Today, October 9, 2010, would have been Beatle John Lennon's 70th birthday. It is a time to celebrate the brilliant musician and author, but it is also a time to remember that there are many unresolved issues surrounding the assassination outside the Dakota Apartments in New York City. Those issues must be addressed if any measure of justice is to be found. The following is a news report from that fateful night - December 8, 1980:
The news report was incorrect that Mark David Chapman was a "local screwball." Chapman was not local at all, but rather flew all the way from Hawaii to be there (making the trip for the second time).
Lennon signing an autograph for Chapman (12/8/80).
There were also discrepancies with other reports how many times Lennon had been shot. This report states that Lennon may have been shot as many as seven times and was dead after the first bullet hit him. The official story is that John was hit by four bullets and that he lived long enough to tell the doorman he was shot and nod to the cop who asked him if he were John Lennon. Oftentimes, the earliest reports of an incident are more accurate. This is because information comes out before the journalists can be informed of the official party line. If Lennon had been struck by seven bullets, that may indicate that a second gunman was involved, which contradicts the official version that Chapman acted alone.
Prior to the murder, Chapman mailed a letter to an Italian address, giving the Dakota as a return address. In 1983, head of security, Mahoney, found the letter. There was a reference to Chapman's "mission" in NYC, which constitutes possible evidence of premeditated murder and conspiracy. The letter vanished and reappeared with the post-date changed to 1981. The "mission" statement was also missing. In addition, Lennon's diaries were stolen and returned later with extra entries and some entries altered and many files were found to have missing contents at Yoko's apartment after Lennon was killed. (Fred Seaman, a Lennon staffer and look-alike, was convicted of stealing personal effects from the Lennon estate).
Dr. Stephen Lynn, the physician who attended to Lennon after he had been shot, admitted evidence had been destroyed. He said everything, including Lennon's bloodstained clothes, was destroyed. He also said the medical records were given to an administrator and put in a vault.
It is most troubling that the hospital destroyed evidence in a murder investigation. The medical records, clothes, and other evidence should have been given to investigators, not put in a vault or destroyed. Destroying evidence in a murder investigation is rendering criminal assistance in the first degree in some states.
In a strange twist, Dr. David Halleran says HE was the one who treated Lennon - not Lynn. "[N]either Lynn nor Marks even touched Lennon's body."
In a strange twist, Dr. David Halleran says HE was the one who treated Lennon - not Lynn. "[N]either Lynn nor Marks even touched Lennon's body."
Halleran didn't recognize the victim and began trying to restore his vital signs like any other patient. "During this time one of the nurses said, that looks like John Lennon. I said 'No that is not John Lennon,'" Halleran told CNY Central in 2011.Geoff Herbert, Syracuse doctor: I treated John Lennon night he was shot, others stole credit, Nov. 9. 2015.
Because Chapman confessed, what evidence remained was skimmed over in court.
No convincing evidence was presented that Chapman had caused Lennon to turn. Also, this wasn't a trial since Chapman had already confessed. It was simply a sentencing hearing. There was no official testimony or any witnesses. The case was declared closed on the night of the murder, and the police report is lacking in any substantive detail.
[Source: Jerry Mazza, "On the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's assassination, imagine..." Online Journal, Dec 7, 2005]
Lennon's body was cremated the next day, despite Lennon's "horror of cremation" (according to biographer Albert Goldman). Obviously, this made it impossible to later exhume the body to search for evidence. There are some problems with the theories we have been told about how the shooting went down that an examination may have been able to resolve.
Imagine the theory we've been told: that Lennon had walked past Chapman, who was to the right and then rear of him in the dark entryway. If Chapman had called out, "Mr. Lennon," and John stopped and turned, it was possible though difficult for him to hit Lennon in the left shoulder, and then as Lennon turned to flee, to hit him in the upper left back. Yet Chapman told Judge Dennis Edwards at a sentencing hearing that he didn't say anything to Lennon, just that he fired.Imagine a second theory: Perdomo or another operative fired from the doorway leading to the service elevator, which was at the left of the walkway and in front of Lennon. There are two series of two shots. First, two shots hit the left shoulder. As Lennon runs towards the lobby stairway, two other shots hit his upper left back. Shooting from that doorway seems a more plausible way to make those hits. Since the autopsy was not made public, we don't know if three of the five shots exited, grazed or missed Lennon to hit the glass lobby door.
