In February 1986, the Swedish prime minister was assassinated in a crime of political violence that still remains unsolved at this day.
I will examine the various explanations that were proposed for this act, both in Sweden and in other Western countries. I do not consider my self an expert of any kind, just that i have gone threw almost all public available material and some other material which is not. It will be shown how these explanations changed as the scope of the investigation grew in complexity and how investigators deviated more and more sharply from the official Western view of the murder theory. From early suspicion of traditional villains, but my attention has focused more and more recently on very different candidates, like Swedish business and Police “right winged” and foreign and domestic intelligence circles. My goal is neither to solve the crime nor to produce any new evidence, but to study the changing ideological assumptions of the investigative process, particularly when dealing with sensitive political offenses.
Palme was born into an upper class, conservative family in Ostermalm, Stockholm, Sweden. His father was of Dutch ancestry and his mother, Freiin von Knieriem, was of German origin. Despite his upper class background, his political orientation came to be influenced by Social Democratic attitudes. He traveled in the Third World, as well as the United States where he saw deep economic inequality and racial segregation and that helped to develop his famous views.
On a scholarship, he studied at Kenyon College, Ohio 1947–1948, graduating with a B.A. in less than a year. Inspired by radical debate in the student community, he wrote a critical essay on Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom. Olof Palme wrote his senior honor thesis on the United Auto Workers union, led at the time by Walter Reuther. After graduation he traveled throughout the country and eventually ended up in Detroit, where his hero Reuther agreed to an interview which lasted several hours. In later years, Palme regularly remarked during his many subsequent American visits, that the United States had made him a socialist, a remark that often has caused confusion. Within the context of his American experience, it was not that Olof Palme was repelled by what he found in America, but rather that he was inspired by it.
CIA attempted to recruit young Olof Palme. Could he been a victim of ‘Pegasus’: CIA’s assassination project?
Olof Palme cooperated with officials from the CIA and U.S. Embassy on several occasions early in his career as a student leader and political activist. A declassified U.S. government document shows that Palme passed information to the American Embassy on communist sympathizers in Sweden in 1950. According to Dagens Nyheter, the CIA was also actively recruiting the young activist as an agent for the U.S. intelligence service. Palme went on to become one of the most influential figures in Swedish politics, serving twice as Prime Minister, and as leader of the Social Democratic Party from 1969 until his assassination in 1986.
“Olof Palme’s cooperation with the Americans and the CIA was well known throughout the military intelligence service,” said Ingemar Engman, a former employee in Sweden’s secret military intelligence service IB (Information bureau). In a meeting at the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm following his participation in a Prague conference organized by the IUS in 1950, a 23 year old Olof Palme remembered three of names of fellow Swedes who also attended the conference were thought to be Communist activists at the time: Gunnar Claesson, Gunnar Svantesson and Hans Göran Franck. Prior to the 1950 meeting at the U.S. Embassy, Palme also had well established contacts with the CIA station chief in Stockholm who wanted to recruit Palme as an agent. According to a 2003 interview with American political scientist Karen Paget, former CIA agent Tom Farmer explained that he and Palme had a good working relationship. However, upon discovering the CIA’s Stockholm station chief’s interest in recruiting Palme, Farmer thought it was a bad idea and that it would merely offend Palme.
Palme was also actively engaged in helping the Swedish military intelligence services during the same period, giving them information about his trips behind the iron curtain as a student leader in the early 1950s. He was also involved in building up the “Stay Behind” network, a top secret Swedish resistance movement trained to be activated in the case of Soviet occupation. In December 1950, Palme organized a conference in Stockholm which led to the creation of the International Students Conference. The CIA, which was secretly funding the organization, wanted Palme to lead ISC. Palme was more interested in pursuing a career with the Swedish Foreign Ministry, although he was a member of the organization during the ISC’s early years. Palme’s contacts were generally seen as positive, according to former Swedish intelligence official Engman. “It was an additional secret channel to the Americans. But Palme was no CIA agent. If anything, his own interests and convictions coincided with American intelligence strategies during those years,” said Engman. However, according to Palme’s son Marten Palme, his father was disappointed by the CIA’s involvement in the ISC.
“It’s accurate to say that Olof was inspired early on by American ideals. Not the least when it came to his politics. But he told no one of his contacts with American agents in the 1950s, other than that the CIA had infiltrated the ISC and that this disappointed him,” he said.
Former CIA deep cover agent Gene “Chip” Tatum: “Our mission in ´Pegasus´ was to align foreign leaders, foreign financiers, and foreign countries with the policies of the United States using first diplomacy. If diplomacy did not work, then it was turned over to the Pegasus unit to work in one of the three arenas that we were professionals at working: Blackmail, intimidation and murder” This is the unimaginable, and hard to understand this story of a 25 year CIA deep cover agent, his missions as a professional asset into service of the United States Government under Vice-President, and later President, George Bush. We publish this abbreviated transcript of Gene “Chip” Tatum´s appearance on the Rob
Lorei radio show, “Radioactivity” on WMNF, Tampa, Florida, July 1996 of one special reason. 1997 that GeneTatum appearance in Peter Ford´s radioshow in KIEV radio in Los Angeles. He told Mr. Ford the same fantastic story, but also in a short passage that his “Hit Team” Pegasus, in the ultra secret, international G7 run OSG-orgarnization, 1986 on Vice-President George Bush´s command was tasked with eliminate the Swedish Prime minister and United Nations peace mediator Olof Palme.
After hitchhiking through the USA, he returned to Sweden to study law at Stockholm University. During his time at university, Palme became involved in student politics, working with the Swedish National Union of Students. In 1951, he became a member of the social democratic student association in Stockholm, although it is asserted he did not attend their political meetings at the time. The following year he was elected President of the Swedish National Union of Students. Some individuals many from the right wing and the Swedish Moderate`s and even from inside the Swedish Police force (which were totally blue at that time) disliked him to the point of hatred and pursued a virtual persecution
of his person. But the majority of Swedes sensed his strong solidarity with the social and economic aspirations of the Swedish people and loved him as the father for the Swedish nation he was.
Palme was no typical Swedish politician. He was a radical, outspoken and charismatic leader advocating peace, socialism and solidarity. His foreign policy is still a subject of much discussion. It is also hard to give an historical account of his life, in many ways his life and actions are still too relevant to current political debate. Many young people today don’t know who he was. Marten Palme (Olof`s son) say: That there is no doubting his father’s continued impact on older generations. He was an opponent of the Vietnam War and the Cold War; he fought against Apartheid and adopted the causes of many oppressed peoples around the world. It seems this part of Palme’s legacy has been carried on with a slight change of style.
Palme attributed his becoming a socialist to three major influences:
*In 1947, he attended a debate on taxes between the Social Democrat Ernst Wigforss, the conservative Jarl Hjalmarson and the liberal Elon Andersson
*The time he spent in the United States in the 1940s made him realize how wide the class divide was in America, and the extent of racism against black people
*A trip to Asia in 1953 had opened his eyes to the consequences of colonialism and imperialism. Olof Palme was a true and honest man of the people, with visions that was of real humanity rang. This was a characteristic most politics lack today.
The Murder
On 28 February 1986 at 11:21 pm, Olof Palme, the young charismatic world famous Prime Minister of Sweden, was walking home with his wife Lisbet from the Grand Cinema on Sveavagen street in central Stockholm, and was fatally shot from behind at close range. His wife, Lisbet Palme, was hit by a second bullet, but survived. The lone shooter, wearing a heavy overcoat then jogged away. He disappeared from Lisbet’s view through a tunnel at the end of the street. Since Palme had no bodyguards this night? incredible! one of the only nights without bodyguards and get killed immediately? There were not any witnesses to the actual assassination, other than Palme’s wounded wife. Nor was there a murder
weapon, or any other physical evidence, found at the crime scene at the Dekorima corner. Which i visited myself a few hours after the assassination, the crime scene was also very poorly restricted. with just a Police streamer surrounded no more then 15 kvm?.
Bad Police work lead to that it was a civilians who found the bullets, which later became very interesting. In December 1988, almost 22 months later, Christer Pettersson, a brain damaged drug user, a real looser who had previously been convicted of manslaughter ( with a knife, he was known for, to only use knifes), was picked out of a police lineup by Lisbet Palme. Christer Petterson was the only one in the line up with (Light Shoes on) and anyone could also see the difference between him and his really awful face, and the fake ones in the line up which looked “normal”. The line up stank.
He was arrested, tried and convicted of Palme’s murder , entirely on the basis of her testimony. On appeal, however, that verdict was thrown out because no motive had been established, no murder weapon had been found, and the court found inconsistencies in of Mrs Palme’s testimony. Pettersson was then acquitted on all charges. I don`t believe for 1 sec that Christer Petterson did this murder.
Because, first of all just a few days after the murder of Olof Palme. The British Intelligence, MI6, received a strange report: the man who had murdered Olof Palme had been acting under orders from the SA security police. Members of the death squad Koevoet, or COIN, were behind the murder. The SA agent, Craig Williamson, was mentioned as the designer of the plans to murder Palme, aided by Swedish police officers.
