The Hidden Nazi Connection to John F. Kennedy’s Death

BY: GΔRRΞTT @libertybirb on X.

The Hidden Nazi Connection to John F. Kennedy’s Death

BY:

GΔRRΞTT

@libertybirb on X.

In a 1973 article in the Atlantic Monthly Magazine titled 'THE LAST DAYS OF THE PRESIDENT,' Lyndon B. Johnson told Leo Janos, "I never believed that Oswald acted alone, although I can accept that he pulled the trigger." Johnson said that when he had taken office he found that "we had been operating a damned Murder Inc. in the Caribbean." A year or so before Kennedy's death a CIA-backed assassination team had been picked up in Havana. Johnson speculated that Dallas had been a retaliation for this thwarted attempt, although he couldn't prove it." [1]

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When New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison began his investigation into President John F. Kennedy’s murder, he soon discovered there were many aspects of Lee Harvey Oswald’s life that were unexplainable or classified. A right-wing, fascist, underground network was slowly becoming visible to Garrison. This network was so expansive and unbelievable, that Garrison, with what we know today and will explain in this article, was pulling on several valuable threads he could not understand.

Many researchers, and even prominent whistleblowers such as E. Howard Hunt, have labeled eventual President Lyndon B. Johnson as the person most responsible for John F. Kennedy’s murder. While I agree with this basic premise, we will see that the roots run much deeper. As the Senate Majority Leader from Texas, LBJ had tremendous political and financial ties. He was next-door neighbors to J. Edgar Hoover and they knew everything about each other. LBJ has remarked in the past that he delighted to have German ancestry, a common bond he shared with his friend Wernher von Braun. In a 2007 Rolling Stone article by Erik Hedegaard titled, The Last Confessions Of E. Howard Hunt, it explains, "E. Howard scribbled the initials "LBJ," standing for Kennedy's ambitious vice president, Lyndon Johnson. Under "LBJ," connected by a line, he wrote the name Cord Meyer. Meyer was a CIA agent whose wife had an affair with JFK; later she was murdered, a case that's never been solved. Next his father connected to Meyer's name the name Bill Harvey, another CIA agent; also connected to Meyer's name was the name David Morales, yet another CIA man and a well-known, particularly vicious black-op specialist. And then his father connected to Morales' name, with a line, the framed words "French Gunman Grassy Knoll." [2]

In a nutshell, this was Hunt’s story. For those curious, in his autobiography, American Spy, Hunt identifies the "French Gunman" as Lucien Sarti. "There has been suggestion in some circles that CIA agent Bill Harvey had something to do with the murder and had recruited several Corsicans, especially a crack shot named Lucien Sarti, to back up Oswald and make sure the hit was successful. Supposedly, Sarti was dressed in a Dallas police uniform and fired the fatal bullet from the grassy knoll behind the picket fence." [3]

To the delight of worried skeptics, after this confession was first featured on Governor Jesse Ventura’s TruTV show, it received a shockingly little amount of interest from mainstream national media for a confession of this magnitude. When Governor Ventura joined Piers Morgan for an interview after his JFK / Hunt episode, he was asked directly who killed Kennedy, and the Governor responded, "It was done by William Harvey, who was the head of the CIA’s assassination unit at that time. David Morales was directly involved in it. He, likewise, is the gentleman who killed Che Guevara; down in Bolivia in '67 where they put him up against a firing wall and killed him. Shot him and killed him. Morales was part of that. I believe that because I saw, heard, and read a confession from E. Howard Hunt. On a deathbed to his son. And when he confessed, it was not a confession of remorse. It was a confession of pride. He wanted the world to know that we helped you out — we killed John Kennedy, this communist sympathizer." [4]

The idea that CIA rogues and a power-hungry Vice President would attempt a coup d'etat is something that many Americans would be sickened by, but could still likely digest. We also know that a fingerprint identified at the so-called sniper's nest in Dealey Plaza was positively identified by a certified expert in that field who determined clear fourteen-point identification, far exceeding the legal requirement of proof for a match. That fingerprint belonged to the notorious Mac Wallace, a convicted killer who, for many years, took care of the "dirty work" for Lyndon Johnson. [5] A audio clip of Clifton Carter (an associate of LBJ) and Billy Sol Estes discussing Wallace has recently resurfaced, explaining that LBJ himself hired the assassin Mac Wallace to kill President Kennedy. This is valuable information, but it doesn’t solve anything.

This clip is being shared by many political pundits as evidence that President Trump has now "revealed the truth" around the JFK assassination. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Even with the new Executive Order, we in the public are still in a period where nothing has been released and excuses are beginning to blubber out of our representatives mouths. Do not chase their carrots or accept their excuses. We cannot stop pushing our elected officials to be vigilant and to push to unveil the more sinister elements of the assassination the public cares about. This audio clip is only a small piece of a much larger puzzle. A puzzle that involves hit squads, Allen Dulles, NASA, and strangely… UFOs.

