IV 14 Riggs again again

[Joseph Tracy]

One of the great myths of Capitalism, Ayn Randism, and   
TrueAmericanism is  about unleashing the genius of the individual,  
that the individual by effort and success earns the right and power  
to choose his/her own course and to shape the world around  his/her  
private insight and inspiration using his/her resources.  Turns out  
Mickey doesn't really have that freedom if it means reverse cash  
flow. His money and even his mind seems only to be his  if it serves  
capitalist/corporatist goals. The machinations to control reverse  
cash flow which IV follows is similar to the machinations surrounding  
the life of Nicola Tesla touched on in ATD, and the internal struggle  
of Mason and Dixon concerning surveying for the empire and  
establishing lines of control in the new world wilderness.

   In the early 70s a movement began to"deprogram" young people in  
religious cults, the Public Relations industry was coming into its  
own,  and The CIA mind control program MK Ultra was , whose files  
were destroyed by Helms in 73 was going strong, two  California  
advocates of McCarthyist political persecution ( Dick and Ronnie)were  
becoming national leaders. There was also a reverse cash flow vision  
afoot. Widespread questioning of US interventionism and imperialism  
was manifest in the antiwar movement, the Kennedy, McGovern and Gene  
Mcarthy Campaigns , the publication of the Pentagon Paper in 71, the  
civil rights movement, the environmental  movement, the second wave  
of feminism etc.  If , as physics tells us , any given point  is as  
much the center of the universe as any other, Pynchon has dropped us  
into the center of a cosmic battle by dropping us into a hippie beach  
house and visit from an ex girlfriend.  Soon there are bodies,  
abductions, drug smuggling etc all pointing to the lines of battle  
within and without . Its a tricky business talking endlessly about  
freedom and then controlling its use.

Some people call this a culture war but it looks pretty damn bloody  
and real if you count the bodies included in the scope of the war.  
One of those bodies may be Robert Kennedy, which led me to a guy  
named Bradley Ayers. An ex CIA agent  in charge of  Mongoose, Ayers  
wrote a book, alleging the CIA killed R Kennedy.  Kennedy's death  
certainly helped Dick Nixon . Ayers has an interesting Bio  to  
compare to Doc's. I'll capitalize some key phrases.

After a stint in the Army, Ayers was recruited by the Department of  
Defense in 1962 to work with the CIA training anti-Castro Cuban  
exiles. Ayers was stationed at JMWAVE and collaborated with Alpha 66.  
He also took part in Operation Mongoose. After the assassination of  
John F. Kennedy, Ayers was ordered to shut down Mongoose.

Ayers was one of the first career officers to voice OPPOSITION TO  
Vietnam War and to speak out publicly against the influence of  
private and special interests in American politics. He was honorably  
discharged from active duty in 1965. Ayers had since worked as a  
commercial pilot, A PRIVATE DETECTIVE, and an undercover operative  
with the Drug Enforcement Administration's South Florida Task Force.

 From his home in Frederic, Wisconsin, Ayers continues to be  
physically active. At the age of 62, he set the record for the  
FASTEST ONE DAY ASCENT-DESCENT OF MT. WHITNEY in California (the  
highest peak in the continental U.S.), conquering the 14,496-foot  
mountain in 14 hours, 40 minutes while carrying a 25-pound daypack.[2] 
( not Shasta , but hey, this is a parallel universe)

Eleven years later, he continues to maintain a vigorous athletic  
schedule, regularly competing in road and snow-shoe races in his  
community despite a full VA disability due to injuries sustained in  
the service of his country.[2]

Bradley Ayers told the Assassination Records Review Board in 1995  
that he had found a credible witness who could place David Morales at  
the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on the night of Robert F.  
Kennedy's assassination.

David Morales once told friends: "I was in Dallas when we got the son  
of a bitch and I was in Los Angeles when we got the little  
bastard." [1], referring to the assassination of both Kennedy brothers.

	Adrian Prussia &  Puck Beaverton  act as enforcers/hired killers/  
debt collectors. They have connections high enough to get away with  
murder. 	





DAVID SANCHEZ MORALES(August 26, 1925 - May 8, 1978) was a CIA  
operative who worked in Cuba.

Biographical highlights
Morales spent his early life in Phoenix, Arizona, and attended school  
at Arizona State College in Tempe (now Arizona State University) and  
the University of Southern California in Los Angeles before joining  
the Army in 1946. He served in the 82nd Airborne, and was recruited  
into Army intelligence during that time. Morales maintained an Army  
'cover' even after joining the Central Intelligence Agency in 1951.

Shortly after joining the CIA, Morales became an operative for the  
CIA's Directorate for Plans. It's alleged that he was involved in  
Executive Action, a series of projects designed to remove from power  
foreign leaders deemed unfriendly to the United States. Morales  
reportedly was involved in Operation PBSUCCESS, the CIA covert  
operation that overthrew the democratically-elected President of  
Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán. During that operation he acquired a  
reputation as the CIA's top assassin in Latin America.

