Unless Fred can explain how or why Clay Shaw and Garrison and Nicholas Lemann all kept the same secret, I guess there is not much to discuss.
Why was William Manchester, overseen by Evan Thomas of Harper & Row, granted the assignment to write "the book"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Temple_Canfield
Michael Temple Canfield (August 20, 1926 – December 20, 1969) was an American soldier who worked in London as a representative of Harper & Row.
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He later worked in London as an editorial representative of Harper and Row where his father was publisher.[9] In London, he lived at Canfield House in Eaton Square and was elected a member of White's, the elite gentleman's club in St James's. In New York, he was a member of the Knickerbocker Club.[7]
Personal life
On April 18, 1953, he was married to Caroline Lee Bouvier (1933–2019)[10] at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington, D.C.[7] She was a daughter of stockbroker John Vernou Bouvier III and his wife, socialite Janet Norton Lee (then Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss).[11] ...
Frank F Sommers, Jr. was nearing the end of his CIA career when he served under diplomatic cover in Laos in the mid-70's.
Sylvia's brother Charles Whitehouse who we are told left the CIA, was American ambassador in Laos at that time and Priscilla Johnson's friend Alan Davidson was British ambassador in Laos at that time. Priscilla had been an attendant of Davidson's wife in their 1951 wedding. Davidson's wife was the first cousin of Jock Whitney estate four decade long "fixture," Jinx Falkenburg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Davidson_(food_writer)
Here is a bit of news mentioning Frank Sommer's wife:
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The Sun - Aug 12, 1959
... M. _ ISS REBEKAH E. THOMAS, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Thomas, of St. ...
to Frankfort, Germany, where she was met by Mrs. Frank Feldher Sommers. Jr., formerly of Baltimore, and later visited Miss Mary Eyre Baldwin, daughter of...
RL THOMAS SERVICES SET
The Sun - Nov 19, 1965
Services for Ralph Llewellyn Thomas, former vice president and executive ... Mr. Thomas, who was a brother of Norman Thomas, six limes a candidate on the ... Mr. Thomas was married lo the former Rebekah Ober, who died earlierthis year....
Svetlana's Editor? None Other Than Evan Thomas, Son a Socialist!
Boston Globe - Apr 29, 1967
Three decades later there is an even more unusual sequel; his son, Evan Thomas of Harper and Row, will edit Svetlana Stalin's book. .
Evan Thomas 2d Dies at 78; Published Many Best Sellers -...
New York Times - Mar 5, 1999
By ALEX KUCZYNSKI Evan Welling Thomas 2d, a book editor who ... Mr. Thomas rose through the ranks to editor in chief at Harper & Brothers, ... His father was Norman Thomas, who ran for President on the Socialist Party ticket six times.
(The grandson of Norman Thomas and the grand-nephew of Ralph L. Thomas. Ralph's daughter was able to vacation in 1959 with clandestine CIA agent Anne Calhoun Iglehart Sommers while she was serving on undercover CIA assignment in W. Germany.) Journalist EVAN THOMAS : NPR
NPR - Oct 23, 1995
Journalist EVAN THOMAS. ... THOMAS had access to the CIA's own records about their operations, and he interviewed many of the men involved. THOMAS was ..
https://erenow.net/modern/the-devils-chessboard-allen-dulles-the-cia/19.phpThe Big Event - The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA ...
https://erenow.net › modern › the-devils-chessboard-all...
Dulles's book was published by his friend,
Cass Canfield, the legendary publisher of Harper & Row. Dulles spiced the book with a few colorful espionage tales, but ...
https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/17838-more-than-just-a-rant/page/3/
On 4/7/2013 at 10:55 PM, Tom Scully said:
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Recently I came upon Hugo G. Koehler, Jr.. His father was quite a character, and was the step-father of Claiborne Pell. This wedding party provided my access.:
SALLY WOODBURY BRIDE IN SUBURBS; Sister Honor Maid at ...
New York Times - Dec 9, 1951
The ushers were James G. Woodbury, brother of the bride; Lieut. ... R. L; Hugo G.' Koehler of New York, James K.- Donaldson of Washington, Shepard Sykes ...
