Sen. Arlen Specter's Complicity in the JFK Assassination

Specter's role? Protect Coup Lynchpin, V.P. Lyndon Johnson, and Brother Segregationist Masons implicated in the JFK Assassination

The Masonic Segregationist Brotherhood Risks Civil War in 1963

The Klan's Lodge Recruitment Strategy Klan meeting in- you guessed it- a Masonic lodge, circa 1964. This is one reason secrecy and deception are the hallmark of the lodge then and today. Klansmen recruited in Masonic lodges. Masons were told desegregation was a Communist plot, and that it was their duty to "protect Southern heritage" or "defend America" against Communism by subverting federal rulings ordering the integration of schools. Attacking the Civil Rights movement and its leaders was attacking Communism, Klan leaders claimed. In reality,  they were attacking and subverting federal law. "At their annual meeting last June in Indianapolis, the Baptists also adopted a resolution against secret societies, which reads in part: 'we ... call upon all Christians to ... [avoid] any association which conflicts with clear Biblical ... teachings concerning the taking of oaths, the secrecy of activities, mystical knowledge, or racial discrimination'....Dr. James Holly of Beaumont, Texas, told me this [the Lutheran ban on joining freemasonry] was aimed at the known fact that white Freemasonry is affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan..." see Source Hoover and the Scottish Rite J. Edgar Hoover, former FBI Director and 33rd Scottish Rite segregationist mason. He hated the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, and was a key player in undermining all investigations into their assassinations. (see below) Nov. 9, 1963: The Klan Death Threats to JFK "Threat to assassinate President Kennedy in Dallas Texas, November 22, 1963..." A Nov 17, 1963 FBI telex details J. Edgar Hoover's cynical request to maintain updates through "logical racial hate group informants to determine if any basis for threat..." Once received, the warnings would be dutifully scrapped by Hoover, and these informants had a nasty tendency to pay dearly for their patriotic duty- their attempts to protect President Kennedy often cost them their lives. Note the reference to a planned assassination plot by a militant segregationist group [the Klan, White Citizens Council, et al], which had led to the cancellation of Kennedy's trip to Miami, Florida days earlier (below). FBI Tapes: The Klan in Florida and Dallas The Klan in the Dallas Police Dept. Nov. 22, 1963: Note the Klan patch on the left arm of the officer leading the infamous Three Tramps moments after the assassination (left to right: Frank Sturgis, Charles Harrison and Howard Hunt.) Louisiana Klan leader David Duke under the flag of the KKK, 1974. It was in New Orleans, Louisiana, where DA Jim Garrison's Clay Shaw Trial of 1967 would link Johnson to the obvious coup. "Some say it was the Mafia who killed JFK, some say it was the CIA and FBI, some say the Klan, and some say it was elements of the military. Before you miss the forest for the trees, stop a moment, and consider this: Not everyone could be in the FBI or CIA, not everyone could be a general, a Supreme Court Chief Justice, a network executive, a major publisher or a mob boss. But just about anyone in the all-white FBI, CIA, Supreme Court and Mafia of 1963 could be a member of the KKK. And many were, particularly Klansmen recruited in Masonic lodges." President John Quincy Adams on the Masonic Press President John Quincy Adams, in his Address to the People of Massachusetts, said of the Masonic press: "I saw slander organize into a secret, widespread and affiliated agency.......I saw self-invoked imprecations of throats cut from ear to ear, of hearts and vitals torn out and cast off and hung on spires. I saw wine drunk from a human skull with solemn invocation of all the sins of its owner upon the head of him who drank it." A Warning Against Freemasonry Unheeded JFK address to newspaper publishers regarding secret societies, April 27, 1961.

Specter's role? Protect Coup Lynchpin, V.P. Lyndon Johnson, and Brother Segregationist Masons implicated in the JFK Assassination

These facts are self-evident: in 1963, much of American society still supported segregation, and it wasn't just the south. The militant branch of this element found a means to undermine recent Supreme Court rulings, particularly the desegregation of public schools, in masonic lodges throughout the country. This was especially so in the south, since Southern masonry included members in law enforcement, politicians, lawyers, judges, publishers, etc.

There in the secrecy of the Brotherhood, hypocrites and pseudo-moderates whom publicly praised the popular civil rights movement were trying desperately to undermine it and its leaders inside the lodge.

Those who found the thought of black children attending public schools and universities odious enough to risk civil war over it weren't just Anglo-Saxon bigots in the Craft, some were right-wing masonic Jewish leaders like Arlen Specter, the Worshipful Master of the Laws of Physics, whose own children- being white- never faced the same type of discrimination as blacks in America, whose own children were never turned away from public schools and universities. Indeed, in 1968, when King and RFK were assassinated, over 5 million Americans were segregationist freemasons, with both Gentile and to a smaller extent, Jewish members.

All of them were white, conservative males and most of them so opposed to civil rights they would do anything in their power to secretly undermine federal law, starting at the local level and ending at the Supreme Court, where at least two Supreme Court Justices, Hugo Black and Chief Justice Earl Warren, had ties to the KKK but distanced themselves from the ideology long ago, giving us the same desegregation ruling their former kin were rioting over in the south.

Because the KKK was implicated in the JFK assassination from the very beginning, Warren- as an ex-Klan leader in San Bernadino, California- had a conflict of interest in taking over the investigation, which was precisely why Johnson chose him. Warren had a duty to recuse himself from the case. He didn't. And what we got was a mockery of justice so obscene even Nixon called the Warren Commission "the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on mankind." Worse, the true extent of the Klan's "Invisible Empire" in our executive, judicial and legislative branches of government was concealed for over 40 years, and this was due largely to segregationist and bigot press assets recruited into the same society.

Some say it was the Mafia who killed JFK, some say it was the CIA and FBI, some say the Klan, and some say it was elements of the military. Before you miss the forest for the trees, stop a moment, and consider this: Not everyone could be in the FBI or CIA, not everyone could be a general, a Supreme Court Chief Justice, a network executive, a major publisher or a mob boss. But just about anyone in the all-white FBI, CIA, Supreme Court and Mafia of 1963 could be a member of the KKK. And many were, particularly Klansmen recruited in Masonic lodges. They were told desegregation was a Communist plot, and that it was their duty to "protect Southern heritage" or "defend America" against Communism by subverting federal rulings ordering the integration of schools.  Civil Rights movement and its leaders was attacking Communism, Klan leaders claimed. In reality, and obvious to everyone else, they were attacking and subverting federal law.

Tacit members, of course, in this segregationist "fraternity." The Klan was a Masonic society that even then was almost 100 years old, and it was its numbers which gave it the significance afforded it here..

Segregationists Use Cold War to Discredit Civil Rights Movement as Communist, Provoke Invasion of Cuba

FBI director Hoover was one of many Masonic leaders of the time to claim that the Civil Rights movement was a Communist plot. Integration, he claimed, was introduced by the Commies to destroy America and it is no mystery that he secretly attempted to smear Martin Luther King as a Communist sympathizer.

The CIA and FBI segregationists in the plot, knowing Kennedy would be mourned, also tried to pin the assassination on the Communists by creating a pro-Castro patsy in Lee Harvey Oswald. This was the element New Orleans DA Jim Garrison discovered: a segregationist plot to kill the president, blame Castro and use the public outcry to win support for an invasion of communist Cuba. This was, in fact, already a tactic in the CIA playbook:

"...a) The precision rifle. In guarded assassination, a good hunting or target rifle should always be considered as a possibility. Absolute reliability can nearly always be achieved at a distance of one hundred yards. In ideal circumstances, the range may be extended to 250 yards. Public figures or guarded officials may be killed with great reliability and some safety if a firing point can be established prior to an official occasion. The propaganda value of this system may be very high.... "

CIA Assassination Manual; Operation PB Success, 1954

The segregationists wanted a fellow mason as President, and Lyndon Johnson, as VP and as a mason, was in the position to make a coup possible. It would have been impossible otherwise, because if Johnson was true to Kennedy and his own office, there would have been no cover-up by federal authorities. Kennedy's limo wouldn't have been washed and refurbished, as Johnson ordered, destroying all evidence therein that pointed to multiple trajectories. Indeed, of all the missing evidence in the Kennedy assassination, most of it pertains to that which could be used to prove ballistic trajectories; that is, evidence that substantiated witness, film, analog and photographic evidence of multiple shooters. All such evidence, including Kennedy's brain, was in the hands of people hired by, and controlled by Johnson.

Johnson had motives rooted in self-preservation to volunteer for the coup, as he was already facing conspiracy and/or murder charges in Texas for the murder of agricultural agent Henry Marshall, and he knew Kennedy planned to drop him from the ticket in '64 for that very reason- his mafia ties and the uncovered Texas murder sprees.

But he also knew that segregation would be key to uniting the segregationist conspirators in the CIA, FBI, military, etc. To call Johnson a bigot would be incorrect, he was not, but he did hate the Kennedys enough to lead him into a segregationist ambush in Dallas. Johnson, as a mason, was surrounded by segregationists, such as SR 33rd degree mason J. Edgar Hoover, and he used them to do his dirty work when it was convenient. He did, however, generally act independently once in power, making it clear to all that the segregationists he used in the coup that they would not dictate his agenda. Or did he?

Despite signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and pushing for it, Johnson, was also the lynchpin in the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. In the case of RFK, Johnson knew RFK was on to him, and should Robert Kennedy become president not only would he face justice but so would all those who helped him. As for King, then protesting fiercely against the Vietnam war, his assassination would not have been possible without Johnson's wink and nod. That is another story, however, to be covered later.

The Rise of the Neo-Segregationist on "Liberal" and Conservative Networks

Those segregationists of the 60s are still highly visible figures thanks to network executives hoping to legitimize a neo-segregationist movement which has already eliminated every black senator and congressman from the GOP. Among them is "former" Klansman Pat Buchanan, a fierce segregationist and unabashed white supremacist, Sen. Trent Lott, Sen. Robert Byrd, etc. But these are just the obvious ones. Leaders who favored segregation, secretly, you don't know. They are in both parties, and the only thing you do know is that they are not just tacit fraternal brothers in silly aprons, they are married in spirit and intentions. They are network executives in CNN, FOX, ABC, CBS, they are publishers, they are businessmen, lawyers, and judges. Their secret handshake is a big middle finger to you and the rule of law.

If you don't believe it, ask yourself these simple questions:

How is it that an extremist group, with a history of terrorism ranging from the murder of political leaders to the bombing of federal buildings and churches nationwide, can do so under the banner of "free speech"?

How is it that a group which has plotted cyanide gas attacks against Americans as recently as 2003; how is it this group of extremist, anti-American terrorists can have each and every atrocity excused as "lone nut" activity far removed from the the group the "lone nut(s)" belonged to, a group which publicly threatened and promoted the same violence before it happened? How is it? One would think those in charge were sympathetic to, were members of, or once members of the same terrorist group. And one would be right.

