The Complete Exoneration of Richard Milhouse Nixon

As the 49th anniversary of the Watergate scandal rolls around, your Chronicler thought it would be appropriate and well past due to completely exonerate the 37th president of the United States of alleged crimes committed pursuant to the burglary at the infamous hotel.

Most people believe that Watergate was about a petty larceny which spun out of control by an egregiously paranoid president who committed obstruction of justice to escape the tentacles of the enveloping crisis. This belief is only partially correct, and hopelessly naïve and foolish.

The precipitating event of breaking into the Democratic National Convention offices located in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC made no sense. The president had a commanding lead over his Democrat rival for the Oval Office, as the results in November richly substantiated. To risk political capital for such an operation would have been lamebrained. It served no purpose to the president, and thus was not Nixon's doing.

The break-in was a preposterous hoax committed by CIA to bait Nixon into a cascading series of missteps which would demolish his presidency. The perpetrators of the crime were, which to be very clear was not the president, CIA operatives. The arrested men made it very clear that it was a CIA operation. All 5 burglars had CIA or FBI connections as either agents or operatives, with E Howard Hunt - the mastermind of the operation - and Frank Sturgis being the two most interesting, a point to which we shall return.

So why did CIA entrap Nixon in a plot which cost him his presidency? Nixon, according Michael Collins Piper, did two things which put him on the Establishment's enemies list. In the first place he was not sufficiently pro Israel. His administration did not give Israel as much advance notice of the October 1973 Arab invasions as it could have, a lapse which the Jews viewed as intentional. Other sources show that it was bureaucratic red tape. In any event, since when does the United States owe Israel anything?

Nixon's larger sin was attempting to significantly reorganize the government to make it more responsive to elected officials, a move which treaded upon the sacred ground of many departments such as State, and the all mighty CIA. For these two transgressions, the 1972 presidential election would be overturned.

The purpose of Watergate was to provide an insurance policy to the Establishment to force Nixon to heel in the event that he became too big for his britches. When the Deep State felt that Nixon was no longer controllable, it unleashed the clanging charge of the Imperial Presidency, not because it felt that Nixon overstepped his powers, but because he did not heed his minders.

Regarding Nixon's paranoia, the old saying is a propos: Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you. In Chronicles past, we have reported how Admiral Thomas Moorer led an espionage ring against Nixon, which was fundamentally sedition and treason. Nixon foolishly refused to fire Moorer, believing that he could play Machiavelli better than the master himself.

The Pentagon Papers affair did not do anything to assuage Nixon's security about the integrity of his White House and other departments which allegedly reported to him. Thus with these two examples, the stage had been set to create a great distrust on Nixon's part about his own government, and cause him to waive in the so-called Plumbers, led by Hunt, into the White House.

But even the Plumbers are a red herring. Most astonishingly, Piper documented that Henry Kissinger brought Mossad asset James Angleton into the White House to spy on Nixon. Angleton and Richard Ober were the two men sitting in the White House eavesdropping on the president. While Piper does not go so far as to claim exactly what Angleton was doing, it is clear to your Chronicler that Kissinger fed him information about what he knew of White House operations. But more shockingly, there can be no doubt that Angleton was listening directly to Oval Office conversations of the utmost sensitivity, including those related to Nixon's handling of Watergate. In short, Angleton was Deep Throat.

Operation Deep Throat required disclosure of the Oval Office taping system, a practice in varying degrees going back to Franklin Roosevelt. These tapes gave plausibility to leaks which only Angleton could make because he was listening to White House conversations in real time - as they were taped.

Angleton is important because of his service to Israel in the murder of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas' Dealey Plaza. When one designates Israel, one is also speaking of the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, and many more Jewish people and organizations. Not only did Angleton work for Mossad, but so did Frank Sturgis, a man who admitted to murdering Kennedy. So is it any coincidence that these two Jewish sycophants were attempting to destroy yet another president? Of course not.

Nixon was surrounded by enemies in his own administration - whether it was Moorer, Kissinger, Angleton, Dean - Nixon was battling sharks. If the president had not been paranoid, he would have been an imbecile. With James Angleton feeding Oval Office conversations to Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post, their wives being best of friends, Nixon's fate was sealed.

Thus when White House counsel John Dean, who was one of the perpetrators in the crime, and Nixon were caught on tape attempting to produce a document exculpating the president of any legal jeopardy, Nixon was forced into a trap brilliantly set by CIA, Henry Kissinger, White House counsel, and Israel. Nixon had nowhere to run. He was fighting a coup, an insurrection against his own government by conspirators and co-conspirators who to this day have never been indicted for their crimes. The legal defense is entrapment.

Technically Nixon was indictable for obstruction of justice. But this case was no civil matter. It was an attack upon the United States by Israel and its allies in CIA and in positions of great power. The rules of war are different than the rules of peace. Israel was at war again with the United States. Angleton, Kissinger, Dean, Hunt, Sturgis, and many others were enemies of the state, their allegiances belonging to foreign powers.

In this sense, I fully exonerate Richard Milhouse Nixon of all crimes and allegations charged against him in connection with Watergate.

Reference

Michael Collins Piper, Final Judgment, America First Books, 6th Edition, 2d printing, 2005, source(Microsoft Word - Final_Judgment_x_Build_20 (wikispooks.com), accessed 5/16/2021)

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One Minute Chronicle: The Real Reason Why Spiro Agnew Resigned

While flames were engulfing the Nixon presidency, Vice President Spiro Agnew (1918 - 1996) resigned his office pleading nolo contendre on October 10, 1973. The real reason for his departure is much more disturbing.

