Jason Bourne and the 1980 Assassination of Allard Lowenstein

Was John Lennon the second MK Ultra assassination of 1980 and what has Jason Bourne got to do with it?

On March 14^TH1980, former Democrat congressmen Allard Lowenstein (age 51) was sitting in his law office at Rockefeller Center Plaza. Interestingly, that is the same building that also housed the offices of Mark Chapman’s ‘defence’ lawyer, Jonathan Marks. It is also the same building that housed the CIA Law firm that provided Jonathan Marks with at least one of its employees.

Sketchy early newspaper reports stated that as Lowenstein sat at his desk, a former associate and protégé of his, Dennis Sweeney (age 37), walked into his office and allegedly shook hands with him – according to a police officer who wasn’t in the room at the time. Fifteen minutes later, Sweeney then apparently shot Lowenstein dead. He allegedly hit Lowenstein in the chest with five bullets from his seven-bullet Llama .380 automatic gun. A ‘telephone installer’ working nearby, then said he: “heard screams and then pops, three or four”. The mysterious telephone installer has never been identified to this day. Then, according to unnamed ‘witnesses’ Sweeney then walked out of Lowenstein’s office and put his gun down on a secretary’s desk. Sweeney then lit a cigarette and sat down to wait for the police – now who does that remind you of?

The mysterious telephone installer wasn’t finished colouring in the sketchy murder just yet. According to the mysterious telephone man: "It was unbelievable, he didn't even tremble. He could have been long gone. Everybody panicked after the shooting. People ran all over the place. Somebody took the gun with a handkerchief and put it away." Clearly the telephone installer had nerves of steel and didn’t run away from the scene.

As I’m sure readers of my Substack and latest book will be all too aware, a ‘lone nut” shooting someone, waiting for the police and then the alleged gun being taken away from the crime scene before the police can arrive, is the exact same playbook as Mark Chapman and John Lennon’s assassination. I would like to tell you at this juncture about the names of the telephone installer and newspaper reported ‘witnesses’ who saw this apparent shooting, but they have never been revealed.

Clearly, as with Lennon and Chapman, the newspapers of the time didn’t need specific details for the murder because the only suspect logically worth considering was waiting in situ at the scene to admit the crime. Nothing more worth knowing. Case closed.

But just as in the case of Mark Chapman allegedly shooting John Lennon nine months later, there was plenty more worth knowing. Because the parallels between Sweeney, Chapman and MK Ultra do not just end with a missing gun from the crime scene and a lone nut murderer waiting for the cops to arrive.

Thankfully, more revelatory details were to follow in a 1993 book on Lowenstein by William H Chaffe. Chaffe had managed to track down Lowenstein’s friend and personal assistant Susan Erb. Erb was in an adjacent office to Lowenstein when Sweeney arrived on that fateful day in March 1980. Sweeney had made an appointment to see his old mentor for a 4:00 p.m. meeting, but Lowenstein was running late, so Sweeney was invited to sit and wait in Erb’s outer office. People who saw him that day described him as “expressionless” and “calm.” He smoked a Winston cigarette while he waited. After finishing his call, Lowenstein came out to greet Sweeney. He asked Erb not to put though any calls and Lowenstein and Sweeney went into Lowenstein’s office.

Witnesses reported that the meeting lasted somewhere between 10 and 20 minutes. They were seated on opposite sides of the desk. They had not seen each other more than three or four times during the preceding 15 years. Sweeney later allegedly reported that he told Lowenstein, “We’ve got a put an end to this, Al.” A moment later, according to some reports, Sweeney whipped a pistol from his pocket. Realizing that Sweeney meant to shoot him, Lowenstein apparently raised his arm and shouted, “No.” Sweeney fired seven times, hitting Lowenstein with five bullets. Three shots allegedly came while Lowenstein was lying on the floor.

This media reported account is very different to what Susan Erb alleged she heard. A few minutes into the meeting, Erb heard “two pops”. Not two gunshots but two pops. Erb initially thought they might be two gunshots, but she then concluded that it was probably the sound of the staple guns being used by workers putting in new phones. Therefore, there was possibility that the mysterious telephone installer was in the office with Lowenstein and Sweeney – or at least Erb thought that might be a possibility. Then Erb heard five rapid-fire additional gunshots and she was certain she knew what they were. Why the delay in the shots and why were the first two sounding different to the next five? Erb heard Lowenstein screaming as Sweeney exited his office and left his gun in a receptionist’s tray in Erb’s office and sat down. Erb ran into Lowenstein’s office to find him still conscious and lying on his stomach. Lowenstein then managed to say to Erb:

“Did they get the guy who did it”

Why did Lowenstein say this? Erb must have known who Dennis Sweeney was and Lowenstein must have known this fact. So why didn’t Lowenstein say something along the lines of – “look out, Dennis has a gun” or simply, “Dennis shot me”. By mentioning an unidentified ‘guy’ as the shooter, was Lowenstein identifying a third party as his shooter?

Lowenstein quickly lost consciousness and started to turn grey. Robert Layton, a lawyer in the firm, approached Sweeney. “I asked him if he had a gun. He said very calmly, ‘I’m not armed anymore.”

Within five minutes an ambulance took Lowenstein to St. Clare’s Hospital in midtown Manhattan. The hospital discovered that Lowenstein had been hit by five bullets. Two had struck his heart. His left lung was shattered. As with John Lennon, doctors tried to massage Lowenstein’s heart by hand. After many hours of futile struggle, Lowenstein was declared dead.

Above - Dennis Sweeney after his arrest

Apart from Dennis Sweeney and Allard Lowenstein there are two other important people that intertwine with this story. Dennis Sweeney’s ex-wife of just one year, Mary King and another of Mary King’s later husband’s, Peter Bourne. On the surface, King and Bourne appear to be a left-leaning peace activist and a liberal-minded government health expert. But there is a lot more to their stories than meets the eye. More to follow on Mary and Peter, but first let’s look at Dennis and Allard.

Dennis Sweeney and Allard Lowenstein

Dennis Sweeney was born in 1943. As a child, he was sent to a Boys Ranch. A Christian outdoorsy affair that Sweeney saw as a punishment. His military Dad had left Sweeney and his mother to fend for themselves at this point. When his father died in the Korean war, Sweeney could barely remember him. Sweeney then subsequently took his step-fathers surname. Not the best start in life for a young man. It’s interesting to see the early parallels between Sweeney and Mark Chapman. Both men had military fathers and both men became intensely ‘religious’ at around the age of 15. Both also took LSD and both later heard voices inside their head urging them to commit acts of violence.