Swedish Daily News 9/10/96. At about the same time, Karl-Gunnar Bäck, the GS of the Civil Defence Force Association was contacted by an old acquaintance from England. He told him that the MI6 had information on the murder of Olof Palme. The informant claimed that Palme was murdered by members of the SA security forces. A Swedish Policeman was also indicated to have participated. Bäck recorded the information on a cassette and send it to Säpo (the Swedish Security Police) in Uppsala. Months passed by and nobody ever got back in touch with him. But late summer 1986 Bäck was suddenly informed that “the leads had been investigated and had led to nothing”. Bäck was surprised. Säpo had never bothered to speak to him and hadn’t even asked for his informant’s name. It is now established that the Palme investigators neither knew of the tape, nor whether or not the lead had been investigated. Säpo claims it is impossible to find the tape. But the information certainly raised some serious questions.
Lets take a look at the supposed weapon and bullet.
Sweden’s absolutely most experienced crime scene investigator was at the murder scene searching for bullets Saturday the 29 of October 1988 the newspaper Evening Post presented a amazing article. It was an interview with an old Police Chief Wincent Lange, who was at the time of the murder retired. But this time he could not be silent, and questioned the authenticity of these bullets. These bullets are pure fake he said, they are put there as a decoy to mislead the Police he said. He also said that this murder probably was a conspiracy and it was very professional done. During the murder night a crime scene investigation was made at the murder scene. This investigation started at around 01.10 almost 2 hours after the murder and was carried out by two of Swedish Police best and most experienced crime scene experts. Börje Moberg and Torsten Kviberg Who had over 20 years each at Swedish CSI. But no bullets were found at all? At daylight the investigation continued for more the 7 hours with extreme accuracy, with the aid of supersensitive metal detectors. the area was divided up in squares were each square was very carefully searched. The only thing found, was a button from Olof Palmes shirt.
Moberg taking a very firm stand on that there could not have been any bullets at the crime scene at all. So he was totally surprised and shocked over the fact that a civilian found a bullet on Mars the 2nd a total of 37 hours after the murder. The bullets were found only a few steps from the spot were Prime minister Palme fell to the ground. This place had been very thoroughly searched and no bullets were found. Is this possible that a civilian found not only one but both bullets a few steps from the spot were Prime minister Palme fell to the ground, which had been searched with supersensitive metal detectors in the hands of very experienced CSI officers? Absolutely NOT. Bullets are FAKE period.
A S&W .357 gun looks almost the same as a Sturm Ruger (USA), Llama, Escodin or Rudy (all three made in Spain) But it’s what you load them with that’s make`s the change. From the last commission of inquiry 1999:88 page 152 you can read: The bullet’s that’s been founded comes from an ammunition from a gun with caliber .357 and have the same technical data as S&W .357. The murder is probable committed with a gun similar with this. Of this revolver type there is a handful manufactures and must popular is the Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum. The Police has therefore come to the conclusion that this is the gun type he has been killed with.
A gun has different length on the pipe, pipe length shorter then 4 inch makes a different look on the rear on the bullet then on a 6 inch pipe therefore the police come to the conclusion that the gun has to be 4 inch or longer. A gun with 6 inch pipe weight over 1 kg and is longer then 30 cm. During the 1980s, the most important development was the Smith & Wesson L-Frame line of .357 Magnum revolvers: Models 581, 586, 681, and 686. These had a significant impact on both law enforcement and sporting markets and became the most popular revolvers ever introduced. Smith & Wesson. S & W Magnum .357 6 inch pipe. The speed on the bullet depends on two things the ammunition and the length on the pipe. We know the ammunition and the bullet: Winchester-Western .357 Magnum Metal Piercing 158 grains. I don’t know pipe length, but the longer pipe the higher speed on the bullet. And you can even buy the bullet separate and make your own ammunition. It is established that there was a 0,26 gram differential’s on the new bullet and the bullet that hit Olof Palme is that enough to make the holes in his tie What makes me worried, is that it`s both a smaller diameter and a smaller rib wide on the bullet that hits Lisbeth. When a material gets warm it grows, does it means that the first bullet hits Lisbeth and not the second? That gave me something to think about! The first bullet fired from the front, from left side of Olof Palme. The angle of Lisbeth Palme’s back injury shows that she had been in a position where she without awareness blocked the second shot, which traveled with a very accurate projectile course against Olof Palme. One eyewitness Anders Bjorkman say: The man shoot Olof with his left hand and hold the right arm on Olof Palme’s shoulder. No amateur could do this so perfectly and cold blooded.
The bullet, which passed through his body, was stated recovered after police officers collected snow from the area and melted it, Police Commissioner Hans Holmer said at a news conference today. It matched a bullet found earlier that had passed through Mrs. Palme’s clothing, grazing her skin, as she turned toward her husband, who had been walking a pace or so behind her. Earlier reports said Mr. Palme had been hit by two bullets. Mr. Holmer described the copper tipped lead bullet as highly unusual for Sweden, saying it matched none of the 500 to 600 bullets in his department’s collection. He said foreign police and security services had been asked to cooperate in tracing the bullet’s origin. Ballistics experts said the bullet was designed to pierce metal and would have penetrated a bulletproof vest. .357 Magnum Was Probably Used Mr. Holmer, who worked closely with Mr. Palme for many years as head of the Swedish secret service, later said in a television interview that his experts believed that the bullet was probably fired by a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum. ”You don’t need to be a professional,” the commissioner said, ”but the person who uses it must know about the strength of the weapon.”
Lisbeths coat is also a bit of a mystery.
According to the photograph who took the pictures for Aftonbladet, Lisbeth arrives to the hospital in a different coat then the one she warn when stepping into the ambulance after the killing on Sveavägen with her shot husband. She also arrives in a Volvo Police car and not in the Ambulance. I find this a little hard to explain. The departure time for the ambulance also seems like a very important question for the Police. According to the alarm central, the driver of the ambulance get the question about departure time not only once but twice? why was this so important? In Sven Aners “Palme News” Aner writes several of pages about this change of cote. In the commission report nothing is even mentioned about a coat swift?
Why was Lisbeth so apprehensive towards the Police, after the murder? Expressen: Swedish newspaper wrote: 27/2-96 The police wanted to read in Olof Palmes private time manager. Lisbeth Palme have the books and refuse to let the police read them, she says they are strictly private and should not give the police any leads. The relationship between Lisbeth Palme and the police has been very cold almost from the time of the murder.
The Time Line
Thanks to time stamps on records for radio and tele communication, many events have been determined with a very high precision.
23:21:30 — The Palme couple are shot.
23:22:20 — The 90000 SOS emergency line receives a phone call. An eye witness says there is ‘murder on Sveavägen’, and is immediately redirected to the police. However the phone call is not redirected properly and the caller is not put through to the police.
23:23:40 — A Järfälla Taxi switchboard operator calls directly to the police dispatch center on behalf of one of its drivers on the scene.
He can not, however, give any more details than that someone has been shot at the corner Sveavägen/Tunnelgatan.
23:24:00 — The first police patrol arrives at the scene. Stationed on Kungsgatan, a few hundred feet from the scene, the patrol is alerted by a second taxi driver who heard the emergency call via the taxi radio.
23:24:40 — The police dispatch center is contacted by the SOS alarm central concerning the shooting on Sveavägen. The dispatch center operator denies knowledge about any such events.
23:24:00–23:25:30 — A second police patrol, a patrol wagon, arrives at the crime scene. The patrol was stationed at Malmskillnadsgatan at the time of murder, not far from the perpetrator’s escape route. They are ordered by the commanding officer at the scene, Superintendent Söderström, to immediately take up the hunt for the perpetrator. If they were stationed at Malmskillnadsgatan, why did they not see the killer coming up there?
23:25:00 — A patrolling ambulance is stopped at the scene and gives immediate assistance to the victims.
23:26:00 — The police dispatch center calls the SOS emergency center to assure them they are informed about the events on the Sveavägen/Tunnelgatan intersection.
23:27:00 — A third police patrol wagon arrives at the scene; the patrol was refueling at a gas station when they were called out to the scene.
23:27:00 — A second ambulance arrives at the scene to assist their colleagues from the first ambulance.
23:28:00 — The first ambulance leaves the scene, rushing for the Sabbatsberg hospital with prime minister Olof Palme and his wife. Mrs Palme, not being severely wounded, refuses to leave her husband. (arrives to the hospital in a Police car with a different coat on?, how could they have time to do this in 3 min and 40 sec?) Distance is 1,3 km traveling time without any traffic is about 2 min. this leaves you with maximum 1 min and 40 sec to first change car and then also first find another coat and then change it?
23:30:00 — Superintendent Söderström contacts the police dispatch center to inform them that it is the prime minister who has been shot.
23:31:40 — The SOS central is informed that the ambulance has arrived to the hospital.
00:06:00 — Prime Minister Olof Palme is pronounced dead at the Sabbatsberg hospital.
00:45:00 — Vice prime minister Ingvar Carlsson arrives at Rosenbad.
01:10:00 — First radio broadcast about the murder.
04:00:00 — First TV broadcast about the events.
05:15:00 — The government holds a press conference.
Motives and some other theories
South Africa :
Sweden stood for more than 50% of the ANC’s civilian budget in the 80′s. Sweden was one of the countries that was pushing sanctions hardest and the first to carry them out after 1985 when it really started. But assassinating one person doesn’t make much sense. The government neither the conservative one didn’t change its policies towards South Africa.
Swedish extreme right wing groups:
They hated Palme. But to the extend that they wanted to kill him? Might be a possibility. But it is very difficult to get information about these circles. But (according to Tor Sellström) there is something that starts in Katanga and there are links to mercs in South Africa see Lasse Berg’s documentary film: “Lieutenant Erik”. It leads to Rhodesia, to the Seychelles coup , to the World Anti Communist League and to UNITA and through that to Angola and Executive Outcomes.
