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Military EODs, Inmate Point to Federal Prior Knowledge
Attorney Jesse Trentadue filed an important new legal motion on September 26,
2006 with the Salt Lake City US Federal Court of Judge Dale Kimbal. Trentadue's new filing seeks more evidence showing the
prior knowledge and provocation of the 1995 OKC Bombing by Federal law enforcement officials using men described in recorded
conversations of McVeigh with a Federal inmate. Prior knowledge is further suggested in Trentadue's filing based on eyewitness
accounts of the presence of military explosive ordinance disposal personnel (EODs) and equipment in OK not normally stationed
in OK but brought in shortly before the OKC bombing.
In 2005 and 2006 Judge Kimbal ordered the FBI to release FBI reports, memos
and teletypes to Trentadue pursuant to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests Trentadue had previously filed These now
released documents clearly show FBI complicity in the OKC bombing. Trentadue has already won a multimillion dollar judgment
against the USG for the beating death murder of Trentadue's brother who was mistaken for an OKC bombing suspect while his
brother was in Federal custody in OKC.
In his new filing, Trentadue is now acting on behalf of Federal inmate Paul
Hammer who was kept next to McVeigh in the Federal prison in Terra Haute, Indiana. The FBI and Bureau of Prisons (BOP) recorded
both men discussing who else helped McVeigh do the OKC bombing. Those that McVeigh described as helping him likely include
FBI informants and provocateurs revealed in the FBI documents already obtained by Trentadue. Trentadue is asking Judge Kimbal
to force the FBI and BOP to comply with FOIA requests for the FBI and BOP recordings. The new filing asserts that the FBI
and BOP have been in violation of FOIA laws by stonewalling and ignoring Trentadue's latest FOIA requests in this area.
Trentadue's new filing also requests the Salt Lake City Federal court to compel
the turn over of FBI documents relevant to Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that FBI documents already
recovered by Trentadue show the SPLC, Dees and the FBI used OKC bombing informants and provocateurs at the OK white supremacist
compound Elohim City including Dennis Mahon, Army private Sean Kenny and the German national Andreas Strassmeyer. Newly released
FBI documents show that McVeigh met with Strassmeyer, Mahon, Kenny and others at a trailer at Elohim City in 1994. At the
time Mahon was also receiving a stipend of $200 per month from Iraq. BATF documents show the FBI directly intervened to call
off a BATF raid against Elohim City scheduled for March 1995 to protect the FBI informants and provocateurs at Elohim City.
Trentadue is also requesting that the Salt Lake City Federal court compel the
OKC FBI office to turn over documents pertaining to the assignment to the FBI OKC Bomb Task Force (led by FBI agent Danny
Defenbaugh) of OK State Highway Patrol, OKC Police and OK State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) personnel prior to and well
after the OKC bombing from at least April 1, 1995 to January 1996. The OKC bombing occurred on April 19, 1995.
OK State Highway Patrol Trooper Charles Hanger pulled McVeigh over on I-35 less
than two hours after the OKC bombing. Vital information obtained by Hanger was withheld from the OK County grand jury and
the McVeigh and Nichols Federal trials including what Hanger confiscated from McVeigh such as Iraq intelligence phone numbers
and including the video of the arrest taken by Hanger's patrol cruiser camcorder. There is suspicion of prior warning and
instruction to either Hanger or the OKC Highway Patrol or both by Federal authorities before the OKC bombing.
OKC PD Detective Captain Mercer (CRIMINAL INTELLIGERNCE UNIT OF OKC PD) was
assigned to work closely with OKC FBI agent James Carlisle during FBI interviews of OKC bombing case witnesses through at
least January 8, 1996.
OKC Police officer Richard Hames collected material evidence at the bomb scene
(starting immediately after the bombing) for the OKC PD and with and for the FBI. Hames passed away in 1997 of a biological
pathogen infecting his lungs.
OSBI agents accompanied the FBI during interviews with OKC bombing witnesses
in 1995 including with 4 Travelers Aid employees in OKC. The Travelers Aid employees talked with Black Muslim Melvin Lattimore
(Menepta) who was with McVeigh's Mercury Marquise and two other FBI informants, Sean Kenny and James Rosencrans, at the Travelers
Aid, a block west of the bombed Murrah Federal building, on the day before the OKC bombing.