Allard Lowenstein was born in 1928 to an affluent Jewish family from Westchester County, New York. An ardent progressive liberal from the start, bizarrely the only thing Lowenstein liked more than supporting the Democrat party, was wrestling. Lowenstein was elected president of the Nation Student Association in 1950. Yale swiftly followed.

Private Lowenstein

In November 1954, Lowenstein surprised everyone by enlisting in the army. Many friends and associates at the time thought he was doing it to help his forthcoming political ambitions. Allard hated the army. He was struck by the “deliberate, sadistic viciousness”. Writing to a friend about “the waste, corruption and pointlessness that mars everything we do”. In 1955, Allard was shipped to West Germany and he saw first-hand the Nazi-wrought devastation on the local Jewish community. A community that he apparently instantly bonded with. The following year in May 1956, Lowenstein managed to get himself and some friends down to Monaco while on leave and they gate-crashed the wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier. Lowenstein clearly had powerful connections from a very early age.

After managing to get out of the army two months early, Lowenstein started working for the United Nations and spent some time in South Africa. He then became a Foreign policy assistant to Senator Hubert Humphrey. Lowenstein was always supremely well connected, collecting important contacts with seemingly great ease. He was a rising star in the Democrat universe and a very well-travelled man by the time he met Dennis Sweeney at Stanford University in 1961. Lowenstein was 32 years old at the time and now an assistant dean of men and lecturer in the Political Science Department. Lowenstein was also a firmly closeted homosexual. It was still against the law for a man to be homosexual in most of America in 1961. Lowenstein must have known that a career in politics was next to impossible for a gay man in such intolerant times. Regardless, Lowenstein collected bright young men seemingly for his liberal causes and Dennis Sweeney was an early convert to fall for the Lowenstein charm. A natural charm that many said could light up a room whenever Allard entered it.

MKUltra and Stanford

In the same year that Sweeney and Lowenstein met at Stanford, Stanford was secretly conducting at least SEVEN known MK Ultra projects. From the mid 1970’s, Stanford officials could only piece together a partial picture of what happened from documents they requested and received, all heavily edited from the CIA. Although Stanford's own name and the names of departments were left in, all other names were deleted, including the names of the faculty members involved. It is now known that up to 80 institutions across America participated in MK Ultra projects around this time.

MK Ultra was first revealed to the public in 1975 by the Church Committee of the United States Congress and Gerald Ford's United States President's Commission on CIA activities within the United States (the Rockefeller Commission). Investigative efforts were hampered by CIA Director Richard Helms's panicked order that all MK Ultra files be destroyed in 1973. The Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission investigations therefore mostly relied on the sworn testimony of direct participants and on the small number of related documents that survived Helms's shredding order. In 1977, a Freedom of Information Act request uncovered a cache of 20,000 accounts documents relating to MK Ultra, which then led to Senate hearings. Some surviving information about MK Ultra was also declassified in 2001.

MK Ultra was unofficially closed down in 1973, but there is no clear proof that it conclusively ended there at the CIA or anywhere else. MK Ultra was also an active project for the US Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). Whether MK Ultra operations stopped in 1973 at the ONI is open to debate. Nobody ever seems to mention the possibility that Navy Intelligence kept it going way beyond 1973. Billions were spent on these evil projects, so why shut it down if nobody knew you were working on it?

Back to Sweeney and Lowenstein.

In 1963, Sweeney was invited by Lowenstein to travel to Mississippi and join the civil rights movement. Sweeney initially enjoyed the work and became a prominent leader in the ‘Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’ (SNCC), Like with Mark Chapman at the exact same time and place, Sweeney started to come under the watchful eye of a pastor. Sweeney’s pastor was called Don McCord. McCord was young and seemingly idealistic. He and Sweeney became close friends. Two events in 1964 shook Sweeney to the core and made him paranoid for the rest of his life – McCord was present at both events. On July 8^th 1964, a house Sweeney and McCord were sharing with eight other people was blown up with dynamite by white extremists. Amazingly, Sweeney only suffered a mild concussion. Nine days later, McCord took Sweeney for a meal at a house in McComb owned by the Heffner family. A mysterious phone call came into the Heffner’s house and the anonymous female caller asked to speak to Sweeney. The paranoid guests thought the Heffner’s home must be bugged. McCord allegedly then rang the FBI from the Heffner’s home (how did he know the number?). The FBI were allegedly not interested in helping Sweeney and McCord escape the Heffner’s house, which was by now surrounded by White Nationalist ‘vigilantes’. McCord and Sweeney did escape, but clearly Sweeney was being watched while working for the SNCC.

Mary King

Sometime in the spring of 1965, Dennis Sweeney met Mary King. A few months later they were married. King was three years older than Sweeney and she was also a campaigner working for the SNCC. Born in 1940 to an affluent Virginian Methodist family, King had been working in the South since 1962. She mostly worked as a photographer in the SNCC communications department. In mid 1962, King moved to Atlanta to begin working for the YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association).

Early in the Sweeney/King marriage in 1965, an SNCC dentist fixed a bridge into Dennis Sweeney’s upper teeth. It is not known who the dentist was and it is not known whether King accompanied Sweeney to the dentist. This seemingly innocuous dentist meeting will become important later.

In early 1966, Sweeney and King moved back West to Palo Alto in San Francisco, so they could engage in student recruitment for the anti-war movement and instigate fresh new blood for their liberal causes. King found work at a local ‘War on Poverty’ office and Sweeney reenrolled at Stanford to complete his unfinished scholarship. Friends at the time said Sweeney seemed “totally exhausted and lost” in this period. Dennis and Mary became friends with another married couple who were involved in “radical” politics on campus. Whenever Allard Lowenstein’s name came up in their conversations, Dennis dismissed his previous mentor, claiming Lowenstein ‘didn’t want real change, he like the rest of the liberals just wanted power’. Around this time, Sweeney started taking acid and he also started seeing a psychiatrist. Mary King did not participate in either activity. Sweeney would later confide to an old-school friend Charles Hinkle, that in this period, he started to hear voices inside his head. Like Gloria Chapman would also later do, Mary King watched from the sidelines as her husband started to mentally deteriorate and visit unnamed psychiatrists. Speaking of psychiatrists, let’s now talk about our fourth character in this story, Peter Bourne.

