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This investigation was entirely unrelated to events in the United States or the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It was fortuitous that the CIA front organizations in Italy that emerged from CIA plans to overthrow the Italian government included Centro Mondiale Commerciale and Permindex, of which Clay Shaw was a director in New Orleans.

Jim Garrison was well on the trail of Shaw and his role as a CIA handler of Lee Harvey Oswald before Paese Sera published its series of articles.  When I sent them to Garrison, he had already charged Shaw in relation to the murder of Kennedy. Jim found the Paese Sera series confirmatory and important, but the articles were not admissible as evidence in court.

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My comments:

Garrison charged Shaw on the same day he arrested him, 1 March 1967.

The "Paese Sera" article was published on 4 March 1967.

Richard Billings wrote in his diary on 16 March 1967 that Garrison had received “a copy of a French newspaper (L’Humanité) article that supposedly mentions Shaw’s work in Italy.”

The "L' Humanite" article had been translated into English for Garrison and was based on the "Paese Sera" article.

Garrison met with "Saturday Evening Post" writer James Phelan in Las Vegas on 3/05/67 and told him that Shaw had masterminded a Loeb-and-Leopold-like "homosexual thrill-kill" assassination of JFK.

Garrison's father-in-law's 1968 Obit was the "Rosetta Stone" in my research and led to this confirmation. Since I came upon it as a last step, it did not influence the
direction of my research, only confirming whatI had already found, spurred by my discovery of that Obit.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69124634/harold-ferdinand-ziegler
Husband of Virginia Moore
Father of Mrs. George Massey and Harold F. Ziegler, Jr., both of Quincy, FL; Mrs. Jim Garrison, New Orleans; Mrs. William Eckert of Yokahama, Japan.
Brother of Mrs. William (Adrienne) Riddick and Mrs. Harry Raworth of New Orleans, and the late Charles, Gordon, and Alfred.

Mrs. Harry Raworth, nee Adele Ziegler, was the mother of the Baldwin brothers, described by Joan Mellen in 2005 as "the CIA people".

LP--

One has to concede, whether LNT'er or CT'er, there are highly intelligent people on both sides of the issue.

I happen to suspect a rather small conspiracy around the JFKA, immediately followed by President LBJ's diktat that LHO be found to be an LN. State Dept'ers lost their jobs trying to follow leads back to Havana. That does not engender confidence.

But other smart people disagree with me. 

I concede there are some "fringe" CT'ers out there, usually mounted on ideological platforms, or triggered by ethnic biases. I even concede there are not really fringe LN'ers out there, although a slavish devotion to the SBT might be considered fringy.

As to whether LHO fired at JFK, I suspect he did.

But there is always the possibility he was a look-out while someone else perped the actual act, or that LHO fired to miss (having been told the he was participating in a protest, not an assassination), while someone else fired in earnest.

(There are reports of misses that struck the asphalt behind the limo, the manhole cover off Elm, and one near  Tague. Shots fired by LHO?. While someone fired a rifle with a silencer? A remote possibility.)

Russo has done a good job investigating DGI/G2 leads. 

I agree that the LNT-SBT theorizing does not hold water.

There is no definitive evidence as to which shot caused Tague's injury.

I said “the only evidence”. 

The following is part of what Ralph Schoenman wrote to the editor of "The Nation" by 2 March 2006 in response to Max Holland's article about Garrison, Clay Shaw, Schoenman, and the "Paese Sera" article.

Max Holland has engaged for years in propagating disinformation on behalf of the CIA concerning the investigation of its role in the official execution of John F. Kennedy. Holland’s Nation article expatiates upon his fabricated thesis that Jim Garrison’s evidence of the CIA’s role in the Kennedy murder derived from a series of articles in Paese Sera in 1967.

I sent those articles to Jim Garrison in my capacity as director of the Who Killed Kennedy? committee in London, whose members and supporters included Bertrand Russell, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Arnold Toynbee, Field Marshall Sir Claude Auchinleck and Lord Boyd Orr. The Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, of which I was then executive director, had conducted an extended investigation of the role of the CIA in fomenting and coordinating brutal repression, disappearances and assassinations, which culminated in a military putsch in Greece. Our Save Greece Now Committee unearthed concrete data regarding the role of the CIA and the Greek colonels that helped mobilize the movement for which Deputy Grigoris Lambrakis paid with his life. In the aftermath, our committee and its Greek leader, Michael Peristerakis, led a demonstration of more than 1 million that brought down the regime. [emphasis added]

CIA activity across Europe led Paese Sera to undertake a six-month investigation into the role in Italy of the CIA, with its plans for a military coup. The CIA colonels’ coup in Greece unfolded shortly after Paese Sera‘s prescient series. Prominent writers and intellectuals, including Rossana Rossanda, K.S. Karol, Lelio Basso, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, supported Paese Sera.

