I’d like to thank everyone who took a flyer, stopped to chat, or made supportive comments or gestures at yesterday’s 30th anniversary in Strawberry Fields. I was there from around 8AM to 4:30PM; a few observations. Early on I circulated with my sandwich sign, holding a copy of Fenton Bresler’s Who Killed John Lennon? and a handful of flyers, but by noon the area around the Imagine mosaic was so crowded I just posted up near the entrance. A lot of people were interested and supportive, from near and far: New Yawkers of course, but also people from Australia, the UK, Argentina, Spain, France, and elsewhere (I didn’t ask most people where they were from). I’d handed out maybe 500 flyers by the time I’d left. A number of people were excited because they’d been thinking the same thing for years. Several people asked to buy Bresler’s book (or asked if I’d written it). A ton of people wanted to take my picture, some wanted to pose with me (I’d guess some of that might have been tourists wanting to show their friends the local nutcakes, but some were clearly supportive). There were a few nasty comments in passing, and a couple of folks who just wanted to laugh at me, but overall I think that more people expressed interest than did at the 25th. Nobody in the major media paid any attention to me, as far as I know, but some foreign reporters sounded me out. Several people interviewed me on video, at least one of these has made its way to YouTube but he was one of those who just wanted to piss on me, as the comments seem to show (“stupid beetnick [sic], stupid fucking hippy” “His sunglasses stink. Stupid hippie know-it-all asshole” etc). This doesn’t bother me, I’ve got a pretty thick skin and with these types I was willing to play the straight man to their Don Rickles routine. Here’s something: a tall white middle-aged guy, clean-shaven and dressed office casual, stopped and told me he used to work for the CIA and, he said, as far as he was concerned it’s totally possible that the CIA did the deed. He said he had no direct knowledge of this -- “everything there is compartmentalized” – but he wouldn’t be surprised. He went on to say how much he hated the organization, what they did to him personally and what they do in the world. No I can’t read minds, but my take on this guy was that he was the real deal.
Something here is changing. I can tell ya that I’ve been monitoring the Web for about 8 years now with Google alerts on Mark David Chapman and a few other search terms, and there has been precious little out there on the CIA and Chapman – it’s why I’m doing this in the first place – until now. Just in the past week, those alerts are bulging with the CIA-Chapman connection, so much so that I can’t even follow up on them all (I have a full-time-plus day job). There’s a new book out: John Lennon — Life, Times And Assassination, by Phil Strongman, published by The Bluecoat Press, which was highlighted in the British press last week – I haven’t gotten it yet, but I will and will post about it. There was a play about the Chapman-CIA connection revived for a Liverpool performance this past year by the British playwright Ian Carroll, “One Bad Thing” And then there was Jesse Ventura’s segment on his cable show Conspiracy Theory.
It seems that global interest in John Lennon is not fading, and may actually be growing, if yesterday’s events are any indication. And with that, it just may be that we’re going to see more attention paid to who was really behind his being taken from us…
This is a forum for discussing the CIA's assassination of John Lennon and what we collectively might do about it. Think that’s nuts? Read Fenton Bresler’s “Who Killed John Lennon?” and John Marks’ “The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: the CIA and Mind Control”. The motive? Reagan’s “transition team” was clearing the decks for slaughter in Central America...so, at the very least, let's set the record straight...
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I first became aware that the government killed Lennon in 1987 - owing to my own close encounter with US intelligence. I describe making this extremely painful discovery in my recent memoir THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY ACT: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN REFUGEE (www.stuartbramhall.com). The reality is that the 500 families who control the US government will - and do - kill anyone who poses a serious threat to their economic interests. After nearly 25 years, I've concluded that the only way to stop this is for Americans to re-take control over their government - which will require building a vast social movement. I currently live in exile in New Zealand - and blog about ideas for restoring democracy at my web page.
