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FTR#‘s 1349 & 1350 Conversations with Monte: Conversations #‘s 23 & 24

Intro­duc­tion: These pro­grams con­tin­ue (from FTR#‘s 1345 & 1346)  explo­ration of the his­to­ry of U.S. involve­ment with Asian fas­cism from the pre-World War II peri­od until the present.

Crit­i­cal back­ground infor­ma­tion on U.S. cap­i­tal sup­port for Japan­ese fas­cism and Japan’s cen­turies-long sub­ju­ga­tion of Korea may be found in FTR#‘s 905 and 1141.

1. It is inter­est­ing to con­tem­plate the text of a let­ter that Jack Ruby smug­gled out of prison. In the let­ter, Ruby hints that Japan­ese fas­cists par­tic­i­pat­ed in the assas­si­na­tion of Pres­i­dent Kennedy. Cer­tain­ly, ele­ments of what were to become the World Anti-Com­mu­nist League (includ­ing the Asian Peo­ples Anti-Com­mu­nist League) were involved.

The Man Who Knew Too Much; Dick Rus­sell; Car­roll & Graf [HC]; Copy­right 1992 by Dick Rus­sell; ISBN 0–88184-900–6; p. 684.

 . . . Don’t believe the War­ren [Com­mis­sion] Report, that was only put out to make me look inno­cent. . . .I’m going to die a hor­ri­ble death any­way, so what would I have to gain by writ­ing all this. So you must believe me. . . . that [sic] is only one kind of peo­ple that would do such a thing, that would have to be the Naz­i’s [sic], and that is who is in pow­er in this coun­try right now. . . . Japan is also in on the deal, but the old war lords are going to come back. South Amer­i­ca is also full of these Naz­i’s [sic]. . . . if those peo­ple were so deter­mined to frame me then you must be con­vinced that they had an ulte­ri­or motive for doing same. There is only one kind of peo­ple that would go to such extremes, and that would be the Mas­ter Race. . . .

2. While in Oki­nawa dur­ing Japan’s sur­ren­der in World War II, Colonel L. Fletch­er Prouty was wit­ness to the ear­ly com­mit­ment of deci­sive mil­i­tary resources to the wars that were to take place in Korea and Indochina/Vietnam.

JFK: The CIA, Viet­nam, and the Plot to Assas­si­nate John F. Kennedy by Col. [Ret.] L. Fletch­er Prouty; Sky­horse Pub­lish­ing [HC]; Copy­right 2011 by L. Fletch­er Prouty; ISBN 978–1‑51073–876‑8; pp. 17–18.

 . . . . I was on Oki­nawa at that time, and dur­ing some busi­ness in the har­bor area I asked the har­bor­mas­ter if all that new mate­r­i­al was being returned to the States. His response was direct and sur­pris­ing: ‘Hell, no! They ain’t nev­er goin’ to see it again. One-half of this stuff, enough to equip and sup­ply at least a hun­dred and fifty thou­sand men, is going to Korea, and the oth­er half is going to Indochi­na.’ In 1945, none of us had any idea that the first bat­tles of the Cold War were going to be fought by U.S. mil­i­tary units in those two regions begin­ning in 1950 and 1965–yet that is pre­cise­ly what had been planned, and it is pre­cise­ly what hap­pened. Who made that deci­sion back in 1943–45? . . . .

3a. The shoot­ing war in Asia did not end with V‑J Day.

The Night­mare Decade: The Life and Times of Sen­a­tor Joe McCarthy by Fred J. Cook; Copy­right 1971 by Fred J. Cook; Ran­dom House [HC]; ISBN 0–394-46270‑x; p. 219.