 

The ostensible occasion for Agnew's resignation was charges of income tax evasion on bribe money he accepted as governor of Maryland in 1967, which by today's standards was a petty crime involving a mere 100,000 or so in bribes, although later charges increased the amount to over a quarter of a million dollars.

 

So the fast rising star of Agnew was an exhausted nova within 10 years of his discovery in 1962 by Nelson Rockefeller who was a king maker in the Republican party. Agnew had risen from complete obscurity to Vice President within a span under 10 years. Clearly someone was behind his rapid ascent.

 

Yet Agnew was probably oblivious to the machinations swirling about him. Wherever Rockefeller was, crime, murder, and corruption were not far behind. More than likely Agnew was groomed as a sacrificial lamb in the power politics which were to overcome him in the Nixon presidency. Indeed, Nixon himself was a Rockefeller stooge who would fall victim to the same conspiracies which finished Agnew's career.

 

According to Agnew's biography, the real reason for his resignation was a murder threat from Nixon's chief of staff Alexander Haig, a major player in the political wars raging in Washington since the coup of 1963.

 

This threat explains the reason for the quick and quiet departure of Agnew. He could have easily stonewalled, dissembled, obfuscated until the cows came home, but those tactics become untenable when a murderer threatens you with murder.

 

We do not believe that Nixon was behind the threat - a resignation of a vice president during a political crisis is the last thing a president needed, Nixon's remarks about his safety being insured by the threat of an Agnew presidency notwithstanding.

 

Haig was the Rockefeller - Bush Crime Syndicate henchman hired to eliminate not only Agnew, but Nixon as well. Haig was indeed the Deep Throat of Watergate fame who proved to be Nixon's undoing.

Copyright 2014 Tony Bonn. All rights reserved.

Murdering Dorothy Hunt

A few folks still remember the shocking December 8, 1972 announcement of the crash of United Airlines flight 553 carrying the wife of Watergate burglar E Howard Hunt. What most Americans did not realize at the time was that she was murdered.

 

One of the few who recognized that criminal elements were involved in sabotaging the flight was Sherman Skolnick whose ground breaking research revealed that the crash was no accident. It was actually a carefully crafted murder of dangerous witnesses to the deeds of Washington’s Nazi thugs.

 

Not that Dorothy was a saint. She and her husband were a CIA couple, like the Clintons, albeit on a more modest scale. According to Skolnick, Dorothy outranked her husband in the agency. Although the story of her death has been told ably by Skolnick and others, we add some additional insight which we have not seen elsewhere.

 

The main narrative starts with Howard who, in legal jeopardy for the break-in at the Watergate hotel, began making noises about being an assassin and gathering a following in the press. At the same time, he began sending messages to the White House that he needed money to keep his lips tight and sealed, but giving the fake altruistic reason that he needed to take care of the financial needs of him and his conspirators.

 

Does anyone think that Howard was really blackmailing the president – especially over the Kennedy murder?

 

Well, the answer is yes. He was further enmeshing Nixon in Watergate but that was not the real story. Nixon did not have prior knowledge of the break-in and was yet a few months away from his “cancer on the presidency” encounter with Dean. The only thing Hunt had on Nixon was “the whole Bay of Pigs thing” – ie the Kennedy assassination, in which Nixon was sheep dipped. Hunt was pretending to expose Nixon in the murder, which he indeed could do because Nixon was compromised and a cutout for the real assassins as we explained in our article on Operation 40, the Bush led assassination squad created by the CIA on Nixon's orders when he was Vice President. But that is the giveaway. Hunt would have never turned coat on a CIA operation in which he was heavily involved. But Nixon didn’t know that – he was implicated by insinuation in the operation.

 

The Nixon White House received the message loud and clear which prompted a meeting at one point between White House counsel John Dean, another CIA operative, and Nixon. They discussed the need to raise the money and how to do so.

 

Although a figure of 1 million or more dollars was bandied about, Nixon assured Dean that the money could be raised. Indeed it could when you have millionaire backstabbing friends like George Bush. Nixon enlisted the aid of Bush who in turn went to his longtime business and CIA partner Bruce Leidtke, a co-founder of Bush’s CIA front company Zapata Oil.

 

Bruce fronted the money through Felix Rodriguez, another important CIA figure, who then conveyed the money to Dorothy Hunt. From there Hunt wound up on flight 553 along with CBS reporter Marcia Clark and some gas company executives from Omaha, one of whom told his wife that he had explosive irreplaceable documents of a very political nature.

 

The flight took off for Chicago, but rather than landing at O’Hare as scheduled was oddly routed to Midway not far from where the plane crashed after exploding at tree top level. Within minutes of the crash, nearly 50 FBI agents were circling the plane and site even though its field office was 12 miles away. It’s not every flight crash which is greeted with a 50 man FBI team. Upon arrival at the airport, the FBI confiscated the flight tape from the control tower.

 

This event alone is the smoking gun of a murder. Skolnick reported that there were survivors including Dorothy Hunt. But the FBI’s job was to murder survivors since they needed to recover the bribe money and to permanently ensure the silences of those pesky witnesses.

 

The newsfakers in the press reported initially that Hunt had 50,000 USD on her person, but she in fact was carrying 2 million USD in various instruments as subsequent investigations would reveal.

