Mark Lane (Blackmail)

Mark Lane - A bizarre example of J. Edgar Hoover's monomaniacal obsession with collecting compromising material on his enemies, concerns the premier JFK assassination conspiracy theorist of the 1960s, Mark Lane.

Lane was a lawyer and activist who had been elected to the New York State Assembly as a left-wing representative of a district encompassing parts of Manhattan and East Harlem. After the assassination of President Kennedy, however, Lane would devote himself to the examination of the evidence against Lee Harvey Oswald full-time and attempted to insert himself into the proceedings of the Warren Commission as de facto defense council for the accused assassin. In 1966, two years after the original publication of the Warren Commission report, Lane would publish Rush to Judgment, the first major book to challenge the conclusions of the Warren Commission, which spent 29 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, launching his decades long career as one of the most prominent critics of the official story of the JFK assassination.

In 2017, as a result of the JFK Records Act, the FBI's files on Mark Lane were released, showing that contemporaneous with Lane's Warren Commission criticism, the FBI was hard at work collecting compromising information about his sex life. Among the disclosures was a 1964 FBI report detailing the contents of a 1962 interview with a woman named Phyllis Golden. According to the report, while being interviewed under subpoena for passing a bad check, Golden had told a New York district attorney that: "She had something to hold over Mark Lane for the rest of his life." Even though Mark Lane had absolutely nothing to do with the check fraud case that was the ostensible subject of the interview, the DA would spend considerable time pursuing this angle during her questioning. According to the FBI report, Golden said she had gone to Lane's apartment with another woman named Lee Stevens, where the three engaged in a series of bizarre sex acts.

''The first thing was Mr. Lane had his temperature taken. First he un-dressed himself as far as the shorts were concerned. Then he laid face down on the bed, and I said 'you will have to remove your jockey shorts too.' And he took them down, and in that I assisted him. After that I inserted a candle into Mark anally. After that I tweezed some pubic hair and then Lee beat Mark with his own belt on the buttocks, then pins were inserted around the anal area and into the testicles. Then he got an enema, both of us gave him the enema, I believe I held the boy and then I put it in, and then he started to masturbate after the enema was completely in him, and he wasn't supposed to relieve himself until after he masturbated. But he claimed he had to relieve himself and he did. And then when Mark came back into the room the next thing on the instruction sheet was for him to masturbate himself, and at which point he got embarrassed and he decided he couldn't do it, and a comment was made by either Miss Stephens or myself that the tests can't continue unless he does it, so then Lee inserted a candle into his anus, and then I believe she beat him again, I am not positive. Then Lee, having read the instruction sheet with me suggested the obscene pictures. Before the pictures, the first set of pins and needles were just regular, so Lee lit the needles and I put them in, we both did it. About this point, Lane said it was too embarrassing for him to masturbate, or something like that, and 'Lèe asked him' if it would be easier if she did it. And with that "she proceeded to masturbate him... It was at that point that Lee suggested taking a picture and I got the camera. One of the pictures showed Mark lying face down on the bed with the candle inserted. Another was taken of Lee beating him; another was taken of him on his stomach, not only with a candle inserted, but also with two stems of artificial flowers; a fourth was taken of Lee burning the hair around his genitals with a lighted match.

Q. I show you a photograph and ask you if that's one of the pictures that you took.

A. Yes.

Q. Whose picture is that?

A. Mark Lane.

A copy of this picture was obtained through extremely confidential means and is available only through the staff director.''

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By: Psych History Show

Raped by: Otto Heckel