Post by John Duncan on Jan 1, 2020 22:37:08 GMT -5
A Conspiracy is born
by Gil Jesus (2006)
On March 30, 1963, the Kennedy Administration announced a crackdown on Cuban exile groups unauthorized attacks on Cuba. This was considered by the extreme right-wing patriots as "giving aid and comfort to the enemy", something that Kennedy had done time and time again. This time, however, he had gone too far.
Not only had he promised the Russians that the raids against Cuba would stop, he was now enforcing that promise. To the Cuban exiles, the President had betrayed them again. Little did John Kennedy know that he had started the countdown which would end in his own execution in Dallas for the crime of Treason against the United States of America.
A month after the President's crackdown started, OAS Captain Jean Souetre met with Gen. Charles Willoughby and CIA operative E. Howard Hunt in Madrid, where they discussed the possibility of killing Kennedy "for the good of the country". The OAS had attempted several times to kill French President DeGaulle, once while he was travelling in his convertible, but had been unsuccessful. The meeting centered on the logistics necessary in order to make the operation a success. But Souetre was not to be one of the gunman. He was only being asked to set up the type of training that would be necessary for the firing squad. This was not a CIA project, so the training had to be done apart from the CIA's ZR/RIFLE (assassination) training so that the CIA could maintain "plausible deniability". An excellent spot to train the team would have been at the camp at Lake Ponchartrain outside New Orleans.
Souetre (who some have identified as a CIA contract killer codenamed QJ/WIN) agreed to meet with William Harvey at the end of April or the beginning of May at Plantation Key, Florida and to attend a follow-up meeting with General Walker in Dallas in late April or early May to discuss the logistics.
On March 31, a group of Cuban exiles were arrested by British police at a training site in the Bahamas. The British had been tipped off to the camp's location by the U.S. State Department. Later that night, another exile raiding boat was seized in Miami Harbor. On April 3rd, the Soviet Union charged that the United States "encourages and bears full responsibility" for two recent raids against Soviet ships in Cuban ports by the exiles. The U.S. responded that it was "taking every step necessary to ensure that such attacks are not launched, manned or equipped from U.S. territory."
The next day, a Miami Police informant reported on plans by Cuban exile groups to direct their acts of violence, previously reserved for Castro, (including murder) against members of the U.S. Government. The exiles were responding to Kennedy's crackdown which started on March 30th.
Believing that the United States Government had "turned against them", the exiles were regrouping into new factions and proposing a series of "actions", including "a complete disregard for Federal, State, and local authority" and "the bombing of Federal agencies". According to the Miami PD informant, "all violence hither-to-directed toward Castro's Cuba will now be directed toward various government agencies in the United States". In their call to "all our fellow countrymen", "The Fort Jackson Commandos", Cuban exiles who had received special training and courses under the CIA and the Army, said that "we are already organized and fighting again for the liberty of Cuba."
But this time, they were fighting President Kennedy. The exiles weren't the only ones threatening violence. Wealthy right-wing extremists from across the United States met for the annual Congress for Freedom in New Orleans on April 4-6. At that meeting was another Miami PD informant who reported that the COF membership included "ranking members of the Armed Forces that secretly belonged to the organization". Needless to say, there was a genuine resentment by the military of their civilian Commander-in-chief. I believe that it was at this meeting that the information regarding Kennedy's "treason" was revealed to these people. The result was a consensus that this treason could not be allowed to continue, for the sake of the country.
The informant went on to report that in various speeches, "there was indicated that the overthrow of the present government of the United States" was necessary. To achieve this, "criminal activity" was proposed "to assassinate particular persons". Those "particular persons" were "the Kennedys" and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King. (1)
This "Congress" had apparently impeached the President in absentia and found him guilty of treason against the United States of America. It had, in effect, done what the real Congress would not do. In addition, the traditional military penalty for treason was death by a firing squad. The only details left were who would carry out the sentence, where and when.
The fact that there were ranking active members of the US Armed Forces in attendance at this meeting, where the overthrow of the Kennedy Administration was being discussed, in addition to assassinating the President himself, indicates that high-ranking members of the military were willing participants in providing whatever logistical support was needed to ensure the success of the mission. In reality, there was only one man who could have put the assassination team together: America's "James Bond", William Harvey.