 

It is quite evident to us that Hunt was murdered to recover the money, because Nazis don’t pay bribe money to anyone. But here the story gets crazier, and we advise readers to reach for their tin hats; veterans reach for it instinctively.

 

Hunt’s son Saint John has stated that his parents were on the verge of divorce prior to Watergate, but that Dorothy decided to stand by her man. At this point we conjecture that Hunt was framing his wife. Dorothy was not the blackmailer – Howard was. So why didn’t the Firm try to murder him instead of his wife? It was because he was on their side – and Dorothy was so much excess baggage.

 

Hunt’s role was 2 fold: to further ensnare Nixon in Watergate and to murder his wife. He maneuvered her into the position of bagman from which Bush, Leidtke, and Nixon were determined to recover the 2 million USD. Many of you are saying that this is a preposterous notion. But we remind you that CIA executive Cord Meyer participated in the murder of his ex-wife Mary Meyer. Hunt was following suit in a rather clever plot.

 

As Bush’s one time case officer, we are certain that Hunt and Bush were conspiring together to achieve multiple aims.

 

There is other evidence of murder. Nixon appointed close aide Egil Krogh Under Secretary of Transportation for the divisions investigating the crash. He appointed his assistant Alexander Butterfield to head of FAA, and another aide, Dwight Chapin, was appointed a senior executive of United Airlines. Anyone who thinks these personnel moves were coincidences is a few lights short of a Christmas tree.

 

The investigation discovered high levels of hydrogen cyanide in the pilots and passengers which in conjunction with the explosion guaranteed a crash.

 

The flight had interesting passengers not the least of whom was CBS reporter Marcia Clark who had been probing various persons with knowledge of Watergate. More significantly were some natural gas cooperative executives who were the target of anti-trust investigations who, having discovered damning documents related to Watergate and Attorney General John Mitchell’s dropping of anti-trust charges against an El Paso firm which profited Mitchell handsomely, decided that they had leverage in obtaining relief. These small time players were no match for the Bush Crime Syndicate.

 

Supporting our contention that the FBI murdered survivors is CBS Network News’ vehement demands that Ms Clark be cremated against the determined wishes otherwise of her family. The mortician who handled her body was very shortly thereafter murdered. It is our opinion that William Paley, longtime CBS CEO was personally involved in the murder or its cover-up.

 

In 1974 Chuck Colson went on record stating that he thought the CIA sabotaged the plane, but no one took him seriously.

 

Finally, Skolnick reported that Dick Gregory, a White House enemy, was strenuously pressured to board the flight. Fortunately he exercised sound judgment in rejecting the offer.

 

In summary the flight was planned as a giant clean-up operation to eliminate blackmailers and to rid Hunt of his wife. We acknowledge that some aspects of our thesis are quite controversial, but there can be no controversy that the passengers were targeted for murder by Richard Nixon, John Mitchell, George Bush and Bruce Leidtke. We add to that list for good measure and sound reason Everett Howard Hunt, murderer and scumbag extraordinaire.

Copyright 2014 Tony Bonn. All rights reserved.

Murderer Richard Mellon Scaife Dead, 82

Murderer and billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife is thankfully dead at age 82, according to a report filed today by Veterans Today.

 

Scaife was born to wealth that his father used to help him avoid the Korean War draft by donating millions to the University of Pennsylvania, which in turn granted Scaife a bogus degree he "earned" over sufficient time to escape draft age.

 

Scaife employed an army of criminal cops to murder and intimidate news reporters, most notably Steve Kanga, who got too close to the truth.

 

The murderer was also a force behind the American Spectator, a right winged lunatic bin which tirelessly defends the Bush Crime Syndicate, and the preposterous lies of the Warren Commission.

 

Veterans Today also revealed that the murderer funded much of Watergate, information which we will incorporate into our historical assessment of the coup of 1974 which continued the coup of 1963. This information ties Scaife much closer to the CIA than we previously knew since Watergate was a CIA operation designed to oust Nixon from office. Nixon's departure was no loss to the nation.

 

We look forward to the deaths of other American criminals and traitors,

Reference
Gordon Duff, Satan Welcomes Richard Mellon Scaife Dead at 82, Veterans Today, July 4, 2014, accessed 7/14/2014

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Was Watergate Really About Sex?

As time rolls on, new evidence about the Watergate case seeps from the bowels of archives and witnesses revealing previously unreported information. One of these revelations is that Watergate was really about a call girl operation run by the Democratic National Committee. Although it is part of the puzzle, we don’t think it tells the whole story.

 

Although Phil Stanford has recently written a book, White House Call Girl, laying out the details of the prostitution ring serving Washington's high and mighty, the story has been around since as early as 1976, and gained stature with G Gordon Liddy’s legal encounter with Maxie Wells, one of the prominent figures in the ring. However, Standford’s book is dedicated to the details of the subject, and is more accessible to casual students of Watergate than some other treatments of the topic.

 

The call girl ring is certainly a verifiable aspect to Watergate about which Stanford reveals important details, some of which we admit are necessary inferences for which we would like meatier substantiation. He identifies 3 important characters who were the motivation for the break-in, namely John Dean, White House Special Counsel to Richard Nixon, Carl Shoffler, the arresting officer of the Watergate burglars, and Heidi Rikan, the madame running the escort service.

