#1250 – Edwin Black Article

Len Osanic reads the article from the Chicago Indepentent 1975 by Edwin Black The Chicago Plot website "Our Man" Edwin writes about is revealed "Abraham Bolden" The Internet Archive Complete PDF The introduction: Edwin Black is the target of intelligence assets Powers that be did not want the Chicago Plot investigated Article PDF page 1 - 24 Page 25 Page 30 Page 31 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 An explanation of the purpose of the article Four men in Chicago to assassinate JFK as he approached the Army-Air Force game The FBI warned the Secret Service of the plot and then backed away The Chicago SS office had only eight men A landlady informs of suspicious characters renting a room from her Agent Stocks blows his cover and the suspects are brought in without evidence Thomas Arthur Vallee, eerily similar to Oswald is identified as the proposed patsy Personality traits that could make Vallee a perfect patsy Vallee was arrested with a knife, 750 rounds of ammunition but no firearm The method of assassination used in the Diem murders Vallee's apartment was searched under duress and firearms and ammunition were found there Two suspected conspirators were in custody but the other two were at large Kennedy uses Vietnam events as an excuse to cancel his Chicago visit 20 days after the Chicago plot was thwarted, Kennedy is killed in Dallas Part Two of the article documents the investigation Black brings up the suspicious fact that 90 of the witnesses died shortly after the assassination The cover-ups by the FBI and how they botched the investigation as a result The anonymous source, SS Agent, Abraham Bolden gets a lie-detector test Corruption hawk, Sherman Skolnick produces proof Vallee actually existed The investigation of the arrest and weapons records...much was routinely destroyed Agents Stocks and Motto plead "no memory" in the probing of the plot details The mountain of documents Black waded through in his investigation The original investigations were exhaustive Records found on Vallee seemed incomplete An unassuming document shows Oswald might have been in Chicago that weekend A Secret Service publicity specialist dodges the issue on what the agents knew "No comment" came at every question Agent Linsky opens up... a little, his responses likely were truthful Groth and Shurla covered up the Vallee arrest and were deceptive when asked about it Coffey confirmed the details everyone else was scared to divulge Vallee also confirms the details and was found to be truthful Part Three - The cover-up Nobody would admit the failure of the Secret Service in the assassination Edwin Black shows how Oswald's murder saved much embarassment 50 Reasons for 50 Years - Episode 08 The Chicago Plot