. . . . When the war end­ed, Chi­na was in utter chaos. Thou­sands of Japan­ese troops wan­dered around the coun­try­side, ful­ly armed, with no one accept­ing their sur­ren­der. John F. Mel­by [a State Depart­ment offi­cer], in a day-by-day diary he kept at the time, reflect­ed in bewil­der­ment upon this anom­aly. On Decem­ber 27, 1945, he not­ed: “I still don’t under­stand about the Japan­ese. Offi­cial­ly they are being dis­armed, but the fact is they nev­er seem to be. In Shang­hai, fif­teen thou­sand still walk the streets with full equip­ment. In Nanking, the high Japan­ese gen­er­als are bosom bud­dies of the Chi­nese. In the north, tens of thou­sands of Japan­ese sol­diers are used to guard rail­roads and ware­hous­es and to fight the Com­mu­nists. If you ask what this is all about, the answer is either a denial or in more can­did moments a ‘Shh, we don’t talk about that.’ ” In anoth­er entry on Jan­u­ary 30, 1947, a good six­teen months after V‑J Day, Mel­by not­ed that, though it was being kept “very qui­et,” there were “eighty thou­sand hold­out Japan­ese troops in east­ern and north­west­ern Manchuria, who are ful­ly equipped, fight­ing the Com­mu­nists.” . . . .

3b. Of great sig­nif­i­cance is the pres­ence of John Fos­ter Dulles, Kodama Yoshio and Machii Hisayu­ki (head of the Kore­an Yakuza in Japan) in Seoul South Korea on the eve of the out­break of the Kore­an War.

Gold War­riors by Ster­ling and Peg­gy Sea­grave; Ver­so [SC]; Copy­right 2003, 2005 by Ster­ling and Peg­gy Sea­grave; ISBN 1–84467-531–9; p. 115.

 . . . . In Octo­ber of 1949, the Peo­ple’s Repub­lic of Chi­na came into being. Eight months lat­er, in June of 1950, the Kore­an War broke out. Just before the war began, Kodama [Yoshio] accom­pa­nied John Fos­ter Dulles to nego­ti­a­tions in Seoul. The Dulles par­ty also includ­ed Kodama’s pro­tege Machii Hisayu­ki, boss of the Kore­an yakuza in Japan. Efforts to dis­cov­er under Free­dom of Infor­ma­tion what Kodama and Machii did dur­ing the trip with Dulles have run into a stone wall. In the MacArthur Memo­r­i­al archive we dis­cov­ered a per­son­al let­ter from Kodama to Gen­er­al MacArthur offer­ing to pro­vide thou­sands of yakuza and for­mer Japan­ese Army sol­diers to fight along­side Amer­i­can sol­diers in Korea. Accord­ing to sources in Korea and Japan, the offer was accept­ed and these men joined the Allied force on the Penin­su­la, pos­ing as Kore­an sol­diers. . . . 

3c. Japan’s loot­ing of Korea took place over cen­turies. In Gold War­riors, the Sea­graves present the his­to­ry of Japan’s rape of Korea, begin­ning with their account of the gris­ly mur­der of Kore­an Queen Min in 1894. (For more about the Japan­ese con­quest, sub­ju­ga­tion and loot­ing of Korea, see FTR#1141.) ” . . . . the defense­less queen was stabbed and slashed repeat­ed­ly, and car­ried wail­ing out to the palace gar­den where she was thrown onto a pile of fire­wood, drenched with kerosene, and set aflame. An Amer­i­can mil­i­tary advi­sor, Gen­er­al William Dye, was one of sev­er­al for­eign­ers who heard and saw the killers milling around in the palace com­pound with dawn swords while the queen was burned alive. . . .”

