“The plotters created a hall of mirrors. By the time the shots were fired, there were so many Oswalds running around Texas that the police could have arrested three of them and still had one left over to blame.” – Jim Garrison
I’d like to kick off this column by acknowledging the work of Jim Marrs, the author of Crossfire – one of the book’s that Oliver Stone based his “JFK” movie on. I watched JFK, along with JFK Revisited, some of Marrs’ interviews, and used my clanker to help with the details. Marrs also worked with a researcher named John Armstrong, so I want to make sure I acknowledge his contribution as well. We are going to build on the idea that Kerry Thornley was a double of Lee Harvey Oswald, and that he was one of a number of LHO duplicates. We’ll start off with the “Harvey and Lee” theory as that ties into the idea that this LHO operation is part of a larger Intelligence network (you’ll notice I did not link “Harvey and Lee” as it’s out of print and very pricey. Things that make you go hmmmmm) .
This network would tie into a larger Nexus of interests that is one of the underlying supports for this overarching project. The Nexus refers to a variety of interests that could also be referred to as the Empire, including but not limited to; the City of London, the Vatican, the BIS, and District of Columbia, and whom some might call the banksters, the royals, and/or the globalists. This consortium of interests is what we will consider the Control Mechanism which we’ll further elaborate elsewhere, exploring such topics as the Brotherhood of the Snake, the Custodians, and the work of Jacques Vallee through these Messengers of Deception.
We have mentioned the idea that the Network was “Building a Legend” around Lee Harvey Oswald, and another term that we’d like to include in this column is that of ‘Sheepdipping.” Marrs argues that the doubles are used to create the persona around Lee – a false persona but a useful one, a high-profile, disgruntled defector. One clear example of this would be the arrest of Lee in New Orleans as part of the Fair Play for Cuba committee. “They were ‘sheepdipping’ him. They took a clean Marine and dipped him into the waters of pro-Castro radicalism, using doubles to make sure everyone in Dallas remembered a ‘nut’ named Oswald before the first shot was ever fired,” (Crossfire, Marrs). One may also wonder if it was just sloppiness on their behalf that allows us to tie the address Oswald used back to Guy Bannister? Guy Bannister leads us back to David Ferrie and Clay Shaw. Ferrie specifically seems to be a LHO handler, who has been spotted with the “official Oswald” and the doppelgangers.
The genesis of creating doubles for this LHO character probably dates back to LHO’s time with David Ferrie in the Louisiana Air Guard. I find that interesting due to the fact that we have a limousine ride with Kerry Thornley, Slim Brooks, and Gary Kirsten, and we get a similar story about Lee Harvey Oswald which ties into the larger duplicate picture. (Speaking of Kerry Thornley, it’s quite interesting that “Two young men who had served in the Marines together were “coincidentally” living in The Quarter, a few blocks apart, without meeting again.” - RAW) In late summer 1963, a black Cadillac was identified in Clinton, Louisiana with none other than Clay Shaw, David Ferrie, and Lee Harvey Oswald. While this sighting was taking place, the “official” Oswald was working at the Reily Coffee Company. This appears to be even more ‘sheepdipping’ as the Coffee Company was owned by a wealthy anti-Castro supporter.
Marrs theorizes that two boys are merged into one identity – so we’ll refer to them as “Harvey” Oswald and “Lee” Oswald. Harvey is the shorter, more Eastern European version. This is the man who was arrested in the theater and assassinated by Jack Ruby. He is described as having thinning hair and a narrower frame. Lee Oswald is the taller, more athletic looking American identity. He’s also described with a full head of hair and straight silhouette. Oswald had a mastoidectomy as a child, which is a matter of dispute with regards to later medical exams and the autopsy. The theory goes that “Harvey” is the LHO that defected to Russia, that Harvey version is the one who knew Russian.
Harvey Oswald has a separate identity beginning in high school in New York and continuing on to the Russia defection. This version of Oswald was more fluent in Russian. The fact that he marries the niece of a Soviet Union official whilst he is over there only seems to indicate a larger Intelligence apparatus at play. I don’t think we have mentioned the Cuban Missile Crisis in this work, but we may have discussed it on the podcast. There’s a lot of tension going on with the U.S., Cuba, and Russia at this time, which makes Oswald’s defection to Russia and return to the U.S. all that more intriguing. “Lee” was a high school dropout, so this indicates that “Harvey” is our Russian defector, filling in for this identity. The Oswald that comes back from Russia appears to be the “Harvey” Oswald version, which begs the question of where the “Lee” Oswald version went.