We are, of course, talking about the Klan. We are, of course, talking about a terrorist group whose violent activities are defended by BOTH parties as an innocent and harmless cross-burning, secret fraternal brotherhood exercising their free speech, a free speech unique in that it includes a right to kill and terrorize Americans under the banner of the First Amendment.

This can only be so if both parties have members whom tacitly endorse or excuse the activity of these fellow masons, and make no mistake, the Klan is a Masonic organization and always was. They meet in the lodge, when not out burning crosses, and though many masons in other secret orders who meet therein detest them, they are in denial about the actual number of neo-segregationists in the Brotherhood as a whole.

Nor can they ignore the obvious as they hold their tongues, being oathbound to silence as a prerequisite to seeing the "light": powerful men in the highest levels of office, fellow masons, protect the Klan because secretly they share the same ideals, which if spoken aloud, would cost them their seats. Sen. Robert Byrd, a Klan recruiter and Democrat, for example, calls his own membership in the Klan a "youthful indiscretion" but if you think about it, it's a claim easily countered. If you ask Sen. Byrd, under oath, to testify against other Klansmen past and present, or answer yes or no as whether he was involved in, or even witnessed any Klan lynching or murder, you will have the true sum of his "remorse." The Democrats won't call him on it, because they know it will condemn them all. And the GOP won't call him on it because their party has even more extremists, and besides, both parties have members who meet in the same temple of secrecy.

As for the Klan agenda, if the aforementioned supposition of Klan sympathy and membership in the highest levels of federal office is true, it follows there would be a parallel agenda from its members in both parties. And that, too, is there. Clearly there.

From the very beginning, the Klan agenda was one of terrorizing blacks and depriving them of their rights; formulating the Jim Crow laws that lasted well over 100 years, and waging war on Catholic immigrants, particularly Irish-Americans and their immigrant forebears. What do you see on the broadcast media and major print media today? On FOX? on CNN, ABC? etc. You see stories about white victimization, and poor and middle class whites whom are truly victimized, but not by those the media would have you think. Who placed the yoke on your backs, if not wealthy white CEOs trying to divert the attention of constituents from their own corporate misdeeds, from manipulating the price of oil to enrich election coffers, to price-gouging hurricane victims in Hurricane Katrina. Who killed your president in Dallas, and let loose over 40 years of darkness and confusion, if not the mason Johnson and the neo-segregationists crying wolf today? They point fingers at the nearest scapegoat lest you turn around and see the Washington cabals who would enslave Americans anew, but this time, the shackled will be black and white, Jew and Gentile, mason or "profane" (non-mason).

The Pat Buchanans, the Rush Limbaughs and Ann Coulters of this self-styled elite, this ancient and accepted brotherhood of domesticated, blueblood carnies; literally carry on the work of their own segregationist idols who "stood up to the federal tyranny" of integration; idols who lined the Central High School with the Arkansas National Guard, that nine black school children be denied an education. These fascist mouthpieces are, by design, given air time to make segregation palatable to unwary audiences who never lived through it. Don't think for one second that a show which airs their hate-mongering imbecilities do not necessarily share their ideology, because the very reason they are invited on such shows is to make that ideology legitimate. This a textbook PSYOP targeting a domestic audience, and MSNBC, FOX, CNN, ABC the most grievous purveyors.

You see attacks on immigrants, Muslim and Catholic (Hispanics in particular) with the same vitriol and ignorance of 100 years ago, with the same language you would find in Klan founder and Scottish Rite Sovereign Grand Commander Albert Pikee's Arkansas newspaper, this by the same group of pseudo-Christians who burn the cross to say it honors Jesus. The agenda is the same, and the Klan has become acceptable in "civilized" debate, thanks to FOX and CNN in particular.

The broadcast and print media, in a democracy, are the eyes and ears of a nation. Without an objective media, committed to hard truth at any price, the nation is deaf, dumb and blind. As such, the people of this nation are helpless in protecting themselves against those who would destroy their rights. Masonic law now supersedes the Constitution but it does so by subversion, and no judge, lawyer, or public official who secretly honors Masonic law above the Constitution can be expected to protect your rights. Inasmuch as the Bill of Rights threatens the tacit rule of Masonic law, the Constitution will be attacked.

And is it not so today? it follows that if your rights are an inconvenience to the establishment, they will use their assets in the press and broadcast media to tell you these Constitutional rights are bad for you, bad for the nation and a threat to your security, and that you wouldn't miss them anyway. Yet they themselves are the biggest threat of all to your liberty. They will pardon each and every Klan conspiracy because the link between the neo-segregationists in the Scottish Rite and Klan is one impossible to hide, and politicians in both parties would fall in scores. Literally.

Those of you who believe them deserve the contempt they show for you behind your back.

Now, it is perhaps understandable that the media remain silent in the face of evidence that condemns them, but they have gone far beyond that. All the networks, at one time or another, and sometimes concurrently, attacked those who simply tried to tell the truth. And it is for this crime they will be held to account as the sleeping giant of public awareness finds the true extent of the criminal betrayal.

The illusion of consensus or fact is easily attained by a monopolized press. Only five CEOs now control everything you hear and see, and in 1963, it was three. In the 1960s, the Ku Klux Klan had led uprisings and riots which prompted federal troops to enter the south. Despite unchecked terrorism and political killings throughout the south, and Klan death threats which led to Kennedy's cancellation of a Miami visit on Nov 9, 1963; despite threats which outlined, in precise detail, the Dallas plot of Nov. 22 1963.... the Klan escaped scrutiny.

Only five CEOs control what you read, see and hear.

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The widespread and affiliated agency, i.e. high-level Illuminist cabals President John Adams and Winston Churchill warned us about, has this to say about the press:

"What is the part played by the press today? It serves to excite and inflame those passions which are needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends of parties...Not a single announcement will reach the public without our control. Even now this is already attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received by a few agencies., in whose offices they are focused from all parts of the world These agencies will then be already entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to them.... All our newspapers will be of all possible complexions --aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, even anarchical. . . Those fools who will think they are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own camp will be repeating our opinion or any opinion that seems desirable for us. In the vain belief that they are following the organ of their party they will in fact follow the flag which we hang out for them..."

"Capital... must be free to establish a monopoly of industry and trade.... This freedom will give political force to those engaged in industry, and that will help to oppress the people."

UPDATE SUMMARY

• More on the Warren Commission's Worshipful Master of the Laws of Physics.
• The Spurious Threat of Civil War Cited by Johnson Apologists for the Concealment.
• Who Gained by Helping Lyndon Johnson.
• How the Washington Post Censors the News.

Let's have a long and objective look at the man who presently judges our Supreme Court judges. It's not a pretty picture. It is Arlen Specter, the hero of the Washington Post that promulgated the findings of the most discredited and corrupt murder investigation in American history- The Warren Commission, which even Nixon dismissed as "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind". It was created by the number one suspect in President Kennedy's assassination, vice president Lyndon Johnson, who would not be on the ticket in 1964, who was about to be prosecuted for the murder of Texas agricultural agent Henry Marshall in 1961. Among those who now concede Johnson was the lynchpin of this segregationist Masonic coup of 1963 is Barr McClellan, his personal lawyer.

According to Johnson's mistress, Madeleine Brown, one of the Warren Commission members, director John J. McCloy (CIA), actually met with Johnson, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Clyde Tolson, and Richard Nixon the night prior to the assassination. Nixon was also in Dallas on the day of the assassination. Here we have eyewitness, credible evidence the Warren Commission was formed before the assassination. Actually, we have had it since the 60s. But your friends at the Washington Post and similar news assets believes you don't need to know this. Or perhaps don't want to know this.

In 1963, anti-Civil Rights, anti-Catholic segregationist Masons numbered over 5 million. Of these, many were in high office, particularly members of the Scottish Rite, whose members include segregationist Trent Lott, Fritz Hollings, Sen. Strom Thurmond and Sen. Robert Byrd, the latter a Democrat who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As you may recall, these segregationist masons had a presidential candidate in Alabama Gov. George Wallace, and at their disposal they had a terrorist branch called the Ku Klux Klan. Indeed, through the protection of the Scottish Rite, the Klan has acted with impunity in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. (The Scottish Rite, in fact, created the Klan soon after the Civil War.) Even SR member Sen. Byrd was a high level Klansmen, a Klan recruiter, a Kleagle. Nixon's speech writer, Pat Buchanan, was so fiercely segregationist and pro-Klan it became a White House joke.

In 1963, at least two Supreme Court Justices, Hugo Black and Earl Warren, were members of the Klan. FBI records reveal that Chief Justice Warren, in fact, was a Klan leader in Bakersfield, CA. It was for this reason Johnson chose him to lead the Warren Commission, because the inherent conflict of interest would tie his hands. Exposing the Klan's role would expose his own past, hitherto concealed, and seriously threaten his right to remain on the Supreme Court on 14th Amendment grounds. The Klan, at the time, was reviled by most of the nation and even many in the South. Ironically, Warren had gone a long way in distancing himself from the Klan. In the 50s, it was his court that desegregated the schools in Brown vs. The Board of Education, a ruling which was the very thing the segregationists despised Kennedy for defending.

Warren's spurious objective in protecting Johnson, some have noted, was to prevent a civil war between the segregationists and the rest of America. But if this were true, he would have exposed the Washington segregationist cabals that were willing to risk civil war, thereby negating their political influence as criminal conspiracy charges would be leveled on a scale unseen in American history.

He didn't expose the cabals, however, because he was a member. Warren was Scottish Rite. Just like Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, Allen Dulles, Gerald Ford, John J. McCloy, etc.

That segregationist masons were a powerful force in Washington DC is without question, but they were also powerful outside of it. In the broadcast and print media, closet segregationist Masons were overwhelming. They owned the three major networks of the time- ABC, CBS, and NBC; and "liberal" papers like the Washington Post and the New York Times. As such, for advancement or sheer bootlicking, editors and broadcasters and were more than happy to print stories dismissing Johnson's possible role in the assassination, however obvious.

Knowledge is Power. Use it

No one likes to think their own government is capable of such profound obscenities, much less that they have done it unchecked for so long. But ignoring the problem will give you the government you deserve. Maybe you think you have no power, but you do.

You don't have to buy from GE, Disney, or Viacom, or any of the products advertised on their propaganda organs, e.g. NBC, CBS, and ABC. You choose to. You own stock in these companies, you don't have to accept CEOs bound by the Mason's cable-tow- you can unseat them. (Look what they did to Enron.) You have the power of the purse.

To these men, you are the "profane" non-mason that number in the vast majority of Americans, and if not, you are the lower ranking masonic base of the feudal pyramid, appeased by secret perks and flattery, that will never advance to any degree beyond that of a muzzled servant; bound lifelong in servile obedience to masters known and unknown; for ends had you known from the beginning, you would recoil in horror and disgust.

