A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist was dismissed as a conspiracy theorist

Before he was found dead with two bullets to the back of his head, an incident ruled a "suicide" by the local coroner.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I find it impossible for a suicidal man to shoot himself - twice - in the back of head. Nevertheless, his death was never investigated as a murder.

Gary Webb was found dead just over a year ago in his Northern California home. He was 49 years old and friends say he had become extremely depressed after watching his prolific career go down in flames over a controversial story he wrote about the U.S. Government.

You may remember that story. It came out in the San Jose Mercury News in 1996, alleging that the CIA was responsible for the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s.

In the 20,000 word, three-part investigative series titled “Dark Alliance,” Webb alleged that Nicaraguan drug traffickers sold and distributed crack cocaine through various American cities. The drug profits were then used to fund the CIA-backed Contras.

For those of us in the business, it was an inspiring yet humbling piece of work. Something we hoped to one day write, wondering if we would be able to pull it off.

Even though Webb supported his article with public documents, his story was quickly dismissed by the CIA as being absurd, nothing but a conspiracy theory. After all, the CIA had conducted an investigation on itself and found no wrong doing.

So the rest of the corporate media got the message and began writing articles that attacked Webb and his credibility, even though they would not dare look into the matter themselves.

Almost a year later, Mercury News published a retraction stating that the piece fell short of its standards. Webb was reassigned to a bureau 150 miles from his home and eventually quit.

In 1999, he wrote the book Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion, which included even more details about the scandal. The only detail missing was a quote from the CIA saying, “Yeah, we did it.”

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1888363681/104-7221168-5512739?v=glance&n=283155

Even though that story destroyed his career as well as his marriage, and even though he was dismissed as a conspiracy theorist, Webb’s journalistic track record speaks for itself. If only more journalists were like him.

Reporting awards

1980 -- Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Award, small newspaper division.
1980 -- Laurel, Columbia Journalism Review.
1980 -- Gerald M. White Memorial Prize for Investigative Reporting, Cincinnati SDX.
1980 -- Investigative Reporters and Editors Award(IRE), for co- authoring a 17-part series at the Kentucky Post in Covington, KY with Tom Scheffey on organized crime in the American coal industry. <http://www.ire.org/contest/past/1980.html[br />1981 -- First place, investigative reporting, Kentucky Press Assn.
1981 -- Second place, deadline news reporting, Cincinnati SDX.
1981 -- Third place, investigative reporting, Cincinnati SDX.
1982 -- Third place, investigative reporting, Kentucky Press Assn.
1983 -- First place, municipal reporting, Kentucky Municipal League.
1983 -- Reporter of the Month, Scripps Howard Newspapers.
1984 -- Second place, series, Ohio Associated Press Assn.
1984 -- Third place, series, Ohio Associated Press Assn.
1985 -- Laurel, Columbia Journalism Review.
1985 -- First place, investigative reporting, Northeast Ohio SDX.
1986 -- Honorable mention, enterprise reporting, Ohio Associated Press Assn.
1986 -- Honorable mention, series, Ohio Associated Press Assn.
1986 -- First place, investigative reporting, Northeast Ohio SDX.
1986 -- Gold Medal, health reporting, American Chiropractic Assn.
1987 -- First place, legal reporting, Ohio Bar Assn.
1987 -- Second place, spot news, Central Ohio SDX.
1987 -- Third place, projects, Central Ohio SDX.
1987 -- Honorable mention, features, Central Ohio SDX.
1987 -- Freedom of Information Award, Central Ohio SDX.
1987 -- First place, investigative reporting, Ohio Associated Press Assn.
1988 -- First place, investigative reporting, Ohio Associated Press Assn.
1989 -- Honorable mention, features, Central Ohio SDX.
1989 -- First place, series, Central Ohio SDX.
1990 -- Pulitzer Prize, in General News Reporting, awarded to the Staff of the San Jose Mercury News for its detailed coverage of the October 17, 1989, Bay Area earthquake and its aftermath.
1993 -- Second place, series, Peninsula Press Club.
1994 -- H.L. Mencken Award', by The Free Press Association for the series in the San Jose Mercury News on abuses in the state of California's drug asset forfeiture program. 1995 -- California Journalism Award, Center for California Studies, CSU.
1995 -- Honorable mention, Gerald Loeb Award, UCLA School of Business.
1995 -- First Place, local news reporting, Peninsula Press Club.
1996 -- Freedom Fighter Award, California NAACP.
1996 -- Journalist of the Year, Bay Area Society of Professional Journalists.
1997 -- Media Hero Award, from the 2nd Annual Media & Democracy Congress.

