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Thoughts

I finished this book several years ago but never did write up my thoughts, so I am leaving this blank.

Also, since I listened to the audio book version, the notes are sparser than usual.

I always get the Foster brothers mixed up. A mnemonic to remember is:

CIAllen

John FoSTer = STate Dept, Wall street, older brother

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Exceptional Excerpts

Julius Streicher, defiant to the end, screamed a piercing “Heil Hitler!” as he began climbing the thirteen wooden steps of the scaffold. As the noose was placed around his neck, he spat at Woods, The Bolsheviks will hang you one day.”

Dulles was in Puerto Rico during Bay of Pigs. Speaking at gathering of CEOs. Margaret Mead was there also, talking about “Are we letting our children down?” that wanted the CEOs to join the clandestine war against communism.

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• Audio book, no direct quotes.

• Allen Dulles was close, through business, and sympathetic to Nazi Germany.

• Allen Dulles worked against OSS leader William “Wild Bill” Donovan when he was in Bern, Switzerland.

• Allen did not seem to be a good spy, being very conspicuous. The British called him an amateur.

• Bill Donovan and the James bond inspiration were both self made millionaires.

• Or just connected?

• Allen Dulles got in the way of banking investigation (into primarily BIS) to weed out Nazi gold (Project Safehaven).

• Allen Dulles (and Hitler) frequented the Astor manor (Rhodes, Milner connected).

• Allen help shred documents and protect his brother (who was under suspicion for anti-trust and treason in helping German businesses) with his OSS connections.

• Allen was friends with Himler.

• Allen thought some of the Nazi leaders should come back to power after WW2.

• Wife and children of Allen Dulles said he was very cold and driven. Distant from his own children. Wife nicknamed him “the shark.”

• Allen had explosive, dark, mood shifts that he hid from public.

• Dulles father was a compassionate minister. The mother ran the family.

• Both Dulles brothers had little sympathy.

• Foster walked away from helping 3 Jews when he could have done plenty.

• Foster disapproved of sister marrying a Jew.

• Sister’s husband suicides and Foster takes over and cleans up. Except for the child to the deceased father.

• Roosevelt chide: “You kiss the niggers and I’ll kiss the Jews and we’ll stay in the White House as long as we choose.”

• Seems like a ton of Jew this and holocaust that while blaming everything on Allen Dulles. Still early, but I’m thinking limited hangout.

• Allen didn’t like Jews.

• US State Dept. held up the news about the holocaust. Said it was too unbelievable. Even the part that was reasonable (Jews dieing of starvation and poor conditions). Eventually the news made it to USA via the British.

• Burned Jew bodies in incinerators to provide heat.

• Burned in incinerators but still for heat? Makes no sense. Incinerators don’t run on what you incinerate. The fuel burned the bodies that heated the joint? Further, why use these resources killing Jews when you are in a massive war and could make great use of their labor? Same with the gas. Why not use exhaust from engines and save the poison gas resources for the actual war? After the war you could dispense of the spent Jews.

• The Nazi communications talked about using the Jews for labor, but apparently this was code for kill.

• Bull, logic would use them for labor.

• 2 guys escaped Auschwitz after 2 years. They wrote about the showers, [but how would they have known unless they were there? If they were in the showers how did they live?]

• But I thought it was a death-camp? How did they live for 2 years?

• The report was pushed by the New York Times and the BBC.

• Everything about this is sketchy. Western propaganda machines publish the horrors of the camps.

• Allen was more interested in the rise of communism in Germany than the death camps.

• Researchers are baffled about Allen ignoring the holocaust?

• Maybe it wasn’t happening?

• Reichsmarshall Goering did not even run from the Americans. He thought he would be treated as a defeated but noble member of the losers. He asked the soldiers “should I wear my pistol or ceremonial dagger when I meet General Eisenhower.” It seems he had no idea he would be tried for war crimes.

• Maybe he didn’t commit any?

• Documentary shown in the Nuremberg trials was called “The Death Mills” made by Hollywood director, and Jew, Billy Wilder.

• Why use Hollywood to do this? Reeks of deceit.

• Roosevelt and Churchill wanted to execute the top Nazis without trial. Churchill said there would only be 50-100 men. The killing could be completed in 6 hours. Stalin insisted that there must be a trial.

• Hackworth, and many others, rejected the idea that the international community could bring to trial the leaders of other nations for what they had done to their own people. This was the traditional way of thinking and was obliterated by the Nazi action/holocaust. These crimes and their trial ushered in a new world.

