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    Show #1234
    Airdate: January, 16 2025
    Guests: Col. Fletcher Prouty
    Topics: Recollections of 23 Years 1941-1963

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  • UNDERSTANDING SPECIAL OPERATIONS (Ratcliffe 1999), CHAPTER 1
  • I came on duty before the beginning of WWII, an ROTC cavalry unit
  • Active duty with the 4th Armored Division July 10th 1941
  • I reported to Creighton W. Abrams from my own home town
  • I began flight training in Maxwell Field in Alabama about May of 1942
  • In February of 1943 I was in Africa with the Air Transport Command
  • We flew General Smith into Saudi Arabia to meet representatives of Standard Oil
  • That's the first clandestine exercise I was ever involved in
  • We established an operating base during the Cairo Conference
  • In Teheran, Churchill had no ID, the Russians weren't going to let him through
  • Success at Teheran enabled Chiang Kai-shek to put more pressure on the Japanese
  • American generals supported Ho Chi Minh against the Japanese
  • A few miles below the Turkish Syrian border, 750 American former prisoners of war
  • I realized that some of my passengers were Nazi intelligence officers
  • This group did contain men who had been selected by Frank Wisner of the OSS
  • I never saw devastation equal to what I saw in the Soviet Union
  • January of '45 I began flying the Pacific, four-engine transport work
  • The atom bomb had been used, this was mid-August, the Japanese had quit
  • We flew up to Tokyo on September 1st, 1945
  • At Atsugi air base, here were our enemies, they came over and helped us
  • Equipment for 500,000 men going to Hanoi in Indochina
  • Hiroshima, I flew very low over the area and had a good look at it
  • The decision had been made to establish an Air Force ROTC
  • I taught a very interesting course called "The Evolution of Warfare"
  • I visited Werner Von Braun to write about rockets and missiles
  • The Korean War broke out in June of 1950
  • I was one of five officers selected to initiate a new Air Defense Command
  • A difficult period, because of the enormous devastation power of the atom bomb
  • Spring of '52, I was the Military Manager of Tokyo International Airport
  • Out of Tokyo we ran a regularly scheduled Embassy Run
  • Civil Air Transport, were delivering supplies to the French, fighting Ho Chi Minh
  • I met Colonel Lansdale and his organization in Vietnam
  • I was selected to attend the Armed Forces Staff College, in Norfolk, Virginia
  • One of the courses was a hypothetical NATO confrontation through Europe
  • It just shocked the whole group, the impact of what nuclear weapons could do
  • The hydrogen bomb would wipe out any city, you cannot fight war with that
  • I went to the Pentagon from that schoo, to the Air Force Plans Office, in July of 1955
  • General Thomas White told me NSC had published Directive Directive 5412, in 1954
  • The Department of Defense would provide support for clandestine operations
  • "Military Support of the Clandestine Operations of the United States Government"
  • I was the "Chief of Team B," in charge of clandestine operations, for the Air Force
  • The Economy Act of 1932 became the heart of the covert program
  • We created literally hundreds of false military organizations
  • The 1234 Logistics Squadron really belongs to CIA
  • This clandestine system we established, we called "Tab-6"
  • Mr. Dulles sent me around the world to many of his stations
  • In Athens there was a camp for people we call, "mechanics" (hit men, gunmen)
  • Thousands of ex-Nazis were being brought to the US for their various skills
  • We could paratroop people in following a massive nuclear attack
  • "Special Forces" were created for that post-strike purpose
  • Hitler's chief of intelligence, Reinhardt Gehlen, became a U.S. Army general
  • European command began looking on CIA as a "Fourth Force" in nuclear warfare
  • From 1945 until 1965, CIA was the operating command for military forces in Vietnam
  • CIA had quite an air force, operated and maintained under "Air America"
  • New Year's Eve of 1958-59, I waited for CIA orders to go into Cuba
  • Senator Kennedy understood events going on in Vietnam and Laos and in Cuba
  • President Kennedy was briefed, 3,000 instead of 300 and an invasion was planned
  • The first objective for the program: they must destroy the aircraft
  • Three B-26 bombers destroyed all but three of Castro's combat-capable aircraft
  • McGeorge Bundy reversed the President's decision and said, "no air strike tomorrow."
  • We didn't need air cover, those Cuban jets were supposed to be rubble by sunrise
  • We had to cover Vietnam with helicopter maintenance people
  • A great number of those were cover military; they were involved with the CIA
  • By the summer of '63 Kennedy had made up his mind to get out of Vietnam
  • NSAM 263, otherwise known as the Taylor/McNamara Trip Report of October '63
  • By the end of 1965 all U.S. personnel will be out of Vietnam
  • President Diem was killed in Vietnam
  • Ed Lansdale came to me one day, "Fletch, how would you like to go to the South Pole?"
  • I was out of Washington from, I think, the 10th of November until November 28th
  • That time, unequaled in history, Vietnam War, the death of Kennedy, other strange events
  • The Secretary of Defense established an office called the Office of Special Operations
  • Providing for Department of Defense support in connection with special operations activities
  • We had to work with Treasury, with FAA, with Customs, we had to have cleared people
  • As intricate as anything we did in the days was handling money
  • NSA is eyes and ears, a purely technical or mechanical job
  • Communications channels exist all over the world, floating around, all vibrating away
  • CIA activities are much different from the NSA activities
  • Lansdale was a good operator, but not the man to be the boss
  • Ed Lansdale in Dealey Plaza Video