To make the whole picture clearer, allow me to introduce FBI Special Agent in Charge: Guy Banister. Stationed in Butte, Montana. The UFO buffs who follow my research are undoubtedly familiar with Banister. According to Historian and Author Peter Levenda, Banister was one of the people investigating the Maury Island affair and all of the UFO incidents that were taking place in the Pacific Northwest in 1947, in the months before and after the famous Roswell crash. He was in charge of a large number of files designated the “SUBJECT MATTER X (SM-X)” files (UFO matters were considered SM-X). This is where the term X-files comes from. Levenda also has described many of the men involved in this network as belonging to a phony church, the ‘American Orthodox Catholic Church’. Members of this church included names like FBI head J. Edgar Hoover and Fred Crisman. [6] Guy Banister had many individuals working for him, and these names included people like David Ferrie and Jack Martin, well-known names to JFK researchers. Guy Banister’s secretary Delphine Roberts said that Banister took Oswald under his wing and worked with him on a regular basis. [7] But why though? It certainly begs the question: What the hell does any of this have to do with Nazis or President John F. Kennedy? And UFOs, seriously? Let’s examine and begin pulling these threads.

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Thread #1: Reily Coffee Company, Lee Harvey Oswald, and NASA

In his book, On the Trail of the Assassins, the book that inspired Oliver Stone’s film ‘JFK’, Garrison alludes to this network, stating, "Now I found myself looking at two unfamiliar names, Marachini and Lewallen, both of whom had in the past been associated with Ferrie and both of whom now lived next door to Clay Shaw. That was something to think about. Some time later, I came across the name of Dante Marachini again. I had wanted to talk to individuals at the Reily Coffee Company who had worked with Lee Oswald or at a level immediately above him, so I sent Frank Klein over to the company to get their names and respective positions. He returned rather quickly. "They're all gone," he said. "Anyone who ever had any connection with Lee Oswald left the Reily Company within a few weeks after Oswald did." He laid a sheet of paper in front of me. "Here are the names and the new jobs." I glanced down at the list. One name jumped out at me immediately: Dante Marachini. He had begun work at the Reily Coffee Company on exactly the same day as Oswald.

Several weeks after Oswald's departure, Marachini also left the coffee company and began life anew at the Chrysler Aerospace Division at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), on the eastern side of New Orleans. I then noticed that Alfred Claude, who hired Oswald for Reily, had also gone to work for the Chrysler Aerospace Division. Then I saw that John Branyon, who had worked with Oswald at the coffee company, had left for a job at NASA. At just about the same time, Emmett Barbee, Oswald's immediate boss at Reily, left the coffee company and also inaugurated a new career with NASA.

After seeing what happened to all of these men associated with Oswald at the coffee company and after seeing Marachini's name again, my curiosity about 1309 Dauphine Street returned. I called Lou Ivon in and asked him to find out if James Lewallen, David Ferrie's former apartment mate who now resided at 1309 Dauphine Street, had been as fortunate as some of the workers at Reily had been. It took Ivon a couple of days, but he came back with a now fairly predictable piece of information: Lewallen had gone to work for Boeing out at NASA. Lou and I kicked this interesting situation around a bit, and then we both became curious about what had happened to Melvin Coffee, who had accompanied David Ferrie to Texas on the eve of the assassination. Ivon was back the next day. Melvin Coffee had been hired by the Aerospace Operation at Cape Canaveral.

Perhaps it was mere coincidence that all these men associated with David Ferrie, Clay Shaw, and Lee Oswald ended up working for NASA, but I doubted it. I knew by now that when a group of individuals gravitated toward one another for no apparent reason, or a group of individuals inexplicably headed in the same direction as if drawn by a magnetic field, or coincidence piled on coincidence too many times, as often as not the shadowy outlines of a covert intelligence operation were somehow becoming visible." [8]

To make matters stranger, one example of the many enigmas surrounding Oswald was his claim that he himself had recently gotten a job working for the newly-created National Aeronautics and Space Association (NASA). Author Anthony Summers explains in his book ‘Conspiracy’ that, "Before he left the William Reily Coffee Company, Oswald visited Alba to say goodbye. According to the record, he had been fired for malingering. Yet Oswald seemed pleased, telling Alba he expected to work next at the New Orleans plant of NASA — the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He never did work there, although four of his colleagues at Reily did move to NASA within weeks of Oswald's departure. At all events Oswald departed, telling Alba, "I have found my pot of gold at the end of the rainbow." It is hard to know what to make of Oswald's stint at the coffee company, although researchers have not failed to discover the ubiquitous New Orleans factor — the Cuban connection. Oswald's boss, William Reily, was a wealthy American backer of the Crusade to Free Cuba Committee, a group formed to raise cash and support for the CIA-backed Cuban government-in-exile, the Cuban Revolutionary Council. Perhaps that was another coincidence." [9]

The House Select Committee on Assassinations was created in 1976 to investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Although a great seal of valuable information was obfuscated by this committee, the inner machinations behind Oswald and his Reily Coffee Company associates slowly start to become clearer as you scratch beneath the surface. The committee stated that, "The committee learned that Banister left extensive files when he died in 1964.(238) Later that year, they were purchased by the Louisiana State Police from Banister's widow.(239) According to Joseph Cambre of the State police, Oswald's name was not the subject of any file, but it was included in a file for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.(240) Cambre said the FPCC file contained newspaper clippings and a transcript, of a radio program on which Oswald had appeared. (241)The committee was not able to review Banister's files, since they had been destroyed pursuant to an order of the superintendent of Louisiana State Police that all files not part of the public record or pertinent to ongoing criminal investigations be burned. (242)