In April 1963, William King Harvey met in Plantation Key, Florida with his assassination specialist, Jean Souetre (QJ/WIN), and charged his telephone calls to a voucher for ZR/RIFLE. It should be noted that Plantation Key was the area where many believe that ZR/RIFLE assassination teams had undergone training. It should also be noted that there was reimbursement for vouchers for Operational hotel rooms to ZR/RIFLE/MI. The MI stands for Military-Intelligence. (2)
I believe that this is proof that Military Intelligence was involved in the CIA's "executive action" program which included the plot to kill President Kennedy.
Shortly after his meeting with Harvey and his visit to Plantation Key, Jean Souetre met with General Walker sometime in the April-May 1963 timeframe in Dallas. (3) Souetre had been to the training program of anti-Castro Cubans for the "second invasion of Cuba" which was taking place in the New Orleans region of Mandeville. He may have run across Lee Harvey Oswald while he was in New Orleans and could have introduced himself to Oswald as "Alfred from Cuba". Souetre brought Walker good news : Ten Cuban exiles were going to be sent up to the Ponchartrain Camp from Miami in July, where they'd get further training. This may have been the same meeting described by Col. William Bishop, who said that in April 1963 he was at General Walker's house with Felipe Vidal Santiago, General Walker, and Robert (Roy) Hargraves and two others discussing the assassination of JFK. (4)
The two others could very well have been Souetre and Harvey. This was the same training camp at Lake Ponchartrain that Lee Harvey Oswald was brought to by David Ferrie, who also trained Cuban exiles there. (5) Explosives for the training camp were obtained through the former Minuteman Rich Lauchi. Their Q-G (headquarters) had been 544 Camp Street in New Orleans, the same address that Oswald had stamped on his "Fair Play for Cuba Committee" leaflets. Their weapons had been supplied by an intermediary at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba (6), and possibly a military officer stationed at Fort Hood, Texas.
One week to the day after Oswald's visit to the training camp, it was raided by the FBI. (7) Whether or not Oswald was the informant on the case has never been resolved, but the timing of it and the subsequent actions by Oswald indicate that he certainly could have been. The evidence comes from Adrian Alba, the owner of the Crescent Street Garage, who had a contract to maintain a number of cars for the local Secret Service and FBI offices. According to Alba, in the early summer of 1963, "an FBI man from Washington" came to his garage and took a green Studebaker from the car pool after showing his credentials. The next day, Alba saw the same car parked next to the William Reilly Coffee Company where Oswald worked. He said that "Lee Oswald went across the sidewalk. he bent down as if to look in the window and was handed what appeared to be a good-sized white envelope. He turned and bent as if to hold the envelope to his abdomen, and I think he put it under his shirt. Oswald went back into the building and the car drove off." Alba said that the same thing happened the next day, but he couldn't see what was passed to Oswald. The HSCA checked the garage records for that time and found that two Studebakers had been signed out by Secret Service agents. (8) It is not stretching the imagination too much to believe that one of these agents could have been assigned to another part of the Treasury Dept.--the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. If that were the case, the agent's passing two envelopes, the first with information and the second with money, would certainly make sense within the context that Oswald was some sort of Federal "Stoolie" involved in a weapons case that the government considered was of a "security nature". The information Oswald passed on to the agent may well have implicated his boss, William B. Reilly, as a financier of the training camp at Ponchartrain. Reilly was a well-known financier of right-wing causes.
It is not out of the realm of possibility that Oswald was the source of information which was part of a July 19, 1963 State Department memo entitled, "Cuban Exile Plotting", identifying John Birch Society types as the backers of "certain Cuban exiles of a militant bent," and the "real movers and shakers behind Dan James and the Free Cuba Committee" (9).
Because on the very same day that the memo was dated, July 19th, Oswald was fired. The Free Cuba Committee was one of the groups that Reilly financially supported. Although Oswald had just lost his job, he seemed to be in good spirits. He told Alba that, "I have found my pot of gold at the end of the rainbow".
