ANCIENT ALIENS AND JFK: The Race to the Moon and the Kennedy Assassination

By Mike Bara

Mike Bara, space expert and author of Ancient Aliens on the Moon, takes a hard look at the Kennedy assassination and the race to the Moon. Bara will examine never-before-revealed clues to the real reasons behind the Kennedy assassination, the true objectives of the Apollo program and the shadow government hidden agendas that led to Kennedy’s death in Dallas. Relying on never-before-seen documents culled from the recent Kennedy assassination papers document dump, Bara will show the secret connections between key assassination figures like Lee Harvey Oswald, Lyndon Johnson, and highly placed figures inside NASA who had reasons to want Kennedy dead. Bara also looks into the bizarre billion-dollar Treasury bonds that Japanese businessmen attempted to deposit in a Swiss bank that had photos of Kennedy and the Moon on them. Is the wealth of the Moon being used as collateral by the USA? The book will dig deeply into Kennedy’s silent war with shadowy Deep State figures who were desperate to shut down his Disclosure agenda. Finally, Bara will examine the truth behind the Apollo missions by looking at recent revelations like Project Horizon, “Apollo 20,” and rumors that the landings themselves were faked. Includes 8-page color section.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press
• Release date: Jan 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781948803465

Mike Bara

Mike Bara is an aerospace engineering consultant, lecturer, and the coauthor of the New York Times best-seller Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA. He is a frequent speaker at venues including the Bay Area UFO Expo, the Conscious Life Expo, and the CE4 UFO conference in Roswell, New Mexico. He is currently starring in the documentary film Moon Rising, and will be starring in and producing his own documentary film based on Dark Mission for Sacred Mysteries Productions. In his previous career, Bara spent more than 25 years designing and consulting on engineering and Computer Aided Design for a variety of aerospace companies. He resides in Los Angeles, California.

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JFK

Introduction

I was inspired to write this book primarily because of information that I uncovered in my previous two books for Adventures Unlimited, Hidden Agenda: NASA and the Secret Space Program, and Ancient Aliens and Secret Societies. In those volumes, I realized (or at least felt) that the whole issue of JFK’s relevance to the UFO question had been mostly glossed over by other authors, or if not glossed over, misrepresented. To my knowledge, only Michael Salla had ever dealt with Kennedy’s assassination directly in relation to the alien presence, and I knew nothing of his book when I began this one. Although I quote about 50 words from it in the subsequent text relating to James Forrestal, I made a conscious choice to steer clear of his book as I was writing this one in the hope that we would one day compare notes and fill in each other’s narratives at some later date. Beyond Salla, the only other major work by someone in our community that dealt with it was the book Crossfire by the late Jim Marrs. However, having had many discussions with Jim over a beer about the Kennedy assassination I came away feeling that he simply got a great many things wrong, and when we debated them I found his justifications unconvincing. I felt very strongly about my particular variation of the Kennedy murder; who was involved, how they pulled it off and why he was targeted. So I decided that there was a void in the narrative that needed filling.

When President Trump declassified many of the JFK assassination files in October 2017, I got a much greater sense of urgency about the whole thing. There, right in front of my eyes, were actual FBI and CIA documents that verified my specific conspiracy theory, and to my knowledge no one else’s. I also knew from experience that if I didn’t make a point of this, no one else would, so the idea for this book was born and pitched to my publisher, and after some negotiation it was eventually accepted. What you are about to read is the progeny of that scenario, which I first wrote about in Dark Mission over a decade ago.

What you are about to discover, or at least consider, is that contrary to many theories published on the web, Kennedy was not killed because he was about to reveal to the public that aliens were visiting the Earth, nor because he was trying to bypass the Federal Reserve banking system with silver certificates, although those were factors. Kennedy was killed because he had secured a deal with Soviet Russia and Premier Nikita Khrushchev to jointly go to the Moon, and to share with our Cold War adversary what we discovered there. Eventually, I believe Kennedy or another president would have told us the truth—that was the plan at least—but that was not the reason he was murdered so brazenly in the Dallas streets that day. He was murdered to keep the good guys in the legitimate government from getting the same advanced and alien technology that the Deep State secret government already had.

