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The last fifty years of American history has been extremely volatile and bloody, especially for rock stars. There can be no doubt that the FBI’s war on the New Left—as documented by the Church Committee (see Chapter 11)—included rock stars. Part of the government’s fear of rock’ n’ roll is its potential to corrupt America’s youth. In a sense, this is true. Who pressured politicians into withdrawing military forces from Vietnam? Was it the over-80 crowd, the over-60 crowd, the over-50 crowd? Was it the leaders of the United States government? No, the rebellion against US involvement in Vietnam was driven primarily by the young. And what was the unifying force for America’s youth during the Sixties? It was rock music. Going to a rock concert in the Sixties was often tantamount to attending an anti-war rally, Woodstock being the prime example. And it was the Beatles, led by John Lennon, who pioneered the first large-scale rock concert when they performed before 55,600 hysterical fans at Shea Stadium on August 15, 1965, exactly four years prior to the historic Woodstock concert. (See Chapter 12.) As the Vietnam War progressed, college campuses and rock concerts became battlefields for youth rebellion against corrupt leaders who sent America’s children to Vietnam without a clear objective or reason for being there.

Jim Morrison electrified young audiences at Doors concerts by shouting lyrics like, "We want the world and we want it now!"^* Jimi Hendrix captured the imaginations of thousands of fans at Woodstock with his psychedelic rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner. Alan Wilson made a powerful political statement by displaying an upside-down American flag on the cover of Canned Heat’s 1970 album, Future Blues. John Lennon encouraged youth rebellion with his 1968 Beatle song, "Revolution." Later, he and his second wife, Yoko Ono, staged bed-ins promoting peace and advocating an end to US involvement in Vietnam. So in a sense, the FBI and their militaristic brethren had targeted the right people. As former FBI official William Sullivan (deceased) asserted, the FBI’s primary function is propaganda. (See Chapter 3.) If we accept Sullivan’s view, then it becomes obvious that one of the Bureau’s top objectives in the Sixties was certainly to garner public support for the Vietnam War. But the John Lennons of the world supported the opposing view: peace, and they had the ability to shift public opinion in a completely different direction from the Bureau’s. Hence, Lennon and others like him became enemies of the FBI.

I believe the forces who dogged John Lennon since 1966 are the same ones who killed President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. In my book, Opium Lords: Israel, the Golden Triangle, and the Kennedy Assassination, the crime is explained in great detail. Keep in mind, however, it is an explanation of how the crime probably occurred. Admittedly, it is a theory. All parts are not absolutely known, but readers should be reminded that the American judicial system does not require absolute proof to convict someone of a crime. The level of proof required by the American courts is proof "beyond a reasonable doubt" which is far different than absolute proof. I believe my theory meets the reasonable doubt criteria. Having stated that, here is what most likely happened to JFK:

The Kennedy family was hated by Jewish leaders because Joseph Kennedy, Sr admired Adolf Hitler. The decision to kill JFK was probably a group resolution among several Jewish leaders. The group likely included Nahum Goldmann, founder and president of the World Jewish Congress; and Jacob Kaplan, Grand Rabbi of France. J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI was the moving force behind the assassination. Using Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky as an emissary, the FBI recruited French Corsican heroin traffickers—the Guerini Family—to supply the assassins. As payment, the French Corsicans were allowed to return to Southeast Asia and re-establish their heroin trafficking enterprise. This required the removal of South Vietnamese Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem who was assassinated—in a CIA backed coup—three weeks before Kennedy was killed. French Corsican assassins were chosen to kill JFK because of the FBI’s Corsican roots via the Bonaparte family, namely Napoleon and his great nephew, Charles Joseph Bonaparte; the FBI was created by the latter in 1908. (Note: Napoleon is considered a savior to Jews worldwide because he helped them resettle in Europe after they lived in exile for centuries.) The French Corsican assassins were Lucien Sarti, François Chiappe, and Jean-Paul Angeletti. Appendix M presents an organizational chart of the conspiracy to assassinate JFK.

J. Edgar Hoover was most likely the individual who ordered Bobby Kennedy’s assassination, and it was immediately carried out by his underlings at the FBI after he gave the green light. This is more than mere speculation, it was revealed by one of Hoover’s top assistants, William Sullivan, in his 1979 book, The Bureau: My Thirty Years in Hoover’s FBI. (published posthumously) Here are some excerpts from Sullivan’s book that reveal how Hoover used his companion, Clyde Tolson, to order Bobby Kennedy’s murder:

(Note: Clyde Tolson and J. Edgar Hoover were constant companions, homosexual lovers, and the highest officials at the FBI. Many other officials at the Bureau said the two men had a "unipersonality,"¹ meaning each thought and spoke for the other.)

Regarding the FBI’s harassment of Lennon, I do not believe he was targeted solely because of his political statements or political activities. After researching the history of rock ‘n’ roll since the early days of Elvis Presley, I have concluded that Lennon was targeted by the FBI as early as 1966, probably because he had become a second Elvis, a second king of rock ‘n’ roll. The FBI had crushed Fifties rock ‘n’ roll by killing, harassing or neutralizing its most creative artists. (See Chapter 5.) On February 3, 1959, Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens perished in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. Also killed was Jiles Perry Richardson (aka, The Bopper). Holly was 22, Valens was 17, Richardson was 28. On April 17, 1960, Eddie Cochran was killed in a car crash near Chippenham, Wilshire, England. He was 21. Gene Vincent was seriously injured in the same crash and became a semi-cripple until he died of alcoholism on October 12, 1971. In 1962, Chuck Berry was imprisoned for violating the Mann Act, the result of a 1959 incident where Berry reportedly fired a fourteen-year-old hat-check girl at his St. Louis nightclub because he believed she was a prostitute. She in turn reported him to the authorities, he was prosecuted, was eventually convicted in 1962, and spent two years in prison.⁴ Ruth Brown was forced to leave show business because Atlantic Records had refused to pay royalties for her music. Several other black artists were also cheated out of royalties by record companies. Years later Brown sued Atlantic Records and recouped some of her unpaid royalties.⁵ In early 1958 Elvis was drafted and joined the U.S. Army, an event that some believe Colonel Parker negotiated with the United States government.⁶ America’s teenagers went into a brief period of national mourning over the King’s departure. In the years that followed, Elvis made several comebacks—which included a string of B movies—and he continued to be a superstar, but he would never again be the King of rock ‘n’ roll.

Ten years after the Elvis phenomenon in 1954, the Beatles led the British Invasion in 1964, and John Lennon led the Beatles. I believe Lennon and Elvis were both targeted by the FBI because they were both leaders of the musical genre, rock ‘n’ roll, but they led the artform in two different decades. Elvis’s father, Vernon Presley, believed his son was murdered by his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.⁷ By the time Elvis died on August 16, 1977,^* he had probably become a liability to the United States government because he was obsessed with President Kennedy’s assassination, believing the young president and his brother Bobby were both victims of a governmental conspiracy. (See Chapter 5.) Recall that the House Select Committee on Assassinations began hearings on JFK’s murder in 1977. And Elvis’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, was a highly suspicious character. Writer Alanna Nash portrays the Colonel—in her book, The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley—as a psychopathic murderer born June 26, 1909 in Breda, Holland, whose real name was Andreas "Andre" Cornelis van Kuijk. He fled Holland in 1929 shortly after the death of a twenty-three-year-old woman, Anna van den Enden, the newlywed wife of greengrocer Wilhelm "Willem" van den Enden. On May 17, 1929, Anna van den Enden was bludgeoned to death in the kitchen of her home behind her husband’s greengrocery shop at Nieuwe Boschstraat 31. Andre van Kuijk (aka, Colonel Tom Parker) left Holland for America the same night that van den Enden was murdered.⁸ Nash makes a compelling argument that Parker murdered the young woman. (See Chapter 5.)

Although Elvis had become interested in the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers, he was never overtly political. To my knowledge, he never publicly commented on any political issue, not even the Kennedy assassination. Yet Elvis was targeted by the FBI early in his career.⁹ (See Chapters 5 & 14.) Lennon did not become overtly political until he was first attacked relentlessly by the American news media—on July 29, 1966—for telling British journalist Maureen Cleave that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus." The FBI used Lennon’s comments—which were tame by today’s standards—as a pretext to launch a negative media blitz against him and the Beatles. As previously stated, the FBI works jointly with six Jewish-controlled media conglomerates^* to govern the flow of information published and broadcast in every media outlet in America. In Chapter 3, I described how the Bureau creates dossiers for American citizens who write objectionable articles which appear in the various newspapers across the United States. According to William Sullivan, every field office—since he joined the FBI in 1941—had a group whose function was (is) to read newspapers and clip out articles critical of Hoover and the Bureau and mail the articles back to Washington.¹⁰ The field offices focus mainly on printed materials, whereas, the six media conglomerates focus on electronic media outlets. Together, the FBI and the six Jewish-controlled media conglomerates keep close surveillance on virtually all information—printed and electronic alike—published and broadcast throughout every village, town and city in America. Consequently, the American media outlets function as a monolithic force, and turning them against anyone is like changing a traffic signal from red to green. All that is required is a pretext. And Lennon’s remarks about Jesus became just that: a pretext.

