In January 1968, Jim Garrison issued a subpoena to Kerry Thornley to get him to testify before the New Orleans grand jury. Here is a press release about the subpoena: Note that the press release has the wrong date - it should be 1968 not 1967. On January 22, 1968, Andrew Sciambra phoned Kerry Thornley. Here is a tape of that phone call: Here is a transcript of the phone call in Word: Here is a transcript of the phone call in PDF format: In the press release Garrison discusses Thornley's testimony before the Warren Commission: Ordinarily, one would think that Oswald's associations and activities in those final weeks in New Orleans in 1963 were of some relevance to President Kennedy's murder, however a review of the 33 pages of questioning of Kerry Thornley by Committee lawyer Albert Jenner (Volume XI, page 82 and following) suggests that this is too mundane a consideration for either the Commission or its witness. The frequent and unquestionable association of Kerry Thornley and Lee Oswald in New Orleans in September 1963 is not even touched upon. Thornley noticed that paragraph and got in a zinger. Here is an excerpt from the transcript: (2:30) Kerry Thornley: Well, the only thing I object to really... I'll tell you something. I saw that certificate for the first time today when I went down to court. Andrew Sciambra: Yeah. Kerry Thornley: That thing... I can understand maybe from talking with Barbara Reid, that you got the idea that I had been seen with Oswald, and that that had, as it was said in the certificate, that had been established. But there was no excuse for saying that I had not been questioned on that in my Warren Commission testimony. Because it's on the record that I was questioned as to whether I saw Oswald in New Orleans. I told them, "Definitely not." It just irks me a little, because Mr. Garrison, in one of his speeches not too long ago, was talking about "How a government that could get away with lying could get away with murder." And, I just wonder, you know. Thornley was right. He was asked about whether he had seen Oswald in his Warren Commission testimony: Perhaps Garrison realized that when he issued his press release for he added this paragraph: There is one page among the 33 in which Mr. Jenner nearly slips and ruins the warm rapport which he has obtained with his witness by asking whether he has seen or talked with Oswald subsequent to their time in the Marines together. However, this is handled with aplomb by Thornley who answers that he never saw Oswald after their duty together in the Marines. Mr. Jenner seems satisfied, if not downright relieved, by this response and he is tactful enough not to bring up the matter again. Consequently, a friendly relationship between attorney and witness is maintained, leaving them free to enter interesting areas of cultural badinage and maintaining undisturbed the official fiction that the assassination really was a closed issue and did not need much looking into after all. Sciambra called Thornley the next day to fix a date for his testimony before the grand jury. Thornley is now concerned about what might be in store for him: (8:21) Kerry Thornley: Right. Exactly. Let's see if there was anything else on my mind that I wanted to bring up today. I guess not. I'm sorry, I'd like to come down there and get it all over with as much as you would. But gee, I'll tell you, that certificate is frightening. Because either somebody has to be lying along the line. Or there's somebody that I don't remember as having looked particularly like Oswald that I was with. Or there's somebody that looked pretty much like me, one of the two. Thornley testified before the grand jury on February 8, 1968. He was ultimately charged with perjury. That case never came to trial and the D.A.'s office ultimately dropped the charges. Previous Relevant Blog Posts on Kerry Thornley Was Kerry Thornley a Spook? James DiEugenio includes a clearly false story about Thornley in his book. Did Kerry Thornley Lie About Oswald's Height? Garrison was obsessed about Oswald's height. Exclusive: Jim Garrison Tells the HSCA that Kerry Thornley Impersonated Lee Harvey Oswald... Garrison tells the HSCA all sorts of stories about Kerry Thornley. Exclusive: Jim Garrison Interviewed by the HSCA Garrison tells the HSCA that Kerry Thornley might be the body in the backyard photographs. Gaeton Fonzi Channels Jim Garrison... Why was Kerry Thornley arrested in 1962? Kerry Thornley on Oswald right after Assassination The first writings from Thornley on November 27, 1963, about Oswald. Was Lee Harvey Oswald a Man of the Right? 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Chicago Tribune, April 24, 1992

Marietta Journal, January 22, 1969 Money quote: "There has been a lot of talk about trial in the newspapers," Sir Arthur says, "but that isn't true in the Garrison case. They must publish what the District Attorney says. This is an example of trial by District Attorney, which is the most unfortunate feature of our American law system.

This week I celebrated another milestone for my On the Trail of Delusion blog - my 500th post. So far, I have posted hundreds and hundreds of pages of primary Garrison documents, started a YouTube channel of Garrison recordings, and have debunked lots of nonsense in the JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass so-called documentary. I have also added tags to my website so you can find posts much faster. For instance, for a complete listing of my blog posts about JFK: Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, click here. I am particularly proud of the five-part series on Dr. George Burkley. It's a scandal the way people like George Burkley and Ruth Paine have been treated by conspiracy theorists. I am glad that I was able to set the record straight on Burkley. It was a great joy to work with Paul Hoch on this series; his help was instrumental in getting the story right. The Five=Part Series on Dr. Burkley: "JFK Revisited" Misleads on Dr. Burkley's Suspicions of a Conspiracy Oliver Stone's so-called documentary, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, misleads viewers into believing that JFK's doctor, Admiral George Burkley, said that there were multiple gunmen. "JFK Revisited" Misleads on the ARRB's Quest for Dr. Burkley's Lawyer's Papers Oliver Stone's so-called documentary, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, misleads viewers on the context of discussions between Burkley's family and the ARRB regarding supposed papers in the possession of his lawyer. "JFK Revisited" Recklessly Accuses George Burkley of being Involved in a Cover-Up Reckless charges are made against George Burkley with no evidence. "JFK Revisited" Misleads on Admiral Burkley and the HSCA Oliver Stone's so-called documentary, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, greatly misleads viewers on Admiral George Burkley and his interactions with the HSCA. "JFK Revisited" Misleads on Admiral George Burkley and Conspiracy Theorists Oliver Stone's so-called documentary puts words in Burkley's mouth. I did a lot of research on the 1961 coup attempt on French President Charles de Gaulle. This is a story that has been completely mangled by Oliver Stone and James DiEugenio. The mystery of the supposed Oswald imposter at Bolton Ford in early 1961 has now been solved. Had it not been for the internet, I never would have solved it. A fortuitous search on Google led to a lawsuit by Schulingkamp Motors which was right next door to Bolton Ford. I have started my own YouTube channel. So, I have uploaded four tapes of Jim Garrison being interviewed by the HSCA. Most of the discussion is about Kerry Thornley and it showcases the craziness of Jim Garrison. On one tape, Garrison tells the HSCA that Fred Crisman was one of the three tramps. Of course, nothing beats the craziness of Jim Garrison's shot from the sewer. And for the thousandth time I have had to post all the evidence about Clay Shaw's relationship with the CIA. And here are two reasons why Clay Shaw never admitted to being a domestic contact of the CIA. I also presented at the Louisiana Book Festival with fellow author Alecia Long: I also made Gerald Posner's list of the best JFK assassination books. What's coming up? Once the so-called documentary series JFK: Destiny Betrayed is released, I will be analyzing that in detail. I will also be posting more tapes on my YouTube channel, and now that COVID seems to be retreating, I'll be flying off to visit more archives. And I'll be starting my next book: A Heritage of Nonsense: Jim Garrison's Tales of Mystery and Imagination.

