The 12th Batch
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]