Re: Cord Meyer
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2016 8:30 pm
Assume we set up a database, and through some modern equivalent of PROLOG, make it an artificially intelligent database.Assume we throw into this database under the "Events" relation the event of a butterfly flapping its wings in Borneo. For overcollecting facts of any kind and incorporating them into the database, it will have no effect. The search and logic engine will find no inferential link between the butterfly and the President's head coming apart. Nor would it find any inferential link between the butterfly and the other confirmed inferential links, events, people, people-of-interest, testimonies, affidavits, stories, and even folklore.So expanding the field of evidence is good; if it expands in such a way that it alters your hypotheses initially and subsequently, those hypotheses must also be consistent with all the other facts in the database. Cherry-picking whatever one wants to substantiate any theory or theory-objective would not be done by the AI search engine. Bill O'Reilly, Vincent Bugliosi, Gerald Posner, Waldron -- none of these people have the inferential integrity of either a chess-playing AI program or an AI database and inference engine.So what do you think I'm going to say about this, since you brought up Cord Meyer? The Mary Meyer story -- iconized with a Jefferson Airplane rock opera -- is a story with many facts but it is also folklore, if we assume all the speculations about it and its popularization with the '60s rock-group. Gracie Slick and her friends simply add some indication to me that Boomers in the '60s all had a sense of the old Bob Dylan song: "You know somethin's happenin' but you don't know what it is . . . . do you . . . . Mr. Jones." And here, we're making guesses about mass-psychology.I would even wager you could throw input to the database with inferences and logic in the study of mass-psychology. It would only help.Consider the "insider" CIA scenario of the early '60s. If Kennedy was playing with Mary, it would have provided fodder to the internal rumor-mill, just as MKULTRA and other projects would have been in that rumor-mill. It only tinges the CIA day-to-day sociology with vague rumor. So as long as you keep it in place for what it is, the database would still find the true path. And it adds to layers of motive that might apply to any number of people, possibly even the technically, morally, intentionally and fundamentally guilty party -- or parties.I just don't think that either Helms or Angleton had foreknowledge 1/, and I can't find any indication that Meyer did -- unless some posters provide me concrete facts. But Meyer was in the same business as a "mastermind," just as Lansdale had been in that business. If Frank Wisner Sr. operated the "Mighty Wurlitzer" of world-wide CIA propaganda in contacts with journalists, editors and publishers around the globe, Meyer was plugged in to publishing and media in the US. So even if innocent, Meyer is close to the "Mastermind."It's just not a butterfly flapping its wings in Borneo. That's the long of it, the short of it, and the Truth of it.1/ I discount these men because of their post-assassination behavior. Helms was spurred to put in a panicky budget request for MKULTRA, and Angleton went on a rampage trying to find a mole in the Soviet Division, persecuting defectors like Nosenko, ruining our relationship with British intelligence, and nearly destroying it with the French. These aren't the behaviors of guilty men. Angleton was most certainly clinically paranoid. Helms may simply have been frightened out of his wits, manning the parapets.