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Happy New Year 2025 + Look Ahead to Season 3
🕑 Added 2025-01-03 01:47:29 +0000 UTCHello Patrons and Happy New Year! I hope that you were all able to spend the holidays relaxing with loved ones, kicking your feet up by the old yule log fire.
Thought I'd check in to share some of the upcoming content for season 3 and to give you all an opportunity to give me feedback directly. I especially value your feedback, as you have taken the step to support my endeavors further. As always, thank you, all of you, for your support, it really helps out.
So, let me start with Season 3:
I left off last year with the incoming Kennedy administration and the failure at the Bay of Pigs. I hope to begin the year with videos exploring Kennedy's relationship with the CIA, his handling of the Cuba show, and the ongoing official, and increasingly unofficial paramilitary operations on the Gulf Coast. I want to start with Theodore Shackley (image 1), who will arguably be the main character of Season 3. Shackley's career with CIA, which spanned over 2 decades, saw him crop up as the top man on the ground at all the early CIA paramilitary hot spots. His first Station Chief job, in Miami at the infamous JMWAVE station, would put him on a fast track up the ranks of the Agency. Shackley would pop up in Laos and later in Vietnam. I hope to follow his story through all these appointments, as he remains one of the most elusive prominent figures in CIA history. He was after all known as the Blond Ghost.
The Gulf Coast remained a nexus of skullduggery and militant activity throughout Kennedy's presidency. This year I will be plunging head first into this morass of intrigue and deception. As I slowly make my way to the fateful day in Dallas in November 1963, I hope to outline some of the lesser discussed threads. In no particular order, this will include videos covering:
Alpha 66, Antonio Veciana, and his handler "Maurice Bishop" of the CIA
The army intelligence angle: retired General Charles Willoughby's network, the American Security Council (image 2 and 3), Phil Corso, and Colonel Jack Canon
The Hunt Family's connections to Willoughby and their funding of paramilitary groups
Who shot at General Edwin Walker? (The official story, according to Marina Oswald anyways, is that it was Lee Harvey Oswald, six months before he allegedly killed Kennedy)
The Soldier of Fortune angle: Interpen, Gerry Patrick Hemming, and the No-Name Key Group (image 4)
The militia connection: the Minutemen, "domestic Gladio", and enter Guy Bannister (and 544 Camp St. of course)
The Permindex Plot and the Israeli connection to the Kennedy hit
The Lake Pontchartrain Camp: the centre of the Kennedy conspiracy nexus. Everyone was there
MAYBE the French connection to Kennedy, specifically the OAS connection. This is not something I am wholly familiar with but its always struck me as interesting.
So that on its own will be a lot to cover. The challenge as always will be to determine how to organize all of these threads so that they are coherent and understandable. As I'm sure you can all imagine, there is significant overlap between all these different topics and I hope to highlight those links. But, it can be difficult not to get lost, so I am still working on figuring out how to best present all these disparate threads. The research is done though.
I also want to make a small bonus video to wrap up on the Bush saga by covering Smedley Butler, War is a Racket, and the Business Plot. But that will be a shorter part and should come soon.
I do also hope to return to the secret war in Laos series this year. Before that, I want to cover the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem and make one more War Conspiracy video specifically about LBJ, his MIC ties, and the Bobby Baker scandal. Then, if I have time, I'll return to Laos.
So with all that said, I want to ask: What would you like to see on this channel in 2025? Keep in mind, I am moving chronologically, so I don't want to jump ahead too much. What have your favourite videos been so far? Is there anything you'd recommend I check out? Again I really value your feedback, especially on this platform.
Thank you as always for your patience - Season 3 is gearing up to be a hell of a ride.
Take care, talk soon,
EWO
Comments
Anthony Mustacich
Also comrade, it would be interesting to see an analysis of CIA and US intelligence operations during the 1960s within the US itself. It might be useful to extend your analysis to the FBI and their COINTELPRO, which was the domestic form of counterinsurgency. The CIA and Military Intelligence were both involved in MLK's assassination and most likely Malcom X as well. I think MK/CHAOS was a joint CIA and FBI/Police program that targeted Black revolutionaries and the anti-war movement.
Anthony Mustacich
I want to see you cover the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in Congo and the overthrow of Nkrumah in Ghana. Also the coup against Soekarno in Indonesia and the mass murder of a million communists under the auspices of the CIA there under Suharto.
