Behind the Gemstone Files


INTRODUCTION

The Skeleton Key
Kiwi Files
Corbitt Document

AUTHORSHIP
Caruana-Stephanie
Moore-Jim
 
I-The Early Years
  II-The CIA Years
  III-Mafia-Kennedy Years
  IV-The 1968 Campaign
  V-US Political Prisoner
  VI-War With the CIA
  VII-Iran-Contra Affair
  VIII-The Sunset Years?
  The Rainbow Bomb
Renzo-Peter
Roberts-Bruce


GEMSTONES
Chronological

ALPHA-1775
1776-1899
1900-1929
1930-1939
1940-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
2000-2009

GEMSTONES
Alphabetical

A
Adamo-Michael
Air America
Air Asia
Air Thailand
Air West
Albania
Alioto-Angela
Alioto-Joe
Alioto-Tom
Allegria-
Allenda-Salvadore
American Airways
Anderson
   Foundation
Anderson-Jack
Appalachin Meet
Ashland Oil

B
Bahamas
Bank of America
Barker-Bernard
Bay of Pigs
Beame-Abe
Bechtel
Becker-Atty.
Benavides-Domingo
Bennett-Robert
Bernstein-Carl
Bird-Wally
Black Magic Bar
Black Panthers
Bon Veniste-
   Richard
Braden-Jim
Brading-Eugene
Braniff Airways
Brezhnev-Leonid
Brison
Bull-Stephen

C
Cahill-Police Chief
Cambodia
Cannon
Carl Boir Agency
Carlsson
Castro-Fidel
Cesar-Thane
Chapman-Abe
Charach-Ted
Chester Davis
Chile
China
Chisolm-Shirley
Chou En-Lai
CIA
Clark
Colby-William
Connally-John
Constantine
Council of Nicea
CREEP
Cushing-Cardinal

D
Dale-Francis L.
Dale-Liz
Daley-Richard J.
Dean-John
DeDiego-Felipe
Drift Inn Bar
Duke-Dr. "Red"
Dun & Bradstreet

E
Eckersley-Howard
Ellsberg-Daniel
Enemy Within, The
Erlichman-John

F
Faisal-King
Faisal-Prince
Farben-I.G.
Fatima 3 Prophecy
FBI
Fielding-Dr.
Fiorini-Frank
Ford-Gerald
Ford Foundation
Frattiano-James
Fuller

G
Garcia
Garrison-Jim
Garry-Charles
Gaylor-Adm. Noel
Ghandi-Indira
Giannini
Glomar Explorer
Golden Triangle
Gonzalez-Henry
Gonzalez-Virgilio
Graham-Katharine
Graham-Phillip
Gray-L. Patrick
Greenspun-Hank
Griffin
Grifford-K. Dun
Group of 40
Gulf Oil

H
Hampton-Fred
Harmony-Sally
Harp-
Harris-Al
Hearst-Patty
Heaton-Devoe
Helms-Richard
Heroin
Hoover-J. Edgar
Hughes Aircraft
Hughes Foundation
Hughes-Howard
Hughes Tool Co.
Humphrey-Hubert
Hunt-Howard

I
Irving-Clifford
Israel-1973 War
ITT

J
Jaworski-Leon
Jesus
Jews
Johnson-Lyndon
Joseph and Mary

K
Kaye-Beverly
Kefauver-Estes
Kennedy-John F.
Kennedy-Jackie
Kennedy-Joseph
Kennedy-Edward
Kennedy-Robert
Kennedy-Rose
King-Leslie, Jr.
King-Martin Luther
Kish Realty
Kissinger-Henry
Komano-
Kopechne-Mary Jo
Krogh-Bud

L
Lansky-Meyer
Laos
Lasky-Moses
Liedtke
Liddy-Gordon
Lipset-Hal
Lon Nol-Premier
Look Magazine

M
Mack (CREEP)
Madeiros-
Mafia
Magnin-Cecil
Maheu-Robert
Mansfield-Mike
Marquess of
   Blandford
Mari-Frank
Marseilles
Marshall-Burke
Martinez-Eugenio
McCarthy-Mary
McCone-John
McCord-James
McNamara-Robert
Merryman
Mexico
Meyer-Eugene
Midnight
Mills-Coroner
Mitchell-John
Mitchell-Martha
Mormon Mafia
Mullen Corporation
Muniz-
Mustapha

N
Nader-Ralph
Neal-James
Neilson-Neil
Nero
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Niarchos-Charlotte
   Ford
Niarchos-Eugenia
Niarchos-Stavros
Nixon-Donald
Nixon-Richard
Noguchi-Thomas
Nut Tree Restaurant

O
O'Brien-Larry
Oliver-R. Spencer
Onassis-Alexander
Onassis-Aristotle
Onassis-Tina
Oswald-Lee H.