Like the Harlot on the Beast drunk with the blood of the saints and prophets, they believe you cannot touch them, that they will never know grief. They believe that they are a sovereign nation unto themselves, and their authority exceeds the Constitution's. But is this confidence truly warranted? Actually, it is anything but true. All of this immunity and power depends on your not knowing its true face, and now you know it.

You have a trump card.

You now know who they are. You know what they can do, and what they have done. And most of all, you know they are in power because you put them there, and now that you know at what cost, you can also remove them.

Dems and GOP: Designed to Serve Same Ends- how and why they unite to conceal the assassins...

If you are one to label yourself a liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, the following should give you pause for thought. All scientific methodology depends on experiments that can be reproduced, and here is a test you can try for yourself. Is our press the greatest threat to our peace, education, and political integrity?

The surest test of a monopolized or controlled media is an absence of true diversity. If you read the BBC news feeds, or Yahoo, or Google, they will often point to the same stories. The many papers linked within, as well, are going to point to AP, Reuters or UPI source feeds. That's why all of these news portals are basically carrying the same stories. Look at the left hand pane of this blog with the news feeds to Yahoo, Google, Reuters, AP. Notice how the same stories keep popping up? And usually, this stories are of little or no relevance to you because the primary purpose of the print and broadcast media is to distract, inflame or mislead the public. Informing you is incidental.

Whether aired on conservative or "liberal" channels, racist neo-segregationists such as Pat Buchanan, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter are given airtime to make segregation palatable to unwary audiences who never lived through it. These pundits form a self-styled elite, spawned of an Ancient and Accepted Brotherhood of domesticated blueblood carnie rejects on a crusade to carry on the work of segregationist Masters. Idols like George Wallace, Strom Thurmond, etc., one of whom "stood up to the federal tyranny" of desegregation and lined Central High School with the Arkansas National Guard that nine black school children be denied an education (see above).

John Quincy Adams, in his Address to the People of Massachusetts, said of the Masonic press:

"I saw slander organize into a secret, widespread and affiliated agency..."

Even in his time, it had become a threat. The role of the press in undermining republics or protecting the architects of tyranny can not be overstated here. One infamous protocol describing the means of their controlling the media rings so true as to bring a chill up your spine, particularly when you consider corporate cabals such as AOL-Time Warner ((CNN), Viacom (CBS), General Electric (NBC) or Disney (ABC):

"What is the part played by the press today? It serves to excite and inflame those passions which are needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends of parties...

"Not a single announcement will reach the public without our control. Even now this is already attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received by a few agencies, in whose offices they are focused from all parts of the world. These agencies will then be already entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to them....

"All our newspapers will be of all possible complexions --aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, even anarchical. . . Those fools who will think they are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own camp will be repeating our opinion or any opinion that seems desirable for us. In the vain belief that they are following the organ of their party they will in fact follow the flag which we hang out for them...

"Thanks to such methods we shall be in a position as from time to time may be required, to excite or to tranquillize the public mind on political questions, to persuade or to confuse, printing now truth, now lies, facts or their contradictions, according as they may be well or ill received, always very cautiously feeling our ground before stepping upon it. . . We shall have a sure triumph over our opponents since they will not have at their disposition organs of the press in which they can give full and final expression to their views owing to the aforesaid methods of dealing with the press.

"Cases of the manifestation of criminality should remain known only to their victims and to chance witnesses -- no more."

If indeed, a cabal of criminals can buy up press assets of all possible complexions to direct your thinking into their own opinions, how can you tell if what you're reading now isn't propaganda too?

Simple. They will all have this in common: if they cannot avoid discussing it altogether, they will avoid discussing freemasonry in a negative light.

These are protocols written by masons, and the easiest way to determine the integrity of a newspaper or broadcast media is to see their reaction when questioned on the mere existence of a Masonic press. Like the mason's seal on the dollar bill, a Masonic press is self-evident. But unlike the seal, it is self-evident BY WHAT IS NOT SEEN. If they deny partisan, secret collusion amongst editors and broadcasters is rampant today, you know they cannot be trusted; either for the outright lie, journalistic incompetence or pure gullibility. If they deny its power or influence, you likewise know you have been lied to, because if there was no Masonic press, Lyndon Johnson would have been arrested the same day Kennedy was shot. Why? The Billy Sol Estes Affair would have dominated the news stories, because a grand jury was now hearing evidence that Johnson was responsible for the 1961 murder and cover-up of Texas federal agricultural agent Henry Marshall. Johnson would be suspect number one, particularly after he destroyed evidence in a presidential assassination by immediately ordering the president's limo washed and refurbished. Why did he do it? because that limo held key evidence- slugs and trajectories that pointed to multiple trajectories, and hence, multiple shooters.

In the same protocols we read: "We must compel...action in the direction favored by our widely-conceived plan, already approaching the desired consummation, by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly prompted by us through the means of that so-called 'Great Power' -- the Press, which, with a few exceptions that may be disregarded, is already entirely in our hands."

The Great Power, the Masonic Press, isn't a fantastic concept at all. It's here now, and it is the aforementioned handful of companies we know as mediaopolies.

"...He says maybe you shot too fast because I know they didn't want a shot coming from the front...they tried to put everything from the back side." James E. Files, commenting on Charles Nicolletti's criticism of the hit on Kennedy. The Worshipful Master of the Laws of Physics Arlen Specter. Triumph of the Swill. Here he is formulating a Magic Bullet Theory to protect President Johnson and the segregationist masons, the Scottish Rite in particular, who had orchestrated the assassination. They were also key members of the Warren Commission; such as Allen Dulles, Gerald Ford, Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, John McCloy, etc. Johnson saw murder as essential to maintaining power, and in fact, was about to face trial for the murder of Henry Marshall, a federal agricultural agent in Texas. However, Johnson was not a racist. Having used the segregationist masons to attain power, Johnson would later defy them and sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964. For this defiance, he soon became targeted himself. The Zapruder Film: This film, which Specter and the Warren Commission tried desperately to keep from the American public, is the most chilling proof of Specter's impossible trajectory. The force of the fatal head shot thrusts Kennedy's head backward, which means he was facing the shooter. What Jackie Kennedy is doing, as she leaves her seat, is attempting to recover a piece of her husband skull and brain. At Parkland Hospital, still in shock, doctors noticed she was still holding a piece of the recovered tissue. To download the Windows Media format, right click here to save. The Worshipful Master of the Laws of Physics, Sen. Arlan Specter, above, a freemason, Pa. Coppe Mitchell Lodge No. 605, now Scottish Rite. Suppressed all evidence of multiple shooters that would challenge the Warren Commission, Specter remains the fiercest proponent of the long discredited magic bullet theory which insists on the trajectory of a shooter from the "back side." To this end, Specter has labored tirelessly to suppress physical evidence and the testimony of key witnesses who handled the body and challenged the Lone Gunman Theory by contradicting Specter's insulting assertion of an impossible exit wound. In fact, numerous witness reported that their testimony was creatively edited to contradict their own written testimony. It Was Johnson Revisiting the Lyndon Johnson Tapes. The only mystery in the Kennedy assassination is why Johnson was never indicted for it: why Mac Wallace's fingerprint in the sniper's nest connects Johnson directly to the assassination. Video includes phone taps of Johnson discussing Kennedy's murder with J. Edgar Hoover, John Conally, and Ramsey Clark between Nov 1963 and 1967. Bill Hicks on the JFK Assassination  Yes, a few words to remind us about Artlen Specter, the infamous Magic Bullet's creator. (There is no statue of limitation on murder, and we haven't forgotten, Arlen) More on Bill Hicks. Concealing the Throat Wound Dr. Malcom Perry, one of Kennedy's attending surgeons at Parkland Memorial Hospital, noted there "was an entrance wound below his Adam's apple." Later, the Warren Commission, faced with yet more evidence of multiple shooters, would attempt to deny this entrance wound existed, offering the implausible contention that it was a tracheotomy....on a man that was dead on arrival. Indeed, there was no swelling or discoloration on Kennedy's face, indicating he died instantly. Specter's Magic Bullet Defies the Laws of Physics. Isn't that neat? In this diagram from the the Clay Shaw trial, aside from the impossible trajectory of the bullet was the condition of the pristine "stretcher bullet" which was perfectly unmarked; unlike any bullet that would have shattered or warped when striking bone. King's Bullet Obeyed Laws of Physics Here is the bullet that killed Martin Luther King, Jr. This bullet struck only one man and obeyed the laws of physics. Contrast this bullet with the one on the right. According to Specter- not only did it strike bone but it went through two people before emerging perfectly intact. Specter believes you are a fucking tard and afraid to challenge authority, such as the establishment media or his cronies. If you believe his theory, he is right. Arrogance Defined: If Specter Didn't See it, it Didn't Happen? The Zapruder Film Witnesses running up and towards the wisps of smoke in the Grassy Knoll-- not away from it, not towards the Book Depository. Johnson did this Kennedy's Missing Brain The whereabouts of Kennedy's brain remain a mystery, and it's a shame too, because not only did it hold bullet fragments, it conclusively proved trajectory. It was last seen in a steel bucket, preserved in a formaldehyde solution in Admiral Calvin Galloway' cabinet in Bethesda Hospital, Maryland. This was critical evidence, because it not only verified the trajectory of the fatal head shot, but through bullet slivers which were found in the first set of x-rays taken in Parkland Memorial Hospital, proved more than one weapon was used. At least two bullet fragments in Kennedy's face betrayed the presence of mercury loaded ammunition, traces of which were found on brain tissue in what are now missing slides. JFK's Casket Dumped at Sea WASHINGTON (AP) -- A bronze casket used to transport President Kennedy's body from Dallas to Washington was dropped from a military plane into the ocean two years after he was killed, according to assassination documents. Kermit L. Hall, a member of the now-defunct Assassination Records Review Board, said Friday that documents to be released Tuesday by the National Archives show that the casket was flown several miles off the Maryland-Delaware coast in early 1965 and dumped in an area where the military discards unstable and outdated weapons and ammunition. The reasons for the disposal aren't clear, but it fuels speculation among assassination researchers that it was discarded to hide foul play. Associated Press, March 28, 1999 Notes from Kennedy's Embalmer "...(approxim. 2) small shrapnel wounds on face, packed with wax." Shrapnel wounds on face from a rear entry wound? The very debate on the Warren's Commission plausibility is an insult to your intelligence. Click image for enlargement. Nixon in Dallas Dallas Morning News, Nov. 22, 1963 According to Johnson's mistress, Madeleine Brown, one of the Warren Commission members, director John J. McCloy (CIA), actually met with Johnson, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Clyde Tolson, and Richard Nixon the night prior to the assassination. (Nixon was also in Dallas on the day of the assassination.) Mac Wallace, a Johnson Crony and Convicted Hitman in the Sniper's Nest According to the Warren Report t, there was a single fingerprint lifted from the carton designated "A" in the "sniper's nest" which could not be linked with Oswald, any other employee of the Texas School Book Depository, or any law enforcement officer that had handled the carton. The fingerprint remains in the National Archives, labeled "Unknown."   However, by 1998, a 14 point match with Malcolm Wallace's prints would be made, thereby directly linking Johnson to the assassination. (Wallace's prints were, of course, on record after his conviction for murder.) On March 9, 1998, A. Nathan Darby, A.L.C.E., a Certified Latent Fingerprint Examiner, and a member of the International Association for Identification, signed a sworn affidavit stating that he found a positive match between the "Unknown" print from Carton "A" and the 1951 print of Mac Wallace.   For easier comparison, the "Unknown' print from the sniper's nest on the right has been duplicated and superimposed in red over the Wallace print on the left. The match becomes obvious even to the layman. "Public figures or guarded officials may be killed with great reliability and some safety if a firing point can be established prior to an official occasion. The propaganda value of this system may be very high." CIA Assassination Manual "...a) The precision rifle. In guarded assassination, a good hunting or target rifle should always be considered as a possibility. Absolute reliability can nearly always be achieved at a distance of one hundred yards. In ideal circumstances, the range may be extended to 250 yards. Public figures or guarded officials may be killed with great reliability and some safety if a firing point can be established prior to an official occasion. The propaganda value of this system may be very high.... " CIA Instructional Guide for Political Assassinations ".....However, there are many cases in which firearms are probably more efficient than any other means. These cases usually involve distance between the assassin and the subject..." *Note: Link above opens to web image of posted, and since removed CNN page. Links therein inactive; please refer to National Security Archives for original document images. Related links in the Cold War series: The CIA Role in Chile's Military Coup CIA Manual for Psychological Operations in Guerilla Warfare The Sick Obsession with the "Lone Gunman" Theory Even as President Kennedy's limo sat in Parkland Memorial Hospital, Johnson ordered the Secret Service and FBI agents to wash out the vehicle, destroying critical evidence of multiple gunmen; particularly bullet slivers and slugs from rifles other than Oswald's alleged weapon. Even bullet holes in the chassis which betrayed tell-tale impossible trajectories to fit the Lone Gunman were repaneled and refurbished at Johnson's orders. Some who were allegedly provided false credentials by Johnson himself, who was in charge of security that day in Dallas. This criminal evidence tampering, which would have led to the immediate arrest of any other suspect in a similar situation, was dutifully ignored by the Warren Commission. Manifest Efforts to Destroy Evidence Challenging Specter's Ridiculous Theory The windshield to Kennedy's limousine is a case in point. The angle of the hole in this windshield could only have come from the front of the vehicle. A shot that hit the metal frame frame atop the windshield. At least four shots were fired that missed the president and governor. During the Johnson administration, the limo's windshield was stored in the White House basement. Any evidence pointing to someone other than the patsy, Lee Harvey Oswald, would have insured the collapse of the coup, and the immediate scrutiny of ringleader Johnson, conspirators Hoover, Warren Commission member John J. McCoy and former CIA Director Allen Dulles.

