                               Chapter 8
                  1972 - Muskie, Wallace and McGovern

In 1972 the Power Control Group was faced with another set of  problems.
Again  the objective was to insure Nixon's election at all costs and  to
continue  the  cover-ups.  Nixon might have made it on his  own.   We'll
never know because the Group guaranteed his election by eliminating  two
strong  candidates and completely swamping another with tainted  leftist
images  and a psychiatric case for the vice presidential  nominee.   The
impression that Nixon had in early 1972 was that he stood a good  chance
of  losing.  He imagined enemies everywhere and a press he was sure  was
out to get him.

The  Power  Control Group realized this too.  They began  laying  out  a
strategy that would encourage the real nuts in the Nixon  administration
like  E. Howard Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy and Donald Segretti  to  eliminate
any  serious  opposition.  The dirty tricks  campaign  worked  perfectly
against  the  strongest early Democratic candidate, Edmund  Muskie.   He
withdrew  in  tears, later to discover he had been sabotaged  by  Nixon,
Liddy and company.

George  Wallace  was another matter.  At the time he was  shot,  he  was
drawing 18% of the vote according to the polls, and most of that was  in
Nixon territory.  The conservative states such as Indiana were going for
Wallace.   He was eating into Nixon's southern strength.  In  April  the
polls showed McGovern pulling a 41%, Nixon 41% and Wallace 18%.  It  was
going to be too close for comfort, and it might be thrown into the House
- in which case Nixon would surely lose.  There was the option available
of  eliminating  George McGovern, but then the Democrats might  come  up
with Hubert Humphrey or someone else even more dangerous than  McGovern.
Nixon's best chance was a head-on contest with McGovern.  Wallace had to
go.  Once the group made that decision, the Liddy team seemed to be  the
obvious  group to carry it out.  But how could it be done this time  and
still  fool the people?  Another patsy this time?  O.K., but  how  about
having  him actually kill the Governor?  The answer to that was an  even
deeper  programming  job  than  that done on  Sirhan.   This  time  they
selected a man with a lower I.Q. level who could be hypnotized to really
shoot  someone,  realize  it  later,  and not  know  that  he  had  been
programmed.  He would have to be a little wacky, unlike Oswald, Ruby  or
Ray.

Arthur Bremer was selected.  The first contacts were made by people  who
knew  both  Bremer and Segretti in Milwaukee.  They were  members  of  a
leftist  organization planted there as provocateurs by the  intelligence
forces  within  the Power Control Group.  One of them was  a  man  named
Dennis Cossini.

Bremer  was  programmed over a period of months.  He was  first  set  to
track  Nixon  and then Wallace.  When his hand held the gun  in  Laurel,
Maryland,  it  might  just  as well have been  in  the  hand  of  Donald
Segretti,  E.  Howard Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy, Richard Helms,  or  Richard
Nixon.

With  Wallace's  elimination  from the race  and  McGovern's  increasing
popularity  in the primaries, the only question remaining for the  Power
Control Group was whether McGovern had any real chance of winning.   The
polls all showed Wallace's vote going to Nixon and a resultant landslide
victory.  That, of course, is exactly what happened.  It was never close
enough  to worry the Group very much.  McGovern, on the other hand,  was
worried.   By  the time of the California primary he and his  staff  had
learned enough about the conspiracies in the assassinations of John  and
Robert  Kennedy  and Martin Luther King that they  asked  for  increased
Secret Service protection in Los Angeles.

If  the Power Control Group had decided to kill Mr. McGovern the  Secret
Service  would  not have been able to stop it.  However, they  did  not,
because  the  election was a sure thing.  They did try  one  more  dirty
trick.   They  revealed Thomas Eagleton's  psychiatric  problems,  which
reduced McGovern's odds considerably.

What  evidence is there that Bremer's attempt on Wallace was a  directed
attempt by a conspiratorial group?

