THE NAZI CONNECTION
TO THE JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
by Mae Brussell Published in The Rebel, November 22, 1983.
The sparrow-faced man in the battle uniform of an American
general clambered down the steps of the U.S. Army transport
plane upon its arrival at Washington National Airport. It was
August 24, 1945, two weeks after the surrender of Japan, three
months after the German capitulation. The general was hustled
into a van with no windows and whisked to Fort Hunt outside
the capital. There he was attended by white-jacketed orderlies
and, the next morning, fitted with a dark-grey business suit
from one of Washington's swankiest men's stores.
General Reinhard Gehlen was ready to cut a deal. Reinhard Gehlen
had been, up until the recent capitulation, Adolph Hitler's
chief intelligence officer against the Soviet Union. His American
captors had decked him out in one of their uniforms to deceive
the Russians, who were hunting him as a war criminal. Now U.S.
intelligence was going to deploy Gehlen and his network of spies
against the Russians. The Cold War was on.
This is a story of how key nazis, even as the Wehrmacht was
still on the offensive, anticipated military disaster and laid
plans to transplant nazism, intact but disguised, in havens
in the West. It is the story of how honorable men, and some
not so honorable, were so blinded by the Red menace that they
fell into lockstep with nazi designs. It is the story of the
Odd Couple Plus One: the mob, the CIA and fanatical exiles,
each with its own reason for gunning for Kennedy. It is a story
that climaxes in Dallas on November 22, 1963 when John Kennedy
was struck down. And it is a story with an aftermath -- America's
slide to the brink of fascism. As William L. Shirer author of
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, put it in speaking of
the excesses of the Nixon administration, "We could become
the first country to go fascist through free elections."
Even Robert Ludlum would have been hard put to invent a more
improbable espionage yam. In the eyes of the CIA Reinhard Gehlen
was an "asset" of staggering potential. He was a professional
spymaster, violently anti-Communist and, best of all, the controller
of a vast underground network still in place inside Russian
frontiers. His checkered past mattered not. "He's on our
side and that's all that matters," chuckled Allen Dulles,
a U.S. intelligence officer during the war who later headed
the CIA. "Besides, one need not ask a Gehlen to one's club.
Gehlen negotiated with his American "hosts" with
the cool hand of a Las Vegas gambler. When the German collapse
was at hand, he had looked to the future. He lugged all his
files into the Bavarian Alps and cached them at a site called,
appropriately, Misery Meadows. Then he buried his Wehrmacht
uniform with the embroidered eagle and swastika, donned an Alpine
coat, and turned himself in to the nearest U.S. Army detachment.
When the advancing Russians searched his headquarters at Zossen,
all they found were empty file cabinets and litter. The deal
Gehlen struck with the Americans was not, for obvious reasons,
released to the Washington Post. As Heinz Hohne and Hermann
Zolling phrased it in The General Was A Spy, the German general
took his entire apparatus, "unpurged and without interruption,
into the service of the American superpower." There is
no evidence that he ever renounced the Third Reich's postwar
plan, advanced by his own family's publishing house, to colonize
vast regions of Eastern Russia, create a huge famine for 40,000,000,
and treat the remaining 50,000,000 "racially inferior Slavs
as slaves. Allen Dulles may not have invited such a man to his
club, but he did the next best thing: he funneled an aggregate
of $200 million in CIA funds to the Gehlen Organization as it
became known. Directing operations from a fortress-like nerve
center in Bavaria, Gehlen reactivated his network inside Russia.
Soon, news of the first Russian jet fighter, the MiG-15, was
channeled back to the West. In 1949 the general scored an espionage
coup when he turned up Soviet plans for the remilitarization
of East Germany.
When Dulles spoke, Gehlen listened. The CIA chief was convinced,
along with his brother, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles,
that the "captive nations" of the Soviet bloc would
rise up if given sufficient encouragement. At his behest, Gehlen
recruited and trained an exile mercenary force ready to rush
in without involving American units. Also at Dulles' direction,
Gehlen tapped the ranks of his wartime Russian collaborators
for a cadre of spies to be parachuted into the Soviet Union.
Some of these spies were schooled at the CIA's clandestine base
at Atsugi, Japan, where, in 1957, a young Marine named Lee Harvey
Oswald was posted to the U-2 spy plane operation there.
Atsugi was only one station on Oswald's Far East intelligence
route; he was also at the U-2 base at Subic Bay in the Philippines
and, for a short while, at Ping-Tung. Taiwan In 1959 he was
transferred to a Marine base at Santa Ana, California for instructions
in radar surveillance. His training officer had graduated from
the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, which had close Agency
ties. In May, 1960, when President Eisenhower was planning a
summit meeting with Soviet Premier Khrushchev, a U-2 was shot
down over Russia and its pilot captured. The pilot, Francis
Gary Powers, later blamed his demise on Lee Harvey Oswald. The
U-2 affair effectively sabotaged Ike's summit meeting.
In 1955, by pre-arrangement, the Gehlen Organization was transferred
to the West German Government, becoming its first intelligence
arm, the BND. The BND became a Siamese twin of the CIA BB- a
global operation. They had already worked well together, in
Iran in 1953, where the country's first democratic government
was in power. Two years earlier Premier Mossadegh had rashly
nationalized the oil industry. Dulles, with Gehlen's help, engineered
a coup that toppled Mossadegh and reestablished the Pahlevi
family regime. The family patriarch, General Reza Pahlevi, had
been banished from the country for his pro-nati activities during
the war. Now his son, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, ascended the Peacock
Throne. The Shah of Iran became one of the CIA's most faithful
assets.
Gehlen pioneered the setting up of dummy fronts and cover companies
to support his farflung covert operations. A major project was
to form Eastern European emigre groups in the U.S. that could
be used against the Soviets. Both the Tolstoy Foundation and
the Union of Bishops of the Orthodox Church Outside Russia were
funded by the CIA. When Lee and Marina Oswald arrived from the
Soviet Union in June, 1962 they were befriended by some three
dozen White Russians in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. Many had
identifiable nazi links; others were in the oil and defense
industries. It was an improbable social set for a defector to
the U.S.S.R. and his wife from Minsk.
By the time the Gehlen Organization became part of the West
German state, Gehlen already had his agent-in-place in the United
States. He was Otto Albrecht von Bolschwing, who had been a
captain in Heinrich Himmler==s dreaded SS and Adolph Eichmann's
superior in Europe and Palestine. Von Bolschwing worked simultaneously
for Dulles' OSS. When he entered the U.S. in February, 1954,
he cleverly concealed his nazi past. He was to take over Gehlen's
network not only in this country but in many corners of the
globe. He became closely associated with the late Elmer Bobst
of Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical, a godfather of Richard Nixon's
political career, which brought him inside Nixon's 1960 campaign
for the presidency. In 1969 he showed up in California with
a high-tech firm called TCI that held classified Defense Department
contracts. His translator for German projects was Helene van
Damme, Governor Ronald Reagan's appointments secretary. Von
Damme is currently U.S. Ambassador to Austria, next door to
the nazi's homeland.
In 1968 Reinhard Gehlen withdrew to his chalet in Bavaria.
The chalet had been a gift from Allen Dulles
Wild Bill Donovan of the OSS, Allen Dulles and the Vatican
Allen Dulles dubbed it Operation Sunrise. He mounted it from
his walk-up office in Bern, Switzerland, where, since 1942,
he had maintained contact with key nazis. Operation Sunrise
was conceived when these nazis decided, in the face of defeat,
that they preferred to surrender to the Americans and British.
The agreement, which double-crossed the Russians, was signed
April 29, 1945.
The principle negotiator on the German side was SS Commander
Karl Wolff, head of the Gestapo in Italy. Wolff acted with full
authority, for he was formerly chief of Heinrich Himmler's personal
staff. Wolff==s relationship with Dulles spared him from the
dock at Nuremberg, but when it was later discovered that he
had dispatched "at least" 300,000 Jews to the Treblinka
death camp he was handed a token sentence. In 1983 Wolff made
the social pages when he and some of his old SS buddies sojourned
on the late Hermann Goering's yacht Carin II of Hamburg. The
skipper was Gert Heidemann, an avowed Hamburg nazi. The yacht
belonged to the widow, Emmy Goering, whose estate attorney was
the celebrated Melvin Belli. Belli has always had an eclectic
clientele. He represented Jack Ruby after he shot Oswald. And
he represented actor Errol Flynn's family interests. Flynn (once
a close friend of Ronald Reagan) has been identified as having
collaborated with the Gestapo.
When Wolff hammered out the secret surrender terms with Dulles,
he had in the back of his mind a safe diaspora for his nazi
compatriots. This is where the OSS, William Donovan and the
sovereign state of the Vatican came in. "Wild Bill"
Donovan was top dog in the OSS. Shortly before the Germans overran
Europe, Father Felix Morlion, a papal functionary, had set up
a Vatican intelligence organization called Pro Deo in Lisbon.
When the U.S. entered the war Donovan moved Morlion lock, stock
and barrel to New York and opened a sizeable bank account for
him to draw on. The priest founded the American Council for
International Promotion of Democracy Under God, on 60th Street.