A snap­shot of the Japan­ese colo­nial occu­pa­tion of Korea, a focal point of crit­i­cism of the late Park Won-soon:” . . . . [Gen­er­al] Ter­auchi was extra­or­di­nar­i­ly bru­tal, set­ting a prece­dent for Japan­ese behav­ior in all the coun­tries, it would occu­py over com­ing decades. Deter­mined to crush all resis­tance, he told Kore­ans, ‘I will whip you with scor­pi­ons!’ He set up a sadis­tic police force of Kore­an yakuza, order­ing it to use tor­ture as a mat­ter of course, for ‘no Ori­en­tal can be expect­ed to tell the truth except under tor­ture’. These police were close­ly super­vised by Japan’s gestapo, the kem­peitai. . . . ‘Japan’s aim,’ said Kore­an his­to­ri­an Yi Kibeck, ‘was to erad­i­cate con­scious­ness of Kore­an nation­al iden­ti­ty, roots and all, and thus to oblit­er­ate the very exis­tence of the Kore­an peo­ple from the face of the earth.’ . . . the penin­su­la was stripped of every­thing from art­works to root veg­eta­bles. As Korea now belonged to Japan, the trans­fer of cul­tur­al property—looting—was not theft. How can you steal some­thing that already belongs to you? . . .”

4. Top­ics and Points of Dis­cus­sion For Inclu­sion in this series: The Cab­i­net Research Offi­cer next to Ruby at the press con­fer­ence; Gen­er­al Arisue and his myr­i­ad con­nec­tions; Tsu­ji Masanobu and his links to Arisue, the Bataan Death March and also high­light­ing the death of Iris Chang in this dis­cus­sion; Both Syn­g­man Rhee’s and Ngo Dinh Diem’s work for the Japan­ese; The use of the Uighurs by the Japan­ese and their imme­di­ate suc­ces­sors; The divid­ing of Korea at the 38th par­al­lel by Col’s David Dean Rusk and Bon­es­teel; Rusk’s work for Admi­ral Hil­lenkoet­ter at CIA, as well as any oth­er intel­li­gence links you have for him (There was at least anoth­er, but I can’t remem­ber if off the top of my head); Colonel Bonesteel’s lat­er work in Viet­nam as a Gen­er­al and for CIA; Gen­er­al Kim Sook Won and his work as a “Ban­dit Hunter;” Kim Sook Won’s role as com­man­der of Syn­g­man Rhee’s bor­der forces; We will dis­cuss I.F. Stone’s Hid­den His­to­ry of the Kore­an War, not­ing that it appears that South Korea attacked first, bat­ing the North to coun­ter­at­tack; What the Kore­an War did strate­gi­cal­ly for MacArthur & Company—precluding an attack by Mao’s forces on Formosa/Taiwan, as well as solid­i­fy­ing Rhee’s posi­tion in South Korea (which might have been end­ed by a pop­u­lar ref­er­en­dum); JFK’s cut­ting loose of Syn­g­man Rhee and his White Terror—undoubtedly anoth­er major rea­son for his assas­si­na­tion; Willough­by, of course; Jim Wilcott and the Japan­ese fas­cists with whom he worked; Oswald in Japan and E. Howard Hunt’s role in covert oper­a­tions in Japan; Review of JFK’s attempts to extri­cate us from Viet­nam; Eisuke Ono’s role as a Japan­ese Naval Intel­li­gence pay­mas­ter in the U.S. in1933; Fred­er­ick Rutland’s work for Mit­subishi and the oper­a­tional links to Kodama Yoshio and Arisue (Rut­land was the guy Ono was pay­ing); The posi­tion of Ono in the post-WWII bank­ing milieu inex­tri­ca­bly linked with Gold­en Lily—The links to Tiarks, Nor­bert Bog­dan and the role of the Bank of Tokyo as the suc­ces­sor to the Yoko­hama Specie Bank.


FTR#‘s 1347 & 1348 Conversations with Monte: Conversations #‘s 21 & 22

Intro­duc­tion: Tak­ing a respite from the pro­ject­ed long series of pro­grams on U.S. Asian pol­i­cy, these pro­grams begin with Mon­te’s dis­cus­sion of a link between Guy Ban­is­ter’s “detec­tive agency” and the coa­les­cence of the Process Church of the Final Judg­ment, a focal point of a four-part Mis­cel­la­neous Archive Series on “The Ulti­mate Evil.

