Jay Richard Kennedy (July 23, 1911 - October 14, 1991) was an author, screenwriter, composer, publisher, FBI spy, record executive, and Harry Belafonte's business manager.
Leaving school in the seventh grade, Solomonick claimed he spent his teen years traveling around the country and working at about 28 trades and professions, including running a cinema in the Bronx, working on a farm in Kansas, a bricklayer, longshoreman, wrangler, farmer, bricklayer, painter, printer, and even nightclub singer.
He approached Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. and the Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics Harry J. Anslinger that he tell the story of the Bureau's international work in cooperation with the United States Customs Service, United States Coast Guard and the Treasury with the understanding that the essential facts remain in focus.
Kennedy and Sidney Buchman formed their own film company in Hollywood where he wrote and was credited as associate producer of To the Ends of the Earth a thriller about the international activities of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.
In 1953 Kennedy published his first novel, Prince Bart: A Novel of Our Times about Hollywood with speculation the hero was based on John Garfield.
In the same year he joined ASCAP where his popular song compositions include "Shining Bright", "Blues Is Man", and "Eden Was Like This".
Maintaining his interest in left wing causes, Kennedy became an adviser to James Farmer of the Congress of Racial Equality[11] He moderated a TV panel discussion titled 'March on Washington .
Report by the Leaders' of ten major leaders of the 1963 March on Washington for a production of Metropolitan Broadcasting Television and that was broadcast August 29, 1963[12] By 1965, Kennedy became an informant for the CIA and likely also the FBI, as he believed Soviet and Chinese Communist agents were attempting to infiltrate and exploit the Civil Rights Movement for their own ends.
They claimed under Kennedy's direction patients were taught they could never leave because they would become worse than when they had started and remaining was necessary to continually evolve and live to be over 100.
Patients claimed they were told to donate monies, in one case even sell business to do so, to make sure the Center could pay its bills and so Kennedy could write a book on how to save mankind.