Steve Roe has posted an excellent article which looks at James DiEugenio's claim that Oswald's mail order form for the Mannlicher-Carcano could not get to Chicago in one day. When DiEugenio reviewed my book, I was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak, he wrote: With his homicide approach, I think Sprague also would have questioned the weapon in evidence. David Mantik did a fine job posing all the questions in the record that arise by the Commission’s acceptance of the Mannlicher Carcano, serial number C2766, as the rifle used in the assassination, but I would like to add one more evidentiary problem with the acceptance of that rifle. The Commission says that Oswald mailed a coupon and money order to Klein’s Sporting Goods in Chicago from a post office in Dallas. It was supposed to have been mailed on March 12, 1963. The Commission says it arrived in Chicago a day later. But not just that. It was also sorted at Klein’s and then walked over to their bank and deposited. All in about 24 hours. (Warren Report, p. 119) Needless to say, Litwin does not bat an eyelash at this transaction. But I think it’s important to add, this was in the days before zip codes. It is also in the days before computers and sensors. From Dallas to Chicago is nearly 1000 miles. This reviewer mails letters inside the city of Los Angeles that take more than one day to arrive at their destination. For his upcoming documentary, JFK: Destiny Betrayed, Oliver Stone decided to conduct an experiment. He had Debra Conway of JFK Lancer mail a letter from the same post office that Oswald allegedly mailed his payment for the rifle. She mailed it to Michael LeFlem, an author for this web site, who lives a mile from where Klein’s used to be located. The letter took five days to arrive. Steve Roe did some basic research, and voila, DiEugenio's "evidentiary problem" goes bye-bye. Mail service was much faster in Canada back in the 1960s as well. Previous Relevant Blog Posts on James DiEugenio Fact Checking James DiEugenio, Part Two Bill Boxley was not a CIA plant. Fact Checking James DiEugenio Clay Shaw was not Clay Bertrand. Fred Litwin's Follies! A response to James DiEugenio about my writings. James DiEugenio's Lame Excuses for Fletcher Prouty Prouty couldn't back up any of his allegations when he was interviewed by the ARRB. You wouldn't believe the lame excuse offered up by DiEugenio. James DiEugenio's Lame Excuse for Oliver Stone Why does Oliver Stone support so many dictators? James DiEugenio Gets it all Wrong on Permindex/CMC DiEugenio has no understanding of Permindex/CMC The Scholarship of James DiEugenio - A Case Study DiEugenio gets it all wrong on the Mannlicher-Carcano The Scholarship of James DiEugenio, Part Two The conclusion on the Mannlicher-Carcano The Scholarship of James DiEugenio Over the past ten months, I have debunked every witness cited by DiEugenio regarding Clay Shaw and David Ferrie.

"I could have been a contender." Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront Arthur Strout could have been another Perry Russo. In March 1967, he contacted Jim Garrison's office with important information on the JFK assassination. You can read more about Strout here. He called Garrison's office in March 1967, offering "explosive" information on the JFK assassination. They bought him a plane ticket to New Orleans, but he never arrived and admitted that he made it all up. I have posted on YouTube an audio recording of one of Arthur Strout's phone calls to Jim Garrison's office. This tape comes from the material that Harry Connick gave to the National Archives. The actual phone call starts at about 7:30 in the video. Here is a transcript in Word format: Here is a transcript in PDF format: Here is an excerpt from the recording: (13:48) Lynn Loisel: All right. Let me ask you this. How many guns were used in the assassination? Do you know? Arthur Strout: All together? Lynn Loisel: Yeah, all together. Arthur Strout: There was three of them. Lynn Loisel: There were three guns. Arthur Strout: I got one of them. Lynn Loisel: You have one of them? Arthur Strout: I got one of them. Lynn Loisel: Is that the one that's pawned? Arthur Strout: Right. Lynn Loisel: All right. Let me ask you this. Did Ruby know Oswald? Arthur Strout: Jack Ruby? Lynn Loisel: Yeah. Arthur Strout: Yes. Lynn Loisel: He knew him. Arthur Strout: It was me and Ruby and Leon Oswald and Mr. Shaw were all together down in Dallas down at Ruby's nightclub down there when we was down there. That's the first time I ever met him. I didn't have no money. Now, I hate to explain it this way over the phone now because it's not right. Like I told the FBI just now, it ain't right. But it was... How do I say it? I don't know. Queer situation. Lynn Loisel: Right, that's right. Arthur Strout: I didn't have no money. I got so much money from Mr. Shaw. Lynn Loisel: Okay. That's for that. Now let me ask you something. Did Tippit know Oswald? Did Tippit know Jack Ruby? Tippit the policeman? Arthur Strout: The one that got killed? Lynn Loisel: Right. Arthur Strout: Yes. He knew Oswald and Ruby both. He knows Mr. Shaw. Lynn Loisel: He knows Shaw too? Arthur Strout: He knew Shaw too. Throughout the conversation, Strout refers to a Mr. Bertram instead of Bertrand, and David Ferris, instead of Ferrie. Despite this, Loisel still feels he should come to New Orleans to be questioned. He tells Strout that they have bought a plane ticket for him to fly to New Orleans that night. Along the way, Strout had a change of heart, and he got as far as Baltimore, and then headed back to Boston. Had he continued on to New Orleans, he could have been a hero in Oliver Stone's JFK. He could have been a contender. The second half of the audio recording is a conversation with a woman who appears to be working for a telephone service. The D.A.'s office is trying to get to her reveal information about Clay Shaw's doctor, Martin Palmer. In response to the Gerald Posner article, "Garrison Guilty: Another Case Closed" in the August 6, 1995 edition of the New York Times, Palmer wrote this letter: Here is Palmer's obituary. "Martin will be deeply missed by his family and many friends all over the world," his family also wrote. "He is remembered for his distinctive voice, described as 'warm honey dripping off a spoon,' his far-ranging intellect and his incisive wit." Previous Relevant Blog Post Arthur Strout could have been another Perry Russo...

