American Dream » Tue Mar 28, 2017 4:42 pm wrote:I hold Peter Dale Scott in high regard and that is one reason I took a positive imprint on the Torbitt Document as it essentially supports PDS' belief that the role of Hoover and his boys- including in assassination programs more broadly- was deliberately obscured by official investigations. I do not doubt that a coalition of forces was involved but the question remains somewhat unsettled to me as to which forces exactly?
I share your high regard for PDS - Deep Politics and the Death of JFK was a major eye-opener for me personally. The question you're asking really cuts close to the question I would like to see answered in my lifetime: exactly how was the JFK assassination compartmentalized? Obviously, I've been curious about exploring the role of the DIA which I feel has been overlooked to some degree, but I see them more as mid-level operators as opposed to primary instigators. If I was to simplify - and I mean really simplify; not putting this out as any kind of honest chart to follow religiously - I would break down the hierarchy like this:
Top level: The overworld (Rockefeller, Wall Street banking) and MIC
Top/Mid level conduit: CIA (Dulles and Angleton)
Mid level: FBI, DIA (and others)
Low level: Mafia, anti-Castro groups (and many others)
I separate the CIA to distinguish from others who say 'The CIA killed JFK' and leave it at that, whereas I say the CIA is the lynchpin without which the plot would not have succeeded - but I'm not completely convinced that plot originated from them. But I understand why some researchers don't like to see the role of the CIA diminished. I don't necessarily agree, Mark Lane was very adamant to the point of denigrating the focus on the MIC around the time of Oliver Stone's film, but I understand it.
I still haven't found the DiEugenio article, but on the website kennedysandking.com, which replaced ctka.net which was a great JFK research site that DiEugenio and I believe Lisa Pease founded, there is a review by Seamus Coogan. It's a negative review of a book by Joseph Farrell that basically says LBJ did it (though it sounds like he had some help from extraterrestrials!) but uses the Torbitt Document at some points. I'm quoting the portion of his review dealing with the Torbitt aspects of the book, which I think is pretty fair in that it explains how the Permindex material, which does have some measure of validity, got muddied when it was funneled to Copeland/Torbitt:
The Failings of Farrell — Part TWO: Torbitt Document Madness
I) A Question of Timing
It was the Garrison investigation from which the shadowy spectre of the Permindex Company emerged. How it came above board to the American public was due to the links in an Italian Leftist Newspaper Paesa Sera in March of 1967. This newspaper had established links between defendant Clay Shaw and two European-based companies — Permindex (Permanent Industrial Exhibitions) and the CMC (Centro Mondiale Commerciale (World Trade Centrer), the organisation Shaw ran in New Orleans) two suspected CIA affiliates.
In some ways you can’t blame people for getting sucked into the mist surrounding Shaw and the Permindex Company. It’s genuinely fascinating stuff. There does appear to be some evidence that Shaw (despite his liberal façade) was himself sympathetic to fascist politics. And Permindex was clearly one of many groups throughout Europe that was a probable cover for the sinister antics surrounding Operation Gladio, which came above board in 1990 via independent European investigations. Permindex certainly did have ties to various right wing groups including former Nazi intelligence operatives. If the BBC ever had a finest moment, it’s screening of this amazing Gladio documentary which broke the story worldwide, would take the cake. (http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=16921).
Paris Flammonde, author of fine 1969 book The Kennedy Conspiracy, was the individual responsible for the first in-depth look into Permindex from an American perspective. Flammonde methodically associated the company and its ‘offsider’, the CMC, and their many mysteries under the shadow of the Central Intelligence Agency. (http://www.maebrussell.com/Articles%20a ... iracy.html).
Flammonde’s measured research was in stark contrast to a batch of papers that began circulating in 1970 entitled The Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal, more commonly know as The Torbitt Document. (http://www.newsmakingnews.com/torbitt.htm) It takes its more common title from the pen name of its author William Torbitt (aka David Copeland), a lawyer from Waco, Texas. The papers then grew around the Garrison case and Flammonde’s volume like a toxic algae. Part of the problem was Flammonde’s change of direction. In 1971 he authored The Age of Flying Saucers, followed up by The Mystic Healers in 1975. What his leaving the field for more exotic areas did was leave his work on Permindex open to interpretation from those less than scrupulous about the content in the Torbitt Document.
Permindex and CMC were now transformed from being a simple series of covers for Agency intelligence operations, into a motley crew of intelligence amateurs dominated by the Mob, oil millionaires, Division Five of the FBI, religious fronts, and Nazi collaborators. If you can believe it, even Roy Cohn figures in the fantastic revision and expansion of Permindex. In this alternate reality, organizations like the CIA become nothing but servants to these groups, in particularly the Mob. This is understandable. It’s now believed that the Torbitt Document was essentially a CIA disinformation operation aimed at discrediting or convoluting Garrison’s findings, a judgement with which I agree. I also think it’s safe to say that Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal was also designed to confound and confuse Flammonde’s studies into Permindex. If it was so designed, then where did this disinformation start? Well the Torbitt Document wasn’t the first dud conspiracy angle pushed by the agency. It was preceded by a book entitled Farewell America in which it was stipulated that a big oil club called ‘The Committee’ was behind the assassination.
The designated author of that book was James Hepburn. Hepburn’s real name was Herve Lemarre. Jim Garrison brought him down to New Orleans, and interviewed him several times to no avail. It turns out that Lemarre was not the guy who wrote the book. Jim DiEugenio, who discussed the book at the JFK Lancer's November in Dallas 2010 conference, states:
“This gets to be a shell, inside of a shell, inside of a shell, finding out the mystery of who really wrote this book.
“…it turned out that the guy who really wrote the book is a guy nobody had ever heard of, Philippe de Vasjoly. Philippe de Vasjoly was a former agent of the [The Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage] SDECE which is the French intelligence group. He had been kicked out of French intelligence because he had been suspected of being a double agent. Does anybody know who he was a double agent for?”(http://www.jfklancer.com/catalog/nid/)
It’s no surprise that a member of the crowd exclaimed ‘Angleton’. The feared Counter Intelligence chief of the CIA and an individual whose underlings, like Epstein, Farrell had no problem using in particularly Lemarre (whose moniker Hepburn he misspells ‘Hepdurn’) on page 50. Continuing with DiEugenio:
“And so it started out that de Vasjoly actually supervised the writing of “Farewell America.” Now, of course, in 1968 very few people knew that James Angleton was running Oswald, but if Garrison would have known that he probably would have arrested Herve Lemarre. So, this is the first example of what I call these diversions that enter the JFK case. And by the way, to this day people swear by this book, “Farewell America,” without knowing it was written as a project to James Angleton.”
If we tie in Angleton’s actions in conjunction with the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird (see, The Assassinations, edited by DiEugenio and Lisa Pease, pgs. 302-303, not mentioned once in Farrell’s book) we can see that a very powerful apparatus well outside of the scope of LBJ, Big Oil and, in particularly, the Mafia was at play. It’s thus important we touch on these lowlifes briefly so we can set the record straight.
much more at link...
https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kenn ... ll-kennedy
