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From:	Biplab Bose
Subject:	Re: Shameless propaganda !
Date:	Sat, 11 Dec 2004 22:34:55 GMT

the U.S. governmental origins of the post 11
September 2001 anthrax attack on Washington D.C. that enabled Ashcroft
and his Feddies to stampede the U.S. Congress into passing USAPA I into
law.6

Integrally related to and overlapping with the Feddies are members of
the University of Chicago "School" of
Law-and-Kick-Them-in-the-Groin-Economics, which in turn was founded upon
the Market Fundamentalism of Milton Friedman, now retired but long-time
Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. Friedman and his
"Chicago Boys" have raped, robbed, looted, plundered, and pillaged
economies and their respective peoples all over the developing world.7
This Chicago gang of academic con-artists and charlatans are proponents
of the Nazi Doctrine of "useless eaters." Pursuant to Friedman's
philosophy of Market Fundamentalism, the "privatization" of Iraq and its
Oil Industry are already underway for the primary benefit of the U.S.
energy companies (e.g., Halliburton, formerly under Vice President Dick
Cheney) that had already interpenetrated the Bush Jr. administration as
well as the Bush Family itself. Enron. Although miseducated8 at Yale and
Harvard Business School, the "Ivies" proved to be too liberal for Bush
Jr. and his fundamentalist Christian supporters, whose pointman and
spearcarrier in the Bush Jr. administration was Ashcroft, a Fundie
himself. The Neo-Cons and the Fundies contracted an "unholy alliance" in
support of Bush Jr. For their own different reaso

From:	Biplab Bose
Subject:	Re: Shameless propaganda !
Date:	Sat, 11 Dec 2004 22:07:16 GMT

and to sell ABC on a
documentary.

Jennings said on the 20/20 segment that the flaw in the documents
was in the typing part of them and not the actually penmanship.
As subsequent facts have shown, this is not actually true. Linda
Hart, one of the handwriting analysts hired by ABC (who was
slighted on the program) later said that there were indications
of "pen drops" in John Kennedy's signature, i.e. someone stopped
writing and then started up again, a sure indication of tracing.
Also, when I talked to Greg Schreiner, president of a Monroe fan
club in Los Angeles, he told me that the moment he saw Monroe's
signature, he knew it was not hers. Interestingly, he had met
with Hersh this summer. Hersh had told him about the documents
and Greg asked to see them. Hersh refused.

Another interesting aspect of the exposure of Hersh's "bombshell"
was aired in the New York Times on September 27th. In this story,
Bill Carter disclosed that there were doubts expressed about the
documents by NBC to Hersh many months ago. Warren Litt

From:	Biplab Bose
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Date:	Sat, 11 Dec 2004 20:49:45 GMT

compromise
my case against this guy in court when he shows the judge that
photo of us three sitting here." Finally, Kelley has no questions
about a glaring inconsistency in her scenario. In the course of
these ongoing meetings, probably at the first one, wouldn't nice
guy Sam say, "Jack I really appreciate the dinner, but this is
all kind of redundant. See, I'm already working with Bob Maheu at
CIA to kill Fidel." Evidently, Exner was so convincing that
neither Kelley nor her editors ever entertained any doubts. Or to
hopeless cynics like myself, maybe they didn't want to blow the
hundred grand they had invested in their cover story.

Kelley did ask one pertinent question. Namely, why did Exner not
tell Demaris these startling details back in 1977? Why did she
wait eleven years to bare her soul? Exner says she was afraid and
needed to protect herself. Unfortunately, this rings a bit hollow
since 1) Giancana and Roselli were both dead when she wrote her
book, 2) the Church Committee spilled all the beans on the plots
to kill Castro in 1975, which 3) leaves only the Kennedys to
fear, and its clear she doesn't give a damn about them.