As previously stated, the FBI is a Zionist tool (see Chapter 3), and as such, could care less about Christianity or John Lennon’s comments about it. But Lennon gave the Bureau ammunition, and consequently, the Talmudic word twisters used his comments about Jesus as a pretext to turn the Christian public against the Beatles.

In response to Lennon’s religious remarks, the Ku Klux Klan staged protest rallies where Beatle albums were burned in bonfires. Like the anti-Beatles media blitz, The Klan rallies were probably FBI operations as well. According to William Sullivan, the FBI had completely infiltrated the Klan, and other right-wing extremist groups, controlling them by merging them together under the KKK banner.¹¹ (See Chapter 7.) So the Klan’s reaction to Lennon’s religious remarks was probably fraudulent, staged by the FBI, like the negative media blitz.

On July 5, 1966, shortly before the "Jesus" incident, the Beatles’ endured hostile crowds in Manila after Philippino president Ferdinand Marcos’ wife, Amelda Marcos, leaked a false story to the public that the Beatles had snubbed her by not attending a party she had hosted. Most sources agree that the Beatles never received an invitation. Nevertheless, their security was dropped as they tried to leave the country; they were jeered by several people and shoved at the airport by about thirty thugs, many armed.¹² The Manila incident had the earmarks of an intelligence operation designed to discredit and demoralize the Beatles. (See Chapter 7.) But Lennon fought back; the Manila incident and the furor over John’s Jesus remarks apparently inspired him to retaliate by publicly criticizing America’s military involvement in South Vietnam. In fact, John’s first known political statements—criticism of America’s Vietnam policy—occurred on August 12, 1966, when he held a press conference in Chicago to explained his comments about Christianity and apologize. Soon he began writing political songs and he accepted the supporting role in Richard Lester’s anti-war movie, How I Won the War. There is little doubt that many Jews viewed Lester’s movie as pro-Hitler because it portrayed Nazis as sensitive human beings.

In 1966, Paul McCartney began to turn against John Lennon, apparently jealous of Lennon’s genius, and the public admiration he garnered with such ease. The following is a timeline of several events that occurred in 1966 and 1967 which indicate a young McCartney may have betrayed his brilliant partner, aligning himself with Lennon’s enemies in a growing effort to discredit the second king of rock ‘n’ roll:

• On June 15, 1966, Capitol Records releases a Beatles’ album without the Beatles’ consent entitled Yesterday and Today. Capitol uses a gruesome picture on the cover, known as the "butcher block photo." It shows the Beatles wearing white butcher smocks holding dead babies (dolls) and hunks of raw red meat. The butcher block picture was taken by photographer Bob Whitaker during a bizarre photo session. Whitaker claims the photo was part of a montage, and he had no idea it would be used alone for an album cover. Overwhelmed with complaints from radio stations and fans, Capitol Records replaces the gory cover with a more conventional photo of the Beatles. To this day it remains a mystery how and why the butcher block photo appeared on the cover of Yesterday and Today, but it seems incomprehensible that Capitol Records would blindly release an album without first examining the cover design closely.

• On July 5, 1966, the Manila incident occurs.¹³

• On July 29, 1966, Datebook runs Lennon’s "more popular than Jesus" interview with British journalist Maureen Cleave, presented out of context, which creates anti-Beatle reactions around America, particularly in the South.

• On August 5, 1966, the Beatles release a ground breaking album, Revolver; however, three of John Lennon’s five original songs do not appear on the version of the album released by Capitol Records in America. Instead, Paul McCartney is presented as the primary songwriting force. None of McCartney’s songs are omitted from the original British version (Parlophone) of Revolver. Even worse, Lennon’s three missing songs (And Your Bird Can Sing, I’m Only Sleeping, and Dr. Robert) had been released on Capitol Records’ Yesterday and Today album, on June 15, 1966, nearly two months earlier. It doesn’t seem possible that John’s three songs could be released on an American album before they were released anywhere. This indicates that someone with a lot of authority in the Beatles’ inner circle approved the release of Lennon’s work. The prime suspect would the man who co-authored the three songs, Paul McCartney.^*

• On August 12, 1966, just before the Beatles next tour begins, John holds a press conference in Chicago where he explains his comments about Christianity and apologizes. The American journalists are unnecessarily crass. In response, John moves on to other topics and begins criticizing America’s warlike conduct in Vietnam. This was the beginning of John’s political activism.¹⁴

• On August 19, 1966, the Beatles perform at a Memphis concert and someone lets off a firecracker. The entire Beatles’ entourage reportedly looked at John, thinking he had been shot.¹⁵

• On August 29, 1966, the Beatles play their final concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. They have grown tired of touring anyway, but it was the ruffian treatment they endured in Manila combined with the furor raised by the American press and the Ku Klux Klan over Lennon’s religious remarks that caused them to stop touring completely. There was concern over an assassination attempt as well.¹⁶

• In September 1966, filming of How I Won the War begins.

• On November 9, 1966, John meets Yoko Ono at an art exhibition she gives at the Indica Gallery in Masons Yard, Duke Street, London. John eventually divorces his first wife, Cynthia Powell, and marries Ono.¹⁷

• On May 20, 1967, BBC Radio bans John’s song, A Day in the Life, using the pretext that its lyrics might encourage drug use among Beatle fans. The real reason, however, is probably because John used the song to plug the pro-Nazi film, How I Won the War. The following lyrics, from A Day in the Life, reference the movie:

• On June 1, 1967, the Beatles release Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, their most industrious album yet. (A Day in the Life is one the tunes included on the album. The song was banned before the album was released.)

• On June 18 & 19, 1967, McCartney announces to the world he took LSD four times.¹⁸ Public reaction is immediate and negative. McCartney is heavily criticized, but quickly recovers. His unusual public admission is a second sign that the baby-faced bass player and Little Richard imitator is quietly stabbing John Lennon in the back. In fact, an argument is presented in Chapter 7 that McCartney staged the entire media event. The real reason McCartney admitted he used LSD was probably to thwart the success of the controversial movie, How I Won the War. His admission adds credibility to BBC Radio’s ban of "A Day in the Life," a song which Lennon had planned to use to plug the pro-Nazi movie, How I Won the War. Paul’s admission creates the image that the Beatles are heavy drug users, an image which reinforces BBC Radio’s weak argument that "A Day in the Life" might encourage substance abuse. True, the Beatles had in fact experimented with LSD and other drugs, but the public was unaware of that fact until Paul made his public admission. Keep in mind that Paul co-authored "A Day in the Life." Consequently, his admission means one of the song’s co-authors is an avowed drug user. Back in 1967, the public was not fully aware of the musical and artistic differences between Lennon and McCartney. Beatle fans thought of them as a songwriting team, not as separate artists. We now know that Lennon was the primary author of "A Day in the Life," and McCartney’s contribution was minimal, the middle section, which is not an integral part of the overall song, but McCartney’s added lyrics have more drug references. Let’s examine them:

• McCartney’s references to having "a smoke" and going "into a dream" helped reinforce the song’s drug mystique. Those lines, combined with McCartney’s June 18^th and 19^th admissions about taking LSD, helped ensure the song would remain banned, using drug references as a pretext. In reality, the song was probably banned because of its Hitler references. The ban ultimately prevented John from plugging the movie, How I Won the War, in the Sgt. Pepper masterpiece. The ban also meant that one of John’s greatest works would not receive airplay in Britain, a move probably intended to diminish his stature as a songwriter and recording artist. In the end, however, the effort backfired because Lennon’s stature grew, regardless of the ban.

• From June 16, 1967 through June 18^th, the first commercial American rock festival is held in Monterey, California, appropriately named The Monterey Pop Festival. The concert was organized by Dunhill Records executive Lou Adler and John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas, patterned after the successful Monterey Jazz Festival and staged at the same site. It introduces Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix to a large audience and features performances by Otis Redding, the Who, the Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, the Byrds, Canned Heat, Buffalo Springfield, Ravi Shankar, and many others.

• On August 27, 1967, the Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein is found dead in his London flat.²⁰ His death is officially ruled an accidental drug overdose, but rumors spread that there is more to the story than the public was told.²¹ He was 32. History has shown that Epstein’s death marked a decline in the Beatles’ phenomenon, primarily because of poor business decisions.

