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“Polit­i­cal language…is designed to make lies sound truth­ful and mur­der respectable, and to give an appear­ance of solid­i­ty to pure wind.”

— George Orwell, 1946

EVERYTHING MR. EMORY HAS BEEN SAYING ABOUT THE UKRAINE WAR IS ENCAPSULATED IN THIS VIDEO FROM UKRAINE 24

ANOTHER REVEALING VIDEO FROM UKRAINE 24

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FTR#1275 This pro­gram was record­ed in one, 60-minute seg­ment.

FTR#1276 This pro­gram was record­ed in one, 60-minute seg­ment.

Intro­duc­tion: This broad­cast con­tin­ues our vis­its with Jim DiEugenio–author of Des­tiny Betrayed and JFK Revis­it­ed–select­ed by Oliv­er Stone to write the screen­play for his lat­est doc­u­men­tary.

In these broad­casts, we are addi­tion­al­ly priv­i­leged by the par­tic­i­pa­tion of Paul Bleau, a vet­er­an JFK assas­si­na­tion researcher who is promi­nent­ly fea­tured in JFK Revis­it­ed.

The recent inquiries into the 1/6/2021 insur­rec­tion have yield­ed some jour­nal­is­tic cov­er­age (Wash­ing­ton Post) of Secret Ser­vice destruc­tion of records of 1963 threats to JFK from “white suprema­cist” groups. We begin by pre­sent­ing Paul’s analy­sis of the Chica­go plot against JFK’s life; with appar­ent shoot­ers posi­tioned in a high-rise build­ing to elim­i­nate JFK as he trav­eled in a motor­cade.

Next, Paul ana­lyzes the plot against JFK’s life in Tam­pa.

Fol­low­ing dis­cus­sion of the pre­vi­ous plots against JFK in 1963, we turn to Oswald’s pres­ence in New Orleans and the cast of char­ac­ters revolv­ing around Guy Ban­is­ter’s “detec­tive agency.”

In a pre­vi­ous pro­gram, we not­ed that the term “Con­spir­a­cy The­o­rist” was great­ly ele­vat­ed in its use and intel­lec­tu­al pro­file by stress­ing the util­i­ty of the moniker in dis­cred­it­ing War­ren Com­mis­sion crit­ics.

Instead of “con­spir­a­cy,” the term “net­work­ing” is both accu­rate and res­onates pos­i­tive­ly with the rela­tion­ships that char­ac­ter­ize the JFK assas­si­na­tion land­scape.

Among Paul Bleau’s numer­ous arti­cles avail­able on kennedysandking.com is one about Oswald’s escorts. We delve into some aspects of the net­work­ing involv­ing Oswald and the Camp Street milieu in New Orleans.

1. The recent inquiries into the 1/6/2021 insur­rec­tion have yield­ed some jour­nal­is­tic cov­er­age (Wash­ing­ton Post) of Secret Ser­vice destruc­tion of records of 1963 threats to JFK from “white suprema­cist” groups. We begin by pre­sent­ing Paul’s analy­sis of the Chica­go plot against JFK’s life; with appar­ent shoot­ers posi­tioned in a high-rise build­ing to elim­i­nate JFK as he trav­eled in a motor­cade.

Key Points of Dis­cus­sion and Analy­sis Include: A man named “Lee” reports plot (pos­si­bly Oswald);  The issue of Oswald’s alleged role as an FBI infor­mant; Thomas Arthur Vallee—a prin­ci­pal in the plot (pos­si­ble pat­sy); Vallee not arrest­ed until after JFK’s vis­it to Chica­go was can­celed; Vallee’s sim­i­lar­i­ties to Oswald (for­mer Marine who had appar­ent­ly worked in con­junc­tion with the U‑2 project in Japan);  Vallee’s para­mil­i­tary train­ing of Cuban exiles; Dis­cus­sion of the appar­ent shooters—four men with rifles affixed with tele­scop­ic sites and a map of JFK’s motor­cade route; The appar­rent snipers don’t reveal any­thing; After the appar­ent shoot­ers were dis­cov­ered, FBI was con­tact­ed and they, in turn, con­tact Secret Ser­vice; Secret Ser­vice allowed two sus­pects to “escape; ” “Bold­en Agonistes”—The ordeal of black Secret Ser­vice agent Abra­ham Bold­en; Bolden’s attempt at bring­ing infor­ma­tion about the Chica­go plot for­ward; Bold­en was rebuffed and then framed for a crime; Jim Gochenauer relates that Secret Ser­vice Agent Elmer Moore said that the “nigger”—Bolden—was final­ly neu­tral­ized; Moore labeled JFK a trai­tor in dis­cus­sion with Gochenauer; Bold­en cred­its the video work done in con­junc­tion with JFK Revis­it­ed with obtain­ing his release from prison; Secret Service’s destruc­tion of doc­u­men­ta­tion about the Chica­go Plot.

