From jad@ckuxb.att.com Tue Dec 15 16:00:12 1992 Received: from att-out.att.com by css.itd.umich.edu (5.67/2.2) id AA10926; Tue, 15 Dec 92 16:00:09 -0500 Message-Id: <9212152100.AA10926@css.itd.umich.edu> From: jad@ckuxb.att.com Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 15:56 EST To: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu Status: O X-Status: Article 17461 of alt.conspiracy: Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa Path: cbnewsl!att-out!pacbell.com!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!murdoch!Turing.ORG!jad From: jad@Turing.ORG (John DiNardo) Subject: Part 23, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy Message-ID: <1992Nov17.223139.4440@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia. Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:31:39 GMT Lines: 143 I made the following transcript from a tape recording of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station WBAI-FM (99.5) 505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (continuation) CYRIL WECHT: Just to put in context what they did, Garrison went to the F.C.C. to request equal time, and never before or since has the F.C.C. made a judgment like the one they made in this case. They ruled that the NBC documentary was so dishonest and so flawed that they ordered NBC to give Garrison a half-hour of prime time to respond to it. I think that says something in terms of where that NBC documentary was coming from. GARY NULL: And Garrison did respond to it? CYRIL WECHT: He did respond to it in prime time. Yes. GARY NULL: We must state here that Walter Sheridan, since he's not here to defend himself .... any allegations of any misdeeds or misconduct are just that: allegations. Since he was never proved to have done any of those things, we must keep that in this perspective. Now let's go to the idea of the NBC documentary on the JFK assassination and the FBI. CYRIL WECHT: Okay. When the Warren Commission Report was issued, NBC ran a one-hour documentary in prime time, just prior to the release of the Warren Report, that basically was a summary of what the Warren Commission was going to find. An internal FBI document, that was generated a week prior to that documentary, reviewed in chapter and verse what the NBC documentary was going to show, and also it included in it assurances from unnamed sources at NBC that nothing in the documentary would criticize the work of the FBI or the findings of the initial FBI report that had preceded the findings of the Warren Commission. Clearly, the FBI had an open pipeline into NBC and it knew exactly what NBC was doing. And clearly, there was a pipeline back that was assuring the FBI that there wouldn't be any agenda that the FBI would have a problem with. GARY NULL: Alright. The Washington Post and editor Ben Bradlee? CYRIL WECHT: Okay. Ben Bradlee .... I have a letter from the then-book-review editor of the Washington Post in which he informed me that Ben Bradlee had ordered him not to review any books about the Kennedy Assassination. A rather interesting incident took place after the demise of the House Assassinations Committee. One of the things that the House Assassinations Committee had investigated was a report that Lee Harvey Oswald had ben seen in the company of a gentleman by the name of Maurice Bishop, who was said by sources to be a high-ranking official in the Central Intelligence Agency. The members of the staff of the House Assassinations Committee became convinced that Maurice Bishop was David Atlee Phillips, who had also been a major high-ranking official of the Central Intelligence Agency. He had been in Mexico City. He later resigned from the Agency to form a support group for the CIA when the CIA was coming under a great deal of criticism. David [shouldn't it be Anthony?] Summers[sp] wrote extensively about the Phillips/Maurice Bishop connection in his book, CONSPIRACY. And he managed to get an audience with Ben Bradlee. He suggested to Ben Bradlee that this was an area that was ripe for investigation. Bradlee subsequently assigned a reporter to the story. The reporter was in touch with Summers. He was also in touch with Gaeton Fonzi who had been an investigator for the House Committee [on Assassinations]. Prior to that, he had been an investigator for the [Sen. Frank] Church Committee [on Assassinations], and he was the investigator who had originally come up with the Maurice Bishop story. The reporter told both Summers and Gaeton Fonzi that when Bradlee assigned him to the story, he told him to discredit the story. Those were his marching orders. Far from discrediting the story, as this reporter got into it, he developed more information that tended to support the conclusion that Phillips and Maurice Bishop were the same person. That is basically the gist of the story that he submitted. The story was killed! And that's really in line with what the Washington Post has done from the beginning. The Washington Post, The New York Times, TIME Inc. have been obsessed with discrediting the stories of conspiracy, and with shoring up the official Government findings. GARY NULL: Then you would have to ask: Why? Is it a matter of coincidence? Is it a matter of editorial opinion that may be completely innocent of any complicity or malfeasance, or is there some connection from the New York Times, NBC, CBS, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine that would have connections to any of the major people who are under criticism now for having participated; such as some of the major CIA officers, some of the high-ranking people from within the military/industrial complex, right-wing extemists, etc. Are there any connections? CYRIL WECHT: That's where I get into difficulty. I mean, I don't really like to speculate about why I think it's dangerous. I think you can only point to what was done. Questions have to be raised. I mean, you'd have to ask why the media has done what it has done; why these things seem to come from the upper levels of the newspapers, networks, magazines involved. GARY NULL: Because remember, it's the same Washington Post that allowed [Bob] Woodward and [Carl] Bernstein to expose Watergate, which brought down Nixon in the White House and a lot of Ivy League people. JIM MARRS: Gary, could I jump in and make a comment? GARY NULL: Yes. Jim Marrs, jump in, please. (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass-media's thirty-year cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes ever more striking. John DiNardo ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ If we seriously listen to this "God within us" ["conscience", if you will], we usually find ourselves being urged to take the more difficult path, the path of more effort rather than less. .... Each and every one of us, more or less frequently, will hold back from this work. .... Like every one of our ancestors before us, we are all lazy. So original sin does exist; it is our laziness. M. Scott Peck THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~