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Bitcoin Hits Record Highs After CME Introduces BTC Futures

Despite Jamie Dimon’s best efforts to talk shit about bitcoin – calling the digital currency a ‘fraud, worse than tulip bulbs‘ which governments will undoubtedly shut down, the world’s largest exchange, CME Group, said it plans to introduce bitcoin futures within 60 days.

The move will allow institutional investors a brand new way to tap into the digital currency, as current options are limited.

Bitcoin surged over 4% to record highs on the news before backing off:

Bloomberg reports:

The CME contract will settle in cash and use a daily price from the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate, which is supported by digital exchanges Bitstamp, GDAX, itBit and Kraken. Missing from that list is Gemini, one of the other large global exchanges, which struck a deal with Cboe.

A functioning derivatives market could help professional traders and investors access the incredible volatility inherent in bitcoin without having to trade on unfamiliar venues that may risk anti-money laundering and know-your-customer rulesIt will also allow traders to hedge their cash positions in the digital currency, which to date has been difficult to do.
As the world’s largest regulated FX marketplace, CME Group is the natural home for this new vehicle that will provide investors with transparency, price discovery and risk transfer capabilities,” Terrence Duffy, CME’s chief executive officer, said in a statement today.
Bitcoin Investment Trust
As one of the only bitcoin-backed securities on the market, Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC) – which holds actual bitcoin and is a “physical” fund, trades at a 30% premium to NAV.
With the introduction of CME futures, it opens the door to bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The SEC rejecte4d a proposal in March by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss – co-creators of the Gemini exchange – stating that the necessary surveillance was too complicated since “significant markets for bitcoin are unregulated.”
CME is a giant in trading with products including futures on the S&P 500, oil and gold, and customer connections all around the world. The timing of the decision is a bit of a surprise. Just a month ago, CME President Bryan Durkin said on Bloomberg Television that “I really don’t see us going forward with a futures contract in the very near future,” writes Bloomberg.
Looks like the CME has come to its senses.
CME won’t be the first…
In the race for bitcoin derivatives, both CME and Cboe have lost to a startup. LedgerX won CFTC approval to offer swaps and options on bitcoin and began trading earlier this month. Volumes have been light so far. Yesterday, 103 bitcoin swaps traded on LedgerX, while nine options contracts changed hands, according to the exchange. The LedgerX options trades are physically-delivered, giving investors who hold a contract to maturity the ability to own bitcoin outright.
That said, the CME’s introduction of bitcoin futures is one of the largest, most significant step by a major institution towards legitimizing the digital currency as a store of value – Dimon be damned.

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Tony Podesta Threatens Tucker Carlson After Bombshell Report On Russian Influence Peddling

Tony Podesta has reportedly threatened Fox’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” hours after resigning from his role at the Podesta Group – a D.C. lobbying firm accused by a former executive of pedaling Russian influence along with fellow lobbyist and short-lived Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.

Watch: 

UPDATE: The letter

Manfort was indicted over the weekend on 12 counts ranging from tax fraud, money laundering and giving false statements between 2006 and 2015, and is currently under house arrest after turning himself over to the FBI Monday – fueling speculation as to whether Tony Podesta’s sudden departure from his firm is connected.

Of note, Monday’s indictment lists “Company A” and “Company B” as firms involved in the investigation – which NBC reports are the Podesta Group and D.C. Public Relations firm Mercury Public Affairs.

Last week Carlson reported that Tony Podesta is a central figure in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Directly after his report, Carlson’s show was contacted by a former long-time executive of the Podesta Group with “direct personal knowledge” of Tony Podesta’s questionable activities, which Carlson divulged the next evening.

Carlson later tweeted “We’re confident the Mueller probe will reveal a lot more about Tony Podesta’s lobbying practices in the near future.”

To review

After meeting with the former Podesta Group executive who has been “extensively” interviewed by Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel, Tucker Carlson Tonight relayed several highly troubling aspects of the Tony Podesta’s relationship with business associate and fellow lobbyist, Paul Manafort.

According to the former Podesta Group executive, Manafort and Tony Podesta were running a Russian influence-peddling racket up and down Washington D.C., bringing a “parade” of Russian oligarchs to congress for meetings. Podesta was also “Basically part of the Clinton Foundation,” meeting regularly to discuss the now-infamous Uranium One deal.

