#1250 – Edwin Black Article

Len Osanic reads the article from the Chicago Indepentent 1975 by Edwin Black

The Chicago Plot website

"Our Man" Edwin writes about is revealed "Abraham Bolden"

The Internet Archive Complete PDF

The introduction: Edwin Black is the target of intelligence assets

Powers that be did not want the Chicago Plot investigated

Article PDF page 1 - 24

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An explanation of the purpose of the article

Four men in Chicago to assassinate JFK as he approached the Army-Air Force game

The FBI warned the Secret Service of the plot and then backed away

The Chicago SS office had only eight men

A landlady informs of suspicious characters renting a room from her

Agent Stocks blows his cover and the suspects are brought in without evidence

Thomas Arthur Vallee, eerily similar to Oswald is identified as the proposed patsy

Personality traits that could make Vallee a perfect patsy

Vallee was arrested with a knife, 750 rounds of ammunition but no firearm

The method of assassination used in the Diem murders

Vallee's apartment was searched under duress and firearms and ammunition were found there

Two suspected conspirators were in custody but the other two were at large

Kennedy uses Vietnam events as an excuse to cancel his Chicago visit

20 days after the Chicago plot was thwarted, Kennedy is killed in Dallas

Part Two of the article documents the investigation

Black brings up the suspicious fact that 90 of the witnesses died shortly after the assassination

The cover-ups by the FBI and how they botched the investigation as a result

The anonymous source, SS Agent, Abraham Bolden gets a lie-detector test

Corruption hawk, Sherman Skolnick produces proof Vallee actually existed

The investigation of the arrest and weapons records...much was routinely destroyed

Agents Stocks and Motto plead "no memory" in the probing of the plot details

The mountain of documents Black waded through in his investigation

The original investigations were exhaustive

Records found on Vallee seemed incomplete

An unassuming document shows Oswald might have been in Chicago that weekend

A Secret Service publicity specialist dodges the issue on what the agents knew

"No comment" came at every question

Agent Linsky opens up... a little, his responses likely were truthful

Groth and Shurla covered up the Vallee arrest and were deceptive when asked about it

Coffey confirmed the details everyone else was scared to divulge

Vallee also confirms the details and was found to be truthful

Part Three - The cover-up

Nobody would admit the failure of the Secret Service in the assassination

Edwin Black shows how Oswald's murder saved much embarassment

50 Reasons for 50 Years - Episode 08 The Chicago Plot