Why The British Assassinate U.S. Presidents (Part 2)

Why The British Assassinate U.S. Presidents (Part 2)

November 24, 2008 (LPAC)--The following excerpts, on the British role in assassinating U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and James Garfield, come from the LaRouche movement's December 1994 pamphlet, ``Why the British Kill U.S. President.'' They were written by EIR's History editor Anton Chaitkin. In the current transition period, they are of the utmost relevance again. Part 1 is available here.

- The Case of John F. Kennedy -

Two newly discovered pieces of evidence point towards a direct role of the British Crown in the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy 31 years ago today.

The first piece of evidence, recently publicized in Executive Intelligence Review, is a membership list in the super-secret 1001 Club, listing the late Canadian-born British Special Operations Executive (SOE) official Maj. Louis Mortimer Bloomfield as a charter member of the group founded by Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. Bloomfield, this newspaper has learned, was also an early leader of the Canadian branch of Prince Philip's World Wildlife Fund (WWF), even prior to his involvement in the JFK assassination plot.

The second piece of evidence, a pair of obscure photographs from a New Orleans Parish weekly newspaper from 1963, showed David Ferrie and Clay Shaw together at a party. Ferrie and Shaw were two critical figures in the Kennedy assassination plot, according to the late New Orleans District Attorney, Jim Garrison.

Taken together, the new pieces of evidence for the first time establish an unbroken chain of proof tying the known associates of "patsy'' Lee Harvey Oswald to the highest echelons of the British Crown and its Secret Intelligence Services.

The relevance of this new discovery to the security of President William Jefferson Clinton should not be missed by anyone. High-level U.S. government sources have told New Federalist that President Clinton is considered to be the most threatened President since JFK. The same sources have also characterized Clinton as the "most anti-British President since Kennedy.''

Through agencies like the WWF and the 1001 Club, the assassination apparatus that murdered John Kennedy remains intact today. And this apparatus has already been implicated in at least one threat to the life of President Clinton, a May 11, 1994 public statement by a gun-toting ex-Arkansas state official Larry Nichols. While the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington, D.C. was announcing this past week that Francisco Martin Duran, the man who opened fire on the White House on Oct. 29, would be tried for attempted murder of the President, Larry Nichols was still walking the streets, the apparent beneficiary of protection by ``friends in high places'' who are opponents of President Clinton's decidedly anti-British policies.

- Critical Missing Evidence -

In 1967, New Orleans DA Garrison indicted Clay Shaw, the director of the New Orleans International Trade Mart, on charges that Shaw had conspired in the assassination of JFK. Shaw, a prominent New Orleans socialite, was linked by Garrison's investigators to a local secret intelligence unit housed at 544 Camp Street, in the offices of former FBI official Guy Bannister. Throughout 1963, the office had been frequented by Shaw, David Ferrie, Lee Harvey Oswald, and other figures linked to the events in Dallas on Nov. 22.

During the trial two years later, Judge Garrity ruled inadmissible Shaw's own statement to the police, in which he linked himself to Ferrie, the man who first recruited Lee Harvey Oswald to U.S. intelligence a decade before the Kennedy assassination. The trial of Shaw came down to conflicting testimony over whether or not Shaw and Ferrie knew one another.

Shaw lied on the witness stand under oath that he had never met Ferrie, a notorious homosexual and mercenary who had provably worked under FBI Division Five official Bannister in the New Orleans-based training and weapons supply operation for Cuban exiles that had also employed Oswald.

Yet photos that appeared in a local weekly gossip sheet had clearly shown Ferrie and Shaw together at a rather bizarre party. For reasons still unknown, those photographs were never presented by Garrison at the trial.

A local reporter for the gossip sheet who covered the Shaw trial, had copies of the pictures in his briefcase throughout the proceedings, but the crucial pieces of evidence never found their way into the jurors' hands.

The jury, under instruction from Judge Garrity, ruled that there was insufficient evidence to convict Shaw, solely on the basis that there was "reasonable doubt'' about the Shaw-Ferrie association. Afterwards, Garrity and the majority of jurors said they believed there was a conspiracy to kill the President. On his deathbed, Garrity told a friend that he was convinced Shaw was guilty as charged, and that he was personally shocked when the jury ruled not guilty.

- The Crown's Permindex Front -

Clay Shaw was a member of the board of Major Bloomfield's Permindex ("Permanent Industrial Expositions'') front company. Had the crucial photo evidence been presented at trial, there is little doubt that Shaw would have been found guilty, and his Permindex links would have formed the basis of a serious follow-on probe. Such a probe would have established the direct hand of the British Crown in the Kennedy murder.

