Editor’s Note: Peter Gilman was a Hollywood writer who befriended Mae Brussell in 1967 and wanted to help her write a book on the JFK assassination. What he did not tell her was that he was a friend of Aristotle Onassis. According to Mae Brussell, “Gilman had been a newspaper man, a writer, he wrote the book Diamond Head. He was in Vietnam during the war. He was with the admirals over in Honolulu. He had been to parties with Jackie Kennedy at the time. Peter had a home down at the Highlands. He had property all over Carmel. Our piano tuner rents the house that Peter Gilman owns in Carmel, and he always says to me ‘I know you think Pete’s a spy, but he’s not, just because he picks up the phone and talks to Aristotle Onassis. It’s just somewhat of a personal call.’ He lets out that little story about Pete’s links to Onassis at the time of the assassination attempts and riots in France. He [Gilman] was there [in Paris] when de Gaulle was under fire by the same group exposed as the Permindex team that later killed John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy.”

Was the famous oil shipping magnate spying on Mae Brussell through Peter Gilman?See the article “Mae Brussell vs. CIA Spies in Carmel.”

Aristotle Onassis is the central figure in a document called “The Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File.” It was a synopsis of a much larger document consisting of over 300 to 400 pages authored by a crystallographer named Bruce Roberts, who discovered a method of making flawless synthetic gemstones. Roberts would trade his gemstones for inside information regarding the assassinations that rocked the United States in the 1960s. What he found out was that Aristotle Onassis formed partnerships with Eugene Meyer, the Roosevelts, Joseph P. Kennedy, the Rockefellers, and Meyer Lansky in a vast conspiracy to corrupt, or murder, legislators, judges, and presidents of the United States and to take over the news media to prevent the truth from coming out.

The author of the Skeleton Key was identified as Stephanie Caruana in a 1992 book by Jim Keith called The Gemstone File. Caruana was the protégé of conspiracy researcher Mae Brussell. Together, Caruana and Brussell co-authored a controversial article called “Is Howard Hughes Dead and Buried off a Greek Island?” for the December 1974 issue of Playgirl magazine.

It was Brussell who possessed the “four hundred or so” pages of the handwritten manuscript of the Gemstone File written by Bruce Roberts. He gave it to Brussell in 1972. Brussell allowed Caruana access to the Gemstone File in preparation for their Howard Hughes article. Caruana then contacted Roberts to gather more information. Below is my updated version of the “Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File,” first updated by Stephanie Caruana in 2001.

A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File

Various versions of the Key have appeared and circulated since the first one I wrote and released, which was dated April 1, 1975. I wrote three or four editions in April, May, and June of 1975, and either gave them away, or sold them for $3.00, the cost of making copies.

At the end of each copy, I had a sentence or two that ran something like this: “This paper is the only way I know to get the following information to you, because of intense media censorship of the real news. If you found it interesting, please make 1, 10, or 50 copies – as many as you can afford – and give them to your friends. Either the Mafia goes, or this country goes.”

Well! Thousands, and millions, of copies WERE made and circulated. And many people did learn from them. But the Mafia did not go. It is still here, all around us. Celebrated in the movies and on TV as cultural heroes, along with the CIA, the FBI, and the other spy agencies. These are our heroes, and increasingly gory, brutal and violent images are foisted upon us and our children by those who know quite well that after a certain number of repetitions, violence and destructiveness begin to seem like the norm of human behavior.

As Leonard Cohen sings,

“Everybody knows the war is over . . .”

But let’s get back to the Key. I did this because I wanted people to have the information they needed to make their own decisions about what was happening to our government and our country.

In 1979, Larry Flynt of Hustler magazine published a sanitized version. This version has gotten wide circulation.

Naturally, the various versions do not coincide perfectly. In some cases, people making copies from Xeroxed and re-Xeroxed originals inevitably misread the dim originals, and typos crept in. As an example, one embarrassing misreading turns up in the Skeleton Key entry for November 1, 1963 in Gerald Carroll’s book:

“Jackie stayed on board the Christina, and descended the gangplank a few days later on Onassis’s arm, in Turkey, to impress the Turkish boy, Mustapha.”

In the original versions, this read: “The Turkish Bey, Mustapha.” And there is a big difference.

Another: In the original versions, the JFK assassination team member arrested in Chicago is identified as Tom Vallee. Various misreadings and misspellings in the recopied versions included “Malley” and “Walley.”

The present version has been rewritten to include additional information or interpretations from the Brussell section of the Gemstone File; some personal details of Bruce Roberts’ life; and some recent interpretations of events. I have also included information not present in the Gemstone File, nor originating from conversations I had with Bruce Roberts. These additional parts, with notes regarding their sources, are in brackets.

A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File

1932: Aristotle Onassis, a Greek drug pusher and ship owner who made his first million selling “Turkish tobacco” (opium) in Argentina, worked out a profitable deal with Joseph P. Kennedy (U.S. Ambassador to England), Eugene Meyer, and Meyer Lansky. Onassis shipped booze directly into Prohibition-dry Boston, in diplomatic pouches, for Joe Kennedy. Onassis was also involved in a heroin shipping deal with Franklin D. and Elliott Roosevelt.

1933-40: Eugene Meyer, Joe Kennedy’s partner in S.E.C. (Securities Exchange Commission) stock swindles, bought the Washington Post, as part of a Mafia drive to get control over news media. Other Mafia figures bought other newspapers, magazines, radio, and TV broadcasting stations. Massive censorship regarding Mafia political and financial dealings went into effect in all the major media.

1934: Onassis, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the Seven Sisters (major oil companies) signed an agreement, outlined in an oil cartel memo: Screw the Arabs out of their oil, ship it on Onassis’s ships; Rockefeller and the Seven Sisters to get rich. All this was done.

1936: At age 17, as a journalism student at the University of Wisconsin, Bruce Roberts covered Bob LaFollette’s formation of Wisconsin’s Progressive Party for the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison, Wisconsin.

1937: Roberts was studying journalism and physics at the University of Wisconsin. His special interest was crystallography. He was dating Dorothy Boettiger, Roosevelt’s niece. Sam Giancana, then a young Chicago hood and murderer connected with Al Capone’s gang, had the goods on Roosevelt regarding the heroin deal with Onassis. He told Roberts to tell Dorothy; then used the blackmail later to gain control of the Chicago Teamsters’ Union Fund.

Hjalmar Schacht, president of Germany’s Reichsbank and economic dictator of Hitler’s Third Reich, launched a massive program of rearmament.

Onassis’s tanker, the Ariston, the largest oil tanker yet, was nearing completion in Sweden. Onassis signed a year’s contract with Jean Paul Getty’s Tidewater Oil Company to move oil from California to the Mitsui Corporation in Yokohama.

1940: Roberts played baseball for the University of Wisconsin. Henry Wallace, Roosevelt’s Secretary of Agriculture and V.P. candidate, visited the campus, met Roberts, and showed him a copy of the oil cartel memo.

1941-1945: World War II: Rigged by the same group involved in the 1932 deals. Very profitable for Onassis, Rockefellers, Kennedys, Roosevelts, and I.G. Farben. Onassis sold oil, arms, and dope to both sides and went through the war without losing a single ship or man. He made millions. Stavros Niarchos, who later became Onassis’s brother-in-law, handled it differently. He lost lots of ships and lots of men, and got rich on the insurance.

1945: Roberts was in the Army, stationed at Victorville Army Base in California. No war hero he, apparently; he was assigned for the day to patrol the area in front of HQ with a stick, spiking trash and stuffing it into a sack. [Note: This ignominious and inglorious task sounds like the sort of job assigned to Army dissidents who, perhaps overly intelligent and overly independent, from the Army’s point of view, are the type who don’t “just follow orders, sir!” – sc]

Heroic Bomber Captain George McGovern, back for reassignment from the war in Europe where he flew many bombing missions, chewed Roberts out for not saluting him and threatened him with a court martial. (McGovern would be the Democratic presidential candidate in 1972. Roberts implies that McGovern was the role model for a profiteering pilot – one of Milo Minderbinder’s buddies – who bombed his own air base in Joseph Heller’s Catch 22.)

1946: Onassis married Tina, the younger daughter of Greek shipping magnate Stavros Livanos.

1947-8: Greek shipowner Stavros Niarchos married Eugenie, Livanos’s older daughter.

Onassis set up the United States Petroleum Carriers (U.S.P.C.) using three U.S. citizens as front men. The U.S. Maritime Commission approved the sale of five enormous T2 tankers for $1.5 million apiece to the U.S.P.C. A week later, Onassis’s Sociedad Industrial Maritime Financiera Ariona, Panama, S.A. bought 49% of the stock. Three more American citizens with close ties to Onassis each acquired 1% of the rest of the stock, in effect giving Onassis complete control of U.S.P.C., using 100% “OPM” (Other People’s Money). The first ship was launched at Bethlehem Steel’s Sparrow Point shipyards in Baltimore.

April 30, 1948: Onassis’s son Alexander was born at the Harkness Pavilion, a private clinic in New York City. His daughter Christina was born in 1950, also in New York City. [Note: Both were U.S. citizens by birth. Alexander could have run for president. – sc)

1949: Onassis bought sixteen U.S. war surplus Liberty Ships in a fraudulent (illegal) purchase at bargain basement prices. Lawyer Burke Marshall helped him.

Since there were delays putting the tankers to work transporting oil, Onassis converted them into whaling factory ships, registered in Panama, and run by the “Olympic Whaling Company” of Uruguay. Neither country signed quota agreements limiting whaling. He hired ex-Nazi Hjalmar Schacht to run the whaling fleet.

1950: Onassis’s whaling fleet, largest and most modern in the world, began a bloody onslaught on whales. He made yet another fortune by almost wiping out many species of whales. The bar stools on his yacht Christina were upholstered in the skins of whales’ penises.

1951: Onassis ordered eighteen more massive oil tankers to be built in Hamburg shipyards, financed by a $100,000,000 loan.

1952: Roberts lived in the Los Angeles area. He was described at this time as a “former actor turned jewelry designer.” He was still involved in crystallography, making synthetic gemstones, and apparently selling them to the Hollywood crowd.

1953: Onassis bought control of the “SBM” (Societe des Bains de Mer) in Monte Carlo, including the casino, yacht club, Hotel de Paris, and about one-third of the acreage of Monaco. He revamped the Monte Carlo Casino which soon yielded millions of dollars. His new oil tanker, the Tina Onassis, largest in the world (price tag $6 million), was launched. He employed Hjalmar Schacht to negotiate the Jiddah Agreement with Saudi Arabia, which later gave Onassis a virtual monopoly on the transport of 45,000,000 tons of Saudi oil per year.

1956: Howard Hughes, Texan millionaire who inherited Hughes Tool Co., specializing in drill bits for oil wells, expanded into aircraft design and manufacturing. He was buying his way toward control of the U.S. electoral process for his own personal gain. He bought senators and governors. He developed Hughes Aircraft’s position as the nation’s leading defense contractor. He finally bought his last (and biggest) politician: newly elected Vice President Richard M. Nixon, via a $205,000 non-repayable “loan,” secured by a $13,000 vacant lot, to Nixon’s brother Donald. The money was ostensibly for Donald’s failing restaurant “Nixonburger” in Whittier, California. A few months later, the restaurant closed. The money was never repaid. Instead, Donald Nixon used it to finance his way into Mob-connected real estate operations.

Early 1957: V.P. Nixon repaid the favor by having the IRS and Treasury Department grant tax-free status (refused twice before) to the Hughes Medical Foundation, sole owner of Hughes Aircraft, creating a tax-free, non-accountable money funnel or laundry for whatever Hughes wanted to do. The government also shelved various anti-trust suits against Hughes’ TWA (Trans World Airlines).

January 17, 1957: Jean Peters, a Hollywood star who was romantically involved with Howard Hughes, divorced Stuart Cramer.

Early March 1957: Howard Hughes lived in a secluded bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel, romancing movie stars. Unfortunately for him, his business and political success caught the eye of an even bigger fish. Onassis conceived a brilliant, ruthless, carefully planned event: He would have Hughes kidnapped from his bungalow, bribing and using Hughes’ own men (headed by Chester Davis, born Cesare in Sicily). Hughes’ other men quit, got fired, or stayed on in the new Onassis organization.

March 12, 1957: Noah Dietrich, Hughes’ right-hand man for 32 years, suddenly got fired by Hughes over the phone and never saw Hughes again.

March 13, 1957: Howard Cannon, City Attorney of Las Vegas, Nevada (who later became Senator Cannon) arranged a fake marriage between Hughes and Jean Peters in Tonopah, Nevada, to explain Hughes’ sudden loss of interest in chasing Hollywood stars. Jean Peters received $1 million cash to take part in the deception. No actual record of the marriage has ever been found. The fake wedding was announced in Louella Parson’s gossip column, leading some unkind souls to remark that Howard Hughes and Jean Peters were apparently married by a Parson name Louella.

Battered and brain-damaged during the scuffle with the kidnappers, Hughes was carted off to the Emerald Beach Hotel in the Bahamas. The entire top floor was rented for thirty days for the Hughes party with top security. Hughes, now a helpless invalid, was shot full of heroin for thirty days, then dragged off to a “hospital” cell on Onassis’s 500-acre private island, Skorpios, where he was the only patient. Onassis now had a much larger power base in the U.S. (the Hughes empire), and control over V.P. Nixon and other Hughes-purchased politicians. He also had that wonderful money-laundering device, the Hughes Medical Foundation. L. Wayne Rector, a “Hughes” double hired by the Carl Byoir public relations firm in 1955, now had a full-time job playing “Hughes.”

