-----Original Message----- From: Linda Minor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk Date: Thursday, May 13, 1999 6:32 AM Subject: Re: OAS 1962 Gen Salan and Gen Jouhaud >The key to discovering the answer to who killed John and Robert Kennedy is >history. Since I became interested in this research in 1993, I started by >reading the assassination books, the most revealing of which I believe was >Dick Russell's The Man Who Knew Too Much. It was a footnote on page 792 of >his tome which motivated me to go further back into history to find the >roots of the conspiracy. Footnote 14 to chapter 27 of his book: > >"Crichton background: The 1963 Dallas City telephone directory lists >Crichton as president of Nafco Oil & Gas, Inc. A short article on Page 26A >of the Dallas Morning News (February 16, 1975) identifies him as a >'millionaire oilman.' Researcher Peter Dale Scott's unpublished 1971 'The >Dallas Conspiracy,' pp. III-16-17, notes that Crichton until 1962 'was also >a Vice-President of the Empire Trust Company, a firm whose leading >shareholders, the inter-related families of Loeb, Lehman and Bronfman, are >said by Stephen Birmingham to have maintained "something very like a private >CIA...around the world" to protect their other investments such as in Cuba, >in Guatemala, and in General Dynamics.' One of Empire Trust's directors >was, Scott notes, Lewis W. MacNaughton--the employer of George Bouhe, one of >the first members of Dallas's Russian community to meet Oswald." > >Since reading that, I have learned that Empire Trust was associated in many >real estate investments with Old Colony Trust of Boston, and that both of >them were investors in the old United Fruit Company that owned hundreds of >thousands of acres of land in Guatemala. It also owned a great deal of land >in Cuba which was expropriated by Castro. >These investments date back to at least the turn of the 20th century and >probably before. Long before the CIA and NATO were dreamt of. The >government intelligence agencies merely became an extension of an >intelligence machine that had already been created, and the loyalties of the >agents never changed. > >Linda Minor >Linda Minor wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >>I believe the Texas oilmen, bankers and other businessmen referred to in >the >>Torbitt Document as being the financiers of the assassination were acting >on >>behalf of Scottish land barons and distillers who had, many years before, >>invested their capital in Texas in the hope of creating an empire before >>Texas became a state. I believe tha H.L. Hunt's family of bankers in East >>Texas, Clint Murchison's family, Sid Richardson's, as well as George and >>Herman Brown's father and uncles and their mother's family as well, were >>connected to these wealthy European investors. >> >>One clue to who these investors were, and the other assets they owned comes >>from the fact that, shortly after the Kennedy assassination, a Houston bank >>headed by a man who was then chairman of Conoco merged with a Swiss bank >>headed by a man named J.F. Paravicini. Other investors included Boeing, >>Seagrams, a London subsidiary of Brown & Root and the Schlesinger >>Organization of London and Johannesburg. One of the directors was W.S. >>Farish III and another was J. Hugh Liedtke (both of whom were closely tied >>to George Bush who was also living in Houston at the time). Not long after >>the merger, Paravacini was caught helping Billy Mellon Hitchcock launder >the >>proceeds from the sale of LSD [see Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain's Acid >>Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion; Pete Brewton, The Mafia, >>the CIA and George Bush]. >> >>Linda Minor >> >> >> >>Bill Parker wrote in message >><[EMAIL PROTECTED] n >e >>t>... >>>On 11 May 1999 03:55:34 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clark Wilkins) wrote: >>> >>>>"James K. Olmstead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Linda Minor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >>>>>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >>>>>> I check Dope, Inc.'s source on the information you are referring to. >>>>They >>>>>> cited the Torbitt Document. >>>>> >>>>>Linda: In your opinion, who was directly involved in plots to kill >>>>DeGaulle, >>>>>(DIA, NATO, FBI, CIA, Mossad, etc), and was also connected to the plot >>>>in >>>>>the killing of JFK. >>>>> >>>>>Thanks.......jko >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>Just in case Linda doesn't answer I'll add my opinion. I have quite a >>>>bit of research on this although it probably includes factoids. However, >>>>there is no link to the DIA. NATO is mentioned in that one of the plots >>>>against DeGaulle included having a French NATO officer serving in West >>>>Germany use his armored brigade to surround Paris. There is no evidence >>>>of actual NATO involvement. >>>>The "FBI" allegation is a sham. >>>>The CIA was contacted by the OAS in the spring of 1963 in Madrid and >>>>offered to help arrange for DeGaulle to meet an accident. The CIA >>>>conveyed a refusal to the offer. I checked to see if the refusal wasn't >>>>just made for plausible deniability and that CIA actually did give help. >>>>I reached a mixed conclusion on that one. The CIA's refusal to accept >>>>the offer was genuine. However, I noted the CIA did offer to allow the >>>>OAS to tour anti-Castro Cuban training camps where assassination was >>>>being taught. Oddly enough, General Walker seems to have been behind >>>>this offer. I would guess that Walker favored assassination and pressed >>>>for it but that JFK refused but did the camp tour as a political >>>>compromise. Of course, that's just a guess. >>>>The French SDECE concluded the Mossad was behind the attempts but I found >>>>two arguments against this. First, the Israeli embassy, based on info >>>>they had learned from Jewish settlers in Algeria, warned DeGaulle of >>>>plots against him on more than one occassion (Mike Piper has offered an >>>>explanation on this which would allow them still to be conspiring). >>>>Second, the SDECE supported the OAS in its assassination attempts against >>>>DeGaulle so it's unlikely they would fink on a cohort. >>>>FWIW, the bomb that was detonated under DeGaulle's car had an American >>>>made detonator. >>>> >>>>.Clark >>> >>>How about citing some sources to support your rather unusual allegations >>enumerated above? >>> >>>Bill Parker >>> >>> >> >> > >