Peter Bourne

Peter Bourne was born in Oxford, England in 1939. His Australian born father Geoffrey served as a member of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE – precursor to MI6), in charge of ‘biomedical research’ for the Special Forces in southeast Asia. In 1977, Geoffrey ended up as vice-chancellor of St. George’s University of Medicine in Grenada, joining at the school’s inception. In 1978, the Grenadian government of Eric Gairy was overthrown in a revolution by the socialist Maurice Bishop. While Bishop was in the throes of his coup, Geoffrey Bourne used the universities telex machine to keep the U.S. State Department abreast of the situation. As will become all too clear, the Bourne’s were highly adept at playing off both sides of any situation. While Geoffrey was phoning the American government in secret, he also found the time to call Maurice Bishop on the morning of the takeover and congratulated him. The Bourne charm offence worked and Bishop allowed the university to continue. Three years later, Bishop was executed by Hudson Austin, a Soviet Union supporting member of Bishop’s own party. Ronald Reagan was not prepared to allow a Soviet Union friendly leader in America’s backyard again and under the false pretext that American students in Bourne’s university were allegedly under threat from the new Austin regime, American troops invaded Grenada and eventually installed a more ‘democratic’ process and government for the island.

On the Right - Vice-Chancellor of St. George’s University of Medicine in Grenada

*On the first day of the invasion, the American navy mistakenly bombed the Richmond Hill Mental Hospital. Early reports of the attack stated that as many as 50 people had died out of the 183 patients allegedly at the hospital. This was later revised by the American media to just 17 people dead. A news blockade imposed by the Reagan Administration initially prevented the story of the bombing of the mental hospital from reaching the public until after it had swung public opinion in favour of the invasion. No emergency assistance was provided by the U.S. to the hospital until six days after the bombing. When an assessment team of nine U.S. health professionals visited the Richmond Hill Mental Hospital four weeks after the invasion, the 80-bed infirmary building was a pile of rubble. 

If John Lennon was still alive in 1983, I am certain that he would have strongly protested against Reagan’s illegal invasion of Grenada.

Back to Bourne junior.

After graduating from medical school, Peter Bourne spent five years (1957–1962) studying, and then he became a fellow in Emory University's psychiatry department in Georgia USA. Bourne got the Emory position through naked nepotism. His father Geoffrey was working at the Emory University at the time.

It won’t surprise you to hear at this point, that from 1955, Emory University began collaborating with the CIA under its MK Ultra program for ‘behavioural modification experiments’ at Atlanta Penitentiary. Taking ‘willing’ participants within the prison system, different experiments were performed on the prisoners while they were under the influence of various drugs. Emory University ran Subproject 9, 26, 28, and 47 under the MKUltra umbrella. It was a MAJOR MK Ultra hub. On Bourne’s official biography, it states that he ‘studied’ arrested alcoholics in the city jail in Atlanta Penitentiary. Bourne apparently established a groundbreaking program through which arrested alcoholics could take the drug Antabuse as an alternative to serving prison time. It’s worth noting that  Bourne was working on Atlanta prisoners at the exact same time as MK Ultra experiments were being conducted on them. It is also worth noting that Emory is less than five miles away from Mark Chapman’s house in Decatur.

In 1964, British born Bourne, became an unlikely captain in the United States Army Medical Corps (no doubt Dad yet again pulled a few strings). His biography tells us that he was assigned to the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), where he studied the psychological and physiological effects of stress on basic trainees as a research psychiatrist. He spent one year (1965–1966) in Vietnam as chief of the neuropsychiatry section of the Army's Psychiatric Research Team.

* In 1973, WRAIR discovered that externally-induced auditory input could be achieved by means of pulsed microwave audiograms, or analogs of spoken words’ sounds. The effect on the receiving end is the (schizophrenic) sensation of "hearing voices" which are no part of the recipients’ own thought processes. The experiment prompted the following comment in "The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life," by Robert O. Becker, M.D., and Gary Selden (Wm. Morrow & Company, NY, 1985): "Such a device has obvious applications in covert operations designed to drive a target crazy with ‘voices’ or deliver undetected instructions to a programmed assassin”

*Bourne has subsequently revealed that he “had been with US Special Forces” in Vietnam. Special forces are employed for high-risk missions where discretion is required – sounds right up Bourne’s alley. He would no doubt counter that ‘being with’ does not constitute being ‘part of’ the Special Forces. In that regard, I would ask you to look at the image below of Bourne in Vietnam that Bourne had put up on his own petergbourne.co.uk (now deleted) website. Despite the obvious devastation reflected in the burning Vietnamese village behind him, Bourne looks like he is having a whale of a time. Does this look like the kind of nerdy guy who is a research psychiatrist studying battle stress?

Upon discharge from the Army, Bourne was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, the Air Medal and the Combat Medics Badge – a nice military haul for a researcher. Bizarrely, Bourne then became active in the anti-war movement on the West Coast. Some may wonder at this point whether Bourne was really an anti-war protestor, or was the highly-decorated Special Forces operative an undercover asset for his old military bosses?

In 1967, Bourne started a residency (1967–1969) in psychiatry at Stanford University. He also pursued graduate studies in Anthropology. Disturbingly, that is now two universities that Bourne was attached to that had deep and fully documented MK Ultra activities attached to them. Bourne wasn’t finished working at MK Ultra linked institutions just yet though. While working at Stanford in 67-67, Bourne also helped out as a ‘volunteer’ at the infamous ‘Haight Ashbury Free Clinic’. A clinic that had a researcher working there at the time called Dr. Louis Jolyn West. ‘Jolly’ West, as his friends called him, was the CIA’s number one MK Ultra operator and he just happened to be working in the same clinic as Bourne – the same Captain Bourne who was also connected to two previous universities with MK Ultra connections. The acclaimed journalist and writer Tom O’Neill’s has discovered that Charles Manson and his ‘family’ of followers attended the Haight’s Ashbury Clinic at the exact same time West (and Bourne) was working there. West was talking at the time about ‘LSD Cults’ to come. Did West work on Manson and his followers with LSD and mind control experiments? It’s all too likely in my opinion. As for Bourne, he was also there at the exact same time as Jolly West and Manson, but you will not find any mention of this in Bourne’s official biographies.