 

Rikan ( c. 1940 – 1990 ), also known as Cathy Deiter, was a German immigrant who became involved with the underworld as a stripper. Mob boss Joe Nesline thought that her talents would be better used as a whore to spy on his pimps’ big name clients in football and politics. She had developed an exclusive clientele in the Johnson and Nixon administrations when she came to the attention of John Dean.

 

John Dean’s girl friend and future wife Mo Biner and Rikan were roommates at the Columbia Plaza Apartments before Biner moved in with Dean. Dean and Rikan knew each other well as attested by Rikan’s black book which contained Dean’s direct White House number. Stanford believes that the ambitious Dean wanted the information Rikan had on politicians in order to blackmail them for personal political advantage. Consequently he ordered the Watergate break where Rikan’s business originated at the DNC headquarters.

 

The target of the break in was Ida “Maxie”  Wells’ desk, the secretary to Spencer Oliver, Jr. Wells was the front woman for Rikan’s prostitution service for which Wells arranged hook-ups for out of town visitors. The operation is confirmed by attorney Phillip Bailey whose credibility was so high that he was sent to St Elizabeth’s Hospital for psychiatric tests where after some considerable time he was certified sane. When he was released from the hospital he was forced to plead guilty to a felony and sent to federal prison. The purpose for railroading Bailey into the hospital and prison was to discredit him. Clearly he touched a nerve.

 

The Washington Post’s version – ie the CIA’s – of Watergate is that the burglars broke into DNC chairman Larry O’Brien’s office to tap his telephone to gather political information. They burglarized the Watergate on May 28 and June 17, with the former deemed to be a failure requiring the second break in. No bugs were ever found in the offices but the CIA story claims that Alfred Baldwin was eavesdropping across the street in the Howard Johnson motel. The most likely story is that he was listening to conversations at the Columbia apartments down the street since O’Brien had been out of town for about a month prior to the last break in.

 

At some point, perhaps as early as June 1, Carl Shoffler of the Washington DC police department, and concurrently a military intelligence agent, got a tip about the second break in. On the night of the burglary, he volunteered to work without pay, waiting in an unmarked car for a call to come in reporting the burglary. This version of events is supported by testimony of the Senate Watergate committee from a certain Army LTC whose name we don’t recall.

 

This version of the story contradicts the CIA story which alleges that an alert diligent police officer just happened to stumble upon the burglars as he was making his rounds. This story is a complete lie.

 

Two interesting points stand out about the arrest. The 5 burglars were wearing surgical gloves and had mounted photography equipment on Wells’ desk, and one of them, Eugenio Martinez had a key which Shoffler took, but which the FBI later determined fit Wells’ desk. So the evidence points strongly to the burglars breaking into Wells’ desk to photograph her black book with its rich data.

 

As Stanford puts it, the arrest looks like one intelligence operation stepping on the toes of another. But we don’t see it quite that way. The absolute most important fact of the entire Watergate saga is that the 5 burglars were not ordinary street hoods. They were hardened top level CIA agents and operatives who were involved with Bay of Pigs and the murder of John Kennedy, something which Nixon immediately recognized when he found  out about the break in. Without understanding who they were, it is utterly impossible to understand Watergate. Even if proper cognition is made of this salient fact, it is no guarantee that one will understand the purpose of the break-in, but clearly the CIA was behind it and was the reason Nixon wanted Haldeman to contact Richard Helms, CIA DCI, to thwart the investigation. After all, it was their operation.

 

Unfortunately for Nixon, the CIA was the sponsor of the break-in and they were not about to call off the investigation, especially when Nixon threatened them with the unraveling of the “whole Bay of Pigs thing.”

 

Our view is that Dean instigated the cover-up into which he drew Nixon who thought he could twist the whole affair to his political advantage. Unfortunately he was going up against the entire intelligence establishment which included the press – a fact which he never understood.

 

He also did not realize that Dean started the cover-up, knowing full well that it would end badly, thus accomplishing the agency’s goal of removing a president.

 

While we agree that Stanford has uncovered a significant dimension to the Watergate story, we don’t think that it was the true ultimate aim of the CIA operation. Certainly Dean threatened to expose an explosive sex scandal, but the Democrats fought mightily by turning it into a story about abuses of the imperial presidency in order to keep the salacious aspects under wraps, and for which the FBI obliged by suppressing the evidence of the key which Shoffler obtained during the arrests.

 

We could be mistaken about the grand purpose of Watergate, so will hedge our bets with continued research into the 20^th century’s great American political scandal. But for now, it was not all about sex.

Reference

Jim Hougan, Hougan, Liddy, the Post and Watergate, jimhougan.com, June 22, 2011, accessed 3/26/2014

Phil Stanford, interview on Oppenheimer Report, no date, accessed 3/26/2014, YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MedT1FkaR0

Copyright 2014 Tony Bonn. All rights reserved.

The Ellsberg Deceit

Although Daniel Ellsberg is an icon of the Left, there is abundant evidence that he was and is a CIA stalwart who was used to topple a president who had outlived his usefulness and to protect an agency on the verge of serious exposure as a criminal enterprise. Indeed, the Pentagon Papers leaks of Ellsberg are simply the opening act of Watergate.

 

The background for this blog post is 2 online interviews and 1 article by Douglas Valentine who studied extensively Ellsberg, especially his rise to prominence by way of the Central Intelligence Agency.

