Truth Perspective: Paul Abram on NSA, shoot-down of Hammarskjold's plane

[Approaching Infinity]

NOTE: This week, the Truth Perspective and Behind the Headlines move to their new format. We will no longer be broadcasting on Saturdays. Instead, tune in at 12 pm Eastern on Sundays, where we will be sharing hosts between the two programs on a regular basis.

This week on the Truth Perspective, we will be interviewing Paul Henry Abram. On the night of Dag Hammarskjold's death in September, 1961, Paul was stationed with the NSA on the Greek island of Crete. Trained in Russian, he regularly monitored communications at the base. That night, he was monitoring radio signals relating to Hammarskjold's flight over the Congo into Northern Rhodesia. What he heard next was shocking: the plane had been shot down.

In 2014 Abram gave his testimony to the Hammarskjold Commission and the UN investigators tasked with following up on its evidence. And today, he tells us the full story, including how he came to work for the NSA, the kind of work he did, and what exactly he heard that fateful night. Paul eventually left the Air Force in 1963 and began to study law, which he practiced until his retirement in 2004. His memoir Trona, Bloody Trona covers his involvement in "labor's bloodiest struggle since the Embarcadero Strike of 1934".

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[Voyageur]

Super interesting interview, thanks group!

Concerning the era, and this death/murder of Hammarskjöld, Fletcher Prouty talks about what was going on within the "Map" countries in a section called 'Time of Covert Action: U-2 to the Kennedy Inaugural'

In this, Fletcher Prouty discusses the failure (1960) of the Paris summit conference and briefly, Hammarskjöld death.

Pressures that had lain dormant while the world waited and prayed for the success of the summit conference broke out more violently than before: in Japan where Jim Haggerty, the President's press secretary and advance man for his trip, was mobbed outside the Tokyo International Airport; in the Congo where Dag Hammarskjöld was to die violently; in Cuba, and especially in U.S.-USSR relationships. The ST moved fast and quietly. Its operators in many of the MAP countries and in other peripheral areas stepped up their activities. Trouble spots, such as countries suffering from crop failures, border disputes, and terrorization by bandits were given particular attention. What had been a lull before the summit now became a ground swell before the storm.

Thought about what Paul was saying concerning the air-arms auction's R’us aspect with likely the Secret Teams spreading around the means for these to happen. Proudy talks about the priming of both sides in the conflict(s), and in the case of the Congo, the U.S. Airforce supporting Kasavuba while the Secret Teams and their mercenaries, the Katanga side.

The Air Force was given the assignment of flying into the Congo in support of the Kasavubu government. Meanwhile, the ST had put together an air armada of heavy transport aircraft, along with other mercenary units, to aid the Katanga cause on the other side

 

[gdpetti]

later the show takes on the subject of the now usual cop abuse of non-rich citizens, and my immediate thought is that it is again another warning to leave the cities... not that this stuff doesn't happen in small communities, but much, much less and then mostly in communities known for it for decades... most small towns are just that, small, the cops aren't trained in paramilitary enforcement of the community, crowd control, etc... lots of part timers, like the firemen... when you get down to the village sized communities... as that other article posted today on sott.net about the police force that all quit and all the supposed 'crime' when way, way down.... engineered crime stats like our federal variety. It would be interesting to know if they received such federal training in the past... otherwise, the assumption would be a racket going on that someone running for office complained about.... and perhaps not easily corruptible like those on the police force.... interesting... 'force', not corps... which can be military, but also just a more specialized grouping, such as the press corp.

Might be a good idea when moving, to check on the community in this fashion: is the police force trained by feds for terrorists response? do they receive freebies from them for SWAT teams, if they have them, and if they do, is the community safe? Bad indicator if they do.... same with schools and whether they have security in them, if so, not a good indicator.