Did you know that the very first conspiracy book published on the JFK assassination was written by a KGB agent? Here it is:

That’s a photo of my copy. Maybe it will become a valuable collector’s item one day, but I doubt it. The fact is that the libertarian/conspiracy community fights tooth and claw to protect the Russians and their role in the assassination. So this book has been swept under the rug and will likely remain there. But if you want to buy a copy, there are a few available from Amazon.

And the Russians are still busy publishing anti-American propaganda. The Kremlin even has its own TV network now. The Wikipedia page on RT says:

“According to a variety of sources such as Der Spiegel and Reporters Without Borders, the channel presents pro-Kremlin propaganda.”

And RT loves libertarians like Lew Rockwell. Just look at this revolting display as this Rockwell buffoon lauds Russia and bashes the USA while discussing the Libyan civil war:

Is Rockwell a Libya expert? Not hardly. RT has him on because they can count on him to bash America without a script. The Kremlin just laps this up; they can’t get enough:

Rockwell “hopes” that the Russians can help with a diplomatic resolution in Libya. Can you imagine? Maybe Rockwell wants Vladimir Putin to apply the same “diplomatic” solution that he used on Georgia in 2008.

Rockwell says that President Obama is committing an “act of naked aggression.” But that is hardly the case. It was the Libyan people who started this fight, trying to throw off their dictator. Mr. Libertarian frowns upon that.

Rockwell says that President Obama is a terrorist. But Obama didn’t do anything at all until Kadafi was about to sack the rebel capital of Benghazi. Clearly, Obama only stepped in to prevent that, and reluctantly so.

Note to Rockwell: How would you feel if you organized a protest down there in Auburn, and President Obama flew in African mercenaries to break it up? Sort of like this:

I know that you were looking forward to that scene being replicated on a much larger scale in Bengazi, but it doesn’t look like you will get your wish now. (End of note to Rockwell).

Of course, what Rockwell says is of no consequence. But I point it out because this is further proof that a libertarian like Ron Paul would be a disaster as a president. These libertarians simply cannot think clearly, or objectively. And they are way too eager to side with our enemies.

Circling back to JFK, on July 24, 2010, Rockwell published a story (no longer on his website) about “The Speech that got JFK Killed”. Supposedly, JFK gave a speech criticizing the CIA, and got himself killed for it. But when I tracked down the speech, and read the whole thing, instead of a few quotes taken out of context, I found that it was the exact opposite of what Rockwell was claiming.

The speech can be found here. I would summarize it like this: Kennedy gave the speech to The American Newspaper Publishers Association, whose members had been doing stories about various government top-secret projects. Kennedy simply said to them: “I know government secrecy is a bad thing, but could you please ease up on us a bit so we can win this cold war and defeat the Soviets?”

You see? Kennedy was actually asking the media to help the CIA.

Not only is Rockwell a buffoon, but he has no journalistic credibility either.

Note: While Rockwell’s article is gone, here is a mention of it just so you know that I’m not making this up.

Note: The claim that the book up at the top was written by a KGB agent is made by former Soviet intelligence officer Ion Mihai Pacepa. He says it was part of the KGB’s “Operation Dragon”, which also initiated the “Lydon Johnson Did It” conspiracy theory.

Why, may I ask, must I be subjected to endless babbling about the Strait of Hormuz whenever something happens in Sandland? My life would be so much more peaceful if certain idiots would just BUILD SOME DAMN PIPELINES ALREADY!

Look at this map of North Africa (click to enlarge). See all those pipelines? They go right under the Mediterranean and up to Europe. Fancy that.

Map by Sémhur.

That’s how civilized people do business. Say what you want about Moammar Kadafi, but the green line on the map is the Italian Greenstream gas pipeline which transports Libyan natural gas to Sicily. Nice and neat. No fuss, no muss. No pirates hijacking tankers there.