Marrs also refers to the J.D. Tippit assassination. Officer J.D. Tippit also bears a striking resemblance to LHO. Tippit was killed, allegedly by Lee Harvey Oswald after the assassination of JFK. I said that he was assassinated due to the nature of his killing, he was shot in the stomach, and also in the head, in an apparent coup de grace. Marrs also questions the timeline for this incident, noting that Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested at the theater at the same time that officer J.D. Tippit was murdered. (An alternative theory is that Tippit bears more of a resemblance to JFK, himself. And that the reason for his murder was for the use of the body in the coverup. It could explain the stomach wound followed by the head shot. This would also tie into the larger conspiracy with the use of Tippit for the staging of the autopsy photos given his hairline. Doubles within doubles!)
Further muddying the waters, we have witness accounts of two separate Oswalds arrested at the Texas Theatre itself. The official story is that Oswald was subdued and taken out the front exit. Marrs cites reports that a second man was led out the back exit. The reports include local witnesses and researchers that the second Oswald was put into a police car and arrested following the first arrest of Oswald. In this scenario, the patsy “Harvey” Oswald was already in the theater, while the second “Lee” Oswald was leading the police right to him. They arrest the patsy and then the duplicate is shuttled out the back door.
For A Few Imposters More
“The evidence shows there was a Lee Harvey Oswald who was a mediocre shot, didn’t own a car, and couldn’t drive; yet there was another Oswald seen at rifle range hitting bullseyes and another Oswald test-driving a car at high speeds.”
“There is a possibility that an impostor is using Oswald’s birth certificate and data… to impersonate him.” – J. Edgar Hoover, internal FBI memo
We’ve established a few potential Lee Harvey Oswald identities and personas. Alluded to previously, there’s the “Mexico City” imposter. The Mexico City LHO is apparently using Oswald’s name and identity to try and defect to Cuba. We have some of evidence that turns up courtesy of none other than J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. They were listening in to his conversations, and, of course, kept tapes seemingly identifying multiple LHOs. We’ve also noted previously that the FBI had further identified copies of Lee Harvey’s birth certificate. This is the 5’6” version of LHO so apparently neither “Lee” nor “Harvey” nor our other doppelgangers. However, the Mexico City Oswald is credited as LHO on the official timeline, though many dispute that fact.
At the same time as our imposter “Lee Harvey” the “official Oswald” was on his way to Mexico City at that time, another version was also observed in Dallas. This version was known as “Leon” Oswald, and “Leon” was identified with some Cuban exiles in Dallas. “Leon Oswald” was a crack shot and in favor of the idea that Kennedy should be killed (By hook or by crook, it’s not hard to find people in this story who want JFK dead).
Kerry Thornley was later run out of New Orleans for celebrating the assassination, we should note. (Again, will the real Lee Harvey please stand up?) “Leon” spoke fluent or at least better Spanish and was of the more aggressive LHO type. This is the same type that was arrested in NOLA.
One of the ideas we’ll further promote and promulgate, one of our propositions as it were, is the idea that we are being subjected to Political Theater or fabricated reality. We are being instructed in the mythology of the world we inhabit, and the history of the world is used to help shape our belief systems. Our tenet is to treat history as mythology and mythology as history. This is an idea we’ll elaborate on further throughout the various series, probing the underlying mythos we are within. In this specific case, we see the whole mythology around Lee Harvey Oswald as a theater production.
We’ve identified a few imposters or variations on the official Oswald narrative. I think the “Lee” was probably playing as “Leon” as I believe he was embedded with the Cuban exiles while “Harvey” was the official Oswald, married and living in Dallas. I think that there’s another “Lee” account we have in this story. That version is from Robert Vinson, retired Air Force Sergeant. Vinson had hitched a ride on a C-54 transport plane headed from Andrews Air Force Base headed to Colorado. After takeoff, the pilot announced the assassination of JFK and the plane made a detour to Dallas, landing on a sandy, improvised strip (later identified as the Redbird Airport near the Trinity River). Two passengers board the plane at this point, a Latino man and an Oswald duplicate. This appears to be our taller, more Western Lee Oswald. The plane then departed for Roswell (Walker Air Force Base), and the two men were met on the tarmac and whisked away in a car. Vinson was shocked that night watching the News with the arrest of “Harvey” Oswald. I think that ties into his disappearance after the assassination of Harvey on live television by Jack Ruby.
There’s also another possible sighting of Oswald or a duplicate at the Redbird Airport itself. According to Crossfire, a man looking like Oswald was practicing takeoffs and landings in a private plane. I should add that if Harvey Oswald is defected to Russia, then Lee Oswald may be embedded within these paramilitary camps for Operation Mongoose. There were at least five paramilitary training bases established in south Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. Lee working out of bases in Louisiana and Texas during this time makes the most sense with Harvey playing the role of the official Oswald. This would also connect Lee into David Ferrie and the larger Network.