His plan was to secretly inform on the Birchers and the exiles. If he was an informant, he may have been compromised to the conspirators by his FBI contact in New Orleans, Warren DeBrueys. Because it was after this raid by the FBI that the apparent "sheep-dipping" of Oswald began. It started with his trip to the store of Carlos Bringuier, a member of the DRE who was connected to the Ponchartrain camp. Oswald offered his services in training Cubans to fight against Castro.
He left a Marine training book at the store, but Bringuier knew Oswald as an FBI informant. Whether he knew its whereabouts or not, Bringuier did not reveal where the camp had moved to. Meanwhile, Bannister had a job for Oswald to do: Passing out leaflets that said, "Hands Off Cuba". The purpose of this exercise was to ferret.out known or suspected Castro agents within the New Orleans area. The FBI and Military Intelligence had been involved in a joint venture designed to find the sources of security leaks in the Cuban exile movement. Those leaks had allowed Castro to be tipped off on details of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and a subsequent invasion planned for October 1962. Likewise, all of the CIA-Mafia attempts to kill him had been unsuccessful. The exile movement had been heavily infiltrated by Castro's own agents. Both the CIA's Counter-Intelligence Division and its FBI counterpart, Division 5, were desperate to find the sources of those leaks.
Or so that's what Oswald was told. Instead, with the help of Bringuier, Bannister was able to "stage" a street scuffle that would get Oswald arrested by the New Orleans PD and get his information parked in the files of the 112th Military Intelligence Unit at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. Oswald had no idea that he had been double-crossed by Bannister and that he was being set up. A St. Paul, Minnesota man named John Martin, a friend of General Walker's, journeyed to New Orleans to film Oswald handing out the leaflets on September 9th. (10) As part of the plan to frame him as a Communist, Bringuier challenged Oswald to a radio debate, which he accepted. Along with Martin's film "proof", there would now be
photographic (via the newspaper) and audio "proof" that Oswald was a Marxist and linked to Castro.
To those of you who left your computers laughing when I suggested in a previous posting in the newsgroup alt.conspiracy.jfk that the assassination team was training in Mexico at the time Oswald visited there, (and may have been the reason why he went there) let me give you some information that I recently came across that seems to confirm my suspicions.
According to an ex-FBI and CIA informant/agent using the war name "Harry Dean", the assassination team was indeed operating out of Mexico City in September 1963. He claims that he was with a man in September, 1963, "When he picked up $ 10,000 from Congressman John Rousselot (R-Calif and member of the John Birch Society). The money was taken to Mexico City to help finance the murder of Mr. Kennedy. The assassination team operated out of Mexico City for several weeks before the President was shot in Dallas". Dean also said that, "General Walker ramrodded and trained the hired guns." (11)
Dean's allegations may not be so far fetched. During the Watergate investigation, Richard Nixon ordered H. R. Haldeman to approach CIA Director Richard Helms and ask him to request from the FBI that they not pursue a Mexico City link in the case for it could lead to "The Bay of Pigs". The implication was that there was some type of money-laundering scheme going on there. The suggestion drove Helms through the roof. According to Haldeman, the "Bay of Pigs" meant the Kennedy assassination. I believe that before November 22, 1963, the assassination was referred to as "the second invasion of Cuba" by those "in the know".
And Dean is not the first one to use the name of General Walker as the perpetrator of the assassination. No less than Jack Ruby himself hinted to Earl Warren about the involvement in the assassination of the "John Birch Society" in Dallas and added that "General Walker" was one of the top people in the organization.
And Ruby should know. Researcher and author Penn Jones has stated that Ruby made no secret of his admiration for the General, and once stated that Walker was "100 per cent right" in his belief that Cuba should be taken back from Castro. Even more significant is Warren Commission Document 1316-B, in which one of Walker's former employees, William McEwan Duff states that Ruby visited Walker's home on a monthly basis between December 1962 and March 1963. (12)
NOTES
1. Russell, The Man Who Knew Too Much, p. 299
2. Twyman, Bloody Treason, p. 442
3. ibid. 411n
4. ibid. 637
5. Fonzi, The Last Investigation p. 420
6. Twyman, p. 423
7. Marrs, Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, pgs. 229-230
8. Russell, p. 720
9. ibid. 770
10. Marrs, p. 259
11. Morris, W.R., The Men Behind the Guns, pg. 3
12. Marrs, p. 260
by Gil Jesus (2006)
On March 30, 1963, the Kennedy Administration announced a crackdown on Cuban exile groups unauthorized attacks on Cuba. This was considered by the extreme right-wing patriots as "giving aid and comfort to the enemy", something that Kennedy had done time and time again. This time, however, he had gone too far.