So the question remains........

What is it about obstructing justice in a presidential assassination that makes Specter, as lead investigator in the Warren Commission, especially qualified to chair the Senate Judiciary panel that will grill Supreme Court judges? After all, that Johnson killed Kennedy is an open secret in Washington DC. They know that enough Americans know the truth about Johnson to represent a true threat, but as long as it's kept out of the news, they also know they won't have to answer for the silence that marks complicity. It is an open secret like the one that we can never win the drug war on a prohibition model that is always linked to massive spikes in organized crime and political corruption.

I think the Washington Post owes us an answer to that. What makes Specter exceptionally qualified, as a man of no character, to judge men of superior character? Those of superior character qualifies just about 99% of the population, unless you also have blood on your hands and advanced your career in politics through it.

Johnson calls the Washington Post

Dare we challenge the Post? Oh yes. Yes we do.

Now, kind reader, this is no call for anarchy. This is a call for you, as a voter, to search your conscience.

This particular American was murdered in cold blood, in front of women and children. He was a war hero, he was also our president.

The men who gained from this murder are not all dead, some remain in power, some know all the players: for instance, former President Gerald Ford, a member of the Warren Commission whom is also Scottish Rite. Another is Sen. Arlen Specter. But they are not the only ones alive, or the only ones protected by the establishment press.

You wouldn't vote for a murderer if you had the choice. You have that choice.

The first step must be taken by Pennsylvania constituents. But it must be taken.

How the Washington Post Censors the News

A Letter to the Washington Post by Julian C. Holmes

April 25, 1992

Richard Harwood, Ombudsman
The Washington Post
1150 15th Street NW Washington, DC 20071

Dear Mr. Harwood,

Though the Washington Post does not over-extend itself in the pursuit of hard news, just let drop the faintest rumor of a government conspiracy, and a klaxon horn goes off in the news room. Aroused from apathy in the daily routine of reporting assignations and various other political and social sports events, editors and reporters scramble to the phones. The klaxon screams its warning: the greatest single threat to herd-journalism, corporate profits, and government stability-the dreaded CONSPIRACY THEORY!!

It is not known whether anyone has actually been hassled or accosted by any of these frightful spectres, but their presence is announced to Post readers with a salvo of warnings to avoid the tricky, sticky webs spun by the wacko CONSPIRACY THEORISTS.

Recall how the Post saved us from the truth about Iran-Contra.

Professional conspiracy exorcist Mark Hosenball was hired to ridicule the idea that Oliver North and his CIA-associated gangsters had conspired to do wrong (*1). And when, in their syndicated column, Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta discussed some of the conspirators, the Post sprang to protect its readers, and the conspirators, by censoring the Anderson column before printing it (*2).

But for some time the lid had been coming off the Iran-Contra conspiracy. In 1986, the Christic Institute, an interfaith center for law and public policy, had filed a lawsuit alleging a U.S. arms-for-drugs trade that helped keep weapons flowing to the CIA-Contra army in Nicaragua, and cocaine flowing to U.S. markets (*3). In 1988 Leslie Cockburn published Out of Control, a seminal work on our bizarre, illegal war against Nicaragua (*4). The Post contributed to this discovery process by disparaging the charges of conspiracy and by publishing false information about the drug-smuggling evidence presented to the House Subcommittee on Narcotics Abuse and Control. When accused by Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY). of misleading reporting, the Post printed only a partial correction and declined to print a letter of complaint from Rangel (*5).

Sworn testimony before Senator John Kerry's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations confirmed U.S. Government complicity in the drug trade (*6). With its coverup of the arms/drug conspiracy evaporating, the ever-accommodating Post shifted gears and retained Hosenball to exorcise from our minds a newly emerging threat to domestic tranquility, the October Surprise conspiracy (*7). But close on the heels of Hosenball and the Post came Barbara Honegger and then Gary Sick who authored independently, two years apart, books with the same title, October Surprise (*8). Honegger was a member of the Reagan/Bush campaign and transition teams in 1980. Gary Sick, professor of Middle East Politics at Columbia University, was on the staff of the National Security Council under Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan. In 1989 and 1991 respectively, Honegger and Sick published their evidence of how the Republicans made a deal to supply arms to Iran if Iran would delay release of the 52 United States hostages until after the November 1980 election. The purpose of this deal was to quash the possibility of a pre-election release (an October surprise) which would have bolstered the reelection prospects for President Carter.

Others published details of this alleged Reagan-Bush conspiracy. In October 1988, Playboy Magazine ran an expose An Election Held Hostage; FRONTLINE did another in April 1991 (*9). In June, 1991 a conference of distinguished journalists, joined by 8 of the former hostages, challenged the Congress to make a full, impartial investigation of the election/hostage allegations. The Post reported the statement of the hostages, but not a word of the conference itself which was held in the Dirksen Senate Office Building Auditorium (*10). On February 5, 1992 a gun-shy, uninspired House of Representatives begrudgingly authorized an October Surprise investigation by a task force of 13 congressmen headed by Lee Hamilton (D-IN). who had chaired the House of Representatives Iran-Contra Committee. Hamilton has named as chief team counsel Larry Barcella, a lawyer who represented BCCI when the Bank was indicted in 1988 (*11).

Like the Washington Post, Hamilton had not shown interest in pursuing the U.S. arms-for-drugs operation (*12). He had accepted Oliver North's lies, and as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee he derailed House Resolution 485 which had asked President Reagan to answer questions about Contra support activities of government officials and others (*13). After CIA operative John Hull (from Hamilton's home state). was charged in Costa Rica with international drug trafficking and hostile acts against the nation's security, Hamilton and 18 fellow members of Congress tried to intimidate Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez into handling Hull's case in a manner that will not complicate U.S.-Costa Rican relations (*14). The Post did not report the Hamilton letter or the Costa Rican response that declared Hull's case to be in as good hands as our 100 year old uninterrupted democracy can provide to all citizens (*15).

Though the Post does its best to guide our thinking away from conspiracy theories, it is difficult to avoid the fact that so much wrongdoing involves government or corporate conspiracies:

In its COINTELPRO operation, the FBI used disinformation, forgery, surveillance, false arrests, and violence to illegally harass U.S. citizens in the 60's (*16).

The CIA's Operation MONGOOSE illegally sabotaged Cuba by destroying crops, brutalizing citizens, destabilizing the society, and conspiring with the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro and other leaders (*17).

Standard Oil of New Jersey was found by the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice to be conspiring with I.G.Farben...of Germany. ...By its cartel agreements with Standard Oil, the United States was effectively prevented from developing or producing [for World War-II] any substantial amount of synthetic rubber, said Senator Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin (*18).

U.S. Government agencies knowingly withheld information about dosages of radiation almost certain to produce thyroid abnormalities or cancer that contaminated people residing near the nuclear weapons factory at Hanford, Washington (*19).

Various branches of Government deliberately drag their feet in getting around to cleaning up the Nation's dangerous nuclear weapons sites (*20). State and local governments back the nuclear industry's secret public relations strategy (*21).

The National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society and some twenty comprehensive cancer centers, have misled and confused the public and Congress by repeated claims that we are winning the war against cancer. In fact, the cancer establishment has continually minimized the evidence for increasing cancer rates which it has largely attributed to smoking and dietary fat, while discounting or ignoring the causal role of avoidable exposures to industrial carcinogens in the air, food, water, and the workplace. (*22).

The Bush Administration coverup of its pre-Gulf-War support of Iraq is yet another example of the President's people conspiring to keep both Congress and the American people in the dark (*23).

If you think about it, conspiracy is a fundamental aspect of doing business in this country.

Take the systematic and cooperative censorship of the Persian Gulf War by the Pentagon and much of the news media (*24).