 

Ellsberg (b. 1931) was educated at Harvard, joined the Marines, and subsequently found himself stationed in Vietnam where he met key figures in America’s intelligence community. He had an audiographic ability to remember conversations which made him an ideal spy, a talent which ingratiated him to CIA Saigon station chief John Hart because it allowed the agency to better track the opinions of leading intelligentsia in the country.

 

During 1965-67 he was assigned to the Revolutionary Development Program in South Vietnam, a CIA program which was designed to “pacify” the country especially against the Viet Cong. It is during this time that he came under the influence and direction of men like Edward Lansdale, Lucien Conein, and Frank Scotton, the latter 2 of whom became his close friends. As for Lansdale, to this day Ellsberg reveres him.

 

Although the operations of the RDP were diverse, they involved a huge element of drug dealing, especially with the Corsican drug dealers, particularly Michel Seguin who enters the story as one of the men from whom Ellsberg took a fiancé in one of his many Lothario escapades.

 

The CIA was heavily engaged in the drug trade in Vietnam, a leading factor for driving the US into the war. While there are many reasons for the war, communism was not really one of them. That was the branding which made the war acceptable to a majority of Americans for a while. The CIA realized that the drug industry yielded enormous profits, thus it collaborated with the mob and banks to erect a drug empire which involved drug revenues, money laundering, and plenty of murder. The Golden Triangle was the fount of much illicit wealth.

 

While researching Ellsberg, Valentine was told by Frank Scotton that he authorized Ellsberg to release what became known as the Pentagon Papers. Scotton was a CIA officer who formed assassination squads around Saigon in what was the forerunner of Operation Phoenix, a program led by future CIA Director William Colby, which murdered in cold blood at least 40-60,000 people, most of whom were civilians. It made the My Lai Massacre look like an ice cream social.

 

But if Scotton and Conein were close friends of Ellsberg, why would they hang him out to dry – though quite mildly – by saying that Ellberg’s actions were not the result of conscience but of intrigue? Valentine then struggles with the epistemological problem of knowing truth among campaigns of whispers, innuendo, and deceit – the ingredients of a perfect CIA stew.

 

Valentine proceeds to document that not only had the main stream press caught on to the drug dealing of the CIA in 1970, but Congress was beginning to investigate the atrocities of the Phoenix Program, and other CIA war crimes the following year.

 

In addition, Nixon launched his War on Drugs in 1971 which unleashed a series of attacks on operations near and dear to the CIA’s heart. At this point the left hand was fighting against the right hand, and order had to be brought from chaos.

 

In order to divert attention from the CIA, Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers which had the dual effect of diverting attention from the CIA to the military, and also undermining Nixon. Many say that Hunt bungled the Watergate break in; we say that he succeeded masterfully.

 

The Rockefeller cabal used Nixon while he was useful, but threw him away like so much used toilet paper when he stood in the way or caused it troubles. The primary problem was that Vietnam was in large measure about getting control of the drug trade and its great lucre, about which the plutocrats brooked no opposition. In any event, unraveling the drug business would expose the CIA for all of its sordid crimes and subject it to manifold publicity problems.

 

By reacting to the Pentagon Papers leaks as he did, Nixon exposed himself as an easy target of the war protesters and those defending civil liberties. This was the segue to Watergate which finished off Nixon by the Rockefeller –Bush alliance which worked so effectively to murder Kennedy.

 

This foray of Nixon into the drug war set back the CIA which then had to spend several years suborning the DEA into supporting its drug operations. But by the 1980s, they were back in full swing with the Mena drug connection, Iran Contra drug running, and BCCI drug money laundering operations.

 

Valentine reports that Ellsberg protested adamantly that Scotton or Conein were the source of the Pentagon Papers leaks, a protestation which we think is too much. As noted above, Ellsberg idolizes Edward Lansdale, the man who was ground supervisor of Dealey Plaza, and one of the leading planners and executives of the Kennedy assassination. How can a man who idolizes the psychopathic Lansdale be believed about having a conscience which led him to leak the otherwise useless Pentagon Papers?

 

The CIA got what it wanted out of Vietnam, and by 1970-71 was ready to evacuate Southeast Asia. It was time to move on to bigger projects in world conquest and imperial aggression. The plutocratic paymasters needed to turn its attention to the USSR, which they ruled, and the Middle East oil, for which they lusted.

Reference

Douglas Valentine, Will the Real Daniel Ellsberg Please Stand Up! Counter Punch, March 8-10, 2003

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Why Nixon Did Not Destroy the Tapes

Nixon releasing tape transcripts (Photo: pimall.com)

One of the enduring mysteries of the Watergate scandal has been the reason why Nixon did not destroy the tapes containing incriminating conversations against him. Thanks to the astute analysis of Gary Allen, we know the answer – Nixon simply was not in a position to destroy them.

Even special prosecutor Leon Jaworski admitted that without the tapes, he had no case against Nixon. This statement comes from a man who fabricated evidence and suborned perjury to convict an innocent man of murder during World War 2. Jaworski’s case was so foul that years later a review board would castigate it as a gross miscarriage of justice .

The common argument at the time of Watergate was that had Nixon destroyed the tapes, he would have saved his presidency, even at the risk of a dark cloud hanging over his administration for the remainder of its term. Without evidence there is no case. The predicate of the argument is false. It assumes that Nixon had full control over the taping system which he did not.

