Fix the Bus

So how do Sturgis, Barker and Hunt (SBH) connect to Bolten? And. can we connect any of SBH to New Orleans. I would like to show that these men worked with each other well before Watergate.

Well, to answer that question properly we will have to fast forward ten years to Watergate.

The same fellows can be found more or less together.  While SBH are finding themselves caught up in a scandal Bolten is working in the White House as a CIA liaison to the BNDD, the predecessor to the DEA.

Bolten’s boss is Egil Krogh, and it seems quite logical to me that Bolten while doing actual work on this task force is also being Helms’s eyes and ears within the White House while communicating with SBH.

Individuals  like to work together as teams and people like working with people they know.  Orson Welles, Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese had their acting troupe, and so does Bolten.

These guys know each other and they have confidence in each other.

Other members of this team are Virgilio Glz and Eugenio Mtz.

It wouldn’t surprise me to know that these same men were working together in 1963.  

We know that two men who look  like Sturgis and Hunt were found in Dealey Plaza.  What about Martinez and Glz? Yes, yes, I know about the Rockefeller Commission and their findings.

Were they the two men who showed up at Ms Odio’s door that night?

How about Rafael Cruz?  He was hanging around  New Orleans at the time.  Maybe he took a trip?  

What’s the connection with Rafael Cruz you ask?

Seymour Bolten’s  son, Joshua was Ted Cruz’s mentor at Princeton.  Ted Cruz is Rafael Cruz’s son

Rafael Cruz looks an awful lot like one of Oswald’s buddies handing out leaflets in New Orleans. Check this out here.

Plus after Teddy finished Princeton and Harvard he went to work for Georgie 43’s campaign, and George 41 was a good friend of Seymour Bolten.

Get it?

But let’s get back to Martinez and Gonzalez.  Here we are. See pictures of them.

And here side by side we see a picture of Bolten plus a picture of two men one of whom looks an awful lot like Virgilio Glz.

See the guy second from the left.  Why is he covering his face, and doesn’t the hairline look like Bolten’s.  Of course people who wear masks can surprise you.  

These  guys have been attributed to OP 40 which was a paramilitary unit operating to dethrone Castro in the early 1960s.

Now Sturgis claims to have worked with OP 40 – which in reality had more member – but apparently was a friend or associate of them.

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Who was Bernard Barker?

He was a American-Cuban of Russian extraction fluent in Spanish and English who became Hunt’s right hand man.

After joining the military to fight in WWII, Barker was captured, and then spent 16 months in a German POW camp in Poland – not Szubin where Bolten was held. 

He later worked with Eugenio Martinez and E Howard Hunt to liberate Cuba.  Barker also worked with Fiorini. Here they are:

Barker was Hunt’s right hand man.

Martinez, Barker and Hunt worked on many missions together.

Hunt’s code name was Eduardo.  Barker considered him a hero to the Cuban people.

Now Hunt claims that he never met Sturgis until 1972, and I suppose this is possible.

But it isn’t likely that Bolten did not know of Sturgis, so Hunt can make all the claims he wants (he’s dead). 

Bolten is the key.  As a senior analyst it is his job to know all the players involved so as to help Helms and his bosses look good.

It also helps that Bolten may have known Sturgis from post WWII Germany.  Both guys were working for Lucius Clay.  Granted it was a big operation that Clay was running, but Sturgis was in Clay’s honor guard, and Bolten was a smart guy who would have been noticed by Clay.  It’s likely they may have met.

And it’s likely Bolten knew all the important members in the DRE as well, people like Bringuier and the folks in New Orleans.

Maybe Hunt didn’t know Sturgis prior to 1972, but it’s not likely he didn’t.  Sturgis wasn’t some run-of-the-mill mercenary. He had fought with Fidel in Cuba. Fidel gave him charge of the casinos in Havana to act as liaison with the mobsters.  So, Sturgis wasn’t some nobody.  There absolutely unequivocally  would have been memos regarding him running  back-and-forth amongst CIA senior analysts.

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How does Sturgis get on the Watergate team?

Hunt says he never met him until he was on the team, and he’s the leader of the team?  How likely is that?

Usually the leader picks the guys on the team.  Usually he needs the guys for a specific reason, and Hunt never knew him prior to selecting him?

So here we to believe that he just brought him along because someone else on the team, Barker, vouched for him?  I don’t believe that.

And why Sturgis?  What does he bring to the team?

The only thing I can see that he brings is that he can keep a secret, and perhaps that he had worked with them before, and that they knew him.

One thing about Hunt.

During his interview, he seems to be going out of his way to breaking off connection with anyone in New Orleans or with Sturgis.

Why?

Well, the obvious answer is that Oswald is connected with the guys in New Orleans.

So if we can’t find any hard connection between Hunt and New Orleans, what about Sturgis and New Orleans.

Well, we know that Sturgis was involved with various other mercenaries, Cubans, mobsters and so forth.

Is it likely that Sturgis as head of Castro’s casino operations knew any of  Carlos Marcello’s men located in New Orleans.  It seems like a good bet.