Literary awards
1998 -- Firecracker Alternative Book (FAB) Award, politics, Dark Alliance
1998 -- Nominee, Best Nonfiction Book, Bay Area Book Reviewers Association, Dark Alliance.
1998 – Finalist, PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award, Dark Alliance.
1999 -- Oakland PEN First Amendment Award, Dark Alliance.
2002 – 25 Books to Remember, New York Public Library, Into the Buzzsaw (contributor)
2003 – Rouse Award for Press Criticism, National Press Club, Into the Buzzsaw (contributor)

College journalism awards
1975 -- First place, specialty column, Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Assn.
1977 -- Third place, specialty column, Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Assn.
1977 -- Third place, non-editorial cartooning, Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Assn.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb

:thumbsup:

Thanks for the post!

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2004/12/15/184725/08

The Octopus, Indio, and Indian Gaming stories out of Cabazon tribe / Nichols family etc. Very weird stuff indeed.

The Cabazon tribes' lawsuit, which went all the way to SCOTUS durin Reagan's years, legalized Indian gaming in the US:

California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, 480 U.S. 202, 216-17 (1987).

The abuse of tribal 'sovereignty' status was enticing for our CIA who seem to have been under the microscope for the Nugan Hand and Bishop Baldwin Rewald Dillingham and Wong fiascos offshore...

I seem to remember that H. Hughes was missing around 15% of his money when he died; reminds me of Meyer Lanksky's admonition about the 'skim', keep it under 15% and no one will notice.

I have always said that the Pulitzer should be dropped and instead we should have the Webb awards. But more than anything, who destroyed him were liberal or so called liberal columnists like Richard Cohen (see my thing called Richard Cohen Patron Saint of OxyMorons). So you see, with Judith Miller and Richard Cohen, the so called liberal media is alive and well.

Considering his piece created so much controversy because it was posted online. The story received more than a million hits a day back in 1996, a time when the Internet was just getting started. Without the internet, the story would have just stayed in San Jose.

There's a demand for new journalism awards that focus on online journalism. We can call them the Webb Web Awards for short.

that would be a honor to get now that Judith Miller has taken back the Pulitzer directly back to the gutter it was founded out of... to think it was supposed to make up for the harm caused and Judith made it kaboom again.

i am starting to feel very tiny... i don't have a single one... um, going to hide in cave for long time:(

It is a most prestigious award, having been awarded only once in history.

Did I tell you I start my day, EVERY day at Raw Story, then go to DU?

oops, wrong award...


they like me, they really like me... ooops, still wrong award...

but really, thank you... I am honored to be the first girl with a pen to get this cool award:) Thanksmucho

I am downloading it to my desktop now and will have it for always:) Thank you:):):)

getting your name spelled right.

for misspelling your name, troubleINwinter.

camper now, wink wink:)

You have been voted 2005 Truthseeker of the Year, in the Investigative Reporting category!

does that come with any cool wall plaques or something? thank you, that is two awards I have now and they are all mine, mine I tell you, all of them... ooops, sorry, got a bit excited:)

Just says downloading and then done, but nothing happens. I'd really like to see it, though. How ya doin'?

Edit: D'uh never mind. It's probably getting a lot of hits. It's working now. Thanks.

:toast:

weekly at the time of his death. Christine Craft a month or so before had Webb on her Sacramento radio show for an hour. He was great as I recall. Informed, articulate and personable. A mere hour was not enough. As I recall at the time she talked about him coming on the show again as an occasional guest. I was looking forward to it. Gary Webb was in our midst and he apparently could only get a reporting job on our local freebie weekly. Sure, they would print local investigative stories the Sacramento Bee wouldn't touch, but they didn't have considerable resources and one imagines it didn't pay the bills.

