If you like sausage …

The questions often presented as I prattle on about painfully obvious domestic crimes like 9/11 and the JFK assassination are … 1) How can so many people work together without being found out, and 2) How do they manage to keep secrets?

It doesn’t take many people, only key people, and even key people need not know the purpose of their activities. Lee Harvey Oswald said after his arrest something like “Now everyone will know me,” by which he meant that his cover was blown. He was working for the CIA and FBI at once, and had no clue that he was being set up to be a patsy. At every level of a crime like that or 9/11, people are carrying our their duties, oblivious to the bigger picture. Oswald was but one of many tools, one whose name we happen to know.

Once they find out, why don’t they speak up? For one, they are dealing with cold-blooded murderers, and would like to stay alive. And even beyond that, their jobs, careers and pensions are at stake. So why don’t they speak out after retirement? Again, pensions … but beyond that, what about death bed confessions?

There have been death bed confessions – E. Howard Hunt comes to mind. We all imagine ourselves as doing the right thing, but we are rarely tested. What if it is not just us? What about our loved ones? A person of integrity might bite the bullet, step forward, but if that person’s child or grandchild will suffer as a result, integrity forces silence.

Yagoda
Yagoda
Genrikh Yagoda was a Trotskyite mole within the Soviet Union prior to World War II, and succeeded to chairmanship of the OGPU (the equivalent of our FBI, or political police). He was charged with assassinating various men in positions of power under Stalin. He had to at once murder people, and at the same time stay under cover. He came up with an ingenious scheme – he would employ the aid of doctors to assist various patients along with their illnesses. Rather than overtly killing them, he would merely assure himself that whatever medicine might be needed to keep them alive would be used in such large doses as to kill them. It would be undetectable.

The problem was to find a doctor willing to commit murder. There were none, but his own physician, Dr. Leo Levin, was susceptible to flattery and gifts. Yagoda showered him with such, and Levin soon found that to all appearances he had accepted bribes and broken laws, and that his career was threatened. At trial he said

I do not have to convey the psychological reaction, how terrible it was for me to hear [that he would be ordered to commit murders]. And then the ceaseless mental anguish. … [Yagoda] further said: “You are aware who is talking to you, the head of what institution is talking to you!” … He reiterated that my refusal to carry this out would spell ruin for me and my family. I figured that I had no other way out, that I had to submit to him.

This all came out during the “Trial of the Twenty One,” known in our propaganda system as a “show trial.” An American reading this will have no problem believing it since the evil perpetrators were Soviets, members of the Communist Party, etc. If I said that Americans routinely do such deeds, then Americans would be skeptical.

That aside, the whole point of having power is to force other people to obey orders. Dr. Levin might have been a man of such courage that he would have refused to obey. He might have tried to emigrate, but Yagoda had his family under control as well. His goose was cooked, and he did as ordered. His first murder was Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, whose death propelled Yagoda to head the OGPU. Levin used albumen to stimulate the effect of medicines Menzhinsky was taking for asthma and angina. He died in short order.

Crimes go on every day all about us that are not investigated. Cover-ups are the norm. Anytime a prominent person dies in a small plane crash or is murdered by an assassin apparently devoid of motive, it is safe to say that a political assassination took place. When two brothers and a son of one prominent family all die in their prime, when another brother is almost killed in a plane crash and later is ruined by a near-fatal drowning in which a young girl also died, it is safe to say that even though Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda was killed by a firing squad, his brothers in arms lived on, and live among us.

Take the most ghoulish crime that you can imagine an official enemy committing – a Hussein or bin Laden or Qaddafi – and imagine instead an American doing it. Imagine Americans committing massacres, starving children to death, bombing civilians, sealing a building so that people cannot escape prior to collapsing it .. if you love your country, avoid delving into details.

9 thoughts on “If you like sausage …”

  1. Find it had to believe that Stalin or his predecessor Lenin would have to hide their assassinations.

    For example the were out in the open about killing Kulaks. Letter from Lenin to Penza and his commie buds.

    Comrades! The revolt by the five kulak volost’s must be suppressed
    without mercy. The interest of the entire revolution demands this,
    because we have now before us our final decisive battle “with the
    kulaks.” We need to set an example.

    1) You need to hang (hang without fail, so that the public
    sees) at least 100 notorious kulaks, the rich, and the
    bloodsuckers.
    2) Publish their names.
    3) Take away all of their grain.
    4) Execute the hostages – in accordance with yesterday’s
    telegram.

    This needs to be accomplished in such a way, that people for
    hundreds of miles around will see, tremble, know and scream out:
    let’s choke and strangle those blood-sucking kulaks.

    Telegraph us acknowledging receipt and execution of this.

    Yours, Lenin

    P.S. Use your toughest people for this.

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    1. Now where the hell did you get that? The Black Book? I have no doubt of its authenticity, but wonder if you are capable of putting those times in the larger historical framework? if so, please do so now.

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  2. And lest we forget, the CIA threatened to murder Robert Kennedy’s family ferchrissakes! These bastards were/are evil! Yet Robert ran anyway. The courage of the Kennedys astounds even today.

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    1. The natural tendency is to assume that since the people who killed the Kennedy’s were evil, that the Kennedy’s must be a force for good. Then we go looking for reasons, aka confirmation bias.

      What if we live in a world shaded gray? What if JFK was killed merely due to internecine warfare? What if his family, young attractive men and many offspring, were seen as a potential dynasty, and all politics aside, were killed merely to prevent a perpetual Camelot?

      I don’t know, of course, but I do not see in JFK anyone’s savior, just a man with some good impulses, but completely of the mindset of his era, a Cold Warrrior, anti-Castro zealot and welfare state advocate, just as Ike before him. I am not convinced that his death changed anything other than to warn Kennedy’s to back off from the presidency. When RFK did not get the memo, he was killled. Teddy understood. JFK Jr. apparently not.

      If we are forced to choose among aristocrats, at least the Kennedy’s had some brains on top of charm and good looks. I’m not convinced there’s anything more to admite about them until we get to RFK’s kids, who have apparently taken the message to heart, but who do try to do good work.

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    1. The usual suspects. Hopkins is doing well, highly featured on both “defense” and NASA lists, but I repeat myself. I wonder if they are being rewarded for shutting up after wandering into sponsorship of civilian death studies. They have been silent since 2006.

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