Archive for the 'John Connelly' Category

Decadent Worker #67 - 26Aug87

Decadent Worker 67“Gordon Novel’s wife testified to Jim Garrison that Novel was the clean-shaven person impersonating Oswald and fabricating evidence against him in advance of the assassination. William Seymore also was impersonating Oswald at the car dealership, rifle ranges, barber shop as well as meeting with Mrs. Sylvia Odio in Dallas on the evening of September 25, 1963. (CH XI, 367 et seq.)” — Jay Pound, “Who Told the Truth About JFK?” - Critique, p. 87, Spring/Summer 1986, #21/22 (Box 11451, Santa Rosa, CA 95406. A sample copy of Critique costs $6.)

Q. If Hunt was in Dallas 22 November 1963 with orders from the Bilderbergs and the CIA to kill John Connelly wasn’t that doing it the hard way, in terms of security, seeing that the President was there, too?

A. Hunt may have just had a contract on Connelly, with no specifications about when or where to shoot him, and may have picked the time and place where JFK was to be hit so as to embarrass his bosses, in addition to double-crossing them. People under him may have been told that the President was getting lax about security and needed to be frightened into being more careful, thus justifying hitting Connelly then and there to them — at least that much had been hinted to me.

“I think that subsequently, by now, the CIA may not have known where Hunt was at the time, and they may not even have realized what he was up to until years after and years later when his name started to be commonly mentioned in connection with the assassination. I think by now the CIA probably knows where Hunt was and what he was doing or have some very strong feelings about that, and what they’re not too happy about it. But whatever it was, and is, that Hunt was involved in, it seems to be, or would appear, that he was around Dallas about the time of the assassination, involved in some clandestine activity. It may have been illegal clandestine activity, even something the CIA was unaware of. The CIA acts very strangely about this. The CIA will not give Hunt any help… Helms gave a deposition which said nothing. No way would he go out on a limb for Hunt. In my own mind, I have a feeling that the CIA knows where Hunt was and what he was doing, and while they’re not going to prosecute him for a lot of reasons, they’re involved in the cover-up themselves and don’t want to bring any embarrassment upon the agency… Hunt, for his own part, might not be strong enough to bring them forward to defend him before any committee or in a court of law, it’s at least strong enough for them not to take any overt action against him… It’s a very, very strange thing.” — Victor Marchetti, “Ex-CiA Official speaks Out” by Greg Kaza, Full Disclosure (c) 1986 Capitol Information Association, Box 8275, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48107. $15/yr.

Decadent Worker #55 - 15Jul87

Decadent Worker 55“Lee Harvey Oswald, CIA, with carefully planted links to both the ultra-right and to the Communists, was designated as the patsy. He was supposed to shoot at Gov. Connelly… Each of the four shooters — Oswald, Brading, Prattiano, and Roselli — had a timer and a back-up man… Hunt and McCord were there to help.” — The Gemstone File by Bruce Roberts

Note: Oswald could not have been one of the shooters, for photographic and eyewitness evidence proves he was on the front steps of the Depository when the President passed. Roselli may have been the source of this data, may have thought Oswald look-alike William Seymour was Oswald. Anyway, it is significant that John Connelly, not JFK, was supposed to be the target.

[Caption] THE MYSTERY TRAMP, Dallas, 22Nov63: He ain’t selling any alibis. Captured by police, the three tramps were not identified or booked.

[Caption] WATERGATE BURGLAR E. Howard Hunt looks like the man I call Brother-in-law, probably was known to others as Maurice B. Gatlin Sr.

“It is difficult to understand the gravamen of Mr. Hunt’s complaint given the state of the ruling by the Court and the witnesses available to both sides, Liberty Lobby, Inc., persented no evidence as to Mr. Hunt’s whereabouts on November 22, 1963. No such evidence was presented by the defendant in the case since Liberty Lobby did not know, and does not know, where Mr. Hunt was on November 22, 1963 in view of the fact that Mr. Hunt has given so many different stories as to his whereabouts that day. On the other hand, Mr. Hunt, who would have been precluded from offering evidence as to his whereabouts on November 22, 1963 had there been a stipulation which he honored, presented testimony from himself and others which, if believed, would have convinced the jury that Mr. Hunt was not in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963… Thus Mr. Hunt enjoyed the best of both worlds. He was prepared to and did offer testimony as to his whereabouts on November 22, 1963. The defendant on the other hand, offered no such testimony. That the jury did not believe Mr. Hunt and did not credit his alibi witnesses has apparently created a problem for Mr. Hunt from which he seeks redress inappropriately.” — Mark Lane, In the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 85-6078, Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

“The interesting thing was the jury said we were clearly not guilty of libel and actual malice, but they were now suspicious of Hunt and everything he invoked because we brought out a lot of stuff on Hunt… One of the key points in the mind of the jury as far as we’ve been able to tell at Spotlight is that Hunt to this day still cannot come up with an alibi for where he was the day of the assassination.” — Victor Marchetti, “Ex-CIA Official Speaks Out” by Greg Kaza (Full Disclosure, Box 8275, Ann Arbor, MI 48107. $15/yr.)

Decadent Worker #50 - 26Jun87

Decadent Worker 50SUPERTRAMP WITH “CRIME OF THE CENTURY”: DALLAS, 22 NOVEMBER 1963

“Based on everything I have seen, Hunt doesn’t have a leg to stand on because the deeper he gets into this the more he runs the risk of exposing himself. We had just all kinds of material on Hunt. We had a deposition from Joe Trento saying, yes, he saw the internal CIA memo. We produced one witness indeposition, Marita Lorenz, who was Castro’s lover at one point, and she said that Hunt was taking her people and running guns into Dallas. Lorenz said that a couple of days before the assassination Hunt met them in Dallas and made a payoff. What they were all doing, whether it was connected to the assassination, we don’t know.

“I think if Hunt keeps pursuing this, all he’s doing is setting the stage for more and more people to come forward and say bad things about him, and raise more evidence that he was in Dallas that day and that he must have been involved in something. If it wasn’t the assassination it must have been some kind of diversionary activity or maybe it was something unrelated to the assassination and the wires got crossed and it was a coincidence at the time.” — Victor Marchetti, “Ex-CIA Official Speaks Out,” Full Disclosure (My emphasis.)

In 1966 I worked at Glen Towers near Beverly Hills where Mafia Don, John Roselli, lived. One night in a discussion of the government he said, “Who’s really stupid is the CIA. They’re so stupid they killed their own President — trying to get some bookie!”

“Oswald was now in the most dangerous of two worlds. He was acting out pantomimes under the command of a violently pro-Castro cabal dominated by autonomous intelligence operatives and Mob elements…” — William Turner

John Connelly as into race horses — was he the “bookie”?