The Other Oswald: A Wilderness of Mirrors

By Walt Brown, Gary Hill and Bill Simpich

This book is the story of two men who began an odyssey together that became a thread, which when unraveled, reveals how Cold War paranoia escalated into the death of a president. Robert Edward Webster and Lee Harvey Oswald were manipulated like marionettes on strings of espionage. Unraveling these strings (or threads) may lead us to the puppeteers controlling them. Were these "controllers" orchestrating a series of events that would lead to JFK's assassination?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trine Day
• Release date: May 8, 2020
• ISBN: 9781634242813

Walt Brown

Walt Brown was a radio and television sportscaster during the last half of the twentieth century and broadcast more than twenty different sports. He interacted with major athletes, coaches, and celebrities in all walks of life.

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The Other Oswald: A Wilderness of Mirrors

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1. Kennedy, John F. -- (John Fitzgerald), -- 1917-1963 -- Assassination. 2. Oswald, Lee Harvey, -- 1939-1963. 3. Robert Edward Webster, -- 1928-1999. 4. Espionage, Soviet -- United States -- History. 5. Conspiracies -- United States -- History -- 20th century. 6. Intelligence service -- United States -- History -- 20th century. 7. Impostors and imposture -- United States -- Biography. I. Title

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Murder most foul, as in the best it is.

But this most foul, strange and unnatural.

Content

Title page

Copyright Page

Epigram

Dedication

Acknowledgments

PREFACE

Foreword

For the Good of the Country

Mistake by the Lake

To Russia With Love

Project LONGSTRIDE and Guide 223

Defectors – True and False

All in the Family

Oswald Double Jeopardy

OTHER OSWALDS and Other Plots

Still More Oswalds Mexico City

The French Connection

The Babysitters

The Other Murder1

Stranger Things

Still Stranger Things

Perhaps in Your Lifetime

Epilogue

Appendices

Coincidence?

GROWING UP WITH MY DAD

Organization Crypts in JFK File1

Warren Commission Rifle Tests

Robert E. Webster Chronology

Bibliography

Index

Dedicated to Mary Lou Hill.

To my wife of 46 years, who stuck by me through good times and bad.

I miss you so much.

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Bill Simpich for his encouragement, guidance, suggestions and providing me with crucial documents. Without his help I would still be struggling.

Thanks to Walt Brown for his long time friendship, insight and advice.

Thanks to Scott Webster for sharing photos, documents and childhood stories. But mostly for your friendship.

Thanks to Sharon Lane for her support and encouragement

Thanks for your help & support

Jim Finamore

Bradley Webster

Robert Curry

William Haberer (friend and fellow worker of Robert Webster)

PREFACE

by Bill Simpich

Did you ever meet a defector to the Soviet Union? No? Neither did I. I did read about a steady stream of them back in 1959, when I was about eight years old. I started reading the newspaper after the Yankees won the World Series in 1958. The sports page led me to the front page.

I asked my mom and dad why these military men would defect to the Soviet Union. My dad was an Annapolis graduate. They both told me that they had no idea. In my entire life to that point, my parents had never said that they didn’t have an answer to anyone’s question.

I never forgot it. I have always loved them and depended on them. Seeing my parents admit their vulnerabilities for the first time is not the kind of thing I forget.

There are various uncorroborated stories about a defector program involving these dozen-or-so defectors. It may have been a little more complicated than that – there may have been a series of programs that involved these men. In the last year, the US government finally released the name of the project involving Robert Webster – Project LONGSTRIDE. The perfect name for a Navy veteran making a long stride to Moscow.

Here’s something to mull over. Robert Webster defected to the Soviet Union in late 1959, two weeks before Lee Oswald. He returned two weeks before Oswald’s return in 1962. It wasn’t a coincidence. Whether Oswald and Webster knew it or not, US intelligence used both men as dangles to learn more about Soviet military plans and to try to unearth enemy spies known as moles.

Webster, a materials specialist at the Rand Development Corporation, was on the cutting edge of the use of fiberglass. He was asked to help out at the construction of the American Exhibition in Moscow in 1959. The American government had built a model home to show the Russians that they were missing out on the good life in America. This is where then-Vice President Richard Nixon enticed Premier Nikita Khrushchev into a famed kitchen debate with a not-so-subtle claim that our kitchen is better than your kitchen!

A 10/9/59 Domestic Contact Division memo refers to Webster as Guide 223, days after he announced his intention to defect. He was still Guide 223 in April 1960.