Other groups or organizations:
Palme could be the victim of a Police plot, or a Kurdish terrorist group, or the CIA/P2 Mossad and of international arms dealers.
PKK:
Hans Holmer, the Stockholm police commissioner, followed up an intelligence lead passed to him supposedly by Bertil Wedin and arrested a number of Kurds living in Sweden, after allegations that one of their organizations, the PKK, was responsible for the murder. The lead proved inconclusive however and ultimately led to Holmer’s removal from the Palme murder investigation. Fifteen years later, in April 2001, a team of Swedish police officers went to interview the Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Acalan in a Turkish prison about Acalan’s allegations that a dissident Kurdish group, led by his ex-wife, murdered Palme. The police team’s visit proved to be futile.
South Africa connection:
On February 21, 1986 just a week before Olof Palme was murdered. Palme made the keynote address to the Swedish People’s Parliament Against Apartheid held in Stockholm, attended by hundreds of anti-apartheid sympathizers as well as leaders and officials from the ANC and the Anti-Apartheid Movement such as Oliver Tambo. Cuban artist Rafael Enriquez depicted Palme on a poster with an extract from that 1986 speech::”Apartheid cannot be reformed, it has to be eliminated.” Ten years later, towards the end of September 1996, Colonel Eugene de Kock, a former South African police officer, gave evidence to the Supreme Court in Pretoria alleging that Palme had been shot and killed in 1986 because he “strongly opposed the apartheid regime and Sweden made substantial contributions to the ANC”. De Kock went on to claim he knew the person responsible for Palme’s murder. He alleged it was Craig Williamson, a former police colleague and a South African superspy. A few days later, Brigadier Johannes Coetzee, who used to be Williamson’s boss, identified Anthony White, a former Rhodesian Selous Scout with links to the South African security services, as Palme’s actual murderer. Then a third person, Swedish mercenary Bertil Wedin, living in Northern Cyprus since 1985, was named as the killer by Peter Caselton, a member of Coetzee’s assassination squad which was known as Operation Longreach. The following month, in October 1996, Swedish police investigators visited South Africa but were unable to uncover the evidence to substantiate de Kock’s claims.
P2 and Irangate:
According to controversial American political activist and conspiracy theorist, Lyndon LaRouche, Olof Palme’s murder was related to this arms-trade operation. The earlier discovery of documents in the police search of the Malmoes premises of Karl-Erik Schmitz, and Prime Minister Palme’s concern with those arms trafficking matters, were among the prime known evidences of motive for what must have been a carefully prearranged insertion of an assassin at the relevant moment of opportunity.
Italian magazine Panorama revealed that president Francesco Cossiga had sent a letter to prime minister Giulio Andreotti after having reviewed the content of interviews between RAI journalist Ennio Remondino and former CIA agents Richard Brenneke and Ibrahim Razin. President Cossiga was concerned by the statements, and said: “If the government were to think that the information had any basis, I think that it should inform the judiciary authority and the Parliamentary Commission on Massacres and, at the level of the bilateral relations, the relevant authorities in the U.S.A. and in Sweden.” Otherwise, the journalists who published the information without previously thoroughly checking its validity, should be punished. According to those sources, three days before Olof Palme’s death, Licio Gelli, member of P2 free masonic lodge, had sent a telegram to Philip
Guarino, at that time an important member of the Republican circle around George H.W. Bush. This telegram said: “Tell our friend that the Swedish palm will be felled.”
CIA agent Razin claims that the National Security Archives have the text of the telegram. According to him, P2 would have been interested by Olof Palme’s murder because Sweden was one of the main protagonists of the illegal weapons traffic at the time of the Iran-Iraq war when Palme was prime minister and thus Palme was surely aware of what was happening. According to an interview of Gene “Chip” Tatum by “Free Republic”, Palme was assassinated because he refused an arms-trade. The arms trade would have been part of the agreement reached during the October Surprise. Ibrahim Razin also told that DINA agent Michael Townley, who has been convicted for Chilean former minister Orlando Letelier’s assassination, actually was in Stockholm a week before Olof Palme’s murder.
Somebody gained big on getting Olof Palme out of the way, otherwise an operation like this never would occurred. I`ll put my money on the right blue wing in Sweden, (Finance giant`s, Police and / or fanatic Moderate`s ) who never could win an election as long as Olof Palme was alive, they also could not move all their precious money abroad to avoid tax, as long as Olof Palme was alive.
Lets take a closer look to what i feel is the right track to follow.
This following scenario and track has certainly not complied with by the Police but by a handful of dedicated journalists, in particular, Sven Anér. Who have many years of detail work found lying by the prosecution, secret files scanned and tracked down and questioned key witnesses. This is the lead that he followed.
The following picture:
There has been an internal investigation of six Policemen known for right-wing sympathies, who paid, on several occasions, visits to South Africa in the mid 1980s (1985-87. Is it a coincidence that the Police station (called the Norrmalm ?? precinct) where they used to work is next door to the Birger Jarl Hotel where Williamson used to stay? [Madi Gray, 2/10/96]. According to Alcalá, when the Police is confronted with information of undemocratic, nazi and conspiracy colleagues, they don’t, which could be expected, interrogate every person available for interrogation A BIG Question: Why? The Policemen of this precinct had a record during the 1980s of being involved in Police brutality: there was a so-called “the baseball gang or league” which was involved in extreme right wing politics and former Policemen of that precinct left it to open up so-called private security companies and were later involved in arms trade. This precinct covers the area where Palme was murdered. Some Policemen were that night out on the streets, but nothing was seen and according to Sven Anér the Police station didn’t react adequately after the murder was reported. Of one Policeman it is known that he was too exhausted to chase after Palme’s murder due to having consumed a can of coke just before arriving at the scene of the crime.
Other observations that has raised big question marks!
Stockholm, 28th February 1986, Old Town underground station. The time is 20:35. No one get`s out of the subway car. A woman see something odd. She notice a man who has an antenna sticking out of his jacket. Just before she comes to the exit she turns and looks curiously on how the man speaks in a walkie-talkie. Four minutes later, Olof Palme was to buy a subway ticket at exactly this station.
20:37 In a staircase hundred meters from the subway entrance a witness see a man who speaks in a walkie-talkie. Twenty feet away is Olof Palme and Lisbet walking towards the metro station.
20:38 Another woman notice in this metro station, two men who seem to keep a look out for someone or waiting.
20:39 As the Palme couple hits the subway entrance. Thirty feet behind them is a man with dark skin. A witness said that the man was haunting the Palme couple.
20:43 The Metro comes into the station. A witness is in the same car as the Palme couple enters in. She noticed a man at the last moment, jump into the wagon and seems to be keeping watch on Olof Palme. He has dark skin. The driver is also the conductor. He gets out at each station and monitors the service. In so doing, he sees how the two men following Olof Palme in to the Metro.
20:47 underground station Rådmansgatan. The Palme couple leaves the Metro. The driver noticed that the same two men disembark and continue to follow the Palme couple.
20:50 Palme enter the Grand cinema. Other visitors to the cinema told the Police later that they had observed a man with a walkie-talkie in the street corner.However No real follow up or action was taken by the Police regarding this testimony.
The time now is 21:10. Just between cinema and subsequent murder location is a man with a walkie-talkie seen again according to witnesses. No real follow up or action was taken by the Police regarding this testimony either.
22:10 In the immediate area of the future murder spot, is a man with a walkie-talkie. Witnesses have said. No real follow up or action was taken by the Police regarding this testimony either.
23:00 The film Mozart comes to an end. Approximately nine hundred meters from the cinema 2 witnesses see how a Police car caught up chasing a bus. From a Police car a man in plainclothes entered the bus. The 2 witnesses is a bit puzzled. No real follow up or action was taken by the Police regarding this testimony either.
23:05 The film is now completed. Fifty meters from the Grand cinema front 2 other witnesses see three men running. They run parallel to Olof Palme`s supposed way home. No real follow up or action was taken by the Police regarding this testimony either
23:10 Cinema begins to be empty. At that time three hundred meters east of the cinema sits a witness and looking out her window. She has observed since more than twenty minutes, two men standing and talking next to a car with the engine running in walkie-talkies. When a Police car passes, they are suddenly gone. At the same time, in the park three hundred meters west of the cinema is a Police car on the sidewalk. A witness asks why it is not 2 officers in this car as usual. He sits there but does not use the Police radio, instead he speaks in a walkie-talkie. She could hear his last words before leaving…”oh well” suddenly the Police car moves away from there.
23:12 A witness looks at Tranebergsbron and see many Police cars going after each other in the direction of the Grand cinema. Although such a concentration of Police cars are rarely seen in Stockholm at this time. Central Police station knows nothing about this.
23:15 Palme is already on Sveavägen. a witness looks at the junction Bagares David Street and Government Street, and approximately 400 meters east of the cinema, he can see the two men looking into an empty storefront. While speaking in two walkie-talkies. No real follow up or action was taken by the Police regarding this testimony either.
23:16 Corner Sveavägen and Tunnel Street. Five minutes before the murder. A few meters away from the murder scene a taxi driver sees a man with a walkie-talkie. No real follow up or action was taken by the Police regarding this testimony either.