[Source: Jerry Mazza, "On the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's assassination, imagine..." Online Journal, Dec 7, 2005]
Chapman had an interesting background that suggests CIA ties. At 19 (1975), he signed onto the YMCA international camp counselor program and was sent to Beirut where he allegedly received instructions in lethal arts at the CIA training camp. He also worked in Laos at a camp with CIA connections.
Mark White in his political comic strip, Dead Silence in the Brain, reports that as a young man Mark Chapman began working at a Laotian refugee camp. The camp was run by World Vision, an evangelical charity which runs refugee camps worldwide. It has assisted in numerous CIA operations. Its camps along the Honduran border, for instance, were used to recruit the death squads of El Salvador . . . Researcher John Judge writes, "World Vision appears to be an elaborate cover for the recruitment, training and placement of assassins worldwide."
[Source: Jerry Mazza, "On the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's assassination, imagine..." Online Journal, Dec 7, 2005]
After he shot Lennon, Chapman sat and waited for the police, reading the book, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (which just happens to be about phonies). John Hinckley, Jr., Reagan's would-be assassin, was also carrying a copy of this book. Salinger, apparently, had extensive ties to the CIA. The doorman at the Dakota that night was a CIA trained assassin who had been involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.
According to Cuban Information Archives and Salvador Austucia, author of Rethinking John Lennon's Assassination, Perdomo was also known as "Joaquin Sanjenis," and "Sam Jenis." He was mostly known as an anti-Castro Cuban exile and a member of Brigade 2506 during the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961, a miserably failed CIA operation, which cost Company Head Allan Dulles his job, and maybe John F. Kennedy his life, also by a mythic lone gunman, who turned out to play patsy, too...
Imagine Perdomo had reason to insist Mark was the man. Perdomo, aka Sanjenis, had worked side by side, ah yes, with convicted and now deceased Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis for about a decade on the CIA payroll...
[T]he doorman on duty, one Jose Perdomo, supposedly screamed "Leave! Get out of here!" Then he asked Chapman, "Do you know what you've done?" "I just shot John Lennon," Chapman said matter-of-factly. Then we're told, Chapman threw down his gun, took off his coat, folded it at his feet, and calmly started reading a paperback, Catcher in the Rye. Perdomo kicked the gun away. One wonders why Perdomo told him to leave, after reminding him of his crime. Perhaps Perdomo was the shooter and planted the gun.
[Source: Jerry Mazza, "On the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's assassination, imagine..." Online Journal, Dec 7, 2005]
Fenton Bresler concludes in his book, The Murder of John Lennon, that the CIA killed Lennonusing Chapman as a mind-controlled assassin. According to Alex Constantine, Chapman testified "I can hear their thoughts, I can hear them talking, but not from the outside, from the inside." This sounds like mind-control technology.
Imagine author Salvador Astucia's somewhat offbeat scenario: "As Lennon passes Chapman, a member of the FBI's assassination squad somehow transmits an audible message to Chapman . . . which places him in a semi-hypnotic trance . . ." Perhaps Jose Perdomo simply whispered in his ear something that had been programmed into Chapman's psyche earlier: "Kill Lennon."
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So I don't think Chapman was picked from a hat from the general population. I think he had had intense behavioral conditioning for the Lennon assassination, though I don't think he was the triggerman. I believe he was too much of a risk as a Manchurian Candidate, even at close range. So Perdomo & Associates lent a helping hand.
[Source: Jerry Mazza, "On the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's assassination, imagine..." Online Journal, Dec 7, 2005]
Bresler believed Lennon was publicly executed because the new Reagan administration was worried about his becoming politically active and being able to unite the people to create positive change. Lennon "was more influential than any head of state in the world." RCA (headed by "General" David Sarnoff)
was EMI's silent partner, and also active in military and space electronics and satellite communications. It was subsequently acquired by General Electric... It was a classic example of what President Dwight Eisenhower would have called the "military industrial complex," producing even the rebellious Beatles for a buck, so long as the boys kept their place.