I recall Webb's original articles in the SJ Mercury. And how the rest of the corporate media twisted what he said and trashed him. He essentially was blacklisted. Even after his death the LA Times still shit on him.

News & Review article on his memorial service: http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=oid%3A32936

Interview with Webb's ex-wife and more by Robert Chalmers, "Susan Bell Looks Back on a Shameful Secret History" here: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1009-05.htm

Robert Perry's "America's Debt to Journalist Gary Webb" http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/121304.html

killed by the Bush regime. All this dark recent American history is so disturbing. I would think those in the (mainstream?) media would want to come together and say ENOUGH!
The Robert Parry books are great too.

Robert Perry's "America's Debt to Journalist Gary Webb" http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/121304.html
The truth is still so ugly most Americans can't even imagine that it could be true, so those who try to tell the truth are considered hateful- because we are suppose to be supportive of our president-or the Bush regime, even if they in so many ways UN-American and have harmed US so much.

Sacramento News & Review is a good read, and I don't mean to disparage the paper...but it is a crying shame that a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist could only find work at a freebie "alternative" newspaper.

I only found out he was on their staff after he died.

He was a great investigative journalist, and he paid for it with his life.

John Kerry was one to speak about it at the hearings

see "Crack the CIA"
www.gnn.tv/videos/video.php?id=1

Im sure they have something to say about this as well. He probably doesn't count in thier book (which is the only one that matters ya know;).

murdered.

An incredibly moving eulogy:

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2004/12/15/184725/08

"imagine for a moment what strength it took to get off the second round"
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2004/12/15/184725/08

that requires a lot of imagination

And in Gary's case, the people closest to him have universally come to the sad conclusion that it did.

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/122004_goodbye_giant.shtml

SUICIDE CONFIRMED

Gary's suicide was accomplished with two gunshot wounds to the head. In death Gary proved to be as determined and single-minded as he had been in life. Because of the rampant and ill-informed speculation that has been traversing the Internet it is a sad necessity to put this issue to rest right up front. What follows should be a warning and a lesson to all activists and progressives; to all those who dare label themselves as "journalists" without ever once following standard journalism protocols designed to ensure fairness and minimize unnecessary harm to the innocent and those already in pain.

After arriving in this quiet suburb of Sacramento California I drove to and photographed the outside of the house in which Gary died. The new owners were still moving in and they were extremely gracious. Then I drove to a nearby Doubletree Hotel and met Gary's family. I note that not one of the so-called journalists eager to cry murder -- especially radio demagogue and sensationalist fear monger Alex Jones (See Below) -- bothered to pick up the phone, send an email or make any attempt to contact the family or any agency for their observations, wishes or facts. Not the slightest concern was shown by any of them for an already devastated family. The wounded were kicked and exploited when they were already down. For this there can be no forgiveness and no pardon. In other words, one of the most fundamental tenets of journalism - one that Gary himself would have honored and demanded - was completely ignored by people who demonstrated that they have no class, zero judgment and not the slightest thought for anything but their own self-serving needs.

Here are the facts:

Gary Webb fired two shots from a .38 caliber revolver into his own head. The entrance wounds for both shots were at or near the right ear. However, for the first shot Webb had the gun angled downward which produced a through-and-through wound blowing out his lower left jaw. This was obviously not a fatal wound. His second shot, angled upward, successfully reached the brain, killing him instantly. As a former LAPD police officer and detective I have seen several suicides where multiple gunshots, especially from a relatively weak handgun like a .38, using inappropriate target ammunition, required multiple shots. In most cases the second and sometimes third shots were required because the victim made "hesitation" movements as they pulled the trigger, moving the gun barrel away from a fatal trajectory. There are many places on the human head to which a gunshot wound is not fatal (e.g. the lower and upper jaws, the cheeks, the roof of the mouth, the nose, etc.). Only a shot to the brain usually produces death but even that is not always guaranteed. I have seen attempted suicide and homicide victims survive after a .38 "ball" round had passed completely through and exited the opposite side of the skull.