* MLK assassination patsy James Earl Ray saw no fewer than eight different psychiatrists and hypnotists while he was in California from 1967 until 1968.

*In 1968, Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert Kennedy in the kitchen of a Californian hotel.

*Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan and James Earl Ray were all active in California in 1967 to 1968. The exact same years that Bourne and Jolly West were working in California.

In late 1969, Bourne returned to Emory in Georgia, as an assistant professor of psychiatry, preventive medicine and community health. He ran the mental health department of a federally-funded Community Health Center which he eventually expanded into the first free-standing community mental health center in Georgia. Coincidentally, this is the exact same time in Georgia that Mark Chapman began taking LSD and started his journey into charismatic Christianity.

In 1971, Bourne established Georgia's first statewide drug treatment program under Governor Jimmy Carter. Bourne also served as Carter's special advisor for health affairs. He remained personally close to Carter and with his father, was influential in convincing Carter to run for the American presidency in 1976. If Carter had a dedicated handler ensuring he ran for and won the presidency, it was Peter Bourne. Before the Carter Democratic presidency story could happen though, in 1972, Bourne was happy to put aside his leftie political leanings so he could take up a position as assistant director in charge of treatment programs in Republican President Richard Nixon's ‘Special Action Office of Drug Abuse Prevention’ (SAODAP). The man who personally invited Bourne into taking up this position in Nixon’s government was Egil Krogh, the mastermind behind the Watergate break-in. Bourne has subsequently said he got Jimmy Carter’s blessing to take up the Nixon job. Bourne also said that while he was working for Nixon (and subsequently Gerald Ford in 1974) between 1972 and 1976, he was often flying down to Georgia at the weekends to plan Carter’s 1976 presidential campaign. Carter could not have had a more well-connected insider at the White House feeding him information on his upcoming 1976 rival Gerald Ford.

Bourne was clearly going for positions of high power and his personal political allegiances were clearly not going to get in the way of securing a top job at the heart of government. Bourne doesn’t often talk about his Nixon work, but I think it neatly shows who Bourne really was – a cunning political, military and intelligence animal, with a thirst for a seat at the top table of government – any government.

The same can also be said for Mary King. She is nearly always portrayed as a civil rights and women’s rights campaigner. A woman from the left with a conscience. But Mary King was also hungry for power and she was happy to play along with federal organizations to secure it. She has admitted in her later years that in the mid 1960’s, she passed information to the FBI while she was working in the South on Civil Rights matters. This was probably information pertaining to White Nationalist crimes against the local Black population, but we will have to take Mary King’s word for that.

Above - Mary King

Back in California, by the end of 1966, Dennis Sweeney was regularly taking LSD and was by some accounts a lost and exhausted man. Sweeney was ‘stuck in one spot’ as another friend once described him. Mary King initiated a divorce. She left their house to visit a friend and never returned home, flying immediately to Mexico to secure a double-quick divorce from their marriage. Revealingly, Mary later wrote that her marriage to Sweeney was based on a ‘political decision’ rather than a ‘personal one’. She admitted that she was reluctant to discuss Sweeney in her autobiography ‘Freedom Song’, but relented when friends told her that it may be seen as ‘evasion’. King callously noted that she was angry about being ‘obliquely connected’ to Sweeney. But King was connected to Sweeney when he visited a dentist in 1965. A dental visit that he later said was when he thought the CIA connected a transmitter into his teeth that sent him messages to his brain. King was also with Sweeney in San Francisco when he started to take LSD, hear voices in his head and began visiting unknown psychiatrists. There is no evidence to suggest Mary King had anything to do with Sweeney’s deteriorating behavior and beliefs about CIA transmitters, but she was with him when all these events happened. Maybe evasion in her book might have been a better course of action for her.

The years 1966 to 1968 are a bit of a mystery concerning Mary King’s movements. According to her autobiography, she ‘grieved for three years’. But not grief about her marriage. She was grieving about the failure of the SNCC movement. She apparently returned east in 1967, where she embarked on a second unsuccessful marriage, details of which she has never divulged. In 1968, to the apparent amazement of her friends, King ended up in Washington working firstly for the Lyndon Johnson and then the Richard Nixon government, setting up health services for poor communities. Despite having a zero health background, King had landed on her feet in a cushy federal health management gig. In 1969, King flew out to Atlanta and met Peter Bourne, while visiting a neighborhood health center that she set up. Interestingly Bourne claims in his official biography that he set the center up. Perhaps neither did. From 1968 onwards, post Dennis Sweeney, Mary King and Peter Bourne’s careers went into the stratosphere.

Mary King the Globetrotter Peacenik

In the early 1970’s King and Bourne became an official item and in 1974, they married. A 1970’s political power-couple was instantly born. Both pushed hard for Jimmy Carter to run for his successful presidency campaign of 1976. The newlyweds became ardent Jimmy Carter disciples, always reminding people in the media of their left-wing credentials as peace activists and civil rights campaigners. Mary King subsequently embraced the ever-expanding NGO world of the post-Watergate years, taking up various lucrative positions. King has boasted that her work in ‘international development’ has taken her to over 120 ‘developing’ countries.

While working for Carter, King had worldwide oversight for the Peace Corps. It is alleged that the Peace Corps is an independent agency of the United States government - therefore meaning it is not independent in my opinion. It was apparently set up to train and deploy volunteers to provide international development assistance. As a cover for intelligence operatives, Peace Corps was a near perfect organization. Rumours have always been rife that CIA operatives infiltrated the Peace Corps. Flatly denied of course by the CIA, it is worth noting that no ex-CIA operative can work for the Peace Corps. As the true identity of CIA operatives is a top-secret affair, that would be a hard policy to police. Interestingly, ex Peace Corps members are more than welcome to apply to work for the CIA.

Peter Bourne Drug Czar

Peter Bourne’s official post 1969 biography has similar grandiose claims as Mary King’s, with earth straddling work such as ‘saving the poor’ via various health care solutions, often listed with pride. Peter is mostly billed as a global health titan and anti-drugs czar. Sometimes though, these joint ambitions came into conflict. In 1974 Bourne wrote an article called "The Cocaine Myth," saying it was more or less not dangerous. He later doubled-down saying:

“Cocaine itself, powdered cocaine, poses a fairly minimal health threat. It's been widely used for thousands of years. It is an exciting, euphoria-producing recreational drug. Most people who get into difficulty with it do so because they have preexisting emotional problems, and they use the cocaine as a way of trying to self-medicate those problems, and they become increasingly dependent on it. I'm not saying there aren't people who don't get into serious difficulty with cocaine. But there are people who kill themselves skiing because they run into trees. That is the nature of the risk that you take on if you enjoy that experience”.

