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People and the PURSUIT of Truth People and the PURSUIT of Truth Vol. 1, No. 3 July, 1975 CONTENTS Title Author Pages The Timely Publication of Important Information — Edmund C. Berkeley 1 "CONSPIRACY IN AMERICA": Conference May 16 to 18 — Jeff Cohen 2 in Los Angeles — Part 1 Chile and Central Intelligence Agency Intervention, 1964 — Hortensia de Allende 3 to 5 1964-1973— Part 2 (Conclusion) Substantial Evidence of Conspiracy Ignored by the Warren — Mark Allen and others 6 to 8 Warren Commission — Part 2 The Timely Publication of Important Information Edmund C. Berkeley, Editor "People and the Pursuit of Truth" has to be timely and friends — as a result of clandestine operations and activities it has to publish important information as soon as the in- in violation of law — again you try to tell him as fast as formation is received. These are essential requirements. you can and hope he is listening. How does an editor accomplish this in the tight space of just eight pages per month? Answer: he can't. Truth must sometimes be pursued rapidly, discreetly, and without delay — so that your opponents and enemies The solution we have used on this occasion is to pub- may not run circles around you. And persons who have lish both the July and August issues of "Pursuit" at the been devising and maintaining coverups for more than a same time, in July 1975. When Richard Sprague's article dozen years are professional experts at the art of deceiving. "The Coverup of the Coverups: The Protectors of the Assassins" came in, it was clear we had to publish it as The country which has been deceived on a vast scale is, fast as possible. the United States. The Watergate crimes are only a tip of the iceberg. Former President Richard M. Nixon, resigning When a man is in danger of being shot at or disposed of under fire in the face of impeachment, was pardoned in by clandestine operations, you don't wait a month to tell one month's time by his friend, crony, colleague, associate him — you try to tell him as fast as you can and hope he of a dozen years, and successor in office, President Gerald hears you and will listen to you. And when an honest in- R. Ford. ❑ vestigator is in danger of confusing his enemies with his This issue is Vol. 6, No. 3 of the series of reports "The Infor- "People and the PURSUIT of Truth" is published monthly 12 mation Engineer and the Pursuit of Truth". issues a year at 815 Washington St., Newtonville, Mass. 02160, by The first 60 issues were published in "Computers and Auto- Berkeley Enterprises, Inc. Printed in U.S.A. mation" and "Computers and People" in every issue from May We are applying to the U.S. Postal Service for second class 1970 to April 1975. mailing privileges. Subscription rates: U.S.A., $9.50 for one year, $18.00 for two years — except for students (send evidence): $6.00 for one Editor: Edmund C. Berkeley year, $11.00 for two years. Canada, add $1.00 per year; elsewhere, add $3.00 per year. Associate Editors: Richard E. Sprague, Researcher Please address all mail to: Berkeley Enterprises, Inc., 815 David Williams, Assassination Information Washington St., Newtonville, Mass. 02160. Bureau, Cambridge, Mass. Copyright 1975 by Berkeley Enterprises, Inc. Rusty Rhodes, Los Angeles, Calif. © Change of address: If your address changes, please send us both Editorial Offices: Berkeley Enterprises, Inc. your new address and your old address (as it appears on the 815 Washington St. magazine address imprint), and allow three weeks for the change Newtonville, Mass. 02160 to be made. 09120 •sseN 'awnuovinaN tg uol6uNseAA g Lg oul 'saspellaw3 Aaia>pag 3.1.10Jj "CONSPIRACY IN AMERICA": Conference May 16 to 18 in Los Angeles—Part 1 Jeff Cohen Campaign for Democratic Freedoms P.O. Box 9662 Marina del Rey, Calif. 90291 A conference on "Conspiracy in America" took place (3)The police knew of the telephone in the May 16 to May 18, 1975, at the Univ. of California SLA house, but did not attempt to utilize at Los Angeles. The conference progressed from phone communication to negotiate a peace- scrutiny of assassinations to the "war conspiracy" ful surrender. and on to issues of repression by the Los Angeles Police Department. Headly suggested that the L.A.P.D. "overkill" was an attempt to bury forever the relationship of Donald Donald Freed, author, welcomed participants to (Cinque) DeFreeze of the SLA and L.A.P.D. intelli- the conference on behalf of the sponsoring group, gence officers. the Campaign for Democratic Freedoms. In his open- ing remarks, Freed leveled strong charges at the Saturday afternoon was highlighted by the speeches "New Centurions" of the Los Angeles Police Depart- of two prominent victims of FBI clandestine opera- ment, the "Blue Machine": tions. Anti-war Professor Morris Starsky told how he lost his teaching job as a result of a concerted (1)The L.A.P.D. suppressed evidence in