Highlights, as previously reported (video below):

  • Lobbyist and temporary Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is at the center of the Russia probe – however the scope of the investigation has broadened to include his activities prior to the 2016 election.
  • Manafort worked with the Podesta Group since at least 2011 on behalf of Russian interests, and was at the Podesta Group offices “all the time, at least once a month,” peddling Russian influence through a shell group called the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine (ECMU).
  • Manafort brought a “parade” of Russian oligarchs to congress for meetings with members and their staffs, however, the Russia’s “central effort” was the Obama Administration.
  • In 2013, John Podesta recommended that Tony hire David Adams, Hillary Clinton’s chief adviser at the State Department, giving them a “direct liaison” between the group’s Russian clients and Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
  • In late 2013 or early 2014, Tony Podesta and a representative for the Clinton Foundation met to discuss how to help Uranium One – the Russian owned company that controls 20 percent of American Uranium Production – and whose board members gave over $100 million to the Clinton Foundation.
  • Tony Podesta was basically part of the Clinton Foundation.”
  • Believing she would win the 2016 election, Russia considered the Podesta Group’s connection to Hillary highly valuable.
  • Podesta Group is a nebulous organization with no board oversight and all financial decisions made by Tony Podesta. Carlson’s source said payments and kickbacks could be hard for investigators to trace, describing it as a “highly secret treasure trove.” One employee’s only official job was to manage Tony Podesta’s art collection, which could be used to conceal financial transactions.

10/31/2017 – updated to reflect specific threat

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Pissed Off Tesla Driver Goes On 25 Minute Rant Over Horrific 1st Year Of Ownership $TSLA

Tesla owner Tyler Martin was giddy as a school girl last December when he picked up his brand new Model S – until he began noticing several problems.

From paint damage and misaligned trim panels on his new customer walkthrough to creaks, rattles, a defective windshield and broken mirrors – poor Tyler has paid a heavy price to let the world know he’s making a difference in his coal-powered electric car.

Jalopnik writes:

Among the issues he mentions are paint imperfections, a dusty touch screen, and poor trim alignment on the door—these were what he found on the day the car was delivered. Other issues quickly crept up, but Martin waited about six months and 3,000 miles before taking his new car to a service center. When he did, he mentioned to the technicians that his electric driver-side mirror would only unfold partially; he had to physically push it the rest of the way.

Martin also asked the shop to get the door trim lined up properly, but allegedly the mechanics couldn’t quite get it perfect. In addition, Martin mentioned that his rear passenger-side door had a strange delay between the handle being pulled and the door actually opening.

On top of that, he told the shop about a rattle from the rear passenger-side door, a crooked steering wheel when driving straight, a front door that creaked when it opened, and a defective windshield with little horizontal lines in it.

IT GETS WORSE!

By Martin’s second service visit to address all the problems cropping up, Martin reported a “number of new rattles,” the passenger door panel separating from the door frame, and an off-center steering wheel.

By the time a technician came to Martin’s house for the car’s second service, a new rattle had popped up in the front passenger-side door. The technician fixed this, and replaced the windshield (with one that was also defective). Shortly after this service, Martin says he was sitting in his passenger seat, and noticed the door trim coming off (see above).

Over the next few thousand miles, the car developed a number of new rattles, including one in the center console and one in the B-pillar. The steering wheel remained crooked, the HVAC fan squeaked and the car’s charging port struggled to open with the remote.

WEIRD YELLOW LINE OF HELL

Martin’s biggest disappointment of all was a “weird yellow line” that appeared around the 17-inch touchscreen – the central information hub of the Model S.

Enjoy Martin’s rant – which has over 73,000 views in four days as of this writing: 

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Tony Podesta Leaves Firm After FBI Indicts Business Associate Paul Manafort

Tony Podesta, co-founder of the Podesta Group with his brother Tony Podesta, has left the lobbying firm that bears his name amid the ongoing investigation by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller which led to the Monday indictment of lobbyist and short-lived Trump campaign manager, Paul Manafort.

