af oIo ( -0/Loustdt uicL) ( 1/6(4, tvtaik. Cc-) c (us( / 10---(--; USE w(Pfw. uP ( _k iCHi • • And why not? The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future... Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness 32 AUTHOR'S CONCLUSIONS* he assassination of President Kennedy was about survival, power, and Tdangerous secrets. It was a backlash against the Kennedy brothers for what they were intent on accomplishing. The seeds of the plot to kill John Kennedy began to grow because he and his brother were determined to seize control of the power structure in the United States. This objective included the de- struction of organized crime_ President Kennedy was also deter- mined to assert his constitutional power as president to control the military and the CIA. These people had been allowed to operate with little presidential control since the end of World War II. Also, President Kennedy had reached a decision to drop Lyndon Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover from government roles. Be- cause of their corrupt and bizarre backgrounds, which would have been exposed, this would have been a personal catastrophe for both Johnson and Hoover. But the Kennedys tragically underestimated the reaction and power of those whom they threatened. The Mafia joined forces with a few Kennedy haters from the CIA, radical anti-Castro Cuban exiles, and others in the extreme right wing, both civilian and military. A plan was formulated to as- sassinate the president. The plan included tactics to make it appear that the assassination was the work of a deranged Communist linked to Fidel Castro or the Soviet Union. *These conclusions, my opinions, are greatly simplified; for details of proof, the text must be studied with diligence. Each reader should reach his or her own conclusions. 832 AUTHOR'S CONCLUSIONS 833 Hoover and Johnson were brought into the plot. Their role was to prevent a serious investigation of the crime. The resulting combi- nation of forces became unstoppable because Johnson and Hoover- controlled the law itself. The assassination accomplished several purposes for the con- spirators: First, those who were being directly threatened by the Kennedys were saved from imprisonment or disgrace; second, the political power center of the United States shifted from the liberal Northeast to the conservative Southwest; and third, the nation's anti-Communist paranoia was accommodated. *** There was no government agency or civilian organization behind the plot; only individuals. The combination of J. Edgar Hoover, H. L. Hunt, and Lyndon Johnson—all in the plot—had the blackmail, the money, and the po- litical power to see to it that the crime would never be seriously in- vestigated. The FBI investigation was a sham. Although the plot seemingly involved a large number of peo- ple, most were on the fringes and did not know what they were involved in. Many were deceived into believing that they were in anti-Castro operations. Very likely hundreds of powerful people were glad to see it happen; some even expected it. But only three or four key people needed to know the full nature of the plot. Even Johnson and Hoover did not need to know the details—just their roles in a cover-up if required of them. By the use of cut-outs the money providers did not need to know who did the job and the assassins didn't need to know the source of the money. Those who set up Oswald didn't need to know for what purpose. The shooters from the School Book Depository didn't need to know about the shooters from the grassy knoll. The assassination was a mystery even to some of those who financed it and almost certainly to those who did the shooting. It was not possible for the plotters to keep their plans secret. It was leaking like a sieve; time had run out. Action had to be taken in Dallas despite the fact that Dallas right wingers would be the first suspects. Earlier plans to assassinate Kennedy in Miami, Chicago, and Los Angeles had fallen through. Kennedy had to be killed in Dallas. With all of the leaks, it was bound to be picked up by the Kennedy family or the news media unless Johnson and Hoover 834 BLOODY TREASON took over the government very soon and permitted ruthless silenc- ing of those who were talking, by murder if necessary, to set an ex- ample of what would happen to others. The conspirators were already guilty of treason, having met and conspired to kill the presi- dent. So the detailed logistics of the shooting had to be finalized within the last few weeks before the fatal event, perhaps explaining some of the things that went wrong. Solid evidence shows that no fewer than nine people told oth- ers, before November 22, 1963, that Kennedy would be assassinated. These were: Joseph Milteer, Homer