Imnterview from BOR Show #305, original airdate: January 1, 2007Loren Singer (1923-2009) wrote the book The Parallax View (1970)Loren worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS ) during WW IIHe first had to pass a series of psychological testsHe read studies of Rorschach tests given to top Nazis at NurembergLoren wrote for television and radio, this was his first bookThe amount of influence totalitarian governments had on usA relationship with German Intelligence officer Reinhard GehlenLoren didn’t like the film, the screenwriters couldn’t find the threadThe terrorism threat is sort of gauzy, Where? How?Unite in order to survive, that’s what people will be toldChapters start with quotes from a fictional handbookThe book is not a solution to the Kennedy assassinationsA list of JFK related deaths, originally Loren scoffedThe military men never became OSS assassinsGeneral William Donovan, committed to the survival of BritainPsychologists, psychiatrists, geographers, foreign language experts, engineers, weapons instructorsDoes a government have the right and or the duty to eliminate numbers of it’s citizens to ensure it’s survival?Skating around the edge right now with GuantanamoTeams ready to do the bidding of corporate or government interestsThe recruitment, the film’s powerful six minute segmentAn OSS competition, three days of psychological testingNobody ever passed the final exam, never any finite answerThe people running Parallax were certain to have backupsLoren did not want to do the screenplayThe Manchurian Candidate (1962 film) was much better writtenParallax opens with it’s own “Zapruder” filmSix Seconds In Dallas (Thompson 1967), sued by Time, Inc.