P
Pacific Telephone
Paraguay Highway
Pavlov-
Pennzoil
Pentagon Papers
Pepsi Cola
Peters-Jean
Phelan-James
Pico
Pope Montini
Pope Paul VI
Pope Pius XI
Pope Pius XII
Portrait of an
   Assassin
Project Star

R
Rand Corporation
Rector-L. Wayne
Reston-James
Roberts-Bruce
Roberts-Mr.
Rockefeller
   Commission
Rockefeller-John D.
Rockefeller-Nelson
Romane-Tony
Roosevelt-Franklin
Roosevelt-Elliott
Roselli-John
Rothschild
Ruby-Jack
Russia

S
Sadat-Anwar
Second Gun, The
Schumann
Scott-
SEC
Selassie-Haile
Seven Sisters Oil
Shorenstein
Silva-
Sirhan-Sirhan
Skorpios
Smalldones
Snyder-Jimmy
Sodium Morphate
Stans-Maurice
Strom-Al
Sturgis-Frank
Sunol Golf Course
Swig
Synthetic Rubies

T
Tacitus
Thomson-Judge
Thieu-Nguyen Van
Thue-Cardinal
Tippitt-J. D.
Tisserant-Cardinal
Tunney-Joan
Tunney-John
Turkey
TWA

U
Unruh-Jess

V
Vatican
Vesco-Robert
Vietnam
Volner-Jill

W
Wallace-Tom
Walsh-Denny
Warner Brothers
Washington Post
Wills-Frank
Woodward-Bob
World Bank
Wyman-Eugene

Y
Younger-Eric
Younger-Evelle
Yugoslavia

Z
Zebra Murders

Who is Jim Moore?
Part Six: ONE MAN'S WAR WITH THE CIA
©2002 by Jim Moore

The following story appeared on the Internet sometime around 1984. While much of it is a rehash of material already provided here, it is included because of information not contained in some of the other chapters, and because of its value as a corroborating document, footnoted yet, for many of Moore's claims.

See also: http://www.freedomdomain.com/assassinations/skeleton02.html
and fraktali.849pm.com/text/Gemstone_II.txt

On August 12, 1980, a national tabloid weekly, Globe, carried a front-page headline "Onassis Had JFK Killed and Many Others Slain". (1)

The story was purportedly written by 34-year-old Peter Renzo, a New Yorker who claims to be a CIA agent. Globe announced that "Beyond the Gemstone Files was being published as a book and was being made into a movie. The book publisher was none other than an airline company, Fighting Tigers, Inc., based in Los Angeles. As if it weren't peculiar enough that an airline would turn book publisher with such an "incredible" manuscript, it turns out that Fighting Tigers, Inc. is a subsidiary of Air America, as is Republic Picture Corporation, the firm making the movie. Air America, according to numerous published reports in Newsweek, Ramparts, Nation and the book "The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia," is a CIA front. (2)

Why would the Central Intelligence Agency publish a book that blames the CIA for the assassination of President Kennedy?

A federal lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Nashville, Tennessee (Case No. 80-3025) may provide the answer. (3)

Jim Moore, a freelance writer and political activist, claims in his multimillion dollar suit against Renzo, Globe, Hustler magazine and seven other defendants that he, not Renzo, wrote the story and that the CIA is pushing it as a "fictional" account of the assassination to cover up the fact that it is anything but fictional.

Living in poverty and in hiding, the author claims he is marked for death by the government:

"Air America, Inc. is widely reputed to be a corporation owned and controlled by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, and ... the sole purpose of its actions ... are to forever discredit both the plaintiff (Moore) and his work by presenting it in a sensationalized, ‘fictional' context rather than as the serious, academic work of investigative journalism intended," claims the lawsuit.

Renzo was recently involved in a controversy with the television show "Speak Up America" over the bombshell manuscript. He was contacted by the NBC-TV program and signed agreements to present his “evidence” in a show that was supposed to have been aired in October.

"The people from 'Speak Up America' came out and filmed for seven hours on September 4," Renzo claims.

"The following week, they said it would be sooner than that - in fact, the last week of September. But there was only a teaser about what would be seen next week. The next week, the entire show was canceled."

NBC denies a cover-up

"It was only a few small seconds of material on the last show in early October," claimed an NBC spokesperson. "Nobody stopped anything. It was our choice."

However, Moore claims to have contacted the tabloid and the book publisher and movie company, warning them against the further use of "pirated" material.

"The articles published  ... are plagiarized from an article written by myself May 1, 1975, and which has previously been published, practically word for word, in the February 1979 issue of Hustler Magazine," Moore wrote to the CIA-front organization. "Publication of this article by Hustler has resulted in a federal lawsuit being filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Thomas A. Wiseman presiding."

