MEDIA PAGE
The Conspiracy to Assassinate President Kennedy was covered up by Elements of Government and, National News Media.
This page is reserved to illustrate the News Media's participation in that cover-up.
Start with the question of HOW can a private Business BUY Evidence in the Crime of the Century? On Saturday morning Life Magazine Bought the Zapruder Film, paying $150,000 for that Zapruder Film.
WHY would Life Magazine Refuse to produce that film to an Authorized District Attorney (Jim Garrison) when that film is needed in a Trial of accused conspirator Clay Shaw?
WHY would that film request Require a Subpoena?
WHY would that Subpoena be fought by Life Magazine all the way to the United states Supreme Court?
HOW can that Private Business then REFUSE to show that Film to the American Public?
HOW can that Private Business then LIE about the contents of that film?
After owning the "Z" Film for 2 weeks, in the December 6, issue on page 52F here's what Life said about the film we were Never going to see.
Notice that the throat wound was STILL an Wound of Entrance.
Notice how Life Lied about how JFK had an Entrance in the throat by Lying.
The united States Supreme court ruled in favor of Jim Garrison.
Once Garrison got the film, bootleg copies showed up all over the Research Community.
The First time the "Z" Film was ever shown on National TV is in 1975 when Geraldo Rivera hosted a TV Show called "Goodnight America".
Rivera had 2 guests named Bob Groden and, Dick Gregory. Once they Showed the "Z" film on National TV the "cat was outta the bag" so to speak. That's when Life Magazine sold the film back to the Zapruder family for $1.00 after paying $150.000 for it.
HOW can the New York Times publish a Full Page Laudatory Editorial Edifying the 26 Volumes only 1 day after they were released?
There isn't a Human on earth who read 10 million words in 1 day let alone evaluate/remember them.
HOW can Dan Rather get away with the Lies he told about the Zapruder Film? (see Dan Rather Lies Page under Zapruder Film Page)
http://whokilledjfk.net/ratherlies.htm
Below shows ABC's plans to Sabotage Jim Garrison. (Giving a whole new meaning to "Freedom of the Press")
MEDIA & the CIA
http://danwismar.com/uploads/Bernstein%20-%20CIA%20and%20Media.htm
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
The defenders of the Warren Report are ABSOLUTELY correct….
"It would take an enormous amount of people conspiring to effect a conspiracy of this magnitude. Surely, some of them would leak the truth sooner or later."
Indeed there were an enormous amount of people engaged in the conspiracy. Some ACTIVELY. (Knowingly) Some PASSIVELY. (Unknowingly) Some were "DUPED" into participating in the Cover-Up.
PASSIVE:
Parkland Drs. in
PASSIVE: Presidents Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton (Conspiracy of Silence)
ACTIVE:
ACTIVE:
ACTIVE: Some Warren Commission staff members. (Looking the other way during the commission of a felony.)
ACTIVE:
ACTIVE: CIA.Tampering with evidence, Lying & Witholding evidence.
ACTIVE: LBJ, (With one stroke of a pen the evidence was locked away for 75 years.)
WHAT MAKES OUR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT SO GREAT IS THAT IT CONSISTS OF THREE (3) SEPERATE BRANCHES; EXECUTIVE, JUDICIAL & LEGISLATIVE.
In other words our Government has a CHECKS & BALANCES system built into it. (Sort of an insurance policy against corruption)
It's sort of like when one of these branches screws up the other branches are there to insure that the faux pas will see the light of day. (Something similar to the way Watergate worked.)
I believe that on the preceding pages I showed that ALL THREE Branches dropped the ball on the Kennedy Assassination.
1. EXECUTIVE- LBJ for conspiring to hide the truth by locking away the evidence for 75 years with one stroke of the pen.
2. JUDICIAL- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court conspiring to issue a
FALSE report. Acting Attorney General
Nicholas Katzenbach ORDERING the end result before the
investigation even started. FBI, State of
3. LEGISLATIVE-Two Commission Members, Russell & Cooper coming from the Senate and Two Commission Members Boggs & Ford coming from the House of Reps. Along with a Former Dir. of CIA Dulles and a Former head of The World Bank McCloy. Collectively conspired to issue a FALSE Report.