Yesterday, I published some fact checking of James DiEugenio's rejoinder to Jamie Kirchick's excellent article, "Guilt by Orientation." Cover of Confidential Magazine from August 1968 Towards the end of his article, DiEugenio commented on an article from Confidential Magazine: The article concludes with more meritless attributions Kirchik [sic] borrows from Litwin. Jim Garrison never wrote a memo, or said anything in public, about Shaw’s homosexuality. There is not one memo I have ever seen to this effect by him. So what does Kirchik [sic] do? He says an August 1968 Confidential magazine article portraying the Kennedy murder as part of a gay plot was written by a Garrison investigator. Kirchik [sic]—who does not seem to give a damn about fact checking—has slipped on another banana peel. The author was not a Garrison investigator. He was a friend of Bill Boxley, later exposed as a CIA plant inside the DA’s office. (Davy, pp. 146–47) Jim Garrison said and wrote an awful lot about homosexuality. The Confidential Magazine article was written by Joel Palmer. For a short period, he was a part-time investigator -- just like Steve Jaffe and Steve Burton. You can read Palmer's first-hand story here. A short excerpt: There are several memos from Joel Palmer to Jim Garrison: Here is a Joel Palmer memo with Garrison's markings: Here is another Palmer memo with Garrison's markings: Here is a memo written by Steve Burton regarding a job that was required by Garrison's office. He couldn't do it, so he asked Joel Palmer. The reason that conspiracy theorists do not like to mention Joel Palmer is that he worked on an extremely embarrassing part of Garrison's investigation. He assisted Bill Boxley in looking into Nancy Perrin Rich and her ex-husband Robert Perrin, who committed suicide in 1962. Boxley convinced Garrison that Robert Perrin was actually still alive and had been involved in the JFK assassination. It was all so ridiculous that there was a staff revolt and the only way out to get Garrison to fire Boxley was to convince him that he was still with the CIA. Bill Boxley was hired because he did have CIA experience. You can read more about Boxley's CIA experience here. Garrison wanted someone on the staff who understood the mentality of the CIA. Tom Bethell mentioned Boxley in his diary: I completed memo on Oswald's movements while he was unemployed in New Orleans. Boxley away in Houston -- doing heavens knows what, I never see any memos from Boxley. The other day I had lunch with Boxley and he told me how he came to be hired by Garrison. It was on May 1, 1967. I think he had been doing some work for the Wakenhut organisation before working for Garrison. He came right out and told Garrison that he had been employed by the CIA in the ‘50s -- early ‘50s I think. Boxley also worked for a fairly covert part of the agency -- maybe Plans Division or something like that. He is quite discreet about the CIA–it wouldn't pay him to be otherwise, he allows -- but he insists that assassination of the President is not something that he would outright dismiss as unthinkable as far as the CIA is concerned. In any event, Garrison accepted that Boxley was no longer working for the CIA, etc., and hired Boxley immediately. Boxley was of course grateful, and impressed by Garrison. They spent quite a bit of time talking about the CIA, and the kind of operations it gets into. Boxley began to introduce him to the espionage argot -- talk about "cut-offs, safe houses" etc., and no doubt was largely responsible for getting Garrison to believe what he evidently wanted to believe: that the assassination was engineered by the CIA. The next day Boxley picked up a copy of the local paper and read in it headlines about Garrison's latest allegation, about the CIA. He was so startled that at first he thought the story was about him, and that Garrison was going to pounce on him. I think Boxley lacks judgement, but he is a likeable and friendly person. I think he would do just about anything for Garrison. Bethell wrote that Boxley "no doubt was largely responsible for getting Garrison to believe what he evidently wanted to believe: that the assassination was engineered by the CIA." Bethell also reported on an interesting conversation between Garrison and Alcock about Bradley: Alcock had a confrontation with Garrison today -- alone in his office. I asked Alcock what had happened when he came out. He said that he had told Garrison that he didn't believe anything Garrison was saying about the CIA etc., and that none of it could be proved in court. Alcock added, for good measure, what [sic, should be that] no-one else in the office (except Boxley) believed it either. Then Alcock said: You know, Jim, we get disturbed when we see you listening to Boxley, giving you all that bull..." "I've learned one thing about Boxley," Garrison replied. "He's right." The paranoia of the Garrison investigation is captured in this excerpt from a Barbara Reid letter to Harold Weisberg: Joel Palmer called last night trying to reach Jim G. on a non-CIA phone. You can the history, according to Harold Weisberg, of the staff revolt against Garrison here. So, on the two hours of the plane trip home I wondered how I could persuade Garrison not to pull the most irrational of his ample store of impossibilities when his own staff could not. I wound up with the rather simplistic thinking: if it takes a crook to catch a crook, it takes a nut to reach a nut. Then I had to figure how to catch the nut who was to reach and persuade the nut. Vincent Salandria, a lawyer in Philadelphia and one of the early critics, doted on long dissertations relating the JFK assassination that of Trotsky in Mexico. I knew also that Garrison respected and liked him and that he liked Garrison. So, I phoned Salandria and made the only pitch I believed had any chance of working. "Vince," I told him, "I've just returned from New Orleans. Just as I was leaving I learned that the CIA is trying to wreck Jim's investigation from the inside." As he asked questions I answered them. While I have no present recollection of them, I fear that it was necessary that I made those answers up, too. I told him that I had promised to return after seeing my dentist and taking a brief rest and getting clothing washed and dry-cleaned and I hoped he would go with me and help me frustrated those dirty dirties of the dirty CIA. Weisberg's plan worked and Garrison fired Boxley. Here is an excerpt of a letter, dated January 22, 1968, sent by Bill Turner to Larry Haapanen: Here is Garrison's press release: Garrison was asked about Boxley at a press conference on December 11, 1968: Garrison could not provide any proof that Boxley was a CIA agent because it just wasn't true. Harold Weisberg realized the truth: "Garrison fired Boxley because he could not fire himself!" One last item, DiEugenio's source that Boxley was a CIA plant comes from pages 146 - 147 of Bill Davy's book, Let Justice Be Done. Guess who was Davy's source? He's taken this all from Garrison's book, On the Trail of the Assassins. Previous Relevant Blog Posts on James DiEugenio Fact Checking James DiEugenio Clay Shaw was not Clay Bertrand. Fred Litwin's Follies! A response to James DiEugenio about my writings. James DiEugenio's Lame Excuses for Fletcher Prouty Prouty couldn't back up any of his allegations when he was interviewed by the ARRB. You wouldn't believe the lame excuse offered up by DiEugenio. James DiEugenio's Lame Excuse for Oliver Stone Why does Oliver Stone support so many dictators? James DiEugenio Gets it all Wrong on Permindex/CMC DiEugenio has no understanding of Permindex/CMC The Scholarship of James DiEugenio - A Case Study DiEugenio gets it all wrong on the Mannlicher-Carcano The Scholarship of James DiEugenio, Part Two The conclusion on the Mannlicher-Carcano The Scholarship of James DiEugenio Over the past ten months, I have debunked every witness cited by DiEugenio regarding Clay Shaw and David Ferrie.

