                               Chapter 2
                        The Power Control Group

Just  who and what is the Power Control Group?  Some have said it's  the
military  industrial  complex.   Some prefer to put  the  blame  on  the
Rockefellers  and the Council on Foreign Relation.  Others  have  talked
about  control  shifting from the "Yankees" to the  "Cowboys"  and  back
again.   The  term  "The Cabal," first used in an obscure  paper  by  an
unknown author in 1968,[1] described a high level conspiracy group  that
planned, financed and carried out the assassination of John F.  Kennedy.
The word Cabal has been used since then by some authors and  researchers
and applied to all of the major domestic assassinations.

The  idea of a Cabal raises more questions than it answers.  Who  is  in
the Cabal?  Was the same Cabal behind the planning and financing of  all
five (Chappaquiddick being the fifth) major eliminations?  Or are  there
several  interlocking  Cabals?  What about the  Warren  and  Rockefeller
Commissions?   Were  they part of the Cabal?  Which Cabal  controls  and
infiltrated the media and organized the disinformation that poured forth
in  1975  and  1976? Was Ford a Cabal member?   Was  Nixon?   How  about
Johnson  and Kissinger?  Has one Cabal commanded the executions  of  the
100 witnesses and lower level participants?

The  mistake made by researchers in postulating higher level  groups  is
that  they simplify a very complex situation.  To draw a  distinct  line
between  those involved in an overt conspiracy to assassinate  a  leader
and those involved afterward in covering up the first group's actions is
a  mistake.   The  cover-ups are far more important  than  the  original
assassinations.  Each assassination or attempted assassination, or other
form  of elimination of a leader, is only part of a greater whole.   The
16 accomplishments of the power control group listed in Chapter 1,  plus
those  now  taking place and those scheduled for the future,  should  be
considered  as  a continuum.  The control group membership  may  contain
individuals in various categories, some of whom planned  assassinations,
some  of  whom knew about the assassinations, and some of whom  did  not
know about assassinations in advance.  Some may have been on the  firing
line  but have had nothing to do with the cover-ups.  Some of  them  are
victims  of later eliminations.  Somewhere in the power control  group's
hierarchy  is a sub-group or perhaps several sub-groups that  have  been
responsible for the attempted assassinations of presidential candidates,
earlier assassins, witnesses, and earlier middle-to-higher level members
in  the  power control group.  These sub-groups might be thought  of  as
intelligence-style task forces or mini-Cabals.  There is little question
that  many  of the individuals in these task forces are  from  organized
crime  and  from  the intelligence community, or both.   They  have  had
access to intelligence techniques and weapons that have frequently  been
used in the the elimination process.

A second mistake made by some researchers is to assume that the  Cabal's
shape  remains  static  through time.  Evidence  shows  that  the  Power
Control Group has been a living organism that both shrinks and grows  as
a function of time.  The shrinkages take place through eliminations  and
a  few natural deaths.  The growth takes place for several reasons.   It
is  necessary  to  use new techniques and new  people  for  the  group's
activities as time passes in order to continue effective control of  the
media  and  to  continue to fool the people  and  Congress.   It's  also
necessary  to  bring new high level people into the group from  time  to
time.  Candidates for president acceptable to the group must be sworn in
and  must  agree to continue the cover-ups.  New media  lackeys  or  new
special  committees or commissions are also needed.  Once in a while  an
individual  blackmails  his way in.  Some come in on a de  facto  basis.
(Protectors of the Kennedys and their children fall into this category.)

The  very  nature  of the cover-up procedure has made  it  necessary  to
expose  at  least  some  of  the  truth  to  vice  presidents  and  vice
presidential  candidates, in addition to presidents Johnson, Nixon,  and
Ford.   Each vice president elected or appointed since 1963 has  had  to
know  the  truth about the cover-ups in the event  he  became  president
(Humphrey   under  Johnson,  Agnew  under  Nixon,  and  then  Ford   and
Rockefeller).   Ford  was the most important of these since  he  had  to
agree to pardon Nixon and to protect the tapes.

The heads of the FBI and CIA, selected trusted second-level men, and the
deputy  director of plans (DDP) in the CIA have all had to know some  of
the  truth.   The  members  of the 40 group  and  their  successors  who
presumably  know all intelligence secrets of the country are, no  doubt,
brought into this "inner circle" of knowledgeable people.

The Warren Commissioners were split.  Warren, Dulles McCloy and Ford all
knew  the  truth;  Cooper, Boggs and Russell did not.   The  Rockefeller
Commission  was  also split.  Rockefeller certainly knows  and  so  does
Ford's  man on that Commission, David Belin.  Kissinger must have  known
the  truth;   so must have the officers in the  Department  of  Defense.
Then  there  are the Secret Team members, planted in the  various  media
organizations,  who know the truth.  A later chapter will  describe  who
they are and how they lead the media cover-up and disinformation mill.

This  living  organism  view  of the Power Control  Group  can  best  be
constructed  and  proven by starting with the cover-up efforts  and  the
control  of  the  media, as opposed to  examining  the  conspiracies  to
assassinate each leader.  It is much easier to show how Gerald Ford, for
example, led the cover-up in the JFK conspiracy than it is to  determine
who the members of the Power Control Group were who planned and financed
the assassination.

It  is difficult to show evidence of higher level participation  in  the
assassinations  of  Robert  Kennedy,  Dr.  King  and  in  the  attempted
assassination of George Wallace.  It is not difficult to prove that many
high level individuals conspired to cover-up the conspiracies in each of
the three cases.  It is not difficult to prove that they helped frame at
least one of the patsies (James Earl Ray).

Much of the content of this book will show evidence of the cover-ups and
discuss  the actions that are still taking place that protect the  Power
Control  Group.   Only summary information is included on  the  original
conspiracies, except where there is a lack of published data.
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[1]  "Nomenclature  of an Assassination Cabal", Torbett, 1968  (Copeland
     Document)

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