03-27-2019, 05:21 AM
I don't even know what counts as a breakthrough in this any more, because we have put this to bed.
But one of the lingering questions for me had to do with the Bond film, Diamonds are Forever, which was written by two dudes, Richard Maibaum and Tom Mankiewicz.
"[Maibaum] He did an early draft of Diamonds Are Forever (1971), then the producers wanted an American writer and hired Tom Mankiewicz to rework it. "
So it could have been one of the two that had connections, but all signs point to it being Mankiewicz. Well...
I just found out a little bit more. Tom Mankiewicz was the son of Joe Mankiewicz, who directed Cleopatra, famously. Tom was the uncle of... Frank Mankiewicz.
Frank.... This guy was working for RFK when he was assassinated, and famously announced his death to the world. And he also worked with... Thomas Braden. One of the founding members of the CIA!
"After the assassination in Los Angeles of his friend Robert F. Kennedy during the 1968 presidential campaign, Braden returned to Washington and became a popular newspaper columnist in partnership with Kennedy's press secretary, Frank Mankiewicz. He also became a prominent political commentator on radio and television. "
"Braden was reported to be an integral part in Operation Mockingbird, the CIA's effort in the 1950s to build anti-communist sentiment domestically and internationally"
Thomas Braden is also infamous for an interview he did with Larry MacDonald, not long before Larry's plane was shot down 'by the Commies'.
" the CIA made the leap toward recruiting disaffected anti-Soviet ex-communists, especially in the international labor unions. Thus, from 1951 to 1954, the CIA provided $1 million a year, through Braden, to Irving Brown, a moderate Labor leader, and eventually recruited as a CIA officer Jay Lovestone, a noted former communist ,[8] helping him financially to run his network with $1.6 million in 1954 "
Ex-communists! Ha! Hahahaha
"Braden was reported to be an integral part in Operation Mockingbird, the CIA's effort in the 1950s to build anti-communist sentiment domestically and internationally"
"Braden left the CIA in November 1954 and became owner of the Oceanside, California, newspaper The Blade-Tribune, which he bought with a loan from his friend Nelson Rockefeller."
There is no such thing as former CIA. It is like saying you are a former member of the Mafia.
But one of the lingering questions for me had to do with the Bond film, Diamonds are Forever, which was written by two dudes, Richard Maibaum and Tom Mankiewicz.
"[Maibaum] He did an early draft of Diamonds Are Forever (1971), then the producers wanted an American writer and hired Tom Mankiewicz to rework it. "
So it could have been one of the two that had connections, but all signs point to it being Mankiewicz. Well...
I just found out a little bit more. Tom Mankiewicz was the son of Joe Mankiewicz, who directed Cleopatra, famously. Tom was the uncle of... Frank Mankiewicz.
Frank.... This guy was working for RFK when he was assassinated, and famously announced his death to the world. And he also worked with... Thomas Braden. One of the founding members of the CIA!
"After the assassination in Los Angeles of his friend Robert F. Kennedy during the 1968 presidential campaign, Braden returned to Washington and became a popular newspaper columnist in partnership with Kennedy's press secretary, Frank Mankiewicz. He also became a prominent political commentator on radio and television. "
"Braden was reported to be an integral part in Operation Mockingbird, the CIA's effort in the 1950s to build anti-communist sentiment domestically and internationally"
Thomas Braden is also infamous for an interview he did with Larry MacDonald, not long before Larry's plane was shot down 'by the Commies'.
" the CIA made the leap toward recruiting disaffected anti-Soviet ex-communists, especially in the international labor unions. Thus, from 1951 to 1954, the CIA provided $1 million a year, through Braden, to Irving Brown, a moderate Labor leader, and eventually recruited as a CIA officer Jay Lovestone, a noted former communist ,[8] helping him financially to run his network with $1.6 million in 1954 "
Ex-communists! Ha! Hahahaha
"Braden was reported to be an integral part in Operation Mockingbird, the CIA's effort in the 1950s to build anti-communist sentiment domestically and internationally"
"Braden left the CIA in November 1954 and became owner of the Oceanside, California, newspaper The Blade-Tribune, which he bought with a loan from his friend Nelson Rockefeller."
There is no such thing as former CIA. It is like saying you are a former member of the Mafia.