23:17 A stroller, we call him John, and his girlfriend goes Adolf Fredrik Church Street towards Sveavägen. Fifty meters from the spot where Palme will die within a few moments, John can see yet a man with a walkie talkie. When John pass him he turns around and looks him straight in the face. John recognize this man. He is quite certain that he has seen this man before. It`s Alfred. Alfred is a Police officer.
23:21 2 friends traveling in a car towards the murder scene. When they are nearly one hundred feet from the spot they hear two shots.
A white Volvo then drives up and block them.
23:22 A witness stands with his car at the intersection of the red light Sveavägen and Tunnel Street. He suddenly becomes a witness to the fatal shots. He tries to immediately alert the Police on his NMT mobile phone. The call was recorded with the mobile phone company, but no one answers at the Police station. The Police in the Swedish capital can strangely not be alerted. It is only possible 23:26 now how weird is that?
23:23 The murderer has fled up the stairs to Malmskillnadsgatan. There he runs past the a witness, who notice that he is trying to put something down in a small plastic bag, and he seems to have trouble with a a zipper. No real follow up or action was taken by the Police regarding this testimony either.
23:23. Another witness to the murderer, follows him on David Bagares Street, 150 feet from the eastern murder scene, he loses track. The street is totally empty of people. Only one Police car slowly drive past without the blue lights on.?
23:24 Near the murder scene are three men with walkie-talkies seen by three witnesses. No real follow up or action was taken by the Police regarding this testimony either.
Still 23:24. Five minutes before the murder, the alarm goes out over polisradio included a press photographer who can hear this on his special receiver, he can hear a walkie-talkie call: “Hey you up there .. how does it look like ..” – “Good, but it’s damn cold” – “The Prime Minister is shot” The last statement sounded more pleased than dismayed, as if something was done. No real follow up or action was taken by the Police regarding this testimony either.
23:25. Four minutes after the shots. Five hundred meters east of the murder scene, bus 43 to Eriksberg Street stops. Two men want to get on. They both seem excited. One of them is getting in, the second one hesitates at the bus door. Then he looks up at the ceiling, notice the bus number, and then moves out . In his hand he has a gray plastic bag in A4 format with a zipper. The same type of a plastic bag, the earlier witness has seen carried by the fleeing killer two minutes earlier. In such plastic bags Stockholm civilian Police officers carry their service firearms. This situation is not only noticed by the bus driver and the witnesses but also another traveler, TV producer Lars Kranz.
Four days later, Lars Kranz sits in court and watch his monitors. There he sees a man, he notice him because of his unusual cheek party, that anyone will recognize instantly. It is the man with the plastic bag he saw on bus 43. He takes out the man’s name. It is Alfred. The same Alfred John saw just before the assassination, one of the walkie-talkie men. But there is also another witness who can confirmed Alfred’s presence at the murder scene, that is the bus driver on bus 43. He later also identified other man who stepped into bus 43, his name is Gunnar.
Gunnar and Alfred are Police officers in the Police district of Norrmalm Stockholm. Gunnar and Alfred during their Police career almost always worked together. In less than two years the team was notified 70 times for brutal tactics against civilians, but very rarely convicted. Always missing some documents, and the two coleges was not notified. These two so called officers at the time also interrogated a suspected drug dealer to death in a room down the in Tube Station. Why wasn’t this track followed?
Gunnar and Alfred were also members of the notorious baseball gang. A civilian unit founded in 1982 by Norrmalm Police to restrict the street and drug crime. But this was done so brutally that group was dissolved a year later. The two so called officers worked as Policemen in the notorious baseball gang together until the assassination of Olof Palme. The right-wing twisted baseball gang was said to harbor fanatical hatred towards Olof Palme. The Baseball gang`s creator was indeed none other than Hans Holmer. TV producer Lars Kranz is since more then thirty years a journalist and a trained crime reporter. After he had recognized that Alfred was the man who stepped on the bus, he knew what he had to do. He confronts reconnaissance management director Hans Holmer the same evening after a press conference in the radio housing. Kranz tells Holmer of his sighting and shows a newspaper with a picture of Alfred. Holmers ask who it is, is Holmer backing up one of his friends by this question? a friend that can disappear quickly. Why was Holmérs bodyguard`s consisting of members from the baseball gang.?
There are to many “co incidents” about this murder. And if anyone starts to look into it, they can see that this was a conspiracy setup.
Who covered it up?
First consider this fact. Olof Palme was shot to death on a Stockholm street one week after he spoke intensively at an anti-apartheid rally reportedly attended by Williamson. Swedish police admit they had leads to the South African police at the time. Yet even now, the revelations of former secret police agents testifying before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Johannesburg can shock and enrage. Eugene de Kock, head of a police hit squad, provided grisly details about how his agents deliberately massacred whole families of those opposing the apartheid system. In the late 1980s, Dirk Coetzee, de Kock’s predecessor as senior officer in the police murder unit, also confessed to some of the same crimes after he defected. Now both men added a new admission to the public record of apartheid’s murders. They say that the 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was part of an operation called “Long Reach,” carried out by a unit of the South African secret police headed by Craig Williamson. Williamson admits he was involved in three other murders. But denies this one. According to the Swedish news agency TT, Coetzee said that 80 or 90 South African agents participated in planning Palme’s murder.
Let us assume this is true. Certainly, these fanatical racists would have had no moral qualms in murdering the outspoken Palme. But it raises a bigger question. Who helped them? There is actual evidence and a possibility that leads pointing towards those certain twisted right winged Swedish Police officers, and that they could of helped carrying this out.
Most mysterious about this theory is how could an operation so big be kept a secret from the international intelligence community, nor from those elements in the Swedish bourgeois closest to the Police agencies. Their attitude towards Palme was among many well known to be full of hate. They could have insisted that his murderers be apprehended, or they could have agreed on a cover up? One can only speculate. But other factors, besides Palme’s role as a vigorous bourgeois opponent of apartheid, must have weighed heavily. Take for example in 1986, the capitalist ruling classes of Britain and the United States were solidly behind the slash and burn policies of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. Social programs won in mass struggles 50 years earlier were on the chopping block. Sweden was considered the extreme example of the “welfare state” a capitalist country with comprehensive medical care, subsidized housing, high wages and low unemployment. Palme’s Social Democratic Party had never expropriated the bourgeoisie, but through social programs paid for by hefty taxes on the rich they tried to redistribute the wealth more evenly. Even thou imperialism tolerated and even cultivated social democracy when many of Europe’s workers were attracted to the more revolutionary alternative of the communist parties. But with the retreat of the communist movement and the sweeping move to the right begun by Thatcherism, Swedish social democracy began to be regarded with strong hostility by the bourgeoisie everywhere. Not long after Olof Palme’s death, the Social Democrats were defeated and Sweden joined the long list of countries where the workers’ gains were hacked away. The working class organizations of Sweden should be playing a leading role in pursuing this investigation, to the truth. Use their power to take it to the top and find out who might have ordered a cover up?
End note:
I do not blame any particular group or person for this murder, i`m barely scratching the surface of the filthy management`s WYSIWYG facade. It smells dirty rotten and dying. Because at the end nobody can escape the final verdict from “Those Who From Heaven To Earth Came” because they will REALLY decide if some of their descendent’s`s atrocity`s or deeds has been good or bad. Olof Palme is considered one of the great heroes within the Swedish social democracy. Justice, equality and peace were very close to his heart.
The Leeds International Peace Lecture was held in memory of the late Swedish Prime Minister, Olof Palme, a world leader and campaigner for peace and human rights. This is a very honorable gesture from The Leeds International Peace Lecture, which we thank them for.
Pierre Schori, Chairman of the Olof Palme Memorial Fund and director of FRIDE, gives the introductury speech at the Olof Palme Prize Ceremony 2008 at the Swedish Parliament to the award winner Dr Denis Mukwege.
Olof Palme talks with Shirley Maclaine about the importancy of nuclear power, and the need to be careful with oil and the inviroment. Filmed for Swedish Television:s 1977.
Fiction:
The Swedish fictional thriller movie The Last Contract shows very well what could of happened.
This is a very good movie and theory about what happened. It`s a combination of the South African track and the Police track, and that is very close to what really happened i think. Palme’s assassination was said to have been planned by the CIA. A Special Branch detective, “Roger Nyman”, is on the trail of the international hit-man but finds his line of inquiry is blocked by senior police officers and the Swedish establishment. The reason suggested for the murder is the firm stance taken by Palme in rejecting deployment of nuclear weapons in Scandinavia. The assassin himself is then killed, to cover any trace back to the CIA.
Updated 02-15-2013 (first published 2010)
A former Swedish Police SUPERINTENDENT writes: “I have gradually come to the conclusion that the responsible authorities have primarily tried to cover up the event”
I know that Dr Paul La Violette`s superwave theory is a “few” years old now, but I would still like to introduce you to this very special man. Dr Paul La Violette who in my opinion and others to say at least, is the total counterpart to the most common doomsday theorist`s today. And he is just as relevant today as ever. He is straight forward in every question and you can tell from the interview that Dr. Paul La Violette is a man of integrity and honor. So enjoy!
Dr PAUL La VIOLETTE, PH.D, is among many things an author, to several good books like, Earth Under Fire, Beyond the Big Bang, Sub quantum Kinetics, and editor of A Systems View of Man. He has also published many original papers in physics, astronomy, climatology, systems theory, and psychology. He has received:
BA in physics from Johns Hopkins
MBA from the University of Chicago
PhD from Portland State University
As I wrote before Dr. Paul La Violette did not inject himself in to the 2012 controversy, instead Dr. Paul La Violette has developed a theory that seems to explain “in many aspects” the various “doomsday”scenarios. These ideas were once considered “off the charts” by many scientists, mainly because it portrayed a world view that was full of chaos and destruction. But in the last decade, his work has been validated funny enough often by his former critics, and scientists are now realizing that chaos and destruction are endemic in the universe.
