Churchill's open role in installing Mussolini in power had engendered a profound hatred of the British. (Ibid.)
(13) Messick, Secret File, pp. 96-97. Corroboration of the analysis presented here was provided through numerous and exhaustive interviews with law enforcement officials at the DEA and U.S. Customs Bureau.
(14) Messick, Lansky, pp. 90, 97-98. Additional corroboration was provided by DEA officials in interviews in December 1977.
(15) Report from Narcotics Division Agent Ralph Oyler to Narcotics Division Chief Levi Nutt, March 30, 1926 (DEA Library, Washington, D.C.).
(16) Jonathan Marshall, "Opium and Politics of Gangsterism in Nationalist China—1927-45," Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 3 (1976): 19-48.
(17) Ibid.
(18) Henry Aubin, Who Owns Montreal.
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This is great information. I knew that Guy Banister was former FBI, but I had NOT heard before that he was tied to Division Five. I have covered the Torbitt Document before in my "Statements That Sink The WC's Conclusions" series which says Division Five along with members of DISC were involved in the assassination. You can read about that here.
jfkconspiracyforum.freeforums.net/thread/383/statements-sink-wcs-conclusions-272
The Torbitt Document also mentions Permindex and their involvement in the assassination. It also lists additional financial backers such as H.L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, Governor John B. Connally (JBC) as he was the acting executor of the Sid Richardson estate, George and Herman Brown of Brown and Root (which became Haliburton), the famous Dr. Ochsner, and Walter Dohrnberger who owned Bell Aerospace where one Michael Paine worked.
Other researchers have called Permindex a Mossad front company since it had so many ties back to Israeli interests including the Meyer Lansky syndicate. Shaw was also a board member of Permindex and this was denied for a long time until a Who's Who was found showing that Shaw had listed himself as a board member.
One major researcher who was open to a wider conspiracy beyond the shores of America was Jim Marrs. He wrote about this topic in his Kennedy and The Nazis.
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The Trade Mart was connected with CMC through, yet another shadowy firm named Permindex (PERManent INDustrial EXpositions), also in the business of international expositions. According to Torbitt, Bloomfield held half of the shares of Permindex and was in total command of its operation in Europe and Africa as well as the North and South American continents.
(In the 1962 edition of Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, Shaw gave biographical information stating that he was on the board of directors of Permindex. However, in the 1963–64 edition, the reference to Permindex was dropped.) ("Kennedy and The Nazis", 2008)
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It can be understood why Garrison was so interested in this company, and it also can be understood why he came under such heat for pursuing it. The power structure did not like him exposing their secrets. This one issue shows the value Garrison brought to the table for this case, so it baffles me the amount of conspiracy believers who think he didn't do much. To be fair, perhaps his investigation went beyond their knowledge of how the world operates as many stick to the basics and the city of Dallas. Some graduate to thinking Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) was the mastermind as if he could pull off such a thing by himself. Remember, he stole his first election (Box 13) to begin his career, so he was an owned man.
Clay Shaw was much more than he pretended to be. His ties to the Trade Mart, Guy Banister (and his many ties), David Ferrie (and his many ties) and LHO cannot be ignored IF you are searching for the truth. The one, pure truth may never be found (meaning exactly who was involved, who fired the shots and what entities gave permission for the assassination), but it is all free people's job to find as much of the truth as possible in a world designed to lie to us.
We do know that it was a conspiracy. A vast one that encompassed many entities and fronts that the power structure uses regularly to keep their true power and identities secret. Garrison opened the door to some of this vast network for us. He is owed a lot by all who seek the truth. The sad part is the truth seeker is viewed as a traitor by the power structure that lies to us and expects us to swallow all their lies. This is why Garrison and others like him come under such attack.
The JFK assassination is really the best portal into how the world really operates and for this reason alone they will never let us know the truth. They did a brilliant job with the cover-up as well. Not with the ridiculous LHO did it alone part, but with sowing so much confusion by having numerous groups and operatives coming to Dealey Plaza (DP) to confuse researchers for decades. This guy was there. Well, that guy was there. Ditto this guy. You can see the numerous paths researchers have been led down over the last six decades.
The vast majority of these people had nothing to do with the assassination as they may have been told that there was a fake assassination attempt, or a practice for a possible assassination in the future if needed. Imagine their surprise when JFK was actually killed. And they were in DP! What better way to keep their mouths shut and hide anything they might know about the assassination, huh? The same goes for institutions that had some of their people there. Oops.
Needless to say, it helps when you own the national media and education system as well. Then ONLY your version of the event will ever be told. Over and over again. Decade after decade. LHO did it all by himself. End of story.
