There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination.
Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Anais Nin
In 1974 some of America's most popular negro musicians traveled together to Zaire to take part in Zaire '74 , an outdoor concert in Kinshasa that coincided with the 'Rumble in the Jungle', Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's epic boxing match. James Brown, Bill Withers, B.B. King and many others all flew together on a charter flight from NY City to the African nation. Many spent the flight singing and performing. Some of the musicians felt as if they were 'going home', returning to their roots. If you haven't yet watched (and listened) to Soul Power give it a play - the fashions and politics of that time (not to mention the first class music) will will take your mind off the B.S. of today.
As I mentioned in the part 1, it was my intention to include Allan Francovich's film, Operation Gladio. It can be viewed at Internet Archive's site here, or via this embedded video below:
A few years after his OG film was released Francovich made another film, this one telling the story cocaine and CIA connections to the Pan Am flight 107/Lockerbie incident. It's creation caused quite an uproar from the peanut gallery, and for a time it was banned in both the US and Britain. That film, entitled The Maltese Double Cross can be viewed below:
A few short years after making the Maltese movie Francovich, an American, was passing thru customs at George Bush the Senior Airport in Houston when he suffered a heart attack and died at 56 years of age... just another one of them there 'coincidences', I'm certain... I may very well return to these subjects tomorrow as there's a great deal left unsaid.
