DPUK- What would Allen do?

30th annual conference

I am writing this from Staines on the edge of London. I have been the last three days in Warwickshire at the 30th anniversary of the British group Dealey Plaza UK that keeps alive the memory of President Kennedy and the Day he was murdered.

I presented my thoughts on the connection we might make between Allen Dulles’ support for the Plot to kill Hitler and his possible role in monitoring and/or managing the forces that brought Kennedy down.

The main advance beyond my previous post on this “What would Allen do” is the observation from Allen’s own writings that the locus of a plot in the Intelligence and specifically the Counterintelligence Community is perfect cover for that plot.

I had reached that conclusion independent of Dulles, so I was shocked to find this statement by him at the opening of Chapter 7 of his book “the German Underground”, published in 1947.

“ An intelligence service is the ideal vehicle for a conspiracy. Its members can travel about at home and abroad and no questions are asked. Every scrap of paper in the files, its membership, its expenditure of funds, are state secrets.” (p. 70)

At the conference I heard a wonderful talk by Paul Bleau on “templates” - patterns of activity in a series of actions of regime change and assassination, a far more sophisticated take on my first point of lessons, which was “if at first you don’t succeed, try try again”.

A link to his work is here. I think it is exciting.

Also here is a link to DPUK’s website.

http://dealeyplazauk.com

I was reinvigorated by the conference. Aside from the question of assassination there is always the question of resistance. As far as I am concerned these are times for resistance to the forces that would destroy our democracy. A theme I pursue more explicitly in my Letter from Budapest, but there is no ignoring the crossovers between the two themes.

These books are the basis of my analysis for “What would Allen do?”

Here is a photograph of the pleasant scene on the Thames at Staines

©️Robert Manz