Here are Sylvia Meagher's notes on a phone call with Penn Jones from July 1967. Note the last paragraph on Jim Garrison: Here are a few links about Jim Garrison's cryptographic abilities: Jim Garrison, the Cryptologist Garrison had a unique ability to crack codes. Was Oswald's Alias a Code for a Jack Ruby Stripper? Garrison actually put this code in a draft of his book. Jim Garrison wasn't the only master decoder Here's an even bigger code breaker. Sylvia Meagher Replies to Richard Popkin Popkin's article on the Garrison investigation didn't mention the code he had broken. Previous Relevant Blog Posts about Sylvia Meagher Sylvia Meagher's Letter to Look Magazine Sylvia Meagher's reply to Look Magazine's article "The Persecution of Clay Shaw." Mark Lane vs. Sylvia Meagher An exchange of letters between Lane and Meagher. Sylvia Meagher and Jim Garrison, Part One Sylvia Meagher writes Clay Shaw and he replies. Sylvia Meagher and Jim Garrison, Part Two An unpublished Meagher memo on the trial of Clay Shaw. Sylvia Meagher and Jim Garrison, Part Three - a never before published article by Meagher Another unpublished Meagher memo on the Garrison investigation and Warren Report critics. Garrison's Playboy Interview - What Couldn't Be Printed Sylvia Meagher's letter to the Editor regarding Garrison's interview in Playboy Magazine. Sylvia Meagher's Reaction to the Verdict in the Shaw Trial Meagher writes Harold Weisberg with her comments on the verdict. Two Letters to Jim Garrison about "A Heritage of Stone" James Phelan and Sylvia Meagher write Garrison letters about his book. Kerry Thornley writes Sylvia Meagher An exchange of letters between Thornley and Meagher. Did RFK Tell Garrison that there were guns between him and the White House? Meagher writes Thornley about Lane's comment on RFK Sylvia Meagher Congratulates Clay Shaw On His Acquittal Meagher writes Clay Shaw. Was Jim Garrison Napoleon or Rasputin? Meagher writes Thornley with an opinion. M. S. Arnoni and Sylvia Meagher Take On Jim Garrison... Exchange of letters between Meagher, Arnoni and Garrison. Jim Garrison Blows His Top Meagher writes Weisberg about the damage Garrison is doing to critics of the Warren Report. James Phelan Writes to Richard Popkin Meagher replies to the New York Review of Books regarding Popkin's article on Garrison. Sylvia Meagher Replies to Richard Popkin An exchange of letters between Popkin and Meagher.

James DiEugenio has just published a rejoinder to Jamie Kirchick's excellent article, "Guilt by Orientation." Unfortunately, Mr. DiEugenio keeps on repeating falsehoods about Clay Shaw being the elusive Clay Bertrand. So, let me set the record straight: JFK Revisited accurately notes that, with help from the ARRB, 12 witnesses are now revealed to have known that Shaw used the alias of Clay Bertrand. I have debunked DiEugenio's previously named witnesses here. Some of these were turned up by Joan Mellen in her book, A Farewell to Justice. Barbara Bennett was a chanteuse at Pat O’Brien’s. She “had turned on the television and seen Shaw being arrested: ‘There’s Clay Bertrand!’ she shouted out.” Shaw had frequented that nightclub and Bennett was “his sometime party guest.” (p. 121) French Quarter businesswoman Rickey Planche just knew the man as Bertrand. Only when she saw him on TV did she learn his name was Shaw. (ibid) Her testimony would suggest that the knowledge of Shaw as Bertrand was not uncommon. Mellen interviewed Barbara Bennett in 2001, which means that she told her story for the first time 34 years after Shaw was indicted. Similarly, Rickey Planche was interviewed by Joan Mellen in 2005, and so she came forward 38 years after the indictment of Shaw. These two people didn't say a word when Garrison was investigating - and there is no witness statement, no nothing except the word of Joan Mellen. As Garrison notes in his book, a bartender at Cosimo’s said that “Bertrand comes here a lot.” And the man knew that his real name was Clay Shaw. He added, “I think most people know that.” (Garrison, p. 85) Garrison’s investigators then found two more bartenders in the French Quarter who said the same. (ibid) Garrison makes these claims in his 1988 book, On the Trail of the Assassins. It's easy to say this decades after his investigation. But none of these people came forward. And none of them gave statements. And then there is this memo: Keep in mind that the FBI and the Secret Service tried hard to find Clay Bertrand in 1963 without any success. An FBI memorandum of March 2, 1967, states that the Bureau had two sources in February who knew Shaw was Bertrand. You can see the actual memo here. The two sources were Aaron Kohn and Joseph Oster. New Orleans was a cauldron of rumor, innuendo, and gossip (indeed, the New Orleans States-Item mentioned Clay Bertrand in a news article on February 22, 1967), and so, Kohn heard from his sources that Shaw was Bertrand. But, he had no special knowledge on that front. Oster also told the FBI that his source about Shaw was from "news sources." Neither of these two people had any first-hand knowledge about Shaw being Bertrand. Jessie Parker a hostess at the VIP room for Eastern Air Lines, testified that Shaw signed her guest book as Clay Bertrand. Alfred Moran corroborated this instance, but declassified documents show the CIA got to him and talked him out of his story. (William Davy, Let Justice be Done, pp. 178– 79) I covered the VIP Room incident here. Jessie Parker also said that Shaw was accompanied by a party from Venezuela. Andrew Sciambra went to Washington to interview various people in the party and no one could corroborate that Shaw was in the V.I.P. room. Parker then signed a second affidavit which left out the Venezuelans. Alfred Moran actually told James Alcock that he had not seen Shaw at the lounge - before meeting Hunter Leake of the CIA at a cocktail party. In March of 1967, reporter Larry Schiller told the FBI that he had five sources in New Orleans and San Francisco who indicated Shaw used other names including Bertrand. (Davy, p. 193) Here is what one FBI report said: Schiller also said this: Ed Guthman, a former Justice Department official, also knew about Shaw’s alias. (ibid) This is all pure hearsay -- it all comes from Richard Billings diary. "Schiller says Guthman told Liebeler it's been known for two months that Bertrand and Shaw are the same man." There is no evidence that Guthman had any direct knowledge. In fact, the Justice Department had told the New York Times that such was the case. (Davy, p. 191) Yes, but the Justice Department misspoke. They knew that the FBI and the Secret Service had looked for Clay Bertrand in 1963 with no avail. They simply made a mistake and said Shaw instead of Bertrand. They corrected their mistake - but DiEugenio and others have ignored that. Reporter Richard Billings, who was interviewing Garrison in 1967, noted in his journal that evidence that Shaw was Bertrand was popping up everywhere. (Davy, p. 302) Here is the actual excerpt from Billings diary: This memo was written after the preliminary hearing. It's interesting that Billings admits that "Garrison has not come up with any other evidence that Shaw was involved in any plot." As for Shaw being Bertrand, well, Billings' three-page memo doesn't mention any of the evidence that was popping up. But here is the next section of Billings' memo: Billings writes that "I've been assigned the task of checking out this evidence." He then wonders why Shaw picked the name Bertrand and comes up with a few crazy theories. He then says, "God knows -- I'm the first to say this is all maybe madness." Billings mirrors the theory of Schiller -- that Bertrand might be some sort of code for homosexuals in general. He probably heard this all from Schiller -- as noted above Billings was talking to Schiller. But you must admit that if "Bertrand" is a world famous alias for homosexuals it is very conceivable that Shaw (well read + well traveled) -- a screaming queer -- would use this name in connection with his extra-curricular