ASSASSINATION ARCHIVES

AND RESEARCH CENTER

  • Founder’s Page
  • AARC PRESIDENT DAN ALCORN
  • About the AARC
  • NEW AARC Lecture Series – 2024/2025
  • The Talbot-Croft Archive
  • Alan Dale: THIS
  • AARC 2014 Conference Videos
  • Analysis and Opinion
  • BILL SIMPICH ARCHIVE
  • COLD WAR CONTEXT
  • CURRENT FOIA LITIGATION
  • Dan Hardway Blog: Sapere Aude
  • Destroyed Files
  • DOCUMENTS AND DOSSIERS
  • FBI Cuba 109 Files
  • FBI ELSUR
  • Gallery
  • JFK Assassination Records – 2025 Documents Release
  • Joe Backes: ARRB Document Release Summaries, July 1995-April 1996
  • JOHN SIMKIN ARCHIVE
  • The Malcolm Blunt Archives
  • MISSING RECORDS
  • News and Views
  • Publication Spotlight
  • Public Library
  • SELECT CIA PSEUDONYMS
  • SELECT FBI CRYPTONYMS
  • CIA Records Search Tool (CREST)
  • AARC Catalog
  • AARC Board of Directors
  • AARC Membership
  • In Memoriam
  • JFK Commemoration Lecture Series – 2024

Copyright AARC

Joe Backes, ARRB Summaries: Page 14.

The 12th batch

Part Two


Document # 180-10087-10190 Is a three page interview summary of Robert Motto dated 12/30/77. Really only two.

On 12/30 77, the writers interviewed Motto at Holiday Inn, room 1526. Mr. Motto is now chief investigator for the Cook County Public Administrator’s Office. In 1963 he was Special Agent Robert Motto of the Chicago office of the United States Secret Service. We discussed with him his activities in connection with the proposed visit of President John F. Kennedy to Chicago on November 2, 1963.

Motto told us that he was involved in checks and counterfeiting enforcement during this 1963 period. As if anticipating the thrust of our questioning, he stated that about a year or two ago a newspaperman came to see him and questioned him about this November 1963 period. He could not recall the reporter’s name, but the man told him he was going to make him the hero of the piece. This put Motto on his guard and he said he didn’t tell the man anything about his activities at the time. “As a result, he murdered me in the article,” Motto said.

Motto told us that he could not recall exactly what specific activities he was engaged in from October 30th through November 2nd, 1963 except that he went to the Air Force – Army game at Soldiers Field on November 2nd. “The trip was canceled. I think they told us at the game, but we decided to watch it anyway,” Motto said. “When I got back to the office, someone said there had been threats,” he told us. We pressed him for information as to the identity of his informant, but he could not recall who in his office told him. He does not recall surveilling any Latin/Cuban types during that period, but he does not rule out this possibility; he simply does not recollect. The names Rodriguez and Gonzalez mean nothing to him.

Motto asked us if we had talked to Bolden yet. We replied in the negative and asked him who Bolden was. He launched into a vituperative discussion about Abe Bolden, the Negro Secret Service Agent who allegedly attempted to blow the whistle on the Service in 1964. He was arrested in Chicago and charged with attempting to sell file information to a counterfeiter who had been arrested by the Chicago office.

On the day President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Motto was in Cincinnati, Ohio, working on a big case. He said he returned to Chicago and helped in the post-assassination investigation — but again he was vague on specifics.

Motto said that he had a copy of the magazine article he referred to earlier and would send it to us when he located it.

Document # 180-10090-10122 Is a 4 page section of Thomas Kelly’s Briefing Paper for the President’s Committee on the Warren Report. It is dated 10/10/64. So this was used for the Dillon Committee.

Prior to November 1963 and except on very rare occasions, most of which involved the use of military personnel on military bases or on occasions such as inaugurations, manpower assistance to the Secret Service for physical protection of the President was limited to the police agencies (local and state) in the area where the President visited.

The FBI and CIA furnished support in the area of preventive intelligence. Frequently, their representatives accompanied the Secret Service during the travel of the President, especially during foreign travel, but they furnished no personnel for the physical security measures.

Prior to November 1963, the general theory on which the Secret Service conducted Presidential protection was that satisfactory physical security could be provided by a small corps of well trained, dedicated men. The methods employed were secret, and the public and others assumed that many measures were taken which in fact were not – and this served as an important deterrent. Budget experience and political considerations seemed to rule out a more ambitious program.

Since November 1963, and the seemingly general recognition that the protection of the President and his family should utilize manpower in excess of that available to the Secret Service, the Secret Service has requested and received support from other Treasury enforcement agencies, the FBI and other Federal investigative agencies.

Treasury agents from the various law enforcement branches of the Internal Revenue Service (Inspection, A&TT and Intelligence), Bureau of Customs, the U. S. Coast Guard and the Bureau of Narcotics have been used to supplement Secret Service personnel on nearly every occasion of the President’s travel outside Washington. The Secret Service has requested and used 537 Treasury agents and their work involved 7,979 man hours between February 11, 1964 and August 31, 1964.

The procedure by which the Secret Service can call upon other Treasury agencies for manpower assistance was formally authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury on March 19, 1964. It is under the general supervision of the Treasury’s Director of Law Enforcement coordination, who also has supplied guidelines on protection to the other Treasury enforcement agencies. The Treasury has conducted an inventory of the numbers of its agents stationed in various parts of the United States and overseas. Under standing instructions the Secret Service draws on the other Treasury agencies in proportion to the number of agents each agency has available in the relevant geographic area. Adjustments are made when emergency situations require different allocations. Advance agents in the field can obtain assistance directly from Treasury agencies in the area and need not clear these requests through headquarters.

The Secret Service has used other Treasury agents mainly for advance building and route surveys and as members of special teams stationed in strategic positions along the route or in buildings along the President’s route of travel. They have not been used in investigations and only in rare instances for neutralization procedures.

Since November 25, 1963 and through September 30, 1964, the FBI has loaned to the Secret Service 363 agents from 20 field offices on 43 different occasions to assist the Service in Presidential protection. The present system for obtaining assistance from the FBI has been to request agents from the national headquarters. Thus far all agents requested for the protection of the President have been supplied although the FBI has requested that, in view of the many demands on FBI’s limited manpower, it would appreciate such requests being kept to a reasonable level and restricted to protection of the President himself.

FBI agents have been used as members of special teams at strategic points along parade routes during Presidential visits and occasionally in the motorcade. The FBI has stated that it would not permit its agents to be used in the neutralization of those identified as possibly dangerous to the President.

The Secret Service has also occasionally used the assistance of

U. S. marshals and other Federal law enforcement agents. The numbers are very small.

In its long range plan the Secret Service has requested sufficient additional personnel so that, except in time of heavy Presidential travel, it believes that it will not be necessary to call on other Federal agencies for assistance in providing for the physical protection of the President. The Secret Service is presently considering what requests it will have to make for assistance in times of heavy Presidential travel and for help in neutralization procedures if the number of persons classified as risks grows substantially. For the present the Service intends to have its agents supervise all cases of neutralization and henceforth not to assign the responsibility to other agencies whose experience in this extremely sensitive area may be limited.

Document # 180-10090-10128 Is a 7 page part of Tom Kelly’s Briefing Paper to the Presidents Committee on the Warren Report (The Dillon Committee).

There is a Charge-Out Record signed by Marwell of the ARRB on 10/2/95.

The purpose of a motorcade is generally to permit as many persons as possible to see their President. The route is determined by the local “host committee,” local law enforcement officials, and the Secret Service. A complete survey is then made of the route by police and the Secret Service.

The purpose of a route survey is to identify potential points of danger and establish counter measures. Agents or police are then assigned to locations such as rood tops, etc. The routes surveyed are usually those from airports to downtown and between hotels and places of public assembly where the President is expected to stop.

The first step in a survey is an observation process to identify vantage points for rifle or thrown objects. Roof tops, obstructions, large drainage ditches, overpasses, waterways, manholes, construction work, natural growth, bridges and other physical things along the route that might present a hazard are examined and catalogued. Special attention is paid to locations where explosives might be hidden and detonated as the President approaches.

During the survey of the motorcade route, the local enforcement officials and the Secret Service decide on the number of personnel needed to cover the areas and where they will be placed prior to and during the passing of the Presidential motorcade.

In addition, an alternate route is selected at various locations along the motorcade route which will permit the motorcade to leave the route in the event of danger. Along the route, intersections are selected where the motorcade or the main portion containing the President or the First Family can be diverted to alternate routes leading to an airport or other departure point. The alternate routes are inspected for the same hazards as above stated. Moving patrol cars operate on the alternate route within prescribed areas to keep the route open in the event it is necessary for the motorcade to be diverted.

With the exception of locations along the route where it has been predetermined that the motorcade will stop, Secret Service and Treasury enforcement personnel augment the police, and additional agents are deployed behind the people assembled there or interspersed in the crowd whenever this can be done.

Prior to November 1963, building surveys along the route of a motorcade were developed by the Secret Service only on those locations where the route and the timing of the motorcade would be known long in advance, e.g. inaugurals. Subsequent to the assassination, the Secret Service stepped up its building surveys, and orders were issued that each field office would conduct a building survey along those routes which in the future might be used by the President. All offices are in the process of conducting these surveys and 25 have completed the surveying of the cities in their areas. Those completed include New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Miami, Kansas City, Detroit, Los Angeles, Louisville, Dallas, Cleveland, Houston and San Francisco. Surveys of all major cities in the United States will be completed within a month.

A building survey encompasses a block-by-block physical inspection of buildings and an interview with the occupants of each of the buildings which are adjacent or overlook the route. Conducting such a survey represents a considerable task. There is a call for skill, ingenuity, and a capacity for evaluating and identifying danger points, and the devising of countermeasures to be effected for the time the President is in the area. Certain types of buildings are considered prime risks, such as empty warehouses, etc. Other buildings are considered to present a lesser risk; e.g., public or municipal buildings where guards are employed and access is limited.

Since November 1963, we have conducted the surveys in various ways. Each requires a concentration of manpower and the work is intensive although it lasts for a limited period. In New York City in March 1964, a survey was made of the routes generally used by the President. These included the routes from the airports to downtown and between the hotels where the President usually stops. The survey was accomplished by Secret Service and Treasury agents teamed with city detectives working in two-man teams. Forty-four teams were used. It took seven working days to complete the survey. In May 1964, a similar survey was made in Chicago, covering the route from O’Hare International Airport to the Conrad Hilton Hotel. Thirty-two two-man teams were used for five days. Not included in these days mentioned is the clerical time for the preparation of reports and data forms.

In Atlantic City, a survey was made of the routes from the airport to the convention hall and in Newark, New Jersey, the route from the airport to the Lincoln Tunnel. In the latter two surveys, the work was done by uniformed officers of the city police or in rural areas by the New Jersey State Police having jurisdiction. The officers assigned worked individually.

At each address, the occupant, owner, or building manager is contacted. Any available security intelligence and identifying data concerning the person contacted is recorded for future reference. There is left with the person contacted the telephone number of this service and the police department so that information can be reported. The contact is requested to furnish any information which might come to his attention concerning (1) the occupants of the building which would indicate any abnormal behavior toward or interest in the President; (2) abnormal activity during the time the President is expected; (3) the presence of any suspicious persons in the area; and (4) any person displaying abnormal interest in securing space which overlooks the parade route. From the information obtained during the contact with the occupant of the building, two 5 x 8 cards are prepared. The cards reflect whether access to the roof of the building can be controlled. These cards are filed in the police department involved and in the office of the United States Secret Service. In the remarks column, there is attached any information that might be available on firearms stored in the building or owned by the occupants and any information concerning any mental aberrations of occupants of the building known to the person contacted.

Hazards found must be offset by establishing post duty for agent personnel and police officers when the President is present and the safeguards employed are dependent upon circumstances. The survey also facilitates the advance programing of security communications that will best serve our needs while the President is in the motorcade. The communication facility for a Presidential movement must be of a scope to insure radio and/or telephone contact between the President’s car (plane, helicopter, train), Secret Service cars, security aircraft, designated police cars, designated networks of security post and the Secret Service command post, police headquarters, and others.

The results accomplished by a survey cannot be calculated to continue indefinitely. The benefits derived are in direct relation to the length of time of the survey and the time of the President’s visit. If the elapsed time is extended, benefits will diminish due to physical changes from construction, from changes in occupancy, etc. Resurveys will be periodically conducted, however, a resurvey or bringing one up-to-date is easier and less time-consuming than the original.

In view of the present ability of the President to decide to visit a city and to get there swiftly, building surveys must be kept as current as possible.

The building survey is by no means a cure-all for this outer perimeter security. It is merely a plus factor in Presidential protection. A building survey, such as now being conducted, would not have brought to light Oswald in the Texas School Book Depository Building. He was there as an employee; he had a right to be on the sixth floor. None of his movements or characteristics were suspicious insofar as the management of the building were concerned. Unless we have prior information that an occupant of a building or an employee of a firm on the route is a known risk, he may not come to our attention through a building survey.

We have not found it practicable to attempt to secure the names of every employee working in every building along a motorcade route. This would involve thousands of names. In order to make any meaningful check of this number of persons, we would need the name, date and place of birth of each of the individuals we listed. In the usual time allotted to us, even with mechanical equipment, to check the name of an individual reported to us during a visit against this index of employees and occupants would be a task beyond our present capabilities, because involved in these names checks would be a determination of identity, the risk the person represents to the President, and the question how he is to be neutralized.

Questions occasionally arise concerning the civil rights of occupants of these buildings; that is, the right to personal privacy. Frequently, occupants of buildings which overlook the parade route consider it an evasion of their privacy to be questioned concerning their possession of legally obtained firearms, whether they intend to have guests in their office during the motorcade. Questions also arise concerning some occupants along the parade route who may be considered eccentric, but who have evinced no interest in the President. These areas and pockets of questionable security must be identified and evaluated and neutralized if considered necessary, but building surveys furnish no guarantee that the building is “sanitized”. Obviously, people cannot be arrested or moved out of a building to which they have the right to access even though they may be considered by some enforcement official to constitute a risk to the President.

Experience has shown that the day before the President arrives and while the President is in the city, the police department and the Secret Service are deluged with calls from people along an extended motorcade route. It has been necessary in each instance to set up extra police lines to handle these calls.

Building surveys represent a considerable investment in time and money, but the Secret Service considers them desirable if the President is to be protected properly while riding in a motorcade, even if an armored car is used, lessening the danger from rifle fire. Buildings furnish a vantage point for thrown explosives or material which could cause panics or rioting in the streets below.

Document # 180-10090-10134 Is a 6 page part of the briefing paper, this time on Participation in Advance Arrangements for the President.

Prior to the assassination of the President, personnel of the Protective Research Section did not physically participate in the advance arrangements of the President. This was left largely up to the field office involved and the advance survey team from the White House Detail.

Since the assassination, the procedures have been changed so that where possible a member of the Protective Research Section joins each advance survey team to establish liaison with local offices of federal and local intelligence gathering agencies and to provide for the immediate evaluation of information received from them.

A “Trip Index” is maintained at PRS on a geographical basis in which is carded the names and other identifying information of persons considered a risk to the safety of the President. This Trip Index file is maintained on a daily basis by several agents assigned in PRS through whom is funnelled information on persons of protective interest. It is constantly updated and the information evaluated on a daily basis. These agents prepare photographic albums of the high risks in particular areas and also on a national basis. These photographic albums are furnished to the White House Detail agents and to the local field offices and they are systemically reviewed and updated.

As soon as the Protective Research Section receives notice from the White House Detail of a pending trip of the President to a given area, the Trip Index is examined for that and surrounding areas and a complete list with identifying information is prepared. As an assist to the Trip Index file, the agents responsible for its maintenance examine the geographical section of the master index to insure that any information in that index has not been overlooked. In addition, the master files on all organizations, and their activities, and the composite files on racial situations, picketing, etc., are reviewed. The prepared list of persons considered of protective interest, together with resumes on any organizations evaluated of concern and the general racial situation, as well as other information on bomb disposal facilities, etc., is immediately forwarded to the Special Agent in Charge of the field office involved, with copy to White House Detail.

From the first notice of a pending trip until the actual visit, or function the President attends, the Protective Research Section furnishes additional intelligence received by them by the fastest means of communication to both the field office and the advance PRS agent assigned to the operation.

As soon as the PRS advance agent arrives at the scene of the pending visit he confers with the Special Agent in Charge of the district involved and reviews with him, or a designated field agent, the list furnished by PRS, as well as any additional files the field office considers worthy of review. An evaluation of the known situation at that time is made.

The advance PRS agent then establishes liaison with the law enforcement agencies in the area, including, but not limited to the FBI, military, local and state police, and through their intelligence sections arranges to coordinate all activities and to ensure [Note, “to ensure” is written in] the rapid dissemination of information.

After the liaison is established the advance PRS agent, with the assistance of the field office, arranges to neutralize and minimize the danger presented by each individual risk. This neutralization ranges from insuring that the risk will not be physically near the President at any time he is at a given location to the actual surveillance of certain risks. The neutralization is accomplished by both Secret Service personnel and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies. It also consists of immediate investigation of any current intelligence where warranted.

The PRS advance agent maintains daily contact by telephone with the supervisors of the Protective Research Section, keeping that Section abreast of his activities, and for the receiving of any additional intelligence of interest gathered at that source. Likewise, he confers daily with the advance White House Detail survey team and the local field office, keeping them apprized of information directly affecting the physical aspects of protection.

As the President’s visit approaches a command post is established near the location of the function through which all preventive intelligence is funnelled. A group of Secret Service agents and plain clothes local police are attached to the command post to be made available to the PRS advance agent to take immediate action on any intelligence received or on any incident arising prior to or during the actual visit of the President. Any information received at the command post requiring immediate notice to the agents who are in close proximity to the President is transmitted to them by the PRS advance agent through radio and other fast contact.

After the President has left the area, the PRS advance agent confers with the local field office, furnishing them with the necessary information to document the liaison and activities conducted in connection with the intelligence received. In addition, the PRS advance agent, upon his return to Washington, documents his own activities.

All of the information including notice of the trip is then permanently documented in the Protective Research Section in a Trip folder so that at any time an examination of the Trip folder will reveal not only the steps taken prior to the trip of the President but also liaison established, intelligence received, action taken on any intelligence, and any incidents occurring during the actual physical presence of the President in a given area.

Due to the limited personnel of the Protective Research Section, it has not been possible to assign an advance PRS agent on every trip of the President. In those instances where one is not assigned, the responsibility for the liaison and coordination of preventive intelligence is designated to the local Special Agent in Charge of the field office involved. Budgetary provision and justification for six additional special agents for advance PRS work has been made.

Document # 180-10093-10026 Is a 2 page interview summary of Roger C. Warner. It is dated 5/25/78.

Roger Warner’s present assignment is as supervisor of the Washington, D.C. Field Office. He entered the Secret Service in February 1963 and was assigned to the Washington Field Office. In December of 1964 he was assigned to the P.S.D. (Protective Support Division). The function of P.S.D. was to give training to young agents for Protective Support and also to provide Protective Support. From February 1972 to the present time he was assigned to the Washington, D.C. Field Office.

Roger Warner had spent about three years with the Bureau of Narcotics prior to joining the Secret Service. While with the Bureau of Narcotics he had attended the Treasury School. He attended Secret Service School after being assigned to the Washington, D. C. Field Office.

Most of his experience came from on-the-job training. He had been assigned to Henry Kissinger when Kissinger was with the National Security council.

President Kennedy’s visit to Dallas in November 1963 was Roger Warner’s first Presidential Protective-type assignment.

He had no prior Presidential protection training. On the evening of November 21, 1963, Warner was assigned to protect the Presidential Suite in the Hotel Texas, Ft. Worth. He stayed there until he was relieved at midnight. He spent the night in Ft. Worth and stood by when the President made a speech in front of the hotel on the morning of November 22nd. Warner and another agent drove from Ft. Worth to Love Field. They arrived before the President’s plane. Warner was assigned to secure the President’s plane. On arrival the President walked along the fence-line and Warner stated that he was having lunch at Love Field, when a voice came over the P. A. system ordering people to return to the planes and stand by. Warner got word from agent Bill Patterson that the President had been shot. He then got running accounts on the radio. He helped clear the area around the planes of civilians. Warner observed the hearse arrive and the casket being loaded on the aircraft. Agent Mike Howard came over and told Warner that a subject had been arrested driving at a very high rate of speed from Dallas towards Fort Worth. The Fort Worth police thought this may be a suspect in the President’s shooting. Mike Howard and Warner were to go to Fort Worth and talk to the subject. While they were in the process of speaking to the subject, a report came in that Oswald had been arrested.

Document # 10094-10459 appears to be missing

Document # 180-10096-10460 Is a two page document from Barry Portman to the HSCA dated 6/23/78. This is an outside contact report.

Portman represents Charles Tourine in a federal criminal case in San Francisco.

Barry Portman represents Charles Tourine in a Federal criminal case in San Francisco, the present status of which is the Government’s appeal of a district dismissal of the indictment.

Portman, a very good friend of mine, talked to Tourine whose bottom line position is as follows:

1. Since the Committee cannot guarantee that there will not be “leaks” of his information or the fact that he even provided information, he has nothing to say.

This view is strengthened by the fact that “one of his neighbors was found floating in the Bay of Piscayne”.

Since he has always been a “stand up” guy with his associates it is better for him to “be out front resisting cooperation with the government”.

2. If Tourine receives a Congressional subpoena, it will cause him problems but the Committee should be assured that it faces a “great Meyer Lansky” with all the attendant medical background. Should he actually have to appear, the worst penalty he faces is contempt of Congress which he could purge himself of as the Committee goes out of business.

3. Tourine refuses to talk informally or off-the record because the track record of Congressional Committees on secrecy matters is poor.

Document # 180-10104-10324 This is a 3 page interview summary with SS agent Conrad Cross.

Conrad Cross stated that he entered the Secret Service, June 1961 and resigned November 1966. He was assigned to the Chicago Field Office for the entire length of his career but he had worked numerous other areas on loan (temporary assignments). He had no recall of the proposed Nov. 2, 1963 visit by President Kennedy relative to assignments or incidents. He only knew that the President was supposed to come to Chicago, but cancelled the visit. Cross stated that the name Thomas Arthur Vallee was familiar and he remembers that it was Ed Tucker’s case. He doesn’t remember any details because he was not involved. He had no recall of any incidents involving a threat to President Kennedy by any Cubans around the same time as the Valle incident.

We began discussing Abraham Bolden and Conrad Cross stated that he knew Bolden well, although they did not socialize too often. He stated that when Bolden was arrested, he (Cross) couldn’t understand some of the allegations against Bolden regarding time and place, because he was with Bolden on some of those dates. Cross stated that he believes Bolden was set up, but he has no idea who would have done it. Cross stated that Bolden had a big mouth and did not think before he said things. He believes this was a contributing factor to Bolden’s troubles. Bolden had a personality clash with ASAIC Maurice Martineau and they were always at each other.

Cross stated that the Bolden incident was the main cause of his resignation. Cross became very disillusioned with the Secret Service because he felt Bolden had been “shafted”. He stated that he began to feel useless and lost faith in the Secret Service and felt it was time to get out. Cross stated his supervisors tried to dissuade him but he resigned. He stated that he holds no malice and had been proud to be an agent. He states that he felt his training had been very good. he attended Treasury School, Secret Service Training School and Questioned Document School.

Document # 180-10106-10100 Is a two page letter from Blakey to James Golden dated 10/19/77. Mr. Golden is with the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration of the Department of Justice.

Some time ago we discussed your making some discreet inquires among those Secret Service Agents who were motorcade participants, to determine their current attitudes toward the assassination and willingness and to assist in our inquiry.

Enclosed is a list of the 16 people who were involved in the motorcade. It contains their addresses and telephone numbers.

It would be helpful to the course of our investigation if you could do whatever you can and let me know – even the negative results – as soon as possible.

The 16 agents he names are:

1.) Bennet, Glen A.

2.) Greer, William R.

3.) Hickey, George W., Jr.

4.) Hill, Clinton J.

5.) Johns, Thomas L.

6.) Kellerman, Roy H.

7.) Kinney, Samuel A.

8.) Kivett, Jerry D.

9.) Landis, Paul E.

10.) Lawson, Winston G.

11.) McIntyre, William T.

12.) Ready, John D.

13.) Roberts, Emory P.

14.) Sorrells, Forrest V.

15.) Taylor, Warren W.

16.) Youngblood, Rufus W.

Document # 180-10108-10349 Is a 4 page letter from Burt W. Griffen to W. David Slawson. It is dated 4/16/64. This is really Warren Commission stuff. It concerns Sylvia Odio.

Interview with Dr. Burton C. Einspruch, Dallas, Texas,

(3:00 to 4:00 P.M. Monday, April 13, 1964)

Secret Service Agent William Patterson and I spoke with Dr. Einspruch at Parkland Hospital. Dr. Einspruch a psychiatrist, stated that he has treated Miss Odio since approximately April 1963 and that he saw her on the average of once a week from the beginning of that period until the President was assassinated.

He had first indicated to us that the rumors about Miss Odio’s love affairs were false. Later, however, he did state that the story we had heard about her affair with a Puerto Rican law professor, is true. He also stated that Miss Odio did date Leonard Marcus, although he does not think the affair was as great as Mrs. Connell indicated to us. (It should be pointed out that Mrs. Connell also believed that Sylvia Odio was exaggerating her affair with Mr. Marcus.) Dr. Einspruch further stated that he did not believe that the affair with Father MacChann was as serious as we were led to believe by Mrs. Connell. We did not press him on this matter, however.

Dr. Einspruch described Miss Odio as coming from a very high social position in Cuba. He stated that she had been educated for 5 years in Philadelphia, that she had written some stories which had been published in Latin American journals, and that she composes poetry. He described her as a beautiful, brilliant, well-spoken, charming woman. Dr. Einspruch confirmed the stories Mrs. Connell had given us concerning the anti-Castro activities of Miss Odio’s father. He stated that Miss Odio’s father had organized an anti-Castro group while he was in prison in Cuba. Dr. Einspruch further stated that Miss Odio has two brothers, two sisters, and four children with her in Dallas. She also has a brother, Cesare Odio in Miami. Miss Odio’s ex-husband, Guillermo Hemera, is believed to be living in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

In describing Miss Odio’s relationship with Dallas Cubans, Dr. Einspruch stated that she was never really part of the Cuban community but that her real place was at the very top of the social ladder among American Dallas socialites. He stated that her social position in Dallas results from having exploited her father’s business contacts in the United States. He confirmed Mrs. Connell’s statement that Miss Odio had worked for a while at Neiman-Marcus.

In describing Miss Odio’s personality, Dr. Einspruch stated she is given to exaggeration but that all the basic facts which she provides are true. He stated that her tendency to exaggerate is an emotional type, characteristic of many Latin-American people, being one of degree rather than basic fact. He stated that Miss Odio is friendly with two Cubans psychiatrists. He stated that, in general, Cuban activities in Dallas center around the church, but he did not describe the extent of Miss Odio’s participation.

Dr. Einspruch stated that he had great faith in Miss Odio’s story of having met Lee Harvey Oswald. He stated that, in the course of psychotherapy, Miss Odio told him that she had seen Oswald at more than one anti-Castro Cuban meeting. One of these meetings was apparently at her house, he believed, and Miss Odio’s sister also saw Oswald at the house. Dr. Einspruch says that Miss Odio reported to him that Oswald made Inflammatory comments about Cuba. The term “inflammatory” is Dr. Einspruch’s and he could not clearly indicate what it was that Oswald had said. In fact, I got the impression these comments were pro-Castro.

I asked Dr. Einspruch about the blackout Miss Odio had on November 22, 1963. He stated that on that occasion he did not treat Miss Odio. Miss Odio was handled then by a general practitioner, Dr. Louis Shlipac, of Irving, Texas. Dr. Shlipac was the physician for the company at which Miss Odio was then employed. Dr. Einspruch did not know whether or not Oswald’s capture was the precipitating factor in the blackout.

I asked Dr. Einspruch if he believed that Miss Odio would give information which would be harmful to her Cuban friends. He stated that he did not. Previously, he had stated to me that he thought that Miss Odio and all of the local Cubans were afraid that they would be blamed for the Kennedy assassination. It had been Dr. Einspruch’s belief prior to our interview that such a fear was what precipitated Miss Odio’s blackout on November 22. However, he stated to me that he never questioned her on the particulars of this blackout. He also stated that the period just before the assassination of the President was one of great anxiety for Miss Odio. I did not question him as to the basis of that anxiety since he initially stated to me that he did not wish to violate the doctor-patient relationship in our interview. Nevertheless, I should add that at the end of our interview Dr. Einspruch offered to obtain any information that we desired from Mis Odio if she proved reluctant with us.

In pursuing the question of Miss Odio’s possible reluctance to give information that would hurt her Cuban friends, I asked Dr. Einspruch why it was that Miss Odio might have told Mrs.Connell about her knowledge of Lee Oswald. He stated that Mrs. Connell, at the time of the President’s assassination, was Miss Odio’s closest friend in Dallas. He stated, however, that their relationship had begun to cool at that time. He stated that Sylvia Odio had slept at the Connell house on more than one occasion.

I drew the inference that it may have been possible that Miss Odio wished to confide in Mrs. Connell as a means of cementing their deteriorating relationship. Dr. Einspruch observed that he thought the anxiety which Miss Odio felt after the assassination may have caused her to tell Mrs. Connell about Oswald and that that episode was one of lack of self-control. It should be emphasized that at all times Dr. Einspruch felt that the story about Lee Oswald was completely true.

In describing Miss Odio’s relationship with Mrs. Connell and other persons in Dallas, Dr. Einspruch observed that there may have been a certain amount of jealousy between Miss Odio and Mrs. Connell. He stated that it was his understanding that Mrs. Connell had had a few affairs of her own, although these were not subjects of notoriety in the community and were only known to some of his colleagues in the psychiatric profession. He felt that Mrs. Connell may have cooled on Miss Odio because Miss Odio was more of a social success than Mrs. Connell. Dr. Einspruch stated that Miss Odio had unquestionably passed Mrs. Connell on the Dallas social ladder. He reiterated that Miss Odio’s closest friends in Dallas now were the John Rogers family. It was my understanding that this family owns Texas Instruments, although Agent Patterson told me it was his understanding that the family owned Texas Industries. Apparently, Miss Odio stayed with the Rogers family after her hospitalization in connection with the Kennedy assassination. The exact timing of her stay with the Rogers family, is, however, not entirely clear to me.

At the conclusion of our interview, Dr. Einspruch offered to be of any assistance that we might desire in connection with Miss Odio. I got the understanding he would use his position as a psychiatrist to encourage her to give us all the information that we needed. He told me that he had an appointment with her at 8 A. M. on Tuesday morning, April 14, that he would mention that he had spoken with us. Dr. Einspruch feels that he has Miss Odio’s complete confidence.

Document # 180-10108-10350 Is another memorandum of an interview by Burt Griffen. This is with Mrs. Connell. It is also dated 4/16/64.

Interview with Mrs. C. L. Connell, Dallas, Texas.

(12:15 to 1:25 P.M. Monday, April 13, 1964)

Mrs. Connell was interviewed by Secret Service Agent William Patterson and me at her home at 6949 Lake Shore Drive, Dallas, Texas. She had previously been interviewed by Agents of the FBI on November 29, 1963. (See Commission Doc. 205, p. 640) Mrs. Connell is an extremely attractive, well dressed, educated, well mannered woman in her late 40’s or early 50’s. Her husband is a CPA and their home is in upper middle or lower upper class area. We questioned her in detail about the background and reliability of Sylvia Odio.

Mrs. Connell stated that Sylvia Odio had come to Dallas from Puerto Rico in April or March of 1963. It is Mrs. Connell’s understanding that Sylvia Odio’s father was an anti-Batista businessman who had temporarily exiled himself from Cuba. His primary business interests seems to be in the transportation industry, although Mrs. Connell could not elaborate. Mr. Odio was an early supporter of Fidel Castro and, Mrs. Connell states, Mr. Odio entertained Castro on more than one occasion in his home in Cuba. Apparently, when Mr. Odio realized that Castro was a Communist, he deserted Castro and began to organize opposition to him in Cuba. As a result, Mr. Odio and his wife were imprisoned. All of his children, however, were able to escape to Puerto Rico or to the United States.

Mrs. Connell, who is an Episcopalian, came to know Sylvia Odio through the Catholic Cuban Relief Committee of Dallas. Mrs. Connell apparently became interested in the work of this Committee after she returned from a trip to Spain in early 1963 or late 1962. She met Sylvia through the Committee. Because Mrs. Connell has a great interest in mental health and Slyvia was having psychiatric difficulties, Mrs. Connell formed a particularly close attachment to Miss Odio. Apparently Mrs. Connell was at least partially instrumental in Miss Odio’s consulting a psychiatrist and obtaining psychiatric help at Southwest Memorial Hospital in Dallas.

Mr. Connell stated that Sylvia was suffering from a mental disease known as grand hysteria. [That “Mr.” Connell might be a typo] Mrs. Connell stated that grand hysteria is common among European women but is rather rare among Americans. It is for that reason that the Southern Methodist staff at Parkland Hospital (Southwest Memorial) took a particular interest in Miss Odio. Grand hysteria according to Mrs. Connell is a condition characterized by black-outs in the nature of fainting spells or other forms of unconsciousness which might last for a period of hours. Mrs. Connell stated, that in Sylvia’s case, apparently the principal cause of this difficulty stemmed from her relationships with men. Mrs. Connell described Miss Odio as an attractive, highly intelligent and gifted woman who had had a series of affairs. Miss Odio is 26 years old and divorced.

Mrs. Connell stated that Miss Odio had an affair with a man in Puerto Rico who was a law professor. As a result of this affair, the law professor apparently lost his job and is now working in Washington, D. C. Miss Odio also became involved with a Catholic priest in Dallas who had been working with Cuban refugees. The name of the priest was Father McChann. Partly because of his relationship with Miss Odio and partly from his own choice, MacChann is no longer a member of the clergy. Mrs. Connell also stated that Miss Odio was amorously involved with Leonard Marcus, a member of the Neiman-Marcus clan. Mrs. Connell stated that she believed that Sylvia was inclined to exaggerate many of her amorous relationships and that she had a great need for recognition.

In connection with Miss Odio’s political activities, Mrs. Connell stated that Miss Odio had been approached by persons in the Cuban community in the hope that she would become a leader of the anti-Castro forces. Mrs. Connell stated that all of the Cubans with whom she had any contact were extremely anti-Kennedy and that Miss Odio shared their sentiments. However, since Mrs. Connell was pro-Kennedy and a recognized liberal in the community, Mrs. Connell believed that Miss Odio soft-pedaled her anti-Kennedy feelings in her presence.

Mrs. Connell reaffirmed that Miss Odio had mentioned meeting Lee Oswald. She further stated that she understood Miss Odio had an hysterical blackout on November 22, immediately after learning of the arrest of Lee Oswald.

Mrs. Connell described John Martin aka Juan Martin as sharing Miss Odio’s anti-Kennedy feelings. Mrs.Connell stated she met Martin twice at Miss Odio’s apartment. She described Martin as being about 5ft. 7 in. tall weighing 130 lbs. and as being a close friend of Miss Odio. She stated that sometime in 1963 Martin drove to Florida where he picked up a car belonging to Sylvia Odio’s brother and drove it back to Dallas.

I questioned Mrs. Connell about Col. Castorr. She said that Col. Castorr’s wife is connected with H. L. Hunt. H. L. Hunt is the father of Lamar Hunt, the owner of the Kansas City football team. The daughter of H. L. Hunt is a Mrs. Hill who is active in right-wing political activities. Mrs. Connell described Mrs. Hill as being in her late 40’s or early 50’s. (It is entirely possible that Mrs. Hill is the mother of Thomas Hill, a former Dallas man in his mid-20’s who now lives in Belmont, Massachusetts, and works as an organizer there for the John Birch Society. Thomas Hill was a leader in the John Birch Society in Dallas before he went to Belmont. Thomas Hill’s name appeared in Jack Ruby’s notebook and may have been taken down when Ruby photographed the “Impeach Earl Warren” sign.)

Mrs. Connell provided the names of the following people who would be familiar with Sylvia Odio: Mrs. Eugene Link (Telephone No. AD 9-3000), Albert Tumaya, Miami, Florida ( a lawyer and a CPA), Marcella Insua, Mr. Insua (Director of Cuban Relief in Dallas), and Hector Isquerido (wife is an employee of Neiman-Marcus).

Mrs. Connell stated that Mrs. Link was a gossipy person and somewhat unreliable; however, she stated that Mrs. Link might have particular information which Mrs. Connell did not have. With respect to all of the Cubans listed, Mrs. Connell indicated that she did not have confidence in their willingness to be forthright and frank if it would hurt the anti-Castro cause. Any direct contact with individual members of the Dallas Cuban community in connection with the Presidential assassination will almost certainly alert the other members

Document # 180-10118-10129 Is a 186 page executive session transcript of Marita Lorenz’s testimony to the HSCA on 5/31/78. Only one page is here and this is page 180, previously withheld because it refers to Marita Lorenz having an abortion.

I went to the JFK Records Collection and pulled this document as it was open in full. It was a bit difficult but I got it.

Richardson Preyer presided as the committee chairman, also present from the committee were Mrss. Dodd and Fithian.

Lawrence W. Krieger was counsel for Marita Lorenz.

On p. 5, Mr. Krieger states that Mrs. Lorenz never executed nor was she asked to execute by the CIA any written agreement of any kind dealing with any information she might have acquired in the course of her employment. (Implying, but not stating, Lorenz worked for the CIA.)

Marita is asked if she ever had an occasion to meet Castro and immediately takes the 5th. Whereupon a grant of immunity from a Judge Bryant was entered into the record as JFK Exhibit No. 122 and handed to Mr. Krieger.

p. 12, Marita states she met Pedro Diaz Lanz when she was in Cuba, in formal meeting rooms with Fidel Castro.

p. 16, Marita states she has seen Frank (Fiorini) Sturgis with ID from the FBI, CIA, and Secret Service in Miami.

p. 19, Marita discusses a plan to kill Castro, apparently given to her by two FBI agents, Frank O’Brien and Frank Lundquist. Sturgis was in Miami and he was to do the briefing. Alex Rorke, who, according to Lorenz, also was an FBI agent, two Cuban brothers and Lorenz drove down to Miami with a shipment of weapons. One of the Cubans was dropped off in the Carolinas for training. The Cubans were the Navarro or Novo brothers. Lorenz was put in a safehouse and stayed there for three weeks. She was talked to by Frank (presumably Sturgis) Alex Rorke, and Pedro Diaz Lanz.

Those familiar with the Marita Lorenz story (See he book “Marita”) know she met Castro February 28, 1959 aboard her fathers yacht, The Berliner. Castro invited her back sometime later and made for her a complimentary uniform of the 26th of July movement. She stayed with Castro for a time traveling with him to the U. S. in 1959 to New York. She meets Frank Sturgis, then known to her as Frank Fiorini. Sturgis convinces her to steal documents from Castro and deliver them to him. She later returns to the U.S., to New York. She has an operation, an abortion, I believe. It is in New York that she is asked to participate in an assassination attempt on Castro.

She was given two capsules of botulinum toxin. Fearing Castro’s agents would discover the capsules she hid them in cold cream, which destroyed the capsules.

p. 23, Marita Lorenz says she met Lee Harvey Oswald in a safehouse in Miami. Pedro Diaz Lanz was also there at the time along with Sturgis, Alex Rorke, Orlando Bosch, and Gerry Patrick Hemming.

She states this was a safehouse run by Operation 40. She describes Operation 40 as a group of trained assassins. She states that Sturgis, Hemming and Lanz were the trainers, as was an unnamed American Colonel.

She states she met Oswald three or four times and this was all in 1961.

During the training of these men she is accidently shot. Bosch patches her up and she is driven back to Miami.

p. 31, She says she met Oswald again sometime after August and prior to November 1963. This is the famous car caravan story from Miami to Dallas. (See Mark Lane’s, “Plausible Denial” p. 294-7)

p. 36, mention is made by a committee man, Mr. Dodd, that Lorenz wrote out the details of her association with Fidel Castro from 1959-1963. He hands it to Lorenz so she can identify it.

Returning to the caravan story, Lorenz had previously been asked to spy upon General Marcos Perez Jimenez by Sturgis. She dos so. As with Castro there is a sexual relationship. A daughter is born. I believe Lorenz married Jimenez. General Jimenez was the former president of Venezuela. Sturgis wanted information on how much aide Jimenez was giving Castro. Robert Kennedy extradites Jimenez in 1963. Lorenz states a lawyer for Jimenez, David W. Walter was threatening her. Apparently, she feared for her life and that is the reason she is at this meeting at Orlando Bosch’s house.

Mr. Dodd is skeptical that they would let Lorenz sit in on this meeting when she has nothing to do with it and is not there for the reasons the others are. He strangely seems to authenticate them by calling them “highly professional operatives” in his question to Lorenz as to why they would let her hear the discussion of the meeting.

She replied she was a member of Operation 40 and had worked for Sturgis before so she was trusted by him.

She states E. Howard Hunt financed Operation 40 from funds he was getting presumably from Washington, D. C.

The caravan consisted of two cars and contained the following people, Lorenz, Oswald, the Novo brothers, Hemming, Pedro Diaz Lanz, Sturgis and Orlando Bosch. They drove straight through for two days rotating drivers. This was on November 16th. In Dallas they stayed at a motel on the outskirts of town.

Lorenz states Jack Ruby came to this motel.

There is an uneasy feeling having Lorenz there. The guys don’t want her there. She doesn’t understand what is going on. She is under the impression they are there to steal weapons from an armory. She claims she has helped them do this before, acting as the decoy. Anyway, she leaves flying back to Miami. She then flies onto New York on November 22. She hears about the assassination on board the plane.

Lorenz states she then discussed this with Sturgis in 1976-77. Just as she is asked whether or not Sturgis admitted if he was involved in the assassination Mr. Preyer interrupts to announce that some members of the committee would like to ask some questions.

On page 68, there is a lovely little exchange between Mr. Dodd and Lorenz’s counsel Mr. Krieger. Apparently, Kreiger was given Lorenz the answers to the questions.

Mr. Dodd. “Counsel, I am asking the witness the questions. I certainly respect your right to be there but it is difficult to be here and sit here and ask the question of the witness and get the answer from you.”

Mr. Krieger. “You are not getting any answer from me.”

Mr. Dodd. “Yes. You are telling her what to say.”

Mr. Krieger. “No, I am not. Not in the slightest.”

Mr. Dodd. “I can hear you; I am not deaf.”

Mr. Krieger. “I am not telling her what to say.”

Mr. Dodd. “We will have a break and you can talk it over with your client. I am trying to get answers from the witness.”

Mr. Krieger. “That is what I want you to get.”

Mr. Dodd. “All right. Do you want to take a minute and take a break and go over this with your client.”

Mr. Kreiger. “If you ask the right questions, there won’t be a problem.”

Mr. Dodd. “I will worry about the questions. I would like to get answers from the witness, not from you.”

Mr. Kreiger. “You won’t get any answers from me, I was not there.”

Mr. Dodd. “Then be quiet when I am asking the witness questions.”

p. 74, when asked directly if E. Howard Hunt appeared at any time at this hotel in Dallas Lorenz said no. Then on p. 75 she leaves the impression that he did.

p. 80, The Committee wants to understand why Lorenz had no ill will towards Bobby Kennedy. Lorenz explains that the Operation 40 people probably thought that Lorenz hated the Kennedys because of Jimenez’s deportation. Lorenz stated that she thinks Bobby Kennedy made a political deal with Romulo Betancourt, the successor to Marcos Perez Jimenez, to extradite him for the theft of millions that Jimenez stole from his country’s treasury and for four counts of murder. Lorenz thought R. F. K. used the General as an example to other dictators not to escape and settle in America. Lorenz had a paternity suit against Jimenez and Irving Jaffe of the U. S. State Dept. asked her to drop it as it was holding up the extradition. David W. Walters had control of a trust fund set up for the daughter. When Jimenez was deported she lost her house and the trust fund but she blamed that on Jaffe and especially Walters . Lorenz claims Walters hired a man to run Lorenz down in a car.

The HSCA people defend Walters calling him a respected lawyer, church goer, and now (in 1978) the U. S. Ambassador to the Vatican.

p. 98, Lorenz thinks Oswald spoke Czechoslovakian.

p. 111-112, Mr. McDonald seems appalled that Lorenz would describe Jack Ruby as “that Mafia punk”.

p. 116, Oddly, Mr. McDonald asks Lorenz if she recalled if Oswald had a limp. What’s that about?

p. 117, Lorenz states she worked for the FBI doing espionage work. Her case agent was Al Chesterone. She says during Watergate she saw a picture in the newspaper and said that’s not Frank Sturgis, it’s Frank Fiorini, and that’s Eduardo. She gave a picture or several taken by Alex Rorke of the training and men at No Name Key to Chesterone. These photos showed herself and Sturgis, Hemming, Lanz and Oswald.

On p. 134, Mr. Kreiger points out the notations made on Marita Lorenz’s written statement which the committee got somehow which was not written for them or to them. (JFK Exhibit No. 123) It was written for Steve Czukas, an intelligence officer with Customs in Miami, Florida.

On page 137 Mr. Kreiger tries to enter into the records a letter from the FBI to Marita Lorenz signed by John F. Malone apparently highly commending Mrs. Lorenz for her work for the FBI.

On p. 138 Mr. Kreiger is allowed to ask Lorenz questions

On p. 139 Lorenz claims Czukas knew of the caravan from Miami to Dallas and that he got this information from someone in the Secret Service.

On p. 140, Lorenz refers to Warren Commission exhibit No. 18 Lee Harvey Oswald’s notebook which has Fiorini’s name in it.

On p. 141 Lorenz claims Sturgis was involved in the assassination of Trujillo.

Mr. McDonald and then later Mr. Dodd do not like that Lorenz and her counsel are reading questions and answers from prepared written papers. Dodd calls it a “script.”

p. 163, in response to a question from Mr. Fithian Lorenz states she did not wait 15 years to tell her story but told it to two agents of the FBI from the Newark field office shortly after the assassination. They were only interested in the whereabouts of Pedro Diaz Lanz and Alex Rorke. Apparently, Rorke was killed two months before the car caravan to Dallas.

The rest of the document is taken up with the HSCA members all but directly accusing Lorenz of perjury. They point out that Oswald is in Russia when Lorenz places him in the Florida Everglades so Lorenz must be lying. Unless there are two Oswalds.

Document # 179-40001-10073 Is a a copy of Document # 180-10108-10349.

Document # 179-40001-10432 Is a 3 page document from Stuart Pollak to J. Lee Rankin dated 6/18/64. This is interesting, it is about deleting certain sections from the testimony of some people.

Passages which if published might involve invasions of the privacy of the witness or which may be thought to be unjustifiably offensive, insulting or defamatory of some person other than the witness, and which may be of insufficient relevance to justify their publication.

Vol. Page

I : 167 Marguerite Oswald: “Reverend French did not show

up” to perform funeral services for LHO.

I : 239 Marguerite: Father of Carol, or Karen, co-employee

of Marguerite at Royal Clothiers in Fort Worth, “was

one of the biggest gangsters in Fort Worth, Tex.”

He was killed by other gangsters.

[Note, there is notation that “Karen’s last name was Bennett- conceivably Karen Bennett-Little Lynn.]

I : 346, 420 Mr. Robert Oswald: Didn’t like Mrs. Paine, and

suspected her of complicity in assassination.

III : 138 Mrs. Paine: Reasons for her separation from her husband.

III : 237 Mr. Truly: Jack Doughtery, employee of TSBD, is “a man who probably needed some treatment when he was a little child, probably of some hormone nature….He has no interest in women…”

III : 336 Mr. Scoggins: When 17 or 18, he was arrested for stowaway on a tug boat.

VI : 214 Mrs. Hill expressed reluctance to have her “twang” her being kidded about it publicized.

VI : 247 Mr. Holland asked that we not publish his statement that official cars park on railroad property because someone “might get in trouble.”

VI : 321 Inspector Sawyer: Charles Givens has previous record for narcotics violations.

VI: 435 Mrs. Roberts: To her sorrow, she was unable to bear children. She is now working for a man who has cancer.

[Note, I think a page is missing here. For below starts on p. -3-]

-3-

IX : 8 Mr. Raigorodsky: He doesn’t like priest at St. Nicholas and suspects him of being “either socialist if not Communist, Communistically inclined.”