There are a lot of other side issues I will deal with in these pages. I will show that it is simply absurd to believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was a patsy, and that he had no involvement in the assassination. The truth is, he was up to his eyeballs in involvement in this act of murder and was a violent man who sought the limelight that he eventually got for his part in the killing of the president, if ever so briefly. I will also identify the second gunman on the grassy knoll, show how he and Oswald and Jack Ruby were intertwined, and how the fatal headshot came from the front, not the back, as the official record has always claimed.

Finally, I will show you that all of the rumors that the Moon landings were faked are in fact utter nonsense, including the now popular myth that Stanley Kubrick filmed the whole thing on a studio set in Area 51 or somewhere. The simple reality is that we went, and what we found is far more important than further promoting the insipid idea that we faked the whole thing. In short, conspiracy theories like Kubrick’s Odyssey give a bad name to good conspiracy theories, like mine. It’s time to focus on reality, not wallow in stupidity.

What I will not address here is Kennedy the man, at least in his private life. However admirable a leader he was in his capacity as president, it is well known that he was equally flawed as a man, a husband and a father. To me, this does not deter from his significance in the history of our nation. It simply illustrates that like all of us, he was human too.

So let’s get started…

Chapter 1

John F. Kennedy:

Early Life and Career

Kennedy speaking to the American people from the Oval Office during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917-November 22, 1963), commonly known by his initials, JFK, was the 35th president of the United States and was born in Brookline, Massachusetts to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Kennedy, his wife. He grew up initially in a modest middle class house at 83 Beals Street in Brookline. His paternal grandfathers P. J. Kennedy and Boston Mayor John F. Fitzgerald were both successful Massachusetts politicians. Kennedy had an elder brother, Joseph Jr., and seven younger siblings; Rosemary, Kathleen, Eunice, Patricia, Robert, Jean, and Ted. Rosemary was eventually given a lobotomy for unspecified reasons and was incapacitated and institutionalized until her tragic death at the age of 86 in 2005.

Kennedy’s father Joe was an active Irish-Catholic businessman with political ambitions of his own and he achieved a significant level of success at both careers. After JFK was born he joined the stock brokerage firm of Hayden, Stone & Co. in 1919 where he became an expert in insider trading and market manipulation. Due to the unregulated environment of the day, he rode a wave of market run-ups in the 1920s and was so successful that he left Hayden, Stone to form his own investment firm in 1923. During the stock market crash of 1929 he became a multi-millionaire by shorting many stocks with information gleaned from his insider trading contacts. Kennedy’s fortune by this time was estimated to be $4 million dollars, equivalent to some $56 million in today’s money.

During the Great Depression he advanced his fortune even further by buying up cheap foreclosed real estate and evicting the original owners from the properties. He then held and/or modernized the properties and resold them at obscene profits when the market bounced back. But where he made his real money was in the illegal trade of bootlegging. During the Prohibition period (1920-1933), Kennedy was involved in smuggling beer, wine and spirits across the US-Canadian border and, with partners in organized crime, set up speakeasies all across the United States. After the end of Prohibition, Kennedy formed a legitimate liquor distribution business named Somerset Importers as a front with James Roosevelt II, the son of then president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Through Kennedy’s bootlegging activities the company possessed a massive stockpile of booze which they sold to other distributors at a huge profit. Due to these and other quasi-legal and illegal activities, his fortune had increased from the aforementioned $4 million in 1929 to over $180 million by 1935, or some $3.14 billion in today’s dollars.

But much like Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Joseph P. Kennedy had ambitions of going legitimate and having a political career. Using his associations with President Roosevelt, Kennedy managed to finagle an assignment as chairman of the newly formed Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934 to oversee Wall Street and all manner of securities trading. The irony of appointing a man to this position who had made his fortune on insider trading and market manipulation was apparently lost on the occupants of the Roosevelt White House.

On March 8, 1938, Kennedy was appointed US Ambassador to the United Kingdom where he served until October 22, 1940. Kennedy’s time as Ambassador covered the outbreak of World War II on September 3, 1939 and his tenure was marred by controversy.

Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. in 1938.