At the closing of the last ice age our ancient ancestors endured one of the most lethal global catastrophes to have occurred in the course of human history. Intelligent minds of those times thought it imperative to construct a message that would endure through time and be understood by the descendants of those who survived. Employing sophisticated cryptographic puzzle techniques similar to those modern astronomers use in designing extraterrestrial communications, they created a time capsule message that described the elusive celestial cause of this tragic disaster, alerting us that it could recur at long intervals and arrive at Earth’s doorstep virtually without warning.
This ancient cipher is today displayed in the heavens in the form of the 12 zodiac constellations (Greek / Egyptian / Babylonian versions), its informational content having been passed down orally in the lore of astrology. Also certain esoteric keys were handed down to help unlock its message, the Sphinx being one and the Tarot being the other. This is not science fiction. The important archaeological discovery of this ancient cipher was first made in the mid to late 1970′s at Portland State University by Paul A. La Violette systems scientist and astronomer.
He is currently the president of The Starburst Foundation, an interdisciplinary scientific research institute. He has served as a solar energy consultant for the UN, Greek government, and Club of Rome Goals for Mankind Project and has also consulted Fortune 500 companies on ways of stimulating innovation. Research he conducted at Harvard School of Public Health led him to invent an improved pulsation dampener for air sampling pumps. Related work led him to develop an improved life-support re-breather apparatus for protection against hazardous environments and for which he received two patents.
Dr. Paul La Violette has done research by analyzing ice core samples in Greenland and Antarctica. In these samples he has found evidence for geologic periods where cosmic dust was abundant in our atmosphere. He speculates that this dust in the ice samples was put there due to massive radiation that is emitted from the galactic center. Astrophysicist has observed massive gamma wave burst being emitted from distant galaxies and he believes that our own galactic center is likely creating similar outburst.
(2000): LaViolette discovered evidence indicating that the largest acidity spike in the entire Antarctic ice core record was of extraterrestrial origin, possibly produced by a major incursion of interstellar or cometary dust; see paper posted at solar.The date of this event, beginning 13,880 B.C. and tailing off 13,785 B.C., closely corresponds to the date encoded in zodiac star lore marking the arrival of a galactic superwave. And very important, just last year IBEX has just confirmed the coming of the next superwave or what they say the Ribbon
The radiation from such a burst would not be observable until it had reached our planet due to the fact that this radiation travels at the same speed as light. Radiation emitted from the galactic center (galactic super wave) would take tens of thousands of years to reach earth and would appear as a bright blue star in sky, both day and night.
Dr. Paul LaViolette believes these events have been occurring more or less in periodic intervals in this planets history. He further speculates that the ancients had lived through these periods and have encoded a warning into our astrological and metaphorical lore. He thinks that it’s possible that the ancients predicted a Super Wave burst of radiation from the galactic center and may reach us somewhere between 2012 – 2412. Dr. Paul La Violette “It is difficult to make predictions before hand”
This film was aired on PBS in 1987 and is still as actual as anything on the web today (It`s a must see). Bill Moyers is a very respected TV journalist who also worked for Lyndon B. Johnson and has a very professional approach. He interviews many different people involved with the CIA and other government agencies. His documentary gives quite an overview of what has actually happened in the last 50 years regarding the CIA and the cold war (including Iran, Guatamala, Cuba, Viet Nam and Chile). He features such people as Ralph McGeehee and Phil Retinger (both former CIA agents), Rear Admiral Gene La Rocque (Ret. U.S.N.), Theodore Bissell (active in the CIA at the time), Sen. Frank Church and many others. Moyers is so credible. This is the full video “The Secret Government” 90 minutes long.
In 1987 Moyers produced and hosted this scathing documentary, The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis, covering the infringement on the limitations on government and the executive branch provided by the Constitution. It considered U.S. foreign policy and militarism historically and recently, focusing on the Iran–Contra affair. It was harshly rebuked by conservatives and continuing into the 1990s was used by Republicans as a reason to threaten the funding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS. If you haven’t seen this, you really should!
You have to listen to this with Ben McLeish , I recommend it with warmth. Very good!
Ben McLeish works in the library technology and information industry, focusing on search technologies and management systems. His work takes him across much of Europe, including the UK, Germany, France, Spain, and the Nordics. Ben also lectures and educates on the causes and effects of culture with regard to technological development and use (or non-use), and the basis for dominant assumptions within the established social order.
Among the dominant themes are innovation, how society deals with human behavior (including reward and punishment), and what cultural values are needed in the emerging era of increasingly powerful and life-enriching technologies, as well as the possibly destructive uses thereof. Ben earned his BA with honors in English with a separate focus on Literary and Cultural Theory at the University of Warwick in 2002.
The One Planet Project
Ben McLeish of the Zeitgeist Movement UK drops by London Real to talk about the One Planet Project, how we have built a system that relies on scarcity, why corruption is endemic to that system, the 3 behavior’s you change right now to promote the Zeitgeist Movement, and why you’re working in a job you hate to buy shit you don’t need.
Introduction
Presenter for The Zeitgeist Movement covering culture, economics, with a current project on violence and the prison system.
How did you first become aware of the Zeitgeist Movement, or the zeitgeist films? If the Internet, what were you searching for?
Seeing Zeitgeist Addendum.
How much do you understand about The Zeitgeist Movement?
It is not so much the movement, but the underlying tenets and their respective trains of thought that need to be understood.
have you any skills, training, knowledge or abilities that may be of particular use to TZM?
No answer yet
What’s your purpose of joining our Group?
The methodology and reasoning of the solutions that were presented.
What London Borough (or area) do you live in?
No answer yet
What Ben McLeish is saying about this meet up Group
Very enjoyable! Always a fascinating conversation to be had.
This article is like a short biography of Dr. James E. McDonald and his research into the UFO phenomenon. I would here by express my honor to this true man. James E McDonald worked in the 1950s and 1960s to raise the UFO issue in the scientific community as a serious problem. This article tries to documents his brave fight for justice and truth, and his untimely and mysterious end. James E McDonald was a scourge of the complacent ufologists of his day. He blasted not only the Air Force, Hynek, Menzel, Condon but anyone else doing a second-rate job in the UFO arena. He was a first-rate intellect and a world-famous atmospheric scientist, this last very important since UFOs are mainly reported in the atmosphere, not in outer space. This put the astronomers (Hynek & Menzel) on the spot when they tried to challenge McDonald. You see, he was *in* his field, *they* were *not*. This would often cause Menzel acute embarrassment. McDonald is a largely forgotten hero in the long and important battle to uncover the truth of the alien presence on Earth. He will NEVER be forgotten.
The “James McDonald Letters” to the UN
James McDonald, atmospheric physicist, leading UFO scientist in 1960’s– “UFOs: Extraterrestrial Probes”
“On the basis of an intensive study of the UFO problem, I believe that the extraterrestrial-origin hypothesis must now be given extremely serious scientific attention….
After a year of scrutiny of highly unconventional phenomena credibly reported from all parts of this country and [I believe] from most of the entire world, I have been driven to consider possibilities that I’d ordinarily not give a moment’s thought to in my own personal brand of orthodoxy. It is the UFO evidence that slowly forces the diligent UFO student to seriously consider the extraterrestrial hypothesis – evidence that I can only describe as extraordinary in its total nature….
All over the globe persons in all walks of life, representing a wide range of educational and cultural backgrounds, are reporting, often in the face of unpleasant ridicule, sightings of objects that appear to be completely real objects yet have characteristics that match nothing about which we have present knowledge….
Hoax, fraud, and fabrication account for a few but, in terms of percentage, negligible numbers of UFO sightings. Misinterpreted meteorological and astronomical observations and the like do account do account for lots of poor UFO reports, but experienced investigators learn to recognize these almost at a glance and dismiss them from further attention…
It is the detailed, close-range sightings by persons whose reliability cannot be brought into serious question that carry great weight. Pacing of aircraft and buzzing of cars by UFOs go on rather steadily. These cases so strongly suggest something vaguely resembling surveillance or reconnaissance that the student of the problem is forced to weigh the possibility that the UFOs are probes of some type engaged in something we would loosely call “observation.” There are many other categories of sightings suggesting the same tentative hypothesis. How can this be? There is, in my opinion, no sensible alternative to the utterly shocking hypothesis that the UFOs are extraterrestrial probes.
There is, in my opinion, no sensible alternative to the utterly shocking hypothesis that the UFOs are extraterrestrial probes.” James McDonald, Statement to House Subcommittee , 1968
“I have been studying now for about 2 years, on a rather intensive basis, the UFO problem. I have interviewed several hundred witnesses in selected cases, and I am astonished at what I have found. From time to time in the history of science, situations have arisen in which a problem of ultimately enormous importance went begging for adequate attention simply because that problem appeared to involve phenomena so far outside the current bounds of scientific knowledge that it was not even regarded as a legitimate subject of serious scientific concern. That is precisely the situation in which the UFO problem now lies. One of the principal results of my own recent intensive study of the UFO enigma is this: I have become convinced that the scientific community, not only in this country but throughout the world, has been casually ignoring as nonsense a matter of extraordinary scientific importance. The attention of your Committee can, and I hope will, aid greatly in correcting this situation. As you will note in the following, my own present opinion, based on two years of careful study, is that UFOs are probably extraterrestrial devices engaged in something that might very tentatively be termed “surveillance.”…
If the extraterrestrial hypothesis is proved correct (and I emphasize that the present evidence only points in that direction but cannot be said to constitute irrefutable proof), then clearly UFOs will become a top-priority scientific problem. I believe you might agree that, even if there were a slight chance of the correctness of that hypothesis, the UFOs would demand the most careful attention….