But one of the most significant of Trentadue's new filing requests is the one
calling for the Federal court to force the turning over of FOIA requested FBI reports, memos, teletypes showing the presence
of out of state military explosive ordinance personnel, EODs, dispatched to OKC before, during and after the OKC bombing.
The new filing requests the Federal court to force the turning over of FOIA
requested FBI reports, memos, teletypes showing the presence of military EODs in OKC before and at the time of the OKC bombing.
A person connected with US nuclear NEST teams in the US has come forward and
asserted that at least one NEST member had been sent to OKC the day before the OKC bombing NEST members are trained to defuse
and/or remove nuclear and other conventional explosive devices like military EODs.
OKC bombing victim family member survivor Gloria Chipman was told by the FBI
that her injured husband, Bob Chipman, had been "decontaminated" at Tinker Air Force Base after he was struck in the upper
body and head by the Ryder truck bomb drive shaft. Bob Chipman later died of his injuries. Gloria Chipman saw her husband
before he died when he was later transferred to an OKC hospital.
Chipman says her husband's body had abnormal colorations and swellings not
consistent even with trauma and bruising even before he passed away. It is not yet known whether or not nuclear material or
toxic chemicals were found that would explain her husband being decontaminated, or if it was just a precaution.
OKC bombing on scene eyewitness Leah Moore told OKC bombing victim family member
Glen Wilburn (tape recording of conversation is available) of seeing a white van believed to be an EOD vehicle parked very
near the Murrah building just before the truck bomb exploded. Other eyewitnesses report seeing the same distinctive white
van. The white van was shown on TV. And videos and photos are available of the van. Its configuration and markings and exterior
equipment are consistent with a military EOD van that would have had to be driven or flown into OKC possibly via Tinker Air
Force Base. Tinker AFB was raised to a level Threat Con C alert starting the week before the OKC bombing.
FOIA requests have been made to identify the presence of the EOD van in OKC
and its being flown to Tinker by KTOK news director Jerry Bohnen, Lt Colonel Roger Charles (formerly with Joint Chiefs staff),
and Arizona investigator and journalist Don Devereaux. These men have asserted that there was a military EOD van brought into
OKC before the OKC bombing. These men have been aided in their quest by information described by Colonel John Ruth, an officer
serving at Tinker at the time of the bombing who met with OKC bombing victim survivors and OKC PD officer Don Browning for
several years after the bombing.
Trentadue's new filing requests concerning the presence and use of military
EOD's and OK local and state law enforcement starting on April 1, 1995 strongly underscore the known public evidence and eyewitness
accounts already available to show there was prior knowledge by Federal and OK state law enforcement personnel of the OKC
bombing. Of course the FBI would had known before hand because already released FBI documents show the FBI used provocateurs
and informants to instigate but not stop the OKC bombing.
But there was no adequate forewarning given to the 169 private citizens and
Federal employees killed when they went to the Murrah Federal building. There were no "fail safes" incorporated to stop the
FBI's bombing sting operation before it went too far.
There has been massive cover-up, perjury and stonewalling by DOJ and FBI officials
and US Senators and Congressmen for over 11 years to protect themselves from criminal and civil liability damages still being
actively sought by the OKC bombing victims and surviving family members. The entire OKC Federal law enforcement family including
FBI agents, US Marshals and Federal judges were warned in advance of a possible attack on the Federal building in OKC in April
1995 while those killed were used as bait for a failed but FBI provoked sting operation.
Patrick Briley is a Navy Viet Nam era veteran who served on a Polaris ballistic
missile nuclear submarine patrol in the Pacific. His Polaris submarine patrol in far East Asia near China was historically
significant and exceptionally dangerous.
His Naval service was from 1968 to 1976 during the Viet Nam era. He was
a battalion commander of his Naval ROTC unit and a Midshipman on board the ballistic missile submarine, SSBN 624, the Woodrow
Wilson. He was chosen to serve under Admiral Rickover as a project engineer at Naval Reactors near Washington DC. Patrick
Briley started research and investigation into terrorist attacks after the Oklahoma City bombing. Patrick submitted his findings
concerning the OKC bombing and the 9-11 attacks in briefings to high-level staff for the Senate Judiciary and Senate and House
Intelligence committees, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, and the 9-11 Commission.
