There may be more to Watergate than we assume. Or have been told. Professor Peter Dale Scott has chosen Watergate as the subject of his next book. He told me during our recent interview that what he thinks happened could not be covered in five hours. His observation about Deep Political events being connected was never more apparent than when scratching beneath Watergate's surface to find what odd coincidences arise among figures associated with Watergate and the CIA's actions against Castro originating from Miami's jm/wave station during the early 1960's.
This is worth absorbing: http://coldcaseupdate.blogspot.com/2011/03/puppet-or-puppet-master.html
Members who have observed or participated in our forum may be familiar with my occasional contributions to these discussions and debates. I have done what I can to focus our attention on BIG picture ideas such as those addressed by scholars such as Professor Peter Dale Scott, Dr. John Newman, Bill Simpich, former Washington Post reporter Jefferson Morley; Professional investigators whose dedication, discipline and meticulous determination and methodology observe a Pursuit of Truth, wherever it may lead, which is unbiased by personal predispositions or prejudices.
For me, personally, the path from Dallas leads to James Jesus Angleton and William King Harvey.
Today, in accordance with that conclusion, I am considering a new possibility in my personal search for deeper understanding.
For the past year I have contemplated the plausible influence of one shadowy figure whose presence may have been felt but not seen during the consequential decade that began with the CIA's proposal to collaborate with the Mafia for mutual benefit in their efforts to dispose of Fidel Castro, and was then book-ended by the disruption of the Nixon administration's executive authority during Watergate.
That figure is Howard Robard Hughes, Jr.
For those who may not be aware, it was Hughes' eventual trusted executive assistant (1966-1970), Robert Maheu, to whom the CIA turned in their original request to establish dialogue with the Mob to assassinate Castro. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmaheu.htm
I'm sure it is understood by many that a number of very serious students of President Kennedy's assassination have speculated that this association between the mafia and the CIA's Miami based jm/wave station may have been a crucible of the plans that altered our history.
I believe Howard Hughes would have been uniquely situated to sponsor the assassination of the president. His access to and possible influence over an ultimate Machiavellian figure such as James Angleton is not something I can prove. The fact that Angleton delivered the sole eulogy at Hughes' small memorial service is certainly intriguing to me.
There's no question in my mind that Hughes' proximity to figures and centers of despicable action makes my speculation plausible. I am deeply suspicious that he may have made the first call to set in motion the terrible chain of consequence. * * * *
THE MAGIC BOXHughes was extremely anxious to
get himself into an alliance with the
CIA that would protect him from
investigation by other Government
agencies. -ROBERT MAHEU
A CIA cover organization is a strange and very useful thing. It's like having a magic box. You can put things in and you can take things out. You can take things out that you never put in and you can put things in that will never come out. Or you can get into the box yourself and go away somewhere—or perhaps go away forever. If the box is large enough, you can put an entire country inside it and no one will ever know.
The Hughes organization is such a box, the biggest and most useful of its kind. According to information given to us by a highly placed intelligence source, there is nothing else like it in the world, as far as intelligence fronts go. It is no secret to most foreign governments, most of which stand in awe of its ineffable, elegant vastness. From within this magic box, an important part of the United States' covert intelligence operations emanate. But by 1971, it had begun to crack. So much had been put into the box that things were beginning to come out. The magic was fading.
Hughes's alliance with the agency started as early as 1949. Only two years after the CIA got its charter, it began giving contracts to Hughes.
On April 1, 1975, The Washington Post reported, "Hughes Aircraft [HAC] has been mentioned as a potential hotbed of interrelationships with the CIA." The New York Times on March 20, 1975, quoted high Government officials as saying that HAC had been building satellites for intelligence purposes for years and "employs a number of high-ranking CIA and military men." As early as 1960, Maheu had Hughes's blessing in taking on one of the agency's most sensitive assignments: the assassination of Fidel Castro. Maheu worked out several unsuccessful plots with gangsters Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli.
The affinity between Hughes and the agency was natural: America's most secretive billionaire and the most secretive part of America's Government. In a way, Hughes was a kind of modern-day Leonardo da Vinci, an eccentric genius who pushed to the cutting edge of the 20th Century, whether in early talking movies or in space satellites. Just after his death was reported, Newsweek quoted a top-ranking Washington intelligence official as saying, "Hughes gravitated into areas that other people refused to go into or didn't believe in." HAC pioneered the synchronous-orbit satellite, built the first Early Bird satellite and the Surveyor spacecraft that made the first soft landing on the moon and sent pictures back to NASA in preparation for the manned moon shots. Without Hughes's signal-amplifying microwave tubes, pictures from Mars would have been impossible. HAC is responsible for three-dimensional radar that is used for tracking hundreds of planes simultaneously. And the world's first operating laser arced across the labs of HAC. Laser weapons are now one of the hottest topics within the Pentagon—they may someday make nuclear weapons obsolete. The secrets of laser-weapon technology are so closely guarded that Pentagon insiders will discuss it only in state-of-the-art terms.
HAC became a leading Government electronics contractor with the building of an early fire-control system in 1948 and the Falcon air-to-air missile. During the Korean War, HAC was the only contractor of fire-control systems for Air Force interceptors. More recently, HAC built the entire ground-based defense systems for Japan, Belgium, Switzerland and NATO.
For years, Hughes Tool Company (Toolco—sold by Hughes in 1972) held a virtual monopoly on mining-drill bits. (On the subject of whether or not he really did have a monopoly, Hughes once said, "We don't have a monopoly. People who want to drill for oil and not use the Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel.") A highly placed intelligence source told PLAYBOY that this monopoly was one of the important factors in the relationship between Hughes and the CIA because of the importance of resource-recovery information to the agency. What this means is that any time someone drilled into the ground, the information about what was down there went straight back to the agency. The setup with Toolco had put the agency in a position of awesome power with respect to other countries' abilities to keep the exact nature of their resources confidential....