But for those still skeptical, she adds the other (clinching)
reason for breaking the silence: he

From:	Biplab Bose
Subject:	Re: Shameless propaganda !
Date:	Sat, 11 Dec 2004 19:54:46 GMT

of aggression." By contrast, from August 2002 through March 2003
the Member States of the U.N. Security Council did not lift one finger
to save Iraq from the obviously oncoming U.S./U.K. aggression. Indeed,
Security Council Resolution 1441 of 8 November 2002 was originally
drafted to facilitate the U.S./U.K. aggression against Iraq by issuing a
diktat to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein that was deliberately designed
to be almost impossible to comply with.45 Standard operating procedure
for the United States government going all the way back to its
instigation of the 1898 War against Spain in order to steal the latter's
colonial Empire.46

The government of the United States of America commenced the 19th
Century by stealing a Western Empire from the American Indians and then
ethnically cleansing them - "manifest destiny."47 The American
government started the 20th Century by stealing a colonial Empire from
Spain and then conducting a near genocidal war against the Philippino
People - "a place in the sun." The U.S. government opened the 21st
Century by trying to steal a hydrocarbon empire from the Muslim States
and Peoples of Eurasia - "a war against international terrorism." But
this latest transgression could very well prove to be the definitive
step of "imperial overstretch" that will break the back of the American
Empire both abroad and at home.48 In 1991 the mighty Soviet Empire
collapsed like a house of cards after a decade of "imperial overstretch"
in Afghanistan. Like the former Soviet Union, the United States of
America itself is an imperial house of cards built upon the backs of
Indigenous Peoples and Peoples of Color.49 The Bush Jr. administration's
aggressions against and occupations

From:	Biplab Bose
Subject:	Re: Shameless propaganda !
Date:	Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:41:50 GMT

deductions came from. This is
crucial. For in addition to his wild inflation about the
prominence of the Kennedy family in the power elite, another of
Davis' prime objectives is to reverse the verdict of the Church
Committee and place Kennedy in the center of the CIA plots to
kill Castro.

Pinning the Plots on Kennedy

As I said in Part One of this article, there is no evidence of
such involvement in either the CIA's Inspector General report of
1967, or in the Church Committee's report, Alleged Assassination
Plots Involving Foreign Leaders, issued in late 1975. In fact,
both advance evidence and conclusions to indicate the contrary.

So how does Davis propagate that the Kennedy brothers knew about,
authorized, and encouraged the plots? The first method is by
performing minute surgery on the 1975 report. Davis states that
Allen Dulles briefed JFK on the plots at a November 27, 1960
meeting with the President-elect. He uses Deputy Director Dick
Bissell as his source for this disclosure (Davis, p. 289). I
turned to the committee report that dealt with Bissell's
assumptions on this matter (Alleged Assassination Plots p. 117).

Here is the testimony Davis relies on:
Bissell: I believe at some stage the President the President
and the President-elect both were advised that such an
operation had been plann

From:	Biplab Bose
Subject:	Re: Shameless propaganda !
Date:	Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:14:41 GMT

in the
papers for six months. William Safire of the New York Times, a
former Nixon speechwriter, screamed there could be no "whitewash"
of this matter and made it his personal agenda to use Exner as
JFK's connection to the plots. He himself wrote five columns on
the subject. Time magazine did a feature on her. Newsweek, the
Post's sister publication did two. Exner - via the Times and Post
- became a media sensation.

Riding the wave, Exner now took advantage of the publicity and
decided to write a book. Big-time literary mogul Scott Meredith
was her agent. Meredith reportedly sold serialization rights to
the book, sight unseen, to the National Enquirer for $150,000.

The book outline was prepared by Meredith's office and was
approved by Exner's attorney. A co-author was arranged for.

The co-author turned out to be Ovid Demaris. This is significant.
Demaris is usually described as a veteran crime writer of such
books as Captive City and The Green Felt Jungle . This is true as
far as it goes, but it does not go far enough.

Demaris Enters the Scene

In his prologue, Demaris writes that he was in the midst of a
multi-city tour for his previous book when he heard about Exner's
story. The previous book was an oral biography of Hoover entitled
The Director. In the Hoover book, Demaris has some disparaging
remarks about the Church Committee: it was politically motivated,
inspired by "rehashes of old charges," and was "flogging a dead
horse." Demaris was also unhappy with the many books on Watergate
and the fall of Richard Nixon. He characterizes them with the
following: "While some of their tall tales may be true, they are
not unaware that truth that is stranger than fiction will sell
better in a market already jaded by exotic overexposure."

Demaris' book on Hoover can only be called sympathetic. This is
immediately indicated by his choice of interviewees. They include
high level FBI ad

From:	Biplab Bose
Subject:	Re: Shameless propaganda !
Date:	Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:30:44 GMT

would not invade Cuba
under the tremendous pressures of either the Bay of Pigs debacle,
or the Cuban Missile Crisis in which Bobby backed him on both
occasions. Reportedly, like Davis, Waldron likes to use CIA
sources like Bill Colby (Mr. Phoenix Operation) on JFK's ideas
about assassination. Just as Newman corrected the Vietnam record
in 1992, his long-awaited book Kennedy and Cuba will do much to
correct these dubious assertions.