In the same building is the office of William Taub, whose name
popped up during the Watergate affair. Taub is well-known as
a wide-ranging middleman for such powerful figures as Nixon,
Howard Hughes, Aristotle Onassis and Jimmy Hoffa, and his behind-the-scenes
maneuvers were invaluable to Nixon in his 1960 run at the presidency.
Taub was especially close to Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviania of
the Holy See, who arranged Mussolini's 1929 "donation"
of $89 million to the Vatican to ensure its neutrality with
Mussolini and Hitler. The money went into a special fund in
the Vatican Bank, and after the war part of it was entrusted
to "God's Banker" Michele Sindona for investment.
Sindona channeled a good chunk of it to the Nixon campaign.
When Rome was liberated in 1944 Morlion and Pro Deo relocated
there. In recognition of Donovan's good works on behalf of Pro
Deo, Pope Plus XII knighted him with the Grand Cross of the
Order of St. Sylvester. And before he flew off to Washington
to cut his deal with the CIA, Reinhard Gehlen received the Sovereign
Military Order of Malta award from the Pontiff. So did James
Jesus Angleton, a Donovan operative in Rome who became the CIA's
chief of counterintelligence.
For Dulles, Operation Sunset was a personal triumph, one that
set in motion his rise to the top of the intelligence heap.
In 1963, by virtue of that position, he became the CIA's representative
on the Warren Commission.
John J. McCloy and the Chase Manhattan
President Lyndon Johnson asked John J. McCloy to serve on the
Warren Commission. No less than nine presidents had called on
the Wall Street lawyer for special assignments, yet he was little
known to the public. McCloy said he entered the investigation
"thinking there was a conspiracy," but left it convinced
that Oswald acted alone. "I never saw a case that was more
completely proven," he asserted.
McCloy had long been involved in the murky world of espionage,
intrigue and nazis. He spent the decade of the 1930s working
out of Paris. Much of his time was spent on a law case stemming
from German sabotage in World War I. His investigation took
him to Berlin, where he shared a box with Hitler at the 1936
Olympics. He was in contact with Rudolph Hess before the Nazi
leader made a mysterious flight to England in 1941.When the
nazis occupied Europe, the banking exchanges between Britain
and the U.S. on the one hand and Germany on the other carried
on as usual. In Trading With the Enemy, Charles Higham documents
the role of Standard Oil of New Jersey, owned by the Chase Manhattan
Bank, and I.G. Farben's Sterling Products with the Bank for
International Settlements. Standard Oil tankers plied the sea
lanes with fuel for the nazi war machine. Prior to the war McCloy
was legal counsel to Farben, the German chemical monopoly.
As an assistant secretary in the War Department during the
war: (1) McCloy blocked the executions of nazi war criminals;
(2) forged a pact with the Vichy Regime of pro-nazi Admiral
Darlan; (3) displaced Japanese-Americans in California to internment
camps; (4) refused to recommend the bombing of nazi concentration
camps to spare the inmates on grounds "the cost would be
out of proportion to any possible benefits;" and (5) refused
Jewish refugees entry to the U.S.
When the curtain fell on the war, McCloy helped shield Klaus
Barbie, the "butcher of Lyons," from the French. Barbie
and other vicious dogs from Hitler's kennel were hidden out
with the 370th Counter Intelligence Corps at Obergamergau. One
of their keepers was Private Henry Kissinger, soon to enter
Harvard as a McCloy protege.
In 1949 McCloy returned to Germany as American High Commissioner.
He commuted the death sentences of a number of nazi war criminals,
and gave early releases to others. One was Alfred Krupp, convicted
of using slave labor in his armaments factories. Another was
Hitler's financial genius, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, who subsequently
went on the payroll of Aristotle Onassis.
In 1952 McCloy left a Germany that was prepared to re-arm to
return to his law practice. He became president of the Chase
Manhattan Bank, director of a dozen blue chip corporations,
and legal counsel to the "Seven Sisters" of American
oil. During this period he acquired a client, the Nobel oil
firm, whose interests in Czarist Russia had been managed by
the father of George de Mohrenschildt, Lee and Marina Oswald's
"best friend" in Dallas.
Busy as he was McCloy found time to supervise construction
of the new Pentagon building. It was nicknamed AAMcCloy's Folly.@@
J. Edgar Hoover and InterpolFBI Director J. Edgar Hoover "mistrusted
and disliked all three Kennedy brothers. President Johnson and
Hoover had mutual fear and hatred for the Kennedys," wrote
the late William Sullivan, for many years an assistant FBI director.
Hoover hated Robert Kennedy, who as Attorney General was his
boss, and feared John. In turn the President distrusted Allen
Dulles, easing him out as CIA director after the 1961 Bay of
Pigs debacle. When JFK moved to lower the oil depletion allowance,
he incurred the displeasure of John McCloy, whose clients' profits
would be trimmed.
Hoover, Dulles and McCloy did not belong to the Kennedy fan
club. When the president was shot, Hoover controlled the field
investigation, and Dulles and McCloy helped mold the final verdict
of the Warren Commission.
As America stood on the threshold of World War II Hoover continued
a friendly relationship with the nazis who dominated Interpol,
the Berlin-based international secret police. He had been obsessed
with the "Red menace" since 1919 when he became head
of the Bureau's General Intelligence Division. Heinrich Himmler,
Reinhard Heydrich, Arthur Nebe and other fanatical nazis were
active in Interpol. Even after Hitler occupied Czechoslovakia,
Hoover ignored all evidence of nazi death squads and atrocities
and cooperated with the boys in Berlin. As France fell, Hoover
exchanged lists of wanted criminals, enclosing autographed photographs
of himself. It was not until three days before Pearl Harbor
that he called a halt -- and then only because he feared his
image might be tarnished.
When the war had been imminent Roosevelt charged Hoover with
ferreting out nazi spies in the Western Hemisphere. Two escaped
his notice. As early as 1933 Gestapo agent Dr. Hermann Friedrick
Erban recruited Errol Flynn as an intelligence source. Erban
went on to become a naturalized American citizen, but never
abandoned his loyalty to Hitler. Flynn went on to make "Santa
Fe Trail" in 1940, co-starring with Ronald Reagan, and
the two paired up for "Desperate Journey" in 1942.
George de Mohrenschildt, the Oswald's genial host in Dallas,
was tagged by Hoover's FBI as a nazi spy during World War II.
G-men noted that his cousin, Baron Maydell, had nazi ties, and
that his uncle distributed pro-nazi films. Their suspicions
were confirmed when they trailed de Mohrenschildt from New York
to Corpus Christi. On October 8, 1942 a "lookout"
was placed in his file in case he applied for another passport.The
parts left out of J. Edgar Hoover's investigation before and
after Kennedy was killed were the nazi associations de Mohrenschildt
had while working for U.S. intelligence.
George's cousin, the movie producer Baron Constantine Maydell,
was one of the top German Abwehr agents in North America. Reinhard
von Gehlen recruited Maydell in the post-war era to be in charge
of the CIA's Russian emigre programs.
Gehlen recruited veterans of Maydell's Abwehr Group to work
with East European emigre organizations inside the U.S.
Part of Lee and Marina's red carpet treatment in the U.S. started
with their arrival from the USSR. Spas T. Raigkin was the ex-Secretary
General of a group such as Maydell's. The AFABN, the American
Friends of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, with CIA funding,
assisted Lee and Marina to get settled.
J. Edgar Hoover was trained only to see if there were Communists
around ...the red menace. The Abwehr, Reinhard Gehlen and Maydell
were overlooked by the FBI.
After the war Interpol ostensibly cleaned up its act, moved
to Paris and installed the prestigious Hoover as vice president.
Yet Interpol steadfastly refused to hunt for nazi war criminals,
contending it was independent of politics. The excuse appeared
a bit lame when, in the 1970s, former SS officer Paul Dickopf
became president.
AASir@@ Charles Willoughby -- a Franco-German-American
He was a bull of a man who spoke with a German accent, wore
a custom-tailored general's uniform and affected a monocle.
A fellow officer in the U.S. army under his true name of Adolph
Charles Weidenbach, born in Heidelberg, March 8, 1892. But by
the time he became Douglas MacArthur's chief of intelligence
for the war in the Pacific, he was Major General Charles A.
Willoughby. Behind his back he was derisively tagged AASir Charles.@@
For a man of such Teutonic traits it was odd that Willoughby
preferred his fascism with a Spanish accent. But this was an
accident of geography. While serving as a military attache in
Ecuador, he had received a decoration from Mussolini's government
-- the Order of Saints Maurizio and Lazzaro. After delivering
an impassioned paean to Spanish dictator Generalissimo Francisco
Franco at a lunch in Madrid, he was toasted by the secretary
general of the Falangist Party, "I am happy to know a fellow
Falangist and reactionary.MacArthur's pre-war headquarters were
in the Philippines, whose commerce was dominated by resident
Spaniards. The Daddy Warbucks of this crowd was Andres Soriano,
who owned an early-day conglomerate of airlines, mines, breweries
("Of course!") and American distributorships. During
the Spanish Civil War Soriano was one of Franco's principal
money-bags. When the Rising Sun flag was raised over the Philippines
Soriano fled to Washington to become finance minister of the
government-in-exile. But there was such a fuss over his fascist
reputation that he flew off to Australia to become a colonel
on MacArthur==s staff.