Also in 1957: Joseph P. Kennedy took his son John and daughter-in-law Jackie to meet Onassis on his yacht, the Christina, and reminded Onassis of an old Mafia promise: the presidency for a Kennedy. Onassis agreed.

November 14, 1957: Onassis called the Apalachin, N.Y. Mafia summit meeting with representatives from all over the country to announce his grab of Hughes and his adoption of Hughes’ game plan for acquiring power: buying senators, congressmen, governors, and judges, en masse, to take control “legally” of the U.S. government. Onassis’s radio message to Apalachin from a remote Washington, Pennsylvania farmhouse was intercepted (reluctantly) by FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover, because of a tip-off from some Army Intelligence guys who weren’t in on the plan. Among the attendees were San Francisco’s Frank Lanza, Sam Giancana and Joe Marcello, Carlos’s brother.

1958: Hordes of Mafia-selected, purchased and supported “grass roots” candidates swept into office: a successful test of Onassis’s new game plan for taking over the U.S. government via bought and paid-for candidates.

1959: Fidel Castro took over Cuba from dictator Fulgencio Batista, destroying the cozy and lucrative gambling empire run for Onassis by Meyer Lansky. Castro scooped up $8 million in casino receipts. Onassis was furious. V.P. Nixon became operations chief for the CIA-planned Bay of Pigs invasion, using CIA E. Howard Hunt and James McCord. A major purpose was to regain control of the Cuban gambling empire for Onassis. Participants included ex-Batista strong-arm cops (Cuban “freedom fighters”) Eugenio Martinez and Virgilio Gonzalez, as well as Frank Sturgis (born Fiorini, in Sicily) – the core group which later became the Castro assassination team, the JFK assassination team, and finally the Watergate team. The invasion group trained at Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana and No Name Key, Florida.

Antonio Iglesias, CIA/Cuban, was part of the invading army at the Bay of Pigs. His sister Marina was married for a time to Bruce Roberts’ brother Dale.

1960: Roberts married the daughter of the former French consul in Indochina. Six years earlier, after Dien Bien Phu fell to the Communists in May 1954, she was imprisoned with other French nationals in North Vietnam at the “Hanoi Hilton.” She escaped with a small group of prisoners, walking north out of Vietnam through the Yunnan Province and arriving at Kunming, a U.S. air base in China. Along the way she saw strange rocks in the Katha district of Burma, the natural source of beautiful rubies and sapphires. These same rocks suggested the presence of a rare mineral or heavy metal, essential for the production of synthetic rubies and also, perhaps, for the production of a super-weapon. She told Roberts about this. He might have been able to smuggle some of this mineral and some rubies and sapphires out of China. (This gemstone-producing area was part of the Golden Triangle. Onassis’s involvement in the Golden Triangle dope trade was no secret.)

Roberts experimented with the creation of artificial rubies – the original Gemstone experiment. He brought his synthetic rubies to Hughes Aircraft in Los Angeles. Synthetic rubies have light-refraction qualities desirable for laser beam technology. Nervously, Hughes Aircraft stole his rubies for the development of their laser weapons. Roberts’ investigation of the theft revealed the Onassis-”Hughes” connection: the kidnap and switch.

Meanwhile, a stirring election battle between Kennedy and Nixon began. Either way, Onassis would win, since he had control over both candidates. Of John, through his father Joseph, Onassis’s old partner in thievery; of both, through hefty “campaign contributions” (bribery): $250,000 apiece. Peanuts to Onassis, who was by that time a multi-millionaire. Cheap at the price to buy a president.

November 8, 1960: JFK elected. American people happy. Joe Kennedy happy. Onassis happy. Mafia ecstatic.

January 1961: Just after the Inauguration, Joseph Kennedy had a stroke, ending his personal control over sons John and Bobby. The boys decided to rebel against Onassis’s control. Why? Inter-Mafia struggle? Perhaps a dim hope of restoring this country to its mythical integrity? They wanted to begin by dismantling the CIA.

April 1961: CIA Bay of Pigs fiasco. Kennedy refused to supply full support for the invasion of Cuba. It flopped. Kennedy vowed to “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces.” He fired CIA Director Allen Dulles and Deputy Director Charles Cabell.

Hunt and McCord of the CIA, Batista’s Cubans in exile, and the Mafia were all angry about JFK’s lack of enthusiasm regarding the Bay of Pigs. Onassis ordered his right-hand man Robert Maheu to hire and train a Mafia/CIA/Cuban exile team to kill Castro. Nicknamed “IBM” for “Iron Bob Maheu,” he was a former FBI and CIA agent, as well as Howard Hughes’ top aide. Maheu also served as Onassis’s chief contractor for all the major political assassinations that rocked the U.S. including JFK, RFK, and MLK. This was reported by Jack Anderson, who got a lot of his tips from his friend Frank Sturgis, who was on the Castro assassination team.

The team numbered about a dozen or so, including expert Mafia hit men Johnny Roselli and Jimmy “The Weasel” Fratianno. They were assisted by Hunt, McCord, and others. The team trained in Mexico, Florida, and at Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. They tried five times to kill Castro, with everything from high-powered rifles to apple pie with sodium morphate in it. Castro survived.

[Note: Many books published during the 80’s and 90’s explored the criminal operations of the U.S. government, international Mafia, and elements of the CIA. They were involved in a long series of assassinations to gain control of political and financial operations. Two important books are Double Cross: The Explosive, Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America by Sam and Chuck Giancana, and John Davis’s Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Both supply excellent descriptions of the close interrelationship between the Mafia, CIA, big government, big industry, and banking boys involved in such operations as gun running, assassinations, take-overs of foreign governments, large-scale international drug dealing, agricultural and oil business. They also provide details of Marcello’s and Giancana’s involvement in the JFK assassination. This assassination had tremendous scope; many people and groups were involved. It is interesting that we get more details from the Mafia families’ side than from our government, which prefers to continue the cover-up even though it has singularly failed to work.

Roberts, living in San Francisco, put more emphasis on San Francisco Mafia operations and what he knew of the international operations of Onassis. There is no conflict between Roberts’ account and those of the Giancanas and John Davis. It is the same story told from a different point of view. Every big city in America had (and has) its large, lucrative crime monopoly run by its “Boss of Bosses.” Mafia, CIA, government, and big business co-exist easily as long as the proprieties of Omerta are observed. Within those rules, local bosses control pieces of the worldwide network of money-making operations. – sc]

John and Bobby were committing Mafia no-no’s. Bobby, John’s Attorney General, arrested Wally Bird, owner of Air Thailand, who was shipping Onassis’s heroin out of the Golden Triangle (Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam), under contract with the CIA (Air Opium). Bobby arrested Teamster Mafia boss Jimmy Hoffa and put him in jail. And he declared the “Hughes” land liens (worth $73 million), deposited with San Francisco’s Bank of America (originally Bank of Italy, owned by A. G. Giannini), as security for the TWA judgment against “Hughes” to be what they were: Forgeries.

Angered, Onassis stopped trying to kill Castro. He ordered Maheu’s assassination team to change targets and go for the head: JFK, who according to Onassis, had welshed on a Mafia deal. JFK set up the “Group of 40” (advisors) to fight Onassis.

August 1963: Two people who understood the situation and might squawk had to be murdered.

August 3: Phillip Graham: Editor and Publisher of the Washington Post. Graham put together the Kennedy-Johnson ticket and was Kennedy’s friend in the struggle against Onassis. He was married to Eugene Meyer’s daughter Katherine, who inherited the Washington Post, Newsweek, and allied media empire. Phillip wanted to dump Katherine in favor of a girlfriend and keep on running the Washington Post, but Katherine bribed some psychiatrists to certify that Phil was insane and had him locked up in a nuthouse. Katherine checked him out of the nuthouse for a weekend, and while at home Phillip died in the bathroom with a shotgun wound to the head. His death was ruled “suicide.”

August 10: Senator Estes Kefauver: Kefauver planned a speech on the Senate floor denouncing Mafia operations. His Crime Commission investigations uncovered the 1932 deal with Onassis, Kennedy, Eugene Meyer, Lansky, and Roosevelt. Instead, he ate a piece of apple pie laced with sodium morphate (used in rat poison) and had a “heart attack” on the Senate floor.

August 8, 1963: Jackie Kennedy’s third child, Patrick, born prematurely, died. She was depressed. Her sister, Lee Bouvier Radziwill, who lived in Paris, planned to join Onassis on his yacht Christina for a cruise. According to her, she asked Onassis whether she could invite Jackie along to cheer her up. Onassis agreed but suggested that their plans be kept secret, because Jack would not approve.

September 1963: Members of the Castro assassination team were arrested at Lake Pontchartrain by Bobby Kennedy’s Justice Department boys – and then released.

September 17, 1963: Jackie Kennedy announced plans to visit Greece for a two-week rest in October. Onassis was not mentioned.

October 2-4, 1963: Jackie flew to Greece and joined Onassis on the Christina. Also present were her sister, Lee Bouvier Radziwill, Lee’s husband Staz, and Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. (This Roosevelt was the U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce.)

While Onassis was enjoying this extra layer of complication and perverse pleasure, his chief assassination contractor, Robert Maheu, was making final arrangements to blow JFK away. And that’s where Jackie was when JFK got tipped off that big “O” had arranged to wipe him out.

JFK called Jackie on the yacht from the White House, hysterical, screaming: “Get off that yacht even if you have to swim!” But Jackie stayed on board, descending the gangplank a few days later on Onassis’s arm in Turkey, so that Onassis could impress the Turkish Bey, Mustapha.

October 17, 1963: Jackie Kennedy returned to Washington from her two-week tour: Turkey, Morocco, various Greek islands, and Onassis’s private island Skorpios.

November 1-2, 1963: The hit on three Diem brothers of Vietnam was planned in true Mafia style: a dramatic triple execution, together with a hit on JFK in Chicago. Diem and Nhu got theirs as scheduled via Onassis’s Captain Nung. (The third brother, Cardinal Thuc, avoided his death because he was at the Vatican visiting the Pope.) Jack avoided his by canceling his planned appearance at a football stadium in Chicago on November 1, where the CIA-Mafia assassination team was poised for the kill. Nhu’s wife, Madame Nhu, bitterly remarked, “Whatever has happened in Vietnam will see its counterpart in the United States.”

Tom Vallee (a double for Oswald) was in Chicago for rehearsals for the hit in Dallas. He was picked up in a car, with a rifle, with two other team members, and quickly released by the Chicago police. The arrest record was fudged over.

Three weeks later, JFK was assassinated in Dallas. Like Chicago, Dallas was a “safe Mafia murder town.”

A witness recognized pictures of some of the people arrested (and quickly released) in Dealey Plaza as being in Chicago three weeks earlier. He told Black Panthers Hampton and Clark about it. This witness spent the next six months trying to get the FBI to listen to his story. They didn’t want to hear about it. Finally, when he kept insisting, he was invited to step inside their office, and he hasn’t been seen since.

November 22, 1963: The JFK murder

[Note: Roberts wrote that the assassination team included 28 men. This included shooters, timers, back-up men to hide the guns, and people to transport the team members out of town. As at Watergate, one would expect that there existed a command/communication post somewhere nearby. Double Cross mentions an assassination team of “several dozen” people. Both Gemstone and Double Cross state that the CIA and the Mafia worked together for years and were in some ways indistinguishable (especially in international gun running and drug smuggling operations). From this perspective, the JFK assassination was simply one more in a long string of political assassinations, which previously targeted leaders of foreign countries. Bringing it all home for domestic political murders was nothing special for the CIA/Mafia teams.

Team members were supplied by the Mob; the CIA; Cuban “freedom fighters” longing to get back to the good old days of Batista; and elements of the Dallas police force. Presumably the overseers had, and still have, the entire roster. We may never know the names of every team member. Nor does it really matter. None of them have ever been brought to trial for this crime, and it is unlikely that any will ever be. Many are now dead; some, like Frank Sturgis, from natural causes; others, like Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, murdered by the Mafia organization because they couldn’t “keepa-da-mouth-shut.” With the government-imposed “75-year-lid on everything” rule in place, everyone involved will be dead by the time the lid can be opened. (Which is not to imply that the lid will ever be opened.) And it is quite possible that no one alive will care very much. It may be said that official “history” is what remains in the pubic record after the voices of the dissidents have been stilled and suppressed.

The JFK assassination was by no means a perfect crime. The only reason the truth has not been acknowledged decades ago is the determination to suppress it by our ruling government and its agents; the FBI and the CIA; its business associates; the Mafia and mega-corporations; and the controlled media and judicial system – “in the name of national security.” But it is difficult to imagine what else could have been done to damage further the belief of the people of this country in the probity of its government than this aging cover-up.

It is easy to detect the general patterns of planning, execution, and cover-up. As Sam Giancana remarked, he couldn’t understand how or why us saps hadn’t figured out the basic murder patterns yet, since they used basically the same plots over and over again. They are still using them. – sc]

Shooters on the JFK assassination team included Johnny Roselli and Jimmy Fratianno. Robert Maheu added a third Mafia hit man named Eugene Brading from the Denver Mafia Smaldones “family.” Brading was on parole for a series of crimes in California. Two months before JFK’s trip to Dallas, he applied for a new driver’s license, explaining to the California DMV that he decided to change his name to “Jim Braden.” He got permission from his parole officer to make two trips to Dallas in November on “oil business.” He used his first trip to look over the ambush site; his second trip occurred when JFK was scheduled to arrive in Dallas.

Lee Harvey Oswald, CIA, with carefully planned and planted links to both the ultra-right and to the Communists, was the designated patsy. According to Roberts, Oswald was supposed to shoot Governor Connally, and he did – twice.

