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I hope the movie is worth watching. A good reference is: "Rethinking John Lennon's Assassination: The FBI's War on Rock Stars" by Salvador Astucia
There was a lapse in Lennon's security on the night he was killed on December 8, 1980. Jose Perdomo, the security guard tasked to protect the iron-gate entrance of the Dakota on the night Lennon was killed, was an anti-Castro Cuban, a group with strong ties to the US intelligence community since the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.
Lennon’s younger son, Sean, had publicly stated his belief that his father was likely assassinated by the United States government. In recent years, Sean reportedly made the following statement:
" was a counterrevolutionary and was very dangerous to the government.
World Vision was part of Chapman's life, and this organization was involved in some fairly shocking events. They ran the refugee camp in Sabra-Shatilla where the fascist Phalange were allowed in to kill the Palestinians.
The father in that family, John W. Hinkley Sr., was also the president of the board for World Vision. World Vision is a far-right evangelical missionary operation that does missionary and "good work" operations in countries where there is a political purpose for it to be there. From it's inception, it was rabidly anti-Communist and it focused on refugee populations of people running from countries that had been taken over by Communism. This was from the fifties on.
An interesting Hinkley/Chapman link concerns this World Vision, of which Chapman was a former member. In his capacity, Chapman visited refugee camps that--according to researcher John Judge--doubled as excellent recruiting grounds for intelligence operatives and assassins, which Chapman may very well have been, of the MK-ULTRA variety.
After his mid-70’s conversion to Christianity, Chapman traveled extensively. From where he received the money to fly around the world and stay at expensive hotels-- particularly during the period he was stalking Lennon--remains a mystery. A similar scenario existed with the likes of Arthur Bremmer and James Earl Ray, itinerant wanderers who seemed always to have an endless supply of ready cash on hand to fund their suspect travels. Chapman was in Beirut during a period when American soldiers of fortune were training future assassins-to-be, and might well have been there learning to use the tools of the trade from such masters as Edwin Wilson and Frank Terpil. Later, when Chapman assassinated Lennon, he did so in a military stance, that seemed to be more precision-like than he would have learned from the rent-a-cop training he received as a security guard.
Chapman recalls pulling a gun out of his pocket, but he does not recall aiming or firing the gun. Yet he has convinced himself that he murdered Lennon.
During a nervous breakdown episode Chapman experienced in Hawaii, he was institutionalized in the notorious Castle Memorial Hospital, the very same medical facility of certain select doctors who were involved in MK-ULTRA experiments for our friends at the CIA. Was it here that Chapman received his final programming to assassinate Lennon? Ominously, on his last day of work in Hawaii--when signing out--Chapman signed the name ‘John Lennon’, then scratched it out, suggesting that this was the main focus in his mind, as if it had been triggered and he was a torpedo heading for--and eventually zeroing in and destroying his target: a rock ‘n’ roll singer with heavy political leanings to the left.
It has been suggested by mind control researchers that Chapman was originally programmed by MK-ULTRA “handlers” and then kept on hold until he was “activated” by J.D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher In The Rye, in an identical manner that the Queen of Hearts was used as a post-hypnotic trigger in Richard Condon’s novel, The Manchurian Candidate. It should be noted that when Chapman was apprehended at the Dakota Building--after shooting Lennon--he was sitting, leaning against a wall, reading a copy of The Catcher In The Rye.
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