Not only had he promised the Russians that the raids against Cuba would stop, he was now enforcing that promise. To the Cuban exiles, the President had betrayed them again. Little did John Kennedy know that he had started the countdown which would end in his own execution in Dallas for the crime of Treason against the United States of America.
A month after the President's crackdown started, OAS Captain Jean Souetre met with Gen. Charles Willoughby and CIA operative E. Howard Hunt in Madrid, where they discussed the possibility of killing Kennedy "for the good of the country". The OAS had attempted several times to kill French President DeGaulle, once while he was travelling in his convertible, but had been unsuccessful. The meeting centered on the logistics necessary in order to make the operation a success. But Souetre was not to be one of the gunman. He was only being asked to set up the type of training that would be necessary for the firing squad. This was not a CIA project, so the training had to be done apart from the CIA's ZR/RIFLE (assassination) training so that the CIA could maintain "plausible deniability". An excellent spot to train the team would have been at the camp at Lake Ponchartrain outside New Orleans.
Souetre (who some have identified as a CIA contract killer codenamed QJ/WIN) agreed to meet with William Harvey at the end of April or the beginning of May at Plantation Key, Florida and to attend a follow-up meeting with General Walker in Dallas in late April or early May to discuss the logistics.
On March 31, a group of Cuban exiles were arrested by British police at a training site in the Bahamas. The British had been tipped off to the camp's location by the U.S. State Department. Later that night, another exile raiding boat was seized in Miami Harbor. On April 3rd, the Soviet Union charged that the United States "encourages and bears full responsibility" for two recent raids against Soviet ships in Cuban ports by the exiles. The U.S. responded that it was "taking every step necessary to ensure that such attacks are not launched, manned or equipped from U.S. territory."
The next day, a Miami Police informant reported on plans by Cuban exile groups to direct their acts of violence, previously reserved for Castro, (including murder) against members of the U.S. Government. The exiles were responding to Kennedy's crackdown which started on March 30th.
Believing that the United States Government had "turned against them", the exiles were regrouping into new factions and proposing a series of "actions", including "a complete disregard for Federal, State, and local authority" and "the bombing of Federal agencies". According to the Miami PD informant, "all violence hither-to-directed toward Castro's Cuba will now be directed toward various government agencies in the United States". In their call to "all our fellow countrymen", "The Fort Jackson Commandos", Cuban exiles who had received special training and courses under the CIA and the Army, said that "we are already organized and fighting again for the liberty of Cuba."
But this time, they were fighting President Kennedy. The exiles weren't the only ones threatening violence. Wealthy right-wing extremists from across the United States met for the annual Congress for Freedom in New Orleans on April 4-6. At that meeting was another Miami PD informant who reported that the COF membership included "ranking members of the Armed Forces that secretly belonged to the organization". Needless to say, there was a genuine resentment by the military of their civilian Commander-in-chief. I believe that it was at this meeting that the information regarding Kennedy's "treason" was revealed to these people. The result was a consensus that this treason could not be allowed to continue, for the sake of the country.
The informant went on to report that in various speeches, "there was indicated that the overthrow of the present government of the United States" was necessary. To achieve this, "criminal activity" was proposed "to assassinate particular persons". Those "particular persons" were "the Kennedys" and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King. (1)
This "Congress" had apparently impeached the President in absentia and found him guilty of treason against the United States of America. It had, in effect, done what the real Congress would not do. In addition, the traditional military penalty for treason was death by a firing squad. The only details left were who would carry out the sentence, where and when.
The fact that there were ranking active members of the US Armed Forces in attendance at this meeting, where the overthrow of the Kennedy Administration was being discussed, in addition to assassinating the President himself, indicates that high-ranking members of the military were willing participants in providing whatever logistical support was needed to ensure the success of the mission. In reality, there was only one man who could have put the assassination team together: America's "James Bond", William Harvey.
