From jmcadams@primenet.com Mon Jan 27 13:13:42 CST 1997 Article: 5566 of alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated Path: news.primenet.com!jmcadams From: jmcadams@primenet.com (John McAdams) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated Subject: Stockwell Critique of Files Story - 6 Date: 23 Jan 1997 21:30:09 -0700 Organization: PrimeNet Lines: 202 Approved: jmcadams@primenet.com Message-ID: <5c9dsh$234@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> X-Posted-By: jmcadams@206.165.5.111 (jmcadams) Xref: news.primenet.com alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated:5566 FROM: John R. Stockwell, 105475,2627 Re: The Files Confession, Part VI After his service in Laos, the CIA recruited him to train Cubans. He also raced stock cars. He loved Nicoletti, who was quiet and deadly. Rosselli was flashy, talked too much, loud, boisterous. Giancana was a lovable old man, but like a bulldog if you crossed him. Aside from Nicoletti, the other person he has been closest to is still alive, in his 80s. David Atlee Phillips was cool, good-natured, and once told him he could "kill more people with a typewriter than you can" with a machine gun. Lee Oswald was very intelligent, very quiet, and led a secluded life. Files believes Oswald planted evidence on November 22, but fired no shots. >From what he knew of Oswald, he didn't believe Oswald would be a shooter. He never saw Oswald fire a weapon. Although Oswald didn't have a driver's license, he knew how to drive. Files didn't know why he went to Russia, but assumed the government was involved. Files stated that he didn't want to be a part of history. He hadn't picked the target. He just followed orders. He would rather no one had ever found him, and hoped they would forget about him. He didn't think people watching this interview on TV would believe him. Nicoletti hit JFK in the back of the head, Files hit JFK in the right temple. Files was "known for head shots." He declined to say how many people he had killed. He said the two great lies were religion and history. He said history was a self-serving account by a country to conceal its selfish motives. Religion killed more people than wars. "I never disobeyed an order." Besides, he said, nobody he knew really liked Kennedy, including military, Secret Service and FBI people; history later called him great because that's what they say about Presidents. Files worshipped Nicoletti. Nicoletti was strictly Mob. Rosselli worked with both CIA and Mob. Files was told that Nicoletti was dirty, that he had talked, but he never believed it, especially as Nicoletti had given him his diary to hide. He said the government kills people, without question. He doesn't know who killed Nicoletti: if he had, he would have gone after them. He wasn't afraid of death, only of failure to complete whatever he set out to do. Next: A critical look at Files's "confession." FROM: John R. Stockwell, 105475,2627 Re: Pt VI, Critique Files Confession A Critical Look at the James E. Files Confession Transcript Page 2. To date, no corroboration has been found in military records, by the FBI, by Bob Vernon, or anyone else to our knowledge (despite considerable efforts) of Files military service or his service in the 82nd Airborne. Normal training for a recruit, before overseas deployment is about a year. Training to qualify as an advisor in small automatic weapons, setting detonators, explosives, mechanical ambushes, would take years. Advisors in a handful of Americans working with Laotians would obviously include seasoned men--not a small, skinny, green, 17-year-old recruit. Page 3, 00:08:29:21 In 1955 Sam Giancana took over the Mafia family from Tony Accardo. In 1959 He was one of the most powerful crime figures in America -- hardly one of the underlings.... one of the top lieutenants.... Page 4, 00:10:10:26, 10:17:21 train several operatives that were involved at the Bay of Pigs. I helped train them on what they call...we called it Gator Ridge back then, some people refer to it as No Name Key some people call it Assassin Ridge it was in the Everglades down there in Florida. David Atlee Phillips was my controller. The training for the Bay of Pigs was highly sensitive. It was done in Guatemala, supported by Nicaragua and Panama. Well after the Bay of Pigs, the training of Cubans was done in Florida bases, under large JMWAVE/OPMONGOOSE operations. No Name Key isn't in the Everglades. Its off the coast of Florida. The CIA had a strong cadre of mature, seasoned, mature paramilitary trainers. Not likely they would turn to a Mafia youngster to prepare for the Bay of Pigs invasion. (The involvement with Roselli, in efforts to kill Castro came after the Bay of Pigs.) I.e., Files's