To both laymen and scientists, the impressive progress that science has made towards understanding our total environment prompts doubts that there could be machine-like objects of entirely unconventional nature moving through our atmosphere, hovering over automobiles, power installations, cities, and the like, yet all the while going unnoticed by our body scientific. Such suggestions are hard to take seriously, and I assure you that, until I had taken a close look at the evidence, I did not take them seriously. We have managed to so let our preconceptions block serious consideration of the possibility that some form of alien technology is operating within our midst that we have succeeded in simply ignoring the facts. And we scientists have ignored the pleas of groups like NICAP and APRO, who have for years been stressing the remarkable nature of the UFO evidence. Abroad, science has reacted in precisely this same manner, ignoring as nonsensical the report-material gathered by private groups operating outside the main channels of science. I understand this neglect all too well; I was just one more of those scientists who almost ignored those facts, just one more of those scientists who was rather sure that such a situation nearly could not exist, one more citizen rather sure that official statements must be basically meaningful on the non-existence of any substantial evidence for the reality of UFOs.
My own study of the UFO problem has convinced me that we must rapidly escalate serious scientific attention to this extraordinarily intriguing puzzle. ….
I believe that the scientific community has been seriously misinformed for twenty years about the potential importance of UFOs. The possibility that the Earth might be under surveillance by some high civilization in command of a technology far beyond ours must not be overlooked in weighing the UFO problem. I am one of those who lean strongly towards the extraterrestrial hypothesis. I arrived at that point by a process of elimination of other alternative hypotheses, not by arguments based on what I would call “irrefutable proof.” I am convinced that the recurrent observations by reliable citizens here and abroad over the past twenty years cannot be brushed aside as nonsense, but rather need to be taken extremely seriously as evidence that some phenomenon is going on which we simply do not understand.”
James McDonald, letter to Mr. U. Thant, Secretary General of the United Nations, June 1967
“I believe that it is necessary to take into very serious account the assumption that these strange objects constitute some sort of extraterrestrial probes. Before I had undertaken a personal study of the problem, I was willing to grant credit to such an assumption. After one year of intensive study, I must still regard it only as an assumption, but I must stress that my research strongly pushes me to admit that this assumption is the only acceptable one as for now if one wants to account for the utterly amazing number of observations at low altitude and short distance which are now recorded in the whole world and which relate to objects that have the appearance of machines.
To the numerous serious investigators of the UFO problem, it appears conceivable that something in the nature of a global surveillance by UFOs has been underway in recent years. If this view is correct, then our present ignorance of the purpose and plan of such surveillance must be urgently replaced by maximal understanding of what is going on… The present ignorance, the present neglect and the present mocking remarks, all constitute regrettable features of our collective attitudes with regard to what can be, for all the people of the world, an affair of utter importance. During twenty years, there was a persisting and intriguing flood of reports, coming from countries located in all the parts of the world, relating to what we finally called the unidentified flying objects (UFOS). In all these reports, whatever their geographical origin, the nature of the reported objects appears to be primarily similar.
During the last twelve months spent, I pursued an intensive examination of the scientific aspects of the UFO problem, dealing with reports originating within the limits of the United States. After I interviewed the key witnesses to dozen important cases distributed over the whole 1947-1967 period; after having studied, with personal of the U.S. Air Force, official methods of investigation; and after having personally checked a great number of other sources of information, I concluded that, far from being a stupid problem, the problem of the UFOS is a problem of an extraordinary scientific interest.
My own studies led me to reject the opinion according to which they are only natural atmospheric phenomena or misinterpreted astronomical phenomena; in this respect a number of official explanations are almost absurdly erroneous. It is not possible anymore to explain all these observations with assumptions calling upon the products of a technology of avant-garde or experimental secret craft, with assumptions of mystification, fraud or trickery, or with psychological assumptions. Each one of these assumptions intervenes indeed in a great number of cases, but there still remains an astonishing number of other reports, submitted by observers highly worthy of faith during the two last decades, which cannot receive such a satisfactory explanation. I believe that this vast residue of reports, which amounts now to hundreds and perhaps thousands of cases, requires the attention of the most eminent scientists of the world.
It is my present opinion, based on what I believe to be a sufficient scientific examination of excluding mutually assumptions, that the most probable assumption to account for the phenomenon of the UFOS is that these are a certain type of monitoring space probes, of extraterrestrial origin.”
James McDonald, “Are UFOs Extraterrestrial Surveillance Craft?”, talk give at American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1968.
“If there were even a slim possibility that the Earth were under extraterrestrial surveillance in any form, that would be a matter of the greatest scientific importance, warranting the most rigorous investigation. In fact, the evidence that seems to point to the conclusion that UFOs could be such devices is far from negligible; yet because of the history for the official and scientific response to the earlier UFO reports, we continue to see mainly neglect or ridicule on this intriguing question.
After examining around a thousand UFO reports and directly interviewing several hundred witnesses in selected UFO cases of outstanding interest, and after weighing alternative hypotheses, I find myself driven steadily further toward the position that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is, of course, not original with me; it has been urged for many years by persons knowledgeable with respect to the UFO problem, who spoke from outside scientific circles. Our collective failure to examine scientific aspects of the UFO problem will, I fear, be held against the scientific community when the full dimensions of the UFO evidence come to be recognized.
The type of UFO reports that are most intriguing, and point most directly to an extraterrestrial hypothesis, are close-range sightings of machine-like objects of unconventional nature and unconventional performance characteristics, seen at low altitudes, and sometimes even on the ground. The general public is entirely unaware of the large number of such reports that are coming from credible witnesses because ridicule and scoffing have made most witnesses reluctant to report openly such unusual incidents. When one starts searching for such cases, their numbers are quite astonishing. Also, such sightings appear to be occurring all over the globe.
The sooner we take a serious new stance and confront the UFO question with adequate scientific talent and staffing, the less embarrassing will be the ultimate admission that we have been overlooking a problem of potentially enormous scientific importance to humanity.”
James McDonald was a top atmospheric physicist. His official title was “Senior Physicist” at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) at the University of Arizona in Tucson. McDonald was unique. He had quietly studied UFO sightings in and around the Tucson area for eight full years before he decided to go public with his interest. He was fully aware that “going public” might bring controversy and scorn upon his head from scientific colleagues who had never studied the UFO phenomenon and who accepted the government’s “explanation” of the problem as the final word.
The main thrust of his research was to convince other scientists of the necessity for Science to accept the UFO phenomenon as an appropriate, and even urgent, field of study. He wrote many papers on the subject, many of which were based on various classic and current sightings which he had studied in depth with an open mind.
Let me present to you a solid researcher and one of my personal favourites along with : Richard Dolan is considered by many students and researchers of the UFO phenomenon to be the number 1 pre-eminent historian of the subject. (Excuse me Stanton) He is the author of two volumes of history, UFOs and the National Security State, as well as an analysis of the future, A.D. After Disclosure: The People’s Guide to Life After Contact.
Richard’s writing is widely seen as ufology’s gold standard. His seminal history, UFOs and the National Security State, has inspired such statements as “the best history ever written about UFOs” by best-selling author Whitley Strieber, and “masterful and important” by Dr. Edgar Mitchell of Apollo 14.
A.D. After Disclosure, which Richard co-authored with Bryce Zabel (creator of the television series Dark Skies), has been widely hailed as among the most original works in all of UFO literature, a fearless and analytical “what if” scenario that discusses the deep impact that would be brought about by the end of UFO secrecy. Among Richard’s main themes are the destruction of our political liberties as a result of the UFO cover-up, the possible nature of the non-humans themselves, and what their presence here means for our civilization. This has led him to take a fresh approach to the topic of “Exopolitics” and to develop unique insights into the practical challenges and opportunities for a true disclosure of the UFO phenomenon.
Richard has also written numerous articles, spoken at conferences around the world, I just loved him talking about “Fastwalkers” on NPC” Fastwalkers is a code name for UFO/ET’s used by various government agencies worldwide to identify, report, and discuss, Alien or unknown objects which enter our atmosphere from outer space. Satellites are known as “Slow-Walkers”.”Fastwalkers, The Motion Picture”, covered in the Washington Post article reveals the secrets that the governments of the world do not want their citizens to know about.
Richard is a frequent guest on radio shows such as Coast-to-Coast AM, and has done a great deal of television work. In 2006 he hosted a six-episode series called Sci Fi Investigate.And more recently, he appeared with NBC’s Lester Holt for a special two-hour documentary, “Inside Secret Government Warehouses: Shocking Revelations.”
Richard M. Dolan was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1962. He holds an MA in History from the University of Rochester and a BA in History from Alfred University. He earned a Certificate in Political Theory from Oxford University and was a Rhodes Scholar finalist. Prior to his interest in anomalous phenomena, Dolan studied US Cold War strategy, Soviet history, and international diplomacy. Richard lives in Rochester, New York, with Karyn Dolan and their two children.