Or the widespread plans of business and government groups to spend $100 million in taxes to promote a distorted and truncated history of Columbus in America (*25). along the lines of the Smithsonian Institution's fusion of the two worlds, (*26). rather than examining more realistic aspects of the Spanish invasion, like anger, cruelty, gold, terror, and death (*27).

Or circumstances surrounding the U.S. Justice Department theft from the INSLAW company of sophisticated, law-enforcement computer software which now point to a widespread conspiracy implicating lesser Government officials in the theft of INSLAW's technology, says former U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson (*28).

Or Watergate.

Or the largest bank fraud in world financial history (*29), where the White House knew of the criminal activities at the Bank of Crooks and Criminals International (BCCI) (*30), where U.S. intelligence agencies did their secret banking (*31), and where bribery of prominent American public officials was a way of doing business (*32).

Or the 1949 conviction of GM [General Motors], Standard Oil of California, Firestone, and E. Roy Fitzgerald, among others, for criminally conspiring to replace electric transportation with gas- and diesel-powered buses and to monopolize the sale of buses and related products to transportation companies throughout the country [in, among others, the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis, Oakland, Salt Lake City, and Los Angeles] (*33).

Or the collusion in 1973 between Senator Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT). and the U.S. Department of Transportation to overlook safety defects in the 1.2 million Corvair automobiles manufactured by General Motors in the early 60's (*34).

Or the A. H. Robins Company, which manufactured the Dalkon Shield intrauterine contraceptive, and which ignored repeated warnings of the Shield's hazards and which stonewalled, deceived, covered up, and covered up the coverups...[thus inflicting] on women a worldwide epidemic of pelvic infections. (*35).

Or that cooperation between McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Company and the FAA resulted in failure to enforce regulations regarding the unsafe DC-10 cargo door which failed in flight killing all 364 passengers on Turkish Airlines Flight 981 on March 3, 1974 (*36).

Or the now-banned, cancer-producing pregnancy drug Diethylstilbestrol (DES). that was sold by manufacturers who ignored tests which showed DES to be carcinogenic; and who acted in concert with each other in the testing and marketing of DES for miscarriage purposes (*37).

Or the conspiracies among bankers and speculators, with the cooperation of a corrupted Congress, to relieve depositors of their savings. This arrogant disregard from the White House, Congress and corporate world for the interests and rights of the American people will cost U.S. taxpayers many hundreds of billions of dollars (*38).

Or the Westinghouse, Allis Chalmers, Federal Pacific, and General Electric executives who met surreptitiously in hotel rooms to fix prices and eliminate competition on heavy industrial equipment (*39).

Or the convictions of Industrial Biotest Laboratories (IBT). officers for fabricating safety tests on prescription drugs (*40).

Or the conspiracy by the asbestos industry to suppress knowledge of medical problems relating to asbestos (*41).

Or the 1928 Achnacarry Agreement through which oil companies agreed not to engage in any effective price competition (*42).

Or the conspiracy among U.S. Government agencies and the Congress to cover up the nature of our decades-old war against the people of Nicaragua a covert war that continues in 1992 with the U.S. Government applying pressure for the Nicaraguan police to reorganize into a more repressive force (*43).

Or the conspiracy by the CIA and the U.S. Government to interfere in the Chilean election process with military aid, covert actions, and an economic boycott which culminated in the overthrow of the legitimately elected government and the assassination of President Salvador Allende in 1973 (*44).

Or the conspiracy among U.S. officials including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and CIA Director William Colby to finance terrorism in Angola for the purpose of disrupting Angola's plans for peaceful elections in October 1975, and to lie about these actions to the Congress and the news media (*45). And CIA Director George Bush's subsequent cover up of this U.S.-sponsored terrorism (*46).

Or President George Bush's consorting with the Pentagon to invade Panama in 1989 and thereby violate the Constitution of the United States, the U.N. Charter, the O.A.S. Charter, and the Panama Canal Treaties (*47).

Or the gross antitrust violations (*48) and the conspiracy of American oil companies and the British and U.S. governments to strangle Iran economically after Iran nationalized the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1951. And the subsequent overthrow by the CIA in 1953 of Iranian Prime Minister Muhammed Mossadegh (*49).

Or the CIA-planned assassination of Congo head-of-state Patrice Lumumba (*50).

Or the deliberate and willful efforts of President George Bush, Senator Robert Dole, Senator George Mitchell, various U.S. Government agencies, and members of both Houses of the Congress to buy the 1990 Nicaraguan national elections for the presidential candidate supported by President Bush (*51).

Or the collective approval by 64 U.S. Senators of Robert Gates to head the CIA, in the face of unmistakable evidence that Gates lied about his role in the Iran-Contra scandal (*52).

Or How Reagan and the Pope Conspired to Assist Poland's Solidarity Movement and Hasten the Demise of Communism (*53).

Or how the Reagan Administration connived with the Vatican to ban the use of USAID funds by any country for the promotion of birth control or abortion (*54).

Or the way the Vatican and Washington colluded to achieve common purpose in Central America (*55).

Or the collaboration of Guatemalan strong-man and mass murderer Hector Gramajo with the U.S. Army to design programs to build civilian-military cooperation at the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) at Fort Benning, Georgia; five of the nine soldiers accused in the 1989 Jesuit massacre in El Salvador are graduates of SOA which trains Latin/American military personnel (*56).

Or the conspiracy of the Comanche Peak Nuclear Plant administration to harass and cause bodily harm to whistleblower Linda Porter who uncovered dangerous working conditions at the facility (*57).

Or the conspiracy of President Richard Nxion and the Government of South Vietnam to delay the Paris Peace Talks until after the 1968 U.S. presidential election (*58).

Or the pandemic coverups of police violence (*59).

Or the always safe-to-cite worldwide communist conspiracy (*60).

Or maybe the socially responsible, secret consortium to publish The Satanic Verses in paperback (*61).

Conspiracies are obviously a way to get things done, and the Washington Post offers little comment unless conspiracy theorizing threatens to expose a really important conspiracy that, let's say, benefits big business or big government.

Such a conspiracy would be like our benevolent CIA's 1953 overthrow of the Iranian government to help out U.S. oil companies; or like our illegal war against Panama to tighten U.S. control over Panama and the Canal; or like monopoly control of broadcasting that facilitates corporate censorship on issues of public importance (*62). When the camouflage of such conspiracies is stripped away, public confidence in the conspiring officials can erode-depending on how seriously the citizenry perceives the conspiracy to have violated the public trust. Erosion of public trust in the status quo is what the Post seems to see as a real threat to its corporate security.

Currently, the Post has mounted vituperative, frenzied attacks on Oliver Stone's movie JFK, which reexamines the U.S. Government's official (Warren Commission. finding that a single gunman, acting alone, killed President John F. Kennedy. The movie also is the story of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's unsuccessful prosecution of Clay Shaw, the only person ever tried in connection with the assassination. And the movie proposes that the Kennedy assassination was the work of conspirators whose interests would not be served by a president who, had he lived, might have disengaged us from our war against Vietnam.

The Post ridicules a reexamination of the Kennedy assassination along lines suggested by JFK. Senior Post journalists like Charles Krauthammer, Ken Ringle, George Will, Phil McCombs, and Michael Isikoff, have been called up to man the bulwarks against public sentiment which has never supported the government's non-conspiratorial assassination thesis. In spite of the facts that the Senate Intelligence Committee of 1975 and 1976 found that both the FBI and CIA had repeatedly lied to the Warren Commission (*63) and that the 1979 Report of the House Select Committee on Assassinations found that President Kennedy was probably killed as a result of a conspiracy (*64), a truly astounding number of Post stories have been used as vehicles to discredit JFK as just another conspiracy (*65).

Some of the more vicious attacks on the movie are by editor Stephen Rosenfeld, and journalists Richard Cohen, George Will, and George Lardner Jr (*66). They ridicule the idea that Kennedy could have had second thoughts about escalating the Vietnam War and declaim that there is no historical justification for this idea. Seasoned journalist Peter Dale Scott, former Pentagon/CIA liaison chief L. Fletcher Prouty, and investigators David Scheim and John Newman have each authored defense of the JFK thesis that Kennedy was not enthusiastic about staying in Vietnam (*67). But the Post team just continues ranting against the possibility of a high-level assassination conspiracy while offering little justification for its arguments.

An example of particularly shabby scholarship and unacceptable behavior is George Lardner Jr's contribution to the Post's campaign against the movie. Lardner wrote three articles, two before the movie was completed, and the third upon its release. In May, six months before the movie came out, Lardner obtained a copy of the first draft of the script and, contrary to accepted standards, revealed in the Post the contents of this copyrighted movie (*68). Also in this article, (*69). Lardner discredits Jim Garrison with hostile statements from a former Garrison associate Pershing Gervais. Lardner does not tell the reader that subsequent to the Clay Shaw trial, in a U.S. Government criminal action brought against Garrison, Government witness Gervais, who helped set up Garrison for prosecution, admitted under oath that in a May 1972 interview with a New Orleans television reporter, he, Gervais, had said that the U.S. Government's case against Garrison was a fraud (*70). The Post's 1973 account of the Garrison acquittal mentions this controversy, but when I recently asked Lardner about this, he was not clear as to whether he remembered it (*71).

Two weeks after his first JFK article, Lardner blustered his way through a justification for his unauthorized possession of the early draft of the movie (*72). He also defended his reference to Pershing Gervais by lashing out at Garrison as a writer of gothic fiction.

When the movie was released in December, Lardner reviewed it (*73). He again ridiculed the film's thesis that following the Kennedy assassination, President Johnson reversed Kennedy's plans to de-escalate the Vietnam War. Lardner cited a memorandum issued by Johnson four days after Kennedy died. Lardner says this memorandum was written before the assassination, and that it was a continuation of Kennedy's policy. In fact, the memorandum was drafted the day before the assassination by McGeorge Bundy (Kennedy's Assistant for National Security Affairs) Kennedy was in Texas, and may never have seen it. Following the assassination, it was rewritten; and the final version provided for escalating the war against Vietnam (*74) -- facts that Lardner avoided.

The Post's crusade against exposing conspiracies is blatantly dishonest:

The Warren Commission inquiry into the Kennedy Assassination was for the most part conducted in secret. This fact is buried in the Post (*75). Nor do current readers of this newspaper find meaningful discussion of the Warren Commission's secret doubts about both the FBI and the CIA (*76). Or of a dispatch from CIA headquarters instructing co-conspirators at field stations to counteract the new wave of books and articles criticizing the [Warren] Commission's findings...[and] conspiracy theories ...[that] have frequently thrown suspicion on our organization and to discuss the publicity problem with liaison and friendly elite contacts, especially politicians and editors and to employ propaganda assets to answer and refute the attacks of the critics. ...Book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose. ...The aim of this dispatch is to provide material for countering and discrediting the claims of the conspiracy theorists... (*77).