Fighting Tigers, Inc. refused to answer his letter. Paul M. Levy, attorney for Globe, refused to seek a retraction from his client, claiming only that:

"... the rights to Beyond the Gemstone Files were purchased by Globe for valuable consideration from Fighting Tigers, Inc. on July 9, 1980.... Globe had no prior notice of any right or interest in such book other than those asserted by Fighting Tigers.

"As a consequence of Globe's good faith, arm's length transaction with Fighting Tigers, it is necessary that we deny any ostensible claim that you may have."

What is the story of "the Gemstone Files?" What are they? Where did they originate? And, finally, what role have they played in such shocking government cover-ups as Watergate and the assassination of President Kennedy?

Jim Moore has long been considered "an enemy of the state."

"It wasn't by choice, and it wasn’t because I believe there’s a better country somewhere else on this planet," he says. "I believe strongly in America and its people; we are the hope of the world and we can never afford to forget that, But there are people in power who are trying to destroy everything America was ever supposed to mean. Those people consider me an enemy of the state "

While still in high school, Moore (then known as Riley) was tinkering with "spy satellites" in the school basement. His creation of a Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio receiver for the detection of underground nuclear tests catapulted him to hometown fame as a 1963 International Science Fair finalist. He won honors from the Navy, Air Force, NASA, National Science Foundation, and financial support from Boeing Aircraft and Western Electric.

Just over a year later he spurned a four-year engineering scholarship and set out on a lifelong quest to "find out who killed my President."

"I had to know," he insists. "I sensed on that terrible day that something was wrong, awfully wrong, with my country and the direction in which it was headed,"

He became a newspaper reporter, where he started his journalism career. At the age of 19 he was writing for the Associated Press and was one of the youngest departmental editors of a daily newspaper anywhere in North America. His first newspaper job was with the Pratt Daily Tribune, the newspaper where the late Ben Hibbs, revered editor of the Saturday Evening Post, got his start,

From there he went to Chicago and worked on a weekly tabloid, The National Insider, where he buried himself in the Kennedy case between writing consumer fraud and political articles.

"Elmer Gertz, one of the lawyers for Oswald's killer, Jack Ruby, was the lawyer who read my material for any possible libel problem," Moore says "He warned me about getting 'too deep' into the Kennedy thing; it only spurred me on with even greater intensity."

In 1968 he turned from reporter to politician, heading the Illinois campaign for Senator Eugene McCarthy's independent bid for the presidency. He openly challenged Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley political machine and, in a stunning legal victory in the U.S. Supreme Court, he altered the course of American politics with a resounding triumph for the one man - one vote concept.

"With the assassination of Robert Kennedy, I left politics. It smelled too bad," he recalls. Aware of the links between the CIA and the Mafia, he turned his attention to organized crime, exposed a nationwide watch counterfeit ring that threatened to destroy some nationally known watch manufacturers whose products were being counterfeited on a massive scale. He was offered bribes not to publish the story, but refused and published it anyway. He was beaten "as a warning." When he persisted, a contract was put on his head by the Tony Accardo mob; it was dropped only after he left Chicago and went into hiding in Tennessee

"I couldn't hide forever," he realized. "I feel I was put on this earth for a purpose, and to deny that was to deny my very existence.”

He began publishing the Fairview Flyer, a controversial weekly newspaper just outside Nashville. Within a year he was arrested for, he says, "the crime of publishing a newspaper on Sunday in violation of a newly-enacted blue law created just for my benefit." Despite the support of John Siegenthaler, publisher of The Tennessean and a former Justice Department official under Robert Kennedy, Moore served more than two months in the Williamson County Jail.

"It was immediately after I was released from jail," he says, "that I contacted Congressman Henry Gonzales about my investigation of the Kennedy assassinations and their links to Watergate."

In a four-page letter dated June 27, 1975, Moore named E. Howard Hunt as being involved in a cover-up in Mexico City involving Lee Harvey Oswald's alleged visits to the Soviet and Cuban embassies there. He also pointed out to the congressman that columnist Jack Anderson had also linked CIA agent Gordon Novel, sought for testimony in the assassination, to a scheme by Richard Nixon to erase the Watergate tapes and replace them with forgeries.

Moore and Gonzalez had been corresponding since early February 1975, when Gonzalez, who had ridden with Kennedy in that fateful motorcade in Dallas, was single-handedly trying to revive the Kennedy probe.

"I deeply appreciate your suggestions," Gonzalez wrote on February 24. "If my resolution is passed by the House and an investigative staff is set up, your information would be helpful to them."

Shortly after Moore sent Gonzalez a copy of "A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone Files," Gonzalez pounced on Moore's charge that E. Howard Hunt, the Watergate mastermind, was possibly linked to Oswald

"I didn't pay much attention to investigators who repeatedly claimed there was a massive conspiracy to cover up the JFK assassination," the Texas congressman said.

"But since Watergate, I think these conspiracy claims should be viewed in a different light."

According to a report in The National Enquirer, August 26, 1975:

"A key question Gonzalez wants answered is the whereabouts of Howard Hunt one of the major Watergate figures - on the day of JFK's assassination."

