Tim Fattig

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Tim Fattig

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Writer/researcher currently focusing on America's Cold War political violence, 1947-92.

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Tim Fattig
Tim Fattig@timfattig·
Unfortunately, Larry King’s follow-up was not about H.R. Haldeman’s interpretation of the President’s “Bay of Pigs thing” comment. m.youtube.com/watch?v=hwEmJi…
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@DanHankeAI Mulroney was the crypt of Justin E. O’Donnell, an OSS vet whom a 1989 Agency review summarized as a sarcastic contrarian. O’Donnell retired from the Agency and became a justice of the peace in Arlington, Virginia. He died of a brain tumor in 1983.
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Dan Hanke-T1000@DanHankeAI·
Jesus Christ…imagine this. October 1960, Allen Dulles tasks Michael Mulroney, deputy chief in Direcortorate of Plans, to oversee the assassination of Patrice Lumumba. Mulroney balked, telling Richard Helms he could not do it in good conscience because he was a devout catholic!
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Tim Fattig@timfattig·
Sam Halpern makes a similar point in his 1998 interview with Latell and Warner: Helms was so incredibly careful to keep his name off anything to do with the Cuban invasion, that any number of gaps in intelligence and communication could be attributed to Helms. He was extremely, and rightly, critical of Helms’ limited role in the run-up to BoP.
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Lisa Pease
Lisa Pease@lisapease·
I'm reading an article called The Rise and Fall of Richard Helms by Helms' biographer Thomas Powers. I had forgotten how much Helms disliked Bissell. I think JFK was not the only one being set up when the Bay of Pigs mission was sabotaged from within. Helms wanted Bissell's job - he almost quit when he didn't get it. But the BoP gave him an opportunity. Dulles wanted the plan to fail to force JFK's hand. Helms wanted it to fail to force Bissell out. That explains then why a bridge that was supposed to be blown that would have prevented Castro's tanks from reaching the shores of the Bay of Pigs never happened. According to an operative, he was to wait for the instruction to blow from Helms, even though Helms was not supposed to have any role in the Bay of Pigs. The order never came. It's all making sense now. I believe, from reading his biography, that Helms made sure all three people standing between him and the DDP role he wanted fell. Cold blooded killer, he was.
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Tim Fattig@timfattig·
@MWN_STPatrick @timgproject I agree. Specialists are rarely the target audience for anything. It’s volume, volume, volume. For the general public scrolling anywhere on social media, they’ll encounter a James Files clip or a rehash of the driver-did-it nonsense long before they’ll stumble across nuance.
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S.T. Patrick
S.T. Patrick@MWN_STPatrick·
@timfattig @timgproject When a new JFKA book comes out, I ask the same thing to the critics who say “nothing new here.” Well, what about the people for whom this will be their first or second KFKA book? Nothing will be new to them, either? Really? I don’t think we can assume media is always for us.
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Tim Fattig@timfattig·
Any account here (large or small) that continues to breathlessly recycle the Gary Underhill “story” based on the 2025 JFK declassifications, is not to be taken seriously. The “story” is not new, and the files themselves clearly, unambiguously reference a RAMPARTS article from way back in 1967. The Underhill story has been told and retold by JFK-conspiracy writers for actual decades now.
Martin A. Armstrong@ArmstrongEcon

Newsmax’s Rob Finnerty has introduced a bombshell revelation hidden within the newly released JFK files - one that raises serious questions about a likely CIA cover-up. When someone is there to upset their grand plans, don’t count on free elections.

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Tim Fattig@timfattig·
@MWN_STPatrick @timgproject Considering how much new information is in every document release— and that these docs aren’t even about Underhill but rather CIA perception-management around the RAMPARTS article— one would think or hope Newsmax had some better options for this piece.
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S.T. Patrick
S.T. Patrick@MWN_STPatrick·
@timfattig @timgproject Let me ask you this - and I mean this genuinely - for how many Americans would the Underhill story not be new? Maybe a few thousand, max? Should news channels try harder to create broadcasts for the JFKA conspiracy researchers or for the average American? ….
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Tim Fattig@timfattig·
Happy birthday to the way we live now. ☢️
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Tim Fattig@timfattig·
Had a great time with @SeanKaneGOND last night, recording for the fantastic That’s Enough Outta You! pod. We went through some well-trod subjects— David Phillips and the Maurice Bishop mystery, the CIA station in Miami, the moral failings of the HSCA, and more— and came up with some new ideas and angles you’ll find quite interesting!
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Tim Fattig@timfattig·
@MWN_STPatrick Files has been useful, though in ways he certainly never intended: he made it easier to recognize other JFK researchers with broken BS detectors.
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S.T. Patrick
S.T. Patrick@MWN_STPatrick·
1) Question the JFKA hierarchy, even if to yourself 2) Never assume popular writer = nice person 3) There are frauds in the witnesses. Be able to identify them 4) If there aren’t answers, it’s just color 5) Avoid JFK apologetics at all costs 6) It wasn’t Files, Greer, or Jackie
Tim Fattig@timfattig

Don’t follow the “thought leaders.” Don’t go to the conferences. Don’t dwell in the secondary literature. Don’t go to Dallas too many times.

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Tim Fattig@timfattig·
Great episode here. Fantastic deep dive into some really important new docs on the case. Agree that Dulles remained an influential figure to Helms, Rocca, and a few others, long after his departure from the Agency. His memos to Lee Rankin of the WC also shed some light on Dulles’ state of mind around the same time.
Tim Fattig@timfattig

In the newly-released notes from former Warren Commission staffer David Belin, who ended up running the Rockefeller Commission “investigation” for President Ford in 1975, we now have access to some of the memos sent by one Warren Commission member— former CIA chief Allen Dulles— to the WC general counsel, former U.S. solicitor general Lee Rankin. Early on (January 1964), Dulles is thinking about politics and perceptions, telling Rankin he is concerned about “future Communist propaganda treatment of the assassination,” but by the summer of 1964 he is well-versed on the mechanics of the case and concerned about some of the deficiencies in the investigation as the Warren Report nears publication. As a master propagandist, Dulles seems to feel the Commission is not sticking the landing in several key areas. “Where have we dealt with the evidence as to Oswald’s ability to handle a rifle?” “Where do you plan to discuss Oswald's escape pattern or plans [and] did he have any— if so, why did he leave $170 at the Paines and start out with less than $20? If he killed the President to make a name, gain notoriety, etc., why did he try to escape at all and then deny the shooting when caught? I feel we must deal with these difficult issues. I have some speculations on the subject.”

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