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October 9. 1968
The Honorable Nelson Rockefeller,
Governor of New York,
22 West 55th Street,
New York, N. Y. 10019
Dear Governor Rockefeller:
Thank you for the reply of your secretary, Ann C. Whitman, to my
letters and enclosure, "Assassinations of the Industrial State".
I trust I have now achieved a fully confidential channel to com-
municate with you, even though as I fully realize, the c oncept of
an organized political conspiracy for the assinations of John F.
Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy is yet too
incredible for belief. I refused to entertain such a possibility
until the third assassination with a common modus operandi forced
me to undertake the penetrating study referred to above.
I wish to provide you in this letter a very confidential analysis
of political probabilities one month before the national elections.
You will then be in position to judge from future events the
sagacity, or lack of it, of my recommendations for your actions
to prepare to achieve the Presidency on January 20, 1969 if the
following possibility projections for the elections on November
5th prove out. Since my projection of the Cuban missiles crisis
two years and eight months before the fact proved out, I feel it
is my duty to project even a possibility if the exploitation of
the opportunity is capable of changing my country's prospects of
domination by the military-industrial-cmplex for yet another
presidential term.
I respect your decision to support the Republican ticket at all
levels including that of the Presidency and Vice Presidency. The
limitation of your support to only a minority of Republican voters
as of the Republican convention dictates that course of action.
However, let me point out that your obligation under party discip-
line ceases the moment the election returns indicate that no single
presidential nominee has secured a majority of the electoral votes.
Your obligation then will be to your country and to the majority of
the total electorate that will demand a continuation of the new
politics revolution begun by John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King
and Robert F. Kennedy. Your own new politics philosophy is closer
to theirs than to that of Nixon-Agnew. Between now and November
5th you may desire to establish your image as an acceptable
Republican-Democratic coalition nominee of the Electoral College
or of the House of Representatives.
Before I explain this, permit me to up-date my probability projec-
tions of June 6th and thereafter as a result of the assassination
of Robert F. Kennedy. I then projected that the vote for George
Wallace would be 20% to 25% of the popular vote. Since polls then
indicated only 8%, this projection was right on the nose. Current
polls indicate
as high as 21% of the total national vote with a
(2)
plurality in several Southern states. This, of course, did not just
happen but was planned, organized and financed, just as the Agnew
right wing candidacy was planned, organised and financed at the expense
of you and your followers.
I hereby tighten up my original estimate, projecting the national pop-
ular vote for the Wallace-LeMay ticket to be 24% to 25%. This increases
the probability that neither of the major party tickets will achieve a
majority of the Electoral College with its share of the remaining 75%
or 76% reflected in state-by-state electoral votes. Indeed, the poss-
ibility of the Nixon-Agnew ticket ticket achieving an electoral vote
majority is greatly reduced if the 46 electors from New York cast their
votes for Nelson Rockefeller in fear of & Wallace-Mixon deal to estab-
lish an electoral vote majority.
The original projection of Wallace's finishing voter strength and strat-
egy was achieved by predicting the right wing "law and order" emphasis
of Nixon strategy, the Southern right wing success in imposing a right
wing vice-presidential nominee, the military-industrial-political complex
money and strategy behind Wallace, and the planned impact of Complex
secret support for ultra left wing disorder upon the white back-lash
vote.
I correctly foresaw in the "Assassinations" study that the assassina-
tions of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, if indeed they were
the result of a military-industrial-political complex conspiracy,
would be followed up by election-related ultra left wing violence and
black revolutionist terrorism. These predictions of the study were
borne out at Chicago and Cleveland respectively. It has become obvious
that the Complex objective was a provoked white back-lash vote in
support of both the Wallace and the Nixon nominees. There need be no
inference here that Nixon himself participated in such strategy to see
him as the prisoner of this strategy. Your own final drive to stop
Nixon on the first ballot made him a prisoner of the Thurmond-Agnew
strategy of buying the vice presidency with first ballot votes.
So far, so good for the projections. However, I erred in projecting
that the frustration of the followers of Robert F. Kennedy and Eugene
McCarthy might result in the formation of a substantial fourth party
for the 1968 election. I did not, however, err in predicting that
the military-industrial-political complex would infiltrate and secretly
control the fourth party. It was because I felt that a fourth party
substantial vote potential could be snatched from the imminent control
of the Complex by a strong "new politics" national union ticket that I
made the proposal of September 5th to you. Nationally known vote-
getting nominees would dominate the New Party machinery rather than
vice versa.
Your good judgment in supporting the Republican ticket combined with
the good judgment of Democrats who supported Eugene McCarthy and the
late Robert F. Kennedy and established a New Democratic Coalition
within the Democratic Party has frustrated the Complex objective of
neutralizing a large bloc of votes by control,
ling the New Party.
(3)
My superficial examination of the leadership of the New Party in
Washington State was positive with regard to the potential for secret
Complex control. Mrs. Siegel, the only New Party leader outside of
the national leader Marcus Raskin mentioned in the Wall Street
Journal article of August 30, 1968, referred to in my first letter
to you, is Chairman of the New Party in Washington State.
Investigation established that Mrs. Siegel, who lives in the well-to-
do neighborhood of Bellevue near Seattle, opened up a New Party office
in the central (negro) district of Seattle and an employment agency
in the downtown area at approximately the same time. I telephoned her
employment office when she was out of town at the New Party convention
in Chicago. It is interesting that all these New Party leaders from
all over the United States were in Chicago before, during and after
the riots that shocked the nation, but were predicted in "Assassinations".
Mrs. Siegel's tape recorded voice came on the line referring callers
to three other phone numbers, one of which was another personnel agency
and a second which turned out to be the switchboard of the Lockheed
company's shipbuilding division in Seattle. The Vice Chairman of
the New Party in Washington State turned out to be the personnel direc-
tor of Lockheed who was receiving calls for the New Party in the
absence of Mrs. Siegel!
or course, this relationship between Mrs. Siegel and the Lockheed
company, the nation's largest defense contractor with current contracts
of over $10 billion annually, makes it very easy for Lockheed to pay
organizing costs of the New Party in Washington State disguised as
employer-paid employment fees on new employees.
My probability analysis of "enemy intentions and capabilities", based
upon the theory of a sinister Complex conspiracy behind the assassin-
ations of anti-war political leaders, therefore, has been amazingly
accurate with regard to the "enemy" and inaccurate only with regard
to the enemy's capability of influencing the actions of the "friendlies".
The "friendlies" or supporters of the "new politics" in both the older
parties have successfully rejected the tempting but disastrous policy
of bolting their parties. This disastrous course would have served
only Complex objectives. I underestimated "friendlies" resistance to
the Complex trap.
With this adjustment of June predictions to conform to the greater
information available from hindsight, I hereby project, Governor
Rockefeller, that you can still become President on January 20, 1969
if the following conditions make you the logical national union
ticket selection of the Electoral College or the House of Representa-
tives or the Senate (for Vice-President):
1. George Wallace and Curtis LeMay take 24% or 25% of the pop-
ular vote and the electoral votes of four or more S outhern
states.
(4)
2. Richard Nixon requires the 46 electoral votes of New York
to win a majority of the Electoral College but the New
York electors, in an unprecedented but nevertheless legal
action, cast their votes for Nelson Rockefeller, or
neither major party nominee receives a majority of the
electoral vote.
3. A revulsion or "double back-lash" of public opinion against
"establishment" nominees of the two major parties and their
demonstrated lack of "capacity to govern" with majority con-
sent together with scandalous revelations of Complex campaign
funds support for nominees of all significant parties from
far right to far left supports the selection of a national
union ticket of Rockefeller for President and McCarthy for
Vice President by the Electoral College or by the House and
Senate.