Podesta is handing over full operational and financial control to longtime firm CEO Kimberley Fritts, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the meeting. Fritts and a senior group of the Podesta team will be launching a new firm in the next one or two days. Sources said the transition has been in the works for the past several months. –Politico

As iBankCoin previously reported, the Podesta Group was subpoenaed in late August along with four other public relations firms who worked with former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort during a 2012-2014 lobbying effort for a pro-Ukraine think tank – the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine (ECMU) – tied to former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.

Yanukovych fled from Ukraine to Russia after he was unseated in a 2014 coup.

Former Podesta Group Executive Opens Up: 

Now might also be a good time to review what a former long-time Podesta Group executive told Tucker Carlson about the Podesta Group: 

The former executive who has been “extensively” interviewed by Mueller’s team, said the FBI probe is now focusing on people in Washington who have worked as de-facto operatives on behalf of Russian government and business. To that end, Carlson’s source made several shocking claims about Paul Manafort and the Podesta Group peddling Russian influence throughout Washington D.C. – focusing primarily on access to the Obama administration, and heavily involved with the Clinton Foundation and the Uranium One deal.

They are more focused on facilitators of Russian influence in this country than they are on election collusion,” Carlson’s source told Fox.

To be clear, a former long-time executive of the Podesta Group has told Robert Mueller’s team the following (and more):

Details: 

  • Lobbyist and temporary Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is at the center of the Russia probe – however the scope of the investigation has broadened to include his activities prior to the 2016 election.
  • Manafort worked with the Podesta Group since at least 2011 on behalf of Russian interests, and was at the Podesta Group offices “all the time, at least once a month,” peddling Russian influence through a shell group called the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine (ECMU).
  • Manafort brought a “parade” of Russian oligarchs to congress for meetings with members and their staffs, however, the Russia’s “central effort” was the Obama Administration.
  • In 2013, John Podesta recommended that Tony hire David Adams, Hillary Clinton’s chief adviser at the State Department, giving them a “direct liaison” between the group’s Russian clients and Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
  • In late 2013 or early 2014, Tony Podesta and a representative for the Clinton Foundation met to discuss how to help Uranium One – the Russian owned company that controls 20 percent of American Uranium Production – and whose board members gave over $100 million to the Clinton Foundation.
  • Tony Podesta was basically part of the Clinton Foundation.”
  • Believing she would win the 2016 election, Russia considered the Podesta Group’s connection to Hillary highly valuable.
  • Podesta Group is a nebulous organization with no board oversight and all financial decisions made by Tony Podesta. Carlson’s source said payments and kickbacks could be hard for investigators to trace, describing it as a “highly secret treasure trove.” One employee’s only official job was to manage Tony Podesta’s art collection, which could be used to conceal financial transactions.
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“Did He Wear A Wire?”: Former Trump Campaign Aide Pleads Guilty To Lying To FBI

originally published by ZeroHedge

In addition to the news that former Trump campaign executive Paul Manafort and his longtime deputy, Rick Gates, have been indicted on 12 counts including tax fraud, money laundering, failing to register as a lobbyist for a foreign country, and conspiring against the US, unsealed court documents have revealed that former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty on Oct. 5 to making false statements to the FBI.

Noting that the Russian government often uses foreign intermediaries to accomplish its foreign policy goals, the FBI said it investigated Papadopoulos, who served as a foreign adviser for the Trump campaign starting on March 2016 and continuing through most of the campaign, for any such contacts. This investigation included an interview in January 2017. According to the indictment, there is probable cause to believe that on Jan. 27, Papadopoulos made material false statements and omitted material facts to the FBI regarding his interactions during the campaign with foreign contacts, including Russian nationals.

Specifically, Prosecutors charged Papadopolous with lying to investigators and that he falsely described his interactions with a certain foreign contact, identified as a professor, who discussed “dirt” related to emails concerning then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, when in fact, he had repeated communications with that contact while serving as an adviser on the campaign. Papadopoulos allegedly told the FBI that those conversations happened before he joined the campaign, statements rebutted by the Justice Department’s timeline.

Papadopoulos also shut down a Facebook account following a second interview in February. The account included communications with foreigners including Russian nationals – thereby obstructing the FBI’s investigation.

