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    "ocrText": "Same Cast of Characters Has Shaped America's\nAn eerie web of circumstantial evidence gives credence to once\nscoffed-at theories that an \"invisible government\" has been\ncontrolling America's destiny for the past dozen years.\nIf these theories - and they' just that - are correct, behind\nthe scenes forces involving intelligence agents and perhaps the\nagencies themselves, have determined who would and who would\nnot be President of the United States during that period.\nThe strange web of circumstances goes back to the Eisenhower\nAdministration when then Vice President Richard Nixon was\nplaced in charge of the CIA planning of what would become the\nBay of Pigs Invasion in an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro's rebel\ngovernment of Cuba.\nFifteen years later, a defectéd and\nHe made his announcement \"with a heavy\ndisgraced Richard Nixon paces the lonely\nheart,' influenced by the unrest, violence,\nbeach at San Clemente, Calif. - perhaps\nand campus demonstrations of forces on\ntrying to size up himself what caused what\nboth the left and right.\nto happen during those chaotic years.\nAnd recently it has been revealed - and\nconfirmed - that government intelligence\nDURING THAT period, gun barrel\nagents, both from the CIA and the FBI,\npolitics removed a President from office.\nwere the leaders of many of these\nGunshots put another presidential con-\ndemonstrations.\ntender out of the running - just at the\nThus the intelligence network - either\npoint that it looked like he was winning.\nby accident or design - definitely had a\nGunfire crippled another candidate\n-\nhand in changing the Administration of the\nknocking him from the race just at the\nmost powerful country in the world.\npoint it appeared he was winning. Campus\nThen the next year - 1969 - a third\ndemonstrations placed a President in such\nKennedy brother, Sen. Edward Kennedy,\ndespair he chose not to run again. A\nhad his tragic accident at Chappaquiddick\nbribery investigation caused a Vice\nthat resulted in the death of Mary Jo\nPresident to resign. A bungled \"third rate\nKopechne. Kennedy had done a fair job\nburglary\" caused the resignation of a\nhimself of crippling his presidential\nPresident - Richard Nixon, where the\nchances, but the Nixon Administration\nchain first started.\ndispatched White House \"plumbers\" -\nAnd evidence - some actual, some\ndrawn from the intelligence ranks - to\ncircumstantial - shows that government\nMassachusetts to do what they could to\nJOHN CONNOLLY Once President Kennedy's Secretary of the\nintelligence agents were involved in every\nmake sure the damage was permanent.\nNavy, he was riding with JFK as the Governor of Texas the day of\none of those momentous events.\nthe assassination. Connolly's name was found in accused assassin\nA fascinating aspect of the entire chain\nIN 1972, assassin's bullets again decided\nis the emergency of many of the same\nwho would be President of the United\nLee Harvey Oswald's notebook and later, through another strange\nfigures involved in the coverup of the John\nStates, George Wallace was shot down at a\nswitch of circumstances, Connolly became President Nixon Secretary\nF. Kennedy assassination - if indeed\nshopping center in Maryland. Wallace had\nof the Treasury.\nthere was a coverup - in the Watergate\na good shot at getting the Democratic\nscandals of the Nixon Administration and\nPresidential nomination. His crippling\nFord must have been a part of it,\nthe Navy under John Kennedy. He quit the\neven now in the investigation of American\nassureda nomination for the controversial\nknowingly or unwittingly\njob shortly before Kennedy was killed\nintelligence operations - especially the\nGeorge McGovern, which assured a re-\nWhen the intelligence branch of the\nduring a nationally-publicized con-\ndread CIA.\nelection victory for Richard Nixon.\nInternal Revenue Service made its case\ntroversy, over awarding the $6.5 billion\nIn alalyzing the intriguing pattern of\nTwo years later Nixon would resign and\nagainst Vice President Spiro Agnew and\nTFK as the F-111 contract\nhow the paths of the individuals have\ngo into seclusion after the revelations of\nforced his bribery conviction and\nto General Dynamics in Texas.\ncrossed during the most momentous\nthe crimes of his administration.\nresignation, Richard Nixon again hand-\nThe Fort Worth-based plant got the\nevents of the 20th Century, take a look at\nAnd the revelations were largely made\npicked Gerald Ford - this time to be Vice\ncontract through President Johnson's\nthe participants.\nby E. Howard Hunt and James McCord,\nPresident of the United States.\ninfluence after he became President after\nRichard\nwho as CIA operatives had long been\nAnd when Nixon was forced into\nKennedy was killed.\naltering the course of world history Again,\nresigning, Gerald Ford became President.\nThe fascinating fact about Korth was his\nNixon\npeople drawn from the intelligence\nNo longer was the obscure congressman\nconnections with Lee Harvey Oswald.\ncommunity had helped change the ad-\nfrom Michigan handpicked by Nixon to\nKorth's name also appeared in Oswald's\nNIXON WAS IN Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963,\nministration of the United States.\ninvestigate the assassination of the\naddress bootk. Korth acknowledged he had\nthe day John F. Kennedy was shot. It was\nGerald R.\nPresident; he himself held the most\nknown the Oswald family for many years.\nyears after Nixon's clandestine plot with\npowerful office in the world.