A close for­mer asso­ciate of Ban­is­ter incor­po­rat­ed the Process Church, which appears to have served as an intel­li­gence front, to an extent.

The associate–Tommy Baumler–was a Nazi.

In this analy­sis, Monte uti­lized a book titled The Mad Bish­ops.

The bulk of the pro­grams con­sist of analy­sis of the lat­est “attempt” on Trump’s life, as well as the appar­ent Nazi gen­e­sis of the “Haitians eat­ing dogs and cats” meme.

It is our con­sen­sus that the “attempts” on Trump’s life are intend­ed to pro­voke vio­lence against Trump’s polit­i­cal oppo­nents.

Ryan Wes­ley Routh also net­worked with the Azov Bat­tal­ion.


FTR#‘s 1341, 1342, 1343 and 1344 Conversations with Monte: Conversations #‘s 15, 16, 17 and 18

Intro­duc­tion: These pro­grams set forth dis­cus­sion of the polit­i­cal and his­tor­i­cal links between “Team Trump” and the fas­cist regimes of Hitler, Fran­cis­co Fran­co and Augus­to Pinochet.

A recent book label­ing oppo­nents of Trump et al as “Unhu­mans.”

The net­works to which Vance, Trump and the GOP belong have evolved direct­ly from the milieu of the JFK Assas­si­na­tion.

“Vance Just Endorsed a Trou­bling Author­i­tar­i­an Book” by Michelle Gold­berg; The New York Times; 8/07/2024, p. A22 (West­ern print edi­tion) .

. . . . “Unhu­mans,” an anti-demo­c­ra­t­ic screed that [Jack] Poso­biec wrote with Joshua Lisec, comes with endorse­ments from some of the most influ­en­tial peo­ple in Repub­li­can pol­i­tics, includ­ing, most sig­nif­i­cant­ly, the vice-Pres­i­den­tial can­di­date J.D. Vance.

The word “fas­cist” gets thrown around a lot in pol­i­tics, but it’s hard to find a more apt one for “Unhu­mans” which came out last month.

. . . . Often, they write, “great men of means” are required to crush this scourge [the “Unhu­mans”]. The con­tempt for democ­ra­cy in “Unhu­mans” is not sub­tle. “Our study of his­to­ry has brought us to this con­clu­sion: Democ­ra­cy has nev­er worked to pro­tect inno­cents from the unhu­mans,” write Poso­biec and Lisec.

One of the book’s heroes is the Span­ish dic­ta­tor Fran­cis­co Fran­co, who over­threw the demo­c­ra­t­ic Sec­ond Span­ish Repub­lic in the country’s 1930’s civ­il war. . . . They quote him on what doesn’t work against the unhu­man threat: “We do not believe in gov­ern­ment through the vot­ing booth. The Span­ish nation­al will was nev­er freely expressed through the bal­lot box.” . . . .

. . . . “Unhu­mans” lauds Augus­to Pinochet, the leader of the Chilean mil­i­tary who led a coup against Sal­vador Allende’s elect­ed gov­ern­ment in 1973, ush­er­ing in a reign of tor­ture and repres­sion that involved toss­ing polit­i­cal ene­mies from heli­copters.

Pinochet-inspired heli­copter memes have been com­mon in the MAGA move­ment for years. And as the his­to­ri­an David Austin Walsh wrote last year, there has long been a cult of Fran­co on the right. . . .

. . . . [The Great Amer­i­can Counter Rev­o­lu­tion] is achiev­able but only with the resolve of Fran­co and the thor­ough­ness of [Sen­a­tor Joseph] McCarthy.” . . . .

. . . . “Much like the Unit­ed States found­ing fathers, Fran­co and his fel­lows saw them­selves as rebels intend­ed to over­throw a cor­rupt, tyran­ni­cal gov­ern­ment that aid­ed and abet­ted mur­der and rape as well as oth­er repug­nant sins” . . . .

