Secret Weapons from Hospital Labs

[Jenny Lake]

It's clear that post-Victorian hospitals were equipping and expanding their labs to attract the cutting-edge scientists of chemical and nuclear research. Rockefeller Institute had a "learning" hospital by 1909. They shared their labs with the Hospital for Joint Diseases-- a Rothschild establishment-- and other "charity" hospitals in the New York network.
When one of the "fathers of the Bomb", Leo Szilard, needed a job in 1933 to get out of Germany, he was hired by St. Bartholomews Hospital in London. John Lawrence, another "father of nuclear medicine" and brother of Ernest O. Lawrence, was set up in San Francisco with a pipeline from Berkeley's Rad Lab. The hospital research and production of radiopharmaceuticals was the primary cause of nuclear proliferation.

Everything these guys were doing had military applications in biowarfare and high-energy applications, but it was all "private" and funded by philanthropies. A look at the Cold Warriors puts these guys in the center of medical research and on the boards of major hospitals. The Bush family had an association with the Anderson Cancer Center. Lewis Strauss was the president of the Hospital for Joint Diseases, a member of a medical research "club' called the Maccabaen Club, a board of trustees member to Sloan-Kettering.

A huge component of the Manhattan Project involved biophysics and human experimentation at the Univ. of Rochester, CalTech and their related hospitals. Salk became a research "partner" with the Scripps hospital network...and of course, the state institution "hospital" asylums were unending and routine stations for bio-experiments on people.

[Jenny Lake]

The book 'Dr. Mary's Monkey', by Ed Haslam, is a tale about a secret and huge linear particle accelerator at the New Orleans Marine Hospital, built sometime in the late 50s.
Ed says it was made for the purpose of a super-secret "Manhattan-type" vaccine project to combat the monkey viruses in polio vaccines.
Here's my take on this story: http://www.jenniferlake.wordpress.com/

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Jennifer Lake's BlogJuly 10, 2010
Why Were Monkey Viruses in Polio Vaccines?
Filed under: genocide — jenniferlake @ 6:30 pm
Tags: AIDS, cancer, Dr. Mary's Monkey, Ed Haslam, genocide, monkey viruses, polio, SIV, SV40

                                                             
                                                  Why were monkey viruses in polio vaccines?
The answer to that question usually comes back: because monkey kidneys were used for growing the vaccine cultures. But we should consider that the monkey viruses were more "insult" than "injury". By 1951, the military medical researchers had fast-acting, aggressive cancer cells from a cervical tumor produced by a tobacco worker, Henrietta Lacks. It's not insignificant that Ms. Lacks handled tobacco –a known source of 'added' polonium, one of the first isolated isotopes of radium, and considered deadlier than plutonium. Her cells were named for her, "HeLa", and disitributed to priority laboratories where cultivation techniques were rapidly undertaken. Leo Szilard, Einstein's close associate and a "Father of the Bomb", personally assisted in devising irradiation methods for growing HeLa cells on which to grow polioviruses!
 
 The polio vaccines were supposed by the US government to prevent neurological radiation illness. They would have needed to also prevent cancer. Was the polio vaccine secretly 'double-billed' as an anti-radiation drug to combat both polio and cancer? It was designed, however, to do neither. Vaccination for the purpose of provoking "active immunity" installs the disease it purports to prevent, bypassing and subverting the regulation of the brain. The monkey viruses are a devilish "tag", allowing subsequent researchers to follow the course of cancer and disease initiated during the era of nuclear Fallout. A 'new normal' on the disease Front was taking place and a population tracking method in the form of identifiable DNA would help define a statistical baseline for the new era of chronic disease. To be certain, General Stanhope Bayne-Jones of the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board announced to the New York hospital association in 1949 that chronic disease was our future.
 Any foreign DNA incorporated into the human genome presents a risk for excess cancer, inducing a genetic destabilization, and radiation all by itself  "reassorts" genes and raises the risk. If we were truly healthy and not subjected to a century of disinformation about biology and nutrition, our bodies would be adapting and eliminating aberrant cells. But our poor exhausted immune systems face only the increasing onslaught of destabilizing chemicals and radiation. These are the real causes of modern diseases.
Injectible vaccines are going the way of the dinosaur. Public opinion has rallied against them. Fake pandemics are becoming exposed.
...and 'they' are ready for this shift. Biophysical engineering of food and commodities now deliver not only the vaccines of the future, but have us swallowing the ingredients of nano-microprocessors. The age of the soft machines is here.
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"Immortal" HeLa cells http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 706AAwcrhW
Growing HeLa at UMinnesota  http://scienceblogs.com/terrasig/2010/0 ... part_3.php
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..." If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the effects of the atom bomb; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions." http://rebeccaskloot.com/the-immortal-life/
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July 7, 2010
'Dr. Mary's' Flunky
Filed under: JLs opinion,Psychological War,genocide — jenniferlake @ 6:44 pm
Tags: Ed Haslam, Dr. Mary's Monkey, JFK assassination, disinfo, Shadow Government

flun-ky - n [of unknown origin] 1a: a liveried servant, b: one performing menial duties
2: Yes-Man
 
 
For the third time, since writing "Assassination By Cancer", the theme of the book Dr. Mary's Monkey by Ed Haslam is bubbling on my front burner, except this time I've progressed through the analysis stage and even had an encounter with Ed!
The subject seems to be more of a Third Rail than I could have initially thought or guessed.  A recent and very disingenousness experience with Ed and other posters at the http://www.jfkmurdersolved.com forum, is a personally convincing argument that the same historic elements that plotted against JFK are still at it, controlling the story.
 
Someone, of some forum-associated agency, held this blog hostage while I engaged in a thread called "Is Ed Haslam Disinfo?". When the thread was closed and locked-out, I finally got a password from WordPress after two days of hold-up. Now, who could do that?
...but it was not the end, of course. Behind the scenes "dire" consequences were threatened.
You'd probably never suspect it from the mild-looking discussion here:
http://jfkmurdersolved.com/phpBB3/viewt ... &sk=t&sd=a
The thread title was changed to "Ed Haslam Discussion" and reopened after I was no longer able to post (by my request, to prevent imposter posting in my name given that my assigned forum password was my name!)
 
So how important a story is Dr. Mary's Monkey? It's value to me lies in what is NOT said, and what IS said appears to be the value of lies.
Could the real story here be the Binding Tie that illuminates the money trail and significant persons of Israel's secret nuclear and biological weapons? Will an investigation of Ed Haslam and his book BOTH turn up the key ingredients to Shadow Government operations that link POLIO vaccines, nuclear weapons, JFK's death, DARPA-NASA technology, cancer, AIDS, September 11, Anthrax Attack, H1N1, economic meltdown, "loose nukes" and Gulf oil disasters?
 
Many of those answers may already be here on the blog and in the "dedicated research" websites that take up some of these points in depth.
Like a weaver with new color yarns, I'll be laying more of these threads into the existing patterns found at http://www.polioforever.wordpress.com
and (anthrax attack) http://www.thirdring.wordpress.com
 
It was forecast for Americans almost 100 years ago, that we would be biologically owned down to our cells.  The American Century symbollically closed with September 11. Are they owning us yet, or keeping us busy til they get the job done?
Perhaps 9-11 was also the closing of the Millenium of Peace –not the 'peace' of lack-of-conflict, but the peace of "shalom", in its fullest meaning of 'restitution': the paying back, the settling of scores.
–more on this idea is in the archives article, "The Worshipful Apothecaries".
http://jenniferlake.wordpress.com/2009/ ... thecaries/
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The Trouble With Ed
It's either very unfortunate or cultishly cunning to 'star' in a book about historical and scientific research, because Ed Haslam has written himself in as the main character of Dr. Mary's Monkey, thus ensuring his guardianship of a story that runs afoul of facts, logic, and emotional sense. But in spite of this, and because it is ultimately NOT personal, I have to thank Ed Haslam for doing his job.
As he suspected, few people (as yet) would ever bother to analyze him, let alone attempt to challenge him on his home turf. The real service of Ed's book is learned by embracing the contrived "fusion" of a secret nuclear facility, a false vaccine Project, the contaminated polio vaccines, the "Jewish backers", and the assassination plot of JFK and to reframe the story in its greater context to uncover the "deep vein of power in this country" (Ed's words).
Polio, the disease 'complex' and the vaccine that went 'round the world, was the product of Organized Medical Crime which has begged its place in the Global Syndicate of racist Israeli domination. In our times, it wears the face of the SALK Institute for Biological Research, those "metabiologists" who wrought world-changing mutations on planetary lifeforms (us!). For the committed eugenicists applied to the division and dehabilitation of the general public, chemicals and radiation have aways been the choice weapons of mass destruction. If you didn't know it before, learn it now and step out of the toxic pressure that is mutating your genes. The frontiers of real natural 'science' are unfolding truths that are written on the hearts of all God's children...and it will not be stopped.
 
As you can see, the blog is up and running...my associates are taking care of business...and this ballgame is over for now... so call the boys home, Ed. You can only be the Monkey's Pa for so long, and it will sink or swim on its own integrity.
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                                                               Recommended Reading
 
FINAL JUDGEMENT, by Michael Collins Piper
available to download http://www.ety.com/HRP/booksonline/finaljudgement.pdf
New!!
AIDS, OPIUM, DIAMONDS and EMPIRE, by Nancy Turner Banks, MD
distributed by Barnes and Noble booksellers
                                             
Dr. Mary's Monkey analysis, to be posted at http://www.polioforever.wordpress.com/dr-marys-monkey/
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The Trouble With The Particle Accelerator
As a distinctive type used in the making of  industrial "metamaterials" (see the photo link in  'Particle Accelerator 101′, June), and according to the known association of the Sterns (WDSU radio and tv) as central JFK  assassination plotters, the New Orleans facility should be regarded in a similar light to the Sterns' investment in NUMEC, the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation in Apollo, Pennsylvania.
   Mike Piper tells us that Edith Stern was one of Clay Shaw's closest friends.
Edith Goodkind Rosenwald (Mrs. Sulzberger, Mrs. Stern) was the daughter of Sears, Roebuck & Co. magnate, Julius Rosenwald. Julius's best friends from his 'apprentice' days in New York were Henry Morganthau and Henry Goldman.
Henry Goldman personally and privately supported physicists Max Born and Albert Einstein in Germany. With his close associate, Abraham Flexner  and his brothers Simon and Bernard, Rosenwald applied his fortune to hand-selecting "displaced scholars" for presigious academic appointments in the U.S. His son, Lessing, filled his father's shoes and maintained the close relationships with the Flexners –Simon Flexner was the chief of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and Bernard Flexner was a founding CFR member, signer of Paris Peace for the Zionist Organization of America, President of the Palestine Economic Development Corp (1922), and incorporating officer of the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Jewish Scholars (1933). Abraham Flexner founded Princeton's Institute of Advanced Study in 1930, where Einstein and other select elite scientists were given an institutional home from where they performed the avant-garde services of cutting edge weapons technology.
    Edith's brother Lessing J. Rosenwald, was chief of the Office of Production Management for WWII. Among his accomplishments in wartime, was having building codes significantly relaxed to allow valuable materials to be conserved (and cheap ones placed in their stead!) Lessing founded the America First Committee (for US neutrality) and the American Council for Judaism  (anti-Zionist coalition) which put him in charge of his opposition!
NUMEC was founded was Zalman Shapiro in 1957 to produce commercial nuclear reactor fuel. A commited and longstanding Zionist with high-level Israeli connections, Shapiro also held a patent to purify diamonds with particle accelerators! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalman_Shapiro
Aug.2002 http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleyn ... 88353.html  "NUMEC used Apollo, Parks as guinea pigs" – "If you lived near the former NUMEC nuclear fuel plants in Apollo and Parks in the 1960s, you were part of studies to determine how much nuclear fallout was safe for humans. You just didn't know it. And neither may have the workers inside the plants, who were studied to see just how much radiation the human body could absorb...But what were the results of the tests? Few seem to know...The extent of the studies will most likely stay unknown. 'Private contractor sites like NUMEC fell off the map' [Dan] Guttman said...results of the ongoing study [worker lifetime study] are not available." [Guttman chaired the Pres. Committee on Human Radiation Experiments]More information about  Dr. Mary's Monkey-related history will be added to the polioforever analysis.

