#1241 – Paul Bleau, John Armstrong

 

  • Request a FREE copy of the Garrison Files from Len. Email Len .
  • Read Paul’s latest article on Kennedys and King, Cuba 1960 and Lansdale’s Playbook
  • Revisit Paul’s article from 2016 The JFK Assassination According to the History Textbooks – Part 1
  • Listen to Col. Fletcher Prouty discuss details regarding JFK’s assassination Watch here.
  • Edward Lansdale in Dealy Plaza on 11/22/63? Watch 50 Reasons for 50 Years – Episode 18
  • Purchase the “Collected Works of Col. L. Fletcher Prouty” – direct download”. Available Here.
  • Len & Paul reflect on how they first started to communicate & their meeting in Quebec City.
  • Len thanks Paul for going through the Garrison Files & expanding on Garrison’s investigations.
  • Paul Abbott from Australia has created a Master Index to accompany the Garrison Files.
  • Paul will always cherish his time in Quebec City visiting with Oliver Stone, Jim DiEugenio & Len.
  • Watch Oliver Stone’s documentary “JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass”. Watch Here.
  • Researching on the Mary Ferrell site, Paul discovered a significant letter from 1960. Read more.
  • Explicit information in the letter is regarding the removal of Castro from power in Cuba.
  • As early as 1960, Lansdale was influencing in the dirty tricks category in respects to Cuba.
  • Tactics like manipulation of information, planting false evidence, setting up Patsies, blaming people etc..
  • Ed Lansdale had been involved in Operation Mongoose & was a key figure in Kennedy’s assassination.
  • Col. Fletcher Prouty worked with Ed Lansdale, having detailed information about Lansdale’s history.
  • Lansdale position in the world of espionage was to aid the French resistance during WWII.
  • During WWII, Lansdale was in the OSS & sent to the Philippines by General Charles Willoughby.
  • Paul Helliwell will be revealed to be money behind the assassination
  • Allen Dulles stated Lansdale was one of his best men, helping to fight off communism in Vietnam.
  • Prior to WWII Lansdale was involved in the advertising world. Advertising is mass psychology.
  • Both David Atlee Phillips & Ed Lansdale were experts in the art of psychological warfare.
  • An advisor to Ramon Magsaysay, Lansdale was given the role by Dulles to fight off the Huks movement.
  • The Huks farmers were rebelling against the forced rural reformation that was taking place in the Philippines.
  • Lansdale later became an advisor to the French in Vietnam.
  • Excom was the Executive Committee that Kennedy organized to help him problem solve during the crisis.
  • Robert Kennedy, CIA’s John McCone, JCS members & others were on the board of the Excom Committee.
  • Ed Lansdale’s go to person at the CIA was William K. Harvey. Harvey is another key figure in JFK’s murder.
  • Policy would be set up, directions sent to SAS, SAS would create plan to follow through with objective.
  • Prouty had been sent to the South Pole escorting VIPS, conveniently out of the way for JFK’s murderers.
  • Previously Prouty had been involved in Eissenhower’s security when he visited Mexico City.
  • Fletcher Prouty identifies Ed Lansdale in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963.
  • Listen as Len gives a detailed background of Prouty’s timeline before the assassination.
  • Prouty believed Lansdale was involved in Prouty being sent to the South Pole just before the assassination.
  • Was Ed Lansdale captured walking in the photos that were taken of the three tramps in Dealey Plaza?
  • Why would Lansdale be in Dallas? Did anyone ever asked him?
  • No one has thought that Lansdale was a shooter in Dealey Plaza, more of an organizational support person.
  • Prouty was able to remove documents before his retirement by having his secretaries not stamp TOP SECRET.
  • In Prouty’s last days, he offered his collection of records & government papers to Len.
  • A small van would have been needed to transport documents, surely to bring attention at the border crossing.
  • Oswald was made to look like he had backing from Castro himself.
  • In December 1963 there were a number of reports of a possible China Cuban connection to the assassination.

    Part Two John Armstrong – starts at 01:09:00

  • John gives brief background of his research history
  • His interest was Lee Oswald background family history
  • The Warren commission presents conflicting sets of background documents
  • Made a detailed time line that lead to two different people
  • Two New discoveries discussed !
  • Commission Exhibit #705 police transcript
  • Four words on page 19, “78, squad car 10”
  • Audio of Domingo Benavides tring to use police radio at crime scene 1:08pm
  • Mr. T F Bowley at 1:10 gets radio to work
  • Overhears someone identified shot officer as “78, squad car 10”
  • Officer Tippet is Officer 78
  • Commission exhibit 162 and 163 light and dark jacket
  • Sgt. Croy at the crime scene was the only one who knew “78”
  • Croy places dark jacket over Tippet’s body
  • Found three weeks later at the School book depository
  • Shelly, Croy and Westbrook involved