X : 73 Mr. Steele: He “was called by the priest and told that [his son Charles][“his son Charles” has

a line through it]

had tried to get in a little girl’s pants.

X : 80 Mr. Geraci : He informed FBI of his friend

[Carlos Bringuier] `s activities. [“Carlos Bringuier” also has a line through it.] Mr. Geraci requested generally that his remarks not be publicized.

X : 250,260 Mr and Mrs. Tobias re Mr. Tobias’ injuries in auto accident; Mr. Tobias states he was and always has been “goofy-headed.”

X : 287 Mr. Barnhorst : Joseph Hummel, resident at YMCA who allegedly knew Oswald, of low intelligence and “no end of trouble to me.”

X : 368 Mr. Davis: Mr. Slack “is just a temperamental hothead.”

Marguerite Oswald also made the following remarks disparaging of others :

I : 130-31, 188 (Criticizing Senator Tower’s reported remarks; I:141(criticizing audacity of Nixon); I : 142,165 (persons Marguerite states have information regarding Oswald’s security connections); I : 178 (disparaging references to Bobby Baker, Charles Van Doren, Fred Korth)

IX : 66 Refusal of Dallas hospitals to treat Oswald baby when ill.

In addition, the record also contains numerous disparaging comments both about and by George DeMohrenschildt and his associates, and also some unflattering comment about other members of the Dallas Russian colony — for example, repeated references to Mr. Bouhe as a busybody, and the like. Although most of this is probably of too great relevance to permit exclusion, below there follows a list of the most egregarious [sic. He probably means egregious.] comments relating to DeMohrenschildt:

[Note, obviously pages are missing here as this list of egregious comments on DeMohrenschildt is not here.]

Document # 179-40002-10050 Is a a copy of Document # 180-10108-10349.

Document # 179-40002-10171 Is a copy of Document # 180-10108-10349.

Document # 179-40002-10314 Is a copy of Document # 180-10108-10349.


fp Joe Backes, ARRB Summaries: Page 14.

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Joe Backes, ARRB Summaries: Page 13.

 

The 12th Batch

The Federal Register January 30, 1996 p. 2996-2998
Reviewed by Joseph Backes


FBI Documents

1.) Document # 124-10017-10252

2.) Document # 124-10035-10119

3.) Document # 124-10050-10395

4.) Document # 124-10170-10115

5.) Document # 124-10241-10111

6.) Document # 124-10255-10334

CIA Documents

1.) Document # 104-10015-10033

2.) Document # 104-10015-10159

3.) Document # 104-10015-10215

4.) Document # 104-10015-10225

5.) Document # 104-10015-10230

6.) Document # 104-10015-10243

7.) Document # 104-10015-10255

8.) Document # 104-10015-10346

9.) Document # 104-10015-10372

10.) Document # 104-10015-10386

11.) Document # 104-10015-10400

12.) Document # 104-10015-10420

13.) Document # 104-10015-10425

14.) Document # 104-10015-10444

15.) Document # 104-10016-10011

16.) Document # 104-10016-10012

17.) Document # 104-10016-10025

18.) Document # 104-10016-10026

19.) Document # 104-10017-10022

20.) Document # 104-10017-10033

21.) Document # 104-10017-10036

22.) Document # 104-10017-10040

23.) Document # 104-10017-10049

24.) Document # 104-10017-10057

25.) Document # 104-10017-10058

26.) Document # 104-10017-10073

27.) Document # 104-10018-10001

28.) Document # 104-10018-10007

29.) Document # 104-10018-10042

30.) Document # 104-10018-10076

31.) Document # 104-10018-10080

32.) Document # 104-10018-10088

33.) Document # 104-10018-10089

34.) Document # 104-10018-10091

HSCA Documents

1.) Document # 180-10070-10273

2.) Document # 180-10070-10276

3.) Document # 180-10071-10164

4.) Document # 180-10075-10118

5.) Document # 180-10076-10049

6.) Document # 180-10080-10131

7.) Document # 180-10080-10276

8.) Document # 180-10082-10451

9.) Document # 180-10085-10498

10.) Document # 180-10086-10342

11.) Document # 180-10087-10190

12.) Document # 180-10090-10122

13.) Document # 180-10090-10128

14.) Document # 180-10090-10134

15.) Document # 180-10093-10026

16.) Document # 180-10094-10459

17.) Document # 180-10096-10460

18.) Document # 180-10104-10324

19.) Document # 180-10106-10100

20.) Document # 180-10108-10349

21.) Document # 180-10108-10350

22.) Document # 180-10118-10129

23.) Document # 180-10140-10022

NARA Documents

(This is Warren Commission stuff)

1.) Document # 179-40001-10073

2.) Document # 179-40001-10432

3.) Document # 179-40002-10050

4.) Document # 179-40002-10171

5.) Document # 179-40002-10314

FBI Document Review

Document # 124-10017-10252 Is a one page document from SAC, Dallas to Director dated 01/06/64. This concerns FBI fears that the Communist Party, USA might conduct their own investigation of the assassination. DL-6-S states that he had no information about that. William James Lowery Jr. (former DL-2-S) and Mrs. Ruth Lowery (former DL-15-S) likewise stated they had no information.

Document # 124-10035-10119 Is a 21 page document from Henry A. Welke to Director dated 12/03/63. Only two pages are here. The cover page and cover page B identifying some informants.

It was considered advisable to set forth all information from Norfolk Division sources in this report instead of setting forth incomplete information in referenced report.

Following news of the assassination of President Kennedy inquires were initiated on Clarence Otis Pennington, potential bombing suspect; Elizabeth Paukovits Hull, Communist Party member, and Wallace Eugene Branner, contributor to American Nazi Party. Because of their background, these persons were considered suspects.

(There is notation that copies were destroyed in 1973 and 12/16/76.)

Investigation concerning them, however, was curtailed when the Bureau advised that Lee Harvey Oswald was principal suspect and because Norfolk Division had no information linking them to Oswald or the crime.

SA Lemuel W. Kerr observed Clarence Otis Pennington on the morning of November 23, 1963.

This report is classified confidential inasmuch as unauthorized dissemination could jeopardize effectiveness of NF T-5 and NF T-6, who are continuing sources on CP activities.

INFORMANTS

Identity of Informants File Where Located

NF T-1 is Judge Hugh Reid, NF 105-690-7

Juvenile and Domestic Relations

Court, Arlington County, Virginia

NF T-2 is Reverend James W. Cole, CE 105-1010-145

600 Wilcox Street, Marion,

South Carolina

NF T-3 is Earl B. Baker Lewis, Sr. CE 105-1010-211

Rural Mail carrier, Richlands,

North Carolina

NF T-4 is William Lane Forbes NF 157-8-81

Confidential Source Contacted by

SA Lemuel W. Kerr

NF T-7 is Doctor James W. Holley, III NF 137-969

PCI (RAC)

Document # 124-10050-10395 Is a three page document from SAC, New Orleans to Director, dated 2/25/67. This is a really, interesting one!

For information purposes, No. 1309-C advised on February 24, 1967 that he received information that the individual using the name Clay Bertrand is actually Clay Shaw. Informant stated he called Louis Ivon, investigator for Garrison, and told Ivon that he had heard that Clay Shaw and Clay Bertrand were one and the same, and although Ivon would not confirm this information, [Ivon] appeared very upset and wanted to know where informant developed this information.

Aaron Kohn, managing director, Metropolitan Crime Commission, advised February 24, he had received information that Clay Bertrand and Clay Shaw were one and the same. Kohn advised he picked this information up from one of 89 news sources that contacted him on February 24, 1967.

Kohn advised that he also received information that there is a man named Clay Bertrand living in Lafayette, Louisiana, a real estate broker that lived in New Orleans about the time of the assassination of President Kennedy. Kohn unable to supply additional information re Clay Bertrand of Lafayette, Louisiana.

Both 1309-C and Aaron Kohn advised that Clay Shaw was the former managing director of International Trade Mart, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Both Kohn and 1309-C advised that information available to them lead them to believe that Shaw has homosexual tendencies.

1309-C advised that he had received information from a person that is a friend of a friend of Bill Reed of WWl-TV news service, New Orleans. This fourth-hand information is that Sam “Monk” Zelden, prominent New Orleans attorney, has in his possession an application, not otherwise identified, in which Oswald as a reference listed Jack Ruby. No. 1309-C does not know what kind of an application or if this is even true.

No investigation conducted. Information being received from established sources.

Document # 124-10170-10115 Is a copy of Document # 124-10035-10119.

Document # 124-10241-10111 Is a memorandum from Regis L. Kennedy about Pershing Oliver Gervais.

Captioned informant called my home at about 8:00 PM and asked for me. My wife told him that I was at the office. Gervais then called the office and spoke to me. He stated that he wanted to tell me again that he nothing to do with the Garrison investigation of the Kennedy investigation.

Gervais stated that Garrison is trying to hatch an egg and “you know what happens when an egg does not hatch, there is a big smell”.

As Gervais is a close associate of Garrison he is being discontinued as a PCI and no contact will be made with him until this matter is concluded.

It is my personal opinion that Gervais was trying to find out if I was working at the time of the call.

Document # 124-10255-10334 Is a copy of Document # 124-10035-10119.

CIA Document Review

Document # 180-10015-10033 Is missing.

Document # 180-10015-10159 Is missing.

Document # 104-100015-10215 Is a one page document from Brussels to Director dated 11/29/63. They report no traces on Oswald.

Document # 104-10015-10225 Is missing.

Document # 104-10015-10230 Is a one page document from Director to The Hague, France dated 11/29/63.

1. We are looking for evidence of the travel of Lee Oswald and his Russian wife on their May and June 1962 return from the Soviet Union. ONHA 23606 from the Hague to [digraph]TOPAZ, dated 15 June 62, transmitted film of eight U.S. Passports photographed by [crypt] at Amsterdam Schipol airport around then. Please check film on outside chance one is Oswald.

2. Pls slug answer only as above. Send copies if you find Oswald’s.

Document # 104-10015-10243 Is a one page document from Chief of Station, the Hague, to Chief of WE dated 11/29/63.

Ref A. HAGU 5063

B. HAGU 5069

Attached for Headquarters information are three recent [crypt] reports and one memorandum for the record, the essence of which was cabled to Headquarters in reference A. We are also attaching a list of documents, noted in Hague station card indices, which make mention of persons by the name of Oswald. Due to the age of these documents, none of them are now available at the Station.

It is signed by Richard R. Consley

Document # 104-10015-10255 Is a one page document from Frankfurt to Director dated 11/30/63.

Film routinely forwarded KURIOT. Search files reveals no prints made of [digraph]TOPAZ.

Document # 104-10015-10346 Is a 2 page document, Memorandum for Record dated 11/27/63.

1. On 27 November 1963, [crypt] showed Richard R. Consley a memorandum which the Dutch Foreign Office had written to [crypt]. This memo was dated 25 November 1963, and it reported a conversation which one Mr. Slot, a member of the Dutch Foreign Office, had had with Ricardo Santos, 3rd Secretary of the Cuban Embassy, at a reception given by the Soviet Ambassador on 7 November 1963.

2. Mr. Slot reportedly asked Santos a question concerning the attacks made against the Cuban mainland by Cuban refugees. Santos’ reply to this questions was, “Mr. Slot, just wait and you will see what we can do. It will happen soon.” Asked by Mr. Slot to be more specific about what would happen soon, Santos merely replied, “Just wait, just wait.”

3. The memorandum goes on to say that Santos has a brother living in the U. S. His name and address are not known, but he and Santos write to each other regularly. This brother is reportedly pro-Castro, but went to the U.S. at the insistence of his wife, who is “conservative”. The subject matter of the letters between the brothers is reportedly nothing more than “family affairs”.

OSVALD “dit DORVAL,” Jean Nicolas

WNH-2864

OSVALDO-Silva-Baetzner, Carlos

201-280299*

OSWALD Brothers

MSZA 450, file 8-6, 23 Aug 50 *

OSWALD, Felix

ONHA-5328, 27 Jul 55; EAVA-11965, 10 Oct 55

OSWALD, Jean (Alias Jean DORVAL)

OFPA-9382, 12 Oct 54

OSWALD, Jean

ONHW-2059, 16 July 54, Attachment 1

OSWALD, Jean Nicholas

ONHW-2581, 16 Nov 54

Oswald, Rudolf

MSZA-450, file 8-6, 23 Aug 50*

OSWALD, Viktor

MSZA-450, file 8-6, 23 Aug 50*

OSWALD, Victor

WNHA-707, 21 July 50

OSWALD, Victor

WNHA-514, 27 Mar 50

OSWALD, Victor

WSM 375, 11 Apr 50

OSWALD, Victor

WSM 375: WNHA-705

OSWALD, Werner

MSZA 450, 23 Aug 50*

Same document. File [ ] was entitled “East-West Trade, MSZA Reports.” File destroyed 17-1-57.

Written notation CIA file number [ ] – 6 – 6/4

Document # 104-10015-10372 Is missing.

Document # 104-10015-10386 Is a one page document from Director to The Hague dated 11/27/63.

1. New York Times report confirmed by Immigration records shows Oswald, his wife and four month child arrived New York 13 June 1962 aboard Holland American Liner Maasdam.

2. Also request checks with consulates Rotterdam and Amsterdam.

3. PLS slug future traffic on this subject RYBAT GPFLOOR only.

Document # 104-10015-10400 Is a one page document from the Hague to Director dated 11/27/63.

1. [ ] reports that Paul Degroot learned of President Kennedy’s assassination as he was watching TV on the night of 22 Nov. Degroot and wife had just returned home from vacation.

2. A summary repeat summary of Degroot’s spontaneous reaction to the news of President Kennedy’s assassination folls: President Kennedy’s death is not good because it was with much difficulty that he was brought to the point where nuclear test ban treaty could be signed. Who knows what will happen now. Now Mao will get his chance. President Kennedy was not a free agent anymore and he was killed because he went to far in appeasing the Soviet Union.

Document # 104-10015-10420 Is missing.

Document # 104-10015-10425 Is missing.

Document # 104-10015-10444 Is a one page document from CIA to Dept. of State, White House, and the FBI. It is dated 11/28/63.

Our station in the Hague has reported that on 23 November 1963, a local Castroite named Maria Snethlages talked to third secretary Ricardo Santos of the Cuban Embassy in the Hague and said that she knew the “Mr. Lee” (sic) who murdered President Kennedy. She characterized “Lee” as a man full of hate and violence, and speculated that he had been “misused by a group.” She said she had written to Gibson (undoubtful [sic, “undoubtedly”] Richard Gibson, U.S. citizen of Lausanne Switzerland, born 13 May 1935, a Castro sympathizer, who had visited the Netherlands recently and was in contact both with the Soviet Ambassador and the Cuban embassy).

Later on 23 November, Maria Snethlage talked again to third secretary Santos and said that “Mr. Lee of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee” had been slandered. It was another person, “named Lee Oswald,” who had done it. Snethlage is reported to have been in Cuba in January and again in May 1963.

Dutch authorities have informed us that on 7 November, in talking about attacks by Cuban refugees against the Cuban mainland, Santos had replied “Just wait and you will see what we can do. It will happen soon.” Asked to be more precise, Santos had replied “just wait, just wait” Santos is reported to have pro-Castro brother in the U. S. A.

A very sensitive source reports that after his conversations with Snethlage Santos was furious because she had contacted him.

Document # 104-10016-10011 is missing

Document # 104-10016-10012 is missing

Document # 104-10016-10025 is a one page document from Director to Berlin, Frankfurt, Bonn, and The Hague dated 12/02/63.

1. We need confirmatory info on the travel of Lee Oswald with his wife and oldest child on their return from the Soviet Union to the United States. The American Embassy in Moscow gave them two train tickets from Moscow to Rotterdam on 1 June 1962 and they presumably left that day. Infant needed no ticket. They sailed from Rotterdam on the Maasdam on three June 1962 and arrived in New York on 13 June 1962. Presume their train route was Moscow Bialystok Warsaw Berlin Hannover, but not sure of routing from there on. Pls check German railroad schedule.

2. Names are Lee Harvey Oswald, born 18 October in New Orleans, LA., traveling on U.S. passport 1733242 issued 10 September 1962, Marina Nikolayevna Pusakova or Prusakova Oswald born 19 July 1941 in Minsk, presumably on Soviet passport, and infant June Lee Oswald born 15 Feb. 62.

3. German mission addresses pls check own files and liaison records and all appropriate police, immigration, passport, visa, and travel records. Cable data on travel and on any other info you have on them.

4. For HAGU: pls recheck your liaison and ship manifests on basis above new info.

Document # 104-10016-10026 Is missing.

Document # 104-10017-10022 Is a one page document from Berlin to Director dated 12/03/63.

1. Current German railway schedule shows daily connection Moscow-Brest-Warsaw change over at East Berlin for Loehne-Osnabrueck-Bentheim-Ammersfoort-Utrecht-Rotterdam. Leave Moscow at 1815 and arrive at Rotterdam approx 40 hours later at 1036 hours.

2. Same train without changeover in East Berlin goes on to Helmstedt, Braunchweig-Hannover on to Koln, but changeover possible at Hannover with stops at Menden, Loehne, Osnabrueck, Bentheim, Ammersfoort, Amsterdam, Utrecht and Rotterdam.

3. Also possible for a passenger using this route to transfer in West Berlin to trains destined for Hannover or Hamburg and in these cities to board one of several daily trains to Rotterdam.

4. Check of all available West Berlin records on subjects ref negative.

Document # 104-10017-10033 Is missing

Document # 104-10017-10036 Is missing

Document # 104-10017-10040 Is missing

Document # 104-10017-10049 Is a one page document from Director to The Hague dated 12/05/63.

1. FBI very interested in name and address and details on Ricardo Santos’ pro-Castro brother who lives in U. S. Can you learn this from [ ]NAPSIS for passage to FBI here?

2. The Mr. Lee mentioned by Maria Snetlage was probably Vincent Lee who replaced Richard Gibson as head of the Fair Play For Cuba Committee in New York.

Document # 104-10017-10057 Is missing

Document # 104-10017-10058 Is missing

Document # 104-10017-10073 Is a one page document from The Hague to Director dated 12/04/63.

1. [ ] records show that one M. Oswald, male Russian citizen born 17 July 1941 in Archangel, residence Moscow, entered Netherlands 3 June 1962 by train at Oldenzaal border point.

2. In spite discrepancies, which can easily be attributed to haste and carelessness on part of border personnel, HAGU inclined believe above data refers to Oswald’s wife Marina.

3. [ ] checking with Holland America line for ship manifest information.

Document # 104-10018-10001 Is missing

Document # 104-10018-10007 Is a one page document from The Hague to Director dated 12/09/63.

[ ]NAPSIS has no further info re: Santos brother. Will have

[ ]SIGMA alert niece to note address on PBPRIME mail for Santos.

The HSCA Review

Document # 180-10070-10273 Is a 7 page document dated 1/19/78. It is an interview of Secret Service Agent Abraham Bolden by HSCA staffer Jim Kelly and Harold Rese.

The HSCA staffers thought Bolden could provide details on a possible conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy in Chicago on November 2, 1963.

Bolden was from East St. Louis, Illinois and joined the Secret Service in 1959. He worked counterfeit cases in Chicago and in the summer of 1961 he was assigned to the White House Detail. He was the first Negro agent assigned to this detail. Bolden spent only three months in this detail and was evidently shocked at what he saw. He complained to his supervisor, Harvey Henderson, and to James Rowley, then head of Secret Service about the general laxity and the heavy drinking among the agents who were assigned to protect the President. He also resented the slurs against blacks which were called to his attention from time to time, eg., the separate housing facilities for black agents on southern trips. He was transferred back to Chicago.

While attending a refresher course in Washington in mid-May, 1964, Bolden was returned to Chicago on a subterfuge and subsequently arrested and charged with soliciting a bribe, obstruction of justice and conspiracy in an alleged attempt to sell SS file information to a Chicago counterfeiter. His first trial, in July 1964, resulted in a mistrial; his second trial, a month later, in a conviction. He was sentenced to serve six years. He appealed and in June, 1966, the U. S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case.

The writers found Bolden not at all bitter about the 1964 case although we did not dwell on it. We questioned him about the events which allegedly took place in Chicago just prior to and on 2 November 1963.

Bolden told us that around October 30, 1963, he recalled a long teletype message coming in to the Chicago office from the FBI. It was unusual, he told us, for the FBI to cooperate on any cases with the SS. But Mary Cooney, a clerical person working in the office at the time, and now believed to be deceased, took this message to the ARSAIC, Maurice Martineau. Prior to the telex, there was a phone call from the FBI. Bolden doesn’t know if it was a local FBI (Chicago) or Washington Hdq. calling.

There were only about 13 agents in the Chicago SS office at the time and the substance of the teletype and the telephone call alleging a threat against the life of the President on an upcoming trip (2 Nov) to Chicago was quickly disseminated.

Surveillance was undertaken by the agents on two of the four subjects identified with the threat. Because Bolden was black, he and another black agent, Conrad Cross, were excluded from the “north side” Chicago surveillance because it was a predominantly white neighborhood. Through a series of blunders, the surveillance was “blown” by Agent Jay Lloyd Stocks and the two subjects were apprehended and brought in to the Chicago SS office. Bolden’s awareness of the progress of this surveillance came partly from office gossip and partly from his monitoring the SS radio channels in his car. In any event, he said Agent Stocks was subject of some earthly comments from his fellow agents.

Bolden recalls that James Rowley called from Washington and suggested that Martineau use a COS file number. Bolden explained that a CO (for Central Office) number was issued only in or from Washington Headquarters and an “S” for Secret or Sensitive was given when they wanted to sequester information contained in the file. He explained that these files were kept separate from all others and that SS could say they had nothing in their files on a subject when in fact a “COS” file existed. He said as far as he knew, these were never destroyed (underscoring ours). In addition to the COS file number, Bolden said that all agents who were involved in this surveillance activity were told by ATSAIC Martineau to turn in their notebooks. All memos were typed, he told us, by a Charlotte Klapkowski (sp?) who is now working at Headquarters in Washington and is close to retirement age. “now don’t expect her to tell you anything. She is very loyal to the Service and wouldn’t say anything she thought would hurt them in any way,” he told us. The memo copies were all sequestered by Charlotte on this surveillance.

Bolden recalls that in addition to Stocks, Agents Strong, Motto and Noonan were involved in the apprehension of the two men. On Saturday morning, November 2, Bolden was in the office early. He recalls that the interrogation rooms were littered with cigarette butts and coffee cups, evidence of a night-long interrogation. He saw only one of the two men they had apprehended. He describes this man as swarthy, stocky, “a truck driver type” is the way he described him. The man was 5’9″ or 5’10”, wearing a jacket and shirt with open collar. His hair was dark and he had a crew cut which is described as “Detroit style.” The writers showed Bolden our Committee “mug” book containing 1 through 71 and 73-81, {Interesting, how many “mug” shots did they have? Why delete #72?} and he stated that the facial structure of photo # 74 was similar to that of the subject being questioned by agents in the office. Picture # 74 is listed as “unidentified – possibly Jim Braden.” It is directly underneath Thomas Vallee’s picture in the mug book. Vallee, #76, was not recognized by Bolden at all, although he was familiar with the case which was described in the article written by Edwin Black in the Chicago Independent, a now-defunct publication, dated November 1975. On page ten of this article entitled “the Plot to kill JFK in Chicago, November 2, 1963 – Twenty Days Before Dallas,” the writer is checking all arrests in the city of Chicago. He says: “Then we checked every arrest in the entire city on those days. Who arrested them? Why? Any weapons? It took weeks. In the process we develop leads: Look for Cuban names. Look for the name Bradley. Look for the name Braden. Nothing came of it.” (underscoring ours).

Bolden recalls that one of the men had a Spanish-sounding name. He said the SS agents took their pictures with a Polaroid camera. The agents’ notes were typed up and the memos were then taken to O’Hare Airport and given to a crew member (pilot?) of a commercial flight to Washington where he believes an SS employee met the flight and delivered the material to Headquarters. The two suspects in Chicago were turned over to the Chicago Police who took them away in a patrol wagon. He recalls that at least one of the two had a Spanish-sounding name.

Bolden recalls Tom Mosely’s name mentioned in the office around that period (Nov 1963). He said when Agent Tom Kelly arrived in Chicago from Dallas on or about 11/26/63, he mentioned a John Heard or Hurt. They searched the office card files for a similar sounding name. He also recalls that he and Conrad Cross were sent to check out a mixed Black-Spanish neighborhood on Rockwell Street to determine where a certain person who resided there was on 11/22/63. They were unable to locate the person, who had moved, and Bolden could not recall the subject’s name. The PRS had a record of the person from a previous threat. Bolden was critical of the activities of PRS, saying they did not do a thorough job. He did not further elaborate.

Bolden, whose 43rd birthday coincided with our interview, was accompanied by his wife, Barbara. He told the writers that he is now working for the National Lead company, 1800 S. Peoria Street, Chicago, as night supervisor in quality control. He is also a minister in the Islamic Faith and teaches a course in religion in Chicago.

Bolden told the writers that he made notes of some of the things that he uncovered in connection with the events of October 30 – November 2, 1963 but that when he was arrested in 1964, this notebook was seized by the government (Secret Service). He said that he would have no objection to testifying in Washington under oath relating to the matters which he discussed with us in this interview.

Bolden related to the interviewers that he was the informant who supplied the information for Edwin Black’s article in the Chicago Independent, Nov., 1975

Document # 180-10070-10276 Is a five page interview summary with Edward Tucker dated 1/19/78.

On 1/19/78, the writers interviewed subject at his office (L-3) at captioned address (First National Bank of Chicago, FNB Plaza Dearborn and Madison Streets Chicago, Illinois) Tucker was with the Chicago office of the Secret Service in November 1963. We talked to him about a projected visit by President J. F. Kennedy which we had been told was canceled at the last minute.

Tucker told us that for security reasons, on or about October 30, 1963, he recalls going to interview a subject named Vallee, who was supposed to represent a threat to the President. This was a customary practice prior to Presidential visits. Accompanied by Agent Tom Strong, he visited Vallee at his roominghouse on the north side of Chicago. He was troubled by his conversation with Vallee, who he says had one or more rifles in his possession.

Absent any Federal sanctions, Tucker reported back to the Secret Service office about his misgivings. The next day Vallee’s landlady, whom Tucker suspects was the informant, called the Secret Service office and said that Vallee had told her that he was not going to work on Saturday, November 2nd, the day JFK was coming to Chicago. Tucker said it was this information which caused the Secret Service to alert the Chicago Police Department to place surveillance on Vallee. He is aware that they did and that Vallee was arrested by two Chicago Police officers on November 2nd before the President was due in Chicago.

[Note, I corrected what I believe to be a typo. The document actually says November 22nd, which cannot be correct.]

On that Saturday morning, Tucker’s assignment had been to go to the airport (O’Hare) and meet the President. He did not recall that he was to ride in the Pilot car in the motorcade, but he said he did not go into the Secret Service office downtown and was therefore unaware of any other subjects that the Secret Service might have had in custody at the time. If this happened, he was not informed about it, he said.

When he reached the airport in the morning of November 2, 1963, he was told that the President had canceled his trip to Chicago but that several Members of Congress had arrived and the Secret Service was told to escort them to the Army-Air Force Academy game at Soldier Field. He thinks he went home instead.

Tucker said he was never aware of a telex or tele-type message which came in to the Chicago office from the FBI or anyone else regarding a threat against the President in Oct – November 1963.

The clerical force at the Secret Service consisted of Mary Cooney, whom Tucker said is now deceased, Charlotte Klapkowski, now at Headquarters in Washington and a June Trepinis and Elaine Shelhammer whose present whereabouts are unknown to him.

Tucker could provide no further information on the aforementioned visit in November 1963.

He said he would visit his old office and see if he could look at some old files and maybe refresh his recollection or the events of that period.

We questioned Tucker about a memo he wrote, 12/3/63 (q. v.) concerning Tom Moseby and guns for Cubans “who may be involved in the assassination of the late President John F. Kennedy.” After much prompting, Tucker recalled that Moseby was a Secret Service informant, known as 2-1-266, who was involved with a lot of Latin types, some of whom were bus drivers working in the city of Chicago. He doesn’t recall what happened to the matter but feels that it came about after November 22. He does not recall the Secret Service picking up any of these people in the October 30 – November 2nd, 1963 period.

Tucker was a clerk with the FBI before he entered the Secret Service in 1959. He has been retired for the past 6 years and is in charge of security for the First National Bank of Chicago. He resides at [blank] Elk Grove Village, Illinois (312) 437-2715.

Document # 180-10071-10164 Is a 6 page interview summary with Gary McLeod dated 3/06/78.

There is sometimes a white sheet of paper on these documents used to insulate the original from the metal of a paper clip or some clasp. Unfortunately, this seems to have been left on by some dufus somewhere and it has obliterated a few words of the text.

Agent Gary McLeod when appointed to the Secret Service was assigned to the Chicago Field Office. He (?) there until September 1965 and was then transferred to the Intelligence Division in Washington, D.C. In 1969, he was assigned to the Liaison Division. In January 1976 he was transferred to the Portland, Oregon Field Office. He stated that he has attended numerous “In Service’ classes and schools and each time they become more advanced and technical.

His recollection of the November 2, 1963 proposed Presidential visit is that he met Agent Robert Motto at the stadium on the morning of November 2 and was given a post assignment. A short time later he was notified that the President’s visit to Chicago had been canceled and he was told to go home. He believes that he heard at a later date that the trip was canceled due to the President having a cold. He recalled the name Thomas Arthur Vallee. He remembers Ed Tucker (former Secret Service agent) being assigned to the Vallee case and that it involved guns, but does not recall anything else about the incident. He does not recall the Chicago Police Department becoming involved. He remembers reading the Edwin Black story in the Chicago Independent, several years ago, and couldn’t imagine where he got the information pertaining to the four subjects suspected of being involved in a threat against the President and of Jay Stock’s surveillance. Agent McLeod stated that he felt sure that if this incident had occurred, he as part of the Chicago Field Office would have been aware or informed of what had taken place.

Relative to Abraham Bolden, Agent McLeod stated that he and Bolden were sent to Secret Service school in Washington. The first day of school, he believes on a Monday, Director Rowley had made opening remarks to the class. Someone told him and Bolden that they were to return to Chicago because of a large counterfeiting operation. They were transported back to their hotel, the “Willard,” by one or two inspectors. He believes one was Arvin Dahlquist. They were told to turn over their weapons, because there would not be time to notify the Airline agent. He went along with this, not suspecting anything was wrong. Upon landing at O’Hare Airport, they were met by Agent Dick Jordan and driven into Chicago to the Old Court House. The U.S. Attorneys Office was next to the Secret Service Office. He was taken into the Secret Service Office and Bolden was taken into the U. S. Attorneys office. McLeod, upon entering his office, learned that Bolden was being arrested. He only remembers general conversation with Bolden, on the plane back to Chicago. He did not know anything was wrong and Bolden never gave any impression of anything being wrong. Gary McLeod stated that he liked Abe Bolden. He was impressed with him. McLeod stated that he was personally upset when Bolden got into trouble. He stated that after Bolden’s arrest, he believes he heard that Bolden may have been involved in other things but this was strictly hearsay.

Agent McLeod stated that he remembers Conrad Cross well. Cross was a friend of Abe Bolden. He believes Cross was with the I.R. S. before he joined the Secret Service. He considered Cross a very bright guy with a chip on his shoulder. Cross was very touchy. McLeod stated that he did not believe it was a racial type of thing.

McLeod stated that he doesn’t remember ever having worked a case with Conrad Cross.

Agent McLeod’s recall of the April 1963 visit by President Kennedy to Mayor Daley was that there was an evening parade. He stated that there was no significant threat investigation on that visit. He stated when word was received of a Presidential visit, everything else was put aside in preparation for the visit. He stated that he had never been assigned to the White House Detail but had been sent to other cities for Presidential visits as part of a manpower pull. He stated that Presidential Protection is the Secret Service’s primary responsibility and that investigation of threats is ongoing during the regular work process.

Agent McLeod remembers the name of Tom Mosley and that he was an informant and also a bus driver. He believes they may have gotten Mosely from another agency. Mosely was not his informant. He has no recall of Mosley being involved in any gun deals. He cannot single out any particular group as posing the possibility of a threat against the President.

He remembers the Chicago office receiving official notification of President Kennedy’s death. He stated that the entire Chicago office was involved in the post assassination investigation. He remembers the gun being checked out at Klein’s Gunshop. He had no recall of any Cuban connections or organization in Chicago.

He has no recall of the Secret Service I.D. book being recalled after the assassination, although the color of the I.D. card was changed at a later date.

Agent McLeod stated that as a result of the assassination of President Kennedy several changes occurred. Intelligence agents combined with local agents for advancing a trip. The liaison with other agencies in law enforcement became better, and training took on different facets, such as simulated motorcades. The Liaison Unit was formed as a result of the Warren Commission.

Some of the Intelligence Division duties are to refer threat information to the Field Offices and advance work. He stated that any conversation with the Field Offices were followed up with a teletype.

He stated that he has heard of trips being altered but has never heard of one being canceled because of a threat.

Document # 180-10075-10118 Is a listed as a 4 page document on the RIF but is really 5 pages, 3 of which are the interview summary dated 6/15/78.

George Hickey is retired from the Secret Service since November 1971. In 1963, Hickey transferred from the White House Police to the Secret Service. After President Kennedy’s assassination, he was assigned to President Johnson up to and including the election. He was then reassigned to Vice President Humphrey’s detail. In 1969, he was assigned to the Washington Field Office and remained there until he retired. He attended Treasury School and Secret Service School. Hickey stated that while in the Secret Service he was mostly involved in the driving of autos during visits.

George Hickey stated that he accompanied the President’s limousine and the follow-up car on the plane to Love field. At Love Field the cars were turned over to Agent Kinney. Hickey was assigned to ride in the follow-up car and placed in charge of the AR15 automatic weapon. Hickey stated that he placed the AR15 on the rear floor of the follow up car.

As the motorcade proceeded, Hickey stated that it was a normal, boisterous, friendly crowd. After they made the turn from Houston onto Elm, the Presidential limousine was about 20 feet ahead when Hickey heard what he thought sounded like a firecracker coming from his right rear. He stood up and looked towards the right rear but observed nothing. He heard excited talking in the front of his car and turned to the front. He observed that the President had slumped forward and to the left. Mrs. Kennedy appeared to be aiding him and he was coming to an upright position. Hickey then heard two reports sounding like gunfire and saw what he described as a cloud of dust appear from the right rear of President Kennedy’s head. Hickey stated that he would guess at about 3 to 4 seconds between the first and second shots. He stated that the second and third shots were almost simultaneous.

The motorcade was traveling about 10 miles per hour. Hickey stated he reached down and brought up the AR15. Hickey stated that by the time he cocked the AR15 and turned to the right rear, the follow-up car was starting under the underpass. He stated that he saw Clint Hill holding onto the back of the Presidential limousine. Hill looked back at the follow-up car and shook his head as if the President was seriously injured. They traveled at a high rate of speed to Parkland Hospital.

On arrival at Parkland, Hickey placed the gun back onto the floor of the follow-up car. He stated that it was the duty of the driver of the follow-up car to check the AR15 out to see if it was loaded or unloaded. He went inside the hospital and the President was in the Emergency Room. Hickey went back outside and brought Kenny O’Donnell in to Mrs. Kennedy.

Hickey stated that he drove the follow-up car back to Love Field by himself. He helped place the cars on the C130 aircraft and tied them down. He flew back to Washington on the C130. On arrival they were met by an escort and taken to the White House garage where the vehicles were placed under the security of the White House Police. Floyd Boring came to the garage and told Hickey that statements were being taken at the White House. He proceeded to that location and gave his statement.

I asked Hickey about the theory of Howard Donohue, who has stated that Hickey shot President Kennedy with the AR15. Hickey stated that Donohue has caused him many problems and harassment. He wanted to sue Donohue but was told by private counsel and Secret Service counsel that according to Maryland law he didn’t have much of a case. He stated that with the Secret Service agents and two presidential aides in the follow-up car, if he had fired the AR15 someone would definitely have heard it — unless you want to believe they were all in on a conspiracy.

Document # 180-10076-10049 Is a copy of document # 180-10076-10062 from the 11th batch. It is a police report on David Ferrie.

Document # 180-10080-10131 Is a two page document from Special Agent Francis F. Uteg, USSS dated 6/23/66 on Thomas Arthur Vallee.

Synopsis

Investigation at Chicago revealed that the subject may have returned to Tennessee.

(A) INTRODUCTION:

Reference is made to:

(1) M/R of SA James S. Griffiths, Chicago, dated May 6, 1966

(2) M/R of SA Roger C. Grunwald, Sacramento, dated May 10, 1966

(3) M/R of SA G. Wesley Dunlap, Jr., New York, dated June 6, 1966

The subject was brought to the attention of this Service on October 29, 1963, by Lieutenant Berkeley Moyland, Chicago Police Department. Lt. Moyland advised that the subject had made extreme comments regarding the administration at that time and that he believed Vallee was in possession of weapons. It was later disclosed that Vallee’s room contained a M-1 rifle, a Carbine, and .22 calibre revolver with approximately 1,000 rounds of ammunition. This included bandoliers and clips for the rifle.

(B) GENERAL INVESTIGATION:

On June 23, 1966 the writer interviewed Charles Peterson, President of the Printing Pressmen’s Assistants union which is a part of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union of North America, 222 West Adams Street, room 325, Chicago, Illinois, telephone number 782-3417. He disclosed that the subject had come from Rogersville, Tennessee, in June, 1963, and had gained employment at the I.P.P. Lithographic Service, 625 West Jackson, Chicago, Illinois, and worked for Mr. Nemo Vola until January, 1964. At that time the subject stated that he was going to return to Tennessee.

(C) BACKGROUND AND IDENTITY OF SUBJECT:

Thomas Arthur Vallee is described as white; male; DOB 11/15/33; POB Chicago, Illinois; 5-6; 155 lbs; blue eyes; brown hair; Social Security number [blank]. U. S. Army Serial number 17-460-615; FBI number 677-475 E.

[Note, there is a notation that the blanked out Social Security number is incorrect. This appears to have been written by F. B. Stoner on 10-7-66. The correct number is likewise blacked out.]

(F) DISPOSITION:

Case remains closed.

Two copies of this report and two photographs of the subject are being forwarded to the Nashville office with the request that they attempt to locate the subject in Rogersville, Tennessee. If the subject, in fact, does reside in the Nashville office district, the complete Chicago file in this case will be forwarded to that office.

One copy of this report is being forwarded to the New York and Sacramento offices for their information.

Document # 180-10080-10276 Is a 4 page document dated 2/16/78. It is a letter from Mr. Robert O. Goff to Mr. Blakey.

Reference is made to your recent request that duly authorized representatives of the Select Committee on Assassinations be granted access to certain information in Secret Service files relative to the assassination of former President Kennedy.

In that connection, the information you requested is provided below:

1. Names and addresses of the five Secret Service agents assigned to the protective Research Section and responsible for the processing and control of threats:

Glen A. Bennett

U. S. Secret Service

1800 g. Street, N.W., Rm. 825

Washington, D.C. 20223

Elmer C. Lawrence

705 Tam O’Shanter Avenue

Sun city Center, Florida 33570

Walter Pine

4347 Carmelo Drive # 302

Wedgewood West

Annandale, Virginia 22003

Deeter B. Flore

3703 Bangor Street, S.E.

Washington, D.C. 20020

Thomas White

Route 3, Box 182-A

Miami, Oklahoma 74354

2. Additional names and addresses of Secret Service staff members assigned to the Chicago Filed Office in November, 1963:

Edward Z. Tucker

[blank]

John E. Russell, Jr.

305 Arlington

Grand Haven, Michigan 49417

Nemo Ciochina

U. S. Secret Service

Suite 211

575 N. Pennsylvania Street

Indianapolis, Indiana 46204

Joseph E. Noonan, Jr.

U. S. Secret Service

Room 742

219 South Dearborn Street

Chicago, Illinois 60604

John Gorman

FBI

Chicago, Illinois

Louis B. Sims

Interpol

Department of Justice

9th & Pennsylvania, N.W.

Washington, D. C. 20530

Joseph Paolella

American Security Agents

6600 N. Lincoln

Lincolnwood, Illinois 60545

June M. Terpinas

U. S. Secret Service

Room 742

219 South Dearborn Street

Chicago, Illinois 60604

Elaine J. Shelhamer

U. S. Secret Service

Room 742

219 South Dearborn Street

Chicago, Illinois 60604

Carol (Schultz) Dean

1750 Old Mead Road

McLean, Virginia 22101

James Plichta (Deceased)

Stephen Maynard (Deceased)

Mary Cooney (Deceased)

Jay L. Stocks

U. S. Secret Service

Room 317

Federal Bldg. & U. S. Courthouse

Detroit, Michigan 48226

Sandra J. Lipetra

U. S. Secret Service

Room 742

219 South Dearborn Street

Chicago, Illinois 60604

Charlotte Klapkowski

U. S. Secret Service

1800 G. Street, N. W. rm. 825

Washington, D.C. 20223

Rosemary Lacey

San Francisco, California

(last known)

Additional names and addresses of Secret Service staff members assigned to the Miami Field Office in November, 1963:

Edward Mougin

8360 Glastonburg Court

Annandale, Virginia 22003

Everett Curry

136 N. E. 28th Terrace

Miami, Florida 33137

Charles Howell

U. S. Secret Service

Suite 600

1310 L Street, N. W.

Washington, D.C. 20005

Ruth Aghababian

15600 N. W. 7th Avenue #620

Miami, Florida 33169

3. Access to documents relating to presidential protection and security during the period, March 1963 – November, 1963 will be provided to members of your staff at their convenience upon prior notice that the staff intends to review the material. Since some of the materials are classified, the Staff employee or employees reviewing the files should have and be able to exhibit evidence of the requisite security clearance to review classified information.

4. The file on Joseph A. Milteer is maintained in the Intelligence Division of the Secret Service and is available for review. The only material available relative to the groups requested is contained in that file.

5. Material relating to “Project Starr” is maintained by the Technical Development and Planning division of the Secret Service. Since some of the materials are classified, the staff employee or employees reviewing the files should have and be able to exhibit evidence of requisite security clearance to review classified information.

6. The file on Thomas A. Vallee is maintained in the Intelligence division of the Secret Service and is available for review.

Mr. Rowley’s current address is: 9615 Glencrest Lane, Kensington, Maryland 20795.

[Note, remember this information was current in 1978 and may be very out of date today. Also, people on this list may have since died.]

Document # 180-10082-10451 Is a 3 page interview summary on David Grant.

Mr. Grant stated that he served as the Secret Service White House Detail (SS-WHD) Advance agent for President Kennedy’s trip to Chicago that was scheduled for November 2, 1963. According to Mr. Grant, President Kennedy canceled his appearance, but had requested that the trip continue, despite his absence, “as though he were still there.” Consequently, the trip was carried out exactly as planned with the exception that President Kennedy did not attend. Mr. Grant was informed that the President canceled his trip because of illness.

Mr. Grant’s advance work occupied him for approximately one week prior to the November 2nd trip. It required his continual presence in Chicago from the beginning of that week until the completion of the trip. Mr. Grant also participated with certain JFK military and air force aides in a pre-advance trip in the Chicago area. The pre-advance work was performed during a two week period preceding the Secret Service’s normal one week advance activities.

Mr. Grant stated that his advance work required him to be present a “great deal” at the local Chicago SS office Headquarters. He indicated that while performing his advance duties out of headquarters, he developed several contacts or associations within the SS and with the Chicago P. D. These contacts included making the acquaintance of Chicago-office Special Agents Abraham Bolden, Conrad Cross, and Edward Tucker; they also included working in close professional association with the Chicago office Acting Special Agent in Charge (ASAIC) Maurice Martineau.

Mr. Grant’s description of certain procedures that normally come into use when a local office (1) detects an active threat and (2) reports to Washington about the threat was as follows. First, if there is a threat detected, the WHD Advance Agent is the first person informed because of his position as the agent in charge of all protective operations in the field. Second, the threat is investigated in order to determine its validity. Third, Mr. Grant as WHD advance agent would have reported to the agent in charge of the White House Detail, who then was a Mr. Gerald Behn. This report would have been submitted to WHD-HQ at approximately the same time when the chief agent in the Chicago Office, Mr. Martineau, would have reported the same information to the Chief of the Protective Research Service (PRS) of the SS in Washington, D. C.

However, Mr. Grant stated that none of these procedures was ever put into effect because of the fact that no information about a threat ever came to his attention from any source including PRS, the local Chicago SS office, and the Chicago P.D.

Specifically, Mr. Grant was “not familiar” with the name of Thomas Arthur Vallee, a person who was suspected by the Chicago SS to be involved in a threat and who was detained by the SS. Nor could Mr. Grant “recall” in the context of this trip other instances of the investigation of a threat or the detention of a person.

[Note the quotation marks!! This HSCA staffer knows Grant is lying!]

Mr. Grant went to New York after Chicago, then left for Palm Beach on 11/14/63, then went to Dallas for the three-day period prior to 11/22/63. In Dallas, he assisted Special Agent Winston Lawson, who was the SS-WHD Advance Agent for the Dallas trip.

Throughout his stay in Florida during November 14-19th, 1963, Mr. Grant never heard of threats developing in the Miami area against President Kennedy from any Cuban or any right-wing source. In particular, Mr. Grant could not recall the name of Joseph Milteer. He doubted that he had ever been in touch during this period either with the WHD-SS Advance Agent into Miami for the November 18, 1963 JFK visit or with the local Miami office SS agent who received information about threats from officers of the Miami P. D. Mr. Grant could not remember having talked with either agent.

Prior to his appearance for this interview, Mr. Grant acknowledged having discussed this interview with Mr. Lawson and with Secret Service counsel. Their discussions concerned the kinds of questions that HSCA personnel had been asking and might ask, especially in re the assignments and activities of SS personnel. Mr. Grant said one SS counsel had said that he didn’t know what subjects the Committee’s questions had covered. Mr. Grant’s final remark was that he believed that the primary function of the SS was and is to protect the President.

Document # 180-10085-10498 Is a two page document from Goff to Blakey dated 6/5/78.

Reference is made to your letter dated May 24, 1978, requesting clearance to interview and the last known locations of several Secret Service agents. The information you requested is provided below:

(1) Inspector Ernest Olsson, Jr.

U. S. Secret Service Office of Inspection

1800 G Street, N. W.

Washington, D. C.

(2) George W. Hickey Jr.

(3) Clinton J. Hill

(4) SAIC Warren W. Taylor

U. S. Secret Service

Dignitary Protective Division

Room 944

1800 G Street, N. W.

Washington, D. C. 20223

(5) DSAIC Richard E. Johnsen

U. S. Secret Service

Dignitary Protective Division

Room 944

1800 G Street, N. W.

Washington, D. C. 20223

(6) Thomas Lem Johns

8005 Snowpine Way

McLean, Virginia 22101

(7) SA Max D. Phillips

U. S. Secret Service

Suite 805

Federal Building – U. S. courthouse

650 Capitol Mall

Sacramento, California 95814

Document # 180-10086-10342 Is a 119 page document. Only 6 pages of which are here.

The first two pages give a list of agents and their addresses where known. Some are listed as deceased.

1. Bolden, Abraham Resigned — Address unknown

2. Gopadze, Leon Deceased

3. Grant, David B. USSS — ASAIC, VPPD

Room 295

Executive Office Building

Washington, D. C. (202/456-2354)

4. Howlett, John Joe USSS — Special Agent at

Little Rock, Arkansas

(501/378-6241)

5. Johns, Thomas L. Retired

3321 Culloden Way

Birmingham, Alabama 35243

(703/ 378-6499 or

205/967-1417)

6. Kinney, Samuel A. Retired

341 Bayside Drive

Palm Springs, Florida 33460

(305/965-4296)

7. P. Kirkwood No record as an agent

8. Lawton, Donald J. USSS — Special Agent at

ID Headquarters

1800 G Street, N.W., Room 825

Washington, D.C. (202/634-5731)

9. Lawson, Winston G. USSS – SAIC, Liaison Division

Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

(202/634-5838)

10. McIntyre, William J. USSS – Special Agent at

Inspection Division Headquarters

Washington, D. C. (202/566-8352)

11. Moore, Elmer Retired

[blank]

Bellevue, Washington, D. C. 98005

(206/885-2589)

12. O’Leary, John J. Deceased

13. Olsson, Ernest E., jr. USSS — Special Agent at

Inspection Division Headquarters

Washington, D. C. (202/566-8352)

14. Patterson, William H. USSS — Special Agent

Houston, Texas (713/226-5791)

15. Roberts, Emory Deceased

16. Rybka, Henry Deceased

17. Steuart, Robert A. Retired

5626 W. Purdue

Dallas, Texas 75209

(214/352-1350)

18. Sulliman, Samuel E. USSS –SAIC, New Haven, Conn.

(203/865-2449)

19. Warner, Roger C. USSS — ATSAC, Washington

Field Office, Washington, D.C.