"Liberal" Turncoats:
Collier and Horowitz

The same year that the Davis book appeared, another anti-Kennedy
book was published. It was entitled The Kennedys: An American
Drama, and was written by Peter Collier and David Horowitz. These
two were both former editors at the liberal Ramparts publication.

After the magazine folded, both began to write biographies of
famous American families while on their way from the left to the
extreme right. In order, the pair examined the Rockefellers, the
Kennedys, the Fords, and the Roosevelts. As with Davis, it is
interesting to note the difference in their treatments of the
Rockefellers (1976) and the Kennedys (1984). In the earlier book,
the authors note toward the end that they had access to the
Rockefeller family archives (p. 636). In another book of theirs,
Destructive Generation, they write that the Rockefeller book
began when the pair were soliciting funds to keep Ramparts afloat
(p. 275). This is how they got in contact with the younger
generation of that clan. So when the magazine fell, they went to
work on the family biography with access to people and papers
that no outside, nonofficial authors had before. It is
interesting that, in 1989, the authors wrote that when they
started the Rockefeller book, they were expecting to excavate an
"executive committee of the ruling class" and thereby unlock the
key to the American power elite.

From:	Biplab Bose
Subject:	Re: Shameless propaganda !
Date:	Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:01:21 GMT

is ready. We have seen this elitist "game" of Machiavellian
Power Politics before. Once again, it is up to the common sense and
decency of the American People to stop it. Our alternative is an
American Empire in Eurasia and an American Police State at home. The
Thousand Year Nazi Reich was purportedly defending its "homeland" too.65

Notes

1. See, e.g., Rahul Mahajan, Full Spectrum Dominance 108 (2003).

2. Shadia B. Drury, The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss (1988); Leo
Strauss and the American Right (1999). See also Alain Frachon & Daniel
Vernet, The Strategist and the Philosopher: Leo Strauss and Albert
Wohlstetter, Le Monde, April 16, 2003, translated into English by Norman
Madarasz on Counterpunch.org., June 2, 2003.

3. See also David Brock, Blinded by the Right (2002).

4. George E. Curry & Trevor W. Coleman, Hijacking Justice, Emerge,
October 1999, at 42; Jerry M. Landay, The Conservative Cabal That's
Transforming American Law, Washington Monthly, March 2000, at 19; People
for the American Way, The Federalist Society (August 2001); Institute
for Democracy Studies, The Federalist Society and the Challenge to a
Democratic Jurisprudence (January 2001).

5. Francis A. Boyle, Bush's Banana Republic, Counterpunch.org, Oct. 11,
2002.

6. Francis A. Boyle, Biowarfare, Terror Weapons and the U.S.: Home
Brew?, Counterpunch.org, April 25, 2002.

7. See Greg Palast, The Best Democracy

From:	Biplab Bose
Subject:	Re: Shameless propaganda !
Date:	Sat, 11 Dec 2004 20:34:31 GMT

Force should be deployed to Iraq under the auspices
of the U.N. General Assembly (not the U.S. co-opted U.N. Security
Council) pursuant to its powers under the Uniting for Peace Resolution
(1950). The U.S. and U.K. aggressor military occupation forces should be
removed immediately from Iraq. This is exactly what happened in the 1956
Middle East "war" when the U.N. General Assembly deployed the United
Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) to the Sinai in order to facilitate the
withdrawal of aggressor military forces by the United Kingdom, France
and Israel that had illegally attacked and invaded Egypt in their joint
and severable Nuremberg Crime against Peace for the purpose of
inflicting "regime change" against Egyptian President Nasser.62