A self-described energy consultant, Papadopoulos was the youngest and least experienced member of the small foreign policy team Trump abruptly formed last March after coming under criticism for his lack of foreign policy expertise. Furthermore, the Washington Post reported that in at least half a dozen email requests sent between March and September 2016, adviser George Papadopoulos urged Trump or senior members of his campaign to meet with Russian officials. Some of those emails were read to the newspaper by a person with access to them.

These newly surfaced emails mark the latest in a long string of examples of the Trump team’s efforts to establish direct communication with Russia during the 2016 race.

In one, Papadopoulos offered to arrange “a meeting between us and the Russian leadership to discuss US-Russia ties under President Trump,” as quoted by the Post.

It is worth recalling, however, that as the WaPo first reported back in Augustseveral Trump officials, including Paul Manafort, who served as Trump’s campaign chairman, expressed concern over the proposed meetings. Other officials who raised concerns over Papadopoulos’s proposals to meet with with Russian officials include the Trump campaign’s co-chairman, Sam Clovis, and Navy Rear Adm. Charles Kubic.

Papadopoulos also passed on an exchange with the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), which conveyed that the Russian foreign ministry was receptive to Trump making a trip to Russia. An official with the Council confirmed that a discussion about a U.S.-Russia dialogue “informally” occurred.

“We discussed the idea informally as one of the opportunities for … dialogue between Russia and the U.S.,” Ivan Timofeev told The Post. “RIAC often hosts meetings with prominent political figures and experts from the US and many other countries.”

Manafort, according to the report, passed on the note to one of his colleagues, saying “We need someone to communicate that DT is not doing these trips.”

“We thought we probably should not go forward with any meeting with the Russians until we have had occasion to sit with our NATO allies,” Clovis said in a March email discussing a potential meeting.

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Then there’s this from the WaPo’s initial account:

Papadopoulos emerges from the sample of emails as a new and puzzling figure in the examination of the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russian officials and their proxies during the 2016 election, now the subject of a special-counsel investigation.

Less than a decade out of college, Papadopoulos appeared to hold little sway within the campaign, and it is unclear whether he was acting as an intermediary for the Russian government, although he told campaign officials he was.

While the emails illustrate his eagerness to strengthen the campaign’s connections to the Russian government, Papadopoulos does not spell out in them why it would be in Trump’s interest to do so. His entreaties appear to have generated more concern than excitement within the campaign, which at the time was looking to seal the Republican nomination and take on a heavily favored Hillary Clinton in the general election.

The Papadopoulos emails are part of 20,000 pages of documents the campaign provided to Congress earlier this month.

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A growing question now is what Papadopoulos may have “given” the government as part of the plea agreement, and whather he has “flipped” on Trump:

Former US Attorney Preet Bharara says the FBI appears to have found a cooperating witness in Papadopoulos – which is significant.

In his plea agreement, the government says it will offer leniency to Papadopoulos in exchange for his cooperation, and that sentencing will be delayed before cooperation is completed. 

Finally, as The Smoking Gun asks, “did George Papadopoulos agree to wear a wire or make any FBI-monitored calls?

Finally, with some asking whether the young ex-advisor may have had alternative motives, the Guardian’s Jon Swaine points out that the former aide sought book publisher recommendations three weeks ago.

“Interested in meeting with a prominent publisher. Recommendations welcome, ” wrote Papadopoulos

 

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Kevin Spacey Accused of Mounting ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Actor Anthony Rapp When He Was 14 [updated]

Star Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp has accused Kevin Spacey of mounting him on a bed in 1984 when he was just 14 and Spacey was 26.

The openly gay actor told BuzzFeed the incident happened when both were appearing in Broadway shows (Rapp in Precious Sons and Spacey in Long Day’s Journey Into Night). Rapp said he hasn’t spoken with Spacey since the incident, and that his “stomach churns” at the thought of Spacey’s success. Rapp said he felt the need to come forward after the Harvey Weinstein scandal opened the floodgates.

“He was trying to seduce me,” Rapp said, adding “I don’t know if I would have used that language. But I was aware that he was trying to get with me sexually.”

Via Hollywood Reporter

One night, Spacey invited Rapp to his apartment for a party; later, Rapp says, he found himself bored and watching TV in Spacey’s bedroom when he realized that he was the only one left in the apartment with the actor, who was 26 at the time.

