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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AARC Request for EO 14176 Action – JFK Assassination

Dear Director of National Intelligence-
      The following is the best information we have developed on the JFK assassination.  We would like the President to have this information, and we make a suggestion for follow-up.  Thank you.

     CIA refused to search its operational files for records on Werner von Alvensleben, who served as a valued double agent for OSS in Africa in World War II.  Von Alvensleben was an associate of Texas School Book Depository Building (TSBD) owner David Harold Byrd and was in Dallas as a guest of Byrd in late 1963.  Von Alvensleben served as an assassin in 1933 for Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler, and was arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned by the Austrians for participation in an assassination attempt.  Von Alvensleben resided in Portuguese East Africa where he ran a large Safari hunting company called Safarilandia.  There are reports that David Harold Byrd was at Safarilandia on November 22, 1963, however a photograph taken of the man said to be Byrd clearly is not Byrd.  A search of CIA operational files would reveal whether von Alvensleben was an asset of CIA at the time of the JFK assassination, when he was a friend and associate of TSBD building owner Byrd.

Attached- AARC Petition for Certiorari to the US Supreme Court

AARC v. CIA petition for cert final
(See pages App. 24-40 for OSS records on von Alvensleben and Dallas Morning News articles on his friendship with Byrd and presence in Dallas)
Daniel S. Alcorn
President, Assassination Archives and Research Center

 

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