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FTR#1224 This program was recorded in one, 60-minute segment.
Introduction: In our previous programs, we set forth the deep political milieu spanning the landscape of the JFK assassination, as embodied by a French fascist network stretching from the 1930’s up until the early 1990’s. Overlapping dominant French and transnational fascist components of multiple intelligence agencies and transnational corporations, these networks exemplify the powerful forces that killed President Kennedy and sit astride the contemporary political landscape.
In this program, we further develop some of the Nazi networks involved with the JFK assassination, in order to flesh out understanding of the structural and operational nature of the dominant elements in our political culture.
(We have detailed the fundamental involvement of Nazis in the assassination of JFK in numerous programs, over the decades, including: FTR#‘s 54, 168, 971, 1123, AFA #‘s 11, 12, 13, 15, 37, as well as The Guns of November, Part 4.)
Representative of the fascist connections in the JFK assassination highlighted in Coup in Dallas is the fact that Robert Schacht–a blood relative of Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, Hitler’s finance minister who was deeply involved with Clay Shaw and Permindex–was the admissions director for Albert Schweitzer College, the first destination of Lee Harvey Oswald when he “defected” to the Soviet Union.
We also include a passage from Jim DiEugenio’s classic work on the Garrison investigation–Destiny Betrayed.
This passage places the Schacht family connection in greater depth.
We also include a passage from Jim DiEugenio’s classic work on the Garrison investigation–Destiny Betrayed.
This passage places the Schacht family connection in greater depth.
Permindex was involved with, among other things, attempts on the life of French president Charles De Gaulle in conjunction with elements of CIA and the OAS.
he position of Hjalmar Schacht’s relative Robert as the New York admissions officer of Albert Schweitzer College is the fact that Albert Schweitzer himself was the honorary chairman of Stille Hilfe—“Silent Help”—one of the postwar SS assistance organizations, headed by Gudrun Burwitz, Heinrich Himmler’s daughter. We have covered Stille Hilfe in previous programs and posts.
When railroad executive Bill Thompson inquired of LBJ assistant Bobby Baker about the possibility of introducing President Kennedy to alleged East German/Soviet spy Ellen Rometsch, Baker offered a very interesting reply, indicating that Rometsch was a Nazi.
Important political context to the alleged “Communist Spy” cover story of Ellen Rometsch concerns the political affiliations of the journalist who was the primary shepherd for the story. Clark Mollenhoff was an intimate of the ABN, OUN/B elements who ascended to a dominant role in the national security establishment of the current Ukraine government.
In AFA#15, as well as FTR#’s 777, 778 and 876, we set forth the role of OUN/B elements in the assassination of President Kennedy, chiefly in generating what Professor Peter Dale Scott termed the “Level One Cover-up.”—putting the blame on “the Communists” in order to deflect attention from the actual perpetrators.
In the above-cited programs, we noted how the assassination of Stepan Bandera—represented as part of a Soviet assassination program with which Lee Harvey Oswald was allegedly affiliated, we noted that the behavior of assassin Bogdan [or “Bohdan”] Stashynsky suggested that he was a double agent and that the Bandera assassination was—in effect—a provocative gambit lending gravitas to the “Level-One Cover-up” posited by Professor Scott.
Research uncovered by author Albarelli strongly reinforces the probability that Stashynsky’s work for the Soviets was a double agent, with his remarkable behavior elevating the Bandera hit to the level of Gehlen/Western propaganda.
(Stashynsky still had the shaft of the broken key to Bandera’s apartment at the time of his arrest and the head of the key was still in the lock of Bandera’s apartment when discovered by the German police, as was revealed at Bandera’s trial two years later.)
We conclude with discussion of Thomas Eli Davis.
Gunrunner Thomas Eli Davis appears to have been subjected to a degree of mind control at the Lafayette Clinic in Detroit. Ernst Rodin—his “therapist”—was an Austrian émigré with a Third Reich pedigree.
Of particular note is the fact that MK/ULTRA operative extraordinaire Louis Jolyon West was a protégé of Rodin.
Davis was a gunrunning associate of Jack Ruby and was, apparently, involved with Lee Harvey Oswald’s sojourn in Mexico.
In our next program, we will set forth Davis’s connections to Viktor Oswald, an “Underground Reich” associate who networked extensively with the milieu of Otto Skorzeny in Spain.
1a. Representative of the fascist connections in the JFK assassination highlighted in Coup in Dallas is the fact that Robert Schacht–a blood relative of Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, Hitler’s finance minister who was deeply involved with Clay Shaw and Permindex–was the admissions director for Albert Schweitzer College, the first destination of Lee Harvey Oswald when he “defected” to the Soviet Union.