2. Next, Paul ana­lyzes the plot against JFK’s life in Tam­pa.

Key Points of Analy­sis and Dis­cus­sion Include:  The sim­i­lar­i­ty of the phys­i­cal lay­out and the sim­i­lar­i­ties to Chica­go, Dal­las;  Gilber­to Poli­car­po Lopez, the Cuban who was the appar­ent pat­sy-to-be in the Tam­pa plot; Lopez’s sim­i­lar­i­ties to Oswald—a mem­ber of the Fair Play for Cuba Com­mit­tee, like Oswald; went to Mex­i­co City on 11/23/1963; Lopez took a flight to Cuba paid for by the FPCC short­ly after going to Mex­i­co City; Lopez was rumored to have assist­ed Oswald in Dal­las; War­ren Com­mis­sion did not do any­thing sub­stan­tive on this plot; The out­rage of the House Select Com­mit­tee on Assas­si­na­tions over dis­cov­ery of the War­ren Commission’s lack of inves­ti­ga­tion of the Tam­pa plot.

3. Fol­low­ing dis­cus­sion of the pre­vi­ous plots against JFK in 1963, we turn to Oswald’s pres­ence in New Orleans and the cast of char­ac­ters revolv­ing around Guy Ban­is­ter’s “detec­tive agency.”

Key Points of Analy­sis and Dis­cus­sion Include: Review of Oswald’s pres­ence at the dual address of 544 Camp Street and 531 Lafayette Place; The use by Oswald of the 544 Camp Street address on his Fair Play For Cuba lit­er­a­ture; Ban­is­ter sec­re­tary (and alleged roman­tic inter­est) Del­phine Roberts’ con­tention that Ban­is­ter gave Oswald an office in his build­ing for the gen­er­a­tion of the “left­ist” lit­er­a­ture; The FBI’s sup­pres­sion of the Oswald/544 Camp Street link; The appar­ent use of the Ban­is­ter estab­lish­ment as a base for anti-Cas­tro oper­a­tions; HSCA’s Robert Tanen­baum and his con­tention that he saw a train­ing film involv­ing Fer­rie, Oswald and CIA offi­cial David Atlee Philipps in anti-Cas­tro para­mil­i­tary train­ing; The INCA orga­ni­za­tion and its inter­sec­tion with Oswald’s activ­i­ties in New Orleans; The dis­ap­pear­ance of that film; the sus­pi­cious deaths of many of the oper­a­tives who had moved in Banister’s orbit: David Fer­rie; Hugh Ward; Mau­rice Brooks Gatlin and Ban­is­ter him­self.

4. In a pre­vi­ous pro­gram, we not­ed that the term “Con­spir­a­cy The­o­rist” was great­ly ele­vat­ed in its use and intel­lec­tu­al pro­file by stress­ing the util­i­ty of the moniker in dis­cred­it­ing War­ren Com­mis­sion crit­ics.

Instead of “con­spir­a­cy,” the term “net­work­ing” is both accu­rate and res­onates pos­i­tive­ly with the rela­tion­ships that char­ac­ter­ize the JFK assas­si­na­tion land­scape.

Among Paul Bleau’s numer­ous arti­cles avail­able on kennedysandking.com is one about Oswald’s escorts. We delve into some aspects of the net­work­ing involv­ing Oswald and the Camp Street milieu in New Orleans.

Key Points of Analy­sis and Dis­cus­sion Include: Banister’s office was the loca­tion of a coali­tion of busi­ness inter­ests focused on over­throw­ing Cas­tro, that includ­ed Mr. Reil­ly (head of the Reil­ly Cof­fee Com­pa­ny that employed Oswald); The pres­ence of Ser­gio Arcacha Smith—a key anti-Cas­tro activist asso­ci­at­ed with the CIA’s Cuban Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Coun­cil, the Agency’s umbrel­la orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cat­ed to over­throw­ing Cas­tro; The net­work­ing that Clay Shaw was man­i­fest­ing, involv­ing key fig­ures in the nation­al secu­ri­ty estab­lish­ment and asso­ci­at­ed busi­ness cir­cles; The obvi­ous fact of Oswald being shep­herd­ed about by a mus­cu­lar Lati­no, appar­ent­ly assigned as per­son­al secu­ri­ty for Oswald; Review of George Joan­nides’ role with the DRE, CIA and the House Select Com­mit­tee on Assas­si­na­tions.

5. Some key, intro­duc­to­ry ele­ments of Paul Bleau’s essay on Oswald’s escorts:

“The Gar­ri­son Files and Oswald’s Escort” by Paul Bleau; Kennedysandking.com; 10/16/2022.