Additional evidence that Oswald may have been associated or acquainted with Ferrie and Banister was provided by the testimony of Adrian Alba, proprietor of the Crescent City Garage which was next door to the Reily Coffee Co. where Oswald had worked for a couple of months in 1963. (The garage and the coffee company were both located less than a block from 544 Camp Street.) Although Alba's testimony on some points was questionable, he undoubtedly did know Oswald who frequently visited his garage, and the committee found no reason to question his statement that he had often seen Oswald in Mancuso's Restaurant on the first floor of 544 Camp. (243) Ferrie and Banister also were frequent customers at Mancuso's. (244) [10]”

In Joan Mellen’s 'A FAREWELL TO JUSTICE: Jim Garrison, JFK’s Assassination, and the Case that Should Have Changed History,' Mellen explains that I.E. Nitschke, a former fellow FBI agent who was close to Banister reported that at one point Banister was bidding on the security contract for NASA’s Michoud assembly facility where many of Lee Harvey Oswald’s co-workers went on to work. This is also the rumored location Lee Oswald was trying to get hired. Mellen states, “A Banister client reported that "he had heard Banister remark on several occasions that someone should do away with Kennedy." I. E. Nitschke, a former FBI agent close to Banister, reported that Banister was bidding on the security contract for NASA's Michoud's assembly facility where so many employees of Reily Coffee went to work after the assassination, and where Oswald said he hoped to land a job. Nitschke remembered a "short, stocky" Cuban "with obviously large arms and neck," whom Banister had confided was "exceptionally adept in guerrilla warfare and guerrilla type tactics." Was his name Manuel Gonzalez? Garrison said.

Gonzalez, yes, Nitschke said. He was in fact looking at a photograph of longtime CIA operative David Sanchez Morales. Exasperated, Garrison dubbed the group of Cubans he was seeking "Winkin', Blinkin' and "Nod" after the nursery rhyme. Nitschke did urge Delphine Roberts to turn everything she had over to the district attorney's office. Roberts refused. She volunteered only that Banister "belonged to a worldwide intelligence network to receive information from all areas." Mary Banister concealed that she had sold some of her husband's files to Kent Courtney." [11]

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Thread #2: The Torbitt Document

"William Torbitt" is widely recognized as the pseudonymous author of a strange, sensational document titled, 'Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal,' commonly known as the Torbitt Document. The document proposes an elaborate conspiracy theory about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, implicating a range of entities including Nazi scientists from Operation Paperclip, NASA, the FBI's Defense Industrial Security Command (DISC), and figures like Clay Shaw and Lee Harvey Oswald, all allegedly orchestrated by a Swiss corporation called Permindex. The text claims to expose a shadowy network involving organized crime, government agencies, and international players.

According to the Torbitt Document, the origin of the Defense Industrial Security Command (DISC) traces its roots to J. Edgar Hoover’s creation of a police force for the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s under David Lilienthal’s direction. This force expanded to cover the Atomic Energy Commission, linking it to army intelligence, and later became tied to a broader conspiracy involving the Kennedy assassination. The Torbitt Document also explains that a Swiss corporation called Permindex orchestrated five groups to execute the assassination, including:

1. The Solidarists (led by Ferenc Nagy and John DeMenil),

2. A segment of the American Council of Christian Churches (led by H.L. Hunt),

3. The Free Cuba Committee (led by Carlos Prio Socarras),

4. A gambling syndicate tied to the Mafia’s Joe Bonanno, and

5. NASA’s Security Division (led by Werner von Braun), with DISC headquartered in Alabama and Ohio.

Permindex, in other words, was the "Murder Incorporated" referred to by subsequent American Presidents. [12]

Author and researcher Joseph Farrell elaborates, "Each of the Nazi connections alluded to in the Torbitt document indicate influential Nazi presence not only in America's space program, but moreover, strongly hint of Nazi influence in the awarding of contracts for the space program, Nazi influence in control of the security of the space program, Nazi influence in the intelligence organs of America and the West, Nazi influence in the defense and aerospace industries, and Nazi influence lurking in the background of Permindex, "Murder Incorporated." Indeed, Von Braun himself may be viewed as the best exemplar of the type of smiling, glad-handing "networking" that make such influence possible, for shortly after arriving in the United States, he made a point of befriending none other than J. Edgar Hoover, and the then Senator Lyndon Johnson. And who was one of the individuals who helped expedite Von Braun's and Dornberger's repatriation to the United States? None other than Clay Shaw, the man Garrison would ultimately indict for conspiracy to murder President Kennedy. The transfer of the Nazi Project Paperclip scientists was also aided by none other than General Gehlen. All we know about the pseudonymous William Torbitt was that he was a prominent attorney in South Texas politics in the 1960s and 1970s. This makes the Torbitt Document's revelations all the more sensational. While some might be inclined to dismiss its many claims out of hand, a picture does emerge of quietly exercised Nazi influence behind the scenes, an influence working in conjunction with other interests - big oil, technology suppression, Mafia, gambling and money laundering, aerospace and defense - and working effectively at that.