There is now little doubt of Complex strategy for the election of
the President this year. H. L. Hunt, ultra right wing independent
oil billionaire of Dallas, Texas, is now supporting both the Nixon-Agnew
and the Wallace-LeMay tickets with ample campaign funds. If investi-
gation were made, it is very probable that this same and other Complex
sources provided strategy and campaign funds to insure that Spiro
Agnew and Strom Thurmond made you their "patsy" threat to Nixon that
forced a right wing vice presidential candidate upon the Republican
Party.
There is an old saying that a wise man may be fooled once but only
a fool is fooled twice by the same stratagem. The pro-war racist
southern clique of the Republican Party operating through Strom
Thurmond made you their patsy threat and used Spiro Agnew. Then
Nixon made you the prisoner of party regularity. Party regularity,
however, is a restraint only upon honorable men. Dishonorable men
including those of the Complex have no use for party regularity as
they have been providing campaign funds for both major parties at
least since 1948.
Now you, the liberal wing of the Republican Party, and the entire
American electorate are soon to become the "patsy" of a small group
of southern defense contractors and oil companies. You and your
family name, associated as it is with the oil industry, will thus
be a patsy of this evil Complex strategy for the second time. The
American electorate has been the patsy of their campaign funds
strategy since 1948. This is how the Complex is taking absolutely
no chances of losing control of pro-war policies in foreign affairs
and pro "law and order" racial repression policies for the next four
years.
(5)
George Wallace let the cat out of the bag in order to convince voters
that a vote for Wallace was not a wasted vote. He was right. He
predicted that the election would be resolved in the Electoral
College rather than in the House of Representatives if no party's
nominee wins a majority of electoral votes. Again he was right.
Originally in colonial days it was necessary for electors of the new
government to enjoy discretion in voting for President and Vice Pres-
ident. Lack of communications made it impossible for the rank and
file voters to know or evaluate the nominees at a remote city where
the balloting of the Electoral College took place. Consequently, even
today, because of this constitutional precedent establishing the clear
right of electors to exercise discretion, they will not be bound to
the nominees they are pledged to on the ballot this November 5th.
Consequently, Wallace electors can vote for Nixon and will if their
Electoral College votes are necessary for Nixon to win on the first
ballot. Isn't this precisely the strategem that fooled you and
millions of your "new politics" followers when the Agnew-Thurmond
onspiracy won the Republican nomination for Nixon on the first ballot?
The price the Wallace electors will exact will be paid by the liberal
wing of the Republican Party and the American electorate as a whole.
Nixon can afford to take an independent stance against Wallace publicly
because any deal made with Wallace involving Complex-desired policy
for Wallace electoral votes can be disavowed publicly even if Wallace's
electoral votes provide Nixon's electoral majority. Nixon's
appellation of "tricky Dick" was earned, not inherited from the days
of the "old Nixon".
The key to frustrating this Complex strategy could be one Nelson
Rockefeller because he has already been the victim of one Complex
"first ballot" stratagem. However, his party regularity as an hon-
orable man could be used again by others with less than honorable
purpose. Worse, his family name which is publicly associated with
the oil industry, but not with political corruption, may be dragged
through the mud of post-election investigations.
Why? Because H. L. Hunt and oil companies concentrated in the South
have already contributed such large amounts of campaign funds to both
the Wallace-LeMay and the Nixon-Agnew campaigns that this will be
impossible to conceal in the inevitable post-election inquest into
what happened to the American electorate's choice. Just as Hubert
Humphrey has been unable to shake the image of LBJ, you may be un-
able to shake a post-investigation image of the oil companies. Your
undiluted influence as a firm supporter of the new politics within
the Republican Party is 80 important to the future of our country
that this should be prevented at all costs.
(6)
Without due care you could become a captive of Complex strategy. It
is no secret that you wish to exercise your executive talents by assum-
ing meaningful national executive responsibilities for the federal
government. Richard Nixon will have disappointed me if he hasn't
already offered you a choice appointment in his administration. This
could possibly make you his captive before the Electoral College
makes its selection.
Before you surrender complete independence of action with regard to
possible election by the Electoral College or the House of Represen-
tatives, however, consider the following probabilities of the next
four years that will make it impossible for a Nixon-Agnew team with
the kiss of death of Wallace-LeMay support to govern with the consent
of the majority of the governed:
1. The triple relationship of H. L. Hunt, Dallas oil billionaire,
to extensive campaign funding of both Nixon and Wallace, to
the Central Intelligence Agency, and to the assassination of
John F. Kennedy will certainly be exposed in spite of his
wealth.
2. The close association of the oil industry with the Central
Intelligence Agency will be exposed.
3. The association of the Central Intelligence Agency with the
sanctioned diversion of military payments certificates (MPC's)
profits out of South Vietnam to the Communist Chinese govern-
ment bank in Hongkong will be exposed.
4. Wholesale corruption of the military supply stream to South
Vietnam under the management of large military contractors
and for the benefit of the contractors, Communist China
and the Viet Cong will be exposed.
5. The trial of James Earl Ray will reveal, in spite of extreme
precautions to prevent it, that although his fingerprints
were on the rifle 80 conveniently left at the scene of the
crime, he will not be positively identified by eye witnesses
as the man who ran down the hall and out the door of the
rooming house after killing Martin Luther King. The key
witness is now in jail in protective custody of the FBI after
failing to identify James Earl Ray as the man he saw.
This exposure of a more sophisticated crime will force the
reopening of investigation into the murder of John F. Kennedy
because the "proof" of Lee Harvey Oswald's sole guilt for the
murder is tied to the same modus operandi of "proof" to con-
vict a "patsy" by means of a readily traceable gun and finger-
prints while the triggerman remains without positive identi-
fication. Whoever planned the assassination made the fatal
error of failing to anticipate the possibility that the im-
pact of the shots would be recorded by the lens of a movie
camera. The recorded impact of two bullets within one second
will eventually demolish the official theory.
(7)
6. The trial of Sirhan Sirhan will fail to establish arab
nationalism as the ideological motive for the killing of
Robert F. Kennedy just as the Warren Report failed to
establish communism as the ideological motive of Lee
Harvey Oswald.
On the other hand, the trial of Sirhan Sirhan will estab-
lish that he was under the influence of the Peking brand
of communism that believes that all political power grows
out of the barrel of a gun.
The Sirhan trial will eventually precipitate an investigation into
why his act inspired a rally of thousands of Red Guards in Canton,
China, on the same day as the release of the news of the assassin-
ation within China and on the same day as Senator Kennedy's funeral
in New York. The Red Guard rally, obviously enjoying advance prep-
aration before the assassination news was released, burned Senator
Kennedy in effigy and hailed Sirhan Sirhan as a Red Guard hero.
Such investigation will in turn inspire investigation into the
billion-dollar leaks of military payment certificates (MPC's)
profits, black market profits, surplus military property profits,
and international arms ring profits to Communist China from South
Vietnam. These facts are inexplicable unless there exists a
working "modus vivendi" between the Complex and Communist China
supported by the CIA. Both the defense contractors and Communist
China have a common vested interest in assuring the continued flow
of American dollars to South Vietnam.
Governor Rockefeller, you have indisputable proof, at least, that
I have confidence in my own evaluations and projections. I should
fear to write you this letter implicating an oil billionaire,
various oil companies and huge defense contractors, as well as
the Central Intelligence Agency, if I believed your family's oil
fortune made you a part of this sordid and evil conspiracy. My life
wouldn't be worth a Kennedy half dollar!
My evaluation and projection places you in the position of an
unknowing and unwilling "patsy" for the evil political conspiracies
of the Complex which needs the support of all the Republican party.
