by J. W Lateer
So what can be concluded from the above? The books that have the most diverse loadings happen to be the books which are working from original sources. Jim Garrison and Judyth Vary Baker had their own unique sources. Torbitt and Hepburn are pseudonyms and both appear to be information drawn from inside sources.
The Hepburn data has loadings on factors 2,4,7 and 10. The Torbitt data is loaded on factors 1,3,4 and 6. So if both of these anonymous writers were drawing on “inside” information, there was not much overlap between the names which they featured.
The books in the book matrix are listed in order as follows:
Rush to Judgment by Mark Lane, Accessories After the Fact by Sylvia Meagher, The Warren Commission Report: Report of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, by President’s Commission on The Assassination, The Plot to Kill the President by George Robert Blakey,Deep Politics and the Death of JFK by Peter Dale Scott, The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by David Kaiser, Brothers in Arms: The Kennedys, the Castros, and the Politics of Murder by Gus Russo and Stephen Molton, The Man Who Knew Too Much: Hired to Kill Oswald and Prevent the Assassination of JFK by Dick Russell, Bloody Treason: On Solving History’s Greatest Murder Mystery : The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by Noel Twyman, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters by James W. Douglass, Farewell America: The Plot to Kill JFK by James Hepburn and William Turner, A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK’s Assassination, And the Case That Should Have Changed History by Joan Mellen, Me & Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald by Judyth Vary Baker, A Heritage of Stone by Jim Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison, LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination by Phillip F. Nelson, Act of Treason: The Role of J. Edgar Hoover in the Assassination of President Kennedy by Mark North, The Strange Tactics of Extremism by Harry A. Overstreet and Bonaro Wilkins Overstreet, The John Birch Society: Anatomy of a Protest by J. Allen Broyles, Permindex: Britain’s International Assassination Bureau, by Jeffrey Steinberg and David Goldman, NASA, Nazis & JFK by William Torbitt and Kenn Thomas, JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy by L. Fletcher Prouty, The Last Investigation by Gaeton Fonzi, General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy: The Extensive New Evidence of a Radical-Right Conspiracy by Jeffrey H. Caulfield M.D., Gothic Politics in the Deep South: Stars of the new Confederacy by Robert Sherrill, Final Judgment: The Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy by Michael Collins Piper, Lee Harvey Oswald as I Knew Him by George de Mohrenschildt (Author) and Michael A. Rinella (Editor), Men of the Far Right by Richard Dudman, The Citizens’ Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954-64 by Neil R. McMillen, The Christian Fright Peddlers by Brooks R Walker and The Minutemen by J. Harry Jones.
The following is a breakdown of which names tend to be cited in the various types of books according to their factors. It is easy to see that the Torbitt File, the Executive Intelligence Review publication and Farewell America by James Hepburn contain the most accurate information, if one had to choose between books. Coincidentally, both Torbitt and Hepburn are pseudonyms and were published “on the sly.” Both of these books clearly contain inside information. These two, along with the book by L. Fletcher Prouty probably contain the only inside information that fans of JFK assassination research will ever see in our lifetimes.
Chapter 43
Summary and Conclusions
The evidence for German and/or Nazi sponsorship or co-sponsorship of the JFK assassination is overwhelming. The following is a list of the most important items of proof:
Clay Shaw was the only person prosecuted for the murder of JFK. During World War II, Shaw worked for Army Intelligence on German property claims. Papers on Shaw were found by a researcher in a file of papers relating to the IG Farben legal case, also known as the GAF case. Farben was the largest German multi-national corporation.
James O. Eastland was employing Lee Harvey Oswald as an informant in New Orleans in the summer of 1963. This matter has been proved by author and researcher Dr. Jeffrey Caulfield in his book General Walker. Eastland employed Oswald to infiltrate as many as five civil rights and other groups.
Senators James O. Eastland and Senator Thomas J. Dodd essentially shared the chairmanship of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee.
Senator Dodd was closely involved with General Julius Klein. Klein was described by the German magazine Der Spiegel as the “shadow ambassador” for West Germany. Dodd and Klein worked closely together on Dodd’s frequent visits to West Germany.
In an op-ed article in a major newspaper, General Klein was accused by Senator George Smathers of working for I G Farben.
In the summer of 1963, General Julius Klein was investigated by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for improper activities on behalf of the Government of West Germany and on behalf of major German industrialists and bankers.
When Dodd visited Germany, which was quite often, he always met with Hans Globke.
Hans Globke was described by German expert T.H. Tetens as doing more than any other person to enable the re-entry of ex-Nazis to positions of power in the West German government.
Hans Globke was the Nazi who personally wrote the Nuremberg Laws which laid out the plan and provided the legal basis for the Holocaust.
At the time of the assassination, both Reinhard Gehlen who was head of West German Intelligence (BND) and the West German counterpart of the FBI reported to Hans Globke.