(202/634-5100)

Then there is a memorandum from Glenn A. Bennet to Blakey dated December 29, 1976. This gives a list of 18 more agents with addresses.

1. Glenn A. Bennet USSS-ID headquarters

1800 G. (Room 825)

Washington, D. C.

2. Andrew Berger USSS-SAIC of Baltimore Office

(phone 922-2200)

3. Robert Bouck [blank]

4. William Greer 705 Brunswick Dr.

Waynesville, N. C. 28786

(phone 704-452-4378)

5. George Hickey [blacked out]

6. Clinton Hill [blacked out]

7. Richard Johnsen USSS Headquarters

Protective Forces

1800 G. St., Washington, D. C.

(phone 634-5721)

8. Roy Kellerman 2063 Kansas Ave. N. E.

St. Petersburg, Fla

(phone 813-527-6327)

9. Thomas Kelly USSS-Assistant Director

Protective Forces

1800 G St., Washington, D. C.

(phone 634-5721)

10. Jerry Kivett USSS-SAIC of Atlanta Office

(phone 285-6111)

11. Paul Landis 7512 Cedar Rd.

Chesterland, Ohio

(phone 216-729-2343)

12. Winston Lawson USSS-Headquarters

1900 Pennsylvania Ave

SAIC of USSS Liaison Division

(phone 634-5838)

13. John Ready USSS-Headquarters

1900 Pennsylvania Ave

ASAIC of USSS Liaison Division

(phone 634-5838)

14. James Rowley 9615 Glencrest Lane

Kensington, MD 20795

(phone 301-949-2711)

office – 840-1058

15. Verne Sorrels P. O. Box 749

Dallas, Tex 75201

(phone 214-368-8371)

16. Stewart Stout Deceased

17. Warren Taylor ASAIC P. P. D.

Room 1 EOB

Washington, D. C.

(phone 395-4000)

18. Rufus Youngblood [blacked out]

* * *

Go to Part Two

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Joe Backes, ARRB Summaries: Page 13.

The 12th Batch

The Federal Register January 30, 1996 p. 2996-2998
Reviewed by Joseph Backes


FBI Documents

1.) Document # 124-10017-10252

2.) Document # 124-10035-10119

3.) Document # 124-10050-10395

4.) Document # 124-10170-10115

5.) Document # 124-10241-10111

6.) Document # 124-10255-10334

CIA Documents

1.) Document # 104-10015-10033

2.) Document # 104-10015-10159

3.) Document # 104-10015-10215

4.) Document # 104-10015-10225

5.) Document # 104-10015-10230

6.) Document # 104-10015-10243

7.) Document # 104-10015-10255

8.) Document # 104-10015-10346

9.) Document # 104-10015-10372

10.) Document # 104-10015-10386

11.) Document # 104-10015-10400

12.) Document # 104-10015-10420

13.) Document # 104-10015-10425

14.) Document # 104-10015-10444

15.) Document # 104-10016-10011

16.) Document # 104-10016-10012

17.) Document # 104-10016-10025

18.) Document # 104-10016-10026

19.) Document # 104-10017-10022

20.) Document # 104-10017-10033

21.) Document # 104-10017-10036

22.) Document # 104-10017-10040

23.) Document # 104-10017-10049

24.) Document # 104-10017-10057

25.) Document # 104-10017-10058

26.) Document # 104-10017-10073

27.) Document # 104-10018-10001

28.) Document # 104-10018-10007

29.) Document # 104-10018-10042

30.) Document # 104-10018-10076

31.) Document # 104-10018-10080

32.) Document # 104-10018-10088

33.) Document # 104-10018-10089

34.) Document # 104-10018-10091

HSCA Documents

1.) Document # 180-10070-10273

2.) Document # 180-10070-10276

3.) Document # 180-10071-10164

4.) Document # 180-10075-10118

5.) Document # 180-10076-10049

6.) Document # 180-10080-10131

7.) Document # 180-10080-10276

8.) Document # 180-10082-10451

9.) Document # 180-10085-10498

10.) Document # 180-10086-10342

11.) Document # 180-10087-10190

12.) Document # 180-10090-10122

13.) Document # 180-10090-10128

14.) Document # 180-10090-10134

15.) Document # 180-10093-10026

16.) Document # 180-10094-10459

17.) Document # 180-10096-10460

18.) Document # 180-10104-10324

19.) Document # 180-10106-10100

20.) Document # 180-10108-10349

21.) Document # 180-10108-10350

22.) Document # 180-10118-10129

23.) Document # 180-10140-10022

NARA Documents

(This is Warren Commission stuff)

1.) Document # 179-40001-10073

2.) Document # 179-40001-10432

3.) Document # 179-40002-10050

4.) Document # 179-40002-10171

5.) Document # 179-40002-10314

FBI Document Review

Document # 124-10017-10252 Is a one page document from SAC, Dallas to Director dated 01/06/64. This concerns FBI fears that the Communist Party, USA might conduct their own investigation of the assassination. DL-6-S states that he had no information about that. William James Lowery Jr. (former DL-2-S) and Mrs. Ruth Lowery (former DL-15-S) likewise stated they had no information.

Document # 124-10035-10119 Is a 21 page document from Henry A. Welke to Director dated 12/03/63. Only two pages are here. The cover page and cover page B identifying some informants.

It was considered advisable to set forth all information from Norfolk Division sources in this report instead of setting forth incomplete information in referenced report.

Following news of the assassination of President Kennedy inquires were initiated on Clarence Otis Pennington, potential bombing suspect; Elizabeth Paukovits Hull, Communist Party member, and Wallace Eugene Branner, contributor to American Nazi Party. Because of their background, these persons were considered suspects.

(There is notation that copies were destroyed in 1973 and 12/16/76.)

Investigation concerning them, however, was curtailed when the Bureau advised that Lee Harvey Oswald was principal suspect and because Norfolk Division had no information linking them to Oswald or the crime.

SA Lemuel W. Kerr observed Clarence Otis Pennington on the morning of November 23, 1963.

This report is classified confidential inasmuch as unauthorized dissemination could jeopardize effectiveness of NF T-5 and NF T-6, who are continuing sources on CP activities.

INFORMANTS

Identity of Informants File Where Located

NF T-1 is Judge Hugh Reid, NF 105-690-7

Juvenile and Domestic Relations

Court, Arlington County, Virginia

NF T-2 is Reverend James W. Cole, CE 105-1010-145

600 Wilcox Street, Marion,

South Carolina

NF T-3 is Earl B. Baker Lewis, Sr. CE 105-1010-211

Rural Mail carrier, Richlands,

North Carolina

NF T-4 is William Lane Forbes NF 157-8-81

Confidential Source Contacted by

SA Lemuel W. Kerr

NF T-7 is Doctor James W. Holley, III NF 137-969

PCI (RAC)

Document # 124-10050-10395 Is a three page document from SAC, New Orleans to Director, dated 2/25/67. This is a really, interesting one!

For information purposes, No. 1309-C advised on February 24, 1967 that he received information that the individual using the name Clay Bertrand is actually Clay Shaw. Informant stated he called Louis Ivon, investigator for Garrison, and told Ivon that he had heard that Clay Shaw and Clay Bertrand were one and the same, and although Ivon would not confirm this information, [Ivon] appeared very upset and wanted to know where informant developed this information.

Aaron Kohn, managing director, Metropolitan Crime Commission, advised February 24, he had received information that Clay Bertrand and Clay Shaw were one and the same. Kohn advised he picked this information up from one of 89 news sources that contacted him on February 24, 1967.

Kohn advised that he also received information that there is a man named Clay Bertrand living in Lafayette, Louisiana, a real estate broker that lived in New Orleans about the time of the assassination of President Kennedy. Kohn unable to supply additional information re Clay Bertrand of Lafayette, Louisiana.

Both 1309-C and Aaron Kohn advised that Clay Shaw was the former managing director of International Trade Mart, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Both Kohn and 1309-C advised that information available to them lead them to believe that Shaw has homosexual tendencies.

1309-C advised that he had received information from a person that is a friend of a friend of Bill Reed of WWl-TV news service, New Orleans. This fourth-hand information is that Sam “Monk” Zelden, prominent New Orleans attorney, has in his possession an application, not otherwise identified, in which Oswald as a reference listed Jack Ruby. No. 1309-C does not know what kind of an application or if this is even true.

No investigation conducted. Information being received from established sources.

Document # 124-10170-10115 Is a copy of Document # 124-10035-10119.

Document # 124-10241-10111 Is a memorandum from Regis L. Kennedy about Pershing Oliver Gervais.

Captioned informant called my home at about 8:00 PM and asked for me. My wife told him that I was at the office. Gervais then called the office and spoke to me. He stated that he wanted to tell me again that he nothing to do with the Garrison investigation of the Kennedy investigation.

Gervais stated that Garrison is trying to hatch an egg and “you know what happens when an egg does not hatch, there is a big smell”.

As Gervais is a close associate of Garrison he is being discontinued as a PCI and no contact will be made with him until this matter is concluded.

It is my personal opinion that Gervais was trying to find out if I was working at the time of the call.

Document # 124-10255-10334 Is a copy of Document # 124-10035-10119.

CIA Document Review

Document # 180-10015-10033 Is missing.

Document # 180-10015-10159 Is missing.

Document # 104-100015-10215 Is a one page document from Brussels to Director dated 11/29/63. They report no traces on Oswald.

Document # 104-10015-10225 Is missing.

Document # 104-10015-10230 Is a one page document from Director to The Hague, France dated 11/29/63.

1. We are looking for evidence of the travel of Lee Oswald and his Russian wife on their May and June 1962 return from the Soviet Union. ONHA 23606 from the Hague to [digraph]TOPAZ, dated 15 June 62, transmitted film of eight U.S. Passports photographed by [crypt] at Amsterdam Schipol airport around then. Please check film on outside chance one is Oswald.

2. Pls slug answer only as above. Send copies if you find Oswald’s.

Document # 104-10015-10243 Is a one page document from Chief of Station, the Hague, to Chief of WE dated 11/29/63.

Ref A. HAGU 5063

B. HAGU 5069

Attached for Headquarters information are three recent [crypt] reports and one memorandum for the record, the essence of which was cabled to Headquarters in reference A. We are also attaching a list of documents, noted in Hague station card indices, which make mention of persons by the name of Oswald. Due to the age of these documents, none of them are now available at the Station.

It is signed by Richard R. Consley

Document # 104-10015-10255 Is a one page document from Frankfurt to Director dated 11/30/63.

Film routinely forwarded KURIOT. Search files reveals no prints made of [digraph]TOPAZ.

Document # 104-10015-10346 Is a 2 page document, Memorandum for Record dated 11/27/63.

1. On 27 November 1963, [crypt] showed Richard R. Consley a memorandum which the Dutch Foreign Office had written to [crypt]. This memo was dated 25 November 1963, and it reported a conversation which one Mr. Slot, a member of the Dutch Foreign Office, had had with Ricardo Santos, 3rd Secretary of the Cuban Embassy, at a reception given by the Soviet Ambassador on 7 November 1963.

2. Mr. Slot reportedly asked Santos a question concerning the attacks made against the Cuban mainland by Cuban refugees. Santos’ reply to this questions was, “Mr. Slot, just wait and you will see what we can do. It will happen soon.” Asked by Mr. Slot to be more specific about what would happen soon, Santos merely replied, “Just wait, just wait.”

3. The memorandum goes on to say that Santos has a brother living in the U. S. His name and address are not known, but he and Santos write to each other regularly. This brother is reportedly pro-Castro, but went to the U.S. at the insistence of his wife, who is “conservative”. The subject matter of the letters between the brothers is reportedly nothing more than “family affairs”.

OSVALD “dit DORVAL,” Jean Nicolas

WNH-2864

OSVALDO-Silva-Baetzner, Carlos

201-280299*

OSWALD Brothers

MSZA 450, file 8-6, 23 Aug 50 *

OSWALD, Felix

ONHA-5328, 27 Jul 55; EAVA-11965, 10 Oct 55

OSWALD, Jean (Alias Jean DORVAL)

OFPA-9382, 12 Oct 54

OSWALD, Jean

ONHW-2059, 16 July 54, Attachment 1

OSWALD, Jean Nicholas

ONHW-2581, 16 Nov 54

Oswald, Rudolf

MSZA-450, file 8-6, 23 Aug 50*

OSWALD, Viktor

MSZA-450, file 8-6, 23 Aug 50*

OSWALD, Victor

WNHA-707, 21 July 50

OSWALD, Victor

WNHA-514, 27 Mar 50

OSWALD, Victor

WSM 375, 11 Apr 50

OSWALD, Victor

WSM 375: WNHA-705

OSWALD, Werner

MSZA 450, 23 Aug 50*

Same document. File [ ] was entitled “East-West Trade, MSZA Reports.” File destroyed 17-1-57.

Written notation CIA file number [ ] – 6 – 6/4

Document # 104-10015-10372 Is missing.

Document # 104-10015-10386 Is a one page document from Director to The Hague dated 11/27/63.

1. New York Times report confirmed by Immigration records shows Oswald, his wife and four month child arrived New York 13 June 1962 aboard Holland American Liner Maasdam.

2. Also request checks with consulates Rotterdam and Amsterdam.

3. PLS slug future traffic on this subject RYBAT GPFLOOR only.

Document # 104-10015-10400 Is a one page document from the Hague to Director dated 11/27/63.

1. [ ] reports that Paul Degroot learned of President Kennedy’s assassination as he was watching TV on the night of 22 Nov. Degroot and wife had just returned home from vacation.

2. A summary repeat summary of Degroot’s spontaneous reaction to the news of President Kennedy’s assassination folls: President Kennedy’s death is not good because it was with much difficulty that he was brought to the point where nuclear test ban treaty could be signed. Who knows what will happen now. Now Mao will get his chance. President Kennedy was not a free agent anymore and he was killed because he went to far in appeasing the Soviet Union.

Document # 104-10015-10420 Is missing.

Document # 104-10015-10425 Is missing.

Document # 104-10015-10444 Is a one page document from CIA to Dept. of State, White House, and the FBI. It is dated 11/28/63.

Our station in the Hague has reported that on 23 November 1963, a local Castroite named Maria Snethlages talked to third secretary Ricardo Santos of the Cuban Embassy in the Hague and said that she knew the “Mr. Lee” (sic) who murdered President Kennedy. She characterized “Lee” as a man full of hate and violence, and speculated that he had been “misused by a group.” She said she had written to Gibson (undoubtful [sic, “undoubtedly”] Richard Gibson, U.S. citizen of Lausanne Switzerland, born 13 May 1935, a Castro sympathizer, who had visited the Netherlands recently and was in contact both with the Soviet Ambassador and the Cuban embassy).

Later on 23 November, Maria Snethlage talked again to third secretary Santos and said that “Mr. Lee of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee” had been slandered. It was another person, “named Lee Oswald,” who had done it. Snethlage is reported to have been in Cuba in January and again in May 1963.

Dutch authorities have informed us that on 7 November, in talking about attacks by Cuban refugees against the Cuban mainland, Santos had replied “Just wait and you will see what we can do. It will happen soon.” Asked to be more precise, Santos had replied “just wait, just wait” Santos is reported to have pro-Castro brother in the U. S. A.

A very sensitive source reports that after his conversations with Snethlage Santos was furious because she had contacted him.

Document # 104-10016-10011 is missing

Document # 104-10016-10012 is missing

Document # 104-10016-10025 is a one page document from Director to Berlin, Frankfurt, Bonn, and The Hague dated 12/02/63.

1. We need confirmatory info on the travel of Lee Oswald with his wife and oldest child on their return from the Soviet Union to the United States. The American Embassy in Moscow gave them two train tickets from Moscow to Rotterdam on 1 June 1962 and they presumably left that day. Infant needed no ticket. They sailed from Rotterdam on the Maasdam on three June 1962 and arrived in New York on 13 June 1962. Presume their train route was Moscow Bialystok Warsaw Berlin Hannover, but not sure of routing from there on. Pls check German railroad schedule.

2. Names are Lee Harvey Oswald, born 18 October in New Orleans, LA., traveling on U.S. passport 1733242 issued 10 September 1962, Marina Nikolayevna Pusakova or Prusakova Oswald born 19 July 1941 in Minsk, presumably on Soviet passport, and infant June Lee Oswald born 15 Feb. 62.

3. German mission addresses pls check own files and liaison records and all appropriate police, immigration, passport, visa, and travel records. Cable data on travel and on any other info you have on them.

4. For HAGU: pls recheck your liaison and ship manifests on basis above new info.

Document # 104-10016-10026 Is missing.

Document # 104-10017-10022 Is a one page document from Berlin to Director dated 12/03/63.

1. Current German railway schedule shows daily connection Moscow-Brest-Warsaw change over at East Berlin for Loehne-Osnabrueck-Bentheim-Ammersfoort-Utrecht-Rotterdam. Leave Moscow at 1815 and arrive at Rotterdam approx 40 hours later at 1036 hours.

2. Same train without changeover in East Berlin goes on to Helmstedt, Braunchweig-Hannover on to Koln, but changeover possible at Hannover with stops at Menden, Loehne, Osnabrueck, Bentheim, Ammersfoort, Amsterdam, Utrecht and Rotterdam.

3. Also possible for a passenger using this route to transfer in West Berlin to trains destined for Hannover or Hamburg and in these cities to board one of several daily trains to Rotterdam.

4. Check of all available West Berlin records on subjects ref negative.

Document # 104-10017-10033 Is missing

Document # 104-10017-10036 Is missing

Document # 104-10017-10040 Is missing

Document # 104-10017-10049 Is a one page document from Director to The Hague dated 12/05/63.

1. FBI very interested in name and address and details on Ricardo Santos’ pro-Castro brother who lives in U. S. Can you learn this from [ ]NAPSIS for passage to FBI here?

2. The Mr. Lee mentioned by Maria Snetlage was probably Vincent Lee who replaced Richard Gibson as head of the Fair Play For Cuba Committee in New York.

Document # 104-10017-10057 Is missing

Document # 104-10017-10058 Is missing

Document # 104-10017-10073 Is a one page document from The Hague to Director dated 12/04/63.

1. [ ] records show that one M. Oswald, male Russian citizen born 17 July 1941 in Archangel, residence Moscow, entered Netherlands 3 June 1962 by train at Oldenzaal border point.

2. In spite discrepancies, which can easily be attributed to haste and carelessness on part of border personnel, HAGU inclined believe above data refers to Oswald’s wife Marina.

3. [ ] checking with Holland America line for ship manifest information.

Document # 104-10018-10001 Is missing

Document # 104-10018-10007 Is a one page document from The Hague to Director dated 12/09/63.

[ ]NAPSIS has no further info re: Santos brother. Will have

[ ]SIGMA alert niece to note address on PBPRIME mail for Santos.

The HSCA Review

Document # 180-10070-10273 Is a 7 page document dated 1/19/78. It is an interview of Secret Service Agent Abraham Bolden by HSCA staffer Jim Kelly and Harold Rese.

The HSCA staffers thought Bolden could provide details on a possible conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy in Chicago on November 2, 1963.

Bolden was from East St. Louis, Illinois and joined the Secret Service in 1959. He worked counterfeit cases in Chicago and in the summer of 1961 he was assigned to the White House Detail. He was the first Negro agent assigned to this detail. Bolden spent only three months in this detail and was evidently shocked at what he saw. He complained to his supervisor, Harvey Henderson, and to James Rowley, then head of Secret Service about the general laxity and the heavy drinking among the agents who were assigned to protect the President. He also resented the slurs against blacks which were called to his attention from time to time, eg., the separate housing facilities for black agents on southern trips. He was transferred back to Chicago.

While attending a refresher course in Washington in mid-May, 1964, Bolden was returned to Chicago on a subterfuge and subsequently arrested and charged with soliciting a bribe, obstruction of justice and conspiracy in an alleged attempt to sell SS file information to a Chicago counterfeiter. His first trial, in July 1964, resulted in a mistrial; his second trial, a month later, in a conviction. He was sentenced to serve six years. He appealed and in June, 1966, the U. S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case.

The writers found Bolden not at all bitter about the 1964 case although we did not dwell on it. We questioned him about the events which allegedly took place in Chicago just prior to and on 2 November 1963.

Bolden told us that around October 30, 1963, he recalled a long teletype message coming in to the Chicago office from the FBI. It was unusual, he told us, for the FBI to cooperate on any cases with the SS. But Mary Cooney, a clerical person working in the office at the time, and now believed to be deceased, took this message to the ARSAIC, Maurice Martineau. Prior to the telex, there was a phone call from the FBI. Bolden doesn’t know if it was a local FBI (Chicago) or Washington Hdq. calling.

There were only about 13 agents in the Chicago SS office at the time and the substance of the teletype and the telephone call alleging a threat against the life of the President on an upcoming trip (2 Nov) to Chicago was quickly disseminated.

Surveillance was undertaken by the agents on two of the four subjects identified with the threat. Because Bolden was black, he and another black agent, Conrad Cross, were excluded from the “north side” Chicago surveillance because it was a predominantly white neighborhood. Through a series of blunders, the surveillance was “blown” by Agent Jay Lloyd Stocks and the two subjects were apprehended and brought in to the Chicago SS office. Bolden’s awareness of the progress of this surveillance came partly from office gossip and partly from his monitoring the SS radio channels in his car. In any event, he said Agent Stocks was subject of some earthly comments from his fellow agents.

Bolden recalls that James Rowley called from Washington and suggested that Martineau use a COS file number. Bolden explained that a CO (for Central Office) number was issued only in or from Washington Headquarters and an “S” for Secret or Sensitive was given when they wanted to sequester information contained in the file. He explained that these files were kept separate from all others and that SS could say they had nothing in their files on a subject when in fact a “COS” file existed. He said as far as he knew, these were never destroyed (underscoring ours). In addition to the COS file number, Bolden said that all agents who were involved in this surveillance activity were told by ATSAIC Martineau to turn in their notebooks. All memos were typed, he told us, by a Charlotte Klapkowski (sp?) who is now working at Headquarters in Washington and is close to retirement age. “now don’t expect her to tell you anything. She is very loyal to the Service and wouldn’t say anything she thought would hurt them in any way,” he told us. The memo copies were all sequestered by Charlotte on this surveillance.

Bolden recalls that in addition to Stocks, Agents Strong, Motto and Noonan were involved in the apprehension of the two men. On Saturday morning, November 2, Bolden was in the office early. He recalls that the interrogation rooms were littered with cigarette butts and coffee cups, evidence of a night-long interrogation. He saw only one of the two men they had apprehended. He describes this man as swarthy, stocky, “a truck driver type” is the way he described him. The man was 5’9″ or 5’10”, wearing a jacket and shirt with open collar. His hair was dark and he had a crew cut which is described as “Detroit style.” The writers showed Bolden our Committee “mug” book containing 1 through 71 and 73-81, {Interesting, how many “mug” shots did they have? Why delete #72?} and he stated that the facial structure of photo # 74 was similar to that of the subject being questioned by agents in the office. Picture # 74 is listed as “unidentified – possibly Jim Braden.” It is directly underneath Thomas Vallee’s picture in the mug book. Vallee, #76, was not recognized by Bolden at all, although he was familiar with the case which was described in the article written by Edwin Black in the Chicago Independent, a now-defunct publication, dated November 1975. On page ten of this article entitled “the Plot to kill JFK in Chicago, November 2, 1963 – Twenty Days Before Dallas,” the writer is checking all arrests in the city of Chicago. He says: “Then we checked every arrest in the entire city on those days. Who arrested them? Why? Any weapons? It took weeks. In the process we develop leads: Look for Cuban names. Look for the name Bradley. Look for the name Braden. Nothing came of it.” (underscoring ours).

Bolden recalls that one of the men had a Spanish-sounding name. He said the SS agents took their pictures with a Polaroid camera. The agents’ notes were typed up and the memos were then taken to O’Hare Airport and given to a crew member (pilot?) of a commercial flight to Washington where he believes an SS employee met the flight and delivered the material to Headquarters. The two suspects in Chicago were turned over to the Chicago Police who took them away in a patrol wagon. He recalls that at least one of the two had a Spanish-sounding name.

Bolden recalls Tom Mosely’s name mentioned in the office around that period (Nov 1963). He said when Agent Tom Kelly arrived in Chicago from Dallas on or about 11/26/63, he mentioned a John Heard or Hurt. They searched the office card files for a similar sounding name. He also recalls that he and Conrad Cross were sent to check out a mixed Black-Spanish neighborhood on Rockwell Street to determine where a certain person who resided there was on 11/22/63. They were unable to locate the person, who had moved, and Bolden could not recall the subject’s name. The PRS had a record of the person from a previous threat. Bolden was critical of the activities of PRS, saying they did not do a thorough job. He did not further elaborate.

Bolden, whose 43rd birthday coincided with our interview, was accompanied by his wife, Barbara. He told the writers that he is now working for the National Lead company, 1800 S. Peoria Street, Chicago, as night supervisor in quality control. He is also a minister in the Islamic Faith and teaches a course in religion in Chicago.

Bolden told the writers that he made notes of some of the things that he uncovered in connection with the events of October 30 – November 2, 1963 but that when he was arrested in 1964, this notebook was seized by the government (Secret Service). He said that he would have no objection to testifying in Washington under oath relating to the matters which he discussed with us in this interview.

Bolden related to the interviewers that he was the informant who supplied the information for Edwin Black’s article in the Chicago Independent, Nov., 1975

Document # 180-10070-10276 Is a five page interview summary with Edward Tucker dated 1/19/78.

On 1/19/78, the writers interviewed subject at his office (L-3) at captioned address (First National Bank of Chicago, FNB Plaza Dearborn and Madison Streets Chicago, Illinois) Tucker was with the Chicago office of the Secret Service in November 1963. We talked to him about a projected visit by President J. F. Kennedy which we had been told was canceled at the last minute.

Tucker told us that for security reasons, on or about October 30, 1963, he recalls going to interview a subject named Vallee, who was supposed to represent a threat to the President. This was a customary practice prior to Presidential visits. Accompanied by Agent Tom Strong, he visited Vallee at his roominghouse on the north side of Chicago. He was troubled by his conversation with Vallee, who he says had one or more rifles in his possession.

Absent any Federal sanctions, Tucker reported back to the Secret Service office about his misgivings. The next day Vallee’s landlady, whom Tucker suspects was the informant, called the Secret Service office and said that Vallee had told her that he was not going to work on Saturday, November 2nd, the day JFK was coming to Chicago. Tucker said it was this information which caused the Secret Service to alert the Chicago Police Department to place surveillance on Vallee. He is aware that they did and that Vallee was arrested by two Chicago Police officers on November 2nd before the President was due in Chicago.

[Note, I corrected what I believe to be a typo. The document actually says November 22nd, which cannot be correct.]

On that Saturday morning, Tucker’s assignment had been to go to the airport (O’Hare) and meet the President. He did not recall that he was to ride in the Pilot car in the motorcade, but he said he did not go into the Secret Service office downtown and was therefore unaware of any other subjects that the Secret Service might have had in custody at the time. If this happened, he was not informed about it, he said.

When he reached the airport in the morning of November 2, 1963, he was told that the President had canceled his trip to Chicago but that several Members of Congress had arrived and the Secret Service was told to escort them to the Army-Air Force Academy game at Soldier Field. He thinks he went home instead.

Tucker said he was never aware of a telex or tele-type message which came in to the Chicago office from the FBI or anyone else regarding a threat against the President in Oct – November 1963.

The clerical force at the Secret Service consisted of Mary Cooney, whom Tucker said is now deceased, Charlotte Klapkowski, now at Headquarters in Washington and a June Trepinis and Elaine Shelhammer whose present whereabouts are unknown to him.

Tucker could provide no further information on the aforementioned visit in November 1963.

He said he would visit his old office and see if he could look at some old files and maybe refresh his recollection or the events of that period.

We questioned Tucker about a memo he wrote, 12/3/63 (q. v.) concerning Tom Moseby and guns for Cubans “who may be involved in the assassination of the late President John F. Kennedy.” After much prompting, Tucker recalled that Moseby was a Secret Service informant, known as 2-1-266, who was involved with a lot of Latin types, some of whom were bus drivers working in the city of Chicago. He doesn’t recall what happened to the matter but feels that it came about after November 22. He does not recall the Secret Service picking up any of these people in the October 30 – November 2nd, 1963 period.

Tucker was a clerk with the FBI before he entered the Secret Service in 1959. He has been retired for the past 6 years and is in charge of security for the First National Bank of Chicago. He resides at [blank] Elk Grove Village, Illinois (312) 437-2715.

Document # 180-10071-10164 Is a 6 page interview summary with Gary McLeod dated 3/06/78.

There is sometimes a white sheet of paper on these documents used to insulate the original from the metal of a paper clip or some clasp. Unfortunately, this seems to have been left on by some dufus somewhere and it has obliterated a few words of the text.

Agent Gary McLeod when appointed to the Secret Service was assigned to the Chicago Field Office. He (?) there until September 1965 and was then transferred to the Intelligence Division in Washington, D.C. In 1969, he was assigned to the Liaison Division. In January 1976 he was transferred to the Portland, Oregon Field Office. He stated that he has attended numerous “In Service’ classes and schools and each time they become more advanced and technical.

His recollection of the November 2, 1963 proposed Presidential visit is that he met Agent Robert Motto at the stadium on the morning of November 2 and was given a post assignment. A short time later he was notified that the President’s visit to Chicago had been canceled and he was told to go home. He believes that he heard at a later date that the trip was canceled due to the President having a cold. He recalled the name Thomas Arthur Vallee. He remembers Ed Tucker (former Secret Service agent) being assigned to the Vallee case and that it involved guns, but does not recall anything else about the incident. He does not recall the Chicago Police Department becoming involved. He remembers reading the Edwin Black story in the Chicago Independent, several years ago, and couldn’t imagine where he got the information pertaining to the four subjects suspected of being involved in a threat against the President and of Jay Stock’s surveillance. Agent McLeod stated that he felt sure that if this incident had occurred, he as part of the Chicago Field Office would have been aware or informed of what had taken place.

Relative to Abraham Bolden, Agent McLeod stated that he and Bolden were sent to Secret Service school in Washington. The first day of school, he believes on a Monday, Director Rowley had made opening remarks to the class. Someone told him and Bolden that they were to return to Chicago because of a large counterfeiting operation. They were transported back to their hotel, the “Willard,” by one or two inspectors. He believes one was Arvin Dahlquist. They were told to turn over their weapons, because there would not be time to notify the Airline agent. He went along with this, not suspecting anything was wrong. Upon landing at O’Hare Airport, they were met by Agent Dick Jordan and driven into Chicago to the Old Court House. The U.S. Attorneys Office was next to the Secret Service Office. He was taken into the Secret Service Office and Bolden was taken into the U. S. Attorneys office. McLeod, upon entering his office, learned that Bolden was being arrested. He only remembers general conversation with Bolden, on the plane back to Chicago. He did not know anything was wrong and Bolden never gave any impression of anything being wrong. Gary McLeod stated that he liked Abe Bolden. He was impressed with him. McLeod stated that he was personally upset when Bolden got into trouble. He stated that after Bolden’s arrest, he believes he heard that Bolden may have been involved in other things but this was strictly hearsay.

Agent McLeod stated that he remembers Conrad Cross well. Cross was a friend of Abe Bolden. He believes Cross was with the I.R. S. before he joined the Secret Service. He considered Cross a very bright guy with a chip on his shoulder. Cross was very touchy. McLeod stated that he did not believe it was a racial type of thing.

McLeod stated that he doesn’t remember ever having worked a case with Conrad Cross.

Agent McLeod’s recall of the April 1963 visit by President Kennedy to Mayor Daley was that there was an evening parade. He stated that there was no significant threat investigation on that visit. He stated when word was received of a Presidential visit, everything else was put aside in preparation for the visit. He stated that he had never been assigned to the White House Detail but had been sent to other cities for Presidential visits as part of a manpower pull. He stated that Presidential Protection is the Secret Service’s primary responsibility and that investigation of threats is ongoing during the regular work process.

Agent McLeod remembers the name of Tom Mosley and that he was an informant and also a bus driver. He believes they may have gotten Mosely from another agency. Mosely was not his informant. He has no recall of Mosley being involved in any gun deals. He cannot single out any particular group as posing the possibility of a threat against the President.

He remembers the Chicago office receiving official notification of President Kennedy’s death. He stated that the entire Chicago office was involved in the post assassination investigation. He remembers the gun being checked out at Klein’s Gunshop. He had no recall of any Cuban connections or organization in Chicago.

He has no recall of the Secret Service I.D. book being recalled after the assassination, although the color of the I.D. card was changed at a later date.

Agent McLeod stated that as a result of the assassination of President Kennedy several changes occurred. Intelligence agents combined with local agents for advancing a trip. The liaison with other agencies in law enforcement became better, and training took on different facets, such as simulated motorcades. The Liaison Unit was formed as a result of the Warren Commission.

Some of the Intelligence Division duties are to refer threat information to the Field Offices and advance work. He stated that any conversation with the Field Offices were followed up with a teletype.

He stated that he has heard of trips being altered but has never heard of one being canceled because of a threat.

Document # 180-10075-10118 Is a listed as a 4 page document on the RIF but is really 5 pages, 3 of which are the interview summary dated 6/15/78.

George Hickey is retired from the Secret Service since November 1971. In 1963, Hickey transferred from the White House Police to the Secret Service. After President Kennedy’s assassination, he was assigned to President Johnson up to and including the election. He was then reassigned to Vice President Humphrey’s detail. In 1969, he was assigned to the Washington Field Office and remained there until he retired. He attended Treasury School and Secret Service School. Hickey stated that while in the Secret Service he was mostly involved in the driving of autos during visits.

George Hickey stated that he accompanied the President’s limousine and the follow-up car on the plane to Love field. At Love Field the cars were turned over to Agent Kinney. Hickey was assigned to ride in the follow-up car and placed in charge of the AR15 automatic weapon. Hickey stated that he placed the AR15 on the rear floor of the follow up car.

As the motorcade proceeded, Hickey stated that it was a normal, boisterous, friendly crowd. After they made the turn from Houston onto Elm, the Presidential limousine was about 20 feet ahead when Hickey heard what he thought sounded like a firecracker coming from his right rear. He stood up and looked towards the right rear but observed nothing. He heard excited talking in the front of his car and turned to the front. He observed that the President had slumped forward and to the left. Mrs. Kennedy appeared to be aiding him and he was coming to an upright position. Hickey then heard two reports sounding like gunfire and saw what he described as a cloud of dust appear from the right rear of President Kennedy’s head. Hickey stated that he would guess at about 3 to 4 seconds between the first and second shots. He stated that the second and third shots were almost simultaneous.

The motorcade was traveling about 10 miles per hour. Hickey stated he reached down and brought up the AR15. Hickey stated that by the time he cocked the AR15 and turned to the right rear, the follow-up car was starting under the underpass. He stated that he saw Clint Hill holding onto the back of the Presidential limousine. Hill looked back at the follow-up car and shook his head as if the President was seriously injured. They traveled at a high rate of speed to Parkland Hospital.

On arrival at Parkland, Hickey placed the gun back onto the floor of the follow-up car. He stated that it was the duty of the driver of the follow-up car to check the AR15 out to see if it was loaded or unloaded. He went inside the hospital and the President was in the Emergency Room. Hickey went back outside and brought Kenny O’Donnell in to Mrs. Kennedy.

Hickey stated that he drove the follow-up car back to Love Field by himself. He helped place the cars on the C130 aircraft and tied them down. He flew back to Washington on the C130. On arrival they were met by an escort and taken to the White House garage where the vehicles were placed under the security of the White House Police. Floyd Boring came to the garage and told Hickey that statements were being taken at the White House. He proceeded to that location and gave his statement.

I asked Hickey about the theory of Howard Donohue, who has stated that Hickey shot President Kennedy with the AR15. Hickey stated that Donohue has caused him many problems and harassment. He wanted to sue Donohue but was told by private counsel and Secret Service counsel that according to Maryland law he didn’t have much of a case. He stated that with the Secret Service agents and two presidential aides in the follow-up car, if he had fired the AR15 someone would definitely have heard it — unless you want to believe they were all in on a conspiracy.

Document # 180-10076-10049 Is a copy of document # 180-10076-10062 from the 11th batch. It is a police report on David Ferrie.

Document # 180-10080-10131 Is a two page document from Special Agent Francis F. Uteg, USSS dated 6/23/66 on Thomas Arthur Vallee.

Synopsis

Investigation at Chicago revealed that the subject may have returned to Tennessee.

(A) INTRODUCTION:

Reference is made to:

(1) M/R of SA James S. Griffiths, Chicago, dated May 6, 1966

(2) M/R of SA Roger C. Grunwald, Sacramento, dated May 10, 1966

(3) M/R of SA G. Wesley Dunlap, Jr., New York, dated June 6, 1966

The subject was brought to the attention of this Service on October 29, 1963, by Lieutenant Berkeley Moyland, Chicago Police Department. Lt. Moyland advised that the subject had made extreme comments regarding the administration at that time and that he believed Vallee was in possession of weapons. It was later disclosed that Vallee’s room contained a M-1 rifle, a Carbine, and .22 calibre revolver with approximately 1,000 rounds of ammunition. This included bandoliers and clips for the rifle.

(B) GENERAL INVESTIGATION:

On June 23, 1966 the writer interviewed Charles Peterson, President of the Printing Pressmen’s Assistants union which is a part of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union of North America, 222 West Adams Street, room 325, Chicago, Illinois, telephone number 782-3417. He disclosed that the subject had come from Rogersville, Tennessee, in June, 1963, and had gained employment at the I.P.P. Lithographic Service, 625 West Jackson, Chicago, Illinois, and worked for Mr. Nemo Vola until January, 1964. At that time the subject stated that he was going to return to Tennessee.

(C) BACKGROUND AND IDENTITY OF SUBJECT:

Thomas Arthur Vallee is described as white; male; DOB 11/15/33; POB Chicago, Illinois; 5-6; 155 lbs; blue eyes; brown hair; Social Security number [blank]. U. S. Army Serial number 17-460-615; FBI number 677-475 E.

[Note, there is a notation that the blanked out Social Security number is incorrect. This appears to have been written by F. B. Stoner on 10-7-66. The correct number is likewise blacked out.]

(F) DISPOSITION:

Case remains closed.

Two copies of this report and two photographs of the subject are being forwarded to the Nashville office with the request that they attempt to locate the subject in Rogersville, Tennessee. If the subject, in fact, does reside in the Nashville office district, the complete Chicago file in this case will be forwarded to that office.

One copy of this report is being forwarded to the New York and Sacramento offices for their information.

Document # 180-10080-10276 Is a 4 page document dated 2/16/78. It is a letter from Mr. Robert O. Goff to Mr. Blakey.

Reference is made to your recent request that duly authorized representatives of the Select Committee on Assassinations be granted access to certain information in Secret Service files relative to the assassination of former President Kennedy.

In that connection, the information you requested is provided below:

1. Names and addresses of the five Secret Service agents assigned to the protective Research Section and responsible for the processing and control of threats:

Glen A. Bennett

U. S. Secret Service

1800 g. Street, N.W., Rm. 825

Washington, D.C. 20223

Elmer C. Lawrence

705 Tam O’Shanter Avenue

Sun city Center, Florida 33570

Walter Pine

4347 Carmelo Drive # 302

Wedgewood West

Annandale, Virginia 22003

Deeter B. Flore

3703 Bangor Street, S.E.

Washington, D.C. 20020

Thomas White

Route 3, Box 182-A

Miami, Oklahoma 74354

2. Additional names and addresses of Secret Service staff members assigned to the Chicago Filed Office in November, 1963:

Edward Z. Tucker

[blank]

John E. Russell, Jr.

305 Arlington

Grand Haven, Michigan 49417

Nemo Ciochina

U. S. Secret Service

Suite 211

575 N. Pennsylvania Street

Indianapolis, Indiana 46204

Joseph E. Noonan, Jr.

U. S. Secret Service

Room 742

219 South Dearborn Street

Chicago, Illinois 60604

John Gorman

FBI

Chicago, Illinois

Louis B. Sims

Interpol

Department of Justice

9th & Pennsylvania, N.W.

Washington, D. C. 20530

Joseph Paolella

American Security Agents

6600 N. Lincoln

Lincolnwood, Illinois 60545

June M. Terpinas

U. S. Secret Service

Room 742

219 South Dearborn Street

Chicago, Illinois 60604

Elaine J. Shelhamer

U. S. Secret Service

Room 742

219 South Dearborn Street

Chicago, Illinois 60604

Carol (Schultz) Dean

1750 Old Mead Road

McLean, Virginia 22101

James Plichta (Deceased)

Stephen Maynard (Deceased)

Mary Cooney (Deceased)

Jay L. Stocks

U. S. Secret Service

Room 317

Federal Bldg. & U. S. Courthouse

Detroit, Michigan 48226

Sandra J. Lipetra

U. S. Secret Service

Room 742

219 South Dearborn Street

Chicago, Illinois 60604

Charlotte Klapkowski

U. S. Secret Service

1800 G. Street, N. W. rm. 825

Washington, D.C. 20223

Rosemary Lacey

San Francisco, California

(last known)

Additional names and addresses of Secret Service staff members assigned to the Miami Field Office in November, 1963:

Edward Mougin

8360 Glastonburg Court

Annandale, Virginia 22003

Everett Curry

136 N. E. 28th Terrace

Miami, Florida 33137

Charles Howell

U. S. Secret Service

Suite 600

1310 L Street, N. W.

Washington, D.C. 20005

Ruth Aghababian

15600 N. W. 7th Avenue #620

Miami, Florida 33169

3. Access to documents relating to presidential protection and security during the period, March 1963 – November, 1963 will be provided to members of your staff at their convenience upon prior notice that the staff intends to review the material. Since some of the materials are classified, the Staff employee or employees reviewing the files should have and be able to exhibit evidence of the requisite security clearance to review classified information.

4. The file on Joseph A. Milteer is maintained in the Intelligence Division of the Secret Service and is available for review. The only material available relative to the groups requested is contained in that file.

5. Material relating to “Project Starr” is maintained by the Technical Development and Planning division of the Secret Service. Since some of the materials are classified, the staff employee or employees reviewing the files should have and be able to exhibit evidence of requisite security clearance to review classified information.

6. The file on Thomas A. Vallee is maintained in the Intelligence division of the Secret Service and is available for review.

Mr. Rowley’s current address is: 9615 Glencrest Lane, Kensington, Maryland 20795.

[Note, remember this information was current in 1978 and may be very out of date today. Also, people on this list may have since died.]

Document # 180-10082-10451 Is a 3 page interview summary on David Grant.

Mr. Grant stated that he served as the Secret Service White House Detail (SS-WHD) Advance agent for President Kennedy’s trip to Chicago that was scheduled for November 2, 1963. According to Mr. Grant, President Kennedy canceled his appearance, but had requested that the trip continue, despite his absence, “as though he were still there.” Consequently, the trip was carried out exactly as planned with the exception that President Kennedy did not attend. Mr. Grant was informed that the President canceled his trip because of illness.

Mr. Grant’s advance work occupied him for approximately one week prior to the November 2nd trip. It required his continual presence in Chicago from the beginning of that week until the completion of the trip. Mr. Grant also participated with certain JFK military and air force aides in a pre-advance trip in the Chicago area. The pre-advance work was performed during a two week period preceding the Secret Service’s normal one week advance activities.

Mr. Grant stated that his advance work required him to be present a “great deal” at the local Chicago SS office Headquarters. He indicated that while performing his advance duties out of headquarters, he developed several contacts or associations within the SS and with the Chicago P. D. These contacts included making the acquaintance of Chicago-office Special Agents Abraham Bolden, Conrad Cross, and Edward Tucker; they also included working in close professional association with the Chicago office Acting Special Agent in Charge (ASAIC) Maurice Martineau.

Mr. Grant’s description of certain procedures that normally come into use when a local office (1) detects an active threat and (2) reports to Washington about the threat was as follows. First, if there is a threat detected, the WHD Advance Agent is the first person informed because of his position as the agent in charge of all protective operations in the field. Second, the threat is investigated in order to determine its validity. Third, Mr. Grant as WHD advance agent would have reported to the agent in charge of the White House Detail, who then was a Mr. Gerald Behn. This report would have been submitted to WHD-HQ at approximately the same time when the chief agent in the Chicago Office, Mr. Martineau, would have reported the same information to the Chief of the Protective Research Service (PRS) of the SS in Washington, D. C.

However, Mr. Grant stated that none of these procedures was ever put into effect because of the fact that no information about a threat ever came to his attention from any source including PRS, the local Chicago SS office, and the Chicago P.D.

Specifically, Mr. Grant was “not familiar” with the name of Thomas Arthur Vallee, a person who was suspected by the Chicago SS to be involved in a threat and who was detained by the SS. Nor could Mr. Grant “recall” in the context of this trip other instances of the investigation of a threat or the detention of a person.

[Note the quotation marks!! This HSCA staffer knows Grant is lying!]

Mr. Grant went to New York after Chicago, then left for Palm Beach on 11/14/63, then went to Dallas for the three-day period prior to 11/22/63. In Dallas, he assisted Special Agent Winston Lawson, who was the SS-WHD Advance Agent for the Dallas trip.

Throughout his stay in Florida during November 14-19th, 1963, Mr. Grant never heard of threats developing in the Miami area against President Kennedy from any Cuban or any right-wing source. In particular, Mr. Grant could not recall the name of Joseph Milteer. He doubted that he had ever been in touch during this period either with the WHD-SS Advance Agent into Miami for the November 18, 1963 JFK visit or with the local Miami office SS agent who received information about threats from officers of the Miami P. D. Mr. Grant could not remember having talked with either agent.

Prior to his appearance for this interview, Mr. Grant acknowledged having discussed this interview with Mr. Lawson and with Secret Service counsel. Their discussions concerned the kinds of questions that HSCA personnel had been asking and might ask, especially in re the assignments and activities of SS personnel. Mr. Grant said one SS counsel had said that he didn’t know what subjects the Committee’s questions had covered. Mr. Grant’s final remark was that he believed that the primary function of the SS was and is to protect the President.

Document # 180-10085-10498 Is a two page document from Goff to Blakey dated 6/5/78.

Reference is made to your letter dated May 24, 1978, requesting clearance to interview and the last known locations of several Secret Service agents. The information you requested is provided below:

(1) Inspector Ernest Olsson, Jr.

U. S. Secret Service Office of Inspection

1800 G Street, N. W.

Washington, D. C.

(2) George W. Hickey Jr.

(3) Clinton J. Hill

(4) SAIC Warren W. Taylor

U. S. Secret Service

Dignitary Protective Division

Room 944

1800 G Street, N. W.

Washington, D. C. 20223

(5) DSAIC Richard E. Johnsen

U. S. Secret Service

Dignitary Protective Division

Room 944

1800 G Street, N. W.

Washington, D. C. 20223

(6) Thomas Lem Johns

8005 Snowpine Way

McLean, Virginia 22101

(7) SA Max D. Phillips

U. S. Secret Service

Suite 805

Federal Building – U. S. courthouse

650 Capitol Mall

Sacramento, California 95814

Document # 180-10086-10342 Is a 119 page document. Only 6 pages of which are here.

The first two pages give a list of agents and their addresses where known. Some are listed as deceased.

1. Bolden, Abraham Resigned — Address unknown

2. Gopadze, Leon Deceased

3. Grant, David B. USSS — ASAIC, VPPD

Room 295

Executive Office Building

Washington, D. C. (202/456-2354)

4. Howlett, John Joe USSS — Special Agent at

Little Rock, Arkansas

(501/378-6241)

5. Johns, Thomas L. Retired

3321 Culloden Way

Birmingham, Alabama 35243

(703/ 378-6499 or

205/967-1417)

6. Kinney, Samuel A. Retired

341 Bayside Drive

Palm Springs, Florida 33460

(305/965-4296)

7. P. Kirkwood No record as an agent

8. Lawton, Donald J. USSS — Special Agent at

ID Headquarters

1800 G Street, N.W., Room 825

Washington, D.C. (202/634-5731)

9. Lawson, Winston G. USSS – SAIC, Liaison Division

Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

(202/634-5838)

10. McIntyre, William J. USSS – Special Agent at

Inspection Division Headquarters

Washington, D. C. (202/566-8352)

11. Moore, Elmer Retired

[blank]

Bellevue, Washington, D. C. 98005

(206/885-2589)

12. O’Leary, John J. Deceased

13. Olsson, Ernest E., jr. USSS — Special Agent at

Inspection Division Headquarters

Washington, D. C. (202/566-8352)

14. Patterson, William H. USSS — Special Agent

Houston, Texas (713/226-5791)

15. Roberts, Emory Deceased

16. Rybka, Henry Deceased

17. Steuart, Robert A. Retired

5626 W. Purdue

Dallas, Texas 75209

(214/352-1350)

18. Sulliman, Samuel E. USSS –SAIC, New Haven, Conn.

(203/865-2449)

19. Warner, Roger C. USSS — ATSAC, Washington

Field Office, Washington, D.C.

