‘So goes our summer reading, while the Great Game is played.’
DO you really want to know who killed John F. Kennedy? Find the answers here: https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release-2025
What we found: “Although it is a most timely subject, information regarding any US effort to assassinate Castro is highly explosive. Mr. Phillips is reporting information which he has (been) privy to as a direct result of his Agency experiences.” [104-10105-10120]
1. “Chase warns that further US support of the autonomous groups is more likely to lead to a U-2 shootdown and a Caribbean crisis than the overthrow of the Castro regime.” [157-10008-10150]
2. “Two good sources have reported that President Sukarno plans to go to Manila this Thursday to confer with Philippine President Macapagal. No reasons have been advanced for the visit. Our charge’ guess that it is an Indonesian move to head off Philippine recognition of Malaysia.” [177-10002-10097]
3. “Sturgis: I believe that to this day, that there is a possibility that there was a conspiracy to assassinate the President of the United States.” [135-10001-10288]
4. “War with China would in fact be a war of mutual attrition and even in the case of a formal Soviet victory and a change-over in Chinese leadership, the USSR will be unable to feed the hungry masses of China.” [104-10431-10006]
5. “According to a South African who was trained in guerrilla warfare at the Nanking Military School in China in 1963, there were 17 American negroes also training at this school.” [124-90146-10108]
Want to know more? There are thousands upon thousands of pages. Have the patience to read. What about other sources?
1. Project Sun Streak: “Since the early 1970s, the Department of Defense has been involved in examining potential uses of psychoenergetics. Experiments using remote viewing as an intelligence gathering tool, conducted by two laser physicists, Hal Putoff and Russel Targ at Stanford Research Institute, proved successful.” [CIA-RDP96-00789R002100240001-2]
2. “General Stubblebine’s CIA counterparts had been using Panama’s network of hidden airstrips to transport guns to the Contras in Nicaragua. Once the weapons had been delivered, the planes returned to Panama to refuel for their journey back home to the United States. Noriega seized the opportunity to fill them with cocaine. And so it was that the CIA became implicated in Noriega’s cocaine racket…and when General Stubblebine visited Panama, he discovered to his fury that Noriega had his hotel room bugged. It was at this point that the battle between the two generals—Noriega and Stubblebine—shifted into the supernatural. Noriega took to tying black ribbons around his ankles and placing little scraps of paper in his shoes with names written on them to protect him against spells cast by his enemies…General Stubblebine countered by setting his psychic spies on Noriega. This was the Fort Meade team, who worked out of a condemned clapboard building down a wooded track in Maryland.” [Jon Ronson. The Men Who Stare at Goats]
3. Project Sun Streak: “Training target #0209 is the Ark of the Covenant.” [CIA-RDP96-00789R001300180002-7-December 1988, declassified in 2000, details an experiment during which an individual who claimed to have ESP seemed to encounter the Ark]
As for non-CIA sources: “In America, within the space of two months, Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy were assassinated. I was a great admirer of King’s, viewing him as the person who had done more than anyone else to fight racism in America. As a man, I was saddened by the wave of rioting that swept the country after King was gunned down in Memphis, Tennessee. As a KGB officer, however, I welcomed the disturbances, which we viewed as the inevitable consequence of decades of smoldering racial tension in America. The KGB played no role in the riots. America’s blacks were setting the cities on fire with no need of outside encouragement. But there was little time to gloat. Just as the fires were dying down in America, the Soviet Union became embroiled in its own disaster: Czechoslovakia.” [Oleg Kalugin. Spymaster: My Thirty-two Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West. NY: Basic Books, 2009, p. 117]
On another topic from a non-American, non-Russian source: “I attended a meeting with the head of China’s intelligence and security services and was present at Prime Minister Rabin’s spontaneous lecture on the history of Zionism and the State of Israel, delivered in English and with no prior preparation, to hundreds of Chinese students during a visit to Beijing University. Following the official portion of our visit in Beijing, we continued, accompanied by members of the media, to Shanghai…The prime minister’s most important insight from the visit to China, which I shared with him, was undeniable—the emergence of the China as a major world power, second only to the United States in terms of its global potential, both economic and military. It was clear that Israel would have to formulate its own strategy vis-à-vis China, whose main focus would be the building of a relationship that would encompass as many issues as possible on which there was a convergence of interests. I recommended to the prime minister that the Israeli ambassador to China have a status similar to that of Israel’s ambassador to the United States. He or she should be the personal appointment of the prime minister, like the ambassador to Washington, and should report directly to the prime minister.” [Shabtai Shavit. Head of the Mossad: in pursuit of a safe and secure Israel. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020, pp. 224-225]
So goes our summer reading, while the Great Game is played.