Is it likely that Sturgis’s skills in hand to hand combat would not be sought out by Cubans training near Lake Pontchartrain?  

I think so.

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Hunt in his interview with HSCA on 11/3/78 goes out of his way to deny connections with just about everyone in New Orleans.

Hunt is a very slick man in this interview. He knows how to make fine distinctions. He reminds me of Bill Clinton when he said: It depends upon what the definition of is is.

Hunt admits that he set up the FRD which then evolved into the CRC, but then denies meeting any men connected to the New Orleans chapter.  He denies knowledge of Sergio Arcacha Smith and Frank Bartes.

Hunt is no fool.

It is tempting to take him at his word, until we learn that his son St. George admitted years later that he did a lot of lying for his dad when he was younger, especially as to his dad’s whereabouts on 11/22/63.

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I’m not sure where this is going except to show that these men were part of an anti-Castro soup.  Mixed in with them were pro-Castro spies and double agents.  The anti-Castro group was not homogeneous. There were people on the left, and the more people on the right.  

What I want to say is that Barker, Hunt, Sturgis, Martinez and Gonzalez had worked together before. They participated in a coup d’état against Kennedy; they participated in a coup d’état against Nixon.  That was the purpose of the Watergate break in.  They weren’t looking for any specific documents.  Their goals was to get caught so as to entrap Nixon and damage him politically.  

To prove this theory, I need to show that these men were woking together in some way in Dallas prior to or on the day of the assassination of JFK.  

Well, in addition to the sightings of the tramps, someone of Barker’s appearance was spotted on the grassy knoll on 11//22/63.

I don’t say the evidence is strong with regard to the tramps or to the Barker sighting,  Photo-analysis experts have stated that the don’t think the tramps are Sturgis or Hunt.  There is a vague resemblance.  Even Jack Anderson who knew Sturgis didn’t think any of the tramps were Sturgis.

Well, anyone who has taken photos on their phone knows that people look different depending upon the day, the clothes, the haircut their weight, and so forth.

Okay, what about the Odio visit?

Could Sturgis have been one of the men?

Well, let’s look at some oddities …

Frank Sturgis’s given name at birth was Francis Angelo Fiorini. Bernard Barker’s given name at birth was Bernard Leon Barker. Two of the men at Silvia Odio’s door were named Leon and Angelo. Is God laughing at us here? Or is God laughing at Barker and Fiorini?

Is this just a coincidence?

Well, it seems likely that Bolten knew of Barker because Bolten as an analyst would have been briefed on all the players that were significantly involved with anti-Castro operations. Plus, Barker wasn’t just anybody. He was Hunt’s right hand man.

Additionally, Barker’s father was Jewish; plus Barker was a POW like Bolten who had been imprisoned in Poland. I have to think that Seymour Bolten and Barker would have wanted to meet each other personally to exchange stories and to recognize each other. I think they would have liked each other, and I think they would have wanted to work with each other. Maybe not. Maybe they didn’t get along at all, but I doubt it.

So, is it possible that Barker, Fiorini were two of the men at Silvia Odio’s apartment that late day in September?

In the above photograph, both Sturgis and Barker look “oily” enough to be the “low Cubans” that Odio talks about. The main problem I see with this is that reportedly Sturgis did not speak Spanish. I don’t believe this for a second, but the thought is out there. It’s difficult for me to believe that Sturgis communicated with Fidel in the Sierra Maestra mountains using Italian in which he was fluent. The languages are simply not the same. They’re close, but they are not the same. It is also difficult for me to believe that Fidel would have given Sturgis a high-level position handling the casinos in Havana if he didn’t speak Spanish with some proficiency.

So, then who was Leopoldo – because it was Leopoldo who was doing all the talking or most of it with Ms. Odio?

If the entire story is a fabrication, well, then Leopoldo is a fabrication. If Leopoldo was a real war name, it seems odd that in all these years no one credible has fessed up to possessing the war name Leopoldo. Did Bolten fabricate this story out of thin air while choosing the name Leopoldo out of thin air? I don’t know where to go with this at this point in time.

Perhaps the meeting with Silvia Odio is real. Perhaps Bolten through Barker or Sturgis chose some of Hemming’s men, Loran “Lorenzo” Hall, Lawrence Howard and William Seymour to be the men who would meet with Silvia Odio. Both Barker and Sturgis knew these men. Perhaps the war names of Leon and Angelo were chosen first, then the name Lee was transposed to Leopoldo.

Another point to consider is that maybe Silvia Odio got the names confused. Perhaps Leopoldo was not the tall one. Perhaps she got Leopoldo and Leon mixed up. Maybe it wasn’t Leon Oswald but Leopoldo Oswald. How many times have you gotten names confused trying to recollect a meeting you had with people you had never met before? This leads me to suspect once again that perhaps this meeting was a fabrication. How can Silvia Odio recall with such stunning accuracy the names of these people? Why would this meeting be more important than any of the other hundreds of encounters she had experienced? She doesn’t know in late September 1963 that JFK will be killed and Oswald will be tagged as the assassin.

