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  1. christs4sale
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    Leonardo DiCaprio will star in and produce the feature "Legacy of Secrecy," based on the book about the John F. Kennedy assassination by Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann. DiCaprio will produce through his Warner Bros.-based Appian Way banner with his father, George, who brought the book to his son's attention. Appian Way's Earl Katz will exec produce.

    Warners, which handled Oliver Stone's "JFK" in 1991, is eyeing a possible 2013 release of "Legacy of Secrecy" coinciding with the 50th anni of President Kennedy's assassination.

    DiCaprio is expected to play FBI informant Jack Van Laningham. The book -- whose full title is "Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination" -- asserts that Mafia godfather Carlos Marcello confessed to Van Laningham to having ordered JFK's assassination. As part of a dangerous and long-secret undercover operation, the FBI positioned Van Laningham to become confidant to Marcello, who ruled organized crime in Louisiana and most of Texas for decades.

    "Legacy of Secrecy" includes information from declassified FBI files from the National Archives which details the FBI's clandestine operation with Van Laningham and Marcello's JFK confession. The book also included information from FBI and Secret Service files showing that more than a dozen of Marcello's associates and family members were questioned or arrested by authorities in assocation with the JFK assassination.Marcello, who died in 1993, has not yet been the subject of a feature film. Marcello's name did not appear in the 1964 Warren Report, but the 1979 House Select Committee on Assassinations said mobster Santo Trafficante and Marcello "had the motive, means, and opportunity to assassinate President Kennedy."

    As part of Warner's deal for "Legacy of Secrecy," Waldron is retaining documentary film and TV rights to the book, which also says the Mafia played a role in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and in Watergate. Appian Way's Katz will produce one of the documentaries.

    DiCaprio was last seen in "Inception." Appian Way's a producer on "Red Riding Hood," due out in March from Warners, and on the George Clooney-Ryan Gosling starrer "The Ides of March," currently in pre-production.

    Add this to Ventura's TV show and it looks like the mainstream is beginning to embrace misdirection rather than ignoring this history. I wonder why there is no extreme media backlash as there was with Oliver Stone's JFK.

    Here are two excellent reviews of Legacy of Secrecy: http://www.ctka.net/reviews/legacy_secrecy.html http://www.ctka.net/reviews/waldron_updated.html

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  2. JohnA
    Member

    will anyone be surprised if Dr Fetzer is brought on as an advisor for the film?

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  3. truthmover
    Administrator

    What a bunch of crap. Yeah, the Mafia did it all!

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  4. christs4sale
    Administrator

    will anyone be surprised if Dr Fetzer is brought on as an advisor for the film?

    I actually would be. Fetzer tends to work a different angle of crap. Fetzer has been very critical of Ultimate Sacrifice on Black Op Radio. Waldron and Hartmann promote a reworking of the mafia-did-it angle and their work is definitely done from a research base. Their work appears well-researched and scholarly from a superficial glance. In fact, even Peter Dale Scott endorsed Waldron and Hartmann's first book, Ultimate Sacrifice, saying that there was merit to some of the research. Mark Crispin Miller is also a big promoter of their work so do not be surprised if you see him praising this film as well. Waldron and Hartmann tend to be really anti-Kennedy and Hartmann had his show on Air America, so they get some, not lots, but some left exposure. Fetzer in his 9/11 and JFK "work" tends to promote ideas that sound completely crazy to someone unfamiliar with them and are completely made up and unscholarly to those who have looked into them.

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  5. christs4sale
    Administrator

    DiCaprio's rep confirmed to E! News that the thesp will star in and produce the Warner Bros. thriller via his production shingle, Appian Way. The actor's idea to adapt the tome, whose full title is Legacy of Secrey: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination, came from his father, George, who introduced it to him years ago.

    DiCaprio will play FBI informant Jack Van Laningham who, according to recently declassified FBI files, took part in a dangerous undercover operation to infiltrate the mafia organization of crime boss Carlos Marcello, who was active in Texas and Louisiana during the 1960s.