The Library Evidence
 The murder mystery of Dr. Mary Sherman, which was published, says Haslam, to be the "case for an investigation" at the heart of Dr. Mary's Monkey, is based on New Orleans Public Library documents that were turned into the library system after nearly 30 years of cover-up. These scurrilous papers are the 'proof' that Mary died, not in March of 1967 as was believed, but in July of 1964. At least, that's what the providers of the documents would like us to believe.
So who was in control of the New Orleans Public Library?
In the time period that the Sherman autopsy report showed up for public perusal, one of the illustrious N.O. Library Commissioners was James R. Moffett, owner and oil wildcatter of the Freeport-McMoRan Corp. From 1988 to 1995, Henry Kissinger was on Moffett's Board of directors.
The question of which year Dr. Sherman died may even be a false choice. Her role in the JFK assassination and the "galloping cancer" bioweapon which she supervised may have endeared her enough to her patrons to arrange a staged disappearance, perhaps to Latin or South America where her fluency in Spanish and the connections made while traveling with Dr. Alton Ochsner gave her a shoe-in. Maybe she stuck around a while and had more to do with David Ferrie's death than is supposed.
    Readers are reminded on p.233, "Remember that Dr. Talley identified the victim by body shape and hair color". On page p.235, the referenced autopsy report describes "burns over the entire face producing marked shrinkage of the skin, with deformity of the facial features and drying and shrinkage of the eyeballs".  Ed Haslam goes on to ask "Is it any wonder that the first two people who tried could not identify her?". Haslam, in facts, paints the picture of the circumstances of Mary Sherman's death as a dual mystery, one of which he sets up, and one of which he illustrates with a theory . But really, why should we care?  Interest in Haslam's versions of this human story appear to be trails of breadcrumbs that lead anywhere but home. Mary Sherman is not important, but the smoke-and-mirrors of the story is intriguing for its look of "content control" and opinion shaping.
The Witness: Judyth
On page 243, Ed Haslam writes, "By the summer of 1995, I had spent three years investigating the death of Mary Sherman, the history of monkey virus research, and the uncharted epidemic of soft tissue cancers. I was exhausted...Much had been done, yet much was undone. I had to make a decision about publishing....Should I publish?...Or should I continue researching..? On the one hand, one of my major goals had been accomplished. Much of the nonsense surrounding Mary Sherman's death had been exposed. On the other, my list of unanswered questions stretched to the horizon. It was as if all my years of work were little more than clearing the brush before the real work could begin [emphasis added]. The ultimate problem was that I had no way of knowing if additional effort would produce additional answers. Or whether a major discovery lay just around the corner. For better or worse, I decided to publish, just to get the story out....Perhaps someone would come forward with more information."
Someone did.  
Judyth Vary Baker was perhaps the only living person to make a "coherent explanation" in the overall pattern that Ed was seeking. In 2000, a CBS '60 Minutes' contact "brought her" to Ed. Professing reluctance for Judyth's witness, nonetheless, Ed Haslam moved (? or was already there) near Judyth's home town of Bradenton, Florida. Sometime, in this period, Ed Haslam even "ran into Mohammed Atta at the Venice airport"! Whaddya know!?  
Judyth Baker is important.
And it stands as a major curiosity to consider that Haslam's original publication of "Mary, Ferrie and the Monkey Virus", under a pseudonym, circulated like a baited hook. Judyth lives outside the US now, in "exile", and if we believe her communication on the http://www.jfkmurdersolved.com forum (titled "Judyth's Last Message"), she vows to never, never again post messages to public websites. That message itself, was posted by proxy.
Maybe now, the real work is done.

[Jenny Lake]

Before there were reactors making wholesale nuclear 'fuel', there were particle accelerators, the Ray Guns of the 1920s. Apart from the special 'rad labs' established for theoretical exploration for future weapons use, the immediate practical side of particle accelerators was most interesting to medical research.
An account of physics pioneer Rolf Wideroe in the early 20s recalls a meeting in Germany with Leo Szilard who had set up biological experiments irradiating mice with low-power accelerators on a (Berlin) rooftop. This was just a sample of Szilard's interest in biology. When he was recruited from Austria to administer the 'rescue' of scholars by the Academic Assistance Council in London, 1933, Szilard moved his experiments into the labs at St. Bartholomew's.
 
Szilard was interested in brokering his inventions, and at least one of the deals he made in the mid-30s led to connections in Havana. An "importer" named Isbert Adam had made deals for a "capacitron", a so-called food-irradiator refined by Adam's relative Arno Brasch. [photo of capacitron, 1947 http://www.jitterbuzz.com/lif0310.html] Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, who became the Atomic Energy Committee chief, was involved in the purchase. Szilard himself successfully sold equipment to pharmaceutical houses. This Havana connection for moving high technology has been somewhat elusive, but suggests the underworld syndicate in Cuba that had grown into "the creation of a giant criminal empire..toward the end of 1933" was a pipeline for continental technology transfer and any type of contraband.
http://books.google.com/books?id=sKIZpa ... ta&f=false
[thank CSR for this link!]

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Hi Jenny,

Caught this quote recently...
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Letter of Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein's 1939 letter to President Franklin Roosevelt urging development of an atomic bomb - the famous document that started the Nuclear Age - was not written by Einstein at all. It was ghostwritten for him by a relatively little-known Columbia University physicist, named Leo Szilárd.

In 1939,. Szilárd and Princeton scientist Eugene Wigner approached Einstein to ask a vital favor: Given his great stature, would he lend his name to the promotion of a serious study of nuclear energy's wartime applications and the design and construction of an atomic bomb?

Einstein agreed, although he confessed relative ignorance about nuclear chain reactions. Szilárd wrote a draft and presented it to him for his signature on Aug. 2. It spoke of the "vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radiumlike elements [that] would be generated" by a nuclear chain reaction set off in a large chunk of uranium.

The message finally went to Roosevelt. Later Einstein did write and sign two follow-up messages which, together with the first, led to the 1942 formation of the Manhattan Project, - which developed the bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. Szilárd was one of the project's guiding forces; Einstein had nothing whatsoever to do with it. "I ... only acted as a mailbox," Einstein later wrote. "They brought me a finished letter, and I simply mailed it."

20 PARADE SEPTEMBER 1981

http://www.hungarian-history.hu/lib/hunspir/hsp51.htm

[Jenny Lake]

Later Einstein did write and sign two follow-up messages which, together with the first, led to the 1942 formation of the Manhattan Project, - which developed the bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. Szilárd was one of the project's guiding forces; Einstein had nothing whatsoever to do with it. "I ... only acted as a mailbox," Einstein later wrote. "They brought me a finished letter, and I simply mailed it."

All three of the letters were written by Szilard (a.k.a. Spitz), but not so generally known is the closeness of Szilard and Einstein. Prior to Einstein's first visit to the USA in 1921, he met a young Hungarian at a special meeting in Prague who told him 'something', apparently of a breakthrough nature, about a personal achievement in technical nuclear physics. The event was briefly and vaguely recounted in Ronald Clark's biography of "Einstein, the Life and Times". Immediately on his return to Europe, Einstein went to Prague and set up a very select experimental lab with Szilard and a handful of the brightest grad students from U Prague. I suspect, given the extraordinary personalities involved, that they had figured chain reaction and were perfecting their experiments. Later, Einstein and Szilard co-submitted a patent for a pumping system that was used in (future) reactors. The pump invention has gone down as a "refrigeration" design.
   According to Edward Teller, Enrico Fermi was on the verge of it in 1932 but didn't figure his experiment right. They had all the technology in place since early to mid-1920s, so it was a mental matter to make this leap. Szilard had nuclear reactor patents from 1936, so how can we believe they didn't discover chain reaction before then? Even a mainstream author like Clark makes connections all over the place proving that Einstein was no 'mailbox'. A.E. was a key spokesman for Science itself, and as a representative of the world Zionists, completely veiled his participation. Disturbing to me is that on his 1921 trip with Weizmann and Usshishkin, Einstein & Co. left one important legacy of their visit -- a zionist Physicians Committee.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Interview and accounts on causes for Polio:

http://www.youtube.com/v/CmLfKGl9MMw

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

I can only think that this was another angle the Jew Angleton and his NeoCon Cold War warriors were cooking up...for the real evidence that is there this is interesting but for that which is not... it may be a red-herring...  -- CSR

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Lee Oswald's Girlfriend in New Orleans? Secret CIA Bioweapons Researcher?


Should We Believe Judyth Baker?

If Judyth Vary Baker is telling the truth, it will change the way we think about the Kennedy assassination. Judyth offers an account that integrates much that has been written about the assassination into a more or less coherent whole, and puts myriad facts about the assassination in an entirely new light. She has recently been in the Netherlands, getting some attention in the Dutch media, and has opened a museum dedicated to telling her story. She was the subject of "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" which aired in November, 2003 on the History Channel. Her supporters have promised a book. She may turn into someone important on the JFK assassination scene.

But is she to be believed?

Star Science Student Recruited into Deadly Conspiracy

Judyth as a high school science student. She and her supporters have produced hard evidence of only two elements of her story: (1) she was a good science student in high school and (2) she worked at the Reily Coffee Company at the same time as Lee Oswald.

Judyth's saga begins when she was a student at Manatee High School in Bradenton, Florida. Among fellow students who remember her, opinion is about evenly split between remembering her as "intelligent" and remembering her as "weird," Endnote but she appears to have been an excellent science student who conducted "cancer research" with mice.

