The assasination of Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, is perhaps the most ignored American historical milestone in the second half of the 20th Century. In fact, virtually no historian recognizes it as such. Whish is odd since it is clearly a marker in two ways. First, his murder climaxed a series of four major assasinations in less than five years. Preceding his assasination (while he was a sitting US Senator leading anti mafia hearings and activities in the United States Senate and declared candidate for the United States Presidency to oppose Richard Nixon in 1968 debating policies of war) were those of his brother John F. Kennedy, Malcom X, and RFKs friend and colleague Martin Luther King.
All four of these deaths were caused by gunfire, and wee redolent with suspicious circumstances. It was impossible to delineate the truth about the actual facts pertaining to them since, in each case, a cover-up ensued almost immediately afterwards. In an earlier book, Lisa Peace an dI co-edited an anthology from Probe Magazine called The Assassinations, which tried to demonstrate the commonalities between the four cases. -Introduction by James DiEugenio from A Lie To Big To Fail
I Edward Paul Donegan add the following assasinations in.
Lee Harvey Oswald. Central Intelligence asset loyal to the USA and patsy. Dorothy Killgallen, reporter and journalist and material witness and friend of JFK and RFK.
Jack Ruby, isolated and assasinated material witness under the control of a CIA based justice system that Nixon and others controlled.
Those were from the era of JFK and RFK. I accuse Ron Petaki of being a British spy who killed Killgallen who was tied to British propaganda films first she supported then she and the Kennedy’s were rejecting (Sound of Music, Julie Andrews.)
As series as these allegations are they in total are minor if my larger Misconduct Allegations (Treason allegations) are correct acroos the span of history I sugest and eras I suggest.
Zéro
1 Un
2 Deux
3 Trois
4 Quatre
5 Cinq
6 Six
7 Sept
8 Huit
9 Neuf
10 Dix
Sabotage Zéro: Tea Pot Dome Scandal, Oil business, Rockefellers, suspicous dates and presidential death-suicide
Sabotage Un: 1946 Nixon Cabell grows out of control in British form of Plausibly Deniable unconstittional activities leading into the string of murders the above authors reference as the Treasonous Cabal.
Sabotage Deux: The ascendency to power of the Bush family, Nixon, later Barrack Obama Jr a puppet of the above and in the bueracracy Donald Barr, William Barr, George H.W. Bush as CIA, others such as Nixon and Ford and Rockefeller gaining power and the mouse guarding the cheese their investigations can not reveal how they gained power killing the Kennedy family.
Sabotage Trois: The Kennedy Curse as those children of Joseph Kennedy Sr. die off I think killed by the CIA, one dying just as Sunny Bono did skiing and at about the same time, and it was the USA Bush Republicans not the Russia Mafia, that killed them.
Sabotage Quatre: Jude Roll, Scalia, Thomas Crane Wales, and others are killed and authors such as Phillip Marshall and Michael Hastings die. Dyring this time I Edward Paul Donegan assert in a US prison FMC Butner a Poliuam attack on me occurred or similar raw source radiation.
Sabotage Cinq: Mayorkais, Burns, Lloyd Austin and before him Vince Steward and others were likely Cabal groomed foreign loyal foreigh backed assets.
Most egregious are Scalia, Wales, and Crane. The closest the USA will ever have to a king is its judiciary, unassailable by any force thus free to act without fear. That is its Constitutional Competence – it fears no one nor ever should.
Most personally disturbing. Seal Team Six and others such as deed FBI agents (Ted Gunderson) or other whistleblowers betrayed by the Cabal but loyal to the USA.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON JOHN F. KENNEDYand theGREAT AMERICAN COUP D’ETAT
by L. Fletcher Prouty
On Nov 22, 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson became President of the United States of America.
On that same date, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.
On Nov 26, 1963, President Johnson signed a National Security Action Memorandum #273, the highest level national security document, as guidance for future Vietnam plans and policy. This brief directive most significantly initiated changes reversing Kennedy’s Vietnam policy of NSAM #263, Oct 11, 1963. Kennedy had decreed then that “the bulk of U.S. personnel would be out of Vietnam by the end of 1965.”
Strangely, this NSAM #273, which began the change in Kennedy’s policy toward Vietnam, was drafted on Nov 21, 1963…the day before Kennedy died. It was not Kennedy’s policy. He would not have requested it, and would not have signed it. Why would it have been drafted for his signature on the day before he died; and why would it have been given to Johnson so quickly? Johnson had not asked for it. On Nov 21, 1963 Johnson had no expectation whatsoever of being President on Nov 26th.
On Nov 29, 1963, President Johnson met with J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI Director, to discuss the list of names compiled for the commission to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy. These men were: Chief Justice Earl Warren, Chairman; Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mi; Rep. Hale Boggs, D-La; Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-Ga.; Sen. John Sherman Cooper, R-Ky.; John J. McCloy, New York banker; Allen W. Dulles, formerly Director of Central Intelligence, Sen. Jacob Javits, D-NY; and General Lauris Norstad, U.S. Air Force. All were approved to serve on the Commission, except the last two, who for reasons unknown did not serve with that body.
