-Caveat Lector-
an excerpt from:
Were We Controlled?
Lincoln Lawerence(C) 1967
University Books, Inc.
New Hyde Park, N. Y.
out -of-print
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A very interesting book. A bit of a hard read at the beginning, but then, the
author(a psuedonymn) is covering some hard to grasp subjects. One thing to
notice is that the operation( or at least parts of it ) began before even JFK
was elected. Also there are very many interesting facts and theories
presented. And for those with questions about Bunge corporation, it is
discussed also.
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This book has recently been reissued in an annotated version, with much
additional material, Highly reccommended.
MIND CONTROL, OSWALD & JFK: Were We Controlled?
by Kenn Thomas
Adventures Unlimited Press
POB 74 Kempton, IL 60946
Om
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15.
The Timing
If we are to believe The Rumor . . . the assassination was to be timed to
coincide exactly with the collapse of Allied. "Controlled" Lee Oswald, the
key man to front the actual shooting, had been chosen.
The two events now drew closer together.
Allied's erratic operation was becoming alarmingly noticeable. Its head-long
careening along the financial highway could go on only for a few more weeks
or months.
At this point, the decision was made to bring both sides of the parallel
factors together for the big collision.
Consider carefully the fantastic timing of two crucial phases of the
"collision course".
There was to come a point when all caution would be virtually abandoned for
Tino and Allied. An "anything goes" course to bring in big cash had to be
quickly followed. This point was reached when the date of the assassination
had been selected . . . and the assassin was placed in the location to do the
shooting!
It would seem that in the last part of September and early October, Dallas
was chosen. The Depository area was chosen . . . and Oswald therefore had to
be placed in that area. As soon as he was placed in that position, the New
York operation could throw its switch and Allied and Tino and the whole
commodities market could be placed square on a destruction course�but not
until he was so placed!
On the morning of October 14th, a phone call from Dallas indicated to the
"controllers" that Lee Harvey Oswald was locating on a job at that moment and
would start that week at the Texas School Book Depository (Commission Exhibit
993). On the afternoon of that same day, Tino De Angelis threw all caution to
the winds and sent (in a completely suicidal business gesture) the first
forged American
Express Warehouse receipts for six million dollars worth of phantom oil to
Wall Street. In the next few weeks, he sent an additional 33 million dollars
worth of forged papers. It would seem as many were sent as could be absorbed
by Wall Street before the assassination took place!
If there is truth to The Rumor, intelligent planning would have precluded
throwing Allied's crash-for-money journey into high gear until the gunman was
definitely placed at the scene. Astonishingly enough, the facts bear out that
this is exactly what happened!
Bunge's position was now to change completely. Rather than support Allied
with its strength, it now seemed to prepare to weaken it for the big crash.
In early October, Tino requested an increase in loans from Bunge . . . and to
his astonishment Bunge refused!
Simultaneously with the placing of the forged American Express paper in Wall
Street (and directly upon the heels of Oswald's stepping into the Depository
job), De Angelis started check-kiting on an unbelievable scale. From this
point on Tino manipulated cashiers' checks for 17.5 million dollars. He was
using Manufacturers Hanover and warehouse receipts for oil.
On Friday, November 15th, the whole fantastic net was drawn in a bit closer.
According to Miller, "Shortly before 2:00 p.m., short selling started to
dominate the market. Rumors swept the trading floor that Bunge was behind the
selling . . . "
Again from the same account of that day, Miller quotes Sam Ingal of Allied,
as concluding that Bunge had "knocked the market apart".
As of the following Monday morning, De Angelis ("controlled" to wreck his own
firm and the market along with it) had to be used to slow down the ultimate
burst of the bubble. The parade through Dallas was at noon on Friday. Allied
could not collapse completely until after the market closed on Thursday
afternoon. What did The Group do?
Just about anything that would stall the inevitable.
On Monday, Tino wrote a personal check for over three hundred thousand
dollars to cover a sum due Williston a Beane, a brokerage house he was
heavily involved with. This would keep them quiet until about Thursday . . .
when it would bounce. After that . . . well . . .?
A forged order for Bunge's oil in Tino's tanks was issued and American
Express Warehouse unwittingly issued warehouse receipts for more than eleven
million dollars to a brokerage firm which gave them to two banks, Continental
Illinois and Chase Manhattan.
On the night of Monday the 18th, Morton Kamerman of Haupt noted, aghast, that
that day's dropping futures prices had driven Allied's debt to Haupt from 9
million dollars up to 14 million. Kamerman called in his accountants for some
late night emergency work. He simply could not conceive that there was any
rational explanation for what was going on. He was right, of course. There
was nothing at all rational about Tino's course of action . . . not unless he
was "controlled"!