(202/634-5100)

Then there is a memorandum from Glenn A. Bennet to Blakey dated December 29, 1976. This gives a list of 18 more agents with addresses.

1. Glenn A. Bennet USSS-ID headquarters

1800 G. (Room 825)

Washington, D. C.

2. Andrew Berger USSS-SAIC of Baltimore Office

(phone 922-2200)

3. Robert Bouck [blank]

4. William Greer 705 Brunswick Dr.

Waynesville, N. C. 28786

(phone 704-452-4378)

5. George Hickey [blacked out]

6. Clinton Hill [blacked out]

7. Richard Johnsen USSS Headquarters

Protective Forces

1800 G. St., Washington, D. C.

(phone 634-5721)

8. Roy Kellerman 2063 Kansas Ave. N. E.

St. Petersburg, Fla

(phone 813-527-6327)

9. Thomas Kelly USSS-Assistant Director

Protective Forces

1800 G St., Washington, D. C.

(phone 634-5721)

10. Jerry Kivett USSS-SAIC of Atlanta Office

(phone 285-6111)

11. Paul Landis 7512 Cedar Rd.

Chesterland, Ohio

(phone 216-729-2343)

12. Winston Lawson USSS-Headquarters

1900 Pennsylvania Ave

SAIC of USSS Liaison Division

(phone 634-5838)

13. John Ready USSS-Headquarters

1900 Pennsylvania Ave

ASAIC of USSS Liaison Division

(phone 634-5838)

14. James Rowley 9615 Glencrest Lane

Kensington, MD 20795

(phone 301-949-2711)

office – 840-1058

15. Verne Sorrels P. O. Box 749

Dallas, Tex 75201

(phone 214-368-8371)

16. Stewart Stout Deceased

17. Warren Taylor ASAIC P. P. D.

Room 1 EOB

Washington, D. C.

(phone 395-4000)

18. Rufus Youngblood [blacked out]

* * *

Go to Part Two

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Joe Backes, ARRB Summaries: Page 12.

The 11th Batch

Part Two


Document # 180-10076-10062 is a 8 page New Orleans police report on David Ferrie giving his arrest background. It is dated August 18, 1961. It is to Joseph I Giarrusso, Superintendent of Police, from August C. Lang, Lt. Acting Commander, Juvenile Bureau

The subject: Contributing to the delinquency investigation, resulting from the runaway of Alexander Landry Jr, WM Age 15 of 5221 Arts. St. The subject alleged to be contributing is David Ferrie WM adult residing 331 Atherten Drive, in Metaire, La.

Fournier and Jenau are the investigators for this. On August 2, 1961 Alexander ran away from home and 24 hours later was found at the house of David Ferrie. Ferrie is supposedly Landry’s unit commander with the Civil Air Patrol. Lawrence Marsh, age 18 was told of Alexander Landry’s runaway status and suspected whereabouts and said he would return the boy home which he did.

On August 5th Al Landry ran away from home again. As of the 17th he has not returned home. The Landrys believe Capt. Ferrie is assisting the boy in his efforts to stay from his home.

The Landrys expressed “a lack of confidence” in Capt. David Ferrie. They say that ever since their son joined the C.A.P. squadron of Capt. Ferrie that he has never been the same.

It is important to emphasize that this C.A.P. squadron is a creation of Ferrie’s and not an official C.A.P. squadron.

The Landrys have been unable to determine if this C.A.P. squadron is legitimate. C.A.P. HQ in New Orleans is investigating and found no record of Ferrie’s squadron in New Orleans and Air Force HQ in Washington D.C. has no record of Ferrie’s squadron. The Landrys state that all the parents of all the boys are concerned about the validity of the squadron and are worried that their children are not getting the required training. The Landrys notified the FBI about this matter.

The Landrys state that Ferrie has taken their son on flights, and loaned him his car while he (Ferrie) was away on a flight. Mr. Landry stated that he personally saw Ferrie take several of the boys to a bar in New Orleans. He has also seen many of the boys staying at Ferrie’s home.

Mr. Landry furnished the names of several other boys in the squadron. One of whom, Layton Martens, was working in an office of the Balter Building for a Cuban organization helping Cuban refugees in the current Cuban situation, which is headed by Mr. Aracha-Smith. Investigators went there looking for Landry. They showed the secretary, Nancy Walker, a picture of Al Landry. She recognized him and stated that he was in the company of Ferrie on two occasions after August 5th.

It was also learned that Ferrie offered his services to Aracha-Smith after the Cuban situation broke.

On August 17 the boy called his mother from Houston, Texas who would return under the following conditions 1.) that she allow the squadron to reform, 2.) that she contact the Airlines (presumably Eastern Airlines) and explain this matter as Ferrie was about to lose his job, 3.) that she contact the other parents and have them withdraw anything said about Ferrie.

On the afternoon of August 17th Mr. Smith contacted the officers. Ferrie had been in to see him and dropped off a typed statement. The statement told a story of Ferrie driving the boy back to his home the night he ran away but the boy ran away from home again claiming to have seen his father and grandfather hiding in the bushes with a weapon. The young Landry was afraid for his life. Ferrie says in his statement that he advised the boy to return home. However, the officers now have two statements that Ferrie was seen in the company of the boy which tends to discredit this typed statement.

In the typed statement Ferrie describes how he too received a call from Al Landry from Houston. Well, where the hell is Ferrie supposed to be when he receives this call? If Landry is not with him, then who is Landry with in Houston?

The investigators went to the Balter Building to question Layton Martens and were of the impression that he was withholding information.

Investigators found Butch Marsch who found Al Landry on August 2nd and returned him to his parents. Mr. Marsch stated that the only way Al Landry will leave Ferrie is when Ferrie tires of him and finds a new boy.

Mrs. Landry explained that at one time Ferrie tried to rearrange Landry’s school schedule. The school called the parents and this idea was stopped.

Investigators contacted David Ferrie. Ferrie questioned the officers to see what information they had on him. Ferrie wanted to know what would be done to the boy upon the boy’s return. (What a humanitarian!) Ferrie harped on the idea that he was interested in the boy’s welfare and felt that things were too tough for him at home. Ferrie insisted that he did not know where the boy was staying in Houston, but he was flying to Houston tonight to see if he could find him and return him to New Orleans.

Lawrence “Butch” Marsch states that he assisted Mrs. Landry because he knew “that all boys go to Ferrie when they run away from home.”

At about 3:30 p.m. August 18, 1961 Officer Fournier received word via the phone from Mr. Smith that he could get the boy back in exchange for a signed statement from the parents indicating that they would not press charges. Smith requested that the statement be notarized.

Amazingly, this was done. The boy was swapped for the statement. Even more amazing, Al Landry wanted to file suit against his parents for taking him away from Ferrie.

The boy explained that he left home with $52 dollars. He said he hitch hiked to the Mississippi Gulf coast on the night he ran away, August 5, 1961. He returned to New Orleans after about 5 or 6 days and went to see Capt. Ferrie. He said he spent August 14th and 15th with Ferrie and then hitch hiked to Houston, Texas where he stayed for another week. He said that when he was in New Orleans with Capt. Ferrie they visited Mr. Aracha Smith. The dates of this are confusing as Nancy Walker placed this event on Monday and Tuesday August 7th and 8th. He said he lived in cheap rooming houses in Houston. He said he called his parents from the Houston airport and also called Capt. Ferrie thus learning of the investigation. He left Houston on August 17 and hitch hiked back to New Orleans.

Officers observed that he was extremely clean and fresh looking for living the way he described.

Officers questioned the boy as to how he got to Houston. He stated that he crossed the Huey P. Long Bridge, and went to Baton Rouge, La., but did not go through Houma, La. The routing maps to Houston will show that you will not cross the river bridge at New Orleans, if traveling by way of Baton Rouge to Houston. The boy was questioned about this and was unable to give an explanation.

Al Landry did admit that Ferrie did take himself and about 50 other boys and bought them beer at Graci’s lounge on Homedale Ave. The young Landry also admitted that he had been to Cuba on several occasions. He did not elaborate as to how he got there, when he was there, or who he went with.

Asked about his trip to Houston again, he did not remember.

Al was taken to the Youth Study Center. Officers talked with the assistant superintendent of the institution. He recalled a similar incident involving another run away boy. That boy’s name was Albert Cheramie.

There was a record in the Visitor’s Record Book of a Dr. D. Ferrie coming to see Albert Cheramie and written in red pencil was “NOT AN OFFICIAL VISIT”.

On August 4, 1960 Albert Cheramie was handled for running away from home and was found at the home of David Ferrie. Ferrie was then living at 704 Airline Park Blvd. Lt. A. J. Scardina, then Juvenile Officer for Jefferson Parish handled the case.

On August 21, 1961 Officer Jenau asked Ferrie if he has a Doctor’s degree and was he treating any patients. Ferrie said he had a degree in psychology and that he didn’t treat anyone but he did give advice. When asked about his visit to Albert Cheramie at the Youth Center in 1960 Ferrie admitted he did indeed visit Cheramie and realized he made a mistake after going.

Officers acquired the name of Eric Michael Crouchet, another member of Ferrie’s Civil Air Patrol. Subsequently, Crouchet made a typewritten statement that Ferrie, “committed acts of crime against nature on him on two separate occasions.”

Crouchet additionally told investigating officers that Capt. Ferrie masturbated him on 4 or 5 occasions, all of which occurred in Jefferson Parish. Crouchet also told of having been given alcoholic beverages at Ferrie’s house.

Crouchet made a statement involving Albert Cheramie. Crouchet said that when Cheramie ran away from home, Ferrie instructed him (Crouchet) to watch Cheramie’s house to see if Cheramie would come home. Crouchet was instructed by Ferrie to put Cheramie in a cab and send him to Ferrie’s house. According to Crouchet, Ferrie told him (Crouchet) that he was going to send Cheramie to Corpus Christ, Texas.

What is this? White Slavery?

On Tuesday, August 22, 1961 a search warrant was issued for the residence of David Ferrie at 331 Atherton Drive. A Passport was found, No. 2188946 for Eumes Albert Paul Cheramie. The picture in the passport was of Cheramie. The date of issuance was two days prior to Ferrie’s visit to Cheramie at the Youth Center.

Ferrie was questioned about the passport. Ferrie said he had it made because he and several other people were planning to go to Honduras to do some mining.

Mr. Hughes Cheramie, father of Albert, stated that he knew about the passport and was trying to get it back for a long time.

Also discovered was the notarized statement given to Aracha Smith in exchange for Al Landry. A letter was also discovered in an envelope, not postmarked. The envelope was marked “Cuban Revolutionary Democratic Front”.

Ferrie was arrested and booked with crimes against nature and Indecent behavior with a Juvenile.

James J. Landry, age 16, brother of Al, gave a statement that Ferrie performed sex acts on him on several occasions.

Ferrie was in deep trouble.

Document # 180-10076-10102 is a one page interview with Eric Michael Crouchet on January 4th, 1967 by Louis Ivon. Garrison apparently is trying to identify the Cuban who was with Ferrie when Ferrie tried to get Crouchet to drop the charges. Crouchet was shown some pictures but couldn’t identify him.

It is impossible to see what Garrison was up to without the same pictures to look at.

Ivons thought Crouchet to be a hostile witness who didn’t want to be bothered.

Document # 180-10076-10123 is a two page document. It is a background arrest record on David Ferrie. On August 24th, 1961 officers received a phone call from Mr. Alexander Landry that Michael Crouchet had come to his house the night before and told of being contacted by David Ferrie. Ferrie was trying to get Crouchet to drop the charges.

Most of the details of this report are the same as those in Document # 180-10076-10124. One additional point of interest was that Officer Jenau received a call from Chief Warrant Officer C. R. Knowlten from Camp LeRoy Johnson, who stated that to his knowledge the charter held by Ferrie was forged. Knowlten contacted the [CAP] National headquarters in Houston and found that there was no charter issued for the Metarire Falcon Squadron. Investigating officers contacted Major Christian, who is the commander of the Civil Air Patrol in New Orleans, who stated that Ferrie was at one time quietly removed from the New Orleans Cadet Squadron of the C.A.P.

Document # 180-10076-10124 is a two page document from Jim Garrison’s files. It is a two page statement from Eric Michael Crouchet. Mr. Crouchet was a 16 year old white male. The report is one of witness intimidation. At about 2:15 p.m. August 23, 1961 Capt. Ferrie walked up to Crouchet and asked him to sign a paper to the effect that everything he had told the police was false and said in anger about Ferrie. Ferrie told Crouchet that this was a way to get him out of trouble without anyone getting hurt. Crouchet answered, “Yea, me disappear.” and Ferrie stated that that could be arranged. Ferrie introduced a man as the Cuban Crouchet was supposed to go to Miami with. If Crouchet signed the ticket Ferrie would get him anything he wanted and if he didn’t he would have a bunch of Cubans after him. Crouchet signed the paper because he was afraid. Ferrie sees Crouchet again around 5 p.m. in front of Crun’s (sp?) Drug store. Ferrie was in his car with two other people. Ferrie asked what Crouchet wanted from the Cubans. Crouchet asked if a motorcycle wasn’t too much. Ferrie said he would like for Crouchet to meet Aracha Smith on Thursday. Ferrie said he had to pick up some things at the Balter Building and had to rush. When Ferrie wanted Crouchet to sign the papers he said that Crouchet was holding up his M-1’s and Bazookas. Ferrie said that one of the Cubans with him was a paratrooper who jumped in the first invasion of Cuba.

Crouchet was questioned by Officer Fournier and Charles Juneau (sp?)

Document # 180-10076-10155 is a 16 page report. It appears to be an arrest record on Thomas E. Beckham age 19 for the rape of Gloria Mae Borja age 14. Thomas is supposedly a Reverend. This document has nothing whatsoever to do with the JFK assassination.

Document # 180-10087-10362 is a 6 page document, with a charge out card by Marwell of the ARRB, of an interview with Tony Zoppi. He was interviewed on March 13, 1978 at 9:45 A.M. at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas. Mr. Zoppi was the Director of Public Relations at the Riviera Hotel. He was interviewed by Joseph Basteri and Albert Maxwell

Zoppi had known Jack Ruby since 1952, meeting him while he was employed at the Dallas Morning News as their entertainment columnist while covering the night clubs scene. Zoppi became a good friend to Ruby, he would frequent the Carousel Club. Zoppi claimed to be the only reporter to interview Jack Ruby and to have sat with Ruby at the defense table during the trial. After the trial, Jack Ruby called Zoppi from his cell and the conversation lasted about 40 minutes.

Zoppi tells his HSCA interviewers that he asked Ruby why he did it, “Ruby immediately began to cry, saying how sorry he was for those two poor children being raised without a father.” Ruby also talked of how he was raised without a father. Zoppi recounts this tale from Ruby about how Ruby would visit this orphanage in Oak Cliff on Christmas to bring gifts to the kids and how concerned he was because he would not be able to do that anymore.

Apparently, Zoppi didn’t know Ruby was Jewish.

The interviewers then try to get back on track asking about Ruby’s associations with organized crime in the Dallas area in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. Zoppi “was quite certain he [Ruby] had no ties with any racket movement in Dallas.” Zoppi admits to having a close friend “who could be described as having friends in the underworld” and because of this friend he was fairly familiar with the criminal structure of Dallas. “Zoppi was firm in his belief that during that era, Dallas could be described as a very clean town.” Zoppi acknowledged that gambling was prevalent in Dallas. His friend whom he did not identify was now deceased and not of Italian origin was part of this gambling empire but Ruby was not part of this operation. Zoppi’s’ friend told him that the criminal underworld knew Ruby was an informant for the Dallas Police.

Zoppi spoke of Joe Civello who had a minor role in criminal activity because he was not too well liked by the Sheriff’s office.

Doesn’t that speak volumes? Does that mean if he was liked by the Sheriff’s office he would be allowed a major role in criminal activity?

Zoppi stated that because of his position with the Dallas Morning News he would have known if the mob had any strong control of the action in Dallas.

Zoppi then offered his explanation as to why Ruby went to Cuba. Zoppi said that he would frequently go to Las Vegas to review acts that were appearing in the various hotels in order to plug those acts to try and lure Texas oil men to the tables in Vegas.

There are some interesting deletions here on page 4 as Zoppi tries to clear up why Ruby went to Cuba. “Apparently someone in Cuba was aware of my role as a newsman because one day in December__________ Jack Ruby called me and asked me how I would like to go to Cuba and write about the clubs there.”

That’s exactly how it appears.

There is another one in the next sentence, “When I agreed that it would suit me fine, Ruby said he had a friend, Lewis McWillie, who managed the Casino in the Tropicana and he would arrange for McWillie to send us ( ) two tickets.”

Now there is room for a word there, a small word, and it’s absence doesn’t seem to alter the sentence but it is odd. No, there is no parenthesis. I’m just trying to visually represent the clear white space

Zoppi goes on to recount that McWillie got the tickets but that Zoppi could not go because one week prior to leaving he got a call from the Sands Hotel informing him that Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford

were to appear there in what was billed as the summit meeting. Zoppi went to this.

Ruby went to Cuba and Zoppi was to meet him there after the holidays. Zoppi could not join Ruby as this was when Castro came to power. Zoppi dismissed the idea of Ruby meeting Santos Trafficante saying they were not in the same league.

How about the same prison?

Zoppi stated he had a slight acquaintance with McWillie and has seen him only a few times.

Document # 180-10093-10496 is a two page report from the Veteran’s Administration. It is an outside contact report to the HSCA, dated 9/27/78.

“Today at the Veterans Administration Liaison Office in B328 Rayburn Building I reviewed the VA file of John David Hurt.

“The file contained numerous documents and medical reports from Hurt’s entry into the Armed forces in 1942 to the present. It catalogued the history of Hurt’s severe psoriatic arthritis which resulted in 100% disability and amputation of several fingers. It stated also that Hurt was hospitalized in 1955 and 1959 for mental disorders, including alcoholism, schizoid reactions and manic depression.

“By the time of the assassination in 1963, Hurt had lost the use of both hands and the amputations were done in 1964.

“The file contained no information pertinent to the assassination. It contained copies of Hurt’s separation papers which stated that he had served in military intelligence in 1945 as an investigator: `Served in the POTT as an investigator conducting investigation of accidents, sabotage, etc. and supervised activities in which civilian and military personnel or property are involved. Collected and safeguarded evidence.’

“Nothing in the VA file contradicts anything Hurt told us about his background when we interviewed him on April 11, 1978.”

They recommended contacting Aleveeta Treon and attempt to pin down the source of the allegation that Oswald tried to call Hurt on 11/23/63. It is signed by Surell Brady.

Document # 180-10097-10495 is a 4 page document of an interview with Glynn A Young. There is a charge out record by Marwell of the ARRB.

Mr. Young ran a printing company at 424 Gravier St. in New Orleans. In the summer of 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald came to his premise two or three times over a three or four week period, concerning the printing of some 2 x 3 cards. He does not recall the requested information but it was something about Free Cuba or some such rhetoric and requesting donations.

Mr. Young recalls quoting a price of $9.00 a hundred or something and Oswald got upset at the price and appeared to him to have a high temper. He believes that he also had some printing done by a Mailer print located at 225 Magazine St. He does not recall Oswald being sent by anybody.

Young states that there was another printing job that Oswald requested a quote price on for printing on 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 sheet and he quoted him a price of $25.00 a thousand. He believes that this work was done by a Jones Printing Company. He states that the difference in the pricing is due to the fact that he is an offset printer and Jones was a letter set printer which would make it cheaper.

Shortly after the assassination, the FBI came in and showed him a copy which contained basically the same rhetoric as he recalls.

He stated that Oswald would come in somewhere between the hours of 12:00 and 1:30, that he was neatly dressed in a shirt, slacks, and states that at the time of the assassination there was quite a bit of feuding going on between the FBI, Treasury and Secret Service.

The only name that he could possibly recall is-he thinks belongs to the FBI-either Quinn or O’Quinn.

When shown the photo album, he was able to identify # 57 as Lee Harvey Oswald; # 5 as Clay Shaw, not that he personally known Shaw, but because Shaw was a public figure in New Orleans and Mr. Young has been in New Orleans since 1946

Document # 180-10097-10328 is the first part of a massive document on David W. Ferrie vs. Eastern Airlines. It is pages 618-867.

Document # 180-10117-10086 is a 7 page document. It is titled “Supplement to OCR of 4-4-78 on CIA-SS relations in 1963”. Sounds interesting.

Marwell looked at this 9/19/95

I. CIA-SS Relations in the Standard Operational Context of Overseas Presidential Protection.

As indicated in the 4-4-78 OCR, no CIA official who participated in the interview of that date had held an official position in any branch of domestic operations. Consequently, the clearest and most comprehensible information was obtained during discussions of those joint SS-CIA operations with which the officers were most familiar– overseas protection.

SS Agents who were engaged abroad in Presidential protection activity benefited from a variety of supplemental supportive services provided by and coordinated by the CIA field station with jurisdiction over the destination of a Presidential visit.

Initially, the CIA role in effecting coordination with the SS was to respond to institutional guidelines established by the SS which (1) enabled the CIA to select information which the SS considered relevant; (2) informed the CIA about proper SS channels for communication; and (3) acquainted the CIA with special procedures for reporting information to the SS. And example of such procedures would be that of “checking off” to determine whether one agency had already conducted an investigation of a threat subject in sufficient detail to eliminate the need for what would otherwise be a duplicative investigation of the subject.

Presidential protection was considered by the CIA officers to be of maximum importance and to have required close inter-agency cooperation, with secured communications lines being made available for instantaneous contact. “Daily contact” was normal.

The specific services which the CIA field station would provide included (1) “names and information,” (2) “logistical support,” and (3) “communications support,” all of which was “coordinated by the CIA.”

A limiting influence on the scope of CIA coordination was the Agency’s conception of the extent of its obligation to provide information. The officers consistently indicated that the information that would be furnished to the SS was never gathered specifically for or because of an SS request. The CIA’s reservoir of information was acquired for its own purposes, and its selection and processing of any information for the benefit of the SS was undertaken only as a secondary (though seriously taken) function, incidental to the regular course of CIA business.

A second limitation on inter-agency coordination was that the CIA recognized no obligation to provide the SS with analyses of the content of CIA and/or SS information except in those instances where the SS specifically requested analysis. Hence, a typical example of CIA-SS contact would involve a joint name trace and a tap-in on existing CIA information. Only rarely, e.g., in the case of a funeral of a head of state which is attended by other heads of state, would the CIA engage and share fully its analytical resources.

II. Preventive Intelligence and Inter-Agency Liaison Procedures

Despite the fact that none of the CIA officials were assigned in 1963 or at any other time to a domestic operations desk, the senior rank of these officials, and their extensive experience and expertise in various areas of intelligence, suggested to both interviewers that Team 4’s comparative perspectives on the SS could be refined by questioning the officials in general terms about processes and procedures used by the CIA for preventive intelligence purposes. The internal operations of the Protective Research Service of the SS provide specific investigative focal points for comparing the preventive intelligence capacities of the CIA and the SS. However, the PRS per se was not mentioned during this interview.

A slightly narrowed context for this line of questioning was provided by mention of the following topics: (1) anti-Castro Cuban-group activism in America in the early sixties, which, as a matter of general knowledge, involved to some extent both extensive domestic monitoring by the CIA of pro- and anti-Castro operatives, and also CIA anti-Castro assassination efforts (cf. Book V Schweiker report); and (2) the threat against American governmental leaders made by Castro after his discovery of the CIA-sponsored attempts against his life. However, neither one of these topics was pursued in substantively factual terms. In effect, the topics were used as hypothetical problems representing opportunities for the CIA to explain the applications of intelligence procedures.

In topic # (1) above, the responses were predicated on the position that the CIA’s Cuban intelligence effort in the early sixties was directed at the Soviet presence in Cuba, and not at any domestic-focus threat. Information currently available to Team 4 contradicts this position, i.e. CIA intelligence, especially the monitoring of Cuban groups, did not stop at the American border. Hence, the official’s frame of reference in defining (as solely Soviet-oriented) certain intelligence procedures used in the early 60’s Cuban effort tended intrinsically to distort their own picture of the overall scope and focus of their operations. Nevertheless, the official’s information about intelligence procedures used in dealing with large, geographically multi-focal groups, was as follows:

1. Field Experience and Special Training.

Perhaps the fundamental method used in developing Agency intelligence resources was to insure that their analysts had both (1) extensive field experience and (2) special training in the same area in which they subsequently become analysts. The clear implication is that a CIA analyst may literally bring to his position years of first hand contact with evolving social, economic, political and other conditions. No parallel practice has yet been determined to have existed in the SS.

2. Computerization.

“Incident Files” and “organization files” are classified, stored and retrieved in accordance with “programs.” Nothing stated about criteria involved in either the design or selection of the programs.

There is an automatic “link-up” and “full sharing” of information with all other intelligence agencies.

3. Flagging.

Apparently the Agency has developed a scheme for separating certain categories of information according to degrees of urgency. The example offered was that of “flagging the files of groups representing direct threats.”

4. Source Development.

If a continuing relationship with a covert source is involved, the source is “asked a specific series of questions.” No information was presented to explain whether the supervising case officer directs the questioning so that the hidden source ultimately becomes a conduit for questions developed jointly or exclusively by the case officer.

5. Data Feeds.

For as long as the SS (or other interested agency) requests a continuing data feed, the CIA will comply.

Issue (2) above, the September 1963 anti-Kennedy threat made by Castro, presented a different question for the CIA operatives to consider. Whereas the observation and monitoring of known groups (e.g. Cuban) requires evaluating the threat capacity of known subjects about whom data is continually being gathered, a threat couched in political rhetoric during a speech made in a foreign country requires a more purely analytical response, even to the extent of using analysis to determine what other indicators should be interpreted in conjunction with such a threat.

One official, in commenting on the Castro threat speech, stated that the selective juxtaposition of varied indicators was common CIA practice. The official addressed the issue of combining indicators in order to develop a systematic, multiple-variable, predictive analysis. To this extent, prevailing thematic statements about the limitations on analysis performed in inter-agency operations was qualified.

Other officials’ responses contrasted with and implicitly rejected this combined-indicator approach. The consensus among the other officials was that the SS does its own analysis; that given the narrow focus (and indeed lack) of CIA analysis, the CIA would accordingly not “speculate” prospectively about hypothetical or unusual combinations of indicators; and that such complex prospective analysis, which one official referred to as “crisis management via predictive systems,” was “not real world” and was “nonsense” which “would not work with sociology.” The Hudson Institute’s efforts in particular were singled out for criticism of this type.

In overview, perhaps it is of special importance to record that the notes on which this OCR-supplement is based were classified by an interviewee as “Secret”.

One permissible inference to be drawn from this classification is that the CIA has other intelligence methodologies and procedures, whether for monitoring of known threat groups or for containment of prospective threats through predictive interpretation of selected relevant indicators, which are classifiable as Top Secret.

Document # 180-10117-10173 is the David Ferrie vs. Eastern Airlines grievance hearing. Pages 1-179.

Document # 180-10117-10174 is more of the David Ferrie vs. Eastern Airlines grievance hearing. Pages 180-368.

Document # 180-10117-10175 is more of the David Ferrie vs. Eastern Airlines grievance hearing. Pages 369-491.

Document # 180-10017-10176 is more of the David Ferrie vs. Eastern Airlines grievance hearing. Pages 492-617.

Document # 180-10017-10179 is more stuff relating to David Ferrie vs. Eastern Airlines. This is 83 pages of letters and exhibits.

Document # 180-10117-10181 is 63 pages from the FAA to John O’Brien. O’Brien was the legal counsel for the Airline Pilots Association which oversaw the, or rather conducted the hearing between Ferrie and Eastern Airlines.

Document # 180-10117-10184 appears to be missing.

Document # 180-10017-10185 also appear to be missing.

Document # 180-10117-10186 is 47 pages from Eastern Airlines about David Ferrie. 3 pages are missing.

Document # 180-10017-10189 are 22 pages from the FAA about David Ferrie and Eastern Airlines.

Document # 180-10117-10190 are 23 pages from the FAA to William Bell, counsel for Eastern Airlines.

The Additional Releases Review

Document # 180-10081-10347 is a 140 page document containing various correspondence collected by Dr. Pierre Finck. Only 7 pages of which are in the ARRB release box. Page 1 is a xerox of a page that says “materials received from Dr. Pierre A. Finck – 3/ 9/78 (autopsy surgeon) Andy Purdy Log in as 1 Look out for receipt.” Page 2 is a cover sheet of Dr. Finck’s design. “I used this material to make copies for the Select Committee on Assassinations. Exception: the draft used for the final text sent with letter of 1 FEB 65 to Brig General Blumberg, was not reproduced*. Found with copy of final text in sealed envelope kept with my personal papers for many years. I opened the envelope after receiving the letter of D.A. Purdy on 25 FEB 78.”

* Cover sheet + 13 P reproduced by Purdy, then what looks like someone’s initials, dated 3/8/78, then Purdy’s initials.

Then we get to the meat of the document. There is a 4 page “Memorandum For Record” , dated Sunday 26 Feb 78. Subject: Transcript from Personal diary. It is from Pierra A Finck, MD, Avenue d’Orbaix 14, 1180 Brussels, Belgium. It is to Purdy, then of course, with the HSCA.

The first paragraph states that Dr. Finck has typed this from his handwritten diary.

Dr. Finck mentions that he has received a phone call 1 Nov 77 in Brussels from a C.S. Petty, P.O. Box 35728, Dallas, TX, 75235, tel 214-638-1131 asking him if he is willing to go to the U.S. to appear before the HSCA. Finck says he is available.

The third paragraph goes on well into the the third page of this four page letter. Finck recounts his attendance 8 DEC 77 at a conference by Loyd Braithwaite, a Criminology Professor from Michigan, on: “Organized Crime and the JFK Assassination” held at the SHAPE High School.

Lansky’s wealth= $ 300 million. Everyone connected with him is a millionaire.

L made money in gambling after prohibition.

WW2: L arranged with OSS to move Luciano (Prostitution) to NYC.

After WW2: Luciano goes to Naples in 1946 (Executive Clemency).

Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas = from Mafia money (Siegal) S accused to steal [Finck misspells it as “steel”] $5000 a week, sent to Switzerland through his mistress.

Chicago: bug for 6 years in Giancana’s office. Bodyguard Scalzetti = Detective in Chicago Police Dept. fired in 1960. Bug continued.

1959: JFK and RFK investigate organized crime. Chief counsel is RFK. McClellan Committee. At time of 22 Nov 63, RFK very active against organized crime in Las Vegas.

Judy Flexner [Really, Judith Exner] introduced to JFK by Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas in 1960. Mistress of Giancana and Scalzetti. Visited White House in 1961 for 2 and 1/2 years.

Operation Mangos [Mongoose} = CIA covert operation to kill Castro; led by William Harvey. Maheu selected to arrange assassination with Mafia help. 1960: Maheau = right arm of Howard Hughes, 1960: JFK, RFK, Allen Dulles, Director of CIA, did not know association with Mafia to kill Castro. Trafficante jailed and released by Castro; involved in plot to kill Castro.

(page 2)

1962: Scalzetti hired by Cook County Sheriff’s Office. Fired in 1964.

CIA = $100,000; Giancana = $90, for training of Cubans to kill Castro.

JAN 61: JFK learns about plan to kill Castro, not the mafia connection. Bay of Pigs.

JFK becomes suspicious of CIA.

Cubelo = Mr. Amlash = CIA agent in Castro’s entourage. CIA sends poisoned darts to Cuba.

CIA did not inform Warren Commission about mafia role against Castro.

22 Nov 77: John Artime dead at age 47.

McCone, new CIA director, not informed about Cuban Plan

1963: Cubelo becomes double agent. SEP 63: taped press conf of Castro: US leaders should be warned, lives in danger

CIA : Swine Fever in Cuba. Cubans planned to infect Texan cattle with Foot and Mouth disease.

22 NOV 63: CIA gives poisoned pen to Amlash to kill Castro.

Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) = CIA agent originally operating as Pro Castro Agent. Out of USMC 2 months earlier than foreseen, goes to USSR from 60 to 62. Marina is niece of Secret Police Officer.

Raiken [Spas T.] former German Intelligence Officer = CIA connection, Raiken waited for LHO and Marina when they returned from USSR.

In Haiti, someone offered $70,000 to kill JFK.

Clay Shaw was a CIA agent..

LHO distributed leaflets [note the next two words are “in Cuba”. Finck attempted to obliterate them by retyping over them with an “x”. Keep in mind these are merely the notes taken by Finck from Braithwaite’s presentation. ] On back: address of Cuban Revolutionary Committee= 544 Camp Street.

LHO was an FBI informant for $200/month.

Clay Shaw was member of an anti Castro group. Ferry [Ferrie] principal witness for Garrison, was found dead in hotel room.

22 Nov 63: Cubelo and Artime actually carried out the killing. LHO used as diversion. Actual rifle provided by CIA; admitted in OCT 77. Bought by Clay Shaw.

Similar to rifle found on 6th floor. LHO when arrested had $13 [“on him” retyped over with “x”] Agenda with name, car license no., Tel No of Dallas FBI Chief. Page missing for years, kept by FBI, released in 77. Dallas Police tapes sent to Archives in 76 = missing. Tippit seen with LHO and Ruby. Ballistics evidence related to Tippitt, sent to Archives = missing

Braithwaite does not think LHO was able to kill JFK: poor marksman, rifle in poor shape.

(Page 3)

In the whole scheme of organized crime, witnesses are killed. LHO was a witness in the plot to assassinate JFK.

A stripper in Ruby’s night club said during TV or parade: “This is where it’s going to happen”. Asked to testify, car ran over her head.

Earl Warren and LBJ did not want the truth to be known to avoid a war with Cuba and WW3. EW and LBJ were wrong. Conspiracy of anti-Kennedy Force.

1975: Congress starts its investigation.

1963-1966: 17 witnesses who disagreed with Warren Report died of natural or violent death.

The remaining paragraphs of the letter detail how Dr. Finck got to D.C. to testify for the HSCA.

Document #180-10110-10007 is a 99 page deposition of Yuri Nosenko taken on 6/19/78 at CIA headquarters in HSCA executive session. Present were Stokes, Define, Preyer, Fauntroy, Burke, Sawyer, Dodd, Ford, Fithian and Edgar. Also, Blakey, Cornwell, Berning, Smith, Morrison, Klein and Goldsmith.

The sessions was closed because of evidence obtained by the Committee that the testimony may defame, degrade, or incriminate people. Nosenko was sworn in.

This hearing was recorded on tape. However, only under strict conditions. It’s single purpose was in verifying the transcript. The witness feared any permanent tape made of his voice might get into the hands of KGB agents.

Isn’t that where he is from? Wouldn’t they already have a recording of his voice?

Could it be that he doesn’t want his voice recorded so American intelligence could compare it?

Anyway, the CIA strictly controlled the tape. It was kept at CIA headquarters, handled by a Mr. Gmirkin, a CIA employee, after the HSCA stenographer was finished reviewing the transcript Gmerkin supposedly erased the tape and destroyed it.

Nosenko spoke without an interpreter.

A little background, Nosenko was born October 30, 1927, in Nikolayev, Ukraine.

His father was a prominent Soviet shipbuilding engineer. In 1956 when he died he was a Soviet Minister of Shipbuilding in Moscow.

Nosenko attended various naval schools during WWII. At the end of the war he went to the Institute of International law and English. In 1953 he transferred to the KGB Second Chief Directorate where he was assigned as a counterintelligence officer in the American Embassy Section of the American department. His job was to keep track of American correspondents and U.S. Army personnel residing in Moscow.

In 1955 he transferred to the Tourist Section of the Seventh Department of the Second Chief Directorate.

In 1958, he joined the newly created American-British Commonwealth Section of the Seventh Department.

In January, 1960 he transferred to the American Embassy Section of the American Department.

In 1962 he accompanied the Soviet delegation to the Disarmament Conference in Geneva, Switzerland as a security escort. He remained in Switzerland until June 15, 1962. He then returned to the Soviet Union and resumed his duties in the American-British Commonwealth section in the Seventh Department of the Second Chief Directorate.

In January 1964 he again accompanied the Soviet delegation to Switzerland and at that time defected.

On February 4th he was brought to the United States.

Nosenko was asked what is the function of the Second Chief directorate.

“Prior to 1960 the Second Chief Directorate was responsible for counterintelligence work against all foreigners coming to the Soviet Union, diplomats, tourists, businessmen, delegations, private visitors.

“But in 1960, from January, 1960, the Second Chief Directorate in process of reorganization, took in one fist, put all counterintelligence service which were prior different services in the KGB. Let us say prior to 1960 KGB were involved in counterintelligence work six different outfits. Second Chief directorate working against all foreigners, counterintelligence; Third Chief Directorate counterintelligence work against all Soviet armed forces. Fourth Directorate counterintelligence work against Soviet intelligencia; Fifth directorate counterintelligence work in Soviet industry, economy; Sixth Directorate, counterintelligence work in transport; and Department K counterintelligence worked on all atomic industry enterprises.

There is more information on the breakdown of Soviet intelligence, then on p. 36 we get to Oswald information.

Klein asked if there was an investigation of Oswald once he was named as the alleged assassin of President Kennedy.

“Yes, sir.” This is covered in document # 180-10131-10323. Klein is trying to get from Nosenko what he knew about Oswald and if Nosenko knew that information about Oswald would be important to the United States and thus part of the reason for Nosenko’s defection. Klein goes around in circles with Nosenko, who will not give a straight answer to this, and keeps repeating that he did not know what was important to Americans about Oswald only that KGB was trying to see if they ever approached him in any way. They didn’t but they spied on him to see if he might have some connection to intelligence community in America.

“Honestly speaking, I was thinking that their attitude would be that they understand that he is not stable person, that he is a nut, because all his behavior shows he is a nut, not only trying to commit suicide, but he defected. He was allowed to defect, finally was allowed. How long he was back then he tried again, attempts to go again Soviet Union. He is a tumbleweed, a rolling stone.”

This is the kind of thing the U.S. government wants to hear Nosenko say.

Klein returns to the idea that Nosenko’s knowledge of Oswald might be something Nosenko would use to establish his bona fides. Nosenko finally responds that he didn’t have that thought because the CIA and FBI thought he as a dispatched agent in 1962.

Nosenko admits that his story of a recall telegram wasn’t true. Nosenko demanded to be allowed to defect saying a telegram had been sent for him to return to Moscow immediately. Nosenko had been helping the CIA previously and he invents a “oh no, I’ve been caught you must help me” scheme.

He also admits the question of his rank was not true.

“You see what happened, I was appointed Deputy Chief of Seventh Department in 1962. On analogical cases was appointment of another officer, Deputy Chief in Second Department, Second Chief Directorate. Both had rank of Captain. The position of Deputy Chief of Department, Colonel. In 1963, in September 1963, was made presentation on my next rank; my next rank was to be Major but when it was all confirmed on the level of Department, on the party organization, and all papers were given for signing and further must going in Personnel Directorate, the Chief of Second Chief Directorate General Gribanov decided in my case and in the case of another Deputy Chief of the Second Department also captain himself, must be made presentation on Lieutenant Colonels, what was done in 1963. It was well known fact in Second Chief Directorate, in 1963, December, I was sent on a short trip in Gorki district in search of former KGB officer Cherepanov, who ran away. He tried to contact Americans. He contacted them but it was unsuccessful.

Americans returned the papers, considered him a plant when he was through. He noticed the KGB working against him. He ran away. All over the Soviet Union started the search of Cherepanov. In difference places appeared signals. It was in Gorki district signal. I was sent because I know him personally. I work in same department with him, and search on him in Gorki district, and when I was sent in Gorki district, they put on my travel document “Lieutenant Colonel Nosenko.” This was document with me when I come in January. Surely, of course, human vanity.”

Now Nosenko was held in isolation from 1964 to 1969. In 1967 Nosenko was questioned by a CIA officer named Bruce Solie.

Nosenko became an American citizen in 1974. He has been under the CIA’s care all along and still works for the CIA.

Nosenko is then shown the May 30, 1978 deposition. Nosenko made corrections to the transcript and placed his initials on the lines where corrections occured. (I did not notice them in the copy released.)

Klein was worried that the CIA might have told Nosenko what to say and what not to say. Nosenko says no one told him what to say but, “No, sir. On the contrary, before I met you [Klein] I was told that I must tell everything, whatever questions will be. I even asked if questions will be concerning cases, the names, even these, whatever stuff the Committee would like, “What you know you must answer.” This seems to confirm that Nosenko and CIA did talk about what Nosenko should say to the HSCA.

Nosenko mentions that no one could approach a target without permission from Moscow. There was one exception. “The only one thing for qualification I want to add, that up to September, 1963, none of the KGB’s outfits in Leningrad, in Kieve, in Byelorussia, in any part of the Soviet Union, can make an approachment to any foreigner without permission of Moscow.”

Now in September of 1963, one place had so many tourists and other interesting targets that they changed this procedure and allowed approachment without permission from Moscow, that place was Finland.

“Only in 1963 was making special permission concerning KGB apparatus in Leningrad and only concerning Finnish tourists because a big amount of tourists were coming from Finland and not going to any part of Soviet Union, only Leningrad, and after two, three, four or five days, back to Finland.”

This is interesting as Oswald entered the Soviet Union via Helenski, Finland. Oswald entered in 1959 and the no approach allowed without Moscow’s permission was in effect but it’s an interesting note that Finland was nearly an open door, so much so that the KGB changed their procedures over this area, granted years later.

Nosenko recounts to the HSCA that he saw a cable from the KGB’s Mexico City station about Oswald’s request for a visa.

Bill MacDowall wrote an interesting article on Nosenko on his web site “JFK…The Voice of Reason” entitled, “NOSENKO…THE SPY WHO LIED..AND LIED..AND LIED!”. One of the things Bill wrote that struck me was the Nosenko might be able to destroy the story of Oswald in Mexico City, which might be the real reason he was kept in isolation.

Nosenko points out that because of an American exhibition in Moscow at the time Oswald wanted to defect in `59 there wasn’t anyone from KGB working against him. Nosenko also states that no KGB officer talked to Oswald to check him out before decision to not allow him to stay was made.

Krupnov opens a file on Oswald when they do let him stay. The Chief above him ordered him to open a file on Oswald.

Nosenko mistakenly believes Oswald was drafted into the Marines. Nosenko doesn’t know how he knew or when they knew but stresses over and over again that it was not discussed in relation to whether Oswald could defect or not.

On page 96 Representative Sawyer got upset that Klein was asking questions that Nosenko had already responded to. They apparently adjourned and were to reconvene on Tuesday, June 20, 1978.

Document # 180-10131-10320 is a 21 page deposition of James C. Michael taken 7/27/78. Kenneth Klein took the deposition for the HSCA.

James C. Michael is a registered alias. Mr. Michael is an employee of the CIA. He has been employed there since 1956. In July 1964 he talked with Yuri Nosenko.

Michael was assigned to debrief Nosenko on his KGB career.

“Michael” interrogated Nosenko when Nosenko was in confinement in April or May of 1964. Michael was in the Soveit-Russian Division. The chief of that division was David E. Murphy. Michael had never before debriefed a KGB official.

When asked if he read any files on Oswald prior to debriefing Nosenko, Michael replied no, though he may have read previous debriefings on Nosenko that may have contained information about Oswald.

Nosenko was held in a house in suburban Washington D.C. Michael would visit him two or three times a week, about 3 hours a session. These sessions were taped.

At one point, on p. 10, Klein shows Michael a document, “from CIA folder which states, `H.S.C.A. Requests -25 July 1978′ and in parentheses it has a name which I won’t say on the record. Then it says `Deposition -27/7/78.’ Showing you this report which says `Memorandum for the Record.’ Source AE Donor, Date of Interview 3 July 1964.”

The document is a report of the July 3, 1964 debriefing of Nosenko by Michael.

Klein draws Michael’s attention to p. 63, and there is also the number 18 at the top of the page because this page is part of a newly created file, there is a name, Michael’s true name. Michael is with the Soviet Russian Division, Counterintelligence Group, KGB Branch. Klein then shows Michael another document, “Memorandum for the Record, subject follow up report on the Oswald case, source AE Donor, date of interview 27 July 1964” and with the new numbering system, that is the numbering system of the binder which this report is a part of, it begins on p. 22 and goes through p. 39. On p. 39 is Michael’s true name, typed, not a signature. Both of these reports detail questioning of Nosenko about Oswald. Michael was given a series of questions to ask Nosenko about Oswald.

Nosenko was given a copy of the July 3 report and Nosenko went through it line by line. That seems rather odd to me.

Document # 180-10131-10323 is a 40 p. deposition of Yuri Nosenko. This was taken 5/30/78. So it’s earlier than document # 180-10110-10007. In fact, this one is referred to in document # 180-10110-10007.

Klein is accompanied by a researcher Johanna Smith.

Reference is made to Klein speaking with Nosenko on May 27 and an earlier time in May. The May 27th discussion was in reference to Oswald.

Klein asks Nosenko to tell him everything he saw or heard about Oswald while he (Nosenko) was in Russia.

“It was the fall of 1959. I was working in the 7th Department of the Second Chief Directorate of the KGB, being Deputy Chief of the First Section, which is responsible for American, British and Canadian tourists. To me had come a senior case officer, Major Georgiy Ivanovich Rastrusin. He was responsible for counterintelligence work against Intourists. He had come with a question that an American tourist, Lee Harvey Oswald, made a request to Intourist to stay in the Soviet Union.

“I asked him who is responsible for him and what we know about him and what kind of materials we have, and he answered me that nobody is working against him personally, only him. He found materials, it was several pages only. There was a questionnaire, which every tourist before coming fills out in his country where he applies for a visa, or for the Soviet Embassy through tourist firm.

“There were two checkups but I do not know by what officer, one of the officers of the 7th Department, one to check also the archives center, the archives of the KGB, and the other checkup through the archives of the intelligence service. They have different archives.

“Both these checkups in archives showed no existing materials on Lee Harvey Oswald. He was in the Soviet Union the first time.

“Besides that, there was information received from an interpreter who worked with Oswald, about him. There was a short note made from the Intourist page, what kind of tour Oswald had, how many days he will be in the Soviet Union, and also there was written by hand, by Major Rastrusin, a summary concerning the question which he found out in Intourist concerning the question of his stay, he wished to stay in the Soviet Union.

“Here it is necessary for me to clarify that KGB working against foreign tourists doesn’t have capability to, not everyone, but even 50 percent, in working against tourists, and which orders of the leaders of the KGB — KGB is picking up the interesting targets, who are the interesting targets.

“Any foreign tourist, let’s say, an American tourist, if he had any connection with the intelligence community, he will be very interesting target. This tourist will be given priority of interest by the KGB. Anyone who is working, any tourist working for the Federal Government of the United States is a very interesting target. Anyone who specializes in any field on the Soviet Union or Russia, in general, I mean teach, a professor, assistant professor, who is specializing on Russia, history, language, law or whatever it will be, it is interesting for the KGB, because KGB considers that they can be connected with the intelligence community in the United States.

“Students, young people who are studying in any field of Russia, Russian language, Russian history, Russian economy, is a very interesting target, because there is a chance that they in the future will be working for the Federal Government or maybe for the intelligence community.

“Further, any tourist who has any Russian roots, his parents, grandparents or the tourist himself was born in the Soviet Union, in Russia, because it gives the possibility to the KGB to check all his relatives who are in Russia and to view their work on this basis, having in mind approachment. This is the category of people on whom KGB is paying attention.

“Further, any tourist who appears in the Soviet Union the second time automatically becomes a suspicious person and becomes an interesting target. This is the category of people against whom in general KGB pays attention.

“Oswald didn’t belong to this category of people. That is why he wasn’t paid attention. Besides that, what I said above, there is also an important thing that in this period of time, in 1959, the summer-fall, there was going on in the Soviet Union, in Moscow, an American exhibition at Sokolniki Park. Why? Because almost 95 percent of all who were on the American side working for this exhibition knew the Russian language and the KGB was covering these American personnel very tight. It means not one department was responsible for the American exhibition but every outfit of the whole counterintelligence of the Second Directorate was working also against the exhibition.