Spacey then appeared and “sort of stood in the doorway, kind of swaying. My impression when he came in the room was that he was drunk.”

Rapp, who is now 46, claimed that Spacey then “picked me up like a groom picks up the bride over the threshold. But I don’t, like, squirm away initially, because I’m like, ‘What’s going on?’ And then he lays down on top of me.

Rapp alleged that Spacey was holding him down while tightening his grip on Rapp, who was able to get away after some time.

“I was like, ‘What is happening?’” he told BuzzFeed News. “I saw on the counter next to the sink a picture of him having his arm around a man. So I think on some level I was like, ‘Oh. He’s gay. I guess.’ Then I opened the door, and I was like, ‘OK, I’m going to go home now.’ He followed me to the front door of the apartment, and as I opened the door to leave, he was leaning on the front door[frame]. And he was like, ‘Are you sure you wanna go?’ I said, ‘Yes, good night,’ and then I did leave.”

Rapp said he opened up in light of allegations against Harvey Weinstein, James Toback, Mark Halperin and others. “Not to simply air a grievance, but to try to shine another light on the decades of behavior that have been allowed to continue because many people, including myself, being silent. … I’m feeling really awake to the moment that we’re living in, and I’m hopeful that this can make a difference.”

Update: “My bad. I’m gay

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Qatar’s Former PM Says United States, Saudi Arabia and Turkey Colluded On Regime Change In Syria

Qatar’s former Prime Minister gave a viral TV interview last Wednesday in which he said Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United States have been shipping weapons to anti-Assad jihadists since at least 2011 – the same week a leaked NSA document confirmed that anti-government forces in Syria were under the direct command of foreign actors since the beginning of the conflict.

ZeroHedge writes:

according to a well-known Syria analyst and economic adviser with close contacts in the Syrian government, the explosive interview constitutes a high level “public admission to collusion and coordination between four countries to destabilize an independent state, [including] possible support for Nusra/al-Qaeda.” Importantly, “this admission will help build case for what Damascus sees as an attack on its security & sovereignty. It will form basis for compensation claims.”

The top Qatari official is no less than former Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani, who oversaw Syria operations on behalf of Qatar until 2013 (also as foreign minister), and is seen below with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in this Jan. 2010 photo (as a reminder, Qatar’s 2022 World Cup Committee donated $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation in 2014).

In an interview with Qatari TV Wednesday, bin Jaber al-Thani revealed that his country, alongside Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United States, began shipping weapons to jihadists from the very moment events “first started” (in 2011).

Al-Thani even likened the covert operation to “hunting prey” – the prey being President Assad and his supporters – “prey” which he admits got away (as Assad is still in power; he used a Gulf Arabic dialect word, “al-sayda”, which implies hunting animals or prey for sport). Though Thani denied credible allegations of support for ISIS, the former prime minister’s words implied direct Gulf and US support for al-Qaeda in Syria (al-Nusra Front) from the earliest years of the war, and even said Qatar has “full documents” and records proving that the war was planned to effect regime change.

According to Zero Hedge’s translation, al-Thani said while acknowledging Gulf nations were arming jihadists in Syria with the approval and support of US and Turkey: “I don’t want to go into details but we have full documents about us taking charge [in Syria].” He claimed that both Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah (who reigned until his death in 2015) and the United States placed Qatar in a lead role concerning covert operations to execute the proxy war.

The former prime minister’s comments, while very revealing, were intended as a defense and excuse of Qatar’s support for terrorism, and as a critique of the US and Saudi Arabia for essentially leaving Qatar “holding the bag” in terms of the war against Assad. Al-Thani explained that Qatar continued its financing of armed insurgents in Syria while other countries eventually wound down large-scale support, which is why he lashed out at the US and the Saudis, who initially “were with us in the same trench.”

In a previous US television interview which was vastly underreported, al-Thani told Charlie Rose when asked about allegations of Qatar’s support for terrorism that, “in Syria, everybody did mistakes, including your country.” And said that when the war began in Syria, “all of use worked through two operation rooms: one in Jordan and one in Turkey.”

