NASA, Nazis & JFK: The Torbitt Document & the Kennedy Assassination [Paperback]

William Torbitt (Author), Kenn Thomas (Introduction), David Hatcher Childress (Foreword)

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• Paperback: 236 pages
• Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press (January 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0932813399
• ISBN-13: 978-0932813398
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #727,659 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Smell of Truth, February 22, 2003

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Herbert L Calhoun "paulocal" (Falls Church, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: NASA, Nazis & JFK: The Torbitt Document & the Kennedy Assassination (Paperback)

This book, although somehwhat cryptically written--in the uncomfortable vernacular of JFK assassination research buffs--nevertheless is in my estimation a valuable addition to JFK assassination research. Anyone who is up on this literature has to have a good "crap detection" system, and this selection seems to have passed the test with flying colors. Since the early 70s, all serious roads to discovering who killed JFK seem to be leading back to tying up the loose ends left by the Jim Garrison New Orleans investigation. And since there were many such loose ends to tie up, doing so is not a small job. Torbitt has hit pay dirt, and at the very least, pushes Garrison's investigation to the next research frontier--if not to the very edge of completely uncovering the assassination plot. Yet, there are questions this research raises itself. For instance, I am not yet convinced of the Nazi connections--even though there is much circumstantial evidence to support Torbitt's point of view. Despite my misgiving, this piece is coherent in the extreme and can stand on its own. We know that when the conspiracy is finally uncovered, the truth will have its own unmistakable context, and this book has the "smell of truth."

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Important Historical Record, July 8, 2010

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Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall "Dr Stuart Jeanne B... (New Plymouth, New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: NASA, Nazis & JFK: The Torbitt Document & the Kennedy Assassination (Paperback)

For me the important question has always been who paid for the Kennedy assassination. As with any "hit" what matters is who puts up the money - not who fires the actual shots. This book definitely answers this question to my satisfaction, with good documentation linking to original sources. William Torbitt was actually a pseudonym for a former prosecutor and Lyndon Johnson insider named David Copeland. As the author explains in his introduction, he bases his information on public sources - mainly the 26 volumes of Warren Commission testimony, Who's Who in the South and Southwest (1963 and 1964), public records from the corporate records departments of Italy and Switzerland and Parish of New Orleans records of District Attorney Jim Garrison's grand jury investigation of assassination co-conspirator Clay Shaw.

Shaw had been one of the incorporators of the Permindex, the Swiss shell corporation Torbitt credits with financing the assassination. According to Swiss corporate records the principal shareholders of Permindex in 1963 consisted of a number of US oil corporations and defense and NASA contractors, ex-Nazi general Walter Dornberger and his company Bell Aerospace, Credit Suisse of Canda, Heineken's Brewery of Canada, Pan American World Airways and its subsidiary Intercontinental Hotel Corporation.

Torbitt also goes into considerable detail regarding the line of command for carrying out the assassination and coordinating the cover-up. At the top was a secretive entity called the Defense Industrial Security Command - a joint collaboration beteen the Defense Intelligence Agency and FBI Division 5, a secretive counterinsurgency operation personally directed by J. Edgar Hoover. L.M. Bloomfied, the long time covert operative Hoover designated to oversee planning and coordination, enlisted various CIA entities to undertake specific operational details. However, according to the scenario Torbitt lays out, the JFK assassination was neither ordered nor organized by the CIA.

The part of the book that most intrigues me is where Torbitt describes an interview Garrison had with Emilion Santana, one of the actual assassins. Santana admitted firing shots from the Dal-Tex Building across from the School Book Depository. Santana confirmed that he had been employed by Clay Shaw and that Jack Ruby and Shaw were friends and made trips to Cuba together related to an arms smuggling operation they ran. Santana also stated that he was an employee of Double-Chek, a CIA front company used to recruit pilots for gun running operations, and an "agent" for the Central Intelligence Agency.

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Some good points, March 29, 2007

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This book more or less covers topics instigated by the Elite that we all already know about. What interests me is the Nazi connection. I (we) all need to know more facts about how the SS cult survived the fall of the 3rd Reich, who they were, how they still exist (sans the cool uniforms),and most importantly, how they have infiltrated the American government, especially the Republican National Commitee and NASA. This book falls a little short of these details.