Kamerman called Tino on the telephone to demand a full explanation.
In "The Salad Oil Swindle", we learn that at this point (Monday night) "Tino
was stalling. He didn't mention the bankruptcy papers his lawyer would begin
filing with the Federal Court in Newark the next day."
There were three possible reasons for the stalling that Tino did until
Thursday afternoon. One, he might have planned to rob Fort Knox and make good
all his debts. (Nothing short of Fort Knox would have helped.) Two, he
planned to fly to South America to escape-it-all and for some strange reason
liked to fly only late in the week. Three, the full impact on the commodities
market of his gigantic frauds had to be postponed until the day of John
Kennedy's reception in Dallas on Friday!
On Tuesday, the 19th, Tino further stalled a realistic confrontation of the
situation by refusing to authorize Haupt to sell a big parcel of soybean oil
futures at a loss.
Because Tino carefully hid from the financial world the fact that invalid
warehouse receipts were about to rock the market to its foundation, a
cautious inquiry into the entanglements of Williston & Beane and Haupt with
Tino . . . kept the officials of The Exchange a bit worried, but not yet in a
panic state.
At this point, a vice-president of Bunge warned American Express Warehouse to
be on the alert.
Late in the afternoon, the news was received that Allied and two subsidiary
companies had filed a bankruptcy petition!
Wednesday, November 20th, passed quietly but frantically as the officials of
the Produce Exchange tried to put the pieces together. Haupt and Williston &
Beane tried to reassure their nervous customers that all would be well. Tino
seemed to be impossible to find that day
Williston & Beane and Haupt were suspended by The Exchange.
Allied's bankruptcy as such was not as alarming as it might have been because
most concerned thought that their large loans to Allied (certified by
warehouse receipts for salad oil) left them in a secure position.
Daniel De Lear, the bankruptcy trustee, was far from asleep.
One of his key legal minds, Morris Ravin, caught wind of the empty tank
possibility. When he found that Tino was, it would seem, in hiding, Ravin
contacted the Department of Justice.
On Thursday afternoon it was important to the success of the "controllers"
that the groundwork for a complete panic of the market be laid so that on the
day of assassination, Friday, the prices would plummet and the profits reaped
by selling short would be insured.
In considering whether The Rumor is truth or fantasy, one must note that of
the fifty-odd companies that could have moved that day to lift the lid that
would light the bomb . . . the one that did file suit (charging that American
Express had "lost" 160,450,000 pounds of oil worth $14,240,000 at Allied
through forged orders) was not Haupt, not Williston & Beane . . . but the
Bunge Corporation!
Bunge's action blew the top off everything and laid the groundwork for the
impact on the general public the next day.
On Friday, November 22nd, the target hour had been reached by the
"controllers". The New York Stock Exchange unknowingly helped stagger the
full impact of the Salad Oil Scandal until the afternoon by announcing that
two outside brokerage firms anxious to help the general condition of the
market had offered a joint half million dollar loan to Williston & Beane to
enable them to meet the net capital requirements of the Exchange. An
announcement at 12:15 said that Williston & Beane were reinstated. Stock
prices improved slightly. It was as if a bit of beautiful prizefighting
tactics was being employed. The "victim" was set up by a left, ready to take
the full impact on the chin of a knockout blow from the right.
That knock-out resulted from the plight of Haupt. Haupt's position presented
the worst nightmare that Wall Street could conceive. Almost twenty-one
thousand Americans had left stocks worth 450 million dollars in the
safe-keeping of the concern. It, in turn, because of Allied's chicanery and
bankruptcy found that it owed banks here and in Europe thirty-seven million
dollars that it could not pay!
Haupt, immobilized by its suspension, could not return either money or
securities to panicky customers. If it were placed in bankruptcy, years might
elapse before the average investor could get back part or all of his
investment.
16.
Stock Market Action
The good name of the Stock Exchange was in deep peril, but Keith Funston, the
head of the Exchange, was not a weak man. He was determined to somehow find a
solution without panicking the market more than was necessary.
He called an emergency meeting with Haupt bankers at the Exchange offices.
Just before they stepped through the doors, Lee Harvey Oswald . . . as he had
been controlled to do . . . pulled one of the triggers in Dallas.
The "controllers" group at various key spots in the financial market here and
abroad was ready!
The "controllers," according to The Rumor, were able to divert approximately
200 million dollars from their normal channels in the Allied manipulations.
This figure is borne out by the record.