We also include a passage from Jim DiEugenio’s classic work on the Garrison investigation–Destiny Betrayed.
This passage places the Schacht family connection in greater depth.
Permindex was involved with, among other things, attempts on the life of French president Charles De Gaulle in conjunction with elements of CIA and the OAS.
. . . . Of note, three months earlier, Oswald had applied for admittance to the Albert Schweitzer College located in Switzerland via correspondence with Robert Schacht, the college’s NY-based admissions officer. By coincidence, Robert was a blood relative of . . . . Hjalmar Schacht. . . .
1b. We also include a passage from Jim DiEugenio’s classic work on the Garrison investigation–Destiny Betrayed.
This passage places the Schacht family connection in greater depth.
Permindex was involved with, among other things, attempts on the life of French president Charles De Gaulle in conjunction with elements of CIA and the OAS.
. . . . The next step in the CIA ladder after his high-level overseas informant service was his work with the strange company called Permindex. When the announcement for Permindex was first made in Switzerland in late 1956, its principal backing was to come from a local banker named Hans Seligman. But as more investigation by the local papers was done, it became clear that the real backer was J. Henry Schroeder Corporation. This information was quite revealing. Schroeder’s had been closely associated with Allen Dulles and the CIA for years. Allen Dulles’s connections to the Schroder banking family went back to the thirties when his law firm, Sullivan and Cromwell, first began representing them through him. Later, Dulles was the bank’s General Counsel. In fact, when Dulles became CIA director, Schroeder’s was a repository for a fifty million dollar contingency fund that Dulles personally controlled. Schroder’s was a welcome conduit because the bank benefited from previous CIA overthrows in Guatemala and Iran. Another reason that there began to be a furor over Permindex in Switzerland was the fact that the bank’s founder, Baron Kurt von Schroder, was associated with the Third Reich, specifically Heinrich Himmler. The project now became stalled in Switzerland. It now moved to Rome. In a September 1969 interview Shaw did for Penthouse Magazine, he told James Phelan that he only grew interested in the project when it moved to Italy. Which was in October 1958. Yet a State Department cable dated April 9 of that year says that Shaw showed great interest in Permindex from the outset.
One can see why. The board of directors as made up of bankers who had been tied up with fascist governments, people who worked the Jewish refugee racket during World War II, a former member of Mussolini’s cabinet, and the son-in-law of Hjalmar Schacht, the economic wizard behind the Third Reich, who was a friend of Shaw’s. These people would all appeal to the conservative Shaw. There were at least four international newspapers that exposed the bizarre activities of Permindex when it was in Rome. One problem was the mysterious source of funding: no one knew where it was coming from. Another was that its activities reportedly included assassination attempts on French Premier Charles De Gaulle. Which would make sense since the founding member of Permindex, Ferenc Nagy, was a close friend of Jacques Soustelle. Soustelle was a leader of the OAS, a group of former French officers who broke with De Gaulle over his Algerian policy. They later made several attempts on De Gaulle’s life, which the CIA was privy to. Again, this mysterious source of funding, plus the rightwing, neo-Fascist directors created another wave of controversy. One newspaper wrote that the organization may have been “a creature of the CIA . . . set up as a cove for the transfer of CIA . . . funds in Italy for legal political-espionage activities.” The Schroder connection would certainly suggest that. . . .
2. The position of Hjalmar Schacht’s relative Robert as the New York admissions officer of Albert Schweitzer College is the fact that Albert Schweitzer himself was the honorary chairman of Stille Hilfe—“Silent Help”—one of the postwar SS assistance organizations, headed by Gudrun Burwitz, Heinrich Himmler’s daughter. We have covered Stille Hilfe in previous programs and posts.
. . . . Stille Hilfe also provided support for children of Nazi servicemen, in particular those of prominent SS officers including Otto Skorzeny’s daughter Waltraut, and the son of Otto’s good friend and future business colleague, Werner Naumann. It was Naumann whom Hitler designated as his nominal replacement in the event of his own demise, and Naumann who engaged with Otto Skorzeny and Victor Oswald through the corporate front H.S. Lucht & Co. Stille Hilfe—“Silent Help”—later boasted as its honorary chairman Albert Schweitzer, founder of the Swiss-based college that a decade later would capture the interest of Lee Harvey Oswald. . . .
3. Important political context to the alleged “Communist Spy” cover story of Ellen Rometsch concerns the political affiliations of the journalist who was the primary shepherd for the story. Clark Mollenhoff was an intimate of the ABN, OUN/B elements who ascended to a dominant role in the national security establishment of the current Ukraine government.