• More circumstantial evidence that WW2/holocaust was used to change the world in the favor of things like the United Nations and the oligarchy.

• Pell said war was not for profit!

• Pell was eventually defeated in his attempt to prosecute war crimes. He connected the big business of the USA and Germany.

• After Pell gave up, the war crimes were tried.

• Allen and Donovan “helped” Robert Jackson (war crime prosecutor), but really the OSS had trapped him and were working against justice.

• Allen and Donovan tried to take charge of the financial aspects of the trial since they were Wall Street lawyers.

• Donovan tried to make deals with high ranking Nazis.

• Jackson ended up dismissing Donovan but Allen was more subtle and was able to manipulate justice for years.

• Allen was sounding the alarm for the upcoming cold war at the start of the trial.

• The hanging of the first batch of high Nazi officials was brutal. The drops were too low and the trap doors too small. This led to bloodied faces and strangling (after up to 24 minutes) and not broken necks.

• Julius Streicher, defiant to the end, screamed a piercing “Heil Hitler!” as he began climbing the thirteen wooden steps of the scaffold. As the noose was placed around his neck, he spat at Woods, “The Bolsheviks will hang you one day.”

• C. Wright Mills, sociologist from University of Texas and Wisconsin. Taught at Columbia. Self proclaimed anarchist. Wrote “The Power Elite” (1956). Pointed out the endless crisis of the Cold War, the military industrial complex, the revolving door, and the oligarchy. Died of a heart attack at 45. CIA listed him, as late as 1968, as one of the most dangerous intellectuals in the USA.

• Nixon, Navy, Allen Dulles finance against guy wanting to nationalize banks and oil banks bankrolled Nixon when he said he was in it for the money “I’m not about to take a pay cut”

• McCarthy harassed everyone but Allen Dulles. Foster caved to pressure. McCarthy was either gay or a pedo.

• Lots of homosexuals. from Nazi Ambassador to Italy, gay underground spy network regional OSS head wanted “a fairy with a nice butt to infiltrate them”

• Iran overthrow, Dulles all the way, Anglo-Iranian Oil->British Petroleum->BP Mosaddegh was going to nationalize, CIA had his supporters killed,

• Guatemala overthrow, tons of bloodshed

  • body count in Guatemala, 1 US, millions of them
  • Arbenz
  • Allen visited Guatemala a lot, brought Clover
  • United Fruits->Dole (verify)

• CIA assassination manual

• Ex Nazi and SS working in US intelligence, 13%

• Allen said, about the Nazi intelligence members, something along the lines of: they are good workers, you don’t need to invite them to the club. Then he invited them to his club, doubled dated with them, etc.

• gellen (sp?) was the head of these intelligence agents, the ex nazis mixed with americans easily

• gladio

• artichoke -> mkultra

• gottleib

• Jew that rejected Judaism, Zen Buddhism, early LSD adopter in LSD experiment dosed a group of people for 77 days straight dosed Frank Olsen and colleagues at CIA “party” at Deep Creek, a week later he jumped out window but 20 years later there was a trial, dismissed but the judge said it was likely a murder WW2 never ended for us, no rules to war

• Allen’s son was very intelligent, joined Marines, in Korea ended up taking risks and got shot the first time, next time he got brain damage Allen Jr. would flip out after the brain damage and rage that his Dad was a Hitler lover and Nazi collaborator (this unnerved Allen Sr. since it was the truth)

• Wolf (sp) leading mkultra Dr trained by Pavlov, treated Allen Jr,

  • neurologist
  • 1955 President of Society for Investigation of Human Ecology
  • shock insulin therapy for Allen Jr
  • Allen Jr writes letter saying he will do anything to get out

• Wilder Pennfield, next to consult on Allen Jr.