Bremer  himself has told his brother that others were involved and  that
he  was paid by them.  Researcher William Turner has turned up  evidence
in  Milwaukee  and surrounding towns in Wisconsin that  Bremer  received
money  from a group associated with Dennis Cossini, Donald Segretti  and
J. Timothy Gratz.  Several other young "leftists" were seen with  Bremer
on  several  occasions in Milwaukee and on the ferry  crossing  at  Lake
Michigan.

The evidence shows that Bremer had a hidden source of income.  He  spent
several times more than he earned or saved in the year before he shot at
Wallace.   Bremer's  appearance  on TV, in court  and  before  witnesses
resembled those of a man under hypnosis.[1]

There  is some evidence that more than one gun may have been fired  with
the  second  gun  being located in the  direction  opposite  to  Bremer.
Eleven wounds in the four victims that day exceeds the number that could
have  been caused by the five bullets Bremer fired.  There is a  problem
in  identifying  all  of the bullets found as  having  been  fired  from
Bremer's  gun.   The  trajectories of the wounds seem  to  be  from  two
opposite  directions.   All  of  this--the  hypnotic-like  trance,   the
possibility  of two guns being fired from in front and from behind,  and
the immediate conclusion that Bremer acted alone--sounds very much  like
the arrangement made for the Robert Kennedy assassination.

Another  part  of the evidence sounds like the King case.  A  lone  blue
Cadillac  was  seen  speeding  away  from  the  scene  of  the  shooting
immediately afterward.  It was reported on the police band radio and the
police unsuccessfully chased it.  The car had two men in it.  The police
and the FBI immediately shut off all accounts of that incident.

E. Howard Hunt testified before the Ervin Committee that Charles  Colson
had  asked him to go to Bremer's apartment in Milwaukee as soon  as  the
news about Bremer was available at the White House.  Hunt never did  say
why he was supposed to go.  Colson then said that he didn't tell Hunt to
go,  but that Hunt told him he was going.  Colson's theory is that  Hunt
was  part of a CIA conspiracy to get rid of Nixon and to do other  dirty
tricks.

Could  Hunt  and  the  Power Control Group  have  had  in  mind  placing
something  in Bremer's apartment rather than taking something out?   The
"something" could have been Bremer's diary, which was later found in his
car  parked near the Laurel, Maryland parking lot.  Hunt did not  go  to
Milwaukee, because the FBI already had agents at the apartment.  Perhaps
Hunt  or someone else went instead to Maryland and planted the diary  in
Bremer's  car.   One  thing seems certain after a  careful  analysis  of
Bremer's diary in comparison to his grammar, spelling, etc., in his high
school performances in English.  Bremer didn't write the diary.  Someone
forged it, trying to make it sound like they thought Bremer would  sound
given his low I.Q.

One last item would clinch the conspiracy case if it were true.  A rumor
spread among researchers and the media that CBS-TV had discovered Bremer
and G. Gordon Liddy together on two separate occasions in TV footage  of
Wallace  rallies.   In  one TV sequence they were  said  to  be  walking
together  toward a camera in the background.  CBS completely closed  the
lid on the subject.

The  best  source  is obviously Bremer  himself.   However,  no  private
citizen can get anywhere near him.  Even if they could he might not talk
if  he  had  been programmed.  Unless an expert  deprogrammed  him,  his
secret  could be locked away in his brain, just like Sirhan's secret  is
locked within his mind.
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[1]  "Report of an Investigation" by William Turner for the Committee on
     Government Intelligence.

References:

     "Bremer  Wallace  and Hunt", The New York Review of Books  --  Gore
     Vidal -- December 13, 1973.

     "The  Wallace  Shooting"  -- Alan Stang --  "American  Opinion"  --
     October, 1972.

     "Why Was Wallace Shot?" -- R.F. Salant -- Self Published -- Monsey,
     N.Y.

     "Interview  With  Charles Colson" -- Dick Russell  --  "Argosy"  --
     March, 1976.

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