The Bush Jr. pro-consul in Iraq Paul Bremer and his Iraqi puppet council
under the pro-Israeli Chicago Straussian Neo-Con CIA asset Chalabi
should be replaced by a U.N. Transitional Authority reporting directly
to the U.N. Trusteeship Council (not the U.S. co-opted U.N. Security
Council) in accordance with Chapter XIII of the U.N. Charter. The Iraqi
People can then proceed to exercise their international legal right to
self-determination for themselves in order to decide their own
political, economic, constitutional and legal future as they see fit -
not one pre-selected for them by the pro-Israeli Straussian Neo-Cons and
the Big-Oil operatives of the Bush Jr. administration who were
responsible for fomenting this criminal war of aggression against Iraq
in the first place. America for the Americans Otherwise, U.S., U.K. and
foreign military occupation forces will be facing another type of
Vietnam War situation. Iraq could readily become a combination of Tonkin
Gulf, L.B.J., Vietnam, Nixon, Cambodia, Watergate, and Impeachment63 all
over again, rolled into one, and accelerated. History repeating itself
as both a tragedy and a farce.64 Only this time the American Peace
Movement is ready. We have seen this elitist "game"

From:	Biplab Bose
Subject:	Re: Shameless propaganda !
Date:	Sat, 11 Dec 2004 20:01:15 GMT

tapped by the Bureau in the wake of the assassination in order to
find out who Oswald really was. His information proved remarkably
penetrating, considering it came in February of 1964. Capell said
Oswald was a CIA agent. Even more interesting, Capell stated in
his FBI interview that this information came from "a friend of
his...with sources close to the presidential commission" i. e.,
the Warren Commission. To have this kind of acute information and
to have access to people around the Commission (which was sealed
off at the time) strongly indicates Capell was tied into the
intelligence community, which of course, is probably why the
Bureau was consulting him in the first place.

This is revelatory of not just the past, i.e. the origins of this
myth, but of the present, i.e. why it persists. For as Donald
Spoto reveals in his book Marilyn Monroe, one of the people who
relentlessly pushed Capell's fabricated smear was fellow FBI
asset, Hoover crony, and Hollywood Red baiter Walter Winchell
(Spoto p. 601). (For a full discussion of former ONI operative
Winchell's service in Hoover's employ see Neal Gabler's
Winchell.) As William Sullivan has noted, the dissemination of
Capell's invention was encouraged by Hoover. Sullivan called
Bobby a near-Puritan and then added:
The stories about Bobby Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe were just
stories. The original story was invented by a so-called
journalist, a right-wing zealot who had a history of
spinning wild yarns. It spread like wildfire, of course, and
J. Edgar Hoover was right there, gleefully fanning the
flames. (The Bureau p. 56)

The Capell/Winchell/Hoover triangle sowed the seeds of this
slander. But the exposure of this triangle does more. In the
Vanity Fair article in which Judith Exner dumped out the latest
installment of her continuing saga, Liz Smith revealed that she
apprenticed at the feet of Walter Winchell in New York (January

From:	Biplab Bose
Subject:	Re: Shameless propaganda !
Date:	Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:35:54 GMT

ended up a White House
coke-sniffer and acid head, it was a definite break with the
past.

The Blairs' book established some paradigms that would be
followed in the anti-Kennedy genre. First, and probably foremost,
is the influence of Kennedy's father in his career. In fact, Joe
Kennedy's hovering presence over all his children is a prime
motif of the book. The second theme that will be followed is the
aforementioned female associations. The third repeating pattern
the Blairs' established is the use of Kennedy's health problems
as some kind of character barometer. That because Kennedy and his
circle were not forthright about this, it indicates a covert
tendency and a penchant for covering things up.

It would be easy to dismiss The Search for JFK as a slanted book,
and even easier to argue that the authors had an agenda. Clay
Blair was educated at Tulane and Columbia and served in the Navy
from 1943-1946. He was a military affairs writer and Pentagon
correspondent for Time-Life from 1949 to 1957. He then became an
edi

From:	Biplab Bose
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Date:	Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:22:19 GMT

-World War II international legal order rested.34 Nazi Ideology

Iraq had been continuously and illegally bombed by the United States and
the United Kingdom since the end of the Bush Sr. Gulf War in 1991 under
the pretext of enforcing unauthorized and clearly illegal no-fly
zones.35 But in order to accomplish their objective of seizing Iraq
outright, the Bush Jr. warmongers had to articulate another operational
rationale for a war of aggression that they could then sell to the
American People and Congress that was separate and apart from their
fatuous "war against international terrorism."36 So they resurrected the
long-ago discredited Nazi doctrine of "preventive warfare," once again
using the terrible tragedy of 11 September 2001 as a pretext for doing
so. The first overt step in their plan was the Bush Jr. aggressive
threat to Iraq uttered during the course of his State of the Union
Address to the United States Congress on 29 January 2002, branding Iraq
as part of some so-called "axis of evil" along with Iran and North
Korea.37 By means of employing this provocative language harkening back
to the World War II "axis" of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial
Japan, the Bush Jr. administration was deliberately preparing the ground
for bogus claims to launch preventive wars against all three of these
U.N. Member States. Iraq was at the top of the Bush Jr. hit-list because
it had been materially and psychologically debilitated by over a decade
of genocidal economic sanctions imposed upon its people by the United
Nations Security Council acting at the behest of the United States and
the Unite