    In his role as an informant, Van Laningham alleged Marcello confessed to him that he was behind Kennedy's murder and that he even had a hand in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Watergate scandal.

    After the commander in chief was gunned down in Dallas' Dealey Plaza, the feds rounded up a number of Marcello's family members and associates for questioning, but no charges were ever brought against them. And while the Warren Commission failed to mention him, the mob boss was singled out by the 1979 Hosue Select Committee on Assassinations as having "had the motive, means and opportunity" to kill Kennedy.

    If all goes as planned, Legacy of Secrecy will hit theaters in 2013 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the president's death.

    http://www.comcast.net/articles/entertainment-eonl...

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  6. mark
    Member

    JFK coup: sifting through the evidence


    Official story: Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone nut

    Most U.S. citizens suspect the official story is not true, but this healthy skepticism did not translate into popular understanding of how and why President Kennedy was assassinated. 47 years later, the mainstream media - and the liberal alternative media - still promote the “lone gunman” propaganda.


    Fall back to the Official Story: a second gunman, but backed by Cuba

    OK, we know there was a second gunman, but Oswald was a Communist sympathizer so we had to cover up the conspiracy because otherwise we would risk a repeat of the Cuban Missile Crisis that could lead to a nuclear war (since the public would demand a revenge attack on Cuba, supposedly).   This claim was very persuasive shortly after the assassination in discouraging political elites from looking closer at the facts.   President Johnson used this argument to cajole Supreme Court Justice Warren to head the alleged investigative commission.


    Limited Hang Out: admit part of the truth to cover up the full truth

    A deeper fallback claim is the Mafia killed President Kennedy, and the US government was embarrassed to admit this because the CIA used the Mob to wage war on Castro's Cuba.   But this is only part of the truth.   The Mafia had important roles in the assassination plot, but the mafia wasn't involved in the stand down of normal protective policies of the President, nor is the mafia in charge of the political and media coverup of the crime.


    Best Evidence: a coup to keep Kennedy from ending the Cold War

    Why Kennedy was removed from office (the motive) is more important than who was shooting in Dealey Plaza, even though Oswald wasn't one of the shooters.

    President Kennedy had changed his mind on the Cold War, especially after the Cuban Missile Crisis, when he resisted calls from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to start a nuclear war.
He called for nuclear disarmament, a different relationship with the "Third World," signed an order to start pulling troops out of Viet Nam, pushed through the Limited Test Ban Treaty, and offered to convert the "Moon Race" into a cooperative effort with the Soviet Union. Merging the space programs would also have reduced the risk of a nuclear war with rockets.

    JFK vowed to scatter the CIA into a thousand pieces. The CIA (and military intelligence) scattered JFK into a thousand pieces.


    Disinformation: used to discredit skepticism toward the official story

    There is a long list of false claims about the conspiracy to remove Kennedy from office that are flashy but false.   Some claim a video shows the limo driver killing Kennedy (the limo driver slowed down just before the shots were fired, but he didn't fire any of them). Some claim the Zapruder film was faked, but the leading advocate for this view also claims the Moon landings were faked and the video of the planes hitting the World Trade Center were altered in real time by television networks to cover up the real projectiles, so this "fake Zapruder film" claim can be safely ignored.  There's also a faction of white supremacist Holocaust deniers who claim the Israeli Mossad did it.   These distractions are similar to the flares emitted by a plane that is under attack from a heat seeking missile - the decoys confuse the attacker and it usually goes off course.