The two key figures to understanding the taping fiasco, which started when Alexander Butterfield, White House liaison to the Secret Service and CIA informant or agent, casually but oh so deliberately mentioned the tapes to the Senate Watergate committee in July 1973, are Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig.

Kissinger established the plumbers after agitating Nixon incessantly about leaks, a situation which was exacerbated by the staged Pentagon Papers leaks, a report drier than saw dust and about 5 years old by the time CIA operatives leaked it. But it’s the principle of the thing, as the old saying goes.

Kissinger’s paranoia was not restricted to hiring the CIA Plumbers. He installed extensive wiretaps on all of his staff and several journalists, a fact known at the time of Watergate but never once reported in the major press. Kissinger skated through Watergate without a singed hair – something which was not accidental.

Butterfield was in charge of the taping system which had been installed in the White House at the suggestion of Lyndon Johnson when Nixon assumed office. Our recollection is that it did not become operational until around 1971, with an improvised system in place in the mean time. In any event, the system in place at the time of Watergate was transparent in that it was voice activated and operated without Nixon’s involvement. Butterfield monitored Nixon’s movements and conversations from his White House office.

In addition to much of the foregoing analysis, Gary Allen presented two compelling explanations about Nixon’s inaction over the tapes, neither of which has anything to do with Nixon greed or vanity, both of which are common explanations. Allen suggests that Nixon did not have control of the tapes and that there were multiple copies of them, meaning that destruction of one tape would still leave others available. And not knowing their locations, the task becomes like trying to stomp out cockroaches.

This is where Alexander Haig, the man who butchered Nixon without the latter having a clue, comes in. Allen points out that the investigating staffs seemed to know exactly where in the many miles of tapes all of the incriminating evidence was. The only people with such access were Butterfield, Haig, and Robert H. Taylor, the secret service chief whom Bob Haldeman fired and who later went to work for Nelson Rockefeller as head of his security. But Haig and Butterfield were colleagues from previous assignments. Thus when Butterfield left the White House, Haig became the keeper of the tapes archives.

Apparently Haig, with advice from Butterfield, fed the precise location - down to the second - of the damning evidence to the Watergate Committee and Special Prosecutor. There is no way in the world anyone could have traversed those tapes and made sense of them in so short a period of time without knowledgeable help which Haig was only too happy to provide. Even today, we still do not have all of the tapes transcribed.

Nixon was a caged animal trapped by men who were supposed to be working for him, but who were in fact working for their true boss, Nelson Rockefeller. The implications of Nixon's downfall are staggering, but a topic we will continue to cover in future postings.

Reference
Gary Allen, Rockefeller File, 1976

Copyright 2013 Tony Bonn. All rights reserved.

Against Them and Colin Powell

One of the more astonishing revelations from Tegan Mathis’ Against Them is the allegation that Colin Powell was the assassin who shot Kennedy in the back from the Texas Book School Depository in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963. But is there any truth to the story about Powell?

The short answer to the question is that much more research is required. The longer answer is that such a narrative about Colin Powell barely has enough basis in fact to justify the research – hanging on a threadbare tease of a rope.

For those who have not read the book or our review of it, Mathis decodes Lynne Cheney’s Executive Privilege, written in 1979, which tells the details about Watergate and the Kennedy assassination through the filter of a bad novel laden with clues which only certain cognoscenti would understand.

In decoding the clues, Mathis concluded that one character, Harold Stark, is a representation of Colin Powell. Stark was a protégé of Robert Boyston who represents Caspar Weinberger who was the Shadow Government vice president. This relationship became our point of departure in our attempt to validate the factual basis of Lynne Cheney’s story.

Keep in mind that we allow for the possibility that Cheney told fractured fairy tales or created a time bomb to confuse future historians who might get too close to the truth.

Starting in 1976, Cheney spent the next 3 years writing the book which saw publication in 1979. Perhaps her husband’s years in the political wilderness gave her time to whip up a bad novel, but it was also a time well before Watergate reached its half life and before many of the names to become big during the 1980s and beyond were of any prominence. Two of those names were Caspar Weinberger and Colin Powell.

Cheney’s book, although set in the future, is allegedly a retrospective look at the Nixon years, with special focus on 1971 – 74 – according to Mathis’ telling of it. During this time both Weinberger and Powell were indeed in the White House. Weinberger was a California man, as were his bosses Nixon and Reagan, who came to serve as Director of Office of Management and Budget from June 12, 1972 – February 1, 1973. Unless you are David Stockman, the position is usually an obscure mid level White House position.

At the same time, Colin Powell came to the White House as a Lieutenant Colonel in the White House Fellow program whose 1972 class term began in September and ran for a year. Weinberger would be promoted to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (February 12, 1973 – August 8, 1975). But for the purposes of our analysis, the period of interest is their overlap at the White House where Powell was assigned to OMB.

Thus it is clear that Weinberger and Powell worked together in the White House as Mathis says Cheney says in her novel. But that period lasted a mere 5 months, a period of time which seems too scant to accomplish anything of substance as implied by the Mathis interpretation.

When Cheney began her book in 1976, Weinberger was out of the public eye while Powell was never in it. But his star was on the rise quite literally the same year of Executive Privilege’s publication in 1979 – the year he was made a Brigadier General. Weinberger was in California doing whatever former bureaucrats do there.

The point is this – Lynne Cheney knew a lot about two relatively obscure men – even by DC gossip standards – in 1976. It would be unusual for a White House Fellow to make any impression on a bureaucrat’s wife 4 – 7 years after his departure from the president’s mansion. Thus the events provide a thin patina of plausibility to Mathis' thesis.