Thanks for that comment Stuart, you hit the nail on the head: "kill anyone who poses a serious threat to their economic interests". People who weren't involved in the Central America struggle don't appreciate the ferocity of their war - the massacre of tens of thousands of unarmed civilians - campesinos, workers, students, priests, nuns, health workers, children, elderly - they would stop at nothing to maintain the feudal structure of these small impoverished countries whose indigenous populations had labored like serfs since the Spanish Conquest. Why? It's what Oxfam UK called "the threat of a good example." For U.S. global planners, what is all-important is maintaining control over their own sphere of influence, and even tiny Nicaragua and El Salvador represented a threat to them - *not* a military threat, that line was Cold War bullshit pure and simple - but should they actually break free of U.S. corporate/political domination, then other, more important countries might choose to follow suit, and that could not be tolerated. So they were prepared to do anything to stop it. And that included subverting the domestic opposition (their infiltration of CISPES is a matter of record). So as Reagan's Transition Team was pulling out all the stops on their counterrevolutionary warmaking, they looked around at the domestic scene and asked, is there anyone here who could make trouble for us? oh yeah, that John Lennon, he's gonna be a citizen in a few months, shit if he gets active in this the solidarity movement is going to get a huge boost...we don't need that, and we have an answer right here in our hip pocket, this guy Chapman is ready to go...
Thanks for checking out my site. I hope you're wrong and the government wasn't behind this when they could have been plotting the deaths of Phil Collins or the Bee Gees. I'm not sure which explanation is worse a mentally ill person acting alone or a mentally ill person in charge of a powerful institutio making the decision to kill john Lennon.
It looks like what it is, it's really that simple. The arguments showing the evidence were made in the other blog entry.
A sharp sleuth will add up the fact Lennon was under intense surveillance and realize they were probably listening to him the day of the photo shoot at the Dakota. I wouldn't deny CIA the full potential of their capabilities. So you have to wonder if the limo not showing up was planned since they knew Chapman was out on the sidewalk waiting? Also, as nutty as it sounds, if CIA was micromanaging it at the surveillance level then it is very possible the "Do it! Do it! Do it!" was CIA voice projection technology. If you think they don't have that kind of equipment you haven't been doing your homework. Maybe, maybe not, but a good sleuth would understand all the levels of intrigue being aimed at Lennon and not exclude the possibility. However, at bare minimum no detective worth his salt would miss the fact the limousine failed to show at 5pm and Lennon had to walk-out on the sidewalk in front of Chapman. It's these fringe peripheral examples of evidence that the good sleuths look for. Nor would they have missed the fact Chapman, a low wage southern boy, took an interest in art collecting right at the same time he started having these world travel urges. Lennon was interface-able through art collection. CIA dropped this ruse and went for the less obvious sidewalk encounter instead because it had much more plausible deniability.
There are fascinating aspects to this like analyses of how our government adopted industrial management practices in WWII and then used them politically and governmentally. This big machine type model led to people trusting the various departments of government and media to truthfully and honestly do their jobs. Just as war depended on each man dutifully carrying out his expected task for the team this model was applied socially after WWII for expediency. So people tended to rely on both government and media accounts as being accurate in order to streamline the process. It's no coincidence that CIA was birthed out of this industrialized social democracy. Unfortunately I think what we are looking at here is some of the less desirable traits of the enemies in WWII somehow bled back into US government.
What's really sad about this is Lennon's assassination by CIA is fairly obvious. So there should be more than the handful of us there are on this site. God bless Alan and his efforts. But what is even sadder is there's enough credible evidence that the US media, public, and government should at least be investigating this. We live in a pretty sick society where CIA monsters can murder John Lennon of all people and there isn't any real investigation or even interest. I think that alone says a lot about the society Lennon was trying to change as well as the reasons why he was trying to change it. And celebrating Lennon while no real effort is made to expose his CIA murder is somewhat creepy to me.
I think there was another political oscillation that influenced the government murder of Lennon. VietNam had succeeded in making war unpopular. Anyone who was raised in America knows that war is a highly emphasized aspect of the nation. Watergate, Carter, and liberal progressiveness had made the war machine unpopular and it was desperate to regain and assert its power. That cardboard cut-out dumb-ass actor Ronald Reagan was the perfect outdated old school true believer these war forces needed to head their campaign. If you study CIA it says in its own writing that it specializes in decapitation programs. Lennon was listed on his FBI file as being a "Trotsky-ite". You have to be careful with government agency nomenclature because those bastards don't play around with words and certain words can place you under certain classifications that just so happen to land in their serious categories with serious consequences. Domestic "enemies" are much more dangerous than foreign because they are here within our borders where they can have much more effect.
Lennon had the wrong belief that the US would honor his pure effort for peace. I think he underestimated the vested interests and their crass agendas and what they would do to defend them. Those people hold grudges for long times and don't have any sense of humor.
If you are interested in this sort of thing I suggest looking into the murder of Jimi Hendrix. There's much more firm and available evidence for that case than Lennon's that is being flagrantly ignored and denied.
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