Johnson and Hoover were old friends who had lived across the street from each other in Washington for the past 19 years. They understood each other. They needed each other. As recorded in a Memorandum for the Record, written by Hoover on that date and copied for eight of his senior FBI deputies, Lyndon Johnson, who had been in the third car behind Kennedy in the Dallas motorcade, took advantage of this first White House meeting to ask his old friend some personal questions that had caused him great concern since the assassination.
He asked, “How many shots were fired?” Hoover told him, “Three.” Then Johnson asked, if any had been fired at him? Hoover replied, “No, three shots were fired at the President and we have them. The President was hit by the first and third bullets and the second hit the Governor (Connally).” (This statement was wrong, e.g. one stray bullet hit a curbstone one and one – half blocks away and a fragment wounded a bystander. That bullet was a missed shot: therefore it was either number four, or the cause of the contrived theory about the “Magic” bullet that allegedly hit both men.)
This discussion, between the two old friends, whichtook place on Nov 29, 1963 one week after President Kennedy’s assassination, Most important. It reveals the deep concern of President Johnson. He heard bullets pass over-head. He never forgot that sound and its significance. He had been educated at Dealey Plaza.
In early June 1971, a few days after the Pentagon Papers appeared in The New York Times, Leo Janos, formerly of the Johnson white House staff, attended a luncheon in the private dining room of the Johnson Library with the ailing ex-President and other friends. As Janos reported later, in the ATLANTIC Monthly Magazine of July 1973: “During coffee, the talk turned to President Kennedy, and Johnson expressed his belief that the assassination in Dallas had been part of a conspiracy. Be never believed that Oswald acted alone, although he could accept that hepulled a trigger.” Johnson followed that with a statement that had the megaton force of a full size hydrogen bomb. He said, and Janos wrote: “We had been operating a damned Murder Inc. in the Caribbean.”
That was Juneof 1971. Lyndon Johnson died in January 1973, and this Janos article appeared in July 1973. Sincethat date, with those words of,
(1) the man who had established the Warren Commission itself,
(2) the man who was in the motorcade behind Kennedy, and
(3) the man who, as President, became privy to the darkest secrets of the government, …it should have become clear to everyone by now that Kennedy was killed as a result of a massive conspiracy by a team of professional killers following a consensual decision from the highest levels of power in the country, perhaps in the more modern sense…in the world.
Clearly, by late 1963, the decision had been made that:
- “Kennedy had to be deprived of re-election.”
- “Kennedy had to go.”
- “A Kennedy dynasty had to be thwarted.”
The fact of conspiracy, underscored by President Johnson himself, makes it clear that the Report of the Warren Commission, which maintains that one man, Lee Harvey Oswald, with one “mail order” rifle and three bullets killed John F. Kennedy and severely wounded Governor John B. Connally at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, is totally false and contrived.
The Report of the Warren Commission has been used to provide the life blood of a massive cover-story that has been kept alive for decades to brainwash generations of Americans and others around the world. It perpetuates the American coup d’etat.
A case can be made for no conspiracy, when it can be proved that one man acted alone. As soon as more than one man is involved, the senseless act of a “lone nut” can no longer be used. A conspiracy is evidence of malice and of an evil plan to obtain an objective. This is the great significance of Johnson’s statements. He confirms the conspiracy.
These points are topped by his belief that “We had been operating a dammed Murder Inc.” This fact defines the nature of the crime.
Note Johnson’s choice of words. “We had been operating…” The “We” has to mean the United States Government, or at least an agency or instrumentality of the government. Further, Johnson underscores that “We had been operating” this murder capability over time. He does not limit its work to a single event, i.e. the Kennedy murder. He remembers back through the years to the close of the WW II, at least, to the uncounted times when enemies of the government had been killed by this “Murder Inc.” quickly, cleanly and with precision…and without their apprehension and prosecution by anyone. This is the nature of a government sponsored “Hit Man” professional operation.
Johnson chose the Mafia term “Murder Inc.” to describe what he meant. This choice of words has great significance. Teams of professional “hit men” are recruited, trained, equipped and provided with a complex of “real life” identities, by this government, in order that they may live this strange existence as normal individuals. They are always available for these special duties any where and against any target. They are skilled automatons who are set in motion by a code system that does not require the identities of those who have made the “Decision.”
Johnson goes one step further. He calls this unit “Murder Inc.” As we know, a corporate body is eternal, if desired. These murder teams belong to an organization that is, in a special sense, timeless. Such murders are not arranged and carried out on an “ad hoc” basis. These teams are always ready.
With the above in mind, let me go a step farther. I don’t know whether or not you saw the Oliver Stone film “JFK.” I don’t know what you thought about it, if you did. I do know that for the tens of millions around the world who did see the movie, that “Man X – Garrison” scene on the Mall, near the Vietnam Memorial, was the climax, the awakening.
Those audiences in those packed theaters began to see, and to believe that the lies and mythology they had been spoon-fed for decades by the government’s Report of the Warren Commission, and by our subservient media was, and still is, false.