Each of the four shooters – Oswald, Fratianno, Roselli, and Brading – had a timer and a back-up man. Timers gave the signal to shoot. Back-up men picked up the spent shells and got rid of the guns. Hunt and McCord were there to help. Frank Sturgis was with David Ferrie, ready to fly some of the team members out of town.

Kennedy was looking up, smiling and waving to the crowd.

Oswald shot Connally twice from the Texas School Book Depository. Then he escaped through the front door. His back-up man was supposed to take the rifle out of the building (or so Oswald thought); instead he hid it behind some boxes, where it would be found later.

Fratianno shot from a second story window in the Dal-Tex building across the street from the Texas School Book Depository. He used a handgun; he was an excellent shot with a pistol. His first shot hit Kennedy in the back. Kennedy slumped forward, and Jackie reached for him. He fell back against the back of the seat.

Johnny Roselli shot from the overpass in front of the car. His first shot might have missed, but his second shot took Kennedy under the chin, traveled upwards and blew his brains out, spattering blood on a motorcycle cop riding behind the presidential car. Roselli jumped into a waiting car and was rapidly driven away from the scene. [Editor’s Note: In the original version, Roselli shot a rifle from behind the fence of the grassy knoll, hitting JFK on the right side of his head. Then he and his timer escaped down a manhole behind the fence and followed the sewer line away from Dealey Plaza.]

The third point of the triangulated ambush was supplied by Eugene Brading, shooting from Kennedy’s left from a small pergola across the street from the grassy knoll. Brading’s first shot hit the curb and ricocheted off. Brading’s (and Fratianno’s) second shot missed, because Roselli’s shot just hit Kennedy in the head, blowing his brains out. Brading was photographed on the scene stuffing his gun under his coat. He wore a big leather hat, its hatband marked with large conspicuous X’s. (Dallas police were instructed to let anyone with an X-marked hatband, wearing a cross, or who made the sign of the cross, through the police lines. Some might have been told that these men were Secret Service; others knew they were the murder team.)

After his shots, Brading ditched his gun with his back-up man and walked up the street toward the Dal-Tex building, where he was photographed again. Roger Craig, a deputy sheriff, rushed up to Brading, assuming he was Secret Service, and told him he just saw a man come out of the Book Depository and jump into a Rambler station wagon. Brading was uninterested. Instead, he walked into the Dal-Tex building to make a phone call. There he was arrested by another deputy sheriff. He showed his “Jim Braden” driver’s license and was quickly released without being booked. He departed unmolested. Piece of cake.

FBI officers confiscated photos of Brading taken in Dealey Plaza and hid them away. Nevertheless, one photo escaped and appeared in a paperback book, Legacy of Doubt by Peter Noyes. The photo shows Brading wearing a broad-brimmed leather hat with a hatband marked with big white X’s.

Fratianno and his back-up man were arrested, driven away from the Dal-Tex building in a police car, and released (without being booked).

[Note: Anthony Iglesias’s sister Marina was married to Bruce Roberts’ brother Dayle. Antonio might have been the source for Roberts’ identification of the four shooters. Iglesias’s participation in the Bay of Pigs invasion is documented on the Internet in the Cuban Information Archives: http://cuban-exiles.com, documents 0035, Cuba Democratica lists of 2506 personnel at Finca Homestead, Navy, UDT units, and general list of B.O.P. participants, and document 0146a. He turned up again later in a huge CIA land swindle in Miami. When last heard from, he took the money and ran to a comfy hiding place in South America. – sc]

Three men dressed as tramps walked around Dealey Plaza and picked up the spent bullets and empty shells. Then they drifted over to an empty boxcar sitting on the railway spur behind the grassy knoll/overpass area and waited. A Dallas police officer ordered two Dallas cops to go over to the boxcar and pick up the tramps. In custody, the three tramps were paraded through Dealey Plaza to the Sheriff’s Office. They were held there until the alarm went out to pick up Oswald; then they were released without being booked. In all, twenty men [Editor’s note: The original version said “ten men.”] were arrested and soon released; none were booked; and not a word about their existence is mentioned in the Warren Report. [Editor’s note: The original version said one of the tramps was E. Howard Hunt.]

Police Officer Tippit was dispatched in his police radio car to the Oak Cliff section, where Oswald rented a room, to pick up Oswald. Tippit might have been chosen to kill Oswald, but something went wrong. [Editor’s note: The original version said “Tippit may have met Oswald on the street. He may have been supposed to kill Oswald, but something went wrong. Tippit was shot by two men using revolvers. The ‘witness,’ Domingo Benavides, who used Tippit’s police car radio to report ‘we’ve had a shooting here’ may have been one of the men who shot him. (A Domingo Benavides appeared in connection with the Martin Luther King shooting also.)”]

Oswald went to the movies. A shoe store manager told the theatre cashier that a suspicious-looking man sneaked into the theater without paying. Fifteen assorted cops and FBI charged out to the movie theatre to look for the guy who sneaked in. [Editor’s note: The original version said “Oswald had a pistol that wouldn’t fire.”] It might have been planned that the police would shoot the cop-killer for resisting arrest. But since Oswald surrendered immediately in front of witnesses, that didn’t happen. Two days later, the Dallas police brought Oswald down to the basement garage, where he was killed by small-time Mafia nightclub owner Jack Ruby.

Ruby was at the Teamster-Mafia-Hoffa-financed Cabana Motel in Dallas the night before the murder of JFK, says the Warren Report. Also at the Cabana Motel that same night was Eugene Brading.

[Note: Some researchers believe that Oswald was the designated patsy, and that he did not shoot anyone. He was simply at the Book Depository, following orders like an obedient pawn. Davis and Giancana cite Oswald’s connections with both the CIA and the New Orleans Mob. According to Double Cross, Sam Giancana told his brother that when discussing plans for the assassination of JFK with Carlos Marcello, Mafia main man in New Orleans, Marcello proposed Oswald as the patsy. Giancana then sent Johnny Roselli to New Orleans to check Oswald out. Roselli reported back: “He’s perfect.” (p. 332) – sc]

[Note: Double Cross has Tom Vallee (a double for Oswald) and Richard Cain shooting from opposite ends of the Texas School Book Depository. It names Roscoe White and J. D. Tippit as two of the shooters. It states that they were supposed to kill Oswald also, while resisting arrest, but Tippit faltered, so Roscoe White tried to shoot him. Oswald got away for a brief period. This is believable to me because I have tapes prepared by researcher William Klaber, including a taped interview with Geneva White, Roscoe White’s widow, where she recounts the story of Whites’ involvement in the assassination. Whites’ story has been “disproved” and “discredited” by other researchers, but I think this is part of the cover-up. Geneva White said that Roscoe White was the tall man in uniform (Dallas police) who shot from behind the fence at the grassy knoll; jumped over the fence and took a camera away from a witness who was taking pictures while the assassination occurred; then jumped back over the fence. Roscoe White was assigned to the Dallas police force three weeks before the assassination – sc]

The rest, as they say, is history. Onassis’s control over police, media, FBI, CIA, Secret Service, Congress, Lyndon Johnson and the judicial system enabled him to murder JFK in broad daylight. He then systematically bought off, killed off, or frightened off witnesses, had evidence destroyed, and then plastered a 75-year seal of secrecy over the entire matter. Cover-up participants included: Gerald Ford on the Warren Commission (a Nixon recommendation): CIA attorney Leon Jaworski of the CIA-front Anderson Foundation (representing Texas to see that the fair name of Texas was not besmirched); CIA Chief John McCone; his assistant, Richard Helms; and a passel of police, FBI, and news media.

What happened to the conspirators?

Most were rewarded; some were murdered. Others were rewarded and then murdered, when there was a possibility that they might confess or implicate other participants.

Johnny Roselli received part of his pay-off in the form of a $250,000 “finder’s fee” for bringing “Hughes” to Las Vegas in 1967.

On June 24, 1975, Roselli appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. For three hours, he answered questions about his participation in the attempts to murder Castro. But no one on the Committee asked him the big question: “Where were you on the afternoon of November 22, 1963?”

His teammate, Sam Giancana, scheduled to appear before the same committee, was Mafia-executed the week before.

In 1976, Johnny Roselli was scheduled to reappear before the Committee, and perhaps someone thought he might reveal too much. In August, he disappeared, then turned up dead – strangled, stabbed, dismembered, his body stuffed into a chain-wrapped barrel in Dumfoundling Bay off Biscayne Bay near North Miami Beach, Florida. He was missing for ten days. He might have been gone for good, like Jimmy Hoffa, but gases from his decomposing body floated his makeshift coffin to the surface, where two fishermen found it bobbing among the barracudas.

Jimmy Fratianno’s pay-off included $109,000 in “non-repayable loans” from the San Francisco National Bank (President: Joe Alioto). Credit authorization for the series of loans from 1964 to 1965 came from Joe Alioto and a high Teamster official. Dun and Bradstreet noted this transaction, listing the loans in their 1964-65 monthly reports and wondering in amazement how Fratianno could have qualified for so many loans as his only known title was “Mafia-Executioner.” [Note: Roberts was joking about this a bit when he phrased it that way. D&B merely put something relatively mild in that file (and perhaps it was only a handwritten note to the effect that Fratianno was a “poor risk. Mafia connections.”) – sc]

Fratianno went around for years bragging about it: “Hi there, I’m Jimmy Fratianno, Mafia Executioner . . .” A bank V.P. told the whole story to the California Crime Commission, which hid it in a file folder. Al Harris heard the banker’s story, but he failed to keep it to himself. After shooting off his mouth a little too much, he was “heart attacked.” [Editor’s Note: Al Harris was the prosecutor in the trial of Angela Davis, accused of providing the guns for the Marin County shootout on August 7, 1970. After the Davis trial, Harris became the director of the organized crime investigation unit under Attorney General Evelle J. Younger. Harris died on December 5, 1974 at the age of 45.]

Fratianno used his $109,000 to start a trucking company in the Imperial Valley, where he engaged in a lot of swindling involving government construction contracts. As one California Crime Commission member explained, “The Mafia is doing business directly with the U.S. government now.”

In March of 1975, Fratianno was testifying before a San Francisco Grand Jury in regard to his participation with East Coast Mafia Tony Romano in the Sunol Golf Course swindle (which cost San Francisco somewhere between $100,000 and $500,000) with the active help of Mayor Joe Alioto.

Fratianno spent many years in protective custody as a federal witness. No one ever asked him: “Where were you on November 22, 1963?”

Two months after Brading’s arrest – and release – in Dallas, the FBI brought Brading in for questioning. In spite of the fact that he was a known criminal with an arrest record dating back about twenty years, the FBI determined that Brading knew nothing whatsoever about the assassination. So he was released again.

Brading later became a charter member of the La Costa Country Club, a Mafia haven south of Nixon’s “Western White House” in San Clemente. Brading also became a runner for the skim money collected from the Onassis-”Hughes” Las Vegas casinos, which he delivered to Onassis’s banks in Switzerland.

A group of bankers, headed by a Bank of America official, picked Nixon for Congress in 1946 and ran him against Jerry Voorhees; then against Helen Gahagan Douglas. Nixon continued to moved on up. The same group of bankers picked Gerald Ford to run for Congress. The reason for his selection was Leslie King, Sr., his real father:

Almost everyone knows the touching story of Ford’s adoption as an infant – and then the reappearance of his real father Leslie King, Sr., driving a Cadillac, when Ford was a college football hero. Almost no one knows that King, Sr. was a minor member of the Denver Smaldones Mafia family, engaged in minor swindles and scams in Montana. The Smaldones did a few favors for King, Sr. They picked his son Leslie King, Jr. (alias Gerry Ford and Mr. Clean) to run for Congress. After the JFK murder, the time came for the Smaldones to ask for a return favor. They had Representative Gerald Ford put on the Warren Commission. His assignment: Hide the role of Eugene Brading and the rest of the Smaldones at Dallas. Gerry Ford did it.

Gerald Ford went on to become president by appointment from Nixon, who was then in danger of further and more serious exposure. From this position of trust Ford pardoned Nixon one month later, for “any and all crimes he may have committed.” That covers quite a lot, but Ford is good at covering things up.

The Denver regional office of State Farm Insurance carries the insurance of every member of the Denver Smaldones family, including Leslie King, Sr. Senator Everett Dirksen ran State Farm Insurance in Peoria, Illinois. When he died, his son-in-law Senator Howard Baker (of the Watergate Committee) took over.

McCone, the head of CIA, went on to become a member of the ITT Board of Directors, sitting right next to Francis L. Dale, the head of CREEP (Committee to Re-Elect the President).

Richard Helms, McCone’s assistant for the Dallas operation, was rewarded with the post of CIA Director.

Leon Jaworski, CIA Attorney, became the Watergate prosecutor, replacing Archibald Cox, who was getting too warm. Jaworski turned in a sterling performance in our “Government-As-Theatre,” playing the role of an honest, conscientious investigator who uncovered not a bit more than he had to and managed to steer everybody away from the underlying truth.

On the other hand, among the losers were:

Dr. “Red” Duke dug ONE bullet out of Connally, [Editor’s note: The original version said “two bullets.”] but had to leave fragments of the other bullet in his neck. Nevertheless, he saved Connally’s life. Duke was shipped off to a remote hospital on a mountaintop in Afghanistan by a “grateful” CIA.

Jim Garrison, New Orleans D.A. who tried to get Eugene Brading out of Los Angeles for questioning (but used one of Brading’s other aliases, Eugene Bradley, by mistake), was having his witnesses shot out from under him. Garrison was also framed on charges of bribery and extortion.

