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                               Chapter 7
         The Control of the Kennedys - Threats & Chappaquiddick

Through  the years the most common question of all has been:  "If  there
was  a  conspiracy in the JFK assassination, why didn't  Robert  Kennedy
find  out about it and take some action?  And if there was a  conspiracy
in the RFK assassination why haven't Ted Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy  done
something  about  it?"  No one except the Kennedys know the  answers  to
these  questions for sure.  However, there are plenty of clues and  some
other Power Control Group actions to provide the answers to us.

First  of  all,  thanks to Jackie Kennedy  Onassis'  butler  in  Athens,
Greece,  Christain Cafarakis, we know why Jackie did nothing  after  her
husband's death.  In a book published in 1972, Cafarakis tells about  an
investigation  Jackie had conducted by a famous New York City  detective
agency  into  the  assassination of JFK in 1964  and  1965.[1]   It  was
financed by Aristotle Onassis and resulted in a report in the spring  of
1965  telling who the four gunmen were and who was behind them.   Jackie
planned  to give the report to LBJ but was stopped by a threat from  the
Power Control Group to kill her and her children.  Ted, Bobby and  other
family members knew about the report and the threat.

The  second clue is Chappaquiddick.  A careful examination of  the  real
evidence in this event shows that Ted Kennedy was framed in the  killing
of  Mary  Joe  Kopechne  and then his  life  and  his  children's  lives
threatened if he ever told the truth about what happened.  The facts  in
the  case and the conclusions that can be drawn from them are  contained
in a book by Boston researcher Robert Cutler.[2]

The  third  clue  is  Ted's withdrawal from  the  presidential  race  in
November 1975.  It is a fact that all of his and Robert's children  were
being protected by the Secret Service for five days in November 1975.  A
threat  had been made against the children's lives unless he  officially
announced his withdrawal.  He made the announcement and has stuck to  it
ever  since.  The Secret Service protection ended the day after he  made
the announcement.

It  does  not seem likely that Senator Kennedy would withdraw  from  the
race because of a threat from a lone nut or from some obscure group.  He
remembers the 1965 threat and Chappaquiddick very well.  He knows  about
the  Power  Control Group and he knows their  enormous  capability.   He
knows what they did to his brothers.  He has no choice but to hope  that
somehow, sometime, the Group will be exposed.  But he dares not let them
believe  he  would ever have anything to do with it.  Publicly  he  will
always have to support the Warren Commission and continue to state  that
he  will  not  run for president.  Privately he is  forced  to  ask  his
closest  friends  and  his  relatives  not  to  get  involved  with  new
investigations, and to help protect his children.  Some of them know the
truth.   Others do not, and are puzzled by his behavior.  They go  along
with it under the assumption that he has good and sufficient reasons not
to  open  the  can  of worms represented  by  the  conspiracies  in  his
brother's deaths.

The  Power Control Group faced up to the Ted Kennedy and Kennedy  family
problem very early.  They used the threat against the Kennedy children's
lives  very effectively between 1963 and 1968 to silence Bobby  and  the
rest of the family and friends who knew the truth.  It was necessary  to
assassinate  Bobby in 1968 because with the power of the  presidency  he
could  have prevented the Group from harming the children.   When  Teddy
began  making moves to run for president in 1969 for the 1972  election,
the Group decided to put some real action behind their threats.  Killing
Teddy  in  1969 would have been too much.  They selected a  new  way  of
eliminating  him  as a candidate.  They framed him with the death  of  a
young girl, and threw sexual overtones in for good measure.

Here  is what happened according to Cutler's analysis of  the  evidence.
The  Group  hired  several  men  and  at  least  one  woman  to  be   at
Chappaquiddick  during  the weekend of the yacht race  and  the  planned
party on the island.  They ambushed Ted and Mary Jo after they left  the
cottage and knocked Ted out with blows to his head and body.  They  took
the  unconscious  or  semi-conscious Kennedy to  Martha's  Vineyard  and
deposited  him  in his hotel room.  Another group took Mary  Jo  to  the
bridge in Ted's car, force fed her with a knock out potion of  alcoholic
beverage, placed her in the back seat, and caused the car to  accelerate
off  the side of the bridge into the water.  They broke the  windows  on
one side of the car to insure the entry of water;  then they watched the
car until they were sure Mary Jo would not escape.

