Show #601

Original airdate: October 25th, 2012
Guests: Joan Mellen / Debra Conway
Topics: JFK Assassination Research

Play Joan Mellen   (48:49)   Real Media

• Our Man In Haiti, Joan’s writing about Jim Garrison led to an interest in the CIA
• CIA relationships in Texas, George de Mohrenschildt handled Oswald in Dallas
• A CIA document which states that Clay Shaw was a contract employee of CIA
• April, 1963, de Mohrenschildt was assigned to Clemard Joseph Charles in Haiti
• In 1804, Haiti overthrew slavery, 200 years of U.S. explotation and intervention
• Charles worked for Haitian ruler “Papa Doc” Duvalier, while trying to overthrow him
• CIA was worried about de Mohrenschildt talking about what he knew
• Hunt Oil security chief, Paul Rothermel, implicated the Hunts in the JFK assassination
• The Zapruder film was not viewed by Hunt on the day of the assassination
• de Mohrenschildt’s suspicious death was ruled a suicide
• de Mohrenschildt was a man for sale, he worked for French intelligence in WWII
• CIA man Jim Moore in Dallas, why was this sophisticated man cultivating Oswald?
• He also handled Herbert Itkin, involved in plots to overthrow Duvalier
• Papa Doc was the “not-Castro” in the Caribbean, hospitable to American capitalism
• Relations to Haiti are a model for U.S. relations with other countries
• Joan plans three books on the CIA and Texas; Haiti, Cuba, and Mac Wallace
• de Mohrenschildt was a thoroughly awful man, some good people in the book
• Joan found no direct involvement of de Mohrenschildt in the assassination
• He never got paid by the government of Haiti, he came back broke
• He was dangerous, he knew that CIA knew about Oswald in 1962
• The CIA betrays people that contract with them, a dangerous business
• A letter to CIA Director George Bush, Bush involved in CIA fronts in Haiti
• de Mohrenschildt was attractive to women, he was not suicidal
• Trineday publisher, joanmellen.net, next book, The Great Game in Cuba
• Mohamed Al-Fayed, Haiti, Lady Diana’s death
• Next year, a reprint of A Farewell to Justice (2005), with a 134 page update