Important book excerpts from “Trained to Kill: The Inside Story of CIA Plots Against Castro, Kennedy, and Che” by Former CIA Asset Antonio Veciana,”Me and Lee,” by Judyth Vary Baker and Catholic Church history, regime change psyops and operations and their institutionalized systematic destruction of children’s health.
April 14, 2017
Important book excerpts from “Trained to Kill: The Inside Story of CIA Plots Against Castro, Kennedy, and Che” by Former CIA Asset Antonio Veciana
Preface
Bishop knew I was responsible for the arsons that destroyed some of Havana’s best-known department stores, which led to something I could never forgive myself for, the death of an innocent mother of two,… Bishop knew I was responsible for sparking the mass exodus of thousands of Cuban children known as “Operation Pedro Pan”— disguised as orphans, and with the help of the Catholic Church. Bishop knew I came close to collapsing Cuba’s economy with a rumor campaign meant to sow panic….. My name is Antonio Veciana. I am an accountant by training, a banker and businessman by trade. Some call me a patriot. Some call me a terrorist. Only one knew I was a spy, with a single mission—destroy Castro. My CIA handler, the man I knew as Maurice Bishop. The man whom congressional investigators later identified as master spy David Atlee Phillips. The man whom I saw meeting with Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas.
Chapter 3: The Bearded Ones
When Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba on January 1, 1959, David Atlee Phillips was already there…
I had left the Banco Nacional before Fidel declared victory. I went to work for Julio Lobo, the richest man in Cuba. Lobo was Cuba’s first millionaire and, at the time of the revolution, its richest man. His personal fortune was so immense, people in Havana and Miami still wistfully exclaim, “To be as rich as Julio Lobo!”
Born in Venezuela, Lobo was, in his time, considered to be the most powerful sugar broker in the world. He was much more than that. In 1959, his holdings reportedly included fourteen sugar mills—six he owned outright; he held the controlling interest in eight more—and more than three hundred thousand acres of surrounding sugar cane fields and land. In addition, he owned 23 percent of the shares of the giant U.S.-owned West Indies Sugar Corp, twenty sugar warehouses, an insurance company, a telegraph and telephone company, a shipping line with four subsidiaries, an oil company, three refineries, and an airline.
He also owned, as the writer John Paul Rathbone noted in The Sugar King of Havana, the largest collection of Napoleonic memorabilia outside of France.” It included, among other things, the emperor’s death mask and one of his teeth. His personal art collection included works by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Goya, Diego Rivera, and Salvador Dali.
And he owned a bank, the Banco Financiero, with more than $12 million in deposits, thirteen branches, and eighty-six employees—including, beginning in 1958, me. I was his vice president and comptroller. I worked in the bank’s main building, a stunning colonial classic of solid stone block standing formidably on a corner of Obispo Street, in the heart of Old Havana….
Chapter 6: Change of Strategy
The warning signs had come throughout the summer. They appeared, at first, to be part of a dangerous tit for tat between the United States and Cuba. As tensions escalated, Shell, Esso, and Texaco refused to refine shipments of Soviet oil arriving on the island. Cuba responded by nationalizing their oil refineries.
At the beginning of July, Cuba upped the ante, taking control of all U.S. owned businesses and commercial property….
But, as I anticipated, the government began nationalizing Cuban-owned enterprises in September. In mid-month, it seized sixteen cigar factories, fourteen cigarette plants, and twenty tobacco warehouses. Two days later, it nationalized all the U.S. banks on th island, including the First National City Bank of New York, First National Bank of Boston, and Chase Manhattan Bank.
Then came what I had warned the Cuban bankers about. On October 13, the government announced laws 890 and 891 authorizing the official takeover of all but two private banks and 382 industrial and commercial companies, along with all of their factories, warehouses, depots, property, and rights….
I struck back that same month.
The run on the banks had been successful. It taught me an effective formula….
“Andres,” I said, “I want to bring out a law that says the governments going to terminate parental rights. That they’re going to take this authority away from mothers and fathers and assume legal custody of their children.”
“What will you accomplish with that?”
“I don’t know,” I answered, honestly. I didn’t. But I knew that good horror movies don’t scare people—they prompt them to use their imaginations. People scare themselves. That’s why they’re afraid of the dark. They don’t know what’s there, or what might happen. A law that said the government was going to take control of the children, but didn’t offer any specifics, would have the same effect.
“I don’t know,” I said again. “Let’s find out.”
We did it the same way as we had with the monetary law. Caylon got two people to draw up an official-looking piece of legislation. We printed thousands of copies and let the underground network filter it onto the streets.
The impact was enormous. It sparked “Operation Pedro Pan,” the exodus of more than fourteen thousand unaccompanied children sent out of Cuba by their parents with the help of the Catholic Church. Monsignor Bryan Walsh, the head of the Catholic Welfare Bureau in Miami, worked with the State Department to secure visas for the children and provided care for them when they arrived.
In his account of the program’s history, Walsh wrote,
“Purported copies of a new decree circulated throughout underground circles. According to this decree (as rumored) “all children will remain with their parents until they are three years old, after which they must be entrusted for physical and mental education to the Organizacion de Circles Infantiles” [state day-care centers]. Children from 3 to 10 would live in government dormitories in their home provinces and would be permitted to visit their parents “no less than two days a month.” Older children would be assigned to the most appropriate place” and thus might never come home.
I did not tell Bishop of my plan before it was in motion. I didn’t have to. The CIA’s Radio Swan, under David Atlee Philip’s direction, helped fan the flames. As soon as the Patria Potestad “law” began circulating, it began broadcasting a message: “Cuban mothers, don’t let them take your children away! The Revolutionary Government will take them away from you when they turn five and will keep them until they are eighteen.”
The message aired repeatedly in the coming days and weeks.
An explosion of terrifying rumors followed. Walsh later enumerated them: “…that children were picked up off the streets and never seen again; that orphanages, such as ‘Casa Beneficenia,’ had been emptied and all the children sent to Russia for indoctrination; that in a town of Bayamo, fifty mothers had signed a pact to kill their children rather than hand them over to Castro; etc.”