"I think it's more than coincidence," Gonzalez said, "that Hunt had been head of the CIA station in Mexico and that Lee Harvey Oswald made a mysterious visit to Mexico City shortly before the assassination.

"We again run into the name of Howard Hunt in the attempt on Wallace's life, An hour after the shooting, Hunt was sent to Arthur Bremer's apartment on Charles Colson's orders." Colson was counsel to President Nixon.

A few weeks later, on September 16, Gonzalez wrote Moore again:

"I am deeply indebted to you for the details which you have shared with me in respect to Gordon Novel and other figures which you feel should be subpoenaed once the investigation is under way.

"Could you possibly verify your statement that E. Howard Hunt was Chief of Station in Mexico City at the time Oswald supposedly visited there? This is very important, and I am wondering if you will let me have further information in verification of this statement."

The original claim, Moore says, was made by Tad Szulc, a nationally-known and respected reporter with the New York Times and an expert on national and international intelligence operations.

"I sent this to Gonzalez, along with a more detailed report on Hunt which placed Hunt in charge of the covert photography operation across the street from the Soviet and Cuban embassies. The whole story that Oswald was in Mexico City was a hoax. The CIA took photographs of everyone who entered or left the buildings; this had been standard operating procedure for months. The photo in the Warren Report is obviously not Oswald and the CIA could never come up with a photo of Oswald after that initial foul-up because they didn’t have any photos of Oswald. Oswald had not been there."

A few months later, Gonzalez revealed that there was a $35,000 contract on his head and that the FBI was reluctant to even investigate. Then, on March 7, 1977, Gonzalez resigned as chairman of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, claiming that "because vast and powerful forces, including this country's most sophisticated crime element, won't stand for it," the JFK probe would never be completed.

"This criminal element is all-pervasive, loaded with nothing but money and in many ways more potent than the government itself."

Forces allied against the probe, he said, included "the Kennedy family and heavy business interests in the Dallas-Fort Worth area who don't want all the old JFK muck raked up."

The committee investigation, he said, was "a put-on job and a hideous farce that was never intended to work."

"They never did want the Kennedy conspiracy unmasked. They were so right. The JFK probe is over."

Moore, however, tried to continue working with the committee, dealing with Robert Tannenbaum, staff counsel. In early April, Moore consented to a meeting with people he thought were committee investigators. The meeting was supposed to take place at a suburban theatre, but Moore claims no one showed up.

"But on the way home some fool tried to run me off the road. I called the police and reported the license number and was told nothing could be done. After that, I cut off all contact with the House Assassinations Committee.”

Several months later, on November 15, he sent a copy of the Gemstone manuscript to Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler Magazine, and proposed a 12-part series on the Gemstone Files similar to a serialized "History of Organized Crime" that Hugh Hefner had run in Playboy. The manuscript was rejected .

On January 31, 1978, Moore received a form letter from Flynt, apparently sent out to journalists and investigators around the country:

"You may know that I have offered a one-million dollar reward to those who help to bring President Kennedy's killers to justice. Already we have received hundreds of telephone calls and letters....Join us in this effort."

“My reaction was to get on the phone to Hustler and to send the Gemstone  manuscript back again. Maybe now, I thought, was a better time."

Mark Lane, whose name is synonymous with conspiracy, JFK and Jim Jones, was Flynt's attorney. It was he who received Moore's article.

Nashville attorney and former criminal court of appeals judge Charles Galbreath, a personal friend of Flynt's, later told Moore:

"Mark Lane, with whom I am associated in the James Earl Ray case here, was my house guest this past weekend and I showed him the manuscript and he remembered discussing it with Larry together with his plans to publish it last year before Georgia. Mark told me he recommended against publication because of the obvious speculative nature of the theories outlined therein."

Telephone records of South Central Bell also show two long-distance conversations between Fairview, Tennessee and Flynt's offices in Columbus, Ohio and Beverly Hills, California on February 14 and 17. The first call, placed at 12:58 p.m. and made from telephone number 615-799-2694, was made to 614-464-2070 and lasted 13 minutes. The second call, three minutes long, was made at 10:46 a.m. on February 17 from the same number to 213-552-0012 in Beverly Hills. Both numbers are listed to Larry Flynt's business interest.

During these critical negotiations over the publication of the Gemstone Files, another victim of the Kennedy conspiracy was to fall -- this time Larry Flynt himself. Flynt and his attorney Gene Reeves were gunned down in Lawrenceville, Ga. by then unknown gunmen. Flynt hovered near death with a gaping hole in his stomach; Reeves lay in critical condition. Flynt has never walked since.

A week later, Moore routinely filed two letters, both of them mentioning his manuscript by name. One was from author Mary McCarthy; the other was from author Tom Miller. They would become critical pieces of evidence in the trial that was to follow.