Moreover, the Torbitt Document suggests, albeit only slightly and only on very careful reading, that there is some hidden aspect to America's space program, a hidden aspect represented by the mysterious Defense Industrial Security Command and its head, Werner Von Braun. It suggests that this was one of the many motivations represented by the various groups that whose interests coalesced in the murder of the President." [13]

The involvement of the Gehlen Organization, led by former Nazi intelligence officer Reinhard Gehlen, with the CIA carries significant implications for the post-World War II global landscape. After the war, Gehlen and his network of ex-Nazi intelligence operatives were recruited by the United States to counter Soviet influence during the Cold War, forming the backbone of what became West Germany’s intelligence service, the BND. This partnership meant that individuals with deep ties to the Nazi regime were not only pardoned but empowered, potentially embedding authoritarian and anti-democratic tendencies within Western intelligence structures. The Torbitt Document suggests that Gehlen’s influence extended beyond intelligence gathering into orchestrating international coups and covert operations, including the transfer of Nazi scientists like Wernher von Braun to the U.S. under Project Paperclip, raising questions about the moral compromises made in the name of national security.

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Thread #3: Operation 40, Otto Skorzeny, and Allen Dulles

One of the most disturbing declassified documents that exists on the CIAs official website is a document that summarizes a news report out of Peru. The document states, "Otto Skorzeny, the former SS colonel who rescued Mussolini, planned to kidnap Fidel Castro and take him to an undisclosed place, according to a feature article in the Sunday supplement of La Cronica published in Lima, Peru, on 7 August 1966. The article says that the plan, known as "Project Tropical," having the approval of Allen Dulles, head of CIA, was to have been carried out in 1961 but was vetoed by President John F. Kennedy." [14]

If we are to believe this report, the implications are stunning and bizarre. For those unfamiliar, Otto Skorzeny was Hitler’s top commando in Nazi Germany during World War II. He was charged with war crimes for using the uniforms of his adversaries. After the War, Skorzeny bragged in interviews that he was contacted by a variety of countries (including the United States) to carry out covert military and intelligence operations. If Allen Dulles really was contacting Skorzeny’s teams to carry out these types of covert operations post-WWII, it is likely that President Kennedy was alarmed by this and more suspicious of Dulles than he publicly acknowledged.

We now know and understand that Allen Dulles was the OSS (CIA’s predecessor) Station Chief in Bern, Switzerland from 1942 to 1945. He eventually became Director of the CIA, serving that role from 1953 to 1961. Dulles played a significant role in Operation Paperclip and facilitating the MK-Ultra experiments. The association with Gehlen was not particularly surprising and quite complex. As E. Howard Hunt explains in American Spy, "It was all extremely complicated, as over the course of the war, OSS and the Russian secret police, the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), had worked closely in Eastern Europe against the Nazis. The alliance soured, however, near the end of the war. For one thing, Donovan's second in command, Princeton alum Allen W. Dulles, was associated with the powerful Wall Street law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, which represented numerous German businesses that supported the Third Reich. Dulles personally handled many of these clients. Second, Stalin was outraged that OSS had made a decision to support and fund a former Nazi general, Reinhard Gehlen, helping him set up ratlines to assist thousands of high-ranking Nazis under the general's control to exit Germany after the war. In return, OSS gained control of the general's voluminous knowledge and secret files on Soviet agents. Gehlen would go on to become West Germany's spymaster during the Cold War." [15]

Hunt had his history correct. After his time as the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) Station Chief in Mexico City from 1950 to 1952, where he oversaw operations including the groundwork for the Guatemala coup, Hunt was reassigned to Japan. Another thing worth mentioning when you read the next excerpt, consider that Hunt was stationed in Japan until sometime in the mid 1950s.

In a January 1984 'The Rebel' Magazine Article by Mae Brussell titled, 'The Nazi Connection to the John F. Kennedy Assassination,' Brussell explains how this elaborate spy network came to be, stating, "In A Study of a Master Spy, published in London in 1961, Bob Edwards, a member of Parliament and Kenneth Dunne, presented documentary evidence that Allen Dulles of the CIA carried on secret conferences with representatives of Hitler's SS Security Office in February and March 1943. They learned that "Official Washington knew Martin Bormann, Deputy Fuhrer of Hitler's Germany, master minded the international 'Die Spinne' (Spider) underground organization which is planning to revive Nazism as soon as West Germany is adequately rearmed by the United States. Official Washington seems disinterested"

With John J. McCloy, Allen Dulles and J. Edgar Hoover in control of the Kennedy assassination investigation, these Nazi connections were buried." The article continues, explaining how Gehlen became so integrated with American Intelligence activities, "When Dulles spoke, Gehlen listened. The CIA chief was convinced, along with his brother, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, that the "captive nations" of the Soviet bloc would rise up if given sufficient encouragement. At his behest, Gehlen recruited and trained an exile mercenary force ready to rush in without involving American units. Also at Dulles' direction, Gehlen tapped the ranks of his wartime Russian collaborators for a cadre of spies to be parachuted into the Soviet Union. Some of these spies were schooled at the CIA's clandestine base at Atsugi, Japan, where, in 1957, a young Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald was posted to the U-2 spy plane operation there. Atsugi was only one station on Oswald's Far East intelligence route; he was also at the U-2 base at Subic Bay in the Philippines and, for a short while, at Ping-Tung, Taiwan, In 1959 he was transferred to Marine base at Santa Ana, California for instructions in radar surveillance. His training officer had graduated from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, which had close Agency ties. In May, 1960, when President Eisenhower was planning a summit meeting with Soviet Premier Khruschev, a U-2 was shot down over Russia and its pilot captured. The pilot, Francis Gary Powers, later blamed his demise on Lee Harvey Oswald. The U-2 affair effectively sabotaged Ike's summit meeting.