According to most reports, this grandson of an outcast Irish immigrant reveled in his time in the court of English royalty, even marrying off his daughter Kathleen to Billy Cavendish, the elder son of the Duke of Devonshire. Cavendish was the head of one of England’s grandest aristocratic families and the virtually arranged marriage was a transparent effort to cull favor with the English nobility. This was a major advancement for a man of modest Irish/ American roots who sought to use his fortune to travel among the world’s power elite.

But the breakout of the war began to put pressure on Kennedy’s lavish lifestyle and brazen ambitions. He publicly rejected the position of future Prime Minister Winston Churchill that any compromise with Hitler’s Germany was impossible, and supported then Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement. Throughout 1938, as the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Germany intensified, Kennedy attempted to arrange a meeting with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Shortly before the Nazi aerial bombing of British cities began in September 1940, Kennedy once again sought a personal meeting with Hitler without the approval of the U. S. Department of State, in order to to bring about a better understanding between the United States and Germany.

Kennedy’s strong feelings of anti-Semitism were well known and gave him a natural affinity for the Nazi regime. According to Harvey Klemmer, who served as one of Kennedy’s embassy aides, Kennedy habitually referred to Jews as kikes or sheenies. Kennedy allegedly told Klemmer that [some] individual Jews are all right, Harvey, but as a race they stink. They spoil everything they touch. When Klemmer returned from a trip to Germany and reported the pattern of vandalism and assaults on Jews by the Nazis, Kennedy responded coldly, Well, they brought it on themselves.

At one point in 1938, Kennedy met with Herbert von Dirksen, the German ambassador to the United Kingdom, in London. Dirksen claimed upon his return to Berlin that Kennedy had told him that it was not so much the fact that we want to get rid of the Jews that was so harmful to us, but rather the loud clamor with which we accompanied this purpose. [Kennedy] himself fully understood our Jewish policy. His main concern with violent acts against German Jews like the Kristallnacht was not about the Jews themselves, but that they generated bad publicity in the West for the Nazi regime.

Kennedy also carried out a long-term correspondence with the Viscountess Astor, wife of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor of the Astor family. His letters to her are full of anti-Semitic sentiments, which she shared. In one letter, she saw Hitler as a possible answer to the world problems of communism and Jewish influence. Kennedy replied that he expected the Jew media in the United States to become a problem, and that he feared that Jewish pundits in New York and Los Angeles would fan the flames of war and set a match to the fuse of the world.

But after the war openly broke out he began to have major differences with Roosevelt and his policies. He had hoped that Roosevelt would not seek re-election for an unprecedented third term in 1940, opening the door for his own presidential bid. His ambitions were mocked by many in the Royal Court, who saw his isolationist views as support for Nazi Germany over the US’s British allies. British Minister of Parliament Josiah Wedgwood, the 1st Baron Wedgwood, who had sided with Churchill and opposed the British government’s earlier appeasement policy, said of Kennedy:

We have a rich man, untrained in diplomacy, unlearned in history and politics, who is a great publicity seeker and who apparently is ambitious to be the first Catholic president of the United States.

By August 1940, Kennedy was worried that a third term for President Roosevelt would mean war for the United States. As author Laurence Leamer stated in his 2002 book The Kennedy Men, Joe believed that Roosevelt, Churchill, the Jews, and their allies would manipulate America into an approaching Armageddon. Even so, Kennedy publically supported Roosevelt’s third term in return for Roosevelt’s promise to support his eldest son Joseph Kennedy Jr. in a run for Governor of Massachusetts in 1942.

But according to Edward Renehan, author of Joseph Kennedy and the Jews, Kennedy remained more wary of prominent American Jews, such as Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter, than he was of Hitler. He maintained this stance even during Britain’s darkest hours early in the war after the Germans had overrun Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands and France in swift succession. At the time he made no excuses, telling Boston Globe reporter Joe Dinneen:

It is true that I have a low opinion of some Jews in public office and in private life. That does not mean that I… believe they should be wiped off the face of the Earth… Jews who take an unfair advantage of the fact that theirs is a persecuted race do not help much… Publicizing unjust attacks upon the Jews may help to cure the injustice, but continually publicizing the whole problem only serves to keep it alive in the public mind.