Priscilla Johnson, the American journalist who interviewed Oswald in Moscow in late 1959, was referred to as Guide 302 in what I will call her debriefing report. There is a similar debriefing report for Guide 303-BR, a still-unknown Cuban national who became a journalist for a major American newspaper. Webster wrote his own debriefing report upon his return to the USA in 1962.

The CIA’s Domestic Contact Division (DCD) may have referred to Webster and other defectors as guides because they guided the DCD to various types of material to collect.

He was probably nothing more than a source to American intelligence, unwittingly offering them guidance in how to approach the Soviets. American intelligence used Webster as a dangle – a shiny object to entice the Soviets.

Soviet intelligence took the bait. They sought out Webster and asked him if he could help them in the burgeoning field of rockets and jet engines. Webster’s American handlers were delighted. Whether he knew it or not, Oswald was being used to throw the Soviets off guard.

Webster and Oswald had some similarities in appearance. This was used to confuse the Soviets in what looks like a double dangle. Even Oswald’s wife Marina was confused about whether she met Webster or not. Jean Hallett, the wife of the naval attache at the American Embassy and a temporary receptionist at the American Exhibition, also confused the two men.

Webster was 5 foot, 10 inches, 165 pounds – a description noted in a memo when he announced his intention to defect in early October 1959. Months later, this identical description was used to describe Lee Oswald, who was elsewhere accurately described as a slender 5 foot 9 and 140 pounds. Evidence indicates that this ambiguity was used by American intelligence officers in a mole hunt by inserting marked cards into documents and monitoring their routing path – if a molehunter finds an unauthorized person using this information, this unauthorized person might be a mole.

On 11/22/63, fifteen minutes after JFK was shot, an unidentified witness described the shooter as slender, 5 foot 10, 165. This description was picked up by the Dallas police radio. There is nothing slender about a man of that size. These were words off a script, designed to frame Oswald for the killing of the President.

The arrest of Oswald was a poison pill for US intelligence – the last thing these agencies wanted to do was to reveal the documents showing how the man was monitored, surveilled, and used as a pawn on the global chessboard.

Similarly, Webster was surrounded by intelligence officers both before and after his sojourn to the Soviet Union. One of them was Ned Bennett, who made a point of interviewing Robert Webster at length when he came home from the Soviet Union. Bennett was described at the time as a CIA officer specializing in covert action and propaganda. During this era, the CIA used propaganda guidance. Would this activity translate as public relations today, looking at the best way to handle Guide 223 in the public eye?

Five years later, when public distrust about the government’s version of the JFK case was at one of its periodic high-water marks, Bennett wrote a memo circulated to chiefs (of) certain stations and bases around the world.

Bennett admitted in plain English that the aim of this dispatch is to provide material for countering and discrediting the claims of all those who challenged the notion of Lee Oswald as the sole assassin of President Kennedy. He advised that book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose. When intelligence officers are shaping our opinions with book reviews and feature articles, alarm bells should be going off in our heads.

Bennett’s words in 1967 are still true today. Alec Baldwin – the fearless actor that delights in playing Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live – told a telling story at a Citizens Against Political Assassinations (CAPA) dinner in Houston in 2017. Baldwin informed several NBC executives that he wanted to address the JFK case on television. The station’s response was that their network policy was to align with the findings of the Warren Report.

Can you imagine a network in 1967 aligning itself with a government report written 53 years earlier, in 1914, the year that World War I began? Ned Bennett had that kind of imagination. As recently as 2017, NBC lined up with the Warren Report written in 1964. Wittingly or unwittingly, NBC did Ned’s bidding.

Webster’s role in the JFK story is an important one. Like many people, he was unwittingly used by elements within US intelligence in the development of the legend surrounding the Soviet defector Lee Oswald. Years later, various forces used Oswald as the patsy in an operation that concluded in the killing of President John F. Kennedy. Webster had no idea that Oswald had been a patsy, or how he himself was used.

Gary Hill understands the Webster story better than anyone. He fits the saga within a jigsaw of other puzzle pieces surrounding Lee Oswald and other figures in the JFK assassination. Gary loves research and he approaches the story from a variety of angles. He is comfortable with ambiguity. He is willing to admit that he doesn’t have all the answers. He is dogged about pressing the JFK investigation forward.

Gary asked me to weigh in because I studied Robert Webster and wrote about him in my e-book, State Secret. I love Gary’s research and I love his passion. As much I love research, it is useless if it doesn’t lead to action – including, but not limited to, a full-scale campaign against the Ned Bennetts of the world and everything they stand for.

Gary Hill will not settle for anything less than the essential answers to the JFK case in his lifetime. Gary Hill is a man of action.