• On December 10, 1967, rhythm and blues singer Otis Redding is killed when his chartered plane crashes into a Wisconsin lake. Redding was a singer-songwriter, one of the great black soul stylists of the 1960s. Redding’s backing band also perished in the crash. Redding was 26.

• On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr is killed by a sniper's bullet while standing on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, Tennessee where he and his associates are staying.

• By June 4, 1968 Robert Kennedy wins five out of six presidential primaries, including one that day in California. Shortly after midnight on June 5th he speaks to his supporters in the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel. As he leaves through a kitchen hallway he is fatally wounded by a Palestinian immigrant, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan; at least that’s the official story. Robert Kennedy dies the next day on June 6, 1968.²²

• The same month, June 1968, Rosemary’s Baby premiers.

• August 26, 1968, the Beatles release John Lennon’s most aggressive protest song to date, Revolution, less than three months after Bobby Kennedy’s assassination, nearly five months after King’s murder. It was on the B-side of the hit McCartney single, Hey Jude. Here are the lyrics:

• In 1968, Timothy Leary is arrested for possession of marijuana and after a prolonged legal battle, is incarcerated in 1970. He soon escapes and becomes a fugitive, living outside the United States for more than two years until being recaptured in Afghanistan. He is freed in 1976 and settles in southern California. During the 1980s and '90s Leary continues to appear publicly in lectures and debates, although he never regains the stature he had enjoyed during the 1960s. He also designs computer software and is an early advocate of the potential of new technologies such as virtual reality and the Internet.²³

• On March 1, 1969, Jim Morrison and the Doors give a controversial concert in Miami, Florida. Morrison’s stage antics get him into hot water with the FBI and the American courts. He is specifically accused of exposing his penis to the audience, and is eventually convicted of "indecent exposure" (a misdemeanor), although it is generally accepted by rock historians that he did not expose himself as charged. It is not disputed, however, that Morrison taunted the audience by evoking the notion of nudity, essentially saying he was going to get naked on stage, but never actually doing it. Morrison’s antics were probably inspired, in part, by John Lennon who only a few months earlier (on November 29, 1968) had shocked the rock music world when he and Yoko Ono released an avant-garde album, Two Virgins, which showed the couple stark naked on the album cover. Shortly afterwards, they appeared semi-nude in a photo collage which accompanied the Beatles’ White Album.

• In March of 1969, John and Yoko stage their first bed-in (protest against Vietnam War) in the presidential suite at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel. The bed-in lasts a week during the couple’s honeymoon.

• In May-June 1969, John and Yoko stage a second week-long bed-in at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal.

• On July 3, 1969, the body of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones is found in a swimming pool at his home in Hartfield, Sussex, England. His death is ruled accidental drowning. He was 27.

• On July 18, 1969, Ted Kennedy’s political career is nearly destroyed when he "accidentally" drives his car off an unmarked bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and his companion in the car, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, is drowned.

• On July 31, 1969, the body of Gary Hinman is found in LA. On August 9, 1969, the mutilated bodies of Sharon Tate and four others are also found in LA. On August 10, 1969, the mutilated bodies of Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary are found in LA as well. Charlie Manson and members of his hippie commune are eventually convicted of the murders.

• On August 15, 1969—just five days after the Tate/LaBianca murders—the Woodstock rock festival begins and continues until August 17^th. 400,000 fans gather to listen to rock music and show solidarity in opposition to US involvement in the Vietnam War at a time when American forces are at an all-time high: 540,000 soldiers. Jimi Hendrix plays a dramatic virtuoso rendition of The Star Spangled Banner on a screeching electric guitar that simulates the sounds of bombs dropping, explosions blasting, and machine guns firing, combined with the melody line of America’s national anthem presented as an avant-garde work of musical art before the huge gathering of spellbound American youths.

• October of 1969, Detroit disc jockey Russell Gibb announces on the air he has received information that Paul McCartney died several years earlier and it was covered up with a look-alike.

• On December 6, 1969, just four months after Woodstock, the Rolling Stones give a nightmarish concert at the Altamont Motor Speedway outside San Francisco. The Stones are the headliners and someone convinces them that using Hell's Angels as security is useful. While performing "Sympathy for the Devil" several of the Angels murder a concert-goer—all in view of the performers. Three other people are murdered by the Angels. Other bands at the concert include the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, and Ike and Tina Turner. In 1970, Albert and David Maysles release a film documentary of the tragic event entitled Gimme Shelter.

• On September 3, 1970, Alan Wilson, guitarist for Canned Heat, found dead in a sleeping bag in Topanga Canyon, LA. His band, Canned Heat, was reportedly the third highest paid act at Woodstock. In addition, they were one of the few bands at the concert who could draw huge crowds in their own right. Wilson was 27.²⁴

• On September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix is found dead in London, England. At first his death is reported as a drug overdose; rumors spread that it was suicide. Later the coroner rules it was not suicide, but the result of drowning in his own vomit after taking too many pills. Years later, the doctor who treated Hendrix at the nearby hospital stated that Hendrix died from drowning in red wine, obviously murdered. Hendrix was 27.

• On October 4, 1970, Janis Joplin is found dead from a drug overdose in LA. She died from inadvertently injecting a lethal dose of heroin. She was 27.

• On April 10, 1970, Paul McCartney announces his resignation from the Beatles. On December 31, 1970, McCartney commits the ultimate act of betrayal to Lennon, Harrison, and Starr; he begins legal proceedings in the London High Court to end the Beatles’ partnership.

• On July 3, 1971, Jim Morrison dies mysteriously in Paris from a heart attack at the young age of 27.

• On October 29, 1971, Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident; he was 24. Allman was an accomplished guitarist and founder and leader of the American southern rock band, The Allman Brothers Band.

Roman Polanski may have been inspired to make Rosemary’s Baby by Timothy Leary and his colleague Arthur Koesler. In the Sixties, Leary advocated LSD-use and coined the popular counter-culture phrase, "turn on, tune in, and drop out." Leary was a middle-aged intellectual who was friends with several influential artists and writers of the Sixties era. Leary’s friends included John Lennon, Roman Polanski, and writer Arthur Koesler.^* It is uncertain if Lennon, Polanski, and Koesler knew one another per se, but they were all friends with Leary. If they in fact mutual friends, or a group, it would be a force to be reckoned with. Polanski and Koestler were both Jews who seemed interested in exposing the darker side of their heritage.

Koestler’s influence could explain Polanski’s irreverent depiction of Jews as witches in Rosemary’s Baby. In 1974, Koestler wrote a controversial book about the history of Judaism entitled, The Thirteenth Tribe. Koestler’s book exposed the myth that Jews have a right to return to Israel. He revealed that most Jews in the modern world are descendants of the lost nation of Khazaria, a country in eastern Europe that flourished as an independent state from about 650 to 1016. Around 740, the king of Khazaria issued a decree making Judaism the national religion and ordered citizens of Khazaria—Khazars—to convert. Prior to that, Khazaria’s predominant religion was Shamanism, a type of paganism from which Wicca later evolved. Wicca is a religion of sorts, but is really a euphemism for witchcraft. In fact, Wiccans openly refer to themselves as witches. In addition, Wiccans openly acknowledge Shamanism as a "mother religion."

The controversy that surrounded Leary eventually made him an enemy of the FBI, who apparently regarded him as an influential member of the New Left.²⁵ Consequently, anyone who dealt with Leary became tainted in the eyes of the Bureau. From what I have read about Leary, I am satisfied that he was a genuine individual, although somewhat eccentric. By genuine, I mean he was not an FBI informant or something comparable. At least I have found no evidence indicating otherwise. While I do not subscribe to his philosophy about LSD, I believe his opinions were sincere. I strongly suspect, however, that he became surrounded by backstabbers—like Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, for example—who pretended to be his friends and colleagues, but encouraged him to endorse extreme and absurd opinions. Although Leary is remembered primarily for his LSD advocacy, he was also an opponent of US military involvement in South Vietnam.

All four men were eventually destroyed or driven out of the country. After arrests in 1965 and 1968 for possession of marijuana and a prolonged legal battle, Leary was incarcerated in 1970. He soon escaped and became a fugitive, living outside the United States for more than two years until being recaptured in Afghanistan. He was freed in 1976 and settled in southern California.²⁶ In 1977, Polanski was arrested and eventually pled guilty to a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. He subsequently jumped bail and fled to France, where he remained active in both the theater and motion pictures.²⁷ On December 8, 1980, Lennon was assassinated at his home in Manhattan. On March 3, 1983, Koestler and his wife Cynthia reportedly took their own lives. Koestler reportedly suffered from leukemia and Parkinson's disease;²⁸ at least that’s the official story.