Your opposition to Goldwater in 1964 and his extreme war policies
which were subsequently adopted by LBJ was not a political error
although you felt its repercussions at Miami. Your day will come
but only in your role as the executive leader of an independent
new politics strategy. Winston Churchill's policy was & minority
policy both in his party and in his country as a whole until the
country faced a crisis and needed an executive leader with the
right policy. Legislative leaders cannot assume this role however
right their policies because the country demands an executive in
time of crisis. However, you can make alliances with legislative
leaders of either political party who support the right policy.
Indeed, you cannot become a national leader
(8)
Before you jeopardize your independent political position which is
potentially your most valuable political stock, please observe the
dilemma of Complex captive Lyndon B. Johnson. Lyndon B. Johnson
had no part in the conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy. IBJ
has not been wise at times, but he is certainly not stupid. An
assassin's bullet in Texas brought a Texas Vice-President to the
Presidency. If IBJ had been the type of conscienceless man that
could have participated in such a conspiracy, Texas would have been
the last place in the world that the President would have been exe-
cuted.
However, if you can grasp credibility of such a monstrous conspiracy
at all-and I must as a result of my studies in depth-you must
assume the existence of conscienceless conspirators that wanted to
make Lyndon B. Johnson a captive-at least sufficiently to prevent
the exposure of such a monstrous conspiracy. Execution in Texas
was a master stroke of conspiracy because no President from Texas could have
a Warren Report of possible conspiracy and face the 1964 election,
whatever the facts. It also follows that neither LBJ nor a loyal
suceessor could permit a reopening of investigation into President
Kennedy's murder.
On the other hand, the trials of the accused in the two succeeding
assassinations of the industrial state with neither LBJ nor his
hand-picked successor enjoying presidential powers will surely
force reconsideration of the Warren Report--unless the very sophisti-
cated conspirators in anticipation of this have already made Nixon
their captive in this regard.
No political candidate for President except McCarthy has called for
an investigation of the CIA which is the equivalent of reopening the
Warren investigation. No candidates except you and McCarthy had a
peace program for Vietnam that did not depend upon what the enemy
did first. Therefore, no other candidates could be bound by their
campaign promises, including both Nixon and Humphrey. Senator
McCarthy correctly regarded Humphrey's quibbling over what is to
be considered reciprocal action by North Vietnam as no change from
the policy initiated by IBJ.
Governor Rockefeller, there is one political code phrase that has
come to mean identification with the peace forces in either of the
major political parties. It is "investigation of the CIA". To
sophisticated ears and even, more and more, to unsophisticated
ears it means not only a recognition of the CIA role in subverting
Congress' foreign policy and its role as provocateur as in the
Tonkin Gulf and Pueblo incidents but it means investigation of the
indications of conspiracy behind the assassinations of the two most
effective opponents of the war in Vietnam, Robert F. Kennedy and
Martin Luther King.
(9)
When Vice President Humphrey was in Seattle this political code po-
sition was passed on to Bill Connel, the highest ranking political
strategist traveling with the Humphrey party. The purpose was to
separate the sheep from the goats, the accepted member of the peace
forces from those who want to straddle the fence until after the
election. It was clearly pointed out that it was unnecessary to
either repudiate IBJ or to make allegations that could not be proved
before election. Although the meeting confirmed that the Humphrey
forces were aware of the H. L. Hunt money flowing to both the Nixon
and the Wallace campaign we are aware that Humphrey's campaign to
"stop Kennedy" organized in New York had brought Complex money into
the Humphrey camp. The position taken by Humphrey at Salt Lake City
immediately after Seattle did not qualify as an acceptable peace
position.
The political code position is also being passed on to you in this
confidential letter. While there may be efforts, successful or
unsuccessful, to raise the issue of the CIA or the diversion of
the military supply stream in Vietnam before election and therefore
some of the facts revealed in this letter may be revealed elsewhere,
this letter itself will be confidential so that you may take any
action you may feel is indicated without inhibitions.
I have no objections to your urging Nixon to support investigation
of the CIA but in view of his support by H. L. Hunt and others I
am sure you will discover that Nixon could never raise this issue.
The purpose of this letter, therefore, is to let this issue work
on your conscience. Should you decide to adopt a position inde-
pendent of that of Nixon before elections in view of the possibility
of the Electoral College making an independent choice of President
and Vice President this year, your decision could be made known by
your raising the issue of "investigation of the CIA". of course,
no one is demanding conviction of the CIA in the newspapers, 80
any political leader is expected to reserve decision on what to do
until after investigation establishes the facts.
My position on what will be revealed by a thorough investigation
is stated in the action paragraph of my letter of August 14, 1968
addressed to Senator J. William Fulbright, Chairman, Committee on
Foreign Relations, a copy of which you have in your possession:
"It is my firm prediction that when the Foreign Relations
Committees get to the bottom of the CIA's conspiracy to
usurp Congress' foreign policy authority they will also
have solved the conspiracies behind the continuing assass-
inations of the industrial state."
A committee investigator (not the Foreign Relations Committee)
is coming to Washington State this week to interview the investi-
gator who spent 18 months in South Vietnam and who was propositioned
to assassinate Robert F. Kennedy a year before the killing.
(10)
It may very well be that this may be the logical opportunity to
successfully release to the press the first indications of the
depth of the corruption of the American political process with the
huge amount of campaign funds that is being accomplished this
year. A leading example is H. L. Hunt of Dallas, oil industry
billionaire.
H. L. Hunt is, of course, notorious for his support of ultra right
wing causes. Few know, however, even today after the most publi-
cised assassination in history that his son, Nelson Bunker Hunt
and the local coordinator for the John Birch Society paid for the
full page ad bordered in black that appeared in the Dallas Morning
News shortly before President Kennedy was shot within sight of Hunt's
office. No apology was issued by the arrogant billionsire who is
truly beyond the law.
More sinister is the fact that the advertising manager of the news-
paper who accepted the ad and who was only 45 years of age and in
good health mysteriously dropped dead about two weeks after the
assassination. Jack Ruby's alibi for his whereabouts at the time
of the assassination was that he was placing his weekend ads for
his nightclubs at the Dallas Morning News offices. Checking this
alibi is important because if a shot was fired from the direction
of the grassy knoll Jack Ruby with his intimate acquaintance with
most Dallas police would be the logical man to undertake to remove
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the weapon in his truck.
The Warren Report ignored the implications of the testimony of
Julia Anne Mercer who swore she saw Jack Ruby drop off a man with
a rifle near the grassing knoll an hour and a half before the
assassination. Although she swears to have reported this fact
before Ruby shot Oswald, thereby negating any theory that she was
influenced by television, the Warren Report neglected this fact
80 vital to evaluation.
Was the mysteriously stricken advertising manager the only witness
that could alibi for Ruby or connect Ruby with H. L. Hunt whose
money admittedly paid for the black-bordered ad? Does an oil
billionaire have to answer to investigation and to the law or is
he free to pour millions of dollars of oil company money into a
Nixon-Agnew-Wallace-LeMay campaign to enforce "law and order" only
in black ghettos?
District Attorney Jim Garrison's witness Dave Ferrie who linked
the CIA for which he worked as a pilot with Lee Harvey Oswald died
just as suddenly as the advertising manager when he also became &
key witness necessary to establish conspiracy.
Emon
Chews
Para 1
(11)
The used car lot employee who identified Oswald as the killer of
Officer Tippit was himself killed by a man with a rifle. The chief
suspect in this shooting was released on the alibi provided by a
woman. The woman was picked up on a common charge and was later
found hanged in a Dallas jail. Similarly a Mexican-American eager
to tell what he knew about Sirhan Sirhan and the conspiracy to kill
Robert F. Kennedy was found hanged in a Juares, Mexico jail a short
time after being interviewed by the FBI from El Paso. Hd was alleged
to be mentally incompetent, but this has not been established although
as & resident of Washington State this could be easily accomplished.