Bill Simpich is a civil rights attorney in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is on the board of directors of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, an organization focused on the study of documents related to the 1960s assassinations, Watergate, and Iran-Contra. His book, State Secret, deals with Oswald and Webster’s defection.

Sources: At www.maryferrell.org

Project LONGSTRIDE: RIF 104-10181-10128.

Guide 223: Reel 17, Folder S, pages 58 and 67.

Guide 302: HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 14, 1993.07.29.17:49:01:430039, page 2.

Guide 303-BR: RIF124-10213-10483.

Webster wrote his own debriefing report: Reel 17, Folder S, page 71.

They sought out Webster: Bill Simpich, State Secret, Chapter 1

Webster and Oswald had some similarities in appearance: Id.

Even Oswald’s wife Marina was confused whether she had met Webster or not: Id., also see Warren Commission Document 5, page 265 of 520.

Jean Hallett also confused the two men: ARRB Final Report, page 109 of 227.

A description noted in a memo: RIF 104-10276-10032.

This identical description was used to describe Oswald: RIF 104-10428-10253, page 8.

Slender, five foot eight 140 pounds: Oswald 201 File, Vol. 1, Folder 2, page 73 of 206.

Slender, five foot ten, 165 pounds: Warren Commission Hearings, Volume 6, page 321.

Covert action and propaganda: RIF 104-10182-10075, page 4 of 6.

Propaganda guidance: 104-10102-10271.

Chiefs of certain stations and bases: RIF 104-10404-10376, page 2 of 54.

The aim of this dispatch is to provide material for countering and discrediting the claims: Id., page 3 of 54.

Foreword

(Kennedy) died because he lost the support of his peers.

– Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, (herself assassinated).

by Dr. Walt Brown

From 1943 to his passing in April, 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt refused to listen to the concerns of his ally, Winston Churchill, who feared, rightly so as events turned out, that the Red Army would overrun the vast majority of Europe and create a new autocratic empire at the expense of millions of European citizens.

By the time the American Army ceased its forward progress on the Elbe River in Germany, the Red Army had overrun Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Austria, leaving behind 300 divisions to make sure that there were no conflicts with the citizenry or outside parties.

Roosevelt had even stated at Yalta that the United States had no intention of keeping troops in Europe beyond the year 1948, a statement that brought nothing short of sheer terror to the ears of Churchill and nothing but sheer joy to the ears of Josef Stalin.

Essentially, the Cold War began when the extremely hot war in Europe ended. For a brief few years, the United States had sole ownership of the nuclear technology necessary to construct weapons of mass destruction, but that monopoly ended while Roosevelt’s successor, Harry S. Truman, was still in office.

No sooner had the concept of nuclear parity, or mutually assured destruction set in, the world’s superpowers – the United States and the Soviet Union, and to a lesser extent Great Britain, France, and the emerging Red China, began a contest to win the hearts and minds of the remaining billions on the planet.

It was an era of cruelty, but the vast majority of human history has been a connected set of eras of cruelty. Espionage on both sides of the Iron Curtain¹ consumed an unreasonable amount of each nation’s gross domestic product, but military expenditures vastly outstripped the relatively meager spying budgets, to the point where, by 1989, American spending on new weapons systems literally bankrupted the Soviet Union because of their unsuccessful attempts to keep up with the United States.

But that economic bankruptcy was in the future. In the era of our study, a time that had to be lived to be truly understood, the focal point was far more in the area of moral bankruptcy. If the reader can imagine that something like McCarthyism could flourish because one drunken senator alleged he had lists of Communists and fellow travelers, then you begin to view the cruelty.

The Soviets did everything they could to outstrip, or, if necessary, embarrass the United States in the eyes of world opinion, occasionally losing sight of the fact that American aid to the Third World far outstripped what the Soviets could match, and pesos frequently outran propaganda.

Still, the Soviets persisted, and the cost be damned. They launched the first astronaut into space and brought back the first astronaut from space, although that might have involved multiple individuals, as Soviet space adventures cost the lives of astronauts before Yuri Gagarin went around the planet one time, and returned to Moscow to kiss Khrushchev on the lips – a high price to pay for fame.

Gagarin’s voyage was no surprise, as the Soviets had launched a series of Sputniks in 1957,² convincing frightened westerners that what was nothing more than a heavy radio circling the earth could just as easily be a nuclear device that could fall out of the sky with precise aim at a pre-specific target.

Or targets.

Suddenly, America found itself in second place, and spared no expense to catch up, although it would be months after Sputnik that the US launched a four-pound satellite, Explorer I.