On April 23, 1978, Mark Lane reported that Flynt's million-dollar reward offer had produced important new evidence:

"I now have a top-secret document that is the single most important document uncovered since the Kennedy assassination." That document was "A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone Files.”

Althea Flynt, Larry's wife, made a statement that was to be repeated again and again in the coming months:

"My husband believes that it was the CIA trying to silence him. And I believe it as well."

Rampant rumors within the Flynt organization were that the publisher had been shot because word had leaked out about the Gemstone File. Suspicion focused on the "former" CIA and FBI officials Flynt had hired to help him, apparently forgetting a simple truth; once in the CIA, always controlled by the CIA.

Author Neal Wilgus, in his book "The Illuminoids" also linked the two events in a listing of news events of the year when he wrote:

"1977-attempted assassination of Hustler publisher Larry Flynt in Lawrenceville, Ga. after Flynt announced a $1 million reward for new evidence in the JFK assassination and released the so-called ‘Gemstone File' which reportedly implicates government officials in the murder; Flynt's attacker escapes unidentified and is still at large..."

This account, published in book form in March 1979, had to have been written either before the shooting or just after. No one knew the Gemstone Files were going to be published, despite the shooting. In fact, they were not published until February 1979, when the magazine's cover proclaimed:

"Exclusive!  PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S KILLERS REVEALED!"

An introduction to the article never mentioned the possible link between it and Flynt’s near-murder. Nor did it mention the name of the author ... or at least not the true author. The story bore the byline of Bruce Roberts, a man who had been dead for quite some time.

"Fingering the heartless forces responsible for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is a commitment HUSTLER made more than a year ago," the introduction read. "As a result, we're bringing you a condensed version of The Gemstone File, which was presented to us with the following warning: 'Everyone else who has had this information is now dead'- including its author, Bruce Roberts. While this speculative report has been dismissed by some critics as an ‘amalgam of facts and apocrypha by a paranoid researcher who died from an overdose of natural causes,' we'd like you to be the judge. Roberts claimed to have been one of the crystallographers who pioneered the development of artificial gemstones, later used in laser research. Withdrawn and reclusive during his last years, he accused the CIA of secretly injecting him with cancer cells shortly before his death. The documents Roberts left behind - which in its full form runs more than 1,000 pages - is possibly the most comprehensive and frightening probe into the JFK killing to date."

Elsewhere, the publisher wrote:

"Throughout his story, whenever new voices become powerful and commanding, there is a traceable pattern of violent response. Whether from the right or from the left there is a stealthy, savage reaction, like a shaft of ramrod steel. From Jesus Christ to Chile's Salvador Allende, the markings are clear. Action calls forth reaction, and nowhere is this more clear than in the savage history of our own country: Abraham Lincoln, Huey Long, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and all the others whose cries for justice have been stilled by the staccato burst of the gun....

"The article that follows ... may be considered by many to be a work of madness. But remember, through the ages all innovative work of genius has been thought to be the product of insanity. One need only reflect on the spectacle of Galileo recanting before the Church. It was madness, they said for him to advance the notion that the earth moved around the sun. And they were right; it was madness, even though he was correct. The astronomer’s thinking was madness because it upset the settled scheme of things and could not be demonstrably proven for all to see. For that reason, Galileo's idea had to be dismissed and done away with perhaps, just like the Gemstone File....it should never be overlooked that the hellish vision the article contains may well bear the germs of truth, virulent though they may be.

"The author of this article is deceased. How he died is not known.

"We do not presume to judge the material that follows - material we have obtained as a result of our advertisements calling for information about the JFK assassination....We consider only this: The Gemstone File is a cry that needs to be heard. Whether or not your ears are deaf is a matter for you alone to decide."

When the article was published, Moore went to Charles Galbreath, who had been forced off the judicial bench because of a letter he had written to Flynt's magazine on official court stationery lamenting, in explicit language, the fat that oral sex was still illegal in Tennessee. Galbreath asked Moore to meet him at his home, where he agreed to act as intermediary.

"I was unable to contact Flynt," Moore recalls, "I couldn't get through the lower levels. I was being blocked. So I went to Galbreath.”

"I agree," Galbreath wrote in a letter of February 7, 1979, "that the evidence of plagiarism from the misspelled word (Moore had deliberately misspelled the name of a top Vatican figure and Hustler had unknowingly copied and reproduced the error when it copied the manuscript) is conclusive. There is no doubt that Hustler will recognize its obligation to you for the unauthorized use of the material."

Ironically, correspondence between Galbreath and Flynt began disappearing from the judge's files at about the same time.

Later, Galbreath added that "I have no doubt that Larry Flynt will be fair. He has always impressed me that way and I have talked to him enough since his injury to believe he has not changed."

