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Octafish

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56. "Shoot Him Down" -- NBC, the CIA and Jim Garrison
Mon Sep 16, 2013, 06:13 PM
Sep 2013

An odd choice of words, considering the subject:



"Shoot Him Down"

NBC, the CIA and Jim Garrison

by William Davy

EXCERPT...

The newly released CIA files present an interesting biography of "reporter" Sheridan. In 1955 Sheridan was security approved as an investigator for the CIA. A month later this was cancelled because Sheridan accepted a position at the ultra-secret National Security Agency. In 1956 he was security approved once again by the CIA so that he could attend their "Basic Orientation Course". After leaving the NSA, Sheridan went to work for Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department in the "Get Hoffa" squad, where his tactics in nailing Hoffa earned him a rebuke from none other than Chief Justice Earl Warren and paved the way for Hoffa's eventual release. With this background in the intelligence communities Sheridan was now apparently qualified to work for NBC as a reporter, despite having no previous journalism experience. However, documents reveal that Sheridan did not sever contact with the CIA. In early May of 1967 the Counter Intelligence office of the CIA issued a memorandum for the Deputy Director of Plans which stated:

Richard Lansdale, Associate General Counsel, has advised us that NBC plans to do a derogatory TV special on Garrison and his probe of the Kennedy assassination; that NBC regards Garrison as a menace to the country and means to destroy him. The program is to be presented within the next few weeks. Mr. Lansdale learned this information from Mr. Walter Sheridan of NBC.

As noted previously, during Sheridan's tenure in New Orleans he enlisted the aid of Richard Townley from NBC's affiliate, WDSU-TV. Townley's loose tongue offered further proof that the NBC White Paper was no more than a deliberate attempt to sabotage the investigation and to ruin Jim Garrison. A recently released FBI memo reads:

A local FBI agent reported that Richard Townley, WDSU-TV, New Orleans, remarked to a special agent of the New Orleans office last evening that he had received instructions from NBC, New York, to prepare a one hour TV special on Jim Garrison with the instruction "shoot him down."


After the program aired, Garrison petitioned the FCC who agreed that the program was biased and granted Garrison a 30-minute rebuttal to air on July 15 at 7:30 P.M. --- hardly equal time. Nevertheless, the NBC program aided greatly in the discreditation of the DA's office and potentially contaminated the Shaw jury pool.

SNIP...

Later that week Miller called CIA Associate General Counsel Richard Lansdale to inform him of the expected arrival in Washington of Alvin Beauboeuf. Beauboeuf was one of assassination suspect David Ferrie's close friends, having accompanied him on his mad dash to Texas on the day of the assassination. Miller's source on Beauboeuf was Walter Sheridan. As Lansdale notes in his memo, &quot the NBC special) is expected to 'bury' Garrison because everyone is convinced that Garrison is a wild and dangerous man." Miller went on to assure the CIA that "Beauboeuf would be glad to talk with us or help in any way we want." Garrison would note that after Beauboeuf's Washington trip "a change came over Beauboeuf; he refused to cooperate with us further and he made charges against my investigators."

To recap, we have evidence that NBC reporter Sheridan was providing intelligence on the Garrison investigation to a CIA lawyer, a situation that indicates certain sinister possibilities. In fact, recently declassified records show that Sheridan wasn't satisfied with solely presenting his own warped view of Garrison. A May 11th CIA memo reveals that Sheridan wanted to meet with the CIA "under any terms we propose" and that Sheridan desired to make the CIA's view of Garrison "a part of the background in the following NBC show."

CONTINUED...

http://www.ctka.net/nbc_cia.html



Jim Garrison was a good man, a good prosecutor and a good Democrat. He was the only public official to prosecute anyone with a crime in connection with the assassination of President Kennedy. He was opposed in his work by some of the most powerful -- and undemocratic -- forces in the world. Here's something to think about, CIA holds many JFK assassination documents that need to see the light of day:



50 years later, sealed JFK files still raise questions

Serious researchers and conspiracy theorists alike note that several hundred pages of investigative documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy remain classified. Many questions hinge on a deceased CIA agent and his activities before the assassination.

By David Porter, Associated Press
Christian Science Monitor / August 17, 2013

Five decades after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot and long after official inquiries ended, thousands of pages of investigative documents remain withheld from public view. The contents of these files are partially known — and intriguing — and conspiracy buffs are not the only ones seeking to open them for a closer look.

Some serious researchers believe the off-limits files could shed valuable new light on nagging mysteries of the assassination — including what US intelligence agencies knew about accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald before Nov. 22, 1963.

It turns out that several hundred of the still-classified pages concern a deceased CIA agent, George Joannides, whose activities just before the assassination and, fascinatingly, during a government investigation years later, have tantalized researchers for years.