Meanwhile, the propaganda battle continued. The Russians grabbed headlines wherever they could, while the United States, still governed by the grandfatherly Dwight D. Eisenhower, sat on its laurels of Motherhood, Apple Pie, and Chevrolet.

Sadly, none of those items could destroy an enemy city, so the U.S. played catch up in space technology, weapons construction, and espionage.

Amidst the global battle for hearts and minds, little victories sometimes meant a lot. Khrushchev being denied a visit to Disneyland in California was one nose-thumbing at the Soviets, although the Soviet dictator did get to visit an Iowa cornfield and see Shirley MacLaine on a sound stage in Hollywood.

Amidst all the headline grabbing, an occasional MiG fighter-pilot would fly his aircraft to the west and request asylum, and that was always big news.

Lesser news occurred when Americans, absent aircraft, walked across the line to the Soviet Union and declared their allegiance to the Mother Earth that was alleged to be fecund with economic prosperity.

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was hit by multiple gunshots as his motorcade wound its way through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.

The President was taken at high speed to Parkland Memorial Hospital where a team of doctors³ worked feverishly for a brief time but realized at first glance that the President had received a fatal head wound.

A pair of Roman Catholic priests performed the Last Rites of the church and the President was declared dead at 1:00 p.m., the time being more of a record-keeping convenience than the exact moment of the passing.

The death of the President was the only certainty on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. Of approximately 600 people in and around Dealey Plaza, only a few noticed an alleged assassin hanging out of a window, yet nobody could ever, or did ever, identify the alleged killer in a police lineup.

The remainder, who heard the shots but did not see the shooter(s), insisted that the shots came from different directions than the direction seen by the handful of eye witnesses. The crowd in Dealey Plaza surged in the direction of an area that became known as ‘the grassy knoll,’ but not surprisingly, no rifleman was found there, admiring his handiwork after the fact.

A number of individuals in and around Dealey Plaza became persons of interest, but none were placed in custody and all were released, in some cases, after providing a false identity that was not checked by law enforcement authorities.

Only the medical people at the hospital saw President Kennedy’s wounds, as Mrs. Kennedy held her husband in such a way that he could not be seen, and as a result, could not be moved, and he was not moved until Secret Service Special Agent Clint Hill⁴ removed his suit coat and covered President Kennedy’s upper extremities.

Once the President reached Trauma Room One, accounts once again differed in many respects – the location of the wounds, the nature of the wounds, particularly in respect to entrance and exit wounds as well as the severity of the head wound, and the doctors were under stricture not to speak.

One medical press conference was held, and Dr. Malcolm Perry, a 34-year old surgeon, told reporters that the President had been shot from the front and that the bullet had struck something after entering his neck and then the bullet deviated upward and exited through a large hole in the back of the head.

One would imagine that the most significant press conference held in 1963, and chaired by not one but two medical experts, would be consistent with the reality of the event. But when faced with government investigators, Dr. Perry lamely stated that questions were being fired at him from many directions and that his statement was a media confusion based on the bedlam of the press conference.

No video of that press conference survived. Like President Kennedy, it is forever dead. Perry became an apologist for what came to be known as the official version of the assassination, and somehow, that vaulted him into such surgical fame that at the time of his passing, he was taking his medical skills on the road in the private jet he owned.

Financial success was one of many rewards of patriotism.

While Dr. Perry was giving his opinions based on the incisions he made on the President, a police cruiser pulled alongside a man walking along an average street miles from the assassination site.

The policeman in the vehicle and the man on the sidewalk spoke briefly through the passenger window and then the officer exited his vehicle only to be struck by four bullets and killed instantly.

Witnesses said one man did it and ran away, other witnesses gave a different description of a cop killer who left in a vehicle.

The man believed to have fired the shots at the officer was arrested in a local theatre and taken to police headquarters, where such bedlam reigned that nobody seemed to know much of anything. The captain of the Homicide and Robbery Bureau gave cops an order to bring in a suspect for questioning, only to discover that the man in question was sitting in custody.

What was said during approximately twelve hours of interrogation can barely be pierced together, as apparently neither a stenographer nor a tape recorder⁵ was considered to be important.

What mattered most were three components in the early stages of the investigation: the individual, Lee H. Oswald⁶ worked in the building (not on the knoll) from which some people believed the shots were fired; his political orientation, at least as far as a resume of his known activities could be stitched together, painted him as a Red; and, most importantly, it was said he had defected to the Soviet Union, although the reality was that he simply went there for just over two years, spending most of that time trying to convince authorities to let him return home.

No matter. Forty-six hours after Oswald’s encounter with the police in the theatre, he was shot to death on live television, because the Dallas Police wanted the world to see that he was being transferred according to protocol, and perhaps because the massive media presence would allow a killer to meld into the crowd.