Already, by 1967, Bloomfield's Permindex organization had been thrown out of Italy, France, and Switzerland, after French authorities found it had paid for assassination attempts against French President Charles de Gaulle. A New Orleans-based Permindex spin-off, the Caribbean Anti-Communist League, had funneled several hundred thousand dollars to members of the Secret Army Organization (OAS) in France to kill de Gaulle.

What's more, since World War II, SOE officer Bloomfield had served as the liaison between British Crown Intelligence and the FBI. Under agreements struck between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, Bloomfield had served as J. Edgar Hoover's personnel adviser for the Bureau's foreign counterintelligence section, known as Division Five.

Bloomfield's early involvement in Prince Philip's WWF and 1001 Club placed the Canadian spook-attorney even more in the center of the Crown apparatus. Membership in the 1001 Club was drawn from the inner circles of the Duke of Edinburgh and his Dutch counterpart, the former Nazi intelligence operator, Prince Bernhard. A second Permindex figure, Swiss-based Israeli banker Dr. Tibor Rosenbaum, the conduit for Permindex funds into the OAS, was also a charter member of 1001.

The WWF, widely misrepresented as a group concerned with the environment and endangered species, was launched by Prince Philip and Prince Bernhard in 1961 to draw together powerful European oligarchical networks into a covert recolonization and One World government scheme. At the center of the WWF effort was the revival of radical Malthusian population reduction programs.

John F. Kennedy's policies represented the antithesis of this Malthusian revival.

- Oswald and Hoover -

The 20-year intimate collaboration between Bloomfield and Hoover sheds further light on another of the anomalies of the JFK assassination and its cover-up. Why, if Lee Harvey Oswald was the actual assassin of John Kennedy, would he have sent a personal telegram to Hoover 48 hours before the killing in Dallas, warning of a plot against the President's life? And why, if Oswald was anything other than a patsy, would Hoover have suppressed that telegram and ordered FBI offices all across the country to bury any documentation linking FBI informant Oswald to the Bureau?

Up until the moment that Oswald was gunned down by Jack Ruby inside the Dallas Police Department headquarters, (Ruby had been a Bannister informant back in Chicago prior to the Division Five agent's "retirement'' from the Bureau), he was insisting that he had been a "patsy'' and had not shot the President. A trial of Oswald would have been fatal to the Permindex assassins and their vast cover-up apparatus.

Jim Garrison's prosecution of Clay Shaw failed to produce a conviction. Shaw, Ferrie, Oswald, Bloomfield, and Garrison are all dead. Yet, the newly uncovered evidence--31 years after the fact--still provides a basis for getting at the truth, and making sure that no British Crown plot ever claims the life of an American President again.

- The Enemy Explains His Crimes -

Like Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley, John Kennedy was killed by the British oligarchy while advancing U.S. interests in conflict with British geopolitical aims. In his foreign and domestic policies, Kennedy had astonished the world by reverting to the idealistic nationalism last seen in those earlier murdered American Presidents.

But let us allow the enemy to speak for himself on this.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica, "published with the editorial advice and consultation of ... a committee of members of the faculties of Oxford, Cambridge, and London Universities,'' found the U.S. President's murder a cause for celebration. The Introduction to the Britannica Book of the Year 1964 began:

 "That 1963 would be remembered as a year of great beginnings--and of some tragic endings--could not be doubted.... The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy ... was surely the most stunning of the year's events. Its suddenness and senselessness left virtually all of the civilized world in a state of shock....

"And yet even this monstrous killing somehow pointed to a kind of beginning or at the least, a renewal, of sensibility among Kennedy's countrymen and among the United States and other nations. The event certainly gave evidence that--like it or not--the world community was in fact a reality. The nations had become too tightly inter-meshed and interdependent through both military and mercantile treaties; too many of the educated people of the world crossed international frontiers too often and accommodated themselves too easily in foreign lands to have any lingering intellectual response to 19th-century nationalism, though an emotional residue persisted and was still exploited in some areas of the world.''

Kennedy's investment tax credit for industrial development; his face-down of J.P. Morgan's steel price increase; his order for the Treasury to print non-Federal Reserve U.S. currency; his Apollo Moon landing program; his commitment to overwhelming U.S. technological and military superiority, combined with cooperation with the Soviets for Third World development, not "balance of power'' wars; his decision to take retired General Douglas MacArthur's advice and get out of the Vietnam trap: all of these lit the British fuse for his murder.

- The Owners of the Circus -

District Attorney Garrison's prosecution on the Kennedy case began with his discovery that the alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, had been based in a New Orleans political operations office at 544 Camp Street. The manager of this office, Guy Bannister, was formerly chief of the FBI in Chicago.

Garrison described 544 Camp Street as a virtual "circus'': FBI agents; CIA agents; Oswald, himself a long-time FBI informant, passing out pro-Castro leaflets; flaming homosexual David Ferrie and his anti-Castro Cubans--all of these parading in and out of Bannister's office. Jack Ruby, who later shot Oswald, was also an informer and intimate of Bannister, from the Chicago FBI days.

