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On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 21:38:09 -0800 Jeff Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
>For the record... I am not related to Gus.
>
>- Jeff Russo
Can you be 100% certain?
When people occasionally ask me something along the lines of 'are you brothers' or
'are you Jewish' or etc., and as is usually the case it isn't true, I simply answer
'not as far as I know'. Because a lot of people have to flap their gums constantly,
and I guess because I'm such a magnetic and good-looking guy, they always want to talk
to me. If I'm sitting (or standing) with a friend (who usually looks nothing at all
like me) some bonehead is always liable to come up and ask 'are you brother?'. I tried
to interrogate one as to why she we think me and another guy were brothers she claimed
it was because we both had black hair. You can really bamboozle some people who ask
inane questions with puzzling answers.
Just my thought for the day, no need to read anything personal into it or start a
flame war.
>
>> Gus Russo appeared in the late 80's claiming to be a JFK assassination
>> researcher, and tapped many unsuspecting folks for information (I was
>> always wary of him), then showed his true colors at a symposium in
>> Chicago where he openly became an apologist for the Warren Commission
>> version. Others in the research community kept dealing with him though.
>>
>> At the inception of COPA in 1994, we got word from some of them that Gus
>> was lunching with the likes of Helms, Colby, etc. and that they were
>> probing him about the first COPA national conference and whether we were
>> going to blame their friend David Atlee Phillips for the murder. He was
>> flattered to be among them, and clearly bought their line. "They call me
>> Gus" he happily told one researcher. We had other names for him, of
>> course.
>>
>> He was hired as a consultant for a History Channel series about Oswald,
>> and he does keep exhaustive files. Of course the program came to the
>> same conclusion, Oswald was a skill-less malcontent who shot the
>> President.
>>
>> Russo wrote a book based on what the intelligence boys fed him (look
>> again at the Nation piece sources for the interpretation that this is an
>> assassination plot, even an unnamed CIA source - who needs the fucking
>> New York Times, now the Nation can use the same smarmy "journalism"
>> instead). It was originally titled Reap the Whirlwind. This is the
>> thesis:
>>
>> There was no rogue element in the CIA or Mongoose, they were just
>> following orders from JFK to kill Castro.
>>
>> The old hands at the CIA were not comfortable with these assassination
>> plots, but they were forced to go along by the Kennedy brothers, who
>> were "out of control".
>>
>> The plots to kill Castro, though unsuccessful, caused the "Commie"
>> malcontent Oswald to kill JFK in retaliation.
>>
>> The Kennedy brothers "reaped the whirlwind" of their killing plots and
>> were killed themselves instead. (i.e. Had it coming).
>>
>> David Corn, like Max Holland and Russo, are self-conceited intellectual
>> arbiters from the circles around IPS (note they quote Halpern too) who
>> despise the left and the counter-cultural movement. (Well, hell, all you
>> need to do is think about your previous CAQ editor to know the fucking
>> mentality, Lou.) Corn slammed me in print way back when I started the
>> Mae Brussell Center, linking me to the paranoid right wing militia.
>> Holland used to sleaze into the COPA meetings with Ben Franklin of
>> Washington Spectator for no other purpose than to do hit pieces. No
>> wonder they liked him at the Nation! Holland has a book coming that
>> defends the Warren Commission.
>>
>> They fall in line behind I.F. Stone, Alexander Cockburn, Howard Zinn,
>> Noam Chomsky and whatever else passes for left intellectuals in this
>> culture, going beyond saying that it doesn't matter if there was a
>> conspiracy to actually attacking those who say there was.
>>
>> The Nation has suppressed this information from inception, and one has
>> to wonder about the money behind it, especially the proto-fascist
>> Hamilton Fish, Sr. They hate the counter-culture and the grassroots
>> left. Look at their defense of Gore and slamming of Nader during the
>> last election for an example.
>>
>> I suggest the new book False Mystery by Vincent Salandria, a brilliant
>> early critic, and also History Will Not Absolve Us by Martin Schotz for
>> clear left analysis of the case and early indictments of The Nation.
>>
>> Russo is slick, full of "facts", and hard at work performing the second
>> assassination of the Kennedy's, along with the CIA's old wonder boy,
>> Seymour Hersh. Yes, there is a "dark side" to the Kennedy saga, all you
>> have to do is look at the old man for that, but it was when the boys
>> broke free that the trouble really started. They responded to the civil
>> rights and anti-nuclear movements in a way no one before or after them
>> ever did. Not because they were saints, but because they were clear
>> headed politicians. Whatever "dark side" they had it has to be compared
>> to the "black hole" of the forces that killed them first. Once we name
>> the killers, then we can talk about the crimes of the victims. These
>> "writers" will only address the latter. It's a lot safer, and they get
>> to lunch with the CIA and be told the "inside story" that no one has
>> ever heard before (yeah, right!).
>>
>> John Judge
>> ps - The Nation piece was part of the email, hope you got it.
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >
>> > John -
>> >
>> > I haven't read the Nation piece, but I did receive an inquiry last week
>> > from a reader as follows: "Who is Gus Russo?"
>> > So John, who is he? I've never heard of him previously. Is he a COPA
>> > hanger-on, a conspiracy freak (in the worser sense), or an apologist for
>> > those who want to continue the JFK coverup?
>> >
>> > Lou
>>
>>
>
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