Pop used to take me with him to a lot of cool places. We went to championship fights and sat ringside. We went on a movie junket with John Wayne to Texas, and we went to the White House when he visited President Kennedy. But I remember someone gave him a membership at the Friars Club and he never took me there. So I asked him why not, and he told me there was gambling going on, which was illegal in Beverly Hills.
Sure enough, one day I learned that the FBI busted John Roselli for interstate transportation of illicit winnings from peeped Friar's Club card games. He and his accomplices were using peep holes, telescopes and a transmitter and receiver to communicate the suits and numbers of the cards to players at the table. That was just about the time that Ray Ryan testified against two of Roselli's Chicago Outfit and got them locked up for extortion, and they were accusing Ryan of the same thing they were actually doing. Their improbable defense was that Ray cheated with the same scheme, and they were just stand up guys looking to collect for a friend. But it didn't work. All of them went to the can.
Not even criminal attorney James P. Cantillon could get Roselli out of that, but he did get him off from what I heard, easy. Which is too bad, because maybe if he was locked up, there would have been one person left alive who could spill the beans about his pals such as CIA/KGB agent William K. Harvey, who was centrally involved in the murder of JFK. And maybe then, when leaders of the House Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities decided to create the House Select Committee on Assassinations with the purpose of subpoenaing William King Harvey, William Pawley, Sam Giancana, Charles Nicoletti, George De Mohrenschildt, F.B.I. Intellgence Chief William C. Sullivan, special agents Louis B. Nichols, James Cadigan, J. M. English, Donald Kaylor, and Alan H. Belmont, as well as John Roselli and his attorney James P. Cantillon, all twelve of them, and others, would not have died.
Meanwhile, back in prep school, I had seen what was happening to a fine family, the Cantillons, and I wanted nothing to do with being a lawyer. I was also fast becoming disillusioned with politicians. It appeared that the political parties were nothing more than different sides of the same machine, a living, breathing, machine whose masters most often place corporate, government and individual greed ahead of the good of the people. I was not up for playing along with the charade in order to get something done, because I just did not want to be responsible for the misinformation and misplaced hatred brought about by partisan politics. I also realized how difficult it can be to influence the government to really serve the people, because powerful interests are always finding new ways to get around the rules, by consuming the legislators.
The more I studied the history of political science, the more I felt like I was wading through a sewer. I realized that the worst thing civilization could face would be the inevitable collapse of moral and ethical standards brought about by the example of our legislators allowing institutions like banks, and corporate, and political, and military interests, and not human beings, to make the rules, and thereby rig the game. And back when JFK was murdered I knew we were in deep shit. According to Eaton, he was hit with the knowledge of some of our own leaders.
It was reported that the accused shooter, Lee Oswald, was married to the niece of a KGB colonel, and was a CIA/KGB asset. It was reported that Oswald, or a double, met with Cuban agents at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City less than two months before the assassination. But Eaton's Cuban connections to Operation 40 confirmed that if Oswald was a shooter, he would have been but one of several shooters, in different cities, working for squads including the anti-Castro exiles who believed that JFK had betrayed them at the Bay of Pigs. There was even a Mossad theory, involving David Ben-Gurion's defiance of JFK's intentions to prevent production of an Israeli nuclear weapon.
Eaton knew the names of several people who were allegedly involved in killing the president
There was even a Mossad theory, involving David Ben-Gurion's apparent defiance of JFK's intentions to prevent production of an Israeli nuclear weapon. But Eaton believed differently. Prior to the assassination one of his main areas of focus had been keeping tabs on the CIA free Cuba, Operation 40 activities. He had names of several individuals who wanted to kill the president after the failed invasion. And while the Director's orders to destroy all related communications including all files on Oswald, made it difficult to substantiate the coordination of the teams, back up teams and intermediaries that were scheduled to ambush JFK in various cities on his itinerary, Eaton did not necessarily perceive the orders to destroy files as a cover up of the assassination. It was simply routine, as the FBI since its inception had always destroyed its files to maintain its own privacy from other organizations such as the O.S.S. and the CIA.
According to Eaton, the military generals, central bankers, international corporate tax dodgers, oil barons and shipping magnates, agents of foreign powers, and career politicians who profited from the president's demise, would have never needed to directly conspire with one another, because their interests were alligned. They acheived their ends through military personnel, government agents and operatives, organized crime figures, Cuban exiles, and freelance killers. Some of them were conversant with members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the FBI, the CIA and the KGB. The wealthiest individuals had connections to the intelligence community and the so-called Mafia going back decades.