From:	Biplab Bose
Subject:	Re: Shameless propaganda !
Date:	Sat, 11 Dec 2004 22:25:35 GMT

tell Demaris these startling details back in 1977? Why did she
wait eleven years to bare her soul? Exner says she was afraid and
needed to protect herself. Unfortunately, this rings a bit hollow
since 1) Giancana and Roselli were both dead when she wrote her
book, 2) the Church Committee spilled all the beans on the plots
to kill Castro in 1975, which 3) leaves only the Kennedys to
fear, and its clear she doesn't give a damn about them.

But for those still skeptical, she adds the other (clinching)
reason for breaking the silence: her doctor told her she had
terminal cancer and she had only 36 months to live. The article
ends in a crescendo that would move even the world weary Claude
Rains:
Now that I know I'm dying and nothing more can happen to me,
I want to be completely honest. I don't think I should have
to die with the secret of what I did for Jack Kennedy, or
what he did with the power of his presidency. I feel that I
am finally free of the past.

Exner's 1997 Version

I hope Exner sued her doctor, because ten years later she's still
with us. She now turns up in the pages of the January 1997 Vanity
Fair which, unembarrassed, again bills her as "facing her death."

This time she was teamed with another questionable expert on
Kennedy's Cuba policy - Hollywood gossip columnist Liz Smith. And
evidently, the previous fear of death wasn't enough to squeeze
the whole story out of her. She still has a few goodies to add.

The choice of Smith in 1997 is as revealing as Demaris in 1977
and Kelley in 1988. Smith writes for the New York Post, which is
literally a tabloid in both format and approach. Like Kelley,
Smith is a big fan of Sy Hersh. In fact, her c

From:	Biplab Bose
Subject:	Re: Shameless propaganda !
Date:	Sat, 11 Dec 2004 22:47:56 GMT

to
name just two, how about IBM and Eastern Airlines. I won't
enumerate the overseas holdings of the family but, suffice it to
say, the Kennedys weren't in the same league in that category.
JFK knew this. As Mort Sahl relates, before the 1960 election, he
liked to kid Kennedy about being the scion of a multimillionaire.
Kennedy cornered him once on this topic and asked him point blank
how much he thought his family was worth. Sahl replied, "Probably
about three or four hundred million." Kennedy then asked him how
much he thought the Rockefellers were worth. Sahl said he had no
idea. Kennedy replied sharply, "Try about four billion." JFK let
the number sink in and then added, "Now that's money, Mort."

Throughout the book, Davis tries to convey the feeling of a
destined royalty assuming power. So, according to Davis, Kennedy
was thinking of the Senate when he was first elected to the
House. Then, from his first day in the Senate, he was thinking of
the Vice-Presidency (p. 147). Epitomizing this idea, Davis
relates a personal vignette about the Kennedy family wake after
JFK's funeral. Davis, a cousin of Jackie Kennedy, was leaving the
hall and paused to shake hands with Rose Kennedy to offer his
condolences (p. 450). Mother Kennedy surprised him by saying in a
cool, controlled manner: "Oh, thank you Mr. Davis, but don't
worry. Everything will be all right. You'll see. Now it's Bobby's
turn." Such coolness differs greatly from what is revealed in the
recently declassified LBJ tapes in which, after the
assassination, Rose could not even speak two sentences to the
Johnsons without dissolving into tears. But the po

From:	Biplab Bose
Subject:	Re: Shameless propaganda !
Date:	Sat, 11 Dec 2004 22:07:26 GMT

associated with the John Birch Society. This is apt, but
incomplete. As Jim Garrison once noted, the more one scratches at
these Minutemen types, the more their intelligence connections
appear.

Swallowing Frank Capell

Capell had worked for the government in World War II, but was
convicted on charges of eliciting kickbacks from contractors for
the war effort. After the war, in the Red Scare era, Capell began
publishing a Red baiting newsletter, The Herald of Freedom. He
was highly active in attempting to expose leftists in the
entertainment industry. It was this experience that put him in a
good position to pen his McCarthyite, murderous smear of Bobby
Kennedy.