Lyndon Johnson came under the control of Onassis. On the trip back to Washington from Dallas, Johnson was warned by a radio message relayed from the Pentagon. It said: “There was no conspiracy; Oswald was a lone nut assassin. Get it, Lyndon? Otherwise, Air Force One might have an unfortunate accident on the flight back to Washington.” Lyndon got it.

When Jackie got back to the White House with JFK’s body, Onassis was one of the first visitors there to console her.

In the months following JFK’s death, Onassis filled important government posts with his own men. Government agencies became the means to accomplish several goals: rifle the American Treasury, steal as much as possible; keep the people confused and disorganized; murder their leaders; pursue world domination. “Hughes” (Onassis’s invisible Charlie McCarthy puppet) became America’s largest defense contractor, sucking money out of the U.S. like a gigantic vacuum cleaner at the rate of $1 million per day. The money was funneled through the Hughes Medical Foundation, which was a tax-free, money-laundering facility.

JFK’s original Group of 40 was turned over to Rockefeller and his man Henry Kissinger, so that they could more effectively screw over South America. And they did.

Early 1964: Silva was a San Francisco private detective hired by Angelina Alioto to get the goods on philandering Joe. He followed Joe Alioto to the Nut Tree Restaurant in Vacaville, where Joe held a private meeting with other Mafiosi to arrange the details of the JFK assassination pay-off to Fratianno. Silva’s witnessing of this meeting led to his murder in 1974. He was the last victim – and the real target – of the so-called “Zebra Murders.” All those people died, merely to get rid of Silva, the only outside witness to the Nut Tree meeting.

1967: Onassis always enjoyed the fast piles of money to be made through gambling. He bought into Monte Carlo in the 1950’s and made his way into Cuba under Batista, where Meyer Lansky ran a large gambling operation for Onassis. The Cuban gambling empire (together with the $8 billion in the till) was lost when Castro took over. The failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion made it unlikely that gambling would make a comeback in Cuba. So Onassis took over Las Vegas in 1967 via the “Hughes” cover. U.S. Government officials explained that it was all right because “at least Hughes isn’t the Mafia.” (ha ha)

[Note: L. Wayne Rector was hired around 1955 by the Carl Byoir Public Relations Agency (Hughes’ Los Angeles public relations firm) to act as Hughes’ double. In 1957, when Onassis grabbed Hughes, Rector got a full-time, permanent job as his stand-in. Rector was the Hughes surrogate for years in Las Vegas. Robert Maheu actually ran the show, getting his orders from Onassis. The six “nursemaids” (also known as the “Mormon Mafia”) kept Rector sealed off from prying eyes. – sc]

June 17, 1968: Bobby Kennedy knew who killed his brother; he wrote about it in unpublished revisions to his book The Enemy Within. When he foolishly tried to run for president, Onassis had him offed using a sophisticated new technique. Hypnotized Sirhan shot at him from the front. “Security guard”? Thane Cesar from Lockheed Aircraft shot from behind at two or three inches away from the back of Bobby’s head. Sirhan’s shots all missed; but Cesar’s couldn’t possibly miss. Before the shooting, Sirhan was escorted across Lake Michigan by a group of Greek friends, who hypnotized and drugged Sirhan, presumably in a medical or mind-control center,

Los Angeles District Attorney Evelle Younger covered it all up, including the squawks of Coroner Thomas Noguchi. Younger was rewarded with the post of California Attorney General. His son, Eric Younger, got a second-generation Mafia reward: a judgeship at age 30. Ted Charach was on the scene when Bobby was murdered. He did a documentary film on the RFK murder called The Second Gun. It was bought, and subsequently suppressed, by Warner Brothers.

Teddy Kennedy knew who killed Bobby. Afraid for his life, he ran to Onassis and swore eternal obedience and said that Onassis could have Jackie, too. In return, Onassis granted him his life and said that he could be president, just like his big brother, but he must behave himself and follow orders.

1968 Democratic Convention, Chicago: With Bobby Kennedy assassinated, Hubert Humphrey became the Democratic candidate. Joe Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco, wanted to be Humphrey’s vice president. San Francisco Mafia Boss James Lanza (son of Frank Lanza, the previous Mafia Boss) approved. Why not? Everyone who took part in JFK’s assassination or helped cover it up got a piece of the U.S. pie. Joe helped arrange for Jimmy Fratianno’s pay-off. But J. Edgar Hoover spiked Joe’s plans of becoming vice president by releasing raw Mafia files on Alioto at the convention. It put Joe out of the running for vice president, and Humphrey had to settle for Muskie.

September 16, 1968: A car smashed into Roberts’ car parked in front of the Soviet consulate in San Francisco at 10:47 p.m. at the corner of Franklin and Lombard. The Russians routinely take pictures of everything that went on in front of the consulate. Their photos showed the license plate of the car: UKT-264. It was on a blue Cadillac belonging to Mia Angela Alioto, Joe’s daughter. The plate was issued to a fictitious name and a fictitious address – “Andy Anderson, 6969 Lankershim Blvd., L.A.” – for the convenience of Alioto’s sons whose licenses had been revoked after their convictions for a series of Bay Area hit-runs. The Cadillac that smashed into Roberts’ car was driven by Tom Alioto. The incident had the potential of becoming troublesome for the mayor, who still had political aspirations, even though his V.P. hopes were scotched. In San Francisco’s Democratic Mafia hierarchy, Joe Alito was one of the top men, second only to James “Jimmy the Hat” Lanza.

So a first-class fix-up was arranged. First, the police towed Roberts’ car away. Then, MP’s from the Presidio staged a few more car smash-ups on the same corner – all duly filmed by the Russians. Roberts went to the scene and began picking up pieces of various cars that had been involved, trying to figure out what happened. Just then, appearing on the scene was Lanza, who ordered Roberts to “Move on, nothing happened here.”

To make doubly sure that the names of Alioto’s son and daughter were not connected to Roberts’ smashed car, Alioto’s fixers found Kathryn Hollister, a 35-year-old nurse who drove a Chrysler with an identical license plate number, but off by a single character – UXT-264. Kathryn had a perfect driving record, but she was “persuaded” to take the rap.

Details of the hit-and-run were filed under Kathryn Hollister’s name with a cross-reference to another file for Bruce Roberts. However, a block was put on the files, so that no one was allowed to see them except Roberts, who couldn’t do anything with them. Neither could he get compensation from State Farm Insurance in Peoria, Illinois, run by Senator Everett Dirksen, which covered up the insurance aspect of the incident.

Around the same time, Roberts was cited for a minor traffic violation. Prior to the court hearing, the judge, Janet Aitken, let him know that she was going to dismiss the charge against him. Nevertheless, Roberts saw an opportunity to expose the whole story of the hit-and-run smash-up of his car. Although he was innocent in regard to the traffic violation, he decided to plead “guilty – with an explanation” and then launch into a FULL explanation of what happened to his car using the photos supplied to him by the Russians. Appearing before the court on April 28, 1970, Roberts began to speak, but the judge cut him off and immediately dismissed the case.

Not discouraged, Roberts intended to pursue the matter in other ways. However, the next evening [I’m not sure of this date. – sc] he was at the Black Magic Bar, when Brading and Fratianno walked in and took the bar stools on each side of Roberts. Another killer stood behind him. Brading was wearing his big X-marked hat from Dallas. He took it off, handed it to Roberts, and asked him what he thought about it. Roberts studied it for a moment and said, “It’s a good hat; that’s all I can say for it. But if you wore a beanie, you’d look just like Pope Montini.”

Brading laughed. “Better not let my rabbi hear you say that.”

An MP from the Presidio seated at the end of the bar piped up, “I heard they let everyone with an X-marked hatband through the police lines at Dallas.”

Roberts didn’t say a word. He was not in a position to say anything.

He saw the hat before in a photo of Brading just after he shot at JFK, stuffing a rifle under his coat in the pergola on the south side of Elm Street. The photo was taken by Antonio Iglesias, whose sister Marina was married to Roberts’ brother Dayle.

After this meeting in the Black Magic Bar, the hit-and-run affair came to an end.

[Note: The “rabbi” that Brading was referring to was Rabbi Cyril Magnin, a man who was prominent, wealthy, and politically well-connected (to the Mob) in San Francisco. He was the uncle of Mae Magnin Brussell. His brother and Mae’s father was Rabbi Edward Magnin. The San Francisco Rabbi was a Democrat; and the Los Angeles Rabbi was a Republican. Mae’s grandfather was the founder of the I. Magnin Department Store, and the family was quite wealthy. I have asked myself whether what begins to look like Mae’s resolute suppression of the Gemstone File for many years was due to her family connection. I also wondered if she got away with her research, writing and radio programs as long as she did because she was under her family’s protection. Of course there might have been other plausible reasons to explain her reluctance to reveal the contents of the Gemstone File. See 1977: Mae Brussell’s Dialogue Conspiracy programs on Gemstone and my comments on them. – sc]

Originally, Roberts believed that the smash-up of his car in front of the Soviet consulate was a personal attack directed against himself. However, as time went on, he came to realize it was simply an accident and nothing more. Nevertheless, his initial investigative efforts turned up profound insights into the interlocking relationships among politicians, judges, and Mafia gangsters of San Francisco.

At the time of the accident, Roberts was living at his parents’ house at 1277 8th Avenue. He was completely apolitical and happily absorbed with his crystallography and scientific experiments. He didn’t even vote. Yet after the accident, he stopped doing his experiments and became very active politically. What he needed was information, and he got it from people whom he met through random meetings, coincidences, family connections, and long nights spent in the bars. He learned a great many things about how things were done and what was going on in our country, particularly in San Francisco.

Beginning at about this time, Roberts sold or gave away synthetic gemstones (rubies, sapphires, and diamonds) with accompanying “histories,” which he called the “gemstone papers,” to private individuals and foreign consular officials. In return they gave him information. Gradually, a worldwide information-sharing network gradually developed regarding the intelligence activities of many countries. This became the source for much of the information in the Gemstone File.

Roberts felt that the immediate problem with the election process was in the Democratic camp. In 1968, he sent a letter to Nixon (and John Mitchell) offering his Gemstones to them. Roberts afterwards claimed that his letter enabled Nixon to win the presidency. [Note: This letter is not in the section of the file that I now have, which only goes back to 1970, but he did tell me about the reactions of Nixon to his letter. – sc]

October 1968: Jackie Kennedy was now free to marry Onassis. An old Mafia rule: if someone welches on a deal, kill him and take his girl and his gun: in this case, Jackie and the Pentagon.

November 1968: Angered by State Farm’s plan not to pay off on his wrecked car, Bruce Roberts decided to go after Alito’s friend Hubert Humphrey.

Richard Carlson wrote “The Alioto Mafia Web” story for Look magazine.

November 3, 1968: Hubert Humphrey was scheduled to speak at a final pre-election rally at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, sparked by Joe Alioto. Roberts threatened to blow the hit-run story plus its Mafia ramifications wide open if Humphrey came to San Francisco. Humphrey didn’t come. He lost perhaps 100,000 votes in San Francisco. This happened to be the margin by which he lost the state of California – and the national election.

November 5, 1968: Nixon was elected President.

February 1969: Roberts gave information to Nixon, via local Republicans, about his mineralogical information: certain heavy stones or minerals of strategic importance located in China. According to Roberts, Nixon’s policies toward China consequently changed. [Note: See letter dated May 24, 1971. – sc].

July 1969: Leak of Carlson’s “Alioto Mafia Web” story caused political consternation. Joe Alioto and Baker tried to force Unruh to run for senator instead of governor, leaving Alioto a clear shot at the governor’s slot. But shifting Unruh over to the Senate race interfered with Teddy Kennedy’s plan to have his friend John Tunney run for the Senate.

Chappaquiddick

July 20, 1969: Mary Jo Kopechne was a devoted JFK campaign worker and after his murder became one of Bobby’s trusted aides. After the latter’s assassination in Los Angeles, she was put in charge of packing up his files. As she was going through them, she learned about the Kennedy family’s involvement with the Mafia, going back to Joe Kennedy’s dealings with them. She said to friends: “This isn’t Camelot, this is murder!” and vowed never to work for a Kennedy again. She went to work for Mayor Whelan in New Jersey, where she learned even more about rotten, crooked Democratic politics.

She went to the party at Sidney K. Lawrence’s rental cottage on Chappaquiddick Island to announce her engagement and to tell her old friends and former co-workers that she was joining Ralph Nader’s organization and that she would never work for a Kennedy’s election again. It was at the cottage that she overheard (along with everyone else) Teddy Kennedy’s end of telephone calls coming from John Tunney, who was calling from the home of his sister Joan Tunney Hollister in Tiburon. The people at the cottage also overheard Teddy’s calls to Joe Alioto and then to Democrat bigwigs Swig, Shorenstein, Schumann, and Steven Bechtel.

Teddy’s good friend John Tunney wanted to run for the Senate. He called Teddy to complain that Joe Alioto’s friend Rabbi Cyril Magnin (Mae Brussell’s uncle) and others were trying to bribe Jess Unruh to switch from the governor’s race and instead go for the Senate. Alioto would then have an easier run for governor, but Tunney would have a harder time competing against Unruh for the Senate. Teddy felt he had exclusive dibs on the right to select Democratic candidates for office, as he was the surviving Kennedy brother who swore eternal submission and allegiance to Onassis after Onassis murdered the other two. Alito, on the other hand, felt that he was just as important as Teddy, because he was the one who arranged the pay-off to Jimmy Fratianno for his part in the JFK assassination. Teddy, drunk and loud, called Alito to tell him who was in charge. Alioto responded by telling Teddy to go to hell. Then Teddy began calling his friends to arrange for yet another Mafia murder.