The only satisfaction we can reach as researchers is to not believe the lies and find the evidence that proves it was a conspiracy. The size doesn't matter as JFK was dead regardless of the size of the conspiracy. What matters is that we don't believe the lies. That is what gives us the real power in the end.
Let's start acknowledging as a community what a great job Garrison actually did for the truth. Did he make mistakes? Sure. He admitted to many of them. But, keep in mind, he was up against a massive psyop that made him paranoid (and he had every reason to be paranoid) and affected his thinking the longer his investigation went on. When the media is against you in lockstep it can make anyone feel like they have very little support and that is the goal.
Permindex and the Trade Mart were not simple little companies. They were the gateways to many bad things, and we know this thanks to Garrison.
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In the mid-1960s New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison began to look into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK). The reason this came into his purview was because of the fact that the accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO), had spent months in the city of New Orleans during 1963.
In fact, he would spend about five months in his native city and that is a good bit of time; thus, Garrison became interested in what he did while there during that time. Garrison would also do what the official "investigations" of the crime by the Warren Commission (WC) and the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) did not do -- he would spend time on actually trying to find out who might have been involved and arranged for the murder outside of a few Mafia Dons. He believed that this murder was planned at a very high world level instead of it simply being a domestic conspiracy. I agree with him as the murder of the President of the United States was a major undertaking that had massive ripple effects throughout the world.
This doesn't mean that the Mafia Dons weren't involved as they probably did serve a purpose. It doesn't mean that others domestically weren't involved, because they were. What it means, is this thing was a big event that had to have the input and okay of other parts of the world as it would affect them one way or another.
The appearance of diversity is important in making the average Joe and Jane think that things are not easily controlled by a small number of power entities. One way to make things appear like they are random and diverse is to use front companies and front organizations. This way the average person sees "We Would Never Do That, Inc." when the forces behind it most certainly would do that and much more. This is a very broad topic, and a book can be written about it, and many have, but for the purpose of this article I will focus on just one such front company. Permanent Industrial Expositions (Permindex).
What a good cover this is for groups that want a world presence, but not as themselves (i.e., intelligence). Much like the profession of journalism has been used for decades to hide those that are undercover, the advantages of acting like you are a businessperson coming to an area for an exposition are boundless. It lets you interact with many types of people without raising any red flags.
Again, Permindex came to Garrison's attention because his main suspect, Clay Shaw, had ties to it and because he was not close minded to the idea that the conspiracy could go beyond the shores of America. Shaw was in charge of the International Trade Mart in New Orleans and this organization was a subsidiary to Permindex.
A former associate of Shaw's, Gordon Novel, said that Permindex was a front for Mafia drug-running and organized crime activity centered in the Caribbean. (Dope, Inc., Part III, Chapter III) Shaw was the financial backer and controller of LHO during his lengthy stays in New Orleans, Garrison had established. Garrison also had evidence that Shaw had been the safe house channel out of the country (into Italy) for several unidentified persons believed to have been the real "triggers" in the JFK assassination. (Ibid., Articles appearing in Paesa Sera on March 4, 12, 14, 1967.)
I have covered Novel before in this series, so if you are interested then please see this article.
jfkconspiracyforum.freeforums.net/thread/1126/garrison-chronicles-gordon-novel
Permindex was also tied to the numerous attempts made against French President Charles de Gaulle as it was shown that they financed the group making the attempts -- OAS (Secret Army Organization). (Ibid.; The Permindex Papers, 1970, pp. 141-49.) The book Dope, Inc. covered this topic extensively and here are some of their comments about this issue.
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SDECE [French intelligence/similar to the CIA] gathered reams of evidence showing that Permindex had been the recipient of funds laundered into Geneva and Basel through Zionist "charitable organizations" and Israeli intelligence fronts such as the Bank Hapoalim of Histadrut, the Israeli trade union movement and Socialist International affiliate. These funds had been channeled into the OAS as well as into the neo-Nazi terrorist groups in West Germany and Italy.
De Gaulle issued vociferous personal protests to the Swiss and Italian governments. As a result, Permindex was forced to shut down its offices in those countries and move to a more friendly location, Johannesburg, South Africa. (5) The Paris-based Western European branch headquarters of Israel's foreign intelligence service, the Mossad, was kicked out of France and reestablished its operations in Belgium and the Netherlands. (Dope Inc., Britain's Opium War Against The US, by Konstandinos Kalimtgis, David Goldman & Jeffrey Steinberg, 1981, Chapter III, Part III)
(5) Hank Messick, Lansky (New York: Berkley Medallion Books, 1971), pp. 230-31.