Not only Oswald, but now Jack Ruby, are dead obliterating these avenues
of establishing conspiracy.
Governor Rockefeller, if some oil fortunes can accomplish any evil,
other oil fortunes can reverse evil and accomplish good. You have
the opportunity to prove this axion and prevent a national reaction
against the oil industry and oil fortunes.
Jack Ruby's nightclubs were the hangouts of CIA agents in Dallas.
The Warren Report contains the testimony of one who admits to gun
running and identifies Jack Ruby as the "bag man" for the Vito
Genovese branch of the Mafia in New York. Doesn't this bring
"Law and order" in Dallas close to "law and order" in New York?
I have established that Wallace electors can vote for Nixon. By
the same token, Nixon electors are free to vote for Nelson Rocke-
feller if their conscience so dictates or party or national inter-
est required it. In both cases, however, the individual elector
must be convinced it is legal to exercise discretion. It is appar-
ent that Wallace electors have been carefully selected to achieve
this result if the election indicates no nominee will gain "first
ballot" election unless the minority party switches electoral votes.
Have New York's Republican electors been prepared for the possibility
of a vote for you under certain conditions? The Complex has, no
doubt, prepared a strategy very similar to the strategy that stopped
you at Miami. Can you take advantage of a "double back-lash" of
public opinion that may occur on or after November 5th but before
the Electoral College casts their votes? If the Electoral College
is deadlocked have you a strategy for the House of Representatives
and the Senate? This strategy could only be Rockefeller for Presi-
dent and McCarthy for Vice President to break a deadlock over
Nixon and Humphrey as to favor one party completely would fail to
win sufficient votes or achieve the charisma of a ticket of national
union based upon the new politics and national concern over the
corruption of the American political process with campaign funds.
You may be sure that the Complex and Wallace do have a strategy to
achieve an electoral college majority for their ultra right wing
plans.
(12)
A deadlock potential is now more likely. I predict that Hubert
Humphrey has reached the lowest point in the public opinion polls
and will gain points from now until election. However, unlike Truman
in 1948, he is not likely to gain enough lost ground to achieve the
Presidency on November 5th in the Electoral College or in the House.
On the other hand, there now exists a strong possibility that his
late declaration of independence in favor of a halt to the bembing
of North Vietnam may be sufficient to deny Nixon a majority of elector-
al votes, especially if a majority of the electoral votes of New
York electors are cast for Nelson Rockefeller. Either of these
eventualities should be prepared for.
A third eventuality might be a spontaneous draft of a national union
ticket by voters writing in the names of Rockefeller for President
and McCarthy for Vice President. While this may take no electoral
votes it might imbue the ticket with so much charisma that the
Electoral College or the House and Senate could not ignore the demand
for national union.
An ultra right wing move to put Wallace electoral votes in Nixon's
column should be countered by a strategy to secure New York electors'
votes for Rockefeller. This move should be strengthened by & McCarthy
effort to secure Humphrey electoral votes for McCarthy in states
where the Humphrey electoral ticket won.
While a campaign for the votes of the Electoral College or the House
and Senate may now appear to be fantastic, it should be noted that
Wallace may get 25% of the popular vote just by projecting such a
possibility that will make his votes count.
The important point to remember is that the winner of such an un-
precedented Electoral College contest must have the quality of
"charisma". Politics has associated this quality with President
Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy but not with
Nelson Rockefeller.
The Kennedy brothers are proof that "charisma" is not necessarily to
be denied a wealthy man. The determinative factor for "charisma" is
leadership of a legal, non-viclent revolution against an "establish-
ment" believed to be corrupted.
You vacillated in your determination to run for President in 1968--
but so did Robert F. Kennedy. Although a severe setback, had Robert
Kennedy lived he would have overcome this deficiency of vacillation
which made him appear to be an opportunist after McCarthy's victory
in New Hampshire and the withdrawal of IBJ from the race.
The moral of this review is that Nelson Rockefeller may have another
chance to achieve charisma by decisively assuming executive leader-
ship of the John F. Kennedy-Martin Luther King-Robert F. Kennedy-
Eugene McCarthy-Nelson Rockefeller legal and non-violent revolution
against the establishment.
(13)
This is the year for it-the unpredictable year of 1968. Even
George Wallace's spurious demagogic charisma is attributable to
his leadership of a revolt against "the establishment in the eyes
of his followers.
The prerequisites for "charisma" should be achieved, however, in your
public relations before November 5th if you are to exploit a potentially
possible "double back-lash" of public opinion that may develop
before or soon after the election and the potential compromise of
the top nominees feared. The principal fear may be that a Nixon or
Humphrey choice of the Electoral College may lack "the capacity to
govern" in the face of widespread disillusionment caused by a
dramatic shift of public opinion immediately before or after the
election.
Such disillusionment may come from a belated realization of the
narrowness of the popular base of the potentially winning ticket or
a compromise of principle involved. Under these circumstances, leader-
ship to achieve national union will achieve an unprecedented reversal
of popular opinion, especially isolating those relying upon the
"law and order" issue for their popular base.
The public relations positions recommended for achieving the "charisma"
of leadership of the "new politics" before November 5th are:
1. A public position supporting the continuance of the new
politics "revolution" initiated by John F. Kennedy, Martin
Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy.
2. A public position endorsing an investigation of possible
usurpation of Congress' prerogative to establish foreign
policy by the Central Intelligence Agency.
3. A public view of alarm at the subversion of the American
electoral process by large campaign contributions from
defense-oriented industry.
It is my prediction that the unprecedented surprises of the 1968
presidential campaign season are not yet over. Even if Nixon and
Agnew were elected and routinely inaugurated on January 20th they
would soon face a "capacity to govern" crisis of proportions much
graver than that of LBJ. Like LBJ's administration it is hardly
likely it will be able to be reelected or name its successor if,
indeed, it is elected in 1968.
Consequently, I strongly urge you to give earnest consideration to
implementing the above prerequisites for your draft by the Electoral
Congress or by the House of Representatives as the President of
national union that may be urgently needed by the country to resolve
a deadlock and govern effectively during the next four or eight years.
Sincerely,
Amos
Amore 5. Heacock Hearth
2774 70th S. E., Mercer Island, Wash.