She received a fair amount of recognition for her academic prowess, attending national workshops for science students. But her life took an important turn when she came to the attention of Dr. Canute Michaelson in 1958. Michaelson (supposedly a "CIA asset" engaged in bioweapons research) somehow targeted her for future intelligence use. Endnote She was thus drawn into the orbit of very sinister people and eventually into a plot that had the intention of killing Castro, but ended up killing JFK instead.

The "interesting" time in her life was the summer of 1963, when she was in New Orleans. It was there that she began, she claims, a torrid sexual affair with Lee Harvey Oswald, in spite of having been recently married to Robert Baker, a student and future petroleum geologist who was working for an oil company. What brought Judyth and Lee together was a plot, centered in New Orleans, to produce a bioweapon for the purpose of killing Fidel Castro. The plotters got them both "cover" jobs at the Reily Coffee Company while they were carrying on an affair and trying to produce a "cocktail" to administer to Castro. The "cocktail" would include both a virus designed to knock out Castro's immune system, and cancer cells that would infect him and cause his death.

Other participants in the plot included David Ferrie – every conspiracy author's favorite suspect – and Dr. Mary Sherman, a physician at the Ochsner Clinic. The research was done in the apartments of Ferrie and Sherman.

Oswald's famous trip to Mexico City was, according to Baker, for the purpose of delivering the poison "cocktail" to an agent who would see to it that it got into Cuba and was administered to Castro.

Oswald made it to Mexico City, but unfortunately the agent never arrived to claim the materials, and the plotters decided to kill John Kennedy instead. However, instead of using their sophisticated bioweapon concoction on him, they decided to simply shoot him. Oswald, who liked Kennedy, was an unwilling participant in the plot, but never defected nor told the authorities about the plan. He was in Dealey Plaza as a shooter, but intentionally missed Kennedy, although other shooters, of course, killed the President.

Evaluation

 

Some readers may be tempted to stop reading right now, given the sheer implausibility of the tale.

That the CIA would need to develop a bioweapon to kill Castro is farfetched, since they had a variety of poisons that would have killed him – including some that would do so without it being obvious he was in fact murdered. Endnote

Further, when the CIA wanted scientific research done, they were able to recruit top-notch Ph.D.-level university talent. Their research on toxins was headed by a renowned biologist. For the MK/ULTRA project (dealing with "mind control") they recruited top university scientists. Endnote Yet we are supposed to believe that this particular project was carried out by a high-school dropout (Oswald), a college student with no advanced science classes (Baker), a fellow who had a mail order doctor's degree from an institution in Italy (Ferrie) and a reputable doctor (Sherman) who was in fact an orthopedic surgeon. Endnote

Ferrie, at one point, did own some mice, and told his friends he was engaged in "cancer research." But then he also, at one point, had a large tank in his back yard which he claimed he was going to convert into a submarine to attack Castro's Cuba. Endnote

judyth_lab.jpgJudyth as a high school science student. She and her supporters have produced hard evidence of only two elements of her story: (1) she was a good science student in high school and (2) she worked at the Reily Coffee Company at the same time as Lee Oswald.


The mice, by the way, were long gone from his apartment by the summer of 1963.

And somehow the plotters couldn't supply a proper facility, so the research was done in the apartments of two members of the team. Real CIA research was done in university labs, or at secure military installations.

Judyth's supposed encounter with Michaelson would have taken place when she was a first semester sophomore in high school. Given the CIA's ability to recruit top-notch Ph.D. talent, it's a bit odd to be told that they were scouting high school students.

The notion of injecting Castro with cancer cells is pretty far-fetched. Knocking out his immune system would have resulted in his death without any additional ingredient in the "cocktail."

Judyth's treatment of scientific issues is pretty slipshod. For example, in one e-mail she asked rhetorically "I would like to see a list of people involved in this case who died of lung cancer, especially if they did not smoke, such as Jack Ruby. And how many heart attacks (sodium morphate)." Endnote She further explained to researcher Gary Buell that:

 

Gary, David Ferrie told me about it. I actually believed at that time that there was nothing Dave did not know. In medical matters like this he described this as a method he could use to commit suicide and people would think it was a heart attack. There would be no way to discern it wasn't a natural death. Endnote

Buell investigated this, and found that there is no such thing as "sodium morphate." But if there is no such poison that can induce a heart attack, where did Judyth get this? Her apparent source is a crackpot conspiracy essay that appeared in 1975 titled "The Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File." That document states that sodium morphate is "a favorite Mafia poison for centuries. Smells like apple pie, and is sometimes served up in one, as to J. Edgar Hoover. Sometimes in a pill or capsule. Symptoms: Lethargy, sleep, sometimes vomiting. Once ingested, there is a heart attack – and no trace is left in the body." Thus a poison Ferrie supposedly told Judyth about in 1963 is nowhere in the medical literature, not part of crackpot conspiracy literature until 1975, but all over the internet by the time Judyth was sending out her e-mails circa 2000. Endnote

 

"Deadly Alliance" says that the virus in the "cocktail" on which the little band of researchers was working was the AIDS virus, but she told various Dutch media outlets that she was working with SV-40 (Simian Virus 40). Endnote This latter virus, which contaminated early batches of Polio Vaccine, does not cause cancer in humans and isn't the AIDS virus nor a related one. Thus it wouldn't in fact be of much use in a bioweapons program. When she was interviewed for "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" in 2003, the virus to knock out Castro's immune system had been replaced by a plan to expose Castro to repeated doses of radiation to help the cancer along.

How the CIA – which failed to even once expose Castro to any of the toxins it had – was going to arrange for the repeated doses of radiation is something Judyth didn't explain.

Does She Have Evidence?

Even if Baker's account sounds implausible, one might take it seriously if she has actual evidence to support her story. Indeed, she does have "evidence." For example, she has employment records showing that she did work at the Reily Coffee Company at the same time Lee did. She has a green glass, of the sort that Reily gave to customers as a premium, that she says that Lee stole and gave to her, and which she treasures. How do we know that Lee gave it to her? She says he did.

She has a letter from Senator George Smathers commending her for her prowess in the sciences. She says this shows that people in high places had noticed her and were slating her for a covert mission. But it is, in reality, evidence that senators have staffs who comb newspapers for names to which letters can be sent to ingratiate the senator with constituents.

There is at least one witness who confirms part of Judyth's account. Anna Lewis, the former wife of one David Lewis, confirms Judyth's claim that she and Lee went on several dates with Anna and David. This might seem like solid corroboration, but David Lewis was in New Orleans during the Garrison investigation, and was telling all kinds of stories – stories which even the Garrison people came to reject. Endnote But he said nothing at all about any "double dates" with Lee and Marina Oswald. So to believe Anna Lewis, we have to believe that her husband told the District Attorney's office a bunch of implausible tales, but concealed one genuinely explosive thing that he knew.

Interestingly, Anna Lewis, with her important "corroboration" of Judyth's story, doesn't appear in "The Men Who Killed Kennedy."

The dates with David and Anna Lewis don't appear in the earlier versions of her story. Endnote For example, she told researcher Robert Harris that she and Lee double-dated with an old girlfriend of hers from high school and the girlfriend's fiancé. The two got married in September of 1963. Harris grew suspicious of the story when Judyth could not recall the name of the woman, in spite of their supposedly having been best friends in high school.

Judyth told Harris that Marina was constantly alone at night, due to the attention Lee was paying to her. But Marina told Ray and Mary La Fontaine that Lee never failed to come home after work and was almost never late. Endnote Marina said the same thing in her testimony at the Clay Shaw trial. Endnote

It in fact is unlikely that Judyth or anybody else spent evenings out with Lee Oswald in the summer of 1963.

She also claims to have at least one handwriting sample from Lee, in the form of inscriptions written in the margins of a book. Endnote The inscriptions are, conveniently, written in pencil, which means they cannot be dated as ink inscriptions could be. Are they in Lee's handwriting? Judyth says they are, but when Judyth's supporters, known to critics as "Team Judyth," are asked about the verdict of questioned documents experts, they simply claim that "preliminary reports" are favorable.

Since it has been several years, one has to wonder why there isn't a definitive assessment.

Interestingly, early on she wasn't mentioning any handwriting samples from Lee. For example, in an e-mail she wrote in late July 2001 she claims:

 

1. Two sheets of stationery from the Reily coffee company.

2. Dated streetcar transfers

3. An ink bottle Lee supposedly used to fill his fountain pen

4. A W-2 form from Reily Coffee Company

She then claims to have "hundreds of documents and other items." Endnote In another e-mail she claimed to have Lee's "shower shoes." Endnote But in spite of mentioning such inconclusive pieces of evidence, she failed to say anything about the writing samples.

The "shower shoes" are interesting. In fact, the Warren Commission did indeed enter a pair of Lee Oswald's flip-flops into evidence as Warren Commission Exhibit 148. But these flip-flops remain in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. Endnote Perhaps Lee had another pair of flip-flops. But why would a wife trying to conceal an adulterous affair keep a pair of her lover's shoes?

The "shower shoes" appear to be yet another example of Judyth latching onto some piece of assassination trivia and weaving it into her narrative.

Judyth does have several love letters that she says she wrote to Lee. Unfortunately, the name of the addressee has been torn off each of the letters, and Judyth's word is the only evidence they were actually written to Lee. Robert Baker's second wife, Rose Boory-Baker, provides a suggestion as to the real nature of the letters.

 

I have seen those letters. Judy wouldn't even have them if I had not sent them to her daughter years ago. She left those personal letters in Norway when she flew the coop. There is nothing in the letters between her and Bob that would give any type of evidence of which you are implying. Quite frankly, how in the heck are you going to present a love letter from Judy to "Lee" when she tore off the name. She wrote many love letters to Bob. Gosh, if I knew now what I knew then [sic], the box would have never been sent . . . . Endnote

If Judyth's pieces of "evidence" point to a pretty prosaic life, independent sources show her life to have been much more mundane than she portrays it. For example, her former husband remembers that, rather than being mysteriously "set up" with the job at Reily Coffee Company, she got it when she got tired of flipping hamburgers at a local burger joint. Endnote

After the summer in New Orleans, she and her husband were at the University of Florida in Gainesville. According to Robert Baker:

 

Back in Gainesville, we heard about the assassination during the school term – like everyone else I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing. Later in the day or the next day, she brought home a newspaper and was studying it closely and said, "I think I may have seen this guy. He was a stocker or something. I think I saw him in the back room." [capitalization corrected] Endnote

Her classmates at Manatee High School do indeed remember her doing cancer research, but it was a rather amateurish sort. One day, all her mice escaped, and the "experimental" and "control" groups got mixed up. Endnote To prevent this happening again, she started color coding the mice – something no serious researcher would do since it violates the notion of a "double blind" research design. Endnote

How Judyth Met Lee

Judyth can't resist adding implausible scenes to her account. Consider, for example, how she supposedly met Lee Oswald.

 

It was through this amazing coincidence that Lee thought I knew so much.

 

He was standing behind me [at the post office] for general delivery, April 26, when I went to get a letter from the general delivery.

 

. . .