  • brought in Ewan Cameron, (at McGill)(Allen Memorial Institute)(Montreal)
  • LSD, insulin shocks, electro shock = de patterning (in the sleep room, up to 101 days)
  • next psychic driving, radio, football helmet
  • 75% patients were worse off after
  • his goal was not to help them, he was working for the cold war effort to understand
  • the mind, his patients were prisoners of war (his own words)
  • memories erased
  • neurosurgeon
  • pronounce Allen Jr hopeless (after essentially torturing him)

• Allen Jr ended up in Bellview Swiss institute for 10 years

  • didn’t leave until after Allen Sr died

• 1963 CIA manual, Counterintelligence Interrogation, Vietnam, Central America, black sites after 9/11, same playbook as Cameron

• Galíndez wrote a scholarly expose attacking the Trujillo regime he ended up kidnapped by a CIA cutout, exported to Dominica, boiled alive and disappeared

  • “His kidnapping was a sophisticated operation run by Robert A. Maheu and Associates, a private detective firm staffed by former CIA and FBI employees that the intelligence agency used as a “cut-out” to do dirty jobs on U.S. soil, where the CIA was forbidden by law to operate.”

• “The abduction of the Columbia University academic from the streets of Manhattan is the first flagrant example of what would become known during the War on Terror, with bureaucratic banality, as “extraordinary rendition”—the secret CIA practice of kidnapping enemies of Washington and turning them over to the merciless security machinery in undisclosed foreign locations.”

• CIA/Dulles believed in ideas, ideas matter, cold war was a war of ideas,

  • propaganda and proxies instead of boots on the ground battles

• Stalin said writers are the engineers of the human soul, the production of souls is more important than the production of tanks

• Stalin killed those who when against the party

• CIA reinforced/subsidizing the ideas they liked/politically correct and discredited/marginalize (conspiracy theorist) those they did not, “method of cultural engineering” = more subtle than Stalin

• main front of CIA to spread ideas/influence = congress for cultural freedom (kind of cultural NATO)

• “founded in 1950 to counter the propaganda efforts of the Soviet bloc. The Congress for Cultural Freedom grew to become one of the biggest arts patrons in world history, sponsoring an impressive array of book publishing start ups and literary magazines—including the influential Encounter and Paris Review as well as art exhibits, literary prizes, concert tours, and international conferences held in Paris, Berlin, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio retreat overlooking Lake Como.”

• “Many leading artists and intellectuals fell into the ranks of the CIA’s generously funded culture war, including Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Mary McCarthy, Robert Lowell, Dwight Macdonald, Daniel Bell, Isaiah Berlin, George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen, and Mark Rothko.”

• “As historian Frances Stonor Saunders observed, “The individuals and institutions subsidized by the CIA were expected to perform as part …of a propaganda war.” Those who took agency funds became “cheerful robots” of the Cold War, in C. Wright Mills’s memorable phrase.”

• Ginsberg writes a fictional story between him an T.S. Elliot talking about how the CIA corrupted art/poetry. (feels like building Ginsberg’s cover)

• when Castro first came to power USA said he was anti communist, Allen Dulles later said he was super communist

• Castro denied a hotel in NYC, Malcolm X puts him up in black community Hotel Teresa in town for UN general assembly (in Harlem)

page 253:

• May 1960 when a high-flying U-2 spy plane operated by the CIA was shot down over the Soviet Union—sabotaging an upcoming summit meeting with Khrushchev and ruining Eisenhower’s final chance for a Cold War breakthrough.

• But Dulles had repeatedly assured Eisenhower that the high-altitude spy planes were safe from Russian antiaircraft missiles. On May 1, the president found out his CIA director’s assurances were hollow, when a Soviet missile slammed into a U-2 plane flying over Russia’s Ural Mountains, resulting in the downing of the aircraft and the capture of CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers. The flight on the eve of the Paris Summit seemed so badly timed and planned that at least one close observer, Air Force colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, suspected that the CIA had intentionally provoked the incident in order to ruin the peace conference and ensure the continued reign of Dulles dogmatism. Prouty, a liaison officer between the Pentagon and the CIA who was summoned by Dulles whenever CIA spy flights ran into trouble, later wrote that the U-2 shootdown was “a most unusual event” that grew out of a “tremendous underground struggle [between] the peacemakers led by President Eisenhower” and the Dulles “inner elite.”

page 254:

• He would leave the next president a “legacy of ashes,” Eisenhower bitterly remarked.

• During JFK’s run for the White House, Dulles received inside reports on the Kennedy camp from a number of mutual friends, including Charlie Wrightsman and Mary Bancroft.

page 255:

• It was Jackie Kennedy who tipped off Dulles to the pleasures of James Bond, giving him a copy of From Russia with Love, which became one of his favorite spy novels.

page 256:

• unique opportunities open to JFK with his generational changing of the guard. The first thing he should do, suggested one insider, is fire J. Edgar Hoover. While he was at it, said another, Kennedy should get rid of Allen Dulles.