Castro himself decried the law a forgery but only helped further the rumors when he sent his own twelve-year-old son, Fidelito, to Russia. Then, when the government started the Juventud Rebelde (Rebel Youth) and Pioneros (Rebel Pioneers) programs, it fed parents’ fears even more.
Pedro Pan began with a trickle. The first two kids, a brother and a sister named Sixto and Vivian Aquino, arrived in Miami International Airport aboard Pan American World Airways flight 422 at 4:30 p.m. on December 26, 1960. By the time commercial flights between Havana and Miami stopped, ending the exodus in October 1962, the flow had become a flood, with hundreds of children arriving every month.
It had been named fancifully, a play on the tale of Peter Pan, who fled the world of grown-ups with his crew of Lost Boys for the freedom of Neverland. The sad parallels, however, went far beyond fiction. Many children that took part in Pedro Pan exodus never saw their parents again…. Most of the children never saw their homeland again.
Most, though, went on to lead productive, even successful, lives in their new land. Their ranks include judges and journalists, singers, and at least one U.S. senator. Among them, too, was Miguel Bezos, the stepfather of Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos.
It had not been my intention to divide families. I am sorry for those who were hurt.* My goal had been only to deepen the discontent with the government, to sow more instability, and hopefully, to create the conditions for its downfall. I succeeded in the first two; I failed in the last.
Chapter 2: An Unlikely Terrorist
I was the only Marist selected as one of the directors of the National Federation of Cuban Catholic Youth. It was, as its name implied, a union of young faithful, calling on us to partake in a life of intense spirituality, prayer, and retreats. I’m sure it’s only a coincidence that it was founded the year of my birth, with a motto that might have been my own: “Faith, Study, and Action.”…
Still, it seems appropriate to note here that later in my life, I lost my faith—not in God, but in religion. I stayed home and meditated, practicing my faith that way. But I stopped believing in religion.”
Chapter 9: Operation Condor
In 1938, Allende headed the Popular Front presidential campaign. He was named minister of health after his candidate won. In that position, Allende was responsible for multiple social changes, including safety laws for factory workers, higher pensions for widows, maternity care, free lunch programs for schoolchildren. Later as a senator, Allende introduced legislation guaranteeing universal health care for the country’s citizens, the first program its kind in the hemisphere.
In all, Allende served four terms as a Socialist Party senator, and as a deputy and cabinet minister. And throughout his political career, he consistently denounced capitalism and imperialism….
With Vietnam and the Cold War with the Soviet Union raging, President Richard Nixon and the Secretary of State Henry Kissinger vehemently opposed the rise of a second Marxist government in Latin America. Nixon ordered the CIA to “make the [Chilean] economy scream” to prevent Allende’s ascension, or to unseat him if he came to power…
Once Allende took office, Bishop’s focus shifted to Chile. So did the assignments he gave. More and more, I became a courier, delivering cash to Chilean officials and generals collaborating secretly with the United States. Sometimes it was a two-way exchange: I gave them the thick packet of money I carried into the country, and they gave me documents to take to Bishop…
We met again the next day, at a private residence on the outskirts of the city. Bishop wanted to discuss the mission. He called it “Operation Condor.”…
Bishop remained adamant about one thing. He wanted the world to know that the assassins were Cuban exiles. The CIA could not be implicated in any way. Alpha 66, he said, should take responsibility…
“I don’t understand your insistence on making sure the assassination bear the mark of anticastristas,” I told him…
he laughed but remained firm. Exiles must bear the blame, not the CIA….
Now all I had to do was figure out how to infiltrate two assassins into the press corp covering Castro’s visits. And how to get their weapons in with them, undetected.
Bishop and I met again. In Lima. In Miami. We still didn’t have the assassination plot figured out, but Bishop was pleased to learn that I had addressed another of his concerns.
Even though he gave me more than enough money for the mission, I still collected donations from groups of Cubans in Venezuela and in Puerto Rico—for the “cause.” They did not know what was being planned, or where, but raising funds from them would make it easier to link the assassination to exiles when it did happen…
Now, on my way back to Bolivia from Miami, I went to him again. I told him about the plan to kill Castro.
“I can’t give you the details,” I said, “but the idea is that the people would pass themselves off as journalists, as a cameraman and a reporter.”
He eyed me, waiting.
“I need to get them trained,” I continued, “so that they’re credible. I need you to recommend someone of confidence who can do it.”
Cuzco gave me the name of another Cuban in the city, a man with decades of experience as a cameraman in Cuba and Venezuela…. In Caracas, I put the two men in an apartment together and put them to work. They learned to “be” Venezuelan..
“They’re ready,” I said. “I need you to give them credentials, identifying them as employees of Venevision.”….
Meanwhile, unknown to Bishop, I had gone even further to deflect blame for the assassination from the CIA. He wanted the assassination linked to Cubans. Fine. I wanted it to go beyond that. I would implicate the Soviets.
One of my friends in Caracas learned that a professor who was there from the Soviet Union had actually been a spy in other countries. I sent Dominguez, on a pretext, to meet with him at his home. While they spoke in the garden outside, I had a photographer with a telephoto lens capture their seemingly friendly meeting.
Then I arranged for a fake dossier documenting some of the professor’s activities in Venezuela and other places. In it, as well, I included papers giving instructions for Castro’s assassination, apparently on Kremlin orders.
If the assassins died, I’d see to it that the documents were leaked. That way, I presumed, the Soviets would be permanently stained. They’d be suspected of killing one of their allies. I’d sow distrust, and, with Castro’s killers dead there’d be no one to disprove the Kremlin’s role in his murder. The mistrust, I figured, would lead to a breakdown in relations. Without the economic and political support of the Soviets, Cuba would be weakened, and lose its great defensive shield against the United States. Combined with the death of the regime’s charismatic head, Fidel, a break with the Soviets would almost certainly ensure the collapse of Cuba’s Communist government….