Despite publicly promoting cocaine through a magazine article, Bourne served as president of the Foundation for International Resources and a fellow at the Drug Abuse Council from 1975 until 1976. After Jimmy Carter won the 1976 presidency, Bourne immediately started working for him as a Drugs Czar. On the surface, Bourne appeared to be pro-marijuana and anti-heroin and barbiturates. His main focus was to stop the supply at source. Bourne took official office as ODAP (Office of Drug Abuse Policy) director, on June 2, 1977. At that time, researchers confirmed that the disruption of heroin traffic from France and Southeast Asia resulted in a corresponding increase in more potent heroin from across the Mexico border. Bourne had a plan for Mexico involving supplying the Mexican government with helicopters that were used to spray poppy and marijuana crops with poisonous herbicides such as paraquat and 2,4-D.

Bourne insisted that opium was his number one target. He stated that the Mexican government perceived marijuana as a bigger problem, declaring:

“Marijuana is a greater economic and health threat to their country and it would be inconsistent for us to tell them to spray our drug—opium—but not to spray the one that causes them problems—marijuana.” 

Bourne weighed the benefits of reduced heroin-related overdoses and deaths with the increased risk that contaminated marijuana may have posed to American users. Although paraquat spraying reduced crop yield by 80% or more, professionals estimated that tainted crops that crossed the United States–Mexico border would still affect a huge number of American users. A claim that Bourne argued was not a sufficient reason to cease participation in the spraying program. Clearly American drug users health was not important to Peter Bourne. He later declared that complaining drug health campaigners were asking to be protected for something that was illegal.

Above - Peter Bourne and President Jimmy Carter

Bourne has said that the Carter administration was unaware of the negative health effects attributable to paraquat, but leaked documents and mainstream media coverage revealed the magnitude of the herbicide’s health impact. In September 1977, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) had researchers screen 100 samples of confiscated marijuana for paraquat. On March 8, 1978, a pro-marijuana campaigner called Keith Stroup from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) received a call from a NIDA official who summarized the study’s results. Stroup swung into action calling media outlets and declaring that smoking even small amounts of the substance could lead to permanent lung damage.

More embarrassing Bourne drug problems were to follow. In the summer of 1978, Bourne wrote a prescription for a White House staffer for 15 tablets of Quaalude, a hypnotic sedative with a reputation for recreational use. He used a pseudonym to apparently protect her privacy. The staffer asked a friend to fill the prescription for her as she was apparently not well. A local pharmacy inspector got suspicious and attempted to verify the identity of the user. The friend was arrested, and Bourne’s illegal prescribing practices became public knowledge. He later admitted to writing “ten to a dozen” prescriptions for other White House staffers. The Controlled Substances Act had established a national system of prescription monitoring that depended on accurate information regarding the prescribing doctor and recipient. Bourne theoretically supported these restrictions, writing to a fellow physician that “the Administration intends to prosecute all ‘Pushers,’ be they physician or bellboy.”

The hypocrisy of Bourne was clear. This led to a series of news articles that claimed drug use ran rampant in the “hippie” White House cabinet. Peter Bourne, President Carter’s number one enabler and supporter was standing on the precipice. Keith Stroup pushed him off the cliff. Stroup never forgot the abominable paraquat spraying program. He decided to tell the media that anti-drug czar Bourne publicly used two illegal drugs, cocaine and marijuana, at a White House party given for 600 people by Stroup’s organization. Possession of marijuana or cocaine was a misdemeanour crime at that time, punishable by a maximum $1,000 fine and a year in jail. Bourne was not prosecuted but he had to resign from Carter’s administration. Shortly after he resigned, Bourne incredibly told the New York Times that he was, “leaving behind marijuana and cocaine users in the White House.” Bourne forgot to also mention the hypnotic Quaalude users he exclusively (and illegally) supplied for.

Just to re-iterate here, a psychiatrist that has worked at three institutions with documented links to MK Ultra mind-control activities, was illegally supplying White House staff in 1978 with hypnotic drugs.

Carter almost certainly had no idea this was going on. Four days after Bourne’s resignation, the president sent an angry memo to his senior staff:

I am deeply concerned over recent reports that some members of the White House staff are using drugs. I expect every member of the White House staff to obey the law. Whether you agree with the law or whether or not others obey the law is totally irrelevant. You will obey it, or you will seek employment elsewhere. I expect that you will convey my feelings directly and in no uncertain terms to every member of your staff.

In 1979, the disgraced Bourne became an Assistant Secretary-General at the United Nations, where he established and ran the "International Drinking Water and Sanitation Decade," a 10-year program that would provide clean drinking water to more than 500 million people worldwide. As part of the program Bourne launched, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a global campaign to eradicate the water borne disease caused by guinea worm was activated. Despite his personal drug-taking and drug use promotion, Bourne later got a job at the World Health Organization. Now that is what I call having friends in high places. Bourne then spent some time in Grenada with his father at St. George’s University from 1980 and was in place to see the invasion by American forces in 1983. Bourne then went on to serve as a ‘consultant’ on the boards of several non-profit organizations including, Save the Children, Health and Development International, Global Water, and the American Association for World Health. He visited more than 50 countries in a ‘professional capacity’.

Bourne then changed tact again, using his wide network of ‘international contacts’ to help then-Congressman Bill Richardson to secure the release of prisoners being held in Iraq, Cuba, Bangladesh and other countries.

In the mid-eighties, Bourne somehow managed to wrangle himself access to the Cuban revolutionary archives. This in turn allowed him to write a favorable biography of Fidel Castro. This then allowed Bourne to set up the Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) an organization that sent thousands of USA medical students and public health students to Cuba for electives as part of their academic program. The CIA had for many years tried to gain access to Cuban files. US army captain Bourne waltzed in without a problem, sending American citizens to the island under a health program he personally set up. Did the CIA insert spies into Bourne’s academic health program?  All too plausible in my opinion.

*Neither Bourne or King mention Dennis Sweeney in their official online biographies. When Bourne was once asked by the Washington Post about King and Sweeney’s marriage, he said they were only together for a “matter of months”.