\nHe' represented Edwin A. Ekdahl in a\nthe CIA to overthrow the Castro govern-\nFord\ndivorce suit against Margureite C. Ekdahl,\nment.\nJohn\nnow Marguerite Oswald, the mother of Lee\nNixon, a New York lawyer, was in\nFORD WAS HANDPICKED by Richard\nHarvey Oswald, who has contended her\nDallas for a bottlers' convention. At that\nNixon to be one of the seyen members on\nConnally\nson was a government intelligence agent.\nsame moment, a supposed Castro sym-\nthe commission chaired by Chief Justice\nCONNALLY RESIGNED as John\nKorth now practices law in Washington.\npathizer named Lee Harvey Oswald was at\nthe Texas School Book Deppsitory\nEarl Warren to investigate the\nKennedy's Secretary of the Navy to\nLeon\nBuilding a few blocks away.\nassassination of President Kennedy.\nbecome governor of Texas. He was riding\nTwo hours before Kennedy landed at\nPresident Lyndon B. Johnson asked\nin Kennedy's open-top limousine and was\nJaworski\nLove Field, Nixon stepped aboard a New\nNixon to recommend a Republican to\nwounded in the barrage of gunfire that\nYork-bound American Airlines plane at\nserve on the commission and Nixon\nkilled the President.\nthe same airport.\nrecommended the obscure congressman\nThe governor's name was found in the\nJAWORSKI WAS prominently involved\nThree moments later, Nixon would be\nfrom Grand Rapids, Mich.\nnotebook of accused assassin Oswald.\nin the investigation of the assassination of\nunable to remember he had been in Dallas\nFord played a dominant role on the\nConnally had routinely corresponded with\nPresident Kennedy; he was equally\non the day Kennedy was shot, perhaps the\ncommission present for the testimony of\nOswald concerning Oswald's Marine\nprominently involved in the prosecution of\nthe Watergate crimes that led to the\nonly sober adult that could not remember\nmore witnesses than any other com-\nCorps records.\nexactly what he was doing that historic\nmission member except Earl Warren\nYears later, after Nixon became\nresignation of President Nixon.\nhimself.\nday.\nPresident, Connally switched his\nA Houston attorney, Jaworski had been\nFBI agent John F. Malone quizzed Nixon\nFord was present with Warren - the\nallegiance from the Democratic Party to\nassigned by then Texas Attorney General\nonly two actual commission members\nWaggoner Carr to head up a Texas court of\nin New York on Feb. 28, 1964. The agent\nthe Nixon camp.\nreported to J. Edgar Hoover.\nthere - when Jack Ruby pleaded with\nConnally became Nixon's Secretary of\ninquiry into the Kennedy assassination.\n\"Mr. Nixon advised that the only time he\nthem to take him to Washington to get his\nthe Treasury. Connally was a top con-\nCarr has told TATTLER he was called off\nfull statement of what he knew about the\ntender for the Republican presidential\nthe investigation by Lyndon Johnson.\nwas in Dallas, Texas, during 1963, was two\nassassination. Ruby, who murdered Lee\nnomination in 1976 until he was indicted for\nBut Jaworski misrepresented himself in\ndays prior to the assassination of\nHarvey Oswald, died soon after his request\naccepting a $10,000 bribe from Texas at-\na telephone call to H. Louis Nichols, then\nPresident John F. Kennedy.\"\nwas denied.\ntorney Jake Jacobson to influence\npresident of the Dallas Bar Assn., on the\nFive years later, two separate events\nday after the assassination.\nFord hired a staff to assist him in his role\nlegislation.\nwould cause Richard Nixon to become\nas a Warren Commission member. And\nMany Connally observers asked: Why\nNichols visited Oswald in the Dallas city\nPresident of the United States.\nafter the commission was dissolved after\nwould a self-made multi-millionaire such\njail for a few minutes. He asked Oswald if\nAssassin bullets would remove John's\nits lone-assassin declaration, Ford came\nas Connally be interested in a mere $10,000\nhe was being treated fairly and if he\nbrother, Robert F. Kennedy, from politics\nout with a book, \"Portrait of an Assassin\"\nbribe?\nwanted the bar to appoint him as attorney.\nforever. He was shot down in Los Angeles\nwhich tried to put down any connections\nThe jury that found Connally innocent of\nOswald said he wanted to be represented\nat the height of a race for the Democratic\nbetween Oswald and the intelligence\nthe charge recently may have asked the\nby the American Civil Liberties Union.\npresidential nomination.\ncommunity.\nsame question.\nJaworski, after Nichols' visit to Oswald,\nBut one fact had no question mark:\ntelephoned the lawyer and asked to know\nBOBBY KENNEDY had been a thorn in\nIN HIS BOOK, Ford even \"edited\" out of\nAnother presidential candidate was\nwhat Oswald had said. Jaworski, ac-\nthe side of the CIA, and had he become\na \"Top Secret\" transcipt of a commission\ntainted, and for whatever motive, would\ncording to Nichols, said he had been asked\nPresident, undoubtedly would have\nexecutive session damning testimony\nnot be the next President of the United\nto make a report on the Oswald matter to a\nscuttled the agency.\nconcerning speculation that Oswald was\nStates.\nMiami, Fla., meeting of the American\nThe other event that insured Nixon's\neither an agent of the CIA or the FBI.\nFred Korth\nTrial Lawyers Assn. Jaworski failed to\nelection was the decision of President\nIf the Warren Commission \"report\" on\nmention he was representing the state ato-\nLyndon B. Johnson not to seek re-election.\nthe Kennedy assassination was a coverup,\nKORTH WAS ANOTHER Secretary of\ntorney general in an investigation of the\nassassination.\nTATTLER INVESTIGATIVE SPECIAL\nSeptember, 1975\nPage 14"
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