Willoughby accompanied the Supreme Commander to Tokyo for the
occupation of Japan. His preferences remained the same; when
military police shook down his hotel looking for a fugitive,
they found Willoughby at dinner with the stranded Italian fascist
ambassador to Japan and members of his staff. He became a heavy-handed
censor, suppressing unfavorable news to the States. He delighted
in falsely labeling correspondents who defied him as "Communists,"
a tactic Senator McCarthy would adopt with enthusiasm. But the
general's priority project was a dressed-up history of the Pacific
War in which MacArthur would be the towering hero. Willoughby
brought in Japanese military brass for a view from the enemy
side, a move that may have had an ulterior motive. The possibility
existed that Willoughby was down-playing Japanese war crimes
so that the perpetrators could be protected for use against
the Soviets later. This was happening in Germany where the top
nazis were writing the history of Malmedy. The tight security
in which Willoughby wrapped the project only adds to this impression.
One woman had a passkey, the wife of Dr. Mitsutaro Araki, a
former exchange lecturer in Germany, who was closely tied in
with high nazis in Tokyo and the Tojo clique.
Willoughby harbored another secret that only came to light
last year. During the war, the Japanese conducted germ warfare
experiments with human beings as guinea pigs (at least 3,000
died, including an undetermined number of captured U.S. military).
The Pentagon decided that the biological research might prove
handy against the Russians, and the Japanese responsible for
the experiments were granted immunity from prosecution in return
for their laboratory records. On December 12, 1947 the Pentagon
acknowledged the "wholehearted cooperation" of Willoughby
in arranging the examination of the "human pathological
material which had been transferred to Japan from the biological
warfare installations."
As his final public gesture to Franco, Willoughby lobbied the
U.S. Congress in August, 1952 to authorize $100 million for
the anti-Communist dictator's needs. Then he settled down in
the U.S. to do battle with the domestic enemy. As Sir Charles
and his right-wing allies saw it, Marxism wasn't the real enemy,
the Liberals were.
1952: The Travels of Klaus Barbie, Evita Peron, Otto Skorzeny,
and Nicola Malaxa
By 1952 Klaus Barbie had arrived in Bolivia via a stop in Argentina.
He had been spirited out of Germany by the CIA, with a hand
from the Vatican. Soon he teamed up with SS Major Otto Skorzeny,
who now was affiliated with the CIA. Dr. Fritz Thyssen and Dr.
Gustav Krupp, both beneficiaries of McCloy's amnesty, bankrolled
Skorzeny from the start. Barbie and Skorzeny were soon forming
death squads such as the Angels of Death in Bolivia, the Anti-Communist
Alliance in Argentina, and in Spain, with Stephen Della Chiaie,
the Guerrillas of Christ the King.
In 1952 the nazi, Martin Bonnann's money was released. In Argentina,
Evita Peron died of cancer at age 33. In her name was deposited,
in 40 Swiss banks, the nazi money. There was $100 million cash,
another $40 million in diamonds. Several hundred million more
were set aside with Evita's brother, Juan Duarte, as the courier.
This led to three murders the following year: (1) Juan Duarte
was shot to death;(2) Heinrich Dorge, an aide to Hjalmar Schacht,
killed; and (3) Rudolf Feude, nazi banker who knew the locations
of the money, was poisoned.
In 1952 Otto Skorzeny, who had been released from American
custody in 1947, moved to Madrid. He created what is known as
the International Fascista. The CIA and the Gehlen BND dispatched
him to "trouble spots." On his payroll were former
SS agents, French OAS terrorists and secret police from Portugal's
PDID. PDID are the same initials as the Los Angeles police intelligence
unit, Public Disorder Intelligence Division. The California
PDID: (1) was exposed on May 24, 1983 as spying on law abiding
citizens at an expense of $100,000; (2) utilizing a computerized
dossier system bought by the late Representative Larry McDonald's
AAWestern Goals.@@ (McDonald was a national leader of the John
Birch Society, which was exceedingly active in Dallas preceding
the Kennedy assassination); (3) Western Goals has offices in
Germany run by Eugene Wigner that feed data to the Gehlen BND;
(4) on the board of Western Goals are such Cold Warriors as
Edward Teller, Admiral Thomas Moorer and Dr. Hans Senholt, once
a Luftwaffe pilot.SS Colonel Skorzeny's CIA agents participated
in terror campaigns waged by Operation 40 in Guatemala, Brazil
and Argentina. Skorzeny was also in charge of the Paladin mercenaries,
whose cover, M.C. Inc., was a Madrid export-import firm.
Dr. Gerhard Hartmut von Schubert, [formerly] of Joseph Goebbels'
propaganda ministry, was M.C. operating manager. The nerve center
for Skorzeny's operations was in Albufera, Spain. It was lodged
in the same building as the Spanish intelligence agency SCOE
under Colonel Eduardo Blanco and was also an office of the U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency.
The Albufera building was the kind of intelligence nest that
was duplicated in New Orleans in 1963. That summer Lee Harvey
Oswald handed out pro-Castro literature stamped with the address
544 Camp Street, a commercial building. This was a blunder,
because Oswald actually was under the control of an anti-Castro
operation headquartered there. His controller, W. Guy Banister,
was connected with military intelligence, the CIA and a section
of the World Anti-Communist League that had been set up by Willoughby
and his Far Pacific intelligence unit in Taiwan.
In The Great Heroin Coup, Henrik Kruger disclosed that the
International Fascist was "not only the first step toward
fulfilling the dream of Skorzeny, but also of his close friends
in Madrid, exile Jose Lopez Rega, Juan Peron's grey eminence,
and prince Justo Valerio Borghese, the Italian fascist money
man who had been rescued from execution at the hands of the
World War II Italian resistance by future CIA counterintelligence
whiz James J. Angleton."
A subcommittee on international operations of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee prepared a report "Latin America: Murder,
Inc." that is still classified. The title repeated Lyndon
Johnson's remark, three months before he died, "We were
running a Murder, Inc. in the Caribbean." The report concluded:
"The United States had joint operations between Argentina,
Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. The joint operations
were known as Operation Condor. These are special teams used
to carry out 'sanctions,' the killing of enemies."
Jack Anderson gave a few details in his column "Operation
Condor, An Unholy Alliance" August 3, 1979: "Assassination
teams are centered in Chile. This international consortium is
located in Colonia Dignidad, Chile. Founded by nazis from Hitler's
SS, headed by Franz Pfeiffer Richter, Adolf Hitler's 1000-year
Reich may not have perished. Children are cut up in front of
their parents, suspects are asphyxiated in piles of excrement
or rotated to death over barbecue pits."Otto Skorzeny code-named
his assault on American soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge
Operation Greif, the "Condor." He continued Condor
with his post-war special teams that imposed "sanctions,"
meaning the assassination of enemies. Skorzeny's father-in-law
was Hjalmar Schacht, president of Hitler's Reichsbank. Schacht
guided Onassis' shipyards in rebuilding the German and Japanese
war fleets. In 1950 Onassis signed on Lars Anderson for his
whaling ships on the hunt off Antarctica and Argentina. Anderson
had belonged to Vidkum Quisling's nazi collaborationist group
in Norway during the war. Clay Shaw, who was charged by New
Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison with complicity in the JFK assassination,
was a close friend of Hjalmar Schacht.
In 1952 Nicola Malaxa moved from Whittler California to Argentina.
Malaxa had belonged to Ottovon Bolschwing's Gestapo network,
as did his associate, Viorel Trifia, who was living in Detroit.
They were members of the Nazi Iron Guard in Romania, and had
felt prosecution. They had one thing in common; they were friends
of Richard Nixon.
Trifia had been brought to the U.S. by von Bolschwing. Malaxa
had escaped from Europe with over $200 million in U.S. dollars.
Upon arrival in New York he picked up another $200 million from
Chase Manhattan Bank. The legal path for his entry was smoothed
by the Sullivan & Cromwell law offices, the Dulles brothers
firm. Undersecretary of State Adolph Berle, who had helped Nixon
and star witness Whittaker Chambers convict Alger Hiss, personally
testified on Malaxa's behalf before a congressional subcommittee
on immigration. In 1951 Senator Nixon introduced a private bill
to allow Malaxa permanent residence. Arrangements for his relocation
in Whittler were made by Nixon's law office. The dummy front
cover for Malaxa in Whittler was Western Tube. In 1946 Nixon
had gotten a call from Herman L. Perry asking if he wanted to
run for Congress against Rep. Jerry Voorhis. Perry later became
president of Western Tube.