After a near­ly year­long inves­ti­ga­tion, the com­mis­sion, led by Chief Jus­tice Earl War­ren (1891–1974), con­clud­ed that alleged gun­man Lee Har­vey Oswald (1939–1963) had act­ed alone in assas­si­nat­ing Amer­i­ca’s 35th pres­i­dent, and that there was no con­spir­a­cy, either domes­tic or inter­na­tion­al, involved.” As we all know, this was the War­ren Commission’s con­clu­sion about the accused assas­sin of Pres­i­dent John F. Kennedy. One of the premis­es that this con­clu­sion is based upon was that Oswald was a lone, unsta­ble drifter. “He does not appear to have been able to estab­lish mean­ing­ful rela­tion­ships with oth­er peo­ple.”

Sen­a­tor Richard Schweik­er of the Church Com­mit­tee, how­ev­er, under­scored the strik­ing dichoto­my of Oswald’s inter­ac­tions with rabid right-wingers as well as pro-Cas­tro sub­jects, spec­u­lat­ing that he was a dou­ble agent. The HSCA com­plet­ed its inves­ti­ga­tion in 1978 and issued its final report the fol­low­ing year, which con­clud­ed that Kennedy was prob­a­bly assas­si­nat­ed as a result of a con­spir­a­cy.

In this author’s three-part series on Expos­ing the FPCC, it is made clear that lone-nut the­o­rists present Oswald’s seem­ing­ly bizarre behav­ior in New Orleans dur­ing the Sum­mer of 1963 at face val­ue rather, than accept­ing the obvi­ous: That Oswald was sim­ply fol­low­ing orders in strat­a­gems to counter com­mu­nism. That is, he was play­ing the role of a provo­ca­teur.

The num­ber of touch-points he has that put this twen­ty-three-year-old in prox­im­i­ty with intel­li­gence, anti-com­mu­nists and rabid right-wingers are so numer­ous that his drifter tag is sim­ply not cred­i­ble.

When one reads the Jim Gar­ri­son files, there is one of his side­kicks who stands out. Sim­ply because of his unique appear­ance, by the impor­tant num­ber of wit­ness­es who saw Oswald with him, and by the fact that he has nev­er been pub­licly iden­ti­fied.

Jim Gar­ri­son tried but was unable. The War­ren Com­mis­sion and FBI knew about him but did not want to probe very thor­ough­ly. Iden­ti­fy­ing him and oth­er prob­a­bly Cuban exiles seem­ing­ly con­nect­ed to Oswald, that would have opened up a whole can of worms. This would have proven that Oswald was not a lon­er and did not drift any­where. On the con­trary, it would have opened the doors to Lee Oswald‘s net­work, his provo­ca­tion duties, and it would have val­i­dat­ed so many tes­ti­monies of trou­bling wit­ness­es who were uni­fied in aspects of these sight­ings – which stood out like sore thumbs.

The impli­ca­tions of what you are about to read are many:

1. Oswald was assigned at least one escort
2. This escort was most like­ly known by Guy Ban­is­ter, David Fer­rie, Clay Shaw, Ser­gio Arcacha Smith and oth­ers, and quite pos­si­bly hand­ed his assign­ments by Ban­is­ter
3. He may even have been iden­ti­fied by the FBI, which was kept hid­den
4. Some very dra­mat­ic and impor­tant tes­ti­mo­ny by wit­ness­es such as Roger Craig, Richard Case Nag­ell, Per­ry Rus­so, Sylvia Odio and many oth­ers become even more cred­i­ble because of the cor­rob­o­ra­tive val­ue of the escorts they described
5. Garrison’s work and astute­ness are once again bol­stered after his forced demise
6. There are signs that the War­ren Com­mis­sion stepped on the brakes and turned a blind eye to these impor­tant leads
7. Jim Garrison’s files need to be gone through with a fine-tooth comb by researchers and cross-ana­lyzed with the ARRB releas­es, and oth­er sources. And that will help refute, com­plete, and cor­rob­o­rate evi­dence and opin­ions he put forth on a whole host of issues