“After I looked at the materials which Major Rastrusin showed me, what the 7th Department First Section had on Oswald, in my eyes he wasn’t an interesting target, targets about whom I was speaking before.

“I went with Rastrusin to the Chief of the Section of the 7th Department to whom we reported this material, and then we went further to the Chief of the 7th Department, who looked and there was nothing interesting.

“The second thing, the KGB is not very fond to deal with defectors. If it will be a defector from the intelligence community, a diplomat, an interesting person, they will be interested, but with a person they don’t see any interest in, then they are not burning with wish to deal with him.

“And it was made decision by the Chief of the Department, in the presence of the Chief of the Section, me and Major Rastrusin, to answer, to give an answer to Intourist to ask Intourist to tell Oswald that in accordance with all rules and regulations Intourist is not dealing with people who want to stay, Intourist is dealing only with tourists, that is Intourist will recommend him that in accordance with Soviet procedure, he must go back home, in the United States, where he must, if he wants to come to live in the Soviet Union, he must visit the Soviet Embassy, go to Consular department, where he will talk with people about his wish, and if he would still persist and wants to go ahead, it will be taken normal procedures.

“It was a soft brush, the way you can call it. After that — this is what I remember — after that, the next day or a day and a half, the same Major Rastrusin reports that trouble took place with Oswald. Oswald cut his wrist and was taken to the hospital. How it happened, I asked, and he told me that an interpreter has come to him, to take him on a tour, after it was announced to him before, about they must go in accordance with Soviet procedures. Next day it was —

“Mr. Klein- After it was announced that he could not stay?

“Mr. Nosenko – He couldn’t stay and Intourist has no dealing with this question.

An interpreter has come and was waiting for him 20 minutes, half an hour, he is not appearing. She asked the hotel personnel, Hotel Berlin, in Moscow, to check did Oswald leave the hotel, again, because in accordance with Soviet procedures in hotel any foreigner when leaving the hotel leaves key on the floor where he is living. It wasn’t on the floor. It means he was in the room. And the interpreter was concerned and asked the manager, the administration of the hotel, to check it out, and went with them. They broke the door and in the room they found Oswald lying with cut wrist.

“He was immediately given a call to ambulance, for ambulance, and he was taken to hospital, Oswald, Botkin Hospital, where he was given transfusion plus stitches on his wrist.

“And there in the hospital Oswald again stated that if they, the Soviets, will not allow me to stay, then I will kill myself.

“Again I immediately went to Chief of Section, to Chief of Department and reported what was going on, what happened, and here the office of Chief of Department decided to check him through psychiatrist from the Botkin Hospital, and to invite another one. This task was given to Major Rastrusin to arrange it. In this way both psychiatrists check him independently and each one will write what they found.”

Their diagnosis? “Both mentioned that Oswald was mentally unstable”. Okay, so a decision is made to report to higher ups in the Soviet government that Oswald might kill himself if he can’t stay. According to Nosenko they were fearful of repercussions and reactions if Oswald did kill himself that the Soviet government or the KGB would be blamed for the death so they let him stay.

“It means it was reported to Khrushchev to allow him to stay on the basis of those clarifications what I told.”

A decision was made that Oswald’s stay would be handled through the Red Cross. He was to live in Minsk and receive $700 rubles from Red Cross for living.

In December 1959 Major Kim Georgievich Krupnov, another senior KGB intelligence officer, was ordered to prepare a paper on Oswald. A file register was created on Oswald in the KGB’s center archives. The paper was to accompany the file. It was sent to the KGB of the Belorussian republic in Minsk. Nosenko says he has seen this file. The file told what kind of work to give Oswald.

Nosenko was told to spy on Oswald at his residence and at work. His mail and telephone conversations were to be monitored. Nosenko refers to this as “to control him”. Oswald was followed around. Why? “Oswald was suspected in connection with American intelligence.” Well, why wasn’t he suspected of this prior to being allowed to stay?

That’s the last Nosenko hears of Oswald until 1963 when Oswald tries to get a visa to go to Russia in Mexico City.

At this time Nosenko is Deputy Chief of 7th Department, Second Chief Directorate. Lt. Col. Vladimir Alekseev, Chief of the 7th Department, visited Deputy Chief of Service No. 2 of the Intelligence Service of the KGB, Col. Turalin. Turalin gave him a cable received from the KGB station in Mexico City about Oswald’s request for a visa.

Nosenko did not know Oswald had left Russia. Anyway, Nosenko and Alekseev go to see Chief of Department 9 supposedly of intelligence service of KGB who did not want anything more to do with Oswald saying they had enough of him in `59.

Nosenko uses the same term “soft brush” in handling Oswald.

Soon afterward Kennedy is assassinated. It’s turmoil in the Second Chief Directorate. The chief of this, General Gribanov told Nosenko to immediately contact the KGB in Minsk and tell them to get all their files on Oswald, bring them to Moscow immediately, use a military plane.

Nosenko was also asked to talk to chiefs and see if anyone contacted Oswald. Col. Gruzdev said he couldn’t do anything, Oswald was sending file. Nobody talked to him because there was no indication of what to do.

The files from Minsk arrive. It’s a big suitcase, maybe two. Nosenko says 7 or 8 volumes. The Chief of 7th department, chief of American section, officer Krupnov, Nosenko, 4 or 5 other officers, and officer from Minsk started to look at the files. They are looking for anything on whether KGB contacted Oswald and were preparing to write a report on that.

They are interrupted. In comes Col. Matveev, a deputy chief of first Department, of the Second Chief Directorate. Gribanov changed his mind. They are going to take all files on Oswald, the First American department will get them and they will produce a report which will go to the leader of the KGB and Soviet government.

A few days later Nosenko is talking with Gribanov. Several officers from Second Chief Directorate went to Minsk. One of these investigating officers is a friend of Nosenko, Vladimir Krivosheev. They talked to Oswald’s co-workers at the plant and his friends in this hunting club. The story of Oswald the poor shot is told, he couldn’t kill a rabbit.

HSCA counselor Klein asks Nosenko a series of questions.

“Did Oswald make a written application for Soviet citizenship?”

“I haven’t seen it. He must, but I haven’t seen it.”

“When Oswald slashed his wrist he was taken to a hospital and psychiatric tests were performed by two doctors at the request of the KGB. Did you read the two reports?

“Yes, I have seen them, and read them.”

“Can you remember anything about them?”

“No. I remember the main point of them both, and they coincided in their opinion Oswald was mentally unstable.”

“Before you received these reports was there any reason to believe that Oswald was crazy or not normal?”

“Before reports, before cutting wrist? No, there wasn’t anything known to KGB.”

Klein asked before Oswald cut his wrist who made the decision that he couldn’t stay. The decision was made by Chief of the 7th Department, Second Directorate.

Apparently, both Nosenko and Rastrusin said there wasn’t anything interesting about him. Yet, once allowed to stay he suddenly is suspected of being connected with American intelligence community.

At the time this decision was made Oswald had not been interviewed by any officer of the KGB.

Klein asked if they knew if Oswald was a Marine. Yes, they knew. How they knew Nosenko doesn’t say. Did they know he was a radio operator? Nosenko doesn’t know. The First Chief Directorate was not consulted about Oswald and rejecting his request to stay. Apparently, the Second Directorate had the authority to make the decision.

Klein asked if a microphone was installed in Oswald’s room. Nosenko didn’t know.

Klein asked if Nosenko read the KGB file on Marina. No, but there was material on her in the files that came from Minsk.

Was the KGB familiar with Marina’s background? Yes. It’s unclear when the KGB was interested in her, prior to Oswald meeting her, while he was dating her, or after they made marriage license application. Anyone who had any contact with Oswald was checked out.

According to Nosenko, when Oswald went to Minsk all files went with him, nothing stayed in Moscow. There will only be an indication that a file exists and that the file is in Minsk.

The file was thick because it included all the surveillance reports.

Interestingly, Klein asks if Oswald sent any letters to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C. See “Document Discovery” in “The Third Decade” Vol. 9 #3 p. 40. for an interesting tidbit on Oswald and the Soviet Embassy in Washington D.C.

Klein asked if there was a KGB training school in Minsk. According to Nosenko, in `56-’57 there was a school for young officers but from second part of `57 no. The training educational system of whole KGB was in Moscow, excluding, of course, school of surveillance in Leningrad and excluding military counterintelligence schools, border troops, but for First and Second Directorate, only in Moscow.

Document # 180-10131-10342 is an 87 page deposition from E. Howard Hunt taken November 3, 1978. Present were Robert W. Genzman and Mike Ewing, HSCA counsels and Hunt and his counsel Ellis S. Rubin. Hunt was placed under oath by reporter Shirley B. Dempsey.

Hunt was asked if he ever worked for the CIA. He answered yes and then they immediately went off the record.

JFK Exhibit No. 94 was shown to him, a letter explaining to Hunt that he is under no constraint regarding his prior secrecy oath with the CIA.

He then goes into his story of how after Watergate some people thought he resembled one of the three tramps arrested in Dallas, the story in the tabloid, where he was on November 22, 1963, the Chinese grocery store, first named “Wah Ling”, then “Tuck Cheong”, picked up his kids and stayed at home watching TV. He states he was never in Dallas, Texas until 1971 when Charles Colson asked him to interview General Paul Harkins. He did not meet Sturgis until 1972. He was not in Mexico in 1963. He provided to the Rockefeller Commission 17 different photographs of himself taken between 1961-1964. FBI photoanalysist Lyndall Shaneyfelt compared the photographs and concluded that Hunt and Sturgis are not the tramps.

He sued Alan Weberman and Michael Canfield for their book “Coup d’Etat in America”. The publisher went out of business and returned to Nigeria.

Then “The Spotlight” and “The News Journal” of Wilmington, Delaware printed a story that the HSCA received from the CIA a memorandum from Richard Helms written in 1966 stating that some day it might be necessary to reveal that Howard Hunt was in Dallas on the day of President Kennedy’s assassination.

Hunt demanded that the HSCA confirm or deny that they ever received such a memorandum, and if it does exist to turn it over to Hunt so he could refute it.

The HSCA said they are aware of Hunt’s request and will make every effort to respond to it.

Hunt was asked if he was ever in Texas at any time in 1963.

No.

“Did you at any time in your life receive a letter or any other form of communication from Lee Harvey Oswald or anyone claiming to be him?”

“No.”

He was asked about the Diem cables he forged to implicate President Kennedy in the assassination of Diem and his brother. He admitted doing that at President Nixon’s request. He was asked if he was involved in any manner in the fabrication of evidence to link any person to any assassination. “No.”

Hunt thinks Oswald killed President Kennedy and that Oswald has some ties to the KGB.

Hunt said he was not involved in any way with the CIA’s investigation of the assassination.

He was asked if he had any relationship with Mr. James Angleton or Ray Rocca or if he ever discussed the assassination with either of them. Hunt said he had no relationship with either man and no, he didn’t discuss the assassination or assassination investigation with either man. He knew who the men were but had no dealings with them.

He was asked if during his work for President Nixon in the so-called “plumbers unit” if he and his colleagues ever investigated information provided by a woman who claimed to have data related to Fidel Castro’s personal reaction to the Kennedy assassination.

“I was in Miami with or without Gordon Liddy late `71 or early 1972. I was in a hotel room, I think in the Dupont Plaza in Miami, and I was meeting with Mr. Bernard Baker and another member of our team, Martinez, Mr. Martinez, and Martinez mentioned that he had available a woman who was a recent arrival in the United States. I did not know at the time that Martinez was a contract agent for CIA.” He goes on to say that he interrogated this woman, note this is not Marita Lorenz, and she told of how a “pall of gloom” had settled over the Fidel household because according to her Kennedy was on the verge of making a secret deal, a detente, with the Castro government. Hunt recorded this on audiotape, transcribed it, in the White House, and sent it to the CIA via the White House CIA pouch. Hunt made a summary report on this for Charles Colson.

Mr. Genzman- “Did you or anyone else ever undertake or consider any other investigation of any information pertaining to the Kennedy assassination during your period of working for Richard Nixon?”

Hunt- “Beyond the incident I have reported, I can’t recall anything, no.”

“Was there ever any interest among the people working in the Nixon administration concerning new information about the Kennedy administration?”

Hunt, “…if it could be shown ex post facto that Mr. Castro and President Kennedy had a working relationship, this might have been of some potential value..”

Hunt was asked if he prepared a summary of the information he gave to Colson on the woman who knew what Castro’s reaction was to the Kennedy assassination to President Nixon or Robert Halderman. Hunt said no. Of course, Colson could have shared the information.

Hunt was asked what happened to the summary and tapes of this interview. Hunt said at one time they were kept in his office in the Executive Office Building. He stated that he thought he sent the actual tape over to the CIA. He then recounts how his safe was violated on June 19th, 1972. But that’s an old story. Colson, Dean, Erlichman and L. Patrick Gray forced the safe open. There was an inventory, some material was destroyed. The safe was opened by the General Service Administration on orders of John Dean, 48 hours after the Watergate break in.

Hunt was asked if this interview could have been discussed on the infamous 18 minute gap. He didn’t think so. He never heard anything further on the matter. He was asked if was discussed on the June 23, 1972 smoking gun tape that forced Nixon to resign? Hunt said no.

Hunt filed a motion for the return of the material taken from his safe which if acted upon would have resulted in a court hearing about the contents, the substance of the contents and the chain of custody.

Colson squashed the motion because it would have been embarrassing to the White House. Hunt sued his lawyer for malpractice for acceding to Colson’s wishes.

Genzman wondered if the decision to withdraw the motion was related in any way to discussion of hush money for Hunt or a possible clemency.

Hunt was asked what was Colson concerned about in the safe. Hunt wasn’t quite sure specifically but, “examination of what was left behind was all highly incriminating leads to other people. So obviously there was a kind of division of the spoils by interested people in the White House to take their names out of the folders and leave my name in. That is what happened.”

Genzman, “John Ehrlichman, in some notes which he made in 1971, made reference to an episode in which Nixon was trying to get Director Helms to provide his aides with a copy of a secret internal CIA report relating to the Bay of Pigs. Helms evidently was refusing to make a copy available. In his notes of September 18, 1971 Ehrlichman wrote that Nixon was going to tell Helms that `the President is to have the full file or else. Nothing withheld.’ ”

“In those same notes Ehrlichman wrote that the President stated that `Liddy and Hunt’ were to help read or analyze the material once it was obtained. Do you recall this episode?”

Hunt, “No, this is the first time I heard of it.”

This refers to the CIA Inspector General’s report, which I think has been released, perhaps not fully. I recall John Newman saying he has it from a variety of sources and each one is redacted differently.

Hunt was asked if any such material was made available to you on the Bay of Pigs or on Cuban matters. Hunt said no.

The Ervin Committee, also known as the Watergate Committee, published a CIA employee’s affidavit that Hunt had “transmitted sealed envelopes” to the CIA during the Watergate period, 1971-2.

“Yes, I sent occasional things over to the CIA.” Hunt quantifies that by saying it was not a direct from him to Helms system but that there was an intermediary step of addressing the envelope to Chief Reports Officer, Western Hemisphere Division and turning that envelope over to the liaison office in the White House which then had its own pouch and courier service out to CIA. They may have put the envelope Hunt addressed inside another envelope and addressed it to someone else.

Hunt states that he never addressed anything to Helms directly. Colson thought that Hunt was some kind of continuing intelligence liaison between himself (Hunt) and Helms.

Genzman quotes an excerpt from an interview with Chuck Colson conducted by Senator Lowell Weicker and Howard Baker wherein Colson refers to a meeting his lawyer, David Shapiro had with Hunt. Hunt was making demands for more money.

Hunt wanted to see Colson and Shapiro wouldn’t let him. Hunt allegedly said, “the White House better get on the stick; that he had things on Ehrlichman, Krogh and Young, and that he had tapes.” This implied Hunt had tapes threatening to the Nixon Administration.

Hunt stated the assertion is false. Hunt said Shapiro wrote many self serving accounts of that meeting.

In a 1977 interview in Boston, Hunt stated that he knew of a reported plan to “eliminate” Omar Torrijos in Panama. The article states, “Hunt was asked, did you know of anything about a project to eliminate Panamanian dictator Torrijos. In response the convicted Watergate conspirator answered, Panama was a drug traffic area where the drug could move easily, the CIA said with mixed blessings of the Panamanian Government. There was mixed concern on the part of drug officials and certainly on the part of some of the Latin American drug informants. I think the feeling was if Torrijos didn’t shape up and cooperate, he was going to be wasted. That never happened. I don’t know any of the people asked to participate other than the people in the Plumbers Unit. They have that as part of their brief”.

Genzman, “Do you recall a discussion where the people in the Plumbers Unit were asked to participate?”

Hunt, “No, not at this point, I don’t. All I recall about that is that there were people within the Special Investigation Unit who did nothing but concern themselves with the drug traffic, and they were in liaison with the CIA. One was a gentleman named Minnick, and another was Lucien Conein. It was more an impression I had than anything else.”

When asked if he knew who else was involved in these discussions Hunt mentioned that Liddy during his time as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Treasury initiated or strongly supported Operation Intercept which reduced the drug flow from Mexico. Genzman tries to get back to finding out more of possible assassination plans, specifically in this case Torrijos. Hunt doesn’t think that that plan ever came to fruition. He said Bud Krogh not only had responsibilities for the Special Investigations Unit but was also very active with the DEA. When asked whether he had any direct knowledge that anyone in the Plumbers Unit were in fact asked to participate in a plan of this sort Hunt said he had no direct knowledge.

“I know that Mr. Liddy and Mr. Minnick at one time or another discussed the sense of frustration not only with regard to Panama, but with regard to the Golden Triangle, and Mr. Minick having traveled at White House expense out there to Burma, Laos, and so forth, and come back with a report that the White House found very disturbing. It was in this context that Mr. Torrijos came in focus.”

Genzman asked if any of the Watergate burglars had any knowledge of these discussions. Hunt said he didn’t know.

Genzman then showed Hunt an excerpt from an interview with Manuel Artime. Artime mentions that Hunt approached him to “take care of Torrijos”. Artime goes onto to suggest that Barker and Sturgis were involved in a plan.

Hunt claims to be familiar with this, referring to the document as the Dardis memorandum and asks Genzman if this document has been authenticated. Genzman replies that it has. Hunt replies with a press release from his attorney Ellis Rubin issued December 16, 1977 in response to a Jack Anderson column published the previous day.

“Anderson’s column recites a so-called 1973 secret memo from Richard Gerstein’s investigator, Martin Dardis, allegedly quoting Manuel Artime, Hunt’s close friend and Godfather to one of his children. This office represents both Hunt and Sturgis now, and we were the attorney for Dr. Artime over the years. I would have known of any so-called plot because Dr. Artime confided in me, and I possess the facts concerning both Hunt and Sturgis and all of their activities.

“Jack Anderson made no detectable effort to contact Howard Hunt to refute the charges. He knows I represent both Hunt and Sturgis, and he could have contacted Mr. Hunt through this office. I now ask why did Mr. Dardis and Anderson wait until after Dr. Artime’s untimely death from cancer to make Artime their sole authority for Hunt’s so-called involvement in the conspiracy? Along those lines, I challenge Mr. Dardis or anyone else to produce any written memorandum, signed by Manuel Artime, or a tape recording of his voice substantiating these outrageous lies.”

Genzman asks Hunt, “On November 14, 1972 you transmitted a confidential memorandum to the Nixon circle which asked for further support payments for you and the other Watergate burglars. In the memo you stated, `The Watergate break-in was only one of a number of other highly illegal conspiracies undertaken at the behest of the White House.’ Have all of these other illegal acts now been publicly disclosed?”

Hunt, “As far as I know, they have.”

Genzman asks Hunt to describe these other illegal acts. Hunt goes only so far as to remember the Ellsberg affair and the forging of the Diem cables. Hunt would not go beyond stating those two items.

Genzman, perhaps sensing that Hunt was referring to something, if not several somethings beyond what he is admitting to, asked what was so highly illegal about the Diem cables. “That perhaps may have been the hyperbole of the moment. It was certainly discreditable, and there was a good deal of public outrage when it was made known.”

Not a great answer, but Genzman goes on.

Genzman asks Hunt if he recalls a covert plan called Operation Diamond from 1971-1972. Hunt knew of Operation Gemstone which was an umbrella project for a lot of sub-projects which Liddy drew up and presented to the Attorney General [and this most be a misprint] Mr. Diem [?] and Mr. Magruder for their approval. Hunt did not recollect what Operation Diamond was supposed to be.

Who is this Mr. Diem?

Genzman told Hunt that, “Bernard Barker stated that Operation Diamond was a plan to take strong action against drug smugglers, and he also stated that you approached him concerning this plan. Does that refresh your recollection?”

“Not particularly. I think I now recall Barker having made that statement, but I don’t subscribe to it.”

Hunt could not recall any of the details of this plan nor what happened to this plan.

Hunt is asked several questions relating to Watergate figures, and Ameritez, which was a dead corporation resurrected by Bernard Barker to provide cover for the Watergate entry. According to Hunt, Miguel Suarez allowed his corporation, Ameritez, to be used as the apparent renter of the suite that was used by the break-in people. Hunt said he never knew Miguel Suarez. He did not know or had contact with Daniel Hofgren, a man who worked under Charles Colson. Hofgren apparently had something to do with the Panama problem. Hunt did not know a Miami man named Edmond H. “Skipper” Hill.

Hunt is asked about his interview with General Harkins. According to Hunt, he flew to Dallas, arriving at about 2:00 A.M. interviewing the General at breakfast and leaving Dallas around mid-morning. The purpose of the interview was that the Nixon administration was interested in Harkins because Colson felt that Harkins, as troop commander, took issue with some of President Johnson’s policies and that Harkins would have interesting information on who had started the war and just who had finally lost it. Hunt describes the interview as not very rewarding.

Genzman asked Hunt if he discussed the Kennedy assassination with anyone in Dallas. Hunt, of course, responded no.

Hunt returned to the “Spotlight” article and again asked for the CIA document referred therein. Hunt also asked the HSCA to subpoena Victor Marchetti, Joe Trento and Miss Jacquie Powers of the Wilmington Sunday News Journal, and the people of the HSCA staff referred to anonymously in the article.

They took a break and returned. The deposition is broken up into two parts. Upon returning Hunt is asked what his contact was with Nixon, if any, during the Bay of Pigs. Hunt said none directly. Hunt referred to previous testimony of his on this, and the two books he has written. Hunt had a meeting at the request of Nixon’s then military aide general who was then Col. Robert Cushman, who had served with Hunt in the CIA. Cushman told Hunt that Nixon was the action officer for the National Security Council for the Cuba project. If any help was necessary get in touch with Cushman. Hunt was given Cushman’s private phone number.

Genzman asked Hunt if Nixon was ever aware of the CIA-mafia assassination conspiracy directed against Castro. Hunt said no, “but that it’s certainly not conclusive.” Hunt had no idea if Nixon knew one way or the other.

Hunt was asked if he knew that Tony Verona was being contacted by a member or members of the mafia. “No.”

“Do you know whether any Mafia figures were involved in the Bay of Pigs planning or actual invasion?”

“No, I never heard of any Mafia presence within the project until I guess the Church committee began bringing it out.”

Hunt was asked if he knew of the CIA’s hiring of Mafia figures in an attempt to assassinate Castro during the Bay of Pigs period or later. Hunt said no. He only learned of it during the Church committee.

Hunt is then asked about James O’Connell.

“The name is unknown to me.”

Robert Maheau?

“No contact.”

Edward Lansdale?

“Well, I knew Ed Lansdale from the time he was an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel up through his retirement period –met him, interviewed him in the White House.”

“Do you know of any role which he played in the Bay of Pigs invasion or in the CIA-Mafia plots?”

Listen to this! “No, none. I had not seen Ed Lansdale for many years and then about fall, I think, of 1962 Dick Helms called me in and there was General Lansdale working for MacNamara, [It’s spelled like that in the document but this must be Robert McNamara. Just another incompetent transcriber] I guess, in Defense. He said, `Can you just briefly tell Ed about the Bay of Pigs, and tell him in your opinion what went wrong because he is going to do something else that would have relevance to it. (emphasis added)

What was this?

Sheffield Edwards?

“Sheff was Director of Security. I had no personal contact with him as such.”

Same question about him with Bay of Pigs and CIA-Mafia plots.

“I just never had any contact with him on those subjects.”

William Harvey?

“I think I officially met Harvey once after he took over the remnants of the Bay of Pigs project. I had no personal contact with him. I don’t know what he was really involved in until the Church committee began revealing some of these things.”

Charles Cabell?

“I have no knowledge of his involvement in anything except as portrayed in my book “Give Us This Day.” Cabell came into our war room at an unfortunate moment and delayed the take-off of our strike plans. He was then the Acting Director of CIA.”

“Did you have any other contacts or any type of relationship with Cabell?”

“Only when I was on Dulles’s staff. I would see the Deputy director occasionally.”

“Which years were you on Dulles’s staff?”

“I think that was from late summer of `61 until Mr. Dulles’ retirement, which I think was in `62, if I am not mistaken.”

Retirement my ass, President Kennedy fired Dulles and Hunt damn well knows it.

Hunt explains that he worked for the CIA in a continous relationship from October 1949 to May 1, 1970.

“Any employment relationship with the agency or asset relation with the agency since your retirement?”

“No.”

James McCord?, prior to Watergate.

“None. Never heard of the name.”

Frank Sturgis?, before Watergate.

“I met Frank in late December `71, or January `72, for the first time.”

“Are you sure of that date?”

“Yes.”

“Year?”

“Yes.”

Victor Espinosa?

“I don’t know him.”

Edward K. Moss?

“No.”

“Do you know if Tony Verona knew Ed Moss?”

“No. Tony and I had kind of an adversary relationship during the Bay of Pigs period and tended to keep things from each other.”

Genzman then switches gears and asks about Mexico.

“When did you serve in Mexico as a CIA employee?”

“Let’s see, from December 1950 until March `53 I then went down to the Cuba project in the summer of 1960 and stayed for several months and then left.”

“Is it your testimony that you were never in Mexico in 1963?”

“Yes, that’s my testimony.”

“Did you have knowledge about the CIA’s maintenance of secret photography and wire-tap surveillance operations at foreign embassies in Mexico City?”

“Oh, yes.”

“Would you describe these operations.”

“Well, there was photo surveillance and physical surveillance of the Iron Curtain embassies. Of course in 1953 when I left there it was pretty primitive. In those ten years a great deal of enhancement took place. [10 years?? That would be in 1963.]When I went back in 19 — I have to be careful about this. [Yeah, you sure do.] I went back in 1959. In that 6-year period [Ah, “6 year period”, much better than 10.] a great deal of enhancement has taken place and the physical and photo surveillance of all the target countries, at the station had increased enormously in size, and of course in that period I was on the outside. I was there as a private U.S. citizen, so I don’t really know what they had. But we had sporadic surveillance in the early `50s. I think it was pretty much full time by 1959.”

“Do you have specific knowledge about the surveillance operations in Mexico City?”

“No.”

“Do you have any knowledge about the CIA’s surveillance of Lee Harvey Oswald when he made his trip to Mexico City in the fall of 1963?”

Hunt gives a very interesting answer, “Only what I have read in such books, for example, as “Night Watch” by David Phillips.”

“Do you know whether the CIA ever obtained a photograph or photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald during his visits to the Soviet-Cuban embassies in Mexico in 1963?”

“I have heard it alleged publicly. I have no knowledge.”

“I would like to show you an excerpt from your book, “Undercover,” your autobiography. This deals with the break-in which you conducted for the CIA in Mexico City at a foreign embassy. In this excerpt you stated that your CIA burglary team flew from Mexico City to Dallas after the job, changed identities in Dallas, and then returned to Washington. Can you tell exactly what this change of identities in Dallas consisted of?”

“No, I can’t. I didn’t, of course, go. I think that was the Guatemala embassy. I think in those days you had to change planes in Dallas. There were no direct flights — or Fort Worth.”

“For the record, I am referring to page 88 of your book “Undercover.”

“Can you tell how this change of identities was accomplished?”

Hunt, “Well, Obviously the team had two sets of identities. They had their own and fictitious identities suppled by the agency.

“Was Dallas used as a particular point for such a change of identity operation?”

“No. It just happened that was the first American port where the plane landed after leaving Mexico, and in order to get through customs and immigration they had to revert to their own identities.”

“Did this change of identities involve any physical changes?”

“I have no idea. It was a Staff D team.”

“Can you explain what you mean by Staff D?”

“Yes. That was the name associated with the National Security Agency.”

“Do you have any other knowledge of the use by the CIA of false identities in operations conducted in Dallas or through Dallas?”

“No. I was not particularly sensitive to the name Dallas. I could just as easily have said Fort Worth or Houston, for all I know.”

Hunt was asked about an FBI memorandum written two days after the Watergate break-in, FBI Director Gray stated that Frank Sturgis was, quote, “involved in organized crime activities the details of which are not available,” end quote. Do you know what these alleged Sturgis activities were?”

“No.”

“Do you know what Gray was basing his statement on?”

“No.”

Genzman again asks about whether Hunt knew Sturgis or any of his pseudonyms?

Amazingly, Hunt helps the fool Genzman, “let me help you on this. There came a time during the Bay of Pigs operation when I heard of a man named Frank Fiorini who had powered a plane with Pedro Diaz Lanz dropping leaflets on Havana, and that was the only reference I had heard to Frank Fiorini. Later on when Barker and I were casting about for people to use in connection with GEMSTONE, Barker mentioned the name Sturgis. And I said, “I don’t know anybody named Sturgis.”

“And he said, “Oh, during previous times he was known as Frank Fiorini. You remember he was Pedro Diaz Lanz.” [Now that should say with Pedro Diaz Lanz. Unless something else was going on.]

Now obviously the next question should be, “When did you first meet Frank Fiorini?”, right? But Genzman doesn’t ask it. Idiot!!!!!!!!!

Instead Genzman asks if Hunt was ever associated with organized crime.

“No.”

“Did you ever know Sergio Arcacha Smith of the New Orleans branch of the Cuban Revolutionary Council?”

“No.”

“Did you ever receive mail or other communications from him?”

“No.”

“Did you ever know Guy Bannister in New Orleans?”

I like Hunt’s answer. “No, or anywhere else.”

“What was your relationship during the late `50’s and early 1960’s with David Phillips?”

“I first met Dave when he was a contract agent. He was on the Guatemala project, and at that time we were co-directors on the project. He was the Chief of Propaganda and I was the Chief of Political Action. Later on I saw Dave in Havana, where he was an undercover agent. It was a meeting of chief of stations just before the Castro takeover. I saw Dave again in Mexico City sometime — I can’t remember whether I saw him in 1960 or not, but in any event Dave was a familiar figure in Western Hemisphere operations. The he showed up on the Cuba project and first he worked in Washington and I worked in the Miami [area] and then when I left the Miami [area] at the end of things and came up to Washington I worked with Dave for about a week.

“Where did you work with Dave Phillips for about a week?”

“In Washington.”

“Did you ever meet Dave Phillips in Dallas?”

“No.”

“Did you ever use the alias Knight for a cover name?”

“For him, for my book, “Give Us This Day.”

“Did he himself ever use that alias?”

“No. That was assigned officially to Dick Helms — Knight. He was Fletcher L. Knight.”

“Did you ever use the alias of Bishop?”

“I don’t think so.”

“Do you know anyone who did?”

“No.”

“Do you know anyone by the name of Maurice Bishop?”

“No.”

“Does the name mean anything to you?”

Hunt refers to a civil matter where he was once asked if he knew an individual by that name except it was given to him as Morris.

Oddly, Genzman does pick up the cue here when he didn’t on Fiorini. “Do you know anyone who ever used the name Morris Bishop?”

“No.”

“In any of your last contacts with David Phillips, was the name Maurice Bishop mentioned?”

“No; nor at any time.”

“How and when did you first meet Bernard Barker?”

“Barker was assigned to me in Miami, when I went down there to take over the Revolutionary Democratic Front in the fall of 1960, I guess it was. He was identified to me by the man I replaced as a Cuban who had been an asset of the Havana station, and he was going to be my general, de facto.”

“Did he continue in this relationship with you during the period of preparation for the Bay of Pigs invasion?”

“He did. I left the Miami area shortly before the Bay of Pigs invasion, and I think Mr. Barker stayed on. I next heard Mr. Barker had been redeployed, as it were, to Chicago for training and employment by the agency, since he and many other Cubans were surplus to agency needs at that time.”

“Did you know Pedro Diaz Lanz?”

“I met Pedro on one occasion fully described in my book “Give Us This Day”. I knew, as I mentioned, Pedro Diaz Lanz’s name from the Frank Fiorini episode of the leaflets. Getting into the preconvent period of the Bay of Pigs, I heard our Air Force, Cuban exile air force, needed more pilots. Barker mentioned Lanz…former head of the rebel air force, would be a good candidate. I arranged that Pedro be given a stipend by the Revolutionary Democratic Front…and recommended to Dave Phillips, I think it was, that Diaz Lanz run leaflet flights for Dave Phillips particular interests, and I think there was a good deal of resistance to that in Washington.”

“Did your relationship with Diaz Lanz ever involve any B-25 aircraft?”

“Again. I published the whole thing in my book, “Give Us This Day”. He had an aircraft available. It was under a sheriff’s lien. I suggested to Dave Phillips and others that the lien be reduced or eliminated and the aircraft outfitted and used for propaganda overflights.”

“Did you ever arrange for funds for Pedro Diaz Lanz so that he could effectuate the release of any equipment which was held by the U.S. Customs?”

“Customs, no. My impression was there was a sheriff’s lien on the aircraft.”

“Were you aware that the plane was not owned by Pedro Diaz Lanz?”

“I think in subsequent years Frank Sturgis has indicated to me that he was part owner of the aircraft. I didn’t know that at the time.”

“Were you ever involved on behalf of the CIA in an investigation into allegations of CIA assistance to Pedro Diaz Lanz in the release of the B-25 aircraft in 1961?”

“No, I didn’t know it was ever released.”

Apparently Sturgis made this allegation.

“I don’t to this day know either that the aircraft was released, that CIA provided money for it as I recommended, or that Sturgis talked about it at all. I talked about it with Sturgis a little, but I don’t think I ever learned from him that the aircraft had been released or used during the Bay of Pigs operation.”

“Aside from this aircraft incident, was there any other connection between you and Sturgis before you actually knew Sturgis?” Very good Genzman.

“No, I just had knowledge that Mr. Fiorini was the co-pilot of that plane. There was no connection. I had a collateral piece of information on a man named Fiorini, known as a soldier of fortune in the area. Years later, I was to learn, 1971 or 1972 that Frank Fiorini became Frank Sturgis, who was about to be introduced to me by Bernard Barker.”

“What was Operation Forty?”

“I don’t know.”

“Did you ever know of a boat named Cusa?”

“No.”

“Did you have any knowledge about CIA training operations in New Orleans in 1961?”

“In New Orleans; no. Are you talking about Lake Pontchartrain? That is something else.”

“Lake Pontchartrain, Houma, Louisiana?”

“Yes. Well, part of the exile navy was trained up at that area; that is all I know. and some of the LSTs were maneuvered around the lake, and I think brought down finally.”

“Let me ask you about the locations Belle Chase and Covington.”

“The names don’t mean anything to me.”

“Could you speculate as to why Pedro Diaz Lanz would deny ever having met you?”

“You mean he has denied it? He is one of the few Cubans who has denied it. Most Cubans claim they knew me, knew me intimately, during the Bay of Pigs. It is refreshing.

“No, I don’t, except that I have been in a lot of trouble, and I don’t think Pedro would gain anything from associating himself with me in any way. Too, there is the aspect he is probably a pretty proud individual, and he was first brought to my attention as literally a charity welfare case, although I had ulterior interests in him as a pilot, and I think he realized it, and he doesn’t want to look back on those days when he didn’t have enough food in his house for his wife and child. Again, that is speculation.”

“Did Pedro Diaz Lanz ever work for the CIA?”

“I don’t know.”

“Did Pedro Diaz Lanz ever receive money from the CIA?”

“Well, as I have stated a little earlier, I arranged that money be given to him to settle his immediate needs, and beyond that I have no knowledge of any money that was paid to him. I recommended again that he be taken under the Cuban exile air force at the appropriate rank and be paid the normal stipend paid Cuban exiles.”

“Are you testifying that the money you arranged for him to receive after you had first met him was CIA money?”

“Had to be. Again, I don’t know that it was paid. I assume it was paid.”

“When did the CIA activity at Lake Pontchartrain cease, to your knowledge?”

“I have no idea. It was a maritime operation. I was political; I had nothing to do with the military. I handled the political aspects of it, the government in exile.”

“Were you ever involved in the Frente Revolucionario Democratico?”

“Intimately?”

“Did you have a role in the formation of this organization?”

“Yes.”

“Could you give us details about the formation of this organization?”

“It was covered in great detail in my book, “Give Us This Day”. Briefly, when I was brought into the project, I was told I was to be the political liaison with this government in exile, and we met at the Hotel Ambassador in New York City, and I met the members of the junta at that time, including Manual Artime for the first time, and they and I worked out a rationale, a modus operandi. I approved their articles of incorporation, as it were.”

“What year are you referring to?”

“Summer of 1960. And told them that we would be moving down to Mexico City from there, as indeed we did.”

“Did the CIA sponsor this organization?”

“Oh yes, Through me. I set their budget and exercised a degree of control that one could exercise over the spending of the moneys that we provided.”

“When did CIA sponsorship of this organization end?”

“Well, the new frontier came in and decided that the FRD was too archaic; it wasn’t progressive enough; and it would be supplemented by a new breed of politicians from Cuba, many of whom arrived recently from a close embrace with Castro.

“I was unwilling to bring these elements into the FRD and requested reassignment to Washington, which was granted me. My successors developed the Cuban Revolutionary Committee out of the ashes of the FRD.”

“What was the date of the formation of the Cuban Revolutionary Committee?”

“I would place it about a month before the invasion; I would put it in March sometime, of 1961.”

“Did the CIA sponsor the CRC?”

“To the best of my knowledge.”

“Do you know how long this sponsorship lasted?”

“Very brief. I would say two months or so.”

“What was the relationship between the CRC and its New Orleans branch?”

“I have no idea. I didn’t know they had a New Orleans branch.”

“Did you ever have contact with the Cuban revolutionary delegates?”

“I don’t know who they would be. The name doesn’t mean anything to me.”

“Let me give you some names and have you comment.”

“Luis Rabel?”

“Unknown.”

“Sergio Aracha Smith?”

“Unknown.”

“Arnesto Rodriguez?”

“Unknown.”

“Manuel Gil?”

“Unknown.”

“Frank Bartes?”

“Unknown.”

“Auguston Guitart?”

“No.”

“Frank Delabar?”

“Never heard of him.”

“Would you repeat how you knew about the Lake Pontchartrain operations?”

“Because I was present at the briefings at headquarters when Mr. Dulles and other high officials of the agency were briefed on the project and status of each aspect of the operation.”

“Who was in charge of the operation?”

“Who was in charge of the paramilitary operation? I have forgotten his name.”

“I would like to ask you about your knowledge of or involvement in some of the following: Alpha 66?”

“Just a name to me. I have heard it; that is all.”

“Did you know Antonio Carlos Veciano Blanch?”

“No.”

Movimento Revolucionario del Pueblo?”

“No.”

“Jose Miro Cardona?”

“Very well.”

“Could you give us the details of your relationship?”

“Yes. Dr. Miro was a former, I think, Chief Justice of the Cuban Supreme Court, a very distinguished barrister. He had been counselor-ambassador to Spain and had taken refuge in the Argentine Embassy. I had him brought up from Argentina, when I thought the time was right, and inserted in the FDR leadership as the compromise chief.”

“How about Agrupacion Monte Cristi?”

“The Monte Cristi had delegates in the FRD. I can’t remember the name of the representative.”

“Did you know Jorge Nobregas?”

“No.”

“The next organization is JURE.”

“I have heard of it but the name doesn’t mean anything to me. I think it is an acronym.”

“Did you know Sylvia Odio?”

“No.”

“Rogelio Cisneros Diaz?”

“Duney Perez Alamo?”

“No.”

“Luis Bal Cuena?”

“No.”

“Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil?”

“The DRE. Dave Phillips ran that for us. Albert Muller is still in prison over there. But that is classified, I think. He was the head of it. He went into Cuba and was captured.”

“Carlos Bringuier?”

“No.”

“Movimento Democrata Cristiano.”

“The Christian Democratic Movement. I have heard of it. It had a delegate in the FRD.”

“Laureano Batista Falla?”

“No.”

“Victor Paneque?”

“No.”

“Movimento Revolucionario Trienta de Noviembre?”

“Thirtieth of November. No I never heard of that.”

“Carlos Rodriguez Quesada?”

“No. I know Felix but not Carlos”

“International Anticommunist Brigade/Interpen.”

“I have heard of it. That is all.”

“Gerald Patrick Hemming.”

“No.”

“Howard Kenneth Davis?”

“No.”

“Frank Sturgis, as a member of that organization?”

“Of the anticommunist Brigard? No, I didn’t know Sturgis was connected with it.”

“Roy Emery Hargraves?”

“No.”

“Lawrence Howard?”

“No.”

“William Seymour?”

“No.”

“Pedro Diaz Lanz, as a member?”

“No.”

“Marcos Diaz Lanz, as a member?”

“No.”

“Mike McLaney?”

“I met Mike McLaney once at Joe’s Stone Crabs in Miami. He was then dating a girlfriend of a friend of mine. That is all. This was sometime in 1960.”

“Maz Gorman Gonzalez?”

“No.”

“Orlando Bosch?”

“No.”

“During the time period 1962 to 1965, where were you stationed specifically?”

“After Allen left, I joined Tracy Barnes’ new Domestic Operations Division, which should have been called the commercial operations division, and I worked for them in Washington until sometime in 1965, when we left for Spain under cover. I think the division had three different locations while I was with them.”

“What were the details of your undercover operation in Spain?”

“Very little. I spoke Spanish. I wanted to get out of Washington. I was looking to Spain as a retirement post. Helms thought it would be a good idea that I get out because my name had become included in the Library of Congress card system. I had written numerous books under pseudonyms and somebody made a mistake and put my true name down. Helms thought this was a bad idea. I thought it was a great idea to get to Spain. My specific purpose for the record — this is classified, isn’t it?”

“Yes.”

“Okay — was to develop working relationships to the extent possible with people who would be in a successor government to Franco.”

“Have you ever heard of AMLASH, a cryptonym?”

“Yes, but only when the Church revelations began.”

“Do you have any knowledge of the AMLASH operations, or AMLASH-1?”

“No. Let me interject this, if I may, that at the time I left the Bay of Pigs operation in the wake of the failure of the Bay of Pigs and joined Allen Dulles’ staff, it was principally to help Allen explain some of the things that went on that he hadn’t known before in his exalted position, and it was made abundantly clear to me in a very pleasant way that having been stained with the failure of the Bay of Pigs that I was to have nothing further to do with Cuban operations, and that it would be probably a good many years before I could expect reassignment to Latin America, if ever. [Shouldn’t that be “very unpleasant way”?]

“So my point is, from 1961 on, I had no current knowledge of anything that was going on in Latin America, no personal knowledge.”

“Did you know Rolando Cubela?”

“No.”

“Did you ever come into contact with AMLASH-1 or other persons connected with the AMLASH operation while you were stationed in Spain?”

“No.”

“Were you ever stationed in France?”

“No.”

“Did you ever participate in or have any knowledge of CIA assassination conspiracies against Castro which were directed from Spain during the period 1964 to 1967?”

“No”

“Were you in Spain working for the agency during the period 1964 to 1967?”

“I think it was summer of 1965 to summer of 1966, to the best of my recollection.”

“A Senate investigation determined that your close friend, Manuel Artime, was involved in Castro assassination plans in Spain during the period 1964 to 1967. Were you in contact with him in Spain at that time?”

“No.”

“Did you have any knowledge of these plans?”

“Not at that time; no.”

“When did you first find out about these plans?”

“When the Church Committee began to expose them.”

“Is it your testimony that Artime never talked to you about these plans?”

“That is correct, at any time.”

“Does the name Terrence Crabanan mean anything to you?”

“No, I don’t know him.”

“Who were your superiors during the time you were working for the CIA in Spain?”

“Mr. Thomas Karamessines”

“Did he specifically give you your assignments?”

“Yes.”

“Are you aware of the allegation that the CIA conducted a substantial investigation during 1974 and 1975 to determine what you were doing in Spain during that period and reportedly concluded it was not possible to determine your assignment there?”

“No, I wasn’t. All they had to do was ask Tom Karamessines. He was the Deputy Director of Plans. They must have asked the wrong man. Helms certainly knew.”

“Did you know George Robreno, in Spain?”

“No.”

“Did you know El Loco?”

“No.”

“Did you know El Mago?”

“No. These are all street names, I gather, sinister people.”

“Do you think the agency would have full records of what your duties in Spain were during this period?”

“It might be in a private file called a bigot file maintained by Karamessines.”

“Why do you think the records might be in that type of file?”

“Because my assignment was a bigot assignment.”

“Why was it a bigot assignment?”

“Because of the high sensitivity. I was going over to deal with people who were to be sucessor to the Franco government. That was a highly sensitive thing.”

“Did your functions include anything besides which you have stated?”

“No.”

They asked him how he was paid. Hunt replied through a commercial bank in New York. They go into questions of what kind of life insurance policies Hunt had, who he took them out from, meaning what companies, and under what names.

“Do you know whether the AMLASH operation was ever subject to security problems or counterintelligence threats relating to the Spanish intelligence services?”

“I had no knowledge.”

Hunt is asked about a number of individuals again.

“David Ferrie?”

“No.”

“Mitchell Werbell?”

“No.”

“Clare Booth Luce?”

“No.”

“William Pawley?”

“I met Bill Pawley — he is now dead, by the way — during the early days of the Bay of Pigs operation. I was taken out there by the project chief — his home was on Star Island, to discuss the situation. Apparently Mr. Pawley had an “in” with the division chief and wanted to have people talk with him from time to time about what was going on. I may have covered that in my book.”

“How about Grayson Lynch?”

“Never heard of him until he made the appearance on the CBS documentary, CIA’s Secret Army.”

“Joseph Shimon?”

“Never heard of him.”

“John Rosselli?”

“I know he was killed; that is all.”

“Did you ever know him?”

“No.”

“Dino Chillini?”

“No.”

“Justin McCarthy?”

They go back to insurance policy questions, something about a policy Hunt had while in Spain. And have an off the record discussion.

“During the fall of 1960 and the Spring of 1961, did you have any dealings with Antonio Verona?”

“Antonio Verona? Yes. I dealt with Tony right up until the Bay of Pigs on almost a daily basis.”

Document #180-10131-10343 is a 34 page document. It is the deposition of J. Lee Rankin before the HSCA. It was taken on 8/17/78.

Mr. Goldsmith wanted to focus on the relationship between the Warren Commission and the CIA. He wanted to know if the agency’s concern over “sources and methods” effected the information they gave the commission. According to Rankin, no. They assumed that if there was a “sources and methods” concern that they would bring that to their attention and they would try to see if there was a way to overcome it.

Goldsmith asked, “…so long as you were getting the substance of the information involved the Commission was not particularly concerned with the source of the information?”

Rankin, “we would look at the information first and if there was some question about credibility or whether it was something that we could rely on, then we might want some verification but that didn’t occur as I remember. We didn’t ask for verification…we were introduced to some of their specialists in Soviet and Cuban matters and we thought they were giving their best.”

Goldsmith, “Did you ever feel there was a reluctance on the part of the agency to disclose sources and methods to the Commission?”

Rankin, “It never came up. I had always known that that was true with the FBI when I was with the Department of Justice and so I just assumed it, I guess, it never was discussed, and I assumed that it was with the FBI.” Rankin said that information touching upon sources and methods was generally written.

Goldsmith asked Rankin if he thought the agency provided information only in response to a request or would they provide whatever they came up with.

“We were assured that they would cooperate fully and give us everything that would have any bearing on the investigation. Now apparently they didn’t.”

Goldsmith, “So you were not working under the impression then that the agency’s responsibility was simply to respond to questions that were addressed to it by the Commission?”

Rankin, “Not at all and if anybody had told me that I would have insisted that the Commission communicate with the President and get a different arrangement because we might not ask the right questions and then we would not have the information and that would be absurd.”