When Malaxa went to Argentina in 1952, he linked up with Juan
Peron and Otto Skorzeny. Questions were raised at the time about
J. Edgar Hoover, the Iron Guard, Malaxa and Vice President Nixon.
1960 Elections: Richard Nixon vs. John F. Kennedy
Before the election of 1960, a group within the Christian Right
plotted to kill John Kennedy in Van Nuys, California while he
was still a candidate.The group was a meld of anti-Castro Cubans,
Minutemen and home-grown nazis. Some were sought by Jim Garrison,
following his arrest of Clay Shaw, for testimony before the
New Orleans grand jury. When Garrison forwarded extradition
papers for Edgar Eugene Bradley, a member of the group, Governor
Ronald Reagan refused to sign them.
The leader of one of these groups, the Christian Defense League
(CDL), was the Reverend William P. Gale. During the war Gale
had been an Army colonel in the Philippines training guerilla
bands. His superior officer was Willoughby. By the late 1950s
Gale was recruiting veterans for his "Identity" group,
which was financed by a wealthy Los Angeles man.
One of the CDL's contacts was Captain Robert K. Brown, a special
forces professional from Fort Benning, Georgia. Brown was working
with anti-Castro Cubans, mercenaries similar to Skorzeny's teams.
Brown is now publisher of Soldier of Fortune magazine and paramilitary
texts such as Silencers, Snipers, and Assassins. The book explains
how Mitchell WerBell made special weapons for the CIA, Bay of
Pigs assault squads and other customers. WerBell, son of a wealthy
Czarist cavalry officer, perfected a silencer so effective a
gun can be shot in one room and not heard in the next. It is
ideal for assassinations.
There had been prolonged controversy about how many shots were
fired the day Kennedy was killed. The President's wounds, nicks
on the limousine and curb, and other bullet evidence indicated
quite a few. But the Warren Commission concluded there were
only three. It took the testimony of spectators in Dealy Plaza
who said they only heard three. It never considered the possibility
that silencer-fitted guns were fired.
When Clay Shaw was arrested by Jim Garrison the news was of
particular interest to the Italian newspaper Paesa Sera. It
followed up with a story that Shaw belonged to a cover organization
in Rome named Centro Mondiale Commerciale (CMC). Its location
was frequently moved, its presidents rotated; its modus operandi
altered. CMC included Italian fascists, elements of the European
paramilitary right, the CIA, and the U.S. Defense Department.
There were major shareholders with banks located in Switzerland,
Miami, Baser and other major cities.
CMC had been formed in 1961, one year after Kennedy was elected.
Its principals had worked with fascist networks established
after World War II. The board of directors numbered Ferenc Nagy,
a former Hungarian premier who led that country's Anti-Communist
Countrymen's Party in exile. J. Edgar Hoover brought Nagy to
the United States, where there were numerous Gehlen-supported
emigre organizations. On August 18, 1951, the Saturday Evening
Spot pictured Nagy with Czech, Pole, Hungarian and Russian exiles
under the heading: "They Want Us To Go to War Right Now."
On November 22, 1963 Nagy was living in Dallas.
CMC was actually a subsidiary of Swiss-based Permindex, whose
president was Prince Gutierez de Spadafora, Italian industrialist
and large landowner. Spadafora's daughter-in-law was related
to Hjalmar Schacht. Clay Shaw, who managed the New Orleans Intemational
Trade Mart, was a director. Another was Giorgio Mantello, aka
George Mandel, who would later move to New Orleans. Once convicted
of "criminal activities" in Switzerland, Mantello
worked closely with his fellow Hungarian Nagy. One of the goals
of the CMC was that "Rome will recover once again her position
as center of the civilized world."
Major L. M. Bloomfield, a veteran of the OSS who resided in
Montreal, was a suspect Garrison wanted to question. In Canada
he reportedly controlled Credit Suisse, Heineken's Breweries,
Israel Continental Company, Grimaldo Siosa Lines and other international
firms. Shaw's name was found among eleven directors of a company
in Montreal that actually was based in Rome. Who was giving
the virtually unlimited money to CMC, and who was getting it?
The answer might have been found in the huge amounts that flowed
out of Evita Peron's accounts.
Paesa Sera reported on March 4, 1967 that CMC was a creature
of the CIA serving as a money conduit, and that Shaw and Bloomfield
conducted illegal political espionage under its cover. In New
Orleans, Shaw was the respected citizen who had helped restore
the French Quarter. In Rome he was a vital member of the boards
of twin companies dealing with fascists accused of European
assassinations. Shaw's address book contained the private number
of Principessa Marcelle Borghese, now Duchessa de Bomartao,
who is related to Prince Valerio Borghese. Called the "Black
Prince" and "The New Duce," Borghese was leader
of the Movimento Sociale Italiano, a neo-fascist syndicate.
The Black Prince, who was a decorated submarine captain in the
First World War, was convicted of cooperating with the nazis
in WW II and given 12 years in prison.
The Black Prince is the same Borghese rescued by the CIA's
James J. Angleton. No wonder Angleton was awarded the Sovereign
Military Order of Malta by the Pope after the war. It might
explain what Angleton was hinting at when questioned about the
murder of JFK: "A mansion has many rooms; there were many
things during the period; I'm not privy to who struck John."
Clay Shaw's affiliation with Permindex would plug in later
to Argentina, Spain, Rome, New Orleans and Dallas. The international
range of hit teams, using CIA money diverted overseas to cover
companies set up by the Gehlen Organization, started coming
together after Shaw's arrest.
In November, 1960 it would be Nixon versus Kennedy. Frank Sinatra
introduced Judith Exner to John Kennedy on the eve of the New
Hampshire primary. A few weeks later Sinatra introduced Judith
Exner to Chicago Mafia boss Sam Giancana. So Exner became involved,
as William Safire put it, in a "dual affair with the nation's
most powerful mobster and the nation's most powerful political
leader."
Giancana was busy with more than his love life; he was hired
to form assassination teams to go after Fidel Castro. The man
who retained him was Robert Maheu, a former FBI and CIA operative.
It was a classic cutoff. Maheu never mentioned that the CIA
was behind it. He intimated to Giancana that wealthy Cuban exiles
were providing the funds. This sounded plausible, since Maheu
was Howard Hughes' right-hand man.
Giancana put his Los Angeles lieutenant, Johnny Roselli, in
charge of the hit squads. In 1978 when the House Select Committee
questioned him, Roselli hinted that his assignment was aimed
at Kennedy as well as Castro. Shortly afterward, his body was
found floating in an oil drum off the Florida coast. Giancana
never got a chance to testify. He was shot to death in his Chicago
home.
The Howard Hughes organization, used as a cover for the kill-Castro
conspiracy, (Hughes thought it was a patriotic idea) has long
retained Carl Byoir Associates as its public relations arm.
Throughout the war Byoir represented nazi bankers and industrialists
and the I.G. Farben interests. One of his clients was Emest
Schmitz, member of the I.G. Farben-Ilgner and the German American
Board of Trade. His Information Services was subsidized by the
nazi government. George Sylvester Viereck, editor of the German
Library of Information, was also in business with Byoir. A lucrative
Byoir client was the Frederick Flick Group. Flick, a Nuremberg
defendant released by McCloy, was the single greatest power
behind the nazi military muscle. Frederick Flick's son was close
to the W.R. Grace Company, and invested over $400,000 in partnership
with J. Peter Grace in the United States. During the war, WR.
Grace was accused in a military report of protecting a certain
nazi Colonel Brite in Bolivia. In 1951, when the CIA smuggled
Barbie out of Germany, he was sent to join the same Colonel
Brite. George de Mohrenschildt was a close associate of the
company's founder, William Grace.
De Mohrenschildt was a man of many faces. He befriended Lee
and Marina Oswald, introducing them to the White Russian community.
He made phone calls to obtain Lee jobs and housing. As he told
it to the Warren Commission, he was fascinated with this strange
couple just out of Russia. But at the Petroleum Club in Dallas,
De Mohrenschildt sang the praises of Heinrich Himmler. His travels
took him all over the world on missions identified with intelligence.
In 1956 he was employed by Pantepec Oil Company owned by the
family of William Buckley.
De Mohrenschildt often discussed Oswald with J. Walton Moore,
the CIA's Domestic Contacts Division resident in Dallas. In
the spring of 1963, just after visiting the Oswalds, he went
to Washington. There is a record of a phone call de Mohrenschildt
made on May 7, 1963, to the Army Chief of Staff for intelligence.
The same month he had a meeting in person with a member of that
staff. His military connections seem to have been wide. One
of the first persons de Mohrenschildt took the Oswalds to see
in Dallas was retired Admiral Chester Barton.
Although De Mohrenschildt and his wife Jeanne testified at
length before the Warren Commission, only attorney Albert Jenner
and Pentagon historian Alfred Goldberg attended. One of Jenner's
clients was General Dynamics, maker of the F-lll fighter that
would achieve fame in Vietnam. The chief of security for General
Dynamics in Dallas, Max Clark, was another De Mohrenschildt
associate donating money to help Marina while George got Lee
his next job in Dallas. He found one at the graphics house of
Jagger-Chiles-Stovall, which held classified military contracts.
Jeanne de Mohrenschildt was originally brought to the U.S.
by a family member employed by the Howard Hughes organization.