activities." DiEugenio would never quote from the May 18, 1967 section of Billings' diary, some three months after Shaw's indictment: Back to Garrison. One positive thing, let's call it a positive promise which we doubt will ever happen -- he says that he will detach Lynn Loisel for the purpose of working only on making a connection between Shaw and Bertrand. This is the one area that would seem to require the most ambitious searching at the present date. Of course it would "require the most ambitious searching." Billings left the Garrison campaign disillusioned with what he was seeing. I don't think DiEugenio would quote what Robert Blakey and Richard Billings wrote in their book, Fatal Hour: (page 53) Garrison would insist later that Russo told of having met "Bertrand" at Ferrie's apartment in his first interview with Sciambra, when he was not under sodium pentothal, but we know better. On assignment for Life in 1967, Billings witnessed a meeting of Garrison, Sciambra, and Russo, at which Russo said he did not have, even then, a conscious recollection of the meeting, but having been reminded, he remembered it under the truth drug, and testified to it, as though he did remember. Billings also wrote this: (page 193) In early 1969 Clay L. Shaw, the only person charged in the belated Garrison investigation of the Kennedy assassination, was acquitted. The case against him was flimsy, and the testimony of the "star witness," Perry Raymond Russo, had been blatantly concocted. All Garrison had was a circumstantial case of association: between Shaw and Oswald, almost none, once Russo's story had fallen apart; and between Shaw and Ferrie, only an indirect link (a close friend of Ferrie, going back to his youth in Cleveland, had been Shaw's next-door neighbor [James Lewallen]). But even if there had been encounters, evidence of another element of a conspiracy, an intent to commit a crime, was absent Dr. Jacob Hety knew a gay man named Greg Donnelly. Donnelly had known Shaw for many years and he had referred to him as Clay Bertrand. (Probe, Vol. 7, No. 2, p. 21) I covered Dr. Hety here. DiEugenio still can't get his name right - his name was Kety, not Hety. Kety was related to Harold Weisberg and never told him about Donnelly. In fact, Garrison sat on the lead and never investigated Donnelly. When essayist Ed Tatro was in New Orleans for the Shaw trial, he was told words to the effect that, everyone down here knows Shaw is Bertrand. (James DiEugenio, Destiny Betrayed, Second Edition, p. 387) This is just pure hearsay. As the film notes, the icing on the cake as far as this matter goes is that Dean Andrews, who Shaw employed as an attorney, admitted to Harold Weisberg that Shaw was Bertrand. (DiEugenio, p. 388) I have written about this here. Andrews never really came out and said that Shaw was Bertrand. He said, "If the Green Giant gets past that, he is home clear." I think that Weisberg read just a little too much into Andrews' words. I am sure that none of this will make an impression on DiEugenio. He will keep on repeating all of this nonsense over and over again. And people like Oliver Stone will believe it. Previous Relevant Blog Posts on James DiEugenio Fred Litwin's Follies! A response to James DiEugenio about my writings. James DiEugenio's Lame Excuses for Fletcher Prouty Prouty couldn't back up any of his allegations when he was interviewed by the ARRB. You wouldn't believe the lame excuse offered up by DiEugenio. James DiEugenio's Lame Excuse for Oliver Stone Why does Oliver Stone support so many dictators? James DiEugenio Gets it all Wrong on Permindex/CMC DiEugenio has no understanding of Permindex/CMC The Scholarship of James DiEugenio - A Case Study DiEugenio gets it all wrong on the Mannlicher-Carcano The Scholarship of James DiEugenio, Part Two The conclusion on the Mannlicher-Carcano The Scholarship of James DiEugenio Over the past ten months, I have debunked every witness cited by DiEugenio regarding Clay Shaw and David Ferrie. Previous Relevant Blog Posts on Clay Bertrand Did The FBI Know That Shaw was Bertrand? There were two sources that told the FBI that Shaw was Bertrand. Both got the information from news sources and both had no first-hand information. Did Clay Shaw's Maid Know He was Clay Bertrand? Some conspiracy theorists believe that Clay Shaw's maid knew he was Clay Bertrand. The record does not support that. Did Carlos Marcello's Doctor Friend Know About Clay Bertrand? Garrison didn't even bother to follow up this lead. Did Clay Shaw Sign the VIP Room Guestbook as Clay Bertrand? The real story is not what you read in conspiracy books. The Search for Clay Bertrand The FBI and the Secret Service searched wide and far for Clay Bertrand with no success. Did Clay Shaw Admit to Aloysius Habighorst that he was Clay Bertrand? The short answer is no. Did William Morris Know Clay Shaw as Clay Bertrand? William Morris, a convict, told some stories that hurt his credibility. Was Jim Garrison Searching for Clay Bertrand in 1963? The search for Clay Bertrand went right into the District Attorney's office. JFK Revisited: Was Clay Shaw the elusive Clay Bertrand? A summary of all the evidence.

Just when I thought conspiracy theorists couldn't get any crazier. Well, Edward Curtin believes there is a link between the JFK assassination, 9/11 and Covid-19 Perhaps other people could watch so we can learn of the exact link. But not me. Curtin loved Oliver Stone's so-called documentary, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass: With JFK Revisited, Oliver Stone has truly honored this fallen hero. Like Jim Garrison in JFK, he offers this film as his closing statement to the jury, which is all of us. Here is the evidence. Consider it closely. Render your verdict. By doing so, we may yet take back the country from the forces of evil. Bravo to Stone and DiEugenio! They have created a tour de force. Actually, Stone and DiEugenio have created a 'tour d'erreur.' James DiEugenio is thrilled: One of Curtin's heroes is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: With his extraordinary new book, The Real Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health, RFK, Jr. has made it very clear that he will not allow Orwell’s 1984 totalitarian boot to stamp on his face. His is a very rare moral courage, and he is asking us to join him, before it is too late and we enter into a new dark age, in recognizing and resisting the evil forces intent on stamping out democracy around the world. He is not pulling his punches with language as he accuses the political-intelligence-media-money-medical-corporate-pharmaceutical conspirators of executing “the controlled demolition of American constitutional democracy.” For a brilliant and highly accomplished lawyer and excellent writer and speaker, the choice of those words “controlled demolition” is clearly intentional. For anyone who doubts that the Covid-19 crisis is an intelligence-run operation controlled by spooks working with medical technocrats like Anthony Fauci, billionaires such as Bill Gates, the military, media, Big Pharma, the World Economic Forum, etc., a close reading of this book – with its 2,194 references – will disabuse one of that illusion. The CIA has long been deeply involved with vaccines, viruses, drugs, weaponizing cancer, biological weapons, and of course massive mind-control operations – deadly propaganda in plain English – for use in controlling U.S. Americans and foreigners alike. As Kennedy writes in an ironically understated way, “The pervasive CIA involvement in the global vaccine putsch should give us pause.” And Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has recently compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust. Recently, Kennedy triggered fresh outcry when he appeared to suggest attempts to impose vaccine mandates in the US were worse than what happened in Nazi Germany. “Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland, you could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did,” he said, at an