For all of you who havent seen this interview I can deeply from my heart recommend it. Steven Greer interviews – Mr. William Pawelec former U.S. Air Force computer operations and programming specialist Mr. William Pawelec passed away on May 22, 2007. William Pawelec Admitted In His Deathbed Confession: Extraterrestrial UFO Are Real. Mr. Pawelec knew and stated for a fact that the secret government has made billions of implantable RFID chips. He also explained his involvement in the RFID implantable microchip technology field for a few decades. He was the person who brought the technology to the MIC, USDA, CIA, NSA, NRO demoed and explain its capabilities. He highlighted that he already had passive RFID chips that could be detected 1 mile away. He said these chips could be modified to monitor the conditions of the human body (mind control?) and other aspects…etc.
Mr. William Pawelec had among other professions also education as a Security Specialist, consultant, businessman, William Pawelec, served the military industrial complex and high-tech firms for many years. He was involved in the security aspects of many Black projects (and possibly even above Black projects). William Pawelec revealed what he knew about the secret government`s (or 4 Horsemen as he termed it), their strange hidden agendas, UFOs AVC (Alien Visitation Crafts), anti-gravity.
Most of you knew William as a frequent guest on various media sites. His wealth of knowledge in every area of interest was unmatched. His concern for people the world over and his awareness of world events put him in a class by himself. No matter what the topic, William had the most up to date information to share with all of us. A further example of William’s concern for humanity was the fact that he had been collecting the most important works of humanity and saving them so that, if and when a drastic change happened to the world, humanity would have knowledge to study and re-start. Bill was constantly in touch with important people around the world who had new and important ideas or products and he would secure these items to be able to share them later on if needed. His wonderful sense of humor we`ve seen in many interviews will also be sorely missed.
I have been actively engaged for a long time now, in the investigation of the phenomena known as UFO`s or “flying saucers” for over 20 years. And during this period I have read most of the available literature on the subject, I have interviewed a great many people who have seen unusual things in the sky, and even famous UFO researchers. I have examined thousands of pictures, I have made two personal observations, and written several long articles about the subject. I have also like many others, come to the conclusion that it is NOT reasonable to assume that hundreds of ordinary, normal people, whose word we would readily accept under more mundane circumstances – for instance, as witnesses to an automobile accident or even murder – should suddenly becomes liars, fools, neurotics, and otherwise quite incompetent observers. I am convinced that they are sane, sober, honest folk, who are reporting as best they can something that they really did witness. I will concede that some of these people did not do as good as job of observing as someone who is better trained might have done, within their limits. I believe that they did honestly report what they saw and so did I. As we all know the bad thing with this, is that after you reported something! nothing happens.
This is a very interesting and important document. Of all the documents obtained through the FOIA, this is “the document” that get closest to “prove” government activity in covering up the existence of UFOs. It wasn’t until researched the story and it revealed that Smith ( Wilbert Brockhouse Smith ) was supposed to be a very unreliable source of information. The interest from researcher`s and other`s then probably faded because of this reputation. They said that Smith had long exhibited signs of “mental disturbance”. He had been known to sit in his orchard with a tape recorder, so that when the “Space Brothers Topside” came down, he could record his interview with them. Smith did not have the authority to stamp any documents Top Secret, and was not working on any Top Secret projects. He had also been known to stamp even his personal papers Top Secret. It was also said that “the Smith memorandum”wasn’t considered to be a real top-secret document worthy of study by people in UFO community. But now the truth about him is coming out and it`s quite a different story then the one the authority’s spread out to discredit him.
Wilbert Smith was a Canadian radio engineer of high standing within the Canadian government during the 1950s and a high-level UFO researcher. In fact it could be said he was in charge of Canadian UFO studies between 1950 and 1962. Smith’s direct involvement in UFO research began in September of 1950 while he was in Washington D.C. attending a conference. Smith read Frank Scully’s just-published “Behind the Flying Saucers,” that among things stated that there had been saucer crashes in New Mexico and that the saucers utilized magnetic principles in their propulsion. As an engineer, the latter assertion particularly interested Smith, who had some ideas of his own on how this might work, and had already started preliminary studies within the Dept. of Transport. Trying to get at the truth of the matter, Smith had the Canadian embassy in Washington discretely contact sources within the U.S. government. Among Canadian embassy personnel named in Smith’s collection of correspondence are Gordon Cox, Lt. Col. Bremner, a military attaché, and Dr. Arnauld Wright, Canadian Defence Research Board (DRB) Liaison Officer. Another name to pop up frequently was Dr. Omand Solandt, Chairman of the Canadian DRB. Wright was the liaison with Solandt. The existence of the Top Secret draft in the Wilbert Smith UFO files is part of the reason that the Canadian government was forced to declassify the Top Secret memo held in their files. Wilbert Smith left the draft in the files to give future researchers the truth of what had actually happened in the early days of government investigation into flying saucers. Dying of cancer, Smith made arrangement with his wife to hide the files so they would survive his death. “They will be coming to recover them,” he told his wife Murl.
As Smith predicted the Canadians, Americans, and Soviets approached Mrs. Smith requesting the files for research purposes. Mrs. Smith told all callers she no longer had the files. After a number of break-ins that might have been linked to the search for the files, the files were passed on to Arthur Bray, a local Ottawa researcher, who held them quietly for over two decades. Bray was aware of the Top Secret memo draft, but was unable to say anything because the copy in the Smith files was still marked Top Secret. Bray held a Navy security clearance and was forced to remain quiet. Bray, aware of what was in the files, did however lead the charge to force the government to release all the “Project Magnet” files held by the government. He wrote letters to government ministers and officials telling them where the files would be found. The “Project Magnet” Top Secret memo is the key document in the large Smith collection of UFO material, now stored in the archives at the University of Ottawa. In the memo, Smith outlined five key items about flying saucers that he had discovered while in discussions with top U.S. officials working on the flying saucer problem. These were:
The matter is the most highly classified subject in the United States Government, rating higher than even the H-bomb.
Flying saucers exist.
Their modus operandi is unknown but concentrated effort is being made by a small group headed by Vannevar Bush.
The entire matter is considered by the United States authorities to be of tremendous significance.
The United States authorities are investigating along quite a number of lines, which might possibly be related to the saucers such as mental phenomena.
Myth`s about Smith
Myth: Smith had signs of “mental disturbance” this was NEVER proven or ever tested.
Myth: How he died, Smith died of cancer of the lower bowel. Phil Klass were claiming a brain tumor. Some people inside NICAP were also telling the same story.
Myth: He had no access to Top Secret American information. The US Project Magnet clearly shows that the Americans were listening to him. Admiral Knowles stated that Smith was dealing with top officials in the US government. The Canadian Embassy documents clearly show that the Smith rewrite of the Major Keyhoe article on the Canadian UFO Program had gone to Dr. Vannevar Bush for approval. Smith’s oldest son states that his father had seen both the bodies and a crashed flying saucer outside of Washington. It is logical that top access would have been required to see these two objects.
Myth: Smith was part of the infamous MJ12,
The Members of MJ-12 were:
* Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter: first CIA director * Dr. Vannevar Bush: chaired wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development and predecessor National Defense Research Committee; set up and chaired postwar Joint RResearch and Development Board (JRDB) and then the Research and Development Board (RDB); chaired NACA; President of Carnegie Institute, Washington D.C. * James Forrestal: Secretary of the Navy; first Secretary of Defense (replaced after his death on MJ-12 by Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, 2nd CIA director) * Gen. Nathan Twining: headed Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB; Air Force Chief of Staff (1953-1957); Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff (1957-1961) * Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg: Directed Central Intelligence Group (1946-1947); Air Force Chief of Staff (1948-1953) * Gen. Robert M. Montague: Guided missile expert; 1947 commander of Fort Bliss; headed nuclear Armed Forces Special Weapons Center, Sandia Base * Dr. Jerome Hunsaker: Aeronautical engineer, MIT; chaired NACA after Bush * Rear Adm. Sidney Souers: first director of Central Intelligence Group, first executive secretary of National Security Council (NSC) * Gordon Gray: Secretary of the Army; intelligence and national security expert; CIA psychological strategy board (1951-1953); Chairman of NSC 5412 committee (1954-1958); National Security Advisor (1958-1961) * Dr. Donald Menzel: Astronomer, Harvard; cryptologist during war; security consultant to CIA and NSA * Dr. Detlev Bronk: Medical physicist; aviation physiologist; chair, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council; president Johns Hopkins and Rockefeller University * Dr. Lloyd Berkner: Physicist; radio expert; executive secretary of Bush’s JRDB
According to other sources[citation needed] and MJ-12 papers to emerge later[citation needed], famous scientists like Robert Oppenheimer, Albert Einstein, Karl Compton, Edward Teller, John von Neumann, and Wernher von Braun were also involved with MJ-12.
Wilbert Brockhouse Smith Background:
Wilbert Brockhouse Smith had a master’s degree in science, Wilbert Smith headed up Project Magnet, Canada’s only government-funded UFO inquiry. It was the 1950′s and Smith apparently had above top-secret status. While on loan to America he claimed to have seen a captured UFO and alien dead bodies. He seemed oblivious to keeping secrets and openly spoke of these encounters. Soon Smith’s Project Magnet was officially shut down but he carried on quietly to a distancing government stance. Wilbert Brockhouse Smith died in the sixties at the age of 52 but not before he wrote most of his book, The New Science. He was posthumously honored and although as a scientist considered on a par with Einsten and others, he remains mostly forgotten. It can be argued that, had he not deflected the honors he received for inventions and innovations as actually being ‘gifts from the outsiders’, Wilbert Smith may well have been remembered and revered alongside the great scientific minds of his time. Wilbert Brockhouse Smith must be remembered for what he brought to light, he was a pioneer and a good man.