In 1977 George was found fatally shot, allegedly a suicide,
on the day a House Select Committee investigator came by looking
for him. Jeanne consented to a press interview. She said George
had been a nazi spy.
The placement de Mohrenschildt got for Oswald allowed him to
visit the Sol Bloom agency at least 40 times. It was this agency
that later decided the motorcade route for Kennedy's fatal visit.Ruth
Paine, whom Oswald met via George, had called Roy Truly and
procured work for Oswald at the Texas School Book Depository.
If Maydell and the Gehlen agents were active in the U.S. they
knew all the right moves to secure their patsy.
1960: Young Americans for Freedom
President Harry Truman warned about the CIA "Gestapo"
he had created.
President Eisenhower left the White House fearing the new "military-industrial
complex" he handed to us.
In 1960 candidate Richard Nixon was qualified for the job of
President. A lot of influential people were sure he was the
only choice.
Nixon was familiar with every red scare tactic. From his first
campaign against Jerry Voorhis in 1946 for the House seat, or
vs. Helen Douglas in the Senate, and working with Sen. Joe McCarthy,
he knew it well. The prosecution of Alger Hiss, with such flimsy
evidence, proved his value alone.
But Nixon had also accumulated strong connections with members
of the crime syndicate, the Vatican hierarchy, defense industries
and known nazis. He knew them all.
What if he lost after those seventeen years of preparation?
Would there be a back-up team for the future? Could the Pentagon
or Reinhard Gehlen visualize leaving the entire United States
presidency to chance elections?
Remember what happened to Senator Robert Kennedy on the eve
of his primary election in June, 1968? They can't get that close
to losing it again, you know. With both Kennedy's gone, Nixon
finally made it.
September, 1960, two months before the elections, William F.
Buckley Jr. launched his YAF, Young Americans for Freedom, from
the grounds on his Connecticut estate.
Prior to that date, Buckley's career was one of the most conservative
in the U.S. Following his graduation at Yale, mentor Frank Chodorov
grabbed him for purposes related to his job with McCormick's
Chicago Tribune.
Buckley served the CIA in Japan from 1950 to 1954.He also did
a stint with CIA in Mexico with E. Howard Hunt.
Co-founder of YAF was Douglas Caddy, whose offices were used
by the CIA and Howard Hughes organization, at the time of Watergate
illegal entries and other dirty tricks.
After the CIA in Japan, Buckley was ready to publish his own
magazine, The National Review. This was an unusual opportunity
to bring together the world's most conservative writers for
publication and much propaganda accompanied by Buckley's glib
innuendos.
Once the publication was going, Buckley decided to bring Young
Americans for Freedom to the campus; old ideas, old money, and
young minds to mold. Behind the project were always the well-funded
military masters, such as the YAF's Tom Charles Huston and the
Cointel-Program Nixon cooked up.
The selected advisory board for YAF was a Who's Who of oldies
even then: Senator Strom Thurmond, Senator John Tower, Mr. Ronald
Reagan, Professor Lev Dobriansky, General Charles Willoughby,
and Mr. Robert Morris are a sample.
Robert Morris may not be a household name. But William Buckley
knew him well, and Morris, Nixon, and Senator Joe McCarthy were
team players. Senator Joe McCarthy's two strongest supporters
for him to represent Wisconsin were Frank Seusenbrenner and
Walter Harnisfeger. Both admired Adolf Hitler and made continuous
trips to Germany.
Senator McCarthy obliged fast enough. Before he went after
the Commies in the State Department, he had to release a few
of Hitler's elite nazis lingering in the Dachau prison camp.
McCarthy beat John McCloy by about three years.
In 1949, during congressional hearings on the Malmedy Massacre,
the bloody Battle of the Bulge, McCarthy invited himself to
take over the entire testimony. He wasn't satisfied until the
prison doors flew open. The most detestable and ugly battle
of World War II, an assault upon Americans and civilians in
Belgium, was ignored. Hitler's precious Generals Fritz Kraemer
and Sepp Dietrick, along with Hermann Priess and many others,
were free.
With that business finished, McCarthy took on Robert Morris
as Chief Counsel for the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee.
Morris' earlier training in Navy Intelligence in charge of USSR
counter-intelligence and psychological warfare could be utilized
well by Senator Joe. Particularly the psychological warfare
part.
After McCarthy died, Morris moved to Dallas, Texas. He was
a judge, and became president of Dallas University.
In 1961, a year after Buckley founded YAF, another conservative
organization was formed in Munich, Germany, calling itself CUSA,
Conservatism USA. These were not students, but members of the
U.S. army, soon to be mustered out, then to appear in Dallas,
Texas, by November 1963. The host would be Robert Morris.
A correspondence between Larry Schmidt in Dallas, to Bernie
Weissman in Munich, Germany, in preparation for their arrival,
was published in the Warren Commission Hearings, Vol. XVII.
Segments of the letters are as follows:
November 2, 1962: Dallas to Munich, Larry Schmidt:
"Gentlemen we got everything we wanted."
"It saved the trouble of infiltration."
"Met with Frank McGee ... (president of the Dallas Council
of World Affairs.)"
"Suggest Bernie convert to Christianity and I mean it."
(Bernard Weissman, the only Jew, was brought all the way to
Dallas on November 22, 1963, to lend his name to the "Wanted
for Treason" fliers handed out to welcome JFK. He testified
that the John Birch Society paid for the ads and "wanted
a Jewish name at the bottom.")
AAWe must all return to the church."
AAThese people are religious bugs.@@
"I think in terms of 300,000 members, $3,000,000.@@
"The John Birch Society has a million members. Look for
us to merge with them in 1964."
"Arrangements are being made for me to meet the heads
of the Dallas John Birch, General Walker, and H.L. Hunt, Texas
oil millionaire."(General Walker had been retired from
the military by John Kennedy for his compulsory Pro-Blud indoctrination.)
"I have already met the top editors of the Dallas Morning
News, the country's most conservative newspaper.@@
"These people are radicals but there is a method in their
madness. You see, they're all after exactly what we're after.@@
"No Liberal talk whatsoever, none."
"Down here a Negro is a nigger."
"I mean, no one is ever to say one kind word about niggers."
"Liberals are our enemies."
"The conservative isn't against the Niggers, he just wants
to keep him in his place for his own good."
(Pres. John Kennedy and Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy had waged
a bitter battle from Sept. 30 to Oct. 3, 1962, at the University
of Mississippi. The integration of one Black student brought
in the U.S. Army and caused Gen. Edwin Walker to be confined.)
January 4, 1963 Larry Schmidt to B. Weissman, Munich:
"I want big men ... believe me if I had a dozen such men
I can conquer the world."
"I will go down in the history books as a great and noble
man, or a tyrant."
"I expect to see you here in Dallas, especially Norman
and Larry.@@
"If Jim Mosely is not here by Feb. 15, he is finished."
"One thing had best be understood, I am not playing games
here in Dallas and expect you not to play games in Munich."
"I am not here in Dallas for my health or because I think
Dallas is a wonderful place.@@
"Continue to have regular meetings and try to get things
back in order in preparation for the big meetings."February
2, 1963 Larry Schmidt:
"We have succeeded, the mission with which I was charged
in Dallas has been achieved."
"Friday night I attended a gathering of the top conservatives
in Dallas."
"The meeting was at the home of Dr. Robert Morris, President
of the Defenders of American Liberty.@@
"Present were Mr. George Ward, Detective for Dallas City
Police, Mr. Ken Thompson, editorial writer for the Dallas Morning
News, Mr. Clyde Moore, former PR man for H.L. Hunt, former UPI
writer. (Eight others).@@
"I told them exactly what I wanted."
AAOthers suggested using an already existing movement, named
the Young Americans for Freedom, with already 50,000 members."
"CUSA, as set up in Munich, is now an established fact
in Dallas, only we are calling it YAF. I think you catch on."
"We are starting Munich chapters of YAF To spread to Stuttgart,
Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Berlin, Kaiserslautern."
"We are getting every top name in business, education,
politics, and religion to endorse YAF."
"The advisory board includes 37 congressmen ...including
Sen. Strom Thurmond, Sen. John Tower, and Sen. Barry Goldwater.
There is Ronald Reagan, Gen. Mark Clark, Gen. Charles Willoughby,
John Wayne, etc."
"Change all your records to read YAF."
"All those months in Munich were not wasted. I accomplished
my task in Dallas. I need you here soon. I sold these people
on each of you and they are expecting you to come to Dallas
and play an important role.@@
"The days of leisure are over."
"We want to see you, Norman, Jim and Bill Burley back
here in Dallas."
"Sheila and my brother will be here in August; Ken Glazebrook
in Sept."June 13, 1963, Larry Schmidt to B. Weissman in
Munich, Germany.
"Warren Carroll, our only other recruit to CUSA, is already
a PhD and two MS's. Warren is a scriptwriter for Lifeline, the
H.L. Hunt television and radio series. Hunt is the millionaire
oilman."
"Warren is 32, former CIA man. Don't worry, he has been
checked out."
"Hunt checked him out."
