Imnterview from BOR Show #305, original airdate: January 1, 2007

Loren Singer (1923-2009) wrote the book The Parallax View (1970)

Loren worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS ) during WW II

He first had to pass a series of psychological tests

He read studies of Rorschach tests given to top Nazis at Nuremberg

Loren wrote for television and radio, this was his first book

The amount of influence totalitarian governments had on us

A relationship with German Intelligence officer Reinhard Gehlen

Loren didn't like the film, the screenwriters couldn't find the thread

The terrorism threat is sort of gauzy, Where? How?

Unite in order to survive, that's what people will be told

Chapters start with quotes from a fictional handbook

The book is not a solution to the Kennedy assassinations

A list of JFK related deaths, originally Loren scoffed

The military men never became OSS assassins

General William Donovan, committed to the survival of Britain

Psychologists, psychiatrists, geographers, foreign language experts, engineers, weapons instructors

Does 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 Guantanamo

Teams ready to do the bidding of corporate or government interests

The recruitment, the film's powerful six minute segment

An OSS competition, three days of psychological testing

Nobody ever passed the final exam, never any finite answer

The people running Parallax were certain to have backups

Loren did not want to do the screenplay

The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film) was much better written

Parallax opens with it's own "Zapruder" film

Six Seconds In Dallas (Thompson 1967), sued by Time, Inc.