Lawerence Patterson's National Bankruptcy Seminar Sept 1993 An Insiders View: "The Last Word on the Assassination" Something more serious than the death of just one man happened on Nov 22, 1963 Kennedy was not going in the direction that certain very powerful groups wanted Kennedy sent Col. Prouty's boss Gen. Viktor Krulak to South Vietnam to get as much data as possible Gen. Krulak served as special assistant for counter insurgency activities, Organization of the JCS Col. Prouty was offered the assignment of Chief of Intelligence in Vietnam which he declined The Mcnamara-Taylor report was actually written by Gen. Krulak and Col. Prouty National Security Action Memorandum263 NSAM 263 mentioned in Oliver Stone's movieJFK Media attacked Stone'sJFKeven before the film had a final script The second death of President Kennedy Lawlessness is being accepted at the highest levels Lawlessness is abided when it's approved of by the people in power today Col. Prouty's unexpected meet with George Patton The 2600 US soldiers that went "missing in action" in Sicily, 1943 PT-109 (JFK's patrol boat) The CIA was created under the National Security Act of 1947 The law contained no provision whatsoever for the colleciton of intelligence or clandestine activities National Security Council Directive 5412:HTML,PDF,Ratical NSC 5412 defined'Covert Operations'for the first time NSC 5412: The overt foreign activities of the U.S. Government should be supplemented by covert operations NSC 5412: “Covert Operations” shall be understood to be all activities conducted pursuant to this directive which are so planned and executed that any U.S. Government responsibility for them is not evident to unauthorized persons and that if uncovered the U.S. Government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility for them. President Eisenhower believed that the CIA should not become a fourth force The CIA supported more than 42,000 Indonesians during their rebellion against President Sukarno US Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald took part in the CIA's operation against President Sukarno By mid 1959, Vice President Richard Nixon declared Fidel Castro a communist In March 1960, the NSC approved covert operations against Castro Eisenhower'sCrusade for peace Video:Fletcher Prouty explains how and why the Gary Powers' U2 flight was sabotaged Allen Dulles's testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 31 May 1960 about the Gary Powers' incident:Read online,Scanned PDF,Searchable PDF President Eisenhower's farewell address on Jan 17, 1961:Video,Text "It has long been a Kennedy tradition: not to get mad but to get even. I fully realize that I shall not be able to get even during my first term in office. But during my second term, you are going to see some important changes" - President Kennedy The CIA by itself changed the plans for the anti-Castro operations from the Eisenhower-approved small unit attacks to a major over-the-beach invasion By 1960, the Vietnam war preparations were in their fifteenth year The Bay of Pigs operation in April 1961 McGeorge Bundy's call to the Deputy Director of the CIA Charles P. Cabell cancelling the air strikes General Walter Bedell Smith was the key to the whole Kennedy study plan (Bay of Pigs) Gen. Smith was the Director of Central Intelligence from 1950-53 Letter From the Chairman of the Cuba Study Group (Taylor) to President Kennedy(FRUS) "In closing, may I express our view of the great importance of a prompt implementation of our first recommendation to establish a Strategic Resources Group supporte...