(This appears to be a military action, DIA. They have to check
out the CIA man, using Hunt's
security).
After Jack Ruby was arrested for killing Oswald inside the
Dallas jail, there were copies of Warren Carroll's Lifeline
on the seat of his car. The section was on "Heroism,"
on how to become a "hero." This is interesting because
one of the first reasons Ruby gave for killing Oswald was, "I
wanted to show them a Jew had guts."
"We want to get Norman into the Republic National Bank
... where we are building our credit like crazy for the day
we need ready cash."
(The Dallas Republic National Bank was identified by the Washington
Post, February 26, 1967, as a conduit of CIA funds since 1958.)
(Connie Trammel, who worked at the Republic National Bank,
accompanied Jack Ruby to the office of Lamar Hunt, Wednesday,
Nov. 20, 1963, two days before Kennedy was assassinated.)
October 1, 1963, Larry Schmidt to Munich, Germany:
"This town is a battleground and that is no joke. I am
a hero to the right, a stormtrooper to the left."
"I have worked out a deal with the chairman of YAF. The
arrangements are always delicate, very delicate. If I don't
produce the bodies it is likely Dale (Davenport) will think
me a phoney.@@
"He needs our help now. Adlai Stevenson is scheduled here
on the 24th.""Kennedy is scheduled in Dallas on November
24."
"All big things are happening now.@@
1963: A few connections in Dallas -- Gen. Walter Dorberger,
Michael and Ruth Paine
When George de Mohrenschildt was busy introducing Lee and Marina
to the Dallas-Ft. Worth White Russian displaced Czarists, he
managed to keep the social level equal with his American contacts.
One casual dinner in the company of Michael and Ruth Paine,
and that was enough meeting to set the Oswalds== course. George
and Jeane didn't have to meet with them again.
Ruth Paine would provide housing for Marina while Lee went
to New Orleans. A few weeks later, she drove Marina to join
Lee. After summer vacation at Wood's Hole, Mass., Ruth returned
and brought Marina to her home in Irving, Texas, while Lee was
on the bus to Mexico with Albert Osborne/John Bowen, and four
other Solidarists from the Russian network.
After Kennedy was murdered, the Dallas police rushed to the
Paine's home. From that garage and elsewhere, via the Paines,
came most of the incriminating evidence against Oswald.
The alleged murder weapon never could be proven by the Warren
Commission as ever having come from their garage.
The cropped photo that Life printed with Oswald holding a rifle
came from a box removed from the garage, taken to the police
department, then returned the next day, with nobody present
to indicate where it came from.
Accessory after the fact, the letter was delivered to Marina
in December undated and unsigned, to cover up General Walker's
anxiety to blame a "Communist,@@ Lee, for shooting at him
in April and came from Ruth to Marina. It wasn't in the home
before then. The Warren Commission required planted evidence
sometimes in order to divert from Lee Oswald's links to the
Defense Department, assisted by Ruth and Michael Paine.
Michael Paine's occupation at Bell Aircraft is the Defense
Department. This job requires security clearances, so what would
the unlikely Oswalds be doing in his home? Oswald, the "defector?"
Paine's boss at Bell Aircraft as Director of Research and Development,
was none other than the noterious war criminal General Walter
Dornberger.
Dornberger was supposed to be hanged at Nuremburg for his war
crimes, slave labor and mass murders.
The British warned the U.S. not to let him live because even
after the war he was conniving for another one. As stated, "Dornberger
is a menace of the first order who is untrustworthy. His attitude
will turn ally against ally and he would become a source of
irritation and future unrest." (Project Paperclip. Clarence
Lansey.)
The very first call to authorities after the gun went off on
November 22, 1963, was from an employee at Bell Helicopter who
suggested "Oswald did it." Police never located the
source of both Oswald addresses that day.
Michael Paine took Lee to a meeting with General Edwin Walker
shortly before the assassination. Soon Oswald would be charged
with having shot Walker in April, and Walker would be calling
his nazi cronies in Germany 24 hours after JFK was killed telling
them he finally solved "who shot through his window"
seven months earlier: the same Oswald.
Who were the Paines? To believe the Warren Commission and the
CIA staff of lawyers, they were Mr. and Mrs. Good Neighbor,
all heart, altruistic. Ruth simply wanted to learn more Russian
from a native. For that price, she housed Marina, a two-year-old
daughter, a new infant, with all the fuss and mess of three
extras in a tiny house.
Michael Paine was a descendant of the Cabots on both sides.
His cousin Thomas Dudley Cabot, former president of United Fruit,
had offered their Gibraltar Steamship as a cover for the CIA
during the Bay of Pigs. Another cousin was Alexander Cochrane
Forbes, a director of United Fruit and trustee of Cabot, Cabot,
and Forbes.
Both Allen Dulles and John J. McCloy were part of the United
Fruit team. The Paine family had links with circles of the OSS
and the CIA.
Ruth Hyde Paine maintained close ties with the Forbes families.
Peter Dale Scott investigated the Paines, "the patrician
Paine and Forbes families." A far cry from anybody's neighbor.Michael's
education came as a tradition, third generation physicist at
Harvard before working for Bell Helicopter.
The British were correct on the Dornberger evaluation.
Another clue to Albert Speer, the Reichmaster for Munitions
and War Production, and General Dornberger, is their meeting
as early as April, 1943.
When it was obvious to Hitler they would be losing the war
against the USSR, all top Nazis made detailed plans for two
years on how to proceed next.
Speer met with Dornberger, at Peenemunde, the missile and rocket
factory run with Werner Von Braun, and instructed him in "the
dispersion of functions throughout the Reich."
Translated, that meant get ready to come to the U.S.
Lee Harvey Oswald, Albert Osborne
When Lee Harvey Oswald entered Mexico at Laredo, Texas, on
Sept. 26, 1963, his companion on the Red Arrow bus was Albert
Osborne, alias John Howard Bowen.
Bowen-Osborne had been running a school for highly professional
marksmen in Oaxaca, Mexico, since 1934. The cover for the place
was his particular mission, and he was the missionary.
The FBI records on Bowen go back to June 4, 1942, in Henderson
Springs, Tennessee. He operated a camp for boys known as "Campfire
Council." Neighbors complained it was for pro-nazi activities
with young fascists. Bowen vehemently opposed the U.S. going
to war with nazi Germany. They stomped on the American flag.
Before that, Bowen worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority
since 1933.
His dual citizenship between Great Britain and the U.S. took
him over the entire globe. So did his use of multiple aliases.
After the Warren Commission published their report in September
1964, several attorneys in the Southwest recognized the name
of Osborne.
September 8, 1952, Jake Floyd was murdered. The target was
meant to be his father, District Judge Floyd. Two suspects were
caught, one got away. Their testimony was about being hired
by Osborne and how he ran the school for assassins.
Later investigation revealed Osborne's connections to Division
V of the FBI, and to Clay Shaw's Centro Mondiale Commerciale,
with funding coming from New Orleans for the CIA, Anti-Castro
Cubans, and others.
Lee Harvey Oswald applied for a tourist card to enter Mexico
while still in New Orleans on September 17, 1963.
Four other persons, having consecutive tourist numbers, departed
nine days later, like Oswald, all to arrive at the same time,
entering from several different cities. They were part of the
White Russian Solidarists, the Gehlen emigre community that
Lee and Marina mingled with.
This assassination team funded Maurice Brooks Gatlin, Guy Bannister,
and the Miami office of Double Check Corporation.
J. Edgar Hoover's Division V, Domestic Intelligence, working
with the American Council of Christian Churches, had used this
group from the Bowen-Osborne academy of assassins.
Volume XXV of the Hearings has many pages of interviews with
people who had sent money to Jack Bowen. They never met him,
and some like Mrs. Bessie White, Pikesville, Tenn., mailed $35
a month to John Howard Bowen who she believed had been doing
missionary work for 18 years in Mexico." Osborne-Bowen
had a mission.
Lee Harvey Oswald, agent from U.S. Defense Dept., had a team
of doubles impersonating his behavior, leaving trails of anti-American
frustration and meetings with various people.
While Oswald was in Mexico just prior to Kennedy's murder,
the purposes were concealed. Meanwhile, the CIA and various
authorities led Oswald to the Cuban Embassy, the Soviet Embassy.
When the face or voices didn't match the authentic Oswald, it
didn't matter, given a difference of 40 to 50 pounds and shape.
What came from all this was the conclusion that Oswald had really
wanted to go to Cuba next. Which Oswald, and why?
This was to finalize with the illusion of an Oswald-Castro
admiration just days before Kennedy would be killed.Senator
John Tower and Marina Oswald
One of the most consistent conservatives among Buckley's YAF
Advisory Board was Senator John Tower, Texas.
If there is anything he wouldn't want in his back yard it was
a defector and his allegedly Communist wife from Minsk.
Yet, two years after joining the YAF team in 1960, Tower was
passing all waivers in order for Marina Oswald to get to the
United States as soon as possible. Without his permission, this
trip might never have taken place. Many wives from the USSR
are not that lucky.