"This is not about conspiracy, this is about transparency," said Jefferson Morley, a former Washington Post reporter and author embroiled in a decade-long lawsuit against the CIA, seeking release of the closed documents. "I think the CIA should obey the law. I don't think most people think that's a crazy idea."

Morley's effort has been joined by others, including G. Robert Blakey, chief counsel for a House investigation into the JFK assassination in the 1970s. But so far, the Joannides files and thousands more pages primarily from the CIA remain off-limits at a National Archives center in College Park, Md.

CONTINUED...

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0817/50-years-later-sealed-JFK-files-still-raise-questions



If Oswald was a lone nut, why would the CIA work so hard to impede Garrison? Why would they continue to hold documents? Why would the CIA claim "national security"? What are they hiding?

Why do you want to smear Jim Garrison's memory as a "nut," Zappaman? That seems like something John McAdams would say.
Nope, not quite nadinbrzezinski Sep 2013 #1
The people who didn't think Oswald as a lone shooter made sense Stupefacto Sep 2013 #2
welcome to du FreakinDJ Sep 2013 #3
No. It was because it was an easy way to make a fast buck. duffyduff Sep 2013 #16
Go to Creative Speculation... MrMickeysMom Sep 2013 #22
I don't care for the conspiracy theories. defacto7 Sep 2013 #33
Are you saying you visited the Texas Book Depository... Bay Boy Sep 2013 #77
Yes on all counts. defacto7 Sep 2013 #81
I've hit lots of moving targets at greater distances than Bay Boy Sep 2013 #96
Wow, You've shot deer from the book depository window? defacto7 Sep 2013 #97
I don't think they let you do that... Bay Boy Sep 2013 #98
"Argument from personal incredulity" fallacy. longship Sep 2013 #101
Good points. defacto7 Sep 2013 #102
Well, the data drives the hypothesis. longship Sep 2013 #103
Looks like I made a hell of a fool of myself.... defacto7 Sep 2013 #104
You are no fool, my friend. You're just human. longship Sep 2013 #105
welcome to DU gopiscrap Sep 2013 #35
Maybe it was Congress. former9thward Sep 2013 #4
Sigh. Bolo Boffin Sep 2013 #9
Post removed Post removed Sep 2013 #13
Oh, wow, linking to the anti-Semitic WhatReallyHappened.com Bolo Boffin Sep 2013 #15
Bad site, true, but the Washington Post article is legit, I think. Here's a different source: NYC_SKP Sep 2013 #17
And then Thomas' study was itself torn apart in 2005 Bolo Boffin Sep 2013 #19
Not taking a side either way but was notified of the hidden post. NYC_SKP Sep 2013 #20
If you want to believe the government's story, that's your prerogative but why would rhett o rick Sep 2013 #49
Congress is still part of the government, yes? Bolo Boffin Sep 2013 #55
I may be mistaken, but didnt you alert to have this thread locked? And someone alerted on rhett o rick Sep 2013 #58
Oh, yes, I think I did. Bolo Boffin Sep 2013 #59
So it was a coincidence that both alerts were leveled against posters that you disagree with? rhett o rick Sep 2013 #60
You do not see me or anyone alerting on EVERY post we disagree with. Bolo Boffin Sep 2013 #66
Good Grief. nm rhett o rick Sep 2013 #69
"Some think that the government might lie occasionally." nyquil_man Sep 2013 #74
Do you believe everything your government tells you? nm rhett o rick Sep 2013 #85
You can't define "occasionally"? nyquil_man Sep 2013 #94
people who didn't believe in "Magic bullets"??? NightWatcher Sep 2013 #5
The "magic" bullet never existed. Archae Sep 2013 #23
Yeah, Oswald was a "radical leftist" who hung out with right-wingers in Dallas and New Orleans. Zen Democrat Sep 2013 #28
Notice how this simple fact of where they were sitting is completed ignored by the CTers? zappaman Sep 2013 #50
The JFK CT's continue to use this false diagram Archae Sep 2013 #52
Yeah. That must be why Gerald Ford altered the Warren Commission report. Octafish Sep 2013 #68
So Ford replaced "entered his back at a point slightly above the shoulder" Bolo Boffin Sep 2013 #70
Why do you want fewer people to learn what happened to President Kennedy, Bolo Boffin? Octafish Sep 2013 #72
I want DU's rules to be respected by you, Octafish. n/t Bolo Boffin Sep 2013 #73
What rule did I break, Bolo Boffin? Octafish Sep 2013 #75
You know quite well, Octafish. Bolo Boffin Sep 2013 #76