    Show #1233
    Original airdate: Jan 9th, 2025
    Guests: Max Arvo
    Topics:

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  • Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 1
  • Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 2
  • Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 3
  • Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties: O'Neill, Tom, Piepenbring, Dan: Order Here
  • Mind Games: The Assassination of John Lennon: Whelan, David: Order Here
  • Len shows his appreciation to Max & other researchers who put out good work.
  • Reading Chaos by Tom O'Neill became inspiration for Max's deep dig into the Jack Ruby case.
  • Max found it highly suspect that the MK ULTRA psychiatrist Louis Jolyon "Jolly" West was involved.
  • When West died, he left thousands of papers that were donated & archived at UCLA.
  • O'Neill was able to view West's documents before they were picked through by UCLA archivists.
  • O'Neill raises the question of MK ULTRA being implemented on Jack Ruby. Was Jack tortured?
  • On a road trip, Max stopped in L.A., spending a day at the UCLA archives to view West's files.
  • Jolly West was performing experiments in the Haight Ashbury during the 'Summer of Love'.
  • Taking 2000+ photos of the documents, Max has been reviewing them over the past couple of years.
  • Jack Ruby has a psychotic break at the same time of West's involvement. Coincidence?
  • Max discovered that West was actually involved in Ruby's case by November 29th, not March 1964!
  • Realizing how significant it was that Jolly West was involved with Ruby, Max pressed on.
  • Len & Max discuss the history & different aspects of MK ULTRA.
  • Len notes that the experiments & participating universities or clinics were funded by Dept. Of Defence.
  • Psychiatrist Bernard Diamond performed experiments on Sirhan Sirhan, hypnotizing him.
  • How could Sirhan Sirhan not remember the events surrounding his involvement in RFK's shooting?
  • Mark David Chapman sat down on the ground & started reading a book after shooting Lennon?
  • Notice how the same doctors are involved in these sensationalist cases, over & over?
  • During WWII the OSS & various armies were experimenting with truth drugs & mind control.
  • Operation Bluebird & Operation Artichoke were the predecessors to MK ULTRA.
  • The mind control programs have not stopped. Note the connections to military
  • You can't count on any governmental agency to do an honest investigation?
  • Governments participate in the planning of these events, the cover ups & neglect to investigate.
  • Oswald's murder was the first televised murder in history.
  • Melvin Belli didn't mention how soon he was involved in Ruby's case! Mere days!
  • Max's intuition & research has lead him to believe Oswald's murder was premeditated.
  • West worked fast from Oklahoma to organize a group of psychiatrists to work on Ruby.
  • Jack hadn't been insane before the shooting of Oswald, or after. He was being manipulated.
  • Tom Howard, Ruby's 1st lawyer was involved in Ruby's case within an hour of Oswald’s shooting.
  • Howard was the first person to public ally state that Ruby wasn't in his right mind.