From this we conclude that Cheney had excellent inside information and may well have socialized with the Powells – although to hear Mathis tell it, Cheney is an impenitent racist. Her access to recondite knowledge substantiates the authority from which she wrote and thus lends credence to the details she relates about the two men and their relationship.  But to interpolate this inside information into a true confession about the true unfolding of Watergate stretches credulity.

Given the relatively short period of time Weinberger and Powell were in the OMB, their close relationship which Cheney describes would require significant prior development.

The bigger problem with Weinberger being the sponsor of Watergate is its enormity and timing. We believe that the scandal was too large and complex to be the work of Weinberger and a ragtag group of bureaucrats in the White House. Where in God’s good name would a Director of OMB get the time and authority to orchestrate the Watergate assassination? It would require much more in Weinberger’s portfolio than we can possibly know.

The other problem with assigning responsibility to Weinberger is its improbability. OMB is generally not a power center, so we find it a bit absurd that the alleged Shadow Vice President would assume his Clark Kent persona under that guise.

What we know of the two men seems to preclude their collaboration or involvement with anything so grand as the Bush Crime Syndicate’s Watergate conspiracy.

As for Powell, other problems in the timeline emerge with respect to the Kennedy assassination. Specifically, we refer to his tour of duty in Vietnam from 1962 – 1963. The best evidence we were able to marshal shows Powell in Vietnam from December 25, 1962 to November 22/23, 1963, leaving little or no time to be in Dallas for a murder of the president.

This in no way exonerates Powell who was sent to Vietnam to whitewash My Lai and other civilian butcherings by the CIA and US Army.

If someone were to prove that Powell was in the TSBD window shooting at the president, he would need to show that Powell was in the Dallas on or prior to 12:30p on November 22, 1963. As of now, the best evidence fails to support Mathis’ interpretation of Cheney.

But that is a minimal standard since executing a complex operation of murdering the president would require significant training with the principals.

Assuming that we are correct about Powell, and assuming that Mathis is generally correct about the Cheney novel, then our alternative explanation of Executive Privilege as a fractured fairy tale or parlor game for certain cognoscenti makes sense.

Given Mathis' near anonymity it is quite possible that he is a spook on a disinformation campaign.

 Reference Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell." Karen De Young. New York: Vintage Books/Random House, 2007. 612 p. ISBN: 9781400075645. See pp. 51 and 67.

Colin Powell, A Biography." Richard Steins. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. 133 p. ISBN: 031332266X. See p. 27.

My American Journey." Colin L. Powell. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003. 675 p. ISBN: 0345466411. See p. 104

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First Impressions: Against Them

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The Bush Crime Syndicate's War on America

When George Bush, Jr. declared war on terrorism in the aftermath of the demolitions of the World Trade Center towers, he was focused not on the middle east, but America. The interests which he represented consider America, just as does Justice Ginsberg, a terrorist state with its Constitutional government. Every action taken by this cabal since before the days of Prescott Bush have been to claim the United States as the rightful inheritance promised to them by Satan.

It may come as a shock that such a group as the Bush Crime Syndicate (BCS) exists and we admit that defining its membership is a challenge. However, we can say that many of the cronies documented by Russ Baker in Family of Secrets is a good place to start. The membership includes the cream of American and international society and encompasses some of the most powerful corporations in America such as Halliburton, the former Bechtel Group, and Carlyle Group. These short lists are by no means exhaustive.

We know that many people will genuinely embrace the argument presented by BCS thug Denny Chin, the federal judge who denied justice to April Gollop who brought suit against BCS elite George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney who, with prior knowledge of the attack, allowed it to proceed. Gollop was the surviving victim of the attack who witnessed absolutely no plane parts in the gaping hole left by the cruise missile which assaulted the Pentagon on 9/11/2001. The judge dismissed the case out of hand because she said that it was “delusional” that anyone would even think that this trio had any foreknowledge let alone complicity in the attack. In denying the trying of fact, Chin proved her loyalty to the syndicate.

We have made much of the fact that Skull & Bones has been a fertile recruiting ground for the BCS but we need to draw distinctions between association and complicity. The BCS invades hosts like a parasite to eventually take over their functions or to utilize specific powers it exercises to achieve their aims. The BCS covets the membership of Skull & Bones for filial reasons but it is also true that certain of its members are as benign as Walter Mitty. In drawing attention to SB, the BCS throws out a red herring to keep suspicious minds off balance.

The same can be said of the CIA. Is this CIA uniformly evil? Probably it is not, but it is a hive for the vicious BCS personalities who have called it home over the years.

In characterizing the Bush associates as a crime syndicate, we point to the many visible crimes which these vile people have committed against individuals and the nation. The best evidence clearly points to the following crimes and events instigated by this cabal of wicked men. World War 2, the murder of John Kennedy, the Viet Nam War, the murder of Malcolm X, the murder of Martin King, the murder of Robert Kennedy, the political assassination of Richard Nixon, the murder of John Lennon, the attempted murder of Ronald Reagan, the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and so many more which have yet to receive adequate research. We also suspect that Nelson Rockefeller may have been murdered by the BCS although our working hypothesis is that he was murdered by Mossad.