The lives of Roman Polanski and countless rock stars were dramatically impacted by the notorious Manson Murders. On August 9, 1969, the body of Polanski’s beautiful young wife, Sharon Tate, was found at the couple’s rented Los Angeles residence which was owned by record producer Terry Melcher, the son of actress Doris Day. Other murder victims found at Melcher’s property were Abigail Folger, Voytek Frykowki, Jay Sebring, and Steven Parent. They had all been brutally murdered in a ritualistic manner. The next day (August 10, 1969), the bodies of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were found in their Los Angeles home; they had been murdered in a similar manner. Ten days earlier, (July 31, 1969), the mutilated body of Gary Hinman was found at 946 Old Topanga Canyon Rd., Los Angeles, California. Hinman’s body contained multiple stab wounds; he had been dead several days. The people convicted of committing the crimes—Charlie Manson and members of his commune—were stereotypical of the Sixties youth culture.

More investigation is certainly needed regarding the Manson murders, but my research indicates that Charlie Manson and his followers were probably patsies. It is possible, however, that Manson was a paid government informant, similar to Lee Harvey Oswald, although I do not believe Manson was an active participant in a conspiracy to murder Tate, Folger, Frykowki, Sebring, Parent, Hinman, and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. Although Manson had spent years in and out of prisons, jails, and reform schools prior to the gruesome murders, he had no history of committing violent crimes.^* The reason he was incarcerated so often was because his mother had abandoned him as a child, and he became a ward of the state. Violence was never part of his make up. He mainly engaged in petty larceny as a means of obtaining food and shelter. In fact, his last six-year prison term at the Federal Penitentiary at Terminal Island, San Pedro, California (from 1961 through 1967) was for cashing a government check worth $37.50.²⁹ (See Chapter 9.)

It seems quite odd that someone like Manson would mastermind a grisly mass-murder when his most serious conviction in the past had been car theft. The so-called "Manson Murders" were completely out of character with Manson’s history. He was not a violent person. This is a major reason to suspect Manson was working as an FBI informant, was likely operating on a "need to know" basis, probably manipulated into taking the fall for the crimes, along with several members of his commune. Another reason to suspect Manson was an informant is because he stated in his book, Manson: In His Own Words (1986, co-authored with Nuel Emmons), that he asked to remain in prison when his sentence ended at Terminal Island, San Pedro, California on March 21, 1967. (See Chapter 9.) Unbelievable as it seems, Manson claims he asked not to be released, but the officer he spoke with laughed and ignored his request. But knowing Manson’s background, his desire to stay at Terminal Island is quite understandable. In March of 1967, he was 32 years old and had spent 17 years—over half his life—in various reform schools, jails and prisons since the age of twelve. Prison life was all he knew.

The reason he wanted to remain incarcerated was because he liked the facilities at Terminal Island, plus he had failed all his life at trying to make it as a free man on the outside. As a boy, Manson had lived for three years in a nightmarish reform school: The Indiana School for Boys at Plainfield, Indiana, where he was once the victim of a homosexual gang rape by four older teenage inmates. At the same school, he was physically and psychologically abused by several sadistic guards on a regular basis. To Manson, the federal prison at Terminal Island was Heaven compared to the Indiana School for Boys. At Terminal Island, Manson studied Scientology, taught himself to play guitar, sang and wrote songs, and performed his music for the inmates whenever possible. He felt he had a home at Terminal Island and a lot of people there liked and respected him.

In addition, Manson stated that he was acquainted with Mafia boss Frank Costello while serving time at The Federal Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio.³⁰ Costello was a notorious American gangster, noted for his influence with politicians, and close associate of Lucky Luciano. Costello and Luciano were also associates of Meyer Lansky, considered by many to be one of the most powerful mobsters in America after Luciano’s death in 1962. In 1979 the House Select Committee on Assassinations, ending its two-year investigation of the Warren Commission report, linked Lansky with Jack Ruby, the nightclub owner who killed President Kennedy’s accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.³¹ In my book, Opium Lords, I assert that Oswald was a patsy, and Lansky was recruited by J. Edgar Hoover to hire French Corsican assassins to kill Kennedy. (See Appendix M: Organizational Chart of JFK Conspiracy.) It is important to remember that the notorious Manson murders occurred just six and a half years after JFK’s assassination, so most of the people involved in Kennedy’s murder were still alive and well when Sharon Tate was killed. Manson’s friendship with Frank Costello potentially places him at the center of Meyer Lansky’s criminal enterprise which included providing hit men for the FBI.

Manson also claimed he befriended Ma Barker’s gunman Alvin "Creepy" Karpis while serving time at McNeil Island in Washington state.³² To my knowledge, Charlie Manson has never publicly stated having any association with Meyer Lansky or Lucky Luciano, only that he knew Frank Costello and gunman Alvin "Creepy" Karpis in prison. Perhaps Charlie was unaware of Costello’s association with Lansky, and he likely did not know of Lansky’s involvement in the Kennedy assassination. More research is needed to determine the precise nature of Manson’s connection to the mob, and possibly the FBI, after his release from Terminal Island in 1967. But Charlie’s admissions that he had befriended Frank Costello and Alvin "Creepy" Karpis certainly suggest he might have been manipulated by powerful mob figures possibly working at the behest of the FBI. Whether Charlie was a bona fide FBI informant remains a question. But given the FBI’s apparent relationship with the mob, and given Manson’s desire to remain at Terminal Island when his sentence was completed in 1967, and given Manson’s non-violent history, it is quite possible that a deal was struck where he promised to help assist the feds in exchange for free room and board for the rest of his life at a federal prison. Again, I do not believe Manson was aware that he was helping the feds in a plot to commit mass-murder. If he did in fact work as an informant, he likely viewed himself as a mercenary; just following orders. Plus, the FBI is, after all, an agency of the United States government. Consequently, Manson may have felt he was being patriotic.

In Chapter 9, I described how Charlie Manson and members of his commune lived, off and on, at a bizarre house in a section of Los Angeles known as Topanga Canyon. Manson and his friends nicknamed the house the "Spiral Staircase" because of the circular stairs at the entrance of the residence. The Spiral Staircase has all the signs of an intelligence operation, a hippie front for an FBI operation designed to discredit rock. It was probably infested with informants who practiced a Satanic form of witchcraft that, according to Manson, included a high degree of LSD use, free sex, orgies, whipping sexual partners with chains, animal sacrifices and drinking animal blood for sexual gratification.

Again, more investigation is needed, but my research indicates that The Spiral Staircase was probably a Gothic mansion once owned by actor Bela Lugosi. My research further indicates that a popular LA rock group, Love, lived at the Lugosi mansion in the late Sixties. In fact, many of Love’s publicity photos show the band standing on a spiral staircase and it has been reported by rock critics that such photos were taken at the band’s LA residence, formerly Lugosi’s mansion. (See Chapter 14.) That raises another question. Why would Love be living in a place infested with FBI informants? Were they unaware, or were they working for the feds as well? The latter scenario is quite plausible; however, I have found no direct evidence that Love’s founder, Arthur Lee, was an active participant in a conspiracy to murder Sharon Tate and the others.

There are lots of reasons to suspect the Satanic mansion in Topanga Canyon was an intelligence operation, likely an FBI front. First, Topanga Canyon was geographically located at the heart of the L.A. rock music scene in the Sixties. Love, Canned Heat, Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman, Jim Morrison, David Crosby, Jackson Brown, and a host of other well-known rockers lived in the Topanga Canyon area. It is geographically close to the Sunset Strip, close to RCA Records’ west coast office, which had a well-known recording studio downstairs. The Rolling Stones recorded "Let’s Spend the Night Together" and "Paint it Black" in that studio. Other artists who recorded there included Elvis Presley, the Jefferson Airplane, and the Grateful Dead. Barney’s Beanery is nearby.^* 9000 Sunset Boulevard was also nearby. Billboard magazine’s office was there. Former Beatles’ publicist Derek Taylor's (Byrds, Doors, Captain Beefheart, Beach Boys, etc. manager) had an office there as well.³³

Second, Alan Wilson was found dead in a sleeping bag in Topanga Canyon in 1970. Wilson was rhythm guitarist, singer, harmonica player, and songwriter for blues/rock band, Canned Heat. He and singer Bob Hite were blues historians/musicians who co-founded Canned Heat in the mid-Sixties. Wilson had been staying at Hite’s home in Topanga Canyon when he died. (See Chapter 12.) Years later, Bob Hite claimed he had partied with members of the Manson Family (see Chapter 13), something that is completely believable since Hite lived near Manson’s former stomping ground, the Spiral Staircase in Topanga Canyon. Third, Gary Hinman’s mutilated body was found at his home in Topango Canyon on July 31, 1969. Hinman was the first victim of the notorious Manson Murders. Guitarist Bobby Beausoleil was later convicted—along with Susan Atkins and Mary Brunner—of murdering Hinman. Beausoleil had played rhythm guitar with the rock group Love several years prior (around 1965).