With this in mind, it is time to face reality. What caught their attention was the simple question, “Why?…Why was President John F. Kennedy killed? To understand the reasons why this decision had been made, we need to take a penetrating look at the Kennedy era. So much has taken place since then. So much has happened to each one of us since then. We don’t remember the details. We have been misled by the media and by a flood of books that are not true history. Perhaps, we just never knew.
At the time Kennedy was elected, Nov 1960, I was an Air Force Colonel assigned to the immediate office of the Secretary of Defense, Thomas Gates. I had been in the Pentagon for six consecutive years. All had been spent as Chief of Special Operations that, in military terminology, meant, “The support of the clandestine operations of the CIA.” I was with Headquarters, U.S. Air Force, 1955-1960, the Secretary of Defense, 1960-1962 and with the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1962-1963.
The Eisenhower period, 1953-1960, was one of prosperity and featured the build-up of the massive military industrial complex as one of the greatest concentrations of raw power and enormous wealth in the history of the world.
We should all know Eisenhower’s “Farewell Address” of January 17, 1961, wherein he documented the concentration of power in the Military-Industrial complex: “The conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the Federal Government. In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist…We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted…”
Like Lyndon Johnson, General Eisenhower was a man who knew. He was telling the American public about things the way they are. The United States had been involved, covertly, in the warfare in Southeast Asia since September 1945. We had been involved in Korea since 1945 and in warfare there during the early fifties.
By the end of the eight-year Eisenhower era the great powers within and outside the federal government had arranged for the certain transfer of leadership from Eisenhower to Richard Nixon. They had miscalculated.
Everything had been prepared for an uninterrupted transfer of that great power to the Nixon era. This “Power Elite” was so certain of electoral success that major programs such as the make-war Vietnamese operations, the TFX fighter plane procurement project (at an estimated $6.5 billion it was the largest aircraft procurement project ever devised) and many projects of a similar nature were poised to come into fruition early in the planned Nixon period in order to continue the flow of hundreds of billions of dollars from the government to those industries.
Clandestine operations that are employed to create “make-war” situations wherever planned had increased in size and frequency during the last years of the Eisenhower terms under the direction of John Foster Dulles, the Sec. of State and his brother Allen the Director of Central Intelligence. At the time of the election, there was the “on-the-shelf” Cuban/Castro matter, there was the Chinese encroachment in Tibet with the impending threat to India, there was active trouble in Laos and Vietnam, and the biggest of them all, the rebellion in Indonesia that had failed in 1958 (in which a Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald had been involved) lay in waiting for another flare-up at the proper time.
These plans, worth hundreds of billions of dollars in military expenditures were set. They had been prepared for a pliant Nixon, and the experienced administration he planned to inherit.
Then came the campaign of 1960. Up from no where came this impossibly youthful, Democratic, Catholic candidate, Senator John F. Kennedy. Yet when the 66,000,000 ballots had been counted, Kennedy had won by a margin of less than 1/2 of one percent.
As an old-timer in the Pentagon, I sensed the disappointment and the fury of the incumbents. It happened that on the day before the Kennedy inauguration, while Washington was being blanketed by a raging blizzard, I was directed to go to Secretary Gates’ office just before 5 P.M. with a last minute item involving the Cuban Exile Training Program (the Bay of Pigs “ZAPATA” project).
My office was a few doors down the hall. I arrived at Mr. Gates’ office around five to find an enormous crowd of “well wishers” flooding his office to say “good-bye.” His outer office and the corridor were jammed. His secretary smiled as I mentioned my appointment, looked at the huge crowd in the Secretary’s office, and pointed to the door of the deputy’s office. He was alone.
I walked in to find an old friend Jim Douglas. I had been through countless meetings with him over the past years. He smiled as I came in, rose from his desk and leaned against the window sill looking toward me. Over his shoulders I could barely see the city of Washington through the swirling snowflakes.
Within a few minutes I had covered the subject of my business: and then asked permission to add a question. He smiled.
I said, “Mr. Douglas, ever since the Cuban exile program began earlier this year ~ have briefed you, or Mr. Gates day to day. Tomorrow when I come in with a similar briefing, may I expect that the new Kennedy men will have been made aware of this subject, or do I have to read them into the program?”
Mr. Douglas turned slowly and looked toward the Potomac River and the White House obscured by snow, then turned to me and said, “Prouty, I’ll be damned if know. Wehaven’t met the bastards.”
This may have been no more than an emotional response. I expect it was true. It accurately reflected the feelings of the long term Eisenhower loyalists who were being removed from their offices by the new Kennedy up-starts…the “Whiz Kids.” Both sides had no desire to meet.
Such feelings give birth to pressures at the highest levels that smoldered into flame as the years rolled by.
Shortly after Kennedy took office, the Bay of Pigs program became a disaster. At the same time he was faced with a major decision concerning Vietnam, and, following a lengthy and detailed Bay of Pigs investigation by the Cuban Study Group, Kennedy signed one of the most significant policy directives of his 1,000 day tenure. Yet, it is surprising how few people know about it and how little has been written about it. How little it is known.