...

Both Gary's ex-wife Susan and his brother Kurt viewed the body and they confirmed the location of the wounds to me when I met them. In addition, Gary left multiple suicide notes to family members which were confirmed to be in his own hand by them. He laid his driver's license out on the bed next to where he shot himself so that paramedics would be able to identify him. He had carefully placed his baby shoes in his mother's (her name is Anita and she is a real human being) storage bin. He had recently changed his bank account to make his ex-wife Susan the beneficiary. He had made statements to her in the days before his death that if this way the way he had to live he didn't want to continue.

...

http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2004/12/lisa_pease_desc.html

As each new person entered, Mike Ruppert quietly and quite delicately, I’ll add, asked all the appropriate questions, and pointed out the rumors that had been floating on the Internet. Each family member in turn confirmed yes, suicide, no question. Yes, there were two gunshots, but the first one so missed the brain that Gary had to shoot again. Yes, Gary had left a suicide note. When Ruppert mentioned some suggested the suicide note was a forgery, Susan’s eyes flew wide with shock, as she said there’s NO way that was a forgery. She said he had written each of his children a personal note. He had sent boxes to his Mother’s house, but she thought that was just temporary because he was moving. But he sent her things like his baby shoes, and so forth. He knew he wasn’t moving. He had had his motorcycle stolen, something he really loved, just prior. Sadly, the motorcycle was recovered, but Gary was not around to see it.

Kurt said early on and more than once, there’s nothing we can do or say now to bring him back. I’m sure the family all wonders why they didn’t see the signs, why they didn’t do more. But as Kurt described it to me, it was as if Gary was sinking into a vortex; there was nothing any of them could do to bring him back. From what I heard, Gary was seriously, perhaps even clinically depressed, but he never wanted to burden his family with that and would always put on a good show for them. He was a proud man who didn’t want to ask for help. But, as Diana said when she spoke about him, he was always there for others. When she had a cancer scare in her family, she had asked Gary to help her find out whatever he could. And like the true journalist he was, he went to the library and gave them the best information he could find.

http://www.newsmakingnews.com/vm,garywebb,12,20,04.htm

Following the announcement of Gary Webb's suicide on December 10, 2004 the Internet came alive with speculation that Gary had been killed by a third party pulling the trigger. Reporter Sam Stanton of the Sacramento Bee wrote two articles about Webb's death. It was Stanton's first article that revealed that the 38-caliber gun which had belonged to Gary's father had fired two shots into Webb's head. The articles that followed in all other major newspapers worldwide, either intentionally or unintentionally, referred to a single gunshot wound. These discrepancies only fueled the fire that there had been a conspiracy involved in the death of Gary Webb. Other reporters' strange deaths were cited as evidence that such murder conspiracies were supported by recent history.

It is important to note, however, that the family of Gary Webb absolutely believes that Gary was the only one who pulled the trigger of his father's gun twice. The detailed planning Webb exercised in the months leading up to his death supports their conclusion. One mourner recalled how one of Gary's passions had been hockey and how the other players would always underestimate his talent. He recalled that Gary, while of smaller stature then most of his team mates, would also surprise them with his speed. Gary's only problem he said, was that while he skated fast, he never learned how to brake. Perhaps once Webb began the process of leaving life behind, he simply could not stop.

Webb put his former wife Susan Bell on his bank account and told her that he had prepaid for his own cremation. Susan had been married to Gary for twenty-one years. She shared some of Gary's thoughts prior to his suicide with the sorrowful people attending his memorial so that they could also accept that this vital, intelligent man took his own life. 49-year-old Webb had written letters to each of his three children, Ian (age 21), Eric (age 16), and Christine (age 14). Susan, speaking in a choked, sometime halting voice read a small portion of each letter and thereby painted a more complete picture of the decision Webb had made to leave them. These were not a hastily scrawled two sentence suicide note like that suspicious missive left behind by reporter Joseph "Danny" Casolaro. In Webb's home, all his mementos were neatly packed and boxed in preparation for his upcoming move. No reporter's notes or unfinished manuscripts were missing as had been the case in Casolaro's murder. Webb's family had to put his possessions in storage the day after his death because the escrow on his home had closed. All indications are that Gary Webb died by his own hand.