According to Beausoleil, Love’s leader Arthur Lee decided to use Byran MacLean for the rhythm guitar slot, instead of Beausoleil, because MacLean had been a roadie for the Byrds, a connection that could potentially open many doors for Love. Beausoleil also claimed that Arthur Lee changed the group’s name to Love as a way of showing respect to Beausoleil, whose nickname was "Cupid."³⁴ Although some will deny Beausoleil’s version of events, his story seems quite believable. Even L.A. District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi (the man who prosecuted Manson and his followers) corroborated Beausoleil’s nickname was Cupid in Bugliosi’s renowned book, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders.³⁵ Manson claims he met Beausoleil at the Spiral Staircase, which is completely believable since Love apparently lived there.

A fourth reason to believe the Spiral Staircase was an FBI front is the Jim Morrison connection. In the late Sixties, Morrison bought his longtime girlfriend Pamela Courson a cottage in Topanga Canyon. In addition, Morrison was good friends with Arthur Lee, leader of the LA rock group Love who apparently lived at the Spiral Staircase. These things drew Morrison closer into Charlie Manson’s world. In fact, Lee was reportedly instrumental in getting the Doors signed by Elektra Records. Morrison must have been devastated to learn of Jay Sebring’s brutal murder at Sharon Tate’s home around August 9, 1969. Morrison was acquainted with Sebring, a well-known Hollywood hair stylist, who in 1967—at Morrison’s request—cut the famous rock star’s hair to look like Alexander the Great. Morrison’s hairstyle, care of Sebring, was an important part of the singer’s image when the Doors first rose to national prominence in 1967 with their hit single, "Light My Fire."

So it appears that the FBI had set up an operation—a spy ring, for lack of a better term—in the heart of the L.A. music scene, in the gothic mansion, formerly owned by Bela Lugosi, and nicknamed the Spiral Staircase by Charlie Manson and his friends.

The Beach Boys were deeply involved in the fledgling music career of Charlie Manson. This has been hushed up for years, but it is the truth. Manson wrote a song for the Beach Boys, originally named Cease to Exist, later re-titled Never Learn Not to Love; the latter version being included on the Beach Boys’ 20/20 album.³⁶ (See Chapter 9.) The original Beach Boys were as follows: Brian Wilson (b. June 20, 1942, Inglewood, California.), Dennis Wilson (b. Dec. 4, 1944, Inglewood—d. Dec. 28, 1983, Marina del Rey, California.), Carl Wilson (b. Dec. 21, 1946, Los Angeles—d. Feb. 6, 1998, Los Angeles), Michael Love (b. March 15, 1941, Los Angeles), and Al Jardine (b. Sept. 3, 1942, Lima, Ohio). Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson were brothers. The group was originally managed by their father, Murry Wilson. Carl played rhythm guitar, Al Jardine played lead guitar, Brian Wilson played bass guitar and keyboards, and Dennis Wilson played drums. Everyone in the group sang. What I am about to state will shock a lot of people, but it deserves consideration. Given the group’s close ties to Charlie Manson, has anyone ever considered the possibility that the Beach Boys themselves are a group of FBI informants, or something comparable? They appear to be artificially propped up by forces other than the public, and they defy many of the basic rules of rock. If one examines the Beach Boys closely, they do not fit the profile of a typical rock ‘n’ roll band, not by a longshot.

First, the Beach Boys have no image and little charisma. As a young man, Dennis Wilson was handsome enough, and so was Mike Love, but Brian and Carl Wilson were pudgy, unsexy, uncultured-looking young men. (They certainly had no fear of being trampled by love-crazed female fans.) True, they sang well and developed elaborate harmonies; and Brian Wilson wrote some catchy tunes, but their lyrics were infantile and unimaginative, mostly about racing cars, surfing, and teenage romance. Second, there is no logical reason for their sustained success. They have not had a major hit since the mid-Sixties, no member of the band is particularly articulate or clever with the media, their live performances are highly mediocre, and they have a reputation for arriving hours late for their shows.^* Yet the Beach Boys have enjoyed vast popularity for decades. Why are they so deserving? Brian Wilson, the band’s so-called "creative genius," seems slow-witted—bordering on mental retardation—in several TV interviews I have observed.

Third, Wilson’s first wife, Marilyn Rovell, was openly Jewish, which means their two children, Carny and Wendy, are Jewish as well, because Jewish law stipulates that the child of a Jewish woman is automatically Jewish, regardless of the father’s faith. But that begs another question. What is Brian Wilson’s ethnicity? As it turns out, he and his brothers Dennis and Carl may be Jewish as well. Their mother’s name was Audree Neva Korthof, born September 28, 1918, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. More research is required to determine for certain if Korthof was Jewish, but regardless of her ethnic background, being Jewish is not a crime, nor is marrying a Jewish woman and fathering two Jewish children, as Brian Wilson did. What the Jewish connection does is provide people like Brian Wilson with direct access to Jewish political forces if they choose to utilize them.

Fourth, unlike most rock bands, the Beach Boys are not a working musical unit. Musically, the Beach Boys have deceived the public for years. They are not truly a band. They are primarily a vocal group, not unlike the Osmonds, featuring Donny and Marie. The Beach Boys have not performed musical parts on their recordings since around 1965. For the production of their critically acclaimed Pet Sounds, Brian Wilson brought in session musicians. None of the other Beach Boys played their instruments on Pet Sounds. All they did was sing. When the Beatles recorded their highly orchestrated albums, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and, The Magical Mystery Tour, they recorded the basic musical tracks themselves. This included rhythm section tracks, drums, rhythm guitars, lead guitar solos, piano, organ, sitar, and various novelty instruments. Later, additional layers of orchestration were added as needed on top of the Beatles’ basic sound. This was not the case with the Beach Boys and Pet Sounds. Brian Wilson played keyboards, brothers Carl and Dennis played token guitar and drum parts here and there, but the bulk of the music was played by professionals like Carol Kaye and Lyle Ritz on bass. Several guitarists appeared on the album as well; they included Mike Deasy Sr., Bill Pitman, Ray Pohlman (also played electric and mandolin), Tommy Tedesco, Al Casey, Jerry Cole, and Billy Strange on 12-string guitar. Drummers included Jim Gordon,^† Nick Martinis, and Hal Blaine.³⁷ With this sort of musical lineup, the Beach Boys’ actual instrumental contributions to Pet Sounds were practically non-existent.

A fifth important point about the Beach Boys is their obvious connection to Washington, DC. As previously stated, the Beach Boys played at the Mall in Washington, DC (near Capitol Hill) on July Fourth in 1980, 1981, 1984, and 1985. In 1983, US Secretary of Interior, James Watt, criticized the Beach Boys’ pervious performances at the Mall and decided to ban rock music at the next Fourth of July concert in Washington DC, saying it would attract "the wrong element." Surprisingly, the Beach Boys were defended by then-President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy. Watt immediately began to backpedal, suggesting the Beach Boys could be replaced by alternate performers like the Grass Roots^† or Los Vegas singer Wayne Newton. (Not exactly the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra.) Apparently Mr. Watt criticized the Beach Boys without first checking with higher authorities.

It’s interesting that John Lennon was nearly deported in the Seventies for trying to live in New York City while helping his wife, Yoko Ono, locate her estranged daughter, Kyoko. It’s odd that Lennon had to fight from being deported but President Reagan quickly defended the Beach Boys’ right to perform near Capitol Hill on one of the most patriotic American holidays, the Fourth of July. John Lennon had no connection with anyone like Charlie Manson, but Brian and Dennis Wilson were quite close to him. This point alone should raise a huge red flag in anyone’s mind. Why did President Reagan give friends of Charlie Manson the red carpet treatment, but the United States government tried to deport John Lennon? This says quite a bit about the United States Government, President Reagan, Charlie Manson and the Beach Boys. Prior to the infamous Manson murders in 1969, Manson had recorded at Brian Wilson’s home studio.³⁸ Although I have questioned the Beach Boys’ legitimacy as an authentic rock band, they were nevertheless major recording stars in the Sixties. From a public relations perspective, recording at Brian Wilson’s home studio was tantamount to recording at John Lennon’s home studio or Paul McCartney’s. Manson never made it to the big-time as a recording artist, but he was definitely playing in the big leagues. As previously stated, the Beach Boys recorded one of Manson’s songs, "Cease to Exist," retitled "Never Learn Not to Love," included on the Beach Boys’ 20/20 album.³⁹

Given the close ties between the Beach Boys and Charlie Manson, someone convicted of masterminding the most gruesome crimes of the Twentieth Century, one would think former President Reagan and other high-ranking government officials would want to distance the United States Government from the declining surf band who befriended the convicted Manson. Yet Reagan jumped to the Beach Boys’ defense when James Watt publicly criticized them. Upon reflection, it was completely appropriate for Watt—being Secretary of Interior—to choose whomever he wished. After all, the concerts were held on public land near Capitol Hill on the Fourth of July.