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Old Conspiracies, New Beliefs
January 13, 2004 -- Some people believe in the lost continent of Atlantis and in unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Others worry about
an 18th-century secret society called the Bavarian Illuminati or a mythical Zionist-Occupied Government secretly running the
United States.
What if these disparate elements shared beliefs, joined forces, won a
much larger audience, broke out of their intellectual and political ghetto, and became capable of challenging the premises
of public life in the United States? This is the frightening prospect, soberly presented by Michael Barkun in his important,
just-published book, "A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America" (University of California Press,
$24.95).
To understand
the novelty of this potential requires knowing something about the history of conspiracy theories.
Fears of a petty conspiracy -- a political rival or business
competitor plotting to do you harm -- are as old as the human psyche. But fears of a grand conspiracy -- that the Illuminati
or Jews plan to take over the world -- go back only 900 years and have been operational for just two centuries, since the
French Revolution. Conspiracy theories grew in importance from then until World War II, when two arch-conspiracy theorists,
Hitler and Stalin, faced off against each other, causing the greatest bloodletting in human history.
This hideous spectacle sobered Americans, who in subsequent decades relegated
conspiracy theories to the fringe, where mainly two groups promoted such ideas.
The politically
disaffected: blacks (Louis Farrakhan, Cynthia McKinney), the hard right (John Birch Society, Pat Buchanan), and other alienated
elements (Ross Perot, Lyndon LaRouche).Their theories imply a political agenda but lack much of a following.
The culturally suspicious: these include "Kennedy assassinologists,"
"ufologists," and those who believe a reptilian race runs the earth and alien installations exist under the earth's surface.
Such themes enjoy enormous popularity (a year 2000 poll found 43% of Americans believing in UFOs) but carry no political agenda.
The major new development, reports Mr. Barkun, a professor of political
science in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, is not just an erosion in the divisions between these two groups, but
their joining forces with occultists, persons bored by rationalism.
Occultists are drawn to what Mr. Barkun calls the "cultural dumping ground
of the heretical, the scandalous, the unfashionable, and the dangerous" such as spiritualism, Theosophy, alternative medicine,
alchemy, and astrology.
Thus, the author who worries about the Secret Service taking orders from
the Illuminati is old school; the one who worries about a "joint Reptilian-Bavarian Illuminati" takeover is at the cutting
edge of the new synthesis. These bizarre notions constitute what the late Michael Kelly termed "fusion paranoia," a promiscuous
absorption of fears from any source whatsoever.
The connection of conspiracy theorists and occultists follows from their
common, crooked premises. First, "any widely accepted belief must necessarily be false." Second, rejected knowledge what the
establishment spurns must be true.
The result is a large, self-referential network. Flying saucer advocates
promote anti-Jewish phobias. Anti-Semites channel in Peru. Some anti-Semites see extraterrestrials functioning as surrogate
Jews; others believe the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" are the joint product of "the Rothschilds and the reptile-Aryans."
By the late 1980s, Mr. Barkun found that "virtually all of the radical right's ideas about the New World Order had found their
way into UFO literature."
Ufology's wide appeal transmits these political ideas to a large new
audience of ideological omnivores, informing them that September 11 was either an Illuminati operation or the Assassins (a
medieval Muslim group) attacking Freemasons.
What does this craziness all amount to? Mr. Barkun, who reads widely
in this backstairs literature, argues that in recent years "ideas once limited to fringe audiences became commonplace in mass
media" and this has inaugurated a period of "unrivaled" millenarian activity in the United States. He worries of the "devastating
effects" this frenzy could wreak on American political life and by extension, around the world.
I am more optimistic, trusting the stability of a mature democracy and
noting that Americans have survived previous conspiracist bouts without much damage. But nonsensical, ugly, and pernicious
ideas do not fail of their own accord ; they need to be fought against and rendered marginal. The task starts with recognizing
that they exist, then arguing against them.
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Alex Ansary, host of Outside the Box, is joined by Clyde Lewis of Ground
Zero Radio in a discussion of state-sponsored terrorism
with Ted Gunderson, Special Agent in Charge, whose investigations into the first
World Trade Center attack and the Oklahoma City bombing have led him to conclude that one group is secretly orchestrating
these events.