Video : Recording made by Wilbert Smith on November 11th, 1957. A statement upon the object and Smith’s conclusions about the results of Project Magnet. Then he goes on to discuss his study of the contactee cases and his findings regarding those he found consistent. Included is a discussion of his findings resulting from his contacts for the previous 2 years with the space people (off-world humans). He discusses a) his theoretical universal physical constructions b) his construction of a radio transmitter. This is the radio he used that was equipped with a bipolar antenna with wire wound around each ferrite pole in a caduceus manner.
by Ray Alex with special permission from Nick Pope
First i have to say that I trust the Pope! because the Pope I’m referring to is a man i have admired for quite a while now, He has written four highly successful books on UFO’s, of which my favorites are ” Operation Thunder Child and Operation Lightning Strike” and he has appeared on television and radio all over the world. In fact, Nick Pope is probably one of the best known UFO investigators on the planet. Nick Pope have appeared on various medias the past ten years or so, but what has he contributed with? One thing that catched my interest about him was, that he always seem to be close in touch with his inner voice of reason. That is a really great quality. Never let your self be carried away without first consulting your own voice of reason. Meaning if it isnt a UFO you have the explanation, and so be it facts established. But if NO other explanation IS possible then it is a UFO. “My own experince fall under that statement” anyway this seems to be Nick Pope`s guiding star and i admire him for it.
If i was to rank Mr Pope, it would be in the same high ranking league “according to me that is” as Richard M Dolan or John E. Mack and David Sereda, David Wilcock and off course Michael Schratt, yet Mr Pope is the only official UFO investigator employed by the British government who has ever ever gone out in public for the record. Nick Pope has always struck me to be an honest open man, who always tried to tell it as it was:. Mr Pope do believe that a small percentage of UFOs are extraterrestrial in origin. However, he does not think that the MoD is or was hiding firm evidence of an “other world” presence. Rather he believed, that the MoD had a lot of reports, some of significant importance, some less, but nothing substantial that could be held up as THE definitive proof for the unbelievers. Nick Pope has always since leaving the MOD made it clear and spelled out his beliefs, and his opinions and clearly shown proof of his incredible insider knowledge.
Nick Pope used to run the British Government’s UFO project at the Ministry of Defense. Initially skeptical, his research and investigation into the UFO phenomenon and access to classified government files on the subject soon convinced him that the phenomenon raised important defense and national security issues, especially when the witnesses were military pilots or where UFOs were tracked on radar with none or very thin explanations. Some of my colleagues don’t trust Pope because of his government involvement, but it’s my STRONG belief that Pope is a real straight player. However i do know that Mr Pope has stated that,
“Many UFO researchers believe that information about UFOs is being covered up. They see a vast conspiracy to keep the truth from the public. Nothing could be further from the truth. Requests concerning UFOs are among the most frequently submitted under the Freedom of Information Act and the MOD has made great efforts to be as helpful as possible”
This could be due to the fact that NOBODY can do anything about these Unidentified Flying Objects at all, they are simply owned by them and out maneuvered in every way. So therefore in the shadow of shame it can appear that some Governments are hiding knowledge about these craft`s. Because they can not and will not admit, that they ” have no clue” what to do about it. At least that`s what i think sometimes!
The Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, is one of the most heralded and documented UFO cases in our history. At the twin bases of Bentwaters / Woodbridge, several nights in late December, 1980, the bases was visited by craft not of this world. These craft landed in the Rendlesham Forest, and were seen, filmed, and even touched by military personnel. It was also reported that there was direct contact with alien entities. In the recent Interview with Nick Pope, this case is discussed in detail. Mr Pope is one of the preeminent UFO researchers in the U K, and has worked with the government’s UFO group of study for many years. See what he says in this interview, online.
My personal and one of the first interviews i saw with Mr Pope, was about the “Erie UFOs,” a series of strange lights witnessed for several consecutive nights over Lake Erie Nick Mr Pope here Comments on Cleveland UFO Sightings. As always hard facts is demanded and real questions asked!
Some Additional Background Info About Nick Pope
Nick Pope here to the left, was employed at the MoD’s “UFO office” in the 90s. He also related Torres’ story among others. He has appeared several times on e.g. CNN and BBC. Please feel free to visit his website: www.nickpope.net
Early Research:
Between 1991 and 1994, He was posted to a division called Secretariat (Air Staff) and was given the job of researching and investigating the UFO phenomenon, mirroring the work done in the U.S. by the now defunct Project Blue Book. Although most of the cases could be explained as misidentifications of known objects and phenomena, a hard core of sightings defied any conventional explanation.
Unique Access to Files:
His unique access to new data and old government files convinced him that the UFO phenomenon raised serious defence and national security issues. He came across numerous instances where UFOs had been tracked on radar, leading to jets being scrambled. Strong evidence emerged suggesting the presence of structured craft capable of speeds and manoeuvres beyond the capability of even the most advanced prototype craft operated by the Royal Air Force or the United States Air Force.
Terrifying Near Misses:
There were also cases where there had been terrifying near-misses between UFOs and civilian aircraft. All this led him to believe that an extraterrestrial explanation for some sightings could not be ruled out. Through his official investigations into UFOs he was drawn into other mysteries such as alien abductions, crop circles, animal mutilations and ghosts. Although no longer carrying out this sort of work for the government, he continues research and investigation in a private capacity.
Ministry of Defence: MoD
Currently, he works at the Ministry of Defence, which he joined in 1985. He has had many different postings and has undertaken a fascinating series of jobs within the Department, including work in the Joint Operations Centre during the Gulf War, where he was a briefer in the Air Force Operations Room. He has also been involved in work on the crises in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a Senior Executive Officer, which is a civilian grade equivalent to the military rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
Books on UFOs:
Pope has written four books: Open Skies, Closed Minds details his official UFO work, while The Uninvited deals with alien abductions; Operation Thunder Child and Operation Lightning Strike are science fiction novels based on his government work.
Media Work:
Pope has done extensive media work, including the BBC’s Newsnight and Radio 4′s Today programme. He has also lectured all around the world, at academic conferences, museums, military bases and the Oxford Union.
Personal Beliefs:
Pope: “I believe that governments and the military, and indeed private researchers, politicians- whoever- should place everything in the public domain on this issue. Governments can’t, I think, have it both ways. You cannot say on the one hand, as the party line often goes, that UFOs are of no defense significance, and then on the other keep back some of the data.”
Personal Quote:
“You simply can’t do that. You have to have it one way or the other. And if, as governments consistently say when the politicians probe on this issue or when the media inquire, that there’s really nothing to worry about, then okay, let’s see all the data.” More Bio
Here Milton Torres and Nick Pope presents their stories at the annual exopolitical gathering: The X-Conference in April 2009 at the Hilton Gaithersburg in the Washington DC area. Mr Torres was a fighter pilot stationed in England in the 50s. During one of his missions he encountered a huge UFO which appeared to be the size of an aircraft carrier on his radar scope. He was ordered to shoot at it when it suddenly flew away with an incredible speed. Later, he was intimidated by a spook and was told not to talk about the incident to anyone. Later Torres still went public when the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) released some of its UFO files in 2008. He appeared on e.g. CNN and Sky News.
In effect from December 1, 2009, the UK Ministry of Defense terminated its UFO project, ending over 50 years of research and investigation into the phenomenon.The news was slipped out in a way designed not to attract attention, by making an amendment to an existing document in the Freedom of Information section of the MoD website, entitled “How to report a UFO sighting”. The announcement states that “in over fifty years, no UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom” and goes on to say that “MoD will no longer respond to reported UFO sightings or investigate them”
Nick Pope`s reaction : Having worked on the UFO project from 1991 to 1994 I am sorry to see MoD disengage in this way. I believe that where evidence suggests that UK airspace has been penetrated by an unidentified object, this must automatically be of defense interest and should be investigated properly. Indeed, I am sure that as is almost certainly the case in the US, sightings from pilots and uncorrelated targets tracked on radar will continue to be looked at by someone outside of a formally constituted UFO project.
Jesse Ventura was born in 1951 in Minneapolis. After graduating from high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, where he joined the Special Forces and served as a UDT/SEAL from 1969 to 1973. After being honorably discharged from the Navy, he returned to Minnesota and, while attending community college, started training to become a professional wrestler. Ventura began his successful professional wrestling career in 1975. In the early to mid ’80s, he moved from performing in the ring to color commentator.
In 1987, Ventura starred alongside fellow future governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in the hit film Predator. He has gone on to be featured in numerous films and television shows, including a fan-favorite appearance on The X-Files playing a “Man in Black.” The 1990s saw Ventura enter the political arena, serving as Mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minn., and in 1998 as Governor of Minnesota. After he left office, Ventura was a visiting fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He is a New York Times best-selling author of five books and currently resides in Minnesota and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Now! never-published declassified CIA documents appear to support a link between the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the Watergate scandal that brought down Richard Nixon. To find out for sure, Jesse Ventura goes to Dallas, where he meets Lee Harvey Oswald’s widow, Marina, and investigates the “Two Oswalds” theory that a CIA-groomed double killed JFK.
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