the FBI sabotage campaign, which included "poison-pen murder of Senator Robert F. Kennedy under letters". The FBI sent forged letters from "anony- direction of the Central Intelligence Agen- mous alumni" to the Arizona State University admini- cy; stration alleging that the professor had a propen- (2)The L.A. police intelligence unit had prior sity toward violence and sexual deviation. knowledge that black revolutionaries Jona- than and George Jackson would be killed; David G. Du Bois of the Black Panther Party dis- (3)The L.A.P.D. retains dossiers for purposes cussed the nationwide conspiracy behind the murder of blackmail, on reporters and management of 28 Party members. The Party's weekly newspaper, of local newsmedia, including the "L.A. which Du Bois edits, has become a forum for articles Times", and on elected officials, includ- on assassinations, the CIA, and other conspiratorial ing Mayor Tom Bradley. agencies. In his keynote speech on Friday night, Mark Lane On Saturday night, Robbie Meeropol, cold war or- ridiculed the Warren Report and its favorite phrase: phan, marveled at the conference's linkage of 20 "The Commission has found no evidence that ..." The years of official violence and coverup: "From the audience roared with laughter when Lane exposed one Rosenbergs to Rockefeller". of the Commission's "no evidence" claims by produc- ing a "Chicago Tribune" front-page story linking Tom Hayden, candidate for the U.S. Senate, sec- Jack Ruby and the Syndicate to the murder of a union onded Meeropol's observation that the American official in 1939. people's consciousness has been raised over the years. As proof, Hayden recalled an unrecorded in- George O'Toole, author of the book "The Assassi- cident from his school days at the University of nation Tapes", Professor Peter Dale Scott, and Paul Michigan. Hayden was snafued by administrators when Hoch, researcher, joined Mark Lane in expounding he attempted to arrange a speech on the "liberal" the case for conspiracy in the Dallas assassination campus for Mark Lane, the pariah of 1964. Today, of President Kennedy. The showing of the Zapruder Mark Lane speaks to crowds of 5,000 in Monroe, film was accompanied by the narration of CBS news- Louisiana, and Taft, California. man Dan Rather and his extraordinary, contrary to fact, description of Kennedy's reaction to the fatal Jane Fonda, actress, a panelist on "The War Con- shot: "...(he's) driven forward with great force. spiracy", described her million dollar suit against No doubt about that." Nixon, FBI, IRS, CIA, et al., for violation of her civil rights. Fonda's attorneys have secured a A workshop on Saturday morning, "How to Get Your series of memos exchanged by FBI agents that reveal Dossier", explored citizens' rights to government an FBI concern with predicting the exact delivery files under the amended Freedom of Information Act. date of Fonda's baby. How is this information rele- vant to national security -- how does it justify Lake Headly, the official investigator for the a wiretap, tax audit, and mail cover? families of the Symbionese Liberation Army, presented never-before seen TV footage of the fire fight that Peter Dale Scott, author of "The War Conspiracy", left six SLA "soldiers" charred to death. Headly's joined in exposing the Mayaguez incident as a mili- presentation and film exposed that the L.A. police tary provocation analogous to the Gulf of Tonkin report was a coverup: hoax. (1)The tear gas barrage began only after two The highlight of Saturday night was a presenta- _ trained police dogs failed to detect Pat- tion of flowers to the Union of Vietnamese Students ty Hearst's presence. in celebration of peace. The students had faced (2)There were no "repeated bull-horn demands" deportation as a result of past demonstrations despite assertions to the contrary by the against U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The students, L.A.P.D. who received a standing ovation from the crowd, (Continued on page 8 of August issue) 2 People and the PURSUIT of Truth for July, 1975 CHILE AND CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INTERVENTION, 1964.1973 —Part 2 (Conclusion) Hortensia Bussi de Allende Widow of former President Allende of Chile c/o Women's International League for Peace and Freedom 15 Sellars St. Cambridge, Mass. 02139 "In the past we have suffered the economic boycott, and internal and external subversion; today we suffer a conspiracy of silence, to keep the facts and pernicious effects of the policies of intervention from being known." Outline Editorial Note: The following is based on a Part 1 (June 1975) speech delivered at Battell Chapel, Yale Univer- sity, New Haven, Conn., on April 5, 1975, and A Conspiracy of Silence at the Harvard Law School Forum, Harvard Univer- The Establishment of Fascist Regimes sity, Cambridge, Mass., on April 8.
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