In 1955, by pre-arrangement, the Gehlen Organization was transferred to the West German Government, becoming its first intelligence arm, the BND. The BND became a Siamese twin of the CIA a global operation. They had already worked well together, in Iran in 1953, where the country's first democratic government was in power. Two years earlier Premier Mossadegh had rashly nationalized the oil industry. Dulles, with Gehlen's help, engineered a coup that toppled Mossadegh and reestablished the Pahlevi family regime. The family patriarch, General Reza Pahlevi, had been banished from the country for his pro-Nazi activities during the war. Now his son, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, ascended the Peacock Throne. The Shah of Iran became one of the CIA's most faithful assets. Gehlen pioneered the setting up of dummy fronts and cover companies to support his farflung covert operations. A major project was to form Eastern European emigre groups in the United States that could be used against the Soviets. Both the Tolstoy Foundation and the Union of Bishops of the Orthodox Church Outside Russia were funded by the CIA. When Lee and Marina Oswald arrived from the Soviet Union in June, 1962 they were befriended by some three dozen White Russians in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. Many had identifiable Nazi links; others were in the oil and defense industries. It was an improbable social set for a defector to the U.S.S.R. and his wife from Minsk.

By the time the Gehlen Organization became part of the West German state, Gehlen already had his agent-in-place in the United States. He was Otto Albrecht von Bolschwing, who had been a captain in Heinrich Himmler's dreaded SS and Adolph Eichmann's superior in Europe and Palestine. Von Bolschwing worked simultaneously for Dulles' OSS. When he entered the United States in February, 1954, he cleverly concealed his Nazi past. He was to take over Gehlen's network not only in this country but in many corners of the globe. He became closely associated with the late Elmer Bobst of Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical, a godfather of Richard Nixon's political career, which brought him inside Nixon's 1960 campaign for the presidency. In 1969 he showed up in California with a high-tech firm called TCI that held classified Defense Department contracts. His translator for German projects was Helene van Damme, Governor Ronald Reagan's appointments secretary. Von Damme is currently U.S. Ambassador to Austria, next door to the Nazi's homeland.

In 1968 Reinhard Gehlen withdrew to his chalet in Bavaria. The chalet had been a gift from Allen Dulles." [16]

In the Mae Brussell article, many important points are made. Among the most jarring is the connection between Operation 40 and Otto Skorzeny (Operation 40 was the code name for a CIA-sponsored counterintelligence group composed of Cuban exiles. The group was organized during the planning phases of the ill-fated invasion of Cuba at the BAY OF PIGS in 1961 and continued to operate unofficially for nearly a decade after the invasion. The group was disbanded in 1970 after allegations surfaced that a cargo plane flying in support of Operation 40 that had crashed in California had been transporting a large cache of cocaine and heroin). [17] The Brussell article states: "In 1952 Otto Skorzeny, who had been released from American custody in 1947, moved to Madrid. He created what is known as the International Fascista. The CIA and the Gehlen BND dispatched him to "trouble spots." On his payroll were former SS agents, French OAS terrorists and secret police from Portugal's PDID. PDID are the same initials as the Los Angeles police intelligence unit, Public Disorder Intelligence Division. The California PDID was exposed on May 24, 1983 as spying on law abiding citizens at an expense of $100,000. Utilizing a computerized dossier system bought by the late Representative Larry McDonald's Western Goals. McDonald was a national leader of the John Birch Society, which was exceedingly active in Dallas preceding the Kennedy assassination.

Western Goals has offices in Germany run by Eugene Wigner that feed data to the Gehlen BND. On the board of Western Goals are such Cold Warriors as Edward Teller, Admiral Thomas Moorer and Dr. Hans Senholz, once a Luftwaffe pilot. SS Colonel Skorzeny's CIA agents participated in terror campaigns waged by Operation 40 in Guatemala, Brazil and Argentina. Skorzeny was also in charge of the Paladin mercenaries, whose cover, M.C. Inc., was a Madrid export-import firm. Dr. Gerhard Hartmut von Schubert, [formerly] of Joseph Goebbels' propaganda ministry, was M.C. operating manager. The nerve-center for Skorzeny's operations was in Albufera, Spain. It was lodged in the same building as the Spanish intelligence agency SCOE under Colonel Eduardo Blanco and was also an office of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The Albufera building was the kind of intelligence nest that was duplicated in New Orleans in 1963. That summer Lee Harvey Oswald handed out pro-Castro literature stamped with the address 544 Camp Street, a commercial building. This was a blunder, because Oswald actually was under the control of an anti-Castro operation headquartered there. His controller, W. Guy Banister, was connected with military intelligence, the CIA and a section of the World Anti-Communist League that had been set up by Willoughby and his Far Pacific intelligence unit in Taiwan. In The Great Heroin Coup, Henrik Kruger disclosed that the International Fascist was "not only the first step toward fulfilling the dream of Skorzeny, but also of his close friends in Madrid, exile Jose Lopez Rega, Juan Peron's grey eminence, and prince Justo Valerio Borghese, the Italian Fascist money man who had been rescued from execution at the hands of the World War II Italian resistance by future CIA counter-intelligence whiz James J. Angleton." A subcommittee on international operations of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee prepared a report "Latin America: Murder, Inc." that is still classified. The title repeats Lyndon Johnson's remark, three months before he died, "We were running a Murder, Inc. in the Caribbean." The report concluded: "The United States had joint operations between Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay." [18]

