Another conspiracy theorist who loves the Eugene Dinkin story is Vince Palamara. So much so that he has included it in three different books.
First, here is an excerpt from Vince's book Survivor's Guilt: The Secret Service and the Failure to Protect President Kennedy: (page 64)
Palamara's sources are Warren Commission document 943, Dick Russell's book, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Noel Twyman's book, Bloody Treason.
Vince included a longer segment in his 2021 book Honest Answers About the Murder of President John F. Kennedy : A New Look at the JFK Assassination:
Palamara went back to the well one more time for his 2024 book, The Plot to Kill President Kennedy in Chicago: And the Other Traces of Conspiracy Leading to the Assassination of JFK: (page 94 in the Kindle edition)
Eugene Dinkin 18 was an Army Cryptographer (an NSA codebreaker) stationed in France who intercepted two secret military codes (one in mid-October 1963 and the other on 11/2/63) about a specific plot to kill Kennedy which was to occur on 11/28/63 and was to be blamed on a Communist or a Negro who would be designated as the assassin. Based on this alarming information, Dinkin wrote a letter to RFK before the assassination but heard nothing back in response. Alarmingly, a declassified CIA document places intelligence operative/assassin Jean Souetre “in Fort Worth on the morning of November 22 and in Dallas in the afternoon,” exactly where JFK was at those times. This mortal threat to French President Charles DeGaulle was “expelled from the U. S. at Fort Worth or Dallas eighteen hours after the assassination,” according to this document. 19
Footnote 18 reads as follows: They Killed Our President: 63 Reasons to Believe There was a Conspiracy to Assassinate JFK by Jesse Ventura (2013), pages 297 - 300; Bloody Treason by Noel Twyman (1997), pages 522 - 531.
Footnote 19 reads as follows: See also https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2018/104-10185-10009.pdf. That is a 1962 document which does not mention Dinkin.
Where on earth did Palamara get his information that Dinkin intercepted military codes in October 1963, and in early November 1963?
There are no primary documents which mention this, and Dinkin specifically told the HSCA that he did not intercept any cables related to the JFK assassination.
It appears that he got it from Jesse Ventura's 2014 book, They Killed Our President: 63 Reasons to Believe There was a Conspiracy to Assassinate JFK, which is listed as one of his sources on Dinkin. Yes, Vince Palamara thinks Jesse Ventura is a proper source for JFK information.
Here is the relevant segment from Ventura's book: (page 298 in the Kindle edition)
Dinkin’s duties were deciphering and analyzing cable traffic messages in Western Europe, i.e. a code-breaker for the NSA (National Security Agency). In that capacity, Dinkin monitored the cable traffic in relation to the French OAS (Secret Army Organization, a radical group intent on the overthrow of France’s government), especially insofar as their attempts to assassinate French President Charles De Gaulle.
Dinkin intercepted two messages, in mid-October and on November 2, 1963, announcing the assassination of John F. Kennedy. On the basis of the cable traffic he intercepted and was able to interpret, Dinkin mailed a letter to Robert Kennedy on October 22, 1963, stating that:
An attempt will be made to assassinate President Kennedy on November 28, 1963, and its blame will be placed on a Communist or Negro, who will be designated as the President’s assassin.
Ventura's footnotes all go back to Dick Russell's book, The Man Who Knew Too Much. However, Russell's book does not make the claim that Dinkin intercepted two messages.
But what makes it really weird is that Ventura wrote his book "with Dick Russell." And so Russell clearly must have seen these claims about Dinkin. And he let them pass. So, did Ventura just make this up?
But wait, there's more!
Jesse Ventura has the final kicker: (page 299 in the Kindle edition)
Tosh Plumlee confirmed he believes it was Dinkin's message that was the intelligence actually responsible for sending the Military intelligence abort team mission into Dallas on November 22:
It was because of Dinkin's info on November 8, 1963, that the Military Intelligence Abort Team was sent to Dallas to abort the hit.
Ventura's footnote for this: Robert Plumlee, Email to author, May 18, 2013.
Plumlee's fanciful tale is that he flew John Roselli and E. Howard Hunt from Florida to New Orleans to Dallas on November 22, 1963 to be part of a team to abort the assassination. This story was featured in Rob Reiner's podcast series, Who Killed JFK?
Fantasy piled on fantasy. A conspiracy theorist's dream.
Previous Relevant Blog Posts on Eugene Dinkin
Dinkin's story from 1964 about his interpretation of various newspapers.
A Garrison investigator spoke to Dinkin in 1968.
Dinkin sued the U. S. government in 1975.
Dinkin writes the HSCA three times with his evidence.
Russell interviewed Dinkin in 1975.
DiEugenio's website publishes some ridiculous articles on Dinkin.
Previous Relevant Blog Posts on Vince Palamara
Palamara's new book on a supposed plot in Chicago leads to Lloyd John Wilson.
A look at Homer Echeverria.
A look at the origin of the supposed plot.
An examination of Palamara's first eight pieces of corroborating evidence for the plot.
An examination of Palamara's second eight pieces of corroborating evidence for the plot.
Vince's responses to my posts just confirm that he has no case.
Palamsts just repeats factoids about Cherami that appear in other conspiracy books.
Palamara just repeats factoids about Nagell that appear in other conspiracy books.