By taking a "short" position in carefully scattered areas of the market (with
full knowledge of an impending drop of possibly 30 points), they
theoretically could have realized as a result of their murderous criminal
conspiracy a profit in excess of six billion dollars. Actually, rumor has it,
they brought in the more modest but still fantastic payoff of one half
billion. Five hundred million dollars!
As the news of the President's assassination echoed across the floor of the
Exchange, the stock market dropped (as it had been controlled to do) 24
points in 27 minutes. 2.6 million shares were sold off in the greatest panic
the market had seen since 929.
The hysteria was so great that the Board of Governors of the Exchange dosed
the Market down at 2:07 p.m., more than eighty minutes before normal closing
time.
The "controllers" had hit their target right in the center. We lost a great
leader . . . they made a huge criminal profit in selling short in many
markets.
It did not go completely unnoticed . . . this odd coincidence of trouble.
Frederick Hediger, head of Garnac Grain, a major customer of Tino De Angelis'
firm, is quoted in True Magazine as saying that when he heard on the radio
that afternoon that "Kennedy had been assassinated, I thought this must be a
plot by the Russians or the underworld�too many crazy things are happening at
once." If The Rumor is true, Mr. Hediger's feeling was strikingly intuitive.
The New York State Attorney General's office considered the possibility that
Tino had been "broken"' in the futures market by someone who sold short and
profited on a gigantic scale.
These men were not thinking about Dallas�just the Market. The controllers,
aware both events were to coincide, were in a different position.
Their advance knowledge of the impending drop in the general market provided
their terrible motive. That, according to The Rumor, is why John F. Kennedy
had to die . . . No other single event (outside of a major war), controlled
to coincide directly with the crash of Allied, would drive the market down so
sharply in a single day of trading.
Later in court before Federal Judge Wortendyke, Tino De Angelis seemed hardly
to know why he acted as he had.
Ironically, in one statement he issued while the long court sessions dragged
on, he said "The situation in which I find myself today is as a result of
conditions, controls and restrictions imposed upon the Commodity Market over
which I had no control."
Tino's self-righteous confusion at first affronted everyone connected with
the prosecution of his activities with Allied.
One wise man (who was to be criticized in some areas of the press for it)
tried to see below the surface of Tino's dilemma.
This man was the very Federal judge before whom Tino stood in judgment. Judge
Wortendyke studied the pre-sentencing report from a probation officer and
announced that after extensive ". . . and conscientious consideration" of the
officer's report, he still didn't understand De Angelis' motivations.
A wise and perceptive man indeed to sense that something out of the ordinary
was driving Tino. The judge ordered a complete "study" by psychiatrists and
other experts for a three month period. Tino was later sentenced to ten years.
Just as Jack Ruby was haunted by the faceless ghosts of control who ruined
his life, so Tino De Angelis unwittingly revealed some of that same
after-effect of being controlled.
In Document 649, in testimony before the Honorable Joseph Fishberg, in
bankruptcy proceedings, on November 8, 1965, he said when referring to the
exhaustive schedule of work he followed without complaint in the Federal
prison,
"If I didn't work 14 hours (a day) certain crazy thoughts would run through
my mind." [Author's emphasis.]
The ambitious hog-cutter from the Bronx had come a long way to a fantastic
end. Was it because it was his fate to be one of us who was "controlled"?
17.
Tampering With The Time Sense
Earlier we considered the second tool of control: electronic dissolution of
memory.
One by one, evidences of E.D.O.M. appear.
On September 25, 1963, a Harvey Oswald appeared at the Selective Service
Board in Austin, Texas, for a 30-minute discussion of his dishonorable
discharge (Commission Report page 732). On the same day, Lee Oswald was seen
on a bus heading for Mexico (Report, pages 731~733). The second sighting was
accepted by the Commission . . . but then when was he in Austin?
A.Ordinarily, Lee Harvey Oswald did not drive a car. This has been accepted
as fact. Under "control", Lee Harvey Oswald had been taught to and did,
however, drive a car.
According to witnesses:
He drove to and from the Sports Drome Firing Range where he attracted
attention to himself by firing at other persons' targets with his rifle and
also demonstrating an ability for markmanship.
At the time he was supposed to have been there, it was also a fact that he
was at work or with his family. (When was Oswald at the firing range?)
B. In Alice, Texas, the Executive Director of Radio Station KPOY reported
that he, Oswald, drove to see him and talked with him about half an hour.
This happened on October 4th, a day that Lee Oswald was in Dallas. (Report on
page 666). (When was Oswald in Alice?)
C. A Furniture and Gun Store in Irving, Texas, reported that on November 6th
or 7th, Oswald and his family entered the store and discussed purchases and
then left and drove off in the direction of a Specialized Gun repair shop.