Eschevarria, Rose Cheramie, Richard Case Nagell, Eugene Dinkin, one of the visitors to Silvia Odio, Jimmy Hoffa, Santo Trafficante, and Carlos Marcello. This evi- dence was not acted upon because all of it went through J. Edgar Hoover or the Secret Service, who either buried it or failed to take action to protect the president when he went to Dallas. Eugene Dinkin predicted that it would be in November 1963, in Texas, would be a right-wing/U.S. military plot, and that it would be blamed on a communist or a "Negro." That is exactly what happened. The assassination was a right-wing plot, did occur in November 1963 in Texas, did include individuals in CIA/military intelligence, and there was fabricated evidence of a meeting in the Cuban Consulate in Mexico City, in which it was falsely reported that Castro's Cubans handed to the "communist" Oswald and a "Negro," $6,500 to assassinate President Kennedy. And Joseph Milteer predicted that it would be a plot by the "patriots," would take place in November 1963, would be by rifle fire from a tall building, and someone would be picked up to throw the public off the track. That also is what happened. The prime scientific evidence tying the conspiracy to government officials in Washington is the alteration of the Zapruder film and the alteration of the autopsy x-rays. These and other forgeries were done on a massive scale. There is no way that all of these actions could have been accomplished without the involvement of the Secret Service, the FBI, and government officials—going all the way to Lyndon Johnson. Other crucial evidence that ties the crime to high officials involves (1) the incredible vanishing brain; and (2) the theft of Kennedy's body followed by surgery on the head to remove baths- tic evidence of a second gunman. This is the most difficult evidence for many to accept. Nevertheless, the evidence of the switching of AUTHOR'S CONCLUSIONS 835 Kennedy's body from the bronze ceremonial casket to a shipping casket; the evidence that the body was delivered secretly to the rear of Bethesda Naval Hospital; and the evidence that photographs of the brain in the National Archives are not of Kennedy's brain, leave no other tenable conclusion. A trial by an impartial and discerning jury, in my opinion, would have found this evidence to meet reasonable doubt standards. It is virtually inconceivable that Lyndon Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover would have orchestrated or permitted these frantic, dan- gerous, last-minute criminal actions in the cover-up unless they them- selves were part of the master conspiracy. Extensive evidence leads to the inescapable conclusion that a com- bination of U.S. government intelligence operatives, radical Cuban exiles, and Texas right-wing extremists played a major role in the as- sassination. The Texas right-wing extremists included H. L. Hunt, retired General Edwin Walker, and retired General Charles Willoughby. These men (or their surrogates) met at different times with CIA assassination specialist Colonel William Bishop. The meet- ings began in early 1963 and continued to November 1963. Attend- ing at least one of the meetings with Walker and Bishop were Cuban exile Felipe Vidal Santiago, who was a CIA agent, and Roy Hargraves. During this meeting the assassination of John F. Kennedy was discussed. Hargraves was a member of Gerald Patrick Hemming's paramilitary group, Interpen, in Florida, which was sponsored by U.S. intelligence. Vidal was a close associate of Hemming. Vidal and Hargraves were closely linked to Cuban exile leader Rolando Masferrer, who was closely linked to Jimmy Hoffa and the Mafia. According to Colonel Bishop, Masferrer was handed $500,000 of Hoffa money for the purpose of killing John F. Kennedy. This payment took place seventeen days before the assassination. Despite the fact that there is a large body of evidence virtually encircling Gerald Patrick Hemming, indicating his deep involve- ment in the assassination, he has denied his direct participation. But the evidence against him is substantial. He was closely associated with Felipe Vidal, Roy Hargraves, and at least three others,, all of whom -were to various degrees entwined in the plot at an opera- tional level. Hemming was also closely associated with John Martini), who confessed to his involvement in the assassination be- fore his death to news reporter John Cummings, and also confessed to his (Martino's) wife. Hemming has admitted that he once lived in a safe house for a short time with Herminio Diaz, who, according to 836 BLOODY TREASON Cuban exile leader Tony Cuesta, was involved in the assassination. In addition, Hemming's man, Ronald Ponce de Leon, according to Hemming, was involved with John Martino in the assassination.