I was devastated. I knew it was an excuse. Rodriguez had concocted an elaborate lie so he could abandon the assassination plot and still save face. They had lost their nerve. I had lost my chance…
I was desperate. I raced to Miami to see Andre Nazario. I tried to put together a last-ditch effort to kill Fidel in Ecuador, before he returned to the well-guarded safety of Cuba…. Fidel flew to Havana. I flew to Lima to see Bishop. I had no choice. When I told him what happened, he flew into a rage.
“Cuban’s have no balls!” he yelled. They aren’t real men. They’re cowards!”
He went on, lashing me with his words. When he stopped, his face was hard.
“Kill them,” he said. “ Make examples of them.”
“What?”
“How much does it cost to have someone killed in Bolivia? Two hundred dollars? Pay it. Invite them there and do it.”
“But I…”
“We can’t afford for them to stay alive,” Bishop continued. “They’re a risk. They can expose the State Department’s involvement. They can connect you to the assassination plot. You, an employee of the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia. Think of the damage that will do.”
I was stunned
“But,” I said, “we ran the same risk if they had succeeded and survived. They could have talked after they were arrested.”
Bishop chuckled.
“Arrested? Survived?” He shook his head. “They weren’t going to survive. Their deaths were already arranged. I just never told you.”….
Chapter 10: Is that you, Mr. Bishop?
Perhaps not so surprisingly, my contract with USAID ended just a few months after my tense showdown with Maurice Bishop. …
My contact with Bishop had grown virtually nonexistent since I left Bolivia. Without him to direct me or to make demands my time, I went rogue…
(The author is not the only catholic trained terrorist)
Juan Felipe de la Cruz was the perfect man for the job. He was athletic, educated, and single-mindedly determined to defeat Castro. Born in 1944, the great-grandson of a celebrated colonel in Cuba’s war for independence, he was one the Pedro Pan kids, sent alone into exile by his parents after Castro came to power. He vowed to return to a free Cuba.
In 1970, de la Cruz joined the Cuban Revolutionary Directorate, known by its Spanish acronym, the DRC. He wrote for the exile magazine Replica, took to the airwaves on Radio Mundo, and prepared himself for combat….
So, on July 7, 1973, I left Caracas on a Viasa airline flight and headed home to Miami… I spent the next two weeks trying my best to focus solely on my family and getting a tan relaxing on the beach in Miami. There were the brief interruptions as I dealt with some detail or other connected to de la Cruz’s imminent trip to Paris, but for the most part, I was able to enjoy what I thought was some well-deserved time off. The final days of my vacation coincided with the international CPA convention. It was being held that year at the Everglades Hotel in downtown Miami from the 19th to the 22nd of July.
The day before it ended, Juan Felipe de la Cruz boarded a plane to Paris. Three days later, I was under arrest…
Juan Felipe de la Cruz had arrived in Paris. Up to that point, everything had gone according to plan. De la Cruz had flown into Madrid, then made his way to Paris. He checked into a small hotel on the outskirts of the city, the Oasis, and carefully went about gathering up the materials he needed for the bomb.
He had been shown the process repeatedly and performed it countless times himself under his tutor’s* watchful eye. On August 2, he did it again, carefully assembling the explosive device in he comfort of his hotel room.
Only this time, something went wrong. Something terrible.
The newspapers gave scant details. Somehow the bomb had gone off. The room was destroyed. Juan Felipe died instantly. He was twenty-eight years old…. And it was sad. A twenty-eight-year-old man—a boy still, really—was dead. He had given his life for Cuba. For them. So that the friends and families they had left behind on the island could live free….
As my trial drew closer, my attorney had more questions… I remember thinking how curious it was that someone would conspire to smuggle drugs with someone they thought worked for the government—especially someone with the CIA.. I was convicted on all three counts on January 14, 1974. The judge sentenced me to two concurrent terms of seven years, plus three years of probation…
They released me after twenty-six months. I got home in February 1976, just as the House Select Committee on Assassinations was beginning its work. Soon after my return, committee investigator Gaeton Fonzi started calling my house, asking to see me. We met for the first time at the beginning of March. He didn’t mention the Kennedy assassination. He said he wanted to ask about connections between groups like Alpha 66 and U.S. Intelligence agencies.
I ended up telling him about Bishop. The whole story. About Cuba and the attempt to kill Castro with the bazooka, about Bishop telling me to found Alpha 66, about Chile. And I told him about meeting Lee Harvey Oswald.
Gaeton tried not to look surprised. He tried not to let his excitement show in his voice. But as he himself told it later, “In my mind, I fell off my chair.”
That’s because he hadn’t been fully honest with me when he introduced himself. He was investigating links between anti-Castro groups and the CIA. That was true. But he was actually interested in the assassination. AS an HSCA investigator, he was precisely charged with looking into whether U.S. intelligence agencies had anything to do with Kennedy’s death.
And I had just given him the thing so many suspected, and so many feared, but no one had found before—a direct link between a significant CIA figure and John Kennedy’s alleged assassin, or at least the “patsy” for the crime, as Oswald called himself…
Before the House Select Committee on Assassinations finished its work, someone tried to silence me. With a bullet.
I had testified in secret before a congressional panel. I told them about the assassination attempts against Castro and about El Che’s diary. I told them about Alpha 66 and about Oswald. And I told them how a man I knew only as Maurice Bishop had been responsible for it all…. Fonzi and other committee investigators were able to confirm much of what I told them. The committee had also determined that, even though the CIA insisted I had never been one of its operatives, the agency’s records contained a “piece of arguably contradictory evidence—a record of $500 in operational expenses, given to Veciana by a person with whom the CIA had maintained a long-standing operational relationship.”..
Police said the gunman used a .45-caliber silencer. The first shot had come through the side mirror, splintering on its way through. A piece of it had hit me. It lodged above my ear… The doctors said the bullet that grazed my belly was the one that could have killed me.
