Mae Brussell

Mae Brussell was a housewife in Carmel, CA, with a BA in philosophy and a lot of free time. She cross referenced the relatively rare Warren Commission Testimony by hand, with index cards. She found that it directly contradicted the widely distributed Warren Commission Report. She went on to become the premier historian of the event, and a superb investigative broadcast journalist. She turned her talents on a number of related cases over the years, until she finally broke the last straw and died.

In the face of constant harassment, break-ins, death threats, and death threats against her family, Mae persevered on the California central coast airwaves for seventeen years. Many believe she was "protected" by a sympathetic individual placed very high up. Fletcher Prouty is popular guess. They were friends. This is undeniable. He did attend both her funeral (a scene) and the wake (a real scene, trust me). Donald Sutherland played the character based on Prouty in Oliver Stone's movie version of the events of 11-22-63.

When Mae finally got her show syndicated and acquired a mass audience in LA her protection must have run out. Even Fletcher Prouty can be out ranked. He tells a great little story about being outranked by Lansdale just before Kennedy was shot. Somebody did or said something that actually scared Mae, and she went off the air. Not much later she succumbed to the "rapid cancer" she had so many times reported to her listeners as having been the demise of some important witness in some national security scandal or other.

We packed two moving vans with her library and clip files. She had 34 four drawer filing cabinets packed, and I mean packed, with clippings, all cross referenced in her head, and most indexed on paper. Our two van and a car caravan was escorted to the Carmel city line by a marked police car. Presumably we were then picked up by the unmarkeds. For three weeks my partner and I guarded her 8,0000 book library and press clip files while her designated heir, John Judge, moved out here from Baltimore.

There was a thick file on induced cancer. A rocket scientist in Nevada was the first man actually convicted of the crime of murder by induced cancer. Her hand scrawled notes of her research into induced cancer as a murder was a totally eerie read in a silent house with an unmarked van sitting across the street. It wasn't always the same unmarked van, but it was always in the same place. The low flying planes got on my nerves some, too. I spent a lot of time staring at the dead bolt, fondling the Winchester.

Mae's ring bindered final version of the Warren Testimony concordance filled shelves covering a wall of the master bedroom in the house we moved them to. The house was going to be opened to the public as the Mae Brussell Research Center, but jealousy, professional and otherwise, between two rival broadcast journalists put the kabosh on that.

In addition to the books and clip files, there was an 12x14x7.5 ft. room packed solid with neat rows of boxes of clippings that hadn't been filed and cross referenced yet. The books alone filled one van and then some. A great treasure was lost to historians when John Judge and Dave Emory fell out and the Mae Brussell Research Center ceased to be.

Some people think Barbara Honnegger, "ex" Bush aid and author of The October Surprise was the one to actually slip her the poison. She certainly had the opportunity, and she was sleeping with a "retired" SAVAK agent, but that don't prove it to me. Speculation is a close kin to rumor, as "Torbett" said. Some people insist on doing it anyway.

When Mae died, she was covering two cases, neither of which could have failed to attract the attention of Army Intelligence. One was the Fritz Kramer case, about a Nazi war criminal at work under a semi-assumed identity very high up in the Pentagon. The other was the Michael Aquino case, about a Lt. Col. in Army Intelligence who runs a Satanist church "on the side," and has demonstrated an uncanny ability to squirm out of trouble in a kid porn bust which looked cut and dried. Both cases are still open. Reading Mae's open files on these two stood my neck hairs up like the click of safety just behind the ear.

I Xeroxed about half a drawer's worth of assorted clippings and the entire Aquino file which was a half drawer thick all on its own. One of the most interesting files was about Mengele. Page after page of FOIA documents were partially or completely blanked out. One page showed field titles like <height>, <weight>, <hair color>, and <address> not blacked out, but the actual field contents themselves blacked out. To me this indicated that the US government new exactly where Mengele was and wouldn't tell, and rubbed Mae's nose in it. Why they wouldn't tell is a most intriguing question.

Sabotaging the work of resistance groups from within is a well studied science. COINTELPRO ain't the half of it. Mae herself had drawers full of clippings and shelves full of books on the subject. Sometimes resistance groups sabotage themselves on their own just fine with no help at all from outside. Self sabotage is a bogus strategy, no matter who thinks it up.

If anyone knew the bogus from the bone fide, it was Mae Brussell.

I believe her version. You should too.