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the curious end of what once was not merely custom but
a requirement of law. Apparently, like so much else
that has happened since 1963, it is not newsworthy.
It must be understood that in the age of the Pax Americana,
in the age of the eighty billion dollar a year military
budget, control over foreign policy becomes the equivalent
of control of the country. The power to make foreign
policy continues to be a fief held feudally by the war
interests. This was the essential meaning of the assas-
sination of President Kennedy: that this power which
holds America in its grip will not tolerate interference
with its control of American foreign policy, with its
programs of foreign military adventure and over-reaction
to supposed external threats. The great injury done by
the Warren Commission to this country was that it authen-
ticated the transfer of the foreign policy making power
from the representatives of the people to these autocratic
interests, it authenticated the conversion of the real
government of the United States to an invisible government.
Q.
9.
What was David Ferrie's role in the activities occurring
in New Orleans?
A.
David Ferrie, a talented pilot capable of handling almost
any assignment with an airplane, had been a contract
employee of the Central Intelligence Agency since the
mid-1950's He had flown for the C.I.A. in Nicaragua
and at Swan Island in the Caribbean. Prior to the Bay
of Pigs he had trained Cuban pilots in Guatemala. He
had made night flights into Cuba for the C.I.A. with
weapons and passengers on special assignments. On one
such occasion Ferrie was stabbed in the stomach when
they were almost trapped in Cuba.
Ferrie's relationship with Lee Oswald dates back to the
1950's when he was a Captain in the Civil Air Patrol and
Oswald was a cadet. In 1963 when Oswald returned to New
Orleans from Dallas for his assignment to engage in "left
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