“You’re lucky they used a .45,” one of the cops told me. “The .45 comes out of the barrel slower. If they used a 9 mm you’d be dead.”
Epilogue
I knew who “Bishop” really was the instant I saw David Phillip’s photograph.
Why didn’t I say so then?
I was afraid.
I believe there as a conspiracy to kill Kennedy. And I believe that even if David Atlee Phillips wasn’t part of it, he knew about it. He had to. Why else would he have met with Oswald in Dallas, less than three months before the assassination? And why else would he have asked me to help connect Oswald with the Cuban Embassy in Mexico?…
Gaeton’s widow, Marie Fronzi, was scheduled to appear there. With her as my witness, I felt I could finally make public the secret that had been burning inside of me all those years. I felt honestly, that with her there in that crowded room, I was honoring her husband… He had known all along. But now, with her there listening as I stated publicly what he had cleverly deduced, I felt that he would hear, too. I had told Marie the November before, in a letter. But this was different. This was me telling everyone that Gaeton had been right. I had denied him that confirmation in life. In this forum, in front of a room full of people, it wasn’t just me telling what I knew. I was telling everyone that he knew, too….
Do I regret fighting Fidel? No.
Lee and Me: How I Came to know, love and lose Lee Harvey Oswald by Judyth Vary Baker.
Judyth Vary Baker is the only person still alive from Tulane University’s bioweapons program in the 1960s. She started working on the weapons at St. Francis with dreams of curing cancer… Her book, “Me and Lee” confirms content from Antonio Veciana’s book.
“Know how we wondered who my handler was?” Lee (Lee Harvey Oswald) whispered. “Mr. B? Benson, Benton, or Bishop? Well, he’s from Fort Worth, so it has to be Phillips. He is a traitor. Phillips is behind this. I need you to remember that name,” Lee said, repeating it with cold anger. “David Atlee Phillips.” Lee then said there were two other names I needed to remember: Bobby Baker and Billy Sol Estes. He said the assassination itself was not their doing, but it was because of them, and I was never to forget their names…. page 521-522
“Then it struck me. Dave wasn’t talking about his card for the New Orleans Public Library; he was talking about his card from the Tulane Medical School Library. That card would lead the police not only to David Ferrie, but straight to Dr. Ochsner. The Project would be exposed, and that would be disastrous for everybody involved!
Dave had lent me his TMS library card so I could check out medical journals, and I had given the card to Lee in David Lewis’s presence when I needed Lee to return some medical journals for me..
“I want you to burn it! Right now! While I’m on the phone! Dave ordered..
“I’ll call you one more time. After that, I can’t call anymore,” Dave said. “And now I have other calls to make. So, Vale, Soror.” (Be strong, sister.”
“It’s hopeless. If you want to stay alive,” Dave warned me, with a strained voice, “It’s time to go into the catacombs… so play the dumb broad, and save yourself. Remember, Mr. T will watch every step you make.”
Dave meant I was being watched by “Santos” Trafficante, The Godfather of Tampa and Miami.” – (Portions from pages 525 – 530)
Judyth was the only member of the bioweapons program at Tulane that was not murdered.
“Me and Lee” is a must read and confirms that the US also imported the Nazi bioweapons program disguised as a cancer research program and the Catholic Church is deeply involved. Eli Lilly provided all the materials for the bioweapons program.
“The three great men told Col Doyle that I was invited to come to Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, New York for a summer of fast track training. The National Science Foundation would fund my work in Dr. Moore’s own lab, where I would receive world class instruction on a project of my choice. I would also join the other students—already assigned to other labs—in scheduled seminars, and could choose an additional project, if I liked, which would be supervised by either Dr. Edwin Miranda or Dr. James T. Grace. These two scientists often worked together, and their cancer research was world-famous.” – page 47 & 48
“The coauthor of the article was Dr. James T. Grace, also from the staff of the Roswell Park…. Dr. Grace was a warm and personable man whose primary role in the program was to teach the students to handle cancer-causing viruses safely. He taught me to propagate and handle the “Friend Virus” (an unfriendly retrovirus that caused leukemia in mice) and SV40 (the DNA monkey virus that contaminated the polio vaccine and caused cancer in a variety of mammals.)…” page 60
“Dr. Moore and Dr. Diehl discussed my proposal and evaluated how it might impact the funding they had envisioned for my research. After some deliberation, they suggested that I could spend a year or two at St. Francis, before moving on to the University of Chicago. After all, St. Francis did have a fine medical technology department. They could arrange for grants, they said, to support a laboratory there for my use, so I could continue in my present course of research. I had just begun working with monkey viruses and radiation, under Dr. Grace, and was anxious to merge the new knowledge with my present work—facilitating the most rapid growth possible of human-based melanomas, in variants of our new, ground-breaking RPMI mediums. Dr. Diehl suggested that I could compare the growth rates of human melanomas infected with SV40 with that of uninfected human melanomas to determine what would make these fast-growing cancers even more deadly.
I was taken aback. Wasn’t that just the opposite of what we were supposed to be doing?
“The key to defeating cancer is to understand it,” Dr. Diehl reminded me. – page 66
“Then Dr. Ferrie explained that their cancer project was getting results faster than typical research projects, because they did not have to do all the paperwork, and all this was under the direction of the great man himself, Dr. Alton Ochsner.
Dr. Ochsner again. So he was involved in this, too. Dr. Ferrie said Dr. Ochsner knew how to get things done.
He had access to anything needed and avoided red tape by bringing in some materials himself from Latin America. Ferrie described Ochsner’s Latin American connections in more detail, saying that he was the on-call physician for many Latin American leaders. He kept their secrets and got rewarded in return, including big donations to his Clinic. As a result, Ochsner had his own unregulated flow of funds and supplies for every possible kind of cancer research, with no oversight. “We’re using various chemicals, in combination with radiation, to see what happens with fast-growing cancers,” Ferrie said. “We’re using it to mutate monkey viruses too.”
