- Len Osanic reads the article from the Chicago Indepentent 1975 by Edwin Black
- The Chicago Plot website
- “Our Man” Edwin writes about is revealed “Abraham Bolden”
- The Internet Archive Complete PDF
- The introduction: Edwin Black is the target of intelligence assets
- Powers that be did not want the Chicago Plot investigated
- Article PDF page 1 – 24
- Page 25
- Page 30
- Page 31
- Page 33
- Page 34
- Page 35
- Page 36
- An explanation of the purpose of the article
- Four men in Chicago to assassinate JFK as he approached the Army-Air Force game
- The FBI warned the Secret Service of the plot and then backed away
- The Chicago SS office had only eight men
- A landlady informs of suspicious characters renting a room from her
- Agent Stocks blows his cover and the suspects are brought in without evidence
- Thomas Arthur Vallee, eerily similar to Oswald is identified as the proposed patsy
- Personality traits that could make Vallee a perfect patsy
- Vallee was arrested with a knife, 750 rounds of ammunition but no firearm
- The method of assassination used in the Diem murders
- Vallee’s apartment was searched under duress and firearms and ammunition were found there
- Two suspected conspirators were in custody but the other two were at large
- Kennedy uses Vietnam events as an excuse to cancel his Chicago visit
- 20 days after the Chicago plot was thwarted, Kennedy is killed in Dallas
- Part Two of the article documents the investigation
- Black brings up the suspicious fact that 90 of the witnesses died shortly after the assassination
- The cover-ups by the FBI and how they botched the investigation as a result
- The anonymous source, SS Agent, Abraham Bolden gets a lie-detector test
- Corruption hawk, Sherman Skolnick produces proof Vallee actually existed
- The investigation of the arrest and weapons records…much was routinely destroyed
- Agents Stocks and Motto plead “no memory” in the probing of the plot details
- The mountain of documents Black waded through in his investigation
- The original investigations were exhaustive
- Records found on Vallee seemed incomplete
- An unassuming document shows Oswald might have been in Chicago that weekend
- A Secret Service publicity specialist dodges the issue on what the agents knew
- “No comment” came at every question
- Agent Linsky opens up… a little, his responses likely were truthful
- Groth and Shurla covered up the Vallee arrest and were deceptive when asked about it
- Coffey confirmed the details everyone else was scared to divulge
- Vallee also confirms the details and was found to be truthful
- Part Three – The cover-up
- Nobody would admit the failure of the Secret Service in the assassination
- Edwin Black shows how Oswald’s murder saved much embarassment
- 50 Reasons for 50 Years – Episode 08 The Chicago Plot
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