In addition to his open anti-Semitism, Kennedy also never expressed the slightest objection in public or private to the internment of Japanese Americans into concentration camps during World War II, which was ordered by Roosevelt.

A few weeks before Roosevelt’s re-election in November 1940, Kennedy publically broke with the administration for the first time, stating in a joint interview with the Boston Sunday Globe and St. Louis Post-Dispatch Democracy is finished in England. It may be here, he said, meaning the United States. Taking a strong stance against providing military aid to Britain, he told the two reporters, Louis M. Lyons and Ralph Coghlan:

It’s all a question of what we do with the next six months. The whole reason for aiding England is to give us time... As long as she is in there, we have time to prepare. It isn’t that [Britain is] fighting for democracy. That’s the bunk. She’s fighting for self-preservation, just as we will if it comes to us… I know more about the European situation than anybody else, and it’s up to me to see that the country gets it.

He was basically arguing that fascism and Hitler were not bad enough for the United States to go to war over.

This interview set off a firestorm of public derision of Kennedy in London, where he was perceived as a defeatist. As German air raids on the English capital accelerated, Kennedy withdrew to the countryside while other prominent British figures, including Prime Minister Churchill and the Royal Family, remained in London and endured The Blitz. Kennedy’s cowardly retreat to the country led a member of the British Foreign Office to comment I thought my daffodils were yellow until I met Joe Kennedy.

When Roosevelt’s aides saw the quotes they were very concerned because Kennedy was perceived as vital to pumping up the Catholic vote for the Democrats. Roosevelt recalled Kennedy to Washington for a meeting but instead Kennedy abruptly resigned. Alarmed, Roosevelt invited him to spend the night at the White House and urged him to make a nationwide speech on the president’s behalf. After some negotiation, Kennedy agreed to do so and according to Kennedy’s biographer David Nasaw, the radio speech rallied reluctant Irish Catholic voters to his [Roosevelt’s] side, buttressed his claims that he was not going to take the nation into war, and emphasized that he alone had the experience to lead the nation in these difficult times.

Once Roosevelt was re-elected, Kennedy’s resignation was made public and he withdrew to plot a run against Roosevelt if he ran again in 1944. But his ambitions literally blew up in his face when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and Germany declared war on the United States. With the US having suffered a sneak attack and now on full war footing, isolationistfascist sympathizers like Kennedy were ostracized from the debate and left in the political wilderness.

Recognizing that his own political career was over, Kennedy turned his ambitions to his eldest sons, Joe Jr. and John. They both volunteered for the armed forces and fought in the war. Joe was perceived as the most likely to succeed, and as the elder brother worked hard to make an impression he could use later in his political career. He had been groomed to be the first Roman Catholic president of the United States by his father from a young age, and this led him to take unnecessary risks to try to make himself into a war hero. Joining the Naval Reserve in 1941, Joe Jr. trained as a Naval Aviator and had a successful career until his death during the very aggressive Operation Aphrodite in August 1944. This left the task of carrying on his father’s legacy to John, the second son.

John had also distinguished himself during the war. Like his brother, he joined the Naval Reserve in 1941 after graduating from Harvard in 1940, but not without some issues. He had tried to join the Army Officer Candidate School initially, but was rejected because of chronic back problems and his reputation as a not-soserious party boy. Life as the second son had been easier on John than the responsibilities that came with Joe Jr.’s role as the first son, and John had taken full advantage of his wealthy lifestyle and his father’s influence. But with Joe Jr. gone he was now desperate to get into the war and make a name for himself. John had his father pull some strings and with the help of the Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence —who was his father’s former naval attaché in Britain —John got in to the Naval Reserve and was assigned to the Office of Naval Intelligence in Washington. Itching to get into combat, JFK attended the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps at Northwestern University in Chicago, emerged as a Lieutenant Junior Grade (JG) and was assigned to command a Patrol Torpedo boat, PT-101.

In April 1943, Kennedy was assigned to Motor Torpedo Squadron 2, based at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands and given command of PT-109. After several successful missions, disaster struck on the night of August 1, 1943. PT-109 was performing