event where another speaker was Dr Robert Malone, also a prominent anti-vaccine campaigner whose recent comments on Joe Rogan’s podcast triggered calls for Spotify to drop the show. “Today, the mechanisms are being put in place that will make it so none of us can run, and none of us can hide.” Even Kennedy's wife, Cheryl Hines, wasn't having any of this: My husband’s reference to Anne Frank at a mandate rally in DC was reprehensible and insensitive. The atrocities that millions endured during the Holocaust should never be compared to anyone or anything. His opinions are not a reflection of my own. Another one of the stars of JFK Revisited, Dr. Donald Miller, also does not believe in vaccines. In The Real Anthony Fauci, RFK Jr. shows conclusively that ivermectin has a far better safety record than “Dr. Fauci’s two chosen COVID remedies, [intravenous] remdesivir (which hospital nurses have dubbed ‘Run-death-is-near’) and COVID vaccines.” Do you need to take ivermectin before you watch JFK Revisited? The Five=Part Series on Dr. Burkley: "JFK Revisited" Misleads on Dr. Burkley's Suspicions of a Conspiracy Oliver Stone's so-called documentary, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, misleads viewers into believing that JFK's doctor, Admiral George Burkley, said that there were multiple gunmen. "JFK Revisited" Misleads on the ARRB's Quest for Dr. Burkley's Lawyer's Papers Oliver Stone's so-called documentary, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, misleads viewers on the context of discussions between Burkley's family and the ARRB regarding supposed papers in the possession of his lawyer. "JFK Revisited" Recklessly Accuses George Burkley of being Involved in a Cover-Up Reckless charges are made against George Burkley with no evidence. "JFK Revisited" Misleads on Admiral Burkley and the HSCA Oliver Stone's so-called documentary, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, greatly misleads viewers on Admiral George Burkley and his interactions with the HSCA. "JFK Revisited" Misleads on Admiral George Burkley and Conspiracy Theorists Oliver Stone's so-called documentary puts words in Burkley's mouth. Previous Relevant Blog Posts on JFK Revisited Two Important Posts Debunk "JFK Revisited" Tracy Parnell debunks a series about JFK Revisited on the WhoWhatWhy website, and Andrew Jackson debunks the film on Quora. Both articles are well worth your time. "JFK Revisited" Misleads on the Autopsy Photographs of JFK, Part Two Did Saundra Spencer really develop a completely different set of autopsy photographs? "JFK Revisited" Misleads on Autopsy Photographs of JFK Oliver Stone's so-called documentary tries to make the case that a White House photographer took photos at the autopsy. The only problem is that there is no evidence he was actually there. Oliver Stone Pulls the Wool Over Joe Rogan's Eyes, Part Two Stone misspeaks on the Joe Rogan show about JFK's brain. Oliver Stone Pulls the Wool over Joe Rogan's Eyes Stone misspeaks on the Joe Rogan show and I present a challenge to conspiracy theorists. Jefferson Morley and "JFK Revisited" Tracy Parnell dissects Morley's article on JFK assassination documents and "JFK Revisited" "JFK Revisited" Misleads by Putting Words in Kennedy's Mouth, Part Two Did President Kennedy actually say that he was going to shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the wind? "JFK Revisited" Misleads by Putting Words in Kennedy's Mouth... David Talbot claims that JFK told the French Ambassador that he was not in full control of his entire government. There is no evidence he ever said that. "JFK Revisited" Misleads on Supposed CIA Support of the 1961 Coup Attempt in France Oliver Stone's so-called documentary claims the CIA supported the 1961 coup attempt against French President Charles de Gaulle in 1961. The only thing missing is evidence. Max Boot on Oliver Stone's Lies Max Boot: Oliver Stone just can't stop spreading lies about JFK's assassination. "JFK Revisited" Misleads on Valery Giscard D'Estaing Did Gerald Ford really disclose to French President Valery Giscard D'Estaing that the JFK assassination was a conspiracy? Perhaps not. "JFK Revisited" Star Believes in a Massive COVID Conspiracy Robert Kennedy, Jr. believes in a massive conspiracy regarding Covid and the intelligence agencies. "JFK Revisited" Misleads on Kennedy's Back Wound While Gerald Ford edited some language in the Warren Report, he did not change the location of the back wound. Autopsy photographs show exactly the location of the back wound. "JFK Revisited" alleges Oswald was "placed" Oliver Stone's so-called documentary alleges that Oswald was "moved" to Dallas and "placed" in the Texas School Book Depository. This is totally ridiculous. "JFK Revisited" Misleads on JFK's Throat Wound The preponderance of the evidence indicates JFK's throat wound was one of exit. "JFK Revisited" Misleads on the Supposed Chicago Plot There is no evidence that there was actually a plot against JFK in Chicago. Was James Gochenaur a Credible Witness in "JFK Revisited"? Gochenaur's writings don't back up his allegations in JFK Revisited. "JFK Revisited" Misleads on Guy Banister Oliver Stone's so-called documentary claims that Guy Banister gave Oswald a room at 544 Camp Street. The evidence does not support the allegation. "JFK Revisited" Misleads on JFK's Brain, Again... Dr. Robert Kirschner's consultation with the ARRB explains a mystery in the documentary. "JFK Revisited" Misleads on the Weight of JFK's Brain JFK Revisited makes a big deal about the weight of JFK's brain and ignores a non-conspiratorial explanation. JFK Revisited Distorts John Stringer's Testimony Oliver Stone's so-called documentary makes it sound like the autopsy photographer said that he did not take the photos of JFK's brain that are in the current inventory, JFK Revisited Lays an Egg Oliver Stone took to Twitter last weekend to bemoan the fact that the mainstream press is ignoring his so-called documentary, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass. Oliver Stone with "JFK Revisited" Crucifies Clay Shaw Once Again There is something really obscene about Oliver Stone once again going after Clay Shaw. JFK Revisited Doesn't Tell the Whole Truth about John Connally You won't learn everything you need to know about Connally's position on the shots from Oliver Stone's so-called documentary. JFK Revisited Uses Marina Porter to Mislead Viewers Oliver Stone tries to make it seem like Marina Porter has denied taking the backyard photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald. JFK Revisited: Were the Oswald Backyard Photographs Faked? Oliver Stone once again raises the issue of the legitimacy of the backyard photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald. JFK Revisited: Was Clay Shaw the elusive Clay Bertrand? This post debunks every witness that has ever claimed Shaw was Bertrand. Oliver Stone's Poverty of Imagination He cannot imagine any sort of non-conspiratorial explanations for any of the suspicious pieces of evidence in his film. Was Clay Shaw a "Contract Agent" for the CIA? No, Clay Shaw was not a "contract agent." Steve Roe Blog Posts on JFK Revisited JFK Revisited: Again, Caught Creating False Mysteries "Stone/DiEugenio hatch another Bogus Mystery with Sinister Strap/Sling Mounts on Oswald's Rifle" JFK Revisited: Tripping on the Stairs Oliver Stone claims that Oswald could not have been in the sniper's nest on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. Steve Roe exposes Stone's mistakes. Oliver Stone doubles-down on the Looney Frontal Shot to the President In an interview on RT [Russia Today], Oliver Stone says that the throat wound might have been made by a flechette. Oliver Stone - Deceptive Filmmaker? Steve Roe presents some examples of Oliver Stone's 'creative' abilities. A Look at the "JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass" Film by Oliver Stone Oliver Stone distorts the testimony about Oswald's palmprint on the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle.