• But the next morning, they were unpleasantly surprised to read in the daily papers that Kennedy had already announced that he was retaining both Hoover and Dulles. Kennedy later explained to Arthur Schlesinger that, considering his slim margin of victory, he didn’t feel that he had sufficient political capital to uproot two Washington pillars like Hoover and Dulles.

page 257:

• Besides, said Kennedy, he had given men like Dulles only a temporary reprieve—they would be gone soon enough. “We’ll have to go with this for a year or so. Then I would like to bring in some new people.” But Kennedy was not naïve about the workings of Washington power. After a thoughtful pause, he added, “I suppose it may be hard to get rid of these people once they are in.”

• Kennedy already knew the man he wanted to replace Dulles—tall, brainy Richard M. Bissell Jr., the Groton- and Yale-educated chief of clandestine operations for the CIA.

• With his impressive academic credentials, which included a degree from the London School of Economics, and his grasp of the latest surveillance technology, Bissell struck JFK as a man of the future.

page 258:

• Dulles could be assured that with Mac Bundy in the White House—and with his brother Bill moving to Kennedy’s Defense Department, where the press dubbed him “the Pentagon’s secretary of state”—the CIA director had eyes and ears in two of the most important command posts in the Kennedy administration.

page 259:

• Dulles was confident enough that the Dulles era would continue under JFK that he made boasts to that effect on the Washington dinner party circuit, within full earshot of Kennedy loyalists. Shortly after Kennedy took office, the painter William Walton, a close friend of JFK and Jackie, found himself at a gathering at Walter Lippmann’s house where Dulles was a fellow guest. “After dinner, the men sat around awhile in an old-fashioned way, and [Dulles] started boasting that he was still carrying out his brother Foster’s foreign policy. He said, you know, that’s a much better policy. I’ve chosen to follow that one.”

• Patrice Lumumba was on the run. Congo’s first democratically elected leader.

• Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness was based on Congo under Belgian rule. A nightmare. Cut off men’s hands when they wouldn’t work.

• Brussels, London, New York looted Congo’s riches. Rubber and Ivory first, then gold, diamonds, copper and tin.

• Lumumba spoke out at the Conogo independence declaration.

page 260:

• Lumumba’s ardent remarks lifted up the Congolese people, who danced in the streets of the capital to celebrate their freedom. But King Baudouin and the other Western representatives who attended the independence ceremony were insulted by the prime minister’s frank remarks. Lumumba had “marred the ceremonies,” sniffed the New York Times correspondent.

• In speeches to his followers, Lumumba opened a door on the corrupt backroom dealings that continued to dominate African capitals in the neocolonial era. The United States, he declared, was rubbing its hands over the Congo’s uranium deposits—the same deposits that supplied the uranium for the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Speaking to dinner guests at a political event in October 1960, Lumumba said that he could have made millions of dollars if he had been willing to “mortgage the national sovereignty.”

• Dulles, Doug Dillon (then serving as a State Department undersecretary), and William Burden, the U.S. ambassador to Belgium, led the charge within the Eisenhower administration to first demonize and then dispose of Lumumba. All three men had financial interests in the Congo. The Dillon family’s investment bank handled the Congo’s bond issues. Dulles’s old law firm represented the American Metal Company (later AMAX), a mining giant with holdings in the Congo, and Dulles was friendly with the company’s chairman, Harold Hochschild, and his brother and successor, Walter, who served in the OSS during the war.

page 261:

• Corporate executives with major stakes in Africa were able to mingle and confer with U.S. national security officials at prestigious organizations like the Manhattan based Africa-America Institute. The institute, which Harold Hochschild helped launch in 1953, sponsored the American education of future generations of African leaders, a goal the CIA found strategically valuable enough to help fund the group. Years later, after the Africa-America Institute was exposed as a CIA front,

• Adam. The younger Hochschild cofounded Mother Jones magazine and later authored King Leopold’s Ghost, a powerful indictment of the Belgian reign of terror in the Congo. After the CIA ties to the institute were exposed, Hochschild fils later recalled, “[Father] seemed uncomfortable. He defended the link, saying that in its early years there was nowhere else the institute could have gotten enough money for its work. But he was clearly embarrassed that the whole thing had to be kept secret.”

page 261:

• The Eisenhower administration’s increasingly militant policy toward Lumumba took shape over cocktails in clublike environments such as the Africa-America Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations. The men driving the policy had little feel for the suffering or longing of the Congolese people.