Goldsmith then got into specific questions about sources and methods, “When if ever, did the agency tell the Commission about the photo surveillance operation that the agency had in effect in the Cuban and Soviet Embassy and Consulate in Mexico City.”

“I don’t recall anything about that.”

“So you don’t recall ever being informed about the surveillance operations in Mexico City, the photo surveillance operations?”

“Not photo surveillance.”

Goldsmith then states for the record that he and Mr. Coleman and other staff members went to Mexico City and did see the take from the photo surveillance project. There is then this sentence that I don’t understand, “That was in April of 1964 and actually I was concerned at this point with whether the Commission had been appraised of that prior to that time.”

What was in April of 1964? Obviously not when HSCA personnel visited Mexico City. Is April of 1964 when the Commission was supposed to have been shown these photographs?

Anyway, Rankin responds, “No, I am not aware of it before that either.”

Goldsmith then refers to the photograph we have all seen of the “mystery man” the CIA said was Lee Harvey Oswald which became CE 237 (Volume 16 p. 638) in the context of it being shown to Marguerite Oswald by the FBI shortly after the assassination and her claim that it showed Jack Ruby. That photograph had been provided to the FBI by the CIA. Goldsmith asked Rankin if they, the Warren Commission had any trouble in obtaining an explanation from the agency as to the source of that photograph.

“Yes, I do. I don’t remember their response but I remember there was some problem about getting it.”

Goldsmith then shows Rankin two CIA documents. These have CIA security numbers 2221 and 2222. The first one is a memo written by Mr. Coleman. As of March 26, 1964 he was not satisfied with the explanation that the agency had provided concerning the photograph. That explanation is stated in CIA document #3259, a memo dated 23 March 1964.

Rankin now stated that this did refresh his memory but did not explain the discrepancy. Goldsmith agreed and pressed on asking if the Commission ever did receive an explanation on how the photograph was obtained and who the individual was.

“I don’t recall that they ever got any adequate explanation of it.

“I always thought this question of these photographs had not been supplied to this agency by November 22, 1963 was suspect.”

Goldsmith, “Did any members of the Warren Commission or its staff have an opportunity to review the cable traffic that was generated from Mexico City station to CIA headquarters and from CIA headquarters to Mexico City station pertaining to the Oswald case?” (A fascinating and still unfolding story, to date best summarized in John M. Newman’s “Oswald and the CIA” and if you don’t have this book, SHAME ON YOU!)

“I don’t recall that. Maybe you can refresh my memory if there is anything on that.”

“I am unable to refresh your memory because the information is not available to me.”

Fortunately, we can see these documents, and aren’t they fascinating?

Rankin comments on CIA document 3295 that he was always disturbed by these changes in names and how that could be noticed to anybody that they were sending that out to and that sticks in my mind now.

I wonder if that is a comment on Lee Harvey Oswald versus Lee Henry Oswald.

Goldsmith then moves onto the subject of CIA No. 177, a cable dated October 9, 1963 from the Mexico City station to CIA headquarters. In paragraph two the source indicated is LIEMPTY which refers to the photographic surveillance. He asks if Rankin has ever seen it before. Rankin responds negatively. Goldsmith asks Rankin if he was aware that the photograph Marguerite was shown that she thought depicted Jack Ruby but does not depict Jack Ruby was the same photograph reported in paragraph two of this cable, in other words, “were you aware that not only had the agency reported a contact by Oswald in Mexico City but that it at least at some time, the agency, had a photograph that it thought pertained to Oswald?”

“No, I was not.”

“Do you think that the agency should have made this information available?”

“Of course, It looks as though they were disturbed about what it might reveal about their knowledge and their failure to do something that might have prevented this.”

“Now this cable makes no reference to Oswald’s contact with the Cuban embassy and consulate in Mexico City.”

“That probably is a different wire tap.”

Again, I refer people to John Newman’s “Oswald and the CIA”. There is a large hole in Oswald’s story and this centers around his Cuban escapades. I would also refer people to the videotape of A.S.K. `94 “Newly Released Information”, John’s presentation on that book, which he called “the smoking file”. He emphasized over and over that the CIA deliberately lied about their knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald being in the Cuban consulate.

We now know for a fact that they have been lying about Lee Harvey Oswald and his activities in the Cuban consulate in Mexico City in the summer of 1963. This can be seen by their deletion of LHO being in the Cuban consulate in their own cables. They said they didn’t know that Oswald was in the Cuban consulate until after the assassination. A position they testified to the Warren Commission about and have held onto for over 30 years.

On page 777 of the Warren Commission Report it states,

“VISIT TO THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN MEXICO CITY”

In October 1963, the Passport Office of the State Department received a report from the Central Intelligence Agency that Oswald had visited the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.290 The report said nothing about Oswald’s having visited the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City, a fact which was not known until after the assassination.

It’s a lie. They knew immediately that Oswald was in the Cuban Consulate. John Newman got none other than Richard Helms to admit that yes the CIA has lied about this. Helms said they lied to protect their “sources and methods”

Helms wrote a memo to the Warren Commission on March 12 1964, where he meets with J. Lee Rankin, Chief Counsel of the Warren Commission, wherein he states that the reason why the information on Lee Harvey Oswald was transmitted to CIA headquarters in the first place “was the combination of visits to both Cuban and Soviet embassies which caused the Mexico City station to report this to headquarters”.

Now we are told, after the assassination, that yes, Lee Harvey Oswald was in the Soviet and Cuban embassies trying to get a visa to go first to Havana, Cuba, then to Moscow. This is suspect from the beginning as Lee had no trouble getting to Moscow in 1959 and had little trouble or none with visas and had no reason to personally visit embassies anywhere. So what’s he really doing there?

We are told not to ask too much about this as the CIA has telephone intercepts and photographic surveillance of Oswald going into the Soviet and Cuban embassies making threats to kill JFK. The Soviet embassy is played up here as Oswald supposedly meets with a KGB agent Kostikov, from “Department 13”, who is supposedly the KGB officer in charge of assassinations in the Western Hemisphere. The Warren Commission is told that if that gets out it’s World War III.

So, since we the CIA think Oswald did the assassination alone, so do you.

Problem, there is no photograph known to exist of Lee Harvey Oswald visiting either compound. In fact, they identified someone who clearly is not Oswald as Oswald. This is CE 287, the “mystery man” unidentified to this day, who Marguerite Oswald thought was Jack Ruby. The CIA said their cameras broke down. It has been established, in the HSCA’s “Lopez report” and Newman’s “Oswald and the CIA” that they had more than one camera position and several opportunities over several days to photograph Oswald, if it was Oswald.

Another problem is the telephone intercept. We have several documents stating that the tape was listened to, after the assassination, by FBI agents Fain and Hosty,

J. Edgar Hoover, and others, all saying it’s not Oswald, then a few days later they say the tape was destroyed prior to the assassination.

The Assassination Records Review Board is looking for a copy of that telephone intercept tape.

Yet, another problem is that the CIA is telling it’s subordinate station in Mexico City, who are requesting information on Lee Harvey Oswald, that as of October 10, 1963 the latest information that CIA headquarters has is a State Department report dated May, 1962.

HUH? WHAT?? Can’t be. Lee Harvey Oswald is still in Russia in May, 1962. Oswald, “the defector”, has come back to the U.S., been in the newspapers, on TV and radio, had a scuffle on the streets of New Orleans handing out pro Castro leaflets, was arrested, demanded and got an interview with an FBI agent while in a New Orleans jail, had a radio debate with Carlos Bringuier, yet the CIA is supposedly ignorant of all of this? Not Hardly.

We now have CIA record and routing sheets, which the HSCA was not allowed to see, that proves that the CIA had lots of documents, most from the FBI detailing information on Oswald after May of 1962. These same routing sheets have the same names as those who signed off on this false story of “latest information…”. The CIA only lied to their own subordinate agency in Mexico City. A similar document sent to the FBI, State Department and the Office of Naval Intelligence does not have this line about “latest information”. Good thing as those agencies would certainly know that the CIA has been reading reports on Oswald later than May of `62 because they have been writing and sharing them with the CIA.

So what’s going on? Well, if you remove these particular 18 months from Oswald’s life you delete all of his Cuban escapades. There is some deception going on with the name Lee Harvey Oswald, the person named Lee Harvey Oswald, files with the name Lee Harvey Oswald, and files with the name Lee Henry Oswald, and a threat to kill the President of the United States in the summer of 1963 in Mexico City.

Whether it really is Lee Harvey Oswald, an impostor, or both, someone is using the name Lee Harvey Oswald.

Lee Harvey Oswald was involved in some kind of deception operation for the CIA months before the assassination of the President.

Goldsmith, asked “assuming that the agency in Mexico City had processed the information that showed that Oswald had been in contact with the Cuban embassy during his stay in Mexico City, do you think that information should have been made available immediately to agency headquarters?”

Rankin, “Yes, and also to the Commission.”

Well the agency did know, immediately, in addition to the above referred to memorandum Helms wrote to Rankin there is a memorandum from George T. Kalaris, Chief of the Counter Intelligence Staff to the Deputy Director for Operations on Sept. 18, 1975 about what the agency knew about Oswald’s 201 file, in that file “There is also a memorandum dated 16 October 1963 from Win Scott COS Mexico City to the United States Ambassador there concerning Oswald’s visit to Mexico City and to the Soviet Embassy there in late September-early October 1963. Subsequently there were several Mexico City cables in October 1963 also concerned with Oswald’s visit to Mexico City, as well as his visits to the Soviet and Cuban embassies.” -document reproduced on p. 462 “Oswald and the CIA”.

There is another document that proves that the CIA knew that Oswald was in the Cuban consulate and that the agency knew it immediately. This is page 268 of Winston Scott’s manuscript, reproduced on p. 514 of “Oswald and the CIA”. “Every piece of information concerning Lee Harvey Oswald was reported immediately after it was received to: U.S. Ambassador Thomas C. Mann, by memorandum; the FBI Chief in Mexico, by memorandum; and to headquarters by cable.” On p. 268-9 of Scott’s manuscript it continues, “and included in every one of these reports was the conversation Oswald had, so far as it was known. These reports were made on all his contacts with both the Cuban consulate and with the Soviets.”

John Newman calls this the dream team, the Station Chief, the head of CounterIntelligence and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency all saying “we knew” right away that Lee Harvey Oswald was in the Cuban consulate.

This was a busy time for the CIA, who were running many anti-Cuban operations, all beginning with the digraph AM/ (something), for example AM/LASH who was Rolando Cuebela, a close associate of Castro recruited by the Agency who was supposed to murder Castro with a poison pen. We now know of at least 115 AM operations all being run out of the Cuban consulate in Mexico City through our agents inside it.

Now look at the Elden Henson information in Chapter 18 of “Oswald and the CIA”. The CIA was very successfully impersonating people down there.

Now look at the transcripts of the telephone intercepts. They’ve been released. I’ve reviewed them in previous ARRB batch reviews.

Oswald wants to go back to Russia. Why? John Newman asks, “Isn’t that odd to you? Through Mexico and Cuba?! The guy made it in real fast the first time through Helsinki ( Finland ). Anyway, he’s down there and he wants a transit visa through Mexico to Cuba. He doesn’t have pictures of himself. So Sylvia Duran, the Cuban consulate secretary tells him where to go get them done. He goes and gets them. He’s back a second time, fills out the forms in duplicate, signs them. Still no visa. Why? He doesn’t have the Soviet visa, get that then he can have the transit visa. He leaves again, goes to the Soviet consulate. Sorry kid you goofed. You should have done that back in the States. It takes four months if you want to do that here. Oswald goes back, for the third time on (Sept. 27, 1963) Friday afternoon, to the Cuban consulate, saying no problem they’ve approved my visa. He’s lying. Sylvia Duran picks up the phone and checks with the Soviet consulate and, of course there’s been no approval.”

The CIA transcribed all of this. We now have it. There are actually two conversations and they are legitimate. Everything matches the transcript. Everything matches Sylvia Duran’s later testimony. The transcriber, who we now learn is not a CIA person at all but a Mexican with the now defunct Mexican secret police, the DFS, defunct because the head of the DFS was involved in the murder of a DEA agent, Ricky Camerana, (did I get that name right?) anyway, he has no problem recognizing Sylvia Duran’s voice. He states, “The person speaking is Sylvia Duran.” Well, he should recognize her, he listens to her everyday.

Duran states Oswald never returned. That was it.

Ah, but the fun is just beginning with the transcripts.

Oswald makes another attempt to get the Soviet visa on Saturday, Sept. 28. But all the consulates are closed on Saturday and the Russians play serious combat volleyball on Saturday. However, three Soviet guys are there and Oswald gets in. Now Oswald places a gun on the table saying this is what I have to do to protect myself against the FBI and repeats his “Sad Sack” tale trying to get a visa. I also recommend Oleg Nechiporenko’s book “Passport to Assassination” that recounts this story. Nechiporenko was a KGB Col. in the Soviet Embassy. They say do you want to fill out the forms or what? No, he says. He’s finished.

They never see him again. It’s 10:00 A.M. Saturday morning but the fun and games continue. Not an hour later, the phone rings, according to a CIA surveillance, it’s Oswald and Duran. He’s changed his mind. Now he does want to fill out the forms.

These transcripts for after 10:00 a.m. Saturday September 28, 1963 are very odd. They begin with “the woman speaking is later identified as Sylvia Duran”, but it’s the same transcriber who had no trouble identifying Duran the day before. What? He loses his mind in a day? And what does this Duran say? “There’s a man here.” Note, not Oswald is here, but “a man”, a man who says he’s been to the Soviet consulate.

This doesn’t work! She knows he’s been to the Soviet consulate! She knows who he is. He was there before her three times yesterday being a real pain in the ass and lying to her! She’s called the Soviet consulate and talked to Kostikov about him just the day before. If you read the transcript it is readily apparent, line by line, that both Duran and Oswald are being impersonated! These impersonators on the outside do not know what has been going on inside the consulates the day before. They did not have access to the Friday transcript until Monday as stated in the Lopez report.

Once you realize that these are impersonators who don’t know what happened the day before and are just then figuring it out while they are impersonating Oswald and Duran and trying to keep the conversation going it becomes obvious what they are doing.

At the Rio conference the Cuban’s reached the same conclusion.

If Oswald and Duran are really impersonating themselves in some kind of intelligence game, then the reaction of everybody else is very strange.

In the videotape of John’s presentation at the COPA `95 conference John then shows a part of a transcript of a conversation between new President Lyndon Johnson and FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover. This can be seen on page 520 of “Oswald and the CIA”. This is the morning after the assassination. LBJ asks, “Have you established any more about the visit to the Soviet embassy in Mexico in September?” John finds it odd that Johnson asks this question this early. Hoover responds, “No, that’s one angle that’s very confusing for this reason. We have up here the tape…”

Another cover story by the CIA is that we erased the tape before the assassination. So, if anyone wants to investigate this they can say sorry we don’t have any tape.

Yet, Hoover says, “We have up here the tape..”. Hoover continued, “…and the photograph of the man that was at the Soviet Embassy, using Oswald’s name. That picture and the tape do not correspond to this man’s voice, nor to his appearance. In other words, it appears that there is a second person who was at the Soviet Embassy down there.”

John then showed an addendum to a footnote to the Lopez Report. John then showed an FBI memorandum from Hoover to the head of the Secret Service the morning after the assassination that special agents of this Bureau who have spoken with Oswald (Hosty and Fain) have listened to the tape. It wasn’t Oswald on the tape.

John then showed another FBI memorandum from Belmont to Tolson. This again is the morning after the assassination. Dallas agents listened to the tape, from the Cuban Embassy to the Soviet Embassy. This conversation is different than the Oct 1 conversation. This taped conversation occurs on Saturday, October 5, 1963 at about 11AM. Now we have two tapes, two different conversations This is not Oswald’s voice either.

The FBI changed its story a few days later to say oops, we never listened to any tape. (Please see my 3rd ARRB batch review for more.)

Goldsmith and Rankin are trying to figure this out in 1978. It is fascinating reading that they suspect they were and are being lied to. Goldsmith states that the record is the CIA did not know that Oswald was in the Cuban consulate until after the assassination. He admits that it is an issue with the HSCA as to when that information had been obtained and processed.

Rankin, noting the discrepency in the two 10 October 1963 cables coments, “He is too tall.”

Goldsmith, “And the age is not the same either.”

“Do you recall whether the agency ever gave a satisfactory explanation regarding this individual?”

“No, I don’t.”

Goldsmith then shows Rankin the October 10, 1963 cable that gives the correct description of Oswald, reproduced on p.512 of “Oswald and the CIA”. Asked if he has ever seen it before Rankin responds. “No, I’m quite sure I have not.” Goldsmith notes to Rankin that in this cable, the one with the correct description of Oswald, they give an incorrect middle name, Lee Henry Oswald. He then shows Rankin the other October 10, 1963 cable, reproduce on p. 513 of “Oswald and the CIA”. This is CIA No. 2140. This one was sent to the intelligence communities. Rankin notes the misdescription of Oswald. Goldsmith points out that the cable to the Mexico City station with the correct description went out earlier than the one to the intelligence communities, a matter of a few hours.

Goldsmith, “Were you ever made aware of these conflicting descriptions of Oswald in the agency’s cable traffic?”

“Not that I can recall.”

“Well, do you think that if you had been made aware of these conflicts that you would remember it?”

“Yes, I would have asked somebody to check on it. I think they are very curious.

It looks like either somebody quite incompetent or deliberate.”

Goldsmith then points out that Oswald visited the Soviet and Cuban embassies several times over a two day period. And that the CIA had photographic surveillance in effect at both locations, isn’t it “unusual that the agency did not obtain a photograph of Oswald?” The agency’s position is that no photograph of Oswald was ever obtained. Goldsmith asked Rankin if that was an issue in 1964. He got a negative response.

Goldsmith then inquires about the telephone taps asking if Rankin knew about them. Rankin, “Not that I recall.”

Goldsmith then points out to Rankin in CIA No. 2007, 2008, a memo dated January 31, 1964 from Coleman to Slawson which summarizes Oswald’s contact with the Soviet embassy that it makes no mention of telephonic surveillance. Goldsmith also points out to Rankin in CIA 1980 and 1981 another memo from Coleman to Slawson dated April 1, 1964 that there is no mention of photographic surveillance. By deleting where the information came from in this protect the sources and methods game it has the effect of implying that someone actually witnessed Oswald making these visits which strengthens the idea that it really is Oswald. “The point I am trying to make here is that by virtue of the agency not informing the Commission about the telephonic surveillance operation, here at least is one example as late as April of 1964 where the Commission staff members may have been under the misimpression that Oswald had at one time been seen at the embassy when actually the contact was a telephonic contact.”

Goldsmith then asks about the tape. “Was the agency ever asked whether it had obtained and had in existence after the assassination a tape recording of Oswald’s voice?”

“I don’t recall.”

Goldsmith then asks Rankin to look at CIA doc 204 and 205, a cable that starts on 204, dated 23 November 1963. The cable references Oswald’s contact with the Soviet embassy on 1 October 1963 as well as to an earlier contact on September 28, 1963. Paragraph 4 is of interest to Goldsmith because the transcriber states that it was Oswald in both conversations. He asks Rankin if he ever saw it or any staff member saw it, the answer is I don’t know.

“Does paragraph 4 suggest to you that at least on November 23 the agency still had in existence a tape recording of Oswald’s voice?”

Rankin responds rather obtusely, “Well, it is clear that someone or this person made a comparison of some kind of a transcription. Now whether they still had it or whether it was, I can’t tell from the document.”

No, its a tape, not a transcription. How do you compare a voice from a transcript? For a voice you need the sound of the voice, you need the tape.

Goldsmith asks, “Let me ask you this question then. Had this cable been shown to the Warren Commission or its staff instead of simply summarizing the information contained in the cable, would the Commission have asked the CIA to make available any existing transcripts of Oswald’s voice?”

“Yes.”

Again, that should say tape, not transcript.

Goldsmith then goes into the Louis Calderon conversation that seems to imply Cuban intelligence had advance knowledge of the assassination, CIA No. 1950-54, a document prepared by Raymond Rocca in 1975. This transcript was fiddled with as well to make the whole assassination look like, as Peter Dale Scott states, a “Phase One” story of a Communist conspiracy. The Cubans and the Soviets know because Oswald was in both their embassies. He met with Kostikov in the Soviet Embassy and threatened to kill JFK in the Cuban embassy.

Goldsmith asks if Calderon was ever investigated as being involved in the assassination. A red herring caused by manipulation of the transcript. Calderon seems to joke, “Yes, of course. I knew it almost before Kennedy.” Rankin seems to indicate that this transcript was made available to the Commission on p. 20 then states that it should have been supplied to the Commission on p. 21

Goldsmith moves onto CIA No. 3178 which is a memo dated April 22, 1964 to Slawson. Apparently the Commission staffers were not given full information about the surveillance and were still under a misimpression about the Oswald in Mexico City. This is a point Goldsmith made earlier.

“The point that I would be trying to make here is that the fact that the staff was not fully informed about the nature and extent of the surveillance operations seems to have had an impact upon the staff’s perception of what Oswald did during his Mexico City trip. Would you agree with that statement?”

Rankin, “Yes, I think that is correct.”

Goldsmith asks Rankin if he had any comment on the quality of the information the CIA was giving to the Warren Commission. Rankin responds that they were given what the agency thought the Commission should have. Goldsmith then asks, “In light of what you have seen, are you satisfied with what you were given?”

“No.”

Goldsmith then refers to a document about Alvarado Ugarte wherein he (Alvarado) mentions receiving money from someone. Goldsmith thought that was worth investigating and Rankin agreed.

Goldsmith asks how did the Commission investigate if Oswald was a an agent of the FBI or the CIA?

“My recollection was that we had a claim made that Oswald was an agent for the FBI and that part of the claim was that his name would not appear in the FBI files but he would have been assigned a number and that it is only by checking out those numbers that we could determine whether or not he had ever been an agent of the FBI as I recall that if they examined each agent that was under the cover of a number that they would be uncovering all of these agents that they had under a number system and it would be revealing it to the Commission and the staff and that it would be very damaging to the security and the work of the FBI and that J. Edgar Hoover would be willing to swear under oath that Oswald had never been an FBI agent and could come before the Commission and do that rather than to have all of these agents uncovered by this action, and so the Commission decided to accept that.”

“What about the CIA?”

“My recollection there is that there was an assurance from them that he was never a CIA agent.

“In retrospect do you think that that was the appropriate and best manner for dealing with this issue?”

“No. It is obvious that in light of what has happened that you could not rely on those assurances. I don’t know about Mr. McCone, whether there is anything in the record that would show that he ever misrepresented anything that is in the record of the Congress’ committees, but certainly it is evident that you could not rely on Mr. Hoover’s word.”

Goldsmith then inquires about Lee Harvey Oswald’s tax records, if there might be a record in there about Oswald having been given money from either the FBI or the CIA. Rankin was unsure of how that was handled but fairly sure nothing of that importance was revealed.

Goldsmith then rattles off the facts that critics of the Warren Commission point to to show that Oswald had a connection with the intelligence community.

1.) No commercial air traffic for Oswald to have traveled from England to Helsinki at the time that he did.

2.) The ease with which Oswald appeared to have received his discharge from the military.

3.) The ease and speed with which he received his visa to enter the Soviet Union. (in 1959 and without anything to do with Mexico or Cuba!)

4.) The relative ease with which U.S. officials in Moscow and in the States permitted Oswald to return to America after his stay in the Soviet Union.

“What weight, if any, should be given to these factors, do you think, in evaluating whether Oswald was an agent, source of information, or employee of any American intelligence agency?”

Rankin tries to take them individually. The record states that Oswald checked into his hotel in downtown Helsinki on October 10th at midnight. Rankin thinks that since there is no record Oswald could have taken a flight on October 9th or earlier and thus eliminating this idea that he took a flight that arrived in Helsinki at 11:33 p.m. and makes it to the hotel to check in at midnight, accomplishing this impossible feat in 27 minutes. There is a CIA document that states that if Oswald arrived at 11:33 p.m. he could not possibly have arrived at the hotel in 27 minutes. Well since it becomes October 10th at midnight, Oswald did take a flight on October 9th, but Rankin thinks Oswald could have taken an earlier flight on October 9th or even a day or more earlier.

Goldsmith then shows Rankin CIA No. 2137 which was addressed to Rankin dated July 1, 1964 which addresses the issue. It was never resolved.

On the second point Rankin thinks there is ample evidence that the Marines were happy to get rid of him.

On the mater of the visa to enter the Soviet Union Rankin doesn’t think that was a problem for defectors. What nonsense! You say hi I’d like to defect and they open the doors? C’mon!

Goldsmith emphasizes that Oswald got his visa within a mater of days, commenting on that being unusual.

“Well, what I thought was that the fact he was a defector and had close ties with Helsinki and the Soviets and he indicated that he had special information for their benefit like he did, that they would treat it differently than the ordinary visa.”

Oswald had close ties with Helsinki? What’s that all about? Did Oswald announce his desire to defect prior to October 31, 1959 when he so stated in the American Embassy in Moscow?

Goldsmith then goes to the issue of Oswald getting a passport in 1963 despite his earlier attempt to defect within 24 hours of applying for one.

“Well, I never could understand why our intelligence agencies didn’t flag more about Oswald but I never found anything that was given to the Commission that indicated that they were trying to favor him in any way.”

Getting a passport within 24 hours? A returned ex-Marine would be defector? Favoritism? Of course, not. Don’t be silly.

The last question was on Oswald’s easy return.

“Well, I never had any adequate explanation of that. It seemed like the information we were able to obtain in the Commission showed that it was not given any real thought by any part of the government despite the record.

Rankin wanted to ask one question. Did the committee find any credible evidence of a conspiracy? Goldsmith doesn’t answer citing HSCA rules and suggests Rankin ask that of Chairman Louis Stokes or Chief Counsel Blakey. Rankin thinks that they don’t have any such evidence because it would have leaked to the media.

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Joe Backes, ARRB Summaries: Page 11.

 

The 11th Batch

Released February 9th, 1996
Federal Register Notice January 2, 1996 pps. 48-52
Reviewed by Joseph Backes


A note of explanation on getting documents from the Archives. Since I last reviewed ARRB document releases and referred to many pages of documents as missing, as well as entire documents missing too, I have received a letter from the National Archives. The documents are not “missing” as such, but are in the JFK Records Collection. They are just not in the ARRB release boxes. I have been concentrating on those documents released by the ARRB as I know they will have the least redactions. The documents released by the ARRB and kept in “ARRB release boxes” are a courtesy for researchers to get in one go the documents being released by the ARRB. At least that is the way it should be, the way I thought it was, but it isn’t. This letter states that some documents will not be reproduced in their entirety and kept in the ARRB release boxes. They say they want to cut down on duplication and space. So now you have to see what is available in the ARRB release box and check with the same corresponding document in another box in the JFK Records Collection, and put it together yourself, hopefully, with enough knowledge to know whether or not you are still being cheated of a few pages.

This increases the workload of getting documents by having a researcher look in two separate places. You will not be able to know in advance which documents are not in the ARRB release boxes. So, you have to go through it all, meticulously, noting all discrepancies between how many pages the RIF says the documents should be there with what is there, and noting those documents that are not there at all. You then take this list of document RIFs and ask for them from the JFK Records Collection. You then compare and contrast the same document from the two different sources, copying what was missing in the ARRB release box and is, hopefully, there in the JFK Records Collection box to get the full and complete document.

Most of the material that is not in the ARRB release boxes are being listed under Additional Releases, as seen on p. 51 and 52 of the Federal Register notice for this release.

How many of you want to write out a request form for each individual document therein listed to search in the box you will be given for that individual document? That would be 352 request forms to fill out to look through 352 boxes and matching that with the ARRB release boxes on this particular batch of documents. Fun, eh?

The FBI documents

Document # 124-10001-10059

Document # 124-10018-10363

Document # 124-10018-10373

Document # 124-10020-10093

Document # 124-10027-10001

Document # 124-10027-10024

Document # 124-10027-10030

Document # 124-10027-10065

Document # 124-10027-10235

Document # 124-10035-10022

Document # 124-10035-10155

Document # 124-10058-10009

Document # 124-10058-10023

Document # 124-10058-10024

Document # 124-10058-10042

Document # 124-10058-10043

Document # 124-10058-10056

Document # 124-10062-10385

Document # 124-10063-10432

Document # 124-10073-10337

Document # 124-10079-10230

Document # 124-10101-10017

Document # 124-10143-10359

Document # 124-10145-10105

Document # 124-10169-10080

Document # 124-10169-10165

Document # 124-10175-10414

Document # 124-10176-10376

Document # 124-10179-10180

Document # 124-10182-10051

Document # 124-10227-10320

Document # 124-10229-10085

Document # 124-10230-10093

Document # 124-10230-10098

Document # 124-10230-10117

Document # 124-10234-10000

Document # 124-10239-10385

Document # 124-10244-10426

Document # 124-10262-10087

Document # 124-10263-10223

Document # 124-10264-10324

Document # 124-10264-10333

Document # 124-10265-10120

Document # 124-10272-10262

Document # 124-10272-10288

Document # 124-10275-10359

*Document # 124-10058-10007 was for some reason in here. See corrections listing for the 13th batch.

CIA documents

Document # 104-10004-10257 (note they left off the second “4” in the Fed. Reg.)

Document # 104-10015-10001

Document # 104-10015-10003

Document # 104-10015-10036

Document # 104-10015-10043

Document # 104-10015-10090

Document # 104-10015-10096

Document # 104-10015-10097

Document # 104-10015-10121

Document # 104-10015-10138

Document # 104-10015-10143

Document # 104-10015-10149

Document # 104-10015-10151

Document # 104-10015-10155

Document # 104-10015-10237

Document # 104-10015-10238

Document # 104-10015-10365

Document # 104-10015-10390

Document # 104-10015-10401

Document # 104-10015-10404

Document # 104-10015-10414

Document # 104-10015-10421

Document # 104-10015-10422

Document # 104-10015-10423

Document # 104-10015-10424

Document # 104-10016-10006

Document # 104-10016-10013

Document # 104-10016-10023

Document # 104-10016-10033

Document # 104-10017-10017

Document # 104-10017-10034

Document # 104-10017-10037

Document # 104-10017-10041

Document # 104-10017-10042

Document # 104-10017-10045

Document # 104-10017-10051

Document # 104-10017-10061

Document # 104-10017-10069

Document # 104-10017-10074

Document # 104-10018-10003

Document # 104-10018-10008

Document # 104-10018-10012

Document # 104-10018-10034

Document # 104-10018-10035

Document # 104-10018-10036

Document # 104-10018-10037

Document # 104-10018-10052

Document # 104-10018-10059

Document # 104-10018-10060

Document # 104-10018-10063

Document # 104-10018-10071

Document # 104-10018-10073

Document # 104-10018-10087

Document # 104-10018-10090

Document # 104-10018-10093

Document # 104-10018-10106

Document # 104-10018-10108

The HSCA documents

Document # 180-10070-10282

Document # 180-10076-10061

Document # 180-10076-10062

Document # 180-10076-10102

Document # 180-10076-10123

Document # 180-10076-10124

Document # 180-10076-10155

Document # 180-10087-10362

Document # 180-10093-10496

Document # 180-10097-10328

Document # 180-10097-10495

Document # 180-10117-10086

Document # 180-10117-10173

Document # 180-10117-10174

Document # 180-10117-10175

Document # 180-10117-10176

Document # 180-10117-10179

Document # 180-10117-10181

Document # 180-10117-10184

Document # 180-10117-10185

Document # 180-10117-10186

Document # 180-10117-10189

Document # 180-10117-10190

Additional releases (These were included in the ARRB box releases. They are depositions taken by the HSCA. The last document, Document # 180-10081-10347, is a 6 page portion of a 140 page document of previously referred material of a 2/26/78 letter from Dr. Finck to the HSCA.)

Document # 180-10081-10347 Part of Dr. Finck letter

Document # 180-10110-10007 Deposition of Yuri Nosenko

Document # 180-10131-10320 Deposition of James C. Michael

Document # 180-10131-10323 Deposition of Yuri Nosenko

Document # 180-10131-10342 Deposition of E. Howard Hunt

Document # 180-10131-10343 Deposition of J. Lee Rankin

In addition, after consultation with ARRB staff, the FBI has agreed to open in full the following assassination records, which previously contained postponements.

Note, the following are not included in the ARRB release boxes.

Document # 124-10001-10243

Document # 124-10001-10247

Document # 124-10002-10432

Document # 124-10002-10434

Document # 124-10003-10065

Document # 124-10003-10425

Document # 124-10003-10437

Document # 124-10003-10463

Document # 124-10005-10132

Document # 124-10005-10189

Document # 124-10005-10387

Document # 124-10006-10321

Document # 124-10007-10203

Document # 124-10009-10054

Document # 124-10009-10380

Document # 124-10017-10247

Document # 124-10018-10353

Document # 124-10018-10355

Document # 124-10018-10357

Document # 124-10018-10364

Document # 124-10018-10474

Document # 124-10018-10475

Document # 124-10018-10476

Document # 124-10018-10477

Document # 124-10018-10478

Document # 124-10018-10488

Document # 124-10018-10492

Document # 124-10020-10120

Document # 124-10020-10129

Document # 124-10020-10157

Document # 124-10023-10212

Document # 124-10023-10243

Document # 124-10023-10268

Document # 124-10024-10440

Document # 124-10026-10348

Document # 124-10027-10004

Document # 124-10027-10007

Document # 124-10027-10009

Document # 124-10027-10014

Document # 124-10027-10019

Document # 124-10027-10020

Document # 124-10027-10027

Document # 124-10027-10031

Document # 124-10027-10038

Document # 124-10027-10070

Document # 124-10027-10071

Document # 124-10027-10074

Document # 124-10027-10076

Document # 124-10027-10080

Document # 124-10027-10106

Document # 124-10027-10107

Document # 124-10027-10108

Document # 124-10027-10113

Document # 124-10027-10114

Document # 124-10027-10115

Document # 124-10027-10129

Document # 124-10027-10130

Document # 124-10027-10148

Document # 124-10027-10154

Document # 124-10027-10155

Document # 124-10027-10156

Document # 124-10027-10157

Document # 124-10027-10158

Document # 124-10027-10159

Document # 124-10027-10160

Document # 124-10027-10162

Document # 124-10027-10168

Document # 124-10027-10169

Document # 124-10027-10170

Document # 124-10027-10171

Document # 124-10027-10172

Document # 124-10027-10173

Document # 124-10027-10174

Document # 124-10027-10175

Document # 124-10027-10191

Document # 124-10027-10376

Document # 124-10029-10253

Document # 124-10029-10480

Document # 124-10030-10278

Document # 124-10034-10465

Document # 124-10035-10051

Document # 124-10035-10053

Document # 124-10035-10058

Document # 124-10035-10059

Document # 124-10035-10091

Document # 124-10035-10118

Document # 124-10035-10126

Document # 124-10035-10129

Document # 124-10035-10131

Document # 124-10035-10143

Document # 124-10035-10156

Document # 124-10035-10426

Document # 124-10038-10106

Document # 124-10044-10003

Document # 124-10045-10034

Document # 124-10045-10407

Document # 124-10045-10464

Document # 124-10045-10472

Document # 124-10047-10284

Document # 124-10049-10041

Document # 124-10049-10136

Document # 124-10054-10017

Document # 124-10054-10018

Document # 124-10057-10227

Document # 124-10057-10229

Document # 124-10057-10230

Document # 124-10057-10479

Document # 124-10058-10003

Document # 124-10058-10019

Document # 124-10058-10026

Document # 124-10058-10027

Document # 124-10058-10028

Document # 124-10058-10029

Document # 124-10058-10032

Document # 124-10058-10033

Document # 124-10058-10038

Document # 124-10058-10041

Document # 124-10058-10054

Document # 124-10058-10067

Document # 124-10058-10301

Document # 124-10058-10444

Document # 124-10063-10020

Document # 124-10063-10224

Document # 124-10063-10355

Document # 124-10063-10474

Document # 124-10065-10355

Document # 124-10068-10132

Document # 124-10068-10183

Document # 124-10069-10214

Document # 124-10069-10401

Document # 124-10070-10223

Document # 124-10070-10390

Document # 124-10072-10144

Document # 124-10072-10153

Document # 124-10072-10168

Document # 124-10072-10179

Document # 124-10072-10213

Document # 124-10072-10261

Document # 124-10072-10312

Document # 124-10075-10004

Document # 124-10076-10085

Document # 124-10077-10196

Document # 124-10079-10104

Document # 124-10081-10020

Document # 124-10081-10026

Document # 124-10081-10037

Document # 124-10084-10016

Document # 124-10087-10335

Document # 124-10087-10341

Document # 124-10087-10344

Document # 124-10092-10037

Document # 124-10093-10184

Document # 124-10100-10102

Document # 124-10101-10024

Document # 124-10102-10004

Document # 124-10102-10110

Document # 124-10102-10307

Document # 124-10103-10220

Document # 124-10104-10235

Document # 124-10104-10242

Document # 124-10105-10247

Document # 124-10108-10033

Document # 124-10108-10095

Document # 124-10108-10189

Document # 124-10108-10205

Document # 124-10108-10235

Document # 124-10108-10260

Document # 124-10110-10009

Document # 124-10110-10040

Document # 124-10116-10042

Document # 124-10118-10017

Document # 124-10118-10352

Document # 124-10118-10353

Document # 124-10118-10354

Document # 124-10118-10424

Document # 124-10118-10426

Document # 124-10118-10429

Document # 124-10119-10049

Document # 124-10119-10216

Document # 124-10122-10014

Document # 124-10122-10014

Document # 124-10125-10120

Document # 124-10126-10132

Document # 124-10131-10144

Document # 124-10137-10027

Document # 124-10138-10000

Document # 124-10142-10152

Document # 124-10142-10325

Document # 124-10143-10029

Document # 124-10143-10130

Document # 124-10143-10179

Document # 124-10143-10293

Document # 124-10144-10065

Document # 124-10145-10009

Document # 124-10145-10061

Document # 124-10145-10103

Document # 124-10146-10120

Document # 124-10146-10227

Document # 124-10151-10010

Document # 124-10151-10150

Document # 124-10151-10376

Document # 124-10156-10049

Document # 124-10156-10053

Document # 124-10156-10055

Document # 124-10157-10024

Document # 124-10157-10447

Document # 124-10157-10487

Document # 124-10158-10017

Document # 124-10158-10026

Document # 124-10158-10046

Document # 124-10158-10112

Document # 124-10158-10199

Document # 124-10158-10429

Document # 124-10159-10381

Document # 124-10159-10396

Document # 124-10159-10441

Document # 124-10159-10447

Document # 124-10160-10014

Document # 124-10162-10400

Document # 124-10163-10117

Document # 124-10163-10125

Document # 124-10164-10263

Document # 124-10164-10268

Document # 124-10164-10274

Document # 124-10169-10106

Document # 124-10169-10121

Document # 124-10169-10127

Document # 124-10170-10000

Document # 124-10170-10011

Document # 124-10170-10013

Document # 124-10170-10030

Document # 124-10170-10110

Document # 124-10170-10124

Document # 124-10170-10126

Document # 124-10170-10438

Document # 124-10170-10452

Document # 124-10171-10002

Document # 124-10171-10063

Document # 124-10171-10094

Document # 124-10171-10098

Document # 124-10171-10123

Document # 124-10172-10029

Document # 124-10173-10112

Document # 124-10173-10245

Document # 124-10176-10378

Document # 124-10178-10244

Document # 124-10178-10265

Document # 124-10178-10480

Document # 124-10179-10084

Document # 124-10180-10116

Document # 124-10183-10094

Document # 124-10183-10100

Document # 124-10183-10154

Document # 124-10187-10012

Document # 124-10191-10092

Document # 124-10227-10105

Document # 124-10227-10112

Document # 124-10227-10310

Document # 124-10227-10366

Document # 124-10228-10036

Document # 124-10228-10039

Document # 124-10228-10042

Document # 124-10228-10044

Document # 124-10228-10055

Document # 124-10228-10058

Document # 124-10228-10085

Document # 124-10228-10091

Document # 124-10228-10094

Document # 124-10228-10242

Document # 124-10229-10405

Document # 124-10230-10012

Document # 124-10230-10022

Document # 124-10230-10054

Document # 124-10230-10421

Document # 124-10230-10425

Document # 124-10230-10426

Document # 124-10230-10427

Document # 124-10230-10428

Document # 124-10231-10483

Document # 124-10233-10233

Document # 124-10233-10294

Document # 124-10233-10452

Document # 124-10234-10088

Document # 124-10234-10289

Document # 124-10234-10460

Document # 124-10235-10183

Document # 124-10235-10184

Document # 124-10235-10191

Document # 124-10235-10199

Document # 124-10235-10284

Document # 124-10235-10436

Document # 124-10236-10087

Document # 124-10236-10113

Document # 124-10236-10129

Document # 124-10236-10131

Document # 124-10236-10285

Document # 124-10236-10296

Document # 124-10236-10321

Document # 124-10236-10332

Document # 124-10237-10010

Document # 124-10239-10093

Document # 124-10239-10094

Document # 124-10240-10347

Document # 124-10240-10368

Document # 124-10241-10130

Document # 124-10241-10414

Document # 124-10241-10417

Document # 124-10242-10106

Document # 124-10242-10262

Document # 124-10243-10243

Document # 124-10244-10061

Document # 124-10246-10080

Document # 124-10247-10193

Document # 124-10248-10027

Document # 124-10249-10127

Document # 124-10249-10153

Document # 124-10250-10368

Document # 124-10250-10481

Document # 124-10250-10491

Document # 124-10251-10396

Document # 124-10252-10037

Document # 124-10254-10009

Document # 124-10254-10181

Document # 124-10254-10342

Document # 124-10255-10095

Document # 124-10255-10371

Document # 124-10256-10291

Document # 124-10256-10294

Document # 124-10259-10374

Document # 124-10259-10418

Document # 124-10259-10421

Document # 124-10259-10423

Document # 124-10260-10249

Document # 124-10260-10332

Document # 124-10260-10348

Document # 124-10262-10192

Document # 124-10262-10414

Document # 124-10263-10381

Document # 124-10264-10224

Document # 124-10269-10474

Document # 124-10270-10144

Document # 124-10270-10484

Document # 124-10270-10487

Document # 124-10270-10488

Document # 124-10270-10490

Document # 124-10272-10019

Document # 124-10272-10040

Document # 124-10272-10334

Document # 124-10275-10259

Document # 124-10276-10013

Document # 124-10276-10049

Document # 124-10276-10073

Document # 124-10276-10075

Document # 124-10276-10377

The FBI Document Review

Document # 124-10001-10059 Is a two page document from SA W. Harlan Brown to SAC, Dallas. It is dated 12/09/63.

A portion of the informant file is postponed .

Informant determined that Joe Landin and Augustin Estrada had lunch together on 11/26/63. Landin told him (Estrada) that Albert Gonzalez had called him. Gonzalez is an ambitious, hard driving opportunity. (sic) Both Estrada and Landin are familiar with his promotions. Gonzalez wanted to know what Landin thought of the fact that Joe Molina, ex-GI Forum member chairman, had been questioned in regards to Lee Oswald on the President’s death. Gonzalez recalled how conservative Molina is yet he was questioned. If Joe Molina had been questioned, Gonzalez said, what could he and Landin expect since they were really outspoken (when they attended forum meetings). Gonzalez thought that Bill Lowery had given Molina’s name to the FBI together with all of the Forum members names. He said he was going to Washington to see if he was on the subversive list. He was pretty sure that he could not get that information there. Landin recalled that Gonzalez knew Ruby and that sometime ago (4 years ago) he (Albert Gonzalez) had told Landin that Ruby was an ex-labor organizer and was “no good”. Gonzalez said that he did know Ruby and had recently spoken to Mrs. Grant, his sister at the Vegas club. He is interested in buying the club.

Informant determined that Estrada warned Landin not to give too much of his time to him for he is known to twist things around and could be a dangerous character. He could be working for someone at that very moment, that is, as an informer. After all, he hadn’t visited Landin in almost 3 years.

1 – 134-{ }-801A Is the informant’s file number.

There are then a series of file numbers with subject names. This shouldn’t mean that they denote anyone is an informant.

1 – 100-(8?)001 (J. Landin)

1 – 100-7995 (A. Estrada)

1 – 100-9847 (J. Molina)

1 – 100-10461 (L Oswald)

1 – 100-9734 (G. I. Forum)

1 – 100-7929 (B. Lowery)

Gonzalez also informed Landin that at a recent luncheon sponsored by the G. I. Forum in Dallas, Bill Lowery had spoken to Dr. Garcia and explained to him that his work as an agent did not reflect distrust on the present membership. In the past, he continued, there were some “Pinkos” in the forum.

Document # 124-10018-10363 Is a 2 page document from SAC, Phoenix to Director.

Info received from Jack Eurich, owner, Highliter Bar, 4712 N. 12th St., Phoenix, Arizona, telephone 279-9079, that at 11:25 A.M. MST, November 22, last an unknown man entered bar and asked that TV set be turned on, which was done, immediately thereafter shooting of President was announced. This suspect remained about one hour, drank three bottles of beer, and considered sober. Suspect made telephone call from above phone to Dallas but call not immediately completed. Eurich took one call from operator who advised there would be delay on call “to the rifle range” to Dallas. Eurich believes suspect may have known assassination was about to occur.

Eurich described suspect as WMA, 60 to 65 years, 5’10” to 11 inches, 185 to 200 lbs., grey hair red face. Suspect driving old Buick, possible 1950 to `53 model, faded light green. Montana license plates.

PCI Gordon Hitt, protect identity, Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co.,

located tickets reflecting three calls from above phone to Dallas telephone 631-5050, listed to Parkland Hospital, at 12:14, 12:20 and 12:30 all P.M. of Nov. 22 last and MST. First two lines indicate line busy at Dallas and last call apparently completed.

PCI Hitt also located ticket reflecting another call from same Phoenix number to Dallas telephone number 368-0096, time not indicated.

PCI Hitt located operator on calls to Parkland Hospital who advised caller was Bill Means, phonetic, who made person to person call to Jacqueline Kennedy. After line was busy twice Means was connected with a “security officer”.

Dallas, if advisable, identify subscriber to telephone 368-0096.

Butte, Montana through drivers license and vehicle registration records attempt to identify Bill Means, phonetic, and if successful will develop background information and current whereabouts so that he can be located for interview.

Document # 124-10018-10373 SAC, Phoenix to Director FBI dated 11/27/63.

Enclosed for the Bureau is the original and seven copies of a letterhead memorandum and enclosed for Dallas are four copies of the letterhead memorandum.

The unidentified source mentioned in enclosed letterhead memorandum is PCI Gordon Hitt.

Of course there is no LHM enclosed at all, let alone 11 copies.

Document # 124-10020-10093 Is a two page document from SAC, Cincinnati to Director dated 02/07/64.

Enclosed for the Bureau are eight copies LHM suitable for dissemination.

William Miller furnished information to SAS John T. Pryor and James W. Awe on

2/4/64.

Confidential source #1 utilized in LHM is [ (long black ink line) ] Ohio who furnished information to SA Benny J. Canny and W. Dodson Hanes on 2/5/64.

The second confidential source utilized in LHM is Clarence Brandenberg, 618 Mill Street, Lockland, Ohio.

He furnished information to SA John T. Pryor and SA Benny J. Canny on 2/5/64, and to SA John T. Pryor on 2/6/64.

Two copies of LHM has been furnished Secret Service and one for the Treasury Department locally, due to their interests in racial matters involving possible violence and the illegal possession of automatic weapons.

[ ( long black ink line obliterates first sentence and most of next sentence) ] at

which time he was to be charged with Grand Larceny. Rather than charge [ blank] with Grand Larceny, the police Department offered him an opportunity to become an informant. [blank] accepted this opportunity, and among the information he furnished was information concerning the guns contained in this LHM.

[blank] made it crystal clear that if information concerning these guns got back to [several words blanked out ] Ohio, [blank ] might be “taken care of” by friends of [blank ] Kentucky.

[blanked a few words ] is engaged as a “fence” and he believes [blank] is capable of taking care of him fatally in the event information concerning these guns is returned to [blank].

[blank] as an informant for the Police Department, in making efforts to locate these reported weapons. We are maintaining close liaison with the Police Department in connection with this matter to insure protection of Bureau interest and to determine if there is any violation within our jurisdiction.

Cincinnati has no concrete information that any automatic weapons are presently located in the Cincinnati territory to be used by racial organizations.

Document # 124-10027-10001 Is a two-page document from SAC, Tampa to Director dated 11/23/63.