We have all heard that Kennedy had vowed to break the CIA into 1,000 pieces. But how many have ever heard how he planned to do it, and what policy he had established to achieve that goal?
In brief, on June 28, 1961, President Kennedy himself signed National Security Action Memorandum #55. This important order was directed solely to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff who at that time was General Lyman Lemnitzer. Its subject, clearly stated, was “Relations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the President in Cold War Operations.” In layman’s terminology
“Cold War Operations” meant “Clandestine Operations.”
Kennedy opened that directive with memorable words:
“I wish to inform the Joint Chiefs of Staff as follows with regard to my views of their relations to me in Cold War Operations:
a) I regard the Joint Chiefs of Staff as my principal military advisor responsible both for initiating advice to me and for responding to requests for advice. Iexpect their advice to come to me direct and unfiltered.
b) The Joint Chiefs of Staff have a responsibility for the defense of the notion in the Cold War similar to that which they have in conventional hostilities…”
I was the officer instructed to staff this paper, and two others, MSAM 156 and #57; and to brief the Chairman and the Chiefs at their next meeting. First they were surprised to discover that : this order had been addressed directly to them and was signed by the President. It had not come through the Secretary of Defense, and had not been sent to other top-level addressees such as the Secretary of State and the Director of Central Intelligence. This procedure was rare, and meaningful.
Next, they were amazed to hear that the limits of their lawful
function were being broadened to include “Cold War Operations.” Needless to say these policy statements created a great discussion, and then were sealed in TOP SECRET files for further analysis and study.
Interpreted as the President intended, this policy, if carried to its conclusion and not interrupted by his death, would have brought about an enormous change in the way the Vietnam situation, that from 1945 to 1963, had been under “operational control” of the CIA, would have been pursued. Without question this new policy was the major stepping stone on the way to Kennedy’s promise that “the bulk of all U.S. personnel would be out of Vietnam by the end of 1965.”
This blunt statement of the Kennedy policy may well have been the ultimate pressure point that created the climate in which the decision was reached to do away with the President. Another example highlights how his changes impacted on the military industrial complex where they were the most sensitive.
During the last years of the Eisenhower era, the Air Force and Navy were deep in plans for new fighter aircraft. The Air Force proposal was for a swing-wing fighter designated the TFX. The processing of this procurement program had been all but completed during 1960; but the budget people bowed to Eisenhower’s request to stay within the scope of his budget. They moved the project into the expected Nixon term. Everyone concerned knew that this project was a natural for the Boeing Company and that it would begin at a 44 billion figure and rise from there. The TFX was on the threshold, along with Castro and Vietnam as the election came .
But…Kennedy won. McNamara entered the office of the Secretary of Defense and Arthur Goldberg, a brilliant political strategist, became the Secretary of Labor. Between them they came up with a procurement philosophy that would allocate that enormous sum offer money in procurement to areas that were the most sensitive on the political mapa. determined by the Labor Dept’. voting patterns.
McNamara announced a new round of studies and the bidders wore signaled that their production projects and sub-contractors physical plant locations should be spread over the most desirable array of county voting districts.
Finally, in November 1962, after delaying for nearly two years, ~ McNamara announced the TFX award, which by that time included the Navy and its funding, to the General Dynamics-Grumman team of bidders. Their proposal had been structured to approximate the Goldberg plan. The shock of that award, for the reasons mentioned, was terrific. The TFX battle wan fought in Congress well into 1963. This gambit, along with other changes brought about duringthe Kennedy, years, created the kind of opposition that is beyond control.
Increasingly, in the Clubs and Boardrooms of the wealthy, the powerful, the munitions makers…augmented by their bankers and their lawyers, voices began to rise as they mentioned that “God Damned” Kennedy, and worse. In the halls of the Pentagon, in the CIA and other centrally effected areas tensions rose. Finally a consensus coalesced and from that impersonal initiative a decision was reached.
Those few, who knew the methodology and the codes that activated what Lyndon Johnson called “Murder Inc.” pushed the button. The deadly system was set in motion. Like the deadly Ghurka scimitar, it is never extracted from its sheath without drawing blood.
The time and place was decided. The intricate and detailed cover story was outlined and made ready, not only for the day of the crime; but for the years to follow. The site was selected and prepared. The professional team moved into place. The elements of the plan went into effect, the carefully manipulated motorcade moved into position, and the shots were fired.
The news media, interrupted ongoing programs to announce:
“President Kennedy has been shot dead, gunned down during drive through Dallas.”
“Three bursts of gunfire, apparently from automatic weapons, were heard.” (Except for these first moments, this type of gunfire was never repeated. )
“Secret Service men immediately unslung their automatic weapons and pistols.” (Also an incorrect statement. )
These same words were flashed around the world. The Thousand Days of the Kennedy era had come to an end.
The great American coup d’etat had taken place. It was November
22, 1963.
WHO KILLED FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT?