March 22, 1962, Senator Tower cooperated. "The sanctions
imposed on immigration and nationality are hereby waived in
behalf of Mrs. Oswald. The file check on Marina by the FBI,
CIA, Dept. of Security Office, Division of biographical intelligence
and passport office," (Volume XXIV, 298).
George de Mohrenschildt testified in Volume IX, PP·A
228-229, "Marina Oswald's father had been a Czarist officer
of some kind. I don't remember whether it was army or navy.@@
Her real father was never identified by name in all of the
testimony.
Between 1948 and 1950 over 200 Byelorussian nazis and their
families were brought to New Jersey. Both George de Mohrenschildt
and Marina had come from Minsk, part of the Byelorussian area.
The Gehlen nazi emigres were useful to every part of the Kennedy
assassination cover-up.
John Tower knew Marina was a safe bet. Otherwise, why the hurry?
Our CIA and the Defense Department knew all there was to know
about both Oswalds. Therefore, Tower signed the immigration
papers fast.
The Argentine Connections: Isaac Dan Levine and the Ziger Family
The Warren Report wasn't published until September, 1964. Testimony
of witnesses and exhibits were being collected up to the day
of printing.
Yet as early as June 2, 1964, Isaac Don Levine, another arch-enemy
of Communists and a so-called expert on the Soviet mind, was
arranging with the Warren Commission staff to bring the daughters
of Oswald's boss, Alexander Ziger, from the Minsk Radio factory
to Argentina. He suggested using CIA assistance.
What was that about?
"When the Oswalds left Russia they smuggled out a message
to one of the relatives of the Zigers living in the U.S. They
wanted help to get the Zigers== daughters out of Russia. The
daughters, having been born in Argentina, could claim Argentine
citizenship. Levine suggested some confidential source in the
American Government such as the CIA should contact the Argentine
Government to set machinery in motion. (Memorandum from W. David
Slauson: Conference with Mr. Isaac Don Levine, May 23, 1964).
January 21, 1964, John J. McCloy told Commission members, before
any witness was yet called, "this fellow Levine is a contact
with Marina to break the story up in a little more graphic manner
and tie it into a Russian business, and it is with the thought
and background of Russian connections, conspiracy concept."
If there was a Russian conspiracy to kill President John Kennedy,
John McCloy, Isaac Don Levine, Allen Dulles, and J. Edgar Hoover,
not to speak of Nixon and others, would squeeze that out.
Remember Gary Powers strongly hinted at Oswald's role in downing
the U-2, breaking up the Eisenhower-Khrushchev meeting while
Lee was employed at the Minsk Radio factory?
Nicola Malaxa, Otto Skorzeny, and international CIA-DIA agents
were thick in both Minsk and Argentina. It was Alexander Ziger
and his family who introduced Lee to Marina Oswald. That same
evening they were at the home of an unidentified woman just
returned from the U.S.
The President of the U.S. had been murdered in 1963.
Six months later the CIA is supposed to assist the Ziger daughters?
One more connection to Richard Nixon.
When poor Whittaker Chambers almost collapsed from the strain
of having to testify against Alger Hiss, it was Isaac Don Levine
who took "Chambers by the arm, a reluctant Chambers, and
arranged the meetings where he would begin to smear Hiss."
(Friendship and Fratricide, Meyer Zelig).
When Levine was searching for a Soviet connection to Kennedy's
death, he was also doing business with Marina's new manager,
James Martin. It was Martin who was selling the photo of Oswald
posing with Communist literature and a rifle, the same evidence
pulled from the Paine's garage. Notice the similarity to the
Whittaker Chambers pumpkin papers years earlier that launched
Nixon's political career and convicted Alger Hiss.
If the evidence didn't fit the conclusions of the investigators,
the one picture would sell the Oswald assassin story.
AATreason for My Daily Bread@@ -- Argentina and Martin Bormann
In August 1971, a French paper headlined a news story, "Martin
Bormann behind the Kennedy murders." It listed an international
band of killers that was located in Texas. They carried out
the two assassinations at the German command.
Six years later, June 8, 1977, the London Guardian reported,
"Bormann Linked with Kennedy Murder." This story was
based on a new book titled, Treason for My Daily Bread by Mikhail
Lebedev.
Lebedev detailed how Martin Bonnann left Europe, established
his current life in Paraguay, and how the fatal head shot to
Kennedy was delivered by an agent paid by Bormann, alias of
Zed.
Is any of this true?
Many of these allegations and names come together with both
Paris Flammonde's The Kennedy Conspiracy and the Nomenclature
of an Assassination Cabal, known as the "Torbitt Document."
"Zed" allegedly used a .45 for the final shot.
Buddy Walters, murdered January 10, 1969, picked up a .45 slug
in Dealey Plaza and gave it to the Dallas Police.
There were two possible assassination teams in Dallas.
The military from Munich, Germany, that was to take over the
YAF, with Robert Morris' help, have yet to be identified or
interviewed (Morris from U.S. intelligence, having to do with
USSR covert work.) Gen. Edwin Walker's arrangement with U.S.
Military in Germany or, the arrival of such people for Nov.
22, 1963, is open to question.
Albert Osborne's "mission" in Mexico, with direct
links to Clay Shaw's Centro Mondiale Commerciale, has never
been touched. This was the international band of killers with
the Borghese-James Angleton operations working throughout the
world.
Otto Skorzeny's CIA and Reinhard Gehlen death squads, with
headquarters in Madrid, were funded by Martin Bormann when the
Evita Peron funds were shared after 1952.
Lebedev mentions "Ruth," David Ferrie, Clay Shaw,
Guy Bannister, and Colonel Orlov.
The very first day George de Mohrenschildt visited Marina Oswald
she was alone and Lee was working. He brought with him a "Colonel
Orlov.@@
The House Select Committee on Assassinations "investigated"
the murder of President John F. Kennedy from 1976-1978. The
information about Bormann was available from 1971. Treason for
My Daily Bread was published while they were supposed to be
finding the smoking gun.
G. Robert Blakey, Chief Consul for the Committee, refused to
admit any research or documents on these subjects. He would
hang up the telephone and even refused to say if he had ever
seen the Torbitt Document. Six million dollars was allotted
by Congress to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.
Martin Bormann may have had his motives for his actions through
the years. What were G. Robert Blakey's? What form of prosecution
should be suggested for committees paid to uncover the truth
who continuously sweep under the rug?
In A Study of a Master Spy, published in London in 1961, Bob
Edwards, a member of Parliament and Kenneth Dunne, presented
documentary evidence that Allen Dulles of the CIA carried on
secret conferences with representatives of Hitler's SS Security
Office in February and March 1943. They learned that "Official
Washington knew Martin Bormann, Deputy Fuhrer of Hitler==s Germany,
master-minded the international 'Die Spinne' (Spider) underground
organization which is planning to revive nazism as soon as West
Germany is adequately rearmed by the United States. Official
Washington seems disinterested."
With John J. McCloy, Allen Dulles and J. Edgar Hoover in control
of the Kennedy assassination investigation, these nazi connections
were buried.
The Bunge Corporation, Argentina & Germany
The stock market dropped 24 points in 27 minutes when news
of President Kennedy's assassination was announced. 2.6 million
shares were sold off. It was the greatest panic since 1929.
Somebody made a huge profit selling short in many markets.
Somebody made half a billion dollars in one day. Coincidentally,
the Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining Corporation, headed
by New Jersey commodities dealer Anthony De Angeles, crashed
the same day, driving the market down.
Allied Crude was controlled by U.S. American Bunge Corporation
and financially controlled by a group of share-holders headquartered
in Argentina, known as "Bunge and Born, LDA."
Business Week of October 19, 1963, one month before the Kennedy
assassination, described the Born family in Argentina, the biggest
shareholders for Bunge, as being from Europe, specifically Germany.
Everything about Bunge has German influence. They have a $2
billion annual business in 80 countries. There are over 110
offices, all linked by Telex and under-the-ocean telegraph channels.
The Bunge Corporation is referred to as "the Octopus."
The book Were We Controlled? detailed the relationship of the
Bunge Corporation, the foreknowledge of Kennedy's murder, and
the Argentine-German connections.
General Edwin Walker and the Hitler Nazis
The Eagle's Nest, now a mountain restaurant, was given to Adolf
Hitler by nazi aide Martin Bormann for the fuhrer's 50th birthday.
It is not far from Hitler's former summer home in Berchtesgaden.
Nearby is the Platterhof Hotel, built for guests when they
came to pay their respects. The Platterhof has changed its name
to the General Walker Hotel.
November 23, 1963, one day after Kennedy's death, Gen. Edwin
Walker called Munich, Germany, from Shreveport, La.Walker's
important story, via transatlantic telephone, was to the nazi
newspaper Deutsche National Zeitung un Soldaten-Zeitung. Walker
couldn't wait to tell them in Munich that Lee Harvey Oswald,
the lone suspect in the Dallas murders, was the same person
who shot through his window in April, 1963.
There was never one shred of evidence, or a reliable witness,
that could make this connection Dallas police and FBI were taken
by surprise.