Contacts with majority of Cuban, CP, and NOI and criminal sources and informants negative to date. Contacts will be completed today.

TP 27 S was with Christina Pages Amor, Bureau file 105-107781. Her husband Manuel Amor 105-111992 and Lillian Cook McFarland, Bureau file 105-117285, principal officers of FPCC – Tampa, Bureau file 97-4196-64 when news of assassination first announced on radio all expressed shock at news and complete abhorrence of this type activity

114-S* reports Amors contacted by reporter from TIME magazine night of November 22 last. Reporter from St. Petersburg, Florida said TIME had information that Lee Oswald was affiliated with FPCC. Manuel Amor disclaimed any knowledge of Oswald, said he did not know anything about FPCC and denied affiliation with group, also…

(page 2 missing)

Document # 124-10027-10024 Is a 1 page document from SAC, LA to Director dated 11/23/63.

Enclosed herewith for the Bureau are five copies of a LHM which are self-explanatory. One copy each of the LHM is being furnished to Miami and Dallas for information purposed. One copy of the LHM is being disseminated locally to the Secret Service, Los Angeles.

Handwritten in on the bottom are instructions “Place cc in 105-78016 (Hall), 105-86406 (Hemming) 134-[blank]

Document # 124-10027-10030 Is a two page document from SAC, Birmingham to Director dated 11/23/63.

James O. Murray has been interviewed at Birmingham on September 27, `63 and on October 31, `63 at Washington, D.C. During interviews Murray advised he is not a member of the NSRP (National States Rights Party) or any Klan or hate-type organizations. He has admitted association with various individuals connected with NSRP and Klan organizations. He has also indicated opposition to any violence type action. He has been employed by the NSRP at Birmingham, Alabama, from March `63 until June `63 in capacity of mimeo machine operator.

Murray has been developed as a PCI by Birmingham division and had advised he would cooperate fully with the FBI and is presently subject of Birmingham file 173-1056. Murray has prior arrest for carrying weapon without permit and was arrested during September `63 at Birmingham in connection with NSRP activities re: opposition to school desegregation at Birmingham during this time. Upon his release from local custody, Birmingham, Murray indicated desire to cooperate with FBI and to return to NSRP headquarters, Birmingham. However, Dr. Edward R. Fields, informational director, NSRP, Birmingham, advised him Murray’s services not immediately needed at this time.

During last week October, `63, Murray advised he was returning home to 4800 Georgia Ave. N. W., Washington, D.C. to reside with his parents there and would return to Birmingham, Ala., during January 1964 at which time he would rejoin the NSRP.

Document # 124-10027-10065 Is a three page document from A. Rosen to Belmont. It is dated 11/26/63. This is really about the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15th, 1963.

The third page is missing.

While Governor George Wallace, the political figure most closely identified with the views and beliefs of suspect Klan and National States Rights Party (NSRP) members, made an appearance at the funeral of President Kennedy in Washington yesterday, a confidential informant reported prime suspect Thomas Blanton, Jr., and his father, along with officials of the NSRP, have been jubilant and celebrating.

However, another reliable informant reports the Klan has had no meetings this week and none is planned due to FBI “activities”.

Among those at NSRP headquarters who were happy over the assassination were James Warner, Dr. Edward R. Fields, Jerry Dutton and Albert DeShazo. DeShazo, in discussing the current issue of the NSRP publication “The Thunderbolt,” which contains bitter anti-Kennedy diatribe, (advance copy of which has been furnished the Attorney General) made the statement they would now have to change the name from Jack to Robert.

An informant reported Edward R. Fields was in contact with Mary Lou Holt, representative of United Americans for Cooperative Government, and both agreed the assassination of the President was an act of God as if he was not a communist, he was a fellow traveler and his demise would prevent his delivering them into the hands of the communists. Fields and Holt discussed at length the FBI’s investigation of the Birmingham bombings, and both agreed this investigation was most detrimental to the objectives of their respective organizations. Both asserted they would be happy to see the FBI’s attention diverted.

As a result of conferences of Agents working on the bombing cases in Birmingham, it was agreed that the following remain as prime suspects: Thomas Blanton, Jr., Charles Cagle, Robert Chambliss, Troy Ingram, Levi Yarborough. Secondary suspects are Bobby Frank Cherry, Walter Earl Thompson, Billy Neil Tipton, Herbet Eugene Reeves and Ross Keith. While [Blank] is believed to have participated in bombings other than the principal ones being investigated, Agents handling him are convinced he eventually will reach informant status as he has recently furnished signed statement identifying Cagle and Yarborough as the persons who burned the St. James Methodist Church, Warrior, Alabama, August 10, 1963. While witnesses have not been able to corroborate the later information, [blank] has been cooperative in furnishing coverage of special meetings, which coverage has been corroborated, and has also accepted money for securing information and realizes full well the “hold” Agents now have on him.

Document # 124-10027-10235 Is a 25 page document from Robert P. Gemberling to SAC, Dallas. It is dated January 1/27/65.

Actually there are only 6 pages here.

There is an index that lists the topics

One is about an allegation by unknown caller to radio station KTUC, Tucson, Arizona, that a call was received at radio station KWKH, Shreveport, Louisiana, month before assassination stating President Kennedy would be murdered if he came to Texas.

Only the information from Fay Leon Blunt is here.

On December 1, 1964 Fay Leon Blunt, Dallas, Texas, phoned the FBI at Washington, D.C. stating that 17 individuals in the Hospital Ward of the 5th floor of the Dallas County Jail had witnessed the assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963; however, Blunt stated that none of these witnesses have ever been interviewed.

The following investigation was conducted by Special Agent Richard J. Burnett.

On December 14, 1964 Sheriff Bill Decker, Dallas County Sheriffs Office, Dallas, Texas advised that thorough investigation was conducted at the Dallas County Jail immediately subsequent to the assassination and no witnesses to same were located among inmates.

Chief Jailer Ernest Lloyd Holman, Dallas County Jail, Dallas, Texas, on December 14, 1964, personally escorted Special Agent Richard J. Burnett through the hospital section of the County Jail on the fifth floor where white inmates with a mental history are confined. The mental inmates are kept in a large tank type cell which has one barred double window overlooking the scene of the assassination. The view from this window would have seen the President at the time of being struck by the assassin’s bullets, but the window in the Texas School Book Depository from which the shots were fired is not visible from this cell area.

The hospital section for white prisoners on the fifth floor also has another large cell area in the northwest corner, which has west windows overlooking the site of the President’s car at the time of the assassination, and another window on the north side of the building which overlooks the TSBD, including the window from which the shots were fired by the assassin.

However, Chief Jailer Holman advised that this large cell area is used only on weekends by persons serving their three-day sentences for “Driving While Intoxicated” charges and is not occupied until late on Friday nights as Texas law states any part of a day constitutes a full day’s credit on drunk sentences. Thus, Holman noted that persons serving such “DWI” sentences report late on Friday’s night to gain credit for one full day. Holman further advised that no “DWI” prisoners were in this cell at the time of the assassination.

It is noted that the north corner jail window (which overlooks the TSBD and the window of the TSBD from which assassin’s window were fired) is very dirty and is backed by an iron mesh type grid guard. The view from this particular window is very distorted and it is believed by Holman to be impossible to identify anyone from this window, including the President in his car which would have been rounding the corner of Houston onto Elm Street approaching the Triple Underpass seconds before the shooting.

Both Sheriff Decker and Holman pointed out that anyone who would have been confined in the hospital section on the fifth floor of the jail at the time of the assassination would have been a mental case and the reliability of such a person would be highly questionable. Holman noted that it would be a most difficult and time consuming task at this late date to attempt to determine just who was confined in the Hospital Ward at the time of the assassination. Furthermore, Holman pointed out that such persons, if identified, have since been either released or sent to other State mental places of incarceration.

Holman and Chief Identification Officer James H. Kitching advised that Fay Leon Blunt (complainant in this matter) is well-known to them as a person completely unreliable who has been arrested on several occasions in the past on lunacy charges. Both stated they would place no confidence whatsoever in any information furnished by him. Kitching pulled Blunt’s arrest record and noted that Blunt was not incarcerated in the Dallas county Jail at the time of the assassination.

Then page 20 of the report is included, which is part of the index.

Document # 124-10035-10022 Is supposed to be a 797 page report. 3 pages of which are here. There is kind of a cover sheet with a hell of a lot of notations on it

The title of the case is interesting LEE HARVEY OSWALD, aka L. H. Oswald, Lee Oswald, Lee H. Oswald, Leslie Oswald, A. Hidell, A. J. Hidell, Alek J. Hidell, Alek James Hidell, O. H. Lee.

Leslie Oswald?????

Cover page B identifies some informants.

Dallas T-1

Dorothy Reeder, Info. clerk

U.S. Post Office, Forth Worth, Tex.

New Orleans T-1

Joseph J. Zarza

Postal Inspector

New Orleans, La.

New Orleans T-2

Salvadore Garcia Vargas

Room 534, Whitney National Bank Bldg.

New Orleans, La.

New Orleans T-3

Richard Le Blanc

1933 North Claiborne

New Orleans, La

New Orleans T-4

Salvador Margin

2220 Mandeville

Utility Carrier,

Branch Post Office

Napoleon & Carondelet Streets

New Orleans, La.

New Orleans T-5

Carlos Quiroga

3134 Derby Place

New Orleans, La.

New Orleans T-6

Germinal Messina

1228 Gallier Street

New Orleans Division of Employment

Security

New Orleans, La.

Cover page C Administrative

This report is marked “confidential” inasmuch as it contains data from Immigration and Naturalization Service, New Orleans, which was so “classified,” namely data obtained by SA John T. Reynolds, New Orleans, from Eugene Urban, I &NS.

On 11/23/63, a photograph of an unknown man was exhibited to Marguerite Oswald at Dallas, Texas, by SA Bardwell D. Odum in an attempt to determine if this individual was known to Mrs. Oswald as an associate of Lee Harvey Oswald. Mrs. Oswald could not identify the photograph as anyone she knew. This photograph was furnished by CIA and the identity of this individual is not known, although it is definitely not a photograph of Jack L. Ruby.

Document # 124-10035-10155 Is a 27 page report. 3 pages of which are here. It is from James J. O’Connor to Director. It is dated 1/25/64.

The cover page states that Bureau letter to Miami 1/8/64, enclosing a copy of an editorial article appearing in the 12/23/63 issue of “The Augusta Courier”, published at Augusta, Georgia.

The second page, perhaps it was cover page B, is completely useless. Stamped on the top is information that this was seen or sent to the Senate Select Committee and or House Select Committee on Intelligence Activities. What may have been on cover page B is a mystery.

Cover page C states, “…regard to Cuba. This report further reflected that Buchanan, in addition to being a newspaper writer, was getting involved personally in revolutionary activities pertaining to Haiti and Cuba.

“Miami file 47-4019, Bufile 47-48702, pertains to a fugitive investigation on Jerry Buchanan, FBI # 148937D, the brother of James Buchanan. That case involved the use of U. S. Army identification in the name Jesse L. Murphy by Jerry Buchanan in cashing three stolen checks at Miami. That file reflects the brother of Jerry Buchanan as James Charles Buchanan, and the parents as James and Mary Buchanan, 3543 Northwest 33rd St. Miami.

“Miami file #2-317, Bufile 2-1712, also pertains to Jerry Buchanan, FBI #148937D, and this case was based on recruiting activities by Jerry Buchanan for the Anti-Communist International Brigade of Frank Fiorini. The same file reflects Jerry Buchanan was sent to the Florida State penitentiary as of 7/28/61 for three years as a Parole Violator from a forgery conviction.

Document # 124-10058-10009 Is a 2 page document from SAC, LA to Director dated 4/23/64. Apparently, a Gertrude Tracy was interviewed about the allegations she wrote about in a letter. She did not offer any valuable information.

And without knowing who she is or what the letter said this document is pretty much worthless.

Document # 124-10058-10023 Is a 3 page document from SAC, San Antonio to Director dated 6/16/64. Only two pages are here. This is about certain comments made by Alfred Dwight Amos Featherston.

This is an airtel that refers to an letterhead memorandum (LHM) which is not enclosed. Featherston came into informants place of business in San Antonio in May 1964. The informant told SA Daniel Magennis that Featherston was interviewed by the FBI and thereafter made comments to informant that he was suspicious of one Dr. Ruth Bellinger McCoy having furnished the FBI information about him (Featherston). Informant continued to explain that Featherston’s story concerning the assassination could conceivably be an attempt to trap informant inasmuch as the information could later come to Featherston’s attention.

For the reasons set out above, informant requested that the information he furnished, which is set forth in enclosed LHM, be furnished to the President’s Commission only and that no other dissemination of this information be made. In view of this, the San Antonio office recommends that informants request for limited dissemination be honored. Therefore, the San Antonio office is not giving consideration to interviewing Featherston concerning his statements about the assassination.

It is further recommended that any leads in this matter be left to the Bureau, and that the Dallas and San Antonio offices do not incorporate the information in enclosed LHM in any investigative report or other document that will be disseminated.

Document # 124-10058-10024 Is a 5 page document, of which three pages are here. This is apparently the LHM referred to above. It is actually a two page report with an extra copy of the first page.

Featherston stated that there is a paper circulating throughout Mexico which contained the story that there were seven men involved in the assassination of President Kennedy. Featherston said that Officer Tippit of the Dallas Police Department was the sixth man on the list, and that he was killed because he failed to carry out his orders. He further advised that half the men on the list were Dallas police officers and that the assassination was carefully planned.

On December 20, 1963, Harold McKenzie, Special Agent with the U. S. Bureau of Narcotics, San Antonio, Texas, advised that he had been partially responsible for the detention of an individual who was arrested in New York City, New York, on a narcotic charge and was presently serving time.

Featherston informed McKenzie that he was born October 10, 1927, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and was presently residing at the Hotel Deluxe, 104 Sycamore Street, San Antonio, and was writing newspaper articles for the San Antonio weekly Negro newspaper Snap , which has offices at 107 Chestnut Street, San Antonio. Featherston informed McKenzie that he had spent a considerable amount of time in Belize, British Honduras, and recently came from there via Los Angeles, California.

Featherston advised he was trying to raise funds for the new government which will take over British Honduras when they receive their independence next year sometime.

Further, regarding Featherston, it is to be noted that SA T-2 advised on August 7, 1959, that according to the Guatemalan semiofficial newspaper, Novedades, Featherston was arrested in Guatemala City around the middle of July, 1959, in connection with a plot to assassinate President Ydigoras during the later’s visit to Panama.

Document # 124-10058-10042 Is a two page document from T. J. McAndrew to Evans. It is dated 12/11/64. It is about Fay Leon Blunt.

At 12:20 A.M., 12-11-63 Blunt made a person to person call from Dallas, Texas, to Mr. DeLoach and was referred to SA Arthur R. Ware, Night Supervisor, Special Investigative Division.

Blunt stated he had information that 17 individuals, wardens and inmates, were in the hospital ward on the fifth floor of the Dallas County Jail and from there witnessed the assassination of former President Kennedy. He alleged that none of these individuals have been interviewed on this matter. Blunt said that their information would indicate a search should be made of the top of the Dallas Post Office building.

Bureau files show Blunt was a potential security informant, Dallas Office, on racial matters from 1-15-58 to 3-27-58. He was discontinued when he made inflammatory remarks re integration on a radio program. He was arrested in Arkansas in 1959 for drunk and disorderly and carrying concealed weapon (gun). In 1959 and 1960 he made several telephone calls to Mr. DeLoach, sometimes while under the influence of liquor, and frequently made exaggerated and false claims about his association with the Bureau.

Addendum General investigative Division 12-11-64

With regard to the allegation related by Blunt, no information concerning this matter has been previously received by the Bureau and no one known to have been incarcerated in the Dallas County Jail has ever come forward to volunteer information. The feasibility of making an observation from the fifth floor of the Dallas County Jail is not known; however, it appears quite remote that anyone further removed than the immediate vicinity of the assassination could furnish any information of pertinence. However, in view of the allegation a teletype is being sent to Dallas instructing them to determine the feasibility of such an observation and if so, promptly interview the informant and initiate logical investigation to establish the identity of alleged witnesses to the assassination.

Document # 124-10058-10043 Is a two page document from SAC, Dallas to Director dated 12/15/64.

This is an airtel in response to above. It contains the same information as document #124-10027-10235. This is the original airtel however, and does contain two paragraphs not in the other copy.

In view of the above information and observation, the Dallas Office does not contemplate pursuing this matter further, UACB. (Someone writes in “I fully agree”.)

Document # 124-10058-10044 Is a one page document from Director to SAC, Dallas dated 12/11/64. This is an instruction to Dallas to investigate Blunt’s claim.

Document # 124-10058-10056 Is a 2 page document but only one page is here. It is from SAC, Miami to Director. It is dated 02/06/67.

This is a cover page for an LHM. It refers to Mobile airtel to Bureau 1-11-67. This is something about Roy Emory Hargraves in Cuban affairs; Rolando Masferrer Rojas, who’s Bureau file is 105-118615, Miami file 105-7313; and the “United National Front Against Castro” bureau file 105-138074, Miami file 105-9794.

The last paragraph is cut off as it is continued on page two which is not included, “In view of the fact that this investigation is predicated upon information furnished by William Blanton Acker, Jr., an individual with a diseased mind and also…”

Document # 124-10062-10385 This is a three page document from the Legal Attache in Mexico City to Director dated 1/24/64. Actually only two pages are here. This is a rather interesting one.

Immediately following the assassination of President Kennedy on 11/22/63, all sources of this office were instructed to be alert for any information which would tend to indicate a connection between Oswald and the Cubans or the Communist Party. The following is a summary of information furnished by Mex[blank] and Mex[blank] both of whom have furnished reliable information in the past, since that time.

On 12/6/63 sources reported that Elizabeth Catlett Mora aka Betty Mora, Bufile 100-395934, had been very upset and excited over the involvement of Oswald as the reported assassin of the President. She indicated that the Communist Party of Mexico was very interested in obtaining all the information available concerning Oswald’s travel to Mexico and particularly as to how much the American authorities know.

Mora told informants that the only way Oswald could be linked “to Mexico” was through his activities before his trip to the Soviet Union. She was very interested in obtaining information concernng the date Oswald departed for Russia. Mora considered it “terribly important” to have any press references to Oswald’s activities in New Orleans before he went to Russia. She stated that if something regarding his activities at that time appeared in the press it could “blow the lid and we could all get fired” Mora indicated to informants that she could not understand why the investigation of Oswald, as reported up to that time in the press, had not focused on New Orleans instead of on Dallas.

Mora told the sources that Oswald was well known in Russia among the Americans who were there at the same time and he was “not that much of a nut” (as to singlehandedly undertake to assassinate the President). Mora did not indicate the source of her information concerning the impressions of Oswald gained by Americans in the Soviet Union, but she did indicate that one Mary Lou Patterson (no record in Mexico City files), who at present lives in the Soviet Union and is attending the “Friendship School,” knew Oswald while he was in Russia.

On 12/20/63 informants reported on a dinner which they had attended on 12/11/63 at the home of Kurt Odenheim, bufile 100-386282. The only other dinner guest present besides the informants was Charles Small, bufile 100-12632. It will be recalled that Small operates a tourist-type store in Mexico City, selling jewelry and other items.

During the course of the evening Small was questioned by Odenheim as to whether or not he knew Oswald. Small stated that he had consulted his books when the story first broke in Mexico and he is sure Oswald must have been in the store because “you know everyone reports in there and he would have done so too.” (There have been indications in the past that Small’s store serves as a message center for visiting Communists from the United States.) Small went on to say, however, that fortunately when Oswald was in Mexico, according to the newspapers, Small was out of the country. He said he has been carrying his “red book” ever since as he momentarily expected to be arrested and could prove by the book that he was in the United States at the time.

On 1/6/64 sources reported that Betty Mora was ill and had declined to discuss the Oswald case any further. They said Charles Small is still worried, believing he must have known Oswald at some time and that Oswald must have visited Small’s store while at Mexico.

On 1/13/64 informants reported on a conversation which they had on that date with Elizabeth Mora, who had told them of a conversation she had held with Teresa Proenza, Cultural Attache of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.

According to Mora, Teresa Proenza had told her that Oswald walked in “cold” to the Cuban Embassy and the first person he talked to was Proenza. She does not speak English and, therefore, turned him over to the nearest person (not identified by Mora) who was higher in rank and who spoke…. (The rest is on page three which is not included. And it was just getting interesting too.)

Document # 124-10063-10432 is a duplicate of Document # 124-10027-10001.

Document # 124-10073-10337 Is a duplicate of Document # 124-10058-10056.

Document # 124-10079-10230 Is a 9 page document from the Legal Attache, Mexico City. It is dated 4/10/64. This is further information about Elizabeth Catlett Mora but it’s focus is on Joseph and Reva Frank Bernstein. Mora was a member of the Communist Party USA, and is now a member of Partido Comunista Mexicano (PCM – Communist Party of Mexico), and acted as a liaison between the PCM and another Communist group the American Communist Group in Mexico.

The Bernsteins reside in Detroit, Michigan. The Bernsteins picked up mail for the FPCC at a post office box in Canada.

The document then gives a brief history of the FPCC.

After the assassination, Canadian authorities wanted to question her about the FPCC. So did a Detroit newspaper.

We learn that Charles Small’s real name is Charles Nelson Smolikoff, that he was born on March 16, 1911,[and] is a United States citizen residing in Mexico. He lived in Miami, Florida from `39 to October `54, when he moved to Mexico. Small was a prominent member of the CPUSA in Miami and is a prominent member of ACGM.

Document # 124-10101-10017 Is a one page teletype from SAC, New Orleans to Director. It is dated 3/5/67.

No 1213-S advised this date that Aura Lee (Last Name Unknown), Clay Shaw’s former secretary at International Trade Mart, New Orleans, who is employed by the Heart Fund at Ochsner Clinic, stated in front of Dr. Charles B. Moore and others at Ochsner Hospital 31 last, after Shaw’s press conference where he advised he never met David Ferrie, that she had seen Ferrie go into Shaw’s office in the International Trade Mart building on a number of occasions, and believed Ferrie had privileged entry into Shaw’s office.

Informant furnished the following information in the strictest confidence since it was furnished to him by Orvie Aucoin, a cameraman for Channel 12, WVUE-TV, a neighbor of the informant, who swore informant to secrecy before furnishing the information. Informant advised that according to Aucoin, he had talked to the judge who had handled the matter involving Clay Shaw and this judge stated that after he had seen the evidence District Attorney Garrison has, he strongly believes that if the case against Clay Shaw goes to a jury, the jury will vote 11 to 1 in favor of a conviction.

According to Aucoin, Garrison’s ace in the hole is well documented proof consisting of a certified photostatic copy of a job application made by Lee Harvey Oswald in his own handwriting during the spring or summer of 1963 with a trucking company, name not mentioned, believed to be in New Orleans, in which Oswald listed three personal references one of whom was Jack Ruby. Aucoin also mentioned that attorney Sam (MONK) Zelden has knowledge of this application as he is an attorney for the trucking firm.

Document # 124-10143-10359 Is supposed to be a 14 page airtel from SAC, Phoenix to Director dated 11/27/63. Only two pages are here, and that is two copies of one page.

Enclosed for the Bureau is the original and seven copies of a letterhead memorandum and enclosed for Dallas are four copies of the letterhead memorandum.

The unidentified source mentioned in enclosed letterhead memorandum is PCI Gordon Hitt, Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, Phoenix, Arizona. (Protect Identity)

Document # 124-10145-10105 Is a four page document from SAC, Phoenix to Director dated 11/23/63. It is a copy of Document # 124-10018-10363, actually two copies.

Document # 124-10169-10080 Is a 791 page document from Warren DeBrueys to Director. It is dated 12/02/63. There are only three pages here. It is a copy of Document # 124-10035-10022.

Document # 124-10169-10165 Is a 27 page document from James J. O’Connor to Director dated 1/25/64. It is a copy of Document # 124-10035-10155.

Document # 124-10175-10414 Is a 12 page document from SAC, San Antonio to Director. Only 8 pages are here. The first two pages are the same as the two pages of Document # 124-10058-10024. That’s repeated again. So, that’s four of the eight pages. The other four pages are two copies of the two pages from Document # 124-10058-10023.

Document # 124-10176-10376 Is another copy of Document # 124-10035-10022. Once again only 3 pages of a 790 page report.

Document # 124-10179-10180 Is a a copy of Document # 124-10027-10030.

Document # 124-10182-10051 Is a copy of Document # 124-10027-10235.

Document # 124-10227-10320 Is a copy of Document # 124-10035-10155. Only the cover page and Cover page C are here, two copies each. The RIF says it is supposed to be a 54 page document. There are probably two copies of the 25 page report that was not excluded.

Document # 124-10229-10085 Is a copy of Document # 124-10062-10385.

Document # 124-10230-10093 Is a copy of the two pages from Document # 124-10027-10235 about Fay Leon Blunt’s claim that 17 individuals in the Dallas jail saw the assassination and were never interviewed.

Document # 124-10230-10098 Is a copy of the two pages from Document # 124-10027-10235 that deal with the investigation of Fay Leon Blunt’s claim. The two pages wherein the claim is basically dismissed is here, twice.

Document # 124-10230-10117 Is a another copy of Document # 124-10027-10235. This one has a few more pages. All copies of pages I’ve already reviewed. 12 pages. 1 cover page, 1 Table of Contents, 1 “RE: Fay Leon Blunt – Information”, 1 copy of the two page report dismissing Blunt’s claim, 1 copy of page 20 Index, Another cover page, table of contents, another “RE: Fay Leon Blunt – Information”, another copy of the two page report dismissing Blunt’s claim, another page 20 Index.

Document # 124-10234-1000 Is a copy of Document # 124-10062-10385.

Document # 124-10239-10385 Is a copy of Document # 124-10058-10009.

Actually two copies of Document # 124-10058-10009.

Document # 124-10244-10426 Is another copy of Document # 124-10027-10235. 6 pages here.

Document # 124-10262-10087 Is a copy of Document # 124-10035-10155. Only two pages here.

Document # 124-10263-10223 Is a copy of Document # 124-10058-10056.

Document 3 124-10264-10324 Is a copy of Document # 124-10058-10024.

Two pages are Featherston’s claim, then two pages from Document # 124-10058-10023.

Document # 124-10264-10333 Is a copy of Document # 124-10018-10363.

Two copies of the two page report.

Document # 124-10265-10120 Is a copy of Document # 124-10058-10056. It is supposed to be 11 pages, only one is here.

Document # 124-10272-10262 Is a copy of Document # 124-10018-10363.

Document # 124-10272-10288 Is a copy of the two pages of Document # 124-10143-10359.

Document # 124-100275-10359 Is a copy of Document # 124-10058-10009.

The CIA Document Review

Document # 104-10004-10257 is a 7 page document from Deputy Director for Plans to Director of FBI. It is dated 11/23/63. It is postponed in part. There are “sources and methods” discussed here that still need protecting. They will be protected until 2017.

1. Reference is made to CIA Out Teletype Number 84915, dated 23 November 1963.

2. Forwarded as Enclosure A is a transcript of the 28 September 1963 telephone call reported in referenced teletype and of a 1 October 1963 phone call to the Soviet Embassy by a man who identified himself as Lee OSWALD. It is noted that the “North American” who participated in the first call is the same man who identified himself as Lee OSWALD in the second.

3. Forwarded as Enclosure B is a transcript of three phone calls made on 27 September 1963, one made on 1 October 1963 and one made on 3 October 1963.

Voice comparisons indicated that the “North American” who participated in several of these conversations is probably the person who identified himself as Lee OSWALD on 1 October 1963.

4. Our tentative conclusion from reading these transcripts is that OSWALD went to the Soviet Embassy hoping to get a visa to go to the Soviet Union and live and that, failing to get it quickly, he tried to get a Cuban transit visa so he would go to Cuba and wait for the granting of the Soviet visa. This is also the conclusion reached by Silvia Duran, the Mexican national employee of the Cuban embassy who dealt with OSWALD.

This document is another reference to the tape of the conversation existing after the assassination.

Document # 104-10015-10001 is an odd one page document. It is titled,

“Control Document — File Restriction Note Form That Is To Remain As First Document In File”. It is dated February 19, 1988. It is to OG/CFS. Then under that GC-52 Tube DT-6. The file number is 201-289248. Restrict to : (Use country or Non-country code number.) See DOI 70-28. 621. It was restricted by Ray Brewers of CI/CE

Document # 104-10015-10003 is a two page document from C/SR/CI to Mr. Wigren. It is a note concerning the existence of a Soviet Intelligence school in Minsk. It is dated 12/17/63. It has a postponement because the true name of an intelligence agent would be revealed.

To: Mr. Wigren – re GPFLOOR

Mr. Paul Chretien called me at 1420 hours on 17 December, presumably on the basis of some press query, asking “whether there is still a Soviet intelligence school in Minsk.” I told him I never heard of one in the first place: had he? No, he hadn’t. I then checked through Mary Kay Viering and got the following sole trace, which I passed to Chretien by phone, simply saying that there had been a report of one back in 1947, source reliability unknown, but that if — as I suspected — his query concerned “spy schools”, then there are none anywhere. Spies are trained individually; schools are for staff personnel, here and in the U.S.S.R. I discussed fabrications of this sort and he seemed to understand fully.

There is then a document stamped 17-525 for FOIA review April 1976. This document reports of a possible intelligence school in Minsk in 1947. Perhaps a MVD training school. There is an estimate of 200 students. The Source is TS 40288 (WELA 4060) report date 2 June 1950 from [crypt] London. Source is a Russian deserter.

Crypt is substitute language.

Document # 104-10015-10036 is a one page document from Berlin to Munich. No traces on a Garnet Moorhead Hart. This is dated November 12, 1963.

There is a reference to BRLN 4775.

Document # 104-10015-10043 is a one page record and routing sheet. It is dated 8/30/62. It is from RID/AN to CI/SIG. This was for inclusion in Oswald’s file.

You need to be John Newman to decipher the stories of these record and routing sheets. There is one handwritten bit in the comments. Betty Eggeter CI/SIG has full file. And there are the initials DL.

Document # 104-10015-10090 is a seven page report with some postponements. It is from Montevideo to Director. Information report entitled: Cuban Precautions Following Assassination of President Kennedy. It is 7 pages and dated 11/23/63. The first page states that attached to this document TDCS-3/565, 829, is the partially declassified version (partially and de are crossed out) which is available to the public at National Archives. (Someone wrote a ^ and a “not” between is and available) This is Commission Document 294a.

It think that this is old news. I’m sure CD 294a is open in full now.

Source: [ ]ALANCE-6. With his usual inaccuracy, [ ]CANE-1 had advised the Station that the Cuban embassy had requested police protection before the shooting. However, [ ]ALANCE 6 checked the official log in presence of CO and confirmed it occurred an hour after shooting announced.

Enclosed is a CIA Telegram from a Uruguayan Police Official.

1. Ricadro Guttierez Torrens, third Secretary and CIS (Cuban Intelligence Service) Chief of the Cuban embassy in Montevideo, telephoned the Montevideo police at 1710 hours (Montevideo time) on 22 November to request extra police protection for Cuban embassy. Guttierez said the embassy had received reports that a mob was planning to stone the embassy. (Field comment: the news of President Kennedy’s assassination was received in Montevideo at approximately 1600 hours, Montevideo time).

2. The police furnished extra protection to both the Cuban embassy and to the Soviet ligation, although the latter had made no request.

There is a handwritten note, circa 1970’s, about this document being in CD 294a and that it is not available to the public. Then there’s another copy of the telegram.

Document # 104-10015-10096 is a one page document from Montevideo to

Director. A Pianzi (phonectic) called the Cuban embassy in Montevideo 20 November to request urgent appointment with Charge. Said he had news “of importance to the nation” and that he would have all necessary documentation ready by 1400 hours.

Well the Charge ain’t in. They check the areas hotels and find out the guy is Dandol Dianzi, an Argentinean and 39 years of age. He has been registered at the hotel since 28 October.

Someone at the CIA station there was worried that he might know something about the assassination prior to its occurrence. They requested a name trace on him.

Document # 104-10015-10097 is a two page document from Santiago to CIA Director dated 11/23/63. It is a cable regarding remarks made by Cuban embassy officials in Santiago, Chile regarding the assassination of President Kennedy. Jose Toha, Vice President Chilean Cuban Cultural Institute and Director Pro Castro Leftist Press Ultima Hora informed Pedro Martinez Pirez, charge Cuban Emb Santiago that Kennedy had been assassinated. Toha said, “Este asunto de Kennedy se esta poniendo color de hormigas”. Possibly means assassination of Kennedy looks like it could have serious repercussions. Martinez commented that he had heard that the person arrested was president of Fair Play For Cuba Committee and that if the Yankees or the CIA assassinated Kennedy to resume assault on Cuba, then a third World War would start. He said things are very clear and there is no doubt that they have assassinated him, the contradictions are well defined and the moment was very special, like that of the Maine. Martinez said the United States is now in the most difficult position of the past several years in Latin America.

Toha said he was very worried after reading the cable traffic. Martinez added that if the USA is thinking of invading Cuba then they must have everything all prepared and all the strategy ready and therefore the alarm must be given so that Cuba can be prepared.

There is then some discussion about should the flag be at half mast.

Martinez denied several times that assassin was involved in Fair Play for Cuba Committee insisting that this person is only a suspect and that extreme rightist or segregationist is to blame. Martinez said he believed that the US gov’t would try to put blame on Cuba.

Document # 104-10015-10121 Is a two page cable postponed in part. It is from London to Director.

Para 1. Dir 84608 Alert put to [blank] [blank] alerting field stations.

Para 2. Expressions of sorrow and sympathy received from Top Command [blank] as well as working level. Effect in U.K. is one of profound shock and public reaction here similar to death of Franklin Roosevelt.

Para 3. Due to background man charged with assassination, [blank] reported morning 23 Nov following some similar phone calls of strangely coincidental nature persons received in this country over past year, particularly in connection with Dr. Ward case. [blank] Reported that at 1805 GMT 22 Nov an anonymous call was made in Cambridge, England to the senior reporter of the Cambridge News rpt Cambridge News. The caller said only that the reporter should call the American Embassy in London for some big news and then rang off. Last night after word of the President’s death was received the reporter informed the Cambridge police of the above call and the police informed [blank]. The important thing is that the call was made, according [blank] calculations, about 25 minutes before the President was shot. Cambridge reporter had never received call of this kind before and [blank] say he is known to them as sound and loyal person with no security record. [blank] wanted above reported particularly in view reported Soviet background Oswald. Depending on circumstances, HQS may wish pass above to State Department as [blank] could not reach State Department rep this morning. [blank] stand ready to assist in any way possible on investigations here.

Document #104-10015-10138 is a one page document from Mexico City to Director dated 11/25/63

According LIFIRE DIP couriers ref left Mexico for Cuba 12 Nov via Cubana 465 returned to Mexico 18 Nov. According LIENVOY they probably left for New York on 23 Nov. via AERONAVES flt 451. Ananyev (phonetic) of Sov consulate New York phoned SOVEMB 23 Nov asking for info on which flight courier is taking. Comment: This only infrequently occurs. Asst. Consul Kostikov handled the call from New York.

C/S comment: Aleksey Papkov and Valentin Ponomarev, son DIP couriers arrived Mexico 10 November.

Document # 104-10015-10143 is a one page document from A.C. Palmbeck to Director dated 11/25/63. This is about an interview with Alvarado

This document repeats the Alvarado claim. The important information in this document is Alvarado’s telephone number 41-07-31. His address Pino 173, Col. Santa Maria de La Virrera. He was born 1/31/40 in Ciudad Rama, State of Celaya, Nicaragua. Also important is Juan Lorillo, Rolan Alvarado and Carlos Fonseca AMADOR are members of his organization in Nicaragua.

Document # 104-10015-10149 Is a two page document from Bern, Germany to Director.

1. Following is complete text of second memo re Lee Harvey Oswald received by FBI Bern from [blank] at same time as memo forwarded ref A, [blank] and FBI rep Bern internal reference numbers omitted.

Oswald Lee Harvey, Born 18 October 1939 at New Orleans/USA.

In view of the recent and tragic developments we have again

contacted the “Albert Schweitzer College” at Churwalden for

possible additional information.

It has been found that all correspondence which had been

exchanged with the college by subject and his mother was

forwarded, in March 1961, to Jim Wright, member of Congress,

Washington D.C. on request of subject’s mother.

We felt that the above information might assist you in the

present investigation.

2. Kubark only: exam of ODENVY (FBI) and [blank] memo reference data indicates FBI Rep Bern queried [blank] re Lee Harvey Oswald first on 16 June 60, then again 28 July 61, that [blank] replied 29 Sept 62, then again 20 October 60. When ELMARD (I have no clue what ELMARD is supposed to be. It’s a CIA crypt for something) noted above and queried FBI rep. Bern latter replied that original query re: Oswald originated from FBI Paris. Speculate FBI checked Paris and Bern in connection persons associated with Fair Play for Cuba Committee including Oswald.

3. Kubark only: significance of reference to Albert Schweitzer College at Churwalden not known to station. Quick check station files shows no traces. Check phone book shows college listed at Churwalden, Graubuenden.

4. Will review above aspects Oswald case with FBI rep. Bern on 27 November. Advise any HQS guidelines.

C/S comment; *Forwarded information on Marina Nikolaeva Oswald, wife of Lee Harvey Oswald, which was volunteered by Moroccan student Mohamed Reggab.

**Forwarded station comments on [blank] (2) memo concerning Richard Thomas Gibson, who was acquainted with Oswald.

Document # 104-10015-10151 Is a three page document from Berlin to Director dated 11/26/63. This is the information on Marina Oswald from Mohamed Reggab. Reggab was born 1/3/38 in Safi, Morocco. Reggab moved to West Berlin. He was a student at Moscow’s Institute of Cinematography from Sept. 60 to April `62. He came to Berlin April 63 as a student and was debriefed on Moscow experiences at PBHASSOCK. On 26 Nov. he returned to PBHASSOCK to volunteer info on Mrs. Oswald who had been his girlfriend in Moscow

Reggab stated that Marina lived with her mother in Moscow in area near agricultural exposition. He did not know the address. Her father was deceased. She was employed early 61 as punch card operator for business machine firm.

He met her at a large Saturday night dance in January `61 sponsored by Russian student organization for foreign students at a university. They saw each other 3 or 4 times per week until May 61 when Reggab dumped her for one of Marina’s friends, Lousa Bourlakova, now age 21.

Reggab said on their first meeting he told her he was dissatisfied with life in Moscow as it was not Communist. She later spoke openly of opposition to regime and stated that her main goal in life was to marry a foreigner so she could leave Soviet Union.

He was aware that some girls who were members of KOMSOL had missions to report on foreign students and that such girls could be instructed to voice anti-regime sentiments to ingratiate themselves. He did not think this was true of Marina.

Document # 104-10015-10155 Is a two page document from CIA to FBI dated 11/26/63 open in full. It is a cable about the travel plans of a pro-Communist Costa Rican Congressman. He is going to Texas on November 26, 1963.

Julio Sunol Leal, pro-Castro deputy to the Costa Rican National Assembly, planned to leave San Jose, Costa Rica for Poland 24 November to attend World Peace conference in Warsaw, Poland. He delayed his departure and now plans to leave on 26 November. He intends to stop in Texas en route to Poland.

Representatives of this agency in Costa Rica suspect that Sunol will try to gather data in Texas to use in pro-Communist/Castro propaganda in connection with the assassination of President Kennedy.

Document # 104-10015-10237 Is a one page document from the Hague to Director dated 11/29/63. This is about a trace on two subjects. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald and Marina.

Subject trace results negative by station, PBSWING, AMCONSULATES Rotterdam and Amsterdam; inadvertently omitted ref B.

Re-Checking on basis ref A info

** Confirmed arrival of GPFLOOR (2) at New York 13 June 1962 aboard Holland American liner Massdam.

**No identifiable trace GPFLOOR (2), although Dutch Charge’ in Moscow issued transit visa to his wife on 13 May 1962.

Document # 104-10015-10238 Is a one page cable from London to Director dated 11/29/63. It is about a name trace on John Wilson AKA Wilson Hudson.

Although station tracing John Wilson AKA Wilson Hudson with [blank] believe on first returns from FBI check he likely be psychopath. Station gathers he gave this impression when testifying before Eastland Committee in `59. We are therefore not pursuing further except thru [blank] for any info they have on him.

C/S comment: *Dissemination applicable to RYBAT GPFLOOR DYVOUR Cables.

** Wilson claimed he knew “Ruby” while in Cuba 1957-59, and could identify Ruby from a clear picture.

Document # 104-10015-10365 Is a one page cable from Lima, Peru to Director. It is dated 11/26/63. This is about a phone conversation between Ulloa and Celso Pastor de la Torre made on November 22. Ulloa suggested to Pres. Bulaunde be the first Latin American president to announce he would attend funeral of President Kennedy.

Document # 104-10015-10390 Is a one page document from London to Director. It is dated 11/27/63. It is about the possibility of one Lyudmilla Nikolaevna Pruskova, who received a visa to visit the U.K. She was one of a group of 28 Soviets invited to visit the U.K. 12 May 1960 by Scottish Union of students. CIA thinks she might be related to LHO”S wife.

Cable all [blank] and [blank] traces re Lyudmila Nikolaevna Prusakova and Marina Nikolaevna Prusakova. Pouch photos if available. Slug answer. RYBAT GPFLOOR only.

Document # 104-10015-10404 Is a one page document from Mexico City to Director. It is dated 11/27/63. It is about border checks on Oswald’s alleged travel to Mexico City.

FYI there are about six separate Mexican first class bus lines servicing border points, with 28 arrivals around clock Mexico daily at six terminals, with hardly exception busses not on schedule. Above does not include numerous second class bus services, does not include train, air possibilities.

C/S comment: * Requested HQS try arrange with FBI surveill subj into Mexico and get firm info on border point at which crosses and bus used to arrive here.

It sounds from this that someone ordered the Mexi station to send out their boys to check the whole damn Mexican-U.S. border and how Oswald got into Mexico long after the fact, an impossible task.

Document # 104-10015-10414 Is a one page document from Mexico City to Director dated 11/27/63. This is an odd one. The Mexico City Station is having or going to a seminar. I wonder what the seminar is about?

1. Ref sent info Mexi silent on site and means organize seminar, set for January at earliest by agreement [ ]acrobat liquifers 7 and 8 by 12 December. Station feels more advance notice needed for meeting this scope and is not sanguine of success organizing in matter of days.

2. As HQS knows, liquifer 8 still mnty, travels Mexico City alternate week ends, unable plan [ ]afraid share seminar. L-7 still Europe at last report. New [ ]afraid leadership shaking down, unready for rapid coordination on nation wide event, particularly as Friemanis not scheduled visit Mexi. Station contact [ ]afraid through Rikon, who turning over contact to new outside case officer.

3. Station requests clarification need hold seminar such short notice.

Document # 104-10015-10421 Is a one page document from Ottawa to Director dated 11/23/63.

1. [ ] report Erwin Herzog departed Vancouver 0800 hours 23 November on Seattle express bus. Believed bound for Mexico City. Presume bus is Greyhound.

2. He was wearing….

3. [ ] unable learn time arrival, hotels, or probably contacts, Mexico City.

Document # 104-10015-10422 Is a one page document from Ottawa to Director dated 11/27/63. It is a name trace on Oswald.

1. [ ] and station records reveal no trace Oswald.

2. Also [ ]admix has searched all arrival and departure records from 1959 to present with negative results.

Document # 104-10015-104-10423 is a two page cable from Ottawa to Director. This is about the initial reaction of Cuban ambassador Cruz and his staff to the report of the assassination of President Kennedy.

1. Review current [ ]sime indicates initial reaction of Cuban ambassador Cruz and his staff to report of assassination President was one of happy delight. After further info was received indicating that Oswald had connections with Fair Play for Cuba Committee there was some apprehension concerning possible U.S. reaction.

2. Speech of Cuban ambassador to UN indicated to ambassador Cruz that he and his staff might be expected adopt more somber attitude in public. Some time later ambassador Cruz received cable, apparently signed “ROA”, which ordered ambassador and his staff to govern their actions by official attitude of gov’t to which they accredited. Cruz thereupon issued instructions to his staff and to Cuban consulates and trade office Toronto and Montreal to “cease looking happy in public”.

3. When it was announced in Canada that an official requiem high mass would be held, Cruz, decided that on basis his instructions from Havana he would have to attend although he made it clear that he would not do so if he had any personal choice in the matter. Cruz ordered other members his staff not to take part in official mass or any private ceremonies of mourning.

4. This info rcvd orally from [ ]acquire on basis quick review [ ]smine and believed essentially accurate. [ ] will provide written report in due course.

5. Station has confirmed that ambassador Cruz did attend requiem mass as official rep of his govt.

C/S comment: * Because of obvious significance any scrap of information which bears on President’s assassination, desire stations screen carefully all audiotapes since 22 November 1963 for comments and cable any significant information so obtained.

Document # 104-10015-10424 Is a one page document dated 11/27/63 from Ottawa to Director. More on the travels of Herzog.

[ ] Have now learned from second ticket agent that Herzog, following inquiry reported ref, purchased roundtrip Greyhound Bus ticket, Vancouver to Mexico City via El Paso.

Document # 104-10016-1006 Is a one page document from Mexico City to Director dated 11/28/63. It’s about Alvarado.

1. Delighted have Erythroid-3. Have him call 46 94 00 extension 250 and ask for Mr. Daniels, identifying self as Alberto Suarez. Meeting will take place lobby plaza hotel corner Insurgentes Norte and Sullivan just off Paseo Reforma. Time will be set by phone. If rpt if he should be able arrive 23 Nov give him number 20 96 24 and ask for Sr. David. Please furnish identifying data.

2. If KUBARK (CIA) interrogation in E-3 presence unsatisfactory retain alternative of turnover to government of Mexico.

C/S comment: *Suggested sending E-3 (1) to Mexico City to help in the investigation of Alverado

Document # 104-10016-10013 Is a 3 page document from Peter Baranowski to MFR. This is really a memorandum for record. It is dated 12/15/63. This is further amplification of Deryabin’s report on the Planned Assassination of Eisenhower.

1. As you are aware, Peter Deryabin prepared a report dated 27 November 1963 of his comments on the assassination of President Kennedy. In discussing this report with the undersigned, Deryabin mentioned that he had reported in 1954 that the Soviets had had an operation to assassinate President Eisenhower.

2. We resurrected this report. (See attachment.) The following is in amplification of Deryabin’s 19 October 1954 report on the KGB plan to assassinate President Eisenhower: Deryabin reported that while he was Acting Chief of the German Branch in 1952 (the chief, Ivan Kuzmich Krylov, was on TDY in Austria for a couple of months), Deryabin had occasion to speak to a new officer, Lt. Col. Brusov. Brusov had just returned from North Korea where he was assigned to Military Counterintelligence. Deryabin said he got to know Brusov both from talking to him and from reading his party file. You will recall that Deryabin was the Party Secretary for the German Branch. The sum total of the conversation that concerned Eisenhower’s planned assassination was that Brusov said, “We were preparing an operation to assassinate Eisenhower during his visit to Korea in order to create panic among the Americans and win the war in Korea.” Supposedly one of the actions taken was that military activities in the areas where Eisenhower was supposed to visit were intensified and there were special bombings and other air sorties mounted. Deryabin said that he did not question Brusov too closely in this matter because Brusov had worked for Sudoplatov. You will recall that Sudoplatov used to command the SPETSBURO #1 in the MGB. SPETSBURO #1 was concerned with assassinations and other executive action type projects and there was an unwritten rule in the MGB that nobody ask questions about their activities.

3. Concerning Brusov, Deryabin recalls that he (Brusov) worked for SUDOPLATOV during World War II when SUDOPLATOV was in charge of partisan activities. In 1949 Brusov moved to Poland where he was the CI advisor to the Polish State Security for the Warsaw Vojevodstvo. From 1949 to 1952 Brusov was supposedly in Korea where Deryabin believes he continued to work for SUDOPLATOV’s SPETSBURO #1. While under Deryabin’s command in the German Branch, Brusov was in charge of handling all English, American and French defectors in Germany. He had two officers, one Umnov and the other SHUKIN. You will recall that Umnov is the TASS correspondent in Vienna now, and is handling a couple of double agents that we are aware of.