February 9, 1986 issue of the nationwide Sunday Supplement magazine “PARADE.” .
The World War II Cairo conference between Pres. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek ended on Oct. 26, 1943. That evening I was given orders to fly a group of participants from Cairo to Tehran. Up to that time, I had not been aware that there was going to be a Big Four meeting of the Super-Powers in Tehran.
As I went out to the plane that morning to get it ready to go, two limousines came from the city. They were T. V. Soong’s Chinese delegates. I flew them to Tehran that day.
En route, I stopped at Habbaniyah in Iraq for refueling, and while on the ground an Air Force B-25 arrived with an old friend of mine flying it, and with L. Col. Elliott Roosevelt, the President’s son. I introduced him and Roosevelt to the Chinese, and vice versa.
I don’t know whether any of you ever realized this, but years later the fact that Elliott Roosevelt had gone to the Tehran conference brought up one of the most amazing untold facts in our history. I can only imagine why more had not been written about it.
Because Elliott had met Stalin in Tehran with his father in 1943, in late 1946, Gardner Cowless, publisher of LOOK magazine asked him to go to Moscow to interview Stalin.
Roosevelt accepted this offer and did interview Stalin there. At the end of a long interview, he turned to the Generalissimo and asked one more question, “Why is it that my mother has never been permitted to visit Moscow even though she has made three very formal applications for the trip?”
Stalin glared at Elliott and said, “You don’t know why?”
Elliott replied, “No!”
Quickly, Stalin responded, “Don’t you know who killed your father?”
Roosevelt-shocked-answered, “No.”
Stalin rising from his chair, continued, “Well, I’ll tell you why I have not invited her here. As soon as your father died, I asked my ambassador in Washington to go immediately to Georgia with a request to view the body.” Stalin believed that if Gromyko could see the body he would confirm that the cerebral hemorrhage that had caused his death had caused extensive discoloration and distortion.
Elliot responded that he knew nothing about that and then Stalin said, “Your mother refused to permit the lid of the coffin to be opened so that my ambassador could see the body.” Adding “I sent him there three times trying to impress upon your mother that it was very important for him to view the President’s body. She never accepted that. I have never forgiven her.”
This forced Elliott to ask this last question, “…but why?”
Stalin took a few steps around the office, and almost in a rage roared, “They poisoned your father, of course, just as they have tried repeatedly to poison me.”
“They, who are they,” Elliot asked
“The Churchill gang!” Stalin roared, “They poisoned your father, and they continue to try to poison me…the Churchill gang!”
I had heard, while in Tehran, that Roosevelt and Churchill had had a strenuous argument in front of Stalin and Chiang during the conference on the subject of decolonialization of South East Asia. I have read it in a government publication of the time. Then, this account of Elliott’s visit to Moscow in 1946 was written and signed by him and appeared in the February 9, 1986 issue of the nationwide Sunday Supplement magazine “PARADE.”
We all know that there are amazing stories that can not be found in the history books. That is what I am saying here. Most students have not been able to learn that Chiang Kai-shek was a member of this Four Power Conference in Tehran. But, I was there. I had flown the Chinese delegates there from Cairo, and I have read it in a Congressional Committee Report, “The U. S. Government and the Vietnam” Part 1-1945-1951″ by the U. S. Government Printing Office, 1984.
Both sources have been in the public domain for more than 10 years. Why haven’t we seen them, on campus, in the History books and in classes?
In 1953, in a toast before the New York Press Club, John Swinton, former Chief of Staff of the New York Times and the “Dean of his Profession” stated: (part extracted)
“If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of journalists is to destroy the truth; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell this country and this race for their daily bread. We are the tools and vessels for rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”
From my own experience, I know that there are countless journalists who could say that. Just consider what they said about Oliver Stone’s Film “JFK” and about my own book “JFK, the CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy.”“`
L. Fletcher Prouty
Who is Col. L. Fletcher Prouty ?
 | Movie Fact: Fletcher Prouty in Oliver Stone’s ‘JFK’. Donald Sutherland was cast as the Air Force Col. ‘X’ in Oliver Stone’s film ‘JFK’. The Col. ‘X’ character was, in fact, modeled after Col. Prouty. Fletcher was a consultant during the making of Stone’s award winning film, so it is not surprising that the conversations between the lead character, Jim Garrison, and Col. ‘X’ in the movie are based on fact. Col. Prouty maintained a friendship with the real Jim Garrison until Mr. Garrison’s recent passing away. Click here to read one of Col. Prouty’s many letters to Jim Garrison. | |
BACKGROUND
L. Fletcher Prouty is a retired Air Force colonel who served in the Pentagon from 1955-1963. He was Air Force Focal Point officer for the Department of Defense in support of CIA covert activities.
Col. Prouty is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin. While in the U.S. Air Force, he graduated from the Air Command and Staff School and from the Armed Forces Staff College. He was the Chief Pilot at Cairo Air Transport during WWII. During the occupational period in Japan, he was Military Manager of the Tokyo International Airport.