Mutating monkey viruses! Radiation! Fast growing cancers!
“That’s exactly what I’ve been trained to handle,” I commented, noting how conveniently my skill set just happened to match their research.
“I was told you were,” Dr. Ferrie said, without explaining how he came by that particular piece of information, but I figured it had to be Dr. Ochsner…” – page 140
“The configuration of these labs was basically a circular process which repeated itself over and over. With each lap around the loop of laboratories, the cancer-causing viruses would become more aggressive, and more deadly. Originally, these viruses came from monkeys, but they had been enhanced with radiation. The virus we were most concerned with was SV40, the infamous carcinogenic virus that had contaminated the polio vaccines of the 1950s. But the science of the day was not terribly precise, and cross-infection between species was common in monkey labs. So it was impossible to know if we were working with SV40 only, or a collection of viruses.
We assumed there were probably other viruses traveling with it, but whether it was SV40 or SV37 or SIV did not really matter to us. What mattered was whether it produced cancer quickly. For our project, these cancer causing viruses had been transferred to mice because they were more economical than monkeys, and the viruses thrived just as easily, which is why mice are so widely used in medical research.
This loop included a large colony of thousands of mice kept in a house near Dave Ferrie’s apartment. I called it “the mouse house.” People connected to the Project handled the daily care and feeding of the mice, bred them to replace the population which was constantly being consumed. Several times each week, fifty or so live mice would be selected based upon apparent size of their tumors. These mice had tumors so large that they were visible to the naked eye. They would be placed in a cardboard box and quietly brought through he back door of Dave’s house for processing. Once in Dave’s kitchen, we would kill the mice with ether and harvest their tumors. Harvesting meant cutting their bodies open and excising the largest tumors. The tumors were then weighed, and their weights recorded in a journal. The odor was terrible The largest of the harvested tumors had a destiny. We first cut very thin slices from these tumors and examined them under a microscope. We had to be sure what kind of tumor we had, in each case. Bits of the “best” tumors were selected for individual treatment: each specimen was macerated, stained, mixed with RPMI medium, then poured into a carefully labeled test-tube. These were placed in Dave’s table centrifuge, and spun. Most cancer cells went to the bottom. The liquid on top was poured into a big flask, then more RPMI medium, with fetal calf serum, ad sometimes other materials, was added to each test tube. These were the beginnings of tissue cultures, to be grown elsewhere. “- page 208
“Your presence there will cut out two girls who could present problems for Mr. Monaghan,” Ochsner explained. “He has to have someone there every morning, and he needs you to cover for Mr. Oswald’s absences.”
Ochsner then explained that Lee would also be working on the Project by transporting chemicals, equipment and specimens to several locations. Nobody would suspect that Lee had anything to do with a project involving cancer research, he pointed out. Ochsner said Lee’s offer to work at Reily and to courier materials had already been accepted, but that he would also be involved in another aspect of the project, slated for later in the year.
My position at Reily would be salaried, so that my time out of the office would not be recorded and Reily would, in effect, be paying for my hours spent on cancer work. The same was true for Lee’s position.” – page 253
“Dr. Mary noticed me staring at the equipment.
“The marmosets are dying,” she told me somberly. “All of them, including our control group.”
I pondered the implications. Our bioweapon had migrated between the two groups of monkeys, presenting the terrifying possibility that our mutated cancer was not only transferable, but actually contagious. We both knew that from this moment on we needed to be concerned about being exposed to a contagious, cancer-causing virus.
For the next hour, I worked with the microscopes, until Dave showed up. As my eyes were tired, I decided to help Lee, whose hands were now thrust inside the clean box’s gloves, and leave the microscope work to Dr. Mary. I bent down and kissed his perspiring forehead.
“You shouldn’t touch me,” he said, through his face mask.
“I’m going to help,” I told him, putting on my lab coat. I could see a book in Lee’s pocket through the clear plastic apron. “I see you brought along Profiles of Courage,” I said to Lee, hoping he was finished with it, and I could borrow it from him.
“I’m trying to get my hands on everything I can about ‘The Chief,’” Lee answered… – page 386
“Wednesday, July 10, 1963
I received an important call at Reily’s from Dr. Bowers, who told me Dr. Ochsner had asked him to relay the good news to me. He said that cells isolated from two of the lymphoma strains from the mice had produced dramatic results in the marmoset monkeys. They suffered from not one, but two variations of a galloping cancer. We had broken the barrier between mouse and monkey. Now we could move on to specific types of lung cancers, but would need to keep the mouse cancers going, in case a failure occurred, when we moved from marmoset monkeys to African Green monkeys.” – page 383
“All right,” I said. “What agency do you really work for, and who is your most important handler?”
“You little spy!” he said, smiling. “Here’s the answer: I’m loaned to the CIA, and must sometimes help the FBI; but who my main handler is, not even God knows the answer to that. Certainly, I don’t. I call him “Mr. B.”
“As for me,” I told him, “I’m just a pair of hands belonging to Ochsner.”
“They don’t belong to Ochsner anymore,” Lee said. “They’re mine now.”
I asked him if I had a “handler.” Lee said, smiling, “Of course you do. It’s me.” He said I was a lucky woman. “I shall be your protector,” he said. “I won’t let any of them hurt you.”
I asked why would anybody want to hurt me? I was on the ‘good’ side. Lee explained: if you’re no longer useful, you could be thrown out, unless you were educated.
“You’re safer than I am,” he told me. “Officially, you were supposedly an unwitting asset. A good position to be in… – page 389
Lee asked if there was anything he still didn’t know about the cancer research project. “Well, you should know about the etiology of the cancer,” I told him. “I’ve never discussed it with you.”
“Etiology? What’s that mean?”
“Etiology means origins. This is no ordinary cancer, as you know,” I reminded him He agreed.
“It’s probably contagious,” I went on. That startled him, since Dr. Mary and I had not really discussed this point explicitly in front of him. I told him that the monkey virus, now altered by radiation, had moved spontaneously from the deliberately infected marmoset monkeys to the control animals. With it came cancer and all the marmoset monkeys were now dying. That’s why there were suddenly all the extra precautions in Dave’s lab.