The Great Conspiracy
The 9-11 News Special You Never Saw
Civil Rights at Issue
Freedom and Security November 12, 2003 -- The sacrifice of civil liberties for
the appearance of greater security is a mistake that will leave future generations with little hope for freedom. (Al Gore, MoveOn.org)
Prosecutors Win Big in Terrorism Ruling November 10, 2003 -- Last
week's federal appeals court decision allowing the government to detain material witnesses pursuant to grand jury investigations
was a significant victory for an administration searching for every edge it can get in prosecuting the war on terror. The
2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday also reinstated the perjury indictment of a college student who allegedly lied
to a grand jury probing the 9/11 terror attacks when he denied knowing one of the hijackers. (New York Law Journal)
Protest Law Gets Tough
Appellate Hearing November 10, 2003 -- With her fight to get women into the Augusta National Golf Club apparently stalled,
Martha Burk came to Atlanta last week with a different mission: Convince the 11th Circuit that a public demonstration ordinance
violates free speech rights. Burk claims the law gives too much discretion to the sheriff, who moved protesters during the
Masters Tournament. The panel sounded more sympathetic to Burk's legal argument than many Augusta National members have been
to her women's rights claim. (Fulton County Daily Report)
First Amendment Raised in Battle for 'Queer' Group Title
November 11, 2003 -- Manhattan paralegal Christopher Barton Benecke describes himself as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender, which to
his way of thinking all adds up to "queer." But the state of New York will not allow him to incorporate his not-for-profit
advocacy group under the name "Queer Awareness," on the grounds that the name is indecent and degrading. The stalemate may
be headed to state Supreme Court, where Benecke plans to advance a First Amendment legal argument. (New York
Law Journal)
Big Brother Set to Guard a TV Near You September 10, 2003 MANCHESTER,
England -- Big Brother technology that already allows people to
be tracked through their mobile phones could soon be installed in household objects, tipping off police if they are stolen.
(Reuters)
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-- 24 November 2003, by Dr. George Friedman: Summary
With the passing of the 40th anniversary of the JFK assassination,
Stratfor pauses to consider one of the less-examined aspects of the case: Marina Oswald. Her connections to the Soviet intelligence
apparatus and odd marriage to Lee Harvey Oswald are seldom factored into any theories surrounding the assassination. However,
the facts of the case make it clear that the Soviet government wanted Marina Prusakova and Oswald together in the United States.
Analysis
The 40th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination has prompted the
usual round of articles and TV programs examining the assassination and theories of what actually happened. The speculation
is endless -- not because people are searching for meaning in a meaningless world, as one TV program suggested. Rather, the
speculation is endless because the official explanation offered by the Warren Commission is difficult to believe. That may
have been the way it happened, but it is not a genuinely satisfactory explanation.
We don't have problems with the
idea that Lee Harvey Oswald was a shooter, but we do have problems with the idea that he was the lone gunman. There are four
crucial points that, for us at least, make it extremely unlikely that Oswald was operating alone:
1. Oswald had a beautiful,
unobstructed shot from the Texas Schoolbook Depository building in Dallas as the presidential motorcade approached. He passed
on a perfect shot, choosing instead to allow the motorcade to turn left and proceed below his window, and then took a much
more difficult shot with his view partially obscured by a tree. Why would he have done that if he were acting alone?
2.
The idea that he took three shots with his bolt-action Italian rifle in the elapsed time (a few seconds) -- taking out Kennedy
with the head shot -- is just outside the box of credibility. No matter how we strain, we can't get there.
3. The trajectory
of the bullet that was supposed to have hit the president and Texas Gov. John Connolly similarly strains credibility.
4.
The idea that Jack Ruby, a strip club owner and connected guy, went to the Dallas police station on an impulse and was so
overwhelmed by uncontrollable rage at the death of his president that he shot Lee Harvey Oswald strains our credulity beyond
its limits. Ruby was a lot of things, but sentimental was not one of them. Ruby looked out for Ruby. Whatever brought him
to the station and to kill Oswald was not uncontrolled emotion.
