Part of the Prouty puzzle is Major General Edward Lansdale, who was purportedly a go-between for the CIA and the Pentagon on black ops in the Far East for many years immediately following the Second World War. He officially retired from the Air Force in October 1963, although most of his work for the previous dozen years was with the CIA. Lansdale admitted to being in Texas on November 22, 1963, although he claimed to be in San Antonio. Reportedly, a baggage claim stub from the hotel JFK stayed in the night before his murder was found in General Lansdale's effects after his death.
So why, you ask, is this important? Because in one of the infamous pictures of the "three tramps" (who are thought by many to be Watergate burglars Frank Sturgis and E, Howard Hunt, and possibly convicted murderer Charles Harrelson as well) being led away by police from Dealey Plaza, a man is seen walking away, nonchalantly past the tramps, with his back to the camera. Both Colonel Prouty and retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Victor Krulak, who knew Lansdale for years, were certain that the man is Edward Lansdale.
If it was General Lansdale, why lie about his whereabouts that grim November afternoon? Why did he walk past these "tramps," putting himself between them and a chain link fence, rather than go around avoiding these bums? And most importantly, why didn't the police stop this person, whether it was Lansdale or someone else, from approaching "the tramps?"
The mind boggles.
I think I shall forego further comment on the whole question of the 112th Military Intelligence Corps Group, Prouty, and Lansdale until I can find a copy of the 1963 organizational chart for the 112th, which is supposedly one of the Executive Session exhibits for the HSCA.
People continue digging up, and exposing all of this minutiae in the case, hoping that the next rock turned over, the next piece of evidence revealed, will be the "silver bullet" that solves JFK's assassination. But is this truly where we need to go with the investigation?
I am afraid that we may be making a grave mistake. I think that all of us who continue to pick away at the Executive Branch's version of JFK's murder--that is to say the report of the Warren Commission and all subsequent attempts to bolster or support that document in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary--in the hopes of finding that one piece of new evidence that will crack the case wide open, are actually operating on a false assumption. We need to consider the possibility that we already have all the evidence we need to solve the case; it is simply a matter of going through the pieces and putting them together correctly.
As Sherlock Holmes would say, "It is a three pipe problem."
When delving into the murder of President Kennedy, we must keep in mind one basic fact: that all of the autopsy and photographic evidence must be considered suspect. The reason for this is simple; all of that evidence has been in the possession of one of the primary suspects implicated in this crime, rogue elements of the Executive Branch of the United States' Government.
When I say rogue elements of the Executive Branch, I mean members of the Departments of Justice, Defense, and the Treasury, as well as the Central Intelligence Agency, who I believe decided that it was in their best interest, as well as the best interests of certain of their friends and allies in the private sector, to murder President Kennedy.
As I said in my February 19, 2010 OpEdNews article "Into a Thousand Pieces," it could be done with a small number of individuals who were fully aware of what was going on: two or three Secret Service agents in the White House detail, six to eight people in the Pentagon and CIA (I've reduced my numbers here because someone like General Lansdale would have reduced the required numbers), two people at the FBI, two or three Mob bosses to provide some of the trigger men and insure local support from people like Jack Ruby and the Dallas PD, plus two or three Texas plutocrats to underwrite the whole plot.
So with this in mind, we need to go back, re-examine everyone in the categories I just laid out, and develop a list of "persons of interest" in JFK's assassination. We should also delve into these individuals' potential motivations and possible degrees of complicity, and make certain that there are no glaring omissions in our list of possible perpetrators. No one is above suspicion until cleared.
For example, let us consider Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, who was flying back from the Antarctic at the time of JFK's murder. Certainly, you think, his absence places him outside of the sphere of suspicion.
But think back to the St. Valentines Day Massacre in Chicago. Al Capone planned the liquidation of "Bugs" Moran and the Northside Mob, and then went to Florida while his lieutenants pulled it off, to give himself an alibi.
Colonel Prouty might have done the same thing as Capone, arranging his escort duty with the foreign diplomats in Antarctica to give himself an alibi. I agree this sounds crazy, but if I can think of the possibility, I am certain that Colonel Prouty, then Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, could as well. Insane is what Black Ops does best.
Let me emphasize, I do not think that Colonel Prouty was part of the conspiracy to kill President Kennedy. However, we owe future generations the duty of considering the possibility, looking at the evidence--if any--of his complicity in this crime, and then adding his name to the long list of names--together with Robert F. and Edward M. Kennedy, among others--of those who had no reason to commit such a crime.
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