Mr. Handy attended the Berkshire School in Sheffield, Mass., and was graduated
I am interested because James K. Donaldson was also listed as an usher in this 1955 wedding.:
Diplomats' Kin Usher at Barbara Pullman's Wedding Today
Chicago Tribune - Oct 1, 1955
... and Lt. James-K. Don. aldson of the marines, who is the stepson of James H. ... broth- ers of the bride; Thomas Devine of Midland, Tex., Andre Rhe- ault and ...
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Did the C.I.A. "Sheep Dip" and Orchestrate the Tale of the Patsy ...
educationforum.ipbhost.com › ... › JFK Assassination DebateMay 17, 2012 – James K. Donaldson's mother, Elinor Thompson Donaldson Douglas, (stepmother of ... Pakistan, July 31, (UPI! .... building ventures conducted by Rodman Rockefeller and his IBEC Housing Corporation and Willard Garvey ..
An Uncommon Man: The Life & Times of Senator Claiborne Pell - Page 214
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books.google.com/books?isbn=1611681871
G. Wayne Miller
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wrote of Koehler's own search “after this supposed extraordinary revelation” for proof of his origins, an exercise in
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The senator approached
Jackie Kennedy
Onassis
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who had established herself as a leading editor at Doubleday.
Onassis provided encouragement to Pell, but no offer of
a contract for an autobiography or biography by another writer. Pell turned to his cousin John Pell Train, author and co-founder of The Paris Review.....
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/17/obituaries/hugh-gladstone-koehler-investment-banker-60.html
Hugh Gladstone Koehler, Investment Banker, 60 -
Aug 17, 1990 — Hugo Gladstone Koehler, an investment banker, died on Tuesday at a ... He had also been a
manager at Train Smith Counsel, Inc. since 1966. ... John DiRubba told the F.B.I. that his girlfriend plotted to have him hire a hit man ...
https://clintonwhitehouse6.archives.gov/2000/06/2000-06-01-train-named-to-the-federal-retirement-thrift-investment-board.html
For Immediate Release June 1, 2000
PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES JOHN TRAIN AS MEMBER OF THE
FEDERAL RETIREMENT THRIFT INVESTMENT BOARD
President Clinton today announced his intent to nominate John Train
as Member of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board.
Mr. John Train, of New York, New York, is the founder of Train, Smith Counsel, LLC, and ICAP, one of the largest Greek financial information companies. He is Chairman of the Montrose Group, a diversified strategies portfolio investing firm, and a director of the Genesis Emerging Markets Fund (London) and the Genesis Chile Fund. Additionally, Mr. Train is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bulgarian-American Enterprise Fund, a U.S. Government entity, and has been a director of two other U.S. agencies or entities. Mr. Train co-founded The Paris Review and has published seventeen books. He has received three Italian service awards and was appointed to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem (Queen's Birthday Honours) in 1997.
Mr. Train received a B.A and an M.A. from Harvard University.
What does everyone have in common? They are either linked directly by blood or marriage with a few families of "stature" like the Rockefellers, or they can be trusted through some other way.... past deeds, reputation?
John Train's father, Arthur, was
the widower of Ethel Kissam of a family married into the Cornelius Vanderbilt family and he summered in Bar Harbor and was known to John D. Rockefeller 2d. Tom Devine's grandmother Charlotte Hooker Dodge was first cousin of John D Rockefeller 3d's wife's father, Elon Huntington Hooker.
Nebolsine was also the name of the bride in my last post....
Another example, the last U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, Earl Smith :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_E._T._Smith#Ambassador_to_Cuba
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Smith was named the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland by President Kennedy, but declined because Switzerland was charged with United States relations in Cuba.[10] In the 1980s, he was named to the Presidential Commission on Broadcasting to Cuba by President Ronald Reagan alongside George W. Landau.[10]
Personal life
Smith was married four times and divorced twice. His marriage was on January 7, 1926 to Consuelo Vanderbilt (1903–2011),[16] a daughter of the former Virginia Graham Fair and William Kissam Vanderbilt II. Consuelo, the sister of Muriel Vanderbilt, was also a granddaughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt, Alva Belmont, James Graham Fair, and a niece of Harold Stirling Vanderbilt and, her namesake, Consuelo Vanderbilt (the former Duchess of Marlborough from her marriage to Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough).[16] Before their 1935 divorce, they were the parents of two daughters:[17]...