Not only does Operation 40 connect Skorzeny and the CIA, it connected almost everything. William Harvey, the head of the CIAs assassination unit (mentioned earlier), was connected to Reinhard Gehlen in their previous work together in "Operation Gold", where William Harvey led the CIA's Berlin tunnel project and provided intel on Soviet communications. As Eisenhower’s Vice President, Richard Nixon was in charge of Operation 40. After he was elected as President, Nixon inquired his intelligence agencies about releasing all documents related to the John F. Kennedy assassination. Soon after this request by Nixon, the same group of men shows up in Watergate (E. Howard Hunt, Frank Sturgis, etc).

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Thread #4: Garrison Directly Addresses the Gehlen Org Connection ; George de Mohrenschildt

After researchers got access to many of Jim Garrison’s personal notes, one 1967 letter in particular stood out. This letter is from Garrison to Lord Bertrand Russell and is dated August 27, 1967, directly mentioning Gehlen. The letter states, "Above the operative level, insulated and removed to the point of being very nearly invisible, appeared to have been individuals whose political orientation can only be described as Neo-Nazi. We regard the defendant, Clay Shaw, as being a member of this group. These individuals appear to have rather unusual international connections and it is not unlikely that they might have had earlier relations with the Gehlen Intelligence apparatus instituted in Germany."

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"Elements of the Gehlen apparatus appear to have been digested by our own CIA during the course of the Cold War apparently because of their possible value in fighting communism. Even as I have described this neo-Nazi aspect, I am sure that it sounds somewhat fanciful. Because of the unbelievability of this part of the picture, I have found it necessary to refrain from mentioning it. It is bad enough that the press describes the more obvious parts of the conspiracy as unbelievable without my supplying them with new fuel. Nevertheless, the essentially Fascist origin of the assassination is inescapable, more about which I will be happy to tell you when I have a little more time." [19] With this letter, we begin to get a grasp of the weight of the information Garrison was handling.

One substantial connection this strange Nazi network had to Oswald may have been through a man named George de Mohrenschildt. George had taken a keen interest in the Oswalds, which confused them. Marina Oswald, the daughter of a Russian GRU officer, later remarked that they were so poor it made no sense this wealthy, well-connected man was showing such great interest in her and her husband. Around the time George was set to testify before the 1976 House Select Committee on Assassinations (he was considered "a crucial witness due to “new evidence” suggesting a closer link to Oswald than previously known."), his body was found in Manalapan, Florida with self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. When his wife Jeanne consented to a press interview afterwards, she said George had been a Nazi spy. [20] One must also take into consideration that an entire section of that 1976 Committee’s report is titled, "Allegations of De Mohrenschildt Nazi Activity". Apparently J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI had tagged George de Mohrenschildt as a potential Nazi spy since the early 1940s. There is a September 1976 Letter to then-CIA Director George H.W. Bush from De Mohrenschildt claiming he was being followed and his phones were tapped. The letter states, “"Maybe you will be able to bring a solution to the hopeless situation I find myself in. My wife and I find ourselves surrounded by some vigilantes; our phone bugged; and we are being followed everywhere. Either FBI is involved in this or they do not want to accept my complaints. We are driven to insanity by the situation. I have been behaving like a damn fool ever since my daughter Nadya died from (cystic fibrosis) over three years ago. I tried to write, stupidly and unsuccessfully, about Lee H Oswald and must have angered a lot of people I do not know. But to punish an elderly man like myself and my highly nervous and sick wife is really too much. Could you do something to remove the net around us? This will be my last request for help and I will not annoy you any more.” [21]

Two months later George de Mohrenschildt was committed to a mental institution. According to his wife Jeanne, he was suffering from depression. He was taken to Parkland Hospital and underwent electroshock therapy. [22]

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Thread #5: Walter Dornberger, Bell Helicopter, and Michael Paine

When Lee Harvey Oswald was living in Texas, he and Marina had moved in with another young couple, Ruth and Michael Paine. In the address book belonging to Lee Harvey Oswald, one of the most disturbing connections possible is listed. George Lincoln Rockwell. President of the American Nazi Party. Name and address.

According to the Warren Commission Report, "On the evening of October 23, he (Oswald) had attended an "ultra-right" meeting headed by Gen. Edwin A. Walker.