During the assassination itself, we have another sighting of Oswald and a duplicate Oswald, maybe more than one? AP photographer Ike Altgens has a photograph of the Depository Duplicate – Billy Nolan Lovelady, the Doorway man. “If that’s Lovelady in the doorway, then Lee Harvey Oswald is the luckiest man in History to have a twin brother standing on the steps of the building where he’s allegedly shooting the President.” - attributed to Harold Weisberg in WhiteWash. The photo shows a man looking remarkably like Oswald in the front doorway of the Texas School Book Depository. Other witnesses identify Oswald looking out a window of the lower floor of the Depository and on the second floor stairway or buying a Coke at a vending machine. Marrs theorizes that the professional kill team was on the upper floor, possibly with an Oswald duplicate.
Another Oswald sighting comes from Dial Ryder at Irving Sports Shop. A man identifying himself as Oswald came into the shop to have a telescopic sight mounted and bore-sighted on a rifle. The rifle found on the sixth floor of the Depository had a scope already mounted by the mail order company. Whether this was the same Oswald as the one spotted at the Irving Furniture Mart is unclear, but this seems to vindicate our “Hall of Mirrors” around Lee Harvey Oswald.
Third Time’s the Charm
When Oswald cried out, ‘I’m just a patsy,’ he wasn’t just saying he was innocent; he was saying he had been played. He realized at that moment that while he was sitting in a theater, his ‘legend’ – created by others – was being used to convict him.
Both Marrs and Oliver Stone in “JFK Revisited” include the attempted assassinations or foiled assassination attempts that occur in both Chicago and Tampa in November just prior to the successful attempt in Dallas on November 22. Thomas Vallee was a former Marine, also stationed in Japan. He was arrested prior to JFK’s visit to Chicago, a visit that was incidentally cancelled due to a national security matter involving Vietnam – a political crisis in South Vietnam. Vietnam will be discussed further in this series as we proceed with the counterculture narratives. Vallee was picked up for a minor traffic incident and found to have a rifle and ammo. He also worked in a building overlooking the planned motorcade route through Chicago. While Vallee seems to fit our “Patsy” profile, Gilberto Policarpo Lopez was more pro-Castro radicalized.
Gilberto Lopez also has a Mexico City link as he was traveling from the U.S. to Mexico around the time of the assassination. His travel patterns and activities mirror the alleged movements of Oswald. Lopez may have been used as a double intended to throw the trail off the official Oswald and to link the assassination attempt back to Cuban Intelligence.
Chicago is home to the Mafia family run by Tony Accardo and Sam Giancana. The Chicago family is reported to be behind the election of JFK. However, the modern day evidence links more to Daley and the Democratic Machine than the Mob. The real question is how integrated the Mob and the Machine were in Chicago. Maybe, they gave him a little nudge to help him pass the finish line ahead of Richard Nixon. Tampa Bay, of course, is the new home of Santo Trafficante, Jr, formerly the Don of Havana. And Dallas falls under the jurisdiction of Carlos Marcello.
One question that has always plagued me was why JFK and not Fidel? Castro shut down the casinos, ran the mob out of Havana – Meyer Lansky fled, Carlos Marcello exiled to New Orleans, and Santo Trafficante was arrested. Frank Ragano gets Trafficante released, with one of the rumors is that Jack Ruby visited Trafficante in the Havana jail. Ruby was a gunrunner for Santo at the time. So again we have the same collusion of forces, the CIA, the US military, and the mob. Frank Ragano is an interesting character, after all he goes through, he still refers to Santo as “wise and clever beyond belief.” Ragano has a book “Mob Lawyer” as well as a PBS Hourline special you can see “JFK, Hoffa, and the Mob.” Santo didn’t comment to the committee (House Committee on Assassinations) but he told Ragano that he lied to them – they never went after Castro. He told them what they wanted to hear. They had scammed the Agencies.
Now, I don’t know what to make of all of it, but as others have pointed out, this appears to be a Continuity of Government Operation to restore the government; a palace coup to keep us under the same ‘Custodial’ Control Mechanism that we see elsewhere with the works of William Bramley and Jacques Vallee, as well as Charles Fort and found in predictive programming from 1984, Brave New World, to This Perfect Day. I guess we can at least summarize this by saying we can look at the score. Castro lived to a ripe old age and JFK and RFK did not. As Frank Ragano said, Jim Garrison knew who his friends were. And he never went after Carlos Marcello.
Tune in next week for the next part in this series where Bradley digs back into the Discordians and Operation Mindfuck, we think you’ll really dig it.