 This Essay

The main goal of this arti­cle is to lay out over 30 testimonies/reports that pro­vide evi­dence of Oswald hav­ing escorts. These sight­ings begin in 1957 when Oswald was 16 or 17 and go on to Novem­ber 22^nd 1963. They include inci­dents that occurred when Oswald was in Rus­sia and his iden­ti­ty in the U.S. was bor­rowed. Almost all of the escort obser­va­tions include Oswald (or a dou­ble). How­ev­er, a few are described where they are seen with per­sons of inter­est while Oswald was else­where. There are sight­ings in both New Orleans and Dal­las, includ­ing a few in the Carousel Club. The pri­ma­ry sources for each of these come not only from Garrison’s work, but also the War­ren Com­mis­sion, HSCA, FBI and oth­er intel­li­gence doc­u­ments. The wit­ness­es vary in age, gen­der, nation­al­i­ty, pro­fes­sion, city of res­i­dence etc. On a num­ber of occa­sions, there is more than one wit­ness to the same event. Some, such as law enforce­ment offi­cials, are trained observers. There is one poly­graph-based tes­ti­mo­ny and anoth­er one took place while the wit­ness was under hyp­no­sis. Many of the tes­ti­mo­ni­als were giv­en short­ly after the assas­si­na­tion, elim­i­nat­ing any form of con­vo­lut­ed plot of coach­ing wit­ness­es. Some of the leads are per­haps a bit ten­u­ous and refutable or explain­able, but in this author’s opin­ion, an over­whelm­ing num­ber are not. Each should be tak­en seri­ous­ly as the tables are now turned: It is clear that Oswald was not a lone nut nor a drifter and that there was accord­ing to the U.S. gov­ern­ment a prob­a­ble con­spir­a­cy.

A sec­ond goal is to pro­voke thought and analy­sis on the increased val­ue of unfair­ly dis­cred­it­ed tes­ti­monies and take seri­ous­ly con­tentions that go way beyond Oswald being escort­ed. For exam­ple, if Roger Craig’s descrip­tion of an Oswald being dri­ven away after the assas­si­na­tion by a very mus­cu­lar, dark com­plexed Lati­no can­not be dis­missed- con­sid­er the impli­ca­tions of this. Do not ask me today to draw def­i­nite con­clu­sions. I am unable to.

To be able to read each record in their entire­ty, you are encour­aged to acquire the Jim Gar­ri­son files (avail­able through Len Osan­ic at Black­Op Radio). Then read the longer pri­ma­ry doc­u­ment through hyper­link­ing or by using the ref­er­ences to nav­i­gate through the files. This will pro­vide the set­ting, and some­times, very impor­tant col­lat­er­al affir­ma­tions that become more cred­i­ble if one accepts the escort traces that can­not be explained away by some sort of imag­in­ing of so many dif­fer­ent indi­vid­u­als. In quot­ing from the doc­u­ments, I have under­lined what Gar­ri­son did and high­light­ed what he empha­sized fur­ther.

On the Trail of the Escort

The Gar­ri­son Files include thou­sands of pages of infor­ma­tion… a lot of it is pret­ty raw. When I began read­ing them, some of the con­tent was stun­ning from the get-go, oth­er parts only began tak­ing form after read­ing hun­dreds of pages. The more I read, the more I noticed tes­ti­monies, that were sep­a­rat­ed by days and some­times weeks of read­ing, that referred to phys­i­cal traits of a Lati­no that almost seemed freak­ish in nature. At least this seemed to be the case in the eyes of many of the wit­ness­es. Numer­ous accounts described looks, nation­al­i­ty and oral skills that were unique enough that they could only belong to one per­son.

Out of some 35 wit­ness­es, each one said the escorts, (there were often two or more), looked Latin. For many, it was one of the escorts who stood out: This one was often described as short, stocky, in his ear­ly to mid-twen­ties, dark com­plect­ed and he spoke lit­tle Eng­lish or Eng­lish with an accent. One per­son who did take note was Gar­ri­son, who would often make spe­cial anno­ta­tions in his doc­u­ments when this descrip­tion came up. It is obvi­ous that Lati­nos fol­low­ing Oswald around this flew in the face of the lone nut-drifter per­sona the War­ren Com­mis­sion ped­dled in its report. Gar­ri­son want­ed to find him.

Because Gar­ri­son became tox­ic due to a smear cam­paign, there seems to have been reluc­tance to fol­low-up on any of his leads, includ­ing two in the above arti­cle: First, that the escort had been pho­tographed in the vicin­i­ty of Oswald while he was hand­ing out Fair Play for Cuba fly­ers; and that he and a group of Cubans were pos­si­bly hid­den behind a bill­board dur­ing the mur­der­ous motor­cade. This last might jibe with the report­ed pres­ence of the noto­ri­ous Bernar­do DeTor­res in Dealey Plaza, as report­ed by Gae­ton Fonzi in his book The Last Inves­ti­ga­tion. . . .

6. Essays by Paul Bleau: The Pri­or plots to assas­si­nate JFK; The FPCC front,; Oswald’s escort; Oswald’s intel­li­gence con­nec­tions; The Cuban exile- mafia- CIA net­work; The inves­ti­ga­tions and inves­ti­ga­tors who con­firmed there was a con­spir­a­cy (or hint­ed that they believed so); Oliv­er Stone in Que­bec City; Oswald’s last let­ter; Mari­na’s spon­sor and Oswald’s six wal­lets; How his­to­ry book cov­er the assas­si­na­tion.