[Source: Jerry Mazza, "On the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's assassination, imagine..." Online Journal, Dec 7, 2005] EMI (Electrical and Musical Industries) was "also a military contractor to the British War Office. So a high-ranking American official could make a call to a high-ranking British official and complain about this Lennon fellow ramping up American youth against government policy." [Id.]
But apart from any possible future threat Lennon may or may not have posed to the Reagan regime, Lennon did reveal in a 1980 Playboy interview how the government used LSD to control people. From "Harrison Stabbing & Masonic Symbolism" by NewsHawk:
Lennon was murdered shortly after he gave an interview to Playboy magazine in which he blew the lid off the fact that the Beatles were part of massive experimentation in social control/engineering unleashed by Tavistock and intelligence agencies, as was the deliberate introduction of drugs like LSD into the burgeoning "counterculture" scene during the 1960s and 1970s
From the 1980 Playboy interview:
LENNON: ... We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget. Everything is the opposite of what it is, isn't it, Harry? So get out the bottle, boy... and relax. They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom. Sometimes it works in mysterious ways its wonders to perform. If you look in the Government reports on acid, the ones who jumped out the window or killed themselves because of it, I think even with Art Linkletter's daughter, it happened to her years later. So, let's face it, she wasn't really on acid when she jumped out the window...
Was the release of this information what prompted the assassination?
Another issue that the interview raises is that Dr. Lynn was Lennon's neighbor and saw him regularly but did not know who it was until he opened the wallet. The nurse at the hospital said it did not look anything like John Lennon, and even laughed at the suggestion. There was no suggestion that Lennon's face had been injured, so why was he so hard to recognize? In the article, I don't believe in Featles: CIAlebrity impersonator, "John Lennon", I suggested that Lennon had actually been replaced, and the person who was assassinated (or mock assassinated) was an impostor. Recently, a set of Lennon's fingerprints was seized by the FBI in New York (on October 6, 2010).
"Peter Siegel, co-founder of GOTTA HAVE IT!, the shop selling the fingerprint card, said he was bewildered by the FBI action and interest during the week also by Homeland Security." Siegel said, "This great icon has been deceased for 30 years... This is not a national threat." [Source: FBI seizes John Lennon’s fingerprints in N.Y.] However, if Lennon had been replaced, it would make sense that "they" would not want sets of fingerprints floating around that could prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that John, too, had been the victim of impostor-replacement.
There are some interesting clues pointing to Lennon's death that appear years before. These clues suggest that John's death had been planned ahead - or had already occurred.
The "Magical Mystery Tour" album was released on December 8, 1967. There is a sign in the movie of the same name that says "The best way to go is by M&DC." 13 years to the day after the release of this album, a man with the initials M.D.C. was presented as his assassin.
The sign above the M&DC reference reads: "Extra (or Exit?) Brighton" It just so happens that Brighton is the final resting place of Aleister Crowley (British Secret Service agent and Satanist).[Source: Allen J. Ottens, Rick Myer, Satanism: Rumor, Reality, and Controversy, at p. 20]An actor named Mark Lindsay Chapman was cast to play John Lennon in a 2007 movie called "Chapter 27."http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0152464/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488988/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0152464/resume
The location of the Lennon assassination was at the Dakota building. It became a national historic landmark on December 8, 1976. [source] Lennon (or his double) was killed exactly four years later.
The Dakota was where the movie, "Rosemary's Baby," was filmed in 1968. The movie was about Satanism and murder. In 1977, Chapman became a Satanist.
[The] Dakota Apartments had been portrayed by filmmaker Roman Polanski in the 1960s as a den of Satanic cult activity (in his film Rosemary’s Baby). Not long before Lennon’s murder, Chapman had approached occult filmmaker Kenneth Anger and offered him a gift of live bullets. Just days after Lennon was felled, Anger’s long-delayed final cut of Lucifer Rising made its New York debut, not far from the bloodstained grounds of the Dakota Apartments...