It was fortuitous, as the murder prevented any further court proceedings, and the killing of President Kennedy remains, and will remain, for all time, an unsolved homicide.

The televised murder allowed millions to watch the actual killing of the defector, although it would be much later learned that he was far from being the only defector.

The televised murder also allowed the gullible public to watch the execution of Lee Harvey Oswald, although it would later be learned that he was far from being the only Lee Harvey Oswald.

This work is about people and processes; two people in particular, Robert Webster, a plastics engineer, and Lee H. Oswald, a lonely high-school dropout whose resume would give new meaning to the concept of failure.

Both men left the United States for Mother Russia at virtually the same time, and returned at virtually the same time. One returned with the help of State Department money and no questions asked, later to become the most famous assassin in history.

The other would return to a strenuous debriefing process and fall into the dustbin of history, occasionally appearing as a counterpoint, howsoever briefly, to the future patsy/assassin.

The two stories could not be more similar. And they could not be more different….

Walt Brown is a former special agent of the Justice Department. He received his PhD. in American History from the University of Notre Dame. He was also an Adjunct Professor of American History at Ramapo College, New Jersey. He is the author of The People v. Lee Harvey Oswald, and Treachery in Dallas. He is also the editor of JFK/Deep Politics Quarterly.

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1 The term Iron Curtain has frequently been ascribed to Winston Churchill, in a 1946 speech he gave in Fulton, Missouri, but Germany’s Propaganda Minister, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, used the term – in German – prior to his suicide in 1945.

2 The first orbiting space station was launched on October 4, 1957, and it may well have been a hot-button item to overshadow the world’s first nuclear disaster at a Soviet facility in Malek, east of the Urals. Thousands died as a result, and the site only became re-habitable in the year 2015.

3 The actual number of attending physicians cannot be known, as the original definitive headcount has required revision over the years to include some medical individuals who for reasons best known to them remained silent, in some cases, for fifty years and then told their story. As the reader will discover, the same delayed testimony applied equally to eyewitnesses to the murder and individuals who knew one of the many Lee Oswalds.

4 Hill would give testimony at absolute right angles to the conclusions of the President’s Commission regarding President Kennedy’s wounds, and Hill had the best view of those wounds for the nightmarish four-minute ride from Dealey Plaza to Parkland. With the passage of time, Hill decided, most likely for monetary considerations, to venture out of his alcoholic haze and begin writing memoirs and selling autographed photographs of the motorcade under fire. He concluded one memoir by saying that Lee Oswald fired all three shots, alone, from the Texas School Book Depository, and he added that he should be believed, because he was there. Such was the careful separating of fact from fiction when patriotism was the ultimate goal.

5 Also not present for the interrogation sessions was a lawyer for the person of interest in custody, a barefaced attempt at concealment of his statements. If the individual was indeed a suspect in the murder of the President of the United States, no law enforcement officer worth his badge should have dared to ask a question absent an attorney for the accused. Yet it happened, and not even in death was the individual allowed legal counsel.

6 Lee H. Oswald, as the accused individual signed his name on such documents that survived him indicate, suddenly became, in the patriotic media, Lee Harvey Oswald, as assassins, viz., John Wilkes Booth, always have three names. Lee Oswald sounds like a name for the paper boy. Lee Harvey Oswald suddenly becomes a certified bad-ass.

Introduction

For the Good of the Country

Few of us who were alive when it happened can honestly not forget what happened that day … and what has changed. For some, it gnaws at our souls, lurks in our minds and keeps us up at night."

– Kris Millegan, Publisher, TrineDay

This story is not gong to die as long as there’s a real reporter alive – And there are a lot of them.

– Dorothy Kilgallen

This book is the story of two men who began an odyssey together that became a thread, which when unraveled, may reveal how cold war paranoia escalated into the death of a president. Robert Edward Webster and Lee Harvey Oswald were manipulated like marionettes on strings of espionage. Unraveling these strings (or threads) may lead us to the puppeteers controlling them. Were these "controllers" orchestrating a series of events that would lead to JFK’s assassination?

In 1975, a U.S. Senate committee chaired by Idaho Senator Frank Church (D-ID), investigated abuses by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Senator Church said,

Twenty-five years ago, this country had a matchless moral position from which it exercised immense leadership and influence in the world. Now we have had 25 years of manipulation by methods that were plainly copied from the KGB: coercion, false propaganda, bribery, abduction, attempted assassination, and where are we at the end of that 25 years?1

The Kennedy assassination can only be understood by viewing it through the lens of the Cold War paranoia that possessed and influenced the actions of the governments, intelligence agencies, the military and the heads of state of both the U.S and Soviet Union. Secrecy and lies became the modus operandi of government agencies.