    Show #1232
    Original airdate: Jan 2nd, 2025
    Guests: Mark Adamczyk
    Topics: The Protected JFK Files

    Play Show #1232 (59:45) MP3 download




  • Read Mark's recent article, The Protected JFK Files, on Kennedys and King.
  • Find The JFK Assassination Chokeholds: That Prove There Was a Conspiracy on Amazon!
  • Len & Mark discuss the inspiration for Mark to focus his attention on the JFK files.
  • In October 2017, the censorship of the remaining JFK files expired. Trump didn't release the files!
  • Mark educated himself on the statute that was passed in Congress creating the JFK Files Act in 1992.
  • The release of Oliver Stone's movie, JFK, caused immense pressure on the government to release files!
  • Mark has probably read this law 100 times at this point, educating himself on the JFK Records Act.
  • The ARRB had unprecedented authority to look at records & change declassification status on files.
  • The AARB went through EVERY record that the agencies wanted protection on & made decisions.
  • Prior to this law, lawsuits were filed under the FOIA which allows an agency head to veto info requests.
  • Jefferson Morley has done tremendous work looking into the CIA connections to Oswald.
  • The CIA has been fighting hard to keep records closed so the public doesn't learn the truth!
  • Jefferson Morley has been heavily focused on having CIA's George Joannides's files declassified.
  • CIA lied to the Warren Commission, the HSCA, the ARRB etc. about Oswald's activities & history.
  • There is an institutional mandate since creation of the CIA after WWII to keep their operations secret.
  • There are over 3600 protected files still in the archives, violating the law to declassify all JFK files.
  • What can Trump & Congress can do now to have the JFK files released?
  • Discovered memo drafted for Trump, rewriting the JFK Act illegally to delay the release of JFK files.
  • Trump sadly issued a six month delay & then a three month delay of the release of the JFK files.
  • Biden made matters worse with his 'transparency plans' to basically silence public interest.
  • With Bobby Kennedy being in the cabinet, perhaps NOW the remaining files will finally be released.
  • Bobby Kennedy has spoken out that he feels the CIA was responsible for his Uncle's assassination.
  • RFK Jr. Is trying to have his daughter in law appointed to Deputy Director of the CIA.
  • We know a significant amount of information on Oswald. What more do they still want to keep secret?
  • Research has shown that the 'official' conclusions made about Oswald have been false.
  • Why did the CIA create this profile of Oswald being a communist?
  • If there were evidence of Castro being behind JFK's assassination, LBJ would have bombed Cuba.
  • Mark feels Oswald was a CIA asset used in operations before JFK’s assassination in Dallas, Texas.
  • JFK investigator Dan Hardway's work on Oswald in Mexico City is excellent. Find his work online.
  • Oswald was set up by the intelligence agencies to look like a Castro sympathizer.
  • What are the most logical reasons for the CIA's continued secrecy?
  • Operation Northwoods was discovered by the ARRB in the late 90's.
  • JFK outright rejected the Operation Northwoods plan. Mark explains the Operation Northwoods plot.
  • The DRE group was sponsored by the CIA & ran by George Joannides out of JMWAVE in Miami.
  • This group is the single source for information sent around the world that Oswald was a pro Castro nut.
  • Len discusses the possibility of John Armstrong's theory of the 2nd Oswald & LHO impersonators.
  • Mark hopes there will be a Congressional investigation into the assassinations.
  • If you watch Building 7 fall, you'll understand that the buildings must have been wired for demolition.
  • There isn't any actual video of a plane hitting the Pentagon. Why isn't there security video at least?
  • Mark recommends everyone watch the 9/11 documentary Loose Change. Watch Full Documentary Here