Two evenings later, he accompanied Michael Paine to a meeting of the American Civil Liberties Union, held at Southern Methodist University. […] Later in the evening, Oswald became involved in a discussion with several people, including Frank Krystinik, who was employed with Paine at the Bell Helicopter plant." The Warren Report describes Michael Paine in a bizarre way: "Michael Paine is the son of George Lyman Paine and Ruth Forbes Paine, now Ruth Forbes Young, wife of Arthur Young of Philadelphia, PA. His parents were divorced when he was 4 years of age. His father, George Lyman Paine, is an architect and resides in California. Michael Paine testified that during his late grammar and early high school days his father participated actively in the Trotskyite faction of the communist movement in the United States and that he attended some of those meetings. He stated that his father, with whom he has had little contact throughout most of his life, has not influenced his political thinking. He said that he has visited his father four or five times in California since 1959, but their discussions did not include the subject of communism. Since moving to Irving, TX, in 1959, he has been a research engineer for Bell Helicopter Co. in Fort Worth. Mr. Paine has security clearance for his work. He has been a long-time member of the American Civil Liberties Union. Though not in sympathy with rightist political aims, he has attended a few meetings of far-right organizations in Dallas for the purpose, he testified, of learning something about those organizations and because he "was interested in seeing more communication between the right and the left." [23] At Bell Helicopter, Michael Paine worked under former Nazi General Walter Dornberger, who was brought into the USA under Project Paperclip. During World War II, Dornberger led Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket program at Peenemünde, overseeing development and operations. Ironically, at the time of the supposed 1947 "Roswell Crash" (Astronaut Edgar Mitchell has publicly acknowledged that Wernher von Braun told him he was called in to investigate the Roswell incident [24]), Dornberger would have been stationed at Wright Field (later Wright-Patterson AFB) where the Roswell wreckage — whatever it was — was eventually brought.

The few degrees of separation between Dornberger and Oswald begs many questions. The allied forces had enough evidence to put Dornberger away for the rest of his life after WWII. One of the scientists on his Peenemünde team, Dr. Wernher von Braun, insisted that the United States make an exception for Dornberger.

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Thread #6: Kerry Thornley

There’s an obscure fellow marine who was stationed in Atsugi, Japan at the same time as Oswald. He is mentioned multiple times in the Warren report, and was questioned by the commission to better understand Oswald’s motivation. His name was Kerry Wendell Thornley. New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison (as we’ve mentioned several times in this article) wanted to try Thornley with perjury for lying about meeting with Oswald. Here’s how Thornley’s old friend, Robert Anton Wilson, described him: "It started with a fellow I used to know named Kerry Thornley, who was one of the co-creators of the only religion I’ve ever been able to really enjoy, the 'Discordian' religion, which is based on worship of Eris, the goddess of chaos, confusion, discord, bureaucracy, and international relations — the five levels of chaos in the world. And, you know, the argument for the existence of Eris is very simple: if Eris doesn’t exist, who put all this chaos here? And nobody can answer. Anyway, Kerry got indicted by Jim Garrison as one of the Kennedy Assassination team. And Kerry thought at the time, and all of us who knew him thought, that Garrison was just off his head or an unscrupulous demagogue. And then, to our great astonishment, a couple years later, Kerry announced that he thought it was true! That while he was in the Marines, he thinks he remembers that he volunteered for an experiment, and he thinks they gave him drugs and brainwashed him and turned him into a zombie like 'The Manchurian Candidate.' So he was part of the Kennedy assassination, but he didn’t know it! He has some memories come back now." [25]

Thornley did a few long-forum interviews that attracted a small audience, but ultimately remained rather obscure all his life. I encourage investigators to read Thornley’s memoirs for themselves for a more complete picture. What’s pertinent to our investigation is what Thornley felt his connection to this greater cast of characters was. Back from the Marines, Thornley had moved into the French Quarter of New Orleans. Before JFK was killed, Thornley described his encounters with two acquaintances he had made, "Slim Brooks" and "Gary Kirstein" ('Kirstein' was often referred to as "Brother-in-Law"). Thornley explained that, after digging a bit deeper, he believed Slim Brooks was actually a man named Jerry Milton Brooks — head of the Anti-Communist league of the Caribbean and worked for Guy Banister, who was the coordinator for Anti-Castro activities in New Orleans. As for Kirstein / "Brother-in-Law", here’s how Thornley put it: "I have since become very much convinced that Gary Kirstein was somebody else. He left two or three trails of evidence as to who he might be if he weren’t Gary Kirstein. One trail leads to a nuclear physicist that used to teach at Georgia State, who originally was a scientist for Hitler named 'Tom Miethe'. Another trail of evidence leads to a guy working in Canada for the Permindex corporation named Mortimer Bloomfield." [26] Even considering these possibilities, Kerry ultimately believed that Gary Kirstein is actually E. Howard Hunt. [27]

As we’ve mentioned before, Hunt *was* stationed in Japan in the 1950s. Much of his background aligns closely to the way "Brother-in-Law" describes. To take it a step further, we should ask if E. Howard Hunt was potentially involved in a covert program involving a few active duty Marines as guinea pigs?

Thornley says in his memoir that Brother-in-Law told him he was working on a book called, 'Hitler Was a Good Guy.' Thornley states, "One of the first chats with Brother-in-law at his house centered around his projected book, Hitler Was A Good Guy, a name I loved for its shock value, but which Gary took pains to remind me was "only a working title."

"The secret to Hitler's power was that he had no power," he explained. "He was instead surrounded by powerful men — men with branches of the military, labor unions, police bureaus, organized criminal gangs at their commands. But he himself had no such direct base of power. He was a great orator who had written a book, but he possessed no direct access to a single organization. The Nazi Party was an alliance of the organizations under the men around him.

