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Octafish

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2. Nixon was a murderous SOB and appointed a murderous SOB Secret Service man to guard Ted Kennedy.
Wed Sep 30, 2015, 09:36 AM
Sep 2015

The media do distort reality, creating a world in which intelligent kids can make it through high school without ever hearing about Nixon's treasons, whether as vice president working with CIA to murder Castro or going behind LBJ's back to sabotage the Paris peace talks.

His story -- this history -- is why I never denigrate people with labels, like "CT." It is a loaded term, designed to poison the person as a source of information and news. Here's the treasonous, murderous reality of the "Unindicted Co-Conspirator" of Watergate fame:

Nixon approved hiring a Secret Service man who said he'd 'kill on command' to guard Ted Kennedy. You can hear Nixon and Haldeman discuss it, about 40 minutes into the HBO documentary "Nixon by Nixon." While I had read the part of the transcript available years ago, and wrote about it on DU, almost no one I know has heard anything about it.



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.”

Nixon also had a surveillance tip for Haldeman for his spy-to-be: “I want you to tell Newbrand if you will that (unclear) because he's a Catholic, sort of play it, he was for Jack Kennedy all the time. Play up to Kennedy, that "I'm a great admirer of Jack Kennedy." He's a member of the Holy Name Society. He wears a St. Christopher (unclear).” Haldeman laughs heartily at the President’s curious advice.

Despite the enthusiasm of Nixon and Haldeman, Newbrand apparently never produced anything of great value. When this particular round of Nixon’s spying on Kennedy was uncovered in 1997, The Washington Post quoted Butterfield as saying periodic reports on Kennedy's activities were delivered to Haldeman, but that Butterfield did not think any potentially damaging information was ever dug up.

SOURCE:

http://surftofind.com/tedkennedy



Why does that matter? The Warren Commission, and the nation's mass media, never heard about the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Castro until the Church Committee in 1975. You'd think that would be a matter of concern to all Americans, especially considering how then-vice president Nixon was head of the "White House Action Team" that contacted the Mafia for murder.

This is the sort of information citizens of a democracy shouldn't have to search ConsortiumNews or CounterPunch to learn. It should be taught in school, or at the least, discussed in the nation's mass media. I certainly think it's unfair for people -- especially those who consider themselves Democrats or democrats -- to label those interested in such subjects "Conspiracy Theorists" and whatever else the haters and the asshats of the emoticon brigade can think of.

PS: Thank you for writing, H20 Man. Got to rest sometimes, eh, Don J?
Nixon: Past & President [View all] H2O Man Sep 2015 OP
In 2011, the transcripts H2O Man Sep 2015 #1
Nixon was a murderous SOB and appointed a murderous SOB Secret Service man to guard Ted Kennedy. Octafish Sep 2015 #2
The only times when H2O Man Sep 2015 #3
Younger Democrats may not appreciate Nixon's role in the current situation... Octafish Oct 2015 #4
Turn over a rock between the years 1948 and 1974, hifiguy Oct 2015 #8
Hughes to Bush to Cohn to Nixon to Lansky to Switzerland... Octafish Oct 2015 #15
I remember reading that article in Playboy hifiguy Oct 2015 #20
Yep we understand nothing without understanding these goons malaise Oct 2015 #12
There was a time when we might have put an end to their treason. Octafish Oct 2015 #16
Lamar Waldron's H2O Man Oct 2015 #19
Excellent book. Incredibly thorough and documented to the nth degree. hifiguy Oct 2015 #21
+1,000 malaise Oct 2015 #23
And no one has been accountable since malaise Oct 2015 #22
Harry Truman had perhaps the definitive quote regarding Nixon: hifiguy Oct 2015 #9
Question from a Newbie fossilnut Oct 2015 #5
Just ask them here. H2O Man Oct 2015 #10
Thank you. fossilnut Oct 2015 #25
Wow! H2O Man Oct 2015 #26
I only know you as H2O Man. fossilnut Oct 2015 #29
East Guilford. H2O Man Oct 2015 #31
Thank you. fossilnut Oct 2015 #32
Yep. H2O Man Oct 2015 #33
Sometimes the best lessons are found in nature. fossilnut Oct 2015 #34
Frustrating. fossilnut Oct 2015 #35
Missed this post malaise Oct 2015 #6
Thanks! H2O Man Oct 2015 #11
Might I suggest you add Rick Perlstein's trilogy of hifiguy Oct 2015 #7
Perlstein is an outrageously H2O Man Oct 2015 #13
The first thing I thought of when reading hifiguy Oct 2015 #14
Will we ever have the same exhaustive research about malaise Oct 2015 #24
great post as usual-- librechik Oct 2015 #17
Yep. (paleo-) H2O Man Oct 2015 #18
Well, O.K., fine if you want to continue our generation of JFK/LBJ/Nix. I'm tired of it all. I'm old UTUSN Oct 2015 #27
By the bye, CIA a-hole WOODWARD is cashing in again with more tapes, another book UTUSN Oct 2015 #28
I too am fascinated by Nixon. lovemydog Oct 2015 #30
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