The red line is the proposed 2,500 mile Trans-Saharan gas pipeline, which will go all the way down to Nigeria. Quite a project, no?

But apparently it is impossible to build pipelines to circumvent the Strait of Hormuz. Funny how that works.

A long time ago, L. Fletcher Prouty said that the Arab-Israeli wars were orchestrated to destroy pipelines, force oil onto ships, and through the Strait of Hormuz. The more precarious the delivery system, the easier it is to stage a crisis and get the price of oil up. Was he right? I don’t know, but you have to admit, the pipelines are rather conspicuous in their absence.

But that wasn’t always the case. Did you know that there was once a pipeline that took Saudi oil up to the Mediterranean coast? The Trans-Arabian Pipeline was the largest in the world at the time, but is now shut down.

When the Israelis captured the section of the pipeline that ran through the Golan Heights in 1967, they allowed it to continue operating. According to Wikipedia, the pipeline was closed down due to bickering between Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria.

What about pipelines across Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea, or down to the Arabian Sea? Here is a story about a giant program to build no less than 5 such pipelines, and train up a Saudi army dedicated to protecting them. What became of it? I don’t know. I spent an hour googling around, but couldn’t find a single word on the subject beyond the original story which was published by DEBKAfile. Not only that, but I couldn’t find the original article on Debka’s site.

Sometimes I get the feeling that Google is hiding information.

With their nuclear reactors melting down, the Japanese need to buy even more oil from the Arabs, just when a Sunni/Shiite religious war is brewing. Pipelines, of course, aren’t invulnerable, but a few extra ones would come in handy right about now, would they not?

Media pundits have been making jokes about the Russian spies recently rounded-up by the FBI. But are such “socialite” spies really harmless?

Consider one such spy: George de Mohrenschildt. In 1962, he knocked on the door of US Navy Admiral Henry C. Bruton and told Bruton’s wife that a friend of his used to own their house. He became a friend of the family, and spent a good deal of time visiting. One day he brought a friend with him. You may have heard of him: Lee Harvey Oswald.

As you probably know, Oswald was not a “socialite” type of spy. He was more of a “shoot you in the head” type. Oswald didn’t assassinate Admiral Bruton, and didn’t pursue the contact to see what intel he could acquire for the KGB. However, this story gives a good example of how Russian socialite spies may operate: they provide contacts and logistical support for the hard-core spies.

For example, if Khrushchev had approved Oswald’s assassination of President Kennedy, de Mohrenschildt may have provided Oswald with a better rifle than the $20 piece of junk that Oswald bought himself. Or de Mohrenschildt may have assisted Oswald with a better escape plan than hopping onto a city bus as Oswald did.

And the FSB (formerly the KGB) is not done assassinating people. While they are not likely to shoot you in the head these days, they are not above injecting you with a bit of plutonium as they did to Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. Did socialite spies in London assist with that assassination? It’s a very good possibility.

Note: the dose of polonium-210 that killed Litvinenko probably cost $2-$3 million, and it is normally used to trigger nuclear bombs.

If you believe that Lee Harvey Oswald worked for the CIA and/or FBI, then you will like John Newman’s book: “Oswald and the CIA” which is available from Amazon.com. The book is a very thorough and detailed examination of the formerly secret files on Oswald that the government has been forced to release. The book does not contain any wild BS from the crazy people who litter the JFK assassination landscape. So, I regard it as a credible source as to what our intelligence agencies thought of Oswald.

However, I just don’t see any compelling evidence. There are a couple of CIA memos expressing “operational interest” in Oswald, but perhaps they suspected him of being a KGB agent and wanted to “double” him. And there is quite a bit of hard evidence that Oswald was, in fact, a KGB agent. For example, this note which Oswald wrote in Russian:

The translation can be found here in the Warren Commission Report (pages 183-184). The note contains instructions to Oswald’s wife, Marina, as to what she should do in the event that Oswald was captured after his attempt to assassinate General Edwin Walker.