Okay, back to Interpen.

Whatever happened, assuming the meeting took place, it did not happen because Interpen men chose to do it. The decision to meet with Silvia Odio is a strategic move designed to link Lee Oswald the crazy man with JURE. The Interpen men would have no concept of doing this unless they were the men who planned and executed the plan to kill JFK. This meeting could only have come from the man or men who planed the mission.

The problem with proposing Interpen men as the planners of the JFK Assassination is that I don’t think they had the connections to get them into the Dal-Tex building. Nor do I think they possessed the skills to pull off this assassination without getting caught. They certainly didn’t have the clout to cover it up. If the Interpen men did it without the sanction. of the authorities, the authorities could simply catch them and put them in trial without any fear.

If the mission was sanctioned to Interpen, people could simply ask why Interpen would be used? What high level skills do they possess and who would approve it?

Would Bolten work directly with Interpen? This is doubtful as Interpen were more men of action than they were of thought. And this mission to kill JFK was going to take a lot of thought. It would be imperative to absolutely unequivocally kill the president so as to be able to cover it up. One could not take a chance on people who did not have top level skills.

From reading various CIA memos, I get the feeling that Interpen was thought to be comprised of men who talked more than they walked.

Okay, I don’t want to drift too far away from the main purpose of this article which is to show that Barker,Sturgis, Hunt and Bolten had worked together prior to Watergate.

So, let’s shift here and talk about Op 40. What was Op 40? Op 40 was the real power within the Cuban exile community. It was a group of committed Cuban expats and Americans who were dedicated to kill to achieve the overthrow of Castro. They were killers who had no qualms about killing. Whereas FRD and CRC were amalgam organizations designed to bring various anti-Castro Cubans together politically in order to produce some sense of cohesion, Op40 was a single group which was primarily committed to the group and its members. Usually, a group that puts the interests of the group above the interests of its members is the group that dominates in this world – especially when they back it up with killing.

Barker, Sturgis, Martinez, Gonzalez were members of Op 40. So was Felix Rodriguez. Felix Rodriguez was a friend of GHWB. Because I am older can remember a speech that GHWB gave in which he referenced his friend Felix Rodriguez. This is a significant connection given that GHWB was the head of CIA at one time.

Here is a picture of Bush and Rodriguez.

Op 40 is the real force in their anti-Castro community. I have a detailed map of connections here that are worth viewing. I wasn’t trying to place Op 40 at the center of the universe; it revealed itself by the number of connections I was able to make. Here is a mao as I have constructed it right now. You can zoom in your computer browser. I constructed this map because I get confused when I read about all these names in various articles. I need these names fixed so that I can see them all together. That’s the value of the map.

I have discovered in my life that a map of simple relationships often reveals the center of power, where things are coming from, who is the straw that stirs the drink.

Now, here a picture reputed to be Op 40 members on the lower panel. It has been bandied about the Internet for years. I don’t know if it is, but I believe it is – until someone can prove to me that it is not.

I have included two pictures of Seymour Bolten in the upper panel when he was in his 20s. Check out the man second from right. Is he Seymour Bolten? Check out the man on the far right? Is he Virgilio Gonzalez?

This is another picture of Virgilio Gonzalez.

What do you think?

The man on the lower left has been identified by some as Felix Rodriguez, Op 40 member, and anti-Castro revolutionary. Here are some other pictures of Felix Rodriguez.

What do you think? One similarity is the high forehead.

Another member of the Op 40 group is reported to be Porter Goss. He is the man reportedly sitting next to Felix Rodriguez. This is a harder match to tell with any certainty as it is a profile picture. But why should we be surprised if the man was indeed Porter Goss.

Porter Goss was a Bush puppet who later ascended to be the head of the CIA.

Who was Porter Goss?

He was a Yale graduate and a classmate of GHWB’s brother – GWB’s uncle. He was a member of Book and Snake which is a secret society at Yale. Why are these secret societies bad for you? Because they are comprised of malicious weaklings who don’t have the guts to make it on their own. They need to join a club in which the members of the club agree to promote each other when they have the power to do so. Another member of this club was Bob Woodward, Nixon hater extraordinaire. So, Porter Goss was a member of the Bush circle of friends – essentially dyed in the wool neocons. To no on’e surprise, GWB appointed Porter Goss the head of the CIA when he had the power to do so.

The point I’m trying to make here is that Op 40 was the power in the anti-Castro movement. These were the guys who had the full backing of the CIA. These are the guys who were willing to do the dirty tricks necessary. These are the guys who advanced up the ladder in life. These are the guys who were in the club. These are the guys who could be trusted.

There is much more that you can read about Op 40 than what I can print here. Here is a link.

Now, here is the key point. Seymour Bolten is in the Bush orbit. He is Poppy Bush’s friend. They grew up in the CIA together. They were both neo-cons who think the same way. Seymour Bolten was in the CIA in a senior position; he had access to everyone who was operating in the Cuban theater; he had to have this access in order to provide analysis for Helms and his superiors. As such he would’ve known Hunt, Sturgis, Barker and the rest.

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