There are lots of other things, but for us, these four issues
-- taken together -- make it very difficult to buy the Warren report. We can probably explain away any one of these aspects,
but the four things taken together with other anomalous facts create a critical mass of doubt. The only strength of the Warren
Commission report is the weakness of the alternative explanations:
1. Kennedy was killed by the American Mafia because Bobby Kennedy
came after them, despite the fact that Joseph Kennedy had cut a deal with Sam Giancana over the West Virginia primary and
the graveyard vote in Illinois. This is a reasonable explanation, except for the fact that it leaves no explanation for Oswald's
role in the president's killing.
2. Kennedy was killed by Cuban Intelligence because the Kennedys tried to kill Fidel
Castro. This is an interesting theory, except that it doesn't explain where Jack Ruby fits in.
3. Kennedy was killed
by the CIA because he wanted to pull out of Vietnam. This one suffers from the fact that the evidence that Kennedy wanted
to pull out of Vietnam is pretty skimpy and the greater fact that, in 1963, Vietnam was one of a dozen foreign policy issues
out there. The idea that the agency was so passionate about Vietnam that operatives would kill the president over it is just
silly.
4. Cuban exiles killed Kennedy over the Bay of Pigs and the pledge not to invade after the Cuban missile crisis.
The problem, again, is Oswald.
5. Hybrids of more than one of these theories. These make for interesting reading, but
the problem is that all of the hybrids wind up involving dozens of people from multiple groups, none with any reason to trust
each other. How do you keep a hybrid from leaking?
The only way some of these theories work is if Lee Harvey Oswald
was not involved or somehow was, in his words, made into a "patsy." For any of the conspiracy theories to work, Oswald would
either have had to be an innocent victim, had someone else masquerading as him or been part of a conspiracy that his own background
didn't easily bring him into. It really all comes down to who Lee Harvey Oswald was -- a subject that has garnered endless
speculation.
Far less speculation has gone into what is, in our view, a significantly neglected aspect of this story:
Marina Oswald. From Stratfor's standpoint, she is at least one of the keys to whatever happened on Nov. 22, 1963. Our image
of Marina Oswald, dating back to the days following the assassination, is that of a simple, frightened young woman, stunned
by what had happened and in way over her head. That image of a more or less innocent bystander has remained intact for 40
years, even though the facts have consistently pointed to her being a much more important figure in the story.
Marina
Oswald -- born Marina Prusakova -- met Lee Harvey Oswald in Minsk, where he worked in an electronics factory after having
defected to the Soviet Union in 1959. She was then 19 years old. Her father had been killed in the war; she lived with her
stepfather in Archangel, in the far north of Russia, before moving to Moldova as a small child and then to Leningrad at age
12. In 1955, she entered the Pharmacy Technikum for what the Warren Report called "special training." She received a diploma
in pharmacology in June 1959 and then was assigned to a job in a warehouse, which she quit after a day.
Two months
later, she moved to live with her uncle in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Her uncle was a colonel in the MVD -- the Russian
Interior Ministry security service. At that time, the agency -- which was a mixture of a national police force and the FBI
-- carried out several functions, from running large parts of the Gulag to serving as an internal security force. According
to the Warren Commission, Col. Prusakov was head of the local lumber industry, which would have certainly made him part of
the Gulag apparatus and therefore part of the security structure. With a rank of colonel, he clearly had substantial responsibilities.
According to the Warren Commission, Prusakov "... had one of the best apartments in a building reserved for MVD employees."
In Minsk, Marina finally got a job in the pharmacy of a hospital. At the same time, she joined Komsomol, the Communist
youth organization -- a fairly common thing to do and something that her uncle, given his standing in the government apparatus,
certainly would have expected her to do. She had a good many friends when, seven months after moving to Minsk, she was introduced
to Lee Harvey Oswald. They had one date -- at a dance. Immediately after the dance, Oswald was taken ill and checked into
a hospital, though not the one where Marina worked. Marina visited him often in the hospital often, although they had met
only twice prior to his hospitalization. She was able to visit him outside of regular visiting hours, according to the Warren
Commission, because of her uniform. Oswald was hospitalized from March 30 until April 11. It is not clear what illness kept
him hospitalized for almost two weeks, but he was cared for at an ear, nose and throat clinic: He apparently had the mother
of all sinus headaches.