 

As I got the letter, I reached for it, and dropped the newspaper, and when Lee picked it up, without realizing it, I thanked him in Russian. I was always practicing Russian (which I'd been required to learn to level of conversational by my doctors, etc – and which is on record at Manatee (then Jr.) Community College–) – so now Lee heard me saying, "Karashaw, tavarish!" in Russian, and he answered me quickly, "That's not a very wise thing to do, to be speaking Russian in a place like this."

 

That did it, we began talking together. Endnote

Judyth supposedly learned Russian because the conspirators who were controlling her demanded that she do so, but she could never give a coherent account of why they would do that. Endnote But a worse problem stems from the fact that Judyth maintains that both she and Lee were being controlled, at the time they met, by the plotters. The mystery is why the plotters would not simply invite both to (say) the Café du Monde, sit them down and say "Judyth, this is Lee. Lee, meet Judyth." Why did they meet in a vastly improbable chance encounter? Or if the encounter was "set up" (as Judyth claims to suspect), why such an elaborate plot to have them meet? And why would Judyth speak Russian to a random stranger at the post office?

By 2003, when Judyth was interviewed for "The Men Who Killed Kennedy", the business about speaking Russian to Lee was missing, and instead Judyth explained that Lee was so "clean cut" that when he offered to walk her home she agreed.


Judyth's Cast of Shady Characters

Judyth's story implicates quite a lot of people in the plot to kill Castro – and then Kennedy – and virtually all of the people she implicates have had a more-or-less prominent place in JFK assassination conspiracy books.

Dr. Alton Ochsner

Ochsner was an important physician in New Orleans who founded the Ochsner Clinic, one of the nation's top treatment centers. Ochsner was part of the New Orleans civic elite, and therefore knew Clay Shaw and served on some of the same civic projects as Shaw. Further, Ochsner was anti-Communist (as was, of course, virtually all the New Orleans civic elite), and was a key supporter of the Information Council of the Americas (an anti-Communist propaganda organization), so in the reverse McCarthyism that is typical of left-leaning conspiracists, he is suspect. According to Judyth's account: Endnote

 

Her appearance [as a teenager] at an international science fair brought her to the attention of other medical figures with military or intelligence backgrounds, as well as top officials of the American Cancer Society: Dr. Harold Diehl and Dr. Alton Ochsner (of the famed Ochsner Cancer Clinic in New Orleans). Ochsner was Judyth's principal behind-the-scenes mentor through her late teen years.

Interestingly, there was no "Ochsner Cancer Clinic," but rather only an Ochsner Clinic – although of course the latter could treat cancer as it could treat most diseases.

Judyth's account finds Ochsner sinister because:

 

Author Thomas Karnes (Tropical Enterprise) describes Ochsner as a consultant to the US Air Force "on the medical side of subversive matters."

It then goes on to claim . . .

 

In early May, Judyth was told Ochsner had set up both Ferrie's home-based cancer lab, as well as a smaller lab in the apartment of Dr. Mary Sherman, a luminary at Ochsner's Clinic. The labs were devoted to "the medical side of subversive matters," i.e., a form of biological warfare.

In the first place, the Air Force isn't the same thing as the CIA, and it's the latter, not the former, that Judyth has as a key mover in the plot. But worse, Judyth (and her coauthor Platzman) fail to mention the source of the "medical side of subversive matters" quote. In fact, it first appeared in the conservative tabloid Human Events, which identified Ochsner in a 1967 article as "a world-traveled consultant to the surgeon general of the U.S. Air Force on the medical side of subversive matters . . . ." Thus Ochsner's connection to the Air Force wasn't something revealed by declassified top secret documents, but rather something he seems to have bragged about to Human Events. Whatever that phrase meant, it didn't mean a secret bioweapons program. Endnote Further, Ochsner had an outstanding reputation as a humanitarian Endnote – a fact that left-leaning conspiracists, obsessed with his anti-Communism – never bother to discuss.

Guy Banister

A favorite villain of conspiracy writers, Banister could hardly be left out of Judyth's story:

 

Often Lee would go through The Crescent City Garage, next door to Reily's, to get to the offices of ex-FBI man, now-CIA operative, Guy Banister, who was deeply involved in anti-Castro causes. This necessitated his befriending garage owner Adrian Alba.

Why Oswald would have to go through the garage to get to Banister's office is hard to fathom, since it would be much easier to just walk out on Magazine Street and then up Lafayette. A further mystery is why he would have to befriend Alba to do so. Judyth here seems to be taking a piece of assassination lore (Oswald really did befriend Alba, and the two discussed firearms), and weaving it into her story.

Judyth claims that "Banister used Lee to collect the names of Communist sympathizers at area colleges" and that "Lee sometimes used a work area on the second floor of the 544 Camp building that housed Banister's offices." Further, "Judyth saw Lee sign out guns from Banister's weapons storeroom on the third floor of 544 Camp Street in New Orleans. Lee also kept his own guns there."

In fact, Banister's office was at 531 Lafayette Street, in the same Newman Building as 544 Camp, but with no connection with the offices at 544 Camp. To get from Banister's office to 544 Camp, one had to leave the building and walk around the corner. Endnote

In spite of extensive investigation by the Secret Service, the FBI, the Garrison office, the House Select Committee, and private researchers, no one has ever placed an Oswald "work area" on the second floor of the Newman Building, nor a "weapons storeroom" on the third floor. No one has placed Oswald at 544 Camp offices, with only one exception. Endnote Banister's secretary Delphine Roberts did indeed claim that Oswald had an office there, Endnote but Roberts suffers from an extreme lack of credibility. She failed to come forward with her story until the late 70s, in spite of having been interviewed numerous times prior to that. Further, the building's landlord, Sam Newman, the janitor and all the other tenants denied ever seeing Oswald there.

Secret internal CIA documents, now released, show Banister not to have been any sort of CIA operative. He was, at the time Kennedy was shot, a washed-up former FBI agent who dabbled in anti-Castro and racist politics and had a drinking problem.

Jack Ruby

According to Judyth's account:

 

While Judyth was in Lee's company, she met Jack Ruby twice, in May and June of 1963, once at Ferrie's apartment and once at The 500 Club, a Marcello hang-out. Ruby worked with Banister and Marcello in running guns to Cuban exiles.

 

Judyth knew Ruby as "Sparky" Rubenstein. When Lee was killed, she did not know that Jack Ruby and Sparky Rubenstein were the same man! The shock of seeing Lee killed on TV caused her to avoid all further coverage of the assassination. . . .

In the first place, it's extraordinarily implausible that Judyth could have been introduced to Jack Ruby as "Sparky Rubenstein" in the summer of 1963. Ruby had had the nickname since early childhood, and he became incensed at the mention of it. His sister told the Warren Commission that Ruby would fight when called by it. Endnote Reporter Hugh Aynesworth, who worked for the Dallas Morning News in 1963, says that "Never did I ever hear anybody in Dallas call Jack Ruby 'Sparky.' I knew him reasonably well, [and] was acquainted with scores of others who interacted [with] him in various ways." Endnote

The notion that Ruby was involved in "gun running" is an old one in conspiracy literature, and has been based on extremely flimsy evidence. There is only one documented instance when Ruby was in New Orleans in 1963: in June he traveled to the city to hire stripper Janet Conforto (stage name "Jada") to work in his club. Neither Ferrie nor any of his roommates and friends have ever mentioned Ruby and Ferrie being together in New Orleans.

When first introduced to Judyth, Ruby already knew Oswald. He told Judyth "I've known him ever since he was a little boy, when he was at parties and things like that." Endnote According to Judyth, Ruby was the "bag man" who brought money from Texas to finance the New Orleans plot. Endnote

Judyth portrays Ruby as having a compassionate side, in spite of the nefarious activities in which he was involved.

 

Sparky was a very circular thinker, and had never had much education, but he wasn't stupid. He understood that the means existed to mentally and physically torture somebody so that nothing would show. This knowledge terrified him: he could imagine it happening to each of us for getting involved as we were. I'll never forget that he said he'd rather shoot any of us than see us go into a situation that might mean this kind of unseen and unknown torture. Certainly, he was ordered to kill Lee in the end. But if he had to convince himself that it was for the best, this is how he would have been able to do it: saving Lee from a fate worse than death by a mercy killing. Endnote

Carlos Marcello, Dutz Murret

New Orleans mob boss Marcello has been a hardy perennial among assassination suspects, and we could hardly expect Judyth to overlook him. Oswald's uncle Dutz Murret had an apparent peripheral connection to the Marcello organization, which has provided conspiracy writers with a means of connecting Oswald with Marcello. Quoting the Judyth account:

 

Judyth personally met other plotters, including Banister, Shaw, and Marcello, though, as a girl of 19 or 20, she was often treated as if she were wallpaper. Wallpaper with ears, a 160 IQ, and the ability to do cutting edge cancer research.

 

Lee told Judyth that he first met Sparky when he was just 15, and that he spurned Ruby's attempts to recruit him into Mob business. Even so, he ran errands for his uncle, Dutz Murrett [sic], who ran a bookmaking operation for Marcello. Judyth accompanied Lee on one such errand.

 

Lee told Judyth that he was trusted by Mob figures, up to and including Marcello, for his ability to keep his mouth shut. Marcello told Ruby to look after the boy when the family moved to Texas.

Needless to say, the established historical record, and even the "historical record" as recounted in conspiracy books, provides no corroboration for this. It's exceedingly unlikely that Lee, living in New Orleans at age 15, would have met Ruby, who lived in Dallas. And Lee's Uncle Dutz took a decidedly negative view of his nephew in New Orleans in 1963, being put off by Oswald pro-Castro sympathies and his failure to get a job and support his family. Endnote

In a draft chapter of Judyth's manuscript titled "Before the Silence Came: Lee's Last Telephone Calls" she explains a phone call from Lee to her shortly before the assassination.

 

Of particular note was Lee's remarks that Carlos Marcello wanted to make sure his deportation trial (fueled by a personal vendetta run by Bobby Kennedy to kick Marcello out of the country for good) was going to end in New Orleans in his favor – the very day Kennedy visited Dallas. "Just to show how much power he really has," Lee told me, "he is going to time it to coincide with –" Lee broke off, but of course I understood.

 

"He has that much power," I said, almost whispering into the phone.

 

"He wants to rub Bobby's nose in it."

 

Meaning, Marcello would deal a double dose of venom: if he could manage it, Marcello would time the very hour of his victory over Bobby Kennedy with Jack Kennedy's assassination.

That Marcello could control the exact time of his legal vindication is, or course, absurd. He was doubtless elated merely to be vindicated.

Working for Marcello did, according to Judyth, have its perquisites.

 

I ate with Lee downtown, we had free access to The Five Hundred Club, a free tab, had to pay nothing, same for Court of Two Sisters and a couple of other places run by Marcello's people, where we could come in as long as it wasn't night-time and order anything we wanted, tab on Marcello. Endnote

David Ferrie

Like Banister, Ferrie is an absolutely essential figure to include in any New Orleans-based plot. According to Judyth, soon after she arrived in New Orleans:

 

Lee arranged for Judyth to meet David Ferrie, who she would soon learn was an associate of New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello, a CIA-operative who flew missions into Castro's Cuba, and an "amateur cancer researcher."