Allard Lowenstein Making Enemies - 1966 - 1980

After wrestling with his sexuality all his life, Lowenstein married Jennifer Lyman in 1966. Three children duly followed but the marriage was finished 11 years later in 1977.

Lowenstein instigated the ‘Dump Johnson’ movement in 1967. Though Lyndon Johnson was a Democrat, Lowenstein was against the Vietnam War that Johnson supported. The campaign was successful and eventually, after Robert Kennedy’s assassination in 1968, Hubert Humphrey became the Democrats nomination to unsuccessfully take on Richard Nixon in 1968. The Dump Johnson movement ensured Nixon would be in power for the next six years. In 1968, while Peter Bourne was still ‘volunteering’ at Haight Ashbury and Mary King was smoothly moving up the federal ladder, Al Lowenstein was elected to Congress on Long Island, New York. But he was swiftly defeated in a modified district in 1970 by New York State Senator Norman F. Lent by 9,300 votes. Lowenstein was effectively gerrymandered out of office by the Republican-controlled state legislature, which determined the district's boundaries. Bizarrely Republican hawk Donald Rumsfeld joined Lowenstein on the victory platform upon Lowenstein's election to Congress in 1968. Don and Al’s unlikely friendship went back to the late 1950’s, where both served as Congressional aides. By 1968, they both met up regularly in the Congress gym and wrestled together. Lowenstein had a lot of Republican friends in his lifetime, with some suggesting that he liked to play both sides of the aisle, to ensure he stayed connected to any government that happened to be in power at the time.

Above - Allard Lowenstein

After being dumped in 1968, Lowenstein would never hold a position of government power again. He kept on running for state and kept on losing. Bitter at being shafted by the Republicans in New York, Lowenstein became head of the Americans for Democratic Action and spearheaded the "Dump Nixon" movement, earning himself the number 7 spot on Nixon's Enemies List. The wrestling bouts with Rumsfeld stopped and Lowenstein called being put on the Nixon enemy list as, ‘my personal trip wire’.

Lowenstein later wrote just before his assassination:

If the White House, the CIA, the FBI, the IRS and other prime instruments of an impartial government could be used against civil rights group, member of congress, and anyone else who incurred official displeasure. Clearly someone, somewhere, might have organized some of the events that had changed America.

Lowenstein filed a suit in a federal court against the Nixon administration Like John Lennon at that time, Lowenstein was making very powerful enemies and he knew it, later saying:

They are there and they are powerful. They have allies in politics, the professions, the media and the banks. In the end, no one knows what is in the ultimate computer. When it becomes unclear what are the forces of law enforcement and which of organized crime, then it is not difficult to understand why an atmosphere of fear develops.

It takes no imagination at all to understand that things can be planted in rooms that can then be raided. Who doesn’t have something they don’t want known. Who doesn’t have a relationship that can be made to look embarrassing.

The researcher and broadcaster Mae Brussell believed that Lowenstein was a covert CIA agent. I believe Lowenstein was a CIA asset, but I strongly suspect he may have been blackmailed into being one. To my eyes, the above paragraph lays out that probable scenario all too clearly.

According to Federal Bureau of Investigation records, an F.B.I. informant reported on Feb. 5, 1962, that Lowenstein twice told students he had an ''affiliation with the Central Intelligence Agency.'' The matter was brought to the attention of the CIA. On Feb. 19, 1962, where the chief of the Contact Division of the CIA submitted a memorandum to the chief of the Personnel Security Division requesting a priority security check on Lowenstein, who was being considered for employment within the agency.

Lowenstein and RFK Assassination

In 1974, (Agent?) Lowenstein started to seek out RFK assassination researchers such as Lillian Castellano and began putting together a dossier on the assassination. Another pre-eminent researcher from the time, Mae Brussell never believed that Lowenstein was serious about his RFK research, believing his involvement in the case was only a means to gain publicity, while all the while limiting the amount of RFK assassination information he hung out for the general public to consume. In 1975, Lowenstein made a one-hour appearance on the PBS television show Firing Line, where he was interviewed by his close friend, William F. Buckley Jr.

*Buckley Jr. was a self-admitted ex-CIA agent who previously worked for the legendary CIA spy, E. Howard Hunt.

On the Buckley TV show, Lowenstein stated that he did not believe that Sirhan Sirhan alone had shot Kennedy. There appeared to be nothing limited in what he was saying. Was Lowenstein perhaps going off his CIA approved script on national television? Or was the Buckley TV appearance an RFK assassination limited hangout operation?

The RFK assassination research didn’t stop Jimmy Carter giving Lowenstein a job at the United Nations in 1977 as United States Representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, and thus head of the United States delegation to the thirty-third regular annual session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. Lowenstein served with the rank of ambassador from August 1977 to the summer of 1978 in the capacity of alternate United States Representative for Special Political Affairs to the United Nations. Interestingly around this time, Peter Bourne was a United Nations commissioner on Narcotic drugs. It is highly probable that Bourne and Lowenstein would have met each other as colleagues around this time at the UN.

*Mark Chapman visited the United Nations in Geneva in the summer of 1978. It is possible that he may have met both Peter Bourne and Allard Lowenstein at this time.

In late 1978 Lowenstein resigned his U.N. post to run for Congress one last time in Manhattan's "Silk Stocking District", narrowly losing the Democratic primary to Carter Burden, who in turn lost the general election to Republican S. William Green.

By 1979, Lowenstein was becoming more comfortable with his sexuality and began publicly dating men on a regular basis. Campaigning for Gay Rights was also something he became more actively involved in. As 1980 rolled around, Lowenstein became a debater, strategist and activist for Ted Kennedy’s 1980 presidential candidacy. In the last few months of his life, he mobilized gay activists to work in Ted Kennedy's presidential campaign. Ten weeks later, he would be assassinated allegedly by Dennis Sweeney.

Dennis Sweeney post Mary King – 1966 to 1980

After Mary King left Dennis Sweeney in 1966 and headed off for lucrative government gigs and her romantic rendezvous with Peter Bourne down in Georgia, Dennis licked his wounds and returned to Oregon. There he apparently got a job in a mill and lived in a small cabin by the ocean. From there, he had odd jobs as a carpenter, restaurant cook and dishwasher.