James Heinisch, representing Hustler, agreed that the article had been plagiarized and an offer of $2,500 was made through Galbreath. Moore, citing the original proposal of November 15, 1977 and the million-dollar reward offer, turned the settlement down, noting that he had spent 15 years of his life researching the Gemstone Files.

Meanwhile, publication of the manuscript had created a storm of controversy.

Gallery publisher Nils A. Shapiro sharply criticized Flynt's decision to publish it:

"It's unfortunate that so many publications have, in the years since 1963, attempted to cash in on public interest by 'sensationalizing' and exaggerating their reporting of the assassination case. The February issue of Hustler magazine states boldly (and misleadingly) on its front cover: "Exclusive! President Kennedy's Killers Revealed!" Gallery would have liked nothing better than to have this be true - whether the news came from Hustler or Newsweek or NBC. Unfortunately, the poor suckers who bought copies of that issue quickly learned that the article inside was very likely a work of fantasy; even the magazine's own introduction was careful to point out that the piece may have had no validity whatsoever, contained no documented proof, and was probably nothing more than the 'speculation' of one man who 'claimed through his inventions in the field of artificial gemstone technology (the cornerstone of laser beam application)...he became privy to worlds that can just barely be imagined, let alone glimpsed by ordinary mortals.'

"That front-cover line may have sold a lot of copies of Hustler, but it was a black mark in the field of serious investigative research...."

Not everyone who read the article felt "suckered," however. The April 1979 issue of Hustler contains two sobering letters from readers:

"Whoever Bruce Roberts was, he told more truth in the February 1979’s Hustler than anyone else ever has about what's going on at the top of our government. I hope it awakens the voters." (Signed James Montgomery, Oronogo, Mississippi)

"I bought your February issue and found my worst nightmare exploding right out of your pages in The Gemstone File expose. Needless to say, I am afraid, hopeless - but even worse, uninformed. I've talked to friends and have tried to tell them what I read in your magazine. They don't want to hear about it. One friend said, 'Why, if everybody knew about what really happened, we would lose faith in the American way." (Name and address withheld by request)

Reflecting on the Gemstone revelations, Moore says:

"Of course it was speculative! What they received was just a summary. I couldn't very well send them three file cabinets dull of documents, letters, photos, etc. What they published was just a proposal to publish a 12-part series - fully documented with photographs of the JFK gunmen - there were four of them - and government documents detailing what really happened. There just wasn't room in one article. But they printed it anyway, and I think that decision played right into the hands of the CIA. It was an opportunity from the very pits of hell (I can't bring myself to say heaven-sent) to pounce on the truth and totally discredit it. Now that the CIA is even pushing the story as a book and a movie, it's obvious!

"But America is going to pay, and pay dearly. Sadly, the people responsible will be dead by then; it will be the people of this country who have to pay ... in oil prices, in inflation, in CIA control of the country, and, finally, in nuclear war.

He points to the lyrics of a Rolling Stones song: "Who killed the Kennedys? After all, it was you and me" and claims that the apathy Americans hold for their government is ultimately responsible.

"You can't give away the right of your own destiny, and we've done that in this country. For a very brief period, there was an effort by the people to regain control, but they failed and now the Mafia-CIA is stronger than ever. Do you realize we are living Orwell's 1984?"

Stubbornly, the Tennessee author attempted to publish the complete version of the Gemstone Files on his own, claiming that Hustler had censored their version "to protect highly-placed individuals still in power." With the help of a U.S. senator from Tennessee, Moore pushed on ... only to be arrested for alleged possession of marijuana at his country home.

"I was away for the weekend. When I came home I found the police waiting for me, claiming they had found three marijuana plants on my front porch in plain view of the road. Hell, if I’d wanted to grow my own, I had 40 acres to do it on; why put it on the front porch?"

Again, he was hauled off to jail, where he was held incommunicado, denied bail and visitors. "The sheriff's office even lied to the judge, claiming I had been released as ordered. They kept me in jail and burglarized my home and office, then tried to destroy the evidence of the burglaries being reported. I even have a handwritten note, signed by a deputy sheriff, stating that my mail privileges had been cut off for no reason."

The mail cutoff was particularly hard to swallow, he says, because he was then corresponding with Congressman Robin Beard and the Nuclear Regulatory Agency over possible sabotage and union corruption at the world's largest nuclear reactor in Hartsville, Tennessee.

"I only got out of that hellhole by accident," he grins. "I had to go to trial in Fairview and also in Franklin. They took me to Fairview, where the charges were thrown out, then never remembered to take me back to jail. The Fairview police chief, A. A. Moore (no relation) told me to get the hell out of there; if the county wanted me they were supposed to have come and gotten me and he wasn't going to do their dirty work for them."

After six weeks’ imprisonment, Moore doggedly returned to writing. His research on electronic mind control was hailed in a 1979 book as "astounding."

He claims the government used electronic mind control techniques on Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. Dorothy Kilgallen, he says, discovered this and was murdered.