The Dakota apartment being linked to Satanism could be a clue that intelligence agencies were involved, since they use Satanism as a cover for their activities:
... One of the points that we've tried to make, throughout the course of our discussion of *The Ultimate Evil*, is that, again, the *Satanism* is one of the things that throws people off. The intelligence agencies have *long* used occult groups as a front for activity. For one thing, occult groups exist at the periphery of public scrutiny and therefore are ideal to use as intelligence fronts. In addition to that, because of the unusual activities of occult groups, any suspicious activity on the part of an intelligence agent *using* these groups could be laid simply to the bizarre nature of the group itself. [CN -- also, first amendment protections for "religious" freedom would help shield them from investigation.] Now specifically, vis a vis mind control, many, many of the cults on the scene today are, in fact, mind-control fronts for the U.S. Intelligence and Military communities.
[Source: SON OF UNCLE SAM: A Lecture by David Emory]
The mind-controlled patsy, the CIA doorman, and the cover-up seem to suggest the hit on Lennon was carried out as an intelligence operation.
Edit: Here is another possible motive for removing Lennon: His relationship with the Irish Republican Army. Apparently, "the IRA leadership regarded Lennon as a useful ally." Perhaps the English took exception. British security services spied on Lennon because of this. More info here: Lennon offered to sing for the IRA
Edit: Here is another possible motive for removing Lennon: His relationship with the Irish Republican Army. Apparently, "the IRA leadership regarded Lennon as a useful ally." Perhaps the English took exception. British security services spied on Lennon because of this. More info here: Lennon offered to sing for the IRA
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not to be insensitive, but this post is killer-diller
ReplyDeleteI just heard a rumor that Faul copulated with Yoko in 1967. If that's true then...woah! Talk about partners in crime!
ReplyDeleteCan you verify this?
Geez. Faul must've been REALLY drunk.
DeleteI always felt that Lennon was the victim of a mob hit. The ex-agency people involved in it had ties to the mob from when they were employed. I believe that after Epstein died (probably not a suicide) that the mob got a piece of the Beatles. Lennon broke the beatles up, and then he took those 5 years off. The truth of that is he took those years off to let his contract expire, and then signed with a new company. He released and album...and was dead. The mob never forgives.
ReplyDeleteThe photo of Lennon dead is something I had a hard time looking at for some time (I mean right until this moment). It now disturbs me in a new way because I don't think that is a photo of John. I know that your body looks different when you die but look at where his ear should be. What is wrong with that area? Those eyebrows are not Lennon's famously thick eyebrows and the sideburns don't match the sideburns from earlier on in the evening (look at the photo where he is signing the album for Chapman).
ReplyDeleteAnd I know I am going to sound like an idiot when I say this but are I feel like you are implying John isn't dead and/or that America killed him. I just want to be clear as to which one you're getting at =)
When someone is shot - and Lennon was short 4 times in the back, at relatively close range - there is a huge amount of damage. It's realy hard to see, as the quality of the photo is not optimal, but I have seen many deaths by gunshot. The 'rearranging' of various pieces of the body is normal, depending on how high he was shot, especially as hollowpoints were used.
DeleteYou honestly think thats a photo of John Lennon? First of all, I highly doubt there were any photos taken of his dead body. Yoko Ono did a very good job at keeping this private, not even John's friends or the other Beatles got to see him. And in less than 24, she had him cremated. The proportions on his face are wrong, too pointy of a nose, no wrinkles, no moles, and this photo looks too young. Gunshots to the back and LEFT shoulder would have no effect to the right side of his body. Also, treating someone with a GSW to the back/shoulder, you would have to remove the clothing. Any photos of John Lennon dead (which don't exist) would not include a shirt.
DeleteThank you for your comments, Girl. With respect to John, I am more about asking questions. However, I personally believe John was replaced at about the same time Paul was - somewhere in the August-December 1966 time frame. I believe the person who was assassinated (or mock-assassinated) on Dec. 8, 1980 was a John Lennon impostor.
ReplyDeleteSo do you think that John died in 1966?