“Remind me not to eat or drink anything over at Dave’s,” Lee said soberly as he pondered the idea of working around a contagious cancer virus…
“We’ve created a galloping cancer,” I went on. “I think a bacteriophage could be altered to take out even these cancer cells. But nobody’s going down that road. We’re developing this weapon to eliminate a head of state. But what if we get Castro? Will they really just throw this stuff away? I asked, shivering at the thought.
“It could be used as a weapon of mass destruction,” Lee answered simply…
Lee asked how many people understood the science behind the Project. I told him Ochsner, Sherman, Dave and I surely knew how it was made and that I knew there were some other doctors involved, but once the bioweapon was created, it could be kept frozen for years and used by anyone who had access to it at some point in the future. We sank into deep silence as we contemplated the dimensions of what we had just said. How had my dream to cure cancer gone so wrong?” – pages 390 – 391
“The plan to kill Castro depended on two to three people: First, a doctor to influence diagnostics for the required x-rays, then an x-ray technician to rig the machine to temporarily deliver a dangerous dose, (creating symptoms of an infection and pulling down the immune system) and someone to contaminate the penicillin shots given to overcome the presumed ‘pneumonia’ or ‘infection’, with the deadly cancer cocktail. Reactions to the foreign material would bring on fever, with more x-rays to check for ‘pneumonia’ —and more penicillin or similar shots. Only one shot had to reach a vein, and it was over, if the X-rays had been used. For this was a galloping cancer: Castro’s chances, if it worked in humans as it did in monkeys, were zero. It had killed the African green monkeys in only two weeks. Castro’s death by cancer would be ascribed to “natural causes.”
Lee told me that after the cancer cells were removed from their glass container, he then observed the volunteer being x-rayed and injected. After that, Dave asked him to leave. Why? This made Lee suspicious… – page 477
“I checked the blood work data while a centrifuge spun down the rest of the freshly-drawn blood samples to pellets, inspecting slides and the blood counts already prepared for me. My task was to match the recorded data with the slides, and to look for any cancer cells there. A few were present—an excellent sign that the bioweapon worked. The original cancer cells had been tagged with a radioactive tracer. If any of those were also found in the pellets, the volunteer was surely doomed. But there were too many blood samples for just one client. …
Having done that, I insisted that I needed to observe the prisoner’s current condition to see how he was physically reacting. The orderly reluctantly took me to the door of the prisoner’s room, but said that I was not allowed past the door. The room was barred, but basically clean. Several storage boxes sat on the floor and some flowers sat on a stand next to the bed. The patient was tied to the bed and was thrashing around in an obvious fever. It was very sad and I felt sorry for what I had done, but I played my part and pretended to be pleased with his status.
We had spent no more than forty-five minutes at the hospital, and once back in the car, Lee and I discussed what I had seen. I told him that I was almost sure there was more than one “volunteer.” Lee asked me to describe the patient to him, which I did. Lee then pointed out that the hairline and nose were different from the patient that he had seen injected. Between Lee’s comments and the number of variety of blood samples, I became convinced. More than one “volunteer” had been injected to test the effectiveness of the bioweapon.” – page 479 – 481
“A car and driver was waiting outside of International House to take Lee and Hugh Ward to an airport in Houma, Louisiana (about an hour southwest of New Orleans). But first, they had to pick up a package from the nearby offices of Eli Lilly that needed to be delivered to someone in Austin. After getting the package from Eli Lilly, the trio headed to the Huoma-Terre-bonne Airport, known to locals as “the blimp station.” Lee said they reached the blimp station without undue delay.” – page 495
“It said that Alex Rorke had “run into some trouble,” and he and his pilot might be “missing.”
This was instantly a concern to Lee because, not only was Alex Rorke one of his trusted friends from his nefarious anti-Castro world, he was also the man who was going to fly me from Florida to Mexico when it was time for Lee and me to disappear, which might be this week.. The Latinos, meanwhile were eating lunch with some anti-Castro friends and had promised to seek news about Alex Rorke. When they returned, they dropped Lee at the Trek Cafe on South Congress Avenue, where he waited for about forty-five minutes while they dropped off the package from Eli Lilly in the biology building at St. Edward’s University” – page 496 & 497
“He deposited one of his two suitcases in a locker in the bus station, so he would have some clothes to wear when he returned to Mexico. It was now obvious to Lee that he had been betrayed, and his actions at the consulate would further stain him as a pro-Castro fanatic, making him an even more convincing patsy in Kennedy’s murder.
“They think I’m a blind fool!” Lee told me soon after. “If they don’t want me for Cuba anymore, I’m better off dead than alive to them.” – page 501
The Catholic Church is a terrorist creating institution and it is also responsible for advancing global child trafficking markets.
Please familiarize yourselves with the Catholic Priest, Bryan O. Walsh from Antonio Veciana’s book. (He’s only 1 of 18 priests with the name “Walsh” who were accused of sexually abusing children.) He’s a critically important figure. He was “trained” in Ireland. This is also of great significance. “Accuse the other of that which you are responsible.” This is our ruling class strategy and the Catholic Church serves them.
Catholic Priest Bryan O. Walsh was accused in 6/9/06 complaint of sexual abuse of boy age 14 in 1964, including penetration and oral sex. Boy was ward of Operation Pedro Pan; Walsh was its founder and director. Pedro Pan brought 14,048 Cuban children to US in 1960-62; placed them in orphanages and foster care to remove them from Castro’s educational system. Walsh was born and trained in Ireland; ordained for St. Augustine diocese; became Miami priest when diocese was erected in 1958; retired 1996; died 12/20/01.
So when Antonio Veciana said, “Still, it seems appropriate to note here that later in my life, I lost my faith—not in God, but in religion. I stayed home and meditated, practicing my faith that way. But I stopped believing in religion…” and “It had not been my intention to divide families. I am sorry for those who were hurt.” He clearly knows far more and is still concealing. One does not leave a church unless there is a catalyst.