In 1979, Washington journalist Deborah Davis published Katharine The Great, the story of Post publisher Katharine Graham and her newspaper's close ties with Washington's powerful elite, a number of whom were with the CIA.

Particularly irksome to Post editor Benjamin Bradlee was a Davis claim that Bradlee had produced CIA material (*78). Understandably sensitive about this kind of publicity, Bradlee told Davis' publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich ,Miss Davis is lying ...I never produced CIA material ...what I can do is to brand Miss Davis as a fool and to put your company in that special little group of publishers who don't give a shit for the truth. The Post bullied HBJ into recalling the book; HBJ shredded 20,000 copies; Davis sued HBJ for breach of contract and damage to reputation; HBJ settled out of court; and Davis published her book elsewhere with an appendix that demonstrated Bradlee to have been deeply involved with producing cold-war/CIA propaganda (*79). Bradlee still says the allegations about his association with people in the CIA are false, but he has apparently taken no action to contest the extensive documentation presented by Deborah Davis in the second and third editions of her book (*80).

And it's not as if the Post were new to conspiracy work.

Former Washington Post publisher Philip Graham believing that the function of the press was more often than not to mobilize consent for the policies of the government, was one of the architects of what became a widespread practice: the use and manipulation of journalists by the CIA (*81). This scandal was known by its code name Operation MOCKINGBIRD. Former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein cites a former CIA deputy director as saying, It was widely known that Phil Graham was someone you could get help from (*82). More recently the Post provided cover for CIA personality Joseph Fernandez by refusing to print his name for over a year up until the day his indictment was announced ...for crimes committed in his official capacity as CIA station chief in Costa Rica (*83).

Of the meetings between Graham and his CIA acquaintances at which the availability and prices of journalists were discussed, a former CIA man recalls, You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month (*84). One may wish to consider Philip Graham's philosophy along with a more recent statement from his wife Katharine Graham, current Chairman of the Board of the Washington Post. In a lecture on terrorism and the news media, Mrs. Graham said: A second challenge facing the media is how to prevent terrorists from using the media as a platform for their views. ... The point is that we generally know when we are being manipulated, and we've learned better how and where to draw the line, though the decisions are often difficult (*85).

Today, the Post and its world of big business are apparently terrified that our elite and our high-level public officials may be exposed as conspirators behind Contra drug-smuggling, October Surprise, or the assassination of President Kennedy. This fear is truly remarkable in that, like most of us and like most institutions, the Post runs its business as a conspiracy of like-minded entrepreneurs-a conspiracy to act or work together toward the same result or goal (*86). But where the Post really parts company from just plain people is when it pretends that conspiracies associated with big business or government are coincidence. Post reporter Lardner vents the frustration inherent in having to maintain this dichotomy. He lashes out at Oliver Stone and suggests that Stone may actually believe that the Post's opposition to Stone's movie is a conspiracy. Lardner assures us that Stone's complaints are groundless and paranoid and smack of McCarthyism (*87).

So how does the Post justify devoting so much energy to ridiculing those who investigate conspiracies?

The Post has answers: people revert to conspiracy theories because they need something neat and tidy (*88) that plugs a gap no other generally accepted theory fills', (*89). and coincidence ...is always the safest and most likely explanation for any conjunction of curious circumstances ... (*90).

And what does this response mean? It means that coincidence theory is what the Post espouses when it would prefer not to admit to a conspiracy. In other words, some things just happen. And, besides, conspiracy to do certain things would be a crime; coincidence is a safer bet.

Post Ombudsman Richard Harwood, who, it is rumored, serves as Executive Director of the Benevolent Protective Order of Coincidence Theorists, (*91) recently issued a warning about presidential candidates who have begun to mutter about a press conspiracy. Ordinarily, Harwood would simply dismiss these charges as symptoms of the media paranoia that quadrennially engulfs members of the American political class (*92). But a fatal mistake was made by the mutterers; they used the C word against the PRESS! And Harwood exploded his off-the-cuff comment into an entire column-ending it with: We are the new journalists, immersed too long, perhaps, in the cleansing waters of political conformity. But conspirators we ain't.

Distinguished investigative journalist Morton Mintz, a 29-year veteran of the Washington Post, now chairs the Fund for Investigative Journalism. In the December issue of The Progressive, Mintz wrote A Reporter Looks Back in Anger-Why the Media Cover Up Corporate Crime. Therein he discussed the difficulties in convincing editors to accept important news stories. He illustrated the article with his own experiences at the Post, where he says he was known as the biggest pain in the ass in the office (*93).

Would Harwood argue that grief endured by journalists at the hands of editors is a matter of random coincidence?

And that such policy as Mintz described is made independently by editors without influence from fellow editors or from management? Would Harwood have us believe that at the countless office meetings in which news people are ever in attendance, there is no discussion of which stories will run and which ones will find inadequate space? That there is no advanced planning for stories or that there are no cooperative efforts among the staff? Or that in the face of our news-media grayout of presidential candidate Larry Agran, (*94) a Post journalist would be free to give news space to candidate Agran equal to that the Post lavishes on candidate Clinton? Let's face it: these possibilities are about as likely as Barbara Bush entertaining guests at a soup kitchen.

Would Harwood have us believe that media critic and former Post Ombudsman Ben Bagdikian is telling less than the truth in his account of wire-service control over news: The largely anonymous men who control the syndicate and wire service copy desks and the central wire photo machines determine at a single decision what millions will see and hear. ...there seems to be little doubt that these gatekeepers preside over an operation in which an appalling amount of press agentry sneaks in the back door of American journalism and marches untouched out the front door as 'news' (*95).

When he sat on the U.S. District Court of Appeals in Washington, Judge Clarence Thomas violated U.S. law when he failed to remove himself from a case in which he then proceeded to reverse a $10 million judgment against the Ralston Purina Company (*96). Ralston Purina, the animal feed empire, is the family fortune of Thomas' mentor, Senator John Danforth. The Post limited its coverage of the Thomas malfeasance to 56 words buried in the middle of a 1200-word article (*97). Would Harwood have us believe that the almost complete blackout on this matter by the major news media and the U.S. Senate was a matter of coincidence? Could a Post reporter have written a story about Ralston Purina if she had wanted to? Can a brick swim?

Or take the fine report produced last September by Ralph Nader's Public Citizen. Titled All the Vice President's Men, it documents How the Quayle Council on Competitiveness Secretly Undermines Health, Safety, and Environmental Programs. Three months later, Post journalists David Broder and Bob Woodward published The President's Understudy, a seven-part series on Vice President Quayle. Although this series does address Quayle's role with the Competitiveness Council, its handling of the Council's disastrous impact on America is inadequate. It is 40,000 words of mostly aimless chatter about Quayle memorabilia: youth, family, college record, Christianity, political aspirations, intellectual aspirations, wealthy friends, government associates, golf, travels, wife Marilyn, and net worth-revealing little about Quayle's abilities, his understanding of society's problems, or his thoughts about justice and freedom, and never mentioning the comprehensive Nader study of Quayle's record in the Bush Administration (*98).

Now, did Broder or did Woodward forget about the Nader study? Or did both of them forget? Or did one, or the other, or both decide not to mention it? Did these two celebrated, seasoned Post reporters ever discuss together their jointly authored stories? Did they decide to publish such a barren set of articles because it would enhance their reputations? How did management feel about the use of precious news space for such frivolity? Is it possible that so many pages were dedicated to this twaddle without people acting or working together toward the same result or goal? (*99) Do crocodiles fly?

On March 20, front-page headlines in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, USA Today, and the Washington Post read respectively:

TSONGAS DROPPED OUT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE CLEARING CLINTON'S PATH

TSONGAS ABANDONS CAMPAIGN LEAVING CLINTON CLEAR PATH TOWARD SHOWDOWN WITH BUSH

TSONGAS CLEARS WAY FOR CLINTON

TSONGAS EXIT CLEARS WAY FOR CLINTON

This display of editorial independence should at least raise questions of whether the news media collective mindset is really different from that of any other cartel-like oil, diamond, energy, (*100) or manufacturing cartels, a cartel being a combination of independent commercial enterprises designed to limit competition (*101).

The Washington Post editorial page carries the heading:

AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER

Is it? Of course not. There probably is no such thing. Does the Post conspire to keep its staff and its newspaper from wandering too far from the safety of mediocrity? The Post would respond that the question is absurd. In that I am not privy to the Post's telephone conversations, I can only speculate on how closely the media elite must monitor the staff. But we all know how few micro-seconds it takes a new reporter to learn what subjects are taboo and what are safe, and that experienced reporters don't have to ask.

What is more important, however, than speculating about how the Post communicates within its own corporate structure and with other members of the cartel, is to document and publicize what the Post does in public, namely, how it shapes and censors the news.

Sincerely,

Julian C. Holmes

Copies to: Public-spirited citizens, both inside and outside the news media, And - maybe a few others.

Notes to Letter of April 25, 1992:

1. Mark Hosenball, The Ultimate Conspiracy, Washington Post, September 11, 1988, p.C1

2a. Julian Holmes, Letter to Washington Post Ombudsman Richard Harwood, June 4,1991. Notes that the Post censored, from the Anderson/Van Atta column, references to the Christic Institute and to Robert Gates.

2b. Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta, Iran-Contra Figure Dodges Extradition, Washington Merry-Go-Round, United Feature Syndicate, May 26, 1991. This is the column submitted to the Post (see note 2a)..

2c. Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta, The Man Washington Doesn't Want to Extradite, Washington Post, May 26, 1991. The column (see note 2b). as it appeared in the Post (see note 2a)..

3a. Case No. 86-1146-CIV-KING, Amended Complaint for RICO Conspiracy, etc., United States District Court, Southern District of Florida, Tony Avirgan and Martha Honey v. John Hull et al., October 3, 1986.

3b. Vince Bielski and Dennis Bernstein, Reports: Contras Send Drugs to U.S., Cleveland Plain Dealer, November 16, 1986.

3c. Neal Matthews, I Ran Drugs for Uncle Sam (based on interviews with Robert Plumlee, contra resupply pilot)., San Diego Reader, April 5, 1990.

4. Leslie Cockburn, Out of Control. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987.

5a. Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall, Cocaine Politics, University ofCalifornia Press, 1991, p.179-181.

5b. David S. Hilzenrath, Hill Panel Finds No Evidence Linking Contras to Drug Smuggling, Washington Post, July 22, 1987, p.A07.

5c. Partial correction to the Washington Post of July 22, Washington Post, July 24,1987, p.A3.

5d. The Washington Post declined to publish SubCommittee Chairman Rangel's Letter- to-the-Editor of July 22, 1987. It was printed in the Congressional Record on August 6, 1987, p.E3296-7.

6a. Michael Kranish, Kerry Says US Turned Blind Eye to Contra-Drug Trail, Boston Globe, April 10, 1988.