Top­ics of Dis­cus­sion and Analy­sis Include: The evo­lu­tion of the milieu under­ly­ing Fran­co, Pinochet and the con­tem­po­rary GOP from an inter­na­tion­al drug and weapons net­work inex­tri­ca­bly linked with the intel­li­gence com­mu­ni­ty; The role of Chi­nese fas­cists under the Kuom­intang includ­ing Tai Li and Tu Yueh Sheng in this net­work; The role of Gen­er­al Charles Willough­by in the devel­op­ment of this net­work; Links between this net­work and the assas­si­na­tion of JFK; Links between this net­work and the Bay of Pigs inva­sion; Nazi SS com­man­do Otto Skorzeny’s net­work­ing with the Vat­i­can and Gio­van­ni Bat­tista Mon­ti­ni, the Vat­i­can’s sec­re­tary of state and lat­er Pope Paul VI; The Vatican’s pro­found involve­ment with fas­cism; The role of Fran­cis­co Fran­co in financ­ing an off­shore, anti-Cas­tro  radio net­work oper­at­ed by Texas oil mag­nate Clint Murchi­son; U.S. defense con­trac­tor Ling, Tem­co Vought’s own­er­ship of the anten­nae used by Radio Nord; The sus­pi­cious death of CIA offi­cer Gary Under­hill, who alleged­ly com­mit­ted sui­cide after fin­ger­ing the intelligence/narcotics/weapons traf­fick­ing ring with the assas­si­na­tion of JFK, Underhill’s role edit­ing Pen­ta­gon reports about Willoughby’s com­man­do oper­a­tions in Asia; Underhill’s role as (arguably) the CIA’s top expert on small arms; Fox News founder and king­pin Roger Ailes’ role with the Nixon, Rea­gan and George H.W. Bush admin­is­tra­tions; Ailes’ employ­ment with the Coors media appa­ra­tus; The role of for­mer Span­ish prime min­is­ter Aznar in per­pet­u­at­ing the net­works of Fran­co, Links between the SS/Vatican nexus and the Babi Yar mas­sacres in Ukraine; The work of SS offi­cials of the Vatican/SS nexus and the CIA; Review of Nico­lae Malax­a’s role in financ­ing the Ruman­ian Guard; Malax­a’s role in the emp­ty cor­po­rate front West­ern Tube, whose mail­ing address was Bew­ley, Kroop and Nixon–Nixon’s law firm; Review of Valer­ian Tri­fa’s role with the Iron Guard and the GOP; (both Malaxa and Tri­fa are cov­ered at length in AFA#2); Gen­er­al Motors head Alfred P. Sloan’s finan­cial sup­port for Malax­a’s rail­way in Ruma­nia, that was used to trans­port vic­tims of the Holo­caust; Malax­a’s net­work­ing with Juan Per­on and Otto Sko­rzeny; The Great South­west Cor­po­ra­tion’s absorp­tion of West­ern Tube; The Great South­west Cor­po­ra­tion’s han­dling of Mari­na Oswald; Review of mate­r­i­al in FTR#1222 con­cern­ing the roles of French fas­cists in the assas­si­na­tion of JFK; Numer­ous points of inter­est with the World Com­merce Cor­po­ra­tion; Numer­ous con­nec­tions of this milieu with the nar­co-fas­cist regime of Chi­ang Kai-shek.


FTR#‘s 1339 & 1340: Conversations with Monte: Conversations #‘s 13 and 14

Intro­duc­tion: These pro­grams con­tin­ue to explore the over­whelm­ing prob­a­bil­i­ty that the 544 Camp Street/531 Lafayette Place address in New Orleans that housed Guy Ban­is­ter’s “Detec­tive Agency” was, in addi­tion to being an intel­li­gence epi­cen­ter, also housed fas­cist ele­ments of a domes­tic Gladio/Stay Behind oper­a­tion.