In "The Men Who Killed Kennedy", Judyth vividly describes Ferrie wearing an airline pilot's uniform and cap. In reality, Ferrie had been fired by Eastern Airlines in September, 1961, and never flew for them or for any airline again. Endnote

Ferrie did indeed do detective work for Marcello, but Ferrie was not a "CIA-operative" nor did he ever "fly missions into Castro's Cuba." Both are common conspiracy book factoids. Ferrie did apparently fancy himself a "cancer researcher" at one point, but lacked the knowledge and training to do any serious research. Even worse, his amateur "cancer experiments" ceased long before the summer of 1963, and Judyth's claim of lab mice in Ferrie's apartment at that time is flatly contradicted by several witnesses who knew Ferrie. Endnote Judyth's account continues:

 

Ferrie had lost his job as an Eastern Airlines pilot because of his homosexuality. The 15-year-old Lee had spurned Ferrie's homosexual advances when Ferrie captained Lee's Civil Air Patrol Unit (CAP).

 

Lee and Ferrie taught combat techniques to Cuban exiles at the CIA-established training camp at Lake Pontchartrain (other camps were in Florida), and portions of these training sessions were filmed. Judyth saw this film in Ferrie's apartment.

This "training camp" account apparently stems from Robert Tanenbaum, who was for a short time Deputy Counsel of the House Select Committee on Assassinations and who claims to have seen such a film. Not surprisingly, no such film exists, and there is no evidence it ever existed beyond Tanenbaum's assertion. Judyth appears to have gotten wind of the Tanenbaum claim and written it into her story.

 

Shaw and Ferrie knew each other well. Judyth accompanied Lee to an airfield where Ferrie took the other two men on a flight to Canada.

This appears to be taken from the testimony of a Garrison investigation witness named Jules Ricco Kimble, whose stories proved too wild for Garrison to use during the Clay Shaw trial, perhaps melded with elements drawn from a bogus Ferrie "flight plan" supplied to the Garrison investigation by a convict named Edward Girnus. The "flight plan" was discussed in William Davy's book Let Justice Be Done which is critiqued on this web site.

Ferrie is woven all through the Judyth story. Judyth claims, for example, to have traveled to Jackson, Louisiana (near Clinton) as part of a notorious expedition that included Shaw, Ferrie, and Oswald. The real purpose of that trip, according to Judyth, was to test the lethal "cocktail" intended for Castro on an unfortunate patient in the local mental hospital. The "Clinton trip" is, of course, another staple of the conspiracy literature that doesn't hold up under historical scrutiny. Endnote

Further, Judyth's account of the mental patient got "enhanced" a bit when she talked to "The Men Who Killed Kennedy." In that documentary, she claimed the experiments were carried out on a group of prisoners from Angola Prison, an entire "convoy." A car containing David Ferrie, Lee Oswald, Clay Shaw, and an orderly entered the gates of the Jackson mental hospital immediately behind the prisoners.

And just as the plot against Castro got "adjusted" to include multiple doses of radiation rather than a virus to destroy the immune system, the 2003 account has an experimental subject in the Jackson hospital exposed to a "high dosage x-ray."

Ferrie's relationship with Judyth extended through the days following the assassination, which Judyth says Ferrie opposed. According to the outline "Deadly Alliance:"

 

Lee and Judyth had made plans for an escape and rendezvous in Mexico. Judyth tells of Ferrie sobbing uncontrollably during phone calls with him because it had all gone so wrong.

Earlier versions of Judyth's account add other dimensions to Ferrie's role. Judyth told researcher Louis Girdler that Ferrie showed her the "manual" for the CIA's top secret MK/ULTRA program. Unfortunately, there was never any such thing as a "manual" for the highly sensitive program that researched "mind control." Endnote Further, it's absurd to think that the CIA would give such information to a New Orleans oddball. Even trusted agents would not have been shown any MK/ULTRA materials unless they had a clear "need to know." Judyth backtracked a bit, and in a later version of her story said Ferrie had "MK/ULTRA materials" Endnote or "MK/ULTRA" documents. Endnote But this is equally implausible.

Clay Shaw

While many conspiracists have rejected Jim Garrison's "case" against Clay Shaw, Judyth embraces it wholeheartedly. She claims that Shaw "represented Texas money in New Orleans." Shaw is portrayed as a thoroughly cold-blooded fellow by Judyth. For example, it is he who is behind the trip to Jackson and Clinton.

 

Lee and Judyth were heartsick over the plan to treat a prisoner/mental patient, but were powerless to stop it. Several days after the first trip, Lee took Judyth to the hospital to see the test subject. Shaw OK'd it, as he wanted her professional assessment of the patient's condition.

 

The test was a success, as the subject died within weeks.

 

Lee and Judyth began to realize that they were trapped. They could not back out of the plot for fear they would be killed.

 

. . .

 

Based on a message from H.L. Hunt conveyed to a Shaw associate, those involved with the labs had reason to fear for their lives once they had outlived their usefulness.

But Shaw apparently did have a compassionate side. According to Judyth's account:

 

At the end of August, Shaw paid for the last of several hotel trysts for Judyth and Lee. According to Judyth, Shaw felt sorry for them.

Judyth adds some salacious details in an e-mail:

 

And our feelings had been out of control for quite awhile now. We were so desperate we even slept together in a red van that was being overhauled in Adrian Alba's garage for the City of New Orleans (or some such thing). We roasted – and almost got heat stroke doing that (funny now).

 

That's how Clay Shaw learned about our plight, that we needed a place to go. He arranged for us to have meetings in hotels, and the first week we got to do this was the week between July 27 and ending August 2nd. Endnote

It seems that Shaw, who didn't mind the cold-blooded killing of a mental patient, couldn't stand for a couple of adulterous lovers to lack a place to shack up!

Judyth can't pass up an opportunity to portray Shaw's death as mysterious. She claims that "Clay Shaw died suddenly of cancer in 1972. . . . He was being treated for an undisclosed illness at Ochsner's Hospital just prior to his death." In fact, Shaw died after a long bout with cancer, not of any "undisclosed" illness.

Judyth has also claimed that Guy Banister was killed by conspirators, saying that in the aftermath of the assassination ". . . everybody was so afraid. . . . . Banister holed up for months and quit his work entirely – they killed him (called it a heart attack, but my mafia friends tell me he had a bullet in him)." Endnote In reality, neither Banister's death certificate nor the police report of his death mentions any bullet wound.

"Deadly Alliance" continues:

 

Of the 8 persons Judyth knew who were connected to the New Orleans cancer project, 5 were dead by 1967. After 1972, only she and Ochsner remained – and she was in hiding.

This might seem sinister – unless of course the five dead people were not actually people Judyth knew, but rather got included in her story at least partly because they died "mysterious deaths."

Judyth cannot resist tying everything together, and she suggests that the "cocktail" that was intended for Castro got recycled:

 

However, these [bioweapons] materials certainly didn't vanish, and I suspect they were also involved in Jack Ruby's death, perhaps Clay Shaw's, and others.' I would like to see a list of people involved in this case who died of lung cancer, especially if they did not smoke, such as Jack Ruby. And how many heart attacks (sodium morphate). Endnote

As we have seen, the business about "sodium morphate" is scientific nonsense Judyth picked up from some Internet conspiracy web site.

David Atlee Phillips

No conspiracy theory would be complete without someone from the CIA, and one key suspect featured in many conspiracy books is David Atlee Phillips, a propaganda expert serving as chief of Cuban operations in Mexico City. To quote Judyth's account:

 

At a meeting arranged by Ochsner's group, INCA, held to prepare for a radio interview of Lee, someone accidentally uttered the name "David Atlee Phillips." Lee came to believe his CIA handler, "Mr. B.," was actually Phillips. Judyth waited in the car as the meeting took place at Reily's.

Of course, this creates a huge problem, since Phillips was working at the Mexico City CIA station during the summer of 1963, and could hardly have been the handler of Lee Oswald in New Orleans. So the "outline" fudges a bit and admits "Mr. B may not have been Phillips."

Unfortunately for the sanitized version, we have an early version of a chapter of Judyth's book titled "Before the Silence Came: Lee's Last Telephone Calls." One emotional passage reads as follows.

 

I could hear him crying. We were in the very depths of hell. I couldn't see, I couldn't even stand. I leaned against the phone and cried, too.

 

"Just go!" I urged him. "Get out – it's too late to help him."

 

"Even if I wanted to, which I do not," Lee said, his voice trembling, "I couldn't. Not only me – they'd come after my family. They'd find you. You'd all die – "

 

What could I say? I knew it was true.

 

"You just remember –," Lee said, "David Atlee Phillips."

 

"I won't forget."

 

"I'm going to get out alive," Lee said, trying to choke back his emotions. "You'll see – "

 

"Sure."

Thus Phillips is firmly present in the early version of Judyth's story. She seems to have backed off when she – or some member of Team Judyth – noted the implausibility of Phillips as Lee's "handler."

James Jesus Angleton

Judyth has rather firmly insisted that Lee Oswald was sent to the Soviet Union as a "fake defector" at the behest of the CIA. Endnote The CIA person in charge of this supposed operation was James Jesus Angleton, fabled and controversial Chief of Counterintelligence. Oswald, at the time he defected to the Soviet Union, had applied to and been accepted at Albert Schweitzer College in Switzerland. According to Judyth:

 

Lee told me he was told to "apply" there (without adding at this time other details I know), but that he had the choice of either destination, the college or Russia – he had been groomed to go into Russia so that eventually he could be sent into Cuba. Lee personally felt if he had chickened out of going to Moscow and decided to go to A.S. in Switzerland, instead, which was supposed to be his 'choice,' he felt he would have been eliminated by Angleton.

 

This was one of the very few names Lee gave me, he did not trust this person Angleton, he worried a great deal how to get Angleton to stay off his back when he returned from his so-called defection, as others who returned were all under suspicion. He worked out a magnificent solution.

 

I have details on what he did. Actually I brought up this person after that, only got the full name (James Jesus Angleton) much later after he commented more extensively on his return from Russia. I know I supposedly was not supposed to hear any of these names, but this is one that I DID hear. [Emphasis in original, capitalization corrected] Endnote

No fake defector program has ever been discovered by scholars studying the CIA, even in the wake of a massive release of documents in the 1990s. But what is most bizarre about this is the notion that Oswald would have known Angleton's actual name, rather than some alias.


H.L. Hunt

H.L. Hunt was a Texas oil millionaire, an extreme conservative, and thus, in the minds of many conspiracists, a likely plotter. We have already seen that Hunt supposedly passed a message to plotters in New Orleans making it clear that plot members who had "outlived their usefulness" would probably be killed. Judyth's account explains the motivation of "Texas Money" in standard conspiracist terms:

 

This group – led by H.L. Hunt – detested JFK's Cuba policy, as well as his integrationist stance, but mostly they were threatened by his vow to repeal a major tax windfall, the oil depletion allowance. They wanted a man in the White House they could control, i.e., LBJ, and they needed to get him there fast, as the Bobby Baker and Billy Sol Estes scandals threatened his continuation as Vice President.