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  7. mark
    Member

    JFK and the Unspeakable panel in Los Angeles on November 8, 2010

    featuring James Douglass, author, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters Oliver Stone, filmmaker Lisa Pease, co-author, "The Assassinations" moderated by Robert Ellsberg

    audio:

    http://www.peakchoice.org/jfk20101108.mp3

    video of the presentation is at

    http://realhistoryarchives.blogspot.com/2010/11/fu...

    see also

    http://www.oilempire.us/jfk-unspeakable.html

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  8. JohnA
    Member

    i was being facetious about Fetzer.

    but - it is actually not that funny. Just today the Huffington Post ran a story:

    11 Books on the Death of the President

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/22/kennedy-a...

    and - of course - Jim Fetzer made the list.

    amazing. the media has absolutely no credibility filter when it comes to stuff like this. NONE.

    and if 'space beams' Fetzer is still able to maintain his place in the mainstream media as an 'expert' on the subject - what hope do we have of being protected from the much more savvy disinformation that is being pushed out there?

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  9. christs4sale
    Administrator

    Fetzer is also featured briefly in the new JFK episode of Jessie Ventura's Conspiracy Theory. I think that it is pretty clear who is feeding Jessie a lot of the garbage that he is believing.

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  10. JohnA
    Member

    someone needs to create a believable conspiracy theory about government planted conspiracy theories...

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  11. christs4sale
    Administrator

    DiCaprio Buys Waldron—In More Ways Than One

    By Jim DiEugenio

    Just when one thought Hollywood could not get any worse on the JFK case, on November 19th a rather depressing announcement was made. Leonardo DiCaprio has purchased the rights to the lengthy book by Thom Hartmann and Lamar Waldron, Legacy of Secrecy. DiCaprio purchased the rights through his production entity, Appian Way, which has a production deal with Warner Brothers. In the story announcing this discouraging news, it was revealed that DiCaprio’s father George brought the book to his son’s attention. One wonders how much reading George has done in the field. The story also announced that Warners is trying for a 2013 release of the film, which is also rumored to be the release date of the Tom Hanks/Gary Goetzman mini-series made from Vincent Bugliosi’s even longer tome, Reclaiming History. Pity the country that has to be whipsawed between two works of fiction like this at the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s death.

    As most readers of the CTKA site know, and most serious people on this case realize, Hartmann and Waldron spent nearly two thousand pages discussing declassified documents that they either misread or misrepresented. Their two books are based upon contingency plans, which President Kennedy never took seriously, about an invasion of Cuba. And these plans are clearly marked as such. Further, in their first book, Ultimate Sacrifice, their alleged coup plotter, the man who would lead the revolt against Fidel Castro, was clearly implied as being Che Guevara. Which was ridiculous on its face. Eventually, they switched to Juan Almeida. But they were humiliated once again when Malcolm Blunt and Ed Sherry discovered NSA intercepts revealing that Almeida was on his way to Africa at the time of the coup! This literally took the heart out of their fantastic C-Day plot. As did the fact that it was later revealed that no one in any high position in the military or intelligence community knew of the coming invasion—which was to be by flotillas of Cuban exiles supplemented by both the CIA and the Pentagon. National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy did not know. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara did not know. And CIA Director of Plans Richard Helms did not know.

    So here you had a US sponsored coup in Cuba which no one in the American military–intelligence community knew of, and apparently neither did the designated coup leader, who was flying across the Atlantic on his way to a different continent at the time.

    Even though their first book on this subject, Ultimate Sacrifice, was roundly criticized from many quarters—David Talbot, Bill Kelly, and myself to name just three—the authors managed to get published a sort of sequel. This book, Legacy of Secrecy, again discussed this mythological coup in Cuba and the JFK assassination, but also extended the authors’ discussion of assassinations to RFK and Martin Luther King. In each case, Waldron and Hartmann proffered a Mob based scenario. In the JFK case, although the authors were not in the “Oswald did it alone” camp, they concluded the Mafia killed President Kennedy, but this time Bernard Barker was the assassin at the request of Carlos Marcello. As Bill Davy noted, there was next to no evidence for Barker being on the grassy knoll. In the latter two cases, they strongly implied that the official scapegoats—James Earl Ray and Sirhan Sirhan—were triggermen for the Mafia.

