#1261 – Loren Singer

Imnterview from BOR Show #305, original airdate: January 1, 2007 Loren Singer (1923-2009) wrote the book The Parallax View (1970) Loren worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS ) during WW II He first had to pass a series of psychological tests He read studies of Rorschach tests given to top Nazis at Nuremberg Loren wrote for television and radio, this was his first book The amount of influence totalitarian governments had on us A relationship with German Intelligence officer Reinhard Gehlen Loren didn't like the film, the screenwriters couldn't find the thread The terrorism threat is sort of gauzy, Where? How? Unite in order to survive, that's what people will be told Chapters start with quotes from a fictional handbook The book is not a solution to the Kennedy assassinations A list of JFK related deaths, originally Loren scoffed The military men never became OSS assassins General William Donovan, committed to the survival of Britain Psychologists, psychiatrists, geographers, foreign language experts, engineers, weapons instructors Does a government have the right and or the duty to eliminate numbers of it's citizens to ensure it's survival? Skating around the edge right now with Guantanamo Teams ready to do the bidding of corporate or government interests The recruitment, the film's powerful six minute segment An OSS competition, three days of psychological testing Nobody ever passed the final exam, never any finite answer The people running Parallax were certain to have backups Loren did not want to do the screenplay The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film) was much better written Parallax opens with it's own "Zapruder" film Six Seconds In Dallas (Thompson 1967), sued by Time, Inc.