#1261 – Loren Singer
- Author
- Len Osanic
- Published
- Thu 24 Jul 2025
- Episode Link
- https://podcast.blackopradio.com/1261-loren-singer/
- Imnterview from BOR Show #305, original airdate: January 1, 2007
- Loren Singer (1923-2009) wrote the book The Parallax View (1970)
- Loren worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS ) during WW II
- He first had to pass a series of psychological tests
- He read studies of Rorschach tests given to top Nazis at Nuremberg
- Loren wrote for television and radio, this was his first book
- The amount of influence totalitarian governments had on us
- A relationship with German Intelligence officer Reinhard Gehlen
- Loren didn’t like the film, the screenwriters couldn’t find the thread
- The terrorism threat is sort of gauzy, Where? How?
- Unite in order to survive, that’s what people will be told
- Chapters start with quotes from a fictional handbook
- The book is not a solution to the Kennedy assassinations
- A list of JFK related deaths, originally Loren scoffed
- The military men never became OSS assassins
- General William Donovan, committed to the survival of Britain
- Psychologists, psychiatrists, geographers, foreign language experts, engineers, weapons instructors
- Does a government have the right and or the duty to eliminate numbers of it’s citizens to ensure it’s survival?
- Skating around the edge right now with Guantanamo
- Teams ready to do the bidding of corporate or government interests
- The recruitment, the film’s powerful six minute segment
- An OSS competition, three days of psychological testing
- Nobody ever passed the final exam, never any finite answer
- The people running Parallax were certain to have backups
- Loren did not want to do the screenplay
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film) was much better written
- Parallax opens with it’s own “Zapruder” film
- Six Seconds In Dallas (Thompson 1967), sued by Time, Inc.
