Defenestraatio on latinalaisperäinen termi, jolla tarkoitetaan jonkun heittämistä ulos ikkunasta. Maailmanhistoria tuntee lukuisia defenestraatioita, jotka tavallisesti liittyvät kapinoihin tai vallananastuksiin. —Wikipedia
[Yhdysvaltain puolustusministeri James] Forrestal löydettiin 22. toukokuuta 1949 kuolleena Bethesdassa Marylandissa National Naval Medical Centerin matalamman osan katolta. Hän oli pudonnut sinne rakennuksen korkeamman osan ikkunasta. Kuolemaa on yleisesti pidetty itsemurhana, mutta salaliittoteoriat siitä, että hän olisi murhattu, alkoivat levitä lähes heti hänen kuolemansa jälkeen. Tapauksesta on syytetty niin kommunisteja, israelilaisia kuin Yhdysvaltain omia tiedustelupalveluitakin. —Wikipedia
James Forrestal
Yhdysvaltain laivasto- ja puolustusministerinä vuodet 1944-1949 toiminut James Forrestal yritti estää Israelin valtion perustamisen. Forrestal teki vuonna 1949 väitetysti itsemurhan hyppäämällä sairaalan 16. kerroksen ikkunasta ulos. Ikkunasta putoamisen aikana Forrestal ehti taidokkaasti myös hirttäytyä kylpytakkinsa köyteen.[1]
Forrestal toimi liikekumppanina osittain juutalaisessa pankkilaitoksessa Dillon, Read & Co. [nykyinen UBS], joka oli avustanut Hitlerin alkupäivien rahoituksessa. [...] Forrestal päätti päivänsä itsemurhalla. Vuonna 1949 hän hirttäytyi Washingtonin Bethesdan laivastosairaalan ikkunasta, jossa hän oli kärsimässä pitkälle edennyttä paranoidista skitsofreniaa. Uutislehdet raportoivat hänen huutaneen, että juutalaiset ja kommunistit matelivat hänen huoneensa lattialla aikomuksenaan tuhota hänet.[2] —Charles Higham
[Yhdysvaltain tuleva puolustusministeri Robert A.] Lovett vei silloisen puolustusministerin James Forrestalin (Dillon Read Co.) Fishers-saarelle suostuttelemaan hänet muuttamaan kantaansa koskien Yhdysvaltain Lähi-idän politiikkaa. Forrestal kieltäytyi ja hänet sijoitettiin Kansallisen terveysinstituutin mielisairaalaan, jossa hän putosi ulos ikkunasta. Sitten Lovett korvasi hänet puolustusministerinä.[3] —Eustace Mullins
Alan Hartin kirjan Zionism, the Real Enemy of the Jews: Vol. 1 - The False Messiah (2009) kappale 12. "Forrestal's 'Suicide'" ja David Martinin kirjan The Assassination of James Forrestal (2019) mukaan Israel ja amerikanjuutalaiset tiedusteluviranomaiset olivat vastuussa Forrestalin itsemurhauksesta.
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[1] He [Forrestal] argued against partition of Palestine to create the state of Israel, fearing backlash from the Arab nations that supplied the U.S. oil. These views made him a target of scathing commentary from the Washington press, especially the influential columnist Drew Pearson, who called for his removal from the Cabinet and called him “the most dangerous man in America.” Further scandal ensued after the election of 1948, when it was revealed that Forrestal had privately agreed to serve with New York Democrat Thomas Dewey when Dewey, as was expected, won the presidency. Dewey, however, famously did not defeat Harry S. Truman, and, when Pearson published the story, Forrestal was fired. He fell into a deep depression that got him admitted, in April 1949, to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Doctors covered his mental illness with a public diagnosis of “nervous and physical exhaustion.” But he was given psychiatric treatments of the time, including insulin-induced shock therapy and barbiturates. On May 22, 1949 his body was found on the third-floor roof, a fatal distance from his 16th floor hall kitchen. [...] Most likely, he jumped. But conspiracy theories of murder — by Communists, Zionists or U.S. agents — appeared almost immediately. None has been proved. —David Levine, Beacon’s Favorite Son: The Story of James V. Forrestal, Hudson Valley, (May 26, 2015).
[2] Charles Higham, Trading with the Enemy: The Nazi-American Money Plot 1933-1949, Barnes & Noble, New York, (1983), s. 135, 210-211; [...] Perhaps his most controversial position was his opposition to the partition of Palestine and the creation of Israel in 1948. Truman presents this as an example of extremely poor judgment on Forrestal's part despite the fact that the latter was supported by the joint Chiefs of Staff and almost the entire State Department. Yet the reasons Forrestal gave for his position - that it would eventually endanger relations with other Middle Eastern nations, threaten our oil supplies, and possibly lead to military entanglements in the area - seem all too prophetic today. However we may feel about the wisdom of Truman's pro-Israel policy, Forrestal's opposition to it can hardly be dismissed as the raving of a madman. Forrestal also emphasized guerilla warfare as the tactic of the future, a warning that long went unheeded in our involvement in Indochina. Today, however, Forrestal seems to be remembered, not for his prescience and courage, but for his suicide and alleged insanity. Perhaps this is just one example of how the label of mental illness may keep holders of unconventional but possible valuable ideas from being heard. Dismissing such people may often amount to courting ignorance in the name of psychiatric knowledge. —Mary Akashah and Donald Tennant, Madness and Politics: The Case of James Forrestal, Department of Sociology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, (1980), s. 92.
[3] Eustace Mullins, The World Order: Our Secret Rulers, 2nd ed., Ezra Pound Institute of Civilization, Staunton, (1992), s. 120; Another prominent banking house is the firm of Dillon Read. Clarence Dillon (1882-1979) was born in San Antonio, Texas, son of Samuel and Bertha Lapowski or Lapowitz. He graduated from Harvard in 1905, married Anne Douglass of Milwaukee, whose father owned Milwaukee Machine & Tool Co. They went abroad from 1908 to 1910. Their son, C. Douglas Dillon, was born in Switzerland in 1909. In 1912, Dillon met William A. Read, founder of a wellknown Wall Street bond brokerage, through a Harvard classmate. They became partners. Read died suddenly in 1916, and Dillon bought control of the firm. During World War I, Dillon served as Bernard Baruch’s righthand man at the War Industries Board. In 1915, Dillon had set up American & Foreign Securities Corp. to finance the French Government’s purchases of munitions in the U.S. His righthand man at Dillon Read was James A. Forrestal, who later died while serving as Secretary of Defense. Dillon Read played a crucial role in rearming Hitler during the preparation for World War II. In 1957, Fortune Magazine listed Clarence Dillon as one of the richest men in the U.S. ($150-200 million). By normal growth rates, his son C. Douglas Dillon should be worth over $1 billion, but nobody knows. C. Douglas Dillon worked with John Foster Dulles on the Dewey campaigns, and served as Under Secretary of State, helping Bechtel Corp. obtain its first large Saudi Arabian contracts, which later became a $135 billion operation. Dillon was Ambassador to France 1953-57, later became Secretary of the Treasury. He was chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1971-75, then chairman of the Brookings Institution. To organize his estate, he sold Dillon Read to the Bechtel Corp. He is considered to be one of the ten wealthiest men in the U.S. and one of the three most powerful. —Eustace Mullins, s. 126-127.
Ikkunaitsemurhauksiin keskittyvän Wormwood (2017) -minisarjan viimeisessä jaksossa vihjataan, että myös puolustusministeri James Forrestalin kuolema oli defenestraatio.