In AFA#15, as well as FTR#’s 777, 778 and 876, we set forth the role of OUN/B elements in the assassination of President Kennedy, chiefly in generating what Professor Peter Dale Scott termed the “Level One Cover-up.”—putting the blame on “the Communists” in order to deflect attention from the actual perpetrators.
Coup In Dallas: The Decisive Investigation into Who Killed JFK by H.P. Albarelli, Jr. (Forward by Dick Russell); Skyhorse Publishing [HC]; Copyright 2021 by H.P. Albarelli, Jr. and Linda O’Hara; ISBN 978–1‑5107–4031‑0; p. 140.
. . . . Indeed, reporter Mollenhoff’s conservative leaning was apparent in public settings when in October of 1962, he participated on a panel, “Washington Cover-Up,” at Georgetown University alongside the president of the Ukraine Congress Committee of America (UCCA) and Georgetown economics professor Lev Dobriansky, evidenced in a photo in The Ukraine Weekly, and in ensuing years, Mollenhoff was not shy about his commitment to anticommunism. A brief mention in an article dated Saturday, April 20, 1974 in The Ukraine Weekly, under the headline “Anti-communist League Holds 7th Conference in Washington,” provides a window into his public support of the World Anti-communist League (WACL.)
Hosted in D.C. by the American Council for World Freedom (ACWF), the conference boasted some twenty-five speakers, representing both free nations and countries under Communist suppression, including autocrat General Anastazio Somoza of Nicaragua and the Hon. Yaroslav Stetzko, former prime minister of Ukraine and head of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) since its inception as well as leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN).The US affiliate of Stetzko’s ABN, The American Friends of Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations is infamous among Kennedy researchers for its leading member, Spas Raikin, who traveled from Ohio to Hoboken, NJ, to meet Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife, Marina, as they arrived from the USSR.
Among the US speakers at the 1974 WACL conference were prominent Republicans including former congressman John McCain, conservative journalist William F. Buckley, and Prof. Dobriansky. . . .
4. When railroad executive Bill Thompson inquired of LBJ assistant Bobby Baker about the possibility of introducing President Kennedy to alleged East German/Soviet spy Ellen Rometsch, Baker offered a very interesting reply, indicating that Rometsch was a Nazi.
Coup In Dallas: The Decisive Investigation into Who Killed JFK by H.P. Albarelli, Jr. (Forward by Dick Russell); Skyhorse Publishing [HC]; Copyright 2021 by H.P. Albarelli, Jr. and Linda O’Hara; ISBN 978–1‑5107–4031‑0; p. 155.
. . . . As postscript, Bobby Baker’s own words sum up his control over the women who worked at the Quorum Club in D.C., including Ellen Rometsch. . . . Baker responded, ‘She’s a German, and her husband is a sergeant who works for the German Embassy. . . . So [railroad executive Bill] Thompson asks, ‘Bakes, do you think that if I invited her to the White House that she would go with me to meet President Kennedy?’ Baker responded [incorporating a reference to Nazis that seems incongruous if she was an East German spy for the Soviet Union], ‘Gee, she’s a Nazi. She’ll do anything I tell her.’” . . . .
5. In the above-cited programs, we noted how the assassination of Stepan Bandera—represented as part of a Soviet assassination program with which Lee Harvey Oswald was allegedly affiliated, we noted that the behavior of assassin Bogdan [or “Bohdan”] Stashynsky suggested that he was a double agent and that the Bandera assassination was—in effect—a provocative gambit lending gravitas to the “Level-One Cover-up” posited by Professor Scott.
Research uncovered by author Albarelli strongly reinforces the probability that Stashynsky’s work for the Soviets was a double agent, with his remarkable behavior elevating the Bandera hit to the level of Gehlen/Western propaganda.
(Stashynsky still had the shaft of the broken key to Bandera’s apartment at the time of his arrest and the head of the key was still in the lock of Bandera’s apartment when discovered by the German police, as was revealed at Bandera’s trial two years later.)
Coup In Dallas: The Decisive Investigation into Who Killed JFK by H.P. Albarelli, Jr. (Forward by Dick Russell); Skyhorse Publishing [HC]; Copyright 2021 by H.P. Albarelli, Jr. and Linda O’Hara; ISBN 978–1‑5107–4031‑0; pp. 253–254.