Frank Ragano, Johnny Roselli

Ragano was a lawyer who defended mobsters, and claimed to have relayed assassination orders from Jimmy Hoffa. Endnote Roselli was a mobster involved in CIA plots against the life of Castro. Endnote Judyth described the involvement of both men to researcher Rich DellaRosa. But DellaRosa came away skeptical. Quoting DellaRosa:

 

We exchanged e-mails and at one point she rambled on about knowing Carlos Marcello and attorney Frank Ragano. Having met and spoken with Frank Ragano, I asked her some questions. She failed every one. I am certain that she did NOT know Ragano, and probably never knew Marcello either. She described Ragano as being tall and "looking like a movie star." No offense to Frank, but he wasn't tall and was a bit homely. I suggested that perhaps she meant Johnny Roselli. She replied that no, she also knew Roselli and it was Ragano who looked like a movie star. There were other things. Once she was aware that I had met Ragano, she never mentioned him again. [Emphasis in original] Endnote

She would, apparently, have been prudent never to mention Roselli or Ragano in the first place.

J. Edgar Hoover

After the plot to kill Castro failed, the plotters turned to "Plan B," the assassination of Kennedy. Oswald, according to Judyth:

 

. . . had penetrated the assassination ring, and was in too deep to withdraw without retribution to his family, to me, and others whom he loved and cared about. He stood his ground and sent information to the FBI to the very last. But J. Edgar Hoover didn't want Kennedy to live. JFK was going to force him to retire. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was Hoover's next-door neighbor, literally, for years in Washington, made Hoover Director of the FBI for life when he came into office after JFK was murdered. Endnote

It's nice to know that Johnson was a good neighbor! But the most striking thing about this is that unless Lee was phoning Hoover directly, multiple people in the FBI chain of command would have had to know about the plot and conceal it, never going public with the explosive fact that the FBI had foreknowledge of the assassination.


Other Sinister Characters

The list above includes only the most central and best-known characters included in Judyth's account. Also popping up are:

William Reily – Owner of the Reily Coffee Company, who as part of the plot got Lee and Judyth their jobs. Reily, like Ochsner, was a member of INCA.

Gerry Patrick Hemming – Former Marine who claims to have participated in a variety of covert military and paramilitary activities, and has in turn been fingered as an assassination plotter. Both his claims and accusations against him lack credibility.

Herbert Philbrick – FBI informant in the Communist Party whose story was made into a TV series titled "I Led Three Lives." This was a young Lee Oswald's favorite TV show. Lee supposedly met Philbrick at an event sponsored by INCA, and was unimpressed.

Jack Martin – Employee of Guy Banister who called reporters on the weekend of the assassination suggesting that David Ferrie might have taught Oswald how to shoot. As his story got better over the years, he placed Oswald in Banister's office. Endnote

Kerry Thornley – Friend of Lee's in the Marine Corps, and incredibly an assassination suspect of Jim Garrison. Judyth says that he and Marina Oswald were carrying on an affair. Endnote Thornley was, in fact, not even in New Orleans at the time of the supposed affair.

Carlos Quiroga – Anti-Castro Cuban in New Orleans. Endnote

Alex Rorke – Anti-Castro activist lost in flight over Cuba in September 1963. Judyth claims she heard the name from Lee, and that it was "confirmed" by Ferrie. Endnote

Antonio Veciana – member of a militant anti-Castro group, who claimed to have a CIA contact named "Maurice Bishop," whom many conspiracists believe was David Atlee Phillips (see above). Endnote

Sergio Arcacha Smith – Yet another anti-Castro Cuban, and a favorite conspiracy suspect because his group had an office at 544 Camp Street, the address that Oswald put on some of the leaflets he handed out in New Orleans. Both Smith and his group had been gone from 544 Camp for over a year by the time Oswald arrived in New Orleans. Endnote

Layton Martens – roommate of Ferrie's. Judyth says he knew her simply as "the girlfriend." Endnote

Francis Gary Powers – Pilot of the U-2 spy plane shot down by the Soviets in 1960. Judyth claims Lee told her he gave the Soviets information they needed for the successful interception. Judyth adds that "Without a doubt, Lee told me that he conversed with Gary Powers." Endnote

Richard Case Nagell – Mentally ill man whom conspiracy books claim got himself arrested a few weeks before the assassination because he knew of it and feared that he would be a patsy. Endnote

George DeMohrenschildt – Lee's friend, a man of extensive contacts and travels, who is routinely labeled a CIA agent by conspiracists.

William Gaudet – man with some CIA connections who got the visa to go to Mexico immediately before Lee Oswald in 1963. In later years he started describing seeing Oswald with Ferrie and Banister on the streets in New Orleans.

Bobby Baker, Billy Sol Estes – Associates of Lyndon Johnson, accused of corruption. Endnote

Santos Trafficante – Mafia boss in Tampa. Judyth claims that David Ferrie called her almost two weeks after the assassination to inform her that Trafficante would be watching her, and that she was to keep a low profile. Endnote

Janet Conforto ("Jada") – a stripper recruited by Jack Ruby in New Orleans. Judyth "reveals" that she "was forced by the mob to go to Dallas, she did not go willingly . . . ." Endnote

Ron Lewis – an author who wrote a book claiming to have been a friend of Oswald's in the summer of 1963 in New Orleans. Lewis' story is almost universally disbelieved among assassination buffs, and when Judyth discovered this she quickly dropped any mention of him. Endnote

Roscoe White – Dallas cop who, years after his death, was accused by his wife and son of having shot Kennedy from the Grassy Knoll. In support of this claim, they eventually produced "cables" that instructed White to kill Kennedy. The story collapsed when the "cables" were determined to have been forged. Endnote White was a part of Judyth's account early on, Endnote but she appears to have discovered that the story had problems, and began back peddling. Her manuscript fragment "Before the Silence Came" shows her backtracking, saying it was only an officer named "Rocky." Endnote

All of these people are discussed in conspiracy books – most in many conspiracy books. And Judyth claims "inside knowledge" about all of them, either from her personal experience, or via conversations with Lee or David Ferrie. DellaRosa summarized his contacts with her by saying that "Judyth came off like she was the Forrest Gump of the JFK case – that she came in contact with an incredible number of principals: Ruby, Ferrie, Garrison, Marcello, Roselli, and several others." Endnote

Judyth and the Paul Hoch Ratio Test

Avid readers of conspiracy books are likely to favor accounts, like Judyth's, that include a large number of familiar names. After all, they have read about how these people are "suspects" and are generally sinister people. The fact that there is "evidence" that they were involved in the plot renders credible any witness who provides a first-hand explanation of their role. Thus what they have read will appear to "corroborate" the witness – and vice versa.

In fact, having too many familiar names an any account is the tipoff that the account is bogus. As researcher Paul Hoch put it:

 

I suspect that a useful measure of the plausibility of an allegation could be derived from the percentage of well-known names. If a source claims to have met with David Ferrie, Allen Dulles, and Fidel Castro in Jack Ruby's nightclub, I'll go on to the next document. Any post-Garrison story with Clay Shaw in it starts with a heavy burden of skepticism to overcome. Endnote

Hoch's point is based on the unavoidable intuition that the vast majority of plotters fingered in conspiracy books must in fact be innocent – else a literal cast of thousands was involved in killing Kennedy. Further, it's vastly implausible that anywhere near a majority of the real plotters have been identified. Thus accounts that include too many familiar names appear to have been drawn from conspiracy lore, and not real life experience.

A corollary of the Hoch Ratio Test holds that an account is suspect when it includes few names of people who are still alive – and who might denounce the account or even sue for libel. Thus the fact that one's roster of conspirators consists almost entirely of dead people doesn't suggest a sinister "clean up squad" going around killing people off. Rather, it suggests a story concocted to be "safe" in a way that a story accusing live individuals of conspiring to murder the president can't be.

The Many Elements of Judyth's Story

Indeed, it's sometimes clear that not merely names of people but stories of events and artifacts must have been drawn from conspiracy lore. Endnote Both the late Jean Hill and self-professed Grassy Knoll gunman James Files have claimed inside knowledge of the "changed parade route" that took Kennedy down Elm Street on the day of the assassination. Unfortunately for both, the parade route was never changed, and both claimed knowledge of events that could not have happened.

With Judyth, one such element of her story concerns "Oswald's Minox camera." Judyth claims to have seen Lee with "an expensive Minox camera, typically used in espionage work." Endnote And according to Judyth's manuscript:

 

The minutiae about the Minox and its film records are too detailed to go into here, but Lee had arranged with some officer to intercept the film before it reached the wrong hands, and to make sure that it would be kept in a safe place so that its contents, which may have included photos of the notes he wrote to the FBI, could be used to prove his innocence, should he be captured. Endnote

That Lee owned a Minox camera is a staple of conspiracy books, and sounds quite "spooky" since the Minox is indeed used by spies. The Dallas police were convinced that they recovered a Minox camera among Oswald's effects, and the fact that the FBI later insisted that they had recovered not a Minox camera but rather a Minox light meter makes this seem even more spooky, suggesting an FBI cover up. But the Dallas Police photo of the evidence they recovered shows no Minox camera, but rather a Minox light meter and an empty Minox case with a chain. Michael Paine owned a Minox, and rolls of Minox film recovered by the police were all shot by him. Thus Judyth's story about Lee and his Minox appears to be another conspiracy book factoid that has gotten woven into the testimony of a "witness."

Judyth, apparently aware of the "light meter versus camera" issue, has claimed that (in the words of "Deadly Alliance") "Lee's Minox was so sensitive that he never needed to use a light meter in her presence. She never saw him with one." Any photography buff will recognize this as malarkey. In the first place, the Minox is not particularly "sensitive," having an F:3.5 lens. Further the small negative size limits the ability to use (relatively grainy) high speed film. But worse, the things that render a camera "sensitive" to low light (large lens aperture, fast film) risk overexposure, so photographers using a large aperture lens and fast film need a light meter as much as anybody else.

In an attempt to discredit the FBI's "light meter" claim, Judyth appears to have invented a story that is photographic nonsense.

Lee's Trip to Irving

On the evening before the assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald caught a ride to Irving, Texas so that he could talk with his wife Marina, who was living at the residence of Ruth Paine. According to Judyth, she talked to Lee Oswald on the previous evening (Wednesday), and Lee told her he was going to Irving to "say goodbye" to Marina and his two daughters. In reality, Lee pled with Marina to move to Dallas so that they could both live together in an apartment he would rent.

Bill Greer's Reaction to the Shooting

When the shooting began in Dealey Plaza, Kennedy's Secret Service driver William Greer did not accelerate the limousine, but instead slowed down. Conspiracists and lone gunman theorists differ as to whether this was sinister, but it clearly happened. Judyth weaves it into her account in the context of her last conversation with Lee.