Groups like the KKK, the Amer­i­can Nazi Par­ty, the Nation­al States Rights Par­ty, the Min­ute­men and the Chris­t­ian Defense League appear to have been oper­at­ing (to an extent) as agents of the nation­al secu­ri­ty estab­lish­ment.

Back­ground infor­ma­tion is pre­sent­ed in numer­ous pro­grams; https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-188-american-gladio/; https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-971-nazis-in-new-orleans/; https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-973-they-are-all-bound-on-the-wheel-part-2-reflections-on-charlottesville/; https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-81-interview-iv-with-martin-lee/; https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-58-operation-gladio-update/; https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-53-the-terror-connection-pt‑2/; https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-59-the-turkish-stay-behind/; https://spitfirelist.com/anti-fascist-archives/rfa-17–21-who-shot-the-pope/; https://spitfirelist.com/anti-fascist-archives/rfa-10–13-the-aryan-nations/.


FTR#‘s 1337 & 1338 Conversations with Monte: Conversations #‘s 11 and 12

These pro­grams explore the over­whelm­ing prob­a­bil­i­ty that the 544 Camp Street/531 Lafayette Place address in New Orleans that housed Guy Ban­is­ter’s “Detec­tive Agency” was, in addi­tion to being an intel­li­gence epi­cen­ter, also housed fas­cist ele­ments of a domes­tic Gladio/Stay Behind oper­a­tion.

Groups like the KKK, the Amer­i­can Nazi Par­ty, the Nation­al States Rights Par­ty, the Min­ute­men and the Chris­t­ian Defense League appear to have been oper­at­ing (to an extent) as agents of the nation­al secu­ri­ty estab­lish­ment.

Back­ground infor­ma­tion is pre­sent­ed in numer­ous pro­grams; https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-188-american-gladio/; https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-971-nazis-in-new-orleans/; https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-58-operation-gladio-update/; https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-53-the-terror-connection-pt‑2/; https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-59-the-turkish-stay-behind/; https://spitfirelist.com/anti-fascist-archives/rfa-17–21-who-shot-the-pope/; https://spitfirelist.com/anti-fascist-archives/rfa-10–13-the-aryan-nations/.


FTR#‘s 1335 & 1336 Conversations with Monte: Conversations #‘s 9 & 10

Intro­duc­tion: In these pro­grams, Monte presents analy­sis that links the milieu of the assas­si­na­tion of JFK to: the OUN/B; the Helsin­ki Youth Con­fer­ence of 1962; East­ern Front death squad activ­i­ty dur­ing World War II; pro­pa­gan­da deny­ing vio­lence against black peo­ple dur­ing the U.S. civ­il rights strug­gles of the ear­ly 1960’s; Joe Biden’s ongo­ing cov­er-up of the JFK assas­si­na­tion.


FTR#‘s 1325 and 1326 “Chokeholds” and the Oswald Impersonators, Parts 1 and 2

Intro­duc­tion: These pro­grams con­tin­ue pre­sen­ta­tion the legal con­cept of “Choke­holds” on the JFK assassination–dynamics that prove, legal­ly, that there was a con­spir­a­cy.

These do not nec­es­sar­i­ly res­onate pre­cise­ly with aspects of the his­tor­i­cal record, which embraces, but does not delin­eate, prin­ci­ples of law.

In these broad­casts, Jim DiEu­ge­nio, Paul Bleau and Mr. Emory are joined by Matt Crump­ton, one of the con­trib­u­tors to the book, a lawyer and author of a bril­liant chap­ter of the vol­ume deal­ing with the Oswald imper­son­ators.

We con­clude the first broad­cast with a trib­ute to the recent­ly-deceased Cyril Wecht and Dr. William F. Pep­per.