He taught at Yale University for three years with the ROTC program. He has edited and written college-level text books in the fields of transportation, communications, and aeronautics.
His book “The Secret Team” (Prentice-Hall, 1973 and Ballantine paperback, 1974) is about his experiences while a member of The Office of the Secretary of Defense and The Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During the Kennedy years his title was Chief, Special Operations Division, Joint Chiefs of Staff, or chief of “Team B”. He was a briefing officer on various special assignments dating back to the Cairo and Teheran conferences of 1943.
He also became founder of the International Air Traffic Controllers Assn. Col. Prouty retired from the military in 1964. He was the Vice President / International Operations for the General Aircraft Company, Vice president / marketing for the first National Bank on Arlington, Virginia and the Madison National Bank in Washington D.C. He also worked as Spokesman for the Amtrak Corporation, and as Senior Director of Public Affairs for the National Railroad Corporation. Presently he is a writer living in Alexandria, Virginia USA.
Col. Prouty as most know, was the basis for the “Mr. X”, in Oliver Stone’s movie JFK. Before and after the movie, Fletcher has been one of the most influential speakers on the subject of the CIA and the cold war . Anyone wishing to investigate these events cannot get a better inside perspective.
It has been said that, “History is Biography”.
Fletcher has first hand knowledge of these events he speaks of!
His knowledge of historical events is amazing. From the “Downing” of the Gary Powers U2 flight, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the JFK Assassination, The history of the 1970’s Oil Crisis, The history of Oil, not a fossil fuel, MIA’s in southeast Asia, to the secret origins of the Cold War. Col. Prouty’s perspective is an eye opening adventure for most.
About his time in the Pentagon, you won’t find a more revealing and honest appraisal. Among other things, you will learn the difference between NSAM 263 and 273, and the discover the difference between the words,”Directed or Approved “, with regards to CIA operations.
Not unlike Jim Garrison, some totally false, misleading, and libelous articles and statements have surfaced regarding Col. Prouty. Rather than spend time refuting these obvious efforts of misinformation, the least that can be done is to provide the record in his own words and thoughts for people researching to decide for themselves.
For anyone wishing to get to the truth about Col. L. Fletcher Prouty, here is what he has had to say. As more articles become available they will be posted at this site.
Len Osanic
The following is the known list of his work available so far. Listed by subject description, date, and where to get copies.
For more information you can E-mail Len Osanic at osanic@prouty.org or call 604 525-3974
Len and Fletcher Sept/1997
BOOKS
JFK, The CIA, Vietnam, And The Plot To Assassinate John F. Kennedy.
Birch Lane Press, Published by Carol Publishing Group 1992
The Secret Team, and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World .
Prentice Hall 1973 / The Institute for Historical Review 1992
Both these books are available from Col. Prouty or Tom Davis Books
Understanding Special Operations – David Ratcliffe
From the 1989 interviews with Col. L Fletcher Prouty
VIDEO TAPES
“The Mind of Fletcher Prouty”
John Judge interviews Col. Prouty, who was liaison officer between the Secretary of Defense and the CIA Director at the time of the JFK murder. Prouty helped to script the Donald Sutherland “Mr. X” portion of the Oliver Stone movie.
“Mr. X on the Stoney Knoll”
Believe it or not, John Judge brought Col. Prouty to the same spot in Washington where Oliver Stone shot the scene with Kevin Costner. For over two hours, Fletcher and John discussed the CIA, covert operation, assassinations, the Reagan shooting, KAL flight 007, and much more ! Very important information.
“Interview with Bruce Kaner and Patrick Formy”, 1993
Discussion of the history of the Vietnam Conflict, hemp, the oil “heist” of the 1970’s, the history of the classification of oil as a “Fossil fuel”, transportation, and omission in the media.
“Interview with David Ratcliffe”, Oct. 16th 1994
Back with a video camera, David Ratcliffe does a wonderful follow up to his previous excellent work of 1989.
For three hours they discuss topics such as, JFK, the MIA – POW problems in Vietnam,
Ed Lansdale, the Helio airplane, Transportation safety,and the infrastructure.
These four videos available through Prevailing Winds Research / Address at bottom of page
“Interview with Len Osanic / Andy Hill”, Oct 16th 1995
Four hour conversation in Col. Prouty’s home. Topics range from Ed Lansdale to Allen Dulles,
Gary Powers U2 flight (that never was shot down), The real history of the Cold War, The movie JFK, his views, and the other documentaries on the assassination, Moles , The media and omissions.
“Fletcher Prouty Speech in Portland, Oregon”, March 1993, Producer unknown at this time.
Fletcher spoke to a packed house on the secret history of the US, his book, various assassinations,
a conversation between Elliot Roosevelt and Stalin, and took questions from the audience. ( 2 hours )
“The Men Who Killed Kennedy”, – Produced by Nigel Turner
This documentary included an interview of Fletcher as reference
Produced by Nigel Turner for Central Independent Television .