Mary Jo, already fed up with Mafia murders, ran screaming out of the cottage, saying she was on her way to Ralph Nader and would tell him everything she had learned. Teddy realized he couldn’t let her do what she threatened to do. He grabbed the keys to his car, grabbed a lady’s purse (which turned out to be Nancy Keogh’s purse), and drove after her. He caught up to her on the road and offered to drive her to the ferry. She got into the back seat, because she wouldn’t sit next to him in the front seat. Teddy drove down the road, trying to soothe her anger, until he reached the cross-road. The left-hand turn would put them on a paved road that led to the ferry and to Nader. The right-hand turn would put them on a dirt road that led to Dyke Bridge and the ocean beach beyond, where the entire party picnicked that afternoon.

Teddy stopped the car at the cross-road. Deputy Sheriff Huck Look saw the parked car with its lights on and thought the occupants might be lost or in trouble. He drove toward them. It was 12:45 a.m.

Teddy was in no mood to talk to Look. He turned right and sped off toward the bridge. The car roared and jounced along the rough dirt road. He was going much too fast. The car began to climb the humpbacked bridge, which curved slightly toward the left at the center of the bridge. It had no railing, only a low curb. Mary Jo was frightened and grabbed Teddy’s arm from the back seat. Teddy backhanded her, busting her nose. He lost control of the car. The right front wheel slammed against the curbing. Teddy opened his door and bailed out, landing hard on the bridge. The car sailed off in a high fast arc, rolling over as it flew and slamming the door shut. The car hit the water and sank, landing upside down 32 feet past the point where it went off the bridge.

Teddy watched in amazement as the car sank. Poucha Pond was shallow. The nose of the car was buried in the mud, but the rear end of the car was visible in the water. Teddy climbed to his feet and took off running back to the cottage. In his mind Mary Jo was already dead, or soon would be. He thought that if he could make it back to the cottage without being seen, he might come up with a story and find a way to avoid taking the rap.

The car was filling up with ice-cold water. A bubble of air formed against the floorboards just inside the trunk of the car. Mary Jo found that if she clutched the edge of the back seat, she was just able to put her nose up into the bubble of air and continue to breathe, while waiting for the help that never came. Eventually the tissues in her broken nose swelled, and she could no longer breathe through her nasal openings that functioned as a little snorkel. She suffocated in the cold dark car, and her body held rigidly in that position, where she was found the next day. Rigor mortis set in. According to Roberts, it took her 2 hours and 17 minutes to suffocate. [Note: I have no idea where he got this figure. – sc]

Teddy ran past two pay phones and several houses on his way back to the cottage. If he had phoned the Chappaquiddick Rescue team, Mary Jo’s life might have been saved.

When he got back to the cottage, Teddy called his cousin Joe Gargan and friend Paul Markham to come outside. He told them what happened. Joe Gargan agreed to take the rap for Mary Jo’s death, if necessary, to keep from destroying Teddy’s chance of running for the presidency. Nobody reported the incident to the local police or to the Chappaquiddick Rescue Squad. Gargan and Markham drove Teddy to the ferry landing. From the telephone there they called Bobby’s oldest son, Joseph Kennedy III, who was staying at a hotel in Edgartown, and told him to pick Teddy up at the Chappaquiddick ferry dock. Joseph Kennedy III “borrowed” a boat from the Edgartown dock and ferried Teddy across to Edgartown.

Mary Jo was still alive breathing in that bubble of air when Teddy sneaked into his room at the Shiretown Inn, combed his hair, put on a bathrobe and went out to establish an alibi with the hotel desk clerk. He yawned, pretended he had been asleep, and pointedly asked the clerk what time it was. It was 2:25 a.m. Then he went back to his room and called Jackie and Aristotle on the Christina, charging the call to his own phone number and using his credit card. He also called some lawyers and Katherine Graham. Jackie called the Pope on Teddy’s behalf; Pope Montini assigned Cardinal Cushing to help.

The next morning the incident was still unreported, and Teddy was pretending he knew nothing about it. After all, anything was possible. Mary Jo might have drowned in the car, or died in the crash, or gotten out of the car somehow, drowned, and her body vanished in the tide. Depending on the circumstances, a story might be fabricated that took the blame off Teddy, particularly if the story gave him an alibi. The other occupants of the cottage would be expected to agree to whatever the official story turned out to be.

Early the next morning, at low tide, the trunk of the car was sticking up out of the water. It was discovered by two fishermen. They had no idea there was anybody in the car. They called the police, and Police Chief Dominick Arena came down. He dove into the water to examine the interior and discovered there was a body inside.

John Farrar, an experienced diver attached to the Chappaquiddick Rescue team, arrived next. He dove down to the car and ascertained that the occupant was dead. He noted her strange position in the back seat of the upside-down car. She was half-kneeling with her feet braced against the roof of the car. Her hands gripped the edge of the rear seat, enabling her to stretch upward and barely thrust the tip of her nose into the bubble of stale air in the topmost corner of the submerged car near the trunk. She held that awkward pose for hours in the cold, dark water – the only possible posture that allowed her to breathe. He noted the pink stains on the collar of her blouse, which showed that she was bleeding before the car hit the water and the pink froth that lingered around the tip of her nose. The bloody, broken nose and the blood stains on her blouse showed she was injured before the car hit the water. She held that desperate pose for so long that her body grew rigid with rigor mortis. Farrar had to force her fingers to relinquish their grip on the rear seat and disturbed her pose in order to get her out of the car and up to the surface. She had not drowned; she had suffocated. She had lived for some time in the car. If Teddy had reported the accident in a timely manner, she would have lived.

The license plate of the car was noted, and the car was identified as belonging to Senator Edward Kennedy. They tracked him down, and he eventually came down to the bridge with Joe Gargan. Teddy decided that he would have to take the rap himself, rather than lay it on his cousin Joe Gargan and use all of his power and influence to avoid a charge of murder or manslaughter.

Attorney Burke Marshal was the first person Teddy called. Marshall worked with Onassis to steal a whole fleet of surplus Liberty ships from the U.S. at bargain basement rates in a very illegal deal after World War II. He was also the designated custodian for JFK’s brains after Dallas. (The brains have since disappeared.)

Cover-up of the Chappaquiddick murder required the help of (1) the Massachusetts Highway Patrol, which confiscated the plates from Teddy’s car after it was fished out of the pond; (2) the Massachusetts Legislature, which changed a 150-year-old law requiring an autopsy (which would have revealed the suffocation, not drowning, and the broken nose); (3) Coroner Mills, who let Kennedy’s aide K. Dun Gifford, supply him with a death certificate, already prepared for Mill’s signature, listing cause of death as “drowning,” not suffocation; (4) Police Chief Arena; (5) friends and former co-workers attending the party; (6) Cardinal Cushing’s priests who appeared before Mary Jo’s parents “direct from God” with personal instructions from Him that Mary Jo’s body was not to be disturbed by an autopsy; (7) and a Pennsylvania mortuary where Mary Jo’s broken nose was discreetly patched up.

East and West Coast phone companies clamped maximum security on the records of calls to and from the cottage, some of which were charged to Teddy’s credit card. San Francisco Police Chief Thomas Cahill was reassigned to a new job: Security Chief for Pacific Telephone, to sit on those phone records on the West Coast – at the same salary that he got as police chief. [Editor’s note: Cahill left the police department on February 4, 1970 at the request of Mayor Alioto.] The Senate never said a word or asked a question about Teddy’s (required equipment) plug-in phone at the cottage. The judge who presided over the mock hearing made sure no embarrassing questions were asked.

James Reston, editor of Martha’s Vineyard’s only newspaper, never said a word about Teddy’s phone at the cottage, though residents called in to tell him about it; no one knew anything, including the New York Times and the Washington Post.

John Tunney’s sister, Joan Tunney Hollister, heard her brother’s end of the phone call at her house in Tiburon, California. The next day the whole family was shipped off to Europe. Joan ran away to Norway, where she was kidnapped by Mafia hoods Mari and Adamo. They locked her up in a Marseilles heroin factory for sixty days, where heroin fumes turned her into a junkie (no needle marks). Then they turned her loose outside the factory, where she was found wandering around in the woods. Joan’s husband complained, so she chopped his head off with an ax. She was subsequently locked up in a nuthouse belonging to Tina Livanos Onassis’s husband, the Marquess of Blandford. Mari and Adamo got pressed into scrap metal in a New Jersey auto junkyard.

In the panic of trying to cover up Teddy’s guilt at Chappaquiddick, many things came unglued. The JFK murder threatened to creep out of the woodwork again. Black Panthers Hampton and Clark were murdered (who were the Chicago cops fired over Attorney Charles Garry’s head), because of what they knew about the JFK murder squad’s presence in Chicago on November 1, 1963.

September 1969: Gemstones with “histories” were released around the globe for several years. In 1969 Roberts gave a Gemstone with history to John Mack, head of California CREEP, to pass on to Nixon with a proposition: a second term in the White House in return for wiping out the Mafia. The history included Teddy’s phone calls to and from the Lawrence Cottage on Chappaquiddick, billed to Teddy’s home phone in Hyannisport. Nixon wasn’t interested, being Mafia himself; but he kept the information to use on Teddy whenever it seemed advantageous.

Tony Ulascewicz, a private detective working for the White House as Plumber and bagman, got the whole story too. He spent almost a year at Chappaquiddick pretending to be a reporter and interrogating witnesses. Among the witnesses he found was a couple illicitly fooling around on the banks of Poucha Pond. They saw and heard a car racing down the road. It sailed off the bridge with its headlights rolling wildly as the car rolled in the air. Then they saw a man stand up on the bridge and walk off. It never occurred to them that someone else was still in the car, or else they would have attempted to save her. The account given by the couple therefore refuted Teddy’s claim that he dove into the water to try and rescue Mary Jo.

[Note: When John Ehrlichman became Nixon’s Special Assistant for Domestic Affairs, his former job as the President’s counsel was taken over by John Dean. Dean inherited Counsel Ehrlichman’s two investigators, Jack Caulfield and Anthony Ulascewitz, both former New York Police Department detectives. Source: Jonathan Aitken’s book Nixon: A Life. – sc]

[Note: In November 1971 Dean ordered Caulfield to send Ulascewicz to case the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee. As an ordinary visitor, Ulascewicz made a walk-through seven months before the break-ins of June 1972. – sc]

Blackmail, like chewing gum, loses its flavor after it is used. It thus can be saved for later use. The editor of the Manchester Union Leader got a copy of the Chappaquiddick phone and billing records and printed a teaser in the newspaper. The teaser became the leverage that got Jimmy Hoffa out of jail. (President Nixon commuted his sentence on December 23, 1971.) In return Hoffa loaned a million dollars to the Manchester Union Leader.

May 4, 1970: Worried about the Ford Foundation’s involvement in the Chappaquiddick cover-up, Charlotte Ford Niarchos called Stavros, her ex-husband. Stavros’s wife Eugenie Livanos Niarchos, in bed with her husband, overheard the conversation. Stavros was forced to beat Eugenie to death; he ruptured her spleen and broke the cartilage in her throat. Cause of death was listed as overdose of barbiturates, though an autopsy showed these injuries.

End of 1970: Howard Hughes presence on earth was no longer required. His double, L. Wayne Rector, was doing “Hughes” for years. A computer could duplicate his handwriting. A computerized voice box could duplicate his voice pattern over the phone. His fingerprints were on file and could be duplicated if necessary. A computer gathered all the known facts about his life and generated a biography, which was issued to top Hughes executives.

Hughes was ill, and death was expected shortly. Preparations were made to ensure an orderly continuation of his empire after his death. No reason why it should not. Stories were planted in the news media reporting Hughes’ intention to have his body preserved cryogenically so that he could be resuscitated in the future when advances in medical science could reverse the aging process – and take his empire back! (However, the real purpose of this planted story was to forestall any attempts to examine the body of Hughes after his death.)

Onassis had done well with the management and expansion of his Hughes base of operations. In 1970, the Hughes company holdings were estimated to be $2 billion, making Onassis “one of the two richest men in the world, along with J. Paul Getty, the oil man,” according to one account. Hughes was the nation’s largest defense contractor, employing about 67,000 people. This meant that billions of tax dollars went directly into Onassis’s pockets. If you add the known fortune of Hughes to that of Onassis, it is quite clear that Onassis was the richest man in the world. And he didn’t get that way by being “Mr. Nice Guy.” Howard Hughes had no direct heirs. According to one story, an illegitimate child, who might have had a claim, mysteriously disappeared – along with her mother.

Clifford Irving, living on Ibizza, was writing a book about an art forger named De Hory. He called the book Hoax. One day, De Hory started laughing and said, “If you like hoaxes, how about Howard Hughes? That’s an even bigger hoax.” The Mediterranean gossip about “Hughes” and Onassis was irresistible.

Irving went first to Noah Dietrich, who was Hughes’ righthand man for many years. On the day after Onassis’s men grabbed Hughes and hustled him away from his Beverly Hills Hotel bungalow, Dietrich got a call from Hughes telling him he was fired. Dietrich never saw or spoke to him again. Or so he says in his book. It seems fairly obvious that Dietrich knew what happened to his boss, but there was nothing he could do about it.

To get material for his book, Clifford Irving paid a visit to the Mormon Mafia, the six men who were guarding “Hughes.” One of them, Merryman, was getting tired of the game and gave Irving the computer-generated biography. When publishers announced the forthcoming release of Irving’s book, Onassis knew immediately that someone gave him the insiders’ version. He suspected Maheu and fired him in November 1970. Nervous about the possibility of public exposure – the stakes were high!! – Onassis ordered Wayne Rector and his six nursemaids to get out of Vegas – immediately! On Thanksgiving Eve 1970 in the middle of the night, “Hughes” made a well-publicized secret departure from Las Vegas to the Britannia Beach Hotel in the Bahamas.