He then lived for a time in Youngstown, Ohio, in Philadelphia and, at one point, it was reported that he was admitted for a week to an unnamed Portland hospital for psychiatric care. In 1972, according to a friend, several people close to Sweeney raised money to cover his treatment at a private mental hospital in the East. He stayed there about a week. He then tried to become a musician and a film-maker but nothing seemed to work for him. Sometime in 1972, Sweeney became convinced that the CIA were sending him signals into his brain through his teeth. He said he could hear various voices in his head, but the predominant one was of Allard Lowenstein. He was convinced that the SNCC dentist he saw in Georgia in 1965 while he was with Mary King, implanted a transmitting device into his teeth. He began to believe that Lowenstein was complicit with the CIA in a plot against him.

Sweeney moved back to Portland around 1973 and gradually cut himself off from his friends. Sweeney began to believe his mind was being read. He began receiving transmissions of voices, some of which he recognized, some of which he didn't. At first, Lowenstein's was not among them. During that early period, Sweeney visited Lowenstein and complained of some hostile third party that was monitoring his mind.

The transmissions persisted, and he began checking his body for hardware. He recalled an encounter with Lowenstein in Palo Alto and the words: "You are at the center of things now, Dennis. I am not." He became convinced Lowenstein was taunting him; that he somehow knew about the surveillance. Sweeney began to think that Lowenstein had ordered the dentist who repaired his teeth in 1965 to install a radio receiver in the bridgework. Horrifically, Sweeney then decided to tear the dental work out of his mouth with a hacksaw. The transmissions continued. He then wondered whether the transmissions were coming from an electrode in his brain. He confided this to his mother who, terrified that he might try to cut his head open, took him to a psychiatric hospital for observation. She tried to have him involuntarily committed, but the courts refused.

In March 1973, Sweeney wrote to some friends: 

"Because of the psychological warfare that is being made on me, I am fairly certain that I have software that I wasn't born with. I have done everything I can do to locate it and remove it. My efforts have all been failures and usually self-destructive. No doubt in the '60s I was party to some behavior that was politically irresponsible. If that incurred a social debt, then I am willing to pay it in reasonable terms (rather than endure) the bureaucratic sadism and infinite guilt which is what I see confronting me."

For a time, Sweeney was an outpatient in a private clinic in Connecticut, but he left after doctors refused to open his skull. He went to France, where he thought he might find a sympathetic surgeon, but was back within a month. He continued to drift and live alone – money for travel seemingly never a problem. The voices continued. He thought the voices were agents of the CIA or FBI who would say they were out to kill him. Sometimes they would call him a “coward."

During the winter of 1975, Sweeney was now living alone in an apartment in Philadelphia. The voices he heard most persistently were those of Lowenstein. He called Lowenstein in New York. Lowenstein later told a friend that he had met Sweeney at Penn Station in Philadelphia around this time. The encounter occurred late one night. Lowenstein entered the deserted waiting area and at first mistook the gaunt and haggard figure who stepped out to meet him for a tramp. Call off your agents, Sweeney said. Get out of my life. At that moment, Lowenstein recalled, Sweeney seemed more threatened than threatening. Lowenstein was genuinely bewildered. "Why," he would ask friends later, "does Dennis hate me so much?" 

Around 1976, Sweeney, disappeared into Connecticut, where he became an itinerant carpenter. He had shown some aptitude for woodworking while in the South. Now it became his livelihood. He studied carpentry at a vocational school in Norwich, then moved from town to town in search of work. In 1978, he moved from Fall River to the old harbor town of Mystic, where he took up residence in a grey, three-story house, a cheerless place in which six bachelors shared a common kitchen and generally kept to themselves.

Late in the summer of 1979 he moved to nearby New London. His landlord was an ex-navy veteran called Herman Hamilton. When Hamilton asked Sweeney why he kept on moving around the country, Sweeney replied: "I have to keep moving," he said. "I know they are following me." 

What Sweeney and his navy veteran landlord did or said in the next six months is unclear and unrecorded. We do know that early in 1980, Sweeney’s stepfather, Gerald, died of a heart attack on February 24^th. Sweeney flew back to Portland, Oregon, for the funeral. He apparently was convinced that voices inside his head had somehow caused his stepfather’s death. Sweeney also allegedly believed that Lowenstein was responsible because he claimed that Lowenstein had sued Gerald Sweeney in court, which then caused the heart attack. Investigators apparently never found evidence that such a lawsuit ever existed. But, we have no evidence that an investigation into this strange matter ever took place.

It’s worth considering again at this juncture that Dennis Sweeney was a penniless musician and ‘itinerant carpenter’ throughout most of the seventies and early 1980. How could he afford to travel around the country and abroad to Europe? Like Mark Chapman, we do not know who was sponsoring his travel and why they might be doing this.

In the first days of March 1980, Sweeney filed an application for a pistol permit. He then walked into Raub’s Sporting Goods store in New London, Connecticut, and purchased a Llama .380-caliber automatic pistol. A Spanish-made pistol built for seven bullets. The New London police ran a perfunctory check for criminal record and finding nothing put the application through in a little over a week. On Tuesday, March 13, Sweeney picked up the Llama and a box of 50 bullets. At 11:30 a.m. he called to confirm an appointment with Lowenstein, then drove south on Route 95 to New York. Precisely at 4 p.m. he walked into the Layton & Sherman office at the Rockefeller Center.

After his arrest, like Mark Chapman, Sweeney was moved from Bellevue to Riker’s island. “He’s been controlling my mind for years,” he told his interrogators. “Now I’ve put an end to it.” Doctors found Sweeney "delusional" and "seriously impaired." Authorities at Rikers offered to have another bridge put into his teeth, but Sweeney refused. Sweeney's attorney Jesse Zaslav pled his client not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of murder in the second degree. Prosecutors, including Kim Hogrefe, did not dispute his insanity. He was then committed to the custody of the New York state mental health system. For the next twenty years, psychiatrists described Sweeney’s “rare and impressive recovery” – often without the use of drugs. ''I would have to say that his is the only case that I have personally examined where I believe there has been a spontaneous remission from schizophrenia without medication,'' said Dr. Dietz in 1993, who said he had examined thousands of murderers. That all said, in the early years of his incarceration, Sweeney kept trying to ''spit out the devil'' into a plastic foam cup. I wonder if he managed to procure the same exorcists that ‘helped’ Mark Chapman exorcise his own ‘demons’?

