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History Forum / General / General Topics / September 2004New Forrestal Document Exposes Cover-up
"However history may ultimately judge his oppostion to the establishment of Israel, by 1949 it was clear that Forrestal was, in a sense, one of the casualties of the diplomatic warfare that had led to the creation of the Jewish state." -- Arnold Rogow, "James Forrestal, A Study of Personality, Politics, and Power," 1963 James V. Forrestal was America's first Secretary of Defense. He was also the leading official in the Truman administration opposing the creation and U.S. recognition of the state of Israel. President Truman relieved Forrestal of his position in late March of 1949. Within a few days he was committed, apparently against his will, to Bethesda Naval Hospital suffering from "exhaustion." In spite of the invaluable service he had rendered to the country during World War II, first as Under Secretary of the Navy and then Secretary of the Navy, he had in 1948 and early 1949 been the subject of an unprecedented press villification campaign, led by powerful columnists Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell. At around 1:45 am, May 22, some seven weeks after his admission to the hospital, Forrestal plunged from a 16th floor window of the hospital to his death. A belt or cord, said to be from his dressing gown, was tied tightly around his neck. On May 23, a review board was appointed by Admiral Morton D. Willcutts, the head of the National Naval Medical Center to investigate the death. The board completed its work on May 31, but not until October 11, did it publish a brief, summary report of only a few lines. No explanation of the delay was given. The summary concluded that Forrestal had died from the fall, but it had nothing to say about what caused the fall, except to conclude that no one associated with the Navy was responsible. In short, it did not conclude that he had committed suicide, as initial reports stated and the public is still given to believe. No mention was made in the summary, or in those later October press reports, of the belt around Forrestal's neck. The Willcutts Report, itself, was kept secret, and, curiously, no hue and cry was raised over that fact. After two unsuccessful Freedom of Information Act tries with the National Naval Medical Center, I was finally able to get the report of the review board from the office of the Navy's Judge Advocate General, and my analysis is at http://www.dcdave.com/article4/040922.html . At the time of the death, all the press made much of a book containing a morbid poem from Sophocles, Chorus from Ajax, that Forrestal had supposedly been copying from shortly before his plunge from the window. The press reports all say that the book and a transcription "were found," but they never say by whom. Neither does the Willcutts Report. No witness is produced who claims to have discovered the book or the transcription. Rather, the first person to get a good look at Forrestal's vacated hospital room found broken glass on his bed, a likely sign of some sort of struggle. She also described bedclothes half turned back, but the official "crime scene" photographs taken many hours later, show a bed with a bare mattress, an obvious sign of a cover-up. One can also see that articles were moved around from one picture to the next: http://www.dcdave.com/article4/040916.html . Needless to say, no news report has ever mentioned the broken glass or the laundering of the room before photographs were taken. Pro-Israel writers like Rogow, Winchell biographer, Neal Gabler, Jack Anderson, Charles Higham, John Loftus, and Mark Aarons have continued the character assassination against Forrestal, falsely characterizing him as an an anti-Semitic nut who had made several previous suicide attempts. This claim of several previous suicide attempts, echoed at this Arlington Cemetery web site: http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jvforres.htm , is virtually proved to be false by the testimony of Forrestal's Bethesda Hospital doctors in the Willcutts Report. They agree that, from all indications, he had never before attempted suicide. The indications are very strong that the Roman Catholic Forrestal kept his no-suicide-attempt record intact on May 22, 1949, and became another casualty of the creation of the state of Israel in the same sense that Lord Moyne, Count Bernadotte, Yitzhak Rabin, Rachel Corrie, 34 crewmen on the USS Liberty, and Palestinian leaders on a regular basis have been casualties. Copies of the Willcutts Report should be available for perusal at the Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University, the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, and the Library of Congress. I have given the appropriate officials at each of these libraries compact discs of the report. I will also mail a copy of the CD, free of charge, to any library requesting it by e-mail to dcdave1@erols.com. The file, with all its exhibits, is too large to e-mail. -------- DC Dave Author, "Who Killed James Forrestal?" "America's Dreyfus Affair, The Case of the Death of Vincent Foster" "Upton Sinclair and Timothy McVeigh" "Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression" http://www.dcdave.com News group: alt.thebird > Pro-Israel writers like Rogow, Winchell biographer, Neal Gabler, Jack > Anderson, Charles Higham, John Loftus, and Mark Aarons have continued the > character assassination against Forrestal, falsely characterizing him as an > an anti-Semitic nut Yeah, hard to imagine that there could be antisemitic nuts. > > > Pro-Israel writers like Rogow, Winchell biographer, Neal Gabler, Jack [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Yeah, hard to imagine that there could be antisemitic nuts. The real nuts were the Mossad agents that threw him out the window. > > Yeah, hard to imagine that there could be antisemitic nuts. > > The real nuts were the Mossad agents that threw him out the window.