In April 1963, William King Harvey met in Plantation Key, Florida with his assassination specialist, Jean Souetre (QJ/WIN), and charged his telephone calls to a voucher for ZR/RIFLE. It should be noted that Plantation Key was the area where many believe that ZR/RIFLE assassination teams had undergone training. It should also be noted that there was reimbursement for vouchers for Operational hotel rooms to ZR/RIFLE/MI. The MI stands for Military-Intelligence. (2)
I believe that this is proof that Military Intelligence was involved in the CIA's "executive action" program which included the plot to kill President Kennedy.
Shortly after his meeting with Harvey and his visit to Plantation Key, Jean Souetre met with General Walker sometime in the April-May 1963 timeframe in Dallas. (3) Souetre had been to the training program of anti-Castro Cubans for the "second invasion of Cuba" which was taking place in the New Orleans region of Mandeville. He may have run across Lee Harvey Oswald while he was in New Orleans and could have introduced himself to Oswald as "Alfred from Cuba". Souetre brought Walker good news : Ten Cuban exiles were going to be sent up to the Ponchartrain Camp from Miami in July, where they'd get further training. This may have been the same meeting described by Col. William Bishop, who said that in April 1963 he was at General Walker's house with Felipe Vidal Santiago, General Walker, and Robert (Roy) Hargraves and two others discussing the assassination of JFK. (4)
The two others could very well have been Souetre and Harvey. This was the same training camp at Lake Ponchartrain that Lee Harvey Oswald was brought to by David Ferrie, who also trained Cuban exiles there. (5) Explosives for the training camp were obtained through the former Minuteman Rich Lauchi. Their Q-G (headquarters) had been 544 Camp Street in New Orleans, the same address that Oswald had stamped on his "Fair Play for Cuba Committee" leaflets. Their weapons had been supplied by an intermediary at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba (6), and possibly a military officer stationed at Fort Hood, Texas.
One week to the day after Oswald's visit to the training camp, it was raided by the FBI. (7) Whether or not Oswald was the informant on the case has never been resolved, but the timing of it and the subsequent actions by Oswald indicate that he certainly could have been. The evidence comes from Adrian Alba, the owner of the Crescent Street Garage, who had a contract to maintain a number of cars for the local Secret Service and FBI offices. According to Alba, in the early summer of 1963, "an FBI man from Washington" came to his garage and took a green Studebaker from the car pool after showing his credentials. The next day, Alba saw the same car parked next to the William Reilly Coffee Company where Oswald worked. He said that "Lee Oswald went across the sidewalk. he bent down as if to look in the window and was handed what appeared to be a good-sized white envelope. He turned and bent as if to hold the envelope to his abdomen, and I think he put it under his shirt. Oswald went back into the building and the car drove off." Alba said that the same thing happened the next day, but he couldn't see what was passed to Oswald. The HSCA checked the garage records for that time and found that two Studebakers had been signed out by Secret Service agents. (8) It is not stretching the imagination too much to believe that one of these agents could have been assigned to another part of the Treasury Dept.--the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. If that were the case, the agent's passing two envelopes, the first with information and the second with money, would certainly make sense within the context that Oswald was some sort of Federal "Stoolie" involved in a weapons case that the government considered was of a "security nature". The information Oswald passed on to the agent may well have implicated his boss, William B. Reilly, as a financier of the training camp at Ponchartrain. Reilly was a well-known financier of right-wing causes.
It is not out of the realm of possibility that Oswald was the source of information which was part of a July 19, 1963 State Department memo entitled, "Cuban Exile Plotting", identifying John Birch Society types as the backers of "certain Cuban exiles of a militant bent," and the "real movers and shakers behind Dan James and the Free Cuba Committee" (9).
Because on the very same day that the memo was dated, July 19th, Oswald was fired. The Free Cuba Committee was one of the groups that Reilly financially supported. Although Oswald had just lost his job, he seemed to be in good spirits. He told Alba that, "I have found my pot of gold at the end of the rainbow".
