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In 1976 I began getting letters from a man I hoped was a
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charming crank about "why we Fascists assassinated Kennedy."
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How I got on Coman-Ra's mailing list in the first place some
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years earlier was a mystery to me. Since 1970, though, Greg
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Hill and I both had been receiving from him everything from
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advice about how to grow organic sprouts to racist newspapers
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published by White Christians who were armed and quite danger-
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ous. In reply to one of my memos about Kirstein that had fall-
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en into his hands indirectly, he wrote me to say that the trag-
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edy in Dallas was plotted by the Secret Order of Thule in such
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a way as to assure that no cover-up could remain convincing
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forever. Motive: to make the American public paranoid about
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their government and mass media. For paranoia, he told me, is
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a big step in the direction of mental health.
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People who become paranoid, Coman-Ra wrote, will not rest
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until they discover every last shred of truth. Among the de-
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vices used to encourage awareness of conspiracy were the man
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crude Oswald impersonations that occurred just previous to the
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assassination. Puzzled for more than a decade about exactly
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that mystery, I had to admit this was the first credible hypo-
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thesis to explain it without making the assassins look like
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idiots. And had they been less than geniuses, there'd have
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been no cover-up at all.
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Coman-Ra further informed me that the conspiracy was con-
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structed in concentric circles, like Chinese boxes, with des-
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cending levels, so that only the "man at the center" under-
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stood afterwards exactly what had happened. Of course, I could
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not ignore the possibility that man might have been the person
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I call Brother-in-law.
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What brought the many loose ends in the John Kennedy murder
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mystery together for me was this realization that it was a max-
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imum complicity crime. Various factions must have been deliber-
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ately implicated on a blind-alliance basis, so that once the
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event occurred, every group of conspirators was startled at ev-
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idence of participation by someone besides themselves.
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Like Brother-in-law, Coman-Ran seemed morbidly fascinated
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with Hitler and Nazi Germany. Both men mentioned in particular
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little-known aspects of the Third Reich -- such as the secret
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pagan rituals of the SS and the occult beliefs of Hitler's co-
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horts. Both repeated a rumor that Nazi rocket scientists dis-
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covered energy secrets the oil companies were repressing to this
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day. And whether either or both were living some kind of macabre
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hoax or were absolutely fanatical was impossible to decide, since
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neither man was without humor. For instance, Coman-Ra always
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signed off with: "Love is Alive and Well."
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As might be anticipated, it struck me that perhaps Coman-Ra
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and Gary Kirstein were the same person, so in 1977 I dropped in
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on Coman-Ra unexpectedly at his address in Sacramento, California.
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Not only was he not the same man I had conversed with in New Or-
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leans, but it was plain that the spine-chilling ranting in his
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letters was just a big put-on. That isn't to say his information
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about the assassination could not have been valid. A warm, in-
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telligent human being obviously unsympathetic to Fascism, he
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nevertheless semmed quite versed in secret society politics.
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"I come on all hairy like that in my letters," he told me,
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"to scare off government agents."
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Dedicated to Dylan
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#28-1986 Thomas - Whoever HE Was
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KULTCHA
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Organ of the Revolutionary
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Surrealist Vandal Party (RSVP)
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Forget about Jesus! Think about
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the Georgia Bureau of Investigation
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and the Solar Lodge of the O.T.O.
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instead. They're closer to home and
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almost as dangerous.
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