His own lawsuit against Hustler took a peculiar turn. On April 16, 1979, before his imprisonment, Moore had received a letter from Galbreath in which the judge said:

"I have asked repeatedly for Mr. Heinish to answer my many letters so as to give the official position he is taking, but he has not seen fit to do so."

Writing to Larry Flynt, Galbreath pleaded:

"Please have him write me. I have assured Moore all along that he would be treated fairly. Don't let Heinish make a liar out of me."

On May 8, Heinish had finally replied, claiming the article was really not a Hustler exclusive, as advertised, but had been published in City of San Francisco Magazine in August 1975.

"I've never seen the San Francisco article," Moore says, "but if it was published, it was stolen from my home while I was in jail. I finished the manuscript May 1, 1975 and sent it to Congressman Gonzalez. What happened to it after that, I don't know. I do know that Larry Flynt received it from me through Mark Lane in 1978."

On May 11, Galbreath introduced a note of mystery into the already mysterious case of the Gemstone Files when he wrote:

"I am becoming increasingly disillusioned with Flynt's organization. I have a feeling he is no longer in complete command of things. Under the circumstances, I would not be adverse to filing suit on your claim since I am convinced it is meritorious."

Before suit could be filed, however, Moore was jailed on the marijuana charges. When he was released, Galbreath had had a change of heart, despite having signed a contract to represent the author.

Two days later, Dickinson disappeared; he has not been located since, although rumors persist that he was incarcerated in Central State Hospital, a mental asylum.

"I've tried to find out, because he still has some of my documents," Moore says, "but they just tell me that's confidential information that they can't release."

On April 20, 1980, Moore wrote a letter to U.S. District Judge Thomas Wiseman, telling him of Dickinson's disappearance and asking for an investigation. He never received a reply.

Today, Moore stands alone in his quest for vindication. He lives in poverty and, representing himself in court, has filed a pauper's oath.

"I have a fairly strong feeling what will happen," he says, "and why the CIA keeps pushing this case. This whole thing is a trap; they want to locate the evidence I have obtained over the past 15 years. They know it would do no good to kill me; that would just be a catalyst - it would all come out then because I've made copies of everything and have distributed them to people I trust, with instructions that if anything happens to me these papers should be released to the news media in their entirety...all three filing cabinets full … photos, everything.

Moore claims one of the Kennedy hitmen, James Frattiano, is now working for the government as an informer against Mafia bigwigs.

"The government will protect him until hell freezes over. Jimmy 'The Weasel' Frattiano did the same thing I did - he wrote it all down and made copies so they can't touch him. He's home free."

Frattiano's testimony on Mafia executions recently convicted his Mafia superiors in a California trial and Frattiano is now living a new life with a new identity under the federal witness protection program.

"The CIA, through Air America, Fighting Tigers, Inc., and all the rest is trying to smoke me out into the open," Moore claims. "The statement in Hustler about 'everyone who has had this information is now dead' was just a warning to me to keep my mouth shut. Well, dammit, I won't do it!”

"This country will never regain its integrity and dignity until it can face the realities of its past - just the way an alcoholic can't cure himself until he admits he is an alcoholic. I wish I could think of something witty and original to say, but I can't. I keep thinking about phrases like having but one life to give for my country, and no forth. The true patriot isn't the guy swilling beer and watching the Super Bowl, accepting everything he's told; the true patriot is the person who can see the truth, good or bad, and then work to make it better.

"Someone once said that if you don't have anything worth dying for, you have nothing worth living for - but I like another one better, from Dante's Inferno, when he said "The hottest levels of hell are reserved for those, who in times of great moral crises, maintain their neutrality." That's where America is at today, and we'd better wake up to the fact - we're in the middle of the greatest moral crises of our national history, perhaps in the history of the whole human race."

Despite the death cloud hanging over him, Moore is pursuing his career, writing the things he believes should be written. For him, the circle has come around fully. In 1962 he was designing Very Low Frequency nuclear test detectors for spy satellites; today he's working on a book, his first ("the first with my name on it, anyway"), that reveals the extent to which Very Low Frequency and Extremely Low Frequency radiation is destroying the human race.

"It's a helluva lot worse than nuclear radiation or chemical wastes or any of that. It's worse because we don't know about it. The Navy wants to use this technology for World War III - and to hell with the health and safety of the civilians the military is supposed to be protecting. The Navy and other agencies are constructing huge radio transmitters, some of them pouring out 800 million watts of electrical pollution, to communicate with submarines. The sad thing is that this frequency is the same as that used by the human brain. Richard Helms said it in a secret document about mind control he sent to the Warren Commission when he said we are engaged in "a battle for the minds of men."

"We just don't know."

 BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Onassis Was Behind JFK and Bobby Assassinations. Peter Renzo. il Globe 27:4-5+ Aug. 12, 1980.