December 1970: Onassis learned that it was Merryman, not Maheu, who leaked the insiders’ biography and had him killed. Merryman’s name suddenly disappeared from the list of nursemaids. From then on, there were only five. Robert Maheu, mistakenly deprived of his $500,000 annual salary, sued “Hughes” for $50 million, mentioning the game plan for purchasing presidents, governors, senators, and judges. Onassis settled out of court – cheap at the price – to maintain his custodianship of “American democracy” and the “free world” – and to keep from hanging for multiple murders.

The Mormon Mafia plus Wayne Rector fled around the world. They first flew to the Bahamas, where they murdered an uncooperative governor and police chief. Next, they went to Nicaragua, where they had to shoot the U.S. Ambassador between the eyes for noticing that there wasn’t really any Hughes. They left Nicaragua to go to Canada, where nursemaid Howard Eckersley looted a goodly sum in a swindle of the Canadian Stock Exchange. Their next stop was London, where they holed up in Rothschild’s Inn of the Park.

April 18, 1971: The real Howard Hughes living on the island of Skorpios was a human vegetable as the result of serious brain damage suffered in 1957 during the kidnapping, plus fourteen years of heroin. He grew sicker and sicker. A final overdose of heroin did him in. His coffin was lowered into the sea from a rocky headland off the coast of Skorpios. Present at the funeral were Jackie Kennedy Onassis; Teddy Kennedy; Francis L. Dale (Director of CREEP); Tom Pappas, also of CREEP; and a South Vietnamese cardinal named Thuc – the third brother of Diem and Nhu, who had escaped Onassis’s murder teams in November 1963. Onassis allowed some pictures to be taken from a distance, but he himself did not appear. The pictures were published in Midnight, a now-defunct Canadian tabloid, with a cover story speculating that perhaps the mysterious patient in Onassis’s private hospital was really JFK, who supposedly didn’t die in Dallas!

[Note: I included the Midnight reference in both the Playgirl article on Hughes and Onassis (December 1974) and the original Skeleton Key. The photos, when the subjects are correctly identified, provide visual evidence of Hughes on Skorpios. Cover stories such as “JFK is alive” and “Is this JFK being buried?” are used regularly by tabloid publications to spread disinformation to the general (and bewildered) public. The public reads these stories and chortles, or gets alarmed in some cases. Notwithstanding, headlines such as “Is JFK Alive?” alert the ones who are in the know that they should read the stories carefully to keep up to date on what is really going on.

If you want a widespread distribution of your story, would you choose a learned and serious publication, which may reach 5 to 10,000 readers, or would you choose the National Enquirer with a circulation of 25,000,000? Unfortunately, some commentators on Gemstone fail to understand how the tabloids serve as propaganda on the one hand and as an information resource on the other. They erroneously believe that my citation of Midnight articles somehow invalidates the Gemstone thesis. – sc]

Albanian frogmen were tipped off in advance that Hughes’ coffin would be lowered into the sea. Before the body had time to cool to the surrounding temperature of the water, they seized the coffin and took the corpse to Yugoslavia. From there it went to China and Russia and then back to Boston in a foot locker. The corpse’s teeth were compared to Hughes’ dental records, and they matched.

Aristotle Onassis was Lord of the Mafia, the richest and most powerful man in the world, a murderer for profit and fun in the continuing phony wars for oil, arms, and drugs. He took the same pleasure in destroying men and nations as he did slaughtering whales with his whaling ships. Thousands of whales of many species were driven almost to the point of extinction, using the latest and most devastating technology. Then he upholstered the bar stools on his yacht with their foreskins.

The truth about Hughes’ death, the take-over of the U.S. government by Onassis, the facts surrounding the murders of JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King, Mary Jo Kopechne, and many more, and the subsequent cover-ups have circulated around the globe since late 1968 in the form of the original Gemstone letters. Any country with this information had the wherewithal to blackmail the U.S. government, which had no choice but to pay up. Otherwise, those involved would be exposed as a bunch of treasonous murderers.

This is why China-hating, red-baiting Nixon was forced to recognize China (which he later claimed was his greatest accomplishment). And this is also why the USSR got away for years with such good deals in loans, grains, and whatever else they wanted. All they had to do was say those magic words – “Hughes, JFK, RFK, MLK, Mary Jo “– and the U.S. government crawled into a hole. There was no place else to go! Super-patriots please note: No one, not even all of the radicals and subversives put together, had done more damage to the U.S. economy, morality, power and prestige than the thieves at the top.

Information once leaked can’t be unleaked. The only way to end the dilemma was through a nuclear war and that wouldn’t be one-sided. The other way would be to throw the Mafia out of the United States – starting at the top with Ford, Rockefeller, and Kissinger.

On the day that Hughes was buried, Clifford Irving’s wife presented a publisher’s check made out to “H. Hughes” at Onassis’s Swiss Bank for payment. Onassis paid off – cheap at the price.

Gemstone papers circulating here and abroad kept the situation hot. Everyone was nervous. Rockefeller gave Kissinger $50,000 for Carlson and Brisson to write their expose “The Alioto Mafia Web,” for Look magazine. Their mission: find out everything that was public record about Alioto’s connection with the JFK murder (like the pay-offs to Fratianno) and to explain it all away – any way that didn’t lead back to JFK and Dallas. The idea was to get Alioto to go away quietly but still keep the lid on everything.

May 1971: Tina Livanos Onassis Blandford married Stavros Niarchos, her former brother-in-law – until he killed her sister Eugenie.

“Folk Hero” Daniel Ellsberg, a well-known hawk from the Rand Corporation, who designed the missile ring around the Iron Curtain countries (how many missiles to aim at which cities) was told to release the faked-up Pentagon Papers to distract people from Hughes, JFK, RFK, and MLK. The papers were carefully designed by Ellsberg and his boss, Rand Chief and later World Bank Chief Bob (Body Count) McNamara, to make the Vietnam War look like “just one of those incredibly dumb mistakes.” The Pentagon Papers covered up the real purpose of the war: continued control for Onassis and his friends of the Golden Triangle dope trade (Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia), as well as Eastern oil sources. Also covered up was Onassis’s control over huge federal sums, siphoned off in profitable arms contracts, or conveniently “disappeared” into the war effort. McNamara’s World Bank hand-outs of American money to starving nations actually set up huge private bank accounts for various dictators in the Onassis-controlled Swiss banks. The money was used to support and extend Mafia operations. For example: $8 billion in World Bank funds for “starving Ethiopians” wound up in Emperor Haile Selassie’s personal Swiss bank accounts. This would make him the richest individual in the world. But other dictators have Swiss bank accounts too, maybe even larger. Money drained from America and other captive nations fed a greedy cabal that could never be satisfied.

Rand Corp., a major think tank, had another goody in store for the public: “Project Star.” This was a cover-up fallback version of the JFK murder held in reserve should public restlessness over the official version ever threaten to get out of hand.

[Note: The dope trade route was from the Golden Triangle to San Francisco via Taiwan. Heroin was sometimes smuggled in the bodies of American GIs who died in battle in Vietnam. One body could hold up to 40 pounds of heroin, crammed in where the guts used to be. Some dope got pressed into dinner plates and painted with pretty patterns. One dope bust in San Francisco alone yielded $6 billion in heroin china plates – the largest dope bust in history. It was quickly and completely hushed up by the San Francisco press. The dope sat in the San Francisco Police Department for a while, then was removed by FBI men and probably sent on its way – to American veins. All this dope processing and shipping was controlled and supervised by the Mafia for the Mafia. Dope arrests and murders were aimed at independent pushers, maverick peddlers, and smugglers who were competing with, or holding out on, the Mafia. While Nixon was conducting his noisy campaign against dope smuggling across the Mexican border, his dope officer in charge of protecting the dope trade was E. Howard Hunt! Lots of heroin was processed in a Pepsi Cola factory in Laos. It never produced a single bottle of Pepsi Cola. Some dope got processed in heroin factories in Marseilles. (See the French Connection.) Still more dope came from South America – cocaine and then heroin. U.S. aid went to build a highway across Paraguay (Uruguay?). Useless for the natives who have no cars (they use it for sunbathing during the day), at night it became the longest landing strip in the world. All night long, airplanes took off loaded with cocaine. It was financed by U.S. tax money for the benefit of the international dope pushers. And then there was morphine from Turkish opium. This was the starting point of Onassis’s fortune.

In case one is still wondering whether the Mafia could actually get away with such things, consider the benefits derived from controlling the stock market, the courts, and the police. In one swindle alone, the 1970 acquisition of Air West by “Hughes” swindled its stockholders out of $45 million. Indicted for this swindle by the SEC (in a civil suit) were “Howard Hughes” and Jimmy (the Greek) Snyder, who was not usually associated with the Hughes crowd. – sc]

June 1971: New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, Rand Corporation’s prepared cover-up of the real reasons for the Vietnam war.

In 1969 Nixon received a copy of the first Gemstone Papers circulated in the U.S. He was now wondering how much information Democratic Chairman Larry O’Brien had about Hughes, Onassis, JFK, RFK, and more specifically, how much of the dirt the Democrats planned to use. Nixon set up the Plumbers unit to stop security leaks and investigate other security matters. It consisted of Erlichman, Krogh, Liddy, Hunt, and Young. Hunt, as White House consultant, supposedly worked for the Mullen Corp., a CIA cover headed by Robert Bennett. Mullen’s chief client was “Howard Hughes.”

June 28, 1971: Ellsberg indicted for leaking the Pentagon Papers.

September 3, 1971: The Watergate team broke into Dr. Fielding’s office to get Ellsberg’s psychiatric records. Team members were: Hunt and Liddy, Cuban “Freedom fighters” De Diego, Martinez, and Bernard Barker. All except Liddy worked together at the Bay of Pigs.

Question: Why the intense battle between Mafia forces? Answer: While Onassis was the recognized crowned head of the Mafia, intense, no-holds-barred scuffling for the lucrative second spot (control of the presidency, the government, and so on) was permissible and encouraged under the Mafia code of rules. The only stipulation: Outsiders mustn’t know about it. “Hughes” contributed liberally – and equally – to both the Democratic and Republican parties for the 1972 election. The winner would get even more money from “Hughes.”

September 23, 1971: E. Howard Hunt spliced up the phony cables implicating JFK’s administration in the Diem assassination.

October 1971: Look magazine apologized to Alioto for their “Alioto Mafia Web” article – and folded. The sticking point: they couldn’t prove Alioto’s Nut Tree meeting in early 1964 regarding the JFK murder.

November 1971: Alioto re-elected San Francisco mayor.

December 1971: Roberts applied for a Gemstone visa from the Soviet Consulate – on a tapped phone. Hal Lipset, a San Francisco private investigator who worked for Katherine Graham, routinely monitored Consulate phone calls.

January 1972: The Watergate team showed up at the Drift Inn, a CIA-FBI safe-house hangout bar in San Francisco. Roberts went to this bar nightly to conduct a Gemstone rap for the benefit of any agents of the CIA, FBI, or anyone else who wandered in for a beer. James McCord, Martinez, Bernard Barker, Garcia and Frank Sturgis showed up along with a dentist named Fuller. James McCord remarked: “Sand and Arab oil with hydrogen heat make glass brick” – a threat of war to the Arab nations. The proceedings, like all the other nightly raps, was taped by Al Strom, who was paid to do so by his old friend Katherine Meyer Graham. But “Al was fair” and told his other friend Roberts about it. The bar was also wired for sound by Arabs, Russians, and Chinese.

January 27, 1972: Liddy and Dean met in Mitchell’s office to discuss Liddy’s charts for his $1 million Gemstone plan for spying, kidnapping, etc. The plans included breaking into Hank Greenspun’s office safe in Las Vegas to recover files on the Hughes kidnapping and Onassis’s Vegas operations. A “Hughes” get-away plane would stand by to take the White House burglars to Mexico. Greenspun had used these files to blackmail Onassis out of $4 million.

February 1972: Liddy and Hunt traveled around a lot using “Hughes Tool Co.” calling cards and aliases from Hunt’s spy novels. Liddy, Hunt, and other Watergaters dropped by for a beer at the Drift Inn, where they were photographed on bar stools for Katherine Graham. (CIA men like Liddy and Hunt weren’t usually photographed.) These bar stool photos were later used in the Washington Post after Liddy, Hunt, and the others were arrested at the Watergate.

Roberts quoted to Liddy the Chinese stock market in ears:

• The price on Onassis’s head by the ear – in retaliation for a few things Onassis had done
• L. Wayne Rector, the Hughes double
• Eugene Wyman, California Democratic Party Chairman and Mafia bagman for the pay-off to JFK assassins
• Lyndon Johnson

“Four bodies twisting in the breeze.”

Roberts: “Quoting prices to Liddy at the Drift Inn made their deaths a mortal cinch. Liddy’s like that. That’s why the murdering slob was picked by the Mafia.” Gemstones rolling around on the Drift Inn bar top inspired Liddy’s Gemstone Plan that became Watergate.

February 1972: Francis L. Dale, head of CREEP and ITT Board of Directors member, pushed Magruder to push Liddy into Watergate.

In a Mafia-style effort to shut Roberts up, his father was murdered by Plumber team members Liz Dale (Francis L. Dale’s ex-wife), Martinez, Gonzalez, and Barker in Hahnemann’s hospital, San Francisco. Mr. Roberts had been taken there after swallowing a sodium morphate pill that was slipped into his medicine bottle at home by Watergate locksmith Gonzalez (from Miami’s Missing Link Locksmith Shop). The pill didn’t kill him. He had a weak digestion and vomited much of the sodium morphate up (it burned his lips and tongue on the way out). But he had emphysema and went to the hospital. In the hospital, Liz Dale, disguised as a nurse, and Martinez, disguised as a doctor, assisted him to sniff a quadruple-strength can of aerosol medicine – enough to kill him the next day.