6b. Mary McGrory, The Contra-Drug Stink, Washington Post, April 10, 1988, p.B1. 6c. Robert Parry with Rod Nordland, Guns for Drugs? Senate Probers Trace an Old Contra Connection to George Bush's Office, Newsweek, May 23, 1988, p.22.

6d. Dennis Bernstein, Iran-Contra-The Coverup Continues, The Progressive, November 1988, p.24.

6e. Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy, A Report Prepared by the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, December 1988.

7a. Mark Hosenball, If It's October ... Then It's Time for an Iranian Conspiracy Theory, Washington Post, October 9, 1988, p.D1.

7b. Mark Hosenball, October Surprise! Redux! The Latest Version of the 1980 'Hostage- Deal' Story Is Still Full of Holes, Washington Post, April 21, 1991,p.B2.

8a. Barbara Honegger, October Surprise, New York: Tudor, 1989.

8b. Gary Sick, October Surprise, New York: Times Books, Random House, 1991.

9a. Abbie Hoffman and Jonathan Silvers, An Election Held Hostage, Playboy, October 1988, p.73.

9b. Robert Parry and Robert Ross, The Election Held Hostage, FRONTLINE, WGBH-TV,April 16, 1991.

10a. Reuter, Ex-Hostages Seek Probe By Congress, Washington Post, June 14,1991,p.A4.

10b. An Election Held Hostage?, Conference, Dirksen Senate Office Building Auditorium, Washington DC, June 13, 1991; Sponsored by The Fund For New Priorities in America, 171 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10016.

11a. David Brown and Guy Gugliotta, House Approves Inquiry Into 'OctoberSurprise', Washington Post, February 6, 1992, p.A11.

11b. Jack Colhoun, Lawmakers Lose Nerve on October Surprise, The Guardian, December 11, 1991, p.7.

11c. Jack Colhoun, October Surprise Probe Taps BCCI Lawyer, The Guardian, February 26, 1992, p.3.

12. See note 5a, p.180-1.

13a. See note 4, p.229, 240-1.

13b. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, Senate Report No. 100-216, House Report No. 100-433, November 1987, p.139-141.

14a. Letter to His Excellency Oscar Arias Sanchez, President of the Republic of Costa Rica; from Members of the U.S. Congress David Dreier, Lee Hamilton, Dave McCurdy, Dan Burton, Mary Rose Oakar, Jim Bunning, Frank McCloskey, Cass Ballenger, Peter Kostmayer, Jim Bates, Douglas Bosco, James Inhofe, Thomas Foglietta, Rod Chandler, Ike Skelton, Howard Wolpe, Gary Ackerman, Robert Lagomarsino, and Bob McEwen; January 26, 1989.

14b. Peter Brennan, Costa Rica Considers Seeking Contra Backer in U.S.-Indiana Native Wanted on Murder Charge in 1984 Bomb Attack in Nicaragua, WashingtonPost, February 1, 1990.

14c. Costa Rica Seeks Extradition of Indiana Farmer, Scripps-Howard News Service,April 25, 1991.

15. Press Release from the Costa Rican Embassy, Washington DC, On the Case of the Imprisonment of Costa Rican Citizen John Hull, February 6, 1989.

16. Brian Glick, War at Home, Boston: South End Press, 1989.

17. John Stockwell, The Praetorian Guard-The U.S. Role in the New World Order, Boston: South End Press, 1991, p.121.

18. Hearings Before the Committee on Patents, United States Senate, 77th Cong., 2nd Session (1942)., part I, as cited in Joseph Borkin, The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben, New York: The Free Press, Macmillan, 1978, p.93.

19. R. Jeffrey Smith, Study of A-Plant Neighbors' Health Urged,

Washington Post, July 13, 1990, p.A6.

20. Tom Horton, A Cost Higher Than the Peace Dividend-Price Tag Mounts to Clean Up Nuclear Weapons Sites, Baltimore Sun, February 23, 1992, p.1K.

21. The Nuclear Industry's Secret PR Strategy, EXTRA!, March 1992, p.15.

22a. Samuel S. Epstein, MD et al, Losing the War Against Cancer: Need for PublicPolicy Reform, Congressional Record, April 2, 1992, p.E947-9.

22b. Samuel S. Epstein, The Cancer Establishment, Washington Post, March 10, 1992.

23a. Hon. Henry B. Gonzalez, Efforts to Thwart Investigation of the BNL Scandal, Congressional Record, March 30, 1992, p.H2005-2014.

23b. Hon. David E. Skaggs (CO)., White House Spin Control on Pre-War Iraq Policy, Congressional Record, April 2, 1992, p.H2285.

23c. Nicholas Rostow, Special Assistant to the President and Legal Adviser, Memorandum to Jeanne S. Archibald et al, Meeting on congressional requests for information and documents, April 8, 1991; Congressional Record, April 2, 1992,p.H2285.

24a. Michio Kaku, Operation Desert Lie: Pentagon Confesses, The Guardian, March11, 1992, p.4.

24b. J. Max Robins, NBC's Unaired Iraq Tapes Not a Black and White Case, Variety Magazine, March 4, 1991, p.25.

25. Emory R. Searcy Jr., Clergy and Laity Concerned, Spring 1991 Letter to Friends, p.1.

26. Jean Dimeo, Selling Hispanics on Columbus-Luis Vasquez-Ajma Is Hired to Promote Smithsonian Project, Washington Post, November 18, 1991, p.Bus.8.

27. Hans Koning, Teach the Truth About Columbus, Washington Post, September 3,1991, p.A19.

28a. James Kilpatrick, Software-Piracy Case Emitting Big Stench, St. Louis Post/Dispatch, March 18, 1991, p.3B. Elliot L. Richardson, A High-Tech Watergate, New York Times, October 21,1991.

29. BCCI-NBC Sunday Today, February 23, 1992, p.12; transcript prepared by Burrelle's Information Services. The quote is from New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau who is running his own independent investigation of BCCI.

30. Norman Bailey, former Reagan White House intelligence analyst; from an interview with Mark Rosenthal of NBC News. See note 29, p.5.

31. Jack Colhoun, BCCI Skeletons Haunting Bush's Closet, The Guardian, September 18, 1991, p.9.

32. Robert Morgenthau. See note 29, p.10.

33. Russell Mokhiber, Corporate Crime and Violence, San Francisco: Sierra ClubBooks, 1989 paperback edition, p.227.

34. See note 33, p.136-7.

35. Morton Mintz, At Any Cost: Corporate Greed, Women, and the Dalkon Shield, NewYork: Pantheon, 1985. As cited in Mokhiber, see note 33, p.157.

36. See note 33, p.164-171.

37. See note 33, p.172-180.

38. Michael Waldman, Who Robbed America?, New York: Random House, 1990. The quote is from Ralph Nader's Introduction, p.iii.

39. See note 33, p.217.

40. See note 33, p.235.

41. See note 33, p.277-288.

42. See note 33, p.323.

43. Katherine Hoyt Gonzalez, Nicaragua Network Education Fund Newsletter, March1992, p.1.

44. William Blum, The CIA- A Forgotten History, London: Zed Books Ltd., 1986,p.232-243.

45a. John Stockwell, In Search of Enemies, New York: Norton, 1978.

45b. See note 44, p.284-291.

46. See note 17, p.18.

47a. Letter to President George Bush from The Ad Hoc Committee for Panama (James Abourezk et al)., January 10, 1990; published in The Nation, February 5, 1990, p.163.

47b. Philip E. Wheaton, Panama, Trenton NJ: Red Sea Press, 1992, p.145-7.

48a. Morton Mintz and Jerry S. Cohen, Power, Inc., New York: Bantam Books, 1977,p.521.

48b. The International Oil Cartel, Federal Trade Commission, December 2, 1949. Cited in 48a, p.521.

49a. See note 44, p.67-76.

49b. See note 48a, p.530-1.

50. Ralph W. McGehee, Deadly Deceits, New York: Sheridan Square Publications, 1983,p.60.

51. HR-3385, An Act to Provide Assistance for Free and Fair Elections in Nicaragua. Passed the U.S. House of Representatives on October 4, 1989 by avote of 263 to 136, and the Senate on October 17 by a vote of 64 to 35.

52. Jack Colhoun, Gates Oozing Trail of Lies, Gets Top CIA Post, The Guardian,November 20, 1991, p.6.

53. Carl Bernstein, Time, February 24, 1992, Cover Story p.28-35.

54. The U.S. and the Vatican on Birth Control, Time, February 24, 1992, p.35.

55. Time's Missing Link: Poland to Latin America, National Catholic Reporter,February 28, 1992, p.24.

56a. Jim Lynn, School of Americas Commander Hopes to Expand Mission, Benning Patriot, February 21, 1992, p.12.

56b. Vicky Imerman, U.S. Army School of the Americas Plans Expansion, News Release from S.O.A. Watch, P.O. Bo 3330, Columbus, Georgia 31903.

57. 60 MINUTES, CBS, March 8, 1992.

58. Jack Colhoun, Tricky Dick's Quick Election Fix, The Guardian, January 29,1992, p.18.

59a. Sean P. Murphy, Several Probes May Have Ignored Evidence Against Police, Boston Globe, July 28, 1991, p.1.

59b. Christopher B. Daly, Pattern of Police Abuses Reported in Boston Case, Washington Post, July 12, 1991, p.A3.

59c. Associated Press, Dayton Police Probing Erasure of Arrest Video, WashingtonPost, May 26, 1991, p.A20.

59d. Gabriel Escobar, Deaf Man's Death In Police Scuffle Called Homicide, Washington Post, May 18, 1991, p.B1.

59e. Jay Mathews, L.A. Police Laughed at Beating, Washington Post, March 19, 1991, p.A1.

59f. David Maraniss, One Cop's View of Police Violence, Washington Post, April 12,1991, p.A1.

59g. From News Services, Police Abuse Detailed, Washington Post, February 8, 1992,p.A8.

60. Michael Dobbs, Panhandling the Kremlin: How Gus Hall Got Millions, Washington Post, March 1, 1992, p.A1.

61. David Streitfeld, Secret Consortium To Publish Rushdie In Paperback, Washington Post, March 14, 1992, p.D1.

62a. See notes 48 and 49.

62b. See note 47b, p.63-76.

62c. Fairness In Broadcasting Act of 1987, U.S. Senate Bill S742.

62d. Now Let That 'Fairness' Bill Die, Editorial, Washington Post, June 24, 1987. The Post opposed the Fairness in Broadcasting Act.

63. David E. Scheim, Contract on America-The Mafia Murder of President John F.Kennedy, New York: Shapolsky Publishers, 1988, p.viii.

64. See note 63, p.28.

65a. Chuck Conconi, Out and About, Washington Post, February 26, 1991, p.B3.