4. After Beriav took over in March of 1953, Deryabin recalls that there was some discussion as to what should be done with SUDOPLATOV’s SPETSBURO#1. The last that Deryabin recalls is that Brusov was transferred sometime in 1953. He was assigned as Deputy Chief to the Moscow Oblast of the MVD and his responsibilities were investigation of sabotage of transportation in the Moscow Oblast. Deryabin recommends that we ask SVIALTO about Brusov as SVIATLO might have met him or knew him in Warsaw.

signed

Peter Baranowski

CSR/CI/S

Document #104-10016-10023 Is a one page document from London to Director dated 12/02/63.

1. Sunday Telegraph 1 Dec. `63 caries editorial page article by Washington correspondent Stephen Barber devoted largely to Fair Play For Cuba Committee (FPCC). Barber had interviewed and quotes Robert Bruce Taber (about whom see Ref A Contact report) as doubting the FPCC Natl Chairman Vincent Lee had any dealings with Lee Harvey Oswald.

2. Airmailing Clip Winston Gargarin. Have informed Local State Dept.

Document # 104-10016-10033 Is a six page document from Richard Helms Deputy Director of Plans, CIA to J. Lee Rankin dated 3/24/76. There is a record and routing sheet dated March 24, 1976 from CI Staff / Hartman with a note.

Jim, this doc is not in the system and should go into Oswald’s 201 file. See attached subject. You may also wish to check whether Riccardo Guttierez Torres has a 201 and, if so B code it. You will probably want to use the TDCS number.

This appears to be Warren Commission document #1012, however, there is an interesting Memorandum For Record dated November 16, 1977.

This report, Warren Commission Document No. 1012, was recently forwarded to CIA by the National Archives for consideration in response to a request made under the Freedom of Information Act by a third party. A search of documents contained in the Lee Harvey Oswald 201 file has revealed that the four-page version of Commission Document No. 1012, currently in National Archives, is a slightly different version of the same document in the Oswald file, now numbered 18-522 and containing only three pages on the subject of Geroge and Jeane DeMohrenschildt. A comparison of the two documents (18-522 and Commission Document No. 1012) also contains additional information. This additional information has been determined to be releasable under the Freedom of Information Act. It has also been discovered that Commission Document No. 1012 utilizes an exact copy of page 2 from Document No. 18-522. This has destroyed the substantive continuity in the text of the material connecting pages 1 and 3 with page 2 which can easily be ascertained when Commission Document No. 1012 and Document 18-522 are similarly made to CD 1012. However, information identifying Agency components and internal Agency filing instructions are not present in Commission Document No. 1012. As a result, deletions of this information claimed in Document No. 18-522 are not to be claimed in Commission Document No. 1012.

Document # 104-10017-10017 Is a two page document to London from Director dated 12/03/63. This originates from Mr. Scelso, unit CWH/3, ext. 5613, 3 Dec 63.

1. Carl John Wilson AKA John Wilson-Hudson DOB 29 December 1916 Liverpool well known HDQS. In 36 left Oxford to join international brigade in Spanish Civil war, later became Spanish citizen. In 39 went to Chile with Spanish passport and resided Santiago. Journalist stated employment. While Chile Brit Amb requested that he be expelled for open crusade against U.K. government and masquerading under various nonexistent titles. Wilson’s strange behavior attributed to mental illness. Expulsion order dropped after Wilson promised to cease and desist. But he continued similar activity. Violently anti-U.S.

2. In June 59 wrote to UK parliament and UK trade union saying could confirm U.S. giving military advice to dictators and protested in name of humanity. Arrested by Castro govt early July 59 for involvement revolutionary group planning attack on Nicaragua. Detained in Cuban prison 54 days then went to Kingston, Jamaica, where issued nonimigrant visa U.S. to sell story to Miami Herald. Apparently, returned UK latter part 59

3. Although Wilson intelligent, erratic behavior indicates mental unbalance. Married to Chilean Elina Bronfman.

4. Latest info HDQS record 59. Continue request with [ ] [ ] and report all info HDQS. HDQS pouching full traces LOND which HDQS passed FBI Wash.

*Ref Rybat – Station asked [ ] (2) to follow up any leads on British subjects abroad relating to GPFLOOR (4).

Document # 104-10017-10034 This is a one page document from Munich to Director dated 12/06/63. Munich was asked to confirm Oswald’s travels.

Muni and [ ] files negative.

Document # 104-10017-10037 This is a 33 page document from CIRA/RS to IP. It is dated 12/06/63. This is a preliminary biographical study on Lee Harvey Oswald. DTD 6 December.

Actually, it is two copies of a 15 page document. The 15th page is missing in the first copy but there in the second.

There is a record and routing sheet, dated December 6, 1963.

They give his date of birth as 18 October 1939, New Orleans, Louisiana.

They say there is sensitive information on pages 11 and 12. Those are about Oswald in Mexico City. For those of us fascinated with John Armstrong’s research I’ll reproduce this stuff.

Date Event Reference

1942 (or 1943) At the minimum age of three, OSWALD New York Times

was placed in a Lutheran home for 3 December 1963

children, in New Orleans, Louisiana

(Note, the period after children is turned into a coma and “in New Orleans, Louisiana” is added in someone’s handwriting.)

1945 New York Times

5 May When OSWALD’s mother married Edwin A. 3 December 1963

EKDAHL on 5 May 1945, she moved to

Fort Worth, Texas, and took Lee Harvey

OSWALD with her. Prior to that time

Lee Harvey OSWALD and his brothers were

living at a Lutheran home for children

in New Orleans, Louisiana. The two

older children, John Edward PIC and

Robert Edward Lee OSWALD, Jr., were

left in the Lutheran home.

1948

12 March On 12 March 1948 Edwin A. EKDAHL Washington Post

divorced OSWALD’s mother, Marguerite 28 November 1963

OSWALD, in Ft. Worth, Texas.

EKDAHL’s attorney was former Navy

Secretary, Fred KORTH.

1952

September In September 1952 OSWALD moved with

his mother and two brothers to

New York City,where they resided at

1455 Sheridan Avenue, in the Bronx.

OSWALD attended a junior high school

at 1865 Morris Avenue, at which time

he was in the seventh grade.

1953 OSWALD moved with his mother and

brothers to 825 East 179th Street in

New York City, and OSWALD attended

Junior High School #44 at 1825

Prospect Avenue.

Four judges of The Bronx Children’s Washington Post

Court who interviewed OSWALD in 1953 3 December 1963

felt that OSWALD needed psychiatric

care.

In 1953 OSWALD was absent from two

junior high schools for 47 days.

Around December 1953 OSWALD entered New York Times

Beauregard Junior High School at 3 October 1963

4621 Canal Street, New Orleans,

Louisiana, as an eight grade transfer

student from Public School #44 in

New York City

1955 OSWALD attended the Warren Easton New York Times

High school in New Orleans, Louisiana, 3 December 1963

in 1955

1956 For a brief period, prior to his DBF-82181

enlistment in the U. S. Marine Corps, 3 July 1963

OSWALD was employed in an import-

export business (place of employment

not given).

Prior to his enlistment in the U. S. DBF-82181

Marine Corps OSWALD attended high 3 July 1963

school in Ft. Worth, Texas. At the

time of his enlistment he had not

finished high school.

October On 24 October 1956 OSWALD enlisted in DBF-82181

the U. S. Marine Corps, and was assigned 3 July 1963

serial number 1653230. At the time of

his enlistment he was residing at

4936 Collingwood Street, Fort Worth,

Texas.

1957

March to June From March to 3 May OSWALD was

stationed in Jacksonville, Florida.

From 4 May to 19 June OSWALD was

stationed in Biloxi, Mississippi, where

he received special training as as

electronics and radio operator.

1958 OSWALD served in Japan from July 1957 Washington Post

to October 1958. 1 December 1963

1959

Spring In the spring of 1959 OSWALD made

arrangements to attend the Albert

Schweitzer college in Switzerland.

He paid a registration fee of $25 and

was expected to arrive at the college

on 20 April 1960. There is no record

of OSWALD’s actual attendance at the

college, or his presence in Switzerland.

From March to September 1959 OSWALD was Washington Post

stationed at Marine Air Control Squadron 3 December 1963

9 in Tustin, California. OSWALD’S direct

superior was Marine First Lieutenant John

E. Donovan. When it was learned that

OSWALD was in Moscow, USSR, all secret

radio frequencies, call signs and codes

for the air control units had to be

changed.

3 September On 3 September 1959 OSWALD received an DBF-49478

honorable (dependency) discharge from 12 May 1960

the U.S. Marine Corps, after 14 months

service in Japan and the Philippines.

His serial number was MS-1853230-6741,

USMC. He was a PFC (E-2), and was in the

Marine Air Corps School (MACS-9) and held

the status of MWHG (radar operator).

When OSWALD applied for a U.S. Passport Foreign Service

in September (?) 1959 he gave his Dispatch #234

occupation as “shipping export agent.” 2 November 1959

10 September When OSWALD was issued U.S. Passport Foreign Service

#1733242 on 10 September 1959 his Dispatch #234

address was given as 4936 Collingwood, 2 November 1959

Ft. Worth, Texas.

(note Dispatch spelled incorrectly as “despatch” in document)

11 September On 11 September 1959 OSWALD received an

honorable discharge from the U. S. Marine

Corps, and reenlisted as a private in the

Reserve; on the same day.

Reason for discharge given as “Dependency

hardship in order to support mother.”

1959 continued After OSWALD’s discharge from the U.S. DBF-82181

Marine Corps in September of 1959, he 3 July 1963

visited his mother in Fort Worth, Texas,

for a few days. At that time he stated

that he was going to New Orleans,

Louisiana, to resume his employment with

an export-import company. He also

mentioned his desire to travel and he

told his mother that he might go to Cuba.

During the time OSWALD served in the DBF-82181

U. S. Marine Corps he saved $1600. 3 July 1963

9 October On 9 October 1959 OSWALD arrived

in Southampton, England. His landing

card indicating that he had no fixed

address, but planned to remain in

England one week for vacation before

going to “some school” in Switzerland.

OSWALD subsequently left England on

10 October for Helsinki, Finland.

14 October On 14 October 1959 OSWALD applied for Foreign Service

a Soviet visa in Helsinki, Finland. Dispatch #234

2 November 1959

16 October OSWALD claimed that on 16 October 1959 Foreign Service

he applied for Soviet citizenship by Dispatch #234

letter to the “Supreme Soviet.”

22 October On 22 October 1959 OSWALD’s Soviet

visa and militia registration expired.

He was then residing at the Hotel

Metropole, Moscow, USSR.

31 October On 31 October 1959 OSWALD stated that Foreign Service

he wished to renounce his U. S. Dispatch #234

citizenship, claiming that he had already 2 November 1959

taken steps to become a Soviet citizen.

2 November As of 2 November 1959 OSWALD was residing

in a non-tourist status at the Hotel

Metropole in Moscow.

18 December On 18 December 1959 OSWALD’s mother, DBF-49478

Marguerite OSWALD, mailed him a check 12 May 1963

for $25 as a partial payment of the

$100 he had lent to her. She sent the

check to OSWALD at the Hotel Metropole,

Moscow. On 18 January 1960 OSWALD

returned the check to her and asked her

to mail him a $20 dollar bill, which

she did. On 25 February 1960 the letter

she had written to OSWALD and the $20

were returned to her and the envelope

was stamped “retour, parti.”

After OSWALD arrived in Moscow he Washington Post

reportedly slashed his wrists, and was 2 December 1963

hospitalized for several days. It was

not known whether this was a suicide

attempt, or an “attention getting gesture.”

1960

13 January As of 13 January OSWALD was employed in

the Belorussian Radio and TV factory in

Minsk, USSR, as a metal worker in the

research department.

22 January Mrs. OSWALD, Lee Harvey OSWALD’s mother,

secured a foreign draft from the First

National Bank of Ft. Worth, Texas, for

$25.00 which she sent to Oswald in care

of the Metropole Hotel, Moscow, USSR.

May As of May 1960 OSWALD’s mother, Marguerite DBF-49478

OSWALD, was employed at the Methodist

Orphans Home, 1111 Herring Avenue, Waco,

Texas.

6 May As of 6 May 1960 Marguerite C. OSWALD,

aka Mrs. Edward Lee OSWALD, was employed

at the Methodist Orphans Home, 1111

Herring Avenue, Waco, Texas.

(Note, I don’t know why the above information is repeated nor do I understand the subtle distinction made identifying Marguerite Oswald. It’s as if they are trying to say there were two Marguerite Oswald’s employed at the same place.)

17 August OSWALD was given a dishonorable discharge DBF-82181

from the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve on 3 July 1961

17 August 1960.

1961

26 January On 26 January 1961 OSWALD’s mother, Memo of Conversation

Marguerite OSWALD, visited the Dept. Department of State

of State in Washington, D.C. to see 26 January 1961

what could be done to help her son.

At this time she gave her address as

Box 305, Boyd, Texas.

30 January On 30 January 1961 OSWALD wrote a letter

to Governor John Connally, then Secretary

of the Navy, protesting his dishonorable

discharge from the U.S. Marine Corps

Reserve.

5 February On 5 February 1961 OSWALD mailed a letter

to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow from Minsk,

indicating his desire to return to the

United States. The letter was received

at the Embassy on 13 February.

10 April As of 10 April 1961 OSWALD’s mother, DBF-82181

Marguerite OSWALD, was residing at 3 July 1963

1612 Hurley Street, Fort Worth, Texas.

She said that she had returned to

Fort Worth about 1 April 1961 from Boyd,

Texas, where she had operated a dress

shop which she found necessary to close

on account of financial difficulties.

30 April When OSWALD married Marina in Minsk on Washington Post

30 April 1961, OSWALD was earning 80 28 November 1963

rubles a month, whereas Marina earned

only 45, even though she had more formal

training.

On 30 April 1961 OSWALD married Marina

Nikolayevna PRUSAKOVA, a dental technician.

One Loussa BOURLAKOVA was reported to be DIR-85177

a friend of OSWALD’s wife, Marina OSWALD. November 1963

25 May On 25 May 1961 the U.S. Embassy in

Moscow received an undated letter from

OSWALD asking for a “full guarantee” that

he would not “under any circumstances”

be persecuted.

8 July On 8 July 1961 OSWALD appeared at the

U. S. Embassy in Moscow with his wife

with regard to his return to the United

States. At this time he denied that he

had applied for Soviet citizenship, and

his U. S. Passport was returned to him.

20 July On 20 July OSWALD made application for

an exit visa to return to the United States

to the Soviet authorities.

Early October In the early part of October 1961 OSWALD

mailed four letters to the U. S. Embassy

in Moscow dated — July, 15 July, 8 August,

and 4 October. These letters indicated

that he and his wife were being subject to

harassment by Soviet citizens in Minsk,

and reasserted his desire to return to

the United States.

1961-1962 While living in Minsk OSWALD liked to go New York Times

hunting. His wife said her impression 27 November 1963

was that it might have been only as a

guest of a hunt club. OSWALD reportedly

was irritated because the Soviet Government

would not allow him to own a gun.

1962

15 February On 15 February 1962 OSWALD’s daughter,

June Lee OSWALD, was born.

22 March On 22 March 1962 OSWALD wrote to

Brigadier General R. Mc. C. Tompkins,

U.S.M.C., Assistant Director of Personnel,

regarding his dishonorable discharge.

OSWALD’s address at that time was

Kalinina St., 4-27, Minsk, USSR.

24 May U. S. Immigration Visa (#52) was issued

to OSWALD’S wife at the U. S. Embassy in

Moscow on 24 May 1962.

13 June On 13 June 1962 OSWALD arrived in the U. S.

at New York, NY, with his wife and daughter

on the SS MAASDAN.

18, 19, 20 June On 18, 19, and 20 June 1962, Miss Washington Post

Pauline V. BATES, a public stenographer 30 November 1963

in Ft. Worth, Texas, typed about a

third of a manuscript for OSWALD

concerning his views of the USSR and

his experience. OSWALD stopped the

work because he said that he only had

$10 to pay BATES.

15 August On 15 August 1962 OSWALD stated that

he had been residing with his wife and child

at 2703 Mercedes Street, Forth Worth, Texas,

since the middle of July 1962.

October In 1962 OSWALD was employed by a New York Times

graphics concern in Dallas, Texas. He had 28 November 1963

been referred to the firm by the State

Employment Commission.

1963 In the early part of 1963 OSWALD told New York Times

his wife to return to the USSR as he could 27 November 1963

not support her here. After urging she

contacted the Soviet Embassy in Washington,

D.C., for a visa. When the Soviet Embassy

asked why she wanted to return to the USSR

she reportedly did not reply to their query.

March In March 1963 OSWALD was given a discharge New York Times

notice by the graphic arts concern in Dallas, 28 November 1963

Texas, by which he was employed.

April In April 1963 OSWALD’s employment with the New York Times

graphics arts concern in Dallas, Texas, 28 November 1963

was terminated. OSWALD had been paid about

$1.45 an hour. After deductions his pay

amounted to about $50 a week.

10 May On May 10 1963 OSWALD informed his wife, Washington Post

who was residing in Irving, Texas, with 28 November 1963

Mrs. Ruth PAINE, that he had found work in

New Orleans, Louisiana. Ruth PAINE then

drove Marina to New Orleans, and stayed

with her for “a couple” of days.

16 May As of 16 May 1963 OSWALD was employed

as a maintenance man with the William

Reilly Coffee co., 640 Magazine Street,

New Orleans. At the time he was hired

by this company he was residing at

757 French Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.

May In May of 1963 OSWALD received a membership

card from the New York Chapter of the Fair

Play for Cuba Committee which was signed

by V. H. Lee .

6 June On 6 June 1963 OSWALD claimed that he

received a card from the New Orleans

Chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee

signed by A. J. HIDELL.

25 June On 25 June 1963 OSWALD was issued a passport Washington Post

for travel to Russia, Poland, and Western 1 December 1963

Europe as a photographer.

17 July On 17 July 1963 OSWALD’s employment with

the William Reilly Coffee Co. was terminated.

At this time OSWALD was living with his wife

and child at 4095 Magazine Street, New

Orleans, Louisiana.

9 August On 9 August 1963 OSWALD was arrested in

New Orleans, Louisiana, for disturbing the

peace. At the time of the arrest, OSWALD

was distributing throwaways for the Fair

Play for Cuba Committee.

21 August On 21 August 1963 OSWALD appeared on

radio station WDSU in New Orleans, Louisiana,

at which time he admitted being a “Marxist”

and claimed that the Fair Play for Cuba

Committee was not Communist controlled.

16 September According to an article appearing in the Washington Post

Milwaukee Sentinel on 30 November 1963, a 1 December 1963

man who signed his name “Lee OSWALD, Dallas,”

registered at a well known night club about

30 miles from Milwaukee on 16 September 1963.

17 September On 17 September 1963 OSWALD applied in DIR-85653

New Orleans, Louisiana, for unemployment 28 November 1963

insurance.

23 September On 23 September 1963 Marina OSWALD, New York Times

and her child, departed from New Orleans 27 November 1963

with Mrs. Ruth PAINE, and drove to

Mrs. Paine’s house in Irving, Texas.

OSWALD did not go with them claiming

that he wanted to visit a friend in

Houston, Texas.

25 September On 25 September OSWALD moved from his DBA-55715

apartment at 4905 Magazine Street, New 31 October 1963

Orleans, owing 17 days’ rent.

26 September On 26 September 1963 OSWALD entered MEXI-7040

Mexico at Nuevo Laredo. He claimed 24 November 1963

that he was 23 years old, a resident

of New Orleans, Louisiana, and that his

destination was Mexico City. He gave

his occupation as “photographer.” He

was issued Mexican tourist card #

24085.

On 26 September 1963 OSWALD took a 2:30 New York Times

P. M. bus from Neuva Laredo, for Mexico 3 December 1963

City on the Frontera Line. The bus fare

is $5.71 at the exchange rate of 12 1/2

Mexican pesos a dollar.

OSWALD’s bus was due to arrive in Mexico New York Times

City on 27 September at 8:30 P.M. After 3 December 1963

his arrival he found lodging at the Hotel

Commercio on Bernardo de Sahaguan Street.

He occupied Room 18 at a cost of $1.28 a

day. When he traveled to Mexico, OSWALD

carried a leather suit case which was about

two feet long.

27 September On 27 September 1963 a man later Sensitive CIA Source!

identified as OSWALD, telephoned the

Soviet Embassy stating that he needed

to get a visa to go to Odessa, USSR.

A little while later a woman from the

Cuban Consulate telephoned the Soviet

Consulate stating that an American male

has requested an in-transit visa for Cuba

because he wanted to go to the USSR. The

woman claimed that she had sent the American

to the Soviet Embassy, saying that if the

Soviets made or accepted the visa, the Cubans

would also give it to him without further

procedures. The woman from the Cuban

Consulate wanted to know with whom the

American had spoken when he visited the

Soviet Consulate. Later in the day the

Soviet Consulate telephoned the Cuban

Consulate again regarding OSWALD’s request

for a visa, and mentioned the fact that the

Soviet Embassy in Washington, D. C. had not

as yet been authorized by Moscow to issue

OSWALD a Soviet visa. Both consulates agreed

that nothing can be done until they receive

further advice from the Soviet Embassy in

Washington.

28 September On 28 September 1963 the woman at the Senistive CIA Source!

Cuban Consulate, Mrs. Silvia Tirado de Duran,

called the Soviet Consulate, saying that the

American was at the Cuban Consulate and that

she would put him on the telephone. OSWALD

then spoke to the Soviet Consulate and said

that he had just been at the Soviet Embassy

and that he had spoken with the Soviet Consul

there. OSWALD was asked to return to the

Soviet Embassy to leave his local address with

them. OSWALD stated that he would be there

right away.

1 October On 1 October 1963 OSWALD telephoned Sensitive CIA Source!

the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City

and said, “Hello, this is Lee OSWALD

speaking.” He asked if anything new

had been heard from Washington, and he

asked to be given the name of the Soviet

Consul to whom he had spoken previously.

2 October OSWALD left Mexico city on a Frontera bus New York Times

which departed at 1:00 P. M. 3 December 1963

3 October On 3 October 1963 OSWALD arrived by bus New York Times

at Neuva Laredo at 6:30 A. M. He arrived 3 December 1963

at Dallas, Texas, on the evening of

3 October and took a room at the Dallas

YMCA.

4 October On 4 October 1963 OSWALD returned to Washington Post

and stayed at the YMCA. 1 December 1963

14 October On 14 October 1963 OSWALD applied for Washington Post

a job in the Texas School Book 1 December 1963

Depository. He started work on 15 October

1963 as a stock clerk at $1.25 per hour.

OSWALD applied for a job at the Texas Washington Post

School Book Depository after a Mrs. 28 November 1963

William RANDALL had told Ruth PAINE

of the opening.

Around 14 October 1963 OSWALD took an Washington Post

$8 a week room at 1026 North Beckley 1 December 1963

street, Oak Cliff, a suburb of Dallas,

Texas, in the home of Mrs. Arthur C.

JOHNSON. He was known to Mrs. JOHNSON

as O. H. Lee.

8 November Approximately two weeks (ca. 8 Nov. 1963) UPI-141

(app.) before the assassination of President 25 November 1963

KENNEDY, OSWALD reportedly visited

Wytheville, Virginia, where he asked

the local Red Cross office for fare to

Ansted, West Virginia, near Charleston.

21 November On 21 November 1963 OSWALD spent the Washington Post

night at the home of Mrs. Ruth PAINE

in Irving, Texas, where his wife

resided, and where he had stored his

gun, rolled in a blanket, in the PAINE’S

garage.

22 November On 22 November OSWALD drove to

the Texas School Book Depository

Building in Dallas, Texas, with B. Wesley

FRAZIER, who also worked in the building.

OSWALD was carrying an ungainly package,

and when FRAZIER asked him about the

bundle OSWALD allegedly explained curtly

that the bundle contained “windowshades.”

Shortly after 12:00 noon, Charlie GIVENS, Washington Post

a porter, saw OSWALD on the sixth floor 1 December 1963

of the Texas Book Depository Building,

the floor from which the shots* were

fired at President KENNEDY.

(*Note, I corrected this. The document says “shoots”.)

At approximately 12:20, as President Washington Post

KENNEDY’s motorcade was making a sharp 1 December 1963

S turn from Main Street in Dallas,

Texas, three shots were fired, from a

window on the sixth floor of the Texas

Book Depository Building.

At the moment the shots were fired,

Roy S. TRULY director and superintendent

of the Texas Book Depository, joined by

policeman, ran into the building. As

they made their way to a back stairway

they saw OSWALD standing by a soft drink

machine, sipping from a coke bottle.

TRULY told the police that OSWALD was

employed in the building, and they went

on. OSWALD then left the building and took

a bus headed for the Oak Cliff area of

Dallas where he resided. As the bus moved

slowly through the traffic he got out and

took a taxi to a corner five blocks from

his rooming house. At approximately 1:00

o’clock he ran into the rooming house where

he was living, grabbed a zipper jacket, and

ran out again in the direction of a

neighborhood shopping area. Police

Pvt. J. D. TIPPET, driving in a patrol

car hailed OSWALD after hearing on his

radio that a man of OSWALD’s description

was wanted. OSWALD talked to TIPPET

for several minutes, and was arrested.

TIPPET got out of his car and began to

walk towards OSWALD, who pulled a pistol

and fired three shots at TIPPET from a

distance no greater than the width of

TIPPET’s car. TIPPET died almost

instantly, and OSWALD darted off

through a vacant lot where three spent

cartridges were found. A shoe salesman

noticed OSWALD as he slipped into a

lobby between two display windows.

Observing that OSWALD was disheveled,

the shoe salesman decided to keep an eye

on him and, when OSWALD managed to slip

into a movie theater without paying, the

shoe salesman told the cashier to call

the police and he assisted an usher lock

all the emergency exits of the theater.

When the police arrived, the lights

inside the theater were turned on. When

ordered by the police to stand up, OSWALD

said, “Well I guess it is all over now.”

OSWALD raised his hands, then made a fist

and hit one of the policemen in the nose.

He drew his pistol, but was overpowered by

police officers, and arrested.

(Tippit misspelled in original)

At 7:15 P.M OSWALD was formerly charged

with the murder of Patrolman TIPPIT. (now spelled correctly)

At 11:36 P.M. OSWALD was charged with the Washington Post

murder of John F. KENNEDY, President of the 1 December 1963

United States.

23 November At 11:19 on 23 November 1963 Jack RUBY Washington Post

shot OSWALD as he was being transferred 1 December 1963

to the Dallas County Jail, from the Dallas

Police Station. Less than two hours later

OSWALD died of massive internal injuries

at the Parkland Hospital in Dallas where

President KENNEDY had been pronounced

dead the day before.

(Note incorrect date! Oswald is shot on Sunday, November 24th)

25 November On 25 November 1963 OSWALD was buried New York Times

at a cemetery on the Eastern edge of 26 November 1963

Fort Worth, Texas, shortly after 4:00

P. M.

Document # 104-10017-10041 is a 3 page document from London to Director dated 12/06/63 about an Alexander Ivan Koster, or Kosterski who met Jack Ruby (NKVD) in Palestine in 1943.

I don’t know what NKVD means.

Document # 104-10017-10042 is a one page document from Director to Berlin dated 12/03/63.

RYBAT REDWOOD LCIMPROVE [ ]BURBLE

FYI Valery Vladimirovich Kostikov mentioned in ref is believed to be the Soviet with whom Lee Harvey Oswald was in contact during his visit to Mexico City in late Sept and early Oct 1963. We do not feel that there is necessarily any connection between these cases and do not anticipate any effect on the [ ]burble operation because of this. Desire only that necessary KUBARK (CIA) personnel be aware of situation and be alert to and report any unusual KBG reaction during [ ]burble visit to Germany. [ ]burble is not aware of this situation and it should not be discussed with him.

C/S comment: Outlined developments in operation since subj left Germany.

A lot of people sign off on this. C/SR/CI Mr. Bagley, C/SR/O/EE D. W. Schroeder, C/WH/3 [SCELSO] (Note WH written in, 3 nearly obliterated in this poor quality copy.) CI/OG/SS, (can’t make out signature) (another which I can’t make out the letters or the signature) C/EE/G/CE (K. Wagner?) C/SR/CI K [COIGNE]. Coigne appears to be another false name like Scelso.

I remember John Newman during one of his presentations on Oswald in Mexico City that part of the solution to what is going on might be knowing what operations were going on while Oswald or the impostor was in there. We now know of a

[ ]burble operation.

Document # 104-10017-10045 Is a one page document from Paris to Director dated 12/05/63. It is about someone who claimed to have documents concerning Lee Harvey Oswald. Stephane Cisowski, born 5 May 1936, Charny, Siene et Marne, France. He created the entire story in attempt to “roll the Americans.”

Document # 104-10017-10051 Is a one page document from Paris to Director dated 12/05/63. A name trace on Lee Harvey Oswald.

1. Station[ ] Sung [ ] [ ] traces negative.

Document # 104-10017-10061 Is a one page document from Frankfurt to Director dated 12/05/63. Information was requested on Lee Oswald with his wife and oldest child on their return from the Soviet Union to the United States.

Fran and service files contain no traces on subjs and no information concerning their travel.

Document # 104-10017-10069 Is a one page document from Bonn to Director dated 12/04/63. It is about Oswald’s travels.

1. According records Auslaenderzentralregister (Foreigners Records Office) Cologne Marina Nikolayevna Pusakova Oswald entered Fedrep (Federal Republic of Germany) transit visa 694/62 issued Fedrep Emb Moscow.

Document #104-10017-10074 Is a two page document from Paris to Director dated 12/04/63. This is an earlier report on Stephane Cisowski. They don’t know his name yet or that his story is false.

1. FBI Paris has been contacted by person claiming possess documents identifying American associates Lee Harvey Oswald in USSR including one alleged to have had control over Oswald. FBI contact refuses identify self beyond few elements below. Wants four thousand dollars and two tickets Lisbon in return for documents.

2. FBI rep. assesses contact as probably sane. FBI Wash. instructed him in telecon to get French police support for hostile interrogation if necessary. FBI rep has arranged this and now awaiting reappearance contact for further talk.

3. Contact states first name is “Stephan”, nationality Polish, knew Oswald in USSR, departed USSR 6 January 61. States was in contact Kubark base Hamburg on another matter (presumably after 61) Claims sister in New Bedford, Mass and that he once involved in arrangement to immigrate to Muncie, Indiana. FBI describes Stephan as about 30 years, 6 feet 160 pounds, light brown hair combed forward, one inch horizontal scar near right nostril, speaks fluent French.

Document # 104-10018-10003 Is a one page document from Stuttgart to Director dated 12/09/63.

No confirmatory info available Stut re June 1962 travel Oswald family. Records of 66th, Central Registry, LFV/BW and LKA/BW were checked.

Document # 104-100018-10008 Is a two page document from Chief of Base, Bonn to Chief of Station, Germany dated 12/09/63. This is a dispatch concerning travel data for Lee and Marina Oswald.

This is a copy of theTWX received from the Auslaenderzentralregister. Marina list’s her place of birth as Archangelskaja/obl rather than Minsk.

They say they might be able to get another form that could have Marina’s Soviet passport number on it.

Since Lee Oswald traveled on U.S. papers he did not require a visa to travel through Fed. Rep. of Germany. Nor did he have to register at the border.

Document # 104-10018-10012 This is basically a duplicate of the above but much easier to read as it is a much better quality copy.

There is a record and routing sheet.

Document # 104-10018-10034 Is a two page cable from Paris to Director dated 12/10/63.

1. To date, only [ ]PRY item mentioning President Kennedy assassination is brief 27 November exchange between [ ]LIFT/2 and Peng Min of Mesucora group. They obviously been studying newspaper article and photos re Dallas events. Peng said “Is this the guy who killed him (Kennedy)?” [ ]2 answered “That is Oswald but I don’t think he is only one involved. Oswald shot to death by Ruby and latter picked up by Dallas police. Killing in USA is so easily accomplished.”

2. Sta comment. French press has given sensational coverage to possibility that assassination was many-angled plot, stressing “second man in the window”. Sta interprets above as [ ]2 briefing Peng on basis press stories [ ]2 has read. Sta will continue [ ]PRY coverage and report any further related comments.

3. No index.

C/S comment: * Dissemination applicable to RYBAT DYVOUR GPFLOOR CABLES. **Requested any information on assassination of President Kennedy.

Document # 104-10018-10035 Is a one page document from Paris to Director dated 12/10/63.

1. [ ]Sierra for 24 and 25 Nov gives target reaction to Kennedy assassination.

[ ]SNAFU/12 AND [ ]SNAFU/16 appear happy about it, and sorry for Oswald. Comment that Oswald is “dead duck” since to be judged in Texas. 25 Nov after Oswald shot, [ ]SANFU/12 states Oswald poor boy and “he had nothing to do with Kennedy’s murder.” Targets laugh when hearing of Chinese reaction to assassination.

C/S Comment * Requested stations screen all audio tape since 22 November 1963 for comments on assassination of President Kennedy.

Document # 104-10018-10036 Is a one page document. It is unknown who wrote it or to whom it was addressed. It is dated 12/10/63. The RIF lists its title as Note explaining cable that contains details of a sensitive operation in

( (deletion) ).

T is cable bares details of a sensitive operation in Paris. Nothing in the text of the message is substantive in nature.

Document # 104-10018-10037 is another document very similar to the one above. This is also dated 12/10/63.

This message contains no substantive information and is based on a sensitive operation in Paris.

Document # 104-10018-10052 This one will make you happy, happy, happy, as Emeril Lagasse might say. This is a four page document. It is dated 12/16/63. It is from CIRA/RS, CIA to IP/AN, CIA. There is a record and routing sheet.

The first page is a letter from Robert G. Lamprell possibly to Chief, SR, Chief, WE, Chief of station, Paris.

GPFLOOR – Lee Harvey OSWALD

For information

For the record we forward herewith a memorandum by^ staff employee Thomas B. Cassasin in which he gives his recollection of SR interest in Subject following Subject’s return to the United States from the USSR.

(Note, “staff employee” is written. Also Oswald is written in next to word Subject.)

25 November 1963

Subject: Mr. Lee Harvey Oswald

To: Walter P. Haltigan

1. It makes little difference now, but REDWOOD had at one time an OI interest in Oswald. As soon as I had heard Oswald’s name, I recalled that as Chief of the 6 Branch I had discussed — sometime in Summer 1960 — with the then Chief and Deputy Chief of the 6 Research Section the laying on of interviews(s) through KUJUMP or other suitable channels. At the moment I don’t recall if this was discussed while Oswald and his family were en route to our country of it it was after their arrival.

2. I remember that Oswald’s unusual behavior in the USSR had struck me from the moment I had read the first ODACID (State Dept.) dispatch on him, and I told my subordinates something amounting to “Don’t push to hard to get the information we need, because this individual looks odd.” We were particularly interested in the OI Oswald might provide on the Minsk factory in which he had been employed, on certain sections of the city itself, and of course we sought the usual BI that might help develop target personality dossiers.

3. I was phasing into my [ ]OVER cover assignment, and out of KUDOVE, at the time. Thus, I would have left our country shortly after Oswald’s arrival. I do not know what action developed thereafter.

Thomas B. CASASIN

Addendum

4. As an afterthought, I recall also that at the time I was becoming increasingly interested in watching develop a pattern that we had discovered in the course of our bio and research work in 6: the number of Soviet women marrying foreigners, being permitted to leave the USSR, then eventually divorcing their spouses and settling down abroad without returning “home”. The [ ]OCEAN 3 case was among the first of these, and we eventually turned up something like two dozen similar cases. We established links between some of these women and the KGB. KUDESK became interested in the developing trend we had come across. It was partly out of curiosity to learn if Oswald’s wife would actually accompany him to our country, partly out of interest in Oswald’s own experience in the USSR, that we showed operational intelligence interest in the Harvey story.

T.B.C.

This document also comes with a previous, rather heavily redacted version. John Newman reproduces a copy of this document on p. 478 of “Oswald and the CIA”. Now the second copy of the document is even more redacted than the one Newman reproduces. So we have three copies of the document.

John starts chapter 13 of his book with the phrase “operational intelligence interest”.

Document # 104-10018-10059 Is a one page document from Director to Berlin. It is dated 12/20/63. It is a follow up on Mohamed Reggab. FBI wants a follow up.

1. Although we have little info as yet from interrogation of Marina Oswald, ODENVY (FBI) wants to follow up the Mohamed Reggab lead and try to get her letter and picture which he says are in his effects in Morocco. PLS find out just where they are, how he or we can get to them, what help from local authorities might be necessary, whether he thinks he is in trouble with Moroccan government because he studies in Moscow.

2. Reggab story sounds plausible but we are wary that he might just want free ride home. Can Berlin reconstruct how much of Marina’s life history was in public domain when Reggab told his story?

CS Comment: Moroccan student Mohamed Reggab, volunteered information on Marina Nikolaeva Oswald.

Document # 104-10018-10060 Is a one page document from Chief of Station Santiago to Chief of Station Lima. It is dated 12/13/63. The subject is an anonymous letter received by Santiago Embassy.

1. On 27 November, an anonymous letter, mailed in Santiago on 26 November, was received by the Embassy. The letter stated the Embassy in Lima might be interested in watching the activities of two United States citizens who debarked at Callao on 2 September. Abroad ship, the unknown informant alleged, these two, who are from the South, possibly Texas, made remarks and statements revealing themselves as “ultra-reactionaries” and “anti-racists”, and as enemies of the regime of President Kennedy. The Americans’ names were given as James Bland Catlett jr., and Bob Bobo.

Document # 104-10018-10063 Is a 14 page document from Chief of Station Mexico City to Chief, WH Division. It is dated 12/19/63. It is on the travels of Vincent Theodore Lee. A photo and Cubana passenger manifest are attached. There is a record and routing sheet.

I don’t think I have ever seen a photo of Mr. V.T. Lee of the F.P.C.C before.

Document # 104-10018-10071 Is a two page document from Buenos Aires to Director. Aleksandr Medvedev and wife Natalya arrived in Buen on service passports. It is dated 12/13/63. It is postponed in part.

Ref: A. Dir 88864

B. Buen 0111

1.Subj Ref A arrived Buen 13 July 63 with wife Natalya Medyedeva on service passports 014636 and 7. Listed as interpreter in Embassy, non diplomatic.

2. Subj ref B, [ ]AGOG, described subj as follows: apparent age 30, height 5’8″, weight 175, hair dark brown, thin, combed straight back, eyes dark, broad forehead, well dressed, no glasses or moustache, spoke fair Spanish with thick accent.

3. Station officer MAGAFAN met subj 8 Aug at Soviet Embassy movie showing. MAGAFAN’s description: apparent age 30, a 5’9″ rather pleasant face, blue eyes, hair dark and slightly greying, slight widow’s peak. Subj said he could read English but not converse. Very self possessed, easy conversationalist.

4. MAGAFAN”S description wife: Ca 5’2″, looks like pert, almost pretty teenager, dark hair, blue eyes, fashionable beehive hairdo, mucho make-up, obviously spends much time on appearance and clothes. Has two-month-old baby, no other children.

5. In Buen opinion subj intel officer, because of interpreter listing, role in [ ]AGOG case, and fact he and other “interpreter” only non diplomatic Sovs exposed to foreigners at social functions.

6. Will advise results our queries liaison whom we hope can get photo.

C/S Comments: *Requested all additional identifying data on SUBJECT (1) who may be relative of person involved in investigation of assassination of President Kennedy.

**[ ]AGOG (2) visited Soviet Embassy on 9 Aug. and received by SUBJECT (1) (probably RIS).

Now what is that C/S comment supposed to mean? Who is subj (1) supposed to be related to????

Document # 104-10018-10073 Is a one page document from Director to Buenos Aires dated 12/13/63. It is a cable requesting additional information on

Aleksandr Medvedev.

1. Using all sources, including liaison, pls obtain all additional identifying data on the Aleksandr Medvedev mentioned as Soviet Official in Buen 0111. Include photo if possible.

2. He may be relative of person involved in investigation of assassination of President Kennedy. Pls slug all traffic only RYBAT GPFLOOR.

C/S Comment: In 98626 -Franics Xavier Chapman visited Soviet Embassy 9 August, where he received by Aleksandr Medvedev who called himself Secretary of individual named “Sebastian” who originally phoned Chapman.

Document # 104-10018-10087 Is a one page cable from London to Director, dated 12/13/63.

No [ ] traces subject. [ ] still making inquires and will advise.

C/S comment: *Requested all [ ] (10 and [ ] (20 traces re Lyudmila Nikolaevna Prusakova and Marina Nikolaevna Prusakova. It considered possible that Prusakova may be related to wife of Lee Harvey Oswald, Marina Prusakova.

Document # 104-10018-10090 Is a one page document from Buenos Aires

to Director, CIA. It is dated 12/13/63

Photos were apparently obtained on Medevevs.

Document # 104-10018-10093 Is a one page document from Director to London dated 12/12/63. This is more on the checking of Lyudmilla.

Pls reply as soon as you get liaison to respond.

Document # 104-10018-10106 Is a one page document from Paris to Director.

25 Nov ambassador Gramatages stated he had received cable from Cuba with instructions to make no comments whatsoever on Kennedy assassination and to instruct Cuban Consulate adopt same attitude.

Document # 104-10018-10108 Is a one page document from Director to San Jose. It is dated 12/11/63.

WH/Comment: *Undated letter to Amb. Telles, San Jose, Referred to the assassination of Pres. Kennedy as part of a general plan to exterminate all the Presidents of the democratic world. Writer, who identified self as a Costa Rican of Marxist-Leninist ideals, allegedly has assignment to assassinate Pres Orlich and Foreign Minister Oduber.

The HSCA Document Review

Document # 180-10070-10282 is a 56 page document of which only 33 are here. The first 8 pages are the same as document # 180-10076-10062. The next two pages are the same as document # 180-10076-10123. The next two pages are the same as document # 180-10076-10124. We then get the same 8 pages as document # 180-10076-10062, again. Then the two pages from document # 180-10076-10123, again. Then the two pages from document # 180-10076-10124, again.

Now we get stuff we haven’t seen before. The next and final 9 pages concern Cubans. The first page has handwritten notes on a Luis L. Gomez Lima. There is a date of 3/16/61 and “Cuba”, written as the first line. Then a photo of Luis L. Gomez Lima (left) for the second line. Then Passport # (?) 109-23-IAI for the third line. Then Ragelio J. Lima (Right). There are then two fairly large photos, full face. Note, there were many copies of this page.

The next page is similar in style to the above mentioned page.

March 1961 “Cuba”

Photo of Luis Tacornal

I.D. Card “Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front”

Notes indicate subject frequents or

worked at Habana Bar.

Knew Aracha Smith at 74 Egret St.

Attached to drawn map of Cuba (Bay of Pigs)

Indicated that subject is Pro & Anti Castro???

There is then a photo of this person on the left with a photo reproduction of a card on the right. Frente Revolucionario Democratico F.R.D. Delegation New Orleans. On the right hand side of the card, vertically are numbers, five zeros, the last is a “7” which appears on the top. There were many copies of this page as well.

There is then a page titled CRUSADE to FREE CUBA. There is then a list of people.

City-Wide Committee

William A. Monteleone – General Chairman

William T. Walshe

Col. Provosty A. Dayries

Maurice Andry

Edward Brignac

J. B. McMahon

Mrs. Stockton B. Jefferson

Mrs. Sidney Schoenberger

(B. or E.) A. Tharpe, Jr.

Rudolph Vorbusch

Paul Burke

Dr. Gilbert Mellin

Maurice G. Maher

Charles C. Deano

Manuel Gil

Louis A. Garver

Arnesto Rodriguez

Mrs. R. G. Robinson

Robert D. Reily

Mrs. Philip Wogan

Edward M. Hannan

Rev. William K. Sisk, Jr.

John Altman, Jr.

Jack Yates

Mrs. Naomi Marshall

Councilman Henry Curtis

There then seems to be the resolution that binds these people together.

Resolution

WHEREAS, the presence of International Communism in the Fidel Castro regime in Cuba has been established beyond any reasonable doubt; and,

WHEREAS, the security of our American way of life is constantly under attack by Communistic forces based in Cuba today; and,

WHEREAS, the Communist-controlled missile bases in Cuba and the Russian MIG squadrons based in Cuba represent a very real military threat to our security; and,

WHEREAS, the Communist forces based in Cuba are constantly attempting to infiltrate our American institutions of government, military defense, communications and other important areas; and,

WHEREAS, the Communist-dominated forces in Cuba, only 90 miles from the United States, represent a very real danger to our community and our nation; and,

WHEREAS, the CRUSADE to FREE CUBA is being organized in New Orleans from December 1, 1961, to January 31, 1962, supported by a proclamation from the honorable Mayor of New Orleans, Victor Schire; and,

WHEREAS, President Kennedy has publicly states: “Any help rendered these struggling freedom fighters is certainly all right and does not breach the Neutrality Act”; and,

WHEREAS, Attorney General Robert Kennedy issued a statement April 20, 1961, clearly outlining the freedom of American citizens in supporting such a cause;

THEREFORE, we, the _________________________________________

________________ of New Orleans do hereby go on record as endorsing the CRUSADE TO FREE CUBA and the work being done on behalf of the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front, New Orleans Chapter.

There is then a page that looks like a flyer for the organization. This gives the address for the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front, New Orleans Chapter as,

533 Camp Street, room 6, New Orleans, Louisiana, Sergio Aracha Smith, New Orleans Delegate. With a National Headquarters: 1700 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, Fla.

Manuel A. de Varna Laredo, Co-ordinator. The Crusade to Free Cuba has a P.O. Box 523.

There is another sheet that starts with Attendance Record, a place that asks for a signature and if they can use your name in the General City Wide membership list.

It also asks what committee you would like to serve on.

There is then a newspaper clipping. Someone wrote SI 11/30/64. “Ignorance Led to Castro, Says Ex-AF Leader”.

“The former commander of the Cuban Air Force said in New Orleans that the Cuban people’s ignorance of Communism was a direct cause of Fidel Castro’s being able to take over the island.

“Maj. Pedro Diaz Lanz of Tulsa, Oklahoma., and presently a special assistant to the founder-director of the Christian Crusade…”

There is then another newspaper clipping that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with anything.

Then there is a card for the Cuban Revolutionary Front. It’s Sergio Aracha Smith’s business card.

Document # 180-10076-10061 is a four page document. It is a statement from someone, an associate of Ferrie’s. There is something missing as who this person is recalling this story is not identified. Let’s call him “Fred”.

Fred joined the CAP in the later part of 1953 or early part of 1954. He was introduced to Ferrie, who was then the Senior Squadron commander. Ferrie was employed by Eastern Airlines and living in Airline Park.

While in the CAP “Fred” and the others built a plane, a blue Stenson Voyager. Ferrie kept it in someone’s garage out in Kenner. It was taken to Moisant airport, lettered and numbered and they flew it down to New Orleans airport.

Other members of Ferrie’s CAP were Pat Macadoo, Henry Wiegand, Harold Friesard, Jerry Walker, Layton Thomas (or Thompson), Ivy Rodriguez, Danny Smetherman, Mike Crouchet and Al Landry.

“Fred” described how Ferrie would fly for Eastern down to Mexico and bring back Rum and he would have parties that would last the whole weekend.

Once a year Ferrie would take a field trip with the CAP and go across the lake to Abita Springs. While he was there he would shoot 30.06 and M-1 rifles.

This report of “Fred’s” was made after Ferrie died, as “Fred” remarks on how Ferrie died and that Ferrie always had lots of pills in his house. Fred said Ferrie got his drugs from a druggist on Jefferson Highway. Ferrie would enter through a side door.

Fred also commented upon how Ferrie was a fanatic about hypnosis and thought of himself as a Doctor.

Fred stated that when Ferrie got into legal trouble he hired G. Wray Gill. Eventually, Ferrie started to work for Gill. Oddly, so did the boys who put the charges against Ferrie.

* * *

Go to Part Two

Filed Under: Uncategorized

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 42
  • 43
  • 44
  • 45
  • 46
  • …
  • 83
  • Next Page »
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Donate your preferred amount to support the work of the AARC.

cards
Powered by paypal

Menu

  • Contact Us
  • Warren Commission
  • Garrison Investigation
  • House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)
  • Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB)
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
  • Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
  • LBJ Library
  • Other Agencies and Commissions
  • Church Committee Reports

Recent Posts

  • LARRY HANCOCK ARCHIVE
  • Bill Moyers, Presidential Aide and Veteran of Public TV, Dies at 91
  • Enemy of the Truth: Myths, Forensics and the Kennedy Assassination by Sherry Fiester
  • Tulsi Gabbard Admits She Asked AI Which JFK Files Secrets to Reveal
  • Judge Considers Early Release of Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Documents
Copyright 2014 AARC
  • Privacy Policy
  • Privacy Tools