You act like an authority, but you can't show where I broke a rule. Octafish Sep 2013 #79
Seriously? zappaman Sep 2013 #87
Seeing how he was murdered while in police custody before trial... Octafish Sep 2013 #92
See what I mean? zappaman Sep 2013 #88
Chair of the Warren Commission, Chief Justice Earl Warren. OnyxCollie Sep 2013 #6
McCloy was no cupcake Octafish Sep 2013 #8
It never gets mentioned that the Warren Commission members did not all agree with its conclusions. dflprincess Sep 2013 #30
wasn't Hale Boggs killed in a questionable plane crash? nt grasswire Sep 2013 #32
Yes. And do you know who drove him to the airport? AnotherMcIntosh Sep 2013 #78
Bill Clinton n/t dflprincess Sep 2013 #83
wow indie9197 Sep 2013 #84
While you are researching, it may be worthwhile AnotherMcIntosh Sep 2013 #89
Yes he was. dflprincess Sep 2013 #82
Disinformationists, Misinformationists, and the Truth. Octafish Sep 2013 #7
The right hand didn't know what the left was doing Taverner Sep 2013 #27
Mass Media ignoring 'RFK Believed in Conspiracy' shows corrupt nature of America's Press Octafish Sep 2013 #46
Paranoid schizophrenics, others with mental health disorders that cause disordered thinking REP Sep 2013 #10
bah..... whistler162 Sep 2013 #11
It was love that killed Kennedy! Warren DeMontague Sep 2013 #12
The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) © 1976 MinM Sep 2013 #14
Sen. Richard Schweiker[R-PA]:"The Warren Commission has collapsed like a House of Cards" MinM Sep 2013 #37
Active measures. joshcryer Sep 2013 #18
It was a lack of trust in its own government by the people which gave rise to the JFK conspiracy Samantha Sep 2013 #21
You win. Boomerproud Sep 2013 #99
Yup YoungDemCA Oct 2013 #108
Why would the KGB spread these conspiracy theories? Archae Sep 2013 #24
Damn that Putin n/t Junkdrawer Sep 2013 #29
The people who covered up the crime. n/t Junkdrawer Sep 2013 #25
KGB, NSA, CIA, Stasi, take a number Taverner Sep 2013 #26
If there were other bullets fired, where did they hit? Recursion Sep 2013 #36
Oh sure they started ALL conspiracies about JFK Rex Sep 2013 #31
who was resposible gopiscrap Sep 2013 #34
Oh, right. The KGB. SOOO much more sinister than the CIA! WinkyDink Sep 2013 #38
That make sens. Today RT is doing a lot of the same job : alienate The US left from the Center. Nt Sand Wind Sep 2013 #39
And there it is RZM Sep 2013 #62
Kick . Nt Sand Wind Sep 2013 #40
After 2 congressional investigations I thought we had most of the answers but this documentary KurtNYC Sep 2013 #41
LOL! your source is a teenage humor magazine aolwien Sep 2013 #42
Oliver Stone explains how Jim Garrison was on the right trail... Octafish Sep 2013 #43
Oliver Stone? Archae Sep 2013 #45
JFK the movie wasn't a documentary. Octafish Sep 2013 #47
Not to mention what a farce the Shaw trial was. zappaman Sep 2013 #48
"Shoot Him Down" -- NBC, the CIA and Jim Garrison Octafish Sep 2013 #56
And a liar. zappaman Sep 2013 #57
No, Garrison wasn't a liar. That's what the CIA and FBI want you to think. Octafish Sep 2013 #61
Here's what JFK researcher Harold Weisberg thought. zappaman Sep 2013 #63
I don't understand why you make fun of the BFEE, zappaman. Octafish Sep 2013 #64
Yawn. zappaman Sep 2013 #65
Wow! An acolyte of McAdams, the professional debunker. Octafish Sep 2013 #71
Cuz they pay well, my good friend. zappaman Sep 2013 #86
You mock me for posting about the crimes and treasons of the BFEE... Octafish Sep 2013 #90
we need a bullwhip toting, hard nosed investigative journalist to get down to the bottom of why dionysus Apr 2014 #109
Evidence contradicting the official version? NT jakeXT Sep 2013 #44
I opposed the unrec, from the beginning. Laelth Sep 2013 #51
lol. grantcart Sep 2013 #93
The Dallas Police Department. thucythucy Sep 2013 #53
Obviously, the KGB wasn't alone in spreading JFK conspiracy theories. Archae Sep 2013 #54
Mark Lane played a pretty significant role. nyquil_man Sep 2013 #67
Pauley Perrette (NCIS' Abby) produced Citizen Lane MinM Sep 2013 #80
Executive Action (1973) MinM Sep 2013 #91
That film is chilling dflprincess Sep 2013 #100
The Parallax View MinM Sep 2013 #106
Thanks for the tip. dflprincess Sep 2013 #107
Warren Commission, Dorothy Kilgallen, the fact that Dallas cops let Oswald get shot Bluenorthwest Sep 2013 #95
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