This second store was the Irving Sports Store, where the clerk even made out
a receipt to a man named Oswald. It is interesting to note that the
authorities investigating the assassination were sent on a visit to the
sports store by an anonymous telephone caller (Mr. One or his aide?).
D. LA car salesman at a Ford-Lincoln showroom named Bogard had this strange
story to tell about Lee Harvey Oswald (664; 685; 687; 702-3; and 26: 450-452):
On November 9th, according to Bogard (who by the corroborating witnesses and
polygraph tests was later proved to be a reliable, honest witness) (26:
577-78): Lee and Bogard went out and Oswald test-drove a car at 70 miles an
hour. He also talked of coming into large sums of money shortly. He told the
credit manager that if he were not given credit, he would go back to Russia
and buy a car. The Warren Commission satisfied itself that for certain
(uncontrolled) Lee Harvey Oswald did not drive. They further noted that on
November 9th, he was in Irving writing a letter to the Soviet Embassy. (When
was he at the car agency?)
E. On November 20th, at 10:00 a.m. (when Lee Harvey Oswald was at work) a
"Lee Oswald" was reported at the Dobbs House Restaurant in North Beckley in a
report by a waitress (26: 516). He made a considerable fuss about his food
and was easy to remember (When was he at the restaurant?)
F. When Oswald was in Mexico, he was reported in Irving (on November
8th�Commission reference 26: 178-179; 10: 327340) cashing a check for $189.00
in a grocery store and visiting a barber shop making "leftist" remarks. The
barber noted that he had seen Oswald driving and entering the other store.
(If Oswald was in Mexico at this time (10: 309-327), when was he at the two
stores in Irving? It is important to note that Marina insists she was never
at these places and Lee did not drive!)
If Lee was, as The Rumor has it, a "controlled" person�and if he was directed
to sometimes carry a small E.D.O.M. device with him which distorted time
conception and destroyed the reliability of the time-sense of the people he
saw�The Rumor then explains what is now unexplainable in the assassination.
If Lee Oswald, who was under "control" for a considerable period of time, was
taught to drive a car under control but was told to forget this fact
consciously . . . The Rumor would again explain the unexplainable!
Richard H. Popkin, in his truly superb piece on the assassination in The New
York Review of Books, notes: i'. . . The Warren Commission dismissed all
these incidents as mistaken identification . . . " Then later, "One gets the
impression that the hard pressed staff found it convenient to ascribe all the
incidents to tricks of memory and other aberrations [author's emphasis],
notwithstanding the fact that many witnesses were apparently reliable and
disinterested people whose testimony was confirmed by others. Furthermore,
they must have had considerable convictions to persist in their stories in
the face of questioning by the FBI and the Commission Lawyers . . ." Then
later, "If we take the cases at face value, people who saw someone who looked
like Oswald, used Oswald's name, had Oswald's life and family . . . then how
are they to be explained?"
May we suggest, Mr. Popkin, that Lee Harvey Oswald actually was seen by these
witnesses and that the "aberrations" can be explained in terms of The Rumor!
Oswald was simply seen at other times than the witnesses thought! Oswald's
driving was not a figment of their imagination . . . but of the control of
his mind!
In Popkin's report he notes, as have so many, that "The police, the FBI, and
the Secret Service were all amazed by his sang-froid and his continual
protestations of innocence.... His brother Robert tells us that Lee assured
him of his innocence and told him not to believe the 'so-called evidence.' "
Under deep R.H.I.C. control, Lee Oswald would have truly believed this and
therefore had no trouble at all in maintaining that attitude. Indeed, his
composure defies almost any other kind of explanation!
(It is of passing interest to note that Malcolm Muggeridge reported in
Esquire magazine that he envisioned Oswald's behavior as that of a person in
a "trance." A more apt description could hardly be found to describe the
actions of a person under R.H.I.C.)
One final quote from Mr. Popkin, whose piece really is a must reading for
anyone who wants to relish a distinguished critique of what has been written
on this subject: He says in his concluding remarks, "The political or
economic nature of the conspiracy must be purely speculative at this stage."
His use of the word "economic" causes us to speculate that perhaps he has
heard whispers of The Rumor.
Almost all of the facts connected with the minutes that elapsed from the time
of the shots to the time that Oswald was apprehended for killing Tippit are
clouded by confusion of time. Some of this is, of course, very natural under
the frantic circumstances. Some of these distortions in recollection smack
strongly of E.D.O.M.!
--cont--
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All My Relations.
Adieu, Adios, Aloha.
Amen.
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