When Senator Dodd visited Germany, he also met quite often with Hermann Abs. General Julius Klein stated that he only got in trouble with the U.S. government when he began advocating for Hermann Abs. Abs was CEO of Deutsche-Bank and was involved in representing Germans in their battles in the U.S. relating to World War II property claims that had not been resolved as of 1963. Abs’ own family had property claim issues in Czechoslovakia. Abs had also been one of the top three bankers involved in Hitler’s occupation of his neighboring European countries from 1937 to 1945 and beyond.
Senator Thomas J. Dodd was brought before the Senate Ethics Committee in 1966 and questioned exclusively about his relationship with General Julius Klein.
There was testimony in the Dodd censure hearings that Dodd had likely been bribed by General Klein. There were several other key Senators also involved with General Klein. There were indications in the hearings that as many as 20 Senators were involved with General Klein. If Dodd was being bribed, the others might have been also.
Senator Dodd was censured by the Senate, allegedly for financial dealings although there were vitually no financial irregularities proven in the hearings.
Senator Dodd had been the assistant head prosecutor for the U.S. at the Nuremberg war crimes trials in Germany after World War II.
John J. McCloy was named to the Warren Commission. McCloy was said to have, more than any other member, managed the Warren Commission proceedings.
John J. McCloy had served as High Commissioner for the U.S. Sector in Germany from 1949 to 1952.
As High Commissioner, McCloy commuted the sentences of major ex-Nazis and German industrialists who had been imprisoned for war crimes.
McCloy was described by German expert T.H. Tetens as “pathologically pro-German.”
John J. McCloy had worked his entire career on German issues. He had worked for 9 years in the legal case involving German sabotage in World War I. He had shared Adolph Hitler’s box seats at the 1936 Berlin Olympics with Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler.
Allen Dulles was also a member of the Warren Commission. Next to McCloy, Dulles was most active and involved in the Warren Commission hearings.
Allen Dulles had worked in Switzerland during World War II. His job was to negotiate with Nazi generals and scientists when Germany started to lose the War. He recruited Wernher von Braun and General Walter Dornberger. Dulles also worked with Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer in the secret peace negotiations with General Karl Wolff.
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llen Dulles recruited Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen to head up all intelligence efforts for both the U.S. and West Germany in the Iron Curtain countries from 1945 through 1963. In his voluminous memoirs, Dulles apparently never mentioned his recruitment of Reinhard Gehlen.
General Reinhard Gehlen had been head of intelligence on the Eastern Front for Hitler and the Nazi war machine.
Senator John Sherman Cooper was another member of the Warren Commission. During and after World War II, Cooper worked on the management of occupied Germany for the U.S. Army. Cooper was responsible for placing Gerhard Schroeder in his first governmental job in Germany.
Gerhard Schroeder became German Chancellor just 4 weeks before the assassination and was invited that month to the LBJ ranch, the only such invitation to a world leader.
Senator John Sherman Cooper was named as the first U.S. Ambassador to East Germany.
In persuading his confidants by phone about the creation of the Warren Commission, LBJ stated that McCloy and Cooper could help with the “international” aspects of the assassination investigation. Their only international expertise was with Germany.
The General Aniline and Film Corp. had been seized by the U.S. Government during World War II under the Trading With The Enemy Act.
IG Farben was the real owner of GAF and had pressed the U.S. Government and maintained a major lawsuit to force the U.S. Government to sell or return GAF to private ownership from 1946 to 1963.
In the GAF case, along with the I G Farben company, there was also the involvement of influential major American corporations such as Standard Oil of New Jersey and DuPont chemicals.
Don Cook, president of American Electric Power became chairman of the committee which supervised the sale of GAF. LBJ and Cook spoke on the phone in the week following the assassination when Cook asked LBJ to meet with a group of unnamed men.
The sale of GAF was approved by LBJ just four weeks after the assassination after being tied up in court for almost 20 years.
General Edwin Walker was involved in the attempt to frame Lee Harvey Oswald for an alleged shooting incident at the Walker home.
Walker had been serving in Germany and was fired by JFK for handing out right-wing materials to his troops serving in Germany.
There were three soldiers who came directly from Germany in the months before the assassination. They were Larrie and Bob Schmidt and Bernard Weissman.
Bob Schmidt was employed as a chauffeur by General Edwin Walker.
The Schmidt brothers were responsible for purchasing threatening newspaper ads and billboards which appeared when JFK visited Dallas.
The Schmidt brothers insisted that the signature of Bernard Weissman appear on the hostile advertisements. This was done in the hope that Americans would blame the Jews for the assassination. Any American would know that the American public would not blame Jews based on this tactic. Only an Old World, Nazi mentality would cause someone to believe that Jews would be blamed because of this association.
On the weekend of the assassination, General Edwin Walker spoke by telephone with a neo-Nazi newspaper in Germany shortly after the assassination occurred.
