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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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