For years I have wondered if Paul McCartney has Jewish heritage. Many people have speculated that Ringo (aka, Richard Starkey) is Jewish because he has a large nose; however, a nose alone does not necessarily mean someone is Jewish. Many Italians have noses similar to the stereotypical Jewish nose; so do many Greeks and Arabs. But unlike Ringo, Paul has a dark, somewhat sinister personality. And also different from Ringo, Paul betrayed John Lennon on countless occasions. (See Chapter 7.) This is not to suggest that every Jewish person is sinister; many Jews are raised in completely secular environments, and I suspect many resent carrying the burden of their heritage. Yet it is a heritage they were born into, so there is a natural feeling of obligation to embrace it to a limited extent, as anyone would embrace his or her heritage. Jewish people are not the problem per se; Judaism itself creates tremendous heartache for Jews and Gentiles alike. For example, I believe Brian Epstein was a decent person—regardless of his homosexuality or Jewish heritage—who genuinely loved the Beatles as friends and artists, and he tried to protect them when the FBI and the Jewish controlled American news media began to persecute them in 1966. (See Chapter 7.) I believe he was murdered because he was protecting John Lennon and the other Beatles. (See Chapter 7.) A wise man once said, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."⁴⁰

Having stated that, the teachings of the Talmud breed sinister behavior and have created sinister cultural values which are diametrically opposed not only to the Christian ethic, but to any culture which promotes treating one’s fellow men and women with respect, regardless of their background, race or social status. Those who are born into the chosen culture, and embrace it, create within themselves an endless capacity to participate in sinister activity. Many, like Brian Epstein, reject the darker side of their culture and are guided by their secular values. With this understanding, one can easily see why it is ridiculous to even classify Judaism as a religion. Just examine the following words of Jesus: "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."⁴¹ Those magnificent words can be quoted to leaders of all major religions, and the response from all will be positive, with one exception. The Buddhist will embrace those words. So will the Muslim and the Hindu. But the Jewish Rabbi will mock those words for two reasons. First, they were said by Jesus, a man cursed by Talmudic teachings; and second, Jewish ethic does not embrace peace. It embraces war.

Jewish Rabbis worship the Old Testament God of war and they scorn enlightened views—from any faith—that the universe was created by a loving, forgiving higher power. To the Jewish Rabbi, such beliefs are signs of weakness. They spit in the collective faces of the peacemakers, especially the followers of Jesus. They have murdered peacemakers over the millennia. The Old Testament Jewish God of hatred and war commands Hebrews to kill any prophet or dreamer of dreams. The following words come directly from Deuteronomy 13:5 (King James Version): "And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in." Such thinking is completely foreign to mainstream religions like Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity. Such malevolence should not be classified as a religion, yet it is.

The cited hatred of "dreamers of dreams" explains, in part, why the Jewish high priests in the Sanhedrin conspired to kill Jesus. It explains why the modern-day Sanhedrin conspired to kill President Kennedy, his brother Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, John Lennon and countless others. Jesus was exactly right when he said the following words to the ancient Sanhedrin leaders: "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness…Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?"⁴²

Regarding Paul McCartney’s Jewish roots, in 1969 he married a Jewish woman, Linda Eastman, and together they had three Jewish children: Mary, Stella and James. (The children are openly Jewish because their mother was openly Jewish.) Also, Paul has some serious personality problems which do not reflect the Christian ethic. Beatles’ biographer Philip Norman described what he believes is Paul’s primary character flaw:

An example of Paul’s compulsive desire to be liked is his obsession with taking credit for some of Lennon’s greatest works, most notably the song, "In My Life." In 1997, Paul claimed—in Barry Miles’ biography, Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now—that he (Paul) wrote the entire melody to In My Life. Since the book’s publication, Paul has slipped that comment into several interviews. Paul claims John made a mistake in the famous 1980 Playboy interview where he (John) claimed Paul helped write the middle eight measures of the song. The following is John’s description of In My Life to David Sheff during the 1980 Play interview:

Paul claims he wrote the entire melody. The following are excerpts of an interview with Paul from Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, by Barry Miles:

Paul’s description of the "writing session" is somewhat ambiguous. He claims he told John, "You haven’t got a tune," but he doesn’t say precisely how John presented the song to him. Did John simply recite the lyrics, show him the written lyrics? If so, it would seem a bit illogical for Paul to state the obvious, "You haven’t got a tune." If someone recites a written lyric without singing a melody, it’s obvious there’s not a tune, so why state the obvious? I suspect what really happened was John had the skeleton of a melody, he played it for Paul, and Paul responded saying, "You haven’t got a tune." Then Paul offered to work on it and flesh out a better, stronger melody. That seems more likely, but to claim that he (Paul) wrote the entire melody doesn’t ring true, and Paul’s description of how the song was written is quite feeble. In addition, biographer Barry Miles made misleading statements (close to outright lies) in his lead-in to Paul’s description of how he wrote the entire melody for In My Life. Miles made the following statements:

I will not debate John’s comments about Eleanor Rigby because John has always claimed it essentially Paul’s song, but he (John) help slightly with the lyrics. But focusing on In My Life, perhaps John’s greatest lyrical work, let’s examine Barry Miles’ comments. He said John’s descriptions of the Lennon-McCartney compositions in various magazines were "not always consistent." This is a sneaky comment because Miles is wavering between John’s comments about the entire Lennon-McCartney compositions versus two specific songs. Perhaps John was inconsistent somewhere, but Miles failed to point out where the inconsistencies were. This is vintage Talmudic spin. In addition, Miles implies Paul never read John’s published remarks. Miles wrote: "Paul’s recollections in this book were made without reference to John’s published comments…" This is hogwash. McCartney is obsessed with taking as much credit as he possibly can for Lennon-McCartney songs. What Miles is really doing is inoculating the reader to a previous statement John made to Rolling Stone, in 1970, about In My Life, ten years before the Playboy interview. In both interviews, John’s remarks are identical with respect to Paul’s contribution. In both interviews, John said Paul helped with the middle eight. The following is an excerpt from the famous Rolling Stone interview where John answers questions asked by Jann Wenner:

Notice how Jann Wenner framed the first question within the context that John had written In My Life entirely by himself. Then later, John spontaneously gave Paul credit for helping with the melody, without prompting from Wenner. The objective of the interview was not to define who wrote what part of Lennon-McCartney songs. The Rolling Stone interview was free-form, covering many topics. When questions arose about In My Life and Norwegian Wood, John quickly gave credit to Paul for helping with the melodies of both. He said Paul helped with middle eight. This is exactly what John said ten years later while discussing In My Life with David Sheff during a 1980 Playboy interview. Barry Miles suggests John’s comments were inconsistent, but they were surprisingly similar with respect to In My Life. In addition, John defended Paul’s role as co-author when Wenner was under the impression that John had written In My Life completely on his own.

This leads to another question: Why did Paul never respond to John’s 1970 remark that he (Paul) helped write the middle eight of In My Life? John was alive for ten years after making the remark to Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone. Yet Paul remained silent, apparently because he knew John was telling the truth. This would explain why Paul waited 27 years after the Rolling Stone interview, and 17 years after John’s death, to publicly claim he wrote the entire melody to In My Life. It’s obvious Paul is lying, but why? In My Life is considered a great song primarily because of the lyrics, not because of the melody. There’s absolutely no way Paul could have written those lyrics; he’s not known for his poetic depth. We’re back to Philip Norman’s description of Paul’s character flaw of wanting to be liked, even if it means betraying his former partner.

And there’s the question of Paul’s mother, Mary Mohin, who died of breast cancer on October 31, 1956. Was she Jewish? If so that would make Paul and his brother Michael^* Jews as well. Peter Blake—the artist who designed the album cover for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band—implied that Paul’s mother was Jewish. In an interview, Blake discussed the 1969 rumor started by Detroit disc jockey Russell Gibb about Paul being dead (see Chapter 11). Blake was dispelling some of the so-called clues which allegedly appeared on the cover of Sgt. Pepper album cover when he implied Paul’s mother was Jewish. The following are Peter Blake’s comments:

Blake said it was pure chance that a guy who sang a popular song, "My Yiddish Mama," was waiving his hand above Paul’s head on the Sgt. Pepper album cover, but it might have been put there for a reason: to let Jews know Paul’s true heritage. It’s a fairly blatant clue if you know about Issy Bonn’s song. Plus Paul’s mother has Jewish-looking facial features, as does Paul’s brother Michael. This would explain why there are limited photographs available of Mary and Michael. Adding to the controversy, Blake claimed that John Lennon had wanted a picture of Hitler and Jesus on the cover of Sgt. Pepper but it was generally agreed that it was just too controversial to put them in. (See Chapter 7.) In fact, Blake claims the Beatles were standing in front of posters of Hitler and Jesus when the photographs for Sgt. Pepper’s cover were shot. One can imagine the level of tension this must have caused between John and his apparently crypto-Jewish songwriting partner.