His plan was to secretly inform on the Birchers and the exiles. If he was an informant, he may have been compromised to the conspirators by his FBI contact in New Orleans, Warren DeBrueys. Because it was after this raid by the FBI that the apparent "sheep-dipping" of Oswald began. It started with his trip to the store of Carlos Bringuier, a member of the DRE who was connected to the Ponchartrain camp. Oswald offered his services in training Cubans to fight against Castro.
He left a Marine training book at the store, but Bringuier knew Oswald as an FBI informant. Whether he knew its whereabouts or not, Bringuier did not reveal where the camp had moved to. Meanwhile, Bannister had a job for Oswald to do: Passing out leaflets that said, "Hands Off Cuba". The purpose of this exercise was to ferret.out known or suspected Castro agents within the New Orleans area. The FBI and Military Intelligence had been involved in a joint venture designed to find the sources of security leaks in the Cuban exile movement. Those leaks had allowed Castro to be tipped off on details of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and a subsequent invasion planned for October 1962. Likewise, all of the CIA-Mafia attempts to kill him had been unsuccessful. The exile movement had been heavily infiltrated by Castro's own agents. Both the CIA's Counter-Intelligence Division and its FBI counterpart, Division 5, were desperate to find the sources of those leaks.
Or so that's what Oswald was told. Instead, with the help of Bringuier, Bannister was able to "stage" a street scuffle that would get Oswald arrested by the New Orleans PD and get his information parked in the files of the 112th Military Intelligence Unit at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. Oswald had no idea that he had been double-crossed by Bannister and that he was being set up. A St. Paul, Minnesota man named John Martin, a friend of General Walker's, journeyed to New Orleans to film Oswald handing out the leaflets on September 9th. (10) As part of the plan to frame him as a Communist, Bringuier challenged Oswald to a radio debate, which he accepted. Along with Martin's film "proof", there would now be
photographic (via the newspaper) and audio "proof" that Oswald was a Marxist and linked to Castro.
To those of you who left your computers laughing when I suggested in a previous posting in the newsgroup alt.conspiracy.jfk that the assassination team was training in Mexico at the time Oswald visited there, (and may have been the reason why he went there) let me give you some information that I recently came across that seems to confirm my suspicions.
According to an ex-FBI and CIA informant/agent using the war name "Harry Dean", the assassination team was indeed operating out of Mexico City in September 1963. He claims that he was with a man in September, 1963, "When he picked up $ 10,000 from Congressman John Rousselot (R-Calif and member of the John Birch Society). The money was taken to Mexico City to help finance the murder of Mr. Kennedy. The assassination team operated out of Mexico City for several weeks before the President was shot in Dallas". Dean also said that, "General Walker ramrodded and trained the hired guns." (11)
Dean's allegations may not be so far fetched. During the Watergate investigation, Richard Nixon ordered H. R. Haldeman to approach CIA Director Richard Helms and ask him to request from the FBI that they not pursue a Mexico City link in the case for it could lead to "The Bay of Pigs". The implication was that there was some type of money-laundering scheme going on there. The suggestion drove Helms through the roof. According to Haldeman, the "Bay of Pigs" meant the Kennedy assassination. I believe that before November 22, 1963, the assassination was referred to as "the second invasion of Cuba" by those "in the know".
And Dean is not the first one to use the name of General Walker as the perpetrator of the assassination. No less than Jack Ruby himself hinted to Earl Warren about the involvement in the assassination of the "John Birch Society" in Dallas and added that "General Walker" was one of the top people in the organization.
And Ruby should know. Researcher and author Penn Jones has stated that Ruby made no secret of his admiration for the General, and once stated that Walker was "100 per cent right" in his belief that Cuba should be taken back from Castro. Even more significant is Warren Commission Document 1316-B, in which one of Walker's former employees, William McEwan Duff states that Ruby visited Walker's home on a monthly basis between December 1962 and March 1963. (12)
NOTES
1. Russell, The Man Who Knew Too Much, p. 299
2. Twyman, Bloody Treason, p. 442
3. ibid. 411n
4. ibid. 637
5. Fonzi, The Last Investigation p. 420
6. Twyman, p. 423
7. Marrs, Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, pgs. 229-230
8. Russell, p. 720
9. ibid. 770
10. Marrs, p. 259
11. Morris, W.R., The Men Behind the Guns, pg. 3
12. Marrs, p. 260