Key Points of Analy­sis and Dis­cus­sion Include: A detailed unpack­ing of the Ralph Yates inci­dent; Yates pick­ing up a hitch­hik­er with “cur­tain rods;” Drops off hitch­hik­er near NTSB; Hitch­hik­er dis­cuss­es pos­si­bil­i­ty of killing Pres­i­dent from a high-rise build­ing; Asked Yates if he knew the President’s motor­cade route; Yates tells FBI; Yates sticks to his sto­ry; FBI com­mits him to men­tal insti­tu­tion; Numer­ous shock ther­a­py treat­ments; He dies eleven years lat­er; Con­tention about the “cur­tain rods”—there was already a sto­ry about how Oswald got the “cur­tain rods/rifle” into the TSBD; Oswald seen run­ning down the back of the TBSD at a time when Oswald was sup­pos­ed­ly on a bus; Sev­er­al wit­ness­es saw this, includ­ing Roger Craig; A “Latin-look­ing” per­son in the car; Oswald often seen in com­pa­ny of Latin; Craig’s “sui­cide;” An “Oswald” seen at the Dobbs House; Exchanged glances with J/D. Tip­pitt; Same man seen by Yates?; Seen at Sports Drome prac­tic­ing shoot­ing; One sight­ing saw him driving—Oswald sup­pos­ed­ly didn’t dri­ve; Once again, some saw “Oswald” in the com­pa­ny of a Latin; ”Oswald” at shoot­ing range near Dal­las con­flicts with WC said Oswald was doing; Dewey Brad­ford saw “LHO” at Morgan’s Gun Store; WC doesn’t inves­ti­gate; At a car deal­er­ship; “LHO” drove very fast; LHO didn’t dri­ve; “LHO” talked about get­ting a car in Rus­sia; Marina’s tes­ti­mo­ny to WC con­flicts with reports of “LHO” at car deal­er­ship; Sergeant Vinson’s account; Plane lands at a dirt airstrip; “LHO” boards plane with a Latin; No dis­cus­sion with oth­er pas­sen­gers; Plane stops at Roswell AFB; Sees air­craft with CIA logo; FBI ask­ing ques­tions about Vin­sons; Vin­son then gets job with SR71 project; Was that so CIA could keep an eye on him?; While Oswald was in USSR, “LHO” buy­ing trucks for Friends of Demo­c­ra­t­ic Cuba; Guy Ban­is­ter co-founds orga­ni­za­tion; Oth­er incor­po­ra­tor of the group also employed Oswald at one point; “LHO” at Red­bird Air­port try­ing to char­ter a pri­vate plane; “LHO” at Texas Employ­ment Com­mis­sion; “LHO” in El Chico restau­rant after real Oswald arrest­ed; License plate trace­able to Carl Math­er; Math­er a nation­al secu­ri­ty oper­a­tive who installed radio on Air Force Two; Math­er tight with J.D. Tip­pitt; “LHO” exit­ing rear of Texas The­ater? “LHO” buy­ing beer and can­dy (!) in Dealey Plaza; “LHO” at Leonard Hutchinson’s gro­cery store try­ing to cash a check; “LHO” chang­ing postal for­ward­ing order in New Orleans; “LHO” apply­ing for job at South­land Hotel garage; Unhinged “LHO” in Wash­ing­ton D.C.; Dis­cus­sion of the pos­si­ble mean­ing of the “unhinged” LHO imper­son­ators; Con­clud­ing with legal analy­sis of why this was a “Choke­hold.”


FTR#‘s 1322, 1323 and 1324 Interviews with Jim DiEugenio and Paul Bleau about “Chokeholds”

Intro­duc­tion: These pro­grams set forth the legal con­cept of “Choke­holds” on the JFK assassination–dynamics that prove, legal­ly, that there was a con­spir­a­cy.

These do not nec­es­sar­i­ly res­onate pre­cise­ly with aspects of the his­tor­i­cal record, which embraces, but does not delin­eate, prin­ci­ples of law.