The day before, on February 21, 1972, Cardinal Tisserant, Dean of the College of Cardinals, was pushed out of a Vatican window. Tisserant followed the career of Pope Montini (whose mother was Jewish). Montini sodium-morphate-murdered Pope Pius XI. For this crime, he was banished from Rome by Pius XII. Montini eventually became Pope in 1963. In his writings, Tisserant called the Pope “The Deputy of Christ at Auschwitz” and the fulfillment of the Fatima 3 Prophesy that “The anti-Christ shall rise to become the head of the Church.”

Tisserant wrote about the suppressed secrets of the Roman Catholic Church: that Jesus Christ was a Zoroastrian Arab baby, born on April 16, 6 B.C. during a rare conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter. Arab (Persian) astronomers (the Magi) came to Bethlehem to look for their king, an Arab baby. They found him in a stable, because the Jews wouldn’t let Arabs Joseph and Mary into their nice clean inns, even then. When Jesus overturned the tables of the money lenders at the Temple, the Jews had the Romans nail him to a cross. He died on the cross when the Roman soldiers stuck a spear in his side, pulled out his liver, and ate it. Tacitus, the Roman historian, described it all in a chunk of history smuggled out of Rome but deleted by the Church.

But the Persians “resurrected” Christ and kept him alive by spreading his teachings – the “voice from the grave.”

In 62 A.D., Nero burned Rome. Tiberius’s clay tablets with the original story escaped the fire along with other records. Jesus’ teachings were spread by the early Christians (Arabs). So the Romans decided to adopt the religion, clean it up, make Christ a Jew and Mary a virgin and work out a church-state deal to screw the people in the name of God and country that has been operating ever since. Around 325 A.D., at the Council of Nicaea (the first Nicene Council), Christian Orthodoxy was established. Arius, a presbyter of Alexandria, expressed the belief that Jesus Christ was not the Son of God in a literal sense, but a man of human birth who expressed a humanistic philosophy. Many of the early Christians agreed with him.

But at the first Nicene Council, Arius’s beliefs became known as “the Arian heresy”; a dissenting bishop chopped off his hands; and another bishop was assigned to round up all the old copies of the Bible and destroy them in favor of the revised de-Arabized version. Cleaned-up Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were declared “it,” the other Gospels were declared apocryphal and heretical. Constantine became the first Christian emperor. Later, after centuries of Holy Crusades, Gutenberg’s newfangled printing press rolled out the first printed Bible. The Bible was again rewritten to include “Jesus’ warning” against the “yellow race.”

[Note: Tisserant’s writings hit Roberts hard; the man was murdered by members of the Catholic Church who learned about his writings on the secrets of the Church. Roberts’ father was murdered at around that time. – sc]

“27 Gemstones, with histories, to 27 countries brought Red China into the U.N. and threw Taiwan out.” (October 25, 1971

April 1972: Money poured into CREEP. An illegal $100,000 contribution came from Gulf Resources and Chemicals Corp., Houston, Texas. The money was laundered through Mexico and came back through Liedtke of Pennzoil Corp., Houston. A campaign contribution of $200,000 came from Robert Vesco, who gave it to Maurice Stans. Gordon Liddy gave McCord $76,000. McCord bought $58,000 worth of bugging equipment and cameras.

May 1972: J. Edgar Hoover had the Gemstone File; he threatened to expose the Dallas murder of JFK in an anonymous book, The Texas Mafia. Instead, someone put sodium morphate in his apple pie. The corpse was carted away from his home in the back seat of a V.W. His files were burned, but some of them got away.

May 28, 1972: First break-in at the Watergate by McCord, Barker, Martinez, Garcia, Gonzalez, and Sturgis. Standing guard outside were DeDiego and Pico. Hunt and Liddy directed the operation from a (safe?) distance – across the street. The object was to check on Onassis’s two men at the Democratic Party HQ: Larry O’Brien and Spencer Oliver. (O’Brien’s chief public relations client was “Hughes”; Oliver’s father worked for Onassis.) McCord wire-tapped their phones. But!!!! Little did McCord know that the Plumbers were being observed by Hal Lipset, Katherine Graham’s San Francisco detective who followed two of the Plumbers from Liz Dale’s side in San Francisco. Lipset watched in amazement as the Plumbers broke in and bugged the phones; he reported back to his boss Katherine Graham. Lipset and Graham then set the trap for the Watergaters, when they returned to remove their bugs and equipment.

“In the style of the old Holy Roman Empire: a slave nation paying tribute to the conqueror.”

June 17, 1972: Bernard Barker was wearing his Sears Roebuck deliveryman costume – the same one he wore at the break-in of Dr. Fielding’s office and at Hahnemann’s Hospital where Mr. Roberts was murdered. Hal Lipset, Graham’s spy, was dressed as a mailman. He left his mail-sack behind when he taped the door at the Watergate to tip off the security guard Frank Wills that something was happening that required his attention. He watched as Wills removed the tape and walked on. Lipset RE-TAPED the door. The second time around, Wills realized that there actually might be something funny going on. He went across the street and called the police. McCord, Martinez, Sturgis, Barker, and Gonzalez were caught in the act. (Graham had them on tape and film, too, every minute of the time.) Liddy and Hunt, who were supervising via walkie-talkie across the street, were not caught. Liddy called Magruder in California regarding the arrests. Magruder then told Mitchell, LaRue, and Mardian.

It was time to burn files. Liddy shredded the Gemstone files at CREEP. Dean cleaned out Hunt’s safe at the White House and gave Hunt’s copy of the Gemstone file to L. Patrick Gray, acting FBI head: “Deep-six this – in the interest of national security. This should never see the light of day.” Gray burned the file.

[Note: From a Meeting between President Richard Nixon and Henry Peterson, Oval Office, April 17, 1973:

Peterson: . . . Incidentally, I talked with Pat Gray again.

Nixon: Yeah.

Peterson: I went back again today.

Nixon: Do you think you can put that piece together?

Peterson: Yes sir. I’ll tell you what happened. He said he met with Ehrlichman in Ehrlichman’s office. Dean was there and they told him they had some stuff in Hunt’s office that was utterly unrelated to the Watergate Case. They gave him two manila envelopes that were sealed. He took them. He says, they said get rid of them. Dean doesn’t say that. Dean says, I didn’t want to get rid of them so I gave them to Gray. But in any event, Gray took them back, and I said to Pat where are they? And he said I burned them. And I said –

Nixon: He burned them?

Peterson: I said that’s terrible.

Nixon: Unrelated – only thing he can say was – he did it because it was political stuff I suppose?

Peterson: Well, you know, the cynics are not going to believe it was unrelated.

Nixon: Oh yes of course.

Peterson: I said, did you read it?

Nixon: Who handed it to him? Dean? Who knows the contents?

Peterson: Dean and Ehrlichman. Gray says he never looked at it – never read it.

Nixon: Did Dean? Did we ask Dean what the contents were?

Peterson: I didn’t ask Dean because he said it was –

Nixon: Did anybody?

Peterson: Not at this point. We’ll have to get to that obviously.

Nixon: Sure. Damn dumb thing to do.

Peterson: I think it is incredible and I just –

Nixon: Why didn’t he just put it (inaudible).

Peterson: I said Pat why did you do it.

Nixon: Pat’s naïve.

Peterson. He said – well, I suppose I took them at their word.

From The Nixon Tapes (p. 577-8). – sc]

June 20, 1972: DNC Chairman Larry O’Brien filed a $1 million suit against CREEP, naming Francis L. Dale, the head of CREEP. This was a big mistake, for Dale led directly back to Onassis.

June 21, 1972: THE 18-1/2 MINUTES OF ACCIDENTALLY-ERASED WHITE HOUSE TAPE: Nixon was furious over the Watergate Plumber arrests and couldn’t figure out who had done it to him. Who had taped the door at the Watergate that led to the arrests? Hal Lipset, whose primary employer at the time was Katherine Graham, couldn’t tell him. Nixon figured that it had something to do with Roberts running around Vancouver tracing the “Hughes” nursemaid’s (Eckersley) swindle of the Canadian stock exchange. He also blamed Trudeau. The 18-1/2 minutes was of Nixon raving about Canada’s “ass-hole Trudeau,” “ass-hole Roberts,” Onassis, “Hughes” and Francis L. Dale. The 18-1/2 minutes simply couldn’t be released.

Beverly Kaye, Stephen Bull’s secretary, later heard the erased tape, which was stored in a locked room in the White House. She was horrified. She sent out some depressed Christmas cards and notes to friends. She was sodium-morphate “heart-attacked” at age 40 in a White House elevator outside the locked safe room where the tapes were stored.

January 1, 1973: With the death of Tisserant in February 1972, the Church rushed to destroy every copy of his papers. Roberts received one copy – and wrote a few of his own, which he released over New Years. Its contents were:

1. “The Cover-up of the Murder of Christ”
2. “The Yellow Race is not in China – The Yellow Race Screws Mary Jo Kopechne”
3. “Mrs. Giannini’s Bank of America Financed the Murder of JFK at Dallas via Alioto’s Fratianno, Brading, and Roselli”
4. “Vietnam – Fatima 3 – Holy Crusade”

“Four documents led to four bodies twisting slowly in the breeze”

• Lyndon Johnson had a sodium morphate “heart attack” at his ranch on the Pedernales River on January 22, 1973. Among his last words: “You know fellows, it really was a conspiracy . . .”
• Alexander Onassis’s plane crash at the “1000 foot Walter Reuther Level,” via a fixed altimeter at Athens Airport on January 22, 1973. It was probably meant for his father Aristotle.
• Eugene Wyman: California Democratic Party Chairman and JFK assassination pay-off bagman: Heart attack on January 20, 1973.
• L. Wayne Rector, Hughes’ double: Killed at Rothchild’s Inn of the Park, London.

5. ”Started the Shattering of the Mafia Economy.”

Losing his son Alexander took all the fun out of killing for Onassis. Who was there to inherit the world empire he had dreamed of handing over to his son?

March 18, 1973: Roberts called Hal Lipset, discussing all these matters publicly over a tapped phone. John Dean figured out it was Hal Lipset who taped the door at the Watergate. Dean then hired Lipset away from Katherine Graham. (John Mitchell said: “Katie Graham’s liable to get her tit caught in a wringer.”)

March 19, 1973: Dean to Nixon, nervously: “There is a cancer growing on the presidency.”

March 21, 1973: Nixon said that on this date, he “received new evidence on Watergate.” Lipset bragged on TV that he was the one to bring new evidence to Nixon.

Meanwhile, back at the Washington Post, Katherine Graham was feeding Woodward and Bernstein information for their articles.

May 10, 1973: The first witness at the Watergate hearing read the names on the CREEP organizational chart and mentioned the name at the top: Francis L. Dale, Chairman. Dale was never mentioned again during the rest of the trial.

July 9, 1973: Murder of Al Strom, bartender at Drift Inn. Roberts used to do his “open lecture forum” at the Drift Inn. Al Strom taped these lectures for his boss Katherine Graham. But “Al was fair” and told Roberts he was doing it.

September 11, 1973: Chilean coup by Group of 40 (Rockefeller and his man Kissinger) working with the CIA and $8 million. Allende’s Chile nationalized ITT’s plants. Rockefeller had copper mines in Chile. Admiral Noel Gaylor, Naval Intelligence, told Roberts one and a half years earlier that Chile would get the shaft. Roberts warned the Chilean consul in advance. Allegria ended up “teaching” at Stanford. ITT extracted $125 million payment for its Chilean plants, a good return for their $8 million. Mafia-controlled Chile’s annual inflation rate had set a world’s record. In the style of the old Holy Roman Empire: a slave nation paying tribute to the conqueror.

October, 1973: Another “Holy War” – Israelis vs. Arabs.

November 6, 1973: Oakland School Superintendent Marcus Foster was shot to death by SLA’s Joseph Remiro and Russell Little – two white men who wore black face when they committed the murder.

January 1974: Joe Alioto granted Sunol Golf Course lease to Mafiosi Romano, Fratianno, Nuniz, Madeiros, Abe Chapman, and Neil Neilson. Alioto set up the Dallas murder squad in San Francisco for more murders.

January 26, 1974: ”Hughes” extradition trial canceled in Reno by “Alioto Mafia Web” Judge Thomson after Moses Lasky from Alioto’s California Crime Commission waved the forged “Howard Hughes” signature under his nose.

Maheu won his damage suit against “Hughes” – his blackmail pay-off – after discussing the game plan for controlling the U.S by buying politicians.

February 4, 1974: Mafia Hearst’s daughter Patty “kidnapped” by Hal Lipset’s Symbionese Liberation Army, consisting of a few controlled criminals and patsies together with their handlers in a fake terrorist action.

March 1974: Patty Hearst/SLA article authored by Brussell and Caruana appeared in Berkeley Barb.

April 4, 1974: Mary McCarthy, a writer who was given a copy of the Gemstone file, said in an article in the New York Review of Books that the key to the formation of Liddy’s Gemstone Plan lay in the whereabouts and activities of the Plumbers between December 1971 and February 1972. Answer: They were in the Drift Inn watching Gemstones rolling around on the bar top.