• Patric Lumumba was delivered to a CIA backed “warlord” and ended up beaten to death. This lead to a 32 year dictatorship under Mubutu(sp?) (claimed tortured to death by CIA assets)

• There was a plan to poison Lumumba via toothpaste because Ewan Cameron saw Lumumba had pearly white teeth in photos!

• CIA kept his death quiet for over a month, didn’t want to alert JFK and maybe save Lumumba.

• NYT and other publications lambasted Congo/Lumumba.

• Church commission concluded CIA wasn’t at fault, but it seems today that it was VERY likely.

• The CIA Congo assets (Devlin) played dumb, weren’t acting alone, climbed the organization’s ladder with high marks. Devlin kept everything quiet before the murder so no one could stop it. Ended up retiring from CIA and working in Congo in diamond industry.

• Later they (Devlin, Dulles) said Lumumba wasn’t a (communist) threat.

• Time magazine insulted Lumumba’s wife for mourning in traditional style, bare breasted at the funeral.

PART 3

• Bay of Pigs was set up to fail and force JFK to send in the military. Dulles was crushed when JFK didn’t bite.

• Dulles was in Puerto Rico during Bay of Pigs. Speaking at gathering of CEOs. Margaret Mead was there also, talking about “Are we letting our children down?” that wanted the CEOs to join the clandestine war against communism.

• Richard Drane picked up Dulles from Puerto Rico, Dulles seemed nonchalant about the failing of Bay of Pigs.

• French coup, backed by CIA

• Kennedy apologized to de gual, he said the CIA was uncontrollable, asked for help determining who in the CIA was helping the uprising

• C. Wright Mills dies of heart attack at 45.

• At a dinner party someone says, “the old man will take care of it.” It, being the JFK ‘problem’ and the old man being a nick name of Allen Dulles. A few months later JFK was dead.

• Hunt (Hunter) confesses to involvement in JFK assassination plot to his son Saint John Hunt(er) in 2003-6

• Lee Harvey Oswald ditched school. His truant officer said he was a normal kid, but he was sent to a psychoanalyst that worked at Ewan Cameron’s MKUltra lab at Univ of Toronto (sp?). This doctor said he was a time bomb. Later he joined the military and was potentially exposed to LSD in Japan at a US military base. He travelled around after getting out of the military without the money, then he renounced his citizenship in what looked like an act at an embassy in the USSR. He claimed that he was going to share classified info from the U2 base in Japan, but no one seemed to care.

• After a few years in Russia he came back, with a wife, and it took weeks for the FBI to even question him. He was let right in almost no questions asked. Then he moved around between New Orleans, Texas, and Mexico for a few years before ending up in the book depository. He had a wealthy patron that was probably his handler. Pennsylvania Senator during the Church commission said that Oswald had intelligence community fingerprints all over him. Many of these strings led back to Allen Dulles.

• Dulles was neighbors with Jackie Onassis’s family. Florida Russia also friends of Jackie O’s family.

• Oswald handled by Russian from Florida, then handed off to Ruth Payne.

• Bancroft friends with Michael Payne (Pain)(Ruth’s husband), reported to Dulles.

• It is one giant Dulles social network with Oswald at the center.

• Weeks before the assassination Oswald taken off FBI and CIA watch lists.

• The USA gov backed corporate interests

  • Dulles brothers and 2 of the Rockefeller brothers (David and Nelson), close
  • Rockefeller’s helped finance MKUltra and other CIA projects
  • David Rockefeller was a source for off the books cash
  • David was of the same mind as “us”
  • The Rockefeller brothers didn’t like JFK, widely echoed in the business world
  • Deep State decided to remove JFK, Dulles’ killing machine from overseas was brought back to USA, all the others had to do was look the other way

• Oswald didn’t act like an assassin. He claimed he was a patsy. Those who killed heads of states usually crowed about their accomplishments. He was strangely cool and collected.

