The JFK and related assassination files, collected, parsed, and organized at Maryferrel.org have lots of references to “La Cosa Nostra.” The post assassination files are more focused on possible suspects with Mafia ties. The pre-assassination files involve Federal and State Agency investigations into Mafia members and their legitimate and illegitimate businesses.

If you look at enough “made” Mafia men files and “unmade” associates, many seem to have interests in carpet manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing, and cleaning as well as related business, such as upholstery and home décor businesses.
A search of the Maryferrel.org site using the term “carpet”, brings up 592 document “Hits”; “rug” 108 “Hits.”

Bernard Weissman – Traveling Carpet Salesman

The Warren Commission Report covers Bernard Weissman pretty substantially but not necessarily thoroughly.

Bernie attracted the attention of assassination investigators pretty soon after the assassination.

His name was on the bottom of an advertisement placed in the Dallas Morning News on November 22, 1963. The advertisement basically accused President Kennedy of treason and has contributed to the speculation that Right Wing elements (General Walker, for example) fomented a hostile political climate that ultimately would lead to a Right-Wing plot to kill Kennedy.

The Warren Commission interviewed Weissman about the advertisement and how he ended up in Dallas from Mt. Vernon, New York, less than 20 days before the assassination (November 4th according to his testimony.)

The short version of Weissman’s first three weeks in Dallas involves meeting an old Army buddy (Larrie Schmidt) who was into Right Wing political activism, landing a job as a carpet salesman with Carpet Engineers of Texas, and placing the advertisement.

Along the way, Weissman may have met Jack Ruby or Lee Harvey Oswald or Officer Tippit and maybe all three, or at least that is what the Warren Commission asked Bernard when he sat for questions. Weismann’s testimony runs for about 45 pages.

Weissman’s recitation of his summary biography, on the second page of his testimony, is what piqued our interest.

Full name, Bernard William Weissman, age 27, resident of Mount Vernon, New York, separated from wife. Graduate from Edison Technical HS, Mount Vernon June 1956. Experimental machinist, Nuclear Development Corp., July 1956 to August 1957. Traveling patent medicine salesman, November 1957 to May 1958. American Schools of Music, Encyclopedia Americana, Underwood Olivetti, Jewelry salesman. Drafted US Army, August 5, 1961. Honorable discharge US Army in about August 1963. Salesman for Carpet Corp. of America, Newark, New Jersey, at date of testimony, June 23, 1964.

Nuclear Development Corp., July 1956 to August 1957

The Warren Commission did not seem to care about Bernard’s first job out of high school as an Experimental Machinist for Nuclear Development Corp. (NDC) and never brought it up in the ensuing 40+ pages.

We think it is interesting because Israel wanted nuclear bombs and President Kennedy did not want them to have it.

Nuclear Development Corp., by the late 1950s was still a very young company but was at the forefront of the new Atomic Age. The company was founded a few years earlier by Senior Directors of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and it generated income via consulting fees and research and development contracts with the AEC and Department of Defense. Pretty Top-Secret stuff. “Q” Clearance required no doubt.

The main money-man that got NDC up and running was Laurance Spelman Rockefeller. “White Shoe” investment bank J.H. Whitney & Co. was a co-investor with Laurance.

That a Rockefeller invested in a new technology company is not surprising at all, after all, AEC Chairman (Admiral) Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, was publicly pronouncing that atomic energy would produce electricity too cheap to meter, which would presumably make Rockefeller oil, too expensive to burn.

Besides, Admiral Strauss, former Kuhn Loeb partner, had been managing the Rockefeller brother’s investments for years, before taking the AEC Chairman Job.

Other defense and energy companies were involved in the early development of nuclear energy and nuclear bombs, but they were already mostly established corporations with lots of subsidiaries in non-atomic industries and product lines.

NDC was an early, well financed atomic “pure-play” (most revenue derived from atomic related goods and services) and one of only about two atomic pure-plays we have come across in the context of the JFK Assassination Conspiracy.

The other atomic “pure-play” is NUMEC (Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation.) NUMEC is known for “losing” 300 lbs. of weapons grade Uranium sometime between about 1960 and 1965. (1965 is the year the AEC discovered the Uranium was missing. It presumably disappeared in smaller batches sometime starting in about 1960 when production began.)

The disappearance of the Uranium from NUMEC’s plant in Apollo, Pennsylvania is known as the Apollo Affair. Hardly anyone disputes that the Mossad “found” the Uranium and that it was used to build Israel’s first nuclear device, plus another five or six more. (300 lbs. of highly enriched Uranium would have been enough to build five or six nukes in total.)

NUMEC was formed in 1957. It received the first commercial license from the AEC to make weapons grade nuclear material. The actual corporation was formed through the merger of three penny-stock companies, one of which was the San Toy Mining Company, which went public in about 1905.

By the 1950s, the company had hardly any operations and its only source of income was the rent it collected from four Mexican mines it owned. The lessee (rent payer) was ASARCO (American Smelting and Refining Company) the largest metal smelter in the world, originally capitalized by William Avery Rockefeller and friends in 1888, with operating control ceded to the Guggenheim Family in 1901. (A deeper look here.)

The point is that the Guggenheims and Rockefellers were the owner/operators of ASARCO, with effective economic control of San Toy Mining Company when it was reorganized into a nuclear bomb manufacturing company in 1957.

To summarize, NUMEC and Nuclear Development Corp. were both Rockefeller investments.

The Merson Booth Mystery Solved

Merson Booth was a nuclear naval engineer who belonged to the Gibson Island Club. Lots of Grand Cabal types have used Gibson Island as their Summer getaway retreat over the decades, including Godfrey Anderson Rockefeller, whose father, Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller was a member of the ASARCO board. (More about Gibson Island.)

Merson became an expert nuclear engineer as a Naval Officer working on Admiral Rickover’s nuclear submarine program before he went to work for the AEC. One of his colleagues while working under Rickover was Zalman Shapiro, the future President of NUMEC. It appears Merson was working in the AEC Licensing Division when NUMEC received the first commercial license to make weapons grade uranium.

The Merson Booth mystery is how his son James Clay Booth managed to meet and marry Russian Princess Irina Troubetzkoy, which leads to a rabbit hole so deep it involves, the JFK Assassination, Watergate, the Russiagate Hoax and George Soros. (Princess Irina’s sister, Princess Natalia married Peter Derby, the founder of the Troika Bank, aka, the Troika Laundromat, one of the largest money laundering networks of all time. More here.)

The father of Irina Troubetzkoy was Prince Eugene Sergeevich Troubetzkoy Ph. D. and Nuclear Scientist for Nuclear Development Corp., the Rockefeller Atomic R&D firm where carpet salesmen and fake Right Wing fanatic Bernard William Weissman went to work after high school.