“Who Killed Martin Luther King ?”, Produced by OTMOOR Productions. 1989
Aired by BBC as part of their “Inside Story” series 10/2/89
Producers have been unable to have the program aired in the USA
Documents FBI/CIA/Local Police conspiracy to murder Dr. King emanating from the highest
levels of US. society. Fletcher was interviewed for his knowledge of assassinations and
appears in several segments. (64:00 min.)
WHO KILLED JFK
…That an extremely powerful group, within the United States government,
set up the objective of killing Kennedy in order to control the progress of the government
in the direction they wanted…Theres no question about it looking back.
Col. L. Fletcher Prouty
AUDIO CASSETTES
Interviews by David Ratcliffe. -Recorded May 5th-8th 1989
These interviews are outstanding and some of the finest on the subject.
If you haven’t heard these you can’t know the whole story. Col. Prouty points us firmly in the right direction.
He also points out Gen. Ed. Lansdale, and what Gen. Lansdale did for a living before his “retirement Oct. 31st 1963”.
Then figure out for yourself where Ed Lansdale got his orders.
Who did he work for anyway ?
How many people really knew what he was good at?
What did he do after Nov. 22nd 1963?
The call that came in to the unit assigned to augment the Secret Service in Dallas, the call that ordered them to “stand down”.
Where did that call come from?
Who could have made that call?
You might have to read between the lines but there is no doubt about who it leads to.
Clearly the picture in Dealy plaza is Lansdale.
“Very, very, clever planning”- Col.L. Fletcher Prouty.
Our hats off to David Ratcliffe.
The Assassination of JFK, and the existence of “The High Cabal” (3 tapes)
Col. Prouty dicusses Protection for the President, and reveals just how assassinations are carried out.
Discussion of the assassination of the President, highlighting some of the major contradictions and fantasies of the “official mythology” regarding this seminal post WWII event. Fletcher discusses his own experiences in New Zealand the day of the killing. He discusses the High Cabal siting referrals to such an entity by the like of Winston Churchill and Buckminister Fuller.
The Secret Team (3 tapes)
Discussion of his book of the same title. Quoting from the preface: From president to ambassador, cabinet officer to commanding general, and senator to executive assistant. All these men have their sources of information and guidance. Most of this information and guidance is the result of carefully laid schemes and ploys of pressure groups. In this influential coterie, on the of the most interesting and effective roles is that played by the behind the scenes, faceless, nameless, ubiquitous briefing officer…
” For nine consecutive, long years… I was one of those briefing officers. I had the unique assignment of being the focal point officer for contacts between the CIA and the Department of Defense. On matters pertaining to the military support of special operations. (A name given in most cases, to any clandestine, covert, undercover, or secret operations by the government or by someone, U.S. citizen or a foreign national…) of that agency”.
Recollections of 23 Years of Service to the US. (2 tapes)
Col. Prouty recounts his years as an Air Transport Officer during WWII in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Pacific. As well his assignment to headquarters of the Air Force in 1955 to set up and run the Office of Special Operations between the Pentagon and the CIA. Providing Air Force logistical support to world wide covert operations. In 1960 he continued this line of work in the office of the Secretary of Defense and transferred, into the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff where he became the chief of Special Operations for all branches of the military until he resigned from the Air Force in December 31, 1963.
These sets of tapes are available from Dave Ratcliffe, address at bottom of the page
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Radio Free Maine presents Oliver Stone, with Col. L Fletcher Prouty at Harvard University. Jan. 16th, 1992
Oliver talks about his film, and the “Man X”, and takes questions from the audience. 1 hour.
Who’s on the Secret Team ?
Interview with Paul McIssac, Nanette Rainone, and Carl Ogelesby. – Subject, Nixon and Watergate 1973
Available at Pacifica Radio Archives # E2BC1616
Interview with Peter MacKenzie at the National Press Club
Researching for his article on the AIDS pandemic, Peter spoke with Fletcher about AIDS, and various topics. 1992 (3 hours)
The CIA and World Peace- Conference, April 5th 1975 , At Yale University
From the evening session of the conference, Col. Prouty talks about his experences with the CIA from post WWII until the early 1960’s (40 min.)
Available at Pacifica Radio Archives.
WRITTEN ARTICLES
Vietnam Daze With McNamara – A Critique of his book, “In Retrospect, The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam”.
Watergate and the World of the CIA
Don’t Get Mad, Get Even. – The Era of the Kennedy’s
Getting The “Business” in Vietnam, The POW / MIA Roadblock
The Middle East Cauldron
Secret US. Military Operations, Past and Present
Allen Dulles, A Legend In His Time
The Guns of Dallas – Oct / 75
The Guns of Dallas: Update – May 1976
How the CIA Controls President Ford
Curbing The CIA – Genesis April 1975
The CIA’s Biggest Goof – Gallery Feb. 1976
Miami speech March 3rd 1994 – “The Thirtieth Anniversary of the Coup d’ Etat in America”
Visions of a Kennedy Dynasty – from FREEDOM magazine,April-May,1987
Focus On Iran, The Next Vietnam – From Genesis 1974
Gallery Interview-Nov. 1975, – Interview with Gallery’s senior editor, F. Joseph Spieler
Indonesia 1958: Nixon, the CIA,and the Secret War. Aug. 1976
The CIA’s Secret War on Capitalism – March 1977
Report On The “Mongoose” Cycle…Nov.1961-Oct 1962
The Military Industrial Complex, and the Gulf Of Tonkin Resolution
Transportation at the Crossroads – July / 81 – Fletcher calls this the, “Best and most important article he has written”
AMTRAK ‘S NEW GAME- Russian Roulette, July 1984
To Hell With High Prices.
