From: jad@Turing.ORG (John DiNardo)
Subject: Part 23, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy
Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk 
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:45:06 GMT

        I made the following transcript from a tape recording 
        of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station
               WBAI-FM (99.5)
               505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl.
               New York, NY 10018       (212) 279-0707

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                        (continuation)
CYRIL WECHT:
Just to put in context what they did, Garrison went to the F.C.C.
to request equal time, and never before or since has the F.C.C.
made a judgment like the one they made in this case. They ruled
that the NBC documentary was so dishonest and so flawed that they
ordered NBC to give Garrison a half-hour of prime time to respond
to it. I think that says something in terms of where that NBC
documentary was coming from.

GARY NULL:
And Garrison did respond to it?

CYRIL WECHT:
He did respond to it in prime time. Yes.

GARY NULL:
We must state here that Walter Sheridan, since he's not here to
defend himself .... any allegations of any misdeeds or misconduct
are just that: allegations. Since he was never proved to have done
any of those things, we must keep that in this perspective. 
Now let's go to the idea of the NBC documentary on the JFK
assassination and the FBI.

CYRIL WECHT:
Okay.  When the Warren Commission Report was issued, NBC ran a
one-hour documentary in prime time, just prior to the release of
the Warren Report, that basically was a summary of what the Warren
Commission was going to find. An internal FBI document, that was
generated a week prior to that documentary, reviewed in chapter
and verse what the NBC documentary was going to show, and also it
included in it assurances from unnamed sources at NBC that nothing
in the documentary would criticize the work of the FBI or the
findings of the initial FBI report that had preceded the findings
of the Warren Commission. Clearly, the FBI had an open pipeline
into NBC and it knew exactly what NBC was doing. And clearly,
there was a pipeline back that was assuring the FBI that there
wouldn't be any agenda that the FBI would have a problem with.

GARY NULL:
Alright.  The Washington Post and editor Ben Bradlee?

CYRIL WECHT:
Okay.  Ben Bradlee .... I have a letter from the then-book-review
editor of the Washington Post in which he informed me that Ben
Bradlee had ordered him not to review any books about the Kennedy
Assassination.  A rather interesting incident took place after the
demise of the House Assassinations Committee. One of the things
that the House Assassinations Committee had investigated was a
report that Lee Harvey Oswald had ben seen in the company of a
gentleman by the name of Maurice Bishop, who was said by sources
to be a high-ranking official in the Central Intelligence Agency.
The members of the staff of the House Assassinations Committee
became convinced that Maurice Bishop was David Atlee Phillips, who
had also been a major high-ranking official of the Central
Intelligence Agency. He had been in Mexico City. He later resigned
from the Agency to form a support group for the CIA when the CIA
was coming under a great deal of criticism. David [shouldn't it be
Anthony?] Summers[sp] wrote extensively about the Phillips/Maurice 
Bishop connection in his book, CONSPIRACY. And he managed to get
an audience with Ben Bradlee. He suggested to Ben Bradlee that 
this was an area that was ripe for investigation.

Bradlee subsequently assigned a reporter to the story. The reporter
was in touch with Summers. He was also in touch with Gaeton Fonzi
who had been an investigator for the House Committee [on
Assassinations]. Prior to that, he had been an investigator for
the [Sen. Frank] Church Committee [on Assassinations], and he was
the investigator who had originally come up with the Maurice Bishop
story. The reporter told both Summers and Gaeton Fonzi that when
Bradlee assigned him to the story, he told him to discredit the
story. Those were his marching orders.  Far from discrediting the
story, as this reporter got into it, he developed more information
that tended to support the conclusion that Phillips and Maurice
Bishop were the same person. That is basically the gist of the
story that he submitted.    The story was killed!

And that's really in line with what the Washington Post has done
from the beginning. The Washington Post, The New York Times, 
TIME Inc. have been obsessed with discrediting the stories of
conspiracy, and with shoring up the official Government findings.

GARY NULL:
Then you would have to ask: Why?  Is it a matter of coincidence?
Is it a matter of editorial opinion that may be completely
innocent of any complicity or malfeasance, or is there some
connection from the New York Times, NBC, CBS, The Washington Post,
TIME Magazine that would have connections to any of the major
people who are under criticism now for having participated; such
as some of the major CIA officers, some of the high-ranking people
from within the military/industrial complex, right-wing extemists,
etc.  Are there any connections?

CYRIL WECHT:
That's where I get into difficulty. I mean, I don't really like to
speculate about why I think it's dangerous. I think you can only
point to what was done. Questions have to be raised. I mean, you'd
have to ask why the media has done what it has done; why these
things seem to come from the upper levels of the newspapers,
networks, magazines involved.

GARY NULL:
Because remember, it's the same Washington Post that allowed [Bob]
Woodward and [Carl] Bernstein to expose Watergate, which brought
down Nixon in the White House and a lot of Ivy League people.

JIM MARRS:
Gary, could I jump in and make a comment?

GARY NULL:
Yes.  Jim Marrs, jump in, please.
                      (to be continued)
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      If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please
      assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards,
      and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. 
      As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass-media's thirty-year
      cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of 
      the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes
      ever more striking.

         John DiNardo

If we seriously listen to this "God within us" ["conscience",
if you will], we usually find ourselves being urged to take the
more difficult path, the path of more effort rather than less.
.... Each and every one of us, more or less frequently, will hold
back from this work. .... Like every one of our ancestors before
us, we are all lazy. So original sin does exist; it is our laziness.

                                        M. Scott Peck
                                   THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED


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