Americans nurtured a deep moral sense of justice and were determined to enforce it. But sadly, that wasn’t reality in the framework of the Cold War. Behind the scenes, anything done in the name of patriotism, or more accurately nationalism, was acceptable. All’s fair in love and war. Murder, corruption, subterfuge, and above all lies in the name of God and Country were justifiable.

Who, prior to November 22, 1963, would have believed that the CIA was overthrowing democratically elected governments, plotting to assassinate foreign leaders, and working with the Mafia do so?

Who would have believed that they had projects like MOCKINGBIRD, that infiltrated and controlled the media. What happened to Freedom of the Press? In 1951 the CIA created Mockingbird. Frank Wisner established this program to influence the domestic American media. Wisner recruited Philip Graham (Washington Post) to run the project within the industry. Graham himself recruited others who had worked for military intelligence during the war. In 1951 the program was taken over by Cord Meyer. Operation Mockingbird established what writer Don Jefferies coined "Court Historians." The only difference between Pravda and our media propaganda is that the Russians knew that Pravda was State controlled. Most people in the U.S. believe they are being told the truth. In 1981 CIA Director William Casey, at a Reagan cabinet meeting, was quoted as saying We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.

By way of deception, thou shalt do war. – Motto of the Mossad

Who, in 1963, would have believed that there were projects like NORTHWOODS, that in 1962 proposed the creation of false flags that called for the CIA, or other operatives, to commit perceived acts of terrorism in U.S. cities and elsewhere. These acts of terrorism were to be blamed on Cuba in order to create public support for a war against that nation. NORTHWOODS was rejected by the Kennedy administration. One wonders if these proposals were later used against middle eastern countries like Iraq. Included in the plans were hijackings and bombings followed by the introduction of phony evidence (false flags). Were the Gulf of Tonkin incident and Weapons of Mass Destruction examples of this false flag strategy? NORTHWOODS was drafted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, signed by Chairman Lyman Lemnitzer and sent to the Secretary of Defense. These proposals included shooting down U.S. airliners, killing American officials.

OPERATION DIRTY TRICK

One such proposition subsumed a bizarre scenario involving Astronaut John Glenn. It went like this; If the 1962 launch of John Glenn’s Mercury space shot into orbit were to fail, resulting in the astronaut’s death, the U.S. Government would publicize irrevocable proof by fabricating evidence that Cuba had used electronic interference to sabotage the flight. The purpose being an excuse to invade Cuba.

Who would have believed that project MKULTRA used LSD, hypnosis and psychic driving to control individuals minds and behavior, or that HTLINGUAL opened American citizens mail to spy on them? Would we have believed in 1963 that the Joint Chiefs, led by General Curtis LeMay, would advocate a first strike on the Soviets that would result in the loss of "only 30 million American lives? Acceptable and well worth it in LeMay’s estimation. Or that OPERATION PAPERCLIP" brought Nazi war criminals into the U.S., as well as their Eastern Front Intelligence network (the Gehlen Org.)? In 1963 America, it was unfathomable that the CIA would use cocaine and heroin networks to pay for their clandestine black ops and wars, creating an addiction epidemic that would cost thousands of American deaths each year and result in an enormous price tag in crime enforcement, incarceration and a burden on our courts.

OPERATION BOUNTY

After the Bay of Pigs disaster the CIA became obsessed with oust-

ing Castro. Operation Mongoose was proliferated by schemes that ranged from attacking Cuba’s sugar crops with biological weapons to hiring Mafia hit men. Its Technical Services experts made pens to inject Castro with poison, a toxic wet suit intended as a lethal gift. In all the Central Intelligence Agency led by Mongoose chief, Air Force Brigadier General Edward G. Lansdale, author of an endless brainstorms that drove his cohorts crazy, devised 33 different plans.²

Recently released documents reveal an enterprise so bizarre by 1963 standards that, if informed of it, the American people would think it laughable. The purpose of OPERATION BOUNTY was: "To provide inducement to Cuban citizens to overthrow the Cuban Communist Regime; to put pressure on Cuban communists by creating distrust and disunity."³ Leaflets were to be dropped on Cuba encouraging dissidents to kill or apprehend Communist leaders and offering cash rewards for their successful efforts. Note that the bounty on Castro was .02 cents. These unthinkable machinations are just the tip of the iceberg. Had the CIA become the German Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS)?

