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This broadcast was recorded in one, 60-minute segment.
Introduction: The fourth of a planned long series of interviews with Jim DiEugenio about his triumphal analysis of President Kennedy’s assassination and New Orleans DA Jim Garrison’s heroic investigation of the killing, this program continues with discussion of the cast of characters that figure in Garrison’s investigation and their relationship to anti-Castro Cuban intrigue.
(Listeners can order Destiny Betrayed and Jim’s other books, as well as supplementing those volumes with articles about this country’s political assassinations at his website Kennedys and King. Jim is also a regular guest and expert commentator on Black Op Radio.)
Continuing discussion from FTR #1033, the program highlights activities of Bay of Pigs and Watergate participant E. Howard Hunt. One of the primary CIA officers in the abortive Bay of Pigs, Hunt loathed Kennedy, helped ghost-write the Charles Murphy apologia for Allen Dulles & Company in Fortune magazine (see FTR #1032), and may have been involved with the JFK assassination.
E. Howard Hunt was also present in Dallas, Texas on 11/22/1963, as revealed in a memo crafted by James Angleton.
A subject that will be discussed at greater length in future conversations with Jim is the manifestations of Kerry Thornley:
- One of the Marine Corps buddies of Oswald the Marxist Marine.
- Reinforced the Oswald the Commie meme.
- Was involved with Oswald’s alleged pro-Castro leafleting originating from Guy Banister’s office.
- Was apparently involved with most of Oswald’s associates in the New Orleans area.
- Wrote two contradictory books about Oswald decades apart.
Supplementing discussion of Gordon Novel from FTR #1033, the program foreshadows future discussion of infiltrators into Garrison’s investigation. An electronics expert involved with CIA and the Bay of Pigs operation, Novel was involved with infiltrating Garrison’s office and supplying information to Garrison’s enemies.
Also carrying over from FTR #1033, the program highlights Guy Banister’s so-called “detective agency,” from which Oswald operated his one-man New Orleans chapter of the Fair Play For Cuba Committee. Sam Newman–the owner of the Newman building which housed that operation, was evasive about Oswald operating from an office there. Newman’s statements in that regard are contradictory. Oswald’s presence there has been substantively confirmed.
Of significance is the fact that Corliss Lamont of the pro-Castro FPCC authored a pamphlet for the organization in 1961, while Oswald was in the Soviet Union. It was the 1961 edition of the pamphlet that Oswald was handing out when he had his altercation with Carlos Bringuier. This suggests that Oswald got his edition of the pamphlet from the CIA. (Recall that David Phillips and James McCord headed the CIA’s anti-FPCC effort.)
Program Highlights Include:
- Review of JFK’s stripping of Charles Murphy of his Air Force Reserve commission and Murphy’s statement that he didn’t mind because his real allegiance was to Dulles.
- Discussion of Guy Banister’s detective agency as a far right/fascist intelligence service, infiltrating liberal and leftist political milieux.
- Richard Nixon’s presence in Dallas on 11/22/1963 and the profound connections between Watergate and the JFK assassination.
Here’s an unsettling update on the ongoing push to overthrow the Maduro government in Venezuela and replace it with a Western-backed government led by Juan Guaido. The Update has a distinct Bay of Pigs feel to it: Reuters is reporting on groups of Venezuelans operating in Columbia and openly planning on a military overthrow of Maduro. It’s also being called “Operation Venezuela.” The idea is to seize towns on the border and eventually march to Caracas.
It doesn’t sounds like a large number of individuals yet. At least not officially. The reporters spoke with eight people who claimed to be defectors from Venezuelan police, army and intelligence services and claimed to have around 150 people in total. But this presumably isn’t the only group of this nature given that 1.2 million Venezuelans have crossed into Colombia in recent years and the Colombian government has an arrangement with the Venezuelan opposition to provide dissident military officials with food and housing, and the right to work. In addition, more than 1,400 members of the national guard and other members of the armed forces have left Venezuela for Colombia following the conflicts over the aid convoys in recent months. The leader of the Venezuelan group, ex-army sergeant, Eddier Rodriguez, claims they have been meeting with different “resistance” groups in Colombia.
It’s important to note that the Colombian government doesn’t appear to be backing this scheme and claims that any groups that take up arms will be considered paramilitaries and be subject to arrest. Keep in mind that the Colombian government is clearly in support of seeing Guaido replace Maduro since it backed the recent overthrow attempt. But Colombia is also one of the countries that’s going to be most directly impacted by a civil war next door. So it’s going to be interesting to see what kinds of legal tricks are used to justify the Columbia state tolerating this scheme.
Critically, this group of 150 people has explicitly pledged their loyalty to Juan Guaido. Recall how Guaido and the opposition have always left open the option of asking the US for military support, an idea that appears to have the support of John Bolton. Plus, Erik Prince has been promoting the idea of using a force of Latin American mercenaries. Also recall how Guaido was openly surprised by the lack of military support for his calls to overthrow Maduro. It sounds like Guaido might finally have some sort of Venezuelan military force of his own being cobbled together, albeit a rather ragtag force.
How is this group planning on overwhelming the much larger Venezuelan military? Well, the group claims that part of their plan is to get the support of members of the Venezuelan military after some sort of armed invasion has begun. Rodriquez claims they’ve already made contact with garrisons inside Venezuela and that many were ready to fight once the operation began. Keep in mind that the attempted coup at the end of April involved similar pledges from inside the Venezuelan military that didn’t pan out. So if you thought the last attempt to convince the Venezuelan military to overthrow Maduro seemed like a high risk gambit with low chances of success, get ready for the much bloodier armed invasion version of that scheme:
“Wearing camouflage shirts and combat boots, a Venezuelan militia group stands in formation in the Colombian city of Cucuta as their commander, a former Venezuelan army sergeant, outlines plans to seize towns across the border before heading to Caracas to help oust President Nicolas Maduro.”
They’re quite open about the plan: start with seizing towns across the before before heading to Caracas. And for this plan, they want funds to buy further weapons, explosives, and bullet-proof vests. So this particular group appears to already be armed and is apparently not the only group of this nature operating in Colombia:
They also claim to have have made contact with garrisons inside Venezuela that are ready to join their side once the operation gets underway. So the official plan is to launch the invasion and just hope these garrisons stick with the plan. Kind of like the last coup attempt but this time it’s going to start with invasions of towns:
And while there’s no shortage of problems facing this plan, perhaps the biggest immediate problem is that the Colombian government is declaring that any groups that take up arms could be considered paramilitaries and detained by authorities:
That’s the official government line from Colombia. No planned invasions are allowed. And yet there appears to be armed groups openly calling for funds to purchase weapons and explosives in order to wage a cross-border military campaign. If the Colombian government was seriously intent on cracking down on paramilitaries it’s taking its time on that. At the same time, we can’t dismiss what a nightmare a Venezuelan civil war could be for Colombia. The Colombian government might want to see Maduro go but it may not necessarily want to pay the price of militarily inflaming the region and hosting the invading forces. And so while we shouldn’t be super surprised if we suddenly get reports of armed conflicts over control of Venezuelan border towns at this point, given what a potential nightmare this is for Colombia we should still be kind of surprised if we hear that news. Just not super surprised, all things considered.