America must wake up to the fact that the most respectful names in American politics are associated in a vast right wing conspiracy, much as Hillary Clinton described several years ago when her husband was the object of the BCS machinations. Oddly enough, the Clintons are members of the BCS themselves as we note how both are rabidly involved in stirring a groundless war against Iran.

As Jesus rejected the blandishments of bling from Satan – even rulership of the world – the BCS, especially George Bush, Sr. and George Bush, Jr. have succumbed with vigor and lust. Occular Politics proposed quite persuasively how Bush, Sr. collaborated in the murder of the president in 1963 as part of an initiation rite to the inner circle of power. They hinted quite tantalizingly that George Bush, Jr. was the principal agent of murder of John Kennedy, Jr. – a claim which find both astonishing and convincing.

With the imminent completion of the Utah Data Center, it may be too late to roll back the tide of the BCS, but people of conviction and faith will join the fight against this menace from the pit of hell.

Reference
JFK and Bush II, Occular Politics
Family of Secrets, Russ Baker
The Terror Conspiracy Revisited, Jim Marrs
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Who Is John Dean?

For most Americans of a certain age, John Dean needs little introduction as the Watergate whistle blower who helped bring down the Nixon White House. Unfortunately the characterization of him in the press is deceitful at best and a lie at worst. John Dean is, in the words of a New York Times reviewer J. Anthony Luca, ‘”one of the sleaziest White House operatives.”’ We present his sleazy story below.

Dean, a son of an affluent Ohio family, attended Staunton Military Academy in Virginia where he roomed with Barry Goldwater, Jr, a relationship which blossomed into a friendship with the Goldwater family, who were also very friendly with the Bushes.

Following graduation from the academy, Dean attended college in the Midwest, after which he graduated from Georgetown law school. He was dismissed from his first job at a Washington law firm for violating company policy against conflict of interest pursuant to negotiating a private broadcast deal while doing so for a client.

Dean then managed to get a job as chief minority counsel for the House Judiciary Committee working for Ohio representative William McCulloch. After a couple of other stints, he got a job working for Richard Kleindienst, a Goldwater protégé and Nixon Deputy Attorney General. In time, in July 1970, he managed to take John Ehrlichman’s position, through the agency of Egil Krogh, as chief White House counsel when Ehrlichman became Nixon's chief domestic adviser.

Egil Krogh is the man who ordered the break-in to Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office and who had been trying months before July 1970 to get Dean into the White House. Krogh was also the money man liaison for the CIA who paid off the Southeast Asian drug lords. Krogh also worked with Kennedy murder co-conspirator E Howard Hunt during the Nixon years. And to round out his villainy, Krogh also had associations with University of Washington law professor Roy Prosterman whose Vietnamese pacification program had close associations with the CIA’s Operation Phoenix, a program designed to murder Vietnamese civilians of which 20,000 – 60,000 were murdered in cold blood.

Dean was soon heading up his own intelligence operations in the White House, ostensibly to help re-elect the president. However, his true goal was to implicate the president in a crime resulting in his removal from power. In November 1971, Dean ordered two private investigators to do a walk-through of the Watergate Hotel where the Democratic National Convention maintained its headquarters.

In January 1972, Dean instructed G Gordon Liddy, another Krogh appointment, to set up an intelligence operation, on an unprecedented scale, which spawned Operation Gemstone, a clandestine operation to infiltrate Democrat campaigns. This operation morphed into the Watergate break-in which Dean, in April 1972, ordered Jeb Magruder to order Liddy to initiate.

When the FBI became involved in the purposefully botched break-in and its subsequent trace of the money found on the burglars, Dean attempted to coerce director Patrick Gray to drop or curtail his investigations. When he refused to do so, Dean sat in all of the witness interviews in order to control the way the story developed and to stanch any information which might tie him to the break-in and its cover-up.

Dean was quite active in the cover-up, one action of which was ordering Hunt out of the country, obviously in an effort to silence potentially loose lips, which precaution he sweetened with an offer of hush money. Dean also covered-up the fact that Gordon Strachan, a mid-level White House staffer, had pre break-in knowledge and direct ties with Dean.

Dean was finally convicted of Watergate crimes but plea bargained for a 4 month prison sentence. He wrote his autobiography and Watergate tale, Blind Ambition, to turn his intelligence espionage in the White House into big money. Bigger money awaited him when he moved to California to work as an investment banker, proving once again that crime pays.

Unfortunately, and quite curiously, though not in the least bit surprising, John Dean disavowed his book as a bit of fantasy in a 1989 interview with author Len Colodny, in which he admitted that he could not rely upon Blind Ambition, deferring instead to his sworn testimony. He also accused his publisher, Simon & Schuster of introducing fictional material into the book to make it more interesting. Alice Mayhew, an editor of the firm, completely denied that the publisher was responsible for any of the book’s content.

In addition to investment banking, Dean has an avocational interest in suing people who publish unflattering material about him. Examples include his lawsuits against Len Colodny, author of Silent Coup, and G Gordon Liddy who suggested that Dean authorized Watergate to obtain information about his call girl wife Maureen. We dismiss that allegation as a distraction from the larger story about US intelligence engaged in another executive action operation.

Dean, far from being the earnest but ambitious legal counsel for the corrupt president as he and the press portray, was one of the prime movers behind the Watergate debacle. However, we must acknowledge that higher powers than Dean were plotting the political assassination of a president.

Reference

Family of Secrets, Russ Baker

http://www.watergate.com/, Len Colodny

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Watergate 40 Years Later

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