A History of the London Stock Market 1945-2007

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While my Papa George was charming and witty, we were never close. In fact, I was scared of his filthy temper. There were times when, apoplectic with rage, red spider veins would flush his sun-tanned cheeks. I’d thought it must have been financial pressure that caused such anger. Now I know differently. He loved me, but he didn’t often show it. I asked how he felt about the recent court ruling against Mr. Morley, on behalf of the CIA re: turning over the Joannides files. He shook his head and looked disappointed before responding, "The judge was a Republican." Then, all the questions and the feelings came tumbling out. They told me they had always known about me and my brother. Daddy had gone as far as sharing details about our childhood – they knew about my love of art and music, interests they shared. Today, I’m not so very angry. Any pain that I feel has been seeping in through reflection, but only gradually. A few tears have been shed while writing this.

When the story of the Joannides file emerged, former HSCA chief counsel G. Robert Blakey was stunned by the audacity of Joannides's deception. Blakey, a former federal prosecutor, thought the Agency had cooperated with Congress's effort to look into JFK's murder. Twenty-three years later he learned that the CIA bureaucrat ostensibly assisting his staff was actually a material witness in the investigation. "The Agency set me up," reported the Washington Post. That the Agency would put a "material witness" in as a "filter" between the committee and its quests for documents was a flat out breach of the understanding the committee had with the Agency that it would co-operate with the investigation. He was captured in 1950 after the outbreak of the Korean war. Released two years later, he was given a hero’s welcome on his return to Britain. Blake claimed later that his conversion to communism had been a gradual process. He had read Russian and Marxist literature at Cambridge, where he had been sent by MI6 in 1947 to learn Russian. While a prisoner of the North Koreans, he read Das Kapital to Vyvyan Holt, the British consul-general at Seoul and a fellow captive who had lost his glasses.

Blakey: Carlos Marcello was being subject to the most vigorous investigation he had ever experienced in his life, designed to put him in jail. He was in fact summarily, without due process, deported to Guatemala. He took the deportation personally. He hated the Kennedys. He had the motive, the opportunity and the means in Lee Harvey Oswald to kill him. I think he did through Oswald. A: You don't have to separate the anti-Castro Cubans and organized crime. There are substantial overlaps. Santo Trafficante (who some claim had met Ruby) from Tampa was in Cuba, and many of his associates in illegal businesses are Cuban and were people who were thrown out of Cuba by Castro. They're both organized crime and anti-Castro Cubans. On the other hand, not every anti-Castro Cuban is involved in organized crime. Indeed most are not. They were legitimate ex-patriots. I asked about his infamous HSCA Nondisclosure Agreement (which has always interested me) - he didn't hesitate to respond that the agreement was absolutely not enforceable in perpetuity. He firmly stated that it had applied only to the life of the committee, and ended after it had disbanded. He added that he couldn't understand how such a simple issue had been twisted around by researchers, the press, etc. through the years.

Blakey is the Raymond P. White Distinguished Professor, along with numerous other awards related to his contributions to the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery, including the Adams School of Dentistry’s Richard F. Hunt Memorial Award for Excellence in Predoctoral Teaching. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Georgia showed me a photograph of the last birthday card he sent her in 2012. In his extravagant, calligraphic script he’d written: ‘Will try to call you via mobile but can’t guarantee. Lots of Love, Papa G and from Stitch, the artiste formerly known as Chantilly.’ Why did Blakey ignore the evidence turned up by his own investigators that the Cuban exile community was equally well positioned to kill a President as was the Mafia? Why did he ignore the fact that this Cuban exile community was the creature of the C.I.A.'s operations directorate? (8) G. Robert Blakey was interviewed by Frontline in 1993. But for Harry, his whole brand relevance is about proximity to the King. So he’s going for all the right and honourable reasons – but there is definitely a huge benefit to his brand.’ She stated as a simple matter of fact that many men of my father’s generation had extra-marital affairs and asked what was so wrong with it in any case.But then: Why did he try to crucify Garrison? Why did he not credit Garrison for the contribution Garrison has made to the development of this case, though working with a fraction of Blakey's resources and under the intense pressure of an active covert opposition?