geography, dates, and invasions are reversed... In my experience, people who really "were there" can tell you accurate details.... where they ate, where they drank.... David Atlee Phillips was a propaganda specialist. Not a paramilitary man. It is very doubtful that he would be the controller of a Mafia shooter who was training Cubans. Page 5, 12:11:17 Repeatedly, in other statements, Filess has said that Phillips was his controller, that Phillips had introduced him to Oswald, that Phillips put him in contact with Oswald in Dallas in the week before the assassination. Here he is saying that he reported to Nicoletti and, The following day Oswald came by the motel where I was at... Page 7, 18:52:25.... He asked me then were do you think would be the best place for me? I said, well, I think the Dal-Tex building.... Big problem here. Mafia hits are meticulously well-planned, usually involving several people. This is 2 hours before the assassination of the PRESIDENT and we are to believe they are walking around saying, where do you think I should stand? Question: Could a stranger just walk into the Dal-Tex building with a 30.06, just before the president is to drive by, and walk up to a window and shoot. (It seems there may (or may not) have been a closet with a window on the 2nd floor, by the fire escape. But, wouldnt that take some careful planning to find, identify, get a key to?) And what of the sound? Rifles are LOUD. Would no one in the building hear the shots? He would have been firing right down Elm. Many dozens of people, including credible individuals standing almost in the line of fire. Would none of them have heard the LOUD shots, muzzle blast, bullets, right behind and above them? Page 8, 00:20:27 Here Files is detailing which shots hit and which shot missed. Watching through a scope, preparing to fire, how could he know there were hits and ONE miss? Kennedy didnt lurch until after the head shot... Note that legions of researchers, carefully viewing the Zapruder film have debated for years about hits and misses. This reads MUCH more like something Files read in a book, than an eyewitness account. Three times here, Files is zeroing in on Kennedy's LEFT eye, side of the head, temple. Later in this transcript he does explain that he meant his own left, as he faced Kennedy. But, given the other extensive distortions in his confession the latter could easily be an artless correction of this inaccuracy. So, as I fired that round, Mr. Nicoletti and I fired approximately at the same time as the head started forward then it went backward. I would have to say that his shell struck approximately 1000th of a second ahead of mine but that whats started pushing the head forward which caused me to miss from the left eye and I came in on the left side of the temple. At that point, through the scope I witnessed everyting, matter and skull bring (sic) blown out the back on the limo.... This is all from the books and films, not what a shooter would have seen and registered in 1/1000th of a second. Nor could he have watched matter and skull bring blown out the back on the limo. The Fireball is a PISTOL, firing essentially the same cartridge as the M16 rifle. It kicks like a mule. Harder than ANY rifle. The recoil knocks it back and up. No way he could have fired and then watched through the scope.... (readers of this are invited to go to a range and shoot one). Page 9, 23:07:01 I set the casing....right on top of the stockade fence... The casing was eventually found a considerable distance away, near the wall of the pergola. (Note how Jim Marrs fuzzes this discrepancy in the Hard Copy show, and that Hard Copy doesnt mention that Rademacher also found A SECOND .222 casing....) P10, 25:07/08 No one in the Dal-Tex building, or on its side walks heard the shots of the 30.06, or noticed Nicoletti walking down the hall, down the stairs, out the door, down the side walk with it? Files says he turned right onto Houston St. Malcomb Summers says he saw a Maroon Chevvy 20 minutes later, 3 blocks in the opposite direction. (Note that Marrs finesses this discrepancy in the Hard Copy show.) Files is now at the hotel, hauling guns in and out of the trunk of his car.... This is possible, but would be extremely unprofessional. All of Dallas (the world!) was buzzing about the assassination. And he would not have been concerned about taking an arsenal in and out of his motel room?? P11, 27:20... 28: Here Files makes a mistake. Says $30,000 when he had said $15,000 to Don Ervin before. For the next full page he is wriggling on the hook to explain the discrepancy. If this was a highly credible witness, he might be given the benefit of the doubt here. But he is a life time criminal and con man....