• Oswald made a strange call, or tried to call, to former US intelligence officer, Rawly (sp?), likely his handler/cutout to get his case officer, he refused to play the role of patsy, what would happen? “I’d kill him”

• Magic bullet, showed up in a stretcher in the hospital, in almost perfect shape, faulty site, old gun, rapid fire, don’t forget Oswald was a poor shot, CIA found no prints on the gun, police found no gunpowder on Oswald’s cheek, Oswald’s car ride insisted the package Oswald carried was not big enough for a rifle,

• film shows shots from 2 angles, front and back

• police heard and looked toward the grassy knoll,

• CIA and FBI technicians both said it was 2 angles of shot from the video, but it was hushed up, the doctors said the same thing… 3 decades later,

• after Oswald was assassinated it brought on concern from the public, it was a gangland hit to stop Oswald talking, mafia and CIA connected,

• Eisenhower remarked when he visited Haiti, 2/3 of the heads of state were slain in office

• Truman was fuming, 1 month after the assassination, he published in the CIA, an article saying the CIA was out of control,

• foreign papers spoke about conspiracy

• De Gaul said Oswald was a patsy, all the intelligence agencies the world over are all the same, they wanted to have him dead, when he got away they sent the other assassin to kill the fake assassin. Now that the ‘guilty’ was dead there would be no trial, justice won’t be done, better to kill an innocent man than have a civil war, riots, etc. “They don’t want to know, they don’t want to find out, they won’t allow themselves to find out” 2002

• Castro and the Russian president were sad about JFK, “this is bad news” Castro said, he predicted it would be blamed on him, they tried

• Allen Dulles knew the danger of words, Truman’s piece had to be stamped out, it created many similar articles, wrote a letter to Truman, 8 pages, he blamed Truman for creating CIA covert office, Dulles tried for months to discredit the article, he visited Truman face-to-face, Truman wouldn’t back down (even at 79), Dulles filed a report claiming Truman was senile, later they tried to blame it on one of Truman’s aides, Truman said the same thing for a while before publishing the article and to many people, he was not senile, After Bay of Pigs he said CIA was a mistake, it got out of hand because Eisenhower never paid attention to it,

• Warren Report, Dulles should have been suspect number 1, ends up leading the commission! LBJ said Robert Kennedy (who was then dead) wanted Dulles on it, chose men above suspicion!?, Warren Commission was not meant to find truth, but to cover it up,

• Dulles campaigned hard to get on the Warren commission, pulled strings to get on

• Helms, head of CIA clandestine operations, when called to testify for the Warren commission, he simply lied, won him a felony conviction,

• Slawson, while working as a professor got a call from the CIA, “we are friendly with the president of your university (southern california), are you friendly with us?”

• Dulles was leaking info to the Washington Post and NYT.

• Dulles was 71 when he was on the commission, he spent more time on it than anyone else, he didn’t have a day job (only one, rest had jobs), felt energized, made joke about JFK’s blood soaked tie “it was a clip on” referencing the fact the doctors clipped it off,

• Blame was almost placed on JFK, if more money available for the secret service they could do a better job, Dulles spread rumors that JFK wanted the SS and police to hang back so the people could see him better,

• African leader, Kwamaine (sp?) got a copy, he opened it, pointed to Dulles’ name and same “whitewash”

• Arlen Specter (later PA gov) was lawyer on the commission, he came up with the magic bullet

• Dulles was flustered at UCLA by a student, this was the only time he was ever directly confronted with the images taken from the Zapuder (sp?) film, later student (Lain?) said Dulles had evil eyes,

• Lane, an author, was discredited by the CIA/media, smeared him with claims of his ex-wife (who they claimed was not and ex) was a communist, he was photographed (though they were never shown to exist) with a group of minor girls in obscene manners, etc.

• When Dulles was subpoenaed to appear in a New Orleans parish court, the subpoena was never delivered, they (whoever delivers these things) “refused” to deliver it

• Within a few years even Mary Bancroft had gone over to the other side, Bill Bundy, of the commission, said it was done and should be put behind them, but seemed like he might not actually believe the conclusion

• RFK tries to ignore what happened in Dallas for a few years, but then decides to tackle it, runs for president, Nixon and Jackie O. both think something bad will happen, Jackie thinks RFK will be assassinated.

• Slesinger (historian working with JFK), resigned after 2 months under LBJ. Slesinger also didn’t want to look at what happened in Dallas. He even defended against the conspiracy theorists. Years later, after being friendly with Dulles and Helm (one of the CIA high up in MKUltra), for years, he started to understand what had happened. Before he died he said he would have liked to write a book about the CIA, which he said was undermining our democracy.

• RFK killed in a very similar manner, fatal shot from behind, Sirhan from the front, more bullets than Sirhan’s gun held,

• Dulles cohort near death said that they were all going to hell, him included, for what they had done,