As is now well-known, the CIA was directly involved in leading regime change efforts in Syria with allied gulf partners, as leaked and declassified US intelligence memos confirm. The US government understood in real time that Gulf and West-supplied advanced weaponry was going to al-Qaeda and ISIS, despite official claims of arming so-called “moderate” rebels. For example, a leaked 2014 intelligence memo sent to Hillary Clinton acknowledged Qatari and Saudi support for ISIS.

The email stated in direct and unambiguous language that:

 “the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region.”

Furthermore, one day before Prime Minister Thani’s interview, The Intercept released a new top-secret NSA document unearthed from leaked intelligence files provided by Edward Snowden which show in stunning clarity that the armed opposition in Syria was under the direct command of foreign governments from the early years of the war which has now claimed half a million lives.

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Prius (D)riving NY Legislator Fakes PTSD Panic Attack To Get Out Of Minor Speeding Ticket (VIDEO)

Ulster County, N.Y. legislator Jennifer Schwartz Berky (D) – who is up for reelection Nov. 7, put on quite an act for a local police officer Gary Short after she was pulled her over for driving 43 mph in a 30 mph zone while talking on her cell phone.

A 26-minute video of the May 2017 incident was released last Tuesday during an Ulster Town Board meeting, and features a meltdown of epic proportions.

After Berky failed to impress officer Short by casually mentioning “I work for the county government, I’m a county legislator,” she immediately shifted into the victim role and proceeded to have histrionic tantrum. “Please don’t give me a ticket, I’m broke,” Berky cried, adding “I’m completely broke, and if you tell people, it’s going to hurt me. I’m totally broke. I made $20,000 last year. Please don’t give me a ticket.”

Officer Short – a consummate professional throughout the encounter, returns to his squad car to run Berky’s information, when Berky gets out of her car and fakes a panic attack, while on the phone, claiming PTSD.

Full video here:

Berky has learned from this and is ready to move on!

In response to the viral video, Berky issued an apology (the comments section is hilarious):

“The video released earlier this week of my Town of Ulster traffic stop captured a tough moment for me,” stated Berky. “Like so many working families, I too face tough times and stressful situations.  As a professional, a public servant and a mother, I know my interaction with Police Officer Gary Short was unacceptable. I want to apologize to Officer Short and thank him for his patience and professionalism with me during a very difficult time. This has been a humbling experience for me. I hope to use it to grow and learn how to better represent the diverse working families who reside in the great the city of Kingston.”

If you’re an Ulster resident and would like to check out Berky’s platform – here ya go. I don’t think it’s going over so well.

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JFK Release Findings: Second Shooter, UK Tipoff, CIA Media Infiltration, and LBJ Fingered In Coup

While yesterday’s pre-planned release of JFK files was significantly neutered at the request of the CIA and FBI – enraging Lou Dobbs among others, the 2800+ files which were released have been poured over extensively, revealing evidence of a second shooter, a massive CIA infiltration of the MSM, a tipoff phone call received 25 minutes before the assassination, and Soviet intelligence indicating the assassination was a coup involving LBJ among other things. 

Summary of findings so far: 

Two shooters, one escaped: 

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32144493.pdf [p. 3]
J. Edgar Hoover’s comments suggest Oswald wasn’t a shooter:

The evening of the assassination, J. Edgar Hoover told Lyndon Johnson’s aide, Walter Jenkins, “The thing I am concerned about, and so is Mr. Katsenbach, is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin.

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32263509.pdf [p. 3]
Soviet belief in a well orchestrated coup: 

“According to our source, officials of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union believed there was some well-organized conspiracy on the part of the “ultraright” in the United States to effect a “coup.” They seemed convinced that the assassination was not the deed of one man, but that it arose out of a carefully planned campaign in which several people played a part.”

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32204484.pdf [p. 3]
https://twitter.com/williamcraddick/status/923711122926051328

The KGB allegedly had evidence LBJ was behind the coup:

According to a CIA source, “it was indicated that “now” the KGB was in possession of data purporting to indicate President Johnson was responsible for the assassination of the late President John F. Kennedy.