Through the 1960s and mid-1970s, Morales was involved at top levels  
in a variety of covert projects, including JMWAVE, the ZRRIFLE plot  
to assassinate Fidel Castro, the Bay of Pigs Invasion operation, the  
CIA's secret war in Laos, the capture of Che Guevara, and the  
overthrow of Salvador Allende. He worked closely with Tracy Barnes,  
William D. Pawley, David Atlee Phillips, John Martino, Johnny  
Roselli, and the infamous Ted Shackley.

Involvement with the Kennedy assassinations

Some researchers (among them Gaeton Fonzi, Larry Hancock, Noel  
Twyman, and John Simkin) believe that Morales was involved in the  
assassination of John F. Kennedy. Sanchez's friend Ruben Carbajal  
claimed that in 1973 Morales opened up about his involvement with the  
Bay of Pigs Invasion operation, and stated that "Kennedy had been  
responsible for him having to watch all the men he recruited and  
trained get wiped out". Morales then added: "Well, we took care of  
that SOB, didn't we?" It's been suggested that Morales was the “Latin- 
looking” man seen with Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans in 1963.  
Numerous employees of New Orleans taverns saw Oswald with a man  
matching the appearance of Morales, as well as witnesses to Oswald's  
baffling public leafleting for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.







On Nov 11, 2009, at 8:23 PM, Joseph Tracy wrote:

>  I'm thinking about Riggs Warbling at the end of CH 14. we seem to  
> have 2 or 3 inconsistent views of him. When introduced he is Sloane  
> Wolfmann's lover and seems mainly interested in getting hold of  
> some of Micky's cash. Shasta has told Doc  Riggs and Sloane are  
> scheming to have Mickey committed to an asylum. Here in 14 he seems  
> devastated that Mickey's  plans for a free housing development in  
> the desert is abandoned. Is that because he shares the idea or that  
> he was getting paid to build them?  Why the gun? What/Who  is he  
> hiding from, defending himself against ? If he was building the  
> zomes in the desert,  which depended on reverse cash flow, why  
> would he have wanted to inhibit or intervene in Wolfmann's largesse?
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>  My inclination is tha Riggs is the Stewart Brand version of a   
> utopian, more the salesman than the believer.  He seems like the  
> smart successful hippy as opposed to Denis's dumb but likeably  
> sincere hippy. Was he playing too many games from too many angles  
> and  made some bad moves?  What other world does he think he can  
> escape to. This feature of the zomes kinda reminds me of the verse,  
> "in my Father's house are many mansions" with a twist that maybe  
> the Father is the Golden Fang or maybe just  the American idea of  
> self reinvention. Does the idea of the Zomes' doorways relate to  
> Sportello the doorway?  What is Doc really looking for?Scattered  
> thoughts and questions.
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> One of the major themes seems to me to be the age-old tension which  
> Jesus identified as the division of loyalty between God and Mammon.  
> In IV that plays out  as tension between idealism and  
> commercialism,  between government as protection from criminal  
> predators and government as chief enforcer for the biggest criminal  
> predators; it also plays out on a personal level as tension between  
> friendship and career. The hard-boiled detective with a moral  
> compass is a classic device for exploring these tensions and  
> revealing with "gritty realism" ( or some similar phrase) the  
> actual texture of the social contract.  It seems that despite some  
> of Doc's iffy past he is weirdly trusting of a kind of Karmic law  
> to pay his way in this investigation, and the center of his motive  
> for doing this dangerous work has shifted from Shasta to Coy/Hope.   
> Shasta is ephemeral, the hippie/ mistress/actor dream girl, who is  
> also associated for Doc with his mother's dream of domestic  
> happiness and Aunt Reet's get a lot while you're young.  Coy and  
> Spike, Hope and Sortilege seem to have been through  the worst of  
> both "system"( military/police/ service to country) and  
> counterculture and moved beyond both with tentative but more  
> grounded and realistic goals of personal integrity and resistance.
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> I don't think Pynchon glorifies drugs, and he shows their dangers  
> in IV and elsewhere; but in IV he focuses on the  criminality  and  
> hypocrisy the state produces by controlling what can't be  
> controlled.  Part of what drugs do in all of P's work  (and in real  
> life) is to show how easily a slight shift in perspective will  
> bring into question the accepted dogma of church and state, the  
> creepy colonial enterprises  of land, wealth and mind that track  
> the course of human history.  Drugs can be addictive, self  
> destructive, mindless pleasure, consciousness expanding or  
> transformative in any number of directions, but they sure as hell  
> can't be controlled by the state any more than sex can.  All of  
> this reminds us of the sordid violent history of places like  
> Columbia, Mexico, Vietnam, Burma and Afghanistan where drug traffic  
> and warfare combined in devastating ways.
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