I've already reviewed H.P. Albarelli's new book, Coup in Dallas: The Decisive Investigation into Who Killed JFK. The book's section on Permindex is riddled with errors and there is only one footnote for the entire section. I've continually asked the co-author Leslie Sharp for documentation for the book's claims on Permindex. She has refused. When I wrote the chapter on Permindex in my book, On the Trail of Delusion - Jim Garrison: The Great Accuser, I relied on primary documents from three main sources: The Louis Bloomfield Archive in Ottawa, Canada. Bloomfield was a lawyer who represented several major shareholders in Permindex. All of the outgoing correspondence from his law firm - over ten thousand letters - are in the Archive. There are hundreds of letters from Bloomfield to the management of Permindex. State Department Cables. In 1957-1959 the American consulate in Basel wrote several reports on Permindex and their quest for financing. These cables provide background information on the Board of Directors and management of Permindex. Clay Shaw's Permindex file. Shaw was on the Board of Directors for a short period, and there are several primary documents related to Permindex at the National Archives. I posted most of those documents in this blog post. It doesn't appear that the authors of Coup in Dallas have any of this material. They don't seem to know who exactly was on the Board of Directors and Leslie Sharp doesn't seem familiar with any of these primary documents. The President of Permindex, for a short period, was Ferenc Nagy, ex-Prime Minister of Hungary. In 1940, Nagy formed the Hungary Peasant Association which was a social, cultural and economic organization. He helped form the Independent Smallholders' Party in 1930. In 1943, after he called for Hungary to withdraw from the war, the Gestapo imprisoned Nagy for six months when the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944. In May 1945, he was appointed Minister of Reconstruction in the new Provisional government. After the war, Nagy became President of the Smallholders' Party and won 57% of the votes in the November 1945 election. The Soviet occupation would only allow his party to be part of a coalition with the Communist Party. A Communist was named President, and Nagy became Prime Minister. He had to maneuver between the various factions in the government and he ended up pleasing no one. In May of 1947, Nagy went on holiday to Switzerland, and the Communists accused him of complicity in an alleged plot to overthrow the government. His son was held hostage and to get his release, Nagy resigned his post as Prime Minister. He then moved to the United States and bought a dairy farm in Herndon, Virginia. He died in 1979 of a heart attack in Fairfax Virginia. Here is what Coup in Dallas has to say about Nagy: (page 400) As mentioned, Permindex's president Ferenc Nagy had served as Prime Minister of Hungary from February 1946 to May 1947, having been elected in Hungary's first democratic election. He had fought on the side of Germany in World War II and suffered considerably, but in 1944 he was jailed by the Germans. At the end of the war, Mr. Nagy arrived in the United States penniless yet managed to buy a farm at Herndon, Va., where he developed a dairy herd and eventually relocated to Dallas where he was residing on November 22, 1963. Always active in the Presbyterian Church, Nagy assumed a prominent role working with exile groups, as did most emigres in Dallas, to end not only Communist domination of Eastern Europe, but the spread of the scourge to America. Conspiracy books like to paint Permindex as a fascist organization that was funding extreme right-wing elements in Italy. In fact, Permindex was a failed real estate venture. They couldn't find enough tenants for their World Trade Center in Rome, and they shut its doors in 1962. Coup in Dallas claims that Nagy "fought on the side of Germany in World War II." I cannot find any evidence to support that. The book Hungarian Anti-Fascism and Resistance 1941 - 1945, has a quite different portrait of Nagy: (page 26) The autumn of 1941 brought a promising opportunity: Magyar Parasziszovtseg (Hungarian Peasant League) was founded. The chairman of the federation was Ferenc Nagy, an MP of the Smallholders Party, and its secretary, Bela Kovacs, was also a member of the party. The organization had a double aim. On the one hand, they wanted to further weaken the already shaken Arrow Cross positions in the countryside, and, on the other, they wanted to assemble the unorganized peasants -- disappointed by the Arrow Cross movement, and searching for a way to follow --- into an organization led by wealthy peasants that would be capable of limiting the obstacles in the way of both the democratic endeavors of the peasantry and its cooperation with the working class. Nagy also signed a petition in 1942 against the persecution of the Jews: (page 63) In December 1942, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky compiled another memorandum which he planned to send to the Governor and the Prime Minister -- with the signatures of anti-Hitler MPs outside the Government Party, members of the Upper House, and the Christian episcopate -- as a novel sign of protest against the persecution of Jews, the situation of soldiers in refractory companies and the Ujvidek events. As you can see, Nagy was part of a group of anti-Hitler MPs. In addition: (page 65) During the autumn session of Parliament in 1942, for the first time since the declaration of war, from among the representatives of the Smallholders Party not only Endrew Bajcsy-Zsilinszky, but Tildy and to a certain extent Ferenc Nagy and Bela Varga, too, took a stand against the policy serving the interests of Germany and against the persecution of the Jews. They also protested against public supply shortages, against the burden of delivery obligations afflicting the peasants and against extraordinarily high industrial prices. Coup in Dallas also makes an ominous claim about Nagy: (page 400) Mr. Nagy arrived in the United States penniless yet managed to buy a farm at Herndon, Va., where he developed a dairy herd and eventually relocated to Dallas where he was residing on November 22, 1963. Is it nefarious that Nagy might have lived in Dallas on November 22, 1963? Does that tie him to the assassination? Even if he did live in Dallas on that date, so what? In fact, Ferenc Nagy did not move to Dallas. He stayed in Virginia until his death in 1979. Here is a letter that Louis Bloomfield wrote Nagy in 1961: Bloomfield wrote him again in 1962: Here is an short notice from 1963: Virginian-Pilot, January 20, 1963 Here is an article from late 1963: Richmond Times-Dispatch, November 29, 1963 Did he perhaps move back to Virginia right after the assassination? And here is an article form 1966: Charlotte Observer, February 21, 1966 Here is an article about Nagy's connection to Herndon, Virginia. Nagy became a lecturer and writer. He documented his life and political career in The Struggle behind the Iron Curtain, which was published by MacMillan in 1948. Royalties from the best selling book helped him buy a farm on the outskirts of Herndon and the 12-room house on Elden Street. Here is the plaque on his house: Coup in Dallas is not the only book to claim that Nagy lived in Dallas. Here is an excerpt from Jim Garrison's On the Trail of the Assassins: (pages 88 - 89) Perhaps because of its Montreal origin, the Centro aroused the interest of a Canadian newspaper Le Devoir. Referring to Ferenc Nagy, one of the Centro's directors, it wrote in early 1967: "Nagy ... maintains close ties with the C.I.A. which link him with the Miami Cuban colony." Nagy subsequently emigrated to the United States, making himself at