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"ocrText": "OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY PARISH OF ORLEANS\nRACKETS DIVISION\nDATE\nACTION TAKEN\nA.D.A.\nAmos E. Heacock,\n2774 70th S.E.\nMercer Island, Washington\nAMOS HEACOCK\nKP 28372 A\nCHECK LIST FOR CLOSING FILES\nClosed by\n1. Closed to All Defendants.\n( )\n2. Closed in General Docket Book (Clerk's Office) ( )\nDate\n3. Index Card Closed.\n( )\nOctober 9. 1968\nThe Honorable Nelson Rockefeller,\nGovernor of New York,\n22 West 55th Street,\nNew York, N. Y. 10019\nDear Governor Rockefeller:\nThank you for the reply of your secretary, Ann C. Whitman, to my\nletters and enclosure, \"Assassinations of the Industrial State\".\nI trust I have now achieved a fully confidential channel to com-\nmunicate with you, even though as I fully realize, the c oncept of\nan organized political conspiracy for the assinations of John F.\nKennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy is yet too\nincredible for belief. I refused to entertain such a possibility\nuntil the third assassination with a common modus operandi forced\nme to undertake the penetrating study referred to above.\nI wish to provide you in this letter a very confidential analysis\nof political probabilities one month before the national elections.\nYou will then be in position to judge from future events the\nsagacity, or lack of it, of my recommendations for your actions\nto prepare to achieve the Presidency on January 20, 1969 if the\nfollowing possibility projections for the elections on November\n5th prove out. Since my projection of the Cuban missiles crisis\ntwo years and eight months before the fact proved out, I feel it\nis my duty to project even a possibility if the exploitation of\nthe opportunity is capable of changing my country's prospects of\ndomination by the military-industrial-cmplex for yet another\npresidential term.\nI respect your decision to support the Republican ticket at all\nlevels including that of the Presidency and Vice Presidency. The\nlimitation of your support to only a minority of Republican voters\nas of the Republican convention dictates that course of action.\nHowever, let me point out that your obligation under party discip-\nline ceases the moment the election returns indicate that no single\npresidential nominee has secured a majority of the electoral votes.\nYour obligation then will be to your country and to the majority of\nthe total electorate that will demand a continuation of the new\npolitics revolution begun by John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King\nand Robert F. Kennedy. Your own new politics philosophy is closer\nto theirs than to that of Nixon-Agnew. Between now and November\n5th you may desire to establish your image as an acceptable\nRepublican-Democratic coalition nominee of the Electoral College\nor of the House of Representatives.\nBefore I explain this, permit me to up-date my probability projec-\ntions of June 6th and thereafter as a result of the assassination\nof Robert F. Kennedy. I then projected that the vote for George\nWallace would be 20% to 25% of the popular vote. Since polls then\nindicated only 8%, this projection was right on the nose. Current\npolls indicate\nas high as 21% of the total national vote with a\n(2)\nplurality in several Southern states. This, of course, did not just\nhappen but was planned, organized and financed, just as the Agnew\nright wing candidacy was planned, organised and financed at the expense\nof you and your followers.\nI hereby tighten up my original estimate, projecting the national pop-\nular vote for the Wallace-LeMay ticket to be 24% to 25%. This increases\nthe probability that neither of the major party tickets will achieve a\nmajority of the Electoral College with its share of the remaining 75%\nor 76% reflected in state-by-state electoral votes. Indeed, the poss-\nibility of the Nixon-Agnew ticket ticket achieving an electoral vote\nmajority is greatly reduced if the 46 electors from New York cast their\nvotes for Nelson Rockefeller in fear of & Wallace-Mixon deal to estab-\nlish an electoral vote majority.\nThe original projection of Wallace's finishing voter strength and strat-\negy was achieved by predicting the right wing \"law and order\" emphasis\nof Nixon strategy, the Southern right wing success in imposing a right\nwing vice-presidential nominee, the military-industrial-political complex\nmoney and strategy behind Wallace, and the planned impact of Complex\nsecret support for ultra left wing disorder upon the white back-lash\nvote.\nI correctly foresaw in the \"Assassinations\" study that the assassina-\ntions of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, if indeed they were\nthe result of a military-industrial-political complex conspiracy,\nwould be followed up by election-related ultra left wing violence and\nblack revolutionist terrorism. These predictions of the study were\nborne out at Chicago and Cleveland respectively. It has become obvious\nthat the Complex objective was a provoked white back-lash vote in\nsupport of both the Wallace and the Nixon nominees. There need be no\ninference here that Nixon himself participated in such strategy to see\nhim as the prisoner of this strategy. Your own final drive to stop\nNixon on the first ballot made him a prisoner of the Thurmond-Agnew\nstrategy of buying the vice presidency with first ballot votes.\nSo far, so good for the projections. However, I erred in projecting\nthat the frustration of the followers of Robert F. Kennedy and Eugene\nMcCarthy might result in the formation of a substantial fourth party\nfor the 1968 election. I did not, however, err in predicting that\nthe military-industrial-political complex would infiltrate and secretly\ncontrol the fourth party. It was because I felt that a fourth party\nsubstantial vote potential could be snatched from the imminent control\nof the Complex by a strong \"new politics\" national union ticket that I\nmade the proposal of September 5th to you. Nationally known vote-\ngetting nominees would dominate the New Party machinery rather than\nvice versa.\nYour good judgment in supporting the Republican ticket combined with\nthe good judgment of Democrats who supported Eugene McCarthy and the\nlate Robert F. Kennedy and established a New Democratic Coalition\nwithin the Democratic Party has frustrated the Complex objective of\nneutralizing a large bloc of votes by control,\nling the New Party.\n(3)\nMy superficial examination of the leadership of the New Party in\nWashington State was positive with regard to the potential for secret\nComplex control. Mrs. Siegel, the only New Party leader outside of\nthe national leader Marcus Raskin mentioned in the Wall Street\nJournal article of August 30, 1968, referred to in my first letter\nto you, is Chairman of the New Party in Washington State.\nInvestigation established that Mrs. Siegel, who lives in the well-to-\ndo neighborhood of Bellevue near Seattle, opened up a New Party office\nin the central (negro) district of Seattle and an employment agency\nin the downtown area at approximately the same time. I telephoned her\nemployment office when she was out of town at the New Party convention\nin Chicago. It is interesting that all these New Party leaders from\nall over the United States were in Chicago before, during and after\nthe riots that shocked the nation, but were predicted in \"Assassinations\".\nMrs. Siegel's tape recorded voice came on the line referring callers\nto three other phone numbers, one of which was another personnel agency\nand a second which turned out to be the switchboard of the Lockheed\ncompany's shipbuilding division in Seattle. The Vice Chairman of\nthe New Party in Washington State turned out to be the personnel direc-\ntor of Lockheed who was receiving calls for the New Party in the\nabsence of Mrs. Siegel!\nor course, this relationship between Mrs. Siegel and the Lockheed\ncompany, the nation's largest defense contractor with current contracts\nof over $10 billion annually, makes it very easy for Lockheed to pay\norganizing costs of the New Party in Washington State disguised as\nemployer-paid employment fees on new employees.\nMy probability analysis of \"enemy intentions and capabilities\", based\nupon the theory of a sinister Complex conspiracy behind the assassin-\nations of anti-war political leaders, therefore, has been amazingly\naccurate with regard to the \"enemy\" and inaccurate only with regard\nto the enemy's capability of influencing the actions of the \"friendlies\".\nThe \"friendlies\" or supporters of the \"new politics\" in both the older\nparties have successfully rejected the tempting but disastrous policy\nof bolting their parties. This disastrous course would have served\nonly Complex objectives. I underestimated \"friendlies\" resistance to\nthe Complex trap.\nWith this adjustment of June predictions to conform to the greater\ninformation available from hindsight, I hereby project, Governor\nRockefeller, that you can still become President on January 20, 1969\nif the following conditions make you the logical national union\nticket selection of the Electoral College or the House of Representa-\ntives or the Senate (for Vice-President):\n1. George Wallace and Curtis LeMay take 24% or 25% of the pop-\nular vote and the electoral votes of four or more S outhern\nstates.