Tracks Are Back, -Really?
Conflict – The Dorff Report , May 1990 – The Friendly Skies – Korean Airlines 747 Flight #007
Safe On Sakhalin- The Story Of KE#007
The Last Flight of 007 – from Gallery magazine 1984
COINTELPRO – The FBI takes the law into its own hands, May 1985
Jimmy Doolittle and the GEE BEE – his article in AIR FORCE magazine 1977
Air Power – The Control of Accessiblity
The Assassination of Alfred Herrhausen, Dec. 1989
Citizen Power Thyself… – article on Solar Power, April 1976
Arms Control in the New Age of Warfare – 1962
THE LAW OF EARTH
Agribusiness International Conference – Transportation and Logistics, Sept. 1980
The Traveller’s Best Medicine: Safety – 1990
Kennedy’s commitment to Vietnam
The Vietnam Experience – A VERY IMPORTANT ESSAY !
Reprints of all these articles are available.
For more information on any, or all of these articles you can E-mail Len Osanic at osanic@prouty.org
ADDRESSES
The Center For The Preservation Of Modern History
Prevailing Winds Research
P.O. Box 23511 Santa Barbara, California 93121
Phone 1-805-899-3433
Fax 1-805-899-4773
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“Prevailing Winds” also available
Pacifica Radio Archives
Phone 1-818-506-1077
Or write to P.O. box 8092 Universal City California
91608 0092
Dave Ratcliffe Interviews
Tapes are available from :
rat haus reality press
567 35th Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA, 95062
408/479-3695
Selected excerpts are available online at: http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/
Central Independent Television plc
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OTMOOR Productions, London England
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Col. L. Fletcher Prouty Responds to Accusations of Involvement in Right Wing Extremist Groups
Interview Date: April 3, 1996
“Esquire magazine published an article, in which they just made up these things, I’ve never written for Liberty Lobby. I’ve spoken as a commercial speaker, they paid me to speak and then I left. They print a paragraph or two of my speech same as they would of anybody else, but I’ve never joined them. I don’t subscribe to their newspaper, I never go to their own meetings, but they had a national convention at which asked me to speak and they paid me very, very well. I took my money and went home and that’s it”. I go to the meeting, I go home, I don’t join.
That sole speech was years ago and was no different than the speech I gave at the Holocaust Memorial Conference. I spoke my own words and ideas.
I do admit to having been a rather active public speaker for all types of audiences, on a commercial except for Rotary, They’re gratuitous from my point of view.
“The funny thing was two months earlier I had spoken at the Holocaust Conference for the second annual meeting of the Holocaust Group which I learned later the Liberty Lobby is completely opposed to. Dr. Littel, of the Holocaust Memorial organization invited me to attend and make a few comments,as others were requested.
Col. Prouty has been asked to attend at the Holocaust Conference again later this year !
Well, they put all this in this Esquire magazine but did it all backwards, as though I was a member, writing with these people or joining them.
The only club I’ve joined is the Rotary Club !”.
The attempt of character assassination is a sign you have become a small threat. Others, at the levels I know of, have played up that as though I had been converted to something. It is just their “gentlemanly” tactic of dealing with people they can’t handle otherwise.. In fact it is a CIA characteristic trait…as I well know. When they can’t handle you, they attack your character.
This classic was found on the internet;
” An essay written from a leftist perspective by Chip Berlet, deals with the ties, and Mark Lane, and the extreme right-wing paranoid Liberty Lobby. Nothing here shows Prouty to be a Nazi or an anti-Semite, but shouldn’t he show better judgment in whom he associates with?”
This implies I associate with Nazis, or why else write it!
The writings of Furhmann, Perry, Berlet, Posner, etc. are slick, cleverly written, but not based in the true facts.
I wonder what they do for a living? where they work? Who pays them to write?
My credentials are laid out for all to see.
L.Fletcher Prouty
Like Jim Garrison and Oliver Stone, many things have been written to discredit their good work.
You can read Col. Prouty’s insite to the days when he briefed the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and draw your own conclusions.
Read his book “The Secret Team” which deals with his first hand knowledge of the CIA and Covert Operations and draw your own conclusions.
Read his good article “The Guns Of Dallas” right here at the web site, and draw your own conclusions.
Ironically, the more they set up the personal attack, a conclusion can be drawn that the closer to the truth Col. Prouty and others are, with regards to the Kennedy assassination.
For more information on any, or all of these articles
you can E-mail Len Osanic at osanic@prouty.org
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