 

Lee told me that the driver's habits had been studied, and a shot going off would cause him to brake, which would slow the vehicle down. This was desired because even this cabal feared Aristotle Onassis, who would send killers out to track down anyone who killed Jackie Kennedy, or so the rumor went – and besides, everybody liked Jackie and orders were out not to hit her. It was to spare Jackie that some very expert marksmen missed or delayed their shots that day in Dealey Plaza: she was in their line of sight a great deal of the time, according to David Ferrie, who got the report from Marcello's henchmen as soon as he arrived in the Houston area. Endnote

How anybody could have studied Bill Greer's reactions to a shot without actually firing a weapon during a presidential motorcade is something Judyth doesn't bother to explain. But doing that would, to say the very least, attract quite a lot of attention.

Jack Ruby and Officer Tippit

According to Judyth, Jack Ruby (whom she knew as "Sparky") and Officer J.D. Tippit were friends. Judyth claims to have been in telephone contact with David Ferrie after the assassination, and . . .

 

Dave told me that he still had a chance to get Lee out, and that he had only been connected so far with Officer Tippit's death, which he believed was a total set-up. Tippit and Sparky, he said, were friends, and it was Tippit who was supposed to drive Lee to Red Bird airport. Unless Tippit turned out to be a traitor. Endnote

Judyth here appears to be recycling an ancient factoid which dates back to Mark Lane's claims to the Warren Commission. Jack Ruby most certainly did know an Officer Tippit, but it was a different Tippit, and not the cop shot in Oak Cliff less than an hour after the assassination. Endnote

Red Bird airport has long been a part of conspiracy lore. Endnote

The Visit of Adlai Stevenson to Dallas

A few weeks before the assassination, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson visited Dallas, and was treated roughly by noisy right-wing protestors. According to Judyth, Lee told her that he had himself egged on the protests, in hope that a row during the Stevenson visit would cause security during the JFK visit to be tightened. Judyth recounts a phone conversation she had with Lee.

 

"I read about it in the paper," I told him. "He was spit on. He was hit with some placards."

 

Lee in his conversations referred to JFK as "the Chief" – and he might also have used JFK's code name, which I had forgotten, but have been told was 'Lancer.'

 

"Better Stevenson getting bops on the head, than the Chief getting bullets in the head," Lee told me. . . "Stevenson wasn't in any real danger. I made sure of that." Endnote

Given Oswald's amateurish and transparent effort to infiltrate Carlos Bringuier's anti-Castro organization in New Orleans, it's difficult to see how Oswald could do such a dandy job of infiltrating and manipulating right-wing elements in Dallas.

Adding Details to the Story

Weaving a story around the things written in conspiracy books is a bit dangerous: some of the "facts" in the resulting story might be demonstrably untrue. In contrast, writing about private, personal experiences might seem safer. If somebody claims to have had a conversation with Lee Oswald, how can anybody know what was said?

Thus we find, in Judyth's manuscript, a tearful exchange between her and Lee Oswald on the Wednesday before the assassination:

 

Because time was so short now, Lee told me there wouldn't be another call from him unless he reached Laredo.

 

"Lee," I said slowly, "you didn't say until. You said 'unless.'"

 

"I apologize," he answered. I heard him suck up his breath. We were both very close to tears. Outside, it was sunset.

 

"You'll go to Cancun," Lee said. "You'll stay in a fine hotel. I'll be there — if they – "

 

We were both speechless.

 

"You know," he said then, "if I don't make it out— you have to go on with everything."

 

"Oh, sure!" I said, bitterly. I told him that I would never allow anyone to replace him in my heart. Endnote

Thus Lee and Judyth were to meet in Cancun – or Judyth was to go there if Lee failed to escape – and stay in a "fine hotel."

Unfortunately, there were no fine hotels in Cancun in 1963. The popular vacation destination has been developed since, and the place was a series of deserted sand dunes in 1963.

Furious Backtracking

When Team Judyth became aware of this problem, they did some quick footwork. First, they explained that it wasn't really Judyth who said that, but rather it was put in the manuscript by coauthor Howard Platzman. Judyth also claimed an interest in anthropology, and asserted that she was interested in Mayan ruins in the area. Endnote The first problem with this is that even an anthropological interest in this area isn't plausible. Endnote

The claim that the "Cancun" business was put in by Platzman was quickly replaced by the claim that Judyth's "first agent" had added a bunch of nonsensical material to the manuscript. Supposedly, the version of the final chapter that was leaked (and appears on this web site) was a "partially corrected" version that somehow still had Cancun left in.

The individuals to whom the chapter was sent were told nothing about it being "partially corrected." Indeed, it would be foolish to distribute a draft before corrections were complete.

Judyth also told David Lifton (in a phone conversation) and Mary Ferrell that she was to meet Lee in Cancun. Neither account includes "fine hotel," but neither does either mention Mayan ruins.

But the story gets more convoluted.

Talking on Black Op Radio, Judyth described her "first book."

 

I was terrified . . . I was scared . . . I wrote a bunch of nonsense because I didn't want to get sued. All I wanted to do was to get some publishers interested in my story and then I would give them the other book, which by the way a number of people saw my original book . . . it's not what was put out there to begin with, that was I guess you would call it a "teaser" I put that out there to try to get interest. . . . (click here to listen to the clip, and forward to about the 6:07 mark.)

How this "nonsense" version got replaced by a "good" version which was handed over to the agent to be edited back into a "nonsense" version which was then sent out before it was fully "corrected" is something of a mystery.

To further complicate matters, Judyth has admitted to lacing the manuscript with further disinformation. As she explained in an e-mail to Dave Reitzes:

 

The book has what I call "flags" in them [sic]. A couple of us have the true version, and the other version has some things in it that will keep it from getting pirated.

Judyth, in fact, claims to have put thirty untrue statements in the manuscript. Endnote Supposedly, if the manuscript is stolen, one or more of the "flags" will reveal who stole or leaked it.

Thus she has all kinds of excuses for why various versions of her story are filled with malarkey. It's because she was scared, or because her agent put it in there, or because it's a "flag" intended to frustrate piracy.

All these might seem to give her enough wiggle room to wiggle out of "fine hotel in Cancun." But the comments at the head of the chapter say nothing about it being "partially corrected," and indeed state "the next section will deal with the last two telephone calls====thanks.j." This appears for all the world to be Judyth's introduction to material she has written. Even worse, Judyth herself e-mailed the draft with "Cancun" and "fine hotel" to several people, including her "coauthor" Howard Platzman. In the e-mail she says:

 

Dear Howard and all:

 

I am resending the "end of line" realizing it isn't quite finished – it doesn't have a goodbye, for example, from Lee, no hang-up – I really couldn't go there.

 

. . .

 

I went over the attached file and it's a little better than the earlier version now, so please just delete the earlier version, unless you want to compare them and see how my memory gets contaminated! The only police names I ever heard was "unusual name" Tippit, a "Rocky," and somebody called "Wayne" – and that's it. File attached.....thanks everyone for your patience, this has been hard to finish. j

 

In one of my emails that you might have, I also described some of the last phone call. it lasted a little shorter than the others, probably forty-five minutes, I'd guess. I'd like a copy, since I lost hundreds of emails, apparently to a hacker. So if you come across it, thanks for sending it along. It has a partial reconstruction of the phone call, and there is something I might have rendered a little better there. As you know, these conversations are reconstructions as best as I can recall them. . . .

 

And of course, I do remember the gist of it all.

Ok, that's all, folks.

 

[File extracted: ENDofLINE.doc]

 

Indeed, I hope that "end of line" will have the same effect on the house of cards that was constructed, that a similar end-of-line scenario had in the movie TRON!

love from judyth [minor spelling and capitalization errors corrected] Endnote

The file attached to the e-mail is the precise draft included on this site, with the only change being a conversion to Acrobat .PDF format for web reading. So "Cancun" together with "fine hotel" was in a version that Judyth explicitly said she wrote, and which she e-mailed to several people.

Not surprisingly, her most recent account entirely omits Cancun and "Mayan ruins." In "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" she claims that she and Lee were to escape to Mérida, a town on the Yucatan Peninsula (a two-hundred-mile drive from present-day Cancun) because it was a place "that had CIA contacts located there."


Where Did it Come From?

Judyth's story appears to have come from a variety of sources. People familiar with the JFK assassination literature may notice a distinct similarity between Judyth's account and a story told by Ed Haslam in a book titled Mary, Ferrie, and the Monkey Virus. The Haslam book plays on the notion, taken seriously in some quarters, that the AIDS virus was concocted in a secret government lab.

Judyth's supporters insist that the Haslam account is "corroboration" of Judyth's story. But the first edition of the Haslam book came out in 1995, years before Judyth began to tell her tale. How does Team Judyth know that her account is independent of Haslam's? Because she told them it was.

To believe that Haslam and Baker are giving two independent corroborating accounts, it's necessary to believe that somet

[Jenny Lake]

Judyth Baker is not the issue here and if Ed Haslam knows anything about the causes of polio, he's not telling! My observations of Judyth suggest she is a naive and controllable person who continues to be in situations over her head. The point of this thread was to develop evidence that military objectives were achieved under the guise of altruistic medical research. The strongest published statements I've encountered so far were written by Lily E. Kay in her 1993 book "The Molecular Vision of Life ; Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology".
I'll post some excerpts....

[Jenny Lake]

http://en.wikipedia/wiki/Lily_E._Kay

Lily E. Kay (1947-2000) received a Ph.D. in the history of science from the Johns Hopkins University in 1987, and was a recipient of a Smithsonian Fellowship at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. in 1984. She was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in bibliography at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, and has taught at the University of Chicago. From 1989 to 1997 she was an assistant professor of history of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Born in Kraków, Poland in 1947 to concentration camp survivors, Dr. Kay moved with her parents to Israel and then came to the United States in 1960. After she graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1969, she taught high school physics in Pittsburgh and was a research associate in biochemistry at the University of Pittsburgh from 1974-77. In 1977 she became a senior research assistant at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, working on the molecular biology of viruses. She earned a PhD in the history of science from Johns Hopkins University in 1986.

After two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, she joined the history of science faculty at the University of Chicago, and in 1989 she began an eight-year stint on MIT's faculty in STS, which had just established a new PhD program. In recent years, she worked as an independent scholar, with guest appointments at Harvard University and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

When she died, Dr. Kay was working on a book on the MIT neuroscientist Warren McCulloch and the fields of research he helped spawn: serial computing, artificial intelligence and models of brain function.

Lily Kay lays the Rockefeller "agenda" of eugenic human engineering squarely on the doorstep of utopian-minded Protestants, emphasizing the roles of men like Warren Weaver and Linus Pauling but in spite of that her book makes rare claims for the grandness of the scheme...