\n(4)\n2. Richard Nixon requires the 46 electoral votes of New York\nto win a majority of the Electoral College but the New\nYork electors, in an unprecedented but nevertheless legal\naction, cast their votes for Nelson Rockefeller, or\nneither major party nominee receives a majority of the\nelectoral vote.\n3. A revulsion or \"double back-lash\" of public opinion against\n\"establishment\" nominees of the two major parties and their\ndemonstrated lack of \"capacity to govern\" with majority con-\nsent together with scandalous revelations of Complex campaign\nfunds support for nominees of all significant parties from\nfar right to far left supports the selection of a national\nunion ticket of Rockefeller for President and McCarthy for\nVice President by the Electoral College or by the House and\nSenate.\nThere is now little doubt of Complex strategy for the election of\nthe President this year. H. L. Hunt, ultra right wing independent\noil billionaire of Dallas, Texas, is now supporting both the Nixon-Agnew\nand the Wallace-LeMay tickets with ample campaign funds. If investi-\ngation were made, it is very probable that this same and other Complex\nsources provided strategy and campaign funds to insure that Spiro\nAgnew and Strom Thurmond made you their \"patsy\" threat to Nixon that\nforced a right wing vice presidential candidate upon the Republican\nParty.\nThere is an old saying that a wise man may be fooled once but only\na fool is fooled twice by the same stratagem. The pro-war racist\nsouthern clique of the Republican Party operating through Strom\nThurmond made you their patsy threat and used Spiro Agnew. Then\nNixon made you the prisoner of party regularity. Party regularity,\nhowever, is a restraint only upon honorable men. Dishonorable men\nincluding those of the Complex have no use for party regularity as\nthey have been providing campaign funds for both major parties at\nleast since 1948.\nNow you, the liberal wing of the Republican Party, and the entire\nAmerican electorate are soon to become the \"patsy\" of a small group\nof southern defense contractors and oil companies. You and your\nfamily name, associated as it is with the oil industry, will thus\nbe a patsy of this evil Complex strategy for the second time. The\nAmerican electorate has been the patsy of their campaign funds\nstrategy since 1948. This is how the Complex is taking absolutely\nno chances of losing control of pro-war policies in foreign affairs\nand pro \"law and order\" racial repression policies for the next four\nyears.\n(5)\nGeorge Wallace let the cat out of the bag in order to convince voters\nthat a vote for Wallace was not a wasted vote. He was right. He\npredicted that the election would be resolved in the Electoral\nCollege rather than in the House of Representatives if no party's\nnominee wins a majority of electoral votes. Again he was right.\nOriginally in colonial days it was necessary for electors of the new\ngovernment to enjoy discretion in voting for President and Vice Pres-\nident. Lack of communications made it impossible for the rank and\nfile voters to know or evaluate the nominees at a remote city where\nthe balloting of the Electoral College took place. Consequently, even\ntoday, because of this constitutional precedent establishing the clear\nright of electors to exercise discretion, they will not be bound to\nthe nominees they are pledged to on the ballot this November 5th.\nConsequently, Wallace electors can vote for Nixon and will if their\nElectoral College votes are necessary for Nixon to win on the first\nballot. Isn't this precisely the strategem that fooled you and\nmillions of your \"new politics\" followers when the Agnew-Thurmond\nonspiracy won the Republican nomination for Nixon on the first ballot?\nThe price the Wallace electors will exact will be paid by the liberal\nwing of the Republican Party and the American electorate as a whole.\nNixon can afford to take an independent stance against Wallace publicly\nbecause any deal made with Wallace involving Complex-desired policy\nfor Wallace electoral votes can be disavowed publicly even if Wallace's\nelectoral votes provide Nixon's electoral majority. Nixon's\nappellation of \"tricky Dick\" was earned, not inherited from the days\nof the \"old Nixon\".\nThe key to frustrating this Complex strategy could be one Nelson\nRockefeller because he has already been the victim of one Complex\n\"first ballot\" stratagem. However, his party regularity as an hon-\norable man could be used again by others with less than honorable\npurpose. Worse, his family name which is publicly associated with\nthe oil industry, but not with political corruption, may be dragged\nthrough the mud of post-election investigations.\nWhy? Because H. L. Hunt and oil companies concentrated in the South\nhave already contributed such large amounts of campaign funds to both\nthe Wallace-LeMay and the Nixon-Agnew campaigns that this will be\nimpossible to conceal in the inevitable post-election inquest into\nwhat happened to the American electorate's choice. Just as Hubert\nHumphrey has been unable to shake the image of LBJ, you may be un-\nable to shake a post-investigation image of the oil companies. Your\nundiluted influence as a firm supporter of the new politics within\nthe Republican Party is 80 important to the future of our country\nthat this should be prevented at all costs.\n(6)\nWithout due care you could become a captive of Complex strategy. It\nis no secret that you wish to exercise your executive talents by assum-\ning meaningful national executive responsibilities for the federal\ngovernment. Richard Nixon will have disappointed me if he hasn't\nalready offered you a choice appointment in his administration. This\ncould possibly make you his captive before the Electoral College\nmakes its selection.\nBefore you surrender complete independence of action with regard to\npossible election by the Electoral College or the House of Represen-\ntatives, however, consider the following probabilities of the next\nfour years that will make it impossible for a Nixon-Agnew team with\nthe kiss of death of Wallace-LeMay support to govern with the consent\nof the majority of the governed:\n1. The triple relationship of H. L. Hunt, Dallas oil billionaire,\nto extensive campaign funding of both Nixon and Wallace, to\nthe Central Intelligence Agency, and to the assassination of\nJohn F. Kennedy will certainly be exposed in spite of his\nwealth.\n2. The close association of the oil industry with the Central\nIntelligence Agency will be exposed.\n3. The association of the Central Intelligence Agency with the\nsanctioned diversion of military payments certificates (MPC's)\nprofits out of South Vietnam to the Communist Chinese govern-\nment bank in Hongkong will be exposed.\n4. Wholesale corruption of the military supply stream to South\nVietnam under the management of large military contractors\nand for the benefit of the contractors, Communist China\nand the Viet Cong will be exposed.\n5. The trial of James Earl Ray will reveal, in spite of extreme\nprecautions to prevent it, that although his fingerprints\nwere on the rifle 80 conveniently left at the scene of the\ncrime, he will not be positively identified by eye witnesses\nas the man who ran down the hall and out the door of the\nrooming house after killing Martin Luther King. The key\nwitness is now in jail in protective custody of the FBI after\nfailing to identify James Earl Ray as the man he saw.\nThis exposure of a more sophisticated crime will force the\nreopening of investigation into the murder of John F. Kennedy\nbecause the \"proof\" of Lee Harvey Oswald's sole guilt for the\nmurder is tied to the same modus operandi of \"proof\" to con-\nvict a \"patsy\" by means of a readily traceable gun and finger-\nprints while the triggerman remains without positive identi-\nfication. Whoever planned the assassination made the fatal\nerror of failing to anticipate the possibility that the im-\npact of the shots would be recorded by the lens of a movie\ncamera. The recorded impact of two bullets within one second\nwill eventually demolish the official theory.\n(7)\n6. The trial of Sirhan Sirhan will fail to establish arab\nnationalism as the ideological motive for the killing of\nRobert F. Kennedy just as the Warren Report failed to\nestablish communism as the ideological motive of Lee\nHarvey Oswald.\nOn the other hand, the trial of Sirhan Sirhan will estab-\nlish that he was under the influence of the Peking brand\nof communism that believes that all political power grows\nout of the barrel of a gun.\nThe Sirhan trial will eventually precipitate an investigation into\nwhy his act inspired a rally of thousands of Red Guards in Canton,\nChina, on the same day as the release of the news of the assassin-\nation within China and on the same day as Senator Kennedy's funeral\nin New York. The Red Guard rally, obviously enjoying advance prep-\naration before the assassination news was released, burned Senator\nKennedy in effigy and hailed Sirhan Sirhan as a Red Guard hero.