Key Points of Dis­cus­sion and Analy­sis Include: How some lawyers intro­duced the con­cepts we dis­cuss; What is the con­cept of “con­silience?;” Ana­lyze the “Inves­ti­ga­tions Timeline”—detailed in the Intro­duc­tion; What is meant by “Stan­dard of Proof?”; How does “Beyond a Rea­son­able Doubt” fig­ure into the “Choke­holds” con­cept?; How does “Civ­il Stan­dards of Proof” fac­tor in?; How does the HSCA Stan­dard of Proof” fac­tor in?; How does the ARRB’s Stan­dard of Proof fac­tor in?; Finally—the JFK Assas­si­na­tions Choke­hold Stan­dard of Proof”—How does this fac­tor in?; Analy­sis of the 60 years of obstruc­tion of jus­tice in the JFK case; Analy­sis of the Rock­e­feller Com­mis­sion; The Rock­e­feller Com­mis­sion’s inclu­sion of Lyman Lem­nitzer and Ronald Reagan–two very strange choic­es; The Rock­e­feller Com­mis­sion’s selec­tion of War­ren Com­mis­sion coun­sel David Belin to han­dle its legal maneu­ver­ing; The Rock­e­feller Com­mis­sion’s use of Richard Lindenberg–a Paper­clip vet­er­an; Review of the deep polit­i­cal role of Leon Jawors­ki in the tri­al over the killing of Cor­po­ral Kun­ze, the Dachau Med­ical tri­als and his par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Texas Court of Inquiry along with Robert Storey; Review of net­work­ing between Ray Roc­ca, Paul Patri­ni and James Angle­ton dat­ing back to World War II; The House Select Com­mit­tee on Assas­si­na­tions’ use of George Joan­nides as a liai­son with the CIA; Review of Joan­nides’ work with Car­los Bringuier and the DRE at the time of the Kennedy assas­si­na­tion; review of the HSCA’s endorse­ment of the doc­tored autop­sy evi­dence at Bethes­da; Review of Water­gate and Nixon’s pres­ence in Dal­las on 11/22/1963.


New Shows Being Produced, New Co-Host UPDATED on 6/11

FTR#‘s 1325 and 1326 fea­ture Paul Bleau, Jim DiEu­ge­nio and Matt Crump­ton unpack­ing a chap­ter in the book “Choke­holds” about the Oswald imper­son­ators. New co-host Monte is a bril­liant researcher whose efforts should expo­nen­tial­ly advance lis­ten­ers’ under­stand­ing of the mate­r­i­al. Lis­ten­ers can net­work direct­ly with him on Mr. Emory’s Patre­on plat­form. Con­tain­ing all of Mr. Emory’s work on Covid-19 and the Ukraine War, the lat­est 32GB flash dri­ve is now avail­able! (The last iter­a­tion of the dri­ve is almost two years old.) WFMU-FM is pod­cast­ing For The Record–You can sub­scribe to the pod­cast HERE.


R.I.P. Daniel Hopsicker

Over many years, it was Mr. Emory’s priv­i­lege and hon­or to have inter­viewed Daniel Hop­sick­er fre­quent­ly and at length. In the wake of his pass­ing from can­cer on 8/22/2023 at the age of 72, we mourn the loss of this pro­fes­sion­al, and yet can be very glad for his hav­ing shared his work with us. Dr. Jef­frey Sachs “pret­ty con­vinced” Covid came from a U.S. Bio-Lab. WFMU-FM is pod­cast­ing For The Record–You can sub­scribe to the pod­cast HERE. Mr. Emory emphat­i­cal­ly rec­om­mends that listeners/readers get the 32GB flash dri­ve con­tain­ing all of Mr. Emory’s 43 years on the air, plus a library of old anti-fas­cist books on easy-to-down­load PDF files.