Garrison was led to the actual proprietors of this New Orleans ``circus'' by being informed that the internationally powerful Clay Shaw had arranged for legal services for Lee Oswald; he had even personally taken Oswald to get registered to vote.

The exotic sadomasochist Clay Shaw was the director of the International Trade Mart in New Orleans. Shaw had made the Trade Mart a subsidiary of a corporation, Permindex, known to the world's police as an assassination bureau.

Bloomfield, Shaw's superior in the Permindex command structure, co-authored an assassination strategy manual, ``Crimes Against Protected Persons: Prevention and Punishment'' (Praeger, 1975, New York). Bloomfield's law firm managed the Bronfman family liquor empire, utilizing global organized-crime capabilities.

Bloomfield's Permindex directors included Clay Shaw, who had fallen in with the British as an Office of Strategic Services liaison man stationed with the office of Prime Minister Winston Churchill; various European noblemen who had been associated with the Hitler and Mussolini governments; and Jean de Menil, owner of Schlumberger Co. of Houston, which had provided weapons for the hit attempts on de Gaulle and for the Carribbean adventures of the Shaw-Ferrie-Bannister group.

Perry R. Russo, a Baton Rouge insurance agent and long-time acquaintance of David Ferrie, testified that he had sat in on a Kennedy assassination planning discussion between Clay Shaw and David Ferrie, on the need for triangulation of crossfire, and their intended alibi locations while contracted hit-men were to be killing the President.

It was to this corrupted and betrayed U.S. security apparatus, from the homosexuals Bloomfield and J. Edgar Hoover on down, that Oswald turned for help. As a Naval Intelligence agent assigned to the FBI, Oswald sent a telegram from Dallas, warning Director Hoover {personally} of a local FBI cover-up of an assassination threat {live} against the President in the Fort Worth-Dallas area.

Hoover's trashing of the warning was misprision of a felony, or treason. And with the President's murder, and the public's acquiescence in what was widely believed to be a cover-up, the nation shamefully betrayed itself.

- The Case of James Garfield -

Charles Guiteau's 1881 murder of U.S. President James A. Garfield is treated historically as a senseless act, the perpetrator a "disappointed office-seeker.''

Contrary to this "lone-assassin'' portrayal of events, we shall show here a murder motive: the Garfield administration's prosecution of a virtual war against the British Empire; and a murder machine: Britain's transatlantic financial and political apparatus, and its criminal underground inside America, which included Garfield's assassin.

James Blaine, chosen as Secretary of State by the President-elect, candidly warned Garfield of "the machine in New York'' and its allies, within their own Republican Party: "This section contains all the desperate bad men of the Party, bent on loot and booty, and ready for any Mexican invasion or Caribbean annexation, and looking to excitements and filibustering and possibly to a Spanish war as legitimate means of continuing political power for a clique. These men are ... harmless when out of power, and desperate when in possession of it'' [Blaine to Garfield, Dec. 10, 1880].

Britain's influence in America had grown ominously in 1879. British bankers, whose Wall Street agents ruled the "desperate'' New York political machine, had compelled the resumption of gold (specie) payments to foreign holders of U.S. bonds. This gave the Rothschild-Morgan syndicate a blackmail dictatorship over U.S. finances.

Secretary of State Blaine was the de facto "prime minister'' in the incoming administration. His political identity was built around his family tradition of America's resistance against British imperial power. He had lived for some years as a teenager with his close relative, Thomas Ewing, while Ewing was U.S. Treasury Secretary, lieutenant to anti-British nationalist spokesman Henry Clay, and the stepfather of William T. Sherman, the great Civil War general.

Garfield was susceptible to the hard-money dogma, but he and his old political comrade Blaine came to power with the high tariff program of Clay and Lincoln. Blaine exhorted Irish-Americans and other workingmen to defend their wages by defeating the economic policy of "Ireland's oppressors''--"British free trade.''

- The Union War Gov't Revived -

Garfield and Blaine took office in March 1881, with Abraham Lincoln's son Robert as War Secretary. In May, Blaine sent Lincoln's counterintelligence expert, retired General Stephen Hurlbut, as a special envoy to face down the British in South America.

The British-sponsored proxy Army of Chile had invaded Peru and Bolivia, grabbing control of nitrate deposits, and seeking to crush U.S.-allied nationalism in the region. Britain's diplomats demanded Peru surrender and cede its richest provinces. Peru's Army had collapsed, relying as it did for military supplies on Britain's Lima-based merchant king, the W.R. Grace company. Grace controlled virtually all shipping on South America's Pacific Coast on behalf of British banking and political power.

