“Before he can kill you, he must kill your name.” ~ Scene from The Gladiator
by Catherine Austin Fitts
James Forrestal had a successful career on Wall Street at Dillon, Read & Co. Inc, rising from an entry level position as bond trader to run the firm in 1937. I described Forrestal in Dillon Read & the Aristocracy of Stock Profits:
“James Forrestal’s oil portrait always hung prominently in one of the private Dillon Read dining rooms for the eleven years that I worked at the firm. Forrestal, a highly regarded Dillon partner and President of the firm, had gone to Washington, D.C. in 1940 to lead the Navy during WWII and then played a critical role in creating the National Security Act of 1947. He then became Secretary of War (later termed Secretary of Defense) in September 1947 and served until March 28, 1949.”
David Martin has just published The Assassination of James Forrestal documenting his investigation into the assassination of Secretary Forrestal on May 22, 1949. Forrestal was killed shortly after his forced resignation in March, his “house arrest” at Bethesda Naval Hospital on the pretext that he was unstable, and immediately before the CIA Act was enacted in June 1949.
In combination, the National Security Act of 1947 and the CIA Act of 1949 established the legal framework for the US black budget. Combined with the seizures of assets from WW II to help create a hidden system of finance, the CIA and the US intelligence agencies became the most powerful bankers on the planet with the ability to field significant “secret money for secret armies.” This was combined with a strategic decision to open US consumer markets to narcotics trafficking to pool low cost capital to help build the Anglo-American empires multinational infrastructure. The various partnerships between mafias, organized crime networks and the British and US intelligence and enforcement networks this required have been described – including by Hollywood.
Assassination is a tool used to decide policy debates. Indeed, the power to kill with impunity is the greatest political power on the planet. By simply eliminating effective leadership with important networks and knowledge, it is possible to change the course of events. If you study the work and assassinations of Secretary Forrestal, Senator Joseph McCarthy, President John Kennedy and Senator Robert Kennedy, you realize what a different country the United States would be if they have managed to stay alive and in position.
Martin has done a remarkable job of sleuthing out the available facts of what happened. He was able after multiple FOIAs to obtain and publish the Navy’s investigation into Forrestal’s death. With much digging and hard work, he was able to sort through what evidence is available and the sources of the smear effort designed to persuade the general population that Forrestal had a nervous breakdown and had committed suicide. it is a case study on the conversion of garbage into “official history” which cascades through journalists and historians through the years.
For those interested in my series on Deep State Tactics, the smear on Forrestal was one of the worst in modern US history. It is worth studying to understand the “bribes and bullet” strategy that has built the organized crime juggernaut in America. Martin does an excellent job of helping you see many of the tactics used on Forrestal – providing a case study on how the “skriek-o-meter” gets away with murder.
Martin believes that it was the Zionist organized crime networks that engineered Forrestal’s murder due to his opposition to the creation of the state of Israel. Indeed, Forrestal was assassinated eleven days after Israel was admitted as a member of the UN by majority vote on May 11, 1949. This is certainly a possibility – they were and still are as dangerous and ruthless as Martin describes.
For those interested in how we ended up with the Neocons, 9-11, $6 trillion in Middle Eastern Wars and $21 Trillion missing from DOD and HUD, Forrestal’s warnings are prescient.
I continue to wonder about Forrestal’s opposition to a black budget. Martin points out the President Eisenhower’s grandson had reported that President Truman had tasked then General Eisenhower to “push Forrestal out [of office].” Given the powers that Eisenhower vested in the CIA, one wonders if a partnership between the Dulles brothers and the Rockefellers and the Zionists was involved. Something akin to “You get Israeli nationhood, we get the CIA and the black budget.”
How did things get so bad? When you assassinate the best and the brightest and use the shriek-o-meter to promote thugs, then thugs is what you get. If thugs have the ability to use “bribes and bullets” with impunity, then thugs run countries and international orders. Crime that pays is crime that stays.
As you watch President Trump get lobbied and bullied by the current leadership of Israel and their financial backers, you might find a history of the slander and assassination of James Forrestal instructive.
The Dillon partners were not fools. There was a reason that Forrestal’s portrait still graced the partners dining room nearly fifty years after he left the firm to enter public service.
Forrestal’s legacy endures because, in the end, truth matters.
Related Reading
Dave Martin’s Website: DC Dave
President Kennedy Visits Grave of James Forrestal
I read some of this book but he lost me with the unprovoked attack on the John Birch Society using a bunch of third hand hearsay. The only reason for it I could see is that they typically direct their attention at the communist/conspiracy whereas the writer wants to focus on “the Zionists.”
Had forgotten that. I tend to ignore those kind of rants and keep looking for the truffles. Lots of good truffles in this book. JBS has done a lot of good work, particularly with Ed Griffith.
Terrific book for advanced Deep State Studies. Now I have to read Joseph’s volume on McCarthy, who, although I have not thought of him previously, does rival Trump for unlimited targeting by The Deep State. Most Importantly, I now view the current Syria imbroglio differently once I realized where the loyalties of the Trump malefactors probably lie. And lastly, we can see that political assassination, whatever we might think of the respective parties’ differing (and common) ideologies is much more prominently a tool of the Democrats as opposed to the Republicans. There is no arguable, fine thread, but a whole warp and woof of leftism that traces from Democrats through unionism to Wobblies to commies, and all of this may be a disguise for the real culprits.
John:
I have a hard time laying the shriek-o-meter at one parties feet, albeit we clearly appreciate the role of Hollywood and their NY Media colleagues which tends left.
Can’t wait to hear your reaction to the McCarthy.
Oh my, Catherine, that is one wild book review. I almost missed it.
You might want to re-post if it didn’t get many page views.
Your focus and passion in this area make me suspect something much bigger is going on here.
For instance, my grandfather, James A. Rafferty (chief scientist at Union Carbide in the 1930s and ’40s), was intimately involved in the WWII (primary rubber supplier to the US Army), the Manhattan Project (he ran Oak Ridge and other critical plants), and all the intrigue of those times.
Believe it or not, he just visited me thru a medium and asked me to research and disclose the long buried facts of his involvement and what really happened during those days. Net/net, what he seemed to be telling me was that he was under a lifetime gag order that kept him from preventing or stopping hundreds of thousands of needless deaths inflicted via weapons enabled by his inventions.
Eventually, his sense of guilt eventually shut down his heart and he died.
Anyway, I am so convinced of the visit to me by his still-tormented spirit, that I want to try to fulfill his request.
Do you have any idea how I might begin that process?
Maybe Dave Martin, you, or someone else could guide me … ?
I am happy to do whatever might make sense, including financial support.
I just don’t know where to start, so I thought I would ask.
Thanks!
James:
I would start with a chronology of his life and involvement and then move out through the institutions and programs named and integrate the chain of command and funding – starting with whatever is available on line. First you have to identify the facts, events and primary movers and shakers and money flows.
Catherine
Got it, helpful, thanks Catherine.
Per your suggestion, I honed in on what to specifically look for. Sure enough, the archives exist and are open for onsite viewing.
Hopefully it’s a sign that angels will help our efforts to shine light on the Deep State’s dark history.
Next step: Deep dive into the archives.
This is a must read!