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This is why you can see this company went far beyond the shores of the United States. It doesn't matter if only one person overseas was involved as it still would constitute an international conspiracy in the eyes of the law. Only Garrison approached this case in that way, however. The man that was the founder of Permindex was Major Louis Mortimor Bloomfield. He was also the president and majority owner (50 percent) of the company. Bloomfield has a lot of interesting connections as he was a founding partner in the Phillips, Vineberg, Bloomfield and Goodman Law Firm which had the Bronfman family as a client. It has been posited by numerous researchers that the Bronfmans run Canada similar to the way the Rockefeller family runs the United States. He was also a Knight of Jerusalem which is the Protestant branch of the Catholic Knight of Malta.
Interestingly enough this law firm removed his name from the letterhead when the Permindex assassination bureau's involvement in the attempts on de Gaulle began to become known. Major Bloomfield controlled the Israeli Continental Corporation, the Canadian subsidiary of the Dutch Heinekens Breweries, and Credit Suisse of Canada, a correspondent bank to the Credit Suisse of Geneva that was among the holding agencies exposed by SDECE for laundering "hit money" to the OAS. (Ibid., David E. Koskoff, Joseph P. Kennedy, p. 53.) All these corporations were listed among the investors in Permindex.
I have covered Bloomfield in this series before and here that article is.
jfkconspiracyforum.freeforums.net/thread/1641/garrison-chronicles-louis-mortimer-bloomfield
Bloomfield was also part of a number of intelligence organizations as he was part of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), the CIA and the FBI Division Five which handled assassinations. He was also a Zionist who trained the Jewish Army in the late 1930s. He met with David Ben Gurion many times and Ben Gurion would have issues with JFK in the summer of 1963. (The 1001 Club, by Joël van der Reijden, 2005) Here is more on Bloomfield from Dope Inc.
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The only other foreign-stationed Consul-General for Liberia is Bloomfield-Permindex associate and Israeli Mossad official (ret.) Tibor Rosenbaum, whom we shall meet shortly. Beneath his various hats as banker, philanthropist, prominent attorney, and Permindex director, Bloomfield is first and foremost an agent of the most secretive branch of Her Majesty's Intelligence service, the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Bloomfield was recruited to the SOE by its director, Sir William Stephenson, in 1938. (13)
Stephenson, a Canadian-born protégé of Round Table founder Lord Beaverbrook, appointed Bloomfield as the recruitment officer and "agent handler" for the newly created counterespionage and espionage branch of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), known as Division Five. (14) Agents of Division Five, in turn, have been among the points of the New Orleans grand jury investigation into the Kennedy assassination. Guy Banister, the head of the southeast regional office of Division Five (located in New Orleans) at the time of the Kennedy murder, died under mysterious circumstances shortly after the events in Dallas. (15)
Banister was the owner of a New Orleans office building that housed a number of Division Five fronts and groups under close D-5 surveillance. These included the left-radical Fair Play for Cuba Committee and the violently anti-Castro Free Cuba Committee. Lee Harvey Oswald was alternatively a member of both these groups during various stages of his "laundering." (16) According to one source, in 1962 Bannister was also the personal conduit of at least one $100,000 payoff to the OAS for an assassination attempt against de Gaulle. One of his agents flew directly from New Orleans to Paris to deliver the funds. In 1966, that courier, who operated a Permindex front, the Caribbean Anti-Communist League, died when he was thrown out of a sixth-floor window in a San Juan Puerto Rico, hotel. (17)
How did Louis M. Bloomfield, a Canadian citizen, manage to assume a highly secretive top post within the Hoover FBI? And what's more, how did he manage to retain that post for over 30 years — even after his name had been raised in conjunction with assassinations against officials of three governments? Stephenson, using the "special relationship" that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had cultivated with Franklin Roosevelt, arranged Bloomfield's commission as an officer in the U.S. Army (hence the rank of major) assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency. Bloomfield was only one of many Canadians brought into the U.S. military under Stephenson's auspices. (18)
Stephenson was creating an SOE in-depth penetration into the American services that could run clandestine operations under an American cover. This became a particularly important feature of SOE postwar activities in locations like Italy where Churchill's open role in installing Mussolini in power had engendered a profound hatred of the British. (Ibid.)
(13) Messick, Secret File, pp. 96-97. Corroboration of the analysis presented here was provided through numerous and exhaustive interviews with law enforcement officials at the DEA and U.S. Customs Bureau.
(14) Messick, Lansky, pp. 90, 97-98. Additional corroboration was provided by DEA officials in interviews in December 1977.
(15) Report from Narcotics Division Agent Ralph Oyler to Narcotics Division Chief Levi Nutt, March 30, 1926 (DEA Library, Washington, D.C.).
(16) Jonathan Marshall, "Opium and Politics of Gangsterism in Nationalist China—1927-45," Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 3 (1976): 19-48.
