Magic Bullet

[Mark Kohut]

>From Heather Cox Richardson, historian, this morning:

Today is the 50th anniversary of the military coup in Chile that overthrew
the democratically elected government of leftist President Salvador
Allende, a coup aided by the U.S. government’s Central Intelligence Agency
under President Richard Nixon and his national security advisor Henry
Kissinger. The State Department issued a statement calling the anniversary
“an opportunity to reflect on this break in Chile’s democratic order and
the suffering that it caused.”

On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 4:25 AM Hübschräuber via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> I quoted Salandria because I agree with him that the minutiae of the case,
> however fascinating, should not obscure the larger picture that has evolved
> over decades of research. I also agree with him about what that larger
> picture looks like. However, I don't think the matter is "beyond rational
> debate".
>
> This said, the news regarding the "magic bullet" is indeed fascinating.
> The most interesting detail I have come across in recent years concerns
> Antonio Veciana, founder and leader of Alpha 66, one of the anti-Castro
> exile groups handled by the CIA: "Fonzi obtained testimony from Antonio
> Veciana that Veciana had once seen his CIA contact, who Fonzi established
> was David Atlee Phillips, conferring with Lee Harvey Oswald." (Wiki,
> "Gaeton Fonzi"). In front of the House Select Committee on Assassinations
> Veciana, however, twice denied under oath that the man he saw was Phillips.
> Only shortly before his death in 2017 he finally confirmed Fonzi's
> conclusion: The man Veciana saw speaking with Oswald a few days before the
> assassination was indeed his CIA handler David Atlee Phillips. Notably,
> Phillips was an expert for US regime change: He was involved in the
> US-sponsored coup d'etat against Arbenz in Guatemala in 1953 as well as the
> US-sponsored coup d'etat against Allende in Chile in 1973 -
>   that other September 11.
>
> Veciana's autobiography should make for fascinating reading:
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Trained-Kill-Inside-against-Kennedy/dp/1510713565
>
> As an example of rational debate about conspiracy theories concerning
> UFOs, the Kennedys and MLK, COVID and 9/11, I recommend Bret Weinstein's
> podcast here:
>
>
> https://rumble.com/v3e1039-on-skepticism-michael-shermer-and-jeremy-rys-on-darkhorse.html
>
> An interesting question is how many anomalies (because there are always
> anomalies, it's just life) one is willing to accept with regard to any
> given event before one begins to doubt the official narrative. The
> discussion also shows that it is perfectly possible to politely agree to
> disagree even on highly controversial topics.
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