+ Thank you for so dramatically proving my point. Don't you love the logic? People with tattoos all over their bodies exist. Therefore, Jeffrey E. Salzberg has tattoos all over his body. Back to the world of sense: Here are the words of the fervent Zionist James G. McDonald, America's first Ambassador to Israel. [Forrestal] was in no sense anti-Semitic or anti-Israel nor influenced by oil interests. He was convinced that partition [of Palestine] was not in the best interests of the U.S., and he certainly did not deserve the persistent and venomous attacks on him which helped break his mind and body. On the contrary, these attacks stand out as the ugliest examples of the willingness of politician and publicist to use the vilest means -- in the name of patriotism -- to destroy self-sacrificing and devoted public citizens.(quoted by Alfred M. Lilienthal in The Zionist Connection II: What Price Peace?, selection online at http://www.alfredlilienthal.com/zionchap12.htm) And here is what [Townsend] Hoopes and [Douglas] Brinkley have to say about Forrestal's presumed "anti-Jewish obsession": Forrestal was not in any sense motivated by anti-Semitism. He had worked in harmony with many Jewish bankers and friends, both on Wall Street and in the government. In 1951, two years after Forrestal's death, Herbert Elliston, the editor of the Washington Post, wrote that the Zionist charge of anti-Semitism was "absurd...no man had less race or class consciousness." Robert Lovett wrote, 'He was accused of being anti-Semitic. The charge is false. Here I can speak with sureness." Forrestal's Jewish assistant, Marx Leva, thought him "patriotic, sensitive, intelligent, and just," entirely sympathetic to the plight of the European Jews and their desire for a homeland, but unable to agree that that desire should be allowed to override every other national consideration. "He was not anti-Semitic," Leva said flatly. Anyone, however, who expressed doubts about the primacy of a Jewish homeland became a Zionist target. Middle East experts in the State Department, who were mainly pro-Arab, were denounced as "anti-Semites." The New York Times and its publisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, were openly attacked when the newspaper in 1943 criticized Zionism as a 'dangerously chauvinist movement" not representative of mainstream Jewish opinion. The trouble was, as Dean Acheson later observed, that the Zionist position was propelled by a passionate emotionalism which virtually precluded rational discussion. Acheson had come "to understand, but not to share, the mystical emotion of the Jews to return to Palestine and end the Diaspora," for he saw that a realization of the Zionist goal would "imperil not only American but all Western interests in the Near East." By pressing the U.S. government to support a state of Israel, American Zionists were, in his view, ignoring "the totality of American interests." (pp. 390-391) http://www.dcdave.com/article4/021110.html  Signature-------- DC Dave Author, "Who Killed James Forrestal?" "America's Dreyfus Affair, The Case of the Death of Vincent Foster" "Upton Sinclair and Timothy McVeigh" "Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression" http://www.dcdave.com News group: alt.thebird > > > > Yeah, hard to imagine that there could be antisemitic nuts. > > > > The real nuts were the Mossad agents that threw him out the window.+ > > Thank you for so dramatically proving my point. "However history may ultimately judge his oppostion to the establishment of Israel, by 1949 it was clear that Forrestal was, in a sense, one of the casualties of the diplomatic warfare that had led to the creation of the Jewish state." -- Arnold Rogow, "James Forrestal, A Study of Personality, Politics, and Power," 1963 James V. Forrestal was America's first Secretary of Defense. He was also the leading official in the Truman administration opposing the creation and U.S. recognition of the state of Israel. President Truman relieved Forrestal of his position in late March of 1949. Within a few days he was committed, apparently against his will, to Bethesda Naval Hospital suffering from "exhaustion." In spite of the invaluable service he had rendered to the country during World War II, first as Under Secretary of the Navy and then Secretary of the Navy, he had in 1948 and early 1949 been the subject of an unprecedented press villification campaign, led by powerful columnists Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell. At around 1:45 am, May 22, some seven weeks after his admission to the hospital, Forrestal plunged from a 16th floor window of the hospital to his death. A belt