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32204484.pdf [p. 5]
Jack Ruby claimed it was LBJ as well:

A UK Journalist was tipped off 25 minutes before the assassination

A memo written to the director of the FBI from the deputy director of the CIA notes that a UK journalist employed by Cambridge News received an anonymous phone call 25 minutes before the JFK assassination telling him to call the US Embassy for “some big news.”

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32357111.pdf [p. 2, 3]
The CIA infiltrated the media and religious institutions

In a February, 1976 note, the CIA’s Office of the Director issued a memo which states “Genuine concern has recently been expressed about CIA relations with newsmen and churchmen.” As a result, the agency instituted a new policy not to enter into paid arrangements with these institutions.

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32403785.pdf [p. 3]
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32403785.pdf [p. 3]
Over 40 journalists ‘who doubled as undercover agents’ worked for the CIA

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32403785.pdf [p. 17]

We then discussed the matter somewhat at more length and I gave ball park figures of various categories of journalists with whom we had contact. I said that the total free lance stringers with whom we had varying degrees of association was in the area of 40.

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32403785.pdf [p. 16]
CIA-NBC connection

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32279986.pdf [p. 2]

Lee Harvey Oswald – agent of the U.S. government

Jewish involvement? 

The secret service interviewed hundreds of people deemed “threats to President Kennedy’s safety” from March – December, 1963. One of the interviewees was an anti-Castro Cuban national named Homer S. Echevarria, who – the day before the assassination – “allegedly approached informant to provide machine guns for Cuban rev.,” (revolution) and allegedly told the informant “We now have plenty of money — our new backers are Jews — as soon as ‘we’ or (they) take care of Kennedy…” The Secret Service note states Echevarria “expressed favorable attitude toward LBJ.”

Before reaching any conclusions, note that this is the only claim of Jewish involvement in the assassination aside from Jack Ruby (Jacob Rubenstein), and could be misdirection or scapegoating by Echevarria.

That said, The Sun reports that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby met each other on a trip to Cuba “to cut sugar cane” weeks before the assassination.

They were part of a group of 30 or 40 “hippie looking” people who were on their way to Cuba to cut sugar cane, airport manager George Faraldo told investigators.

This bombshell will shed new light on the truth behind JFK’s assassination and whether Oswald was to blame for the former president’s murder.

Ruby, whose real name is Jacob Rubenstein, shot dead Oswald, 24, two days after the presidential assassination in November 1963.

But just weeks before, Oswald and nightclub owner Ruby were apparently both part of a large group of “mostly young” people heading to Cuba.

Mr Faraldo told the FBI that Ruby and Oswald were dressed casually in a sport shirts and trousers.

The airport manager added that Ruby “spent most of the time not mingling with the group but standing against the doorway that led from the waiting area to the rear plane boarding area.”

At one point he saw Oswald approach Ruby and ask: “Have you heard anything from the Big Bird yet?”

Of note, LBJ – apparently a former Klan member – reportedly had a huge penis, and Sesame Street wasn’t on the air until 1969 – well after Kennedy’s death.

Download the JFK files here: 

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/zip/jfk.zip

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/zip/jfk.z01

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/zip/jfk.z02

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/zip/jfk.z03

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/zip/jfk.z04

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/zip/jfk.z05

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/zip/jfk.z06

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/zip/jfk.z07

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/zip/jfk.z08

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/zip/jfk.z09

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/zip/jfk.z10

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Lou Dobbs And Sebastian Gorka Outraged Over ‘Embarassing’ JFK File Release

After granting a request by the FBI and CIA request to partially release only 2800 of the anticipated ‘JFK Assassination’ files, while withholding the rest for six months to allow for redactions, President Trump said Thursday evening that while the public “deserves” to know as much as possible about the assassination, a full release of the files would pose “national security, law enforcement, and foreign affairs concerns.”

Julian Assange seems to think the intel agencies are determined to make Trump look weak with their demand for a delay:

Not buying it for a minute, former Trump advisor Sebastian Gorka sat down with Fox’s outraged Lou Dobbs to discuss:

Dobbs: The hell with them! Why should we, our President, any administration put up with two agencies that have had 25 years to do the right thing.

Gorka: Only two reasons you would do that redaction right now. You protect active operations, or you protect sources and methods. Neither of these can be true 50 years later, so what is it? Something embarrassing.

See below:

Wikileaks’ take:

 

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