On May 23, 1881, Charles J. Guiteau wrote to President Garfield: ``Mr. Blaine is a wicked man, and you ought to demand his immediate resignation; otherwise you and the Republican Party will come to grief.'' Guiteau shot President Garfield on July 2, 1881, four months into his term.

As Garfield clung to life, Gen. Hurlbut arrived in Peru, clashed sharply with British diplomats, and recognized the regime of Garcia Calderon, who had been chosen by the underground Peruvian nationalist leadership. The U.S.S. Alaska landed a brother of President Calderon in Mollendo, with money and instructions for Peruvian resistance fighters. Britain's Chilean proxies arrested President Calderon and took him away to Santiago. On Nov. 29, 1881, Secretary Blaine, still in office, called for a peace conference of all republics in the Western Hemisphere, to convene in Washington one year later.

The incoming President Chester Arthur replaced Blaine two weeks later with Frederick Frelinghuysen, who canceled the proposed hemispheric peace conference, so as not to invite "European jealousy and ill will.'' Congressman Perry Belmont, law partner of Frelinghuysen's son, chaired a Congressional investigation of the supposed corruption of James Blaine and Gen. Hurlbut. Representative Belmont's father, August Belmont, the House of Rothschild's U.S. representative, wrote that "the country might have been plunged into a war with Peru if poor Garfield had not been assassinated. Blaine is about the most unscrupulous politician we ever had.''

Blaine told Congress, "The Chilian government ... pledge[d] ... to pay ... into the Bank of England for the benefit of the English bondholders who put up the job of this war on Peru. It ... was loot and booty.... The iron-clads that destroyed the Peruvian Navy were furnished by England.... It is an English war on Peru, with Chile as the instrument, and I take the responsibility of that assertion.''

- The New York Machine and the Assassin -

There was at that time a triumvirate ruling that New York "loot and booty'' machine about which Blaine had warned Garfield:

1) Banker August Belmont, Rothschild representative and longtime head of the U.S. Democratic Party;

2) Britain's W.R. Grace, the Peru-based enforcer, who had moved to the U.S. and was elected Mayor of New York City in 1880! Grace managed Wall Street's opposition to Blaine's 1884 presidential bid, and arranged the official 1890 British contract seizing Peru's land and minerals;

3) Speculator Leonard Jerome, owner of the New York Times. His daughter Jennie had married Britain's Randolph Churchill, who in 1880, with his partner Arthur Balfour, launched a new ultra-feudalist leadership group in British politics. Leonard Jerome's grandson Winston Churchill was then six years old. This Balfour circle, Disraeli's ``Venetian Party,'' had taken over managing various British Intelligence projects of the occult and the criminal underground, centered in New York State and New England.

Assassin Charles J. Guiteau dictated an autobiography to a jail officer while awaiting his execution. His story was printed in the July 2, 1882 (Washington) National Republican.

Guiteau's father, a disciple of New England cult leader John H. Noyes, took Charles as a teenager to live on the commune that Noyes had established on the Oneida Indian Reservation in upstate New York. Noyes was a Vermont "blueblood,'' son of a Congressman who had sided with the enemy during the War of 1812 between America and Britain.

- Guiteau's Story -

Guiteau said "I went [to Oneida] and got under that influence, and I was unable to get away from that influence.... A man was just as isolated from the world as if he were confined in state's prison or a lunatic asylum. I suffered greatly in mind and body and spirits during incarceration in that community.'' He said he had been "perfectly beside himself'' under Noyes's control from 1858 to 1870.

All women in the commune were common property, and all sexual acts were the subject of official community ``criticism'' sessions. John Noyes himself sexually initiated the girl children of the commune's inmates, proclaiming this to be the scientific breeding program of Britain's Sir Francis Galton. The group practiced seances, while preparing for the imminent Apocalypse and Second Coming.

Guiteau described how he had gradually left this brainwashing pit, and had come under the care and sponsorship of a new British-run international organization--the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)--which had spread from England to Canada and on into New York in the 1850s. Guiteau was transfixed by the Armageddon sermons of Dwight Moody and other YMCA leaders. Guiteau gave his own Armageddon lectures at YMCAs all over the country, often to tiny groups.

John H. Noyes, meanwhile, was about to be arrested for mass rape of young girls--but he fled to British Canada in June 1879. In 1880, while Noyes was sheltered by the British authorities, the Oneida commune converted itself into a joint-stock corporation, eventually achieving fame as a silverware company.

In 1880, Charles Guiteau, who had never had anything to do with politics, suddenly began hanging around the Republican National Committee's New York City headquarters. After the Garfield election victory, Guiteau began loitering in the White House and State Department lobbies in Washington, on the pretext of asking for appointment as a diplomat. He bought a pistol with money from "a gentleman,'' and shot the President after stalking him for several days.