Miami is one of the largest child trafficking centers of the world. That is also a fact. Jeffrey Epstein’s case is also important to familiarize yourselves with. TrafficKing by Conchita Sarnoff is an important book that explains one branch in child sex trafficking. Trafficked children are funneled into three market branches. Child sex slave, organ, and pharmaceutical research subject markets are the primary market branches.
Know that few children ever come forward. When one comes forward, know that a sea of victims remain silent out of fear for retaliatory actions against them.
“A former Pedro Pan refugee from Cuba who has accused the leader of the Catholic relocation program, the late Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh, of sexually abusing him took his legal case to the doorstep of the Archdiocese of Miami Monday afternoon.
Robert Rodriguez, 59, claims in a lawsuit he was repeatedly abused by Walsh at a provisional camp in Opa-locka in 1964 when he was 14 and under the care of the Catholic Welfare Bureau.
“He was one of the many who abused me and others,” said Rodriguez, who arrived in Miami in late 1961, declining to identify other priests besides Walsh….
Rodriguez attributes his inability to timely file his claim to the general trauma associated with childhood sexual abuse and [the Catholic Welfare Bureau’s] misconduct in giving him unknown drugs which affected his memory.”
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2009/09_10/2009_09_14_Weaver_CubanRefugee.htm
The Database of Publicly Accused Priests does not state or imply that individuals facing allegations are guilty of a crime or liable for civil claims. The reports contained in the database are merely allegations.The U.S. legal system presumes that a person accused of or charged with a crime is innocent until proven guilty.Similarly, individuals who may be defendants in civil actions are presumed not to be liable for such claims unless a plaintiff proves otherwise.Admissions of guilt or liability are not typically a part of civil or private settlements“
It’s the list that speaks volumes so don’t fixate on the individual names. It’s systemic throughout the institution.
“The report names 301 abusive priests, but the grand jury received files on more than 400, Shapiro said, adding, “We don’t think we got them all” because not all allegations were documented by the church.“
There are none so blind as those who refuse to see that the Catholic Church Institution has been preying on children since its inception. (Expanded info from previous post) There’s a reason so many hospitals are Catholic and religion based institutions. Our ruling class has always exploited the working class and part of that exploitation has been in controlling medicine technologies and scientific knowledge. They make certain that the public remains illiterate and do not understand their exploitation economic model in its complexity.
Copy of Conspiracy Of Silence / The Franklin Cover-up HQ Version
The Catholic Church has been victimizing children for centuries.
Book excerpt from Mummies, Cannibals, and Vampires: The History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians.
“In July 1492 Pope Innocent VIII lay dying…. One of the alleged cures attempted at Innocent’s deathbed is particularly memorable. Three healthy youths were bribed by the Pope’s physician, with the promise of a ducat apiece. The youths were cut and bled. Bloodletting was of course a routine medicinal procedure of the period. The three youths, however, were bled to death. The pope drank their blood, still fresh and hot, in an attempt to revive his failing powers. The attempt was not successful. Innocent himself also died soon after, on 25 July…
Henrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, Innocent not only helped to catalyst the German witch persecutions of the late fifteenth century, but arguably also contributed to many later ones, given the enduring status of Kramer and Sprenger’s Malleus Maleficarum as a witch-hunter’s bible.
Innocent has also been linked to an early instance of slavery, and is noted for his ignoble attitude to the Crusades, being the first pope to bargain with the Ottoman Empire instead of fighting it…
We can hardly say, then, that this piece of medical vampirism seems inconceivable by the ethical standards of the papacy. What of the ethical codes of Innocent’s physician? Here matters become slightly complicated, given that this figure was in fact supposedly Jewish. Jews themselves were expressly forbidden, by passages from Leviticus and Deuteronomy, to consume blood. They were also accused, by Christians of ritually consuming the blood of Christian children. If Infessura took the Jewish blood taboos seriously, then he may simply have been assuming that a Jewish physician could give blood to Christians; or that a sufficiently dedicated or ambitious doctor would temporarily suspend his religious codes in such a case. There again, the Blood Libel itself shows that Christians were habitually able to ignore the inconsistency posed by the Old Testament blood laws. It is therefore possible that Infessura, well aware of how seriously many took Blood Libel stories, felt that his peers would more readily believe such actions if they were credited to a Jewish physician….
But it also brings us to a contemporary of Innocent’s who had considerable intellectual and social cachet. Marsilio Ficino (1433 – 99) was one of the most highly respected figures of Renaissance Europe. And he too believed that the aged could rejuvenate themselves if they could ‘suck the blood of an adolescent’ who was ‘clean, happy, temperate, and whose blood is excellent but perhaps a little excessive’. Although Ficino’s own father had been a medical doctor, and The Book of Life, in which this suggestion appears, is full of similarly practical ideas or details. Notice too that Ficino on one hand treats blood therapy as a routine form of rejuvenation (thus echoing Arnold), and that on the other he is quite happy to have recipients such the blood…. pages 18 – 19.
“We have briefly glimpsed the wound salve, as cited by the undecided Father of Science, Francis Bacon… involves ‘the moss of an unburied cranium; the fat of man, each two ounces; mummy, human blood each half an ounce’, and ‘oil of linseed, and turpentine, each one ounce.’” (Technologies always advanced before understanding biology. Unfortunately, technologies are the reason the field of biology advanced so we were able to understand life.)
Egyptian tombs were raided and many mummies were eaten and utilized by our ruling class ancestors. This is the information edited out of all our history classes.
“He does not (as we might expect him to) claim that Egyptian mummy is somehow different from ordinary flesh…. Some time before his death in 1626, Francis Bacon echoed the widespread belief that ‘mummy has great force in staunching of blood’. Bacon also cites a recipe for wound salve.”