Does that mean that there was no conspiracy by three-letter agencies, industry-manipulators and powerful people to silence Gary Webb? Of course not! It simply means that they drove him to his final act over a long ten year period, slowly torturing him for having the courage to tell the truth about the slugs that hide from freedom and betray the American Dream. The editors, the agents and the executives did not pull the trigger but they robbed Gary Webb of everything necessary for life.

I just find it hard to imagine that a man with such drive and dedication would become so depressed as to take his own life. Then again, i haven't been where he's been.

A sad end for a very righteous and honest man.

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Published: Aug. 18, 1996

BY GARY WEBB
Mercury News Staff Writer

FOR THE BETTER PART of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, a Mercury News investigation has found.

This drug network opened the first pipeline between Colombia's cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles, a city now known as the "crack'' capital of the world. The cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America … and provided the cash and connections needed for L.A.'s gangs to buy automatic weapons.

It is one of the most bizarre alliances in modern history: the union of a U.S.-backed army attempting to overthrow a revolutionary socialist government and the Uzi-toting "gangstas'' of Compton and South-Central Los Angeles.

The army's financiers -- who met with CIA agents both before and during the time they were selling the drugs in L.A. -- delivered cut-rate cocaine to the gangs through a young South-Central crack dealer named Ricky Donnell Ross.


http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/start.htm

Gary Webb is yet another person destroyed by what seems to be the same Republican regime that's been running things from their side since Nixon. :(

I remember when I read the Washington Post's first reports about his alleged suicide that I thought it was odd that he could cut his wrists 12 times, some cuts going so deeply they nicked tendons. Then there was the fact that he was embalmed before his family was even notified of his death, which is apparently against the law in WVA.

The now-defunct Spy Magazine did a good writeup on Casolaro:

http://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/danny_casolaro.htm

"If he did so, he slashed himself with brutal ferocity. He was cut 12 times; the cuts on the right wrist extended to the tendons, and the cuts on the left hit tendons. 'I've never seen such deep incisions on a suicide,' Martinsburg paramedic Don Shirley told Spy."

The Village Voice also did a good writeup, if you can find it.

had a similar fate...

http://www.psnw.com/~bashford/kang-ev0.html

One of his articles:
A Timeline of CIA Atrocities By Steve Kangas
http://home.att.net/~Resurgence/CIAtimeline.html

themselves twice in the head before death occurs. There are also people who shoot themselves in the head and survive.

own family is lying about that and the farewell letters he mailed to his family before he died, etc. and that they're part of the "coverup."

take the second shot. She used a .22, it penetrated the skull, took a right turn, and traveled around the inside of her skull to lodge in the back. The only reminder is a small scar from the entry wound.

Gary Webb: Do What He Did
By Al Giordano,
Posted on Wed Dec 15th, 2004 at 06:47:24 PM EST
LACANDON JUNGLE, CHIAPAS, MEXICO, DECEMBER 15, 2004: I keep imagining the last moments of Gary’s life. He is looking down the barrel of a gun. His eyes are puffy from the swell of too many tears. The moving van is coming to his house near Sacramento, a place he never wanted to be in the first place, to which he was exiled years ago for the crime of telling a powerful but uncomfortable truth. Everyone he has ever trusted or loved has abandoned him: By that I mean everyone, including you and me. What he is about to do requires the utmost in courage: to pull the trigger and plunge into the unknown, perhaps into nothingness, never to write or report or tell his truth to the post-human mortals who couldn’t handle his truth anyway.

The hand on the trigger at that moment – his – is not the first, nor is he acting alone. Gary had to wait in line and take a number behind all those who set his suicide in motion years ago. It was a miracle he didn’t do this back when San Jose Mercury News editor Jerry Ceppos, now 58 and vice president of the Knight-Ridder news company, cocked the shotgun and pulled the trigger on the most authentic journalistic career of the late 20th Century. That was the day that the bullet flew out of the cartridge and, as if in very slow motion, took years to reach Gary’s head...

