Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Killer Bears and Recreational Paranoia

Just watched Grizzly Man for the second time, on DVD. One fine documentary. Werner Herzog is redeeming himself.

Currently reading: Double Cross by Chuck and Sam Giancana (half brother and nephew of Sam "Mooney" Giancana). Eye-opening! The hidden history of the U.S. I'll be posting on JFK soon. (Chuck, Sam, and Giancana's daughter Antoinette all say he ordered the assassination, and there's a lot of evidence to support that). With the gift certificate from Richard's parents (thanks again, if you're reading this!) I bought the recently released book Ultimate Sacrifice, which also traces JFK's death to the mob.
I'm not an assassination conspiracy-theory nut, by any means. I've kept notes on the various theories surrounding JFK's death, many of which are just absolutely moronic (the driver shot him?), but I keep tabs on a wide variety of topics. I just happened to find Double Cross and Ultimate Sacrifice on the same day a few weeks ago, and flipping through my notes I found a lot of the same connections and motives revealed by these two books.
I'm not a nut, because I try to think about the evidence - I don't just wildly connect the dots, reaching for any connection between two events. I think (I hope) that I can recognize coincidences for what they are and treat them as such. For instance, there's an interesting connection between two behind-the-scenes figures of the late 1950s and early 1960s: International man of mystery Thomas Corbally was the man who informed the U.S. Embassy in London of the Profumo Affair, the details of which he learned from his buddy Dr. Stephen Ward (scapegoat for the scandal). Years later, Corbally got caught up in the massive insurance scams of Martin Frankel in the U.S. Another person who was courted by Frankel's lackeys and indirectly brought about his downfall was the widow of Indonesia's President Sukarno. Sukarno was sexually compromised by Marilyn Monroe/the mob back in the late '50s. Interesting, but not really valuable, information.

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