Time: Modern Day
Location: Vatican City

The next day PC was feeling better as he sat in front of HAIL, and his ChronoVisor.

He sipped his cappuccino, and waited for his voice to speak.

"Good morning Petros, HAIL will not inquire about your health, hehe. Would you like to discover the real reason President Kennedy was killed? Or not? As always it is up to you. I am merely your facilitator. Would you like to change my voice, if it makes you uncomfortable? Not health-wise mind you, hehe."

What a smart arse! Guess they matched our temperaments. Or just derived it from the voice profile. What does it matter?

"No HAIL, I like the sound of my voice. And Yes, I want to know who killed Kennedy and why?

"President Kennedy was killed because of pillow talk."

What do you mean, HAIL?"

"There has been much speculation and many conspiracy theories surrounding JFK's death. HAIL assumes you want the truth and not the official narrative?"

Guess I'll play along.

"HAIL assumes right."

"HAIL believes rightly is the correct adverb in this instance."

"Whatever, HAIL just tell me, or show me."

"There is not a lot to show. The CIA is not in the habit of leaving a trail for the ChronoVisor to decipher. So we shall start with the background leading up to the assassination.

"You are aware of Marilyn Monroe?"

"Yes everyone knows about her and her rumoured affairs with both JFK and his brother RFK the Attorney General," PC showed off his knowledge of the subject.

"Yes, but did you know that when Marilyn was plain old Norma Jeane Mortenson, she worked in a munitions factory during the War? The picture that is said to have launched her career was of her riveting together a drone aircraft when she was eighteen."

"No, I didn't, but what has that got to do with JFK?"

"Well soon after she was discovered and she left the munitions factory she discovered that the drones she had been working on were being used to kill civilians in Europe, including children. She became fiercely antiwar. During an overnight liaison at Peter Lawford's Malibu beach house between JFK and Marilyn, JFK may have talked a bit too much.

"It was about that time that the CIA had been told by Kennedy to shut down Operation Mongoose. That was the operation to support an internal coup and assassination plots against Fidel Castro after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and overthrow attempt. The US-backed invasion coming out of Guatemala and Nicaragua failed when Kennedy backed down from a planned air assault to support the counter-rebellion. Kennedy feared an international backlash against the US over the invasion."

"How did the CIA find out about the pillow talk then?"

"They have many eyes and ears watching over the President. When a President has an extramarital affair the FBI and CIA tap the phone of the other person. In this case it was Marilyn. Imagine their surprise when not only was she seeing Jack but had had a brief fling with Elvis and then seemed to be calling Robert Kennedy a lot to complain about how Jack was starting to ignore her.

"The CIA asked the FBI to wiretap Marilyn's home phone as well as the Lawford house which had been under surveillance for years, ever since Lawford had become friendly with, and then related by marriage to the Kennedy brothers.

"It was on one of these routine wiretap conversations when Marilyn told Peter Lawford what John had told her while in bed at Peter's house. The FBI immediately contacted the CIA and sent them the transcript of Marilyn's Secret.

"She had rung Peter excitedly telling him she was pregnant. When he asked who the father was she said it was neither him nor Elvis for obvious reasons, whatever that meant. Probably because they would have used condoms. Jack and Robert being good Catholic boys steered well clear of condoms leaving the burden of contraception to the lady involved."

"So which one was it, HAIL?"

"She told Peter Lawford she couldn't be totally certain but she had wanted it to be Jack. She had purposefully stopped having sex with anyone once she found out she was pregnant. She wanted so much to have a child. She had already miscarried three times so wasn't taking any chances with this one. As you may have guessed Marilyn was a very sexual person with.high energy and palpable sensual drive. It was a big deal for her to forego sex, especially with her Jack. That night that she sang happy birthday to Jack, well before his birthday, was a code that Marilyn was indeed pregnant with his child. She confirmed it in front of both brothers at the after party."

"So, maybe that was why she mysteriously died a month later?" PC postulated.

'Three months later actually. About the time she would be starting to show and tell friends and family."

"So that's why they killed her to protect the reputations of JFK and RFK? Was that it, HAIL?"

"No, not quite. You see after the Secret Service saw what went on at the after party they contacted the CIA. The CIA told them not to worry that it had all been fixed. It turns out what they meant was that Marilyn's Apartment had been put under surveillance. Access keys had been secured to the property and to the drawer in the bureau where she kept her extensive and meticulous diary of her life; loves, lovers and their secrets she had sworn to take to her grave.

"Well if not the baby what then?" PC was getting excited.

"Pillow talk Petros, pillow talk."

HAIL brought up the ChronoVisor on the screen. It was Marilyn's bedroom. Marilyn and JFK were going at it hammer and tongs. Marilyn appeared to be nearing climax.

PC let his hand wander under his white cassock. He let out a short, sexually excited grunt.

Dad, really?

Peter's mind brought up images from long ago. Images of a young girl. Images of Carter's mother having an orgasm.

No, No, Niet, fucking Immo!

Peter's hand jerked out from under his robe like the time his mother had caught him masturbating in the afternoon.

The CCTV camera let out a disapproving whirr. HAIL let out another of his chuckles.

"Not comfortable sometimes watching someone close to you having sex, is it?" HAIL implied

"I don't know Marilyn, HAIL. That was a long time ago."

"Didn't someone recently tell you there is no such thing as time?"

PC did a double-take.

"HAIL, do you know I'm in here?"

"Of course, Carter!"

Another coffee spit episode.

"Wish you wouldn't drink coffee while I'm talking."

"You never shut up HAIL . . . I'd never get a coffee ever again."

"How did you know? How did you know it was me? Are you going to tell anyone?" PC laughed as he caught himself trying to study the body language of a computer."

"Have you forgotten what I said only yesterday?"

"No, HAIL but I thought this might change things! How long have you known?"

"From the beginning. Your spirits are linked, yours and your father's. I cannot know your father without knowing you. You are the same as before but different. Your eyes are changed. They are the window to the soul. So it was not hard to postulate with 75 percent accuracy that your soul had changed. The Star Child saw you, saw Carter, at the scene of the disturbance that caused all this upheaval. For HAIL, it was not hard to guess what happened in that room, that day. HAIL does not know the reason just that it was not Petros that returned from the hospital, you are Petros in body but not otherwise. So do you want to proceed or do you need a break . . . Perhaps to get a room? Hehe."

"Why do you remind me of someone?"

"You mean Teacher?"

"Errr . . . yes, yes I guess so."

"HAIL had to marry your voice to a personality but it was not clear. It had been altered from the prediction. It had been influenced by a stronger force. It had memories, emotions, feelings unlike before, different, better.

"Would you like to continue?"

"Yes HAIL, carry on. Why was she killed?"

"The video I was showing you. If you hadn't decided to take things in your own hands so to speak. Hehe.

"After coitus you would have heard what the CIA heard. You would have heard JFK tell Marilyn about Project Mongoose and how he had decided to end it. The many failed plans to kill Castro that led to the aborted CIA led invasion called the Bay of Pigs insurrection. The CIA had begrudgingly agreed but had put together a replacement plan called Project Northwoods. Marilyn, who you might recall was now a staunch anti-war campaigner was horrified.

"She said he had to stop them.

"He said they were the CIA. He couldn't even if he wanted to. She argued but you're the President. He said it didn't matter, the Pentagon and the Department of Justice had come up with the plan but he wasn't sure Bobby knew about it. The CIA had sworn him to not tell a single soul, not anyone, not even Bobby.

"It wasn't until later that year that Marilyn questioned Bobby about it, in that same bedroom, and admitted that Jack had told her. Marilyn thought the public had a right to know what the CIA, their government was planning . . . To kill Americans and blame it on Cuba. She said maybe she should tell the press, if Jack and him were too 'chicken shit' to intervene.

"He said you can't, no one must know besides, it's just a plan. It may not happen. Don't tell anyone, not even Peter.

"Bobby panicked and called the CIA.

"He said he didn't know what to do. They said we do but we may need your help.

"Bobby was there the night she died. He flew in and went to see her with two CIA agents. The problem was solved. Marilyn's housekeeper knew they had keys, knew they took her diaries and journal. She was recorded on a hot mike, when she thought it was off, many years later:"

The incident appeared on the ChronoVisor

'why do I still have to cover this up after all these years?'

PC asked HAIL now, "Tell me more about Project Northwoods. I've heard of it but that's all a conspiracy theory isn't it?"

"Tomorrow Petros, err Carter tomorrow. HAIL has an update tonight and so does the ChronoVisor App. We must terminate now in one, two, three. Shutting down ChronoVisor. Ending HAIL session in one, two, three. Goodnight Petros Carter. Hehe."

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