The name Dan Burros appeared in the notebook of Lee Harvey Oswald.
Dan Burros was a member of the American Nazi Party and had a history of corresponding with an exiled Nazi leader in Egypt named Colonel Hans-Ulrich Rudel. Rudel had lived in Argentina. Rudel was involved witht the most conspiratorial of the post-WWII ex-Nazis. That included Otto Skorzeny and Wernher Naumann. Rudel also founded the Kameradenwerke group which financially supported convicted war criminals.
There were five persons with proven prior knowledge of the assassination. One of them was an NSA whistleblower named Eugene Barry Dinkin. He was stationed only 120 miles from Bonn, the capital of West Germany.
Dinkin must have learned about the JFK plot from spying activities. Due to his proximity to Bonn, he was most likely spying on people in Germany and possibly other nearby countries.
General Charles Willoughby has been accused by many assassination researchers as being involved in the assassination. Willoughby came over from Germany in World War I and was investigated soon after for involvement with a female German spy.
In a letter to CIA director Allen Dulles, General Willoughby claimed to have close connections to former friends of Kaiser Wilhelm II who was, around this time, exiled in the Netherlands following World War I.
George de Mohrenschildt befriended Lee Harvey Oswald when Oswald returned from Russia and moved to Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. During World War II, de Mohrenschildt was determined to be a Nazi spy or active Nazi sympathizer by several Federal agencies including the FBI.
Shortly before World War II, George de Mohrenschildt was involved in the production of a propaganda film with Count Konstatin Maydell.
DeMohrenschildt claimed that Maydell was a cousin when he was not.
Count Maydell served time in a U.S. prison as a Nazi spy during World War II.
Following World War II, General Walter Dornberger was held in solitary confinement by the British government.
Dornberger was identified as the head of the informal network of German Nazi prisoners in Allied custody following the War.
British Intelligence wrote that Dornberger was a dangerous person and was capable of fomenting World War III.
In November, 1963, General Walter Dornberger was chief scientist for Bell Aerospace which had a facility in Dallas.
Michael Paine was a research engineer for Bell Aerospace and, in that capacity, was a subordinate of General Dornberger.
Dornberger was the best friend of Wernher von Braun. The United States was entirely dependent on the missile scientists who worked for von Braun at the Redstone Missile Facility in Alabama for U.S. national defense.
Von Braun had been a member of the SS during World War II when he was working closely with Dornberger on the development of the V-2 missile.
Lee Harvey Oswald slept the night before the morning of the assassination in the house normally occupied by Micheal Paine. Paine who had allegedly been estranged from his wife who lived there, moved back into the house four weeks after the assassination.
The Permindex organization had a common board of directors with Centro Mondo Commerciale in Italy and Switzerland. Permindex had former Nazis as members.
Clay Shaw who was prosecuted in the JFK murder case was CEO of Permindex and had ties to the GAF case.
“Centro” of Switzerland was identified by German expert T H Tetens as a welfare fund for jailed and exiled former Nazis.
The Russian Orthodox Church members befriended Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination and cared for Oswald’s widow Marina after the assassination including arranging for translators.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church in the U.S. was Metropolitan Anastasy. He had been involved in issues of spying in East Germany in the case of the kidnapping of Dr. Walter Linse.
Walter Becher was a German politician who spent a great deal of time in the U.S. in lobbying members of Congress and similar duties.
Walter Becher died in Pullach, Bavaria at age 93. Pullach was very small community which housed the headquarters of the BND, which was the West German Intelligence service which was headed by General Reinhard Gehlen. Pullach was to West Germany what Langley, Virginia is to U.S. Intelligence. The BND had been part of the CIA during the early 1950’s and had been founded by Warren Commission member Allen Dulles.
Jack Ruby testified before the Warren Commission. He stated he was afraid of that both he and his extended family might be murdered. When asked by whom they might be killed, he replied “anti-Semites.” Although Ruby is often associated with the Mafia and a probable fear of the Mafia as his motivation in killing Oswald, his blaming of “anti-Semites” is more in line with accusing Nazis. Through contacts from his Jewish co-religionists, Ruby’s motivation was probably due to a desire to strike back against the Nazis due to their massacre of the millions in World War II as well as the murder of his
President.
In 1963, NATO was controlled by Secretary-General Dirk Stekker. Stekker had run a business in the Netherlands during WWII and was a close personal friend of German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
In 1963, the top military authority in NATO was the Chairman of the Military Committee. That man was Adolf Heusinger who had been the top planner and worked side-by-side with Hitler on the Eastern front. As can readily be understood from the above list of items of circumstantial evidence, there was a close involvement of ex-Nazis and probably certain high-ranking member of the West German government in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Some experts on the Jim Garrison investigation believe that Garrison’s staff thought that the money for both the de Gaulle assassination and the JFK assassination had been laundered through NATO headquarters.