JFK Assassination Forum

One of the things I find curious about all this UFO-mania is that it seems these aliens come in many different forms as do their spaceships. It almost seems like we are being visited by aliens not from another planet but from many different planets. All at once. What are the odds?

I have to say it is kind of boring restricting my beliefs to what evidence tells me. It must be so much more interesting to believe in things based on imagination and speculation.

You believe in an early missed shot. It does not get any more imaginative or speculative than that. It is flat out fantasy.

Here is my obit for Blakey that includes two private emails he sent me:

MTG--

Thanks for a thoughtful review of Robert Blakey, with whom I traded a few e-mails, and for who I wrote one op-ed (regarding opening the JFK Records). 

Blakey was gentlemanly, intelligent, and skeptical--in all directions.

Within the JFKA research community, there is often a stance that anyone who is not 100% a full-blown CT'er, or a 100% LNT'er, is wrong and braindead (as both sides will affirm endlessly).

I suspect a very small JFKAC. But I recognize it is only a suspicion, not a fact.

Blakey was reserved, conservative, and would not leap to conclusions. He disappointed some CT'ers and LNT'ers.

As you point out, Blakey was appalled at the use of the CIA's use of Joannides to put the kibosh on the HSCA look-see into MC, NO and other matters.

That use of Joannides might also have obscured LHO connections to G-2.

As long as the U.S. Government still officially denies that the UFO sightings and even the UFO photos and video footage are not extraterrestrial aircraft, most WC apologists will come up with their usual lame excuses for dismissing this evidence as "mistaken" or "hoaxes," even though dozens of former government officials, government contractors, and military personnel, some of them quite senior in rank, have now come forward and acknowledged that UFOs exist and that the UFOs most certainly are not experimental U.S. Government/Russian/Chinese aircraft.

I worked in military intelligence for decades. These UFOs exhibit capabilities that are far beyond U.S./Russian/Chinese capabilities. The recently released Navy footage of a UFO totally debunks the notion that we're talking about classified experimental aircraft.

During my time in the military, I knew two air traffic controllers back in the 1980s and 1990s who told me they tracked UFOs traveling at speeds and doing maneuvers that vastly, drastically exceeded the capabilities of our most advanced fighter jets. One of the air recon flights that I supported in the 1980s encountered a UFO over the Mediterranean Sea. I personally talked to some of the intel operatives on that flight (since I held the same Top Secret clearance that they held), and they confirmed that they saw the UFO with their own eyes and that it outmaneuvered their recon jet like it was a horse-drawn buggy trying to deal with an Indy 500 race car.

I believe that as long as debunkers and those who recognize the legitimacy of the phenomenon persist in limiting their thinking and the discussion to "ET craft," the discussion will go nowhere. "ET craft" cannot possibly be the full explanation unless earth is the Disneyland of the universe or a single alien civilization is generating fleets of holographic "craft" or something of that sort. "ET craft" just doesn't fit the phenomenon in its totality.

A few weeks ago, G. Robert Blakey, the former chief counsel of the HSCA, passed away. For years, the majority of WC skeptics condemned Blakey as "a sellout," "a CIA whitewasher," "a cover-up operative," etc. That began to change when Blakey realized and admitted in 2014 how severely he had been misled by the CIA during the HSCA investigation, and when Blakey then released a statement titled “The HSCA and the CIA: The View from the Top,” which Blakey presented at the 2014 Assassination Archives and Research Center conference.

I have long been a Blakey defender, arguing that, for all his faults, Blakey did an enormous amount of good to advance our knowledge of the assassination and to reframe the debate. It was a very big deal, a historic moment, when the HSCA formally concluded that JFK was killed by a conspiracy, that there were two gunmen and four shots, that there was a grassy knoll shot, that the first hit on JFK came at around Z190 (when the sixth-floor gunman's view of JFK would have been obstructed by the oak tree), that Ruby lied about how and why he shot Oswald, that there was movement in the sixth-floor window within two minutes after the shooting at a time when Oswald could not have been in the window, that Ruby's numerous phone calls to Mafia contacts in the weeks before the assassination could not all be explained as labor-related calls, that Silvio Odio's account was credible, that Ruby had significant Mafia ties, that JFK's back wound was nearly 2 inches lower than where the autopsy doctors placed it and that the wound was tunneled upward, that the WC failed to follow-up on leads that indicated conspiracy, etc., etc. 

Jefferson Morley wrote the following about Blakey's passing in a recent blog post:

Bob Blakey was a central, sometimes controversial, figure in the second official investigation of JFK’s murder, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA).

Jim DiEugenio’s sensitive obituary in Kennedys and King traces the learning curve of the organized crime prosecutor who served as HSCA chief counsel in 1978 and wrote the Committee’s final report. That report found that Kennedy “in all likelihood” was killed by conspirators who could not be identified.

The Washington Post obituary illuminates how and why the deception of CIA officer George Joannides caused Blakey to change his mind about who was responsible for the assassination.

The New York Times obituary is misleading because it is outdated. It omits the Joannides story and its influence on Blakey, despite the fact that Times reporter Scott Shane reported on the CIA’s “cagey” Oswald story back in 2009.

James DiEugenio, a longtime Blakey critic who softened his attitude toward Blakey after Blakey changed his mind about the CIA's potential role in the JFK's death, wrote a largely favorable article to mark Blakey's passing:

https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/g-robert-blakey-1936-2026

Here is Blakey's 2014 statement:

https://share.google/LYbp2pCKzILMLxv0C

Most of the historic ARRB disclosures from HSCA sealed records would never have happened had it not been for G. Robert Blakey. It was Blakey who authorized the collection of those records and who ensured they were preserved for future release.