This investigation was entirely unrelated to events in the United States or the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It was fortuitous that the CIA front organizations in Italy that emerged from CIA plans to overthrow the Italian government included Centro Mondiale Commerciale and Permindex, of which Clay Shaw was a director in New Orleans.

Jim Garrison was well on the trail of Shaw and his role as a CIA handler of Lee Harvey Oswald before Paese Sera published its series of articles.  When I sent them to Garrison, he had already charged Shaw in relation to the murder of Kennedy. Jim found the Paese Sera series confirmatory and important, but the articles were not admissible as evidence in court.

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My comments:

Garrison charged Shaw on the same day he arrested him, 1 March 1967.

The "Paese Sera" article was published on 4 March 1967.

Richard Billings wrote in his diary on 16 March 1967 that Garrison had received “a copy of a French newspaper (L’Humanité) article that supposedly mentions Shaw’s work in Italy.”

The "L' Humanite" article had been translated into English for Garrison and was based on the "Paese Sera" article.

Garrison met with "Saturday Evening Post" writer James Phelan in Las Vegas on 3/05/67 and told him that Shaw had masterminded a Loeb-and-Leopold-like "homosexual thrill-kill" assassination of JFK.

After he received the "L' Humanite article," Garrison changed his theory against Shaw to "He organized the assassination for the CIA!!!"

Quote from: John Corbett on Yesterday at 03:24:48 PM

All of these books will end up on history's clearance table, as they should, while the WCR will continue to stand tall as the definitive account of JFKA as it has since it was first released to the public almost 62 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Joseph_Ford
,,,,,From 1934 to 1941, Ford was a professor at Loyola Law School—the school where his father was the founding dean.[1] From 1941 to 1943, he was the Chief Enforcement Attorney in Los Angeles for the Office of Price Administration, the newly established federal agency responsible for rent and price controls (the OPA was abolished in 1946).[1]

In 1943, Governor Earl Warren appointed Ford to the Los Angeles County Municipal Court, where he served until 1948 when Warren elevated him to the Los Angeles County Superior Court.[1] Ford left the Superior Court when Governor Pat Brown appointed Ford to the California Second District Court of Appeal, Division Three in 1959.[1] Brown elevated Ford to Presiding Justice of the same court in 1966.[1] Ford retired in 1977 and died in Newport Beach, California in 1982.[1]

Childhood
Ford was one of three children of father William Joseph Ford and Margaret McCarthy. The other 2 were Robert and Margaret. Ford's mother died when he was four years old. Ford's father later remarried Cecily Chambers and had 7 more children: Liam, Moira, Patrick, James, Declan, Joe Brendan, and Derrick. John Joseph Ford went on to graduate from Loyola High School. Robert "Bob" Ford, Moira Ford, Patrick Ford and James Ford also became practicing attorneys in California.

12 years ago I added this section to the Earl Warren Wikipedia biography, reasoning that the JFK Wikipedia bio included plenty of dirt, a substantial portion less well supported than the following, after I noted that the Earl Warren bio made him out to be an altar boy.The wikipedia minder removed the CONTROVERSY section less than an hour later.

Warren as prosecutor, had known Declan Ford's father, Wkilliam, and as governor, had appointed Declan's brother, John, as a state judge. Warren was pleased when Judge John Ford issued a favorable ruling related to air pollution reduction.

https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/ford_d.htm
TESTIMONY OF DECLAN P. FORD
"....Mr. MURRAY. Mr. Chief Justice, may I confer briefly with counsel?
The CHAIRMAN. Where were you born?
Mr. FORD. Los Angeles.
The CHAIRMAN. Did you go to the public schools there?
Mr. FORD. I attended both parochial and public schools in Los Angeles and Glendale.
The CHAIRMAN. Then you went to the University of California at Los Angeles?
Mr. FORD. Right.
The CHAIRMAN. Where did you go after that. You were in the service, did you say?
Mr. FORD. I was in the service. After I got out of the service I went back to UCLA and finished my education and then went to work in the oil industry first in Bakersfield and in Los Angeles, Ventura, and then went to work for DeGollyer and McNaughton overseas.
The CHAIRMAN. I see. .."
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