Mary Jo actually regained consciousness and pushed her way to the top of
the car (which was actually the bottom of the car--it had landed on  its
roof)  and  died from asphyxiation.  The group with  Teddy  revived  him
early  in the morning and let him know he had a problem.  Possibly  they
told  him that Mary Jo had been kidnapped.  They told him  his  children
would  be killed if he told anyone what had happened and that  he  would
hear  from them.  On Chappaquiddick, the other group made  contact  with
Markham  and Gargan, Ted's cousin and lawyer.  They told both  men  that
Mary  Jo was at the bottom of the river and that Ted would have to  make
up  a story about it, not revealing the existence of the group.  One  of
the  men  resembled  Ted and his voice  sounded  something  like  Ted's.
Markham and Gargan were instructed to go the the Vineyard on the morning
ferry,  tell Ted where Mary Jo was, and come back to the island to  wait
for  a phone call at a pay station near the ferry on the  Chappaquiddick
side.

The two men did as they were told and Ted found out what had happened to
Mary  Jo  that  morning.  The three men returned to the  pay  phone  and
received their instructions to concoct a story about the "accident"  and
to  report  it  to the police.  The threat against  Ted's  children  was
repeated at that time.

Ted,  Markham and Gargan went right away to police chief Arena's  office
on the Vineyard where Ted reported the so-called "accident."  Almost  at
the  same  time scuba diver John Farror was pulling Mary Jo out  of  the
water,  since  two boys who had gone fishing earlier  that  morning  had
spotted the car and reported it.

Ted  called together a small coterie of friends and  advisors  including
family  lawyer  Burke  Marshall, Robert  MacNamara,  Ted  Sorenson,  and
others.   They  met  on  Squaw  Island  near  the  Kennedy  compound  at
Hyannisport  for  three  days.   At  the  end  of  that  time  they  had
manufactured  the story which Ted told on TV, and later at the  inquest.
Bob  Cutler  calls  the  story, "the shroud."   Even  the  most  cursory
examination  of the story shows it was full of holes and  an  impossible
explanation  of what happened.  Ted's claim that he made the wrong  turn
down the dirt road toward the bridge by mistake is an obvious lie.   His
claim  that  he  swam  the channel back  to  Martha's  Vineyard  is  not
believable.   His description of how he got out of the car  under  water
and then dove down to try to rescue Mary Jo is impossible.  Markham  and
Gargan's   claims  that  they  kept  diving  after  Mary  Jo  are   also
unbelievable.

The evidence for the Cutler scenario is substantial.  It begins with the
marks on the bridge and the position of the car in the water.  The marks
show that the car was standing still on the bridge and then  accelerated
off  the edge, moving at a much higher speed than Kennedy claimed.   The
distance the car travelled in the air also confirms this.  The damage to
the  car on two sides and on top plus the damage to the  windshield  and
the  rear view mirror stanchion[3] prove that some of the damage had  to
have been inflicted before the car left the bridge.

The blood on the back and on the sleeves of Mary Jo's blouse proves that
a wound was inflicted before she left the bridge.[4]  The alcohol in her
bloodstream  proves she was drugged, since all witnesses  testified  she
never  drank and did not drink that night. The fact that she was in  the
back  seat when her body was recovered indicates that is where  she  was
when  the  car  hit the water.  There was no way she  could  have  dived
downward  against  the inrushing water and moved from the front  to  the
back seat underneath the upside-down seat back.

The wounds on the back of Ted Kennedy's skull, those just above his  ear
and the large bump on the top indicate he was knocked out.  His  actions
at  the hotel the next morning show he was not aware of Mary Jo's  death
until  Markham  and  Gargan  arrived.  The trip  to  the  pay  phone  on
Chappaquiddick can only be explained by his receiving a call there,  not
making  one.  There were plenty of pay phones in or near Ted's hotel  if
he  needed  to make a private call.  The tides in the  channel  and  the
direction  in  which Ted claimed he swam do not match.  In  addition  it
would have been a superhuman feat to have made it across the channel (as
proven by several professionals who subsequently tried it).

Deputy Sheriff Christopher Look's testimony, coupled with the  testimony
of Ray LaRosa and two Lyons girls, proves that there were two people  in
Ted's  car  with Mary Jo at 12:45 PM.  The three party  members  walking
along the road south toward the cottage confirmed the time that Mr. Look
drove by.  He stopped to ask if they needed a ride.  Look says that just
prior  to  that  he encountered Ted's car parked  facing  north  at  the
juncture  of  the  main  road and the dirt road.   It  was  on  a  short
extension  of the north-south section of the road junction to the  north
of  the "T".  He says he saw a man driving, a woman in the  seat  beside
him,  and what he thought was another woman lying on the back seat.   He
remembered  a portion of the license plate which matched Ted's  car,  as
did  the  description of the car.  Markham, Gargan  and  Ted's  driver's
testimony  show  that someone they talked to in the  pitch  black  night
sounded like Ted and was about his height and build.