or cord, said to be from his dressing gown, was tied tightly around his neck. On May 23, a review board was appointed by Admiral Morton D. Willcutts, the head of the National Naval Medical Center to investigate the death. The board completed its work on May 31, but not until October 11, did it publish a brief, summary report of only a few lines. No explanation of the delay was given. The summary concluded that Forrestal had died from the fall, but it had nothing to say about what caused the fall, except to conclude that no one associated with the Navy was responsible. In short, it did not conclude that he had committed suicide, as initial reports stated and the public is still given to believe. No mention was made in the summary, or in those later October press reports, of the belt around Forrestal's neck. The Willcutts Report, itself, was kept secret, and, curiously, no hue and cry was raised over that fact. After two unsuccessful Freedom of Information Act tries with the National Naval Medical Center, I was finally able to get the report of the review board from the office of the Navy's Judge Advocate General, and my analysis is at http://www.dcdave.com/article4/040922.html . At the time of the death, all the press made much of a book containing a morbid poem from Sophocles, Chorus from Ajax, that Forrestal had supposedly been copying from shortly before his plunge from the window. The press reports all say that the book and a transcription "were found," but they never say by whom. Neither does the Willcutts Report. No witness is produced who claims to have discovered the book or the transcription. Rather, the first person to get a good look at Forrestal's vacated hospital room found broken glass on his bed, a likely sign of some sort of struggle. She also described bedclothes half turned back, but the official "crime scene" photographs taken many hours later, show a bed with a bare mattress, an obvious sign of a cover-up. One can also see that articles were moved around from one picture to the next: http://www.dcdave.com/article4/040916.html . Needless to say, no news report has ever mentioned the broken glass or the laundering of the room before photographs were taken. Pro-Israel writers like Rogow, Winchell biographer, Neal Gabler, Jack Anderson, Charles Higham, John Loftus, and Mark Aarons have continued the character assassination against Forrestal, falsely characterizing him as an an anti-Semitic nut who had made several previous suicide attempts. This claim of several previous suicide attempts, echoed at this Arlington Cemetery web site: http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jvforres.htm , is virtually proved to be false by the testimony of Forrestal's Bethesda Hospital doctors in the Willcutts Report. They agree that, from all indications, he had never before attempted suicide. The indications are very strong that the Roman Catholic Forrestal kept his no-suicide-attempt record intact on May 22, 1949, and became another casualty of the creation of the state of Israel in the same sense that Lord Moyne, Count Bernadotte, Yitzhak Rabin, Rachel Corrie, 34 crewmen on the USS Liberty, and Palestinian leaders on a regular basis have been casualties. Copies of the Willcutts Report should be available for perusal at the Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University, the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, and the Library of Congress. I have given the appropriate officials at each of these libraries compact discs of the report. I will also mail a copy of the CD, free of charge, to any library requesting it by e-mail to dcdave1@erols.com. The file, with all its exhibits, is too large to e-mail. DC Dave Author, "Who Killed James Forrestal?" "America's Dreyfus Affair, The Case of the Death of Vincent Foster" "Upton Sinclair and Timothy McVeigh" "Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression" http://www.dcdave.com News group: alt.thebird > Don't you love the logic? People with tattoos all over their bodies exist. > Therefore, Jeffrey E. Salzberg has tattoos all over his body. [quoted text clipped - 139 lines] > http://www.dcdave.com > News group: alt.thebird This is a bobba mice worthy of the Liberty Lobby or Ku Klux Klan. Forrestal was obsessed with UFO's and Extraterrestrials, and was absolutely delusional. He reportedly believed the country would be invaded by space aliens. He was more than a little meshuga. > > Don't you love the logic? People with tattoos all over their bodies exist. > > Therefore, Jeffrey E. Salzberg has tattoos all over his body. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > > > [Forrestal] was in no sense anti-Semitic He probably wasn't -- and he'd be appalled at the haters who are invoking his name today. *That*, my friend, is "sense". > > > Don't you love the logic? People with tattoos all over their bodies exist. > > > Therefore, Jeffrey E. Salzberg has tattoos all over his body. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > He probably wasn't -- and he'd be appalled at the haters who are > invoking his name today. And who are they? They have escaped my attention. -------- DC Dave Author, "Who Killed James Forrestal?" "America's Dreyfus Affair, The Case of the Death of Vincent Foster" "Upton Sinclair and Timothy McVeigh" "Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression" http://www.dcdave.com News group: alt.thebird New Forrestal Document Exposes Cover-up "However history may ultimately judge his oppostion to the establishment of Israel, by 1949 it was clear that Forrestal was, in a sense, one of the casualties of the diplomatic warfare that had led to the creation of the Jewish state." -- Arnold Rogow, "James Forrestal, A Study of Personality, Politics, and Power," 1963 James V. Forrestal was America's first Secretary of Defense. He was also the leading official in the Truman administration opposing the creation and U.S. recognition of the state of Israel. President Truman relieved Forrestal of his position in late March of 1949. Within a few days he was committed, apparently against his will, to Bethesda Naval Hospital suffering from "exhaustion." In spite of the invaluable service he had rendered to the country during World War II, first as Under Secretary of the Navy and then Secretary of the Navy, he had in 1948 and early 1949 been the subject of an unprecedented press villification campaign, led by powerful columnists Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell. At around 1:45 am, May 22, some seven weeks after his admission to the hospital, Forrestal plunged from a 16th floor window of the hospital to his death. A belt or cord, said to be from his dressing gown, was tied tightly around his neck. On May 23, a review board was appointed by Admiral Morton D. Willcutts, the head of the National Naval Medical Center to investigate the death. The board completed its work on May 31, but not until October 11, did it publish a brief, summary report of only a few lines. No explanation of the delay was given. The summary concluded that Forrestal had died from the fall, but it had nothing to say about what caused the fall, except to conclude that no one associated with the Navy was responsible. In short, it did not conclude that he had committed suicide, as initial reports stated and the public is still given to believe. No mention was made in the summary, or in those later October press reports, of the belt around Forrestal's neck. The Willcutts Report, itself, was kept secret, and, curiously, no hue and cry was raised over that fact. After two unsuccessful Freedom of Information Act tries with the National Naval Medical Center, I was finally able to get the report of the review board from the office of the Navy's Judge Advocate General, and my analysis is at http://www.dcdave.com/article4/040922.html . At the time of the death, all the press made much of a book containing a morbid poem from Sophocles, Chorus from Ajax, that Forrestal had supposedly been copying from shortly before his plunge from the window. The press reports all say that the book and a transcription "were found," but they never say by whom. Neither does the Willcutts Report. No witness is produced who claims to have discovered the book or the transcription. Rather, the first person to get a good look at Forrestal's vacated hospital room found broken glass on his bed, a likely sign of some sort of struggle. She also described bedclothes half turned back, but the official "crime scene" photographs taken many hours later, show a bed with a bare mattress, an obvious sign of a cover-up. One can also see that articles were moved around from one picture to the next: http://www.dcdave.com/article4/040916.html . Needless to say, no news report has ever mentioned the broken glass or the laundering of the room before photographs were taken. Pro-Israel writers like Rogow, Winchell biographer, Neal Gabler, Jack Anderson, Charles Higham, John Loftus, and Mark Aarons have continued the character assassination against Forrestal, falsely characterizing him as an an anti-Semitic nut who had made several previous suicide attempts. This claim of several previous suicide attempts, echoed at this Arlington Cemetery web site: http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jvforres.htm , is virtually proved to be false by the testimony of Forrestal's Bethesda Hospital doctors in the Willcutts Report. They agree that, from all indications, he had never before attempted suicide. The indications are very strong that the Roman Catholic Forrestal kept his no-suicide-attempt record intact on May 22, 1949, and became another casualty of the creation of the state of Israel in the same sense that Lord Moyne, Count Bernadotte, Yitzhak Rabin, Rachel Corrie, 34 crewmen on the USS Liberty, and Palestinian leaders on a regular basis have been casualties. Copies of the Willcutts Report should be available for perusal at the Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University, the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, and the Library of Congress. I have given the appropriate officials at each of these libraries compact discs of the report. I will also mail a copy of the CD, free of charge, to any library requesting it by e-mail to dcdave1@erols.com. The file, with all its exhibits, is too large to e-mail. -------- DC Dave Author, "Who Killed James Forrestal?" "America's Dreyfus Affair, The Case of the Death of Vincent Foster" "Upton Sinclair and Timothy McVeigh" "Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression" http://www.dcdave.com News group: alt.thebird |
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