\nSuch investigation will in turn inspire investigation into the\nbillion-dollar leaks of military payment certificates (MPC's)\nprofits, black market profits, surplus military property profits,\nand international arms ring profits to Communist China from South\nVietnam. These facts are inexplicable unless there exists a\nworking \"modus vivendi\" between the Complex and Communist China\nsupported by the CIA. Both the defense contractors and Communist\nChina have a common vested interest in assuring the continued flow\nof American dollars to South Vietnam.\nGovernor Rockefeller, you have indisputable proof, at least, that\nI have confidence in my own evaluations and projections. I should\nfear to write you this letter implicating an oil billionaire,\nvarious oil companies and huge defense contractors, as well as\nthe Central Intelligence Agency, if I believed your family's oil\nfortune made you a part of this sordid and evil conspiracy. My life\nwouldn't be worth a Kennedy half dollar!\nMy evaluation and projection places you in the position of an\nunknowing and unwilling \"patsy\" for the evil political conspiracies\nof the Complex which needs the support of all the Republican party.\nYour opposition to Goldwater in 1964 and his extreme war policies\nwhich were subsequently adopted by LBJ was not a political error\nalthough you felt its repercussions at Miami. Your day will come\nbut only in your role as the executive leader of an independent\nnew politics strategy. Winston Churchill's policy was & minority\npolicy both in his party and in his country as a whole until the\ncountry faced a crisis and needed an executive leader with the\nright policy. Legislative leaders cannot assume this role however\nright their policies because the country demands an executive in\ntime of crisis. However, you can make alliances with legislative\nleaders of either political party who support the right policy.\nIndeed, you cannot become a national leader\n(8)\nBefore you jeopardize your independent political position which is\npotentially your most valuable political stock, please observe the\ndilemma of Complex captive Lyndon B. Johnson. Lyndon B. Johnson\nhad no part in the conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy. IBJ\nhas not been wise at times, but he is certainly not stupid. An\nassassin's bullet in Texas brought a Texas Vice-President to the\nPresidency. If IBJ had been the type of conscienceless man that\ncould have participated in such a conspiracy, Texas would have been\nthe last place in the world that the President would have been exe-\ncuted.\nHowever, if you can grasp credibility of such a monstrous conspiracy\nat all-and I must as a result of my studies in depth-you must\nassume the existence of conscienceless conspirators that wanted to\nmake Lyndon B. Johnson a captive-at least sufficiently to prevent\nthe exposure of such a monstrous conspiracy. Execution in Texas\nwas a master stroke of conspiracy because no President from Texas could have\na Warren Report of possible conspiracy and face the 1964 election,\nwhatever the facts. It also follows that neither LBJ nor a loyal\nsuceessor could permit a reopening of investigation into President\nKennedy's murder.\nOn the other hand, the trials of the accused in the two succeeding\nassassinations of the industrial state with neither LBJ nor his\nhand-picked successor enjoying presidential powers will surely\nforce reconsideration of the Warren Report--unless the very sophisti-\ncated conspirators in anticipation of this have already made Nixon\ntheir captive in this regard.\nNo political candidate for President except McCarthy has called for\nan investigation of the CIA which is the equivalent of reopening the\nWarren investigation. No candidates except you and McCarthy had a\npeace program for Vietnam that did not depend upon what the enemy\ndid first. Therefore, no other candidates could be bound by their\ncampaign promises, including both Nixon and Humphrey. Senator\nMcCarthy correctly regarded Humphrey's quibbling over what is to\nbe considered reciprocal action by North Vietnam as no change from\nthe policy initiated by IBJ.\nGovernor Rockefeller, there is one political code phrase that has\ncome to mean identification with the peace forces in either of the\nmajor political parties. It is \"investigation of the CIA\". To\nsophisticated ears and even, more and more, to unsophisticated\nears it means not only a recognition of the CIA role in subverting\nCongress' foreign policy and its role as provocateur as in the\nTonkin Gulf and Pueblo incidents but it means investigation of the\nindications of conspiracy behind the assassinations of the two most\neffective opponents of the war in Vietnam, Robert F. Kennedy and\nMartin Luther King.\n(9)\nWhen Vice President Humphrey was in Seattle this political code po-\nsition was passed on to Bill Connel, the highest ranking political\nstrategist traveling with the Humphrey party. The purpose was to\nseparate the sheep from the goats, the accepted member of the peace\nforces from those who want to straddle the fence until after the\nelection. It was clearly pointed out that it was unnecessary to\neither repudiate IBJ or to make allegations that could not be proved\nbefore election. Although the meeting confirmed that the Humphrey\nforces were aware of the H. L. Hunt money flowing to both the Nixon\nand the Wallace campaign we are aware that Humphrey's campaign to\n\"stop Kennedy\" organized in New York had brought Complex money into\nthe Humphrey camp. The position taken by Humphrey at Salt Lake City\nimmediately after Seattle did not qualify as an acceptable peace\nposition.\nThe political code position is also being passed on to you in this\nconfidential letter. While there may be efforts, successful or\nunsuccessful, to raise the issue of the CIA or the diversion of\nthe military supply stream in Vietnam before election and therefore\nsome of the facts revealed in this letter may be revealed elsewhere,\nthis letter itself will be confidential so that you may take any\naction you may feel is indicated without inhibitions.\nI have no objections to your urging Nixon to support investigation\nof the CIA but in view of his support by H. L. Hunt and others I\nam sure you will discover that Nixon could never raise this issue.\nThe purpose of this letter, therefore, is to let this issue work\non your conscience. Should you decide to adopt a position inde-\npendent of that of Nixon before elections in view of the possibility\nof the Electoral College making an independent choice of President\nand Vice President this year, your decision could be made known by\nyour raising the issue of \"investigation of the CIA\". of course,\nno one is demanding conviction of the CIA in the newspapers, 80\nany political leader is expected to reserve decision on what to do\nuntil after investigation establishes the facts.\nMy position on what will be revealed by a thorough investigation\nis stated in the action paragraph of my letter of August 14, 1968\naddressed to Senator J. William Fulbright, Chairman, Committee on\nForeign Relations, a copy of which you have in your possession:\n\"It is my firm prediction that when the Foreign Relations\nCommittees get to the bottom of the CIA's conspiracy to\nusurp Congress' foreign policy authority they will also\nhave solved the conspiracies behind the continuing assass-\ninations of the industrial state.\"\nA committee investigator (not the Foreign Relations Committee)\nis coming to Washington State this week to interview the investi-\ngator who spent 18 months in South Vietnam and who was propositioned\nto assassinate Robert F. Kennedy a year before the killing.\n(10)\nIt may very well be that this may be the logical opportunity to\nsuccessfully release to the press the first indications of the\ndepth of the corruption of the American political process with the\nhuge amount of campaign funds that is being accomplished this\nyear. A leading example is H. L. Hunt of Dallas, oil industry\nbillionaire.\nH. L. Hunt is, of course, notorious for his support of ultra right\nwing causes. Few know, however, even today after the most publi-\ncised assassination in history that his son, Nelson Bunker Hunt\nand the local coordinator for the John Birch Society paid for the\nfull page ad bordered in black that appeared in the Dallas Morning\nNews shortly before President Kennedy was shot within sight of Hunt's\noffice. No apology was issued by the arrogant billionsire who is\ntruly beyond the law.\nMore sinister is the fact that the advertising manager of the news-\npaper who accepted the ad and who was only 45 years of age and in\ngood health mysteriously dropped dead about two weeks after the\nassassination. Jack Ruby's alibi for his whereabouts at the time\nof the assassination was that he was placing his weekend ads for\nhis nightclubs at the Dallas Morning News offices. Checking this\nalibi is important because if a shot was fired from the direction\nof the grassy knoll Jack Ruby with his intimate acquaintance with\nmost Dallas police would be the logical man to undertake to remove\n]\nthe weapon in his truck.\nThe Warren Report ignored the implications of the testimony of\nJulia Anne Mercer who swore she saw Jack Ruby drop off a man with\na rifle near the grassing knoll an hour and a half before the\nassassination. Although she swears to have reported this fact\nbefore Ruby shot Oswald, thereby negating any theory that she was\ninfluenced by television, the Warren Report neglected this fact\n80 vital to evaluation.