Hitler was their compromise candidate because they could trust him when they could not trust one another, and they trusted him only because he had no power of his own. And that's why he was powerful. Many of the others held views much more extreme than his, but they didn't trust one another directly so they couldn't do anything about them."

A nonchalantly pedantic attitude dominated his mercurial personality as he spoke.

"I'm going to write a fictionalized chapter -- a projection of what would have happened -- if Martin Bormann had pulled a coup and taken over in Hitler's place, another chapter about what would have happened with Himmler in Hitler's shoes, and another one about Rosenberg. Now he was a beauty -- he used to have anyone with the name Rosenberg' executed as soon as his troops took over a town. He was also the one who formulated the precepts of the Nazi religion, which has certain features to recommend it, incidentally."

I sat there not knowing how to react. I just didn't know how to take this guy." [28]

Whoever "Brother-in-Law" is, it would be quite the scandal if he actually turned out to be E. Howard Hunt. According to Hunt’s former Attorney Douglas Caddy, he has publicly stated that Hunt told him directly John F. Kennedy was killed because he was going to give our greatest secret to the Russians. "The Alien Secret." [29]

Strangely, Hunt didn’t seem to think these revelations to Caddy were worth sharing with his son, St. John during his 'death bed confession' we discussed earlier. More likely, however, is the possibility that Hunt was performing counterintelligence for this assassination network. Keep in mind that as Vice President to Eisenhower, Richard Nixon was in charge of Operation 40 (mentioned earlier). This same cast of characters, including E. Howard Hunt, would inevitably show back up during Nixon’s presidency. Most people are familiar with E. Howard Hunt as being one of the key figures in the Watergate scandal. Readers should note that the Watergate burglaries began soon after Nixon said he wanted to declassify all of the Kennedy assassination documents. Maybe Nixon was sticking his nose where he shouldn’t have been…

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President Dwight Eisenhower, in his time as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe in World War II, quickly realized that the revisionists and fanatics of Nazi Germany would one day try to lie about the true history of that war. Following the discovery of the horrific Nazi concentration camp in Ohrdruf, Eisenhower stated simply but profoundly: "We are told the American soldier does not know what he is fighting for. Now, at least, we know what he is fighting against." [30]

If you haven’t noticed, there’s a growing number of emboldened provocateurs filling the vacuum of news with nonsense regarding President Kennedy’s murder. I hope you consider these facts when doing your own research. I echo Eisenhower’s sentiments above, and encourage EVERYONE to call their Representatives in Congress and demand transparency on ALL of these topics. Check out my podcast I do with my friend Klaus. Patterns Tell Stories. Peace.

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References:

[1] Atlantic Monthly Link: https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/archives/1973/07/232-1/132637321.pdf

[2] Rolling Stone Link: https://ia800203.us.archive.org/7/items/pdfy-_1wbhT0CNdH4FFc6/The%20Last%20Confessions%20Of%20E.%20Howard%20Hunt.pdf

[3] 'AMERICAN SPY', by E. Howard Hunt

[4] Jesse Ventura Piers Morgan:

[5] 'They Killed Our President', by Jesse Ventura

[6] Peter Levenda Amsterdam Speech:

[7] 'Let Justice Be Done: New Light on the Jim Garrison Investigation', by William Davy

[8] 'On the Trail of the Assassins', by Jim Garrison

[9] 'Conspiracy', by Anthony Summers

[10] Archived Committee Report: https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-1c.html#crime

[11] 'A FAREWELL TO JUSTICE: Jim Garrison, JFK’s Assassination, and the Case that Should Have Changed History,' by Joan Mellen

[12] 'Brotherhood of the Bell', by Joseph Farrell

[13] Ibid.

[14] CIA Skorzeny Document Link: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP70-00058R000300010046-7.pdf

[15] 'AMERICAN SPY', by E. Howard Hunt

[16] Mae Brussell Article: https://ia601208.us.archive.org/16/items/TheRebelNaziConnectionsToJFKMurder/The-Rebel-Nazi-Connections-To-JFK-Murder.pdf

[17] 'ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY,' by W. Thomas Smith, Jr.

[18] Mae Brussell Article from Number 16.

[19] New Orleans Archivist Presentation: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=202259#relPageId=133&search=gehlen

[20] Mae Brussell Article: https://ia601208.us.archive.org/16/items/TheRebelNaziConnectionsToJFKMurder/The-Rebel-Nazi-Connections-To-JFK-Murder.pdf

[21] George HW Bush Letter: https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKdemohrenschildt.htm

[22] Ibid.

[23] 'THE WARREN COMMISSION REPORT; Report of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy'

[24] *From Dr. Mitchell’s Coast to Coast interview on 09/12/2007

[25] Robert Anton Wilson Interview:

[26] Kerry Thornley Interview:

[27] Kerry Thornley Memoir: http://www.sondralondon.com/tales/confess/14.htm

[28] Ibid

[29] Douglas Caddy Interview: https://www.darkjournalist.com/s-caddy.php

[30] Eisenhower Quote: https://www.newsbreak.com/war-history-online-1745274/3533145546281-dwight-d-eisenhower-s-took-critical-actions-at-the-end-of-world-war-ii-to-ensure-justice-after-the-holocaust