Item #9 isn’t shown in the image above, however it read: “The Red Cross also will help you.” Oswald also wrote in his diary that he was getting money from the “Red Cross” while living in the Soviet Union.

Sounds odd, right? But it makes sense now that former Soviet intelligence officer Ion Mihai Pacepa has revealed that “Red Cross” was a KGB code word that agents used when discussing money from the KGB.

And the fact that Marina would understand what “Red Cross” meant points to her being KGB also.

Now, you could say that all of the KGB-agent type things that Oswald did were just a part of his CIA cover, but I think that is pretty long stretch. And why exactly, may I ask, would Oswald be trying to shoot a good old boy like General Walker if he were CIA?

Oswald may have indeed been a patsy in the JFK assassination, but the theory that he was a US intelligence agent seems much weaker than the case for him working for the KGB.

U.S. Air Force Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty will probably be remembered by history as one of the architects of the secret government. His job at the Pentagon was to provide the CIA with the military resources needed to carry out its clandestine operations. Prouty created a secret network of agents throughout the military, government agencies such as the FBI and FAA, and foreign governments.

Originally, all of this work was legitimate as part of US Cold War policy. And Prouty did in fact turn down CIA requests when they had not been previously approved by the National Security Council. But it wasn’t long before the monster that Prouty helped to build took on a life of its own.

After assisting the CIA with many coups d’état around the world, Prouty was shocked to see what he considered to be the same methods applied to President John F. Kennedy right here in the USA. Prouty, who presumably did not want to work for a CIA puppet regime, resigned from the Air Force shortly after the assassination and began to write books.

Prouty’s first book, “The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World” is available to read for free on this website. His second book, “JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy” is available from Amazon. I recommend them both.

You will also find plenty of interesting things to read on www.prouty.org. My favorite page on the site is the one with the JFK assassination pictures (click the “Photos” link on the left). Prouty believed that Air Force General Ed Lansdale was the mastermind of the assassination. Lansdale was actually the CIA’s top “regime changer” and was only covered as an Air Force man. For example, in 1955 Lansdale installed Ngo Dinh Diem as dictator of South Vietnam for the CIA.

Prouty worked closely with Lansdale in the Pentagon for years, but Prouty was also a pilot. He flew many clandestine missions, some of which included Lansdale and his team. While Prouty has his critics, he was in fact a practitioner. He was there. He knew where the bodies were buried. Literally. His version of this part of the USA’s history must be taken seriously.

Lee Harvey Oswald
Prouty, not being a trained scholar, was frequently reckless with facts while striving to drive his points home. For example, while arguing that Lee Harvey Oswald was just a patsy, Prouty wrote on page 308 of his “JFK” book that at the time of the assassination Oswald:

“…was a nondescript twenty-four year-old ex-marine who was unknown to almost everyone. There is no way one can believe that these press agencies had in their files, ready on call, all of the detailed information that was so quickly poured out in those first hours after the assassination.”

In reality, Oswald was a rather notorious traitor for having defected to the Soviet Union. While he was in Moscow, American reporters interviewed him and the American press published stories on him. Not only did the media have plenty of information in their files, but Oswald was watched by several intelligence agencies, including the CIA and FBI, who had mounds of information about Oswald.

This doesn’t disprove Prouty’s assertion that Oswald was a patsy, but it does open Prouty up to criticism. Lansdale had sent Prouty off to Antarctica, literally, during the assassination, so Prouty had no first-hand knowledge of what happened. So, when reading Prouty, I trust his description of events that he participated in, but google assertions such as the one above to see if they can be verified.

Soft on Communism?
Prouty has been criticized for being soft on communism and maybe even a sympathizer. And it is true that Prouty barely even mentioned communism. One of the reasons for this is that the USA and Soviet Union were close allies during World War Two and Prouty didn’t see any reason whey the two nations should immediately become enemies. He also flew missions over Russia and saw first-hand the devastation caused by the war. He didn’t think that the Russians were in any kind of condition to launch a war against the USA.

