Another day, another factoid: DiEugenio on Ferrie's CIA connection

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Michael Griffith, with his usual hyperbole and exaggerations, cited Summers book and said readers should consult "the 147-page review of Ferrie and his associations in his book Not in Your Lifetime, pp. 281-428." One hundred and forty seven pages. If you read Summers' book you'll see the section in the book on Ferrie starts at page 281 (the first mention) and ends at page 294 (the last mention) where Summers then starts a new chapter discussing JFK's Cuban policies. It's not even 15 pages much less 147.

Summer's book has exactly one reference to Ferrie and the CIA. Nothing more. That reference quotes Banister's secretary, Delphine Roberts, saying: "I believed his [Ferrie's] work was somehow connected with the CIA rather than the FBI."  Believed. Somehow. Connected. That's it. In fact, Summers spends more time discussing the possibility that Oswald was gay or bisexual and had "possibly sexual connections" with Ferrie.

Here are the footnotes/references to Ferrie in the index. Again, that's it.



In his note on the section on Ferrie, Summers says:

 

Blackburst's/Roy's writings on Ferrie can be read here: www.jfk-online.com/dbjmaadf.html

As he points out, there's no evidence that Ferrie worked for the CIA.

[Lance Payette]

Since Michael has been consigned to Eternal Ignore, I'm not sure of the nonsense to which Fred is referring. Presumably Michael has engaged in his usual tactic of informing me that I don't know what I'm talking about and then attempting to shift the focus to some other topic. Carry on, Michael, you and your fellow loonies will trouble me no more.

The point I would make in closing is that none of my little factoid discussions is actually about the factoid per se. Surely everyone this side of Loonyville understands this?

No one in his right mind looks at Geneva Hine's testimony and thinks she was talking about anything other than her phone. No one in his right mind actually thinks the CIA had federal arrest warrants issued for two New Orleans Juvenile Bureau bumpkins in order to somehow derail pedophilia charges against Ferrie. This doesn't even make rational sense; it's insane.

No, each and every factoid exposé serves essentially the same purpose. It demonstrates that the televangelists of CT world are selling their cultists an irrational bill of goods that isn't even supported by the supposed evidence they cite. And they do this again and again, over and over, knowing the cultists will lap it up and never do their own fact-checking.

In our example here, DiEugenio has made a complete fool of himself for the umpteenth time. What he says makes absolutely no sense, isn't even supported by the video he links, and is easily demolished when one spends 30 minutes in the primary sources.

The point is, CT cultists, you can't trust him and his fellow hucksters - simple as that. The secondary point, I guess, is that most of you don't care because you are in fact cultists and residents of Loonyville.

That's all.

[Tom Graves]

Since Michael has been consigned to Eternal Ignore, I'm not sure of the nonsense to which Fred is referring. Presumably Michael has engaged in his usual tactic of informing me that I don't know what I'm talking about and then attempting to shift the focus to some other topic. Carry on, Michael, you and your fellow loonies will trouble me no more.

The point I would make in closing is that none of my little factoid discussions is actually about the factoid per se. Surely everyone this side of Loonyville understands this?

No one in his right mind looks at Geneva Hine's testimony and thinks she was talking about anything other than her phone. No one in his right mind actually thinks the CIA had federal arrest warrants issued for two New Orleans Juvenile Bureau bumpkins in order to somehow derail pedophilia charges against Ferrie. This doesn't even make rational sense; it's insane.

No, each and every factoid exposé serves essentially the same purpose. It demonstrates that the televangelists of CT world are selling their cultists an irrational bill of goods that isn't even supported by the supposed evidence they cite. And they do this again and again, over and over, knowing the cultists will lap it up and never do their own fact-checking.

In our example here, DiEugenio has made a complete fool of himself for the umpteenth time. What he says makes absolutely no sense, isn't even supported by the video he links, and is easily demolished when one spends 30 minutes in the primary sources.

The point is, CT cultists, you can't trust him and his fellow hucksters - simple as that. The secondary point, I guess, is that most of you don't care because you are in fact cultists and residents of Loonyville.

That's all.

JFKA conspiracy theorists live in the same alternate universe as supporters of The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx").

"Former" KGB* counterintelligence officer Vladimir Putin cherishes them both because they're both products of sixty-six years of KGB* disinformation, "active measures," and mole-based strategic deception counterintelligence operations.

*Today's SVR and FSB