    The evidence Waldron and Hartmann offered up for Marcello being the mastermind behind the assassination was mildewed stuff they tried to present as new. In fact, legendary archives researcher Peter Vea sent this author copies of the documents (codenamed CAMTEX) a full decade before Waldron and Hartmann “discovered” them and trumpeted them as new. Contained in those pages is what was termed in Legacy of Secrecy a “confession” to the JFK assassination by Marcello while the Mafioso was in prison in Texas. Let me quote from my review of the book:

    “When Peter sent me the documents, he titled his background work on them as "The Crazy Last Days of Carlos Marcello." Peter had done some work on Marcello's health while being incarcerated. Between that, and the reports that came out at the time of his 1993 death, Peter and I concluded that at the time of the CAMTEX documents Marcello was suffering from the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Today, the accepted gestation period for the disease is about seven years. There is little doubt that by 1988-89 Marcello's Alzheimer's was in full and raging bloom. It was also at this time Marcello's general health was beginning to collapse through a series of strokes. Marcello's talks with the jailhouse informant who is one of the sources for the CAMTEX documents begins in 1985. Doing the arithmetic you will see that Marcello's Alzheimer's was very likely well along by then. Additionally, when told about the jailhouse informant's accusation that he had Kennedy killed, Marcello himself replied that this was ‘crazy talk.’ And in fact it is.

    “The CAMTEX documents actually have Marcello meeting with Oswald in person and in public at Marcello’s brother's restaurant. But that's nothing. According to CAMTEX, Marcello set up Ruby's bar business and Ruby would come to Marcello's estate to report to him! And so after being seen in public with both the main participants, the chief mobster has the first one kill Kennedy and the second kill Oswald. Yet, the authors are so intent on getting the CAMTEX documents out there that they don't note that these contradict their own conclusion written elsewhere in the same book. Namely that Oswald didn't shoot Kennedy.”

    So, in other words, it appears that DiCaprio did about as much background study of these two books and these two writers as Hanks and Goetzman did on Reclaiming History. And what amplifies that is that it appears that DiCaprio will play Jack Van Laningham, the prison inmate who allegedly talked to Marcello. I wonder if DiCaprio will acknowledge he was listening to a man who was in the advanced stages of a mentally debilitating disease, the same one that forced Nancy Reagan to hide her husband from the rest of the world for fear of embarrassment.

    There is a lot of blame to go around is this sorry affair, which once again reveals just how shallow, vapid, and egocentric the Hollywood movie scene has become. And Discovery Channel is high on the list. For they featured Waldron and Van Laningham on its sorry show, Did the Mob Kill JFK? And the History Channel did a documentary on the previous book Ultimate Sacrifice. So whereas, Hartmann and Waldron have been severely discredited within the research community, the cable television crowd has sold them to the general public as credible historians, which they are anything but.

    And now, Leonardo DiCaprio and his father have signed on to the imaginary coup, and the incapacitated “confession.”

    We urge everyone to write or fax DiCaprio at his Appian Way office:

    Leonardo DiCaprio
    Appian Way Productions
    9255 Sunset Blvd, Suite 615
    West Hollywood CA 90069
    Fax: 310-300-1388

    Here are sources to educate Leo with:

    http://ctka.net/reviews/mob_jfk.html
    http://ctka.net/reviews/ultimate.html
    http://ctka.net/reviews/legacy_secrecy.html
    http://www.ctka.net/reviews/waldron_updated.html
    http://www.ctka.net/2009/legacy_update.html

    Everyone get on this one, right away. After fifty years, the American people deserve better than a phony Mob did it scenario about JFK’s death. Especially with the release of 2 million pages of declassified documents that reveal what actually happened to him.

    http://www.ctka.net/Dicaprio_Waldron.html

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  12. mark
    Member

    someone needs to create a believable conspiracy theory about government planted conspiracy theories...

    Lessons from the JFK Truth Movement: disinformation sabotaged the only trial of a conspirator

    http://www.oilempire.us/jfktruth.html


    The Complete No Planes on 9/11 Timeline

    http://www.oilempire.us/no-plane-timeline.html

    (with new menu navigation system)

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