Why Bobby, Mary Jo and Lyndon Johnson Had To Die. Peter Renzo. il Globe 27:27+ Aug. 19, 1980.

2. Air America: Anything Goes. il Newsweek 75:37. April 6, 1970.

Air America: Flying the U.S. Into Laos. P.D. Scott, por Ramparts Magazine 8: 39-42+ February 1970.

Clandestine Militarism: Air America and the CIA Nation 210et52 April 20, 1970.

3. James L. Moore vs. Larry Flynt, et al, Case No. 80-3025, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division.

4. Ibid

5. Love Secret of Jackie and JFK's Dad. Chris Forsyth. il Globe 27:4-5 December 23, 1980

6. Personal correspondence, August 8, 1980 to Paul Levy from Jim Moore.

7. Personal correspondence, August 18, 1980 to Jim Moore from Paul Levy.

8. Sixteen-Year-Old Satellite Builder Spends A Day At Boeing. Dick Haines. il Boeing Plane Talk, p1+ May 17, 1962.

9. Opinions Announced May 5, 1969. The United States Law Week 37:1+ May 6, 1969. James L. Moore, et al, Appellants, vs. Richard B. Ogilvie, etc., et al, 394 US 814, 23 L Ed 2d 1, 89 S Ct 1493. Summaries: 1968-69 Term of the U.S. Supreme Court, p205-7

10. Publisher Charges Fairview Trying To Silence Press. Kenneth Jost. il The Tennessean, p20-A, May 13, 1973.

City Probe Sparks Publisher's Court Fight. Philly Murtha. Editor & Publisher, p16 March 2, 1974.

11. Personal correspondence, June 27, 1975 from Jim Moore to Henry Gonzalez.

12.

13. Personal correspondence, February 24, 1975  from Henry Gonzalez to Jim Moore.

14, Jackie's Secret Testimony on FFK Assassination. Chris Fuller. il National Enquirer, p13 August 26, 1975.

15. Personal correspondence, September 16, 1975 from Henry Gonzalez to Jim Moore.

16.

17. Assassination Panel's Future Is Left Dangling. Jeremiah O'Leary. The Washington Star, pA-8, January 26, 1977.

18. JFK Death Beyond Probe: Gonzalez Says. Associated Press. The (Nashville) Tennessean, p1 March 7, 1977.

19. Personal correspondence, November 15, 1977 from Jim Moore to Larry Flynt.

20. Personal correspondence, January 31, 197 from Larry Flynt to Jim Moore.

21. Personal correspondence, January 19, 1979, from Charles Galbreath to Jim Moore.

22. Ibid

23. Telephone records from South Central Bell, March 16, 1978.

24. Flynt Critical After Shooting, Gail Williams. il (UPI) The (Nashville) Tennessean 72:1 March 7, 1978.

25. Personal correspondence, March 13, 1978 from Mary McCarthy to Jim Moore.

26. Personal correspendence, March 13, 1978, from Tom Miller to Jim Moore.

27. CIA Had Flynt Shot Because He Proved CIA Killed JFK. il Modern People 12:17-18 April 23, 1978.

28. Ibid

29. The Illlnunoids. Neal Wilgus. pp 235-36. Simon & Schuster (Pocket Books), New York, N.Y. March 1979.

30. The Gemstone Files. Bruce Roberts. il Hustler p32-34+ February 1979.

31. Ibid

32, Ibid

33. Personal correspondence, March 2, 1979, from Charles Galbreath to Jim Moore.

34. Personal correspondence, February 7, 1979, from Charles Galbreath to Jim Moore.

35. Ibid

36. Personal correspondence, February 23, 1979, from Charles Galbreath to Jim Moore.

37. Personal correspondence, February 7, 1979, from Charles Galbreath to Jim Moore.

38. The Publisher's Page. Nils A. Shapiro. il Gallery p6 April 1979.

39. Feedback. Hustler, p9, April 1979.

40. Personal correspondence, March 30, 1978 from Howard Baker to Jim Moore.

41. Personal correspondence,

42. Personal correspondence, September 19, 1979, Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Robin Beard. Personal correspondence, September 21, 1979, Robin Beard to Jim Moore.

43. Operation: Mind Control. Walter H. Bowart. p276+ Dell Publishing Co., New York, NY January 1978.

44. Personal correspondence, April 16, 1979, Charles Galbreath to Larry Flynt.

45. Ibid

46. Personal correspondence, May 8, 1979, from James Heinisch to Charles Galbreath.

47. Personal correspondence, May 11, 1979, from Charles Galbreath to Jim Moore.

48. Personal correspondence, April 20, 1980, from Jim Moore to Thomas Wiseman.

49.

50. Personal correspondence, December 11, 1980, from Ellen Britsch (TAB Books) to Jim Moore.

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First letter from Rep. Henry Gonzalez regarding the new JFK probe.

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Second letter from Rep. Henry Gonzalez regarding the new JFK probe.

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