Free eBook The Bishop Hoax

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Chapter 26 of The Bishop Hoax is now online:
https://wtracyparnell.blogspot.com/p/26-only-on-two-occasions-did-i-think.html

Highlights:

Phillips and the "missing" Mexico City Oswald transcript.
Assertions by Jefferson Morley and others regarding Phillips and Mexico City are discussed.
The Shawn/James Phillips story is discussed.

Re the alleged phone call that Anna Tarasoff said she heard where Oswald (in English and not broken Russian) asks for money in exchange for "useful information": Oleg Nechiporenko, one of the three Soviet Embassy/KGB persons who talked to Oswald, never mentions in his book (or elsewhere as far as I know) him discussing the need for money or offering useful information in exchange. His description is one of a desperate erratic Oswald begging for a visa because his life was threatened, that the "notorious FBI" was after him. But nothing about needing money or having information.

I would think that a desperate Oswald would try (again?) to entice a visa with promises of information as alleged in a call? Or that the three KGB agents would be told - then or later - about Oswald making a previous offer? Something, anything? But again, Nechiporenko never mentions anything about this supposed offer. Neither did the Cubans for that matter.

And, for what it's worth, the KGB documents that Boris Yeltsin gave Clinton back in 1999 never mention Oswald making such an offer. Granted, those are very limited documents - none of the other calls are mentioned and none of the KGB files on the monitoring of Oswald in Minsk were included - so I'm not sure that this means much.

The Yeltsin papers are here: https://ia803107.us.archive.org/10/items/jfkjumble/LEEHARVEYOSWALDKGBFILES.pdf
The Nechiporenko book can be read online here: https://archive.org/details/passporttoassass0000nech/page/74/mode/2up

[W. Tracy Parnell]

Chapter 27 of The Bishop Hoax is now online.

https://wtracyparnell.blogspot.com/p/27-childish-notions-about-intelligence.html

Highlights:
Veciana's claim that he saw Lee Harvey Oswald meeting with his case officer Maurice Bishop (whom he later claimed was David Phillips) is discussed in detail.

[W. Tracy Parnell]

Chapter 28 of The Bishop Hoax is now online.

https://wtracyparnell.blogspot.com/p/28-it-is-tantalizing.html

Highlights:

Several popular conspiracy theories related to Veciana and the Maurice Bishop affair are discussed including:

A comment allegedly made by HSCA staffer Kevin Walsh.
Several assertions made by Gordon Novel.
The AMLASH Legacy.
Allegations by Mark Lane.

[W. Tracy Parnell]

Chapter 29 of The Bishop Hoax is now online:

https://wtracyparnell.blogspot.com/p/29-for-sake-of-history.html

Highlights:

Veciana stonewalls the ARRB.
Veciana and Patria Potestad.
Veciana and the Pedro Pan exodus.
Marie Fonzi's role in Veciana's David Phillips "revelation."
Veciana and the AARC conference.
Trained to Kill.
The death of Veciana.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Chapter 29 of The Bishop Hoax is now online:

https://wtracyparnell.blogspot.com/p/29-for-sake-of-history.html

Highlights:

Veciana stonewalls the ARRB.
Veciana and Patria Potestad.
Veciana and the Pedro Pan exodus.
Marie Fonzi's role in Veciana's David Phillips "revelation."
Veciana and the AARC conference.
Trained to Kill.
The death of Veciana.

This is solid, original reporting that will be ignored because it's not promoting a conspiracy. You won't get attention or money by promoting a lone assassin theory. It's a type of Gresham's law: bad assassination research drives out the good research. The next time there's a story about the assassination the media will go to irresponsible people like Morley. And he's grossly irresponsible.

One point on Veciana's claim that Phillips asked him about getting a visa to go to Cuba, i.e., "If one were to go to the Cuban embassy in Mexico, would one be able to get a visa to travel to [Cuba], to which the response was absolutely no.” And from that Phillips allegedly sent Oswald to get a visa knowing he would be turned down. IOW, it was simply a maneuver to "connect" Oswald directly with Havana and not get him into Cuba.

But Oswald didn't request a visa; he asked for an in transit visa, one that he could use on his way to the Soviet Union. He said, according to the Cuban account, that he was headed to the Soviet Union to meet his wife there and that, as a friend of the Revolution, he wanted to stop in Cuba along the way. But he needed that transit visa at that time since his Mexican visa expired shortly. The Cubans, i.e., Silvia Duran, then told him she needed to see his Soviet visa first. From that we had the back-and-forth with him going to the various facilities trying to get one.

If Oswald was instructed to get a visa then why did he ask for an in transit one? And then proceed to try to get a visa from the Soviet Embassy? And act, according to the officials, like an erratic crazy person when turned down? And go back twice? None of that makes sense to me if he was being guided/controlled.

Anyway, this is solid original work that the conspiracists will ignore. At some point you'll be called a "disinformation agent."

[W. Tracy Parnell]

Anyway, this is solid original work that the conspiracists will ignore. At some point you'll be called a "disinformation agent."

Thank you.

[W. Tracy Parnell]

Chapter 30 of The Bishop Hoax is now online. It offers my conclusions on the Maurice Bishop matter after 5 years of research and writing.

https://wtracyparnell.blogspot.com/p/30-conclusion.html

I want to thank those who helped with this project:

https://wtracyparnell.blogspot.com/p/dedication-and-acknowledgements.html

Thanks also to those who have taken time to comment on my work.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Chapter 30 of The Bishop Hoax is now online. It offers my conclusions on the Maurice Bishop matter after 5 years of research and writing.

https://wtracyparnell.blogspot.com/p/30-conclusion.html

I want to thank those who helped with this project:

https://wtracyparnell.blogspot.com/p/dedication-and-acknowledgements.html

Thanks also to those who have taken time to comment on my work.

This is about as serious and sober of a debunking of any JFK conspiracy claim that I have read. Okay, it's not up there with the exposures of the Garrison nonsense; but it's close. And it's a long list. At this point there is nothing left to Veciana's major allegations; certainly nothing connecting anything he knew, directly or indirectly, with the assassination.

The proverbial icing on the conspiracy cake is your evidence indicating that no one - not a single person - associated with Alpha 66 or related groups ever heard of such a Bishop person. Supposedly the same Bishop who was, according to Veciana, directing their military operations. But he was completely unknown to Menoyo and other top military people? Veciana was never asked why they did attack "A" versus attack "B"? No one asked where the munitions or arms came from? Veciana never mentions a Bishop at all?

As I said before, I thought Fonzi was an honorable man, someone caught up with that 1970s frenzy about the CIA, but basically a honest man. Your work really calls that into question. As one of my favorite writers, Saul Bellow, once observed: "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."

But that's a good explanation for nearly all of this conspiracy nonsense.