BUT NOT TO WORRY! BECAUSE OF OUR "CONSTITUTION" THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN UNOFFICIAL FOURTH BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT KNOWN AS THE PRESS.
In the unlikely event that the three branches of Government would collectively enter into a conspiracy to commit a crime or even willingly become an accessory after the fact by conspiring to COVER_UP a crime. We could always rely on the unofficial fourth branch of government, THE PRESS! (In these times "The Press" is defined as The Print Media and The Electronic Media. i.e. Radio & Television.)
In addition to what I wrote above about TIME-LIFE Inc., I suggest you go to the library for a copy of "The Montreal Star" 9/12/77 for an article reprinted from the New York Times about the NEXT issue of ROLLING STONE Magazine. It contains an article by reporter Carl Bernstein (of Watergate fame). Bernstein tells of a working relationship between the CIA and some 400 journalists of the New York Times, CBS and a dozen other news organizations since 1952.
You can also check out remarks of former CBS reporter Sig Mickelson to the effect that CBS reporters had the approval of CBS head William Paley in the 50's. The approval to work with the CIA for the purpose of disseminating MIS-INFORMATION to the American public. (Cronkite/Rather worked for CBS!)
NEWTIMES MAGAZINE Issue of July 11, 1975 has a great article by Jerry Policoff entitled "The Media and the Murder of John F. Kennedy".
Just
to whett your appetite I'll give you a small quote. This is from a letter to J.
Lee Rankin, Chief Counsel to the Warren Commission. It's dated May 21, 1964.
From
"...It happens to be to our interest, as well as to the interest of the Commission and of the country, to obtain as wide a distribution of this document as we can. ..."
ARE YOU GETTING THE PICTURE HERE FOLKS? THE DATE OF: MAY 21, 1964 IS FOUR (4) MONTHS BEFORE THE COMMISSION COMPLETED IT'S WORK AND RELEASED THE REPORT! (Lone Assassin, NO Conspiracy!)
Further
information on the collusion between the media and the Government can be found
in
A greater understanding of the way the media works in concert with the government (CIA) is through the eyes of an "INSIDER" _Daniel Schoor, in his book CLEARING THE AIR".
I understand that after more than a decade of recession the average Joe doesn't know why we're having the crime problem that exists today. He isn't aware of the changes this Country has gone through since 1963 because he doesn't have the time to research it. He just knows there's TOO much crime and want's it stopped.
The Politicians, Law Enforcement leaders and the Professionals of this Country (Medical & Lawyers) KNOW WELL that when the LEADERSHIP breaks Law and the LEADERSHIP covers it up, they CAN"T very well expect the masses to follow Law that those same LEADERS just proved no longer exists.
In
closing I want to thank authors such as Schiller, Ford, Belin, Posner, Roberts,
Amrine,
Up until the time that they wrote their books to either support the Warren Report or to ATTACK the critics I had read very little on the subject. (AP edition of the WR)
Whatever the critics wrote I couldn't verify because I didn't have the 26 Volumes either. (When I did gain access to the 26 Volumes, my goal was to discover that the critics were indeed SCAVENGERS. Needless to say I found the "credible critics" To be VERY CREDIBLE!
It became very apparent that the subject was of magnanimous importance with the amount of books that were being written on the subject. What was REALLY mind-Boggling was the amount of books written for the sole purpose of discrediting the so called critics. I was never comfortable with the official version of JFK's Assassination. But I didn't know why. In those days Americans automatically accepted whatever our Government told us.
MY HOPE IS THAT THESE WRITINGS AROUSED YOUR CUROSITY ENOUGH TO RESEARCH THE SUBJECT "THOROUGHLY" TO GET THE TRUE FACTS OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
and, this
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Priscilla
Johnson McMillan
and the CIA
by Peter R.
