Re: IVIV (15) 273—7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Sun Nov 22 11:16:29 CST 2009


Put any persons of equal power and wealth (HH & Nixon) at the center
of the text and one may construct a conspiracy reading from the
punctuation alone; this kind of reading is like the readings of a
concrete poem or Rorschach. Of course, adding the giant assassination
conspiracy theory (JFK, RFK, MLK) to the mix, playing record backward,
will always produce something like, "I burried Paul" or "Paul is
Dead."



2009/11/22 Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>:
> On Nov 22, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
>> . . . . Hughes as himself is ALSO a near-perfect synechdoche for P's
>> themes of money and power. . .
>
> . . . military-industrial complex [Hughes Aircraft, TRW, ] CIA involvement,
> Watergate, Aeronautic design, "The Space Race," Film Noir [Scarface, The
> Racket, ], movies in general [acquisition of RKO, "Hell's Angels", The
> Outlaw,Two Arabian Knights, The Front Page], Tubaholism, Obsession with
> privacy, crazed drug consumption, "The Power Behind the Power" [buying off
> President Nixon, derailing Nixon's first Presidential campaign] . . . .
>
> And this: probable involvement in the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy—
>
>        Meier worked for Hughes during the era when Robert Maheu,
>        the CIA's handpicked man to plot Castro's assassination, was
>        running the Howard Hughes organization. CIA money flowed
>        freely through the Hughes organization, finding its way to
>        political candidates that included Gerald Ford, the Warren
>        Commission member who would eventually become President.
>
>        I had gone to talk to him about Howard Hughes, about whom I
>        was much interested. On the way to see him, I called Meier to
>        check in. He told me he had just gotten a call from Robert
>        Maheu, asking, hey John, how are you doing. Is there anything
>        you need? Meier thought that was bizarre, since they hadn't
>        talked in ten years. I thought it was more than sinister that the
>        very day I was on my way to see Meier he would hear from
>        Maheu.
>
>        Meier showed me his city, his home, his children, and talked to
>        me of some general data re his murder charge, which was
>        eventually proven false. (See the book Age of Secrets for the
>        full account of that horrific saga.) Meier told me near the end of
>        our conversation that he and J. Edgar Hoover had discussed
>        the RFK assassination at one point, and that Hoover had told
>        him, look, we know this was a Maheu job, but I'm powerless
>        against the CIA. At the time, that statement rang true to me
>        based on the research I had done to date. In the years since, I
>        continue to be persuaded that there may be much truth to that
>        statement.
>
>        For years I've been hoping Meier would tell what else he knew
>        about the case. Today, he started, by releasing this statement,
>        which I understand is simply the tip of the iceberg.
>
>        I am not passing judgment on the veracity of his information
>        until more of it is known. For now, I'm simply sharing this
>        provocative statement and waiting for the proverbial other shoe
>        to drop. I may yet have reason to rebut all of this. But I need to
>        see more data first.
>
> http://realhistoryarchives.blogspot.com/2008/06/john-meier-says-howard-hughes.html
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGAHYTu_6wg
>
> http://www.johnhmeier.com/
>



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