[Jenny Lake]

http://www.questia.com/library/book/the ... lily-e-kay
 
Kay credits the Rockefeller Foundation with creating the field of molecular biology:
(from the Introduction)

They intended to create a new science of life [p6]...The new biology not only reflected the particular bias of its principal architects --physicist Max Mason and mathematician Warren Weaver-- but the more general bias of a technocratic elite who had dominated American culture during the 1920s...
Conceived during the late 1920s, the new agenda was articulated in terms of the contemporary technocratic discourse of human engineering... the new biology (originally named "psychobiology") was erected on the bedrock of the physical sciences in order to rigorously explain and eventually control the fundamental mechanisms governing human behavior...[p8]

The biological agenda was a mirror in time with quantum physics. The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (RIMR, founded 1901) was established on the tail of Max Planck's elucidation of 'quanta' in 1900. As Kay points out, the Caltech-styled program was "inaugurated in 1933" [p7] although it was defined as a paradigm of eugenics more than two decades earlier. In 1933 a flood of 'rescued' Jewish academics were sponsored to begin populating the institutions devoted to the Agenda. Of course, Kay never says this. It doesn't sound very 'Protestant'.

A concerted physicochemical attack on the gene was initiated at the moment in history when it became unacceptable to advocate social control based on crude eugenic principles...
Time was seldom a deterrent for the visionaries of the Rockefeller Foundation..[which] had been the main force behind the development of the social sciences in America..[p9]
Programmatic statements, reports, and memoranda from the various Rockefeller divisions attest that on social and ideological levels there was no fundamental separation of purpose between the heads of corporations and the leadership of the Foundation. [p10]
 
A cursory glance at Caltech during the 1930-1950s reveals that the Institute nutured some of the most important 'founding fathers' of American molecular biology [a]ll supported by the Rockefeller Foundation [p12]... Caltech, of course, was not the sole center for the new biology... A survey of the Foundation's annual reports from 1930 to 1955 reveals that the Foundation supported molecular biology projects in scores of elite institutions but invested the largest sums in six... In accord with its long-standing policy of supporting the strong --"making the peaks higher"-- the University of Chicago, Caltech, Stanford, Columbia, Harvard, and the University of Wisconsin most consistently received grants [p13]...
...the Foundation's support of Chicago equaled that of Caltech [p14]... Chicago's genetics [research] had a strong focus on populations..[with biology] under the leadership of Paul Weiss...[and] by the late 1920s, Caltech formed the hub of America's scientific establishment [p15]
 
...[T]he Rockefeller Foundation's "Science of Man" agenda.. linked the particular forms of social control sought by that agenda with the specific kinds of control supplied by the new biology... Greatly influenced by Jacques [Jakob] Loeb's project, which had adopted the engineering standpoint toward the control of life, the Rockefeller Foundation officers and their scientific advisors sought to develop a mechanistic biology as the central element of a new science of man whose goal was social engineering... The life sciences aimed to map the pathways in the molecular labyrinth of the human soma and psyche in order to control biological destiny. [p17]

[Jenny Lake]

Lily Kay writes:

Not all branches of science were equally relevant to the pressing problem of social control, however. During the 1920s, under the leadership of Wickliffe Rose, the [Rockefeller Foundation] International Educational Board directed its resources to the physical sciences --grants for the rehabilitation of European research centers and travel fellowships for chemists, physicists, and mathematicians. Guided in part by Frederick Soddy's fear of premature use of nuclear fission, [Raymond] Fosdick [as RF president] prophesied doom if the physical sciences proceeded unchecked and the savage was left unrestrained.
...Fosdick's judgement that overinvestment in the physical sciences merely accelerated the pace of runaway technology and that underinvestment in the human sciences amplified the atavistic social response became the guiding principle in the Foundation's singular commitment to support the human sciences durng the 1930s. [p33].

So then the "fear of premature use of nuclear fission" was a problem in the 1920s? Would this be a case, as CSR put it, of having what "for the real evidence that is there, this is interesting but for that which is not...it may be a red-herring"? Kay does not expand or elaborate on this particularly apparent motive to ratchet up biological research but her inclusion of it as a driver for a "pressing problem of social control" is a veiled way of discerning early and secretive achievements in nuclear power. This is one more hash mark on a line of "non-evidence" about atomic advances in the 1920s. An empirically convincing case that radiation-induced genetic detabilization was on the verge of becoming a commodity by the late 20s is demonstrated by the selection of scientists and the modes of funding within the RF divisions.

[Jenny Lake]

While "The Molecular Vision of Life" is unhelpful in enumerating the Divisions of Rockefeller's science empire I consider it a beginning, noteworthy for its omissions and misdirection. The book faithfully limits its scope to biology research at Caltech and Lily Kay, after all, confesses her personal interest in Linus Pauling in a video reference cited by her wikipedia entry. Pauling gets the status of the foremeost immunochemist in world history; a position achieved by building his division at Caltech through Rockefeller pockets. Pauling's own back cover endorsement of Kay states, "I think that it is a marvellous book" but the subtext highlights what could be called "the taming of Linus". He was dependent for his funding on the requisites of collaboration with RF indoctrinees, enduring the processes of guidance and metering, but more on Pauling some other time...
 
The Rockefeller Foundation's predicament was how to "socialize" the populace of the "free world" without the appearance of waging antithetical dichotomies. Terms like "human engineering", which were bantered around for definition behind closed doors, were recast as "greater good"s to society and infused with WASPy rhetoric giving historians like Kay a legitimized sense of 'right' to identify them as Protestant --more precisely, she claims, as "Calvinist ethos".
 

The term "human engineering" came into general use around 1910...[T]he ideal of human engineering initially spread primarily through the works of "welfare secretaries" --social workers affiliated with industries.
...In academic circles, human engineering gained immense scientific legitimacy through research in psychbiology [p34]
...the emphasis on personality, especially its more technical formations in the study of human behavior, was explicitly linked to the science of social control...
Many of the the problems of "cultural lag" --the slothful adaptation of people and institutions to the technological imperative-- were conceptualized during the 1920s as problems of "human behavior"... Behavior became during the 1920s the lingua franca of the social sciences.
...The "kingdom of behavior" had arrived. ..By the mid-1920s social control formed the dominant paradigm in the human sciences [p35]...
...social control meant getting others to do, believe, think, feel, as we wished them to, "using the term 'we' to stand for any authority who can have his way with others." [quote from the 1925 text Means of Social Control by F.E. Lumley]
[Rockefeller Foundation president] Fosdick did not underestimate the opposing forces, however...He had no "illusions as to the speed or ease with which mankind can alter its way of life. There is no royal road to the millenium, no short cut to the Promised Land." [p36]
 
Without a doubt, by the late 1920s the status of eugenics as a bona fide science was on the decline...  Certainly eugenics as a social and political force showed no sign of decline...  In fact, the scientific status of eugenics suffered from its political visibility.. tarnished during the 1920s by the polemics surrounding eugenic sterilization of the unfit...though geneticists did not protest these misuses of their science.
...The grip of eugenics was..loosened by the growing authority of the social sciences..that helped tilt the balance away from racially based determinism of deviance and from viewing slums, poverty, and crime purely as biological categories. [p37]
The influence of Franz Boas's school of cultural anthropology also had considerable impact in terms of shifting explanations of human relations from race to culture.
...This diminished stature of eugenics during the mid-1920s --its perceived social promise and political taint, its cognitive limits and intuitive appeal-- surfaced in the mixed attitudes of the Rockefeller Foundation. The term "eugenics" became loaded with politics of meaning. The Foundation rejected explicit eugenic projects while at the same time implicitly endorsing eugenic goals and eugenically informed programs.
...even in its more limited form, eugenics retained its authority among the educated elite. [p38]

[Jenny Lake]

Eugenics went underground into the fields of the New Biology.
 
Lily Kay demonstrated by her retrospective that biological researchers struggled to find a "medicine-free" niche that allowed for "pure" scientific exploration unhindered by the concept and responsibilities of a beneficial social contract (i.e. with applications of public service). The appearance of a "Calvinist ethos" was not because 'human engineering' was being generated BY Protestants as it was being tailored FOR them, pandering to a fear of mortal extinction of America's 'Aryan stock' by massaging that "intuitive appeal" to wealthy preservationists. Who were these so-called Protestants? --Freemasons, Skull-and-Bonesmen, and crypto-jews! The justification of pursuing pure knowledge by marrying it to an agenda of public benefit seems uniquely American. European academics do not appear to have labored under such expectations. Shaping the American research structure was an exercise in public relations. Kay herself was caught in displaying the "mixed" policy proceedures of the RF like a sailboat tacking up-river against a current; first to the "lavish" flow of money and then to the conservative.
 
The conservative funding policies of the RF for New Biology were couched in terms of 'stimulus'; money that kept programs afloat while their administrators sought 'matching funds' (an idea credited to Julius Rosenwald) and local business/industry support. In the case of Caltech, Lily Kay recounts how the strategic witholding of RF funds prompted an energetic campaign among its leadership to creatively solicit support from a wide community of philanthropists and agribusiness. Caltech's survival required the cooperative input of California agribusiness, but as Kay points out on page 214, "Caltech's biology was never intended to play a service role to California's agribusiness." The PR spin was delivered in future terms as promises of medical advance for "the welfare of mankind throughout the world" [p219] and the solving of the "problems of medicine". In the post-WWII era the problems were POLIO and CANCER. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis became a generous benefactor to the immunochemistry project at Caltech.
 

Gone was the rhetoric of biological improvements of the race... Gone also was Caltech's connection to the old eugenics. With the death of E.S. Gosney in 1942, the trustees of the Human Betterment Foundation (including Millikan and a few Caltech trustees) agreed that the Foundation's interests would be best served by transferring its activities to Caltech. In October 1943 an agreement was drawn up dissolving the Human Betterment Foundation as such and turning over its assets to the Institute. The Institute, in turn, agreed to use these resources "and the proceeds thereof to establish the Gosney Research Fund, the income from which will be devoted in perpetuity to the promotion of research into the biological bases of human qualities...". Linguistically watered down from its eugenic potency, the Gosney Fund would support postdoctoral fellowships in "those branches of biological science basic to our understanding of human welfare." The New York Times too refurbished its prose. The announcement emphasized the medical connection: "$700,000 to Trace Polio and Cancer --Rockefeller Grant is Made for California Institute Research in Molecular Biology". [pp238-239]

In May 1946, physicist Lee DuBridge, protege of former RF president Max Mason, took the presidency of Caltech:

DuBridge had built up the 'Rad Lab' [at M.I.T.] into the largest single-purpose scientific research plan in history, larger even than the atomic bomb project. [p235]

..And here, for a brief moment, Lily Kay included the crux and purpose of Rockefeller largesse:

The Berkeley cyclotron project, financed by the Rockefeller Foundation, was diverted during the war years from its putative medical applications to the production of fissionable material... However, they [the RF] would have preferred to distance themselves from the dubious honor bestowed by Ernest O. Lawrence who unwittingly boasted that "if it hadn't been for the RF, there would have been no atomic bomb." [p219]