. . . . On October 15, 1959, which coincidentally was the day Lee Oswald boarded a train from Helsinki to Moscow on the final leg of his defection, a twenty-eight-year-old KGB assassin, Bohdan Stashynsky, is alleged to have assassinated Ukraine Nationalist Stepan Bandera in Munich. On trial in Munich in 1962, prosecutors presented the most persuasive version of the murder: Stashynsky had used a spray gun to dispense a lethal but undetectable poison that induced symptoms that mimicked heart attack. On Tuesday, September 12, Pierre makes a note SPRAY-GUN 2 WILLOUGHBY-SHAW? The sheets from a ledger that author Albarelli gained access to further indicate the significance of “spray guns” in Pierre Lafitte’s world in 1963. As mentioned previously, in one ledger entry, Lafitte notes, “Walker team-spray guns-at least 5. . . .” Another reads, “ . . . Rothermel says no on gas [strike through] guns but T says ok (Stash) . . .
Walker says yes spray guns. Willoughby?” . . . .
. . . . According to a recent book by Professor of Ukrainian history Serhii Plokhy, The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story, Stashynsky’s career as a triggerman for the KGB played out against the backdrop of the fight for Ukrainian independence after the Second World War. “ . . . Bohdan was a member of the underground resistance against the Soviet occupation, but was forced to become an informer for the secret police after his family was threatened. After he betrayed a resistance cell . . . [he] was ostracized by his family and was offered the choice of continuing his higher education, which he could no longer afford, or joining the secret police.” . . . . Stashynsky received advanced training in Kyiv and Moscow for clandestine work in the West and became one of Moscow’s most trusted assets. . . .”
7. Gunrunner Thomas Eli Davis appears to have been subjected to a degree of mind control at the Lafayette Clinic in Detroit. Ernst Rodin—his “therapist”—was an Austrian émigré with a Third Reich pedigree.
Of particular note is the fact that MK/ULTRA operative extraordinaire Louis Jolyon West was a protégé of Rodin.
Davis was a gunrunning associate of Jack Ruby and was, apparently, involved with Lee Harvey Oswald’s sojourn in Mexico.
In our next program, we will set forth Davis’s connections to Viktor Oswald, an “Underground Reich” associate who networked extensively with the milieu of Otto Skorzeny in Spain.
Coup In Dallas: The Decisive Investigation into Who Killed JFK by H.P. Albarelli, Jr. (Forward by Dick Russell); Skyhorse Publishing [HC]; Copyright 2021 by H.P. Albarelli, Jr. and Linda O’Hara; ISBN 978–1‑5107–4031‑0; pp. 168, 169, 178.
. . . . One such practice was recommended by the [Lafayette] clinic’s neurologist, Dr. Ernst Rodin, who achieved wide notoriety with his recommendation that individuals who took part in Detroit’s race riots in the 1960s be physically castrated. Dr. Rodin, who treated Thomas Davis, came to the United States from Vienna in the early 1950s. According to Rodin’s autobiography, War and Mayhem, he had been a member of the Hitler Youth movement and then served a short stint as a Nazi soldier. . . . Dr. Joly West was a protégé of Rodin. . . .
. . . . In his 1977 pursuit of enigma Thomas Eli Davis, newsman Seth Kantor also revealed that the Texas native was released from his Tangier jail cell in early December 1963, through the intervention and assistance from “the mysterious CIA contract assassin known only by his CIA cryptonym QJ/WIN.” Kantor provides no source for his information on QJ/WIN, and Kantor is now dead. Readers of this book now know that a leading figure of the QJ/WIN program was former Nazi SS officer Otto Skorzeny, and it is this fact that makes Davis’s saga even more intriguing.
Well before Kantor wrote about Thomas Davis, Dallas Morning News reporter Earl Golz gained knowledge of Davis’s links to another major player in the assassination story, Jack Ruby, Oswald’s assassin, and to several other unsavory Texas gunrunners. Taken together, these links advance the n\mystery of Thomas Davis into “the stratosphere of serpentine connections.”
On July 10, 1976, Golz wrote a greatly overlooked Morning News account concerning Jack Ruby’s role in running guns to anti-Castro forces in Cuba. Golz writes that after Ruby’s arrest for murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, Ruby “was concerned that the name of a gunrunner for anti-Castro Cubans might come up during his 1964 trial [in Dallas].” The name was Thomas Eli Davis, Jr. . . . .
. . . . Davis’s wife’s statement to the author in 2004 continues verbatim: “The other Oswald, the man they said that killed the President . . . . I had no idea who he was until his name was in the newspapers. But when I saw his picture, I remembered him right away from being in Mexico at a hotel thing with Tom. He and Tom had been together for a few days. That frightened me a lot, but Tom said to forget about it. . . .”
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