But there is another element that needs to be noted about Capell:
his ties to the FBI. As Lisa Pease noted in her watershed article
on Thomas Dodd (Probe Vol. 3#6), Capell was one of the sources
tapped by the Bureau in the wake of the assassination in order to
find out who Oswald really was. His information proved remarkably
penetrating, considering it came in February of 1964. Capell said
Oswald was a CIA agent. Even more interesting, Capell stated in
his FBI interview that this information came from "a friend of
his...with sources close to the presidential commission" i. e.,
the Warren Commission. To have this k

From:	Biplab Bose
Subject:	Re: Shameless propaganda !
Date:	Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:16:01 GMT

administration's
aggressions against and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq could very
well generate a reverse domino effect: ". . . they all fall down." The
United States of America is not immune to the laws of history.
Prostitution of and by the United Nations

To the same effect was Security Council Resolution 1500 of 14 August
2003, which "Welcomes the establishment of the" U.S. puppet-council in
Iraq under Chicago's pro-Israeli Straussian Neo-Con CIA asset Chalabi,
and established the so-called United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq
(UNAMI), whose headquarters in Baghdad was promptly car-bombed five days
later.50 Security Council Resolutions 1441 (2002), 1472 (2003), and 1500
(2003) just go to prove how subservient the United Nations Organization
itself has become to the imperialist enterprises of the United States
government.51 Corrupting and corroding world order wherever it goes.
Throughout this sordid affair, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan
basically operated as an errand-boy for the United States government
despite the requirements of Chapter XV of the U.N. Charter establishing
the U.N. Secretariat as one of the six independent organs of the United
Nations Organization, and in particular, of Charter article 100,
paragraph 1 mandating the absolute independence of the Secretary General
and the U.N. Secretariat from taking instructions by any U.N. Member
State: In the performance of their duties the Secretary-General and the
staff sh

From:	Biplab Bose
Subject:	Re: Shameless propaganda !
Date:	Sat, 11 Dec 2004 23:12:45 GMT

with the
victims. And since the Church Committee showed in public that the
Kennedys were not business as usual, there has been an intense
and incessant effort to reverse that verdict; in essence to
rewrite history. People like Slatzer, Davis, and now Hersh have
made their living off of it.

The Kennedys themselves deserve part of the blame. In Samuels'
article in The New Yorker, Kennedy family lawyer Myer Feldman
says that he advised the Kennedys not to even comment on Hersh,
let alone sue (p. 69). If I were advising, I would have urged a
lawsuit as far back as 1984 with both the Collier-Horowitz book
and the Davis book. I would have loved to hear how the two former
leftists had no idea that Priscilla Johnson was associated with
the CIA, had tied up Marina Oswald for years, and then issued a
tract on both Oswald and the assassination that James Angleton
himself would have written. I would have also loved to hear Davis
explain how he could have completely misrepresented the Church
Committee report to his readers. I would also like to ask him how
many people he thought would read the actual report versus how
many would pick up the paperback version of his book (which
features a blurb by Liz Smith). To me what these authors have
done at least suggests the "reckless disregard" rubric of the
libel statute.

To be fair to the Kennedys, it is hard to castigate a family
which has sustained so many tragedies. Andy Harland called up
Steve Jones after reading his article in The Humanist (Probe Vol.
4 #3 p. 8). He was an acquaintance of Peter Lawford's who talked
to him a few times about the assassination. Jones' notes from
that phone call includes the following:
Lawford told him that Jackie knew right away that shots came
from the front as did Powers and O'Donnell. He said shortly
after the funeral the family got together.... Bobby told the
family that it was a high level military/CIA plot and that
he felt powerless to do anything about it.... the

From:	Biplab Bose
Subject:	Re: Shameless propaganda !
Date:	Sun, 12 Dec 2004 00:36:43 GMT

are quite similar. So its no surprise to me that the
focus of Hersh's book has shifted between Oswald did it for the
Mob, and an all out trashing of the Kennedys.