Whitmey
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In August, 1993, thousands
of pages of CIA documents were made available to researchers at the National
Archives that had been previously classified, including several documents
associated with Priscilla Johnson McMillan, author of Marina and Lee, and
the subject of several earlier articles by this writer.(1)
The first document, dated
December 11, 1962 (and numbered 17456), is a "contact report,"
previously classified "secret," written by Donald Jameson, Chief
SR/CA, which possibly stands for "Soviet Russia/Covert Actions." The
report is based on a 90- minute meeting with Priscilla Johnson in her room at
the Brattle Inn, located in
Jameson described Priscilla
as being "able, astute and conscientious," reflected also in her
writing, but at the same time, was "rather nervous and shy,"
suggesting a "lack of self-confidence." He noted, however, that she
certainly had a large number of Soviet contacts, and knew how to meet and talk
to people. Jameson indicated at the outset of his report that Priscilla had been
"selected as a likely candidate to write an article on Yevtushenko in a
major
Much of the report is a
summary of Jameson's discussion with Priscilla about various Russian poets and
Yevtushenko especially, whom the CIA seemed to be particularly interested in.
Priscilla informed Jameson that she had arranged to write several articles for The
Reporter - including one on Yevtushenko - and emphasized that "she
thought she must write only the truth, without defining exactly what that was to
me."
In conclusion, Jameson
pointed out that, despite what she had stated:
"I
think that Miss Johnson can be encouraged to write pretty much the articles we
want. It will require a little more contact and discussion, but I think she
could come around ... Basically, if approached with sympathy in the cause she
considers most vital, I believe she would be interested in helping us in many
ways. It would be important to avoid making her think that she was being used as
a propaganda tool and expected to write what she is told. I don't think she
would go along with that idea at all. On the other hand, she is searching for
both more information and more understanding of the problem of the Soviet
intellectual and is consequently subject to influence."
It is certainly clear that
the CIA intended to make full use of Priscilla Johnson's talents as a Soviet
researcher and writer in an ongoing attempt to destabilize conditions in the
The next document, dated
February 5, 1964, and numbered 17458 (suggesting that there might be a
document still classified in between), is a lengthy memo based on a meeting with
Priscilla on Jan. 30 and 31,1964, this time written by Gary Coit (SR/CA).
Although the report was prepared two months after the assassination of JFK,
there is no mention of the subject, including Priscilla's revised report of Nov.
24, 1963 about having interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald. However, in the initial
four line paragraph, two full lines and a partial line have been blacked out.
Intriguingly, there is a
reference to Priscilla having written to "...her former boss, President
Kennedy..." in regard to the fact that her notebooks had not been returned
to her by the Soviet Union; they had been removed from her luggage as she was
leaving Leningrad (Priscilla pointed out that none of the material was
"...particularly sensitive ... and would not have really seriously
compromised any of her contacts in the USSR.") Presumably, Coit's reference
to JFK as Priscilla's "boss" dates back to the mid-1950s when he was a
senator. Nevertheless, she was able to obtain the President's assistance, as
press secretary Pierre Salinger had made contact with the Soviet Ambassador
about her notebooks, "...which produced no result."
The overall purpose of the
Jan. 30-31 meetings (which lasted a total of 11 hours) was to "...debrief
Johnson on her flaps with the Soviets when she was in the
An attempt was made during
the debriefing to learn about Priscilla's "contacts" while in the
Reference was made to a
reporter/translator named Victor Louis associated with both McGraw-Hill and
NANA, whom Priscilla felt had a "...lousy reputation in
Priscilla raised the
question during the interview of the likelihood of being able to return to the
Coit had brought up the name
"Alex Dolberg" during the debriefing, whom Priscilla knew and talked
to at length when he was "...at Harvard." The CIA were quite certain
that he was "...working for Sovs and therefore advised her to be careful in
any dealings with him." Priscilla had been equally suspicious, although her
discussions with him had "...developed her understanding of the Soviet
machine ... and (she) now understands power as used by the Sovs."