\nWas the mysteriously stricken advertising manager the only witness\nthat could alibi for Ruby or connect Ruby with H. L. Hunt whose\nmoney admittedly paid for the black-bordered ad? Does an oil\nbillionaire have to answer to investigation and to the law or is\nhe free to pour millions of dollars of oil company money into a\nNixon-Agnew-Wallace-LeMay campaign to enforce \"law and order\" only\nin black ghettos?\nDistrict Attorney Jim Garrison's witness Dave Ferrie who linked\nthe CIA for which he worked as a pilot with Lee Harvey Oswald died\njust as suddenly as the advertising manager when he also became &\nkey witness necessary to establish conspiracy.\nEmon\nChews\nPara 1\n(11)\nThe used car lot employee who identified Oswald as the killer of\nOfficer Tippit was himself killed by a man with a rifle. The chief\nsuspect in this shooting was released on the alibi provided by a\nwoman. The woman was picked up on a common charge and was later\nfound hanged in a Dallas jail. Similarly a Mexican-American eager\nto tell what he knew about Sirhan Sirhan and the conspiracy to kill\nRobert F. Kennedy was found hanged in a Juares, Mexico jail a short\ntime after being interviewed by the FBI from El Paso. Hd was alleged\nto be mentally incompetent, but this has not been established although\nas & resident of Washington State this could be easily accomplished.\nNot only Oswald, but now Jack Ruby, are dead obliterating these avenues\nof establishing conspiracy.\nGovernor Rockefeller, if some oil fortunes can accomplish any evil,\nother oil fortunes can reverse evil and accomplish good. You have\nthe opportunity to prove this axion and prevent a national reaction\nagainst the oil industry and oil fortunes.\nJack Ruby's nightclubs were the hangouts of CIA agents in Dallas.\nThe Warren Report contains the testimony of one who admits to gun\nrunning and identifies Jack Ruby as the \"bag man\" for the Vito\nGenovese branch of the Mafia in New York. Doesn't this bring\n\"Law and order\" in Dallas close to \"law and order\" in New York?\nI have established that Wallace electors can vote for Nixon. By\nthe same token, Nixon electors are free to vote for Nelson Rocke-\nfeller if their conscience so dictates or party or national inter-\nest required it. In both cases, however, the individual elector\nmust be convinced it is legal to exercise discretion. It is appar-\nent that Wallace electors have been carefully selected to achieve\nthis result if the election indicates no nominee will gain \"first\nballot\" election unless the minority party switches electoral votes.\nHave New York's Republican electors been prepared for the possibility\nof a vote for you under certain conditions? The Complex has, no\ndoubt, prepared a strategy very similar to the strategy that stopped\nyou at Miami. Can you take advantage of a \"double back-lash\" of\npublic opinion that may occur on or after November 5th but before\nthe Electoral College casts their votes? If the Electoral College\nis deadlocked have you a strategy for the House of Representatives\nand the Senate? This strategy could only be Rockefeller for Presi-\ndent and McCarthy for Vice President to break a deadlock over\nNixon and Humphrey as to favor one party completely would fail to\nwin sufficient votes or achieve the charisma of a ticket of national\nunion based upon the new politics and national concern over the\ncorruption of the American political process with campaign funds.\nYou may be sure that the Complex and Wallace do have a strategy to\nachieve an electoral college majority for their ultra right wing\nplans.\n(12)\nA deadlock potential is now more likely. I predict that Hubert\nHumphrey has reached the lowest point in the public opinion polls\nand will gain points from now until election. However, unlike Truman\nin 1948, he is not likely to gain enough lost ground to achieve the\nPresidency on November 5th in the Electoral College or in the House.\nOn the other hand, there now exists a strong possibility that his\nlate declaration of independence in favor of a halt to the bembing\nof North Vietnam may be sufficient to deny Nixon a majority of elector-\nal votes, especially if a majority of the electoral votes of New\nYork electors are cast for Nelson Rockefeller. Either of these\neventualities should be prepared for.\nA third eventuality might be a spontaneous draft of a national union\nticket by voters writing in the names of Rockefeller for President\nand McCarthy for Vice President. While this may take no electoral\nvotes it might imbue the ticket with so much charisma that the\nElectoral College or the House and Senate could not ignore the demand\nfor national union.\nAn ultra right wing move to put Wallace electoral votes in Nixon's\ncolumn should be countered by a strategy to secure New York electors'\nvotes for Rockefeller. This move should be strengthened by & McCarthy\neffort to secure Humphrey electoral votes for McCarthy in states\nwhere the Humphrey electoral ticket won.\nWhile a campaign for the votes of the Electoral College or the House\nand Senate may now appear to be fantastic, it should be noted that\nWallace may get 25% of the popular vote just by projecting such a\npossibility that will make his votes count.\nThe important point to remember is that the winner of such an un-\nprecedented Electoral College contest must have the quality of\n\"charisma\". Politics has associated this quality with President\nKennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy but not with\nNelson Rockefeller.\nThe Kennedy brothers are proof that \"charisma\" is not necessarily to\nbe denied a wealthy man. The determinative factor for \"charisma\" is\nleadership of a legal, non-viclent revolution against an \"establish-\nment\" believed to be corrupted.\nYou vacillated in your determination to run for President in 1968--\nbut so did Robert F. Kennedy. Although a severe setback, had Robert\nKennedy lived he would have overcome this deficiency of vacillation\nwhich made him appear to be an opportunist after McCarthy's victory\nin New Hampshire and the withdrawal of IBJ from the race.\nThe moral of this review is that Nelson Rockefeller may have another\nchance to achieve charisma by decisively assuming executive leader-\nship of the John F. Kennedy-Martin Luther King-Robert F. Kennedy-\nEugene McCarthy-Nelson Rockefeller legal and non-violent revolution\nagainst the establishment.\n(13)\nThis is the year for it-the unpredictable year of 1968. Even\nGeorge Wallace's spurious demagogic charisma is attributable to\nhis leadership of a revolt against \"the establishment in the eyes\nof his followers.\nThe prerequisites for \"charisma\" should be achieved, however, in your\npublic relations before November 5th if you are to exploit a potentially\npossible \"double back-lash\" of public opinion that may develop\nbefore or soon after the election and the potential compromise of\nthe top nominees feared. The principal fear may be that a Nixon or\nHumphrey choice of the Electoral College may lack \"the capacity to\ngovern\" in the face of widespread disillusionment caused by a\ndramatic shift of public opinion immediately before or after the\nelection.\nSuch disillusionment may come from a belated realization of the\nnarrowness of the popular base of the potentially winning ticket or\na compromise of principle involved. Under these circumstances, leader-\nship to achieve national union will achieve an unprecedented reversal\nof popular opinion, especially isolating those relying upon the\n\"law and order\" issue for their popular base.\nThe public relations positions recommended for achieving the \"charisma\"\nof leadership of the \"new politics\" before November 5th are:\n1. A public position supporting the continuance of the new\npolitics \"revolution\" initiated by John F. Kennedy, Martin\nLuther King and Robert F. Kennedy.\n2. A public position endorsing an investigation of possible\nusurpation of Congress' prerogative to establish foreign\npolicy by the Central Intelligence Agency.\n3. A public view of alarm at the subversion of the American\nelectoral process by large campaign contributions from\ndefense-oriented industry.\nIt is my prediction that the unprecedented surprises of the 1968\npresidential campaign season are not yet over. Even if Nixon and\nAgnew were elected and routinely inaugurated on January 20th they\nwould soon face a \"capacity to govern\" crisis of proportions much\ngraver than that of LBJ. Like LBJ's administration it is hardly\nlikely it will be able to be reelected or name its successor if,\nindeed, it is elected in 1968.\nConsequently, I strongly urge you to give earnest consideration to\nimplementing the above prerequisites for your draft by the Electoral\nCongress or by the House of Representatives as the President of\nnational union that may be urgently needed by the country to resolve\na deadlock and govern effectively during the next four or eight years.\nSincerely,\nAmos\nAmore 5. Heacock Hearth\n2774 70th S. E., Mercer Island, Wash."
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