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Octafish

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49. Abraham Bolden heard agents say they wouldn't take a bullet for JFK.
Sat Oct 4, 2014, 04:39 PM
Oct 2014

Which is very troubling, considering what these asshats brought to the Oval Office.





Ted Kennedy survived Richard Nixon's Plots

By Don Fulsom

In September 1972, Nixon’s continued political fear, personal loathing, and jealously of Kennedy led him to plant a spy in Kennedy’s Secret Service detail.

The mole Nixon selected for the Kennedy camp was already being groomed. He was a former agent from his Nixon’s vice presidential detail, Robert Newbrand—a man so loyal he once pledged he would do anything—even kill—for Nixon.

The President was most interested in learning about the Sen. Kennedy’s sex life. He wanted, more than anything, stated Haldeman in The Ends of Power, to “catch (Kennedy) in the sack with one of his babes.”

In a recently transcribed tape of a September 8, 1972 talk among the President and aides Bob Haldeman and Alexander Butterfield, Nixon asks whether Secret Service chief James Rowley would appoint Newbrand to head Kennedy’s detail:

Haldeman: He's to assign Newbrand.

President Nixon: Does he understand that he's to do that?

Butterfield: He's effectively already done it. And we have a full force assigned, 40 men.

Haldeman: I told them to put a big detail on him (unclear).

President Nixon: A big detail is correct. One that can cover him around the clock, every place he goes. (Laughter obscures mixed voices.)

President Nixon: Right. No, that's really true. He has got to have the same coverage that we give the others, because we're concerned about security and we will not assume the responsibility unless we're with him all the time.

Haldeman: And Amanda Burden (one of Kennedy’s alleged girlfriends) can't be trusted. (Unclear.) You never know what she might do. (Unclear.)

Haldeman then assures the President that Newbrand “will do anything that I tell him to … He really will. And he has come to me twice and absolutely, sincerely said, "With what you've done for me and what the President's done for me, I just want you to know, if you want someone killed, if you want anything else done, any way, any direction …"

President Nixon: The thing that I (unclear) is this: We just might get lucky and catch this son-of-a-bitch and ruin him for '76.

Haldeman: That's right.

President Nixon: He doesn't know what he's really getting into. We're going to cover him, and we are not going to take "no" for an answer. He can't say "no." The Kennedys are arrogant as hell with these Secret Service. He says, "Fine," and (Newbrand) should pick the detail, too.


Toward the end of this conversation, Nixon exclaims that Newbrand’s spying “(is) going to be fun,” and Haldeman responds: “Newbrand will just love it.”

CONTINUED...

http://surftofind.com/tedkennedy



Reagan obstruct justice when Jim Garrison investigated the New Orleans connections to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Then-governor of California, Reagan denied Garrison's request to extradite a suspect in his case, Edgar Eugene Bradley. Some investigators believe disruptors within his office fed Garrison a false lead -- one Eugene Hale Brading. The thing is, Braden was arrested in Dealey Plaza.

So, remember: Nixon and Reagan couldn't give a damn about the Kennedy brothers, liberal Democrats. Nixon and Reagan devoted their public "service" to helping end the New Deal and install the New War State. Those two are worse than asshats. They, and those who think like them, are un-democratic.

PS: Thank you, Rhett!

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k and r -- bookmarking for later too :) nashville_brook Oct 2014 #1
The Chicago Plot Octafish Oct 2014 #17
Racist culture in federal law-enforcement? DirkGently Oct 2014 #2
Meriah Heller interviewed Mr. Bolden... Octafish Oct 2014 #18
*sigh* So much fucked-uppediness. scarletwoman Oct 2014 #3
Yeah but... toddwv Oct 2014 #10
You are most welcome, scarletwoman! Edwin Black helped keep Abraham Bolden's story alive. Octafish Oct 2014 #38
You are simply amazing, Octafish! scarletwoman Oct 2014 #41
Thanks for this. You know that some people are going to call you crazy LawDeeDah Oct 2014 #4
For keeping his integrity, Abraham Bolden was put in a psych ward and force-fed drugs. Octafish Oct 2014 #22
What sucks is that not everyone has the mental toughness of Bolden RufusTFirefly Oct 2014 #40
Pres. Obama should issue a pardon to this man so he won't still have the stigma of being a tblue37 Oct 2014 #5
It may be that things are so twisted he can't. Octafish Oct 2014 #23
They couldn't have Mr Bolden interfering with their plans for Mr Kennedy. n/t 951-Riverside Oct 2014 #6
Universal sign of WTF Octafish Oct 2014 #24
i hope he gets a presidential pardon. I wouldn't be underthematrix Oct 2014 #7
It's my bet that the WH is working on pardons for Bush and Cheney and the hell with this rhett o rick Oct 2014 #25
K&R. Bolden was also a crucial part of this brilliant and beautiful book RufusTFirefly Oct 2014 #8
Recommended! Thank you! LongTomH Oct 2014 #9
''He chose peace. They marked him for death.'' -- James W. Douglass, PhD. and man of peace, himself Octafish Oct 2014 #39
A Coup In Camelot Trailer: Narrated by Peter Coyote Ichingcarpenter Oct 2014 #11
1963 - over 50 years ago TorchTheWitch Oct 2014 #12
but, there's a long way to go...... a kennedy Oct 2014 #13
no denying that TorchTheWitch Oct 2014 #16
I agree, the past can't be changed gratuitous Oct 2014 #30
The past can't be changed... malthaussen Oct 2014 #46
Bolden describes his WH service starting at the 1:16 mark here KurtNYC Oct 2014 #14
Great video..narrated by Martin Sheen Ichingcarpenter Oct 2014 #19
K&R for the original post and subsequent informative posts and links. JEB Oct 2014 #15
Here's an old newspaper clipping from 1964... Octafish Oct 2014 #43
kicking for visibility. nashville_brook Oct 2014 #20
Meeting President Kennedy Octafish Oct 2014 #44
HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!! WillyT Oct 2014 #21
Excerpt from book review: 'You're the ''Jackie Robinson'' of the Secret Service.' Octafish Oct 2014 #45
And Thank You For All Your Invaluable Information WillyT Oct 2014 #47
Huger K&R rhett o rick Oct 2014 #26
Abraham Bolden heard agents say they wouldn't take a bullet for JFK. Octafish Oct 2014 #49
Actually, Kennedy escalated troop numbers in Vietnam. valerief Oct 2014 #27
True, ''advisors,'' whom he ordered home. Octafish Oct 2014 #28
Wow, thanks for this refresher course! Duppers Oct 2014 #31
Thanks, I'm another who did not know all of this. Scuba Oct 2014 #32
Right, but the troops he wanted to pull, he had put there to begin with. nt valerief Oct 2014 #35
OPLAN-34A Octafish Oct 2014 #37
This message was self-deleted by its author Duppers Oct 2014 #29
Great thread, thanks to all. Kicking. Bookmarking. Scuba Oct 2014 #33
Damn!! Hutzpa Oct 2014 #34
Thanks for this thread malaise Oct 2014 #36
Thank you. n/t Judi Lynn Oct 2014 #42
Every time I read anything about JFK, I think how different history could have been! LongTomH Oct 2014 #48
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