In his final paragraph, Coit
stated that he was "...vaguely uncomfortable after this long discussion
with Johnson...", even though he found her to be "...intelligent and
well informed on the Soviet Union" (although with "...an air of
naivety and innocence, which is really only a mannerism"). Coit felt that
Johnson's interest in the Soviet Union was "...an intellectual thing,"
and that she was "...not out to destroy the Communist system" (the
major goal of the CIA). Having spoken to another U.S. correspondent named
Patricia Blake (who later wrote a glowing review of Marina and Lee for Time
magazine), Coit had noted two "...apparent contradictions" related to
Priscilla:
1) she had defended Dolberg
to Blake, who for years she had thought was "...no good;" and
2) according to Blake, Miss
Johnson had developed a "...low opinion of Lurye after the Boston press
conference," in contrast to comments made by Priscilla during the
debriefing.
In conclusion, Coit felt
that "...we cannot expect to use Johnson actively in operations. She
obviously doesn't want to get involved in deep plots. She is unlikely to be the
type of informant who will volunteer information; but she will supply info she
has acquired, if asked and if it's not too sensitive, such as the identies (sic)
of her friends in the USSR."
There is no indication
whether the CIA encouraged Priscilla to contact Marina Oswald through its
publishing connections, or whether she provided any feedback based on her
extensive interviews later that year, but such information could very well be
included in another, still classified document.
The third document that I
received, dated February 23, 1965, is also a memo written by Gary Coit, based on
a phone call from Priscilla in regard to Alex Dolberg. By now Dolberg was living
"...in London's demi-monde with homosexuals, drunks, beatniks, etc."
and had become "...terribly paranoid", convinced that he was being
"...followed everywhere." Priscilla had heard from several sources
that Dolberg might be considering going back to the USSR because of the death of
his mother and the condition of his father. Coit indicated that Priscilla had
reported this information because of her belief that Dolberg "...could do
more harm to followers of Soviet intellectual affairs, both in the West and in
the USSR, than anyone else she can think of." They both agreed that
"someone" should have a talk with Dolberg, and encourage him to
recognize the fact that returning to the USSR would be a mistake. At the same
time, Coit felt it was important to emphasize to Dolberg that no one trusted him
in the West, believing he was a "...Soviet agent," but if he told the
CIA everything he knew, he could be "...rehabilitated" and have his
name cleared.
Based on the fact that
Priscilla had made the call to the CIA, regardless of her motivation, it would
appear that she had become an informer for the Agency, although it is impossible
to know how much other information she provided, and whether any of it related
to her contact with Marina Oswald.
It should be noted that the
CIA's interest in Priscilla Johnson began at an early date, based on the fact
that a "201 file" was opened most likely in the mid-1950s(2)
and, according to a fourth document declassified in 1993 entitled, "Review
of 201 File on U.S. Citizen," Priscilla's file had not been closed as of
Jan. 28, 1975. She was listed as a "witting collaborator," although
the nature of her collaboration was not described.(3)
In addition to the four
documents described above, I also received a copy of Priscilla's HSCA Executive
Session interview that took place on April 20,1978, although 40 out of 113 pages
of transcript have been withdrawn by the CIA. It was clear that the committee
members did not entirely trust her.
Peter
Whitmey, September, 1994
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Notes
1.
Thanks to Jon Meyers at AARC for letting me know about the availability of PJM
documents discussed in this report.
2.
According to a conversation with Major John Newman earlier this year, no date is
listed on "201 files", but PJM's number (102798) precedes both
Oswald's and Webster's considerably: He estimates that her file was likely
opened around 1955. No date is required on "201 files."
3.
I learned from Anthony Summers that Priscilla Johnson claimed in a recent
interview (with Summers and his wife, Robbyn), that "...the Johnson in the
1975 document is someone other than herself." (Letter from Summers to
Whitmey, dated July 27, 1994). It should be noted that only the last name is
given on the CIA document, unlike the other three, but all four are stamped
"Approved for Release 1993 CIA Historical Review Program." I got the
distinct impression from my conversation with John Newman that the
"201" file number on the 1975 document was Priscilla Johnson's.
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