According to Marina's testimony to the Warren Commission, Oswald visited her regularly at her
uncle's apartment after his release. The Commission makes a point of saying that "they were apparently not disturbed by the
fact that he was an American and did not disapprove of her seeing him" This is an important point. Oswald was an American
defector, clearly regarded with suspicion by Soviet Intelligence. Marina's uncle was a colonel in the MVD. Having American
defectors visit his apartment in 1961 should have concerned him a lot. He would certainly report it to his superior. An American
FBI official entertaining his niece's Soviet defector boyfriend in 1961 would certainly be cautious about its effect on his
pension; however, Prusakov apparently was not concerned.
Now it gets interesting. On April 20, a little more than a
month since their first meeting, Oswald proposes to Marina. She accepts and they are married on April 30. Let's pause here.
Marina Oswald is an attractive young woman. She holds a diploma in pharmacology from a first-rate technical school in Leningrad.
Her uncle is a senior official in the MVD. Lee Harvey Oswald is a foreign defector, without any real future and -- we are
handicapped here by our glandular bias -- not a great looker or sharp dresser. But he must have been a hell of a dancer, because
they were married about six weeks after they met with much of the courtship having taken place in a hospital.
OK --
it may have been uncontrollable love at first sight. Stranger things have happened, we suppose. The problem was that in order
for Marina to marry Oswald, they needed to get special permission from the state, because he was a foreigner. That would have
been true if he were the head of the Polish Communist Party. But Oswald wasn't just a foreigner, he was an American defector.
Given the Soviet bureaucracy, someone in Moscow was going to have to sign off on this one -- and it had to have kicked off
one heck of a security review in her uncle's office, but permission nevertheless was granted in 10 days.
If that is
hard to believe, try the next one. After about a month of marriage, Oswald tells Marina that he's tired of the Soviet Union
and wants to go home. She apparently says "whatever" and they start making arrangements to leave the Soviet Union. At this
point, she told the Warren Commission, her aunt and uncle became upset and stopped speaking to her. A great deal has been
made of the U.S. Embassy's willingness to allow Oswald to return to the United States, but not nearly enough has been made
of the fact that the Soviets permitted not only Oswald, but also Marina, to leave the country.
In October, while this
was going on, Marina decided to take her annual vacation. According to the commission, Oswald and Marina agreed that she needed
"a change of scenery." Having been married less than six months, she took a three-week vacation by herself to visit an aunt
in Kharkov. Kharkov in October is not the greatest place to visit, but off she went.
When she returned, she pursued
her exit visa. She met with an MVD colonel, Nicolay Aksenov, who had to approve the exit permit. Marina thought that the interview
might have been granted because her uncle was also an MVD colonel, but that makes little sense if her uncle opposed her departure.
On Dec. 25, 1961, about six weeks after applying, she received her exit visa from the Soviet Union, as did Oswald. Marina
told the Commission that she was surprised to receive permission. That is an understatement -- what happened was unheard-of.
Although the Warren Commission tried to argue that these things were not that uncommon, they just were.
Let's recap
here:
1. Marina, part of the Soviet upper-middle class, reasonably
educated and an attractive young woman, meets Lee Harvey Oswald and is so smitten by him that she agrees to marry him in a
little over a month -- two weeks of which he spent courting her from a hospital bed.
2. The Soviet government grants
Marina permission to marry him in the span of 10 days, despite the fact that this is an MVD colonel's niece marrying a U.S.
defector.
3. Oswald immediately decides to head back to the United States, and in spite of her uncle's supposed objections
-- and Prusakov could have stopped this dead in its tracks if he wanted -- she is granted permission to leave the Soviet Union
in the company of an American defector. The time between her formal request and receiving permission is a matter of weeks.
If the Warren Commission has the facts right -- and we think
they do -- then this is clear: the Soviet government wanted Marina and Oswald to marry and they wanted them to go together
to the United States. That is crystal clear. Now, we take a leap, but a reasonable one: The only agency in the Soviet Union
with the ability and interest to get this done was the KGB. If Marina wasn't KGB, she did one hell of an imitation.