A few high ranking government and military officials perceived JFK as a danger to their job security. Others were afraid he was going to wrest monetary control of the government from the hands of the private central banks. Some were threatened by Robert F. Kennedy's ruthless crackdown upon organized crime. While others were manipulated by military motives and monied interests attempting to take control of Cuba for their own reasons in the wake of the president's unpopular decisions, after he was set up for failure at the Bay of Pigs by dual agent William K. Harvey.
It was clear that many stood to lose if JFK were re-elected, whether from furtherance of legislation such as his Executive Order No. 11110 that restored control of creating currency to the U.S. Treasury, and diminished the power of the Federal Reserve, or from a reformation within his own administration that would have ended political careers. The pending taxation of oil and other large corporations coalesced additional opposition, and his strict organizational vision for the CIA that differed from that of the Director of Central Intelligence, Allen Dulles, and the Deputy Director of Operations, Richard Bissell had created futher discontent and resentment.
Some of those who could have stopped the assassination, like the Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas FBI, who received advance information about the assassination and did not pass it on, may not have realized the importance or the scope of what was happening, or may have been simply looking the other way, while others appear to have been paid cash laundered through the Paradise Island Casino in the Bahamas, purportedly by a Genovese family member named Charles Tourine Jr. aka Charles Delmonico. One Corsican team in contact with CIA/Mafia liaison William Harvey lay in wait for JFK in Florida, and was paid with heroin, another squad, of Cuban riflemen were in place to ambush the president on his motorcade from Chicago's O'Hare Airport to the Army/Air Force game.
Eaton knew the above mentioned elements were aided by insiders positioned within different centers of influence. He elaborated on that after I received a 12 page script with a contract for a lot of money to star in a picture starting coincidentally at the same location in Rome with Susan's new picture. I was awfully young for the lead role of the cowboy assassin, and the script had no story at all, other than I used a rifle with a telephoto lens and had a trick holster so I could draw and shoot knives thrown at me in mid air. But some Italian film makers liked to improvise movies on the fly, so I decided to take the job. However Eaton wasn't looking forward to going there. For the first and only time he shared some information with me. He spoke of his problems with Bill Harvey the CIA Roma station chief who he remembered as leaving the FBI in disgrace after being demoted and reassigned for sharing secret information with an O.S.S. operative after the Second World War. He said his people were on to Harvey's role in the Kennedy assassination but were allowing things to play themselves out a bit more. He said he was wary of Harvey's power in Rome as head of the CIA, and his connections to the Servizi Segreti and the Sicilian Mafia. He said that if anything happened to him while we were on location, I should take Susan and we should leave there, without telling anyone we were quitting.
Most of us will never see the CIA files regarding Harvey until 2063, exactly 100 years after the president's murder, if ever. Neither can we expect much light to be shed when the few remaining files from the Warren Commission are released to the public in 2017. For while the initial report was intended to preserve a peaceful status quo by obfuscating any connections to United States military, political and corporate interests, the U.S.S.R., or Oswald's U.S. government moneydrops, and his almost deliberately clear trail to the Cubans and Soviets, many of the remaining files had been built to half-heartedly point a finger between Cuba, the KGB and the so-called Syndicate.
According to Jim Cantillon in a conversation we had while waiting in line at the Bruin Theater in Westwood, the Kennedy murders were the exact same thing that happened to Julius Caesar, and more recently to President Abraham Lincoln, at the hands of the same kinds of powers, and it is too damn bad these things are covered up, because otherwise someone might use that information to avoid the mistakes of the past. Granted, the assassination of Caesar was over two thousand years ago and things have changed greatly since then. But people have not.
JFK had been in the enviable position of being a largely self-financed politician. He was not as beholden to special interests as most of them, and because of that it appeared he had a chance, to reform government and make it do what it is supposed to do... govern. He was attempting to tip the balance of power, so that government could effectively regulate corporate and military industrial complex interests, and the undue influence of the monopoly barons of oil, international shipping, and private central banking.
But at the time, no one was paying much attention to how effectively the forces, and their politicians, were able to foment hatred through prejudices, and to manipulate the public mind, and how that played such a big part in JFK's murder, preserving the status quo, and ultimately robbing all of those converging interests, and the American people, of their rightful future. No one was paying enough attention to the size and the connections of the informal network of mutual interests and members of government who stood to lose if JFK were re-elected for a second term. No one was paying much attention to how few people actually controlled the above mentioned interests through their control of the money supply, and many never knew the degree to which members of our own government had covered up his murder, and why they were compelled to do so.
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Part VIII: An American boy remembers the years after the Kennedy assassinations
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