home in Dallas, Texas." The article in Le Devoir did not actually link Nagy to the "Miami Cuban colony." It only claimed that Nagy's links with the CIA were similar to the links between the CIA and the Cubans from Miami. Here is the actual text in French: The translation: "Ferenc Nagy, exiled leader of the Hungarian peasant party, who maintains links with the CIA similar to those maintained by the Cubans in Miami," Paris Flammonde in his book The Kennedy Conspiracy also said that Nagy lived in Dallas: (page 217) Certainly one is led to wonder why, of all the hundreds of nations on earth, Nagy ended up in the United States; and why of all the thousands of cities in the United States, Nagy ended up in Dallas. Mae Brussell also spread this disinformation: CMC had been formed in 1961, one year after Kennedy was elected. Its principals had worked with fascist networks established after World War II. The board of directors numbered Ferenc Nagy, a former Hungarian premier who led that country's Anti-Communist Countrymen's Party in exile. J. Edgar Hoover brought Nagy to the United States, where there were numerous Gehlen-supported emigre organizations. On August 18, 1951, the Saturday Evening Post pictured Nagy with Czech, Pole, Hungarian and Russian exiles under the heading: "They Want Us To Go to War Right Now." On November 22, 1963 Nagy was living in Dallas. Michele Metta, author of the tendentious Accomplishing Jim Garrison’s Investigation on the Trail of the Assassins of JFK, writes: (page 30 in Kindle version) Ferenc Nagy, at the end of WWII, after fleeing to Budapest, actually did take refuge in the US, precisely in Dallas, where he was still a resident when JFK was murdered. And James DiEugenio has posted on the Education Forum that Nagy lived in Dallas: None of these authors provide a source for the claim that Nagy lived in Dallas. So where did this all come from? The origin of this belief that Nagy had moved to Dallas comes from Paese Sera, the communist-controlled newspaper in Rome that ran a series of articles on Clay Shaw after his arrest. Here is an excerpt from an English translation of a Paese Sera article, found in Jim Garrison's papers, from March 14, 1967: I wish Garrison's markings didn't cross out part of the section. It appears to say "(the ex-premier of Hungary who, contrary to the opinion of some, is alive and living in Dallas)" Here is an excerpt from the March 4, 1967, edition of Paese Sera with Garrison's markings: Why is any of this relevant? The Paese Sera series of articles on Clay Shaw and Permindex/Centro Mondiale Commerciale are the source for the spurious allegations that the organization was funneling money to right-wing extremists. In fact, the articles are full of errors and supposition. This is just one small example of an error that has been repeated by conspiracy theorists. Here are some other good examples of where Paese Sera got it all wrong. Because of Paese Sera, conspiracy theorists get it all wrong on Permindex/CMC. I challenge the writers and supporters of Coup in Dallas to provide evidence that Ferenc Nagy was fighting for the Germans and that he lived in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Previous Relevant Blog Posts Was Permindex Running an Assassination Bureau? Was Montreal lawyer Louis Bloomfield running an assassination bureau? Conspiracy Nonsense Snared a Canadian Louis Bloomfield was a good man who raised a lot of money for Canadian charities. Unfortunately, conspiracy theorists have linked him to the JFK assassination. Clay Shaw's Permindex File Clay Shaw was on the Board of Directors of Permindex. Here is his file. Why Didn't Jim Garrison Go to Montreal? If Jim Garrison wanted to learn more about Louis Bloomfield, all he had to do was pick up the phone or go to Montreal. Exclusive - Louis Bloomfield's Secret Correspondence with George H. W. Bush... Revealed for the first time. Did The Umbrella Man Have Links to Clay Shaw? Yes, a conspiracy book actually makes this claim. Exposed! Louis Bloomfield's Letters to Baron Edmund de Rothschild... Revealed for the first time. Exposed! Bloomfield's Letters about David Rockefeller! They were involved! The Founder of Permindex, George Mantello, Saved Thousands of Jews during the Holocaust... George Mantello was a hero. James DiEugenio Gets it all Wrong on Permindex/CMC Conspiracy theorists mislead people on Permindex/CMC.

Jamie Kirchick has just published an important article on Oliver Stone, his so-called documentary JFK Revisited, and "his three-decade slander of an innocent man—one who, not coincidentally, happened to be gay." The New York Times said the prosecution of Clay Shaw was "one of the most disgraceful chapters in the history of American jurisprudence." It was bad enough that Jim Garrison ruined Shaw's life, but Oliver Stone victimized him a second time in JFK. Here is an overview of the homophobia in JFK. You would think that would have been enough. But Oliver Stone did it a third time in JFK Revisited. Money quote from Kirchick's article: Even if Shaw was innocent, Stone implied in an interview with Esquire, his prosecution would have been justified. Garrison’s attempt to “force a break in the case” and thereby discredit the Warren Commission was “worth the sacrifice of one man,” he said. It was a chillingly authoritarian sentiment, and in light of how Stone would go on to produce a series of hagiographic films about dictators, including Vladimir Putin, Hugo Chávez, Fidel Castro, and former Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev, a portentous one. Jamie Kirchick's new book, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington, will be out in May. Previous Relevant Blog Posts Boston Phoenix said Oliver Stone's JFK was "sadly homophobic" Even the Boston Phoenix realized that JFK was homophobic. Jim Garrison's Homosexual Shakedown Operation The FBI was warned in 1967 that Garrison might be running a shakedown operation of homosexuals in New Orleans. James Phelan and Mark Lane Discuss Garrison's Homosexual Conspiracy A partial transcript of a conversation between Mark Lane and James Phelan. Garrison Mentions a Homosexual Plot to Yet Another Journalist Garrison talked about a homosexual plot to kill JFK with Max Lerner. A Rave Review of Alecia Long's "Cruising for Conspirators" Alecia Long's book, Cruising for Conspirators: How a New Orleans DA Prosecuted the Kennedy Assassination as a Sex Crime, is required reading. Jim Garrison Feigns Indignation at the Mention of Clay Shaw's Homosexuality Garrison gets upset for all the wrong reasons. Did a Homosexual Conspiracy Kill JFK? Confidential Magazine in 1968 ran a series, written by a part-time Garrison staffer, about a homosexual conspiracy. Jim Garrison's Pressure on the Gay Community of New Orleans The gay community felt a lot of pressure from Garrison. The QUICK Magazine Series Was The QUICK Article About a Homosexual Conspiracy Written By Jim Garrison? (Part One) An article, supposedly written by Jim Garrison, appeared in the German press, which theorized that a homosexual conspiracy was behind the JFK assassination. Was The QUICK Article About a Homosexual Conspiracy Written by Jim Garrison? (Part Two Did Jim Garrison write the QUICK article? Was the QUICK Article about a Homosexual Conspiracy Written by Jim Garrison? (Part Three) Further clues about the QUICK article. Jim Garrison Does it Again - Claims Oswald and Ruby were Homosexuals... In another article, Garrison claims that Oswald and Ruby were homosexuals. Did Lawrence Schiller Write the QUICK Article? Some evidence points to Schiller. Did Nerin Gun Write the QUICK Article? Some evidence points to Gun. Final Thoughts on the QUICK Article An overview of the evidence that Garrison believed a homosexual plot killed JFK.