David Talbot set to directly accuse Dulles of JFK murder

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Re: David Talbot set to directly accuse Dulles of JFK murder

Postby MinM » Sat Aug 27, 2016 10:48 pm

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David Talbot wrote on Facebook today:



We need an Edward Snowden for the Kennedy assassination case. Under the JFK Records Act passed by Congress in 1992, all government agencies were compelled to release documents related to the Kennedy presidency and assassination (thank you, Oliver Stone, for that essential legislation). But the CIA continues to withhold about 1,100 key Kennedy documents, and the FBI and other agencies are sitting on thousands more. The National Archives, which has been processing these remaining documents, is supposed to release them about a year from now, in October 2017. But nobody in the JFK research community who has been fighting the CIA for these documents for many years (including Jefferson Morley and me) expect the spy agency to abide by the law next year.

What are in these hidden CIA documents? Among other things, they relate to William Harvey, David Phillips and Howard Hunt -- central players in the CIA assassination operations against Fidel Castro and others, and prime suspects in the Kennedy assassination, ever since the congressional investigations of the 1970s.

I became especially interested in Harvey while researching "The Devil's Chessboard" after I learned from the children of Harvey's late deputy, F. Mark Wyatt, that their father strongly suspected his boss played a role in the Kennedy assassination. Before he died, Wyatt -- who served under Harvey in the Rome CIA station in 1963 -- told the European TV journalist Fabrizio Calvi that he spotted Harvey on a flight to Dallas not long before the JFK assassination, and when Wyatt asked him why he was going there, he received a vague reply. Wyatt thought Harvey was a dangerous character --while working together in Rome, he pressured Wyatt to arrange for the assassination of Italian Communist leaders (which Wyatt resisted, to Harvey's rage). Wyatt later said that his former boss also made incriminating remarks after the Kennedy assassination.

Naturally, I was eager to get my hands on Harvey's CIA travel records in 1963 to confirm that he did fly to Dallas that fall, when he was based in Rome and had no apparent reason to go there. I filed a Freedom of Information Act request for those records through Washington attorney James Lesar -- but years later, the CIA is still stonewalling me, as they are authors like Jeff Morley (who has sought agency records on James Jesus Angleton for his forthcoming book on the counterintelligence chief, and other agency officials tied to the Kennedy case).

This is why I'm extremely skeptical the CIA will obey the law next year and release these documents. National Archives officials have said they are eager to release the historical material to the public, but the CIA remains cagey about whether they will allow it. In the past, the agency has cited vague national security reasons for blocking these papers -- even though the documents relate to a long-ago Cold War past.

And this is why, if the CIA and other federal agencies continue to defy the law next year, we need an Edward Snowden to uphold the JFK Records Act and do the right thing. There are many honorable people who work in the National Archives and have access to these documents, as there are within the CIA itself.

This history belongs to the American people...by law. But, as the enemies of the truth in Washington well know -- and as George Orwell warned us -- those who control the past, control the future.

When government agencies brazenly defy the law and the public will, it's up to citizen heroes to make sure justice is served.

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Re: David Talbot set to directly accuse Dulles of JFK murder

Postby JackRiddler » Sun Aug 28, 2016 3:47 pm

MinM » Sat Aug 27, 2016 9:48 pm wrote:Watch JGL's Edward Snowden absolutely beast an aptitude test in this #SnowdenMovie clip: http://yhoo.it/2bMJBf8


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Re: David Talbot set to directly accuse Dulles of JFK murder

Postby RocketMan » Sun Aug 28, 2016 3:54 pm

JackRiddler » Sun Aug 28, 2016 10:47 pm wrote:
MinM » Sat Aug 27, 2016 9:48 pm wrote:Watch JGL's Edward Snowden absolutely beast an aptitude test in this #SnowdenMovie clip: http://yhoo.it/2bMJBf8


He did a Kobayashi Maru.


Yahoo struck a decidedly skeptical tone in their boilerplate copy regarding the clip. I'm not saying I don't have reservations about the movie myself but I thought it was weird how they editorialized in what's usually a marketing oriented description of the movie and clip:

There are few things Oliver Stone loves more than political button-pushing, and he’ll be back at it again this September with Snowden. His biopic will focus on the former CIA employee who leaked classified National Security Agency information in 2013 and has since been evading prosecution in Russia. In a new clip from the film above, moviegoers will get a pretty good idea of the tone the director is taking.

In the brief, one-minute scene, Rhys Ifans’s government administrator oversees a new group of computer-whiz recruits, giving them a complicated task — involving creating, breaking down, and then reconstituting a secure network — that should require hours of toil. Wouldn’t you know it, though, that Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Edward Snowden — with his distinctive, jarring accent — completes the assignment in a brisk, genius-level 38 minutes.

On the heels of its prior trailers, this Snowden clip again suggests that Stone’s latest will imagine its protagonist’s life story in decidedly Hollywood-esque terms, as a thriller about an unassuming mastermind looking to expose a government conspiracy. Co-starring Shailene Woodley, Timothy Olyphant, Melissa Leo, Tom Wilkinson, Zachary Quinto, and Nicolas Cage, the film will have its official world premiere at next month’s Toronto International Film Festival (it had a special sneak preview at this summer’s San Diego Comic-Con) before debuting in theaters nationwide on Sept. 16.
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Re: David Talbot set to directly accuse Dulles of JFK murder

Postby JackRiddler » Mon Aug 29, 2016 1:40 am

For those of us who remember it (fuck-a, it's 23 years ago already), that's nothing compared to the shitstorm hurled at JFK. Plus the Yahoo text-monkey missed the part where it showed him screwing with the hardware.
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Re: David Talbot set to directly accuse Dulles of JFK murder

Postby RocketMan » Mon Aug 29, 2016 2:24 am

JackRiddler » Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:40 am wrote:For those of us who remember it (fuck-a, it's 23 years ago already), that's nothing compared to the shitstorm hurled at JFK. Plus the Yahoo text-monkey missed the part where it showed him screwing with the hardware.


Yeah no doubt. I'm not convinced yet about Snowden, but would love to be proven wrong. Stone still has at least one shit-stirring, hard-hitting movie in him. I was pretty effin' disappointed the King family torpedoed his MLK movie with Jamie Foxx. :mad2

He needs to get back with cinematographer Robert Richardson and John Williams and do a 1960s epic.

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Re: David Talbot set to directly accuse Dulles of JFK murder

Postby MacCruiskeen » Mon Aug 29, 2016 7:51 am

Just a brief note for Jack and any other German speakers: Talbot's book has now appeared in German translation, and Mathias Broeckers has posted a very interesting (and very positive) short review of it at his website:

http://www.broeckers.com/2016/08/27/das ... /#comments

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Broeckers mentions having given a speech years ago entitled "Chess and Paranoia", and he notes that Allen Dulles was a keen and accomplished chess player (and a notoriously cold-blooded bastard). He reminds us that the two greatest US chess players, Bobby Fischer and Paul Morphy, both descended into paranoia. Broeckers suggests that serious chess players might be particularly prone to paranoia because the game demands not just a killer instinct, but an unremitting awareness that all is not what it seems and that someone very clever is trying hard to lull you into a false sense of security. "Hidden traps and conspiracies are among the core competencies of any chess player."

Someone in the comments box also links to this very recent Mike Whitney article about another chess player and would-be world-shaper:

AUGUST 25, 2016
The Broken Chessboard: Brzezinski Gives Up on Empire

by MIKE WHITNEY

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/25/ ... on-empire/


PS For those who don't know Broeckers: he's a journalist who has done more than anyone else in Germany to dismantle the official yarn(s) about 9/11.
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