ELIMINATION BY ILLUMINATION

Ian Fleming was one of JFK’s favorite authors.⁴ Fleming was invited to dinner at the White House and during the evening asked for his view of how Castro might be overthrown. Partly in jest, Fleming came up with a scenario to play on the religious beliefs of the Cuban people. Apparently Lansdale was listening and taking notes. He came up with a plan to convince the people of Cuba that the Second Coming was at hand. Rumors were to be spread that Castro was the Anti-Christ and should be overthrown. This plan was to climax with an American submarine surfacing off the coast of Cuba and firing a great burst of phosphorescent starshells in the shape of a cross over the island. The result would be an uprising and Castro would be toppled. Skeptics at the CIA labeled it ‘’Elimination by Illumination.’’

History is indeed little more than a register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

– Edward Gibbon, author of

The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

Whoever planned the assassination must have had supreme confidence that a genuine investigation would never get off the ground because the CIA, FBI and KGB would engage in damage control to cover their collective interests. A true investigation of the assassination would mean opening a can of worms that could destroy the country. Therefore, it was inevitable that there would be a cover-up. If for no other reason than that these out of control agencies would protect their images. The Warren Commission had no investigative arm of it’s own. It relied on the FBI and CIA. Important leads were not shared by these agencies with the Commission, and sometimes not even with each other. The CIA never told the Warren Commission about it’s use of the Mafia to try to kill Castro. Earl Warren first learned of the CIA/Mafia plots in January 1967, through Washington political columnist Drew Pearson. The Company had much to hide. As for the FBI, they were watching Oswald and knew he was employed on the motorcade route. Whether he was the assassin or the fall guy, they dropped the ball. Most likely he was on their payroll as an informant. Hoover was never made to look bad. The Director’s power was unparalleled and he was feared by everyone. The agencies never worked well together. This bureaucratic warfare continues to this day.

The thing I’m concerned about, and so is Katzenbach,5 is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin.

– J.Edgar Hoover after Oswald’s death and before the Warren Commission was even appointed. All they needed to do was go through the motions and rubber stamp it.

Katzenbach Memo

History is an excellent thing, if only it were true.

– Leo Tolstoy

Since Hoover had solved the assassination within one or two days after it occurred and had sent a report of the FBI’s conclusions to the new President shortly after, the outcome of the Warren Commission investigation was never in doubt. Just to make sure, the Director leaked his findings to the press. FBI agents in the field stopped following leads that were conspiratorial and focused on the lone nut. No one was about to challenge the Director. Further control of the investigation was no problem. The FBI and CIA (two of the suspects?) were the only investigative agencies used by the Commission. They had complete control of the evidence. To assure control, former CIA chief, Allen Dulles, fired by JFK after the Bay of Pigs debacle, was appointed to the Warren Commission. WC member, Gerald Ford, leaked the progress of the investigation to Hoover and the FBI by smuggling documents out of meetings.⁵ This group of esteemed and distinguished gentlemen were appointed, several against their will, to give the public confidence that their impeccable reputations would assure justice would be done. Behind the scenes they were told that they needed to do their patriotic duty for the good of the country to prevent WWIII because there was evidence⁶ that the assassination was a Communist plot.

So, in that era of innocence when we believed what we were told by leaders whom we endowed with our sacred trust, white became black and black became white. Contradiction became fact. Like religious dogma it was to be accepted. To not believe was sinful, unpatriotic or crazy. JFK was shot in the front from behind. RFK was shot in the back (of the head) from the front. It all balances out in the Wilderness of Mirrors. It must be kept secret that the Emperor had no clothes.

In a recorded phone call at 10:01 a.m. on November 23, 1963, J.Edgar Hoover admitted to Lyndon Johnson that "the case, as it stands now, isn’t strong enough to be able to get a conviction. However, the Saturday-morning newspapers were giving the opposite impression and establishing the lone nut" scenario.

On March 1, 1967 New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison arrested Clay Shaw for conspiring to murder John F. Kennedy. Shaw promptly had his attorneys file a motion for dismissal based on the fact that the Warren Commission had proved that there was no conspiracy in the JFK Assassination. The court ruled in the State’s favor declaring that the Warren Commission was hearsay.

There is no limit to a human beings ability to rationalize the truth

– Jonna Mendez, Moscow Rules

Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy, Liar

A few scattered persons which God hath chosen can set themselves sincerely and honestly to search for the truth

– Sir Isaac Newton

In the 1970s, Richard Helms, the Director of the CIA, received a criminal conviction for lying to Congress about the CIA’s role in trying to effect a regime change in Chile prior to the coup. Helms was permitted to plead nolo contendere. A plea that enables a defendant to avoid admitting guilt to a misdemeanor, He was given a suspended sentence and fined $2,000.

