A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case That Should Have Changed History by Joan Mellen

Author:Joan Mellen [Mellen, Joan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2013-08-31T17:00:00+00:00

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It’s a big operation. It’s predictable that a little bit of it would come up here and there.

—Jim Garrison

How many more Oswalds did they have out there, ready to go?

—Gordon Novel

Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, Carmel Offie and Frank Wisner were the grand masters. If you were in a room with them you were in a room full of people that you had to believe would deservedly end up in hell. I guess I will see them there soon.

—James Angleton

YOU’VE GOT YOUR OWN mailbox now,” Jack Martin told Tommy Beckham late in 1962. Now if they wanted him to run an errand, or to pay him, or to send instructions, they would use the Old Post Office across from Guy Banister’s office. Sometimes during the summer of 1963 Tommy would run into Lee Oswald at the post office. One day, Tommy found Jack in the company of two strangers.

“You know what CIA means?” Jack had laughed, trying, it seemed to Tommy, to impress the two men in suits. “Caught in the Act!” It is a phrase used by another CIA operative in this story, Richard Case Nagell.

One day in 1963—Beckham remembers it as late spring—Tommy opened his post office box and there was an airplane ticket with instructions that he proceed to the CIA training installation, Camp Peary near Williamsburg, Virginia, also known as “The Farm.”

In Virginia, he is subjected to tests. They are named Rorschach and Minnesota Multifasic. He is shown three pictures projected on a screen, then asked what he remembers. Which picture stood out from the others? In one image, a man wears a hat perched at an odd angle. Tommy remembers that detail. Thomas Edward Beckham during his CIA training duplicates a scene described by Loran Hall to the House Select Committee. During Hall’s military intelligence training, he, too, was bombarded with pictures flashing on a wall.

Tommy is shown the faces of heads of state: Mao-tse-Tung and Khrushchev. “These are leaders who at some time in the future might possibly have to be hit,” Tommy is told. He will spend four weeks at Camp Peary.

In another phase of his training, he is pushed through a labyrinth of rooms. He is told to look carefully into each room. Then he is asked to describe in detail how the last person he saw was dressed. He is asked about the first room, which, by the end of the exercise, he scarcely remembers. What pictures were on the wall? He is taught how your voice can give you away. He is taught how the way you walk can give you away. He is taught never to leave anyone with anything by which they might remember you. He is forbidden to smoke his pipe because it leaves traces by which you could be identified. You must never carry identification. He is taught how not to leave a paper trail. He is taught how to create fake identification. He learns how, rapidly, to identify serial numbers on paper currency. He is taught how to create false information.

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