(17) Ibid.
(18) Henry Aubin, Who Owns Montreal.
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This is great information. I knew that Guy Banister was former FBI, but I had NOT heard before that he was tied to Division Five. I have covered the Torbitt Document before in my "Statements That Sink The WC's Conclusions" series which says Division Five along with members of DISC were involved in the assassination. You can read about that here.
jfkconspiracyforum.freeforums.net/thread/383/statements-sink-wcs-conclusions-272
The Torbitt Document also mentions Permindex and their involvement in the assassination. It also lists additional financial backers such as H.L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, Governor John B. Connally (JBC) as he was the acting executor of the Sid Richardson estate, George and Herman Brown of Brown and Root (which became Haliburton), the famous Dr. Ochsner, and Walter Dohrnberger who owned Bell Aerospace where one Michael Paine worked.
Other researchers have called Permindex a Mossad front company since it had so many ties back to Israeli interests including the Meyer Lansky syndicate. Shaw was also a board member of Permindex and this was denied for a long time until a Who's Who was found showing that Shaw had listed himself as a board member.
One major researcher who was open to a wider conspiracy beyond the shores of America was Jim Marrs. He wrote about this topic in his Kennedy and The Nazis.
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The Trade Mart was connected with CMC through, yet another shadowy firm named Permindex (PERManent INDustrial EXpositions), also in the business of international expositions. According to Torbitt, Bloomfield held half of the shares of Permindex and was in total command of its operation in Europe and Africa as well as the North and South American continents.
(In the 1962 edition of Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, Shaw gave biographical information stating that he was on the board of directors of Permindex. However, in the 1963–64 edition, the reference to Permindex was dropped.) ("Kennedy and The Nazis", 2008)
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It can be understood why Garrison was so interested in this company, and it also can be understood why he came under such heat for pursuing it. The power structure did not like him exposing their secrets. This one issue shows the value Garrison brought to the table for this case, so it baffles me the amount of conspiracy believers who think he didn't do much. To be fair, perhaps his investigation went beyond their knowledge of how the world operates as many stick to the basics and the city of Dallas. Some graduate to thinking Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) was the mastermind as if he could pull off such a thing by himself. Remember, he stole his first election (Box 13) to begin his career, so he was an owned man.
Clay Shaw was much more than he pretended to be. His ties to the Trade Mart, Guy Banister (and his many ties), David Ferrie (and his many ties) and LHO cannot be ignored IF you are searching for the truth. The one, pure truth may never be found (meaning exactly who was involved, who fired the shots and what entities gave permission for the assassination), but it is all free people's job to find as much of the truth as possible in a world designed to lie to us.
We do know that it was a conspiracy. A vast one that encompassed many entities and fronts that the power structure uses regularly to keep their true power and identities secret. Garrison opened the door to some of this vast network for us. He is owed a lot by all who seek the truth. The sad part is the truth seeker is viewed as a traitor by the power structure that lies to us and expects us to swallow all their lies. This is why Garrison and others like him come under such attack.
The JFK assassination is really the best portal into how the world really operates and for this reason alone they will never let us know the truth. They did a brilliant job with the cover-up as well. Not with the ridiculous LHO did it alone part, but with sowing so much confusion by having numerous groups and operatives coming to Dealey Plaza (DP) to confuse researchers for decades. This guy was there. Well, that guy was there. Ditto this guy. You can see the numerous paths researchers have been led down over the last six decades.
The vast majority of these people had nothing to do with the assassination as they may have been told that there was a fake assassination attempt, or a practice for a possible assassination in the future if needed. Imagine their surprise when JFK was actually killed. And they were in DP! What better way to keep their mouths shut and hide anything they might know about the assassination, huh? The same goes for institutions that had some of their people there. Oops.
Needless to say, it helps when you own the national media and education system as well. Then ONLY your version of the event will ever be told. Over and over again. Decade after decade. LHO did it all by himself. End of story.
The only satisfaction we can reach as researchers is to not believe the lies and find the evidence that proves it was a conspiracy. The size doesn't matter as JFK was dead regardless of the size of the conspiracy. What matters is that we don't believe the lies. That is what gives us the real power in the end.
Let's start acknowledging as a community what a great job Garrison actually did for the truth. Did he make mistakes? Sure. He admitted to many of them. But, keep in mind, he was up against a massive psyop that made him paranoid (and he had every reason to be paranoid) and affected his thinking the longer his investigation went on. When the media is against you in lockstep it can make anyone feel like they have very little support and that is the goal.
Permindex and the Trade Mart were not simple little companies. They were the gateways to many bad things, and we know this thanks to Garrison.