When Helms returned to CIA headquarters, he was given a standing ovation. A collection was made that paid his fine. His cohorts were proud that they had overthrown a democratically elected government in Chile and considered Helms a hero for lying to Congress.

Control over the flow of information emanating from the political center will be our most important weapon in establishing … authority after the coup. The seizure of the main means of mass communication will thus be a task of crucial importance.

– Edward Luttwack,

Coup d’etat: A Practical Handbook, (1968, p. 117)

In the aftermath of the assassination, the phrase for the good of the country was used to stop Presidential aides Dave Powers and Kenneth O’Donnell from revealing they had heard shots from the grassy knoll. An NBC cameraman related that an FBI agent told him that he should never discuss what we discovered … for the good of the country. Television Journalist Peter Noyes was told by members of NBC News that they were convinced their superiors wanted certain evidence suppressed at the request of someone in Washington.⁷

A Navajo proverb says that "Secrets (truth) push their way up through the sands of deception so that men can know them. The lies and cover-ups that make up the sands of deception are beginning to be seen for what they are. The truth will out. That is the irony of hypocrisy in the CIA’s motto, The Truth Will Make You Free."

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will all believe it.

– Adolph Hitler

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

– Vladimir Lenin

A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t become good just because it’s accepted by a majority.

– Booker T. Washington

The further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

– George Orwell

If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.

– Joseph Goebbels

Truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

– Winston Churchill

Definition of a lie: "Proof by assertion, sometimes informally referred to as proof by repeated assertion, is a logical fallacy in which a proposition is repeatedly restated regardless of contradiction. Sometimes, this may be repeated until challenges dry up, at which point it is asserted as fact due to it’s not being contradicted (argumentation ad nauseum). In other cases, it’s repetition may be cited as evidence of it’s truth, in a variant of the appeal to authority or appeal to belief fallacies." A logical fallacy is a form of rhetoric used by politicians. It can be a form of brainwashing. Using slogans is a key point."⁸

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1 The CIA, and the Craft of Counterintelligence, Michael Holzman, p2.

2 Task 33.

3 NARA Doc. ID 321129987, CIA 178-10003-10318.

4 And a favorite of Oswald’s too.

5 It was Ford who audaciously changed the location of the entry wound in the report to make the single bullet theory plausible.

6 Oswald’s Mexico City adventure.

7 Lamar Waldron’s interview with Dave Powers in Kennedy Library 6-5-91 The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination, Lamar Waldron, p416 & 501

8 An excellent illustration of this definition is the Single Bullet Theory.

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Mistake by the Lake

A Storm is coming. If God has a place for me, I am ready to meet him.

– Abraham Lincoln

JFK wrote the above words over and over again.

They were transcribed by Evelyn Lincoln¹

The Other Oswald explores the world of counterintelligence during the cold war. In particular, the shadowy figure of Lee Harvey Oswald and his intelligence clone, Robert Edward Webster, who were used as espionage dangles. Consistently confused by the Soviets, FBI, and even those who knew them, their saga is a wilderness of mirrors. On the chessboard of the Cold War, these pawns were sacrificed in a game that put the world in check during the Cuban missile crisis and set the stage for the final act, the end of Camelot. The final move a checkmate by coup d etat’.

On December 12, 1963, the Cleveland FBI Office received an anonymous telephone call indicating that a prostitute named Nancy had been living with Lee Harvey Oswald earlier that year. The caller said that at the time he met her, Nancy was living with Oswald at the Dakota Hotel on E. 18th Street, Cleveland, OH. The anonymous source also indicated that Nancy knew Jack Ruby in Dallas. He went on to say that Oswald had been attempting to locate a gun, talked of committing some armed robberies, and threatened one of Nancy’s customers with a knife when the customer did not pay her. The source said that Nancy and Oswald left Cleveland intending to hitchhike to Arizona, but instead went to Dallas.²

On January 8, 1964 J. Edgar Hoover sent an Air-tel to the Cleveland office instructing them to locate and interview Nancy Jane McClain, aka Nancy Marlowe, to determine if she had any information pertaining to Jack Ruby.³

It is close to impossible that Lee Oswald was in Cleveland, OH at this time, if ever. But an Oswald clone did live in Cleveland at one time and was then living in a motel in Wellsville, OH. His name was Robert Edward Webster. Like Oswald, Webster had defected to the Soviet Union in 1959. Furthermore, another FBI document dated January 15, 1964 concerning prostitute Nancy Jane McClain, has both Oswald’s and