The Conspiracy Chain by
Mae Brussell
Mae: There are necessary connecting links in every
assassination conspiracy. If any link of that chain falls apart and becomes
exposed, the parts of the larger plot are more visible. When every element of
that chain holds together and is present in the evidence and testimony regarding
any particular murder, there has to be a larger conspiracy.
The most important link in that chain is the selected decoy or patsy.
Whoever is arrested at the scene of the crime, to the exclusion of other
suspicious persons, becomes the "assassin." This single person must serve a
purpose, namely, to divert all attention away from those people who have armed
him and located him at the scene of the crime.
Letters and diaries are always present and easily
located to support the predetermined cover story. They provide a "motive", and
are the glue that cements (we are told) the "loner" to his single purpose.
In preparation for his "act", the decoy or patsy is moved across countries
or overseas, traveling and staying at safe houses. He has no friends, no jobs,
no means of support while at the same time staying at fancy hotels, spending
lots of money, getting phone messages, and meeting lots of people. Very few
people have the money to spend years in transit like these patsies, whose
chances of being in selected locations at the precise moment their victim is
murdered are minute and impossible without assistance. [1981] INTERVIEW WITH MAE
BRUSSELL ON THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN ONO LENNON