By 1985, Sweeney’s psychiatrists said he showed no signs of illness. Describing him as ''alert, intelligent, friendly, respectful and cooperative,'' they looked to transfer him from a maximum-security hospital to a non- secure one. He eventually lived in the Mid-Hudson Psychiatric Center in Hampton, New York, the state’s maximum security psychiatric hospital. Doctors eventually transferred him to the Middletown Psychiatric Center, where he worked in the community and earned furloughs to live outside the facility from time to time. By 1992, he was back working as a carpenter and cabinetmaker in a woodworking store

The dental crowns that Sweeney gouged out of his mouth with a hacksaw blade in the early 1970's had eventually been replaced by 1990. Sweeney said the voices in his head disappeared completely after 1990 and doctors at Middletown Psychiatric Center said they believed him. In 1995, he was moved to the most lenient psychiatric confinement possible, reporting to the hospital for only one night every two weeks. Hospital furloughs allowed him to find a job as an employment counselor. He rented a house with a fine view of the Shawangunk Mountains. He then became active in the Unitarian Universalist Church in Middletown. From 2000 onwards, he was fully released back into society and apparently was doing well last someone heard from him. He never gave any media interviews after his 2000 release and none appear to have been sought.

Final Thoughts

I started researching this article with the singular intention of looking to see if there were any parallels between the assassination of Allard Lowenstein and the assassination of John Lennon. I disturbingly found many as I think you will now agree. A bonus consequence of undertaking this article was uncovering the mysterious lives and connections of Peter Bourne and Mary King.

Many might feel that Bourne and King are good people who just happened to know the wrong people at the wrong time and in Bourne’s case, happened to often be in the wrong place at the wrong time. This may be true. They may be good people, but I will finish with some more perhaps telling observations of these two up to now, mostly hidden characters.

In Mary King’s autobiography, she commented on the plight of her ex-husband with the following statement:

“The death of Al Lowenstein and the ruination of Dennis Sweeney may have been caused by the traumas of the civil rights movement, battering what may have already been a fragile balance”.

It seems Mary is putting Dennis Sweeney’s creeping belief that he was somehow being mind controlled by the intelligence agencies as a one-off mental breakdown occurrence, caused by working within a stressful civil rights struggle. That’s possible of course, but then Mary, in a moment of careless candour, said something very chilling and revealing. Mary revealed that she had heard in 1977, while attending a United Nations luncheon, that Dennis Sweeney believed the CIA had wired his brain and was controlling him through his teeth, she recalled:

“I was shocked and dismayed but later learned that this was a mental aberration that has been experienced in similar terms by at least ‘FOUR’ individuals I knew in SNCC”.

Four. What are the odds of that? One is a sad anomaly, four is a pattern. Four is a program.

Jason Bourne

Peter Bourne liked to operate under many monikers. Vietnam Special Forces Soldier, Drug Czar, Health Czar, Psychiatric Researcher, Hostage Negotiator, Clinician, Pharmacist, Senior Government Official, International Civil Servant, Diplomat, Author and most impressively of all, the creator of President Jimmy Carter.

It appeared to my eyes that Bourne’s rich life of exotic activities and opportunity were nothing more than the template for the life of a super spy. Bourne appeared to move seamlessly through different corridors of corporate and federal power, while all the while appearing to be bullet-proof from scandal and the media spotlight. He was literally Mr. Untouchable.

Bourne’s multiple associations with various MK Ultra facilities deeply troubled me. As did his habit of illegally dispensing hypnotic drugs to Jimmy Carter’s White House staff. And that name, Bourne. How strange that American writer (and probable US intelligence asset) Robert Ludlum, decided to call his MK Ultra brainwashed assassin character, Jason Bourne. Surely Ludlum wasn’t trying to tell us something was he?

Peter Bourne had the same thought. On his now deleted website, Bourne wrote a blog article called, ‘The Bourne Identity’. In the article, Bourne revealed that when the first Jason Bourne book was published in 1980, Peter couldn’t help wondering why Ludlum chose his surname, which Peter declared was ‘relatively rare’. Peter also recalled thinking that he and Jason Bourne shared ‘certain unusual features’. Features such as having Australian origins and having been with Special Forces in Vietnam. Peter went on to state that:

“Other less similarities could be attributable to chance, but the overall picture strongly suggested that the character had been modelled, at least in part, on me and my life history”.

Ludlum’s fictional Jason Bourne character was drugged and brainwashed into being an assassin by an intelligence operation called Treadstone. Treadstone and their nefarious operations were clearly inspired by MK Ultra. A CIA project which Ludlum would have known all about in the late seventies when he started writing his Jason Bourne novel.

Peter Bourne then laid down what seems now an almost obvious truth of the origins of the Jason Bourne character by confirming that he was in fact Ludlum’s inspiration for the character. He recalled reading that Ludlum had partly got inspiration for his Bourne stories from reading newspapers and especially the Washington Post. Peter then revealed that shortly before his death, his Father ‘happened to meet Ludlum’ and asked him directly about the origin of his use of the Bourne name. Ludlum confirmed to Geoffrey Bourne that the Jason Bourne character was inspired by what he had read and heard about his son Peter.

Jason Bourne was Peter Bourne.

In his blog, Peter didn’t go into the awkward fact that he had personally spent time working in three facilities that had MK Ultra operations associated with them. Perhaps Ludlum also knew this when he created Peter’s alter-ego, Jason. An alter ego who had been brainwashed in MK Ultra type facilities. Some things I suppose are best left unsaid.

Peter Bourne is still married to Mary King. The now very elderly couple spend their time talking about their amazing adventures saving the world through various NGO’s and the like.

Peter also likes to now spend most of his time drinking in the exclusive ‘Special Forces Club’ in London’s Knightsbridge. A club I’m sure you will not be surprised to know is primarily populated by, to quote Wikipedia:

“The intelligence and security communities, both military and civilian, and Special Forces along with other organisations and individuals whose work reflects the ethos of the club such as high-threat bomb disposal experts and members drawn from the psyops community.

I’m sure Peter (or is it Jason) Bourne, feels most at home there.

As for poor Allard Lowenstein, he was buried in the famed military resting place of Arlington cemetery. His short service in the army did technically allow him to have this funeral honour, but many might surmise that this resting place also points to the fact that he was a CIA operative. Tellingly, Lowenstein’s burial plot was placed equidistance between the plots of JFK and RFK. Two other infamous assassination victims in near proximity to keep Allard Lowenstein company in the cold Arlington ground.