Endless
questions flow from this, ranging from what the mission was to why the U.S. embassy permitted Marina into the country. This
now enters into the realm of speculation. However, one thing is clear to us: Any theory as to what happened on Nov. 22, 1963,
that does not take into careful account the role of Marina Oswald is inherently flawed. This includes the Warren Commission's
own findings. If Lee Harvey Oswald killed John F. Kennedy, there has been no adequate explanation of Marina Oswald's role
in this.
The only way to dismiss the Marina question is to make the following three assertions:
1. You have to believe that Marina, the attractive MVD princess,
took one look at Oswald and said, "I've got to have that man."
2. You have to argue that obtaining permission in 10
days for an MVD colonel's live-in niece to marry an American defector was no big deal.
3. You have to argue that getting
an exit permit from the Soviet Union for Marina in the space of six weeks in 1961 was no big deal.
If ever there was a cooked-up marriage, this was it. Now, how
this fits into the assassination story is too speculative to bother with -- but that no explanation is possible without building
this into the story is obvious.
There has been tremendous focus on Oswald's stay in the Soviet Union and speculation
that his defection might have been part of a CIA plot. That is not inconceivable, although the purpose of the
plot is opaque. There has been focus on Washington's decision to readmit Oswald, even though he had renounced his U.S. citizenship.
All of this has focused attention on the CIA, but there has not been equal attention paid to the extraordinary story of Marina
Prusakova's marriage to Oswald and her exit from the Soviet Union.
This does not necessarily clear things up, but in
our mind, it sets an additional hurdle that any theory must pass over. The eagerness of the Warren Commission to pass over
the strange marriage of these two is one of the reasons we have little confidence in the analysis it contains.
The fact of the marriage raises questions of whether Oswald was, simply in the context of his marriage, involved in
a conspiracy. If he was the only gunman -- which we doubt -- he still was not alone.
November 23, 2003 -- An organic reconsideration of US history and major "conspiracy theories" of the past 40 years, including those pertaining
to the 9-11 attack, and how they shed light on America's present drift into fascism. -- By John Phelan at Rense.com
The Man Who Killed KennedyThe brother of Lee Harvey Oswald talks about why he
believes the assassination of the 35th President of the United States was carried out by a lone gunman
Nov. 22 - Despite
countless conspiracy theories, the name Lee Harvey Oswald has gone down in history as President John F. Kennedy's lone assassin.
Recently, Weekend Today's Lester Holt spoke to Lee Oswald's brother Robert. Now in his 70s, Robert Oswald is a good family
man who 's had to live with a terrible burden for the past 40 years. Holt began by asking him if he dreaded the month of November.
Robert
Oswald: "I dread even before November gets here. Because I know about after Labor Day, I start getting calls and things start
coming up. It's just part of the territory now.
Lester Holt: "What does everybody want to know?"
Oswald: "Did Lee really do it."
It is a question that has haunted Robert Oswald for 40 years. Ever since the day President John F. Kennedy was gunned
down in Dallas, Texas and a 24-year-old ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald - Robert's younger brother - was arrested and charged
with one of the most notorious murders the world as ever known.
On the morning after the assassination, the two brothers faced each other in a Dallas jail cell.
The Oswald Shooting
November 24, 1963: Lee Harvey Oswald was put in
a police lineup, protesting, "It isn't right to put me in line with these teenagers ... You know what you are doing, and you
are trying to railroad me ... I want my lawyer ... You are doing me an injustice by putting me out there dressed different
than these other men ... I am out there, the only one with a bruise on his head ... I don t believe the lineup is fair, and
I desire to put on a jacket similar to those worn by some of the other individuals in the lineup ... All of you have a shirt
on, and I have a T-shirt on. I want a shirt or something ... This T-shirt is unfair."
Helen Markham, witness to the
murder of Officer J.D. Tippet, identified Oswald as Tippet's killer. Markham's description of Tippet's murderer matched the
description of the man believed to be the shooter in the JFK assassination, and the crimes were linked.
As Oswald was
escorted from the police station, Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby used a .38 Colt Cobra to shoot Oswald in the abdomen. TV
cameras covered the shocking incident live from the garage of the Dallas Police Department. Ruby was found guilty and sentenced
to death on March 14, 1964, but successfully won an appeal in 1965 for a retrial due to procedural errors. Ruby died in prison
in 1967, before the case was retried.
Source: Pip Wilson's Almanac, Decades History Search, America's Library
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