65b. George Lardner Jr., On the Set: Dallas in Wonderland, Washington Post, May19, 1991, p.D1.

65c. George Lardner, ...Or Just a Sloppy Mess, Washington Post, June 2, 1991,p.D3.

65d. Charles Krauthammer, A Rash of Conspiracy Theories-When Do We Dig Up BillCasey?, Washington Post, July 5, 1991, p.A19.

65e. Eric Brace, Personalities, Washington Post, October 31, 1991, p.C3.

65f. Associated Press, 'JFK' Director Condemned-Warren Commission Attorney Calls Stone Film 'A Big Lie', Washington Post, December 16, 1991, p.D14.

65g. Gerald R. Ford and David W. Belin, Kennedy Assassination: How About the Truth?, Washington Post, December 17, 1991, p.A21.

65h. Rita Kemply, 'JFK': History Through A Prism, Washington Post, December 20,1991, p.D1.

65i. George Lardner Jr., The Way it Wasn't-In 'JFK', Stone Assassinates the Truth, Washington Post, December 20, 1991, p.D2.

65j. Desson Howe, Dallas Mystery: Who Shot JFK?, Washington Post, December 20,1991, p.55.

65k. Phil McCombs, Oliver Stone, Returning the Fire-In Defending His 'JFK' Conspiracy Film, the Director Reveals His Rage and Reasoning, Washington Post, December 21, 1991, p.F1.

65l. George F. Will, 'JFK': Paranoid History, Washington Post, December 26, 1991,p.A23.

65m. On Screen, 'JFK' movie review, Washington Post, Weekend, December 27, 1991.

65n. Stephen S. Rosenfeld, Shadow Play, Washington Post, December 27, 1991, p.A21.

65o. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, The Paranoid Style, Washington Post, December 29,1991, p.C7.

65p. Michael Isikoff, H-e-e-e-e-r-e's Conspiracy! -- Why Did Oliver Stone Omit (Or Suppress!). the Role of Johnny Carson?, Washington Post, December 29, 1991,p.C2.

65q. Robert O'Harrow Jr., Conspiracy Theory Wins Converts- Moviegoers Say 'JFK' Nourishes Doubts That Oswald Acted Alone, Washington Post, January 2, 1992, p.B1.

65r. Michael R. Beschloss, Assassination and Obsession, Washington Post, January 5, 1992, p.C1.

65s. Charles Krauthammer, 'JFK': A Lie, But Harmless, Washington Post, January 10,1992, p.A19.

65t. Art Buchwald, Bugged: The Flu Conspiracy, Washington Post, January 14, 1992,p.E1.

65u. Ken Ringle, The Fallacy of Conspiracy Theories-Good on Film, But the Motivation Is All Wrong, Washington Post, January 19, 1992, p.G1.

65v. Charles Paul Freund, If History Is a Lie-America's Resort to Conspiracy Thinking, Washington Post, January 19, 1992, p.C1.

65w. Richard Cohen, Oliver's Twist, Washington Post Magazine, January 19, 1992, p.5.

65x. Michael Isikoff, Seeking JFK's Missing Brain, Washington Post, January 21,1992, p.A17.

65y. Don Oldenburg, The Plots Thicken-Conspiracy Theorists Are Everywhere, Washington Post, January 28, 1992, p.E5.

65z. Joel Achenbach, JFK Conspiracy: Myth vs. the Facts, Washington Post, February 28, 1992, p.C5.

65A. List of books on the best-seller list: On the Trail of the Assassins is characterized as conspiracy plot theories, Washington Post, March 8, 1992,Bookworld, p.12

66. See notes 65n, 65w, 65l, 65b, 65c, and 65i.

67a. Peter Dale Scott, Vietnamization and the Drama of the Pentagon Papers. Published in The Senator Gravel Edition of The Pentagon Papers, Volume V,p.211-247.

67b. Peter Dale Scott, The War Conspiracy-The Secret Road to the Second Indochina War, Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1972, p. 215-224.

67c. L. Fletcher Prouty, The Secret Team, Copyright 1973. New printing, Costa Mesa CA: Institute for Historical Review, 1990, p.402-416.

67d. See note 63, p.58, 183, 187, 194, 273-4.

67e. John M. Newman, JFK and Vietnam, New York: Warner Books, 1992.

67f. Peter Dale Scott, Letter to the Editor, The Nation, March 9, 1992, p.290.

68a. See note 65b.

68b. Oliver Stone, The Post, George Lardner, and My Version of the JFK Assassination, Washington Post, June 2, 1991, p.D3.

69. See note 65b.

70. Jim Garrison, On the Trail of The Assassins, New York: Warner Books, 1988, 315/318.

71. Associated Press, Garrison, 2 Others, Found Not Guilty Of Bribery Charge, Washington Post, September 28, 1973, p.A3.

72. See note 65c.

73. See note 65i.

74. See note 67e, p.438-450.

75. John G. Leyden, Historians, Buffs, and Crackpots, Washington Post, Bookworld, January 26, 1992, p.8.

76a. Tad Szulc, New Doubts, Fears in JFK Assassination Probe, Washington Star,September 19, 1975, p.A1.

76b. Tad Szulc, Warren Commission's Self-Doubts Grew Day by Day- 'This Bullet Business Leaves Me Confused', Washington Star, September 20, 1975, p.A1.

76c. Tad Szulc, Urgent and Secret Meeting of the Warren Commission- Dulles Proposed that the Minutes be Destroyed, Washington Star, September 21, 1975,p.A1.

77. Cable Sought to Discredit Critics of Warren Report, New York Times, December 26, 1977, p.A37.

78. Deborah Davis, Katharine The Great, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979,p.141-2.

79a. Eve Pell, Private Censorship- Killing 'Katharine The Great', The Nation, November 12, 1983.

79b. Deborah Davis, Katharine The Great, Bethesda MD: National Press, 1987. Davis says, ...corporate documents that became available during my subsequent lawsuit against him [Harcourt Brace Jovanovich chairman, William Jovanovich] showed that 20,000 copies [of Katharine the Great] had been processed and converted into waste paper.

79c. Daniel Brandt, All the Publisher's Men-A Suppressed Book About Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham Is On Sale Again National Reporter, Fall 1987, p.60.

79d. Deborah Davis, Katharine The Great, New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991. ...publishers who don't give a shit, p.iv-v; bullying HBJ into recalling the book, p.iv-vi; lawsuit and settlement, p..

80. Benjamin C. Bradlee, Letter to Deborah Davis, April 1, 1987. See note 79d, p.304.

81. See note 79d, p.119-132.

82. Carl Bernstein, The CIA and the Media- How America's Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up, Rolling Stone, October 20, 1977, p.63.

83a. Daniel Brandt, Letter to Richard L. Harwood of The Washington Post, September 15, 1988. The letter asks for the Post's rationale for its policy of protecting government covert actions, and whether this policy is still in effect.

83b. Daniel Brandt, Little Magazines May Come and Go, The National Reporter, Fall 1988, p.4. Notes the Post's protection of the identity of CIA agent Joseph F.Fernandez. Brandt says, America needs to confront its own recent history as well as protect the interests of its citizens, and both can be accomplished by outlawing peacetime covert activity. This would contribute more to thesecurity of Americans than all the counterterrorist proposals and elite strike forces that ever found their way onto Pentagon wish-lists.

83c. Richard L. Harwood, Letter to Daniel Brandt, September 28, 1988. Harwood's two- sentence letter reads, We have a long-standing policy of not naming covert agents of the C.I.A., except in unusual circumstances. We applied that policy to Fernandez.

84. See note 79d, p.131.

85. Katharine Graham, Safeguarding Our Freedoms As We Cover Terrorist Acts, Washington Post, April 20, 1986, p.C1.

86. conspire, ß4ßRandom House Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition Unabridged, 1987.

87. Howard Kurtz, Media Notes, Washington Post, June 18, 1991, p.D1.

88. See note 65y.

89. See note 65n.

90. See note 65d.

91. William Casey, Private Communications with JCH, March 1992.

92. Richard Harwood, What Conspiracy?, Washington Post, March 1, 1992, p.C6.

93. p. 29-32.

94a. Washington Post Electronic Data Base, Dialog Information Services Inc., April 25, 1992. In 1991 and 1992, the name Bill Clinton appeared in 878 Washington Post stories, columns, letters, or editorials; Jerry Brown in 485, Pat Buchanan in 303, and Larry Agran in 28. In those 28, Agran's name appeared 76 times, Clinton's 151, and Brown 105. In only 1 of those 28 did Agran's name appear in a headline.

94b. Colman McCarthy, What's 'Minor' About This Candidate?, Washington Post, February 1, 1992. Washington Post columnist McCarthy tells how television and party officials have kept presidential candidate Larry Agran out of sight. The Post's own daily news-blackout of Agran is not discussed.

94c. Scot Lehigh, Larry Agran: 'Winner' in Debate With Little Chance For the Big Prize, Boston Globe, February 25, 1992.

94d. Joshua Meyrowitz, The Press Rejects a Candidate, Columbia Journalism Review,March/April, 1992.

95. Ben H. Bagdikian, The Effete Conspiracy And Other Crimes By The Press, NewYork: Harper and Row, 1972, p.36-7.

96a. 28 USC Section 455. Any justice, judge, or magistrate of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned. [emphasis added]

96b. Alpo Petfoods, Inc. v. Ralston Purina Co., 913 F2d 958 (CA DC 1990)..

96c. Monroe Freedman, Thomas' Ethics and the Court-Nominee 'Unfit to Sit' For Failing to Recuse In Ralston Purina Case, Legal Times, August 26, 1991.

96d. Paul D. Wilcher, Opposition to the Confirmation of Judge Clarence Thomas to become a Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court on the grounds of his JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT, Letter to U.S. Senator Joseph R. Biden, October 15, 1991.

97. Al Kamen and Michael Isikoff, 'A Distressing Turn', Activists Decry What Process Has Become, Washington Post, October 12, 1991, p.A1.

98. January 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 1992, p.A1 each day.

99. See note 86.

100. Thomas W. Lippman, Energy Lobby Fights Unseen 'Killers', Washington Post,April 1, 1992, p.A21. This article explains that representatives of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the coal, oil, natural gas, offshore drilling and nuclear power industries, whose interests often conflict, pledged to work together to oppose amendments limiting offshore oil drilling, nuclTurn', Activists Decry What Process Has Become, Washington Post, October 12, 1991, p.A1.

98. January 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 1992, p.A1 each day.

99. See note 86.

100. Thomas W. Lippman, Energy Lobby Fights Unseen 'Killers', Washington Post,April 1, 1992, p.A21. This article explains that representatives of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the coal, oil, natural gas, offshore drilling and nuclear power industries, whose interests often conflict, pledged to work together to oppose amendments limiting offshore oil drilling, nuclear power and carbon dioxide emissions soon to be offered by key House members.

101. cartel, Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 1977.