Gary never wrote with mere ink or pixels. Gary opened up a vein every time he sat down to tell us a new truth and he signed his byline, always, in blood. If you think that his suicide did not send as powerful a message as the stories he investigated and penned in life, think again: Gary was The Last North American Career Journalist. He presided over a transitional era and his death marks the end of that era. Fellow and sister journalists: The canary has died in the coal mine. Run out of that mine now, and seek alternate routes to truth-telling. There is no longer room for us inside the corporate machine.

All over the world he is mourned today. The compañeros here in Chiapas came to me last night. “You knew him. He worked for you. Did he ever come here? Did he know about us?” As they peppered me with questions I retreated far into myself. Time and space stopped, as it has before in this deep green tropical jungle. I could see it – the bullet (two bullets say the coroner: Gary was nothing if not thorough and persistent; imagine for a moment what strength it took to get off the second round) off in the distance somewhere over California, those bullets, the first one fired by that traitor-to-journalism-and-truth Jerry Ceppos in San Jose, those bullets that came out the other side of Gary’s cranium in Sacramento last week and took a southern turn toward me. And when they are done with me they will come for you. I could see and hear them heading my way last night and so today I type these words in a hurry so as to shoot back before my brains, too, are splattered on the page of history.

To be an Authentic Journalist in 2004 is to be a soldier at war. When a hero dies in battle first we must drape the coffin, sound the slow, sad bugle song of Taps, and remember this great man who died fighting for all of us. Among the soldiers I have known in my foxhole, there were none finer, more effective in a firefight, than Gary. He was a god among insects, and a particularly important god among gods (shortly before his death, Gary told our colleague Bill Conroy that he had applied for a reporter’s job at the San Antonio Express-News and that the newspaper never even acknowledged his application: In the immortal words of Jonathan Swift, “When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.”)

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2004/12/15/184725/08

oneself in the back of the head twice is clearly not one of them.

See post #20.

Reagan-Bush-Clinton Department of Justice IGNORE this.

Why?

I'd've added Bush2, but this was written in 1998:



Where's Congress?

DEA Agents Agree: CIA means Cocaine Importation Agency

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4061234

My guess is the Congress would look into this if they weren't in on the action.

Who is mentioned in one of those articles on that thread, is a Cuban who was living in Miami when he shot a bazooka at a Polish freight ship in 1967 because it was trading with Cuba.

Years later, when the city of Miami's City Council had become majority Cuban, they implimented an official Orlando Bosch Day in Miami.

Poppy Bush is still friends with such turds.

His son, too.



These people kill children. Bush protects them.

Posada has something on Bush, says expert on Kennedy case

BYJEAN-GUY ALLARD —Special for Granma International—

WIM Dankbar, a Dutch specialist on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, suspects that Luis Posada Carriles has highly discriminating evidence against Bush Sr. that could be divulged if the terrorist should die a suspicious death.

In an interview with Granma International, Wim Dankbaar (www.jfkmurdersolved.com), who financed a new investigation into the death of Kennedy in cooperation with retired FBI agents, is not hiding his shock at the “reappearance” of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in Miami, which: “I cannot understand.”

"This is just astounding. The apathy of the media even more so", he continues, "Why isn’t any media source writing that the man was not pardoned from his sentence for killing 73 people, but that he escaped and is still a convicted terrorist on the loose?"

Dankbaar, also a Dutch businessman, who has made a documentary on the assassination of Kennedy titled Second Look, has shown how one of the three individuals arrested by Dallas police shortly after the crime placed Luis Posada Carriles in Dealey Square in that same city at the moment of the assassination.

He affirms that Chauncey Holt, one of three supposed vagrants arrested - in truth, they were Mafia hitmen in disguise - testified on the facts in a two-hour video recording made shortly before his death and which was never transmitted. “In this recording,” said Dankbaar, ”Holt names a few Cuban-Americans, including Luis Posada Carriles.

CONTINUED...

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/abril/vier29/19kennedy.html

Not really, but I can envision it. :evilgrin: