On February 13 JFKFacts reported that the paymaster for CIA’s
assassination capability in the early 1960’s was Air Force Colonel Jack
Ledford, using money from black budget aerial reconnaissance programs.
In my research into David Harold Byrd, owner of the Texas School Book
Depository building in 1963, I uncovered facts previously unknown to
assassination researchers. Byrd was a top 5 military contractor in
support of Air Force aerial reconnaissance programs. Byrd’s company
TEMCO installed highly secret electronic equipment in Air Force
reconnaissance aircraft. In 1960 TEMCO merged with Ling electronics and
created the defense conglomerate LTV. Out of LTV emerged E- Systems, a
well known CIA contractor.
Byrd was a substantial friend and safari partner of General James “Jimmy”
Doolittle, who oversaw aerial reconnaissance for the Eisenhower and
Kennedy President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Doolittle also
headed the group’s CIA panel, and was tasked in summer 1963 with
investigating why CIA had failed to implement reforms ordered by
President Kennedy. Doolittle’s task was still pending when Kennedy was
assassinated in Dallas.
Dan Alcorn
AARC President