Furthermore, at he very bedrock of Prouty’s criticism of the CIA is his assertion that the CIA’s special forces doctrine was based upon Mao’s Little Red Book. So, the CIA-trained Green Berets who were sent into Vietnam had been trained to believe that setting up a dictatorship was the most effective way to stop communism. That “exporting dictatorship” doctrine was implemented all over the world, and I doubt that many Americans are proud of it.

Prouty also did not believe that wars such as Vietnam were fought for ideological reasons, but to make profits for the military-industrial complex, and to capture markets for Corporate America. “Fighting Communism” was just a cover story.

Vietnam
Compared to World War Two, the history of the Vietnam War seems all fuzzy and blurry. What exactly was the problem there? Prouty’s take is very interesting: it was a CIA project to help the military-industrial complex make a lot of money. CIA puppet Diem expelled the “imperialist” Frenchmen who were operating the criminal-justice system in South Vietnam. That left the villages with no police or courts. Then Diem expelled the “communist” Chinese merchants who were just there to buy rice. That destroyed the economy of the villages. The previously prosperous peasants suddenly had no way to market their crops, and no money to by necessities such as drinking water. They turned to banditry. The CIA designated them “communists” and Huey helicopter gunships were sent in to slaughter them.

It is also interesting that the most intense “communist activity” took place in the southern part of the country. You would think that the hot spot would have been up north, with guerrillas sneaking across the border from North Vietnam. Prouty explains this mystery: After World War Two ended, CIA transport aircraft, along with US Navy ships, relocated very large numbers of peasants from North Vietnam to the southern part of South Vietnam. They became bandits too. Prouty says that CIA “psychological warfare specialists” (a.k.a. terrorists) were deployed to North Vietnam to “inspire” this mass migration. Once a large number of refugees were introduced, and the economy smashed, South Vietnam was set up to make fat profits for American defense contractors.

The Cabal
Prouty asserts that there is a grand cabal that commands governments of the world. While he has been criticized for this, he is only using Winston Churchill’s phrase. Churchill is said to have complained bitterly about the cabal in private conversation during World War Two. That was before President Dwight Eisenhower made his military-industrial complex speech. Notice that Eisenhower gave that warning during his farewell speech at the end of his presidency. Perhaps Eisenhower knew what he was dealing with better than the next president, JFK, who vowed to “break the CIA into a million pieces” while still in office.

Ancient History?
Perhaps you are thinking that this is all ancient history? But take a look at this video where former Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura states that he was grilled by CIA agents in 1998. What did he do wrong? He was elected by the people of Minnesota. Apparently, the CIA still frowns upon democracy.

More on the Cabal
Churchill is said to have received loans from the Rothchild banking family, so perhaps they are who he had in mind when complaining about the cabal. And before her death in 1849, Gutle Schnaper, wife of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, said “If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.”

I couldn’t google-up any formal references for these two items, so they could be phony. However, Prouty tells a similar story regarding Vietnam: Before the war, CIA agent Frank Hand sent a banker to talk to Prouty about helicopters. First National Bank of Boston then financed Textron’s takeover of Bell Helicopter and made a fortune selling choppers to the CIA. Says Prouty:

One year earlier, in 1959, Frank Hand had directed a Boston banker to my office. At that time I worked in the Directorate of Plans in Air Force headquarters and my work was top secret. Few of my contemporaries in the Pentagon knew that I was in charge of a global U.S. Air Force system created for the dual purpose of providing Air Force support for the CIA and for protecting the best interests of the USAF while performing that task. My door was labeled simply, “Team B”; yet that Boston banker knocked and entered with assurance. Somehow he knew what my work was and he knew that I might be able to help him.

So, there you have it: a modern eyewitness account of the cabal in action: a banker helping to start a stupid war just to profiteer. See the bottom of this page for Prouty’s complete story.