“Whilst the tenant families of great estates often languished in squalor and hunger in damp cottages, the aristocrats of early-modern Europe were rigorously scrutinizing the excrement of their sporting pets, feeding them beef and veal, and dosing them with medicines or appetite stimulants, with the most vital active ingredient having been carefully matured for perhaps twenty centuries, before being shipped from Egypt to the pharmacies of Rome, Paris and London. In 1575, such habits may have been far more common in Italy and France than England. Tuberville’s title-page openly advertises his book as ‘collected out of the best authors, as well Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises’.”
Hells Angel (Mother Teresa) – Christopher Hitchens
“The greatest destroyer of peace today is the cry of the innocent unborn child. If the mother can murder her own child in her own womb, what is left for you and for me to kill each other?…” – Mother Teresa
Nobel Peace Prize 1979
Let us promise the lady who loves Ireland so much that we will never allow in this country a single abortion and no contraceptives” – Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa’s advise to the angry victims of the Bhopal chemical spill, “Forgive.”
“Vatican foreign policy has taken her to the shores of Lebanon, where the Roman Catholic militia perpetrated the mass murder of the Sabra shakeel camps, to Nicaragua where the cardinal was the patron of the Contras, to Armenia where she helped mother church gain foothold in the Soviet Union. In return, the present pope has placed her on the fast track to canonization. This is the kind of politics in which she does indeed get involved.” – Christopher Hitchens
Children are utilized as a commodity by the Catholic Church.
“796 Irish orphans buried in mass grave near Catholic orphanage: historian… Orphanage’s septic tank was converted to serve as body disposal site”
“Nun admits children involved in medical trials… 300 children resident in care homes in the 1960s and 70s were used in medical trials, it has been reported… In one of the trials, 80 children became ill after they were accidentally administered a vaccine intended for cattle.”
This website is dedicated to Guinea Pig Kids – a BBC documentary that exposes how the city of New York has been forcing HIV-Positive children under its supervision to be used as human guinea pigs in tests for experimental AIDS drug trials. (This is a slightly edited version of the complete documentary that was broadcast on Tuesday, 30 November, 2004, at 1930 GMT on BBC Two in the UK. )
Documentary Transcript
Bill Perkins: We do know that several have passed away during the course of these experiments and we know that there are still some involved and there’s been somewhat of a secrecy about the whole matter, I must say. It has not been easy to get through the bureaucracy as to exactly what this is all about.
Narrator: In a mass grave owned by the Roman Catholic Church close to Manhattan, over a thousand children’s bodies, including some who were enrolled in the trials, lie beneath a tarpaulin. Officially their deaths are recorded only as resulting from ‘natural causes’.
For months, we tried to get answers from those behind the trials – from Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, where many of the tests were devised. From Incarnation Children’s Centre. From the Catholic Church. And from the ACS; the authority ultimately responsible. None would comment.
The drug companies which have supported trials at Incarnation include some of the world’s largest. Among them Britain’s own Glaxo Smith Kline (and Pfizer).
Meanwhile, Regina Mousa from the Bronx is now in contact with her grandson, Garfield. She’s won a court order granting her visitation rights.
This is her grandson’s new foster home in the Bronx. The boy was hungry and Regina had brought food. Although the house was in poor condition, it was better than his previous one where the foster mother had allegedly beaten him.
Garfield’s new foster mother receives six thousand dollars every month for him and three others.
What makes her a better guardian in the eyes of the authorities is that she gives the medicine demanded by the ACS and Regina refuses.
“Church allowed abuse by priest for years
Aware of Geoghan record, archdiocese still shuttled him from parish to parish”
Institutions that use and destroy children deserve to be destroyed.
And it’s not only children that are exploited and destroyed by the Catholic Church either.
Pope admits clerical abuse of nuns including sexual slavery
Pope Francis has admitted that clerics have sexually abused nuns, and in one case they were kept as sex slaves.
He said in that case his predecessor, Pope Benedict, was forced to shut down an entire congregation of nuns who were being abused by priests.
It is thought to be the first time that Pope Francis has acknowledged the sexual abuse of nuns by the clergy.
He said the Church was attempting to address the problem but said it was “still going on”.
Last November, the Catholic Church’s global organisation for nuns denounced the “culture of silence and secrecy” that prevented them from speaking out.
DUBLIN — They are a haunting sight in the aftermath of wars and natural disasters: the notice boards that spring up outside Red Cross tents and hospitals, covered in notes from desperate people searching for loved ones lost in the chaos.
As 220 survivors of Ireland’s notorious Magdalene Laundries convened for a state-sponsored meeting in Dublin on Tuesday, strikingly similar pleas for the lost went up at their hotel.
Orders of Roman Catholic nuns ran the laundries for profit, and women and girls were put to work there, supposedly as a form of penance. The laundries were filled not only with “fallen women” — prostitutes, women who became pregnant out of marriage or as a result of sexual abuse and those who simply failed to conform — but also orphans and deserted or abused children.
“Their names were changed in the laundries, and it was often hard to talk, and they didn’t get the chance to really know each other there,” said Maeve O’Rourke, legal adviser for the Justice for Magdalenes Research project. “So they’ve put up a notice board in the hotel, for people to put messages on, to try and trace people they knew in the laundries.”
The Magdalene Laundries were part of an interlocking system of orphanages, industrial schools, “mother and baby homes” for unwed mothers and church-run institutions in which Ireland once confined tens of thousands of its own.
At least 10,000 women and girls are believed to have passed through the laundries between independence from Britain in 1922 and the closing of the last one in 1996…
In Ireland, the Magdalene institutions became associated primarily with the Catholic Church, and by the mid-20th century there were at least a dozen industrial laundries in the Republic of Ireland.
Some women were confined to the laundries for life and were forced to work long hours in poor conditions with bad food, no pay and little or no medical or educational support. The women and girls — even those who had come into the laundries directly from orphanages or “industrial schools” for juvenile detention — were told they should toil as penance for their sins.
Those who continue supporting this institution are contributing to one of the most criminal institutions ever created by man.
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