It should also be noted that Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released on June 1, 1967, just four days before Israel launched what historians call the Six Day War, an event which began on June 5, 1967. The Six Day War was a watershed event that transformed Israel from a small nation into a colonial empire. Although Israel became a nation in 1948, it expanded dramatically after the Six Day War. Israel took from the Arabs—through military force—the Old City of Jerusalem, the Sinai and the Gaza Strip, the Jordanian territory west of the Jordan River known as the West Bank, and the Golan Heights, on the Israeli-Syrian border.⁴⁹ In addition to acquiring new land, Israel gained control of an additional 900,000 Arabs who became the discontented subjects of the new Israeli empire. Since 1967, the number of Arabs under Israel’s military control has grown to over 1.75 million.⁵⁰

Amnesty International has documented Israel’s inhumane treatment of its Palestinian subjects citing arbitrary arrests, torturing detainees, destroying or sealing the homes of Arab suspects and their relatives, confiscating land, destroying crops, and diverting precious water from thirsty Palestinians in the desert to fill the swimming pools and water the lawns of Israeli settlers.⁵¹ This conduct is condoned, embraced, and encouraged by the United States through its steadfast financial and military support of Israel. Today, US tax payers spend approximately $3 billion annually to subsidize, support, and arm Israel. Although Israel is a wealthy country by western standards, it receives the highest amount of American foreign aid money, 28 percent.⁵²

The symbol of Issy Bonn waving his hand above McCartney’s head on the Sgt. Pepper album cover is vintage Talmudism. On the eve the biggest Zionist victory of all time, Jewish string pullers revealed to one another that they had a plant—Paul McCartney—within the world’s most famous rock group, the Beatles. And of course there’s also the history of Jewish settlement in the port city of Liverpool, the fifth largest city of England, a seaport, and the nucleus of the metropolitan county of Merseyside in the historic county of Lancashire. Liverpool has been a home for Jews since the mid 18^th century. As a port, Liverpool was an obvious stopping-off point for Jews, many of whom were fleeing persecution. During the 18^th century, there were more Jews in Liverpool than anywhere outside London. Today the Jewish population is around 3,000.⁵³ Putting this all together, the likelihood that Paul McCartney’s mother was Jewish is quite strong. Consequently, Sir Paul is probably Jewish as well. But for some reason, he chooses to keep it a secret.

Under Brian Epstein’s management, it was difficult to keep the Beatles under FBI surveillance (or any type) because their security was so tight, mainly because of their fame. Without such security, they might have been crushed to death by adoring fans. But they had another built-in mechanism to protect them. I suppose the word that best describes it is capitalism. A lot of people made money from the Beatles so these people—many of them quite corrupt—had a vested interest in protecting the four young men from Liverpool. John Lennon once compared the Beatles on tour to Federico Fellini’s 1970 movie, Satyricon, a satire on decadence and pleasure during Nero's reign in ancient Rome. In a 1970 interview with Jann Wenner (Rolling Stone), John explained how the Beatles maintained their clean image because it was to everyone’s benefit to do so. The following is an excerpt:

Roger McGuinn, of the rock group the Byrds, recalled the tight security that protected the Beatles from their screaming fans. The following is an excerpt from an interview with McGuinn years after the British Invasion:

In 1966, a decision was made by some powerful people to pull the plug on the Beatles’ "portable Rome," as John called it. The media turned on them and their 1966 tour was sabotaged in a variety of ways. (Jesus remarks controversy, Manila, the firecracker tossed on stage in Memphis, the butcher-block photo, etc.) As a result, they stopped touring altogether and Rome slowly began to fall. With Satyricon no longer on the road, the thugs who once exploited the Beatles no longer had a need to protect them. Brian Epstein was their last layer of defense. Once he was dead and out of the way, one of his former employees, Derek Taylor, began to penetrate the protective fortress that surrounded the Beatles. Taylor had been a personal assistant to Epstein, employed through his company, NEMS, in the early days of the Beatles. Taylor claims he quit NEMS around 1965 because Epstein was a difficult employer, prone to temper tantrums. Taylor’s remarks about Epstein are difficult to corroborate because both men are now deceased. But it is quite possible that Epstein fired Taylor for disloyalty or something of a similar nature. Frankly, the latter scenario seems more likely. Why would someone quit a job as personal assistant to the Beatles’ manager in 1965, at the height of the Beatles’ popularity? It defies Lennon’s Satyricon comparison.

Regardless of Taylor’s reasons for leaving Epstein/NEMS, he moved to America and was hired by Bob Eubanks,^* a promoter and disc jockey on Los Angeles’ popular rock ‘n’ roll radio station, KRLA. Eubanks was also owner of a chain of clubs called Cinnamon Cinder. He gained notoriety while promoting the Beatles concert at the Hollywood Bowl on August 23, 1964. Shortly after Epstein’s death on August 27, 1967, Taylor returned to London (in 1968) and became the press officer (in-house publicist) for the newly created Apple Corps, responsible for media relations for the Beatles and all the artists on the Apple label. Taylor continued at Apple until he was ousted during Allen Klein’s takeover of Apple in 1970.⁵⁶

There is a strong possibility that Derek Taylor was somehow connected with the FBI and, in that capacity, helped producer Terry Melcher gain access to the Beatles’ inner circle. Apparently a contingency plan was in place, several years before the notorious Manson Murders occurred, to commit a heinous crime in the home of Doris Day and blame the crime on a struggling rock star like Charlie Manson. The objective would be to taint the public’s perception of rock music and to put the fear of God into rock stars who lived near Doris Day’s L.A. home. The objective for getting Melcher in the Beatles’ inner circle was probably part of an ongoing effort to get FBI informants involved in every aspect of Lennon’s life, even his music. There are several reasons to believe such a plan was in place. First, as previously stated, Derek Taylor resigned (or was fired) from NEMS (Brian Epstein’s company) at the height of the Beatles’ popularity, around 1965, and moved to L.A. and worked as a publicist for rock ‘n’ roll promoter Bob Eubanks. While working for Eubanks, Taylor managed publicity for Paul Revere and the Raiders, the Byrds and the Beach Boys, the same groups produced by Terry Melcher.⁵⁷

Second, according to Lennon biographer Ray Coleman, Taylor gave LSD to John Lennon.⁵⁸ Coleman does not clearly state when the LSD incident occurred, but it was apparently after Brian Epstein’s death when Taylor had returned to the Beatles’ inner circle after living in L.A. for about three years. Indulging in LSD with Lennon was particularly improper because Taylor was part of the Beatles’ business team; he was their publicist. Even in the Sixties, one would think a person who handles the business side of things would want to discourage substance abuse by his clients, not encourage it. In addition, Taylor was eight years older than Lennon. As a matter of basic decency, a 35 year old business man would not encourage a 27 year old client to take LSD unless the older man has a hidden agenda.

Third, in 1968, Melcher produced a song—"Dear Delilah"—for Grapefruit, a band backed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and signed to Apple Publishing by Terry Doran, a friend of Brian Epstein.⁵⁹ According to Beatles’ researcher Kristofer Engelhardt, it was Derek Taylor who got Melcher the producing gig with Grapefruit. The following is an excerpt from Engelhardt’s book, Beatles Undercover:

Fourth, in the famous 1970 Rolling Stone interview, John Lennon suggested that he, George Harrison and Ringo Starr took their second LSD trip at Doris Day’s house in California while touring with the Beatles. He may have been referring, unwittingly, to Terry Melcher’s home at 10050 Cielo Drive, Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, the house where Sharon Tate and four others were murdered. Terry Melcher, had allowed Roman Polankski and his wife, Sharon Tate, to take over his unexpired lease about six months prior to the murders.⁶¹ Again, it was probably Derek Taylor who arranged for the Beatles to stay at the Melcher/Day residence as part of an FBI plot that would eventually unfold as the notorious Manson Murders. Here is what Lennon said about his first and second experiences with LSD at Doris Day’s house:

Lennon’s memory of his second LSD trip was a bit fussy, but he mentioned some interesting people and places: Doris Day’s house, the Byrds. As previously stated, Melcher produced albums for the Byrds. Also stated before, Melcher’s mother is Doris Day. Sharon Tate and her four companions were killed at a house in LA where Melcher had lived six months earlier. The house in question might have been owned by Doris Day, or maybe Lennon knew she was connected with it somehow, so he referred to it as Doris Day’s house. Not only does Lennon unwittingly suggest that he and two other Beatles—George and Ringo—took their second acid trip in the house where Sharon Tate was murdered, he further intimates that the Beatles stayed at that house quite often while touring California. Here is the key statement again: "We were on tour, in one of those houses, like Doris Day’s house or wherever it was we used to stay." The words "wherever it was we used to stay" describe a place the Beatles stayed at frequently while on tour in California.