ReplyDelete^ I think it's very possible
ReplyDeleteI've never heard this before - that the "real" Paul and John died in 1966 and since then we've only been seeing doubles? Other than photos is there documented evidence? Why did they die?
ReplyDeleteOther than photos is there documented evidence? > yes, voiceprints of Paul
ReplyDeleteWhy did they die? > my theory is the image and popularity of the Beatles were hijacked to serve a dark Agenda, such as promote drug usage. The Beatles were starting to speak out against the Vietnam War in 1966, so that probably wasn't the healthiest thing to do, either.
@Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes: John's ear and sideburns appear distorted in the picture because those areas are being partially obstructed by someone's right hand. It seems this photo was taken as somebody was cradling John's head. Very sad day for us all. I was only 10yrs when this happened, but remember it clearly.
ReplyDeleteI read that Yoko has John's bloodied clothes, and that they were not destroyed.
ReplyDeleteFirst I've heard of Fake John being killed--then that would make sense about Faul's nonchalant response to the press.
Sounds a lot like Elvis. You know he is dead to. but he is still seen all over the world. I dont think anyone has seen John since 12-80. But if someone does please get an autograph for me will ya.
ReplyDeleteIt's not likely we will ever be able to ascertain the truth around certain theories relating to celeb deaths; did Marilyn Monroe really kill herself? Was there a second gunman in Dallas Nov. 63? Was Jimi Hendrix overdosed unwillingly? Did the doorman at the Dakota play a part to some degree on that tragic December evening? We will likely never be able to confirm or disprove details of these and many more celebrity deaths. Unless we are privy to the official documentation or personally witnessed these deaths we won't truly know (even witnessing a public assassination doesn't always allow an absolutely accurate account of the facts anyway; witnesses of Kennedy's death still talk of a second gunman which we cannot confirm or disprove.) Where there's a possibility for doubt then an appropriate sense of skepticism can equally be afforded. I'm not privy to such documentation nor was I a first hand witness, the official version of events could be lies. We all know all governments have assumed a dark undertone when it comes to protecting their interests. Even if John is still alive now and living somewhere obscure he won't release an album or song (unless someone else performs it and it's credited to a fake identity) let alone reunite the Beatles. We just have to accept there will be no more brilliance by John as John; review my last parenthesis. Either way for all our intents and purposes John is dead. I'm not happy about it but it's better to assume he's dead than spending our lives thinking impossibly wishful thoughts. The only value in uncovering a conspiracy,apart from learning John is still with us, is revealing how underhanded and dark western governments really are. That would be no different to the evil totalitarian methods of Stalin or Mao. John was very political and could easily inconvenience governments with a lot of public support. I really doubt that with no real tangible evidence in our possession that any deception courtesy of our governments will ever become public knowledge. No one, or at least not enough people on the admission of government involvement in Johns callous murder would revolt to change our very corrupt democracies. To deny the fact there is governmental corruption taking place every day is to bury your head like a child crying, "Father Christmas is real."
ReplyDeleteInteresting article Tina. But if both, or even just one of Paul/John were replaced, how did they find people two replacements good enough to still write great songs, and release Sgt Pepper, one of their best?
ReplyDeleteRickyboy999 - I know this is going to sound crazy, but perhaps Sgt Pepper was written by musicians employed by Intel (CIA/MI5, etc). If you think about pre Sgt. Pepper music, many individuals or groups have a similar sound at that time - Like Peter (Asher) & Gordon, Chad & Jeremy, etc. Perhaps the reason is that the music was coming out of a central location and being ascribed to the individual members of these groups. The same with a lot of the Sgt Pepper era and beyond music like Pet Sounds from Beach Boys, etc.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Intel doesn't need individual artists....it needed/needs front men to make it look real. But then...."Nothing is real".....
Okay I haven't read so far and am trying to read the blog and other stuff but Tina has said that she believes all the Beatles were replaced by Sgt. Peppers. Then where did the real Ringo, George and John go? Which John was assassinated in 1980. Which George died? Did any of the pre 1966 Beatles have true music records afterwards? Which George was in The Traveling Wilburys? There is much I cannot connect the dots.
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