June 30, 1974: Martin Luther King’s mother Alberta was murdered by Marcus Chenault, a hypnotized black student and self-declared “Black Hebrew Israelite,” who was ”acting alone.” He was escorted to the church by someone who had a list of other mothers as targets. Next day, THE target was Shirley Chisholm. She got the message and rushed to sign off on the Democratic National Committee’s suit against CREEP naming Francis L. Dale; she was the last hold-out.

August 6, 1974: Nixon and Ford signed an agreement at the White House. Ford could be President, and Nixon could burn his tapes and files and murder anyone he needed to, to cover it all up.

August 7, 1974: Roberts passed information to Pavlov at the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco, which led directly to Nixon’s resignation. More magazine’s story about Denny Walsh’s “Reopening of the Alioto Mafia Web story” for the New York Times, plus a long taped discussion of who and what the Mafia is, was killed in a panic. The Consulate room was bugged, and Hal Lipset listened to the conversation from his listening post in the building next door. He had phone lines open to Rockefeller and Kissinger, who were listening too. Rockefeller sent Kissinger running to the White House with urgent marching orders: “Resign – right now!” Nixon and Julie cried. But there was still some hope. If Nixon resigned immediately, he could draw the line somewhere before it got to the King of the Mountain himself – Onassis. If he did not resign and went on trial, he might blurt out a series of names to save himself: Onassis, Dale, “Hughes,” even JFK.

August 8, 1974: Nixon stepped down, and Ford stepped up, to keep the cover-up going.

August 23, 1974: Fratianno was in San Francisco, staying at the Sunol Golf Course. More murders were scheduled in regard to the Gemstone cover-up.

August 30, 1974: Newly installed President Gerald Ford hired Mafia lawyer Benton L. Becker to work out a pardon deal for Nixon, who might otherwise name Onassis, Katherine Graham, and Pope Montini to save himself.

San Francisco Zebra Murders: A series of “random” killings dubbed “Zebra murders” by the police. Supposedly blacks were randomly killing whites. The real – and last – target was Silva, the witness to Alioto’s Nut Tree Restaurant meeting. He was shot to death in an alley. Careful planning went into this series, killing several birds with one stone:

1. Get witness Silva out of the way without being too obvious.

2. Spread fear of “black terrorists,” blaming and framing Black Muslims

3. Convince people that the police needed more money and more repressive power

4. Knock off leaders of the opposition

September 7, 1974: Gail (Larry) Harp of Kish Realty was sodium-morphate-poisoned. Harp was to buy a Gemstone with history for $500, which was the price of a trip to Canada for Roberts to check into the “Hughes” Mormon Mafia Canadian stock market swindle and other matters. The agreement was made over a bugged phone. Harp died before the deal could go through. [Editor’s Note: Steven Kish, the owner of Kish Realty told Richard Alan, author of The Gemstone File: Details Surrounding the JFK Assassination, that on the day of the funeral for the deceased Mr. Harp, Bruce Roberts was acting very strangely and pulled Steven Kish aside saying he needed to talk. Kish said he was intimidated by the confrontation. He had not seen or heard of Roberts ever since then.]

[Note: Sodium morphate, a favorite Mafia poison for centuries, smells like apple pie and is sometimes served up in one, as in the case of J. Edgar Hoover. Sometimes it comes in the form of a pill or capsule. Symptoms: lethargy, sleep, sometimes vomiting. Once ingested, there is a heart attack. It leaves no trace in the body. The proof is in the vomit, which is usually not analyzed. Not mentioned in standard medical books on poisons. It is a common ingredient in rat poison. – sc]

September 8, 1974: Ford pardoned Nixon, specifically, for “all crimes committed” from June 20, 1969 (oops, make that January) through August 1974.

Gemstone papers floated around the world. Indira Gandhi spoke about the “U.S.’s bloody deeds.”

October 1974: Ford dropped his attempt to extradite “Hughes” from the Bahamas. Explanation: “We dropped it because we knew he wouldn’t come.” That’s for sure!

October 3, 1974: The Watergate trial, the cover-up of the cover-up, got underway, starring Montini’s Ben Veniste, Onassis’s Neal, Graham’s Jill Volner.

In the White House, Mayors Alioto, Daley and Beame met with the “Truth Squad” (Ford, Scott, Griffin, and Mike Mansfield) in secret.

October 10, 1974: Tina Livanos Onassis Blandford Niarchos was sodium-morphate-poisoned by hubby Stavros Niarchos; she puked, slept, and died of a “heart attack.”

December 1974: Four targets were chosen by the international Mafia: Brezhnev, Roberts, Chou En Lai, and King Faisal. The Mafia stock market shot up wildly, regaining the ground lost since the “four bodies” letters in January 1973.

Chou En-Lai had a heart attack. (He died on January 8, 1976.)

Brezhnev scheduled a meeting with Egypt’s Sadat. The outcome wouldn’t help the U.S. no matter how many trips Henry Kissinger made to the Middle East with clean socks and blank checks. A new CIA secret weapon was apparently used: A speck of nickel dust was somehow introduced into Brezhnev’s lymph system. It lodged in the cluster of lymph nodes over his heart and gradually became coated with layers of phlegm, much like an oyster creating a pearl around an irritating grain of sand. This clogged up Brezhnev’s lymph system, giving him the “flu.” The meeting with Sadat was canceled. It was reported on February 14, 1975, that Brezhnev’s 51 day seclusion was linked to a flu.

Russian doctors X-rayed Brezhnev and found a huge lump in his chest. They put him before a Kirlian camera and checked his aura for cancer. No cancer.

[Note: Kirlian photography is the latest Russian diagnostic tool. It reveals the presence of disease – physical or moral (it also detects lies). – sc]

Brezhnev’s mysterious lump was treated with radiation therapy; hence the rumors that he had cancer. It took six weeks to clear up. (He died on November 10, 1982.)

December (Christmas) 1974: My article on Howard Hughes and Onassis appeared in Playgirl magazine.

March 15, 1975: Roberts got the “Brezhnev flu” and spent two weeks at the University of California Hospital in San Francisco. Doctors there, not having the benefit of the Kirlian photography diagnostic technique, assumed the softball-sized lump over his heart was cancer and treated it with cobalt radiation.

March 16, 1975: Onassis died, of myasthenia gravis, a debilitating neurological disease.

March 18, 1975: CIA Chief Colby leaked the stolen story of the CIA-”Hughes” Glomar Explorer’s raising of the bodies of drowned Russian sailors from their sunken nuclear submarine. Purpose: to distract the public from Onassis’s death and to halt criticism of the CIA by pointing out how noble, brave, and self-sacrificing they are in their efforts to save us.

“The Russians are funny about their dead.” They bitterly resented Colby’s game. They quietly went through a massive naval exercise rehearsing a nuclear attack on the U.S. This was denied, in a panic, by the U.S. State Department.

After the death of Onassis, the Mafia organization began to regroup.

King Faisal silently watched as Frank Jungers, head of Aramco, picked up the oil trade ball. He was kept informed about what was going on by his nephew Prince Faisal, who was following Bruce Roberts’ Grommet Bar raps via a series of tape recordings made by Arabs. Prince Faisal was in the San Francisco Bay area when he learned that Roberts had to go to the hospital. [Editor’s note: The prince was at a party given in his honor in Atherton, California, according to the Peninsula Times Tribune, March 12, 1975.] Accompanying the prince were two Arab babysitters. Unknown to the prince, they were from the Savak, the Shah of Iran’s intelligence service. The two babysitters guided the prince by telling him “what Roberts really meant.” Roberts’ comments and news reporter Daniel Schorr’s comments were interpreted by them to Prince Faisal thusly: “Your Uncle, King Faisal, will murder you like they did your brother, because you are the only one besides himself who has this information. King Faisal won’t stop working with the Mafia. He must kill you. You are dead, no matter what you do. The best thing would be for you to kill him first and then rely on the help and mercy of your other friends and relatives.”

March 25, 1975: The murder of King Faisal. Prince Faisal returned to Saudi Arabia and shot his uncle, the spiritual leader of 60,000,000 Moslems, who had been playing ball with Onassis all along until the latter’s death on March 16. A sharia court found the prince guilty of murdering the king, and he was beheaded on June 18. (The Shah of Iran, who set it all up, hoped to take King Faisal’s place as leader of all the Moslems.)

Richard Helms, ex-CIA head, and by then Ambassador to Iran, wasn’t kept informed of all this by the Shah. He emerged from Rockefeller’s CIA hearings saying, “Killer Schorr,” hoping to place the blame for King Faisal’s murder on Daniel Schorr.

April 1, 1975: I released the first copies of the “Skeleton Key” to major media, friends, and strangers.

April 26, 1975: South Vietnam’s Thieu was dubious about which way the Mafia cookie would crumble after the death of Onassis. He decided the time was right for him to split. He abandoned the war effort, cursed the U.S., and flew to Taiwan in a C-118 transport plane on April 26. His plane was so overloaded with gold bullion that he had to dump some of it overboard. Four days later, Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese.

April 1975: The Cambodian domino was no fun at all; it fell right over. Premier Lon Nol fled to exile in a Hawaiian suburb. The word from Peking to the Cambodian government was: “Run or hang.” Lon Nol prudently chose to run.

President Ford wanted to do a propaganda movie version of his book Portrait of an Assassin, which would reiterate the notion of Oswald as the “lone assassin” of JFK. The history books still go that way, but very few American believe this was the case.

May 1975: Antonio Iglesias, CIA, kept tapes and photographs of the CIA-Mafia murder teams chasing Castro and JFK. He presided over a massive CIA-sponsored land swindle in Florida – the largest ever.

May 5, 1975: A CIA assassination attempt was made on President Tito of Yugoslavia. Tito recently received a Gemstone letter detailing the involvement of Harold Smith, owner of Harold’s Club, a Las Vegas casino, in an attempt to cover up the evidence of Howard Hughes’ death and the passage of his body through Yugoslavia. President Sadat of Egypt scheduled a special meeting with Tito for May 29-30 in Belgrade to discuss the matter – just before Sadat’s scheduled meeting with President Gerald Ford (aka King). A CIA kill team was in Belgrade with instructions to assassinate Tito and Sadat should certain events take place. If they had moved to carry out their mission, the outcome would not have been what they had planned.

June 1, 1975: President Ford’s Air Force One landed in Egypt. On his way down the ramp to meet and greet Sadat, he fell down and landed on all fours in a “perfect Moslem salute.” He got up, then stumbled again, and Sadat picked him up. Ford was scared; his knees were trembling so hard he couldn’t stand alone. He knew, and Sadat knew he knew, that Sadat was a CIA target two days earlier. Sadat and Egypt got millions out of that meeting. Another triumph of U.S. diplomacy!

Tito canceled his meeting with President Ford and went hunting wild pigs instead.

Ford then flew on to Rome to discuss “World Peace” with Pope Montini.

Back in the States, the Rockefeller Commission wound up its investigation of CIA illicit attempts on foreign heads of state saying, “They may have made a few mistakes, but basically they’re okay.”

June 6, 1975: Roberts gave information about the fraud involved in General Dynamics’ fighter-plane contract to the French and Belgian Consulates in San Francisco. Two hours later, General Stehlin, a French Government official who was surreptitiously on Northrop’s payroll and a potential witness to the fraud, was hit by a bus in Paris and killed.

June 16, 1975: Sam Giancana was a potential witness on the Castro assassination attempts (and thus a potential leak regarding the overlapping attempts to assassinate JFK). Giancana was himself assassinated in his Oak Park, Illinois home. Police investigating the case were puzzled: “It doesn’t look like a Mafia rub-out to us. Why, everybody knows that in an official Mafia rub-out, they like to use machine guns, small cannons, or larger-caliber revolvers. So we figure it was just a personal argument.”

June 25, 1975: With Nut Tree Restaurant witness Silva safely dead and the Black Muslim Zebra trial proceeding nicely, Joe Alioto pressed to reopen the Look trial and have himself totally exonerated. He would then find a clear path to get the Democratic V.P. nomination under Teddy Kennedy. What qualified him for this job? He was the one who arranged the pay-off to Jimmy Fratianno to rub out Teddy’s brother. U.S. politics in a Mafia nut-shell.

Eugene Brading at Dallas: With all the books and lectures featuring films and photos from Dallas, why does no one show or discuss this one? Eugene Brading, Mafia hit man, was arrested and released by the Dallas police immediately after the shooting. Below is the only photo of Eugene Brading at Dallas ever published.

It appeared in a Pinnacle paperback book called Legacy of Doubt by Peter Noyes published on January 1, 1973. The book quickly disappeared, and Peter Noyes quickly died. You can just make out the big white X’s on the hatband. All of the 28-man JFK kill squad could get through the police lines with the “Dallas Cross” – either by wearing one or by making the sign of the cross.

The Zapruder Film: To control or channel public interest in the JFK murder, the CIA released the long-suppressed Zapruder film, which was locked up for years by Luce’s Time-Life empire. Teams of representatives from CIA-sponsored and funded “investigative groups” like A.I.B., C.I.P.A., and Committee to Investigate Assassinations (CIA, for short, isn’t that cute?) toured the country with the Zapruder film and a careful selection of slides, righteously calling for an investigation by the same Mafia Congress that brought you (the less juicy parts of) Watergate.

You can stare at the Zapruder film for hours on end and watch JFK’s head get blown to bits, and you still will never know who killed him. And that’s the whole idea.

July 27, 1976: Johnny Roselli was subpoenaed to appear as a witness. He disappeared.

July 30, 1976: Bruce Roberts died of lung cancer in San Francisco.

August 7, 1976: Johnny Roselli’s dismembered body in a chain-wrapped barrel bobbed to the surface in Dumfoundling Bay adjacent to Biscayne Bay in Miami Florida.

END OF SKELETON KEY

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