In order to cover this over-exuberance of trying to link a
Marxist assassin to this altercation, it became necessary to
have Ruth Paine deliver that ridiculous letter to Marina Oswald
on December 3, 1964. The delayed letter was to have been written
the night Lee was out shooting in Walker's home.
The only piece of bullet that remained in custody was never
positively identified as coming from the 6.5 Mannlicher Carcano,
and there is no proof Oswald even handled this rifle.
Why was General Walker in such a hurry to get his information
printed in Germany before anybody in Dallas ever heard about
it?
Kurt-George Kiesinger had just been installed as Chancellor
of West Germany and Franz-Josef Straus as finance minister.
Kiesinger entered the radio propaganda division of nazi Foreign
Minister von Ribbentrop at age 36. He was then directing a world-wide
radio propaganda apparatus with 195 specialists under his supervision
during the war. He was the liaison officer, coordinating his
department's work with that of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.
Richard Nixon and Kurt-George Kiesinger were soon, or maybe
before, to become pals. Nixon tried to hide his nazi past.
But General Walker, now home from military service in Munich,
knew the importance of such propaganda. He was calling the same
people who, under Hitler, published and controlled the newspapers.
There were two motives for this call.
First, it gave international attention to the fact that Oswald,
the Marxist gunman, was shooting at Walker as well as the President.General
Walker knew too many people in the Defense Department and in
the Dallas-Fort Worth area that could be part of this assassination.
He made himself appear as a victim instead of a suspect.
The other reason, along with the expertise of Robert Morris's
counter-intelligence and psychological warfare training, was
to create a profile for Lee Harvey Oswald.
No possible motive could explain why Oswald would really want
to kill President Kennedy. By having Oswald appear to shoot
the right-wing General Walker with his John Birch connections,
his militant anti-communist stance, then shoot John Kennedy,
the same Commie-symp Walker was accusing of treason, it would
appear that Oswald was just nuts. He didn't know right from
left.
The Munich newspaper Walker called was linked to the World
Movement for a Second Anti-Komintern, part of the Gehlen and
U.S. right.
Some of Hitler's ex-nazis and SS-men were on the Staff.
The editor, Gerhard Frey, was a close friend with various nazi
members of the Witiko League. The Witiko League and the Sudetendeutch
Landsmannscraft were organizations for displaced refugees. By
the summer of 1948 they formed large organizations and by 1955
Dr. Walter Becher was elected to the executive board of the
Witiko League. Becher was one of the kingpins of nazi front
organizations.
Sen. Joe McCarthy, Charles Willoughby, Gen. Edwin Walker, and
Robert Morris' links to the German nazis converged when Dr.
Walter Becher set up offices in Washington, D.C. in 1950.
By July 16, 1957, Becher, praised by American Opinion and other
extreme right publications, started his policy of liberation.
General Douglas MacArthur, Senator Joe McCarthy, General Willoughby,
members of the U.S. Congress or public officials then started
openly to meet with and cooperate with the nazi resurgence.
Dan Smooth, former Dallas FBI agent is the type of person who
kept strong nazi ties with Dr. Becher in Munich, to Western
Goals today. His printed sheets were identical to the Goebbels
propaganda years ago, or to Walker's disinformation one day
after Kennedy was killed.
Volkmar Schmidt came from Munich, Germany, to work full time
for General Walker. How long did he work, and where was he on
November 23, 1963, when Walker made the call to the same city
the CUSA imports came from?
The YAF crowd in Dallas was an interesting gang: Col. Charles
Willoughby, intelligence Chief for S. Pacific, Robert Morris,
U.S. counter-intelligence and psychological warfare, Gen Edwin
Walker, brought home from Munich by JFK, William Buckley, CIA
in Japan, Mexico, and elsewhere, Sen. John Tower, who gave the
okay for Marina Oswald.
1964: The Warren Commission
President Lyndon Johnson was forced to select a commission
to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy and the
murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby.
Texas authorities were supposed to do the original investigation.
There were too many suspicious people around the world who
believed a conspiracy existed. Those rumors had to be squelched.
J. Edgar Hoover's FBI never budged from its conclusion that
Lee Harvey acted alone. Whatever evidence didn't fit this decision
was ignored.
Twenty-six volumes of witness testimony and exhibits were published.
8000 copies were sold. No more reprints. The contradiction between
the conclusions of the Warren Report, and the abundance of discrepancies
in the other volumes, makes fascinating reading.
Chief Justice Earl Warren, John J. McCloy, and Allen Dulles
were the logical choices for LBJ.
President Kennedy didn't trust Allen Dulles as CIA Director.
Now JFK was dead and Dulles would be in charge of all possible
"conspiracy" segments.
Richard Nixon, temporarily retired from politics for the first
time since 1946, selected Rep. Gerald Ford to be on this Commission.
Nixon selected Ford a second time when he ran home to escape
impeachment during Watergate.
One of the first subjects for commission members to share in
January, one month before witnesses were selected, was the matter
of Lee Harvey Oswald being a government agent.
Gerald Ford was the only member of the group to write a book
on the assassination. His book opened with the hushed and secret
meeting where allegations had been received that Oswald worked
for the FBI.
What Ford left out of his book, and the commissioners ignored
in their Report, was that Oswald was also identified as working
for the CIA. Commission Chairman Earl Warren and Commission
Attorney Leon Jaworski knew about this. They stated that "Mr.
Belli, attorney for Jack L. Ruby, was familiar with these allegations."
Oswald's informant number was Number 110669.
How was that for a starter?
The next move was to start building the myth about the deceased
and ignore fact one, stated above. This grand commission would
call in a doctor who never met Lee Oswald or Jack Ruby to assist
them with their project, covering up.
Justice Warren suggested bringing in Dr. Overholser, who "of
course is not a lawyer. He is a doctor from St. Elizabeth's
Hospital." As the Chairman went on to explain, "we
felt we ought to have someone who, in that field, could advise
us on matters concerning the life of Oswald and possibly the
life of Ruby also.@@
The next order of business was who should write the Report
for them? By January 21, 1964, that had to be decided.
Chairman Earl Warren said, "we consulted with the Defense
Department, and they have offered to lend us one of their historians
to do this job, and we think that it is quite essential to the
work of the Commission." Mr. Goldberg would assist from
the Air Force. Mr. Cokery was from the Army.
"Mr. Winnaker recommended them," Chief Counsel J.
Lee Rankin offered. "We would work with them to try to
anticipate all of the various historical aspects.@@
Who's Who in the CIA described "Mr. Winnaker" as
having been born in Germany in 1904. His full name is Dr. Rudolph
August Winnacker. He was an analyst for the OSS, historian in
the War Department from 1945-1949, and then Chief of Historical
Division of the Pentagon."
Was Winnaker the ilk of Willoughby? Or Reinhard Gehlen? When
did he come here from Germany? Where is he now?
Marina Oswald was the first witness to testify on February
3, 1964.Warren wanted nothing more than to make her comfortable.
The first question dealt with the General Walker story because
Walker had blown it by calling Munich so soon. That scandal
had to be put to rest right away.
Warren asked Marina "if Exhibit 2 was familiar to her
because it was a picture of General Walker's house?"
Marina said, "no," but that wasn't good enough.
She was asked again, and once more said, "I didn't see
it, at least, taken from this view I can't recognize it. I never
saw the house itself at any time in my life."
That wasn't sufficient. She just couldn't remember "this
particular one."
Chairman Warren was ready to go "off the record."
They had only just begun.
Chief Counsel Rankin suggested he show her "more pictures,"
then maybe she would recognize the Walker home.
This time she was given a selection of a location in New Orleans,
two snapshots from Leningrad, and the same shot of the Walker
home. Because Walker wasn't living in a castle in Leningrad,
Marina assumed that house in Dallas must belong to "General
Walker."
Therefore this was admitted for identification.
The Defense Department history could then proceed. "Marina
Oswald positively identified the photograph of General Walker==s
home among Lee's possessions."
There are a lot of things that remain to be said about this
commission and their phoney report.
Admission of an old card trick at the beginning set the tone
for what was to follow. What was never supposed to come out
was the use of Reinhard Gehlen agents surrounding Lee and Marina
Oswald for the purposes of covering up the assassination conspiracy.
Two Lee Harvey Oswalds existed.
One memorized the Marine manual by age 17, went directly into
radar and electronic work. He trained at U-2 bases, learned
the Russian language, got himself into and out of the Soviet
Union, wrote clear and literate letters. He was met, upon arriving
home, by Government agents, provided with occupations, fathered
two children, owed no debts, traveled around a great deal, met
with interesting oil geologists, defense department and intelligence
agents. Their social circle included the "Cabots and Lodges"
from Czarist Russia, Admirals and some fancy folks.
The other Oswald was one developed by the Warren Commission
to divert attention from the facts. Nobody ever saw the original
"diary" that he couldn't have possibly written.
Every Gehlen witness and emigre associated with the CIA, Tolstoy
Foundation, or Creek Orthodox Church was directed towards the
most ridiculous questions. From all that garbage the Defense
Department wrote the history.
The last thing that should happen is for the warriors to interpret
and define for us. The facts speak for themselves.