Fifth, in the same series of Rolling Stone interviews (1970), Lennon expressed contempt for Derek Taylor, Dick James, Peter Brown, and Neil Aspinall,^* describing them as opportunists who lived off of his talent. Lennon obviously believed Taylor and the others were not trustworthy. The following is an excerpt from Lennon’s Rolling Stone interview:

As previously stated, Derek Taylor was ousted from Apple in 1970 when Allen Klein took over management of the failing company.⁶⁴ This move probably freed Lennon temporarily from the FBI’s direct surveillance of his personal life (since Taylor was probably an FBI informant). In 1971, John and Yoko moved to New York City to find Yoko’s daughter, Kyoko, who was being kept away from Yoko by her ex-husband, Anthony Cox.^* About a year later (June 1972) they met Elliot Mintz and quickly invited him into their inner circle. Mintz was Lennon’s publicist for several years; he is still the publicist for Yoko Ono, David Crosby, Bob Dylan, and others.⁶⁵ The David Crosby connection is important because Crosby was a founding member of the Byrds, a group produced by Terry Melcher and publicized by Derek Taylor. The fact that Mintz is David Crosby’s publicist strongly suggests an alliance among Derek Taylor, Terry Melcher, and Elliot Mintz.

I have never read that Mintz was a close associate of Terry Melcher or Derek Taylor, but given they all worked directly with members of two of the biggest rock bands in the Sixties, the Beatles and the Byrds, and given they all lived in LA,^† it is plausible that they may have known each other quite well. In fact, we have already established that Taylor and Melcher not only knew each other, but Taylor helped get Melcher a gig producing a song for Grapefruit, one of the first bands signed by Apple. (per Kristofer Engelhardt⁵⁶)

Melcher likely directed Mintz to befriend John and Yoko and become part of their inner circle while they lived in America. When John and Yoko separated for fifteen months (1973-1974), Mitz spoke with both of them by phone nearly every day.⁵⁷ On the night Lennon was killed, Mintz moved in with a grief-stricken Yoko at the Dakota and stayed for several months. In fact, it may have been Mintz who convinced John and Yoko to move into the Dakota, the upscale Manhattan condominium complex where Roman Polanski filmed Rosemary’s Baby in 1968. (See Chapter 11.) As previously mentioned in Chapter 8, there was a disturbing entanglement in the following seemingly unrelated areas:

• Roman Polanski’s 1968 movie, Rosemary’s Baby, depicted Jews as satanic witches.

• John Lennon wrote a song, Dear Prudence, about Prudence Farrow, sister of Mia Farrow, the actress who played the lead role in Rosemary’s Baby.

• John Lennon eventually moved into the Dakota, an upscale condominium complex in Manhattan, also the location where Rosemary’s Baby was filmed.

• Polanski’s wife, Sharon Tate, was brutally murdered around August 9, 1969. Charlie Manson and members of his hippie commune, also known as the "Manson Family," were convicted of committing the stated murders.

• L.A. district attorney Vincent Bugliosi attempted to portray the Beatles in a negative light by concocting a bizarre theory, known as Helter Skelter (the title of a Beatle song), as the motive for the Tate murders.

• John Lennon’s political activism in 1969—namely his two "bed-ins"—were designed largely to protest US involvement in the Vietnam War.

The Woodstock Rock Festival occurred August 15–17, 1969, a week after the Tate murders, two months after Lennon’s Montreal bed-in. Woodstock was essentially a huge anti-Vietnam war rally using rock music as the catalyst for political expression.

Derek Taylor died of cancer in September 1997; however, writer Geoffrey Giuliano claims Taylor told him, in 1983, that John Lennon admitted having a homosexual encounter with his friend and former Beatle, Stuart Sutcliffe, who died of a brain hemorrhage on April 10, 1962. The following is Giuliano’s description—from Lennon in America (2000)—of the alleged sexual encounter:

In 2001 (a year after Giuliano published the story allegedly told to him by Derek Taylor), Stuart Sutcliffe’s surviving sister, Pauline Sutcliffe, published a book—The Beatles Shadow: Stuart Sutcliffe & his Lonely Hearts Club—which used the Taylor/Giuliano rumor as the basis for a hypothesis that Lennon had severely beaten Stuart in an unprovoked act of violence, kicking him in the head, which ultimately caused Stuart’s death about a year later. Pauline claims Stuart told her of the attack when he returned to Liverpool from Hamburg to see their mother in the early part of 1962. According to Pauline, the attack occurred around May of 1961 in Hamburg.⁶⁹ The following is Pauline’s version of the assault, as told to her by her late brother, Stuart Sutcliffe:

There are some flaws in Pauline’s theory. First, the timeline doesn’t add up. Let’s review: In May of 1961, John allegedly assaulted Stuart near the Top Ten Club in Hamburg. On April 10, 1962, Stuart died in Hamburg from a brain hemorrhage. Even if John did in fact have a physical altercation with Stuart in May of 1961, Stuart’s death did not occur until eleven months later. If he had died a few days after the alleged fight, a few weeks, a few months, Pauline’s theory would be more believable; but eleven months later is quite a long time. Plus, we don’t know the extent of the injuries. According to Pauline, Paul McCartney witnessed the attack (at least Stuart allegedly told her he witnessed it) but apparently refuses to comment on it. But given Paul’s history of jealousy regarding John’s talents, it is questionable if a McCartney corroboration of Pauline’s theory would mean much.

Second, it is widely known that John saved Stuart’s life about five months before the alleged fight occurred. On January 30, 1961, Stuart was ambushed and severely beaten by several "Teddy Boys" (British rednecks) outside a Liverpool club, at Lathom Hall, Seaforth. Pauline acknowledged that this event did in fact occur, that John rushed into the group of thugs to defend Stuart. According to Pauline, John "sprained his wrist and broke his finger" during the assault.⁷² Unlike John’s alleged assault on Stuart near the Top Ten Club in Hamburg, several people witnessed the Teddy Boy attack in Liverpool. For example, Pete Best (the Beatles’ first drummer) gave a detailed account of the attack years later:

Amazingly, without presenting any medical evidence, Pauline makes the following declaration: "I have found nothing to connect this fight with Stuart’s early demise."⁷⁴ The only medical evidence Pauline presents is a vague reference to something she was told by doctors. Pauline wrote the following:

How does Pauline know the "indent in the front of the skull" wasn’t caused by the Teddy Boy ambush at Lathom Hall on January 30, 1961 versus the alleged assault by John in May of 1961?

Third, Pauline doesn’t know precisely what caused Stuart’s death. She doesn’t mention anything about an autopsy report. I get the impression the Teddy Boy beating lasted several minutes, whereas, the alleged beating from John—near the Top Ten Club in Hamburg in May 1961—lasted only a few seconds, and Stuart never lost consciousness. Without medical evidence, how can Pauline draw any conclusions at all? In fact, she makes the following admission at the beginning of the book:

Fourth, Pauline mixes first-hand eye-witness accounts with second and third-hand rumor and innuendo. I suppose the strongest part of her claim is she is Stuart’s sister and she claims he told her John assaulted him in Hamburg in May of 1961. According to Pauline, Stuart told her John had kicked him in the head during the fight. It is possible John was upset with Stuart for abandoning him and leaving the band. It’s possible John may have struck him, perhaps even kicked him in the head. But this is where Pauline mixes first-hand information from her brother with hearsay innuendo from people she doesn’t know. She claims that according to Stuart, John kicked him in the head; then she insinuates that John was wearing "gold and silver cowboy boots with pointed toes" when the alleged kicking incident occurred. Such a boot would certainly cause more damage than a normal soft leather shoe without pointed toes. But Stuart didn’t tell Pauline the type of shoe John was wearing; at least she doesn’t make that distinction in her book. Pauline claims she learned of John’s footwear from Marnie Hair, a friend of Yoko Ono’s. If we are to accept Pauline’s conclusion that John caused Stuart’s death by kicking him in the head while wearing cowboy boots with pointed toes, then the question of John’s shoes becomes extremely important.

Fifth, Pauline’s story depends entirely on John’s state of mind. According to Pauline, John was in a highly agitated state because he had homosexual feelings for Stuart, feelings which allegedly had been consummated at least once, according to Geoffrey Giuliano. Keep in mind Stuart never told Pauline about a homosexual encounter with John. She got that information from to Giuliano. And Giuliano’s source