None  of the above evidence was ever explained by Ted or by anyone  else
at  the  inquest  or at the hearing on the  case  demanded  by  district
attorney  Edward Dinis.  No autopsy was ever allowed on Mary  Jo's  body
(her family objected), and Ted made it possible to fly her body home for
burial  rather quickly.  Kennedy haters have seized upon  Chappaquiddick
to  enlarge  the sexual image now being promoted of both  Ted  and  Jack
Kennedy.  Books like "Teddy Bare" take full advantage of the situation.

Just  which operatives in the Power Control Group at the high levels  or
the  lower levels were on Chappaquiddick Island?  No  definite  evidence
has  surfaced as yet, except for an indication that there was  at  least
one woman and at least three men, one of whom resembled Ted Kennedy  and
who sounded like him in the darkness.  However, two pieces of  testimony
in  the Watergate hearings provide significant clues as to which of  the
known JFK case conspirators may have been there.

E.  Howard  Hunt told of a strange trip to Hyannisport to  see  a  local
citizen there about the Chappaquiddick incident.  Hunt's cover story  on
this trip was that he was digging up dirt on Ted Kennedy for use in  the
1972 campaign.  The story does not make much sense if one questions  why
Hunt would have to wear a disguise, including his famous red wig, and to
use  a voice-alteration device to make himself sound like someone  else.
If, on the other hand, Hunt's purpose was to return to the scene of  his
crime just to make sure that no one who might have seen his group at the
bridge or elsewhere would talk, then the disguise and the voice box make
sense.

The  other important testimony came from Tony Ulasewicz who said he  was
ordered by the Plumbers to fly immediately to Chappaquiddick and dig  up
dirt  on  Ted.   The only problem Tony has is  that,  according  to  his
testimony, he arrived early on the morning of the "accident", before the
whole incident had been made public.  Ulasewicz is the right height  and
weight  to  resemble Kennedy and with a CIA voice-alteration  device  he
presumably  could  be  made  to sound like him.   There  is  a  distinct
possibility that Hunt and Tony were there when it happened.

The threats by the Power Control Group, the frame-up at  Chappaquiddick,
and  the  murders of Jack and Bobby Kennedy cannot have failed  to  take
their  toll  on all of the Kennedys.  Rose, Ted, Jackie, Ethel  and  the
other  close family members must be very tired of it all by  now.   They
can   certainly  not  be  blamed  for  hoping  it  will  all  go   away.
Investigations like those proposed by Henry Gonzalez and Thomas  Downing
only raised the spectre of the powerful Control Group taking revenge  by
kidnapping some of the seventeen children.

It  was  no wonder that a close Kennedy friend and ally  in  California,
Representative  Burton,  said  that  he would  oppose  the  Downing  and
Gonzalez  resolutions  unless Ted Kennedy put his stamp of  approval  on
them.  While the sympathies of every decent American go out to them, the
future of our country and the freedom of the people to control their own
destiny through the election process mean more than the lives of all the
Kennedys  put  together.   If John Kennedy were  alive  today  he  would
probably make the same statement.

John Dean summed it up when he said to Richard Nixon as recorded on  the
White House tapes in 1973:  "If Teddy knew the bear trap he was  walking
into at Chappaquiddick. . . ."[5]
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[1]  "The  fabulous  Jackie" -- Christian Cafarakis  --  Productions  de
     Paris -- 1972

[2]  "You the Jury" -- Robert Cutler -- Self Published -- 1974

[3]  A  rope  attached to the stick which held the  Oldsmobile  throttle
     wide open caught the drivers rear view mirror and tore it loose  so
     that  it was hanging by the rear bolt.  There was no other mark  on
     the left side of the car.

[4]  A  sliver  of glass from two broken windows no  doubt  caused  this
     bleeding since Mary Jo was already face down and unconscious in the
     rear  seat.   Since  there  was no  autopsy  this  clean  cut  went
     unnoticed by the embalmers.

[5]  On  page 121, "White House Tapes," Paperback Edition, published  by
     New York Times

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