The standard defense by these purveyors is that they go on the
offense. Anyone who objects to their peculiar blend of
misinformation, or questions their sources or intent is labeled
as "protecting the Kennedys," or a "disappointed Kennedy fan," or
a "hagiographer." Tactically, this is a great cover to avoid the
questionable credibility of people like the Alsops, Priscilla
Johnson McMillan, or a flimflam man like Slatzer. It also avoids
acknowledging their descent into the ranks of Hoover and
Angleton. When Summers' book on Hoover came out, which followed
much the same line on the Kennedys as Goddess, he got a guest
spot on The Larry King Show. There, Hoover aide Cartha De Loach
called his book a collection of "sleaze." Summers fought back by
saying that Hoover and De Loach were peddling " tapes" about
Martin Luther King to the press. At that point, if Larry King
weren't such a stiff, he would have stepped in and noted, "But
Tony, we expect that kind of thing from a guy like Hoover. What's
your excuse?"

So Where are the Kennedys?

In a deeper sense, it is clear now that no one in the major media
was or is "protecting the Kennedys." The anti-Kennedy genre has
now become self-sustaining. Summers used the Collier and Horowitz
book for Goddess. He even uses Priscilla McMillan to connect JFK
with Monroe! (p. 244) Will Liz Smith call him on this? Will Ben
Bradlee? Far from "protecting the Kennedys" the establishment
shields these writers from potentially devastating critiques. The
reason being that the Kennedys were never part of that
establishment. No one protected JFK in Dallas. No

From:	Biplab Bose
Subject:	Re: Shameless propaganda !
Date:	Sat, 11 Dec 2004 17:51:07 GMT

the cries
for escalation in Vietnam, Kennedy was moving toward the Sorenson-
Schlesinger side of the White House. By 1968, RFK was further to
the left than that, being hooked up with labor leaders like
Walter Reuther and Cesar Chavez. As Otis Chandler, a firm member
of the establishment, said after Bobby's death: "I guess there's
no one to stand up for the weak and the poor now." That memory is
now being replaced by those of RFK cavorting with Monroe on the
beach; of JFK drinking martinis with Monroe's buddy Giancana; and
the Kennedys trying to take her life as they tried with Castro.

In the Anson piece, Hersh talks about changing the way people
think about the Kennedys. Talk about reversing the Church
Committee. That was just the beginning. These people could teach
Orwell something.

What will the future bring? Will Exner, still dying of cancer,
demand a DNA sample from John Kennedy Jr. to prove Jackie was
really his mother? Will Summers file a lawsuit demanding the
government turn over RFK's private snuff film of Monroe's murder?
Will Hersh now say that he was duped on the Monroe docs but now
he has the real McCoy: it was Jayne Mansfield all along. With Liz
Smith as the moderator, satire is impossible in this field.

But down deep, submerged but still present, there is a resistance
to all this. The public knows something is wrong. Two years ago,
CBS and the New York Times conducted a poll which asked the
respondents: If you could pick a President, any President, which
one would you choose to run the country today? The winner, in a
landslide, was John F. Kennedy who doubled the tally of the
second place finisher. In 1988, Rolling Stone surveyed the
television generation, i.e. the below forty group, on their
diverse opinions and attitudes. Their two m

From:	Biplab Bose
Subject:	Re: Shameless propaganda !
Date:	Sat, 11 Dec 2004 20:00:24 GMT

portrait of
Ruby based on a string of conversations with people the nightclub
owner worked with. The profile that emerges is in total
concordance with the Warren Commission view of Ruby as a dim,
emotional, hustler who killed Oswald because he admired Jack and
Jackie so much and wished to spare the widow the ordeal of a
trial. Other events are also in line with the Warren Report: the
shooting is from the sixth floor, Oswald killed Tippit, Ruby went
straight down the Commerce street ramp on November 24th to kill
Oswald.

The authors' honesty and acuity are quite suspect in that one of
their chief sources is Dallas Deputy DA Bill Alexander, notorious
for his close relationship with FBI-CIA journalist and cover-up
artist Hugh Aynesworth. Striking also is the fact that they
described one of the doctors treating Ruby as "having performed
LSD experiments on an elephant" and left it at that. If they
would have dug a little deeper, they would have found out that
the man was longtime CIA doctor Louis J. West, who also treated
Aldous Huxley. It was West's diagnosis that Ruby was a "candidate
suitable for treatment" that allowed him to be put on drugs.

Demaris and Wills spend much of their time ridiculing the critics
of the Warren Report, especially Mark Lane. They also attack
Nancy Perrin Rich, a witness who calls attenti